The late Kwame Ture was fond of saying "capitalism makes things that should make sense crazy and things that should be crazy make sense." Does that seem like a silly statement to you? Think about it. I have often asked high school and other young audiences in recent presentations the same question. When they scoffed, I gave them an analogy to work with. On their campus, I asked them to visualize their quad where everyone gathers. I told them that if I was out there with a microphone and speakers; talking about how we all needed to get together and organize to end hunger, substandard education, health care issues, and the exploitation of the planet, about 99.9% of them would either pretend they didn't hear me as they walked by, or they would make fun of me. An example of what should make sense being made to appear crazy. On the other hand, I told them, if I was on that same microphone with any semblance of lyrical ability, and I began by playing music and rapping that all the B - - - -s and H -- es and N - - - as should come to the stage, I would be certain to get an excited group to come and surround me. A clear example of what should be crazy being made to make sense.
Well, you can use Kwame's statement to analyze the world we live in today on many fronts. In North America, the Indigenous people to this hemisphere, whose lands have been stolen from them, are now either forced to live in substandard "reservations" on their land, or treated like, and called "illegal aliens" for attempting free movement across their own terrorities. Meanwhile, the descendents of the bandits who stole the land in the first place walk around as if they have God's right to the territory. Clearly, this is something that should be crazy that is being presented as if it makes sense.
The Palestinian people, violently removed from their land and repressed to no end, rise up to resist this terrorist oppression, and their organizations like Hamas are labeled as terrorists while the Europeans who stole their land and maintain that theft are called "the peaceful partners of the Middle East" by the African president of amerikkka? Those are two examples of things that are crazy, but are presented over and over as if they make sense.
On the other hand, there are examples all over the place that illustrate how what should make sense is made to seem crazy. Today it is a fact that Austrailia and New Zealand are societies there were started when Britain unloaded its criminal and unwanted elements to each terroritory. Also, Britain, amerikkka, and racist South Africa conspired and supported the illegal zionist movement to strengthen it to steal Palestine from the Palestinian people and declare that legally Arab country as a so-called "Jewish" state. Now, they have even rewritten the United Nations history of that theft by erasing all of the resolutions that originally and correctly called the theft what it was, a racist grab of land.
Now, Africans, are scattered and suffering in dozens of countries today due to slavery and colonialism. We are unable to recognize each other as family when we meet each other from the Caribbean, Central and South America, Europe, and Africa. We speak Arabic, French, Spanish, English, Wolof, Mandinka, Yao, Ga, Ashanti, Tegrinian, and a host of other languages, but yet we cannot recognize and talk to one another. Clearly the source of our problems lies in the process that split us up, kidnapped us, and scattered us across the globe. Plus, we have the historical right to reclaim Africa that doesn't exist in the examples of Austrialia, New Zealand, or zionist occupied Palestine (so-called israel).
It should be painfully obvious to us that the logical thing for us to do is unite oursleves and reclaim our motherland - Africa, and rebuild her as the correct methodology to solve our problems that can't and won't be solved in Puerto Rico, the Dominican, Brazil, amerikkka, Canada, Britain, India, and even Africa. But, when someone suggests this unity which is Pan-Africanism, this solution, which should make total sense to us, is made to seem crazy. You go figure.....
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Tribute to Patrice Lumumba, Bunchy Carter, and John Huggins
Many people are thinking this weekend about the contribution and sacrifice of the apostle of peace, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. As you are besieged this weekend with reactionary propaganda about Dr. King and the same old tired "I have a Dream" speech snipet, make sure that you remember, and pass on to the youth, that Dr. King was a courageous soldier for justice. He would never agree with Obama's dishonest statements in support of racist, zionist israeli terrorism against the Palestinian people. He would never have agreed with amerikkka's naked terrorism against the people of Afghanistan and Iraq. If you don't believe that, do something profound today, study the words of Dr. King himself! Study his famous "Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam" speech from 4/4/67. Do that, and you will have to understand that the work of Dr. King and the agenda of amerikkka are diametically opposed to one another.
