Revolutionary Identity!

[Im The Truth]

END THE CONFUSION! DESTROY THE LIES! WE ARE AFRICANS PERIOD!

Our common enemy, capitalism/imperialism, is a very crafty adversary whose chief weapon lies in controlling our thinking. Through creating this confusion, the enemy misdirects our energies, corrupts our sense of responsibility to serving our People, and ultimately gears us to view reality through its eyes rather than our own. It is in fact this distorted view of reality which lay at the root of our People’s worldwide identity crisis. All Peoples identify themselves by a common history, a common culture, and a common land base. Africans however, have been trained to base their identity on the artificially created colonial territories manufactured by their oppressors. Our identities, and with them, our loyalties and thinking, become narrowly limited to a “Jamaican”, a “Haitian”, or an “African-American” nationality. The same holds true for practically all the present-day African “nations” – territories created for Europeans, created by Europeans, and created in Europe. Irrespective of the courageous struggles and overwhelming accomplishments achieved within these territories by our People, and the rightful pride we should have of such struggles, these artificial colonial identities have been imposed, and therefore represent our enemy, not us. A free People are never defined by someone else – they define themselves.

Africans have a rich and glorious, yet unknown and concealed history prior to our contact with Europe. However the way we identify ourselves dismisses this history and gives the appearance that we owe our very existence to this outside contact. Thus an “African-American” begins his or her history in slavery, in the same way a “Nigerian” begins his or her history in colonization. Also, identifying ourselves in this manner often leads to micro-nationalism, where we view the “part” as being more important than the “whole”. The enemy’s tactic of “divide and rule” thus becomes strengthened while we Africans, scattered, suffering, and disunited, trudge along hand to mouth, with earnest yet unrealizable ambitions of making meaningful, sustained progress within the very territories created for the sole purpose of maintaining our continuous exploitation while creating wealth and power for our enemy. To overcome these crippling obstacles, a new identity must emerge. A new personality must define who we are as a People. A forceful and dynamic REVOLUTIONARY AFRICAN PERSONALITY must be established and concretized throughout every village, street corner, church, mosque, or university where there is an African. Only this Revolutionary African Personality will allow us to see ourselves as ONE AFRICAN PEOPLE, STRUGGLING AGAINST ONE COMMON ENEMY, IN PURSUIT OF ONE COMMON GOAL – ONE UNIFIED SOCIALIST AFRICA & WORLDWIDE UNITY AMONG AFRICAN PEOPLE!


REVOLUTIONARY IDEOLOGY MUST DEFINE OUR IDENTITY!

Our emerging Revolutionary African Personality / Identity will be defined more so by principles, values and an ideological content than by mere blood ancestry or place of birth. Therefore a Fidel Castro, born of Spanish descent, who in the time of African crisis sends military and ongoing medical aid to defend and safeguard Africa, will be more embraced within the African Nation than a Mobutu Sese Sekou – thief, murderer, and imperialist pawn that he was – could ever be, irrespective of his Zairian birth in the heart of Central Africa. Therefore our new revolutionary society will be marked by a new type of human being. We seek to redefine what it means to be “African”. A simple biological identity will no longer suffice. Drawing from the source and rich legacy of our traditional African culture, the emerging Revolutionary African Personality will embody Africa’s core values of collectivism and humanism. Capitalism’s defining and cardinal principle of individualism will find no place within the Revolutionary African Personality, whose dimensions will be broadened by the infusion of revolutionary consciousness. The new and ideologically transformed African will be a skilled, courageous and selfless political fighter, whose allegiance lies solely in advancing the interests of Mother Africa, and all oppressed Peoples struggling for freedom and dignity throughout the world.

"Africa needs a new type of citizen, a dedicated, modest, honest informed woman and man. A woman and man who submerges self in service to the nation and humankind. A woman and man who abhors greed and detests vanity. A new type of woman and man whose humility is their strength and whose integrity is their greatness." - Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah


AFRICA MUST BE PRIMARY!

African nationalism, loyalty, and patriotism toward the building of African continental unity, along with securing the unity of African People worldwide, must predominate over all other loyalties. Regardless of where we find ourselves geographically, our primary energies must be geared toward building a strong and unified Africa. Politically, organizationally, and culturally, AFRICA MUST BE PRIMARY!

