The Niggerization of African People

[JRSWRITER]

From The Ramparts
Junious Ricardo Stanton



“The process of turning a beautiful Afrikan infant into a mere caricature of her/his genetic self in but a few years of exposure to AmeriKKKa’s devilishly designed environment and their backward exploitative culture is deadly. How is this done with the swiftness, you may ask? Easily, we are the bridge to our children’s madness. We are the willing conductors to alien insanity that we ourselves could not escape. In our vanilla flavored madness we are totally unqualified to nurture an Afrikan infant to childhood much less adulthood.” - Del Jones Black Holocaust 2000 page 10

I witnessed a surreal event over the weekend. I attended the “graduation ceremony” of my college alma mater and I was stunned by the outrageous demeanor, conduct and behavior of not only many of the graduates but their parents, relatives and friends as well. It was so bad the commencement speaker had to remind them this was an auspicious occasion one of joy, festivity and celebration, but one that should be taken seriously. They settled down for a minute but once he was done, they tore their behinds, especially during the conferring of the degrees portion. I was dismayed at the disrespect and out and out lack of decorum displayed by many of the graduates and their supporters. I think I was even more disturbed none of the administrators, faculty or Board of Trustees addressed or stepped to the raunchy behaviors. None of them attempted to restore decorum and establish a sense of solemnity to the proceedings.

As I sat there watching the graduates, my mind flashed back forty years to that same campus quadrangle as my fellow graduates and I listened in reverence and awe to Marcus Foster a former administrator in the Philadelphia School District who was then the Superintendent of the Oakland School district deliver the commencement address. Many of us were first generation college attendees and the occasion was an important one. I would have never even entertained the thought of acting out or being disrespectful. I reminisced to my days as a student activist in the Black Student League and student government; how we pressed and demonstrated for Black Studies, African-American oriented courses like African-American History, Afro-American Literature, African History and such. We raised a ruckus and demanded the state increase its funding to the school. Yes we were exuberant and overzealous and in retrospect we did some unwise things but we were advancing the consciousness of our people rather reducing ourselves to caricatures and stereotypes.

Despite being suspended from school for a few months I still graduated on time and was happy to do so; even though I was bitter about the way the administration had treated me. But I also reflect on the teachers and deans who helped me get back in school and supported me once I returned. I would never in my most insane days have behaved at my graduation the way those young people acted last Saturday.

The Niggerization of African people is proceeding at a rapid pace. I left the campus as soon as the ceremony was over eschewing staying around to socialize. I was so upset I didn’t want my presence as an alum to appear to condone such an irreverent atmosphere. I spoke to a few alums on my way out and they shared my horror. I was saddened by how far we have fallen as a people, but I am not surprised.

We did not get this way solely on our own. We do not exist in a vacuum. In several generations we have lowered the bar considerably. We dropped the ball, big time. When I was coming out of college we were saying Black is Beautiful and we talked about Black Pride and Black Power. We wanted to change the world. We wanted to right the wrongs of society, to make things better.

Obviously such thinking, talk and action posed a serious threat to the status quo. It had to be squelched and misdirected. The government’s COINTELPRO counterinsurgency program discredited, undercut and killed off our leaders. We were sold a bogus bill of goods. We bought into the hype and okey-doke of becoming mainstream and imitating white folks. Subsequent generations of black people were duped by the media into idolizing thugs and hoochie mamas. As we look around our communities today, we are becoming the venal caricatures and stereotypes whites depicted us as years ago. “The relationship between the Black mother and child, the Black father and child, the politics that go on in the Black family structure, the politics of color, the politics of quality of hair, the politics of sexuality and so forth that exist within the Black family, reflect to a very great extent the politics of the larger White dominated society in which the Black community finds itself.” Amos N. Wilson The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness

Black people are great consumers of Eurocentric media content. The Eurocentric and Negro slave mentality media set the tone and tenor for our view of reality. The media manufactures priorities, establishes and promotes values, lifestyles, behaviors, relationships and motivations that we consciously and unconsciously internalize and emulate. The media bombards us with images, words and actions designed to frame and manipulate our desires, emotions, expectations and our “reality”. When Jerry Springer and “reality show” dysfunctional behaviors, disrespectful and criminal lifestyles, thug, hoochie, predatory and pathological relationships are promoted, held up, celebrated and broadcast on a daily basis, it’s no wonder those behaviors have manifested themselves on every level and strata of society. We are constantly being programmed for debauchery, nihilism and self-destruction. We are like frogs in a pot where the flame/heat is raised incrementally ever so slightly so we don’t notice it, we accommodate ourselves to the environment in the pot not realizing we are being cooked to death.

