The Glory of Africa Part 6

What more can be said about the Beautiful & Excellent Motherland of Africa. It is the home of our
ancestors and the origin of Human Mitochondria DNA. Africa is the Mother of many peoples and
tongues. Glory is related to the great Motherland of Africa. Inspiring history, long struggle, and
huge victories are included in the entire African story. When I learn more about the excellent beauty
of Africa, I can learn more about myself since I am a black African American. All those of black African
descent are one irrespective of nationality. That means that whether we live in Houston, St. Louis,
Oakland, Richmond, Boston, Atlanta, Miami, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Philadelphia, or South Africa,
we are one. We are one people. We are black and we are beautiful. We continue to have faith and this
faith can maintain a sense of dignity, strength, and Love. We believe in being proactive as a means to
create solutions for our people too. Chains cannot hold the truth down. The truth can never be
vanquished either by vicious dogs, burning buildings, nor any evil. We live in a new generation. The old
past inspires us, the current present motivates us, and the glorious future beacons us. That is why with
intrepid action and true love, we can establish a real power base that can change the whole word. Good
will always triumph against evil in the end. Therefore, we will overcome and we will achieve Black
Liberation at the end of the day. Also, it is important to note that we have every right to receive
JUSTICE. JUSTICE MEANS THAT THE CURRENT SYSTEM OF OPPRESSION MUST END AND A
BETTER, FAIR SYSTEM MUST BE INSTITUTED. THE SYSTEM HAS MURDERED OUR PEOPLE
FOR CENTURIES AND THERE IS NO JUSTIFICATION WHATSOEVER TO ALLYING WITH A
WICKED SYSTEM. WE HAVE EVERY GOD GIVEN RIGHT TO EXPRESS SELF
DEFENSE AND SELF DETERMINATION IN THE WORLD. WE HAVE EVERY RIGHT
TO FIGHT AGAINST EVIL. YOU HAVE TO FIGHT. THE SYSTEM OF WHITE SUPREMACY
MUST BE GONE PERIOD. THE OPPRESSOR MUST EXPERIENCE JUSTICE AND
ACCOUNTABILITY. WE MUST RESPECT NATURE IN A HUMBLE FASHION. THE DESTRUCTION
OF NATURE HARMS HUMANITY AND THE WORLD IN GENERAL. WE MUST PROTECT THE
ENVIRONMENT. Aint nothing like real truth and real joy in outlining the truth about black people.

A BLACK MAN HAS EVERY RIGHT TO SHOW HIS STRENGTH IN THE WORLD. A BLACK WOMAN
HAS EVERY RIGHT TO SHOW HER STRENGTH IN THE WORLD TOO. BROTHERS AND SISTERS
HAVE THE TOTAL JUSTIFICATION TO SEEK JUSTICE, WISDOM, AND INSIGHT AS A MEANS FOR
US TO HAVE TOTAL BLACK LIBERATION.

Black African consciousness is necessary for any black human being. We need it as a means to
understand Africa fully and love our God given BLACKNESS. OUR BLACKNESS IS GREAT. True
teaching and true wisdom are not about the random memorization of facts and figures. True
wisdom is about the awakening of human consciousness and critically applying what you know to
benefit yourself & the people. At the end of the day, we have a duty to build ourselves and our
neighbors for we are tied with each other in mutuality as members of humanity. Growing the human
consciousness is necessary as a means for us to embrace the truth. We need justice, freedom, and we
have the right to advance morality in the world. This is part and parcel of our African cultural ethos. That
is why we should not only expose the enemy. We should also build up our morality and seek justice. Now,
that means we should love justice, we should love fairness, we should reject lies or deception, and we
should advance cultural growth. So, it is important for us to study Ancient Egypt, real other African
civilizations, pan Africanism, African languages, and other great aspects of Africa as a means to connect
with Africa. The more we learn and appreciate Africa, the more we love Africa and we identify with it. At
the end of the day, we are all Africans. It does not matter if we live in Virginia, New York, Georgia,
California, Missouri, Florida, Canada, South America, Brazil, Paris, Amsterdam, London, South Africa,
Nigeria, or wherever. We are all one people. We are all Africans and we are all of black African descent.
WE ARE ALL BLACK AND BEAUTIFUL. BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL.

We may have different nationalities, but we are on the same path. That path leads into black African
consciousness and the love for our people. Ignorance is an enemy of humanity. We should fight it with
vigor and zeal. Ignorance is more than social nihilism. Ignorance deals with a vulgar selfish individualism
that worships materialism and selfishness instead of embracing selflessness. We need true collaboration
with our neighbors in a pan-Africanist mindset. Our people are globally, so we ought to continue to
embrace our Brothers and our Sisters throughout the world. Global, progressive insights are necessary in
a global community. We must learn the past, work in the present, and strive to fight for a better future for
our children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren (including beyond). We have a legacy and our legacy
is beautiful. We must take responsibility for our voluntary actions. In other words, we should do the right
thing, treat our neighbors as ourselves, and encourage Young Black kids to act ethically. Yet, we should
never be submissive toward injustice (also, we should never pant a broad brush against all black people
for the actions of the few either). If there is an injustice in the world, we have the right to
speak out about it. We do not bow down to racism, poverty, and any injustice. We
fight it. We should grow and be more mature as time goes on in our lives. In other words, true African
consciousness is about developing our health, embracing African tongues, loving African culture, growing
our ethics, and having an undying love for black humanity all over the world. Now, we should be united in
one goal and that is black pan-Africanist liberation. Our Brothers and our Sisters should be liberated and
they have the right to be. We must liberate ourselves and help our people as well. As the Great Sister
Courtney wrote:

All Black skin is beautiful. Light, medium, brown, dark.
Period

So, as we can see that early evidence of agriculture in Africa can be found from 16,000 B.C. and
metallurgy from ca. 4,000 B.C.

*Ancient black civilizations have shown great intellectual knowledge, great
engineering skills, great strength, great language (I love to research the black
African Meroitic alphabet script too) great beauty, and great inspirational qualities
of human civilization.

The famous Kingdoms and Empires of ancient Africa include Nubia, ancient KMT, Nok, Mali , Ashanti, the
Kingdom of Mapungubwe, Zimbabwe, Aksum, Songhai Mali, etc. Ancient black Nubians even ruled
ancient Egypt for a while. It began under Kashta and it was completely by Piye during the 8th century.
This was the birth of the 25th Dynasty of Egypt. Other rulers were Shabaka and Taharqa. They ruled
ancient Egypt for a hundred years. The Nubian pharaoh Tantamani was the last of the 25th dynasty. The
city of Meroe was home to the Meroitic alphabet. They worked in iron making and cotton cloth of
manufacturing in the Nubian Kingdom. The ancient land of Punt is found in Somalia. Thousands of years
ago, ancient Somalia has been found with pyramidal structures, mausoleums, ruined cities, and stone
walls like the Wargaade Wall. They traded heavily with ancient Egypt and Mycenaean Greece since the
start of the second millennium B.C. The Puntites traded myrrh, spices, gold, ebony, short-horned cattle,
ivory and frankincense with the Ancient Egyptians, Phoenicians, Babylonians, Indians, Chinese and
Romans through their commercial ports. An Ancient Egyptian expedition sent to Punt by the 18th dynasty
Queen Hatshepsut is recorded on the temple reliefs at Deir el-Bahari, during the reign of the Puntite
King Parahu and Queen Ati.




Nibe nosulu ulohle.

Africans Globally

Africa is a wonderful continent. I love Africa with all of my heart, soul, strength, and
spirit. It is the world second largest and second most populous continent in the world. It has over 1
billion human being living in it now. Nigeria is the largest nation in Africa by population. A lot of the
ancestors of African Americans came from Nigeria and West Africa in general. Africa has excellent
human beings. It has great biodiversity as well. There are many famous Africans who inspired the world
not the beautiful Motherland of Africa. There were many Pan-Africanists that wanted justice for African
peoples of the world. Now, Pan-Africanists still exist today that desire freedom, justice, and true liberty
given to all African peoples of the globe too. Pan-Africanism is the movement that wants the
solidarity of all African peoples of the world economically, socially, politically, morally,
and intellectually. It seeks to unify and uplifts all human beings of black African descent.
All black people of the world do not just share a common history, but a common destiny.
We know that the hero of Kwame Nkrumah was a famous leader of the black Pan-Africanist movement.
Those who believed in this view included of course Marcus Garvey, WEB DuBois, Malcolm X, and others.
Those who believed in Pan-Africanism wanted resources to work in collaborated with Africans as a
means to enrich the entire African community. Pan-Africanism is against slavery, racism, colonialism, and
neo-colonialism. The great black African abolitionist Ottobah Cugoano wanted to free Africans from
slavery. He was born near Ajumako, Ghana in 1757. Pan-Africanist thinking has been embraced by
Martin Delany in the 1800's. Modern Pan-Africanism came about in the late 19th century. There was the
African Association to be later renamed the Pan-African Association. It was created in 1887 by Henry
Sylvester-Williams. Henry Sylvester-Williams opposed racism, imperialism, paternalism, etc. in the world.
He organized the first Pan-African Conference in 1900 in Westminster Hall in London. Pan African
leaders are diverse like Jomo Kenyatta, Julius Nyerere, Marcus Garvey, Ahmed Sekou
Toure, Duse Mohamed Ali, Nkrumah, and so many Brothers and Sisters. One great African
intellectual who was the first President of Senegal was Lopold Sdar Senghor. He lived from 1906 to
2001. One of the greatest scholars in human history about Pan-Africanism was the great John Henrik
Clarke. Many Caribbeans were involved in the growth of pan-Africanism too. Pan-Africanism represented
a profound truth that we should work together as one African people, because all of us are one African
people. The fifth Pan-African Congress can about in 1945. John Henrik Clarke wrote the following
about it:

"...The basic ideas that went into the African independence explosion came out of the
fifth Pan-African Congress convened by George Padmore, Kwame Nkrumah, and other
Africans, some of whom would become future heads of state. All "Pan" efforts among
African people must ultimately lead to a concept of a world union of African people,
in spite of geography, religion, and culture. African people live in many lands, under
many regimes and practice many religions and represent many cultures. Wherever
they are on the face of this earth they must think of themselves as first and foremost
an African people, no less patriotic to the nations where they live outside of Africa."

Fundamentally, we should be revolutionary not reactionary. True African culture loves women and men
to have leadership roles in society. True African culture allows the love of music and the love of
dance including great fashion. True African culture deals with the love of family and the reverence
of the ancestors. Real African culture deals with a living spirituality that seek to fight
injustice, to fight for truth, and develop spiritual power among African human beings.
African culture deals with high morality and collective discipline. African culture is highly
collective in its orientation. We as black Africans have a communal mentality and a communal spirit.
True African culture also deals with the love of history. We have to know about science,
mathematics, technology, engineering, the environment, and other important subjects. Also, we have
to know history. If someone doesn't know their history, bad history can be repeated. There should be total
liberation of African peoples. Africans should own their own power.

Amilcar Cabral was one of the greatest heroes of black African history. He was a Guinea-Bissuan and
Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, writer, and political leader. He was a nationalist thinker. He was a
great anti-colonial leader. He led the nationalist movement of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde Islands.
There was the war of independence in Guinea-Bissau. He was assassinated on January 20, 1973 about
eight months before Guinea-Bissau's unilateral declaration of independence. He was influenced by
Marxism, but he was not a Marxist. He was born in September 12, 1926 in Bafata, Guinea-Bissau from
the Cape Verdean parents Juvenal Lopes da Costa Cabral and Iva Pinhel vora. Cabral was educated at
Liceu or the Secondary School Gil Eanes in the town of Mindelo, Cape Verde. He was furthered
educated at the Instituto Superior de Agronomia in Lisbon, Portugal. Portugal ironically was the colonial
power ruling over Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde for a time. In Lisbon, he founded student movements
that wanted to oppose the ruling dictatorship of Portugal and wanted the cause of liberation of the
Portuguese colonies in Africa. He came back into Africa during the 1950's. He continued to promote the
independence of the then Portuguese colonies. He founded in 1956 the PAIGC or the Partido Africano da
Independncia da Guin e Cabo Verde (Portuguese for African Party for the Independence of Guinea
and Cape Verde) and one of the founders of Movimento Popular Libertao de Angola (MPLA) (later
in the same year), together with Agostinho Neto, whom he met in Portugal, and other Angolan
nationalists. He led a guerrilla movement against the Portuguese regime from 1963 to 1973. It was one
of the most successful wars of independence in African history. He was a hero for capturing
territories from the imperialist Portuguese. Cabral set up training camps in neighboring Ghana
with the permission of Kwame Nkrumah. Cabral trained his lieutenants through various techniques,
including mock conversations to provide them with effective communication skills that would aid their
efforts to mobilize Guinean tribal chiefs to support the PAIGC. Cabral allowed his troops to live off the
land and work with the populace as a means to be successful. He taught troops farming technologies as
a means to feed their tribes ad families. In 1972, Cabral began to form a People's Assembly in
preparation for the birth of an independent African nation, but disgruntled former PAIGC rival Inocncio
Kani, with the help of Portuguese agents operating within the PAIGC, shot and killed him before he could
complete his project. Yet, Guinea-Bissau and Cape Varde are liberated from imperialists. His influence is
similar to the influence from Frantz Fanon and others. He is named after an International Airport in Carde
Verde's principal international airport at Sal. There is also a football competition called Amilcar Cabral
Cup in zone 2, which is named as a tribute to him. RIP Brother Amilcar Cabral. His half-brother Luis
Cabral became the leader of the Guinea-Bissau branch of the party and would eventually become
President of Guinea-Bissau. Amilcar Cabral was one of the greatest thinkers in African history. He
was a hero and a true black warrior.

We can learn a lot from Nelson Mandela. His passed, but his memory lives on. His life shows us that the
struggle for liberation in Africa must continue onward. We have to work for the interests of the people not
for the oligarchy. South Africa should be inspired to improve itself. Nelson Mandela was not perfect, but
he was right on many issues. He was right to disagree with the Iraq War that Bush and Blair supported.
He slammed Bush and Blair for the war on Iraq: "What I am condemning is that one power, with a
president who has no foresight and who cannot think properly, now wants to plunge the world into a
holocaust." For Blair, he had these words: "He is the foreign minister of the United States. He is no longer
prime minister of Britain." South Africa can be liberated with a collective effort not just the work of
individuals. A collective effort among many human beings ended the apartheid government. South Africa
is still suffering massive economic inequality. 21st century capitalism and the era of the 1 Percenters
have harmed South Africa. In the words of Ronnie Kasrils: "That was the time, from 1991-1996, that the
battle for the soul of the ANC got underway and was lost to corporate power and influence. That was the
fatal turning point. I will call it our Faustian moment when we became entrapped--some today crying out
that we 'sold our people down the river.'" Social justice is fine with me. Dr. Martin Luther King said, "If an
American is concerned only about his nation, he will not be concerned about the peoples of Asia, Africa,
or South America. Is this not why nations engage in the madness of war without the slightest sense of
penitence? Is this not why the murder of a citizen of your own nation is a crime, but the murder of citizens
of another nation in war is an act of heroic virtue?" So, we are our Brothers' and our Sisters' keepers.