"The total liberation and the unification of Africa under an All-African socialist government must be the primary objective of all Black revolutionaries throughout the world. It is an objective which, when achieved, will bring about the fulfillment of the aspirations of Africans and people of African descent everywhere." - Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah

"Let Africa be our guiding star, our star of destiny" - Marcus Garvey

[Majadi]

Pan Afrikan Patriots, the time for war, has been, revolution is mental, spiritual and if necessity physical, yet these little discussions on who is a real Afrikan need further definition. The discussion should center around those who sincerely wish to help our children love their Afrikan selves. The discussion should be centered on Afrikan Men's commitment to Afrikan Women, Afrikan Women's commitment to Afrikan Men. It should have the same ring of patriotism that we have seen Amerikkkans have for this country!

Real Afrikan Patriots, Stand Up!!! We need a unified effort to kick the oppressors ass.

[MsLioness]

Originally Posted by Im The Truth

END THE CONFUSION! DESTROY THE LIES! WE ARE AFRICANS PERIOD!

Our common enemy, capitalism/imperialism, is a very crafty adversary whose chief weapon lies in controlling our thinking. Through creating this confusion, the enemy misdirects our energies, corrupts our sense of responsibility to serving our People, and ultimately gears us to view reality through its eyes rather than our own. It is in fact this distorted view of reality which lay at the root of our People’s worldwide identity crisis. All Peoples identify themselves by a common history, a common culture, and a common land base. Africans however, have been trained to base their identity on the artificially created colonial territories manufactured by their oppressors. Our identities, and with them, our loyalties and thinking, become narrowly limited to a “Jamaican”, a “Haitian”, or an “African-American” nationality. The same holds true for practically all the present-day African “nations” – territories created for Europeans, created by Europeans, and created in Europe. Irrespective of the courageous struggles and overwhelming accomplishments achieved within these territories by our People, and the rightful pride we should have of such struggles, these artificial colonial identities have been imposed, and therefore represent our enemy, not us. A free People are never defined by someone else – they define themselves.

Africans have a rich and glorious, yet unknown and concealed history prior to our contact with Europe. However the way we identify ourselves dismisses this history and gives the appearance that we owe our very existence to this outside contact. Thus an “African-American” begins his or her history in slavery, in the same way a “Nigerian” begins his or her history in colonization. Also, identifying ourselves in this manner often leads to micro-nationalism, where we view the “part” as being more important than the “whole”. The enemy’s tactic of “divide and rule” thus becomes strengthened while we Africans, scattered, suffering, and disunited, trudge along hand to mouth, with earnest yet unrealizable ambitions of making meaningful, sustained progress within the very territories created for the sole purpose of maintaining our continuous exploitation while creating wealth and power for our enemy. To overcome these crippling obstacles, a new identity must emerge. A new personality must define who we are as a People. A forceful and dynamic REVOLUTIONARY AFRICAN PERSONALITY must be established and concretized throughout every village, street corner, church, mosque, or university where there is an African. Only this Revolutionary African Personality will allow us to see ourselves as ONE AFRICAN PEOPLE, STRUGGLING AGAINST ONE COMMON ENEMY, IN PURSUIT OF ONE COMMON GOAL – ONE UNIFIED SOCIALIST AFRICA & WORLDWIDE UNITY AMONG AFRICAN PEOPLE!


REVOLUTIONARY IDEOLOGY MUST DEFINE OUR IDENTITY!

Our emerging Revolutionary African Personality / Identity will be defined more so by principles, values and an ideological content than by mere blood ancestry or place of birth. Therefore a Fidel Castro, born of Spanish descent, who in the time of African crisis sends military and ongoing medical aid to defend and safeguard Africa, will be more embraced within the African Nation than a Mobutu Sese Sekou – thief, murderer, and imperialist pawn that he was – could ever be, irrespective of his Zairian birth in the heart of Central Africa. Therefore our new revolutionary society will be marked by a new type of human being. We seek to redefine what it means to be “African”. A simple biological identity will no longer suffice. Drawing from the source and rich legacy of our traditional African culture, the emerging Revolutionary African Personality will embody Africa’s core values of collectivism and humanism. Capitalism’s defining and cardinal principle of individualism will find no place within the Revolutionary African Personality, whose dimensions will be broadened by the infusion of revolutionary consciousness. The new and ideologically transformed African will be a skilled, courageous and selfless political fighter, whose allegiance lies solely in advancing the interests of Mother Africa, and all oppressed Peoples struggling for freedom and dignity throughout the world.

