“Beware this miserable neighbor
Maroon and build for self
For they lack a noble nature
They are savages in stealth”

– Onitaset Kumat

The namesake of the ten-dollar African Blood Siblings’ Pamphlet comes from a poem titled “You go along with it” which highlights the numerous atrocities for which we go along. The statement “beware this miserable neighbor” is derived from the Ancient Instruction of Merikare from his Father the King Khety III. His Father spoke of the Barbarians to the East, the Wretched Asiatics, who were Miserable because of their lack of water, their many mountains and their many trees. These were Nomads as Cheikh Ante Diop outlined and these were the Orientals (Asians.)

Aside from warning us away from Orientals (the Muslims show why), we were also informed of the Originals (Africans) deeper in Africa and the reality of Egypt’s shared Ancestry. Further, we’re informed on what it means to be a King and a Man at that and our Ethics in Killing (which is very important.) Below I recopy one translation. There are many. Read as many as you can, and see it in yourself to be part of an African Nationalist Organization which is reteaching the Wisdom of our Ancestry and re-aquainting African Men and Women with Community Building in our Tradition.

Instructions to Merikare
By Khety III
Source:http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/merikare_papyrus.htm
Alternative: http://www.touregypt.net/teachingformerikare.htm
or http://www.sofiatopia.org/maat/merikare.htm

[Here begins the teaching which King /// made] for his son Merikare [///]. As for [///] his kinsfolk [///] the citizens [///] him, and his partisans are many in sum [///] enter [///] he is pleasing in the sight of his serfs, being firmly established in [///]. A talker is a mischief-maker, suppress him, kill [him], erase his name, [destroy] his kinsfolk, suppress the remembrance of him and his partisans who love him. A violent man is a confuser of the citizens who always makes partisans of the younger generation. If now you find someone belonging to the citizenry [///] and his deeds have passed beyond you, accuse him before the entourage and suppress [him], for he is a rebel indeed; a talker is a mischief-maker. Bend the multitude and drive out hot temper from it; [///] will not rise [in] rebellion by means of the poor man when he is made to rebel.		The Teachings have been attributed to a Herakleopolitan FIP king, Kheti III (Wahkare Akhtoy III). The Leningrad Papyrus, which is translated here, was written by a scribe called Khamwese during the Middle Kingdom. Merikare: c. 2100 BCE, possibly the son of Wahkare Akhtoy III (Kheti III) The Headless Pyramid at Saqqara Attributed by J.Malek to Merikare, while others date it to the Old Kingdom. Picture source [1] confuser: Lichtheim [2]: inciter you find someone … the entourage: Lichtheim: If you find that citizens adhere to him, —— Denounce him before the councillors bend: Lichtheim: curb
[The mind] of the underling is confused; the army [///]; put an end to it by mixing [///]. Many are angry, for men are put in the labour establishment. Be lenient [///] when you oppose; when you fatten [herds, the people] are in joy. Justify yourself in the presence of God; then men will say [///] you [plan]. You shall contend against wrong [///] a good disposition is a man’s heaven, but vilification by the ill-disposed man is dangerous. Be skillful in speech, that you may be strong; [///] it is the strength of [///] the tongue, and words are braver than all fighting; none can circumvent the clever man [///] on the mat; a wise man is a [school] for the magnates, and those who are aware of his knowledge do not attack him. [Falsehood] does not exist near him, but truth comes to him in full essence, after the manner of what the ancestors said.		Justify yourself … man is dangerous.: Lichtheim: May you be justified before the god, that a man may say [even in] your [absence] that you punish in accordance [with the crime]. Good nature is a man’s heaven, the cursing of the [furious] is painful. be strong: Lichtheim: win braver: Lichtheim: stronger circumvent: Lichtheim: overcome magnates: sr.w high officials. Lichtheim: nobles [falsehood]: Lichtheim: crime truth: maA.t, Maat, also meaning justice, the right, divine order of things.
Copy your forefathers, for [work] is carried out through knowledge; see, their words endure in writing. Open, that you may read and copy knowledge; (even) the expert will become one who is instructed. Do not be evil, for patience is good; make your lasting monument in the love of you. Multiply [the people] whom the city has enfolded; then will God be praised because of rewards; men will watch over your [///] and give thanks for your goodness, and your health will be prayed for [///].		Copy your forefathers, for [work] is carried out through knowledge: In the absence of formal schooling the direct transmission of knowledge from father to son was crucial. patience: Lichtheim: kindness Multiply [the people] whom the city has enfolded: Lichtheim: Increase the [people], befriend the town
Respect the great; keep your people safe; consolidate your frontier and your patrolled area, for it is good to work for the future. Show respect [///] life for the clear-sighted, but the trusting man will suffer pain. Let men be sent [///] through your kindly disposition. Wretched is he who has bound the land to himself [///], a fool is he who is greedy when others possess. [Life] on earth passes away, it is not long; he is fortunate who [has a good] remembrance in it. No man goes straight forward, (even though) a million belong to the Lord of the Two Lands. [///] shall live forever; he who comes from the hand of Osiris shall depart, just as he who is self-indulgent shall be lost.		Respect the great: in a conservative society like ancient Egypt preserving the social fabric with all its inequalities was part of upholding Maat. keep your people safe: Lichtheim: sustain your people. Whatever the exact meaning of this sentence, privilege went hand in hand with obligations to ones social inferiors. your patrolled area: Lichtheim: strengthen … your frontier patrols. will suffer pain: Lichtheim: fails Let men be sent [///]: Lichtheim: Make people come to you has bound the land to himself [///]: Lichtheim: desires the land [of his neighbor is greedy when: Lichtheim: covets what [has a good] remembrance in it: Lichtheim: is remembered No man goes straight forward, (even though) a million belong to the Lord: Lichtheim: A million men do riot avail the Lord . Dils [3]: Millionen von Menschen können dem Herrn der beiden Länder nicht gerecht werden (?) shall be lost: Lichtheim: leaves
Make your magnates great, that they may execute your laws; one who is rich in his house will not be one-sided, for he who does not lack is an owner of property; a poor man does not speak truly, and one who says, “Would that I had,” is not straightforward; he is one-sided toward the possessor of rewards. Great is the great one whose great ones are great; valiant is a king who owns an entourage; and august is he who is rich in magnates. Speak truth in your house, so that the magnates who are on earth may respect you, for a sovereign’s renown (lies in) straightforwardness; it is the front room of a house that inspires the back room with respect.		Make your magnates great: Lichtheim: Advance your officials. The prevention of corruption was of concern to many pharaohs, cf. Horemheb’s edict, but often it pervaded all levels of society (cf. The petition by Pediese) execute your laws: There was no separation of powers, as we would define it. The executive and the judicial branch of government were essentially the same. cf Law and Order straightforward: Lichtheim: righteous owns an entourage: Snw.t, court. Lichtheim: has councillors who are on earth: Lichtheim: of the land it is the front room of a house that inspires the back room with respect: the publicly accessible rooms of a house were dominated by the master of the domain, dependants lived towards the back of the house, but see the ground plan of a mansion at Kahun and Petrie’s interpretation.
Do justice, that you may live long upon earth. Calm the weeper, do not oppress the widow, do not oust a man from his father’s property, do not degrade magnates from their seats. Beware of punishing wrongfully; do not kill, for it will not profit you, but punish with beatings and with imprisonment, for thus the land will be set in order, excepting only the rebel who has conspired, for God knows those who are disaffected, and God will smite down his evil doing with blood. It is the lenient man who [///] lifetime; so do not kill a man of whose ability you are aware, and with whom you once recited writings, but read in the account [///] because of God, and stride forward freely in a difficult place. The soul comes to the place which it knows, and it will not overstep the ways of the past; no magic can oppose it, and it will reach those who will give it water.		live long upon earth: and in the next world. Being free of sin was essential for the survival of the “soul”, cf. The negative confessions his father’s property: It was part of the proper ways of the world, of Maat, that a man should follow in his father’s footsteps, inheriting his social position, profession and property. degrade magnates from their seats: Lichtheim: reduce the nobles in their possessions do not kill: Death sentences were generally imposed only for murder and crimes against the state (cf. Law and Order). with beatings: physical punishment and coercion, from beatings to mutilation was often applied. with imprisonment: m zA.w[tj (?)] lit. with a guardian. Lichtheim: with detention. It is generally thought today that imprisonment as a punishment was not the norm. who has conspired: Lichtheim: whose plans are found out but read … a difficult place: Lichtheim: Who was brought up . . . — before god, who strode freely in the secret place. it will reach those who will give it water: Libations were of crucial importance to the deceased.
As for the tribunal which judges the needy, you know that they will not be lenient on that day of judging the poor; in the hour of exercising (their) function, wretched is he who is accused as a wise man. Do not put your trust in length of years, for they regard a lifetime as an hour; a man survives after death, and his deeds are laid before him in a heap. Existence yonder is eternal, and he who complains of it is a fool, but as for him who attains it, he will be like a god yonder, striding forward like the lords of eternity.		tribunal: DADA.t In ancient Egypt, cases, when they were not simple administrative matters, were often heard by tribunals (kenbet) rather than by single judges. The gods too were thought to convene as tribunals (cf. the Ennead in the Contendings of Horus and Seth) poor: Lichtheim: miserable wretched is he who is accused as a wise man: Lichtheim: It is painful when the accuser has knowledge regard a lifetime as an hour: Lichtheim: They view a lifetime in an hour! he who complains of it is a fool: Lichtheim: A fool is who does what they reprove!
Raise up your young troops, that the Residence may love you. Multiply your partisans as neighbours; see, your towns are full of newly settled folk. It is for twenty years that the rising generation is happy in following its desire, and neighbours come forth again; he who is caused to enter goes in for himself by means of children [///]. Ancient times have fought for us, and I raised (troops) from them at my accession. Make your magnates great, promote your [warriors], increase the rising generation of your retainers, they being equipped with knowledge, established with lands, and endowed with cattle. Do not distinguish the son of a man of rank from a commoner, but take a man to yourself because of his actions, so that every craft may be carried on [///] for the possessor of strength.		Multiply your partisans as neighbours: Lichtheim: Increase your subjects with recruits (?) It is for twenty years … its desire: Lichtheim: Twenty years the youths indulge their wishes neighbours: Lichtheim: recruits (?) he who is caused … means of children. Ancient times have fought for us Lichtheim: … Veterans return to their children . Lichtheim describes this as One obscure sentence. increase: Lichtheim: enrich they being equipped … with cattle: Lichtheim: Provide with goods, endow with fields, reward them with herds Do not distinguish the son of a man of rank from a commoner: Lichtheim: Do not prefer… Pharaohs would be surrounded mostly by people belonging to the same social class, i.e. noblemen, and the temptation to appoint those one is familiar with is great, above all when they have political influence. Some servants frequently in the presence of the king, like butlers and sandal-bearers, had at times extraordinarily successful careers (cf. The autobiography of Weni)
Guard your frontier, marshal your fortresses, for troops are profitable to their master. Construct [fine] monuments to God, for it means the perpetuation of the name of whoever does it, and a man should do what is profitable to his soul, (namely) monthly service as priest and the wearing of white sandals. Enrich the temple, be discreet concerning the mysteries, enter into the sanctuary, eat bread in the temple, richly provide the altars, increase the revenues, add to the daily offerings, for it is a profitable matter for whoever does it; maintain your monuments in proportion to your wealth, for a single day gives to eternity, an hour does good for the future, and God is aware of him who serves him. Dispatch your statues to a distant land of which they shall not render an inventory, for he who destroys the goods of an enemy will suffer. The enemy cannot be quiet (even) within Egypt, but troops shall subdue troops, in accordance with the prophecy of the ancestors about it, and men fight against Egypt (even) in the necropolis.		profitable: Lichtheim: useful it means the perpetuation of the name: and thus immortality (cf. Body and Soul) Enrich the temple: By the time of the Ramessides, the temples had grown so wealthy and powerful that they could no more be challenged (cf. The Priests of Amen and the Theban Kings). Lichtheim has here: Visit the temple be discreet concerning: Lichtheim: Observe (?). Dils: Unveil what is hidden (?). revenues: Lichtheim: loaves. ‘Loaves of bread’ was often synonymous with income. Workers were given a certain number of loaves a day as wages. maintain: Lichtheim: Endow Dispatch … within Egypt: Lichtheim did not translate this passage, considering it to obscure.
Do not destroy ancient buildings with a destruction through action; I acted thus and so it happened, just as he who had transgressed likewise did against God. Do not deal ill with the Southern Region, for you know the prophecy of the Residence about it, and it has happened [even as] this shall happen; they shall not transgress as they said [///]. I turned back [to] Thinis [///] its southern boundary at Tawer, and I captured it like a cloudburst, though King Mer-[///]re did not do it. Be lenient about it ///. [///] renew contracts. There is no pure reason who is caused to be hidden, and it is good to act on behalf of posterity. You stand well with the Southern Region, for the bearers of loads come to you with produce; I did the same as the ancestors, and there was none who had corn who gave it. Be kindly to those who are weak toward you, and satisfy yourself with your own bread and beer.		Do not destroy … through action: according to Lichtheim this is part of the previous sentence: Destroying tombs in vengeful destruction Residence: Memphis Tawer: Lichtheim: Taut cloudburst: lit. a cloud of water. Lichtheim: flood Mer-[///]re: Lichtheim: Meriyebre There is no pure reason who is caused to: Lichtheim: No river lets itself . Dils speaks of wab.t waters. with produce: Lichtheim: with tribute, with gifts. The Egyptian jn.w seems to correspond to all these interpretations. there was none who had corn who gave it. Be kindly to those who are weak toward you: Lichtheim: If one has no grain to give, be kind, since they are humble before you
Granite comes to you without hindrance, so do not destroy someone else’s monuments. Hew stone in Tura, but do not build your tomb of what has been thrown down, (or of) what has been made for what is to be made. See, the king is a possessor of joy; you can be drowsy and you can sleep through your strength of arm; follow your desire through what I have done, for there is no enemy within your frontier.		do not destroy someone else’s monuments: an injunction ignored by most pharaohs. Ramses II, the most prolific builder, was also a ruthless destroyer of old buildings. Tura: limestone quarry about 15 km from Giza on the eastern bank of the Nile. possessor of joy: Lichtheim: Lord of joy
I rose as ruler in my city, but I was anxious about the Delta from Het-shenu to Sembaka, its southern boundary being at the Canal of the Two Fishes. I pacified the west as far as the sand dunes of the Fayum; it labors and yields meru-wood; men see wan-wood (once again) and yield it to us. But the east is rich in foreigners, and their taxes are [withheld]; the Middle Island is turned about, (and also) everyone in it. (yet) the temples say of me: O Great One, men salute you. See, [the land] which they destroyed is made into districts and every great city [is restored]. The governance of (each) one is in the hands of ten men, a magistrate is appointed who will levy [///] the amount of all taxes. The priest is provided with a farm, and men work for you like a single gang. How is it that disaffection does not occur? (Because) you will not suffer from a Nile which fails to come, and the revenues of the Delta are in your hand. See, the mooring post which I have made in the east is driven in from the limits of Hebnu to Road-of-Horus, settled with towns and full of people of the pick of the entire land, to repel enemies from them. May I see a brave man who will imitate it and who will do more than I have done [///] by the hand of a cowardly heir.		Canal of the Two Fishes: According to Lichtheim it appears to be the name for the Nile branch in the nome of Letopolis, i.e. i the southernmost part of the Canopic branch. as far as the sand dunes of the Fayum: Lichtheim: as far as the coast of the sea meru-wood /// wan-wood: According to Lichtheim cedar and juniper foreigners: Lichtheim: bowmen O Great One, men salute you: Lichtheim: you are greater than I The governance of (each) one is in the hands of ten men: Apparently, at this time cities were governed by councils. The priest is provided with a farm and men work for you like a single gang: Lichtheim: When free men are given land they work for you like a single team. Hebnu: There was a town by this name in Middle Egypt, but this site seems to have been located in the eastern Delta. Road-of-Horus: alt. Horus Road, Ways of Horus, Way of Horus (Old Kingdom), a region in the eastern Delta with fortifications and a road connecting Egypt with southern Canaan through the northern Sinai desert. settled with towns and full of people: Fortified border towns like Sile protected the Delta from Asiatic incursions do more than: Lichtheim: add to what
Speak thus concerning the barbarian: As for the wretched Asiatic, unpleasant is the place where he is (with) trouble from water, difficulty from many trees, and the roads thereof awkward by reason of mountains. He does not dwell in one place, being driven hither and yon through want, going about [the desert] on foot. He has been fighting since the time of Horus; he never conquers, yet he is not conquered, and he does not announce a day of fighting, like a thief whom a community has driven out.		trouble from water, difficulty from many trees: Lichtheim: Short of water, bare of wood He does not dwell in one place: Many of the inhabitants of Canaan were still semi-nomadic at the turn of the second millennium BCE and migrated to Egypt in times of severe drought. The Egyptians had a very low opinion of foreigners. he does not announce a day of fighting: in ancient times time and location of battles were often agreed upon. Surprise attacks were considered bad form. whom a community has driven out: Lichtheim: who darts about a group
But I lived, and while I existed the barbarians were as though in the walls of a fortress; [my troops] broke open [///]. I caused the Delta to smite them, I carried off their people, I took away their cattle, until the detestation of the Asiatics was against Egypt. Do not worry about him, for the Asiatic is a crocodile on his riverbank; he snatches a lonely serf, but he will never rob in the vicinity of a populous town. Dig a moat against [///] and flood the half of it at the Bitter Lakes, for see, it is the navel-string of the desert dwellers; its walls and its soldiers are many and the partisans in it know how to take up arms, apart from the freemen of the camp; the region of Djed-esut totals ten thousand men consisting of free untaxed commoners, and magnates have been in it since the time of the Residence. <its> boundary is established, its garrison is brave, and many northerners irrigate it to the limits of the Delta, they being taxed in corn like freemen; it is/// the face of him who made it, and see, it is the door of the Delta. They made a moat for Ninsu, for a populous city is/// Beware of being surrounded by the partisans of an enemy; watchfulness is what renews years.		But I lived, and while I existed: Lichtheim: But as I live and shall be what I am I carried off their people: the enslavement of defeated foreigners began during the Old Kingdom mostly in Nubia, though Pepi I campaigned in Canaan. the detestation of the Asiatics was against Egypt: Lichtheim: Until the Asiatics abhorred Egypt. he snatches a lonely serf: This may have been true prior to the take over of Lower Egypt by the Hyksos. Lichtheim has It snatches from a lonely road Dig a moat against [///]: Lichtheim: Medenyt has been restored to its nome. Medenyt was on the eastern border of the Delta. flood the half of it at the Bitter Lakes, for see, it is the navel-string of the desert dwellers: Lichtheim: Its one side is irrigated as far as Kem-wer, It is the [defense] against the Bowmen. the partisans: Lichtheim: the serfs Djed-esut: Memphis untaxed commoners: they apparently served in the military in lieu of paying taxes Ninsu: Heracleopolis a populous city is ///: Lichtheim: Abundant citizens are the heart’s support
When your frontier to the Southern Region is troubled, it is the barbarians who have taken the belt. Build castles in the Delta, for a man’s name will not be diminished by what he has done, and a well-founded city cannot be harmed. Build castles [///], for an enemy loves disturbance, and his actions are mean. The late King Akhtoy ordained in a teaching: “Be inactive about the violent man who destroys altars, for God will attack him who rebels against the temples. men will come about it according as he does it; he will be satisfied with what is ordained for him, (namely) a trap for him; no one will use loyalty toward him on that day of coming. Protect the altars, worship God, and do not say: “It is weakness of mind;” do not let your arms be loose. As for him who makes rebellion against you, it is to destroy the sky. Prosperity means a year of monuments; even if an enemy knows, he will not destroy them, through the desire that what he has done may be embellished by another who comes after. There is not one devoid of an enemy, but the ruler of the Two Banks is a wise man, and a king who possesses an entourage cannot act stupidly. He is wise from birth, and God will distinguish him above millions of men.		Build castles: The Egyptians protected the southern and eastern approaches to their country with major fortifications only during the Middle Kingdom. cf The subjugation of Nubia disturbance, and his actions are mean: Lichtheim: destruction and misery Akhtoy: a number of pharaohs belonging to the ninth and tenth dynasties Be inactive about the violent man who destroys altars: Lichtheim: He who is silent toward violence diminishes the offerings what is ordained for him: Lichtheim: with what he planned to gain no one will use loyalty toward him on that day of coming: Lichtheim: He will find no favor on the day of woe Protect the altars: Lichtheim: Supply the offerings weakness of mind: Lichtheim: trouble Prosperity means a year of monuments: Lichtheim: A monument is sound for a hundred years if an enemy knows, he will not destroy them: Lichtheim: If the foe understood, he would not attack them ruler of the Two Banks: the king of Egypt God will distinguish him above millions of men: Lichtheim: From a million men god singled him out
The kingship is a goodly office; it has no son and it has no brother who shall make its monuments endure, yet it is the one person who ennobles the other; a man works for his predecessor, through the desire that what he has done may be embellished by another who shall come after him. A mean act was committed in my reign; the territory of Thinis was devastated. It indeed happened, but not through what I had done; I knew of it only after it was done. See, the consequences exceeded what I had done, for what is damaged is spoiled, and there is no benefit for him who restores what he (himself) has ruined, who demolishes what he has built and embellished what he has defaced; beware of it! A blow is repaid by the like of it, and all that is achieved is a hitting.		yet it is the one person who ennobles the other: Lichtheim: But one man provides for the other; a man works for his predecessor: among commoners it was generally the eldest son who provided his deceased father with the necessities for the after-life. Among kings successors took over this function instead of a bodily son. what I had done: the king had a personal responsibility for the actions of his troops. A blow is repaid by the like of it: the Egyptian version of ‘an eye for an eye’ all that is achieved is a hitting: Lichtheim: To every action there is a response
One generation of men passes to another, and God, who knows character, has hidden Himself. There is none who will oppose the possessor of a hand, and he is an attacker of what the eyes see, so worship God upon his way. Things are made of costly stone and fashioned in copper; the mud flat is replaced with water; there is no stream that can be made to hide, for it means that the dike in which it hid itself is destroyed. The soul goes to the place it knows and does not stray on yesterday’s road. Beautify your mansion in the West, embellish your place in the necropolis with straightforwardness and just dealing, for it is on that which their hearts rely; more acceptable is the character of the straightforward man than the ox of the wrongdoer.		the possessor of a hand Lichtheim: the lord of the hand who was The sun-god in his aspect as creator. In the Heliopolitan mythology Atem created Shu and Tefnut by masturbation. His hand represents the female aspect of this essentially male god. Atem and his hand are represented on a number of coffins dating to the First Intermediate Period. he is an attacker of the eyes see: Lichtheim: He reaches all that the eyes can see. Dils: What is seen by both eyes (of a man) are those who are attacked. made of costly stone and fashioned in copper: Lichtheim: Apparently a reference to the cult statues of the gods carried in procession during festivals the mud flat is replaced with water: Lichtheim: As watercourse is replaced by watercourse. Dils: As one wave is replaced by another wave. character: Lichtheim: loaf. Dils loaf of bread (or behaviour)
Serve God, that he may do the like for you, with offerings for replenishing the altars and with carving; it is that which will show forth your name, and God is aware of whoever serves Him. Provide for men, the cattle of God, for He made heaven and earth at their desire. He suppressed the greed of the waters, He gave the breath of life to their noses, for they are likenesses of Him which issued from His flesh. He shines in the sky for the benefit of their hearts; He has made herbs, cattle, and fish to nourish them. He has killed His enemies and destroyed His own children, because they had planned to make rebellion; He makes daylight for the benefit of their hearts, and he sails around in order to see them. He has raised up a shrine behind them, and when they weep, He hears. He has made them rulers even from the egg, a lifter to lift (the load) from the back of the weak man. He has made for them magic to be weapons to ward off what may happen. Be watchful over it by night as by day. How has He killed the disaffected! Even as a man strikes his son for his brother’s sake, for God knows every name.		God: the creator and sun god Re name: on the significance of names see Body and Soul at their desire: Lichtheim: for their sake waters: Lichtheim: water monster. The world emerged from the primordial waters of chaos and will be swallowed by these waters again at the end of time. Divine and human existence is an ultimately doomed struggle between order and chaos, but, unlike in the Germanic mythology where the world ends in a titanic struggle, the Egyptians who envisaged a distant ending in a whimper rather than a bang, did not stress this aspect of their world view. and fish: Lichtheim, Dils: fowl and fish destroyed His own children: According to a myth Re sent Hathor to destroy mankind, but regretted his decision and prevented her from fulfilling his original bidding. he sails around: Egyptian life was dominated by the Nile, the sun god therefore travelled in a barque. The Greeks, who travelled around in their own country mostly by land, imagined their sun god Apollo driving a chariot. from the egg: from birth when they weep, He hears: Egyptian religion was not centred on the direct contact between the gods and men. Yet a number of deities had shrines where the uninitiated could appeal to them directly. (cf. The Religion of the People) magic: cf. Heka: The magic of ancient Egypt.
Do not be distressed (at) my utterance even when it gives laws concerning the king. Instruct yourself, that you may rise up as a man; then you will attain to my repute without anyone who accuses you. Do not kill anyone who approaches you, but favour him, for God knows him. He who flourishes on earth is one of them, and they who serve the king are gods. Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered /// is perished, and it is said of you: “He who will destroy the time of suffering by those who are at the back in the House of Akhtoy, in praying for him who will come today“. See, I have told you the best of my inmost thoughts, which you should set steadfastly before your face.		Do not be distressed: Lichtheim: Do not neglect. Dils: Du sollst nichts Kümmerliches unternehmen Instruct yourself… who accuses you: Lichtheim: Which instructs you, that you may rule the land, and may you reach me with none to accuse you! Dils: which instructs you that you may emerge as a man. Then you may reach me (in the beyond) without there being an accuser against you. who approaches you, but favour him: Lichtheim: who is close to you whom you have favored He who will destroy the time of suffering by those who are at the back in the House of Akhtoy, in praying for him who will come today: Lichtheim: he who ended the time of trouble, by those who come after in the House of Kheti, in thinking of what has come today which you should set steadfastly before your face: Lichtheim: Act by what is set before you!
Translation by R. O. Faulkner William Kelly Simpson (ed.), The Literature of Ancient Egypt, New Haven and London, 1973, pp. 180-192
[2] M. Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Vol.1, pp.99ff [3] P. Dils ed., Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae web site, Altägyptisches Wörterbuch, Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Leipzig => 3. Weisheitslehren => Die Lehre für Merikare => pPetersburg 1116 A, Verso