It is in that spirit that we take time to acknowledge that 48 years ago today, January 17, 1961, the hopes and dreams of the Congo, Central Africa, were placed on an imperialist path of destruction that mirrors the struggles all of Africa endures even today. Lumumba and his National Congolese Movement (MNC), rose from the ranks of the people to win almost 80% of the legislative seats in the Congo and thus end Belgium's colonial rule in that country. This was a very significant blow to imperialism because the MNC was committed to nationalizing the Congo's massive mineral wealth of manganese, diamonds, uranium, gold, and many others, from the oppressive and exploitative grip of multinational Belgium, British, and amerikkkan corporations. Although imperialism always talks of supporting democracy, the Congo is only one of many examples where when it actually happened, since it wasn't in imperialist's interests, it had to be destroyed. The end result was imperialism destabilized the entire Central African region in a way that still has not been resolved. The resulting sabotage enacted a war in that region that eliminated basic social services like water supply, food distribution, functional school systems, and basic health care. Now today, those services are still non-existent in most parts of the Congo. It was only in 2007, that the country was able to even have a semblance of an election, the first since 1961! Lumumba was murdered by imperialist agents at the orders of U.S. intelligence, but his sacrifice and the sacrifice of all those who struggle for justice is not in vain! We remember Lumumba and all those who struggle today and we vow to continue their fight.
It is also in that spirit that we recognize that today is the 40th commemoration of the murder of Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins. Bunchy and John were the leadership of the Los Angeles Black Panther chapter. They were murdered on 1/17/69 in Campbell Hall on the UCLA campus. One of many links between the murders of Dr. King, Brother Lumumba, and brothers Carter and Huggins was that all were facilitated by imperialist intelligence manipulation and sabotage. All with the expectation of derailing the progress these soldiers were making towards organizing African people against capitalist/imperialist exploitation.
We know that the best way you can honor persons is to carry on their work. We will carry the banner of these great Africans and we encourage you to do the same! Join an organization working for justice today! Don't complain about what organizations aren't doing. Don't criticize other people's efforts. Get involved, lower the electronic transmission of your ego, and make a commitment to be humble and work to organize humanity for justice. If we don't do this, we haven't learned anything from the sacrifices of those soldiers who came before us.
It is in that spirit that we take time to acknowledge that 48 years ago today, January 17, 1961, the hopes and dreams of the Congo, Central Africa, were placed on an imperialist path of destruction that mirrors the struggles all of Africa endures even today. Lumumba and his National Congolese Movement (MNC), rose from the ranks of the people to win almost 80% of the legislative seats in the Congo and thus end Belgium's colonial rule in that country. This was a very significant blow to imperialism because the MNC was committed to nationalizing the Congo's massive mineral wealth of manganese, diamonds, uranium, gold, and many others, from the oppressive and exploitative grip of multinational Belgium, British, and amerikkkan corporations. Although imperialism always talks of supporting democracy, the Congo is only one of many examples where when it actually happened, since it wasn't in imperialist's interests, it had to be destroyed. The end result was imperialism destabilized the entire Central African region in a way that still has not been resolved. The resulting sabotage enacted a war in that region that eliminated basic social services like water supply, food distribution, functional school systems, and basic health care. Now today, those services are still non-existent in most parts of the Congo. It was only in 2007, that the country was able to even have a semblance of an election, the first since 1961! Lumumba was murdered by imperialist agents at the orders of U.S. intelligence, but his sacrifice and the sacrifice of all those who struggle for justice is not in vain! We remember Lumumba and all those who struggle today and we vow to continue their fight.
It is also in that spirit that we recognize that today is the 40th commemoration of the murder of Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins. Bunchy and John were the leadership of the Los Angeles Black Panther chapter. They were murdered on 1/17/69 in Campbell Hall on the UCLA campus. One of many links between the murders of Dr. King, Brother Lumumba, and brothers Carter and Huggins was that all were facilitated by imperialist intelligence manipulation and sabotage. All with the expectation of derailing the progress these soldiers were making towards organizing African people against capitalist/imperialist exploitation.