Where are the elders like we had when I was growing up who would step to negative behavior, who expected and demanded we act respectfully and responsibly? Someone needs to step to the fore into the fray and challenge us to do and be better. Someone ought to exhort us not to succumb to a very deliberate process of dummying down and ghettoization.

In my opinion, that graduation was merely a symptom. It was profane and disrespectful but it was also part and parcel to an overarching program of the Niggerization of African people. Unless we check ourselves, abandon those values and behaviors, they will lead to our collective wreck and ruin.

[Langalibalele]

JRS, the political era of Obama must be separated from the cultural repression of African people. Much of this is based upon a culture of neo-colonialism, that is acceptance of having to play a role for Imperialism for one's personal ambitions to be satisfied. What does this entail except the dehumanization of African people.

School Daze. Spike Lee's thematic expose of the reprobate campus culture of the black petty bourgeoisie. This behavior has a class basis. It has been said that all culture which is not revolutionary is, ultimately, bourgeois culture. And for Africans, that translates into serving Imperialism, neo-fascism, capitalism and becoming oppressors of your own people. That's why -- when I attended Howard U in 1983 and joined the campus divestment campaign -- I resolved to never get a degree, and I never will.

[JRSWRITER]

Obama is part of an opressive machine, he's a front man for killers and blood sucking vampires. The educational system is a tool of mind control and menticide. Having said that there are still righteous educators out there on some college campuses who are introducing our people to themselves, our history and facilitating freedom of thought. There are students at many of these reactionary factories who press for truth and real world relavence despite the threat of being expelled ala the character "Dap" in Spike Lee's School Daze. We struggle on every level and the revolution begins in the mind.
JRS

[Pragmatic]

22 Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever" -- 23 therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. 24 He drove out the man; and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

YouTube - The Silver Surfer ep1 pt2

YouTube - The Silver Surfer ep1 pt2

Born in Sin, shaped in Inequity: The "Original" Sin Are you being hunted

The ultimate removal of sin from the souls of the believing and pardoned is left by Scripture in no uncertainty. It was foretold in the name given to the Saviour at His birth: "Thou shalt call His name Jesus, because He shall save His people from ["out of," not "in"] their sins." It was implied in the object contemplated by His incarnation: "He was manifested to take awayour sins."

It is declared to have been the purpose of His death upon the cross: "He gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquityand purify unto Himself a peculiar people zealous of good works."

• Can you be a second class believer, if you atone for being born with color?

• Do you have to walk around stupid and unaware to be good?

"The Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it, for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die" (Genesis 2:16);

• If God was manifest in the flesh isn't god a sinner?

• Because God was black, and had to die for the sins of other people of color, wouldn't that make Black people lame, and undependable?

• Should you validate other peoples emotions (*feelings, thoughts, and behaviours) against your only feeling of worthyness?

• Are people generally afraid of the "image of Brown people" because of the the suicide of God in flesh of a African?

• If God committed suicide in the image of the African, could this be one of many reason's people have such a low self image of themselves?

• Could believing in this image of yourself, in the likeness of God, lead to other destructive feelings, thoughts, and behaviours, brought on by discrimination, thus making you a racist?

• Have African people been duped into believing God hates black people and regrets creating them so bad, they he would kill himself to atone for his horrible mistake, and atone to the rest of mankind cause we were a waste of an idea?

• What God are you "worshipping"?