As we know, South Africa is not the land of true social justice and real revolutionary changes yet among
all of its citizens. We must continue to speak up and fight for truth. The leadership of the ANC made too
many concessions to the then white supremacist apartheid regime. We know that the white racist regime
of apartheid created environmental and public health damage in South Africa. The Gore-Mbeki
Commission dealt with foreign related policies between America and South Africa. The great Sister Dr.
Marsha Coleman-Adebayo has written on this issue a great deal. The South African Freedom Charter is a
strong document that South Africans loved and support. The bad news is that the Freedom Charter was
heavily compromised in the negotiations after the apartheid regime was rightfully gone. Neo-colonial in
South Africa unfortunately is still a reality. The same corporations that financially benefited from apartheid
still today benefit from the evils of neoliberalism still harming South Africans today. The Sister Dr. Marsha
Coleman-Adebayo (who said that EPA managers felt a solidarity with white Afrikaner officials and
suspicious of the new ANC leadership) made known that there are reports of illness and deaths (relating
to vanadium mining as cited by black South African union workers. The U.S. heavily ignored the reports).
Many workers have suffered their tongue going green, bronchitis, asthma, death, cancers, etc. No serious
organization came over these important issues. The environmental corruption has been facilitated by
Western owned multinational corporations. Also, the Anglo-American Corporation, the South African
Mining Group, South Africa's Synthetic Fuels, chemicals giant Sasol, the South African Gold Coin
Exchange and Standard Bank supported the apartheid regime then. Today, South Africa has huge
unemployment and economic inequality. We have multinational corporate control of most of the economy
and the mining sector. The private sector has too much power. The Freedom Charter calls for the
redistribution of the land. The new constitution protects all private property and eliminates true land
reform. South Africa signed to GATT, which made it illegal to subsidize the auto plants and textile
factories. Free AIDS drugs are hard to get to townships, because of intellectual property rights rules form
the WTO. The Freedom Charter is a glorious document on what South Africa should be. Thabo Mbeki of
South Africa hopefully can be inspired to fight against neoliberal since he has compromised to global
capital for a while. The good news is that tons of Brothers and Sisters now in South Africa are fighting for
freedom and true economic justice. There is nothing wrong with a redistribution of wealth and
nationalization of the banking and mining sectors as means to fight poverty among black South African at
all. Like always, Nelson Mandela was a courageous man who risked his life in fighting for freedom and
justice. The evils of privatization and corporate exploitation of South Africa have been disgraceful. We
have to learn from the errors and build a better future in the world. We must never forget how brutes killed
34 innocent striking black striking workers in the Marikana massacre. We have to support them and we
are in solidarity with the movement for true justice in South Africa.







The African Diaspora

In the African Diaspora, we should connect more with our Brothers and our Sisters. Jennifer Tosch is a
Surinamese American Sister who founded the successful Black Heritage Amsterdam Tour in the
Netherlands. This tour is found all the Netherlands as a means for human beings to document the
contributions of African Diaspora to Dutch society from the 16th century to the present. She or
Jennifer Tosch gave an interview with Dutch Amsterdam City Channel AT5. She talks about her
identity. The reporter Claric Gargard visited her home. She talks about this being about African history
and how it relates to world history. When her mother was dying as terminally, she was on a quest to find
her family. Also, Jennifer shed tears over the plight of our ancestors. We all sympathize with her tears
since they relate to the sacrifice our people. She wanted to bridge the gaps in her life. She teaches
human beings about the black African influence in the continent of Europe. Jennifer wants to continue to
research and continue on her journey in her life. Black Heritage Tours in Amsterdam continues now and
they are a great thing as well. Black human beings made great contributions in the world. There are many
gifted, strong Black British writers as well. One author is named Zadi Smith. Others include other
promising black British writers by the names of Taiye Selasi, Nadifa Mohamed, and Helen-Oyeyemi.
Taiye Selasi was mentored by Toni Morrison and she was endorsed by Saman Rushsdie. She wrote an
2005 essay called "What is an Afropolitan?" that gave a face to a class of sophisticated cosmopolitan
young Africans who defy downtrodden stereotypes. She has written about Ghana and other issues as
well. Nadifa Mohamed was born in 1981. Her family came into London from Somalia in 1986. Her debut
novel Black Mamba Boy is based on her fathers tales of his youthful peregrinations in East Africa and
Europe during the 1930s and 40s. In an Granta interview she also speaks about her arrival from
Somalia, growing up in Tooting and how she believed from a young age that cats were spies for the
government. Helen Oyeyemi is the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. She reads her stories in a London
par. She wrote many books like the Icarus Girl and the Opposite House. She wrote many awards for her
literature like winning the 2012 Zora Nealse Hurston and Wright Foundation Award for the book entitled,
Mr. Fox. Even centuries ago, we do realize that there was a strong Black African presence in
Renaissance Europe. The Walters Art Museum exhibition talks about this as well many months ago. We
know about the presence of Black Africans being farmers, artists, diplomats, and other jobs. Yes, the evils
of slavery existed in Europe too.

The African Diaspora in Europe is more known by blacks globally. Learning about Brothers and Sisters in
Europe is like learning about a part of us. The reason is that we are one people and wherever we exist in
the globe, we are still one black African people concretely. Ian Ogutu is an Afro-German and Furaha
Kensmil is a black human being from the Netherlands. They talk about their experiences in the German
based African Magazine. Ian Ogutu is honest to talk about the many challenges facing African ad black
students in Germany. Furaha writes that she feels like a foreigner in the Netherlands. Ian Innocent Ogutu
is the chairman of the Association of African Students at the University of Heidelberg. He gave honest
words about the organization in the following terms:

"...Other than our colourful get-togethers and VASUH meetings, we mainly work with the City of
Heidelbergs Administration (e.g Immigrations Office & Migrants Council courtesy of Allimadi) as well as
the University of Heidelberg's International Office to make life on campus easier for those that may have
difficulties settling down in an environment that is far from home. We attach importance to addressing all
immigration issues that may have a legal effect on one's stay here. Also, networking with other members
of the community has been an enriching experience. Getting to exchange views and linking up with the
members of the Afro-European Blog has really opened up my eyes to just how diverse we are as a black
community. There is so much more that unites us than there is that divides us. I can only hope that
VASUH contributes to the splendid diversity of the afro-community in Europe as a whole"

Fursha Kensmil is a great Sister that lives in the Netherlands. She honestly talks about her struggles. She
said that it is difficult to call herself Dutch. Her parents were both born and raised Suriname. She is right
to say that she loves her African-Surinamese culture. She doesn't want full assimilation into Dutch
society. That is her right as a human being. She says that she associate more with Black people, which is
excellent. The Dutch African Diaspora is large as compared to other nations like Russia and Poland. She
said that in the 1960's, many immigrants can into the Netherlands. The Dutch at first showed a more
benevolence fact. By the 1990's, reactionaries exploited the economic downturn to point the finger falsely
at foreigners. The reactionaries are still powerful in the Netherlands still. She said the following words:

"....But last summer, during the summer school on Black Europe organized by
the NiNsee (National Institute for the Study of Dutch Slavery and its Legacy) I
met some great people from Poland, England, France and the US who share
experiences similar to my own. I have noticed that Black Europeans are uniting
more and more, which is a very positive sign..."

Also, John Pitts, who is a Afropean British writer, recently shown images of Africans in Europe. He
traveled Europe for five months to do it. He is a writer, and a TV host. He traveled into the cities of
London, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Moscow, Berlin, Rome, Marseilles, Madrid, and Lisbon.
He recorded diverse images of black people in Europe from students to the suffering poor. He took one
picture of a black man near Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, Russia. He wanted to dialogue
among Europeans for folks to understand the complex, dynamic, and unique experience of Africans in
Europe. In the 1980's, Afro-British writer Caryl Philips wrote the "The European Tribe" that showed black
humanity in Europe too. John Pitts is following in her footsteps in doing the right thing of show the world
the strength of our black people.


Afro-Brazilians

We have to respect and know about our Afro-Brazilian Brothers and Sisters. They are great people. They
are still fighting against the system of oppression. There are millions of them in Brazil alone. There are
more Afro-Brazilians now than there are African Americans. Today, Afro-Brazilians are still fighting for
liberation. The Sister Benedita da Silva is one of the greatest Afro-Brazilians in our modern age. She
fought against discrimination and oppression. She is a hero and believed in egalitarianism. According to
da Silva, "Racial democracy only exists in school books and official speeches; the elite in Brazil have
promoted the myth of racial harmony to make people accept certain forms of discrimination and to deny
the need for affirmative action." She has fought to black people to have full citizenship rights in Latin
America and South America. One of the late Afro-Brazilian heroes was Abdias do Nascimento. He lived
from March 14, 1915 to May 23, 2011. He was a scholar, artist, and politician. He was born in Franca,
Sao Paulo state. He attended the public school system as children. By 1938, he received a B.A. in
Economics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He received graduate degrees from the Higer
Institute of Brazilian Studies from 1957 and in the Oceanography Institute from 1961. He worked in the
dramatic arts. Also, he founded the Black Experimental Theater in 1944. He performed in Orfeu da
Conceio, a play by Vinicius de Moraes that was later adapted into the motion picture Black Orpheus.
He became a leader in Brazil's black movement, and was forced into exile by the military regime in 1968.

From 1968 to 1981 Nascimento was very active in the international Pan-African Movement and was
elected Vice-President and Coordinator of the Third Congress of Black Culture in the Americas. For the
next decade Nascimento was a visiting universities in the United States (at places like the Yale School of
Drama from 1969 to 1971. He was in the University of Buffalo, the State University of New York). IN the
University at Buffalo, the State University of New York he founded the chair in African Cultures in the New
World, Puerto Rican Studies Program in 1971. He held the position of Professor Emeritus at SUNY-
Buffalo. He came back into Brazil in 1983. He worked on supporting legislation to address racial
programs. In 1994 he was elected to the Senate and served until 1999. In 2004 he was nominated for the
Nobel Prize for Peace. He was in favor of pan-Africanism like a warrior and he fought for the dignity of
black Brazilian human beings. Even the University quota system in Brazil has worked wonders in Brazil.
There has been a growth of the quality of education and a lowering of the dropout rate. caro Lus Vidal
dos Santos is one person who was involved in the program as a means to fulfill his education and career
aspirations. Renata da Rosa Santos, 29, and other human beings tell stories about how they benefit from
the affirmative action program in Brazil as well. There is still massive work to be done though to address
economic and racial discrimination in Brazil as well.




The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Ida B. Wells

Ida B. Wells was one of the most heroic black human beings in world history. She is a hero for women
and all of humanity. She was a Strong Black Woman indeed. She fought for gender equality when that
fight was heavily opposed in her lifetime. She fought for the dignity of black females in general when our
Sisters back then were unfairly demonized and our Brothers have been restricted too from the full
benefits of mainstream society. Even today, our Brothers and Sisters are still oppressed under the
same oppressor that enslaved our ancestors from the Motherland of Africa. Ida B. Wells fought
against the evil of lynching in America. She wanted equality for all humans in the world. She was a
great media literacy educator. Her leadership and great, intellectual insight should inspire all of us
to be better and to fight for real, revolutionary change in the world. She was a writer, an activist, an
orator, and a great mother. She constantly defended Brothers and Sisters who were the victims of
lynching. Wells publicly wrote, as a journalist, about the evils of racism and lynching. Her life in the
struggle for black liberation is just as valuable as the lives of Frederick Douglas, WEB DuBois, Marcus
Garvey, and others. She lived from July 16, 1862 to March 25, 1931. She was not only an American
journalist. She was a newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and a leader of the civil rights movement.
Ida B. Wells was an excellent orator. She was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Her father was James
Wells and her mother was Elizabeth Warrenton Wells. Their parents were enslaved until freed under the
Proclamation. James Wells fought for the advancement of black Americans. Elizabeth was a religious
woman and was strict with her children. She lost both of her parents and her 10 month brother because of
the 1878 epidemic of yellow fever that killed many in the South. Ida B. Wells worked as a teacher in a
black elementary school.

Ida B. Wells refused to give up her seat in a train passenger seat which was 71 years before Rosa Parks
showed similar resistance on a bus. The conductor and two men dragged Wells out of the car. When she
returned to Memphis, she hired an African-American attorney to sue the railroad. She also became a
public figure in Memphis when she wrote a newspaper article for The Living Way, a black church weekly,
about her treatment on the train. When her lawyer was paid off by the railroad, she hired a white attorney.
She at first won a settlement, but lost to the Supreme Court. She wrote under the pen name Iola as a
means to oppose segregation and write in favor of racial justice. Ida B. Wells defended black women and
black men (who at that time were slandered as collective rapists of white women). Together with
Frederick Douglass and other black leaders, she organized a black boycott of the 1893 World's
Columbian Exposition in Chicago, for its failure to collaborate with the black community on exhibits
representing African-American life. Wells, Douglass, Irvine Garland Penn and Ferdinand L. Barnett
wrote sections of a pamphlet to be distributed there: "Reasons Why the Colored American Is Not
in the World's Columbian Exposition" detailed the progress of blacks since their arrival in
America and the workings of Southern lynchings. Wells later reported to Albion W. Tourge that
copies of the pamphlet had been distributed to more than 20,000 people at the fair. She married Barnett
in 1895. She set an early precedent as being one of the first married American women to keep her own
last name along with her husband's. The couple had four children: Charles, Herman, Ida, and Alfreda.
She founded the Alpha Suffrage Club of Chicago, the first black suffrage organization in 1913, and from
l913-1916 worked as a probation officer in Chicago. The poet Langston Hughes said her activities in
the field of social work laid the groundwork for the Urban League. When she was sixty-eight, she ran
for the Illinois legislature, one of the first black women in the nation to run for public office. Ida B. Wells
continue to write literature to defend black men. She also wanted gender equality and fought for the right
of women to vote. She passed away in Chicago on March 25, 1931. Schools are named after her. She
was honored by America with the Ida B. Wells Commemorative Stamp in 1990. She fought against
educational inequalities and wanted human rights. Therefore, Ida B. Wells was a hero and an icon of
our community. We should continue to fight for true democracy, self-determination, and true,
popular liberation. Black Pan-African liberation is always a great goal to embrace for all of
us.











The Struggle Continues

Life comes and goes in cycles. For our community, the struggle continues. That means that oppression,
sexism, and any form of bigotry including injustice have not been totally eliminated in the black
community. We should oppose sexism with every fiber of our being. The events of police brutality,
gentrification, and the evils of corporation exploitation remind us that we have to work as a means for us
to achieve black liberation. So, the good news is that as long as we have breathe and as long as we are
alive, we can fight. We can fight constructively and positively by: speaking out, joining independent
organizations who are dedicated to pan-African liberation, learning more wisdom, and
strive to be better morally, socially, emotionally & spiritually. We have every right to learn
more about including to understand more about STEM fields, to learn more about our black culture and
history, to develop more solutions, and to press on. Ida B. Wells, Malcolm X, and Dr. King taught us about
strength. We can use this strength as a means for us to continue to speak out against anyone
disrespecting black males and especially black females. The Black Woman is the giver of our lives. They
are our aunts, cousins, mothers, grandmothers, nieces, etc. Therefore, we should praise and defend
Black Women. We should defend Black Men too.

Many of black African descent fought for liberation among a long time, especially in the Deep South.
There were tons of slave rebellions all over the South alone. The Deacons of Defense existed in 1964 at
Jonesboro, Louisiana. It was created by African American men led by Earnest "Chilly Willy" Thomas and
Douglas Kirkpatrick. It was formed in November of 1964 as a means to protect civil rights workers against
the violence of the evil, racist Ku Klux Klan. Most of them were war veterans with combat experience from
the Korean War and WWII. The Jonesboro chapter organized a Deacons chapter in Bouglusa,
Louisiana led by Charles Sims, A.Z. Young, and Robert Hicks. The Jonesboro chapter formed 21
chapters in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. The militantly heroic Deacons confronted the
Klan in Bogalusa. They were instrumental in forcing the federal government to intervene on behalf of the
black community and enforce the 1964 Civil Rights Act and neutralize the Klan. The FBI illegally
monitored the Deacons because they hate black humanity having the right to use self-defense including
self-determination. They vanished by 1968 with the growth of the Black Power Movement of the late
1960's. A 2003 television movie called Deacons for Defense outline the Deacon's great story. The first
Black Panther Party came about in 1965 in Lowndes County of Alabama in 1965. It came after a
voter registration drive was launched by the Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee or
SNCC. SNCC was later shortened to the Student National Coordinating Committee. The voter drive was
led by Kwame True. Alabama was most black African, but most of them were not allowed to register and
vote. SNCC wanted black human beings to vote as a means to handle local governments and redirect
services to black human beings (many living below the poverty line). SNCC formed a political party as
Alabama law allowed it with the support of a certain amount of residents. The SNCC workers took this
law, and organized a county convention in Lowndes. Out of that convention an organization called the
Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO) was created. The LCFO subsequently nominated and
selected candidates to run for the county offices: assessor, sheriff and so on. SNCC and the LFCO
wanted to go out and fight illiteracy among human beings in that area. The leaders choose the image of a
Black Panther, because it is black. Also, the panther had unique fighting skills and black people from
SNCC wanted to identify with the panther's strength and agility. Also, the image motivated humanity. The
Lowndes County Freedom Organization in Alabama was called the Black Panther Party, because it was a
symbol used to represent the organization as was required by state law. Many SNCC members like
Kwame Ture would ally with the Black Panther Party of Self Defense in Oakland, California. Now, LCFO
registration was a great success with the African population. The enemy evicted sharecroppers, tenant
farmers, attempted to foreclose people illegally, and threatened to kill any African who registered. In
response to these circumstances the leadership of LCFO instructed its members and supporters to arm
themselves, but not to precipitate any violence. This was a strategy necessitated strictly for
SELFDEFENSE.