We know that the best way you can honor persons is to carry on their work. We will carry the banner of these great Africans and we encourage you to do the same! Join an organization working for justice today! Don't complain about what organizations aren't doing. Don't criticize other people's efforts. Get involved, lower the electronic transmission of your ego, and make a commitment to be humble and work to organize humanity for justice. If we don't do this, we haven't learned anything from the sacrifices of those soldiers who came before us.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
A pig is still a disgusting animal!
amerikkka's police agencies celebrated 2009 and the election of the country's first uncle tom president by blasting a young brother in Oaktown, California. Then, a few days later, a young brother in Bel Air, Houston, was gunned down after being incorrectly accused by disgusting gestapo pigs of stealing a vehicle.
Even you Obama fans must see the contradiction in pigs continuing to shoot Africans down like its lunch time while your presidential idol doesn't even broach the subject of police terrorism against African, Indigenous (Latino), Asian, Arab, and poor white people. It was just a couple of short months ago that the terrorist pigs who gunned down Sean Bell in New York with 50 bullets were freed and cleared of any wrongdoing. This phenomenon of racist pigs killing African people isn't difficult to understand. The dehumanization campaign against Africans has been waged nonstop for 500 years as a justification of exploiting Africa and her children. As a result, today, African life has very little value to anyone, including many Africans. Africans die like flies in Africa, the Caribbean, and even under Uncle Sam and no one blinks because our lives mean little since the capitalist power structure has trained everyone to think of us as sub-human (and to do it unconsciously).
Police terrorism works systematically. Police don't have quotas on who to arrest or shoot, but they obviously have to arrest someone in order to substantiate that they are productive. Since that is obvious, then the question becomes who will be shot and arrested? Clearly, not the children and citizens of the ruling classes and the bougsie segments of society. They operate under a diferent set of rules. That's why Dick Cheney can shoot someone in the face, not report it for days, and then the victim is his most outspoken first line of defense.
No, its us, the dispossessed who must, as the movie "Bowling for Columbine" reflected, placate the racist fears of people in the society that those dark criminal elements are being dealt with. This is accomplished by people of color being arrested and controlled by police agencies around the society. We are guilty until proven innocent. This is the only logical explanation why pigs could shoot an unarmed Sean Bell 50 times and escape punishment. This is the only reason by African continue to be shot down like dogs by racist police not just in Los Angeles or New York, but in every corner of the world.
The late Kwame Ture spoke correctly on this problem when he said "police terrorism results because the police represent the enforcers for the power structure. Therefore, it is only when the exploited become organized and rise up against police terrorism by organizing into contingents of revolutionary violence against the enforcers of capitalist repression. When this happens, the people will empower themselves against the state and you will have protracted revolutionary warfare until victory results in socialist construction and peace and progress for humanity."
Even you Obama fans must see the contradiction in pigs continuing to shoot Africans down like its lunch time while your presidential idol doesn't even broach the subject of police terrorism against African, Indigenous (Latino), Asian, Arab, and poor white people. It was just a couple of short months ago that the terrorist pigs who gunned down Sean Bell in New York with 50 bullets were freed and cleared of any wrongdoing. This phenomenon of racist pigs killing African people isn't difficult to understand. The dehumanization campaign against Africans has been waged nonstop for 500 years as a justification of exploiting Africa and her children. As a result, today, African life has very little value to anyone, including many Africans. Africans die like flies in Africa, the Caribbean, and even under Uncle Sam and no one blinks because our lives mean little since the capitalist power structure has trained everyone to think of us as sub-human (and to do it unconsciously).
Police terrorism works systematically. Police don't have quotas on who to arrest or shoot, but they obviously have to arrest someone in order to substantiate that they are productive. Since that is obvious, then the question becomes who will be shot and arrested? Clearly, not the children and citizens of the ruling classes and the bougsie segments of society. They operate under a diferent set of rules. That's why Dick Cheney can shoot someone in the face, not report it for days, and then the victim is his most outspoken first line of defense.
