A Chancellor Williams View

[Baba Ahmed]

On the Bump forward!

Greetings of hopeful melinated lights consistent will power and a centered focus for us all!

I visit several forum sites and see a thread connecting all of'em. But today one at assatashakur.org caught my attention. It questioned if Blacks are ready to solve racism in America. To me this is a major obstacle; admittedly it by HisStorical design has infected even Afrikans among themselves. I posted an excerpt re this awhile back from Chancellor Williams' The Destruction of Black Civilization - Great Issues of Race From 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D. and would re-post here; but I do not know how to pull it up again. And I read a post re a Black Brazilian - proclaimed as a "revolutionary" I thought for Afrikan Liberation - announced his "love" for a white woman. I post this because this same problem exists today in 2005 American life, including a variety of our formal organizations and institutions. This piece touches on a yt creation: Mulattoes. So here goes from the chapter "A View From the Bridge" pgs 294 ff.

Perhaps the highlights in the history of the Blacks --- which is all this work claims to be --- would be even more clearly understood if I had written backward, beginning with the present. For one thing, less documentation would be required, for by focusing on predominantly black South Africa, Zimbabwe and the present day Sudan, the whole could see, almost at a glance, exactly what happened to Black Egypt many centuries ago. The script of the play, 'Whites against Blacks,' is the same. The eternal drive glorifying 'white blood' is the same, finding direct expression in all Caucasian controlled social and economic systems: In South Africa the Dutch offsprings by black women are classified 'Coloureds' and ranked as a separate ethnic group below the Dutch in social and economic status, but far above the Africans. In Egypt the 'Coloureds' gradually became the majority as more and more whites came in and more and more Blacks moved southward. The name 'Egyptian' was taken over by the whites and their northern 'Coloureds' as applying to themselves alone. The Blacks who were the original Egyptians were no longer called Egyptians, just as the Blacks in Africa today are no longer called South Africans there, only the whites are South Africans.

Both in Egypt and South Africa the scheme was to make the Mulattoes a separate ethnic group, superior to the Blacks because of Caucasian blood, thus creating mutual hatreds that would make unity difficult if not impossible. By giving all Mulattoes privileges and opportunities denied to Blacks, the scheme worked not only in South Africa and ancient Egypt, but it was successful throughout the world and still operates in the closing years of the 20th Century. The white man has every reason to proudly view his handiwork in managing people and pronounce it good. In the Sudan the white Arabs were so successful that their 'Coloureds' there consider themselves Arabs, not Africans, and look down contemptuously on the Blacks in the Southern Sudan exactly the same as the Egyptian Coloureds regarded this same once all-Black region (Ethiopia) centuries ago. The picture in the Northern Ethiopia (Egypt) after it became predominantly Afro-Asian and Afro-European; and the picture in the Southern Sudan today is the same all-Black picture Southern Ethiopia (the Sudan itself) presented over two thousand years ago. And just as their ancient forefathers battled then against the Egyptian Coloureds, the Blacks in the southern Sudan at the very hour these lines were being written were still arrayed in battle against the Arabs, now predominantly 'Coloured' --and for the same ancient reasons.

Does anyone wonder why this all-important white-created color fact is skipped over by white historians? If they were scientific in their approach and objective in their methods, they would deal with the Mulatto role in black history, even though it was a major source of white power and the white man's most effective agent in helping to destroy black civilizations everywhere they found. White historians would really (have) grown in stature if they themselves wrote the story -- wrote it as it was. This will never happen, of course. For they would be recording how the increasing number of 'Coloureds' after each white invasion made it easy to credit them with all the great advances the Blacks themselves had made. They, the white writers, would be telling how these half-Blacks came to be classified as 'Caucasoids' and how helpful this was in obliterating Black egypt from the pages of history. By this master stroke, through their own sexual creations, they were able to erase the Blacks as the first builders of a great civilization and deliberately rob them of that honor.

The long drawn out process by which all this was accomplished has been detailed in this work. It had to be dealt with along with other factors and forces, because the inferior status of Black people throughout the world today tends to confirm the white man's doctrine that they are inferior in fact. His whole system, universally applied, was designed to make them inferior and keep them so. Who, then, in the 20th Century, would believe that these same Blacks were of the race that had built great cities, developed writing, the arts and sciences when the whites of Europe were still roaming tribes of barbarian warriors? This being a well-known (though not publicized) fact of history, how then, explain the descent of the Blacks from the heights reached by their forefathers to the depths in which they find themselves today? This was the central question in all of our research. Most of the important answers are given in preceding chapters.

Further research, especially field research, will reveal an even more amazing story. A study of the history of mankind reveals no people who have suffered so much in every area of life and survived. One thinks immediately of the Jews and the systematic oppression which they have encountered in every land. But they were not enslaved -- not since the days when whites were generally enslaved everywhere and slavery had nothing to do with race. We have seen that white slavery ended, after the murderous revolt of white slaves in the 13th century, white slavery ended and thereafter the concentration was on Blacks alone. The Jew, being white, and tenaciously clinging to their own heritage, were able to find escape routes not open to Blacks anywhere: business, finance and science. They were free to study, and study they did, surpassing almost all other peoples in the resulting intellectual supremacy. Learning became a second religion. They had seen that two of the certain ways to overcome their oppressors were the mastery of wealth and intellectual excellence. They, therefore, became moneylenders to emperors, kings and popes. Meanwhile, the Blacks were still being hunted down and enslaved and, when free, they were kept as close to the status of slaves as such efforts could achieve. Yet today we are beginning, just beginning to learn about the heights form which they were driven. One of the highly important things this study revealed was how the very color of black came to mean 'slave,' and therefore equated with bad luck, inferiority and shame.