The Black Panther Party

To summarize the people carried a piece for protection, registered and then returned to their place of
residence. SNCC, in June of the next yea (during 1966), in Jackson MS, made the famous call for Black
Power. A few months later SNCC issued a paper explaining their call for Black Power. Among the things
they called for in the Black Power position paper was the establishment of Black Panther Parties
throughout our communities across the USA. The early African student volunteers working with
SNCC in the original Lowndes Co. project was Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. They were
impressed with the Lowndes Co. experience and created the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in
Oakland, California in 1966. Kwame Ture and H. Rap Brown (also known as Iman Jamil Al-Amin
Abdullah) were members of the Oakland group. The Black Panthers of Oakland wanted to use self-
defense and progressive efforts as a means to try to defeat imperialism, oppression, racism, and any form
of injustice harming the black community (and the oppressed communities of the world).








Strong Black Sisters in the Black Panther Party

Black Panthers were more than being made up of men. From then and now, we still need activism, more
action, more struggle against oppression, and continued effort to eliminate the evil conditions in our
community. I was inspired to write about this issue from a Great Sister (you know who. You know who
she is). WITHOUT BLACK WOMEN, THE BLACK PANTHERS WOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN VIABLE
AT ALL. WITHOUT BLACK WOMEN, WE WOULD HAVE NEVER EXISTED AT ALL AS BLACK
PEOPLE. SO, WE SHOULD GREATLY RESPECT WOMEN IN GENERAL. We need revolutionary social
change in the world. They have been made up of strong Black Women as well. The Black Panther Party
did great things for humanity. They not only stood up against racism and police brutality in real life. They
organized many programs, including free breakfast programs for children, free medical programs, free
clothing programs, free escort programs for seniors, and free food programs in service to the people. That
is why the enemy hated them. It is one thing to talk about revolutionary solutions. It is quite another to
carry it out and the BPP assisted the community with love for the people. That is why the FBI hated them,
because the BPP opposed the racist, imperialist, and economic exploitative state. Many black women
had a great leadership role in the Black Panthers too.


The Black Panthers' 10 Program was an excellent, progressive document that described the summary of
the agenda of the Black Panthers (it dealt with full employment in black communities, decent housing and
education, and an end to police brutality). Many Sisters in the Black Panthers lead marches, fought police
brutality, and work in community based programs to help the people. Many of us know about Sisters like
Kathleen Cleaver, Assata Shakur, Elaine Brown, and other Strong Sisters who were BPP members.
These Sisters are strong and their stories should be known far and wide. Assata Shakur was courageous
to stand up against the evil FBI too. Also, there are other unsung Sisters in the Black Panther also who
contributed their time and efforts to fight for black human liberation. There was Barbara Easley-Cox. She
was a Black Panther Party member in the Oakland chapter like her late husband Don Cox (1936-2011).
Barbara Easley-Cox knows Angela Davis (another fighter against the prison industrial complex) and
Kwame Ture. Barbara Easley-Cox worked in Philadelphia, New York, and Oakland. She gave great
advice to the youth: "...People need to figure out where they want to go, what they want to see
accomplished. The '70s and '80s were the time of the "Me Generation," and the process of all this "me"
means there's still a lot of work to be done. It's important to recognize that you're not the only person
suffering in your community. Join something secular and local in its nature, whether that's saving a
building, saving a park, or something else..." The overall Black Power Movement is part of the overall
black liberation struggle from the days of the Maafa. Ever since the Maafa, black human beings of both
genders have fought against oppression. Sisters in the Black Panthers wanted to grow black racial
consciousness in the states and grow black political and cultural institutions in an independent fashion.
True independent is never about bowing down before the Democrats and the Republicans. It is about
thinking independently about issues. Also, some BPP members unfortunately believed in sexism and
used discrimination against women in the BPP. So, we should oppose sexism and misogyny in the
strongest terms possible.















Oliver Morris was another late Black Panther Sister too. She was part of the Black Panther Party in the
United Kingdom. She led rallies against police brutality and wanted land justice for human beings.
Malcolm X, Kwame Ture, Angela Davis, and the Black Panthers from the States regularly visited London
and other places in the United Kingdom as a means to advocate revolutionary justice for black humanity.
There were Brixton Black Panthers who fought for liberty too decades ago by the names of Althea Jones,
David Udah, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Beverly Bryan, etc. The Sister Olive Morris worked in other
organization that fought for black human rights and the rights of women of color too. RIP to Sister Oliver
Morris. Another Strong Black Panther Sister still around fighting for justice is Kiilu Nyasha. She usually
fights for prisoner rights and that issue is important one today. The human rights of prisoners is part of the
21st century human liberation struggle overall. The prison industrial complex has been corrupt and its
overt policies of exploitation and harm have been known among human beings from across the political
spectrum. She has supported the dignity of political prisoners since the 1960's. Kiilu worked in developing
the backbone of the Black Panthers in New Haven, Connecticut. She worked to defend Bobby Seale and
Ericka Huggins from nearly being sentenced a long time in prison in New Haven, Connecticut.

















And I dedicate myself to the organizing of Black people into a group that are interested in
doing things constructive, not for just one religious segment of the community, but for the entire
Black community. This is what the purpose of the Organization of Afro-American Unity is. To
have an action program thats for the good of the entire Black community. And we are for the
betterment of the community by any means necessary
-Malcolm X (in February 15, 1965)

Brother Malcolm X

Malcolm X was a great human being. He stood up for real ideas and he was courageous. In prison, he
joined the Nation of Islam. The NOI is a group that wants separatism for African Americans. NOI theology
views Black Americans as the Earth's Original people and try want great self-determination inside of the
black community (these 2 concepts are themes that I have no issue with at all). Regardless of what the
FBI said, the NOI was not some radically murderous group. Regardless of how some then and now feel
about Elijah Muhammad, he was right to advocate self determination, the respect for Black Women, and
Black Love. The NOI then and now have strong conservative elements (like believing that man and
woman have specific gender roles, they formed businesses, they followed a strict code of diet, dress, and
behavior, etc.). That is why back then; the NOI tried to advise Blacks to limit civic engagements. This was
one of the reasons why Brother Malcolm X left the Nation of Islam. Today, the NOI is more involved in
political activities. Obviously, I disagree with some (not all) in the NOI trying to ally with the philosophies of
the blatant enemy L. Ron Hubbard (who created a religious cult called Scientology. Hubbard was a
straight up racist and an enemy of black people). Yet, many sincere Brothers and sincere Sisters are in
the Nation and other groups that genuinely want black liberation. I want to make that clear. Malcolm X
grew in the Nation, because of his great intellect, wit, and charisma. He was a great public speaker and
he had acumen for organization. The newspaper, Muhammad Speaks, was largely Malcolm's creation,
and it was his idea that it could be an organizing tool. Malcolm X's political trajectory is important to know.
Malcolm X became more political than ecclesiastical as time went on in the 1960's. His parents were
linked to the pan-Africanist movement of Marcus Garvey indeed. Even early on, Malcolm X
acknowledged that the anti-colonial struggles of the Third World were linked to the struggle of
black humanity globally fighting for their rightful liberation. Malcolm X once followed Elijah
Muhammad unconditionally like a son respects a father. Malcolm X was a political Independent as he
called the Democratic and Republican parties wolves and foxes. As Malcolm put it in a subsequent
speech:

The Northern Dixiecrat puts all the blame on the Southern Dixiecrat. Its a con game, a giant
political con game (The Black Revolution, 8 April 1964).

He heavily criticized the establishment figures of the civil rights movement as a lackeys of the white power
structure (which is completely true), but he corresponded with some civil rights leaders behind the
scenes. Malcolm X attended the March on Washington and engaged in discussion with civil rights leaders
there (Yes, he called the March the Farce on Washington for its censored speeches, establishment
funding, etc.). Malcolm X said the following words on the March:

This is what they did with the march on Washington. They joined it. They didnt integrate it,
they infiltrated it. They joined it, became a part of it, took it over. And as they took it over, it lost
its militancy. It ceased to be angrywhy, it even ceased to be a march. It became a picnic, a
circus. Nothing but a circus, with clowns and all. They controlled it so tight, they told those
Negroes what time to hit town, how to come, where to stop, what signs to carry, what song to
sing, what speech they could make, and what speech they couldnt make; and then told them to
get out of town by sundown. And every one of those Toms was out of town by sundown.

After his Hajj, he transformed his views. Malcolm X became more progressive. Malcolm X wanted to have
an international mindset. That means that black Americans rights were violated in violation of
international law (and that the struggle for black liberation is international not national). So, he formed 2
organizations: Muslim Mosque Incorporated (MMI) and the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU).
The MMI was totally religious. The OAAU was political and non-religious. While abroad, he tried to
establish formal connections between the MMI and Islamists, including the Muslim Brotherhood on the
one hand and the Saudi royal family on the other. He also met with the newly minted heads of state in
several liberated African countries, aspiring to make links between their revolutions and the struggle of
U.S. Blacks. When Malcolm X left the NOI, Malcolm X further evolved on issues of race and gender.
He believed in gender equality and wanted racial equality among all peoples. He even appointed a
young woman to head the OAAU. We are still fighting bad housing, the mass incarceration of African
Americans, harm done to our schools, the evil war on terror, etc. Malcolm X always supported the rights
of workers in Western society. He criticized liberal establishment figures since they wanted to manipulate
the civil rights movement to be a tool of the Democratic Party instead of an independent revolutionary
force to benefit black people more directly. Malcolm X advocated armed self-defense against racists.
Malcolm X send a telegram to white racists mentioning the following in 1965: This is to warn you
that I am no longer held in check from fighting white supremacists by Elijah Muhammad's
separatist Black Muslim movement, and that if your present racist agitation against our people
there in Alabama causes physical harm to Reverend King or any other black Americans who are
only attempting to enjoy their rights as free human beings, that you and your Ku Klux Klan
friends will be met with maximum physical retaliation from those of us who are not hand-cuffed
by the disarming philosophy of nonviolence, and who believe in asserting our right of
selfdefense -- by any means necessary He wanted reparations for Black Americans. He was right
to see that bigotry was not just a Southern problem, because a lot of racism existed in the North too
(especially in urban conditions and lax job opportunities in the North). He left the Nation in March of 1964.
He converted to Orthodox Sunni Islam. He wanted Black Unity. He criticized capitalism, he criticized
Zionism, and he was moving in a more progressive fashion. Still, Malcolm X was never an
establishment liberal reformist. He was a black nationalist progressive
Revolutionary. As the Great Brother Edud has written:

Everything you stated here is TRUE!!! Because MOST don't UNDERSTAND white
supremacy, they THINK if whites laugh and talk to them they are non-supremacist. And if
they can sleep with one, they REALLY believe whites are the epitome of ALL that is "good"
in the world. NOT!!! If they UNDERSTOOD white supremacy, they would KNOW that whites
are SKILLED at Double Speak. On one hand, they BLAME Blacks for not having unity and
helping self, on the other, they work to ENSURE Black unity does NOT exist. The bottom
line is we have been INDOCTRINATED to HATE OURSELVES and those who LOOK like
US. The MISSION for those who UNDERSTAND white supremacy and white supremacist
"systems" is to TEACH the TRUTH to OUR children and RESIST white supremacist
LIES








We are going to see that we create our own African personality and identity. We
again rededicate ourselves in the struggle to emancipate other countries in Africa; for
our independence is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of the
African continent

-Kwame Nkrumah from March 5, 1957.

Brother Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

One of the greatest parts of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was about his fight against poverty.
By 1967, African Americans had won federal legislation to guarantee civil rights and make Jim Crow
legally gone. Yet, Dr. King knew that black human beings were not free. We are not free until we have full
economic and social equality. Economic equality means that black human beings should not suffer
poverty, low wages, corrupt housing, and other forms of negative conditions in the world at all. He was
right that Black human beings needed power as a means to bring about social, political, and
economic change. That is why he wanted full employment for all Americans or create a
guaranteed annual income. That is why the Black Memphis sanitation workers walked off the job in
Memphis to win union recognition. The union workers by 1968 were only paid up to $1.60 an hour, or only
five cents above the federal minimum wage. In addition, there were no set hours. Workers had to haul
garbage until their route was finished, whether it took eight hours or fourteen. If it rained, they could be
sent home with little or no pay. Workers could be fired for being one minute late or for talking back. They
had no breaks. They could only eat lunch for fifteen minutes and could not be seen in the shade of a tree.
The city did not require residents to pack their garbage up or to even bring it to the curb, so the sanitation
workers had to just grab everything as it lay, including tree limbs, dead animals in the road, and unpacked
garbage. They had no sick days, and without a union, no recourse to protest any of
this. That was immoral. So, these human beings wanted to struggle for racial and economic
justice. T.O. Jones or the leader of what became AFSCME Local 1733, got support from civil rights
activists, Black ministers, and some limited support from AFSCMEs national office fought for freedom. On
February 1, 1968, the proverbial back of the camel was broken by a final straw: two sanitation
workersEchol Cole and Robert Walkerwere crushed to death as they rode in the back of a
garbage truck. They were seeking shelter from the rain at the end of a long day, and there was no
room for them in the cab of the truck. Faulty wiring is believed to have set off the compactor, and the
two were mashed up. It was the workers collectively that rose up to strike because of the deaths of these
2 innocent men. The treatment of the workers by the mayor and the police was racist. The workers used
the signs of "I AM A MAN."





Dr. King Martin Luther King, Jr. was energized by the striking workers. He said the following on March 18,
1968:

"...With Selma and the voting rights bill one era of our struggle came to a close and a new era
came into being. Now our struggle is for genuine equality, which means economic equality. For
we know that it isnt enough to integrate lunch counters. What does it profit a man to be able to
eat at an integrated lunch counter if he doesnt earn enough money to buy a hamburger and cup
of coffee?..."

Dr. King was marching and agent provocateurs funded by the FBI caused rioting in the downtown
Memphis (as a means to disrupt Dr. King's efforts). Dr. King said the following words just before he died,

"...We are not coming to engage in any histrionic gesture. We are not coming to tear up Washington. We
are coming to demand that the government address itself to the problem of poverty. We read one day,
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
But if a man doesnt have a job or an income, he has neither life nor liberty nor the possibility for the
pursuit of happiness. He merely exists. We are coming to ask America to be true to the huge promissory
note that it signed years ago. And we are coming to engage in dramatic nonviolent action, to call attention
to the gulf between promise and fulfillment; to make the invisible visible. Why do we do it this way? We do
it this way because it is our experience that the nation doesnt move around questions of genuine equality
for the poor and for black people until it is confronted massively, dramatically in terms of direct action..."
(at the National Cathedral, Washington, D.C., on March 31, 1968. The full text of Dr. Kings sermon was
entitled Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution).








*It is important to mention that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. supported armed, revolutionary liberation
movements in Africa and Asia. He said the following words:

These are revolutionary times. All over the globe men are revolting against old systems of
exploitation and oppression and out of the wombs of a frail world new systems of justice and equality
are being born. The shirtless and barefoot people of the world are rising up as never before. We in the
West must support these revolutions (King speech, Beyond Vietnam, 4/4/67)

In this period when the American Negro is giving moral leadership and inspiration to his own nation, he
must find the resources to aid his suffering brothers in his ancestral homeland. Martin Luther King Jr.,
Hunter College, New York City, Human Rights Day, Dec. 10, 1965

Not to mention that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a leading figure of the ANLCA. That stood for the
American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa. It was created in 1962. It was made as a means to
address the need for African Americans to have a greater responsibility in the formation of U.S. policy in
sub-Saharan Africa. Its first conference existed in November of 1962. The preamble from the conference
rejoiced in the liberation of nations in Africa. Even Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria received their
independence from France via armed struggle. Further in the conference resolutions ANLCA stated, We
support the Nationals of Angola and Mozambique in their struggle for freedom and independence. (The
support of the Nationals of Angola statement was made without concern about the fact that they had
been fighting a war of liberation against Portugal since February 1961). Also, at its September 1964
conference, ANLCA repeated its call for the unconditional support of liberation movements in Africa, and
that every support should be given to their attempts to achieve self-government in the Portuguese
territories in Africa. Dr. King was also extended and accepted an invitation from Nnamdi Azikiwe to attend
Azikiwes appointment as governor general of Nigeria on Nov. 16, 1960. Nigeria had declared its
independence from Britain on Oct. 1, 1960. Dr. King publicly opposed apartheid in South Africa and
supported anti-colonial movements worldwide. He attended the inauguration of Kwame Nkrumah or the
Prime Minister of the newly independent Ghana. Also, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. paid respects to the
great pan-Africanist hero Marcus Garvey. He and his wife Coretta Scott King laid a wreath at the shrine of
Marcus Garvey. Without Marcus Garvey, a lot of us would never have woken up. They did this on June
20, 1965. Dr. Martin Luther King said the following words on the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey:

He was the first man of color in the history of the United States to lead and
develop a mass movement. He was the first man on a mass scale and level to
give millions of Negroes a sense of dignity and destiny. And make the Negro feel
that he was somebody

Dr. Nbadiwe requests a meeting with Dr. King regarding a new proposal for the Nigeria-Biafra
situation. Dr. King and Dr. Nbadiwe wanted to have a solution to the Nigeria-Biafran Civil War in
1968 just before he died. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. knew that the struggle for freedom for black people
in the States is linked to the struggle for freedom on the African continent. Our struggle is globally not
limited into one area or nation.

DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. RISKED HIS LIFE AND DIED IN FIGHTING FOR PEACE AND
JUSTICE. HIS LEGACY REMINDS US THAT LIFE WILL NOT BE PERFECT, BUT WE SHOULD USE
COMPASSION AND LEGITIMATE ACTION AS A MEANS TO CREATE FREEDOM FOR ALL. NOT TO
MENTION THAT BLACK STRENGTH IS AN ASSET TO HUMAN JUSTICE AND BLACK LOVE IS A
GLORIOUS EXPRESSION OF TRUE LOVE AS WELL.

So, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. loved Africa and wanted Africa to be liberated from oppression.

This is why Dr. King was determined to success with another march on April 8, but he was
unfortunately assassinated on April 4. After his assassination, rebellions occurred nationwide. These
rebellions were done in response to the conditions of urban ghettoes and poor communities
nationwide. Human beings who rioted were heavily young and suffered low wage jobs. The ruling class
feared that it was losing control of the situation. That is why they had no choice, but to give concessions.
The day after Kings funeral, Congress passed the last piece of major civil rights legislation: the
Fair Housing Act. President Johnson sent a personal emissary to Memphis to force Mayor Loeb to
settle the sanitation workers strike, which he did. Across the country, private foundations distributed
millions of dollars to fund new Black business ventures. One negative conclusion of the death of the great
late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was that the power structure funded the bourgeoisie Black elite (who
sought reform not revolution). So, we should fight poverty vigorously. WE SHOULD CONTINUE TO
STAND UP FOR BLACK PEOPLE AND LOVE BLACK HUMANITY FOREVER.

Fred Hampton was a heroic Brother indeed. Fred Hampton was martyred or murdered by the Chicago
Police Department on December 4, 1969. He was the state chair of the Black Panther Party in Illinois. His
wife is named Akua Njeri. She was only eight months pregnant with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. when
crooked police tried to kill her too. When a black woman that is pregnant was almost killed by brutish,
crooked pieces of work (I can't mention what they really are because of the censors), then you know that
black people have been under attack for a long time by the oppressor. The Chicago police shoot almost
100 shots into the apartment where 7 members of the Illinois Black Panther Party for Self Defense were
sleeping. We know now that Fred Hampton's bodyguard was a paid FBI infiltrator. The infiltrator gave the
police raiders a floor plan of the apartment, which included an X marking that "Fred sleeps here." Fred
Hampton died when he was only 21. He fought for jobs, better recreation facilities, and open housing. He
met Kwame Ture before including Dr. Ralph Abernathy, Dick Gregory, Jesse Jackson, and other famous
human beings. What is interesting is about a new film about the assassination of our Brother Fred
Hampton being film. A large crowd knows about it. The first scene was being shot right at Ground Zero,
2337 W. Chairman Fred Hampton Way (aka Monroe Street), where the death squad action took place.
After Fred Hampton's death, the surviving Black Panthers gave tours of the apartment that was the site of
the massacre to community members and the press. The cast members of the film have been interesting.
Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) has been cast as Chairman Fred, and Robin Yvette Allen (aka Lady of Rage)
has been cast as Comrade Mother Akua (aka Deborah Johnson). Other cast members include the
famous Golden Age MCs Rakim Allah and Malik Yusef. A second scene was shot later that evening at
the Peoples Church on the South Side. Fred Hampton was a hero. He was super intelligent and he was
gifted in organization. I heard many of words before. He always sincerely believed in Revolution. The FBI
killed Black Panthers before. The reason was that the Brothers and the Sisters in the Black Panther Party
were against the agenda of the establishment. The Chicago police authorities murdered Fred Hampton
and Mark Clark. The police's actions represented police injustices once again. Fred Hampton wanted
power to the people and he was a true revolutionary. He had a voice of courage, strength, and dignity.
The Black Panthers had dedicated Brothers and Sisters who realized that imperialism is immoral and that
the power of the people is superior to the agenda of the oppressor. Ideals have power and Fred Hampton
exhibited great courage in the midst of massive police brutality and repressive laws in the world. He was
not even 30 when he was murdered, so we are inspired by him. Yes, Fred Hampton Jr. (or Fred
Hampton's son) is still fighting for what we are fighting for, which is the liberation of our people. RIP to
Fred Hampton and Mark Clark.

We know about Brother George Jackson. He was a member of the prison rights movement. He even
created a Black Panther Party in San Quentin prison. There has been over 42 years since his death in
August 27, 1971. We still have some of the same issues in prison today as they were back then.
Now, the prison population has radically increased and America imprisons more humans than any
nation in the world. George Jackson wanted human rights to be real for all prisoners of the world. He
was born in Chicago and grew up mostly in California to black working class parents. In 1961, he was
accused of sticking up a gas station for $70. He was represented by a public defender and he pled guilty.
He began serving a sentence of one year to life. He was in prison, but he was very intelligent. He studied
there and wrote information eloquently. We wanted to politically organize in America's prisons and jail as
a means to create revolutionary solutions to societal ills. He made two bestselling compilations of his
letters. They are called Soledad Brother and Blood in My Eye. His words were felt across class and
racial lines in California including all over the Earth. In January 1970, George Jackson was accused
of the murder of a prison guard. On August 7 of the same year, his younger brother Jonathan Jackson
staged a doomed rescue attempt at Marin County courthouse. This was when four people died and
several were wounded. Angela Davis was prosecuted for murder and conspiracy. George Jackson's life
ended on August 21, 1971 in a hail of gunfire. These circumstances were strongly suggest to be a setup
and assassination staged by California prison officials. More than 20,000 human beings showed up for
his Oakland, California funeral. His influence was great. He inspired the organization of prisoner rights
movements globally. Many then and now confront the prison state. We have threats today. We have
many Congressmen and women, mayors, state legislators, judges, and sheriffs involved in the growth of
the prison population. We have seen the U.S. prison population grow five and six fold all over the
seventies, eighties, nineties, and in the new century. Even some of the black bourgeoisie have no
intention of empowering, educating, and helping the black working class. Today, we see folks
having hunger strikes in California and prison organizations in Ohio, Georgia, New York, Virginia,
etc. Both Democrats and Republicans have been complicit in mass incarceration and other evils
in the prison state.




Modern Examples of Injustices

Frankly, the 2 victims of racial profiling (named Kayla Phillips and Trayon Christian) should
advance justice with all of our support in general. There have been numerous stories of unjust treatment
against customers of Barneys for a while. Now, the stuff is hitting the fan. Subsequently, the NY CEO has
issued an apology. Would he issue an apology if these incidents of racial profiling and overt
discriminatory practices were not shown in the national level? We all know the answer to the question.
The real issue is about human rights. All humans deserve real respect and equal treatment
excluding racial profiling and harmful treatment from anyone. Therefore, the Brother and the
Sister should continue with their lawsuits and so forth. Justice is never done unless accountability is made
comprehensively. Justice should not be sugarcoated, evaded, nor whitewashed by any token apology.
Deeds are more important than token talk. Therefore, our community stands with the victims of Barneys'
inappropriate actions. Also, the NYPD is involved in this criminal action as well against 2 black human
beings. This confirms the obviously perverted actions of some of the police in NYC. The NYPD needs to
clean up its house. The goal of black liberation is always a legitimate goal to advance and
support at the end of the day. A real atmosphere charged with not only inspiration, but of
action will cause us to win. We should fight economic inequality and imperialism. We should
continue to expose stereotypes. We should always condemn female bashing and male bashing too.
Justice and human liberty should continue to reverberate in our community, who are filled with the young,
the old, and others. We must love our black community (for community is part of the black African cultural
identity. Our ancestors are our heroes and they are with us in spirit), strive for excellence, and ally in a
communal spirit.

Real Black fathers are great human beings. The enemy always places our fathers and our mothers as
scapegoats for the ills of society. The victim of oppression is readily blamed (by the enemy) for the
actions of the oppressor itself. Reactionaries claim that single parent households are more vulnerable
to abuse. The enemy talks about absentee fatherhood and deadbeat dads all of the time. Now, the truth
is that fathers and mothers should be in the lives of their children. Yet, parenting alone is not responsible
for the social ills ranging from high school dropout rates to drug use, physical abuse, and crime. This
scapegoating of many fathers and many mothers is related to the culture of poverty lie that
blames poor people for their situation not neoliberalism, not economic exploitation, or not the evil
system. This false narrative is used as a means for some to scapegoat black human beings in an
insidious and racist fashion. This narrative is false since high black unemployment and incarceration rates
are caused by the evil policies from the establishment (which comes from the system of white
supremacy). We see that some talk about 64 percent of black children growing up in homes without
fathers. Even President Barack Obama uses this stat as a means to promote marriage and encourage
fatherhood in his mind (while refusing to expose the evil imperialist Empire of society). Now, this blame
the victim approach of scapegoating black families grew into a high level with the advent of the racist
1965 Moynihan Report. That report described the Black family as a "tangle of pathology." That racist 1965
report also blamed black mothers for the issues in the black community, which is false. The oppression,
discrimination, racism, and poverty has harmed the black community not black women at all. The enemy
always have a perverted hatred of black women. Anyone that harbors evil hatred of black women is by
definition an agent (I don't care who it is). Here is the reality.

The massive harm done to the black family has nothing to do with single black mothers. It has everything
to do with socioeconomic factors and the system of discrimination including oppression (from the system
of white supremacy). After deindustrialization, jobs being restricted from black males and from black
females, the War on Drugs, mandatory sentences for non-violent drug offenses, continued discrimination,
continued economic exploitation, the growth of the prison industrial complex (which caused many even
innocent black men to be in prison now in 2013), etc. came about in the black community, then the Black
family has been heavily harmed. These events have harmed many fathers and many mothers. Our issues
have nothing to do with the essence of true black culture. It has to do with oppression and economic
conditions. There are still strong black human beings in nuclear families, extended
families, single families, or otherwise. So, black men need respect and job opportunities, but black
women also need the same as a means to fight poverty and racial inequality. Black women have always
had a great role in our struggle for black liberation. Their role should be honored. Poverty is complex
and it is related to structural, institutional, and economic reasons. If someone
ignores the economic, structural determinants of poverty, then that person has
an issue. Cultural pathology has been used by some as a coded phrase to over simplify poverty and
scapegoat blacks for issues collectively. A real man can never be emasculated by a strong, independent,
and intelligent Black Woman at all. A black woman having progress in schools, in the workplace, and in
positions of our community are an asset not a detriment to the progress of Black Men. Black Men doing
the same is also an asset in our community too. Black men and Black women should have jobs not just
Black Men solely. For it was the Candaces Queens in ancient Africa that worked hard too with great
leadership qualities, so we should never follow some limited, white supremacist, and Eurocentric view on
all things like gender. We have the right to embrace our African thinking. African thinking is about
the respect of the masculine and feminine energies in the Universe period without
exception. It is about the belief in the balance of the masculine and feminine energies in
the Universe too. Single mothers and single fathers are not monolithic at all. We still have issues in our
community. They have grown since the great recession hit in 2008. Everything is not perfect, but
we should confront our issues, we shouldn't sugarcoat them, and we should not
scapegoat single black mothers for all of our problems either. That is the point. We love
our mothers. We will always love Black Women. We need economic justice and real,
revolutionary solutions in our community. We need justice. When both genders realize that they need
each other and each gender is not the enemy, then massive progress will come about. As Malcolm X
said:

In every Middle East or African country I have visited I noticed the countries is as
advanced as its women are, or as backward as its women. By this I mean, in areas
where the women have been pushed into the background and kept without education,
the whole area or country is just as backward, undereducated, and underdeveloped.
Where the women are encouraged to get an education and play a more active role in
the all-around affairs of the community and the country, the entire people are more
active, more enlightened, and more progressive. (Malcolm Xs Al-Muslimoon Interview
from February 13-20, 1965).



Poor and Black fathers in this country do make real efforts to be involved in the lives of their
families and children. But these relationships are structured and constrained by poverty, racism
and the criminal injustice system in ways that are rarely discussed. Most black children live in
single parent homes, but this doesn't mean that their fathers are not involved in their lives.
Studies have shown that unmarried Black fathers are highly involved in their young children's
lives, with the majority seeing their kids three to five times per week. Combining this figure with the
fathers who live with their children, it means that almost three-quarters of Black children have a father
present in their lives. This is hardly the crisis level that we hear about in the media so frequently.
Numerous studies show that black fathers are more involved in certain aspects of parenting than others
assume. Studies show that Black fathers are more involved in certain aspects of parenting. For example,
Black men are more likely to provide physical care for their children, including preparation of meals,
bathing and help with getting dressed.

A Boston College study found that Black men were more likely than any other racial or ethnic
group to remain in contact with their non-residential children. In fact, 99 percent of unmarried
fathers state a desire to be in their children's lives. So, we know that issues exist because of
unemployment, poverty, and related issues not black men or black women collectively at all.
Almost 40 percent of unmarried Black fathers make less than $10,000 per year, and 70 percent of
uncollected child support payments are owed by men making less than $10,000 per year. Nonetheless,
researchers have found that poor, unmarried Black fathers make substantial efforts to provide for their
children. The majority of these fathers contribute physical necessities such as diapers, clothing or school
supplies. Because they are likely to be unemployed or have irregular work, they also provide support in
the form of homework help and childcare so that mothers can work, go to school or run errands. Unlike
state-mandated child support payments, these activities involve fathers directly and visibly in the care of
their children. Mass incarceration has harmed many fathers having the chance to provide for their
children in real life. Absentee fathers exist, but mass incarceration has torn a much more hold in the lives
of many children. The oft cited and alarming statistics showing that children raised in single-parent
households are more likely to commit crime, drop out of school or go to prison mistake correlation for
causation. Absent fathers don't cause these issues. In fact, the same factors that make it difficult for poor,
Black fathers to be consistently involved with their children--racism, poverty and mass incarcerationare
also the ones that diminish the hopes and life chances of those children. All children deserve adults in
their lives that love and care for them. Fathers and Mothers should not be scapegoated for
the evils in a wicked society. There must be a social responsibility to build up
society too. We should expose the racist white power structure in the world. Also,
we should improve our lives, help our people, grow in our families, and improve
in our community (we should reject the degradation of females and males, we
should educate our people, we should continue to treat our neighbors right, and
we should be in the lives of the youth.

We should continue to speak out and we should not support those who degrade
our people or exploit our people in an immoral fashion. We are fighting for our
liberation and we face racial and class oppression. That is why we deserve racial,
social & economic justice. We should continue to UPLIFT BLACK MEN, BLACK
WOMEN, AND BLACK CHILDREN). In other words, we must confront racism, the
evil system of white supremacy, and social inequality as a means to build the
lives of families in the world.







AT THE END OF THE DAY, BLACK UNITY AND BLACK LOVE ARE LEGITIMATE WAYS FOR US TO
GROW AS A PEOPLE AND AS A COMMUNITY. WE EMBRACE OUR AFRICAN BRAINS AND OUR
BLACK AFRICAN CULTURE TOO. AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE ARE AFRICANS.