No, its us, the dispossessed who must, as the movie "Bowling for Columbine" reflected, placate the racist fears of people in the society that those dark criminal elements are being dealt with. This is accomplished by people of color being arrested and controlled by police agencies around the society. We are guilty until proven innocent. This is the only logical explanation why pigs could shoot an unarmed Sean Bell 50 times and escape punishment. This is the only reason by African continue to be shot down like dogs by racist police not just in Los Angeles or New York, but in every corner of the world.
The late Kwame Ture spoke correctly on this problem when he said "police terrorism results because the police represent the enforcers for the power structure. Therefore, it is only when the exploited become organized and rise up against police terrorism by organizing into contingents of revolutionary violence against the enforcers of capitalist repression. When this happens, the people will empower themselves against the state and you will have protracted revolutionary warfare until victory results in socialist construction and peace and progress for humanity."
Thursday, January 1, 2009
israel is the real terrorist in the Middle East
The last few days of 2008 have been dominated by news of israeli airstrikes against the Palestinian area of the Gaza Strip in occupied Palestine, or what the capitalist media calls israel. Hundreds of innocent Palestinians have been killed in these airstrikes. The capitalist media staunchly defends israel's right to engage in these monsterous acts under the guise of "protecting israeli's security against terrorist attacks." Allegedly, the popularly elected Hamas government has been launching missile attacks against so-called southern israel.
This defense of israeli aggression is so outrageous, it defies common sense. Regardless of whether you know anything about Middle East politics, let's start with the basic assumption that the country you know as israel today was actually Palestine before 1948 (please reference your geography/history for confirmation). So, how did Palestine become israel? The answer is during the end of the 19th century, some dishonest Europeans from different parts of Europe organized a conference which was called the first zionist conference in Balse, Switzerland, in 1897. The term zion was selected because of its biblical translation to a movement to return home. These Europeans met and devised a plan to steal land for the purpose of empowerment. According to the memoirs of conference leader Theodore Herzl, the strategy to put a religious purpose behind the quest for land was agreed upon because that would give the quest legitimacy while permitting the scam to escape logical rationalization and remain within the context of emotional and spiritual purpose.
These early zionists, according to Herzl, admitted they were not particularly religious, but that this guise would assist them in their quest for land. The next question was which land to seize. Several possibilities were discussed at the conference. Countries like Uganda and Veneszuela had viability, but each had issues such as lack of water and/or landlock. Finally, the country of Palestine was chosen because of its strategic location in the Middle East and because its historical location and significance would make the religious aspect easier to implement. Around the turn to the 20th century, Europeans who considered themselves Jewish were encouraged to settle in areas of Palestine. Since practitioners of Judiaism saw persecution in areas of Europe like Russia and Germany, many of these white people began to pick up and move to settle in Palestine. The effort was aided by the organization of the zionists. In 1917, Chaim Weizman, then a leading zionist proponent, established a partnership with General Smuts, the prime minister over the racist South African dominance of the African peoples in Southern Africa. To this end, a relationship of support from racist South Africa to the zionist quest was established that would continue strongly in the areas of political and economic support well into the 1990s. During these early periods of the zionist movement. Many people were confused into believing that the zionist movement had sincere roots in its stated desire to establish a home for practitioners of Judiaism that would be free from persecution for the religious practice. This is the reason Weizman was able to solicit and receive support from the NAACP in the 1920s to sponsor his speaking tour to African audiences around the U.S. to support the zionist movement.