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[Baba Ahmed]

Part 2: A Chancellor Williams View

We have dared to go beyond the limits and the guidelines set for us by the czars of history and geography to discover that Ancient Ethiopia coverd North Africa to the Mediterranean Sea, that Egypt was the northeastern division of that empire, and that even as late as 3100 B.C. when white Asians held Lower Egypt, Ethiopians still held most of their homeland in Upper Egypt. In short, almost all of Egypt was as black as late as 3100 B.C. I say 'as late as 3100 B.C.' to emphasize the fact again that all this is well know to white historians concerned with Africa. They know because when the earliest Greek and Roman writers studied in the land, Egypt was still Black Egypt, they knew what the history was and they left the records. Even when Herodotus arrived, black civilization was known to be so ancient that its beginning was lost in a distant past beyond memory. But when he arrived he found a very mixed Egyptian population of whites, browns, yellows and blacks; the first three groups now drawing a line between themselves as Egyptians while giving to the Blacks the lowest class status along with their original name of Ethiopians (original as Greek term). There may have been some justice in this since when Herodotus was in Egypt, the masses of non-integrating Blacks had themselves rejected both Egypt and the Egyptian names as the Asians and Afro-Asians became the majority, and they had concentrated below a new borderline as Ethiopians in an Ethiopian empire that no longer included Egypt.

.... Indeed it is from Greek history, including their myths and legends, that we some of the best insights into the early history of the Blacks. They drew upon the Land of the Blacks for architectural designs, city planning, sculpture, science and even religion. These they reshaped and made Greek. The Greeks were the best traveling students in the world. In their relations with Africa, they exemplified, as no other people had, the eclectic process of civilization and progress---the readiness to borrow from other peoples the best in their culture, to be reshaped or made over to suit one's own ideals and needs....

The invaders raiding into the continent from Asia and Europe formed the second, centuries-long battlefronts against which the Blacks had to fight for survival. These wars spanned several thousand years, and in an earlier chapter I 'wondered out loud,' and still wonder, how any people, weakened by perpetual hunger and disease, could possibly carry on wars of resistance to the white invaders for over 5,000 years. This they did, and this their descendants must know and remember with pride: that black resistance to white domination covered over 5,000 years. When the enslavers pressed in upon them from the north, the east, the west and from the south, they continued the fight; the resistance to slavery continued while the continent was being depopulated by it with the active participation of many black chiefs and kings seeking wealth and the white man's promise of security from all of their black forces.

The third battle lines for survival were, therefore, internal and points up one of the main contributions they made towards their domination by other peoples. As time went on they became so preoccupied with warring against each other that they seemed to regard the whites as friends by comparison. This seeming contradiction is baffling. For while there is nothing new about a people fighting among themselves, they generally stop if outsiders attack, forget their differences and join united ranks against the common foes.
Caucasians will wage frightful wars against other Caucasians,but will quickly unite, as though by instinct, against non-whites, not only in wars but in international policies. They have developed a kind of built-in solidarity in their relations with non-Caucasian peoples. This fact, as much as anything else, helps to explain their position as masters of the world.

On the other hand, and in glaring contrast, disunity and noncooperation have been characteristic of black societies. And this fact, more than anything else, helps in the understanding not only why the Blacks eventually lost in their battles against the whites, but also why even today they are still unable to deal with the white world. This situation of antagonism, self-hatred and attending disunity in the race is a matter of such grave concern that I have returned to it again and again throughout these discussions.

The only reason for dealing with the role played by the Mutlattoes in black history, for example, was to show how baffling and complex the problem is. For they were used not only to help disguise the most significant achievements of Blacks, but they were also effectively used to further enhance and perpetuate the already existing conflicts and divisions among them. Now they had just as much right to be classified as white as they did to be classified as black. But they found it expedient to operate in both worlds, exploiting the Blacks while serving the interests of the whites. There could never be any clear-cut judgment or defense against internal subversion along any color line, because in almost every black society it was possible to find (m)any Mulattoes who were as loyal to the race as anyone could be, and, as well, pure Blacks who might be paid agents of the Arabs or Europeans. The state of Black Africa, then, was a state of perpetual fears, fears of being hunted down and attacked from without, fears of betrayals by unknown followers from within, fears of attacks by other migrating Blacks who were themselves fleeing from danger, fears of hunger, ever-mounting disease and of the alarming number of deaths. These fears of all kinds were a disease---all producing an alarming source of mutual suspicions and distrust. Centuries of this produced the amazing outcome: Blacks became their own worst enemies and, therefore, increasingly a helpless people.

{Baba note: after outlining the worst outcome from the forced migrations all over Africa in long searches for places of refuge and freedom were the splintering off of societies into countless little isolated states, our Respected Elder and ancestor Chancellor Williams speaks to}:

The most remarkable outcome of the migrations with their fragmentations, disunities and interminable turmoil and crises is that they held on, tenaciously, to the same democratic and political systems and the same social institutions maintained from one end of Africa to the other, just as though they were still members of one and the same vast African society. This fact was immediately reflected in the institutions and political structure of every new state that emerged during all those centuries of migrations."