African Culture

African culture has a very long history. It is diverse, beautiful, and interesting. From Northern Africa to
Southern Africa, African culture is unique and one of a kind. African culture also impacted the whole
world. From fashion, music, and to language, we are greatly influenced by African culture. In African
culture, you have art, forklore and religion, clothing, cuisine, languages, and other costumes. Everyone
understands the beautiful aspects of African art. Africa's history in arts and craft are rich and glorious.
There are famous artworks like the Yombe sculpture in Africa. Tons of art found in Africa are made up in
wood carvings, brass, and leather. African great artists have used sculpture, paintings, potter, and other
images for aesthetic reasons (or for ceremonial or religious purposes). African masks are heavily
common in African art. The masks can be unique and stylized. You have the famous Yoruba bronze head
sculptures too found in ca. 12th century. Abstract art is common in the Motherland as well beyond just
naturalistic representation. There are a lot of three dimensional artworks too. The famous Noke terracotta
created in Nigeria again outlines the creativity, genius, and ingenuity of African art. We do know that
artists like Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Pal Gaugin, Modigliani, and Matisse were aware of or influenced
by African art.

Okwui Enwezor is a modern, famous Nigerian art critic who understands African art today. He wrote book
on contemporary art as well. We know that jewelry, and other accessories are found in African art too.
Back in July of 2013, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art showed its first gallery exclusively dedicated
to the display of the arts of Africa. One artwork was called "Caryatid Stool" form the 19th century. The
exhibition form the LACMA was called "Shaping Power: Luba Masterwoorks from the Royal Museum for
Central Africa." The exhibit present ancestral figurers, medicinal bowls, regal staff, doubled sized cups,
and elaborate masks. Visitors came and saw the diverse nature of the images and sculptures in the
museum. The Luba believed in a semi-divine kingship. The whole exhibit was organized by Mary Nooter
Roberts, LACMAs consulting curator for African Art, and Anne-Marie Bouttiaux, head of the Ethnography
division, Royal Museum for Central Africa, in Tervuren, Belgium. The exhibition is accompanied by an
installation by contemporary artist Aime Mpane. His piece memorializes the victims of the ongoing
violence in the Congo. His work is great and it acts a great addendum to "Luba Masterworks."






Now, black African women in African civilizations were highly revered long ago. The Black African woman
is special. From her, all of humanity came from her. Ancient Africans had a deep seated respect for
women. Tons of ancient humans viewed males and females as complements of each other and harmony
between the two was necessary to cause social stability in the Earth. That is why when advance the
wellbeing of males and females, then the world is better and humanity grows. Mother Africa always had
civilizations who greatly respected women. In ancient Egypt and ancient Kush, there was a great
importance placed for the Mother. That is why in both ancient civilizations, the mother was seen in the
great importance. Children took their surname from the mother and the mother controlled in many times
the household and the fields. In Kush, the Queen Mother had the right to choose the next Pharaoh. Prior
to Islamic conquest of sub-Saharan Africa in the 12th and 13th centuries, the system of succession to the
throne was matrilineal. Cheikh Anta Diop in his book Pre-colonial Black Africa explains that in the African
custom of matrilineal succession, very strict rules were observed which stated that the heir of the throne
was not the kings son but the son of the Kings first-born sister (the kings nephew). This is because, as
an African proverb states, You can never be sure who the father of the child is; but of the mother you
can always be sure." That means that the conference of power and titles of leadership were reckoned
through the mother's line in many African kingdoms. Many African cultures were matriarchal and shown
respect for women. Women had a great deal of power in ancient African cultures. The erosion of the
status of women occurred gradually and increased by white supremacist Eurocentric invasions of the
Motherland. It is a white supremacist Eurocentric ideology to degrade the woman and make her less in
position to a man (instead of a woman being placed equal to a man). The status and power of women in
Africa during ancient times were very high. They were not treated as second class citizens. Among the
Kikuyu of Kenya, women were the major food producers and thus not only had ready access to land but
also had AUTHROITY of how the land was to be used and cultivated. In ancient Africa, women were
leading spiritual figures. African women were well known, great, and powerful leaders like Queen
Tiye, the Candaces of ancient Nubia, Sarraounia, Ana de Sousa Nzinga, and so many other
Sisters. NO NATION CAN RISE ABOVE ITS WOMAN POINT BLANK PERIOD.




AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE DONT NEED MALE SUPREMACY IN AN
AUTHORITARIAN FASHION NOR FEMALE SUPREMACY IN AN AUTHORITARIAN
FASHION. WE JUST NEED BALANCE. WE JUST NEED EQUALITY AMONG
MALES AND FEMALES. A MAN HAS THE RIGHT TO BE A MAN AND A WOMAN
HAS THE RIGHT TO BE A WOMAN PERIOD. WE SHOULD ALWAYS RESPECT
THE GREAT FEMININE INFLUENCE IN THE WORLD (AS IT IS FOUND IN THE
CULTURES OF THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE WORLD) BOTH GENDERS SHOULD
EXPERIENCE RESPECT, DIGNITY, AND HONOR.

We all know that African music is vital part of African culture. Recently, I have been listening to a lot of
great African music. I like the music from Fatoumata Diawara with her songs like Sowa and Kele (which
as the great message of inspiring to end conflicts and wars in the Motherland of Africa. Regardless of
what we creed or nationality we are, we are still Africans deserving of dignity and respect). Forklore and
religion are key parts of the culture of Africa. Religion and forklore are key portions of human civilization in
general.

"SOUL!" was a great show. It is a staple of black culture. It showed Black Power issues on its show all of
the time mixed with great music as well. It lasted from 1968 to 1973. It was a public television show. It
was courageous and uncensored. Sometimes, the past can inspire us and that show inspires us. It was
shown in PBS. It predated Soul Train even. SOUL! was produced at WNET/Thirteen. SOUL! and Soul
Train were sphere headed by bold Black men. They saw opportunities to contribute to the community of
black people and they created something special for humanity in general. They were successful. Ellis
Haizlip was involved with SOUL! and of course Don Cornelius was involved in Soul Train. Melissa Haizlip
is trying to create a film on SOUL!, but she needs funds to do so. She is inspired by her late uncle (the
poet Umar Bin Hassan). Her film is entitled, "Mr. Soul! Ellis Haizlip and the Birth of Black Power TV." The
SOUL! show had a lot of content. Melissa held a conference on the show and other issues. The summit
include her friends and Black writers including activists like Aboidon Oyewole, Bin Hassan (famous
members of the Last Poets), Movement icon Sonia Sanchez, and other folks (like Quincy Troupe, Ericka
Blount Danois, and Kevin Powell). There were others there. She lacks money and the daylong
conference gave tribute to her uncle (including the Black Power and Black Arts movements). These
movements inspire us daily. Ellis Haizlip was slowly reconstructed through clips and memories of stories
told. He knew nothing about television. He didnt like it. So he was perfect, recalled Christopher Lukas,
former programming director for WNET/Thirteen. Lukas hired Haizlip, a very well-known and connected
theatre producer in Black circles who had what became known as a legendary black phone book of
contacts. So Thirteens first Black producer evolved Lukas idea of a Black Tonight Show into SOUL!
Haizlip produced and Stan Lathan (a famous African American in producing). Thulani Davis said that she
was a cool, sly instigator. Haizlip got many different black voices on his show. She followed up questions
on the individuals that he interviewed on his show. John H. Bracey, Jr., chairperson of the W.E.B. Du Bois
Department of Afro-American Studies at University of Massachusetts at Amherst said Haizlips philosophy
with the show was that ...all of this (Im presenting) is going to get us Black, so you (the audience) sort it
out... SOUL! expanded from WNET/Thirteen to PBS. The show gave human beings a platform to voice
their views. It allowed George Jackson's mother to appear to talk about her then recently martyred son. Al
Green performed there. Miriam Makeba sang her son.

The Last Poets chanted words and music. It featured even Louis Farrakhan to talk about controversial
topics. Regardless if you agree or disagree with Louis Farrakhan's views (which you have a right to do),
the SOUL! was a great forum for a wide spectrum of black voices. "It became a vehicle demanding
respect, searching for opportunity and giving voice, said Price. Sanchez talked about how people would
come up to her the day after she performed on SOUL! and asked her, Arent you that lady? And I said,
Yes, wasnt we bad? Shows like SOUL! and Black Journal existed in the late 1960's as Black public
affairs television programs. Others shows came locally and local public including commercial television
stations grew nationwide. This came after black human beings rebelled in Detroit, Watts, Newark, etc.
between 1967 and 1968. They demanded justice. Lt. Uhara, Julia, and Bill Cosby were great. Also,
Johnson suppressed the report that found that white racism caused and fueled riots in America. Today,
PBS has been increasingly corporate dominated. It is now taboo for Haizlip to come on the scene on PBS
now. We should continue in the Black Liberation and Black Power movements.
SOUL! merged Black culture, Black politics, and Black history. This is an
important story of Black History. This is our history. This is our culture. So, it is
up to the people or us in this generation. We have the responsibility to fight for
freedom and to fight for our dignity. Our voices are important and they have a
right to be heard.








Some in our community are meant to be warriors. Some are meant to be scholars.
Some are meant to be speakers or orators. Some are meant to be engineers. Others
are meant to play supporting roles. Yet, when all of us unite in common cause for
black liberation, we will find progress and victory. Human beings like Dr. King,
Martin Delany, Ida B. Wells, Ella Baker, Betty Shabazz, Malcolm X, Marcus
Garvey and so many other Brothers and Sisters inspire us to keep on fighting for
the truth. They or the enemy could never stop all of us. They put our ancestors in
chains, and did unspeakable actions, but we still speak truth to power now. We are
still here and we still have the right to be heard and to fight for real for justice.
That is the point.

*An Important Point:

When you start to wake up, things start to change. We know that we have to defeat evil. Our people
suffered waves of repression and racism, even now. Yet, that is never an excuse to give up. I will never
give up in my life period. During these times, we can't get stuck into reactionary movements. Many of
these movements falsely claim to be the vanguard of black human values, but they advance women
hating, authoritarian theocratic aims, and an anti-worker mentality. Some in such reactionary movements
want to glamorize Jim Crow oppression. Many of these faux revolutionaries want to blame the victim for
his or her own oppression. We have to honor the legacy of black working people who struggled to break
the chains of racist oppression. Some of these reactionaries are nostalgic about Jim Crow oppression.
During Jim Crow, black people were lynched, black people were violated heavily of their human rights,
black people were not given massively fair trials, tons of black human beings were denied the right to vote
unfairly, and black people suffered economic discrimination as well. Many sharecroppers faced huge debt
to the plantation owner. Urban workers had to fight tooth and nail for a decent paying job in industry.
Schools were filled with outdated books and dilapidated schools. In other words, the old system of Jim
Crow is a system that I reject and abhor 100 percent. We don't need the system of Jim Crow or the
current system of white supremacy in the 21st century either. From the days of chattel slavery to the
wage slavery of modern industry, we witness the corrupt system of oppression. That is why many who
obsess with lecturing us on "personal responsibility" refuse to talk about unemployment, health care, the
prison industrial complex, police brutality, austerity, and other real issues harming the black community in
the world (they certainly issue no solutions to these problems either). There is nothing with having
personal responsibility in the world, but we shouldn't use personal responsibility as an excuse to ignore
injustices in the world. We should follow the example of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner
Truth, and others who believed in truth and justice. Men and women should work as equals in the fight
against oppression. It is important to note that black women have been in the front lines of the struggle of
black liberation. For example, Abolitionist Harriet Tubman led a battle before and during the Civil War as
a means to fight for black freedom. So, nothing is wrong with jobs for all, for real childcare, for equal pay
for equal work, and for economic justice. These things are just common sense. There must be not only
workers solidarity, but Black Unity too. There is nothing wrong with Black Love and Black Unity. We need
revolutionary solutions in the world.

*We should do everything in our power to fight colorism and to respect human beings of any skin hue.
Also, it is very true that Black is Beautiful of all shades from light, brown, and to dark. Folks have to
eliminate evil, false biases from their minds completely. The truth is that we should oppose discrimination
against darker skinned black human beings and any human being. We have to think in a mature fashion
to respect our neighbor and to judge humanity on the basis of their character not on the color of one's
skin. Folks should respect black humanity. This fight will not be easy, but it is righteous fight to enact. The
"Dark Girls" documentary is a powerful film that talks about how colorism has harmed human beings
emotionally and psychologically. We all express sympathy to those who suffered abuse and
mistreatment, because they are darker skinned. That abuse is evil and abhorrent. We have to see the
truth that dynamic, intelligent, honorable, and strong human beings exist in every skin complexion and
that dark skinned Brothers and Sisters should be treated with dignity and respect too. WHEN WE ARE
REAL AND DO THE RIGHT THING, THEN REAL CHANGE WILL COME. In the final analysis, all of the
people should have justice.

*Greed, envy, and materialism are social evils that we should oppose with all of our strength. This fight for
our self-determination is not easy one. Yet, we have to fight. We fight because life is hard, not easy.
Celebrating black culture is great. Debating issues and learning from the past is a must. We dont have to
agree on everything, but we can agree on common goals for the liberation of all black people. The
majority of the black community respect strong black men and strong black women. Other folks want to
demonize black people as a means to try to demoralize black people into following the status quo. Yet,
the black community for ages have been strong and we will be stronger with strong efforts in improving
our families (our communities and our infrastructure). I believe that any child and any family should have
strong male and strong female role models in their lives. In that sense, the children can respect and
appreciate the value of black males and black females. Everyone here wants the best for children. There
is nothing wrong with a black person appreciating his or her own identity either. We should be color
respectful. We can respect real people and not allow anyone to degrade us because we are black. Being
black is a blessing from the CREATOR and we have the right to never bow before non-blacks at all. We
have the right to treat our neighbors as ourselves and love the skin that we are in literally for BLACK IS
BEAUTIFUL.





Quick Words on the YOUTH:

The young people should be encouraged to make radical changes in society. Their legitimate
creativity ought to be appreciated, their vigor for learning should be cherished, and their strength
ought to be harnessed in the positive direction. EDUCATION is great. Without the EDUCATION
OF SELF AND OF TRUE BLACK IDENTITY, THEN NOTHING CHANGES. We have to care for
the youth and the rest of humanity. In my mind, a holistic approach is needed as well. Using
technology to fight is great, because we live in a highly technological age. Any technology used
in a great fashion to fight WHITE SUPREMACY IS GREAT. Also, we cant use technology as a
crutch though. There should be also protests, boycotts, and other legitimate forms of ACTIVISM
TOO. There has to be a sense of respect given to the OLDER AND THE YOUNGER
GENERATIONS. Both generations have great value and they have excellent insights that can
be shared among the WHOLE OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY. INDEPENDENT
ORGANIZATION ALSO IS A KEY WAY FOR THE YOUTH TO FIGHT FOR REAL SOCIAL
CHANGE.



GREAT POINTS TO REMEMBER:

A black man or a black woman can talk with many different accents, but that does not mean
that this black person is trying to be white.
A black person may like hiking or listening to a certain type of music, but that does not
mean that this person hates black human beings.
A black person may even enjoy certain movies, but he or she is still black.
So, the fundamental truth is that racists views black humanity into select boxes. Yet, we as
black human beings can do a diversity of actions and still love our blackness and our black
African heritage at the same time. So, these false generalizations about our people should
cease.


Words on the 2014 Ebola crisis in Africa

First, Clutch should be given their due respect for describing excellent information on Ebola,
because many people have spread inaccurate information about the composition of ebola.
Xenophobia is evil, immoral, and unjust. Xenophobia is heavily common not only in
America, but in Europe. In fact, many Europeans have a more reactionary view of
immigration than many Republicans. The crisis in Africa deals with many issues. There is a
lax infrastructure and sanitation issues in many areas. The ebola virus has spread heavily
from remote, rural locations. Also, many of the affected areas have massive poverty
including a lack of running waters in some of the regions too. Income inequality must be
addressed in Africa. African nations should collaborate more on fighting back. The
solutions rely on multiple African nations working together, using funds, and strengthening
infrastructure since the ebola crisis has spread into multiple nations. African resources are
readily exploited by Western forces (via capitalism) when the economic rights of the people
in those nations are readily harmed. The victims of ebola (& Africans in general) should
receive prayers, support, and solidarity. Therefore, a stronger infrastructure must
develop, so human beings can be helped.



