The Baartman Bag is a serial short story told in four parts. In a futuristic society, black teen girls are abducted, taken to a slaughterhouse and skinned to make couture purses. One young woman decides to fight back.

First, they lop off your head. Then they saw off your arms and legs – body parts as valuable as dust – until only your naked torso remains. While you are still warm, before your blood knows it’s dead, they shear the skin from your back, breasts and belly with a great whirring blade, careful to preserve your flesh in whole swathes.

Or so the story goes. I have never witnessed the actual process for transforming a black girl into a couture bag.

I was brought to the slaughterhouse, a place my pen-mate…

As I read the agreeable and insightful blog by Bro. Clifton McMillan Jr. some thoughts came to mind.

http://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/profiles/blogs/my-personal-warning-concerning-technology-and-preparing-for?xg_source=activity

The show Revolution deals with this, as well as, many other media presentations. I am very much into technology, but I have been knowing what he writes for decades.

One of the things that I promote is everyone having a frame of reference from which to understand/overstand reality. Mine is a Afrocentric one-a balance of old and new, past-present and future being cyclical, logic and intuition in harmony and a dissertation worth of many other ideologies.

With that being said, it gives me a different view of things. People's reliance on technology…

"Whole nation depends on technology. Stop the wheels for two days and you'd have riots. No place is more than two meals from a revolution. Think of Los Angeles or New York with no electricity. Or a longer view, fertilizer plants stop. Or a longer view yet, no new technology for ten years. What happens to our standard of living?"



(Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle)



^These words sound like they could have been penned in 2014. But they weren't. These words were taken from a science fiction novel published in 1977 called Lucifer's Hammer.



Lucifer's Hammer is essentially about what would have happened if a comet struck the Earth in the 1970's, how society would react. And let's just say in order to not spoil the book for those who haven't read it yet. that the reaction wasn't good. And it hasn't improved. I'm not a Luddite (a person who believes that all technology is evil and we are better off without it), but I know that…