Settlements continued into Palestine inspite of increased resistance to the forced settlements by the Palestinian people. In 1933, the Third Reich and its young leader Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. The Nazi persecution of its Jewish citizens is well documented and so its not a surprise that the overwhelming sympathy for the suffering incurred by these people during the Nazi rule resulted in overwhelming support for the zionist movement after Hitler's defeat. So, just three short years after the end of world war II, imperialist world support was so adamently in favor of this zionist state that the zionists were able to declare a seizure of the state from the Palestinian people in 1948 and the country was renamed israel with all of the support of the imperialist international community such as the governments of Western Europe, the U.S., and South Africa.
Fast forward to 2009. The Palestinians have been repressed and reduced to being forced to flee to the surrounding Arab countries. There are just the small areas of occupied Palestine where Palesinians are permitted to live like the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and less and less frequently, the Golan Heights. A couple of years ago, the more radical Hamas, a group committed to Islam and Palestinian self-determination, was elected the majority of the seats in the Palestinian Authority in Gaza. This reflected the frustration of the Palestinian people with the suffering they have endured and a willingness to accept, as Malcolm X often taught - "that extreme conditions require extreme solutions." Of course, the imperialist countries have never accepted Hamas legitimate victory or the desire of the Palestinian people to be free. The imperialist press has spent the last 60 years denying the suffering of the Palestinian people. Denying the destruction reaped upon them. Denying their lack of access to basic human rights and dignity.
So, we ask you several questions to properly understand this issue:
1. If someone kicks you out of your house, and you fight to get it back using whatever means are
at your disposal, how does that make you the terrorist?
2. Since Judiaism is a religion, like Christianity and Islam, how does a person establish a nationa-
lity based on religion since people from any nationality can belong to any religion? Also, how
is it that it is commonly accepted today that you can be a Jew, but not practice the religion?
Everyone knows if you don't practice Christianity or Islam, you can't say you are a member
of either religion?
3. Since all scholarly and academic reference indicates Judiaism started in Africa, how can
Africans who speak out against israel like the late Kwame Ture and Minister Farrakhan be
labeled anti-Judiac?
4. Finally, why is it so easily assumed by many people that the political movement discussed
here - zionism, is the same as the religion of Judiaism?
We know that the answers to all of these questions are found in the craftiness of the zionist movement and its efforts to hide its racist and imperialist aspirations behind religious intentions. Any person of God knows that God would never support a religion that steals land, represses and kills people, and exists based on the exploitation of millions of people (a primary export of israel is diamonds which have been shipped from Southern Africa to be refined in israel since the 1920s. This has been the standard processing mechanism for the so-called conflict diamonds).
The truth is that israel was established and is maintained on lies. The country exists to provide an imperialist ally in the Middle East. That is why the imperialist powers prop up israel (she is the number one recepient of U.S. foreign aide - a welfare state). The Palestinian people have every right to fight for their land back just as you would have every right to fight for your house if it was home invaded like Palestine was. Don't be confused by imperialist doubletalk. The Palestinian people are right and they will keep fighting until justice prevails!
This defense of israeli aggression is so outrageous, it defies common sense. Regardless of whether you know anything about Middle East politics, let's start with the basic assumption that the country you know as israel today was actually Palestine before 1948 (please reference your geography/history for confirmation). So, how did Palestine become israel? The answer is during the end of the 19th century, some dishonest Europeans from different parts of Europe organized a conference which was called the first zionist conference in Balse, Switzerland, in 1897. The term zion was selected because of its biblical translation to a movement to return home. These Europeans met and devised a plan to steal land for the purpose of empowerment. According to the memoirs of conference leader Theodore Herzl, the strategy to put a religious purpose behind the quest for land was agreed upon because that would give the quest legitimacy while permitting the scam to escape logical rationalization and remain within the context of emotional and spiritual purpose.