"Africa needs a new type of citizen, a dedicated, modest, honest informed woman and man. A woman and man who submerges self in service to the nation and humankind. A woman and man who abhors greed and detests vanity. A new type of woman and man whose humility is their strength and whose integrity is their greatness." - Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah


AFRICA MUST BE PRIMARY!

African nationalism, loyalty, and patriotism toward the building of African continental unity, along with securing the unity of African People worldwide, must predominate over all other loyalties. Regardless of where we find ourselves geographically, our primary energies must be geared toward building a strong and unified Africa. Politically, organizationally, and culturally, AFRICA MUST BE PRIMARY!

"The total liberation and the unification of Africa under an All-African socialist government must be the primary objective of all Black revolutionaries throughout the world. It is an objective which, when achieved, will bring about the fulfillment of the aspirations of Africans and people of African descent everywhere." - Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah

"Let Africa be our guiding star, our star of destiny" - Marcus Garvey

We "recognize that African People born and living in over 113 countries are One People, with One identity, one history, one CULTURE, one Nation, and one DESTINY. We have ONE common enemy. We suffer from disunity, disorganization, and IDEOLOGICAL CONFUSION. We all have only one solution: Pan-Africanism: the total unification and liberation of Africa under scientific socialism."

We "UNCOMPROMISINGLY fight for the INEVITABLE destruction of capitalism, imperialism, settler colonialism, neo-colonialism, racism, and zionism."

[ArmedResistance84]

Scientific Socialism'eh? I need to google that. I've heard it elsewhere. May sound kind bad, but I feel that African National Socialism would be good for revolutionary rebuilding of Africa. Those of you may now that National Socialism in short is the word "Nazi", and I am not promoting German Nazi's in Africa in any way. But we must also observe how National Socialsm benefitted Germany as a nation as well. The nazi's made Germany one of the worlds top industrial coutries. They also supposibly sit pretty high up there in the medical field to, I believe. Those are just small exapmles, of course, but still good achievements. Thier country will always be self-reliable and I only want the same for Africa. African/Black people prosporing in solitude. I am not saying kill the non-black residents of Africa but at least have their ancestrial homeland embassy to send them money to have them repatriate to thier original land as well. I say africa should also be closed of to the world for a number of years to full see what we are working with and what steps would have to be taken to start over and do it our own way. Sad to say, but we would have to build a whole new nation nearly from scratch because scratch was what was left with us. Africa should have ,what I would say, nation-wide citizenship. Citizens are free to benefit off all of Africas benefits,whatever they may be. Where as foriegn "visitors" are reqiured to be background checked and charged a great amount of money for the profiting of our nation. We see it on TV, white people can't stay out of Africa. They always there for "hidden historical discoveries" or "Herbal remedy illness cures" or "animal species and life" or "religious artifacts" and never forget the propaganda to make any and every other country in the world look better than Africa. We will have to take back and re-educate ourselves on how to properly utilize to the fullest, our natural resources. ANy non-resident while have to live there a number of years with a temp. residency identification card to get certain rights and privledges thru-out the nation. Like I said earlier, African/black people that are either native or relocated(returned) African/blacks are open to every single advantage in THIER nation. That would be a way to tell the citizens apart from non-citizens. Great way to control products of our labor and intelligents and keep it out of the hands of foriegn imperialists. Develope a nation wide monetary system. Develope a basic and fair "bill of rights" of the citizens of the New Africa that is nation-wide and still have every different nation in Africa allowed to carry on with thier ancestrial customs. How life is and the constant progression of the nation should not be discussed to any foriegn nation or citizen that isn't planning of long term residency. Hate to say but,weapons of mass destruction, gorund and aerial combat would have to be manufactured in our own Nation. That is unless the country engages in a free trade market with other supporting nations. Free trade because thier money would be of less value in Africa when we get our natural and idustrial resources back on track. Everything listed, is just my opinion on how an African form of National Socialism (or something simular) would, and could, pull Africa out of the hole she's in.