“The function of Propaganda is to identify the target’s forces and enemies.” — Onitaset Kumat

Wherever there is an African there is an African Nation.  African Nationalism is the Empowerment of that African Nation.  When Bill Cosby spoke for the 50th Anniversary of the Brown V. Board of Education Decision he delivered a misguided address that overlooked African Nationhood.  While late, we correct him here.  In the below video you’ll hear an excerpt of his transcript.  His complete transcript is dissected below for your enlightenment.  No War is won absent an Army.  Join the Creative Army that is the African Blood Siblings and Donate to your War Chest.

Of Critiquing Cosby’s “We cannot blame the white people any longer.”
By Onitaset Kumat

The Speech:

Ladies and gentlemen, I really have to ask you to seriously consider what you’ve heard, and now this is the end of the evening so to speak. I heard a prize fight manager say to his fellow who was losing badly, “David, listen to me. It’s not what’s he’s doing to you. It’s what you’re not doing. (laughter).

Reality: In War, the enemies tactics are paramount. To say otherwise is to blind the people.

Ladies and gentlemen, these people set, they opened the doors, they gave us the right, and today, ladies and gentlemen, in our cities and public schools we have fifty percent drop out. In our own neighborhood, we have men in prison. No longer is a person embarrassed because they’re pregnant without a husband. (clapping) No longer is a boy considered an embarrassment if he tries to run away from being the father of the unmarried child (clapping)

Reality: “Education is a weapon of human control,” as Marcus Garvey repeated. Fifty percent drop out from an enemy’s propaganda is 50% too little. Of course by being educated by another people, Africans will do what others do. Poor European women have out-of-wedlock children and poor European men abandon their children. Due Mis-Education, Impoverished Africans think that they are Poor Europeans.

Ladies and gentlemen, the lower economic and lower middle economic people are [not*] holding their end in this deal. In the neighborhood that most of us grew up in, parenting is not going on. (clapping) In the old days, you couldn’t hooky school because every drawn shade was an eye (laughing). And before your mother got off the bus and to the house, she knew exactly where you had gone, who had gone into the house, and where you got on whatever you had one and where you got it from. Parents don’t know that today.

Reality: In the last article we read the same complaints except those complaints are 100-years-old. Parenting isn’t simply a matter of looking behind shades. Whereas Parenting isn’t going on in any widespread fashion; it never was going on in any widespread fashion. See: What is Parenting?

I’m talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit. Where were you when he was two? (clapping) Where were you when he was twelve? (clapping) Where were you when he was eighteen, and how come you don’t know he had a pistol? (clapping) And where is his father, and why don’t you know where he is? And why doesn’t the father show up to talk to this boy?

Reality: The tragedy of Prison is summarized thusly–a European Nation in America is imposing its laws and imprisoning residents of an African Nation in America. The Mother and Father are serving a European Nation which mis-educates the parents to believe they are of the European Nation as the child is prepared for a life of legal slavery. See: Why do Black youth go to Prison?

The church is only open on Sunday. And you can’t keep asking Jesus to ask doing things for you (clapping). You can’t keep asking that God will find a way. God is tired of you (clapping and laughing). God was there when they won all those cases. 50 in a row. That’s where God was because these people were doing something. And God said, “I’m going to find a way.” I wasn’t there when God said it… I’m making this up (laughter). But it sounds like what God would do (laughter).

Reality: In many instances, the Church was imposed upon Africans largely to foster inactivity. As Napoleon Bonaparte put it, “There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich.”  Leopold lectured pastors to teach Christianity to teach servitude.  See: Letter from Leopold

We cannot blame white people. White people (clapping) .. white people don’t live over there. They close up the shop early. The Korean ones still don’t know us as well…they stay open 24 hours (laughter).

Reality: As above, in Warfare, the enemy’s activity must be accounted for. Chancellor Williams made it clear that Europeans (and Asians) are our enemies.  See: Excerpt from “The Destruction of Black Civilization.”

I’m looking and I see a man named Kenneth Clark. He and his wife Mamie…Kenneth’s still alive. I have to apologize to him for these people because Kenneth said it straight. He said you have to strengthen yourselves…and we’ve got to have that black doll. And everybody said it. Julian Bond said it. Dick Gregory said it. All these lawyers said it. And you wouldn’t know that anybody had done a damned thing.

Reality: The European’s Propaganda is not limited to the toys that one plays with. Integration has its own Propaganda with it. Mis-Education is nearly necessary when a weaker Nation is Educated by a stronger but foreign one.

50 percent drop out rate, I’m telling you, and people in jail, and women having children by five, six different men. Under what excuse, I want somebody to love me, and as soon as you have it, you forget to parent. Grandmother, mother, and great grandmother in the same room, raising children, and the child knows nothing about love or respect of any one of the three of them (clapping). All this child knows is “gimme, gimme, gimme.” These people want to buy the friendship of a child….and the child couldn’t care less. Those of us sitting out here who have gone on to some college or whatever we’ve done, we still fear our parents (clapping and laughter). And these people are not parenting. They’re buying things for the kid. $500 sneakers, for what? They won’t buy or spend $250 on Hooked on Phonics. (clapping)

Reality: W. E. B. Du Bois had outlined that Mammonism would be the ruin of the African race in America. More Materialism, Consumerism, and so on. Yet this mentality expands as a result of Integration and Mis-Education. I.e. Proximity and Exposure to the European Nation of America creates the poisoned mentality of vices. In this way, the regaled former generation bares responsibility for the failures of this one. See: Excerpt from “Souls of Black Folk.

Kenneth Clark, somewhere in his home in upstate New York…just looking ahead. Thank God, he doesn’t know what’s going on, thank God. But these people, the ones up here in the balcony fought so hard. Looking at the incarcerated, these are not political criminals. These are people going around stealing Coca Cola. People getting shot in the back of the head over a piece of pound cake! Then we all run out and are outraged, “The cops shouldn’t have shot him” What the hell was he doing with the pound cake in his hand? (laughter and clapping). I wanted a piece of pound cake just as bad as anybody else (laughter) And I looked at it and I had no money. And something called parenting said if get caught with it you’re going to embarrass your mother. Not you’re going to get your butt kicked. No. You’re going to embarrass your mother. You’re going to embarrass your family.

Reality: See above on Mammonism.

If knock that girl up, you’re going to have to run away because it’s going to be too embarrassing for your family. In the old days, a girl getting pregnant had to go down South, and then her mother would go down to get her. But the mother had the baby. I said the mother had the baby. The girl didn’t have a baby. The mother had the baby in two weeks. (laughter) We are not parenting. Ladies and gentlemen, listen to these people, they are showing you what’s wrong. People putting their clothes on backwards. Isn’t that a sign of something going on wrong? (laughter)

Reality: See above on Mammonism.

Are you not paying attention, people with their hat on backwards, pants down around the crack. Isn’t that a sign of something, or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up (laughter and clapping ). Isn’t it a sign of something when she’s got her dress all the way up to the crack…and got all kinds of needles and things going through her body. What part of Africa did this come from? (laughter). We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans, they don’t know a damned thing about Africa. With names like Shaniqua, Shaligua, Mohammed and all that crap and all of them are in jail. (When we give these kinds names to our children, we give them the strength and inspiration in the meaning of those names. What’s the point of giving them strong names if there is not parenting and values backing it up).

Reality: We are Africans. We are not Europeans. The function of Propaganda is to identify the target’s forces and enemies. Bill Cosby shows his Mis-Education when he identifies as though he were a European.

Brown Versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person’s problem. We’ve got to take the neighborhood back (clapping). We’ve got to go in there. Just forget telling your child to go to the Peace Corps. It’s right around the corner. (laughter) It’s standing on the corner. It can’t speak English. It doesn’t want to speak English. I can’t even talk the way these people talk. “Why you ain’t where you is go, ra,” I don’t know who these people are. And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk (laughter). Then I heard the father talk. This is all in the house. You used to talk a certain way on the corner and you got into the house and switched to English. Everybody knows it’s important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can’t land a plane with “why you ain’t…” You can’t be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. There is no Bible that has that kind of language. Where did these people get the idea that they’re moving ahead on this. Well, they know they’re not, they’re just hanging out in the same place, five or six generations sitting in the projects when you’re just supposed to stay there long enough to get a job and move out.