King James Bible 6:6

And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.


repent: verb (used without object) 1.to feel sorry, self-reproachful, or contrite for past conduct; regret or be conscience-stricken about a past action, attitude, etc. (often fol. by of): He repented after his thoughtless act. 2.to feel such sorrow for sin or fault as to be disposed to change one's life for the better; be penitent

Quran

[3:181] GOD has heard the utterances of those who said, "GOD is poor, while we are rich." We will record everything they said, just as we recorded their killing of the prophets unjustly, and we will say, "Suffer the retribution of Hell.

[3:182] "This is the consequence of your own works." GOD is never unjust towards the people.




There was a system of illusion so powerful, that it had me validating other peoples thoughts, as reality. It had me existing as a racist; dominated by stereotypes, that dictated my feelings, thoughts, and behavious, all because God, made me in his image, and that was a mistake Gen 6:6, you see, God wanted man and women to be stupid, so he could serve them,. . . . validate there existence.

It was a sin to believe, and (so I thought), God could not be more relevant than me.

So I did what I wanted to do. I even believed God was so merciful, he killed himself, in the "image" of a "Black man" to give hope to the rest of the world, for creating such a lame race of people.


Gen Chp.3

"...And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die."

• In the beggining, these people didn't need to experience reality??

• Were more relevant than the entire creation?

• They wouldn't have to be grateful, or practice spirtual principals?

• They would let God do all the thinking, while they just sat around, ate and kicked it?

• Why?

• Because God has all the time in the world to create humans, with brains, and intellegence, and is so narcisstic, he would have them live forever watching him do "HIS THANG". Cause God can do that?

That is not the God i worship today, GOD willing.


The Quran

[2:255] GOD: there is no other god besides Him, the Living, the Eternal. Never a moment of unawareness or slumber overtakes Him. To Him belongs everything in the heavens and everything on earth. Who could intercede with Him, except in accordance with His will? He knows their past, and their future. No one attains any knowledge, except as He wills. His dominion encompasses the heavens and the earth, and ruling them never burdens Him. He is the Most High, the Great.



[15:85] We did not create the heavens and the earth, and everything between them, except for a specific purpose. The end of the world will come, so treat them with benign neglect.
[15:86] Your Lord is the Creator, the Omniscient.

all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth" (Genesis 6:12);

all mankind had "gone aside and become filthy,"

"there was none that did good, no, not one" (Psalm 14:3);

"There is no man that sinneth not" (1 Kings 8:46), ), not even the best of men who have been born again by the Spirit and the incorruptible seed of the Word of God, renewed in their minds and created anew in Christ Jesus
"all had sinned and come short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23);



Ephesians 6:5 Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ; 6 Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart ; 7 With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men: 8 Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.

9 And, ye masters, do the same things unto them , forbearing threatening : knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.



http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/genesis-rsv.html

The Law of Affirmation that illegally convicted our ancestors

Peace be upon you

[JRSWRITER]

The solutions to our problems will not be found in the alien dogmas, religions, philosophies and lifestyles of our oppressors. Europeans are not our masters nor our saviors. Given their documented behavior over thousands of years we should never consider them experts on righteousness or religion!
The European cave dwellers who call themselves "Jews" are not related genetically to the ancient Hebrews and they certainly are not our friends . Nor should they be considered role models because many of their ancestors financed the Atlantic Slave Trade. Compared to African cosmologies and metaphysical traditions the Hebrew religion is the babbling of unsophisticated barbarians.
Islam's hands are bloody with regard to how the invading Arabs dealt with Africans so to quote any of them in my view is counter-productive especially since Africans have such a rich reservoir of metaphysical and spiritual tradition of our own. Our downfall and backward condition is not because we don't have a spiritual tradition or because we have or have not embraced alien religions;our demise is because we have been separated from traditional African traditions. We suffer from culturally induced amnesia and ruthless political and psychological oppression that made it a crime to be African. Stay strong!
JRS

[Pragmatic]

Islam: Ethiopia's last gift from GOD




Islam does not condone slavery, people who have claimed to be muslim have.

The question isn't the spirtual system of Islam. But the spiritual system of the human.

Prophet Muhammed didn't bring Islam to Ethiopia. He was Ethiopia; born and raised, with the same African spirtual system's that have been around before him for centuries.

