Brother Kwame Ture, who Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah entrusted with the task of realizing the creation of the A-APRP, was a member of the leading organs of the PDG, a devoted associates of the PAC of Azania, a favorite "relation" of the leader of the Cuban Revolution, a symbol of unity and the struggle for self-empowerment of the African peoples.
The work of Brother Kwame, with the guidance and support, of what I considered to be the de facto, and de jure, All African Committee for Political Coordination, Pres. Nkrumah and Ture, the heart and brains, of the global African Revolution; and all of us who participated in this work, was and is exemplary, despite any problems that we encountered and/or created for ourselves in the process.
Kwame work building the A-APRP is brilliant and cannot be tarnished by the lies and innuendoes of our enemies, this is also true of organizational work in SNCC and the SNCC creation the Black Panther Party movement; and in the black power, black students and civil rights/human rights struggle generally. A few of the last things he said to me continue to guide my only contribution, meager and ineffective as they may be.
Kwame told me that in the future the work of the A-APRP will blossom and bear excellent fruit for the political sustenance of the African Revolution. He pointed out that even at this early stage of it's development (this was in the mid-90s) the A-APRP had already created an effective human-based communication in Africa. This process continues today with the work of party activists in both Guineas, Azania/South Africa, Ghana, Senegal, Zimbabwe, The Gambia ect.
He reiterated the importance of strengthening our unity, to resolutely struggle against zionism as the most cleverly and insidiously disguised form of the imperialist-neo-colonialist onslaught against the peoples of the world, and to push the absolute requirement that we develop and be faithful to our revolutionary ideological and organizational prerequisite if we are to achieve the golden era and benefits of black power, i.e., Pan-Africanism.
He fully understood and appreciated the great contribution of the work of other agencies, such as the Nation of Islam, the Patrice Lumumba Coalition, the Pan African Association, the organized Pan-Africanists in Libya, the regrouping elements of the Nkrumaist movement in Ghana, the PAIGC, the indomitable PAC of Azania and many, many others. Together we have succeeded in keeping the struggle for Pan-Africanism on the road to success, that is the inevitable formation of an All-African Socialist Union Government, despite the efforts of the neo-colonialists and their tools among the African political and cultural leadership to derail the people's freedom train.
Kwame was a very principled man, and insightful revolutionary. He was uncompromising in his determination for fight for human justice, justice for the whole of humanity, consequently he unflinchingly worked for the cause of the Irish national liberation movement, the Palestinian fight for full sovereignty of their land, for solidarity with the people of Indochina during the period of the terrible aggression aimed at them by the US and its allies. Further, he was a staunch advocate of the national liberation movement of the indigenous peoples of this hemisphere. Allow me to quote from a speech he made at the Yellow Thunder demonstrations in Rapid City, South Dakota, October 1, 1982:
"We are engaged in a struggle for the liberation of ourselves as people. In this, there can be neither success nor even meaning unless the struggle is directed toward the liberation of our land, for a people without land cannot be liberated. We must reclaim the land, and our struggle is for the land-first, foremost, and always. We are people of the land."
"So in Africa, when you speak of "freeing the land," you are at the same time speaking about the liberation of the African people. Conversely, when you speak of liberating the people, you are necessarily calling for the freeing of the land."
"But, in America, when we speak of liberation, what can it mean? We must ask ourselves, in America, who are the people of the land? And the answer is-and can only be-the first Americans, the Native Americans, the American Indian. In the United States of America, when you speak of liberation, or when you speak of freeing the land, you are automatically speaking of the American Indians, whether you realize it or not. Of this, there can be no doubt."
"Those in power in the United States understand these principles very well. They know that even under their own laws aboriginal title precedes and preempts other claims, unless transfer of title to the land was is or agreed to by the original inhabitants. They know that the only such agreements to which they can make even a pretense are those deriving from some 371 treaties entered into by the U.S. with various Indian nations indigenous to North America."
"Those in power in America know very well that, in consolidating its own national landbase, the United States has not only violated every single one of those treaties, but that it remains in a state of perpetual violation to this day. Thus, they know they have no legal title-whether legality be taken to imply U.S. law, international law, Indian law, natural law, or all of these combined-to much of what they now wish to view as the territoriality of the United States proper."
"Finally, they are aware that to acquire even a semblance of legal title, title which stands a chance of passing the informed scrutiny of both the international community and much of its own citizenry, the U.S. must honor its internal treaty commitments, at the very least. Herein lies the dilemma: In order to do this, the U.S. would have to return much of its present geography to the various indigenous nations holding treaty-defined and reserved title to it (and sovereignty over it). The only alternative is to continue the violation of the most fundamental rights of Native Americans while pretending the issues do not exist. Of course, this is the option selected-both historically and currently by U.S. policy-makers."
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Kwame Ture was a revolutionary. It is my humble opinion, that just as in the 60s progressive Africa measured Africans from America who visited the continent by the metric of Omowale Malcolm X, we should measure the work of the activists working for the construction of the A-APRP, by the exemplary example left to all of us by Br. Kwame Ture.
An A-APRP that can live up to Kwame's principled contributions, note I do not mean equal Kwame, or even imitate Kwame, nor am I saying that he accomplished these things by himself. But I am saying that he was the main, indispensable spark, he was the leader, I am saying that we must try to live a life as principled as he did, in our own way and according to our own strengths and limitations; is an A-APRP that lives up to the expectations of Nkrumah and Ture; lives up to the needs and aspirations of the world's peoples, African and non-African.
09-26-2004
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