Reality: The opinion on moving out of the project at the behest of employment shines a light on the condition of the African Race in America. The European Nation imports goods into the African Nation and the African Nation exports people. This isn’t 1713 and international but 2013 and domestic. Frankly, the African Nation shouldn’t even be speaking a European language. We’re so colonized that we lecture ourselves on our inability to be functional slaves.

Now look, I’m telling you. It’s not what they’re doing to us. It’s what we’re not doing. 50 percent drop out. Look, we’re raising our own ingrown immigrants. These people are fighting hard to be ignorant. There’s no English being spoken, and they’re walking and they’re angry. Oh God, they’re angry and they have pistols and they shoot and they do stupid things. And after they kill somebody, they don’t have a plan. Just murder somebody. Boom. Over what? A pizza? And then run to the poor cousin’s house. They sit there and the cousin says “what are you doing here?” “I just killed somebody, man.” “What?” “I just killed somebody, I’ve got to stay here.” “No, you don’t.” “Well, give me some money, I’ll go…” “Where are you going?” “North Carolina.” Everybody wanted to go to North Carolina. But the police know where you’re going because your cousin has a record.

Reality: Part of the problem of mis-directed anger goes back to Propaganda. Again, The function of Propaganda is to identify the target’s forces and enemies. Through Mis-Education, Africans conceive Africans as Enemies and Europeans as their forces. That’s bound to end in Self-Hate and “Black-on-Black violence.”

Five or six different children, same woman, eight, ten different husbands or whatever, pretty soon you’re going to have to have DNA cards so you can tell who you’re making love to. You don’t who this is. It might be your grandmother. (laughter) I’m telling you, they’re young enough. Hey, you have a baby when you’re twelve. Your baby turns thirteen and has a baby, how old are you? Huh? Grandmother. By the time you’re twelve, you could have sex with your grandmother, you keep those numbers coming. I’m just predicting.

Reality: No comment. This is just a joke. Though Africans did not invent young lovers–it was common in European History. The staple of English class is “Romeo and Juliet” which centers on teenage love.

I’m saying Brown Vs. Board of Education. We’ve got to hit the streets, ladies and gentlemen. I’m winding up, now , no more applause. I’m saying, look at the Black Muslims. There are Black Muslims standing on the street corners and they say so forth and so on, and we’rere laughing at them because they have bean pies and all that, but you don’t read “Black Muslim gunned down while chastising drug dealer.” You don’t read that. They don’t shoot down Black Muslims. You understand me. Muslims tell you to get out of the neighborhood. When you want to clear your neighborhood out, first thing you do is go get the Black Muslims, bean pies and all (laughter). And your neighborhood is then clear. The police can’t do it .

Reality: The European Nation kidnaps members of the African Nation because the latter is disorganized and the former is organized. European-America’s Organization can only change itself; and the same applies to African-America’s. We need to start locally. See: African Power from Local Economic Centers.

I’m telling you Christians, what’s wrong with you? Why can’t you hit the streets? Why can’t you clean it out yourselves? It’s our time now, ladies and gentlemen. It is our time (clapping). And I’ve got good news for you. It’s not about money. It’s about you doing something ordinarily that we do get in somebody else’s business. It’s time for you to not accept the language that these people are speaking, which will take them nowhere. What the hell good is Brown V. Board of Education if nobody wants it?

Reality: No comment. It’s good advice. See: What is Responsibility?

What is it with young girls getting after some girl who wants to still remain a virgin. Who are these sick black people and where did they come from and why haven’t they been parented to shut up? To go up to girls and try to get a club where “you are nobody..,” this is a sickness ladies and gentlemen and we are not paying attention to these children. These are children. They don’t know anything. They don’t have anything. They’re homeless people. All they know how to do is beg. And you give it to them, trying to win their friendship. And what are they good for? And then they stand there in an orange suit and you drop to your knees, “(crying sound) He didn’t do anything, he didn’t do anything.” Yes, he did do it. And you need to have an orange suit on too (laughter, clapping).

Reality: The 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution allows Slavery as a Punishment for Crime. In America, Enslavement is the standard Punishment for Crime. The difficulty African Businesses have in competing with Major European Companies is those companies, like Dell, Burger King, Microsoft and so forth use Prison Labor or ‘Slave Labor.’ The Enslaved comprise African youth; who whether they did something or not don’t deserve Slavery. What’s more whether a young African does something in an African Nation, a European Nation should not punish him–not with slavery and not with anything. To mock the tragedy here is foul.

So, ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you for the award (big laughter) and giving me an opportunity to speak because, I mean, this is the future, and all of these people who lined up and done..they’ve got to be wondering what the hell happened. Brown V. Board of Education, these people who marched and were hit in the face with rocks and punched in the face to get an education and we got these knuckleheads walking around who don’t want to learn English (clapping) I know that you all know it. I just want to get you as angry that you ought to be. When you walk around the neighborhood and you see this stuff, that stuff’s not funny. These people are not funny anymore. And that ‘s not brother. And that’s not my sister. They’re faking and they’re dragging me way down because the state, the city and all these people have to pick up the tab on them because they don’t want to accept that they have to study to get an education.

Reality: The European Nation should find Africans costly, we’re at War. However, we are not a Liability to the state but an economic gold mine. Things have not changed. The European exploits us through his goods and exploits our labour. On top of this, the European uses the excess wealth to sexually exploit us. Either here or in Africa. See: “Very Young Girls” and Europe, Pedophilia, and Re-Organization

We have to begin to build in the neighborhood, have restaurants, have cleaners, have pharmacies, have real estate, have medical buildings instead of trying to rob them all. And so, ladies and gentlemen, please, Dorothy Height, where ever she’s sitting, she didn’t do all that stuff so that she could hear somebody say “I can’t stand algebra, I can’t stand…and “what you is.” It’s horrible.

Reality: No comment. This is going by the right idea. The African Blood Siblings is an Organization devoted to creating Prosperous, Independent African Communities. We need an Army to do so. Please enlist or donate.

Basketball players, multimillionaires can’t write a paragraph. Football players, multimillionaires, can’t read. Yes. Multimillionaires. Well, Brown V Board of Education, where are we today? It’s there. They paved the way. What did we do with it. The white man, he’s laughing, got to be laughing. 50 percent drop out, rest of them in prison.

Reality: Brown V. Board of Education enabled a new level of Propaganda which itself weakened the African Nation and its this weakness which makes the European laugh for his exploitation becomes easier despite our misbeliefs to the contrary.

You got to tell me that if there was parenting, help me, if there was parenting, he wouldn’t have picked up the Coca Cola bottle and walked out with it to get shot in the back of the head. He wouldn’t have. Not if he loved his parents. And not if they were parenting! Not if the father would come home. Not if the boy hadn’t dropped the sperm cell inside of the girl and the girl had said, “No, you have to come back here and be the father of this child.” Not ..“I don’t have to.”

Reality: “There grows no wheat where there is no grain.” Not only is some wheat present because of the grain; but some wheat is absent because there was no grain. If Africans are of much vice and little virtue, it’s due the grain of vice being abundant while the grain of virtue being absent. However, Africans are Oppressed so the situation of the grains is not Self-Determined but Imposed. This needs to be understood foremost. Organization counters this situation. That’s a purpose of the African Blood Siblings.

Therefore, you have the pile up of these sweet beautiful things born by nature raised by no one. Give them presents. You’re raising pimps. That’s what a pimp is. A pimp will act nasty to you so you have to go out and get them something. And then you bring it back and maybe he or she hugs you. And that’s why pimp is so famous. They’ve got a drink called the “Pimp-something.” You all wonder what that’s about, don’t you? Well, you’re probably going to let Jesus figure it out for you (laughter). Well, I’ve got something to tell you about Jesus. When you go to the church, look at the stained glass things of Jesus. Look at them. Is Jesus smiling? Not in one picture. So, tell your friends. Let’s try to do something. Let’s try to make Jesus smile. Let’s start parenting. Thank you, thank you (clapping, cheers)

Reality: The European is by nature a Pirate. Toward Piracy his Education will lead. To solve our problems we should not integrate schools but separate. If this were communicated, or a national consciousness, Bill Cosby could have made a good opportunity great. Instead he spoke a lot of nonsense. Please reader support the African Blood Siblings for bring Knowledge, Wisdom and Love where there is Ignorance, Error and Hate.

Source: http://www.eightcitiesmap.com/transcript_bc.htm

” . . . What you seen wasn’t no dust of changes rising. It was the dust of sameness settling.” — Sterling Plumpp

This may be the most disappointing post I could write.  Not for any violence, though I can write on violence; not for any abuses, though I can write on abuses; not for any villainy, though I can write on villainy: this may be the most disappointing because it’s a survey done one-hundred years ago that reads as if it were done yesterday.  One-hundred years of Oppression, the 20s, the 30s, the 40s, the 50s, the 60s, the 70s, the 80s!, the 90s!, the new millennium!, this last decade!!, one-hundred years of Oppression and no change!  African what more do you need to know?

In 1914, W. E. B. Du Bois asked four-thousand Africans from all walks of life,

1. What is the condition of Colored people whom you know in regard to Good Manners, Sound Morals, Habits of Cleanliness, Personal Honesty, Home Life, Rearing of Children, Wholesome amusement for young people and Caring for old people.
2. What is the church doing along these lines?
3. How do present conditions in these respects compare with conditions ten (or twenty) years ago?

Of those four-thousand, ten percent responded and he preserved them in a study.  I chose several indicative ones illustrating the point above.  We are actually less Organized today than we were then, we have much less wealth, much less property, much less power, and the exact same Oppression.  If you can read the following article, and not see the necessity of Organization, and still neglect to donate or enlist, my African Sibling, where is your love of self?

Time heals all wounds but no Oppression: This Last Century
By Onitaset Kumat

Question: What is the condition of colored people whom you know in regard to the following? Good Manners?

1914 Answers:

It seems to me that we are losing our good manners in cities. Parents take too little time to train their children. The older folks are selfish and to a very large degree don’t regard the feelings of people they don’t know. There seems to be an effort to break away from the old ways.

Negroes here are very well behaved. I find them too ready to resent minor insults from one another while they calmly suffer any indignity or insult from whites,–possibly due to lack of protection before the law.

The truth and nothing but the truth:–There are a few who possess this grace. Every day I see the Bible is more and more true. We are truly living in the last days according to II Timothy, 3:1-17. Read St. Matthew, 7:13-14. “Few there be that find it”.

The colored people have great respect for the white people but they are greatly wanting in manners for their own people.

A large percent are still very much too loud in public places, but the Negro as a whole is improving in his manners.

2013 Observation by Onitaset Kumat:
No Change. We remain imitators of Europeans.  We must restore our manners.  See:  http://africanbloodsiblings.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/kmt-self-knowledge-and-cosmic-wisdom-quotations/

Question: What is the condition of colored people whom you know in regard to the following? Sound morals?

1914 Answers:

Condition as to this feature poor, especially females. Larger element of “grass widows” here than any place I have lived. Cause, most usually, infidelity. Adultery common. Larger number of bastards born since 1870 I think than any other town in the state–proportionately. Miscegenation has been the order of the day–changing however for better. Most products of this mating among females are some of our worst characters. Been low white trash and Negro, mostly mulattoes, concerned.

Very poor. The old Spanish treaty insured exemption from slavery to the Creoles in this section of the state, opened an avenue for white men to make inroads upon the morals of Negro women who were anxious for their children’s future. The effects still last.

The morals are good and sound except one family and we had them leave the settlement.

It is lamentable that there is not more emphasis placed on sound morals. The people are not classified in this particular. Character does not count, if one has money and can dress well and put on a good exterior. There are only a few exceptions in this particular city.

The morals of the older of the race are very good. Those of the younger set are very bad. To my personal knowledge we have many young girls from twelve to eighteen who are morally wrong and yet they have good moral parents and good homes. The under class (from whom these children take lessons in public schools), they number the sands. They are to be found in every city I have traveled, North, South, and East and West, (the West not so much as the other sections and none so prolific as the Southern cities). I find them in the country also. Poor public schools are the cause in my opinion.

The crowded conditions, fashions, pleasures, resorts, etc., seem to be making hard against our sound morals. Temptations are carrying us away. The high cost of living and small opportunities for earning money have a great deal to do with lowering our standard.

I do not think the Negro is wholly to blame. The whole country seems to suffer from the hypnotism of debauchery. The Negro is not more to be charged than the white race that invented the debased system.

Young people should be taught that they will kill the race by not having sound morals. It should be imprest upon them to be sound in morals.

In my personal estimation, they are worse than cannibals, altho they are only imitating their white brothers.

The question of morals is rather a grave one due mostly to the fact that girls are not taught to be strong of volition in order to resist the snares set for them. I think much can be done along this line, too, by teaching colored women and girls their rights and privileges when insulted by white men. My attention has been called often to cases where white men have insulted colored women and the women feeling the sting refrained from calling public attention when they should have gone as far as the law would protect them in the case.

Some of our women and men stand for absolute purity. I regret to say, as a whole, Negro men have not and do not accord our women that respect and attention so much in evidence in Southern white men. Again a Negro woman, self-respecting and good looking, is too often the target of attack for white men and when Negro women fall, they seem to be cheaper and fall lower and are more common than white women.

The schools and churches are popular here. All of the teachers and most of the people are church going people. The ministers are above the average and the teachers are of sound morals generally. I can’t say so much for the younger set; seems to be a reign of loose morals. I believe children are trusted too much alone. The wants of the parents have increast; the mothers leave home to work; charity no longer begins at home. The mothers give their time to churches and clubs.

It is below the average of the white race. The sexual instinct seems not to be governed by high respect for female chastity.

The superficial are prone to imitate the degenerate society of the whites in evenings of debauchery.

The morals are undergoing quite a change due to the influx of people from the South. That is, it is a common thing for the better class as well as the lower, to be mistresses of white men. This is a serious matter here.

From all points of vantage the morals of the people deserve favorable comment, despite adverse criticism from many sources. Morality from the civilized viewpoint receives less insulting thrusts from the Negro than from the Caucasian, for the simple reasons that: First–the former adopts principles somewhat foreign to those of his ancestral teachings. Second–he is forct to adopt idealistic theories which are inconsistently practict by their creator, the latter. Hence, the questionable exemplary effect on the imitator. Ethnologists have satisfied us that the primitive peoples, and those slightly more fortunate, enjoy a more serene phase of “Sound Morals” than do the so-called highly civilized.

Reformed municipal government has driven to the wall open houses of shame. Divorces on the ground of adultery or desertion are rare. There are few instances of illicit relations openly practiced. On a whole, there is room for improvement.

In morals, I believe we are making fair headway in an upward tendency. The thousands of good and pious people are likely to be overlookt in considering the large number of the vicious and the criminal who are members of the race. One very bad man will very frequently attract more attention than a thousand good people.

Morals in the masses are not so good. The failure to enforce the laws has caused many to go astray. Here in our city colored women are allowed to remain in the red-light district for the exclusive use of white men. Many of the leading people are divorct. Improper causes are at the bottom of the trouble. Many of our women will get fine clothes at any cost and by any means. I consider their morals below par.

For the most part, according to the educational advantages the people have had, there ought to be a higher moral standard. The women and girls are not as chaste as they ought to be.

I fear that the people feel that they have done well by their children when they are properly sheltered, fed and clothed. My impression is that but little time is spent in moral instruction. It seems that this is one of Clarksburg’s greatest weaknesses.

2013 Observation by Onitaset Kumat:
No Change. Notice how Miscegention was popular following Emancipation (as between an African woman and a European man); furthermore we imitate European manners (exception to those who had the self-management to remove from their settlement violators of morals.) Today Miscegenation is Promoted too, but Sound Morals isn’t at all a topic. On Miscegenation, see Garvey’s take on the author of this study, Du Bois: http://africanbloodsiblings.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/the-west-indian-solution-of-the-negro-problem/

Question: What is the condition of colored people whom you know in regard to the following? Habits of cleanliness?

1914 Answers:

Growth of self pride seems to go hand in hand with increase in cleanliness in small particulars. High standard here. Public assemblies display tastefully drest, clean people in numbers as large as 5000 at one time. Alley, drinking population below the standards of any whites in the city in filth. Bodies, clothes, houses, neighborhoods and relations all indicate shiftlessness which demands continued training to induce the feeling of cleanliness. Our dictum to graduates is: “Wherever you go, clean up first, teach afterwards”.

Bath tubs and shower baths are becoming very fashionable. Most all try to be clean and appear well. Large numbers of hair dressing and manicure parlors are establisht among them.

The increast instruction given in the schools regarding hygiene and sanitation, and the attention given in the pulpit, press and on lecture platform to “Gospel of Cleanliness” and to matters involving the question of good health, and the removal of the belief that it is “Saintly to be sickly and sinful to be healthy and strong,” are having good results among the rank and file of our people.

The sanitary conditions of our people are good. We have an infirmary owned and controlled by Dr. R. T. Burt which is a credit to the race. Proud to say the colored people are ahead of the white people in that respect, there being not an infirmary for the white people in the city. Dr. Burt is called by all one of the finest surgeons in the country.