[OsunkoyaIfayomi]

Medasse Pa Baba Ahmed sana bong'oa

[Baba Ahmed]

Thank u

gon wid yo bad self.... u'll be teach'n a class soon, huh? Does this piece, and the book is more enlightening, indicate some of the depths of problems we deal with? Internal problems. 5,000 years! Imagine that... believe it or not, that to me is a whole bungle of ticks of clock time. Also there's one outstanding fact about Chancellor Williams' report and interpretation: he went; he sat, saw asked talked to folk in each region; he returned laid it out for us and without raging anger outlines a "Master Plan!"

Intellectual "Ivory Tower" scholars do very little of what he did. There's no putdown of 3rd, 4th & 5th hand gathered info turned into books; but there's a vast difference from lets say what a J.A. Rogers valiantly uncovered, but compare that with Runoko Rashidi's written and photographed reports. Does not this ancestor deserve some big ups? Now who among us are determined and with vision synthesize from our learned and experienced actions in view of this people, this time, this locale?

An indication of how deep is our sicknesses and confusions, today I read a post that likens one of our heros with Jesus the Christ. That's the pits of ignorance and misplaced literacy. A surface review of our Stories say from the late 15th Century, Current Era shows that our ancestors were clear on who was their elemental enemy: the white man. Folk who spoke different languages, from different ethnic groups different "religions" excluding Christianity, became one people. But now I dare say that we must solve our internal confusions before most of our people blend together to take care of our businesses right here on this continent. The world awaited us during the 1960s - one foreign leader called us a sleeping giant - but long before that Edward Blyden reminded us that Afrika was/is home. Not like them fools in e.g., the Sudan who see themselves as Arabs. Note in C. Wms view, he reports that while the white, yellow and brown (mulattoes) were binding together, the original folk were moving away from them. Why? the babies, the children proclaimed themselves the parents and put lock downs on their original parents. Here we'd be wise to face and deal with our Mulatto problems. The "systems" planners and operators see us as one, different in tone of skin. Its real that blood is thicker than water. Malcolm X often spoke to this in his truth speaking "joking" manner that if he was a darker man, the followers in NOI would have never followed him! And how he literally hated the white blood in him. But his speech and behaviors showed who he gave allegiance to. Yes he eventually agreed to work with white folk, but never was one in the OAAU or at the 125th Mosque as members. Not ONE. He told them to teach their own kind. We continue to form alliances with them. As if history's values are meaningless and of no value....

TODAY!

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm through with floating like a cork on life's oceans. The primary question Chancellor Williams set out to find answers to is relevant today. Worldwide the Black People are on the bottom rungs of social/economic military life. Why? He points to three basic factors: (1) Asian/white invasions (today: imposed education/religions; controlled economics/finances). (2) Bastardization of our people, some Black folk willingly produce Mulattoes aslo today and then complain about a man like America's former Sec'y of State or a Supreme Court Justice C. Thomas who's married into the Bush blood line. (3) Internal problems.

Elijah Muhammad said it clearer than other leaders: get knowledge of self. Our problem, partially and primarily, is identifying self. And then making use of an over 5,000 track record. To support and defend this Black Self, no matter skin tone differences. Easier said than done, I know.

[Baba Ahmed]

Kwame note: Both Christianity and Islam were spread by deceit and warfare. Honored ancestor Chancellor Williams writes plainly that white people were the leading perpetrators, whether they were hiding behind a "Cross" or a "Crescent Moon and a Star." They had helpers from among us, though. Some classified as and identified themselves as Mulattoes plus what today call Black clones. Follows is an extensive excerpt from Dr. Chancellor's Afrikan classic that should be required reading in homes and schools pledged to teach OurStories. While reading this, please keep in mind what Nana John H. Clarke said: "When a people conquer you they declare war on your God and your God concept.... When a people worship a god assigned to them by another people, they will never be psychologically free." Another pointed saying is that a a people who knows not their history is like a cork on the crest of an ocean's white waves.

The Destruction of Black Civilization

"In 332, Alexander the Great arrived and, having broken the imperial power of Persia elsewhere, had no trouble over Egypt. A Greek was crowned Pharaoh in 334 B.C., as Ptolemy I.

The Greeks ruled Egypt for almost 300 years before the expansion of the Roman Empire into Egypt ended their dominion in 30 B.C. This was our 'flashback' point of departure, but before returning to the Ethiopian churches, the significance of what we have been reviewing as flashbacks should again be emphasized as a great issue. For we have been reviewing the last pahse of the processes of Caucasianization in Egypt that were so thoroughgoing that both the Blacks and their history were erased from memory:

• the Jewish rule, 500 years; the Assyrian interludes; the Persians, 185 years

• the Greeks, 274 years

• the Romans, 700 years

• the Arabs, 1,327 years

---the long, long struggle to take from the Blacks whaever they had of human worth, their land and all their wealth therein; their bodies, their souls, and their minds, was a process of steady depersonalization, dehumanization.