2:135] They said, "You have to be Jewish or Christian, to be guided." Say, "We follow the religion of Abraham - monotheism - he never was an idol worshiper."


[2:136] Say, "We believe in GOD, and in what was sent down to us, and in what was sent down to Abraham, Ismail, Isaac, Jacob, and the Patriarchs; and in what was given to Moses and Jesus, and all the prophets from their Lord. We make no distinction among any of them. To Him alone we are submitters."

[2:137] If they believe as you do, then they are guided. But if they turn away, then they are in opposition. GOD will spare you their opposition; He is the Hearer, the Omniscient.

[2:138] Such is GOD's system, and whose system is better than GOD's? "Him alone we worship."

[2:139] Say, "Do you argue with us about GOD, when He is our Lord and your Lord? We are responsible for our deeds, and you are responsible for your deeds. To Him alone we are devoted."

[2:140] Do you say that Abraham, Ismail, Isaac, Jacob, and the Patriarchs were Jewish or Christian? Say, "Do you know better than GOD? Who is more evil than one who conceals a testimony he has learned from GOD? GOD is never unaware of anything you do."
[2:141] That was a community from the past. They are responsible for what they earned, and you are responsible for what you earned. You are not answerable for anything they did.


3:64] Say, "O followers of the scripture, let us come to a logical agreement between us and you: that we shall not worship except GOD; that we never set up any idols besides Him, nor set up any human beings as lords beside GOD." If they turn away, say, "Bear witness that we are submitters."


[3:65] O followers of the scripture, why do you argue about Abraham, when the Torah and the Gospel were not revealed until after him? Do you not understand?

YouTube - Allah Written In Stone In Pre Dynastic Egypt/KMT/Ta Ma Re

YouTube - Allah Written In Stone In Pre Dynastic Egypt/KMT/Ta Ma Re

[3:66] You have argued about things you knew; why do you argue about things you do not know? GOD knows, while you do not know.

[3:67] Abraham was neither Jewish, nor Christian; he was a monotheist submitter. He never was an idol worshiper.

[3:68] The people most worthy of Abraham are those who followed him, and this prophet, and those who believe. GOD is the Lord and Master of the believers.

[3:69] Some followers of the scripture wish to lead you astray, but they only lead themselves astray, without perceiving.
[3:70] O followers of the scripture, why do you reject these revelations of GOD though you bear witness (that this is the truth)?


"True Islam, has no sects or divisions



What is a Muslim/ *Submitter’s? And what do they stand up for?



John G Jackson in Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization notes on page 8 .....

...."In modern geography the name Ethiopia is confined to the country known as Abyssinia, an extensive territory in East Africa. In ancient times Ethiopia extended over vast domains in both Africa and Asia.

In the History of Ethiopia, Vol. 1. by Sir E.A Wallis Budge notes that, "Homer and Herodotos call all the "peoples of the Sudan, Egypt, Arabia, Palestine and Western Asia and India, Ethiopians".

The vestiges of this early civilization have been found in Nubia, the Egyptian Sudan, West Africa, Egypt, Mashonaland, India, Persia, Mesopotamia, Arabia, South America, Central America, Mexico, and United States. Any student who doubts this will find ample evidence in such works as:

Stolen Legacy by George G.M. James
The Voice Of Africa, by Dr. Leo Froebenius
Prehistoric Nations and Ancient America, by John D. Baldwin
The Growth of Civilization, by W.J. Perry



What is a Muslim/ *Submitter’s? And what do they stand up for?

• What does Allah say Muslims/ *Submitter’s stand up for?

[4:75] Why should you not fight in the cause of GOD when weak men, women, and children are imploring: "Our Lord, deliver us from this community whose people are oppressive, and be You our Lord and Master."

• What is the path/religion of the Submitter of GOD?

[90:10-13] Did we not show him the two paths? He should choose the difficult path. Which one is the difficult path? The freeing of slaves.

• Why is this the difficult path???

Because it’s a Commandment of Allah:

[9:60] Charities shall go to the poor, the needy, the workers who collect them, the new converts, to free the slaves, to those burdened by sudden expenses, in the cause of GOD, and to the traveling alien. Such is GOD's commandment. GOD is Omniscient, Most Wise.


