Reading Response

By watching the video about White Fantastic Imagination, I got the feeling that the terms ‘black’ & ‘white’ are to some extend, making the unjust issue worse.

The article about Black Quantum Futurism is suggesting that we can understand time in a different way. This is a tool of challenging our common sense and what said to be the ‘norm’ of the world. It uses time and redefines it. It challenges people’s understanding on what they have been following forever by introducing that time is given to you from the future and that there are no clear lines between the three stages of past, present and future. The article further emphasizes that methodologies that incorporate with BQF theory can potentially solving social issues that exist in our societies. This inspires me thinking that we should not be the slave of time, we could have the control over it and decide somehow, the past, present and the future.

I thought about what the world would be if we replace such terms and start calling white people ‘marshmallow people’, black people ‘chocolate people’ and yellow people ‘gingerbread people’. The best part is that, these three food match perfectly with each other, instead of being the total opposite like black and white.

Several other readings&films criticize sci-fi movie in a way that things are not described/depicted appropriately. Women have to be sexy and ideal to satisfy men’s fantasy, black people are ignored somehow, and there are still capitalism and colonialism. From my point of view, such stereotypes are not generated by the biased opinion or taste by a single director. Instead, it is what the society now prefer to see. Such films and their settings reflect patterns in our society.

By trying to incorporate BQF in our mind and understandings, we can probably be more objective and less biased towards social issues. People’s current perspectives on the society can be challenged and they may then start reviewing their views and thoughts. However, getting everyone to think this way is nearly impossible.

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