2013 Observation by Onitaset Kumat:
No Change. While Africans today do appear “clean,” our cleaning is wholly dependent. Where the European neglects to clean us, we neglect to be cleaned. The European even sells us dirty meat and “we go along with it.” See: http://africanbloodsiblings.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/is-the-chicken-that-you-eat-chicken-or-pork/

Question: What is the condition of colored people whom you know in regard to the following? Personal Honesty?

1914 Answers:

Very little. The Negro here is divided and it is impossible to look for personal honesty where each one of any race feels that his success depends upon the destruction of all else besides and that he has a right to a part of whatever the other fellow has, his own improvidence notwithstanding.

They are not honest to themselves. Therefore cannot be to their fellowmen.

No. Here again the tendency is quick and easy money with the least effort.

They are not as honest and trust-worthy as they might be. A great deal of this is due to the leadership of many of those who have had better advantages than the masses trying to take advantage of the weaker and less fortunate to build up their own wealth.

Good toward the white but only fair toward each other.

Good. On a whole the people are hard-working, honest people. Much given to extravagance of dress and entertaining. This has a tendency to impair them financially.

I don’t consider our people actually dishonest but their love to ape the white man in his more expensive living, dress, etc., compels the little money they make to give out and then that is the cause of the trouble. He means well but after getting into debt as a result of these things he finds he cannot get out. This is found more so among the so-called better class. They do but little stealing.

Good. In only a few cases have the servants around white homes or at the places of work violated any trust imposed. Whites have taken advantage of the Negro’s honesty and his abnormal wants. They sell him cheap furniture at high prices on time and lend him money at exorbitant rates of interest and many are kept in real need due to poor management.

They are fairly honest but apparently the law is extreme with most of them. Within ten years only one Negro has been arrested and convicted for dishonesty.

I think, the percentage of petit thievery is too great. I think, too, that this is due to the fact that many Negroes think that the white race took all from them in slavery and that they are justified to get what they can from them now even by theft. Then too, the white race offers very little inducement to inspire the Negro to look upward.

As a rule good. This applies especially to the lower class people. It is a fact that the only Negro bank here has gone to the wall. Many of the Negro business enterprises have gone down as a result of dishonesty. Our leading doctor and several of our leading colored wealthy men are now in the courts charged with stealing church money. It is a common saying here that “You must do this fellow or he will do you.”

As a whole the colored people are honest. It is wonderful to what extent the servant class is trusted by their white employers. If it were not for their honesty they would not be tolerated. Where a Negro appears dishonest, it is more the fault of the economic and socia conditions forst upon him than because of any real defect in his morality. A study of the criminal Negro reveals more delinquency on the part of modern society to give the Negro a chance to be honest than it reveals any disposition on the part of the Negro to be dishonest. He is forst into what often appears dishonesty. The true morality of the Negro is found largely in the awful conditions under which he is forst to live.

2013 Observation by Onitaset Kumat:
No Change. Africans are more honest with Europeans than with one another. In our interactions, it’s implicit that we should not put full faith in one another. When we do, we are burned. See: http://africanbloodsiblings.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/the-allegory-of-the-three-salesman/

Question: What is the condition of colored people whom you know in regard to the following? Home Life?

1914 Answers:

Family ties are alarmingly too loose, concubinage too common and divorces too popular.

The home life among colored people in the South is so much like that other employment, farming, in which many of us are engaged without a clear knowledge of the rules governing it. For reasons which we will not discuss here, home has not meant and does not mean to the average colored man what it means to some others living under the same flag.

A great deal of the property of the city is owned by colored people.

This among the religious and educational part of the Negro people according to my experience is fairly good, but much improvement is needed among the less fortunate.

The majority of our people are lovers of home and while property is high yet they are making the struggle to make the home-life pleasant and agreeable. Recently in our daily paper an article appeared stating that we owned more property for our numbers than any other race.

There is little real home life due to long working hours and large numbers of secret organizations which take both men and women away from home. Their small wages prevent home from being made attractive.

Every grade and condition of home-life is to be found. The fundamental sacredness of home is absent, however, in even the best. Pride of appearance extends to size of house rather than to condition; but the interiors are artistic and in many cases the reflection of keen artistic sense of owners. Desire for pleasure and lack of opportunities to labor for high returns change many homes to lodging houses with the attendant evils to young girls. Owned homes and homes on principal streets grow by leaps and bounds. No suburban life of any account.

Better classes of colored people have good home life. Among the lower elements it is deplorable.

The Negro home life is far from what it ought to be and that is very evident in the conduct of his children. Taking the Negro as a whole you find very rare cases where the father and mother are both proper examples for their children.

Too careless. Much rather the outer world see their greatness than use scant means at home where they are needed.

He has more respect for the marriage vow than in former times; home and surroundings in general are more comfortable; therefore, home life is more ideal.

Most of the folk are renters and take little interest in where they live and how.

Home life is not ideal, by any means. The conduct of the children in the school rooms and on the streets is the greatest proofs of this statement. Parents being in service has much to do with the great deficiency.

They, for the most part, have well furnisht, well kept houses. There is almost always music but seldom a proper supply of good books. Few comparatively subscribe for a daily paper.

Miserable; fifty per cent of which is due to poverty and lack of time to develop same in the struggle for an existence.

Is improving. For a long time there was this complaint: few children were found in the homes of people of intelligence. There is great improvement along this line but most of the mothers are very young. They need mothers’ clubs to instruct them for they send their children to school without any breakfast and give them money with which they buy pickles and doughnuts.

Improving constantly and yet there is a large margin left for further improvement. At least a third own homes, but many are careless in their keeping of them. Just at this time there is a new awakening among the people in the matter of purchasing homes. This they do mostly thru Building and Loan Associations.

On this subject, as far as their means will permit, they score as high a percentage as any in the country. I think the whites here have the greater number of divorces.

None too good. Conjugal infidelity is common both with spouses and divorces from that cause are very rare. Many of our people come in here from those parts of the South where it is not considered a disgrace for a young woman to bear an illegitimate child.

There is very little real home life among the colored people in this city because they have to live in tenements and flats. I speak of the masses, not the exceptions.

I know of instances where a comparatively poor family has taken some sick person or friendless one in to share their shelter and food.

In the majority of homes the men seem not to realize their responsibility.

Far below normal; many are impure and their habits of life are too bad for the public to know.

Parents could be stricter on children.

Turbulent, or there would not be so many divorce cases.

Judging from the girls who come here, I should think that they did as they pleased and had no proper government.

Sad conditions–constantly moving, renting and mortgaging.

Medium according to surroundings. This is a furnace and publicwork town and women give most of their time to cooking and carrying meals, washing and ironing; consequently they have no time to care for their homes.

Too much time is given to dressing, eating and hunting amusements to spend much time in trying to inculcate the principals of truth, virtue, honesty and cleanliness.

2013 Observation by Onitaset Kumat:
No Change. Yet it appears that Africans owned more during those times and Fathers were more physically present. Also was mentioned Secret Organizations, Mother’s Clubs and Loan Associations. Today we are way more Disorganized. It can be said that we are more Oppressed, but the root of Oppression is Foreign Consciousness, not the conditions thereof, ergo “No Change.” See: http://africanbloodsiblings.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/how-you-can-save-the-african-family/

Question: What is the condition of colored people whom you know in regard to the following? Rearing of children?

1914 Answers:

Greatly neglected in this city. Many parents allow their children to run at large at late hours of the night. They assemble in dives and hang around the corners in great numbers, especially the boys. Many of them are becoming gamblers and idlers.

The children are neglected in many cases from lack of facilities to rear them properly, inadequate schools, necessity of the parents to work and spend little time in the home.

Four fifths of the children are improperly reared. The parents in equal numbers have never had the proper training themselves.

As a majority they are allowed to go too much undisciplined.

These people are gifted in loving their offspring to such an extent as not to bend them in time, so to speak, consequently so many stray.

A very great falling off along this line. Children are allowed to be idle and slothful.

There is a tendency to permit children to have too many liberties before they are really able to see for themselves or really know what are the consequences that result from too early taking upon themselves the responsibility which belongs to mature years and I believe the parent is wholly in error.

Children are much on the streets and in cheap places of amusement and are harmed.

This, formerly considered the duty of parents, has been delegated to the public schools. Our children are longer in contact with their teachers and under their influence than with and under their parents. Modern conditions.

All grades of care and neglect are to be found in the children of the same schools. Proper feeding and hygiene are the deficiencies. Children of Negroes are dependent upon the schools to a greater extent than the whites for all ideals of living, even in the best homes. Too much dress and cheap pleasure and too little formation of right habits characterize the people as a whole.

If there is any one thing that should be establisht it is a school to teach our people how to rear their children. For God knows they don’t know and don’t care.

They are somewhat careless with their children. The principle of their training comes from mothers and when the boys reach a certain age they are beyond her reach.

I do not think that parents are quite as strict with their children as they were when I was a child.

Entirely too lenient in rearing their children and hire them out to work too young.

Parents don’t seem to be taking enough time to teach children what they ought to know and to encourage them to do what they ought to do. They tell them and just pass on, and then wonder why they do not get better results.

Reared in the streets. Some of our best citizens hardly know what their children are doing.

About the ordinary; some spoiled and over-fed; others neglected and go unwashed; nothing unusual.

There is a great laxity. Not enough education, especially in the higher branches. Too great a stress on dressing.

They raise themselves.

They drift to the city too soon. They should be put to work.

Altho many of our children are neglected and allowed to run to the moving picture shows and public dances at night unaccompanied, yet the “Parent-Teachers’ Association” is making a winning fight to give assistance to incompetent mothers.

Among the lower classes, the children are left entirely to the teachers.

Not so carefully raised as in former years. Parents of the second generation after slavery do not seem to be so expert in that art as their ex-slave parents.

Children are given too great liberties. There is not enough of the wise restrictions that aid positively toward the building of character.

Fair, but girls are cared for more than boys which is always a danger. Out of two hundred school children less than a dozen illegitimate ones among them.

Some of the best women we have in morals and education, are the poorest housekeepers. They are just now beginning to appreciate being taught sewing, cooking and manual training in the schools. They are not the equal of the older people in rearing children.

I know of only one family where the children were desired. Ninety per cent were either accidental or incidental. Very little pride. Sixty per cent are legitimate. Very little interest taken in them.

Many are by far too easy with them. Even our curfew can hardly keep them off the street at night. Their entertainment is left too much for their selection.

The teachers and preachers need to thunder forth a change. There is too much laxity, children are not taught to obey their parents and superiors as they should; they are allowed to go and come too much at will without reporting to superiors; to visit pool rooms, saloons, dances and places of cheap notoriety.

Their children are not cared for as they should be on account of our mothers being called from home much of the time to help make the living.

It is very difficult for the average colored people in this city to rear their children. They have no places in which they may play except the parks and streets; often the parks are far away.

The children have very little of a father’s care and on a whole not enough of a mother’s.

Receives great attention among the people of our race and every school is supported by strong mothers’ clubs who go side by side with teachers in the welfare of the children.

The Father’s Club is doing a grand work. Pastor and people alike have united to see that the children are trained in the home and that good instruction is gently given them.

The teaching of the leaders and especially of teachers is having more weight in our state. So that there is better family government. Parents are firmer in seeing that home regulations are obeyed.

Parents are not giving the attention to their children that they should so as to have them grow up the most useful men and women. In the sections where it is possible to secure homes, that is, purchase homes, the conditions are much improved; but here in the coal fields where it is impracticable to purchase homes, the people have made but slight improvement. There is a large orphanage at Huntington, W. Va.

We have here a parents’ union in which we aim to discuss the practical things of life such as amusements, associations and dress, in fact any phase of life which will benefit the child.

2013 Observation by Onitaset Kumat:
No Change. The Art of Parenting has certainly been lost on us. It is very impressive to review this and see that some of our ancestors formed “Mother’s Clubs,” “Father’s Clubs” and “Parents’ Union” to the point of teaching Parenting, but we are more disorganized than then (and these were not widespread.) See: http://africanbloodsiblings.wordpress.com/2012/07/25/what-is-parenting/

Question: What is the condition of colored people whom you know in regard to the following? Wholesome amusement for young people?

1914 Answers:

Very little wholesome amusement if any is provided for the young people, hence, they seek the amusement which is not best for them nor for any race.

Wholesome amusement for young people is insignificant when compared with the hurtful amusements, such as gambling, drinking intoxicating liquors, frequenting what is known as “Honky-tonks” etc.

The majority of them seem to take more delight in the unwholesome.

The communities are in poor condition as to wholesome amusement.

As to the wholesome amusement for the young people we use such as the Christian endeavor, Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. and libraries.

I find that steps are being taken by many intelligent leaders to furnish the young people with wholesome amusements. Many are making the effort to eliminate the dance by the skating rink and such other amusements as will take up their time at times when they usually go to the dance halls.

There is almost none. Here is the greatest avenue for the service of the social worker.

We are wofully lacking in this. The most of the amusements for our young people are furnisht by white people whose interest is financial returns.

In churches only.

Fraternal societies occupy much of their time. The theatre and dance halls form some amusement but ought to be engaged in by the young under parental guidance or ministerial advice, especially the dances.

Y. M. C. A. and churches are seeking to furnish wholesome amusement, but the masses are not attracted.

School play-grounds are in existence but sex contact spoils most of their results for children over twelve. Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. are engaged in work which are giving better opportunities for adolescents, but fundamental racial feelings are being disregarded for imitation of methods in white institutions of same kind. Culture clubs exist among classes but are offset by cheap dances which attract splendid female possibilities with the usual results. Syncopated music with its sensual stimulus is in every house with a piano and dancing at any hour.

Woefully deficient. Too much time devoted to getting ready for heavenly citizenship; too little for earthly citizenship.

There are no special arrangements made for amusements for children in and thruout this section. Hence, they seek their own amusements.

The church should furnish such but alas it seems that the church has partially joined the rag time amusements which seem to be the only kind which will draw a crowd. To build churches our people seem willing to sacrifice all.

What a fair-minded person would call none for persons between the ages of twelve and twenty years.

Vaudeville theatre and moving pictures are among the chief amusements of the young people.

Not being furnisht as it should be. Hence they amuse themselves with things that destroy them.

Movies, I believe, have an unwholesome effect upon the young people. Roller skating, rag-time music, cabaret songs, and ugly suggestions of the big city are all pernicious. The dancing clubs in the big cities are also vicious.

The Mothers’ Club and the Association mentioned above are trying to supply this great need, knowing that children are truly social beings.

The Dunbar Athletic Club devotes a good bit of its time to provide wholesome amusement for the young. The children are trained in many athletic sports and have several meets a year.

In the abstract, all public amusement (of which there is much here) is open to the race; yet, nevertheless, there is need and want of something more racial in character to bring them more closely together in social contact and intercourse.

Does not receive the attention that should be given it by the parents here. Very often as a result boys and girls are thrown with bad associations which have their demoralizing effects.

I think that we are a sleeping people when it comes to amusements for young people. Little or nothing is being done. Personal efforts were abandoned for lack of support.

No definite kinds–sometimes baseball, tennis, croquet, socials, etc. A few have them but this is greatly neglected in the home. Therefore the streets and public places draw many of the young people to resorts of low repute and demoralizing habits.

Real advancement–popular lectures, concerts, etc.

Moving picture shows maintain a high level. Vaudeville does not edify. Shows generally fair. Concerts and lectures uplifting.

The development of a true home life and the increast personal care given to the young in the matter of educating them in mind and heart, both are, in my opinion, showing themselves also in the growth of a proper sense of the necessity that suitable and helpful as well as instructive and developing amusement be provided; such amusement as will polute not the mind and corrupt not the heart will attract and sustain the interest of the child.

Have about gone into rag-time. No one has charge of affairs except the Police Recorder.

Social centres are in vogue thruout the city for pastime and amusement for our young and work a great benefit in training the young how to amuse themselves in wholesome games.

Dancing, ball playing.

Literary meetings and church socials.

Has received but little attention but thru the Parents’ Union we hope to arouse the parents. Indiscriminate nickelodium attendance is common here. Parents are careless about attending different places of amusement with their children.

In many sections they are few and far between. The dance halls are the curse of the day.

2013 Observation by Onitaset Kumat:
No Change. Social Centres were referenced which reminds Loyal readers about the African Blood Siblings Community Centers, but as we can see, “There grows no wheat where there is no grain,” and there are no grain for Youth Amusements. Oftentimes “Conscious” events are absent of young people. Despite that in Africa Youth Amusements were a norm. See: http://africanbloodsiblings.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/of-dances-for-enjoyment-by-mtoro-bin-mwinyi-bakari/

Question: What is the condition of colored people whom you know in regard to the following? Caring for old people?

1914 Answers:

Much attention is given. Have old people’s homes here for colored supported by the colored people.

A committee of colored citizens have establisht an Old Folks’ and Orphans’ Home and an attempt is made to care for the old people.

There is no organized effort to care for the old people nearer than the city of Birmingham.

Old people who have homes or people who are able to see after them are cared for by their people. As a rule the old people who have not someone to care for them see a very hard time.

Women’s clubs here do a most commendable work in this respect, especially the Dunbar Club.

I can point to a good many Old Folks’ Homes started and maintained by colored women. Dozens of cases of young people giving up education and pleasures for aged parents come under my notice annually.

