Revolutionary Daily Thought

[Baba Ahmed]

"Having lost a clear and detailed sense of our identity, we have naturally also lost our ability to create a point of view of the world strictly our own. With our scrambled sense of reality we have forgotten how to see things in terms of our separate and concrete interests. We behave as if the interest of the West were necessarily our own, as if the western point of view were the one and only valid one. Worse still, we behave as if it were some sort of betrayal to discover and insist on our own point of viewing the world. We allowed ourselves to be persuaded that African unity was utopian..."

Chinweizu
The West and the rest of us

[Baba Ahmed]

"European culture is constructed in such a way that successful survival within it discourages honesty and directness and encourages dishonesty and deceit - the ability to appear to be something other than what one is; to hide one's 'self,' one's motives and intent. People who are duped by others and relate to a projected image are considered fools or 'country bumpkins.' Hypocrisy in this way becomes not a negative personality trait, not immoral or abnormal behavior, but it is both expected and cultivated. It is considered to be a crucial ingredient of 'sophistication,' a European goal."

Marimba Ani
Yurugu

[Baba Ahmed]

"There is a huge difference between black and white. The black man and the white man are distinctly separate and unequal. There is a state of war between the two races that spans thousands of years and has extinct billions of lives.

Seldom has this planet witnessed a confrontation, a war of such dimension.

It is a true example of total war, that is at times subtle or overt, mental or physical. It is warfare raging through every form of human expression from art to politics and religion.

No safe ground exists, no neutral territory, no fence to straddle, all of us are involved. The confrontation between black and white is a total war for survival. Without a doubt, the meaning of black vs. white confrontation must be understood by every human if we are not to be severely crippled, consumed or destroyed."

Richard King
African Origin of Biological Psychiatry

[Baba Ahmed]

"Stand on your own two black feet and fight like hell for your place in the world."

Amy Jacques Garvey

[Baba Ahmed]

"To look at the world or a segment of it with a rigid, hyper-alert, and all-consuming expectation -- to search reality repetitively only for confirmation of one's suspicions while ignoring aspects of that reality which disconfirm those suspicions; to pay no attention to opposing rational arguments, cogent, well-founded evidence, except to find in them only those features that seem to confirm one's original views; to examine reality with extraordinary prejudice, rejecting facts, information and alternative possibilities while seizing on and exaggerating any scintilla of often irrelevant evidence that supports one's original expectations -- denotes a driven need: a psychoneurotic, psychopathological need to defend an ego perilously in danger of disintegration and to defend it regardless of cost to oneself and others...

speaks to the need to rigidly construct and control reality so as to maintain self-control, to empower the ego and to gainfully exploit a relevant situation."

Amos N. Wilson

[Im The Truth]

"I Know No National Boundary Where The Negro Is Concerned, The Whole World Is My Province Until Africa Is Free"

-- Marcus Garvey

[Im The Truth]

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry
over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a
change.
Malcolm X:
Malcolm X Speaks, 1965

[Baba Ahmed]

yeabo! righteous channeled anger

[Baba Ahmed]

"The preference and dogged infatuation in our community for hair straighteners is not the borrowed cultural practice of equal nationalities, but the conscious and subconscious accommodation of a dominated people to the fact of their domination.

The act of the dominated victim in recreating him/herself in the image of the dominating conqueror is fundamentally an act of submission, the humiliation of which has been lost to our collective memory over many generations."

Kwame Agyei Akoto
Nationbuilding


FREE TRADE ZONE (for straighten'd heads of hair, too)

[Baba Ahmed]

"For, whenever an oppressed people begins to feel too weak to fight their social oppression, they will tend among other things to turn away from social combat alternatively to patch up their own battered selves, to personal growth and self-satisfaction in the name of social change."

Nathan and Julia Hare
The Endangered Black Family
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GHANA: DUAL CITIZENSHIP

[Baba Ahmed]

"A people losing sight of origins are dead. A people deaf to purposes are lost. Under fertile rain, in scorching sunshine there is no difference: their bodies are mere corpses, awaiting final burial....Have we not seen the devotees of death? They are beyond the source's beckoning. Purpose has no power to draw them foward from dead todays. Make way for them along the easy road. Those with their guts cracked out of them, those with minds so minced all their remembrance would turn to pain, leave them along the easy road. Do not condemn, do not pity them. Let them go. Or would you try reminding them of their murdered selves? As well graft black blighted leaves. Some restful night after the first thousand and the second thousand seasons the loss of such, devoted to whiteness in their souls, will appear justly: a gain."

Ayi Kwei Armah
Two Thousand Seasons
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GHANA: Dual citizenship in effect.

[Baba Ahmed]

It is the place one lives in that one repairs.

Igbo (Afrikan) Proverb

[Baba Ahmed]

"The true Afrikan leader, then, rewards his people. The approval of his people is the greatest approval he can gain.

We still have people who gain their greatest sense of self through degrees and through the minor rewards given them by their enemies. We often honor our own people to the degree that they have been given these symbols of authority by another people.

We have to recognize that the true nationalist becomes the source of his own rewards and the source of the approval of his own people.

Categorically, it is the rewards and approval by our own that is the final and the ultimate reward to which they strive. It is through getting rewarded and approved in this way that we advance the interests of our people."

Amos N. Wilson
Afrikan-Centered Consciousness Versus The New World Order. Garveyism in the Age of Globalism
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[Baba Ahmed]

"[W]hen the core of a body is oppressed, destroyed, polluted, corrupted, or raped, be it biological, societal, institutional or national, the body that envelops it is itself dead. The path that leads towards it...is also wiped out. People become helpless. They lose their self-healing power and their order-giver-stimulus.

In this situation the body cannot be healed unless the 'primitive' state of the core is restored. To do so is a process of cleansing its core, i.e., 'depolluting' it....a process of digging out the junk that prevents access to the core of the inner power."

Kimbwandende Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau
African Cosmology of the Bantu-Kongo: Principles of Life & Living

[Baba Ahmed]

"For the Africans themselves had invented writing, and all attempts to connect this ancient achievement with Egyptian or Asiatic influence have failed. Here the 'external influence' school has suffered a major defeat, because the written records found on statues, alters, tombstones, graffiti, etc., were so distinctly African that their native origin could not be successfully disputed.

Moreover, the African system of writing was very different from the Egyptian. It was simpler and had vowels, whereas Egyptian had none.

There were twenty-three characters or letters in the African alphabet, four vowel signs, seventeen consonants, and two signs of the syllable. New concepts and new or special words could be easily introduced by the old picture system. Clarity and easy reading was assured by measured spacing between words.

A system of numerical symbols for mathematics was developed.

The African inscriptions on monuments and such records as those found in royal tombs were in a special category. General writing was done on tablets of wood and skins prepared for that purpose. Such things as rocks, walls, vases and broken bits and pieces of earthenware comprised other artifacts where ancient African writing was found."

Chancellor Williams
The Destruction of Black Civilization