Does The Quran endorse Arabs who call themselves *Submitters/Muslim to force Islam on there slaves?

2:256 There is no compulsion in religion, for the right way is clearly from the wrong way. Whoever therefore rejects the forces of evil and believes in God, he has taken hold of a support most unfailing, which shall never give way, for God is All Hearing and Knowing.






Thank you Brother for the beautiful build, your patience, and the lesson plan, GOD willing.

Peace be upon you

[Langalibalele]

The complexity of taking on religion and philosophy -- apart from being subsets of Imperialism, when they indeed act out of Imperialism -- stunts our ability to envision the whole picture. Of course, religion does not exist outside of or beyond the human experience. Those religions which emerged out of or developed into a class society themselves cannot in any sense be considered "pure". In fact, the concept of purity outside of a manufacturing process is a bigoted fallacy.

Nothing of a social character that is less than the sum of society itself is "pure". What is a "pure" human being? We can have clarity of thought, yet there is still no perfect clarity of thought and anybody who claims as much is a fraud. Because there may be more than one effective solution to a problem; such as in a quadratic equation, in which there are four different sides that may solve for and arrive at the same answer.

However, our contradictions cannot be boiled down to mathematical equations. We use scientific analysis in the form of dialectical and historical materialism because it gives us a form of logic that can tackle complex problems and simplify them for everyday people. It is in the simplification of seemingly complexities that we arrive at solutions. Reducing Imperialist contradictions down to their essential basics makes it simple to understand what is really happening and that method liquidates all the bullshit piled up to confuse and frustrate us.

Recognizing this, what other theory or philosophy or ideology has helped more people win the battle against Imperialism and colonialism? Surely, culturalism, nationalism and Africancentricity are not comprehensive in scope to give us an understanding of how this society functions. It is not based in the genitalia or symbolism, as some may have us believe. Nobody has come up with a more effective strategy than that tried and proven by people like Nkrumah, Mugabe, Cabral, Fanon, Rodney, the Black Panthers, Castro, FRELIMO. I also thro in Ho Chi Minh and Mao Zedong. So that is the basic political ideology and theory that I follow. It has proven to be the greatest threat to Imperialism, it's greatest fear, that of a Red Revolution, based upon a working class uprising.

It is from communists and scientific socialists that we get our slogans: Power to the People! One Settler, One Bullet! Pamberi ne Chimurenga! Forward the Black Revolution!

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ADDENDUM:

In fact, the concept of purity outside of a manufacturing process is a bigoted fallacy.

To be more precise, this should read to say, "Purity should be limited to a scientific definition applying to substances and environments, and less so towards our view of subjective human conditions like virginity or states of consciousness. Anything much more than that is a bigoted fallacy."

[JRSWRITER]

Tens of thousands of years ago, long before Marx and Hagel, humans realized they did not like nor would they tolerate invaders coming into their territory disrupting and polluting their societies, stealing their goods, raping their women and ruthlessly imposing their will, views and culture upon them. That's why many ancient towns and cities built walls and fortifications to protect themselves from invaders.The tribes and societies who resisted invaders did not do so based on a Hagelian dialectic, they did so to retake control of their lands, people and destiny. Often they fought to the death to remain free or regain their freedom. The Maroons, Haitian liberators and Quilombos were not Marxists, their motives for fighting were not based on some European's view of European socio-economic and political dynamic.
All humans are capable of discernment and analysis. What makes Marx or any European so special or so correct? There are other ways to view life and the human condition, Europeans have no monopoly on analysis, "logic" or resistance. I think one of the traps many of us fall into is thinking only Europeans can think and/or articulate an analysis of human history or political solutions. Such views sell Aboriginal People way too short. Stay strong!
JRS

[Langalibalele]