Our Women’s Club and one or two of the churches assist the aged.

A philanthropic association by the name of the Buckingham-Smith Association left considerable cash, stocks, bonds, real estate, etc., all of which is very valuable to the old colored people of St. Augustine. The value exceeds over a half million but it is now in the hands of a white man who gives a small pittance to a few now and then. This gift is worthy of investigation but the colored people here seem afraid to tackle it. The leading whites say that something should be done about it.

They die here before they get old. Notwithstanding, Pensacola has begun to operate an Old Folks’ Home and Orphan Home.

No arrangement is made for them. They are left to individual care of whoever may do for them. A number are cared for by their former white employers.

There seems to be a growing pride in the Old Folks’ Home. The churches are establishing them and the Women’s Clubs as well.

I really believe better efforts would be put forth in this respect if the Negro’s salary was better. His spirit is willing but his pocket weak.

An old and invalid hospital home. In place of the old people going to the poor farm, we get the County Courts to let us have them in the Hospital and give us what it would cost to keep them at the poor farm and we beg the rest of the money necessary.

Great interest manifested in the past ten years due, I think, to the fact that white people are gradually withdrawing their support along this line.

2013 Observation by Onitaset Kumat:
No Change. Although then it seemed we had Women’s Clubs, Old Folk Homes and so forth, it was also then that “Social Security” was rare. This suggests we became more Dependent on Europeans and our Independent Institutions lost their support. It can be said that we got worse, but again, our Oppression is a matter of Foreign Consciousness not our conditions. For instance, we know little of longevity. See: http://africanbloodsiblings.wordpress.com/2012/08/18/the-secret-of-african-longevity/

Question: What is the church doing along these lines?

1914 Answers:

Sorry to say that the church seems backward along these lines. The Negro minister has not yet been trained for social service. He is a slave still to the old individualism. At present the school is the chief agency along these lines.

Nothing. Our pastors are advising all the time but the people are far from us so we can’t do anything but tell them and give the plans. The regular societies connected with all the churches do their part. Nearly every church has its special young people’s society and occasional concert or social–that is about all. The churches mostly content themselves with frowning upon conditions without taking the lead in substituting better ones.

Altogether too little. Individuals are helpt but many I fear go unaided. The large Episcopal churches of this and other cities spend much money in rendering help but the smaller ones fail to do the little they might do. Aside from ordinary church work we have Saturday morning classes for girls in sewing and physical culture with paid teachers; Saturday afternoon classes for boys in electrical experiments, photography and physical culture; weekly free socials for young people. We continue to support our poor.

Rather, what effect have these conditions on the church? The church is less concerned about the improvement of morals and manners and personal honesty, the home life, the rearing of children, etc., than about getting money and preaching the gospel of materialism.

The young peoples’ societies are largely literary in their nature and the Sunday school is perfunctory. Intensive study of Bible history is neglected and little interest is manifested in social activities outside of the church as a unit of property. Even church weddings are less common. Catholic and Episcopal churches seem to be striving to imitate the activities of their parents. Moving pictures and spectacular entertainments take much time formerly given to church activities. The Negro Protestant church needs to learn the truth uttered by Van Dyke somewhere, “The man who aims to save his own soul is on the road to Heaven but will never arrive; while he who serves his fellows cannot miss the goal”.

Some of the churches are doing some good while most of the smaller ones only preach Heaven and Hell and never tell their people how to live each day.

The church is doing most along these lines by establishing institutions of learning and the many small domestic schools which it maintains. The Negro pulpit is well up on teaching religion but deficient in the science of hygiene and the rules of right living.

Very little as the minister is almost alone so far as this work is concerned.

Nothing. City and state authorities protect places which are breeding crime and criminals and the preachers have made no organized effort to destroy these places.

Practically nothing. Ladies’ Club doing excellent work. Civic League also is especially interested in this work.

It has organized Missionary Societies, B. Y. P. U., Old Folks’ Home and a Young People’s League.

Gradually awaking to the real sense of its real duty, rather than the Lodge doing it all. Our missionary societies are doing a grand work.

Not much. It cannot as it seems that all they can do is to meet current expenses and keep out of debt. There ought to be fewer churches and larger congregations. We need to study up in Church Economy. Our pastor can preach to a thousand as easily as to a hundred, then the salary of the other two pastors would be better.

Practically nothing that is worthy of note. The average church is so deeply in debt that it takes all of its energies to look out for its debt.

More than they have ever done in helping on in the good work mentioned under the above questions. There is a less and less influence now being exerted by the ministerial hobo and vicious “whangdoodle” in the pulpit than before. The preacher who succeeds is finding that it requires more than a strong voice and a saintly moan and hallelujah groan to hold a respectable charge these days and that religious life must more and more show itself.

We have seven handsome churches which are in a prosperous and thriving condition and are doing much good for the uplifting of our people. Each church has its B. Y. P. U. or other society for the uplift of our people.

Not as much as the lodges. There is a number of lodges and every one belongs to one or more lodges and insurances and in that way everybody is cared for; but the churches are doing very little altho people have church pride. We have seven good churches, four brick, three frame and people attend well and think a great deal of their churches.

They help some along these lines but not as they could or should; this is due to the fact that out of ten churches, nine are led by ignorant, mercenary ministers, whose only aim is self gain. The secret orders do more for the uplift than the churches.

Not what it might do for the reasons that too much attention is given to the secret societies to do this work.

Just about what the average Negro church does and that is not much. They seem to emphasize the spiritual rather than the social life.

2013 Observation by Onitaset Kumat:
No Change. Although quite a few mentions go to Secret Societies and Lodges, as well as Ladies’ Clubs. It does show that Organization was and is the answer; but also that we are less Organized today. As repeated, while this can seem like we are in worse conditions, our problem is Foreign Consciousness, not our conditions. “Judge by Cause not Effect.” See: http://africanbloodsiblings.wordpress.com/2012/03/23/excerpt-from-the-foreword-of-a-quest-for-spiritual-transformation/

Question: How do present conditions (1914) in these respects compare with conditions ten (or twenty) years ago?

1914 Answers:

Present conditions are indeed encouraging. Ten or twenty years ago the situation was quite different. “Let us then be up and doing” and success will crown our efforts.

They are two hundred per cent better now than they were twenty years ago.

There is not much general improvement in a general way over that ten years ago. There is considerable improvement being done by individuals but no concerted efforts on the part of the people generally.

People are much wiser but no better and we might truthfully say it might be worse, because much learning with a corrupted heart makes people more wicked.

In the present condition there is a vast change. The people have nice churches and schools, societies, good roads and nice homes which they did not have ten or twenty years ago.

Conditions to-day compared with ten or even twenty years ago are almost too far ahead to suffer comparison. The almost innumerable benevolent, fraternal and church institutions have raised this question beyond the point of speculation or experiment.

I believe we were better then morally; now we excel along other lines.

Surpass them with exception of good morals and manners.

My hope is that the condition existing will arouse us to our sense of duty. The need is greater and greater. People from the Southland are flocking to the northern cities and the privileges as they call them are often engaged in to the detriment of their health. As a result age or disease siezes them and they become wards. This illustrates individual cases. On the other hand the man born on southern soil is the most thrifty class among us.

With reference to morals and training of children conditions do not seem as hopeful as ten years ago. This may be due to the fact that long residence has given us better knowledge.

The general average is higher than ten or twenty years ago but in different directions. More effort is expended to make money for money’s sake. The standard of dressing is higher and more becoming. The ambitions are more rational. The morality is more conscious. The chastity of girls is more deliberate. The care of the body is gaining its respect. The preparations for living is longer and better. Marriage is postponed and the size of families reduced thru regard for children as well as aim to live well.

It seems as if the race is short of competent leaders and is at a loss as to proper instruction. Moving pictures and places of fun and amusement seem to be in majority on the Sabbath day.

Ten or twenty years ago the colored people were not as able as they are now to do what they desired to do.

Ten or twenty years ago, our people were in a better condition religiously and morally. You askt me my candid opinion and I have given it. I do not mean to say that this applies to every one in the race but the majority.

I think in many ways they are better while in some of them I think they have taken a decided fall especially in rearing their children and in sound morals.

They are far different now than twenty years ago. There was more union and we used more cordiality among ourselves and punctuality made us live better then than now in many ways; and in some ways we are better off; in some ways by having our own publications.

Now, as a matter of fact, I believe that the times are better but the church in some respects has lost his grip on young people and they no more go to church or enjoy themselves as they did in days gone by.

Some are in the front of that time and some are in the rear.

In the matter of homes, rearing of children and caring for the old there is decided improvement over the conditions that obtained ten years ago. The morals and manners of the children are also better.

To my judgment morals are growing worse and raising children the same; but other matters have improved ten to thirty per cent.

The help which we are getting from white people, especially northern white friends, has lifted us to that degree.

There is a perceptible advancement along all worthy lines.

They are not as good. This is an exceptionally bad place. The morals are the lowest here of any place I have ever been.

Cannot say. I have lived here only eight years and it seems that immediate circumstances are making the race restless and unstable. Of course, the older and wiser ones are careful and by their frugality are accumulating means and getting real estate.

Ninety per cent are worse than they were ten or twenty years ago.

He is better prepared to-day than he was twenty years ago.

I do not know so much about twenty years ago, but there is a wonderful improvement on forty years ago. Much of it is due to having more property. I do not know as the disposition to be upright and prudent is much more than forty years ago. Our people are making great strides in bettering their condition.

There seems to be less individual pride relatively and less individual feeling of responsibility, but greater effort collectively than we have had before.

This city is a Mecca for the criminals from other places and is growing worse. The school advantages are excellent.

Children have less respect for parents than they did twenty years ago and lack the modesty and courtesy of long ago.

Some very great progress has been made in many different directions; I think the race has lost what it may not retrieve in a great many years by the easy acceptance of false standards–too much gaudy gloss, fine feathers, no fixt notions, excuses, promises, resolutions, determinations, etc.

We are more easily discouraged, farther apart, more jealous, better educated, more restless and less persistent than we were ten years ago.

In comparing conditions would say that in every respect, it is a great increase, except in rearing children. The new mother is too indulging.

Many are still in the dark and are a shame and disgrace to the race. Yet, in the past decade, the ranks of those going “Onward and Upward,” have greatly increast.

The last decade has been a decade of progress except probably along the lines of commercial honesty. The American greed has greatly influenct the Negro.

There is no apparent improvement whatever. Immorality and ignorance reign supreme. The greatest impediment in the way of general improvement among the colored people is its poor public school system.

The improvement has been so markt and wonderful that one would hardly realize that we are the same people. Taking all in all, I think that you who carry the torch of advancement in these matters have reason to be exceedingly glad.

There seems an improvement in all save in morals and personal honesty, in which there seems a decline.

I think there is improvement along all lines,–less in morals, in my judgment, than anywhere else.

They are worse in many respects. The Negro is being lured by the vanities and superficialities of life and is losing the seriousness of twenty years ago.

In many respects, conditions are not as good as they were ten years ago and in some they are better. The young people seem to be disregarding church and are going after the evil things of life. It seems to be the home that is not discharging its duty to the children.

Speaking for this vicinity alone, there appears a seventy-five per cent advancement, except in religious worship. In this respect, there seems to be a strong tendency to “Stick to the oft-trodden path.”

There is some improvement; one good sign is, these people seem wiling to follow a competent leader.

There appears to be a gradual improvement along all lines, except it is now more difficult for colored men to secure good employment at fair wages.

The conditions of say ten years ago are vastly different. The child has become the parent, therefore, it makes discipline wanting.

There are to my mind not as good as twenty years ago. People are careless and unconcerned about these things. Everybody must look out for himself, and not be interested in any one else much. Live if you can, if not, die. “Might is right” is the slogan now with the people.

They have more money, more property, live in better houses, have better schools and their opportunities along all lines are better; but they seem to lack ambition for those things to make them useful. Education, spiritual development, strict home rules are things of the past and held very cheap here; but money, fine dress, a big house to live in are the things they are striving for here, regardless of other things and at any sacrifice.

Ten years has made quite a difference for the better, especially financially and intellectually. More could have been done on other lines.

There seems to me to be a steady growth in the right direction all along the line with the possible exception of rearing of children. I sometimes think of the past generation, how they were more on the Puritan line.

Sound morals decreasing. Personal honesty decreasing. On the whole, I believe there is an improvement.

This is a new state and town. The town is a little more than eight years old. I judge conditions are about as they would be in any newly opened country where mines are opened. Hence, it requires time and patience, energy and money to bring about the needed reformations.

I think there is an advance in this regard, but nothing to what it should be. Colored people ought to learn to look after their own people as other races are doing.

The developing sense of ownership, as is evident by the increasing number of home buyers; exhibition and cultivation of personal and racial pride; the markt decrease in illiteracy; and the attention, protection and forethot given to those who have braved the wars of time, and who scarce tell of their conflicts with varied vicissitudes; these conditions and more compare most favorably with those of a decade or two, thus giving hope to all.

I have been in the practice of medicine for the last twenty years, and this work has given me a different insight into the real life of our people. Previous to that I taught school, and thot then that we were making fair progress. In this state everything is as bad as anyone should want to see it. In my opinion, most if not the greatest progress that we have made has been in getting homes and farms etc.; but I am aware that the most valuable asset we can have is men and women of character and efficiency.

In all these respects there has been, in my opinion, a great advance. The thousands of lodge members, who in the secret meetings are taught valuable lessons of duty and destiny and receive therein earnest training in the matters involved in their relation to themselves, to their neighbor and their God, are having great influence in showing and setting good examples of the necessity of recognizing the moral obligations resting upon them in all their relations in life. The better schools and the cleaner pulpits are also helping ably in this great improvement that I believe is daily going on all around us.

Much improved, resulting from the progress of education and constant agitation along the above lines. The people are being aroused and are moving towards the light. They are knowing the truth, which is setting them free.

There have been advancements in enlightenment along all lines except sound morals. There I cannot see much improvement owing I suppose, to transitory people who do not care for building up as they are not long in a place.

It seems to be a day of reaction. In some respects, they are better; and in some, apparently worse. There is more intelligence of a kind, but not the improvement in manners, morals, parental training that you would expect. The Negro has far to come. He had to go so far and reverse himself and begin again. Moral growth is very slow and the teaching, training and development of our young is a work of generations.

Conditions are growing worse; we have been flattered and we flatter ourselves with the idea of the contrast.

I am thoroly acquainted with conditions in almost every city of Texas. Sorry to say, but I firmly believe the conditions in this city are worse today than formerly.

This is a hard question to answer, but I think I may safely say that social and economic conditions are making it more difficult in every way for the Negro to make an excellent moral showing.

Except the freedom of children, everything better. The strain is too great on the bodies and souls of the young people. If they could only find amusement and happiness in their own homes, instead of the public places, there would be less vice, disease and death.

Conditions are not as good now as they were twenty years ago. Our leaders fear to speak of the true condition; they seem to think it will be detrimental to their financial gains. In this section, I think conditions are a little better than they were five years ago.

All things considered, conditions are more hopeful due to education of the masses, and largely to civic organizations.

Dancing, games and organized play for young colored folk must be openly encouraged or they will be pushed, as they are to-day, into the furtive and questionable.

2013 Observations by Onitaset Kumat:
Change. We have gotten more deeply Colonized. Though the 1914 answers read like they are 2013 answers. Clearly, the African Blood Siblings is necessary. See: http://africanbloodsiblings.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/the-fourth-necessity/

1914 Observation by W. E. B. Du Bois:
(a) That many economic forces of the South depend largely on the courts for a supply of labor.

The really dangerous excess of Negro crime would appear to be in assault and homicide, fighting and killing. Here again interpretation is difficult: How much of these are aggressions on whites, repelling of white aggressions on Negroes, and brawling among Negroes themselves? Undoubtedly the majority of cases belong to the last category, but a very large and growing number come under the other heads and must be set down to the debit of the race problem.

Any Negro tried for perjury, assault, robbery, rape, homicide, arson, burglary, larceny or fraud is going to get a severer penalty in the South than a white man similarly charged. This the white community judges to be necessary and its decisions are carried out by police forces, police magistrates and juries drawn from the white classes whose racial prejudices are strongest. The higher judges tend toward greater independence but even they must stand in fear of the white electorate, whose power is exercised at short intervals.

Next to this stands the fact that in the South road-building, mining, brickmaking, lumbering and to some extent agriculture depend largely on convict labor. The demand for such labor is strong and increasing. The political power of the lessees is great and the income to the city and state is tempting. The glaring brutalities of the older lease system are disappearing but the fact still remains that the state is supplying a demand for degraded labor and especially for life and long term laborers and that almost irresistibly the police forces and sheriffs are pusht to find black criminals in suitable quantities.

Alexander Crummell in writing of his darker sister said:
In her girlhood all the delicate tenderness of her sex has been rudely outraged. In the field, in the rude cabin, in the press-room, in the factory, she was thrown into the companionship of coarse and ignorant men. No chance was given her for delicate reserve or tender modesty. From her childhood she was the doomed victim of the grossest passion. All the virtues of her sex were utterly ignored. If the instinct of chastity asserted itself, then she had to fight like a tiger for the ownership and possession of her own person, and ofttimes had to suffer pain and lacerations for her virtuous self-assertion. When she reacht maturity all the tender instincts of her womanhood were ruthlessly violated. At the age of marriage–always prematurely anticipated under slavery–she was mated as the stock of the plantation were mated, not to be the companion of a loved and chosen husband, but to be the breeder of human cattle for the field or the auction block.

