Thoughts to ponder as we start another new year of struggle

[RWalker]

“What is Black Power? By Black Power we mean the power of the four-fifths of the world population which has been systematically damned into a state of underdevelopment by colonialism and neo-colonialism. In other words, Black Power is the sum total of the economic, cultural and political power which the black man must have in order to achieve his survival in a highly developed technical society, and in a world ravaged by imperialism, colonialism, neo-colonialism and fascism. “

Dr. Kwame Nkrumah
Message to the Black People of Britain
The Struggle Continues


"...for more than a century of slavery and another century of segregation Negroes did not find mass unity nor could they mount mass actions. The American brand of servitude tore them apart and held them in paralyzed solitude. But in the last decade Negroes united and marched..."

"Black Power is a psychological call to manhood. For years the Negro has been taught that he is nobody, that his color is a sign of his biological depravity, that his being has been stamped with an indelible imprint of inferiority, that his whole history has been soiled with the filth of worthlessness. All too few people realize how slavery and racial segregation have scarred the soul and wounded the spirit of the black man. The whole dirty business of slavery was based on the premise that the Negro was a thing to be used, not a person to be respected "

Dr. King, Where Do We Go From Here: Community or Chaos? pages 38-9

"Prior to one hundred years ago, they didn't need tricks. They had chains. And they needed the chains because you and I hadn't yet been brainwashed thoroughly enough to submit to their brutal acts of violence submissively. Prior to a hundred years ago, you had men like Nat Turner, that Brother Benjamin was talking about and others, Toussant L'Ouverture. None of them would submit to slavery. They'd fight back by any means necessary. And it was only after the spirit of the black man was completely broken and his desire to be a man was completely destroyed, then they had to use different tricks. They just took the physical chains from his ankles and put them on his mind."

"And from then on, the type of slavery that you and I have been experiencing, we've been kept in it, year in and year out, by a change of tricks. Never do they change our condition of slavery. They only change the tricks. This is done from the White House right on down to the plantation boss in Alabama and Mississippi. Never do they change our condition of slavery. Right on down from the White House you are tricked, right on down to the plantation boss in Mississippi and Alabama. There is no difference between the plantation boss in Mississippi and the plantation boss in Washington DC. Both of them are plantation bosses. What you experience in this country is one huge plantation system, the only difference being that the President is the plantation boss.

"....But it's still a slave system. It's only brought about in a more modern way, a more up-to-date form of slavery.

"Proof of which, of the people who just got off the boat yesterday in this country, from the various so-calleld Iron Curtain countries, which are supposedly an enemy of this country, and no civil rights legislation is need to bring them into the mainstream of the American way of life, then you and I should just stop and ask ourselves, why is it needed for us?.. which in essence meanst hey're telling you that since you don't have it and yet you're born here, there must be something about you that makes you different from everybody else who's born here; something about you that actually, though you have the right of birth in this land you're still not qualified under their particular system to be recognized as a citizen

"Yet the Germans, that they used to fight just a few years ago, can come here and get what you can't get. The Russians, whom they are supposedly fighting right now, can come here and get what you can't get without legislation; don't need legislation. The Polish don't need legislation. Nobody needs it but you. Why? - you should stop and ask yourself why. And when you find out why, then you'll change the direction you've been going in, and you'll change also the methods that you've been using trying to get tin that direction.

Omowale Malcolm X
Second OAAU RALLY


"The foreign firms who exploit our resources long ago saw the strength to be
gained from acting on a Pan-African scale. By means of interlocking
directorships, cross-share holdings and other devices, groups of apparently
different companies have formed, in fact, one enormous capitalist monopoly.
The only effective way to challenge this economic empire and to recover
possession of our heritage, is for us also to act on a Pan-African basis,
througha UNION Government. "

"No one would suggest that if all the peoples of Africa combined to establish
their unity their decision could be revoked by the forces of neo-colonialism.
On the contrary, faced with a new situation, those who practice
neo-colonialism would adjust themselves to this new balance of world forces
in exactly the same way as the capitalist world has in the past adjusted
itself to any other change in the balance of power. " p. 259, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Neo-Colonialism The Last Stage of Imperialism

[G.O.D.F.A.T.H.A.]

This is a great post. Uhuru warrior!

[Kushnology]

Asante Sana for this thread my brother! I couldn't elaborate because it's already perfect.

[RiverWhereTheBloodIsBorn]

This is a Blacknificent post! Uhuru and Peace Warrior! Free the mind and the body shall follow!

[RWalker]

I would like to thank those Africans who responded so generously to my post on the New Year. It is very gratifying whenever my peers indicate their appreciation for my modest efforts to contribute to our mutual growth. I cannot thank you enough for your encouraging and reinforcing words!

Your brother and comrade,

Roy Walker