Give light and people will find the way...
-Ella Baker

Good News


There are numerous great news in the black community. Anala Beevers of New Orleans is a member of
MENSA. MENSA is the international organization that is made up of super intelligent young human
beings. She is 4 years old with an IQ of more than 145. That is amazing and she learned the whole
alphabet at four months. She learned numbers in Spanish by the time that she was 18 months old. Most
of MENSAs members are in the top two percent; Anala is in the top one percent. She keeps us on our
toes, says her father Landon, who said she needs her own reality TV show. When asked by a
reporter if shes smart, she nodded her head yes. When asked, How smart are you? she said,
Really smart. This is great news and bless her heart. Anala Beevers is a gifted human being and she
should be encouraged and strengthened in her God given abilities. There is a 14 year old Sister named
Thessalonika Arzu-Embry going into the Chicago State University. She got a bachelors degree in
psychology. She is contributing to society and she is a very intelligent human being. She lives at the
Great Lakes Naval Station near North Chicago. She was homeschooled along with her brother. Her
mother is strong and inspires her all of the time. Bless her Mother. She received an equivalent of a high
school diploma at age 11 via her homeschooling. She plans on helping humanity with her clinic. She has
a strong family support system. She plans on going into a graduate program for clinical psychology at
Rosalind Frankin University of Medicine and Science, a private college in North Chicago or Stanford
University. Black intellectual strength is potent and it is indeed very common among our people spanning
all eras of human history indeed.

We know that the AIDS pandemic has declined in Africa. There is a new UNAIDS report that has shown
the AIDS epidemic that has been halted and the world is beginning to reverse the spread of HIV. UNAIDS
Executive Director, Michel Sidibe, loses no time in announcing the good news. "Today, we can say with
confidence and conviction, that we have broken the trajectory of the AIDS pandemic," Sidibe said. "Less
people are becoming infected. Less people are dying. New infections have fallen by nearly 20 percent in
the last 10 years." We see that the African nation of Benin has made progress in reducing poverty. This
has been mentioned by a statement from the Secretary General of the UN named Ban Ki-Moon. Benin
has seen improving primary education, reduction in infant mortality, and increasing access to safe
drinking water. We as of black African descent have a long way to go though. Our enemy is white
supremacy. We have to continue to learn our culture, our history, and our roots. We should continue to
learn about math, science, technology, and engineering as a means to not only develop our
culture, but to grow our souls (and to be the best that we can be in the world). So, we have to unite
as black Africans against a common enemy and a common oppressor as Malcolm X have said many
decades ago. For Unity is one way for us as a people to strike back and to build up our own cultural base
in the world. We are a black African people. I will always love Africa with all of my heart. As a Diasporan
African, I will continue to love Africa. I will respect my ancestors and the Creator of the whole Universe as
well.


There are more interesting facts about Africa and black humanity that many human beings do not know
about. Liberia GDP's growth rate is nearly four times that of America. This trend is occurring in the past
decade. Africa supplied six of the world's ten economies with the fastest growth. African entrepreneurs
are very talented in the world. Africa's mobile telecoms market is the world's second largest/fastest
growing after China. That is why the Economist magazine dubbed Africa the world's "Hottest Investment
Frontier" in April of this year. Africa's economy is growing rapidly. The African millionaire growth rate is
five times that of the United States and Africa has more billionaires than Latin America. Even the late
black inventor Alexander Miles was awarded a patent for an automatically opening and closing elevator
door design in in 1887. The great African American inventor Frederick McKinley Jones created
innovations in refrigeration that caused great improvement to the long haul transportation of perishable
goods. He was the winner of the National Medal of Technology and the inductee of the National Inventors
Hall of Fame. During his life, Jones was awarded 61 patents. Forty were for refrigeration equipment, while
others went for portable X-ray machines, sound equipment, and gasoline engines. In 1944, Jones
became the first African American to be elected into the American Society of Refrigeration
Engineers. Also, our cultural legacy as black people has always been in favor of justice and true morality.
Even many Europeans centuries ago admitted that black Africans have an affinity or strong love for
justice. The high esteem the ancients held blacks carried on into the Middle Ages. Ibn Battuta, writing
about the 14th century West African Kingdom of Mali, recorded: "The small number of acts of injustice
that one finds there, for the Negroes are of all peoples those who most abhor injustice and
complete and general safety one enjoys throughout the land."









Nkosi sikelel' iAfrika

Here are more Good News that Relates to Our Black People:

*Black farmers are to receive payouts in $1.2 billion from a federal lawsuit settlement. These
farmers were discriminated against in America. About 18,000 will receive compensation. This is
the second round of funding for black farmers. Thousands of black farmers received payments in
1999 as part of a settlement in a class action suit over the widespread discrimination by federal
officials who denied loans and other assistance to black farmers because of their race. After all
these years and all the fighting, this is what its all about, says John Boyd, President of the
National Black Farmers Association, which pushed Congress for the settlement. It doesnt take
away what the government has done to us, but for those who receive the payments, it will make a
difference in their lives.

*Senegal has its 2nd Female Prime Minister. She is a human rights activists and her name is
Aminata Tour. She was the 51 year old former justice Minister. Mame Madior Boye served
between 2001 and 2002. As Justice Minister, Aminata Tour used the judicial process against
Chad dictator Hissene Habre. She allowed him to be arrested. She fought against corruption and
illegally acquired wealth was intensified. As a result of her action, millions of francs held by
corrupt officials in foreign banks were repatriated. Tour says she will speed up the pace of our
public development programs and reforms to enable every person in Senegal to feel the change
in their daily livelihood. She is a highly educated Sister as well.

*Antionette Tuff helped to avert a tragedy in an Atlanta Elementary School with her skills as
having a clam demeanor (including her kind approach). She is a hero.

*According to the CDC, the homicide death rate for black men was actually higher in 1950 than
it is today in America.

*In other words, over a 40-year period, even as the overall population grew dramatically, there
were around 3500 fewer murders in 2011 than in 1971, and almost 9000 fewer murders than in
1991! This exists in America. And by 2011 there were about 2500 fewer blacks being murdered
every year than in 1971, and almost 4500 fewer blacks being killed annually than twenty years
before in 1991. Black crime is down by almost half since the late 1970s.

*From 1976-2005, the murder victimization rate for blacks fell 45 percent (in America), from
37.1 murder victims for every 100,000 blacks to 20.6 murder victims for every 100,000 blacks
(the rates for whites also fell 40 percent), and the offending rate for blacks fell 43 percent, from
46.6 murders committed for every 100,000 blacks in the population to only 26.5 murders
committed per 100,000 blacks by 2005.

*As for SNAP, 64 percent of black recipients who come on to the program, move off the
program rolls within a year (in the USA), suggesting that benefit receipt is, for most, a short-term
and transitional reality, rather than a long-term condition. For cash assistance, about half of
blacks who enter the program will be off the rolls within 4 months, and 7 in 10 will be off within
a year.

*In terms of achievement itself, while white reading scores for 9-year olds on the National
Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have increased about 6 percent since 1971 (in
America), black scores have risen by 20 percent; among 13-year olds, reading scores barely
budged for whites from 1971 to 2008, while rising 12 percent for blacks; and for 17 year olds,
white scores remained flat while black scores rose by 11 percent. Likewise, math achievement
scores for black 9, 13 and 17-year olds have risen faster since 1971 than scores for whites,
thereby closing racial achievement gaps on the NAEP.









RIP Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)
Prayers and condolences go out to His Family and Friends.
Hamba kakuhle



















QUICK SOLUTIONS:

Many human beings want solutions and they are entitled to be active and create solutions. Here
are some solutions that we can do to make our lives and our communities better in the pan-
African world:

1). The only thing that we can do is a multifaceted approach. We should first do the best that we
can in our own communities. For when we do this, at the least gains that we see can be tangible
and we can witness it more directly in our communities. The black liberation movement then and
now agreed with community power, cooperatives, black self-determination, and
REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE. We reject colonialism and the interests of the bourgeoisie too.
There should be no privileged people for true POWER MUST BE SHARED FAIRLY AMONG
HUMANITY. WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO HAVE OWNERSHIP OF POWER TOO. NOW,
OWNERSHIP IS ABOUT CONTROLLING OUR DESTINIES NOT DOMINATING WORKERS
IN AN UNFAIR WAY. WORKERS SHOULD BE TREATED FAIRLY AND JUSTLY. We should
never embrace some reactionary Nixonian black capitalism mentality, but a
progressive economic justice mentality as black human beings. WE CAN CREATE
PLANS BOTH SHORT TERM AND LONG TERM AS A MEANS TO ESTABLISH SOLUTIONS
TOO.

2). Folks have mentioned family growth and they are right on that. We have to work on building
our families via mentorships, community development programs, fighting for economic justice
(when economic fairness grows & economic inequality goes down, families improve as studies
document. Industrialized nations have shown this. We have to reject selfish materialism since
that philosophy contributed to the economic recession of 2008), talking to the youth in a
reasonable fashion without arrogance or ego, and other actions. WE SHOULD REMEMBER
ALWAYS TO NEVER BLAME THE VICTIMS OF OPPRESSION TOTALLY FOR THE ACTIONS
OF THE OPPRESSOR. THE REALITY IS THAT THE SYSTEM OF WHITE
SUPREMACY/RACISM IS RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ORIGIN OF THE PROBLEMS THAT
WE SEE. We have individual responsibility as human beings and collectively we blame the
system of white supremacy for the origin of the modern problems in our existence as black
people too. NOW, WE SHOULD ACT UPRIGHT AND BE RIGHTEOUS OBVIOUSLY, BUT WE
SHOULD NEVER BELIEVE IN SELF BLAME AGAINST ALL BLACK PEOPLE AT ALL.

3). We should educate the young on the value of males and females in the world (and the
importance of families in general). WE SHOULD NEVER DEGRAGE A BROTHER OR SISTER
AT ALL. WE SHOULD TREAT HUMANITY WITH DIGNITY AND RESPECT. WE SHOULD
LOVE ALTRUISM AND LOVE SOLIDARITY WITH OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS
GLOBALLY. IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS, WE ARE ALL BLACK. WE ARE ALL AFRICANS.
WE ALL ARE OF BLACK AFRICAN DESCENT.

*Also, I do advise both males and females to learn self-defense techniques, martial
arts, etc. as a means to protect ourselves, our families, our loved ones, and our
community. We live in a very dangerous world and we cant be nave. Learning
these things builds strength, confidence, and you will feel good in general.

4). We should inspire our people to follow ethics and real values. Our culture is about ethics and
true morality can spiritually plus socially prosper our people. We should work in independent
organizations that want a better life for us and our people (in dealing with health, education,
crime, and other important issues). That means we ought to advance more conflict resolution
in our people, more love for black people, and express more understanding plus compassion for
those Brothers & Sisters suffering in the world. I believe in workers rights, I believe in the
improvement of Nature (or the environment), I believe in social justice, I believe in
economic justice (fighting for the interests of the poor is about common morality), I
believe in human civil liberties, and I believe in universal health care.

5). WE SHOULD EDUCATE OURSELVES ON THE EVILS OF WHITE SUPREMACY/RACISM
(since we can't make solutions without knowing the origin of the problem in the first place. We
have to realize that we have a problem in the world. We have to understand that we are at war
and this is an emergency straight up) AND THE GREATNESS OF OUR BLACKNESS. OUR
HISTORY IS EXCITING TO LEARN. OUR LEGACY IS STRONG. OUR MELANIN IS
EXCELLENT AND BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL. RED, BLACK, AND GREEN ARE WITH US
FOREVER AND FOREVER NO DOUBT. SHO NUFF.

6). Also, we have the right to boycott, protest, and make our voices heard. We have the right to
speak out and use action (as in organizing independent programs to address problems).

7). Individually & Collectively, we should respect Black Love and advocate it publicly and in
private. Without Black Love, black human beings will never survive as a community. It is as
simple as that. We should advocate more Black Unity among both genders. THE KNOWLEDGE
OF SELF IS VERY IMPORTANT. WE HAVE TO DAILY AFFIRM OUR VALUE AND THE
BEAUTY OF OUR BLACKNESS.









8). Individually & Collectively, we should improve our health (via trying our best to stop smoking,
eating no poisons, and finding time to exercise). We should defend the rights of workers. We
should improve Nature or the environment. The reverence of Nature is a key part of black
African culture. We should always be conscious of political issues and we have the right to
advance our INTERESTS as BROTHERS AND SISTERS.

9). We should meditate or evaluate our lives daily, so that we can be better people. We should
find unique ways to not only learn about STEM subjects, but develop economic & technological
powerbases more in the States (and globally in the pan-African world). We should CREATE
MORE POWER. As the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. accurately said:

We must devote at least as much to our childrens education and the health of the poor as we
do to the care of our automobiles and the building of beautiful, impressive hotels. We must also
realize that the problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a
radical redistribution of political and economic powerOur only hope today lies in our
ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world, declaring
eternal opposition to poverty, racism and militarism (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.s The
Three Evils of Society speech. It was an address Delivered at the National Conference on New
Politics on August 31, 1967)

10). We can support real black businesses with our resources. Long term, we should strive for
better self-determination. It is not easy, but we have to start somewhere. We should learn about
our Brothers and Sisters in Africa and the rest of the Diaspora (their languages, their history,
and their culture. We should take the time to know Africa like we know our local neighborhoods).
This can grow our spiritual, cultural, and other real connections with black people globally.

11). YES, WE OUGHT TO TREAT OUR NEIGHBORS AS OURSELVES. THAT IS THE
COMMONSENSE IDEAL OF REAL SPIRITUALITY.

12). We have to be an example. We have to not only talk about these issues, but we have to
LIVE OUR LIVES in the RIGHT FASHION DAY BY DAY. WE CAN ASK THE CREATOR FOR
ASSISTANCE AND SEEK GUIDANCE FROM THE ELDERS, OUR PEERS, OUR FRIENDS,
ETC. We ought to GET INSPIRATION FROM THE ANCESTORS TO CARRY US THROUGH.
WE SHOULD BE A LEADER OF ONE. WE ARE LEADERS AND WE CAN LEAD TO MAKE
THE WORLD BETTER.




*There are tons of other things that we can do individually and collectively. WE HAVE TO
CONFRONT EVIL AND OPPRESSION TOO. NOTHING CHANGES UNLESS WE STRUGGLE
FOR FREEDOM. WHEN WE STRUGGLE AND FIGHT OPPRESSION HEAD ON, THEN WE
CAN HAVE A CHANCE FOR OUR RIGHTFUL VICTORY. WE HAVE TO DIRECTLY OPPOSE
POVERTY, RACISM, POLICE BRUTALITY, AND DISCRIMINATION.










God bless the Black Woman. Black women are
beautiful, strong, intelligent, resilient, and are great
human beings. Black women are creators and they
are inspiring. I will always love black women
forever.




The strength, dignity, intelligence, and resiliency of
Black Men ought to be respected in the world as
well. Black men have survived so much and black
manhood is legitimate and is part of true blackness
too.



"The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national
greatness."
-Marcus Garvey

Conclusion

I believe in showing strength as a means to outline my black heritage and not being ashamed of their
black identity. That is the point. I am black and I will defend my African heritage to the fullest. I do blame
some white Euro terrorists for the origin of the Maafa. Also, I realize the historical dynamics of slavery.
The reality is that there is a system of white supremacy in the world that humans have the right to
oppose. Authors like Dr. Nelly Fuller exposed this system. Dr. Fuller and others have shown how even
those who never participated in slavery benefit from it. I will never forget a single drop of blood that
my ancestors shed. I will never minimize the suffering of my people at all to placate some post
racial narrative. All humans deserve dignity and respect. Humans can unite on common cause to
solve problems. On the other hand, Black human beings have every God given to collaborate with
each other to solve problems as other ethnic groups are doing. Why is it that when blacks advocate
peaceful Black Unity, then that is falsely equated to white racism? It doesn't make sense at all. Black
Unity is a great thing and it is legitimate. This story is about remembering the evils of lynchings. It has
nothing to do with whining at all. I reject racism 100 percent. So, I will continue to advance Black Love,
Black Unity, and Black Power as a real Black Man have every right to do. The crimes of some white
people should not be ignored, omitted, or obfuscated at all.








We have great STRENGTH, GIFTED MELANIN, AND A
STRONG NATURAL FLAVOR that can never be duplicated
totally by anyone at all.