These early zionists, according to Herzl, admitted they were not particularly religious, but that this guise would assist them in their quest for land. The next question was which land to seize. Several possibilities were discussed at the conference. Countries like Uganda and Veneszuela had viability, but each had issues such as lack of water and/or landlock. Finally, the country of Palestine was chosen because of its strategic location in the Middle East and because its historical location and significance would make the religious aspect easier to implement. Around the turn to the 20th century, Europeans who considered themselves Jewish were encouraged to settle in areas of Palestine. Since practitioners of Judiaism saw persecution in areas of Europe like Russia and Germany, many of these white people began to pick up and move to settle in Palestine. The effort was aided by the organization of the zionists. In 1917, Chaim Weizman, then a leading zionist proponent, established a partnership with General Smuts, the prime minister over the racist South African dominance of the African peoples in Southern Africa. To this end, a relationship of support from racist South Africa to the zionist quest was established that would continue strongly in the areas of political and economic support well into the 1990s. During these early periods of the zionist movement. Many people were confused into believing that the zionist movement had sincere roots in its stated desire to establish a home for practitioners of Judiaism that would be free from persecution for the religious practice. This is the reason Weizman was able to solicit and receive support from the NAACP in the 1920s to sponsor his speaking tour to African audiences around the U.S. to support the zionist movement.
Settlements continued into Palestine inspite of increased resistance to the forced settlements by the Palestinian people. In 1933, the Third Reich and its young leader Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. The Nazi persecution of its Jewish citizens is well documented and so its not a surprise that the overwhelming sympathy for the suffering incurred by these people during the Nazi rule resulted in overwhelming support for the zionist movement after Hitler's defeat. So, just three short years after the end of world war II, imperialist world support was so adamently in favor of this zionist state that the zionists were able to declare a seizure of the state from the Palestinian people in 1948 and the country was renamed israel with all of the support of the imperialist international community such as the governments of Western Europe, the U.S., and South Africa.
Fast forward to 2009. The Palestinians have been repressed and reduced to being forced to flee to the surrounding Arab countries. There are just the small areas of occupied Palestine where Palesinians are permitted to live like the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and less and less frequently, the Golan Heights. A couple of years ago, the more radical Hamas, a group committed to Islam and Palestinian self-determination, was elected the majority of the seats in the Palestinian Authority in Gaza. This reflected the frustration of the Palestinian people with the suffering they have endured and a willingness to accept, as Malcolm X often taught - "that extreme conditions require extreme solutions." Of course, the imperialist countries have never accepted Hamas legitimate victory or the desire of the Palestinian people to be free. The imperialist press has spent the last 60 years denying the suffering of the Palestinian people. Denying the destruction reaped upon them. Denying their lack of access to basic human rights and dignity.
So, we ask you several questions to properly understand this issue:
1. If someone kicks you out of your house, and you fight to get it back using whatever means are
at your disposal, how does that make you the terrorist?
2. Since Judiaism is a religion, like Christianity and Islam, how does a person establish a nationa-
lity based on religion since people from any nationality can belong to any religion? Also, how
is it that it is commonly accepted today that you can be a Jew, but not practice the religion?
Everyone knows if you don't practice Christianity or Islam, you can't say you are a member
of either religion?
3. Since all scholarly and academic reference indicates Judiaism started in Africa, how can
Africans who speak out against israel like the late Kwame Ture and Minister Farrakhan be
labeled anti-Judiac?
4. Finally, why is it so easily assumed by many people that the political movement discussed
here - zionism, is the same as the religion of Judiaism?
We know that the answers to all of these questions are found in the craftiness of the zionist movement and its efforts to hide its racist and imperialist aspirations behind religious intentions. Any person of God knows that God would never support a religion that steals land, represses and kills people, and exists based on the exploitation of millions of people (a primary export of israel is diamonds which have been shipped from Southern Africa to be refined in israel since the 1920s. This has been the standard processing mechanism for the so-called conflict diamonds).
The truth is that israel was established and is maintained on lies. The country exists to provide an imperialist ally in the Middle East. That is why the imperialist powers prop up israel (she is the number one recepient of U.S. foreign aide - a welfare state). The Palestinian people have every right to fight for their land back just as you would have every right to fight for your house if it was home invaded like Palestine was. Don't be confused by imperialist doubletalk. The Palestinian people are right and they will keep fighting until justice prevails!
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