Source: http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/morals/dubois.html

PDF Version: E Book (Pages 134-136 missing)

More Du Bois studies: http://www.webdubois.org/wdb-AtlUniv.html

“The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.” — Booker T. Washington

In “Ibn Battuta in Black Africa” by Said Hamdun and Noel King, the authors have an Appendix on East Africa which excerpts Mtoro Bin Mwinyi Bakari’s “The Customs of the Swahili People.” Mtoro was physically African but mentally non-African: he took up the Asian Islamic faith and betrayed our race by marrying a European German woman. Notwithstanding these errors, he has put his attempt to preserving our ancestral customs and from the attempt we gain insight into what Community is. Over a year ago I shared with you the positive account of our ancestry as given by the Asian Ibn Battuta. Today, see for yourself what good it would be to be self-determining.

Certainly, a reader will see signs of slavery, tribalism and shaming in the following songs and notes. In perspective, these were our colonized ancestors (the Swahili and the above authors), the result of Asian Slavery, a harsh, grotesque practice that precedes European Slavery; yet also you will see signs of leadership, courtship and mentorship–really pay attention to the beautiful Kigoma dance and the competitions. It’s these aspects which the African Blood Siblings are organizing to emulate. When you assist the African Blood Siblings, as by donating or enlisting, you will be assisting African-Nationalism, Pan-Africanism and Restorism. Ase!

Of Dances for Enjoyment
Excerpt from, “The Customs of the Somali People”
By Mtoro Bin Mwinyi Bakari

OF ANCIENT DANCES

From ancient times the greatest expression of joy at weddings or on other occasions is the dance. If there is rivalry, they dance. All love the dance, the very old and the young. Even jumbes dance, for everybody loves it.

THE GREAT DANCE (OR THE BIG DRUM)

It is originally the dance of chieftancy. For it two drums are placed on beds in the yard and beaten with two sticks. The drummer, unless he is a jumbe, bares his head and feet, and the piper, if he is a slave, has bare feet, and the horn player too; but a freeman retains his cap.[1]

After these drums the third great drum is set up on a log. It is called mkuwiro, and it is the most important of the great drums. When these drums are beaten, the people dance, two at a time. They must be freemen: it is not the custom for slaves to dance the great dance. When the freemen dance, they bare their heads and feet.[2] When jumbes dance, they do not bare their heads or feet. A shaha or waziri dancing with a jumbe takes off his turban but not his cap. The dancers hold swords in their hands and ance with them, and when a jumbe dances he has two attendant slave girls, who circle with him. This dance has no songs.

THE SENDEMRE DANCE

The most common competitive dance in the past was the sendemre.[3] For this a big drum is placed in the yard with two cbopuo, a mrungura, a pipe, and a metal tray.[4] The big drum is set in the fork of a tree and beaten with two wooden sticks. The piper has a platform built for him in a tree. It is made of mats in the shape of a house. He has a bed made for him up there and a shade of betel branches. He plays and sings, and the people below respond with words such as:

We were together; now we are apart.
You eat from wooden platters; you have no plates at home.
Let us sew the Mtondoo people in a sack and throw it in the sea.

or:

The Sitirihali folk are slaves; let us use them as slaves.
No very sick person can meet with the Prophet.

or:

Do not incite me to sing, Amri, or you will cry.
Your brother has built a house And runoffto Unyanyembe.[5]

In the dance the men hold swords, machetes, or walking sticks, and the women dance holding bunches of betel, and they dance round the yard. Then a man steps out of line and confronts a woman, and they dance together. This dance used to be danced on high days or wedding days or for fun or for competitions; but it is danced no more.

OF COMPETITIONS

In the old days there wee on the coast many competitions.[6] For this they said, “Let us form a society of one quarter of the town to challenge another.” They chose their leader, a vizier, a counselor, and a messenger. All affairs were referred to the leader–if a man died, or was going to be married, or was bereaved, the leader took charge. The vizier’s business was that if any matter arose in the town, it was referred to the vizier, and he reported to the leader. The counselor was consulted on every matter, and the messenger summoned the people, going to every house to tell them, “Tomorrow there is a meeting at the leader’s at nine o’clock, because somebody is dead,” or “We are going to a funeral,” or “We are going to condole.” Then the society acted as one man. If anything happened to displease the leader, all followed his instructions, and if at a party somebody annoyed the leader, the party broke up.

In their dance competitions they danced all night for six or seven nights of continuous dancing. They spent a great deal of money, because if one society killed two goats, the other would kill four. On the last night of the dance there was a party, and the visitors and the local people were told. Every house made buns, and from every house were snet three pishi of rice and one of wheat flour and butter and sugar.[7] If not, one house was in disgrace.

The song of the competitors is:

Mr. So-and-so, stop your gossip,
The wedding is tomorrow and the fungate next day.
You will be bankrupt; leave Gongoni alone.[8]

and the other society sings:

We ask for peace for the water to flow,
For the kolekole and the kowana to hide.
Do not pass where the enemy is.[9]

This is an account of the competitions; but now they do this less than in the past, for “empty hands are not licked if they hold not a single grain.”

THE CHANDO Dance

There are set up one chapuo (double-ended drum), one vumi (also a drum, but upright)), a mganda, and a pipe. It is performed in the yard by both men and women. They kneel down to dance, and they sing:

Chando is indeed a dance [for adults],
How can you, a little girl, wander about at night?
Chando is indeed a dance.

or:

We have come with the children to light a fire.
We have come with the children to light a fire.
The people of the house are asleep, not awake.
Open the door for me to come in.

THE KIGOMA DANCE

Originally this dance was held at weddings or just for fun. To it were invited men and women. When the women know that today there will be kigoma, they get ready their best clothes and scent themselves. To perform the dance they use a house with a large outer room. The women stay on the roof with buffalo horns, and the men stay downstairs. One is the singer, called the sogora, two play the chapuo, one a vumi, and one a tray and one a pipe.

When the dance starts, the young men come out in their best clothes, with handkerchiefs in their hands. The sogora sings, “Here we are, here we are, you.” Then two of the young men dance, and when they are tired two others relieve them. When the women see the men dancing, they trill on the roof, and they tie in a cloth chains or bracelets or rings to give to the dancers as their reward. Then the leader sings:

So-and-so, son of so-and-so,
Is dancing with his best friend.

and the men and women reply:

Yoo yoo, sir, yoo yoo sir,
He is dancing with his brother.

or:

Sleep, sir, sleep.
Where you slept yesterday, sleep there today.

or:

Like you, like you, like you, hee.
Like you, like you, like you, hee.
We shall get another as good as you.[10]

or:

The way of the monitor lizard, the monitor lizard’s way,
Everywhere he goes, the monitor lizard’s way,
The way of the monitor lizard.

Finally at the end of the dance the rewards given by the women to the men are returned to the women. Those who have them ask, “Whose is this chain?” or “Whose is this ring?” The woman who owns it recognizes it and comes to take it. If the man likes the owner of the chain, he makes an arrangement with her and they become friends. But the flowers fastened to the clothes and called posies are taken by the men. They are made with cardamom and basil and treated with sweat oils. The kigoma is danced for three to seven days. There is no feasting, and the dancing starts in the afternoon or evening.

THE TINGE DANCE

This comes from inland. It is danced by men only and consists of buffeting each other without any drums. They arrange themselves in two rows, one on this side and one on that. They stamp with the right foot and then suddenly raise the right foot. If one raises and lowers it quickly and the other is too slow, he is captured and joins the other side. They sing:

Who comes will be beaten–you,
Who comes will be beaten.

or:

The porpoise diving and coming up.

or:

Friend, O friend,
Move a leg, friend.

or:

The tomato plant grows where you plant it.

or:

Who goes to Pemba, who goes to Pemba,
Greet Mbaruk from Somanga.[11]

or:

Here is one, here is another,
The tinge player is quiet.
Here are two and another two,
The tinge player is quiet.
Here are three and another three,
The tinge player is quiet.
Here are four and another four,
The tinge player is quiet.

and so on up to ten. Then they sing, “Here is none, and here is none.” They cheer over the beaten side, saying, “You are tired, you are tired.” All respond, and they go on playing until they are tired.

THE KIUMBIZI DANCE

This is in the form of a fight. They play the chapuo, the vumi, the upatu (a sheet of metal beaten with a switch), and the pipe. The dance starts at 4 P.M. and goes on until midnight. It is danced under a tree that gives good shade, such as a mango. The young men come dressed in their best kanzu, (shirt almost down to the ankle), and the piper plays:

Come, devil, come, devil,
We will whitewash him.

The young men throw their sticks to each other, meaning that one is inviting another to dance with him. They dance with the sticks, and at first they dance properly with gestures, the sticks clashing together with no ill will; but if one is dancing with one whom he dislikes, for taking his wife or some longstanding disagreement, their enmity comes out in the kiumbizi. When they wish to break off such a kiumbizi at sundown, they play a bondogea roll, and they play with thin sticks and dance with them. Thin sticks are given to children to learn the kiumbizi, and men use them for dancing with children.

The kiumbizi is now danced at weddings; but in old days it was danced at any time.

THE KIDATU or MSOMA DANCE

This is danced by young women, vigori (maidens), wari (initiators), and married women.[12] It is danced at night, and it is danced in the yard, and the men come to watch. The women clap and sing:

Leave me, leave me, Ramadhani, leave me,
Do not strip the whole tree, For a piece of jackfruit.[13]

or:

Learning, you read learning,
The Qur’an with jealousy is not Islam.[14]

or:

When a kigori is pregnant, She is partly a mwari–partly.[15]

or:

She moaned, ah, she moaned,
I am still but a mwari–and she moaned like a cow.

or:

Leave off and take me again,
Leave off and take me again.
To be seduced is bitter.[16]

or:

Not home, not home, Mkwaja is not home.
You eat your grain, and I will eat my yeast.[17]

Notes on “Of Dances for Enjoyment”
By Said Hamdun and Noel King:

1. Jumbe may be translated “chief” and ujumbe “chieftaincy.” In the Bagamoyo context it signified a member of one of the old “royal” families who partook of certain corporate sacral functions going back to ancient times and also exercised some political power. The title has to be distinguished from mwinyi, which often signifies “possessor” or “master” (as a title) or is perhaps the remnant of an older form of government. In German East Africa the term jumbe came to include such posts as mwangi, mtemi, mwami, and mkulungwa.
2. Something may be discerned in the ngoma kuu (great dance) of the elements of Bagamoyo society. A slave may not dance, though a woman slave attendant may circle with a chief. If a slave plays, he does so with bare head and feet. The freemen (the proud waungwana) are prominent, the shaha and waziri who have inherited or attained special status have their place, then come the jumbes.
3. This dance appears to have been danced by factions who sang antiphonally, litanywise (in the case the Mtondoo people and the Sitirihali folk). They seem to have consisted of two great lines or shallow crescents of people facing one another, each line dancing back and forth or sending out “champions” who confronted the other side. Here e see how closely some dances approximate ritual battles.
4. The chapuo is a double-ended drum; the mrungura is a long drum; the pipe is a like a reed flute; and the sound of the playing on a metal tray can be imagined, in that these days a debe, a five-gallon metal drum for carrying gasoline, with some stones in it, can be shaken in time with the music.
5. “Unyanyembe”–the country of the Wanyamwezi, capital Tabora (Kaze) or Urambo, at the junction of the routes to Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika. Swahili traders reached it fairly early in their travels and used it as a base for their expeditions into the Congo and the Buganda.
6. We see here stated on an elemental level the basic human need for factionalism and competition, a need that has generated such diverse events as the rivalry between “houses” artificially set up by the masters in Arnold’s English public-school system, the family plague that beset the late medieval Italian cities so starkly portrayed in Romeo and Juliet, and the civil war that destroyed European hegemony in 1914-18. To sing, dance, and potlatch our hostility seem more enjoyable ways to ruin. Among the Enga of Highland New Guinea, for example, this type of quasi-warfare takes the form of the “pig exchange,” though in some years actual warfare reemerges.
7. Pishi of rice–about four pints or six pounds.
8. Fungate–a part of the wedding celebrations, mentioned above. There is a hint here of a pre-Islamic seven-day week. Gongoni is a quarter of Bagamoyo.
9. Kolekole and kowana–fish, known for stupidity or other such qualities, used here as names for the opposite group.
10. “Like you”–this English translation is ambiguous; the meaning is closer to “similar to.” This is apparently the song of a woman being divorced by her husband.
11. These are islands off the coast of East Africa.
12. In this dance the women of Swahili society appear in their appropriate functions and ranks–maiden, initiate, initator-tutrix, and married woman. There are both African and Arab dances in which very old women played an essential role, but there are not mentioned here.
13. In this verse we may suppose a young woman begs her lover not to rush ahead to sexual intercourse, because all may be ruined by such haste.
14. “Learning” is elimu–Islamic higher studies beyond Qur’an.
15. The kigori is the girl who has not yet been recognized as having had her first menstrual period. Once she is so recognized, she begins the education of initiation and becomes a mwari. A girl’s first ovum may become fertilized if she is having regular sexual intercourse, but beyond this the song speaks of the feelings of any young woman, no matter the calendar age, who finds herself pregnant before she feels ready for children.
16. Velten takes this to be the lament of a man who has been committing adultery and hears from his wife that she has done the same. Innumerable folk songs from England and the United States contain this common theme of the (usually) woman’s sorrow that her lover has coldly packed his bags.
17. Mkwaja is a place between Pangani and Sadan.

“The Problem with Europeans and Asians is Europeans and Asians, the Solution for Africans is Africans” — An African Blood Siblings Core Tenet

In America, May 12th, 2013 is recognized as “Mother’s Day,” a day to acknowledge Women and their toils.  More than most Women, Tawana Brawley needs to be acknowledged by African people; her wages are being garnished for struggling against “Legitimate Rape.”  Our Sister-Warrior Assata Shakur needs to be acknowledged by African people; a bounty is on her head because she flaunts her freedom.  Qubilah Shabazz, Malcolm X’s second daughter, needs to be acknowledged; her son, Malcolm X’s oldest male descendent, was killed three days ago.  Many Africans are doing just that.  Today at 2:00 PM in the Integrity Masonic Temple Tawana Brawley is being honored and thanks to Queen-Mother Dallas the African Blood Siblings has contributed to their Journal.

We are at war.  Tawana Brawley’s battle is one we can win.  Europeans have renewed their battle against her; we must renew our battle for her.  Let’s stand with her, her family and her lawyer, Alton H. Maddox, Jr., on the battlefield.  The surest way to defeat is surrender, the surest way to victory is Organization.

A Tale of Two Women: Brawley and Meili ©
By Alton H. Maddox, Jr.

Within forty-eight hours after Tawana Brawley, who was fifteen years-old, had been found in Dutchess County, NY in a garbage disposal with her body smeared with feces and racial epithets written on it, she was meeting with representatives from federal, state and local law enforcement agencies at her home in Wappingers Falls, NY.

By this time, hospital officials had removed all trace evidence from her body. No pictures were taken of the racial epithets that had been written on it or the burned clothing on her body. An arson investigator from the Dutchess County district attorney’s office, who worked under ADA Steven Pagones, had seized and wrongfully disposed of the rape kit. Tawana had said “white cop” at the hospital in Poughkeepsie, NY.

The meeting with law enforcement officials happened on the Monday after Tawana was found. The NAACP was also present. Both the meeting and the fruits of the meeting were suppressed by law enforcement officials. Later, Robert Abrams, the state attorney general, and other law enforcement officials, would accuse Tawana of not cooperating with them even though they had secured a thirteen page statement from her on that Monday.

The NAACP would later take thousands of dollars from the county and say “hear nothing, see nothing and say nothing”. Two officials of the NAACP, Hazel Dukes and Laurel Blackburne, would become attack dogs for law enforcement officials. Among other things and through the white media, they would demand that Alton Maddox be disbarred from the practice of law and buried under the jail.

Within eighteen hours after Tawana and her parents had met with law enforcement officials, Harry Crist, Jr., a “white cop”, had been found dead in his home. The murder suspects are law enforcement officials. Even though law enforcement officials said that it was a “suicide” accompanied with a “love note”, they were aware that the autopsy report had classified his death as a “homicide” and that there was no ballistics report since no gun had been found near his body. The examining pathologist never saw a “love note” and a gun.

No one in law enforcement officially connected Crist’s death with the kidnapping and rape of Tawana Brawley even though the “handwriting was on the wall”. A white mailman connected the dots in January 1988. Since Tawana had just moved to another residence, law enforcement wanted him to connect dots, before the grand jury, only about mail delivery.

Instead, he disclosed that he observed four white men in an old, unmarked, police vehicle at the garbage disposal of her former apartment near the time that Tawana had been found. A later investigation unearthed that Crist owned the police vehicle and that the occupants on this Saturday morning were Crist, Steven Pagones, an assistant district attorney, Scott Patterson, a state trooper, and Eugene Brinson, a public utility worker. They claimed that they were in Darien, CT at a shopping mall doing some “Christmas shopping” but Pagones had no sales receipts.