I love to show advice. In this generation period, we can learn ways to protect ourselves and be careful.
This is not about being paranoid about life. It is about being wise and using commonsense in our lives.
You have the right to not ally with folks that reject LIFE. Life is valuable in the Universe. A waste of time is
not part of our time, so I just keep it moving when folks hate on me. I am a human being, so I don't dwell
on the negativity. Putting life into perspective and fighting for growth are great things to enact. Karma will
come to those who slander folks and so forth. We are here for a temporary period of time. So, that is why
we ally with real people. We love greatly our families and we cherish the authentic bonds among the
human family. We can handle disagreement excluding adolescent, demagogic rhetoric too. Our gifts are
precious. My gifts deal with teaching, dealing with spirituality, and enriching the lives of humanity. So, we
should never feed our spirits with negative energy. We just should continue to live our lives and to do
basic, comprehensive actions that maintain the fabric of our souls. Yes, I do root for humanity to be
better. My humanitarian side comes from my mother. My more political side comes from father. So, I can
be sensitive and be political too. You just have to let folks who desire that negative energy to be to
themselves. We just focus on positive energy, hope, human compassion, and human dignity. We are on
this Earth for less than 130 years.

So, a real human being would never want to restrict the gifts or the total human potential of another
human being at all. A real human being will want human beings to achieve their great potential, to live, to
grow, and to achieve excellence contributions in the sphere of human society. When we all have that
affirmation of hope and the affirmation of action, then we can see glorious changes in the lives of
humanity. For long centuries, our ancestors suffered unspeakable injustices, yet we are still here. We are
here and we continue to fight for our just liberation. So, we are here to continue to carry forward the
efforts of our ancestors. We carry onward the efforts to eradicate poverty, bigotry, and any injustice in the
world. Also, in life, the RIGHTEOUS WILL GROW as time goes on. The folks who slander others and
issue disgraceful words about those that disagree will be exposed for the world to see. Most of us want to
live in freedom and with respect. When fake people try to test the wrong one, the truth just comes out
(from the real person) and the fake people are easily refuted. Whining gets played out at the end of the
day. In the final analysis, you get busy living or you get busy going nowhere. Going forward and moving
on are better actions than slandering people, whining, or embracing a defeatist attitude. A victorious
attitude will carry real HUMAN BEINGS places. There is always love for our communities and a continued
focused for liberation.

Now, the great story of Ida B. Wells is about the immorality of lynching and how real Sisters and
Brothers like Ida B. Wells stood up to fight for justice. Black humanity fighting for justice has
nothing to do with whining. It has to do with the strength of our community to combat injustice.
That is the point. I do not hate other human beings, but I do hate oppression and I hate injustice. I love
black people and certainly nothing is immoral about Black Love at all. BLACK LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL
AND IT IS STRONG. I will forever have love for the Motherland of Africa forever. I will love Black Women
forever (the black woman alone can fulfill my heart romantically as a black man) and Respect the
Brothers doing what is right as well. I will always defend my Black People forever and nothing will change
that at all.

By Timothy




Appendix: More Truth

So, life is a journey. It has ups and downs. Yet, I will move forward. As I get older, I am
realizing much more importantly what is important. It is the bonds of family, friends, and
community. It is about treating my neighbor as myself. It is also living life to improve the world
and to have a love for Africa as well. I will never forget the sacrifice and the brave deeds of my
ancestors. They sacrificed a lot wherefore we could live in this modern generation inside of the
world. As we approach 2020, we should press onward in our goal of black liberation. Pan-
Africanism is a great philosophy that I wholeheartedly believe in. I believe it in my heart, in my
mind, and in my spirit. Also, it is important to note that many warriors fighting for justice exist
now. There are plenty of Brothers and Sisters (including one special Sister. She knows who she
is. Yes, I am talking about you Sister Courtney with you being gifted in music. You are my
intellectual equal and I appreciate your kind words about me and my family. I respect you a
great deal and yes, you are a Great Human Being. Courtney, I love your intellect, your
strength, your humor, and your compassion. I will forever respect you and keep up the great
work. You are a blessing. You are a Great Black Queen Courtney. I got your back and the real
Brothers including the real Sisters have your back too. We agree on so many issues and thank
you for your wisdom. Courtney, you are my Dear Friend and I pray to God more Blessings and
Joy in your life. You are so sweet. You speak with a wonderful northern accent too) that are
fighting crime, working in real charities, organizing African-oriented bookstores, who are
mentors, who are giving our people jobs, and who are just contributing their time and effort as a
means to enrich the black community in general.

Equality should never be earned or gradually implemented at all. Equality
and justice ought to be given to us by birthright ASAP.

We as a people are entitled to equality and justice period without exception. Their (or our
ancestors) actions ought to be acknowledged and respected too. There is nothing wrong with
peace. Yet, we do not live in a totally peaceful world. That is precisely why we should be active
and fight via constructive means as a means for all us to receive that prize. Our people exist
across geographic boundaries and cultural borders too. We should take the time and effort to
learn more about Africa and learn more about our Brothers and Sisters in the Diaspora. Once,
we do that, we figure how much we have in common. We realize that our diversity in culture is
an asset to our common humanity. We realize that the oppressor will be defeated and the truth
will persist forever as a guiding witness of our intrinsic value (and dignity). We should continue
to respect Nature and respect the poor as well. We have a responsibility too. We have to care for
each other. The future is the future not only for us. It is a future meant for our children and
grandchildren. It is a future for the rest of humanity. So, we should express not naivet, but
hope. Hope and faith have changed the world. Hope caused our people to be free from bondage in
many lands. Hope caused the end of injustice and hope can create reconciliation and love to
flourish. Our Brothers and our Sisters are our allies and our friends. We have to continue to
show compassion and we have to respect the essence of our black humanity. Black Unity and
Black Love are excellent concepts etched in our thinking too. At the end of the day, we are all
Africans. During this time, I will show more gems, jewels, and diamonds from other Brothers
and Sisters with their insights on our black community. This is great and fun as well. Here are
many words from these great Brothers and Sisters once again:








I have personally experienced a great deal of hostility and insecurity from both non
black/nonwhite females and white females because of the way I look.
Its hard to describe, but there is something SPECIAL about black females that we may not see
BUT they do.
Black females have a strong presence that has nothing to do with being masculine or
superwomen (because were NOT) but I think its an invisible force, something spiritual and a
lot of non-white cultures have worshiped black females as the MADONNA, a diety, but only
through the lens of white supremacy is the black female deemed inferior
If I could accomplish nothing else before Im buried six feet under, I would want to convince
black people that WE ARE NOT INFERIOR if we were, there wouldnt be this HUGE EFFORT
to oppress us because it wouldnt be NECESSARY
I agree, but the UNIVERSE is striking BACK and if WE learn how to tap our emotional and
spiritual energy by respecting and loving each other, I believe we can CREATE the kind of
SPIRITUAL POWER that whites have feared all along.
They know RIGHT is not on their side, they know their dirty deeds, they JUST DONT CARE.
They think they can OUT RUN the Universal Clock of Karma, but they cant. It is catching up to
them as the mental illnesses, suicides, mass murders, and infertility attacks by Mother
Nature are speeding up their demise.

What we MUST do is DO OUR PART, whatever that is. My last post was about suggestions and
solutions, easy things that black people can do to upset the apple cart of white supremacy.
Check it out.

-Trojan Pam

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You're very big on Black economic self-determination, and I think that's a good thing. But your
emphasis seems to be only on private enterprise. I think you should consider COOPERATIVE
enterprises since these can be communal and involve greater democratic participation in
economic development. Have you ever looked at W.E.B. Du Bois DUSK OF DAWN? Check it
out, and especially look at the chapter called "The Colored World Within." Even if you can't
accept his radical left politics, you might still find something of value in Robert Allen's proposals
for democratic cooperative enterprises in his book BLACK AWAKENING IN CAPITALIST
AMERICA. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in his last two years among us, was suggesting the idea
for cooperatives in our ghettoes in order to not only advanced economic development, but also
give the underprivileged a chance to develop habits and skills selfdetermination, participatory
democracy and a self or dignity gotten by means of that economic self-determination.
In their Ten Point Program published in the late 1960s, The Black Panther Party was also
proposing cooperatives in Black communities. When I was a kid the BP were organizing clinics,
breakfast programs and other initiatives, relying and appealing to voluntary participation by the
community. We need to consider all these options. i recall that in his last speech King
advocated supporting Black enterprises. I also recall that he promoted the idea of cooperatives.
Everything should be on the table.
-Savant

_________________________________

Yes this is true Truth and protecting oneself as well. I have given up on trying to
understand anyone that does not cherish life. You know my motto, I don't have time. :)
Anyone who is a time thief. Its very refreshing to know that there are MEN like you, that
still exist. Whos capable of putting things in order, and ranking what is important and
what is a waste of time. Thank you,

Thank you TRUTH for always Defending BLACK women from Vulgarity from the same
individual and individuals. Its truly sad but, we still had a great convo despite its, I
mean, their vulgar antics today. Thank you for not being that kind of male. :)

TTYL

Goodnight. :)

-CourtneyR (Her words to me. I respect her. She is a Beloved Sister. ).

_____________________

Kushite Prince says:
July 14, 2013 at 12:01 pm
Maybe Marcus Garvey was on to something. It might be time to get up out here. The only
positive thing out of this is it might wake up some of the black folks not wake. Just remain calm
my people. I know emotions are high and people are upset. But they just want us to do
something stupid. Dont fall for it.We will make it through this.
http://kushiteprince.wordpress.com/2013/07/14/no-justice/


_________________________________________

Ive noticed the same things, how dark skinned black children and females have
DISAPPEARED from TV commercials and how over 95% of the black children are the
offspring of white females with black males. (according to someone I knew who worked with
casting directors MOST OF THEM WHITE FEMALES) no accident. And how natural hair
products hardly exist BECAUSE THEY DO NOT PROMOTE WHITE
BEAUTY STANDARDS and how most of the top black female entertainers have lightened their
skin and their hair and wear UNREALISTIC looking hair weaves because thats what black
females have to do TO SECURE WORK IN A RACIST ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY and how
black males who DO NOT DATE OR MARRY BLACK FEMALES get MORE WORK AND
MORE TV SHOWS AND MOVIES than black men who DO Once we start to REALLY SEE what
we are looking at, we will recognize it as WHITE SUPREMACY PROPAGANDA and will be
able to build PSYCHOLOGICAL DEFENSES against it.
-Trojan Pam

_____________________________

The same thing is happening in Chicago (where I live), Atlanta, Philadelphia, etc.

Neely Fuller Jr calls it "racial dislocation" -- search for him on youtube.

The white supremacy system is waging war on black people all over the nation and all over the
world. There's a blogsite I recommend checking out

racismws (just add the dot com)

and look for blogpost on 5/23/12 -- "Chicago School Closings = Racial Dislocation"

-crammasters


So true!!...Many Blacks are truly OUT OF ORDER! My Grand pops told me about the speech in
which Malcolm X spoke on a slave 'saving suh massah burning house'.The house was on fire
and the slave skin was melting off but he was still standing there talking about "suh all that
matter is that you safe"...
-Symone


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It's unfortunate that regardless of the country, black people still have to fight for basic
human rights. This is not at all surprising. The response from the DR government after the
Haitian earthquake was deplorable. This is why I get amused when I see other races
attempt to appropriate what they believe to be parts of our culture. Everyone wants to be
black until it is time to really be black. Notice who HASN'T commented on this particular
post.
-Sister Mirah

_________________________

That is not just Republicans. That is all of them. The major parties are both made up of mostly
white people. So they will both push an agenda of white supremacy. Evil is Evil
-BroShabbaz

_________________

Wow. Im glad you finally got the message Newsone. I have brought up the death of Fred
Hampton on Dec 4 for the last 3 years on this site. And now we finally get a partial story
about him. The thing about Brother Hampton that I like the most was his desire to generate
support for his movement by EDUCATING his people. He understood that a movement
based on emotions would never amount to anything. It was not his willingness to physically
engage the enemy that made him a threat. He was killed because of the ideas that were in
his HEAD. Those ideas combined with his determination made him dangerous in the eyes
of the enemy. A strong, well educated, outspoken, self aware, black man such as Fred
Hampton was, is, and will always be a threat in the eyes of America
-BroShabbaz


Forgive me if I pass on applauding this decision with "We got something." In the bigger
scheme of things, we got absolutely nothing but more misery. This decision (yet again)
emboldened another angry white male to kill one of our sons. This decision has sent a clear
cut message to White America that yes, you can kill a black male child and have nothing
happen. Had he killed the other three, he would have walked out of that courtroom a free
man this evening.
But, feel free to be happy. Feel free to rejoice that white people tossed you a bone. If you
can be happy with that, more power to you. On the other hand, I'm going to hold onto my
anger. The only decent moment to come of this is that the two sisters stood their ground.
For that, we should all be forever indebted to them. Incidentally, Corey's insistence that she
is going to go yet again for first degree is just another way of ensuring that there is an
acquittal.

-Mirah
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I have always admired brother Hampton for his charismatic leadership and his tireless
efforts to empower black people. The Black Panther Party was not a group of violent thugs.
It was a well organized movement of conscious brothers and sisters, working together to
strengthen the resources within our communities. Brother Hampton was demonized by
Hoover and the usual anti-black propaganda machine during that era. I believe the FBI
feared black unity more than Brother Hampton being a threat to the government. Hoover
knew that If one man had the power to unite his people, black communities would thrive
across the nation. Which, in turn would have made if difficult to flood our communities with
drugs and guns. I suggest the book, The Assassination of Fred Hampton, by J Haas for the
younger brothers and sisters or anyone not familiar with this fearless leader and the BPP.
-Chazz A

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Its comments like yours that make the work I do worthwhile.

Dont beat yourself up, we have all been programmed from infancy and perhaps even before then
via our parents and grandparents memories and experiences to think white is superior and black
is inferior.

So, black people understandably adopted behavior and language that made them feel more
valuable, such as good hair and light pretty skin and I got Indian in me
because we were taught that there was something wrong with being black or all black

when in reality, the REVERSE is true, that having MORE melanin gives you advantages
biologically that people with LESS dont have, like fewer genetic defects and mental disorders
and the skin aging better and higher fertility rates.

-Sister Trojan Pams Great words to Brother TTNYCRN


Nixakliel - 02/14/2014 - 22:07
w Paul Jay interviewing Danny Schechter about his new book 'Madiba A to Z: The Many Faces of
Nelson
Mandela' [@ http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&ju
mival=11481 ]. In this interview Paul Jay quotes a white communist top ranking member of the ANC & a
minister in Mandela's gov't, Ronnie Kasrils, who critiques the ANC [including himself] who in a piece last
yr before Mandela's death but after the Marikana Massacre titled "How the ANC's Faustian Pact Sold
Out South Africa's Poorest", where Kasrils says in the 1990s the ANC made a bad economic deal w
global neo-liberal capitalism [IE: all the usual suspects IMF, World Bank, US & UK corps, etc]. These so-
called 'negotiations' took place at Harry Oppenheimer's house [see
@ www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/24/anc-faustian-pact-mandela-
... ]. FYI: The Oppenheimers own the De-Beers Diamond Cartel, first established by that notorious
British colonial imperialist Cecil Rhodes [as in Rhodesia & Rhodes 'scholar'], which controls most of
the World's diamond [& to a lesser extent gold & platinum] supply, & which has made the
Oppenhimers [British Jews] one of the World's richest & most powerful families [up there w the
Rothschilds & the Rockefellers]. Needless to say their main supply of diamonds are from Africa,
especially S.Africa, & the racist Apartheid system was a key factor in facilitating this [FYI the
modern diamond trade has always been a bloody BIZ, it did NOT begin w the advent of Charles Taylor in
Liberia & W.Africa].
Though I appreciate Danny Schechter's position on Mandela [a white 'liberal' from the US should be
careful about critiquing an African 'icon' like Mandela], as he tried to explain what Mandela the ANC,
COSATU & SACP were faced w in the early mid 1990s, the one thing I noted that was NOT mentioned at
all in The Real News' interview was the effect & impact that the assassination of Chris Hani & the
divorce of Winnie from Mandela [as she too was character assassinated] played in this scenario. It
must be noted that Mandela's divorce from Winnie was Political not personal, as key members of the
ANC pressured Mandela to cut Winnie loose. And it's noteworthy that during Mandela's recent
passing, Winnie was barely mentioned, even as the lame-stream media showed that iconic photo of
Mandela & Winnie walking hand in hand waving to the crowd cheering Mandela's release from
imprisonment.
Another key factor in this scenario is the issue' of the ANC's [& many other African & 3rd World
nations] over-reliance on the USSR [& China to a lesser extent] for support RE: their struggle against
the forces of Apartheid. The ANC & many African & 3rd World liberation movements leaned too heavily
toward & on the {ex}bastion(s) of Marxist-Leninist communism, the USSR, which was a non-
African / non 3rd World European power [aka Russia]. So when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down &
Russia effectively set-aside Marxist-Leninist communism, the ANC COSATU & SACP was left hi & dry.
So they turned to so-called {neo}'Liberals' in the US & the EU for support. All these factors resulted
in the ANC effectively dropping their commitment to the Freedom Charter & embraced neo-liberal
capitalism.
Frankly Russia & China [the ex bastions of communism] have effectively backed away from communism
[though the Chinese still give lip-service to it- but the Russians have even dropped that pretense]. They're
now actually out competing the bastions of capitalism, the US & the EU, at their own capitalist game. The
current competition between Russia & China vis-avis the US & EU [= NATO], is over sovereignty, US
NATO encroachment on Russia & China's traditional spheres of influence [IE: the current crisis in
Ukraine] & access to resources & markets [which the US & NATO most often use WAR-Mongering
Gangsterism to enforce & maintain]- NOT capitalism vs communism. The only real bastions of
socialism left are [Castros] Cuba, [Chavezs] Venezuela, [Morales] Bolivia, & in Africa it was
Khadaffi's Libya- but we saw what the Obama administration's AFRICOM plus NATO did to Khadaffi.
[Dr Frank Wilderson's his name] That someone in the upper-ranks of the ANC had to give key info over
to the Apartheid Regime to facilitate the hit on Chris Hani. He says that only 5 top members of the ANC
knew Hani would let his security detail go home for that Easter holiday [even the security team did NOT
know this in advance]- & that Mandela was one of those 5. This does NOT mean that it was Mandela, but
certainly someone near or in Mandela's inner ANC circle had to be involved [or the Apartheid Regime had
a spy &/or 'bug' inside w access to info that the ANC's top ranks had].
The other noteworthy thing that Brother Wilderson said was RE: the so-called 'Truth' & Reconciliation
Commission [TRC]. He says that few if any top white Apartheid regime folks participated in the TRC &
that 80% of those 'coming clean' for the TRC were Black employees &/or collaborators of the Apartheid
regime [can we say white-wash boys & girls]. Thus it seems Winnie Mandela was the TRC's main 'victim'
of prominence!!! Hell the TRC even let the Apartheid linked white political party that was almost certainly
behind Chris Hani's assassination off the hook!!!
See @ http://imixwhatilike.org/2014/01/20/frankwildersonandsouthafrica/





So do I need to gave you a link to a google map to show you were the US is located at in the
Americas? I told the truth, but you are too ignorant to realize it.