Yet Greece and Rome, having made the eclusion of the Blacks from Egypt permanent, appeared to have no conquest ambitions in the black country to the south. And Pax Romana checked the constant warfare between the two regions. The great wealth-producing trade with Ethiopia was promoted and what appeared bo be a general detente prevailed. Indeed, whoever held the sea-coasts, whether Asian, European of Egyptian, controlled world trade and put Ethiopia in a state of economic dependence, no matter how vast the flow of goods was from the south. Egypt was the middleman with the greater control over both volume and prices. Both the Greek and Roman rulers of Egypt left Ethiopia to play its own role....

THE ARAB HORDES

The treaty barring Arab settlement in the all-Black countries had been ignored almost from the beginning, and certainly treated as non-existing after the death of Kalydosos. The Arabs came in steady streams year after year, but in an inch-by-inch system over widely scattered areas that appeared not to cause immediate concern. But they came in unchecked and alarming waves when the great schisms in Islam led to bloody wars in the Arab world. The character of the refugee movements out of Arabia and other Arab centers of power depended upon what sect had captured the Caliphate (Khalifat). Let the record show, therefore, that all the Arabs that swarmed into Africa across the Red Sea and Indian Ocean were not bent on either conquest or domination. Countless thousands were fleeing there for refuge, fleeing for their very lives. Once settled there, however, they formed the ever-increasing population base for the Muslim leaders whose ai was to establish Islamic rule over the whole black world.

.... They were to follow the Christian strategy of concentrating on the conversion of African kingist][ls and leaders in the belief that as the king goes, so goes the nation, a theory that did not work in Africa, except in a supercial way for epediency. However, the black kings were already dropping their African names for "Christian" names, the first step towards self-effacement.

So as early as the ninth century, (831 A.D.) King Zakaria, alarmed at great incursions of Arabs into the Sudan, sent a delegation headed by his nephew (heir to the throne) to the Caliph (Khalif) at Bagdad, asking that the treaty of 52 be respected and Arab migrations halted. This meant that a weak black king now held the destiny of the race in his hands. That he was so naive as to suppose that the Caliph could stop the Arab hordes even if he desired to do so was itself a sign of incompetence.

The highest ranking of the thirteen kings under the "King of Kings" was the Eparch of Faris, Lord of the Mountain. He was the commander of the frontier forces at the Egyptian border and his special mission was to bar Arab migration and settlement in the Land of the Blacks. Only the limited number of traders were permitted to pass and the time limit for their stay was fixed. The Eparch, therefore, had indeed been the most important official next to the "King of Kings," for he was directly responsible for the security and independence of the nation. Under strong kings and strong eparchs the mission was carried out and Arab incursions southward were checked.(3) That was now long ago. The Arabs had been passing the Lord of the Mountain and his garriosons for so many decades that by the ninth century Arabic was generally spoken below the First Cataract.

HOW SLAVERY CAME TO BE CONFINED TO BLACKS ALONE

In the latter part of the thirteenth century David, King of Makuria, seeing no other way to forestall Arab occupation of his country stepped up his raids in Upper Egypt. Theraids were easier to carry out because of the chaos that follwed the triumphs of the Mamelukes in Egypt. But in 1272 the Blacks, in what I have attacked as the pattern of their own self-destruction, made the first major step to that end. The usual impatience of heirs to the throne soon enough found full expression in Shakandu, the King's nephew. He hastened to the Sultan of Egypt to secure an alliance and plan an invasion of his country that would assure his ascendancy to the throne. The Sultan had every to grasp this wonderful opportunity handed to him through the Blacks themselves. Not only would he be able to even scores with them, but he would also be able to create conditions for Mameluke hegemony over their land. Moreover, the African king had not only been raiding Egypt with impunity, but he had denounced the Treaty of 652 and refused to pay the Baqt. Sultan Baibars, therefore, did not hesitate. He organized a strong invading expedition with Shakandu at its head and entered the Black Land. The struggle was long and bitter, as the Sultan's strategy in using his black army, along with Shakandu's own followers, made it appear to be civil war between Blacks.*** In the end the Sultan won through the black heir to the throne, and allowed him to be crowned king as his protege.

The dismemberment of the Black kingdoms in the Sudan had begun. Now a rival tribute was exacted and almost doubled without any pretense of being an agreement of mutual exchange. The tribute exacted was harsh and the Blacks were promised nothing. The kingdom was then divided into two parts, the Sultan taking the northern region as his personal fief. MUSLIM RULE NOW EXTENDED OVER EGYPT AND INTO THE SUDAN. The pattern was set that was to continue into our times and probable beyond: The Arabs in Northern Sudan, while the Blacks were pressured into smaller and smaller areas in the Southern Sudan.... Once again, learning nothing from even just yesterday, the black leadership paved the way for further Arab advances into their country. The black leadership's struggle for personal power and, above all, their own personal security and welfare, precluded their concern for the welfare and future of their people. They were quite willing and reading to welcome the Arabs and to surrender their people to them in exchange for 'high' office and limited consideration. The days of the black immortals seemed to have passed forever. Mental pygmies again occupied the throne once held by Menes, Piakhi, Shagaka, and Kalydosos.

In 1304, still another self-seeking black leader journeyed to Cairo to have himself crowned as the servant-king of the Blacks by the Sultan al-Nasir. The Sultan sent an expedition to Dongola -- a task now easier than before -- and his new servant was crowned as King Amai.