Dutchess County District Attorney William Grady would write Gov. Mario Cuomo to ask for the appointment of a special prosecutor to conduct the Brawley investigation. There was a conflict of interest in his office. An assistant district attorney, Pagones, who worked in his office, was a prime suspect. Instead of revealing the contents of this letter to the public, Cuomo gave it to New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams to conduct a “hatchet job”. The letter has never been publicized.

Abrams would commence this cover-up on or about February 29, 1988 by announcing that he not only had no suspects but also that Tawana Brawley has refused to meet with law enforcement officials. Moreover, Crist had killed himself according to Abrams. There was also no physical evidence of a rape. He never mentioned the finding of rape by the Westchester County Medical Center on or about December 4, 1987 after Tawana had been correctly examined by a Black gynecologist. Abrams also failed to mention the stolen rape kit.

Cuomo and Abrams would then march out their “leading Blacks and Black selected officials” to condemn Tawana Brawley and to demand the immediate disbarment of Alton Maddox from the practice of law. Later, conduct would reveal that Rev. Al Sharpton was always functioning with a bent towards New York. This was an inside job.

No elected official can ever operate as a special prosecutor. Abrams was an elected official. During the grand jury investigation, Abrams elevated paid witnesses over fact witnesses. These paid witnesses are described as “experts”. The law permits New York to pay “experts”. It may not pay fact witnesses, however. Fact witnesses must tell the truth. Expert witnesses only give opinions. Abrams elevated opinions over the truth.

By elevating these opinions over the truth, Abrams, and not the grand jury, accused Tawana Brawley of having perpetrated a “hoax” and it accused Maddox of having obstructed justice. If the grand jury had made these findings, Tawana would have had to face a juvenile delinquency proceeding and Maddox would have had to face criminal charges. Neither of the above happened.

In April 1988, Abrams ordered Glenda Brawley to appear before a newly-convened grand jury in Dutchess County and give sworn testimony against her daughter, Tawana Brawley. Truth was the only testimony that Glenda could offer in favor of her daughter. By already suppressing the police report of November 30, 1987, New York had demonstrated no interest in the truth.

Glenda refused this invitation. New York responded by “slapping” her with contempt charges. After she had been found guilty of contempt, Abrams gave her a “cooling-off” period. This was enough time for the late Dr. William A. Jones to receive Glenda into sanctuary at Bethany Baptist Church in Brooklyn since there is a “separation of church and state” in this country.

After virtually forty days and nights in sanctuary, Glenda chose to be a fugitive from justice since the “Old Confederacy” would refuse to enforce New York’s fugitive slave laws. She can only be arrested on New York soil. After leaving the historic Bethany Baptist Church in Brooklyn, Atlanta was the first stop on her itinerary.

The longest running drama in state history, aka a “political trial”, was held in Dutchess County Supreme Court from November 1997 to August 1988. Among other things, Justice S. Barrett Hickman ruled that Tawana Brawley could be tried in absentia even though Pagones had failed to secure an order for the appointment of a guardian ad-litem to protect the interest of a “minor” as is required under New York law.

Justice S. Barrett Hickman of Putnam County, NY also instructed the jury, from the outset, that truth could not be employed as a defense in this defamation trial. In short, no Black person has a right to accuse a white person of any crime in New York and no Black person is competent to testify against any white person. Throughout the “political trial”, Justice Hickman would often repeat this jury instruction.

By the time that Abrams made this accusation, Sharpton was already facing federal and state investigations. Moreover, attorney C. Vernon Mason was facing myriad, disciplinary investigations. Mason had already generated enough disciplinary investigations to “choke a horse”. None of these investigations of Sharpton and Mason related to Tawana Brawley.

A grand jury report had been authored by Abrams and not by the grand jury. This is a violation of law and a grand juror submitted an affidavit outlining the limited role of the grand jury in the Brawley investigation. Even though this grand jury report violated New York law and it constituted odious hearsay, Justice Hickman would introduce it against the four defendants. Hearsay is consistent with an untruth.

Before trial, both Pagones’ father and his wife, through newspaper reports, had given Pagones a complete alibi for the four days in question. During the trial, both of them suffered laryngitis. As officers of the court, they are forbidden from giving perjured testimony at a trial. His wife is an attorney and his father is a judge.

Moreover, Pagones’ wife had been given the same sexually-transmitted disease that Tawana had suffered during the kidnapping and rape. Justice Hickman ordered Steve Jackson, the attorney for Mason, into a jail cell for one-night because he highlighted this truth during the trial. Justice Hickman had warned Jackson that truth could not be used during this “political trial”. After the trial, she ended the marriage.

The jury also found that even though Sharpton and Mason may have told the truth, they failed to comply with the requirements of New York Times v. Sullivan, a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court. Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. and others had been successfully sued for defamation in Alabama. The U.S. Supreme Court reversed this decision in New York Times v. Sullivan

With respect to Maddox, the jury found that in making statements against Pagones, Maddox had complied with New York Times v. Sullivan but Justice Hickman found that Maddox had wrongfully accused white men of crimes. This was defamation under New York’s slave code.

Therefore, he was ordered to pay Pagones for all harm done to white men. White supremacy has its own philosophy, logic and ethics. Because of the doctrine of collateral estoppel, only Maddox continues to accuse Pagones of kidnap and rape. Maddox disrespects New York’s slave code.

Justice Hickman found that it was not necessary for Pagones to have applied for or served a guardian-ad-litem with any legal papers since it was wrong for Tawana to have accused any white man of kidnapping and raping her. There was also no need for an inquest as is required by law before New York could allow for a default judgment.

Pagones is now seeking to enforce a bogus judgment in Virginia. This is illegal since a judgment can only be enforced in a sister state when it is shown that New York had jurisdiction over Tawana Brawley. Only service of process gives personal jurisdiction over a defendant in a civil action.

The public records of New York must show an affidavit of service, an order appointing a guardian ad-litem and a decision on the merits and not a default judgment. Pagones can only show a bogus judgment based on the filing of false instruments. Someone should be in handcuffs since there are no public records in New York about Pagones v. Brawley.

Since Pagones was without any public records in New York to invoke Article IV § 1 of the U.S. Constitution, Virginia should have rejected his application outright or, at the very least, required a due process hearing. Virginia did none of the above to comply with the U.S., Constitution.

Instead, it has given Pagones a retirement income of Three Hundred Dollars every two weeks for the rest of Tawana’s life. Virginia has returned Tawana Brawley to slavery. A white man enjoys lifetime income simply because he raped a Black woman. This should be of great concern to the Obama Administration.

So far, no leading Black or a Black selected official will speak out against the re-enslavement of Black people nor will he or she permit any discussion of the plight of Tawana Brawley on any commercial radio or television station in the United States, white supremacists have been given the edge. No leading Black or Black selected official is expected to be at the Integrity Masonic Temple, 224 MLK Way/Broadway in Paterson, NJ at 2:00 p.m. on Mother’s Day 2013.

Virginia will belatedly allow Tawana Brawley to suffer a belated, kangaroo hearing on July 23, 2013 in Surry, Virginia to legitimize all due process violations. On February 8, 2013, Virginia started to wrongfully allow Pagones to deduct Three Hundred Dollars from her wages every two weeks. This has caused a great, personal hardship and, consistent with slavery, the victim must pay the rapist.

Patricia Meili

Defendants in the “Central Park 7″ were the victims of “stop, frisk, question and arrest”. In this machination, the police seize a “suspect” and later connect the suspect with a crime. This happened to the “Central Park 7″. Now, the future of “stop, frisk, question and arrest”, and not the treatment of the “Central Park 7″, is now on trial in federal court.

The outcome is predictable even though the Fourth Amendment forbids this practice. Under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, “stop, frisk, question and arrest” are still legal in New York. This is the power of a slaveholder. “Stop, frisk, question and arrest” is a “badge of slavery” but lawyers refuse to raise this issue under the Thirteenth Amendment.

Although police officers seized Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana and Steve Lopez, without a warrant and without probable cause, on or about 11:00 p.m. on April 19, 1989, the bloody body of Patricia Meili was not found until about 1:30 a.m. on April 20, 1989. She was still alive. The police now needed suspects to be matched with the crime. This is how “stop and frisk” works.

The crime scene unit of the New York Police Department took over the investigation. There was a rape kit, photographs of Meili’s body and trace evidence. None of this evidence connected the “Central Park 7″ to either the body of Patricia Meili or to any evidence collected in Central Park. DNA also failed to connect any of the defendants to the crime.

This would not pose a problem for the grand jury since its function is to make accusations. Convictions are left to a petit jury. Self-crimination that follows an arrest should not be employed to credit the arrest. This lack of evidence should have been a red flag. The grand jury should have known that these boys were being framed.

Despite this accusation of a “hoax”, in 1988, the petit jury found, in 1988, that Pagones was involved in the kidnapping and rape of Tawana Brawley. New York has elevated the grand jury over the petit jury. Glenda Brawley can still be arrested on New York soil and Maddox is still “barred” from all courtrooms in New York and elsewhere. New York also still refuses to compensate the “Central Park 7″.

Since a prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich, it demonstrates that the grand jury was not given proper, grand jury instructions. If it had, there would have never been any indictments in the “Central Park 7″. This would have forced the New York Police Department to conduct a real criminal investigation which would have eventually led to the arrest of Matias Reyes.

The police had already been on to the “Eastside Slasher” who had already been involved in a practice and pattern of conduct similar to the one which led to and consummated the rape of Patricia Meili. Detective Michael Sheehan encouraged Reyes, on August 5, 1979, to confess to the rape and murder of Lourdes Gonzalez on June 14, 1979.

Although Sheehan was also a detective in the “Central Park 7″, he failed to connect the dots between Reyes and Meili. The NYPD was fully aware of Reyes who was the “Eastside Slasher”. Justice Thomas Galligan of Bronx, NY who had also been illegally assigned to the Central Park Jogger case in Manhattan would also preside over Reyes’ DNA hearing in the murder of Gonzalez.

The Manhattan district attorney’s office decided to go with the “Central Park 7″ instead of connecting Meili with the “Eastside Slasher”. When a white woman is raped, justice is served by the lynching or wrongful conviction of any Black person. The more the merrier, however. This has always been the white man’s sense of “justice”.

The purpose of the “right to vote” for Blacks and Latinos is, among other things, to elect public officials who will be fair-minded to them. It is of particular interest that the Manhattan district attorney in 1989 was Robert Morgenthau, a Democrat. Most of the judges and public officials in Manhattan and the Bronx are also Democrats.

Virtually, all Blacks and Latinos are enrolled in the Democratic Party. By enrolling in the Democratic Party, Blacks are doing a disservice to Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin L. King, Jr., Malcolm X, Cong. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. and Kwame Ture and to all of our ancestors who had opposed slavery and Jim Crow. The Democratic Party favors giving support to the “badge of slavery”. At his death, Cong. Powell was in the process of forming the “People’s Party” in New York.

In the “Central Park 7″, six of the seven Black and Latino youth were wrongfully-convicted. Maddox represented Michael Briscoe. Maddox had charges against Briscoe dismissed for violating the Sixth Amendment. Using Dred Scott as a backdrop, Maddox applied military science, instead of American jurisprudence, in defense of Briscoe to uphold justice.

New York wrongfully classified Tawana Brawley’s claim as a “hoax”. This classification is consistent with the doctrine of “legitimate rape”. “Race matters”. Nonetheless, Maddox successfully urged a petit jury in Jury 1998 to find that Tawana Brawley had not perpetrated a “hoax”. He is still barred from all courtrooms in New York for defending justice.

The white media was acting in concert with law enforcement agencies in Brawley and the “Central Park 7″ despite the prohibition of the Sixth Amendment against prejudicial pre-trial publicity. It would have at least helped if the Black community had enjoyed public affairs programming on commercial television stations on Sundays. By not demanding public affairs programming, the Black community facilitated the injustice in the “Central Park 7″. This is also happening in Brawley.

Postscript

The case of Patricia Meili shows that crime pays. Linda Fairstein has retired from the Manhattan district attorney’s office with a lucrative pension. As a novelist, she has supplemented her pension by raking in millions of dollars with the aid of the white media. Elizabeth Lederer also enjoys a lucrative pension. By hiring Lederer as a law professor, Columbia University has enhanced her income.

On the other hand, the New York Legislature ordered the courts to initiate an investigation of Maddox which would lead to Blacks being denied the right of legal representation and the loss of the license for Maddox to enter courtrooms and practice law. The right of representation weighs more than a license to practice law. This should be the concern of the Black community.

Since 1990, Maddox has had to spend over a million dollars in defense of the Brawley family. The biggest expense was a year-long defamation trial. There have been expenses for disciplinary hearings and litigation in the federal courts. None of these expenses relate to the maintenance of the United African Movement and none of these expenses relate to his involvement in other public and community affairs.

By 1990, Maddox had become the best litigators in the United States. The Washington Post described him as “Mr. Civil Rights in the Courtroom” on the Mother’s Day 1987. In 1991, the American Bar Association considered Maddox as one of this country’s best litigator despite the fact that New York had barred him from the courtroom.

It is a conservative estimate to say that Maddox could have easily earned over five million dollars annually, as an attorney, since 1990. Prosecutors from the attorney general’s office of New York State have fought for Pagones. Prosecutors for the Manhattan district attorney’s office have fought for Meili. Maddox and Brawley have had to fend for themselves. This is called “taxation without representation”.

While Maddox headed the NCBL Juvenile Defense Project, he sued New York in 1982 for failure to allow juvenile offenders to receive a college education. He won. All members of the “Central Park 7″ were prosecuted as juvenile offenders. All five of those who went to trial would attend college. Yusef Salaam, Kevin Richardson and Raymond Santana received associate degrees while in prison.

In 1995, Gov. George Pataki would ban all prison inmates from attending college. No Black or Latino selected official would oppose Pataki’s scam which affected mostly Black and Latino inmates. In 1988, all selected officials would call for Maddox’s disbarment. No one will credit Maddox with having made it possible for juvenile offenders to attend college in New York from 1982 to 1995.

“The only good Indian is a dead Indian.” — European Proverb (America)

A European asked me if I heard of this last night as a few of them tried to rob me ‘just because.’ I told him he couldn’t rob me and sure enough despite that I was surrounded my money stayed intact. There is a lesson here. Most Africans are robbed by Europeans daily–through our diets, through our employment, through our rent, through our entertainment–but I’m never robbed because I developed my intelligence and subscribe to an Organization. Read this dialogue and the additional readings below. Subscribe.

Dialogue between an African and an Exploiter
By Onitaset Kumat

Exploiter: “Nigger what the fuck?!?”

African: “Beg pardon?”

Exploiter: “Who the fuck are you?”

African: “Some call me ‘Oni’”

Exploiter: “Well ‘Oni’ I’m down on my mortgage and I’m not getting any money from you. Not through your job, not through your taxes, not through your commerce.”

African: “I know that. I can’t give Europeans money. We’re at war.”

Exploiter: “That’s not how it works Nigger. I know that we were at war, but my people won and now you are going to give me my money–my tribute.”

African: “Now don’t misunderstand. I did not say ‘I don’t want to,’ though I don’t, I said that ‘I can’t.’”

Exploiter: “And I didn’t ask you whether you want to or whether you can, I said give me your money. This is what you’re doing in America–paying tribute. Now Nigger, I got you surrounded, empty your pockets.”

African: “You think three of you can take me?”

Exploiter: “I know three of us can take you–and there’s more than three of us–empty your fucking pockets!”

African: “Well, alright, this is what I have.”

Exploiter: “The fuck is this shit?”

African: “Cowrie Shells.”

Exploiter: “The fuck is that?”

African: “That’s the currency I use. I get my food, my clothing, my shelter and my consciousness from my own currency. You can’t use this. This is my currency.”

Exploiter: “What’s going on?”

African: “What do you mean ‘what’s going on?’ I told you, ‘I can’t give you money.’ You can’t even exploit me. You don’t pay cowrie shells; I can’t even work for you!”

Exploiter: “Nigger, that’s some smart shit. You figured it out. Whoever controls the currency controls the commerce. Yet Nigger if I’m not controlling you, I’m going to kill you. You ain’t never heard, ‘The only good Indian is a dead Indian?’”

African: “I sure did, but you ain’t never heard of Organized Protection?”

Exploiter: “How did you get a bunch of Niggers to stand up for a fellow Nigger?”

African: “Well first off none of us are ‘Niggers.’ I answered to the word earlier because it matters not what others call you but what you call yourself. If a European calls me ‘nigger’ I answer because I never correct a dog’s bark and I’ll never give a European more respect than I give a dog. Still, I would never call myself or another African ‘woof.’ That said these are ‘Africans,’ the things of your nightmare, and we are not controlled by you, but we do have access to you and yours, if you get what I mean. You’d be wise to know that you are surrounded and you’d be wiser still to drop your weapons.”

Exploiter: “Nigger I won’t drop my weapons–but now that you all raise your guns I’ll reconsider. There Nigger I dropped them now but I’ll be back for them later.”

African: “And you’ll die on the battlefield, later, but right now how about I bid you a good day?”

Exploiter: “Fuck you and your intelligence. I wish you Niggers never read.”

African: “Wishes aren’t anything compared to Organization. Mind you, our Ancestors taught your Ancestors how to read, not vice versa. And if you keep up your aggression and stupidity our Descendants are going to teach your Descendants how to die, not vice versa. You think you won a war? You won’t ever win against Africans, the Original and most Perfect Race. Good day!”

