AfroKrip

Afo-Krip, as one cultural aspect of/under African Diaspora Culture with a focus on disability through activism, art, music etc. attempts to hold all these experiences into one term and to hand down to the next generation this theory of Afro-Krip and Krip-Hop and Krip politics to the media and political organisations. AfroKrip is a term Leroy Moore coined in 2016 to help united Afro disabled people around the African diaspora associate to Krip-Hop during and after becoming politicised. Afro-Krip at the highest level is a common political stage where the person is comfortable with their identity as a person with a disability and are throwing off the mainstream brainwashing of overcoming or hiding disability to also reach beyond themselves to others for community and discovery of history building on arts and struggles of our African disabled ancestors.

Black Ableism

Discrimination and social prejudice against Black people with disabilities or those who are perceived to have disabilities from Black non-disabled people. Unchallenged, Black Ableism holds the Black community from advancing. Black Ableism can only be eradicated by stripping what the Black community has been taught about disability through the lens of oppression and then rebuilding. This rebuilding process must be conducted by coordinated teams of Black disabled people and family members who have had a presence in both the disability and Black communities. This process will be a long term commitment to healing and the detailing the historical significance of disability to present day issues, including Black Ableism.

Crip Theory or Crip Culture (Disability Culture)

There is an overall emphasis within crip theory on coalition building. A reclamation of the term ’crippled’, crip theory advocates and educates through outlining how disability theory intersects with queer theory to analyse a wide-reaching, global critique of neoliberalism. Thus, crip theory works like queer theory, working not only to resist the (oppressive, suppressive) norm but also to enact progressive change. Subsequently, this is where cripping comes from.

Krip

With this new term AfroKrip we need to know why the term Krip with a ‘K’ and its ugly history has been used. Leeroy Moore (founder of Krip-Hop) realised that international solidarity with terminology and history is tricky but disabled peoples can come close to a commonality and respecting differences when something that the so-called mainstream has been discarded with a fresh spotlight; thus Moore changed the ‘C’ to a ‘K’ in what we know today as Krip-Hop and now Afro-Krip.

‘Krip’ Hop

Krip-Hop is a global movement demonstrating alternate arrangements by which hip-hop artists with disabilities can communicate through social media, including educators, journalists and conferences. Created by Leeroy Moore the movement is about advocacy, education and overcoming oppression. For Moore the movement has sought to reclaim negative terms associated with the disabled using them to shock people into understanding and respecting the disabled African American community. It has over 300 members worldwide

The Dozens

‘The Dozens’, ‘snapping’, ‘cracking’, is the act of trading insults back and forth is a black oral tradition that dates back to slavery and has its roots embedded in both Mississippi and Louisiana. The term evolved to mean a competition between two people, typically men, in a contest of wit, mental agility, verbal ability and self control. It is believed that ‘The Dozens’ developed as an outlet for slaves’ depression and worked as a ‘valve of aggression for a depressed group.’