Originally Posted by JRSWRITER

Tens of thousands of years ago, long before Marx and Hagel, humans realized they did not like nor would they tolerate invaders coming into their territory disrupting and polluting their societies, stealing their goods, raping their women and ruthlessly imposing their will, views and culture upon them. That's why many ancient towns and cities built walls and fortifications to protect themselves from invaders.The tribes and societies who resisted invaders did not do so based on a Hagelian dialectic, they did so to retake control of their lands, people and destiny. Often they fought to the death to remain free or regain their freedom. The Maroons, Haitian liberators and Quilombos were not Marxists, their motives for fighting were not based on some European's view of European socio-economic and political dynamic.
All humans are capable of discernment and analysis. What makes Marx or any European so special or so correct? There are other ways to view life and the human condition, Europeans have no monopoly on analysis, "logic" or resistance. I think one of the traps many of us fall into is thinking only Europeans can think and/or articulate an analysis of human history or political solutions. Such views sell Aboriginal People way too short. Stay strong!
JRS

Tens of thousands of years ago there were no class societies, there was no written history and we can only extrapolate from our own experiences what we believed happened when different groups of humans interacted. I will be the first person to say we cannot peacefully coexist within Imperialism. We cannot either as Africans nor as revolutionaries nor as simply working class people. No matter how you cut it, you cannot have peaceful coexistence within the Imperialist system.

I will also say Imperialism is a system, Socialism is a system which opposes it, and Communism is a society. Where Africans came from non-hierarchical Communal societies, the society which will succeed the Capitalist and Socialist class systems is also non-hierarchical.

Now, Kwame Nkrumah, who lived and died to give us as Africans a clear understanding of the society we must level in order to raise a new one, taught us several lessons. The most important of these teaches us about Neo-Colonialism. Without a class analysis, you have absolutely ZERO CHANCE of breaking the cycle of repression and exploitation which we see all over Africa. I will say that anybody who liquidates the struggles put forth by the African leaders I mentioned an earlier post also liquidates revolutionary struggle, JRS. If you do not like Fanon and Cabral and Samora Machel, what do you propose, my brother? Too few other Africans have led revolutionary victories over colonialism and Imperialism besides them.

As for Europeans this and Europeans that, and the rejection of all things PERCEIVED as European, the best way to get away from white folks is to repatriate to our Motherland. I am not being smug, but if dialectical and historical materialism is a tool like English, like your computer, like your writing skills, and if you purchased those skills with dollar bills and/or learned from books printed in a European tongue on paper manufactured by white bookmakers, where does this circle of anti-whiteness begin and where does it end? Who gets to call the shots and if your viewpoint is voted down will you still be down with revolutionary leadership, that is the question! When the People go down will you go down with them; when they are scrapping in the streets of Oakland California who will support that? I think the challenge of taking on a true revolutionary culture, a culture that we own, is what lies before us.

[JRSWRITER]

Obviously you and I disagree on many things. First there were divisions in most societies in antiquity not necessarily Marxist "class" based hierarchies but societal differences nonetheless. But that is unimportant to our discussion.
We both know continental Africans are and have been subjected to ongoing European imperialism (cultural as well as economic and political), there is no avoiding that reality. To say this is not the case makes anything else we say bogus and illegitimate. Going to Africa as you suggest will not offer a complete escape from NeoColonialism. All the modern African "nations' " systems of governance were based upon European models. Most African elites were trained in the West or have Western backers. The Europeans still exert influence and in many ways control these countries as NKrumah so keenly pointed out. Going to Africa may offer a change of environment but the goal of the European ruling elite is world domination so there is no escaping the struggle.
Did Fanon, Cabral and Samora Machel write in their indigenous languages or did they write in the langauge of a Western colonial power? If they wrote in indigenous African languages how would most of us understand them if they hadn't been translated into the Western langauges you and I use and understand? Does this make them any less "revolutionary"? Part of any revolutionary movement is mental decolonization. If we can create a new langauge and a whole new system so much the better. By the way Cuba had a revolution, they are a Socialist country, they resisted involvment in the London Wall Street based Western Banking system but they still speak Spanish. Does that make them less revolutionary?
I take it from your comments your revolution will include whites fighting side by side with First World People as brothers. Not to be defeatist or anything, but from an historical perspective at least in AmeriKKKa that is highly unlikely. Check out the current white militia movement and all the other groups arming to the teeth calling for revolution and or "Civil War" in the US; do you see any of them making overtures to African people to join them? I haven't and I monitor their material. What is happening in the Socialist movement? In the circles you travel do whites embrace blacks as comrades and brothers "equally"? Do they respect blacks' ideas, expertise and skills or do they run the show and keep Revolutionary blacks in the back of the bus?
As far as my ideas go I say get back to basics: learn to till the land, grow our own food to sustain our families so we can survive the coming economic collapse. I say organize around issues of survival. Develop a sense of shared community and train for self-defense. What good is a revolutionary philosophy if no one listens or if people view you as having no credibility. Back in the day the Panthers had cred because they were active in the community. They fed people, they opened schools and had educational programs as well as getting much respect for confronting the police. Of course these very virtues made them persona non grata and easy targets for the sytem.
When it comes to war I'm down with the folks vs the System. Right now my fight is on the psychological front.
Look at our communities; do you see any revolutionary zeal or movement amongst the masses? Most folks are strung out on materialism, consumerism, drugs or just trying to survive in the Matrix. Until a significant portion of our people have the same sense of urgency, the same mentality the Maroons had or the freedom fighters in Angola, Zimbabwe and South Africa had; we are merely posturing. Until we have the committement and work ethic of a Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Noble Drew Ali, Malcolm or a King we are spinning our wheels. We differ and that's okay. You and I don't have to agree on ideology or anything else for that matter. The stakes and consequences are too serious to play the one upmanship game. Stay strong.
JRS

