Ascension or Annihilation: Surviving the Final Threat to Black Lives (2021 Edition) by Dr. Nzingha Dalila, EdD., LPCC-S, LCDC-III

This book was originally written as a special report to share with the community

as a supplement to presentations on our climate crisis and the future of people of

Afrikan descent (Black) that I was giving on The Phillippe SHOCK Matthews show.

However, I had so much information to try to put into words, that what started

out as an informational supplement became a small eBook. In this updated

version, I wanted to make some corrections and revisions to the original text.

Some of the revisions are intended to provide further clarification to the

information shared.

Some of the revisions reflect my own personal growth since I first wrote

Ascension or Annihilation, in that I believe that words are important to conveying

ideas and I believe that all conscious Afrikan people are constantly evolving in

how we understand, make meaning of, and work towards our healing from Race-

Based Traumatic Stress Injury. Specifically, for me, I have come to understand that

we, people of Afrikan descent, have suffered generational and system violence

that, as a whole, I now call White Terrorism in stead of “White Supremacy”. I

agree with Prof. Kaba Hiawatha Kemene when he states that the term

“supremacy” implies that people who invaded our homes, kidnapped, and

brutalized us are better than us. Instead, from a behavioral health perspective, I

think it is more appropriate to identify the people who engaged in this behavior

and the policies and practices they created to perpetuate violence against us as

terrorists.