The Liberation Struggle is multigenerational, so it did not start in your lifetime and it must be engaged with the understanding that the struggle will endure after you are gone. I think too many in the Struggle get discourage because all of the agenda and goals are not actualized after years in the struggle. Your particular contribution will be dictated by where you organize, the conditions on the ground where you are organizing, and the...
Nat Turner is a great ancestors, I admire his efforts and impact on our history and how he inspires African people to this day.As far as Whites mutilating and dessecrating his corpse after hanging him, it was typical at the time. They would do that to Africans who didn’t rebel, so it’s no supirse that they would to the same with Turner’s corpse. The greater defilement of Nat Turner is how Whites always try to distort his legacy,...
It depends on who you are talking to, and their motivations for making this assertion, often it’s not because they are ignorant of history, or that they even give a fuck about the atrocities our ancestors endured, they say this shit to heap the blame for the Maafa or the African Holocaust on the victims. There’s really no point in trying to enlighten these victim blamers, their positions are not based on history, but on indoctrination and...
Africa is a vast continent, Africans constructed a vast array of social systems and structures. Some were Matrilineal some were Patriarchal. The mistake I think we make is we imagine these terms and practices manifested the same across cultures and across continent. So have to understand that African patriarchy is not the same as Asian, Native American, or European patriarchy, and the same goes for matriarchy. Then you have to look at the...
There’s a wonderful little book, not even a book, more like a pamphlet titled “How to Lie With Statistics,” it has a lot of info, clearly explained on how stats ain’t really all that, especially stats about social phenomenon and conditions. That book is good if you wanna go tit for tat with Racist about stats and their meaning. Also, the stats actually demonstrate that Whites have the most guns, commit the most gun and violent...
I know of some scholars who were very critical of millenarianism, Del Jones in particular spoke out against it often.Me, I think it’s absurd, first, how people measure and document time has been so manipulated and distorted that we can’t really say when it when in time. Every civilization has it’s own calendars, may civilizations and movements have even restarted time, the Bolsheviks proclaimed that the moment they took over was Year...
I think Kola is a severely traumatized person. She says some really off the cuff shit, and I think much of the advice she offers specifically to Black women is often irresponsible and counter-productive.I don’t like when people attack he so viciously though, I think she’s suffered so much trauma, and has made some contributions to our people through literature and insights that we should criticize her with a level of sympathy and...
I still hold to the “One Drop” rule, which seems to be less and less popular these days, among Blacks and multiracial Blacks. I think the use of multiracial Blacks was more important during slavery, Jim Crow, and direct colonization of Black lands and people. The color-caste system of light and dark Blacks is much less needed now because you have both Obamas and Clarance Thomas’ who are willing to do the dirty work for the Empire. ...