[Pragmatic]

Good video. He talking about what ya'll been posting.

YouTube - ' Worst economic collapse ever'

YouTube - ' Worst economic collapse ever'

Thank you brotha's for the lesson, and the build.

Peace be upon you

[Langalibalele]

We agree on many points, JRS. In some cases, you apparently make the case for me. Some of your efforts to disagree definitely will take the heat off of any agitational material necessary to bring the pot to a boiling point, tho I understand that is not your goal, but mine.


Dialectics is the study of relationships, of both contradictory and harmonious interactions. So we kno that the reactionary white militias are not on the side of African people and that is not what I have tried to say at all. The role we need certain people to play may not always be one they are conscious of, if you kno this as an organizer; otherwise, we hold this discussion on two different levels of abstraction and real activity.


For those who look at this System, it is not at all monolithic but it has splits. And for those who understand anything about widening splits, that is done by applying pressure thru vibrations. It is not the pressure of the hammer against the stone which causes stone to split, but vibrations which the hammer sends thru the stone deepens all fissures. In dialectics, this is the principle of motion; sending the hammer into motion against the monolith exposes the weakness of the structure. It may require many hammer blows from many hammers over time; yet, eventually, the monolith will crumble into sand.


WE HAVE TO MAKE A RUMBLE WITH IMPERIALISM. The Imperialists are paper tigers; everything they own and control has been converted into paper, an abstraction with no intrinsic value. This is the biggest hammer that will create the biggest vibration in Imperialism. A lie cannot stand; tell the truth and shame the devil; and all the sayings we ever learned about the strength of the truth must be applied now, in our battle to bring down Imperialism. Some folks have to be convinced or made to believe, others KNOW Imperialism is no good. Those are the people who must organize themselves to create revolutionary transformation.


WE TAKE CHARGE OF OUR REVOLUTION! Africans must remain in the drivers seat of our Struggle, Our Fight, and OUR MOVEMENT. If we come across any number of John Browns and William Tecumseh Shermans and Ulysses S Grants, take full advantage of the situation. Che Guevara was "white" and so is Fidel Castro. Caucasians are no more 100% behind Imperialism than Africans are 100% anti-slavery, anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist. Once you get weighted down by the paranoia of who is who and when will they be what, you will never organize.


The facts we kno about "what is" do not ever speak to the potential which lies in any situation. I can give you a "SO WHAT?" for any doubts you express that are qualified by a comparison to current happenings...

