This is my first posting. I really did not know what to say as I find so much information here but I had to post or else I would be booted out of the forum. So I want to say I am happy to be here and will share some of my opinions concerning U.S. Imperialism, Capitalism, and Slavery.
Martin Luther King said: "The war, is only a symptom of International Militarism, Racism, Imperialism and an Unworkable Capitalism that makes the rich richer and the poor poorer." How surreal that sounds knowing he was talking about the war in (or shall i say on) Vietnam. We as a people are in this country as a result of being taken as prisoners. So America then represented a type of prison that the Afrikan learned to live in much the same way a prisoner in a correctional facility learns to adapt to her/his surroundings. This is why Malcom said: " I am not an American, I am one of the 22 million black people who are victims of Americanism" . This is so due to the fact that we are given the title of being American as a result of amendments to the constitution like the 13th which states: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." (by the way take note of the exception statement, this word except means unless which says that slavery is acceptable under penal offenses). Francis Cress Welsing said: "The system of racism, white supremacy, in my analysis, as a behavioral scientist, as a psychiatrist, is that it is a behavior power system that is local, national and global organized by people who classify themselves as white, consciously and/or subconsciously. It's carried out in all areas of people, activity, economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex and war. It determines patterns of perception, patterns of logic of thought, speech, action and emotional response as well as symbol formation" As for capitalism, it was a system that was born out of the enslavement of millions of Afrikans and indigenous people throughout North America, South America and the Indies as well as some parts of north-west Asia commonly called the middle-east that gave rise to what is now called the world economy. Before the trade in Africans there was no capitalism. rather other systems like feudalism existed in Europe. So capitalism has a parasitic existence that was born out of enslavement, genocide and oppression; and is maintained by both civil and international militarism, repression and other subversive tactical arrangements of counterinsurgency ranging from psychological, chemical, and biological warfare elements. Nonetheless, Walter Rodney summed this up by saying: "It can be affirmed without reservation that white racism which came to pervade the world was an integral part of capitalist mode of production... European planters and miners enslaved Africans for economic reasons, so that their labor power could be exploited. Indeed, it would have been impossible to open up the New World and to use it as a constant generator of wealth had it not been for African labor...Europeans at home and abroad found it necessary to rationalize that exploitation in racist terms as well. Oppression follows logically from exploitation so as to guarantee the later. Oppression of African people on purely racial grounds accompanied, strengthened, and became indistinguishable from oppression for economic reasons". I think that it is important to mention that chattel slavery ended due to the repleteness of what Karl Marx ( I am not a communist but found this examination applicable) called the primitive accumulation and the demand of more skilled labors to meet the demand of the industrial revolution. So our release from chattel enslavement came as a consequence of a natural progression towards a more mechanized source of production. It was by no means an act of humanitarianism on the part of whites, rather it was out of capitalist need and political expediency. As for fascism, its relationship with capitalism and racism is natural. It comes in the form of an oligarchical government whose interest is closely interwoven with the desires of corporations. This again is repressive; as I am sure that many people know that it is the bankers (private) (not the masses people of this country) that run the U.S. and control the flow of money while emasculating the economy and causing it at will to decline towards recession and depression. Concluding this monologue, I say that in order for Afrikans in America to be successful in the struggle for freedom and peace we must first organize under a common set of goals that are based on principally understanding common oppression and that there is a war raging on our race for resource and population control. We are a people dominated and controlled by a foreign and alien power, ergo we are a colonized people in these United States of America at this very hour. So, we must be free and the road to that liberation is true education and organization. Finally, I stated as I state again we Afrikans in diaspora in these Americas (as far as I know this country, the U.S. has the third largest Afrikan population and the country of Brazil the second and the country of Nigeria has the first) are colonial subjects, so our main goal should be liberation so that we can be a self governing, self determined people, very much unlike our current situation. "If we do not formulate plans for unity and take active steps to form political union, we will soon be fighting and warring among ourselves with imperialist and colonialist standing behind the screen and pulling vicious wires, to make us cut each others throat ....." Kwame Nkrumah
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12-22-2008
XXPANTHAXX (12-22-2008)
Nov 2, 2009 "Assata Shakur Liberation Day" marks 30 yrs of freedom for our Comrade Assata Shakur, Our Warrior was liberated from a NJ prison by Comrades In The Black Liberation Army click here to read more or here www.assatashakur.com 
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