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA STARTED AS A BRITISH COLONY. THE BRITISH
BROUGHT SLAVES TO THE US, AND SO DID THE FRENCH.

Click on link to see a map of the American Colonial Territories.
users. humboldt. edu/ogayle/hist110/unit2/revolution. html
Yes, it is true the Spanish killed Millions of slaves because they needed another work force. But
I will Not let your 10% of truth excuse the rest of the lies your are telling.

It is also true that every human of all races is capable of being biased or prejudiced. In truth, it is
a basic survival instinct. But that does not change the fact the white supremacist are killing
blacks. It is in my best interest to protect myself from Racist Whites who wish to harm me.
Another black man that has a bias against a white man (due to repeated racial attacks) does not
wish to harm me.

LET ME CORRECT YOU: WE DO NOT CALL EACH OTHER THE N WORD. That word is
not used in my house. It is a derogatory term that refers to a slave. My house is full of
free and strong black men, who are of African descent.

That is a question you need to ask yourself. If you call yourself the N word. Then what are you?

-John Henry



But any way, the term Ngro was not used to describe the people of Africa until the sl@ve trade.
The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia states the first known use of the term was in 1955. The is after
the start of the slave trade. Anthony T. Browder in From 'The Browder File: 22 Essays on the
African-American Experience' stated that the Portuguese were the first to enslave Afrikans and they
were the first to call them Negroes.This term was not used to describe a color, it was used to refer to
a group of peoples.
It was not until some 200 years later that the five major race divisions where proposed by Friedrich
Blumenbach in his 1775 treatise "The Natural varieties of Mankind". He came up with the terms
Caucasoid, Mongoloid, and Ethiopian. Ethiopian was later changed to Ngroid in the following
centuries. Specifically the 19th and 20th Centuries when the field of Anthropology developed and
certain groups tried to develop the field of Eugenics (or racial cleansing through the science of
biology and selective breeding).
Even Malcolm X rejected the use of the term "Ngro". Read his 1963 speach "Message to the Grass
Roots". Malcom X said there was a difference between the "Black" revolution and the "Ngro"
Revolution. He said " These Ngroes arent asking for no nation. Theyre trying to crawl back on the
plantation." Malcolm X described the Ngro as a pacifist sl@ve, who loves his master. But he said to
be too black was to be "too strong!".
Finally, there is no Ngroland from which Ngroes come from. Even the word Africa is a term
pushed on us by foreigners. But I still prefer it over the slave term "Ngro". The indigineous people of
the continent called their land "Alkebu-lan. (Ref: Black Man of the Nile and His Family by Dr. Josef
A.A. ben-Jochannan.)

-John Henry

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I argue that all woman posses the genetic equipment for mother hood. They posses ovaries, they
possess estrogen, the possess a birthing canal. They have to endure the morning sickness, and
they physical stress and strain on their bodies as they go threw a 9 month pregnancy. Mothers have
to go through the pains of labor, and are equipped with mammary glands for the sole purpose of
providing food and nourishment to their babies. These are things no man can experience or provide.
I will also argue these 4 things. 1: Not all woman embrace or accept the role of "mother" even if they
have birthed a child. 2: You do not have to birth a child to parent of child. 3: You can be the best
father in the world, but a child will still crave their mother (even if she is a bad one or they have never
even met her). It is human nature to do so. 4: Mothers are irreplaceable.

-John Henry

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The strength of the woman is her ability to bring wisdom and reason to conflict. I heard that
statement the loudest. Your words were wise and powerful. You are exactly why as Black men, we
need to embrace our black women, and keep them close to us.
-John Henry (in writing about Sister Mirah)



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Now we are getting somewhere.... The lack of trust among us is most certainly do to white
supremacy. And it is this that keeps us apart. THEY have always worked to keep us from
working together. Having said that, WE have to separate from them. Im not speaking of a
physical separation, im speaking on a mental level. Too many of us are operating on a
white supremacist level mentally. This is why we shoot each other. This is why we dont
support our own businesses when they do open near us. This is why we think to rent and
work instead of owning. This is why we value other people but think nothing of ourselves. All
of that is rooted in white supremacy....
Having said that, im to a point where those of us with the proper knowledge of who we are
must step forward and be examples for those that are still lost. I look at myself and tell
myself that I have a duty to BE what it is that I desire for us to be. We have too many of us
that have the knowledge and skills to build and move forward in spite of white supremacy.

-BroShabbaz804


Now you brought nothing but THE TRUTH!!! The mind has to be DEPROGRAMED of LIES
and REPLACED with TRUTH before we can seperate FROM them on a MENTAL level.
Because of the VASTNESS of white supremacy in EVERYTHING, Blacks MUST affirm
THEMSELVES and each other DAILY. Reconizing the FORCES are not going to sit by and
let this NATURALLY occur. But it CAN be done IF we put our MINDS to it and KEEP
TRUTH out in FRONT of us.

-Edud


Teach TRUTH, as usual!!! As you RIGHTLY stated, we must temper Hope with REALITY
and TRUTH. As you stated, the problem IS the "system" ITSELF which IS BASED on white
supremacy. However, Blacks have been TAUGHT the INDIVIDUAL "game" of the
"system"(Just a few individual racists)and if THEY, the INDIVIDUAL would just change
everything would be alright. But the FACT is it is the COLLECTIVE "system" that is ANTI
Black and our INDIVIDUALISM has us to DIVIDED to fight against it in a meaningful
manner. While President Obama has NOT done everything I like, I will NOT allow whites to
USE him as a DIVIDING point among Blacks. Those who have "REAL" KNOWLEDGE of
white supremacy KNOW how the "game" is played. While we celebrate his
accomplishments, those in POWER have OTHER plans for him and his legacy. Long after
he has left office whites will USE him to JUSTIFY their supremacist ideologies, and to
DENY their racism ("We CAN'T be racist BECAUSE we elected President Obama"). In
order to achieve their agenda, they MUST get Blacks on board too with the standard
DIVIDE and SELF-BLAME "game". You gave us TRUTH as usual.

I must agree with you, he (or the President) has done LITTLE for Blacks. But in TRUTH, I
DIDN'T expect much. Like most Blacks with TITLES, he has NO real POWER. Under white
supremacist "systems" it's whites FIRST, others next (maybe), and Blacks never. It is
perfectly fine for Mexicans to fly the Mexican flag and yell "viva Mexico" as they do at most
events, especially sporting events. It is perfectly fine for Filipinos to dedicate achievements
to THEIR people or countries. But all Blacks have to do is raise a fist for whites to go
insane. Good post!!!!!

-Edud


As I stated in my original post, President Obama has done LITTLE for Black people. No
doubt about that. The next question is why not? Is it BECAUSE he is bad or has evil
INTENT for the Black community? Or is he operating under the SAME supremacist social
structure we ALL exist under? There seems to be a disconnect between our
EXPECTATIONS of him and the REALITY of a system which is STRUCTURED against
Blacks. Unlike other groups, we must go out of our WAY to PROVE we are NOT showing
ANY favortism or preference FOR our OWN. To do so has consequences, often negative.
In order for Blacks to benefit from a law, program, etc, it MUST be cloaked as being a
benefit to ALL. Notice, with all the poor Black neighborhoods and Black homelessness,
Black wealthy entertainers, actors, muscians, etc DON'T build homes enmass FOR Black
people. It's NOT acceptable under white supremacy. But it''s ok if you cloak it under
hurricaine Katrina. It's ACCEPTABLE for Oprah to build schools in S. Africa, but NOT in
Chicago, New York, or LA. The president has laid out on the gov. web site SPECIFICLY
what he has done FOR Black people. The things he laid out are things ACCPETABLE to
whites BECAUSE it is cloaked as benefiting EVERYBODY. I am NOT defending President
Obama by ANY means, I'm just shocked that we REALLY "EXPECTED" him to change a
400 year old system built on white supremacy.

-Edud

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I agree, if we dont own or control anything, we are little more than slaves who toil and
consume.

And that is why the white supremacists attack any non-white nation that attempts to build a
manufacturing or banking base that THEY CONTROL, and why black people will be attacked if
we attempt to do the same over here.
-Trojan Pam

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I'd have to agree with the O.P...I love it...and have no problem with it...with our history...with our
uniqueness...with our beauty...with the things that we have given the world around us!

AND YES AA ARE A SPECIAL PEOPLE...LET NO ONE TELL YOU OTHERWISE...DON'T SIT
AND LISTEN ANYONE THAT EVER SAYS OTHERWISE...ASK THEM IF THEY'RE HIGH OR
NEED SOME HELP WITH THEIR MENTAL ISSUES IF THEY EVEN SUGGEST OTHERWISE!

TAKE A MOMENT AND THINK OF THE MANY THINGS THAT AA HAVE DONE SINCE WE
HIT THE SHORES OF AMERICA...THINK OF ALL OF THE ART,MUSIC,FASHION,WRITINGS,
ACT ING AND DANCE...THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM AND THE MARCH TO EQUAL
RIGHTS...THE WAY THAT WE HAVE SURVIVED BY DOING WHATEVER HE HAVE HAD TO
DO...WE TAKE NOTING AND MAKE IT WORK!

JUST LIKE OUR ANCESTORS AND ALL OTHER BLACK PEOPLE THE WORLD
OVER...WE'VE TOUCHED THE WORLD!
-moorspeaks

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A good book re: this: Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black
Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington.
-Seeking Ma'at



LOL! Maybe! No, just kidding! I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU! I think the more black people
begin to do research and find about things that matter to us, we will be those strong driving
forces (financially so in our communities) and become UNSTOPPABLE IN A VERY GOOD
WAY! WE will become the people GOD MEANT US TO BE! I have always said it starts with our
thought process, in other words, how we FEEL ABOUT OURSELVES! I have NEVER CARED
what these Caucasian people think about me as long as I am doing right by God and helping
others in some type of way, I am good with ME and LOVE who I am! KNOWLEDGE IS
POWERFUL AND BEAUTIFUL!
-msjames210
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mstoogood4yall on May 29, 2013 at 8:19 PM said:
Yeah I notice they do that too. They love seeing black ppl pointing out the flaws within our
community so they can feel superior. We do need to talk about our issues, but its a shame that
all they can do is agree with what we need to work on but they dont want to address their part
in it and work on their issues. This is why it is not working in this country because u have one
group trying to repair ourselves and another group beating us down even more when we
already know what issues we need to fix yet they still gotta add their 2 cents. Work on
yourselves and well work on ourselves stop trying to supervise us and tell us how to heal leave
us alone and work on you. When theres a post about our issues they are there applauding,
when its a post about uplifting black ppl and offering solutions they are there calling it anti white
and reverse racism. When it is a post about them *crickets*. They act like a spouse who
cheated and is playing the blame game and telling the spouse they cheated on to get over it and
that they shouldve done xyz and maybe they wouldnt have cheated. smh
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Yes there are many the problem is their voices are being drowned out by those puppets. I would
suggest checking out Dr
Jeffries, Dr Umar Johnson, Dr. Cresling, Dr. Henrik Clarke there are others, but this is a great
start
-dkanela

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Duane Stevenson 9 hours ago
BLACK PEOPLE WE ARE AT WAR!! PLEASE OPEN YOUR EYES AND STOP PLAYING
GAMES


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Dandelion:
Naomi C, that's a reasonable assessment you have. But, allow me to counter. Black people are
victims of racism everyday in this country. Racism that is fueled by local news, gangsta rap
videos, YouTube, World Star Hip Hop, reality TV, etc. Until other races in this country receive
the same level of injustices as Black people, we shouldn't compare ourselves with other races.
Trayvon Martin was gunned down because his COLOR represented THUG. Unlike other races,
our negative media image has cost some of us our LIVES. In regards to Bob Marley, there are
documentaries about his life that details his family situation. However, Bob Marley was a
beloved international Reggae singer. I guarantee you, no show featuring his family life would be
called "All My Babies Mamas". I think "My Rasta Family" or perhaps "One Love" would have
been suitable titles.

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It is hard for black female beauty to be judged correctly in a white supremacy system that puts
pale skin, blond hair and blue eyes on a pedestal.
In Africa before whites infected our minds with white supremacy, black males thought the dark
skinned African female was a beautiful sight to behold!

A dark-skinned black female like Rachel Jeantel would have been considered beautiful in her
own country before white colonization and brainwashing. Yet, the white female must imitate the
black female's beauty to feel beautiful. She wants bigger breasts, butts, lips, and darker skin.
And she hates her body so much that she starves herself, throws up her meals, uses drugs to
stay thin, and curses the thighs that God gave all healthy females.

It is the lie of white supremacy that blinds the melanated man to his own woman's beauty while
the white male lusts in secrets after their dark and lovely flesh. We have been brainwashed but
there is still time to reclaim our mind, eyes and sanity before it is too late.
-Paul H




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Sister DiaryofNegress Great Words (These are the Final Advice words from a Great,
Conscious Sister):

Please remember that evil will always tempt you to self-destruct. The stronger you are, the
greater the temptation. And when they cannot kill you themselves, due to your strength,
they coax you to kill yourself.

Please remember who you are and why God created you first.

Never forget who the enemy of Man really is and why he needs to keep you in your
slumber.

Know that Man and Mankind are two completely different entities.

Remember that no one spends time, energy and money trying to destroy a people they

deem inferior. It is usually the opposite that causes this cowardly reaction.
Remember to treat each other with love and respect.

Everyone makes mistakes. The trick is learning from them.

Remember that we are an intentionally broken race.

Research the reason why it was intentional and youll have a keener insight to your
enemys fear.

Please get as dark as you can in preparation for the coming Spiritual war. Coconut oil will
aid you in this process. For those of you that are awake, youll understand why darkness
matters.

Black men, please protect us. We need you. We cannot protect ourselves.

Black women, please love your black man. He needs it now more than ever.

Black men and women, please raise your black children. They are you 20 years from now.

Know that nothing happens in this universe by coincidence.

Understandfor every ONE conscious black person youll meet, theres 100 waiting to rip
you in half.

Understandnot all of us will make it. And thats perfectly o.k. so pleaseAccept it.


Peace Brothers and Sisters.