I take it from your comments your revolution will include whites fighting side by side with First World People as brothers. Not to be defeatist or anything, but from an historical perspective at least in AmeriKKKa that is highly unlikely. Check out the current white militia movement and all the other groups arming to the teeth calling for revolution and or "Civil War" in the US; do you see any of them making overtures to African people to join them? I haven't and I monitor their material. What is happening in the Socialist movement? In the circles you travel do whites embrace blacks as comrades and brothers "equally"? Do they respect blacks' ideas, expertise and skills or do they run the show and keep Revolutionary blacks in the back of the bus?

To each and every point you make in the above quote, I respectfully scream (with brotherly love, no less) "SO WHAT, JRS, SO WHAT!" That is not how Revolutions are built. Arming the masses is an aspect of revolutionary organization, but the revolution is carried on the back of mass action, programs, change and transformation. That is what made the Black Panther Party so dangerous, because they offered alternatives to the repression forced upon people. They worked to transform peoples vision. The next stage is to transform their resolve. We may have to transform their resolve, first, which is okay with me since I aint tryna be dogmatic.


In the end, we have to make the decisions how to proceed. Those who have not learned from history are doomed to repeat its mistakes and horrors, and those who have the will to make change will eventually succeed. Tho the Mau Mau did not end up in the drivers seat in Kenya, their war against the settlers there ended British colonialism. Real revolutionaries ARE like the Panthers and the Mau Mau, not receiving any material benefit from sacrifices they laid down for the people. THAT IS WHAT MAKES THEM REVOLUTIONARY. Any revolutionary who is not willing to take the risks and make the sacrifice for their people is not a Revolutionary. Perhaps our only bone of contention is, in the end, based on where we as individuals want to be at the outcome.

[Blackmind]

Originally Posted by JRSWRITER

From The Ramparts
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Where are the elders like we had when I was growing up who would step to negative behavior, who expected and demanded we act respectfully and responsibly? Someone needs to step to the fore into the fray and challenge us to do and be better. Someone ought to exhort us not to succumb to a very deliberate process of dummying down and ghettoization.

I think you answered this question for yourself earlier in the post

Originally Posted by JRSWRITER

From The Ramparts
Junious Ricardo Stanton

We were sold a bogus bill of goods. We bought into the hype and okey-doke of becoming mainstream and imitating white folks. Subsequent generations of black people were duped by the media into idolizing thugs and hoochie mamas.

In my opinion There has became some kind of "community wide indifference" towards the youth. Something that has allowed the problems of the youth to be seen as their own problem and not our community's problem. Many of the people who should be elders and setting them on the right path observe their negative behavior sigh under their breath and keep it moving.

I remember when i was 7. I took some matches went outside and started lighting stuff on fire. Someone who was walking by and saw me made sure to say something to me about it. When i walked around cursing there would be someone who would say something to me about it. If i was fighting there would be some adult who would see it and break it up.

None of his happens enough anymore. Too many of the adults don't have their stuff together and many are too busy looking for some other adult to be the one who demands the youth to live up to a higher standard.

At the same time though, I think as a whole it is hard to use the word community the way in which it once was. Parents also help hinder the situation because not only are some condoning the behavior but many have taken on the viewpoint that "Can't nobody stay anything to my child but me," once they instill that in their children it limits the impact others can have.

[JRSWRITER]

The political apathy, lethargy and nihilism we see in our neighborhoods will have to be overcome if any transformation or revolution are to happen. If the masses of our people have been conditioned to be content dwelling on the bottom or many are too spaced out to even know we are being set up for destruction often by people who look like us who have taken a few dollars more to further the okey-doke that keeps our people discombobulated, disorganized and dis-spirited no revolutionary fervor will take root. We must be the change we desire in the world and be the living examples of what it means to be conscious integrous and transformed Africans.
The oppressors are not monolithic neither are we. There are as many ways to see (and act upon) a thing as there are people to see it. John Brown Che and Fidel were exceptional whites who lived their beliefs. We cannot depend on that happening today even if there are some Europeans out there like that. We have to have the sense of urgency, commitment and determination to persue the path we think is best for us and our people. When all is said and done what is done counts more than what was said. Stay strong!
JRS

[Pragmatic]

"I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother.
But to fight my greatest enemy, myself".

Chief Yellow Lark
Lakota Tribe

Peace be upon you