It should be noted here that the Mameluke rulers' effective power was confined to Lower Egypt and that independent Arab tribes of which the Bani Kanz were the most powerful, held all Upper Egypt. They were only nominally the sultans. In order to put an end to the endless coups and counter-coups among the Blacks, the decision was reached to overwhelm the South with united armies from both Uppoer and Lower Egypt and step up the Islamization of the Blacks, putting Muslim kings on the throne.... In 1316 A.D., the objectives were realized when Dongola was again razed for the fifth time and Kerembes, the last black Christian king, was put to flight. A BLACK MUSLIM, Abdullah, was made king temporaily while awaiting the pleasure, not of the Sultan, but of the powerful Chief Kanz ad-Dawlah of Bani Kanz Arab tribe. His pleasure was to put the Black Muslim king to death and assume the kingship over the Blacks himself. Over the Blacks? This statement is misleading. This was no longer the "Land of the Blacks." White and coloured Arabs now constituted the majority. Without this population base, the triumph of the Arabs in the Sudan could not have happened.

Yet the Arab chieftain's rule as king was short lived because the Mameluke rulers played one group off against the other in an effort to defeat Arab objectives in one way or another. For one thing, they had been unable to break the autonomy of the Arab tribes in Upper Egypt and these tribes were spreading over the Sudan and setting up their own kings. This was a further challenge to Mameluke rule in Egypt. Who, then, were the Mamelukes?

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3. Because of the repeated emphasis on the fact, it should be quite clear now that reference to Egyptian, Asian or Arab invasions always include black slave armies as well as Mulattoes classified as "white."
*** Kwame note: does this resemble present day Sudan?

[Baba Ahmed]

WHITE DEVILS from THE WEST

"Here then, is another case where the 'external influence' school can have a field day, since nothing is better known (and nowhere denied) than the fact that the Africans who adopted European or Asian institutions, such as Islam and Christianity, for example, were not only 'influenced' by them, but often transformed into "Black Arabs," "Black Portuguese," "Black Frenchmen," "Black Englishmen" and so on.

In fact, it was this very transforming external influence that played a decisive role in first destroying the bes in African civilization while at the same time giving worldwide publicity to all remaining elements of barbarism that could be found. The new masters of the continent were in the position of all-power and could, therefore, make their viewpoints the viewpoints of the world. The system of reducing Blacks to non-persons was so thoroughgoing that not only did the various people of the world regard them as such, but---tragedy of tragedies---the Blacks themselves came to feel inferior and to hate themselves and all of their kind. Magic? Here, indeed, a magical thng had happened since theses whites who called themselves Portuguese had arrived.

As the 15th Century moved on toward the 19th, the Europeans became less and less "white devils" and more and more white masters, backed by awesome firepower. "White" was no longer the face of evil in the Black world. It had changed places with 'black.' Now "black" was the badge of evil, all that was bad --even bad luck. To make a white man look evil you had to dress him in black; life's final tragedy, death, called for mourning in black; happy events, such as baptisms and weddings, required the wearing of white. God Himself, being white, had cursed the Blacks and made them the "servants of man" - man being white man, for was not he made in the "image of God?" To worship God, in effecgt, was to worship the white man. A volume could be written on the scores of these little psychological gimmicks that are now so deeply embedded in cultural thought that they are taken as a simple matter of course and require no comment. Yet they are the subtle weapons which have been more devasting in conquering the Blacks and reducing them to an inferior status than armed might. Caucasian victory was complete and seemingly permanent when the Blacks throughout the world joined the whites in glorifying all things white and condemning all things black, or even tinged with black, including themselves. Here we are at the very heart of the "race problem," this self-abnegation, self-effacement, the loss of self-identity by cutting the roots with the past and thereby losing the very links with their history from which a people draw strength and inspiration to move forward to even higher ground and, in fact, the reason for being.

In short, in the incongruous attempts to replace his own values with those of the white man, the black man lost his own personality and, therefore, his manhood - almost absolutely. Nearly five hundred years have passed since the first Europeans landed on the coasts of West Africa and their phase of transforming Blacks from men to half-men began. Yet even with this long background there are countless millions of frustrated Blacks, frustrated by the perpetual annoyance of the blurred vision and the blank wall as they struggle to see life through the blue eyes of Caucasians.

The status of African people throughout the world remains too precarious to deal with their history by merely chronicling important events. The situation demands that greater efforts be made to determing the meaning of those events, their effect on the people, the overgotteneen completely foriest times had not ca from the earl in Afrian states werall change in the direction of history, and what new directions the race must take. The major and immedicate Portuguese aim in Africa was not the conquest of Blacks; rather, their first aim was to destroy Arab power in Africa and the Islamic control of just about all of the overland trade routes to the East. For this cause Columbus had sailed, and other European nations took to the high seas. The Portuguese sought to use religion as the usual spearhead. That Christian states were in Africa from the earliest had not been completely forgotten.(3) One that had escaped Muslim destruction was located in what had been a south-eastern border state of the ancient Ethiopian empire, identified by the Portuguese as a kingdom ruled, by a "King Prester John." The idea was to unite the Christian forces of Europe with those of Africa in an all-out war against the Arabs.

