{"id":13454,"date":"2023-04-12T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T10:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/?p=13454"},"modified":"2023-04-11T20:51:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T00:51:25","slug":"negro-transparente-robe-l-ninho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/negro-transparente-robe-l-ninho\/","title":{"rendered":"Transparent Black \/ Robe L. Ninho"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since I started listening to the intro of <\/span>Transparent Black<\/span><\/i> by Robe L. Ninho, I felt it was the album we were waiting for, that those of us who struggle on the long and rugged road of anti-racism needed. <\/span>From the sonority to the lyrics. From the aesthetics of the cover to the acoustics. The almost 44 minutes that the album lasts provoked in me that <\/span>ethos<\/span><\/i> of joy and resistance. A symbiosis between notes born of black musicalities and the whistles of vindication and Afro-consciousness.<\/span><\/p>\n

Precisely, <\/span>Mental decolonization<\/span><\/i> (title of the intro) represents the prelude to the central ideas that inspire the 12 tracks that make up the album:<\/span><\/p>\n

Transparent black. Ubuntu. Anti-racist resistance. Teaching to unlearn. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Afrosowing. Mental decolonization (4 times).\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

He who descends from kings shall never be a slave. Anti-racist resistance through art.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

We are phototype 6, because being black is beautiful.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Blessed is melanin because being black is beautiful.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

I am a Maroon!<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/i>This is heard with the force of choruses. A series of slogans that have shaken the struggle of black peoples and, above all, the experiences of people of African descent who are trying to recover a philosophy of life marked by blackness, against marginalization and rejection.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ubuntu<\/span><\/i>The word of South African origin, which in Zulu means \"a person is a person because of others\" or, more succinctly translated, \"I am because we are\", marks the place of enunciation of <\/span>Transparent Black<\/span><\/i>. Robe L.'s voice springs from a collective, ancestral sentiment. Unlearning naturalized racist dynamics (evident or not) is the titanic task to which we submit ourselves daily as racially conscious people. Blackness as a synonym of beauty reminds us of the <\/span>Black is beautiful <\/span><\/i>and Black Pride, linked to the U.S. civil rights movement of the 1960s and the Black Panthers. At the same time, these struggles took root in the southern territories of the Americas, particularly in Brazil, although they spread throughout the region.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maroonage recovers the historical memory of those who rebelled against enslavement, the stocks and the barracks. It symbolizes the escape from oppression, the liberation of enslaved black people as a counter-power, counter-system; the possibility of a new life on the margins (in palenques, hidden in the bush) of the slave order.<\/span><\/p>\n