But what was not generally known was that the kingdom of Axum expanding to become the Empire of Abyssinia, was ruled alternatively by Christian Arabs and Coloured Christian Hebrews. All Arabs were not Muslims; all Hebrews were not Jews in religion. It appears that African Hebrew and Christian Arab communities were in Southern Arabia and Yemen, just across from the East African country they later conquered. The Portugues, however, did not reach the African Christian kingdom at the time they sought it for the promotion of their campaign against Islam. They had therefore begun the work of creating a Black Christian kingdom in their own image. This was Kongo. By 1512 no one needed to guess or speculate about the Portuguese plans. Their king, Manuel, made them clear in documentary form: The Regimento. This is one of the interesting and significant documents in the history of black people because it was the first detailed blue print for the conquest of the black man's mind (acculturation via Christianity), his body (slavery), and his country.... But the Kongolese King, Affonso (his Portuguese name notwithstanding), saw through the elaborate plan to reorganize his country and began to throw up roadblocks, albeit too late..."

(pgs 249-251) Destruction of Black Civilization... C. Williams.
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3. There was no reason why the ancient AFrican Church should have been "forgotten" at all. The Vatican records and those at Constantinople were available.

[Baba Ahmed]

Originally Posted by Baba Ahmed

On the Bump forward!

Greetings of hopeful melinated lights consistent will power and a centered focus for us all!

I visit several forum sites and see a thread connecting all of'em. But today one at assatashakur.org caught my attention. It questioned if Blacks are ready to solve racism in America. To me this is a major obstacle; admittedly it by HisStorical design has infected even Afrikans among themselves. I posted an excerpt re this awhile back from Chancellor Williams' The Destruction of Black Civilization - Great Issues of Race From 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D. and would re-post here; but I do not know how to pull it up again. And I read a post re a Black Brazilian - proclaimed as a "revolutionary" I thought for Afrikan Liberation - announced his "love" for a white woman. I post this because this same problem exists today in 2005 American life, including a variety of our formal organizations and institutions. This piece touches on a yt creation: Mulattoes. So here goes from the chapter "A View From the Bridge" pgs 294 ff.

Perhaps the highlights in the history of the Blacks --- which is all this work claims to be --- would be even more clearly understood if I had written backward, beginning with the present. For one thing, less documentation would be required, for by focusing on predominantly black South Africa, Zimbabwe and the present day Sudan, the whole could see, almost at a glance, exactly what happened to Black Egypt many centuries ago. The script of the play, 'Whites against Blacks,' is the same. The eternal drive glorifying 'white blood' is the same, finding direct expression in all Caucasian controlled social and economic systems: In South Africa the Dutch offsprings by black women are classified 'Coloureds' and ranked as a separate ethnic group below the Dutch in social and economic status, but far above the Africans. In Egypt the 'Coloureds' gradually became the majority as more and more whites came in and more and more Blacks moved southward. The name 'Egyptian' was taken over by the whites and their northern 'Coloureds' as applying to themselves alone. The Blacks who were the original Egyptians were no longer called Egyptians, just as the Blacks in Africa today are no longer called South Africans there, only the whites are South Africans.

Both in Egypt and South Africa the scheme was to make the Mulattoes a separate ethnic group, superior to the Blacks because of Caucasian blood, thus creating mutual hatreds that would make unity difficult if not impossible. By giving all Mulattoes privileges and opportunities denied to Blacks, the scheme worked not only in South Africa and ancient Egypt, but it was successful throughout the world and still operates in the closing years of the 20th Century. The white man has every reason to proudly view his handiwork in managing people and pronounce it good. In the Sudan the white Arabs were so successful that their 'Coloureds' there consider themselves Arabs, not Africans, and look down contemptuously on the Blacks in the Southern Sudan exactly the same as the Egyptian Coloureds regarded this same once all-Black region (Ethiopia) centuries ago. The picture in the Northern Ethiopia (Egypt) after it became predominantly Afro-Asian and Afro-European; and the picture in the Southern Sudan today is the same all-Black picture Southern Ethiopia (the Sudan itself) presented over two thousand years ago. And just as their ancient forefathers battled then against the Egyptian Coloureds, the Blacks in the southern Sudan at the very hour these lines were being written were still arrayed in battle against the Arabs, now predominantly 'Coloured' --and for the same ancient reasons.

Does anyone wonder why this all-important white-created color fact is skipped over by white historians? If they were scientific in their approach and objective in their methods, they would deal with the Mulatto role in black history, even though it was a major source of white power and the white man's most effective agent in helping to destroy black civilizations everywhere they found. White historians would really (have) grown in stature if they themselves wrote the story -- wrote it as it was. This will never happen, of course. For they would be recording how the increasing number of 'Coloureds' after each white invasion made it easy to credit them with all the great advances the Blacks themselves had made. They, the white writers, would be telling how these half-Blacks came to be classified as 'Caucasoids' and how helpful this was in obliterating Black egypt from the pages of history. By this master stroke, through their own sexual creations, they were able to erase the Blacks as the first builders of a great civilization and deliberately rob them of that honor.

The long drawn out process by which all this was accomplished has been detailed in this work. It had to be dealt with along with other factors and forces, because the inferior status of Black people throughout the world today tends to confirm the white man's doctrine that they are inferior in fact. His whole system, universally applied, was designed to make them inferior and keep them so. Who, then, in the 20th Century, would believe that these same Blacks were of the race that had built great cities, developed writing, the arts and sciences when the whites of Europe were still roaming tribes of barbarian warriors? This being a well-known (though not publicized) fact of history, how then, explain the descent of the Blacks from the heights reached by their forefathers to the depths in which they find themselves today? This was the central question in all of our research. Most of the important answers are given in preceding chapters.

Further research, especially field research, will reveal an even more amazing story. A study of the history of mankind reveals no people who have suffered so much in every area of life and survived. One thinks immediately of the Jews and the systematic oppression which they have encountered in every land. But they were not enslaved -- not since the days when whites were generally enslaved everywhere and slavery had nothing to do with race. We have seen that white slavery ended, after the murderous revolt of white slaves in the 13th century, white slavery ended and thereafter the concentration was on Blacks alone. The Jew, being white, and tenaciously clinging to their own heritage, were able to find escape routes not open to Blacks anywhere: business, finance and science. They were free to study, and study they did, surpassing almost all other peoples in the resulting intellectual supremacy. Learning became a second religion. They had seen that two of the certain ways to overcome their oppressors were the mastery of wealth and intellectual excellence. They, therefore, became moneylenders to emperors, kings and popes. Meanwhile, the Blacks were still being hunted down and enslaved and, when free, they were kept as close to the status of slaves as such efforts could achieve. Yet today we are beginning, just beginning to learn about the heights form which they were driven. One of the highly important things this study revealed was how the very color of black came to mean 'slave,' and therefore equated with bad luck, inferiority and shame.

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BUMPED!

Can we get some witnesses?

[Baba Ahmed]

Originally Posted by Baba Ahmed

Kwame note: Both Christianity and Islam were spread by deceit and warfare. Honored ancestor Chancellor Williams writes plainly that white people were the leading perpetrators, whether they were hiding behind a "Cross" or a "Crescent Moon and a Star." They had helpers from among us, though. Some classified as and identified themselves as Mulattoes plus what today call Black clones. Follows is an extensive excerpt from Dr. Chancellor's Afrikan classic that should be required reading in homes and schools pledged to teach OurStories. While reading this, please keep in mind what Nana John H. Clarke said: "When a people conquer you they declare war on your God and your God concept.... When a people worship a god assigned to them by another people, they will never be psychologically free." Another pointed saying is that a a people who knows not their history is like a cork on the crest of an ocean's white waves.

The Destruction of Black Civilization

"In 332, Alexander the Great arrived and, having broken the imperial power of Persia elsewhere, had no trouble over Egypt. A Greek was crowned Pharaoh in 334 B.C., as Ptolemy I.

The Greeks ruled Egypt for almost 300 years before the expansion of the Roman Empire into Egypt ended their dominion in 30 B.C. This was our 'flashback' point of departure, but before returning to the Ethiopian churches, the significance of what we have been reviewing as flashbacks should again be emphasized as a great issue. For we have been reviewing the last pahse of the processes of Caucasianization in Egypt that were so thoroughgoing that both the Blacks and their history were erased from memory:

• the Jewish rule, 500 years; the Assyrian interludes; the Persians, 185 years

• the Greeks, 274 years

• the Romans, 700 years

• the Arabs, 1,327 years

---the long, long struggle to take from the Blacks whaever they had of human worth, their land and all their wealth therein; their bodies, their souls, and their minds, was a process of steady depersonalization, dehumanization.

Yet Greece and Rome, having made the eclusion of the Blacks from Egypt permanent, appeared to have no conquest ambitions in the black country to the south. And Pax Romana checked the constant warfare between the two regions. The great wealth-producing trade with Ethiopia was promoted and what appeared bo be a general detente prevailed. Indeed, whoever held the sea-coasts, whether Asian, European of Egyptian, controlled world trade and put Ethiopia in a state of economic dependence, no matter how vast the flow of goods was from the south. Egypt was the middleman with the greater control over both volume and prices. Both the Greek and Roman rulers of Egypt left Ethiopia to play its own role....

THE ARAB HORDES

The treaty barring Arab settlement in the all-Black countries had been ignored almost from the beginning, and certainly treated as non-existing after the death of Kalydosos. The Arabs came in steady streams year after year, but in an inch-by-inch system over widely scattered areas that appeared not to cause immediate concern. But they came in unchecked and alarming waves when the great schisms in Islam led to bloody wars in the Arab world. The character of the refugee movements out of Arabia and other Arab centers of power depended upon what sect had captured the Caliphate (Khalifat). Let the record show, therefore, that all the Arabs that swarmed into Africa across the Red Sea and Indian Ocean were not bent on either conquest or domination. Countless thousands were fleeing there for refuge, fleeing for their very lives. Once settled there, however, they formed the ever-increasing population base for the Muslim leaders whose ai was to establish Islamic rule over the whole black world.

.... They were to follow the Christian strategy of concentrating on the conversion of African kingist][ls and leaders in the belief that as the king goes, so goes the nation, a theory that did not work in Africa, except in a supercial way for epediency. However, the black kings were already dropping their African names for "Christian" names, the first step towards self-effacement.

So as early as the ninth century, (831 A.D.) King Zakaria, alarmed at great incursions of Arabs into the Sudan, sent a delegation headed by his nephew (heir to the throne) to the Caliph (Khalif) at Bagdad, asking that the treaty of 52 be respected and Arab migrations halted. This meant that a weak black king now held the destiny of the race in his hands. That he was so naive as to suppose that the Caliph could stop the Arab hordes even if he desired to do so was itself a sign of incompetence.

The highest ranking of the thirteen kings under the "King of Kings" was the Eparch of Faris, Lord of the Mountain. He was the commander of the frontier forces at the Egyptian border and his special mission was to bar Arab migration and settlement in the Land of the Blacks. Only the limited number of traders were permitted to pass and the time limit for their stay was fixed. The Eparch, therefore, had indeed been the most important official next to the "King of Kings," for he was directly responsible for the security and independence of the nation. Under strong kings and strong eparchs the mission was carried out and Arab incursions southward were checked.(3) That was now long ago. The Arabs had been passing the Lord of the Mountain and his garriosons for so many decades that by the ninth century Arabic was generally spoken below the First Cataract.

HOW SLAVERY CAME TO BE CONFINED TO BLACKS ALONE

In the latter part of the thirteenth century David, King of Makuria, seeing no other way to forestall Arab occupation of his country stepped up his raids in Upper Egypt. Theraids were easier to carry out because of the chaos that follwed the triumphs of the Mamelukes in Egypt. But in 1272 the Blacks, in what I have attacked as the pattern of their own self-destruction, made the first major step to that end. The usual impatience of heirs to the throne soon enough found full expression in Shakandu, the King's nephew. He hastened to the Sultan of Egypt to secure an alliance and plan an invasion of his country that would assure his ascendancy to the throne. The Sultan had every to grasp this wonderful opportunity handed to him through the Blacks themselves. Not only would he be able to even scores with them, but he would also be able to create conditions for Mameluke hegemony over their land. Moreover, the African king had not only been raiding Egypt with impunity, but he had denounced the Treaty of 652 and refused to pay the Baqt. Sultan Baibars, therefore, did not hesitate. He organized a strong invading expedition with Shakandu at its head and entered the Black Land. The struggle was long and bitter, as the Sultan's strategy in using his black army, along with Shakandu's own followers, made it appear to be civil war between Blacks.*** In the end the Sultan won through the black heir to the throne, and allowed him to be crowned king as his protege.

The dismemberment of the Black kingdoms in the Sudan had begun. Now a rival tribute was exacted and almost doubled without any pretense of being an agreement of mutual exchange. The tribute exacted was harsh and the Blacks were promised nothing. The kingdom was then divided into two parts, the Sultan taking the northern region as his personal fief. MUSLIM RULE NOW EXTENDED OVER EGYPT AND INTO THE SUDAN. The pattern was set that was to continue into our times and probable beyond: The Arabs in Northern Sudan, while the Blacks were pressured into smaller and smaller areas in the Southern Sudan.... Once again, learning nothing from even just yesterday, the black leadership paved the way for further Arab advances into their country. The black leadership's struggle for personal power and, above all, their own personal security and welfare, precluded their concern for the welfare and future of their people. They were quite willing and reading to welcome the Arabs and to surrender their people to them in exchange for 'high' office and limited consideration. The days of the black immortals seemed to have passed forever. Mental pygmies again occupied the throne once held by Menes, Piakhi, Shagaka, and Kalydosos.

In 1304, still another self-seeking black leader journeyed to Cairo to have himself crowned as the servant-king of the Blacks by the Sultan al-Nasir. The Sultan sent an expedition to Dongola -- a task now easier than before -- and his new servant was crowned as King Amai.

It should be noted here that the Mameluke rulers' effective power was confined to Lower Egypt and that independent Arab tribes of which the Bani Kanz were the most powerful, held all Upper Egypt. They were only nominally the sultans. In order to put an end to the endless coups and counter-coups among the Blacks, the decision was reached to overwhelm the South with united armies from both Uppoer and Lower Egypt and step up the Islamization of the Blacks, putting Muslim kings on the throne.... In 1316 A.D., the objectives were realized when Dongola was again razed for the fifth time and Kerembes, the last black Christian king, was put to flight. A BLACK MUSLIM, Abdullah, was made king temporaily while awaiting the pleasure, not of the Sultan, but of the powerful Chief Kanz ad-Dawlah of Bani Kanz Arab tribe. His pleasure was to put the Black Muslim king to death and assume the kingship over the Blacks himself. Over the Blacks? This statement is misleading. This was no longer the "Land of the Blacks." White and coloured Arabs now constituted the majority. Without this population base, the triumph of the Arabs in the Sudan could not have happened.

Yet the Arab chieftain's rule as king was short lived because the Mameluke rulers played one group off against the other in an effort to defeat Arab objectives in one way or another. For one thing, they had been unable to break the autonomy of the Arab tribes in Upper Egypt and these tribes were spreading over the Sudan and setting up their own kings. This was a further challenge to Mameluke rule in Egypt. Who, then, were the Mamelukes?

To be cont'd below

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3. Because of the repeated emphasis on the fact, it should be quite clear now that reference to Egyptian, Asian or Arab invasions always include black slave armies as well as Mulattoes classified as "white."
*** Kwame note: does this resemble present day Sudan?

This is BUMPED in hopes more new readers peep into this thread