Additional Readings:

Of Creating Our Own Currency (Black Coins) – Create Currency
“How to Print Your Own Money, [. . . ]” — Pan-African Currency
An excerpt on Mammonism from “The Souls of Black Folk” – Rap’s Inspiration
Why Pro-Black Businesses Can Not Precede Pro-Black Communities — Economical Foundation
Dialogue between a Master and Slave — Douglass’ Inspiration
What is Responsibility? — Your Responsibility
The Fourth Necessity — Necessary News
“The More I See of Europeans the more I like Dogs” — “Public” Libraries

“[I] am a revolutionary. A Black revolutionary. By that i mean that i have declared war on all forces that have raped our women, castrated our men, and kept our babies empty-bellied.” — Assata Shakur

I posted two posts related to July 4th because Assata Shakur wrote the following letter on July 4th, 1973. I did not foresee that on May 2nd, 2013, the Department of Justice would double the reward for Assata Shakur’s sentence to $2,000,000 (scroll down). This, of course, under Barack Obama’s watch. A total travesty.

On assatashakur.org, Assata Shakur tells us this,

“My name is Assata (“she who struggles”) Olugbala ( “for the people” ) Shakur (“the thankful one”), and I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political repression, racism and violence that dominate the US government’s policy towards people of color. I am an ex political prisoner, and I have been living in exile in Cuba since 1984. I have been a political activist most of my life, and although the U.S. government has done everything in its power to criminalize me, I am not a criminal, nor have I ever been one. In the 1960s, I participated in various struggles: the black liberation movement, the student rights movement, and the movement to end the war in Vietnam. I joined the Black Panther Party. By 1969 the Black Panther Party had become the number one organization targeted by the FBI’s COINTELPRO program. because the Black Panther Party demanded the total liberation of black people, J. Edgar Hoover called it “greatest threat to the internal security of the country” and vowed to destroy it and its leaders and activists.”

If we didn’t know, now we ought to, something is and has always been wrong  with America. Notice, if you will, that Frederick Douglass spoke against July 4th and here Assata wrote on July 4th too. We need to put away the annual barbecue and get serious. Assata has been protected in Cuba, not Africa but Cuba. It is our responsibility to empower Africa and African lands to where our people can protect our people. If you are up to the task, if you believe that this Sister, like many of our Sisters, deserves protection, then enlist in an Organization. We must plead ourselves to the cause of Africa–no one else will.

May 2nd Interview:

Flyers:

Autobiography: 

Official Website and Forum: http://assatashakur.org/

Quotations and additional information: http://to-my-people.tumblr.com/

“To my people”
by Assata Shakur (July 4, 1973)

Black brothers, Black sisters, i want you to know that i love you and i hope that somewhere in your hearts you have love for me. My name is Assata Shakur (slave name joanne chesimard), and i am a revolutionary. A Black revolutionary. By that i mean that i have declared war on all forces that have raped our women, castrated our men, and kept our babies empty-bellied.
I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heart-less robots who protect them and their property.
I am a Black revolutionary, and, as such, i am a victim of all the wrath, hatred, and slander that amerika is capable of. Like all other Black revolutionaries, amerika is trying to lynch me.
I am a Black revolutionary woman, and because of this i have been charged with and accused of every alleged crime in which a woman was believed to have participated. The alleged crimes in which only men were supposedly involved, i have been accused of planning. They have plastered pictures alleged to be me in post offices, airports, hotels, police cars, subways, banks, television, and newspapers. They have offered over fifty thousand dollars in rewards for my capture and they have issued orders to shoot on sight and shoot to kill.
I am a Black revolutionary, and, by definition, that makes me a part of the Black Liberation Army. The pigs have used their newspapers and TVs to paint the Black Liberation Army as vicious, brutal, mad-dog criminals. They have called us gangsters and gun molls and have compared us to such characters as john dillinger and ma barker. It should be clear, it must be clear to anyone who can think, see, or hear, that we are the victims. The victims and not the criminals.
It should also be clear to us by now who the real criminals are. Nixon and his crime partners have murdered hundreds of Third World brothers and sisters in Vietnam, Cambodia, Mozambique, Angola, and South Africa. As was proved by Watergate, the top law enforcement officials in this country are a lying bunch of criminals. The president, two attorney generals, the head of the fbi, the head of the cia, and half the white house staff have been implicated in the Watergate crimes.
They call us murderers, but we did not murder over two hundred fifty unarmed Black men, women, and children, or wound thousands of others in the riots they provoked during the sixties. The rulers of this country have always considered their property more important than our lives. They call us murderers, but we were not responsible for the twenty-eight brother inmates and nine hostages murdered at attica. They call us murderers, but we did not murder and wound over thirty unarmed Black students at Jackson State—or Southern State, either.
They call us murderers, but we did not murder Martin Luther King, Jr., Emmett Till, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, George Jackson, Nat Turner, James Chaney, and countless others. We did not murder, by shooting in the back, sixteen-year-old Rita Lloyd, eleven-year-old Rickie Bodden, or ten-year-old Clifford Glover. They call us murderers, but we do not control or enforce a system of racism and oppression that systematically murders Black and Third World people. Although Black people supposedly comprise about fifteen percent of the total amerikkkan population, at least sixty percent of murder victims are Black. For every pig that is killed in the so-called line of duty, there are at least fifty Black people murdered by the police.
Black life expectancy is much lower than white and they do their best to kill us before we are even born. We are burned alive in fire-trap tenements. Our brothers and sisters OD daily from heroin and methadone. Our babies die from lead poisoning. Millions of Black people have died as a result of indecent medical care. This is murder. But they have got the gall to call us murderers.
They call us kidnappers, yet Brother Clark Squires (who is accused, along with me, of murdering a new jersey state trooper) was kidnapped on April z, 1969, from our Black community and held on one million dollars’ ransom in the New York Panther 21 conspiracy case. He was acquitted on May 13, 1971, along with all the others, of 156 counts of conspiracy by a jury that took less than two hours to deliberate. Brother Squires was innocent. Yet he was kidnapped from his community and family. Over two years of his life was stolen, but they call us kidnappers. We did not kidnap the thousands of Brothers and Sisters held captive in amerika’s concentration camps. Ninety percent of the prison population in this country are Black and Third World people who can afford neither bail nor lawyers.
They call us thieves and bandits. They say we steal. But it was not we who stole millions of Black people from the continent of Africa. We were robbed of our language, of our Gods, of our culture, of our human dignity, of our labor, and of our lives. They call us thieves, yet it is not
we who rip off billions of dollars every year through tax evasions, illegal price fixing, embezzlement, consumer fraud, bribes, kickbacks, and swindles. They call us bandits, yet every time most Black people pick up our paychecks we are being robbed. Every time we walk into a store in our neighborhood we are being held up. And every time we pay our rent the landlord sticks a gun into our ribs.
They call us thieves, but we did not rob and murder millions of Indians by ripping off their homeland, then call ourselves pioneers. They call us bandits, but it is not we who are robbing Africa, Asia, and Latin America of their natural resources and freedom while the people who live there are sick and starving. The rulers of this country and their flunkies have committed some of the most brutal, vicious crimes in history. They are the bandits. They are the murderers. And they should be treated as such. These maniacs are not fit to judge me, Clark, or any other Black person on trial in amerika. Black people should and, inevitably, must determine our destinies.
Every revolution in history has been accomplished by actions, al-though words are necessary. We must create shields that protect us and spears that penetrate our enemies. Black people must learn how to struggle by struggling. We must learn by our mistakes.
I want to apologize to you, my Black brothers and sisters, for being on the new jersey turnpike. I should have known better. The turnpike is a checkpoint where Black people are stopped, searched, harassed, and assaulted. Revolutionaries must never be in too much of a hurry or make careless decisions. He who runs when the sun is sleeping will stumble many times.
Every time a Black Freedom Fighter is murdered or captured, the pigs try to create the impression that they have quashed the movement, destroyed our forces, and put down the Black Revolution. The pigs also try to give the impression that five or ten guerrillas are responsible for every revolutionary action carried out in amerika. That is nonsense. That is absurd. Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression. We are being manufactured in droves in the ghetto streets, places like attica, san quentin, bedford hills, leavenworth, and sing sing. They are turning out thousands of us. Many jobless Black veterans and welfare mothers are joining our ranks. Brothers and sisters from all walks of life, who are tired of suffering passively, make up the BLA.
There is, and always will be, until every Black man, woman, and child is free, a Black Liberation Army. The main function of the Black
Liberation Army at this time is to create good examples, to struggle for Black freedom, and to prepare for the future. We must defend ourselves and let no one disrespect us. We must gain our liberation by any means necessary.

It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.

In the spirit of:

Ronald Carter
William Christmas
Mark Clark
Mark Essex
Frank “Heavy” Fields
Woodie Changa Olugbala Green
Fred Hampton
Lil’ Bobby Hutton
George Jackson
Jonathan Jackson
James McClain
Harold Russel
Zayd Malik Shakur
Anthony Kumu Olugbala White

We must fight on.

“I wake up each morning and say, thank God I am a man, whereas Delany wakes up and says thank God I am a black man.” — Frederick Douglass speaking of Martin Delany

From reading the Declaration of Independence, we saw how America declared “mankind” as its “enemies in war;” the 4th of July is the anniversary of declaring hostilities against African people. Today, Africans in America celebrate these hostilities with pulled pork, potato salad and coleslaw but during our Enslavement we saw through the farce. Below is Frederick Douglass’ vision. It isn’t the most African response, maybe Martin Delany’s response would better do that, but it is a man’s response, and if nothing else, we can learn more about Masculinity from it. His praise of the ‘founders’ is unjustified considering the last post on what the declaration says; however the audience seems European, so it’s likely just tact.  Research more of Frederick Douglass and Martin Delany.  Never neglect the latter.

Fourth of July Oration
By Frederick Douglass

“We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.” — Declaration of Independence

The Declaration of Independence is mis-titled. Many Africans have come across this document, most of whom have nothing but praises for it, yet a perusal will show the careful reader that the Declaration declares against African Humanity, overfills with European Hypocrisies, opposes the precepts of Democracy, fully supports the theft of Land, gives voice to the idea of monetary greed, challenges the whole world to war (see above) and embodies the beginning of African misery; this Declaration is an abominable document. Yet, on its anniversary, popularly called the “4th of July,” many Africans will celebrate the new misery, even more mentally enslaved than their physically enslaved ancestors (see Frederick Douglass). “Happy Birthday America, it’s a new year since you declared War against me. Can someone pass the pulled pork?”

This is not a Declaration of Independence, but a Declaration for Power over this Earth. The above sentence which really reads, “We must, therefore, [ . . . ] hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in [Subordination] Friends,” should be sufficient proof; yet, this whole document is explained on your behalf. African, the African Blood Siblings works tirelessly to restore your peace, possessions and consciousness. Give what you can in this donation link.  Assist however in our relinquishment of European Nations and our establishment of African Nations at home and abroad.

An African Nationalist Reading of “The Declaration of Independence.”
By Onitaset Kumat

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

This first sentence, like the last sentence, is a statement toward the formation of a new European Tribe. To fast forward, here is the last part of the last sentence, “we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.” These were the richest men of their time. Europeans may be right in celebrating the document, but Africans should widely despise it. This is the first document of, what’s known as, White Supremacy.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

There are three communal bands (or bonds): Political, Economical and Cultural bands. The three are related. In relation to the other two, Politics manages (likewise Economics finances and Culture propagates–hence the Trinity of Liberation.) In dissolving the political bands, yet maintaning the economical and cultural, the declarants are not rallying around “independence,” instead the wealthy are looking to increase their share of wealth. So this is not a separation, but a request to be the exploiters; as to say, they did not mind the vices, they did mind that they were not the Power performing them.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Written during a time of African Enslavement, and written to more Powerful European Tribes, it’s clear that the sentiment is a proposal to a new European Tribe, wherein the signers were the proposed leadership. Nothing for us to celebrate.

–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –

56 Signatures legitimize this Declaration. Around 3,000,000 people lived in America. Many of whom were in bondage. Later, following a war, the Constitution of America wasn’t unanimously received.

What this tells you is that 56 Europeans saw that with their resources they can create a new European tribe to get more resources, so they signed this pact that they would become the beneficiaries of this economy and culture by any means necessary.

It’s interesting in light of the idea that their ideological descendants have governed Africans, never once requiring our consent.

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Historically speaking, neither the Safety nor Happiness of Africans had ever been the sole pursuit of European Governments; yet throughout the modern interaction of Africans with Europeans, Europeans have Governed Africans, not vise-versa. This is interesting, as African enslavement was concurrent with this document. While nominally it appears that the declarants are suggesting Africans ought alter or abolish the United States Government, as they were trying to abolish the British, this portion of this declaration really reads that we are not people to Europeans and neither our safety nor happiness will ever be their concern. 200 years later, this should be self-evident.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

It would be reasonable to presume these statements are directed to African people. “Light and transient,” “sufferable evils” is, to Europeans, our enslavement and our oppression in America. These, the European reasons, are not sufficient reason to abolish their government, these, the European reasons, we ought accustom ourselves to–and the European has promoted our accustoming–but a review of the complaints they pose against Britain will show we have more to complain against; therefore Africans who respect this Declaration should be the first to Separate from Europeans. The European’s reasoning demands we Separate.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

The European Asili (Natural Ideology) is one of Tribalism. Europeans reason that if Dominant the European is Secure. Security is of the utmost importance to Europeans. Much of the Mis-Education of Africans relates to the attempt of Europeans to be Secure. That said, despite Enslaving Africans, Europeans never perceive their “long train of abuses and usurpations” against Africans as Despotism to be thrown off, but an investment in Security. It’s for us to understand this Asili. The European will not destroy or alter his Government because we are Oppressed, the timing of this document assures that. It’s upon us to see this and Separate on our own initiative.

–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.

Despite our enslavement, the European explains to other Europeans that Europeans are suffering during this time period. That explains a lot about the Consciousness which consumes Europeans the World over. Two-hundred years later and Africans are still abused. That’s Patience.

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

Notice that the Declarants field their complaints against “the present King of Great Britain” after claiming “patient sufferance.” A King rules for a few generations, Africans had been enslaved in America since the 15th century. This document, while esteemed by many Africans, is an insult to us as a people. 400 years of Oppression should be sufficient time to realize Separation.

To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

You will notice, none of these facts compare to 400 years of Physical and Mental Enslavement. The Declaration, as it was shown, only relates to a new tribe wanting to govern the money of the colonies. Money. Mammonism. That’s all this is about.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

In other words, my Tribe wants to make the Laws benefit us and you are an impediment. This is the same relationship Africans have with Europeans, because, as we can see, Europeans make Laws to Dominate.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

There’s a running joke among Europeans. “Con-” is the opposite of “Pro-” therefore Congress is the opposite of Progress. Laws were not streamlined after the King of England lost power. The change was in the writers not the writing process. This is a document for Power. As Africans sit here reading it without any Power, we should be prompted to change our habits.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

Mark that since the establishment of America, despite that Africans had always hovered around 12 to 14% of the U.S. Population, there has only been 4 Senators who were of African descent. This is a declaration of Tribal Warfare; not a declaration of any grand or lofty ideas.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

Today, Europeans write in what’s known as “Legal English” and vernacularly called “Legalese” which for the most part is near unintelligible to most denizens of America, European or African. The Legal English makes the Legal Profession necessary in Legal Disputes. It also makes Laws obscure to their purposes. In other words, whereas this complaint is ridiculous, it pales in comparison to the reality of obfuscation being employed against African people. I.e. the reality that Laws are written in a language not taught to anyone but the Elite and written exclusively by that Elite.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

This ought bring to mind COINTELPRO. A Representative Body among African people is a Political Organization. Europeans of America have deliberately destroyed African Political Organizations. And during the time of Slavery, there were people known as “Patrollers” (of whom the Klan was a continuation.) “Patrollers” made sure Africans would not Organize without a European present; a practice which continues today.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

The theme of Security resurfaces. Also, to read this clearly, one understands that “convulsions within” directly references Anarchism i.e. (for Europeans) the absence of a Dominant tribe; and indirectly references Democracy i.e. “Legislative Powers have returned to the People” which, to wit, endanged the State (the Tribe.) In essence, therefore, this Declaration is an Anti-Democratic Pro-Tribalist document, and when Africans respect it, they go against their Empowerment and go toward empowering a European tribe.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

In essence, the complaint means Europeans were limited in migration and acquiring land. The relevance to us is two fold. The acquisition of land came at the expense of the Americans. In other words, this Declaration is an espousal of theft–hardly a noble document. Furthermore, in the second session of the First Congress, the Naturalization Act of 1790 was passed. This law limited ctizenship to “free white persons” of “good moral standing.” In other words, Europeans had nothing against limiting populations and everything against limiting non-European populations. It’s a Tribalistic document.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

As you gather by now, the declaration is one for Power–for tribal domination. This complaint refers to how Britain has Power and these declarants are Powerless. Yet we suffer and suffered the same relation of Powerlessness.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

Notice that Congress does the same thing today and Europeans maintain Power over Africans in the same way. Again, this is a Declaration to Power, this is the first step toward the Empowerment of a European Tribe in America.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

Today, the Federal Government has the most Offices and Officers in the World. These Officers not only harass Africans in America, these Officers harass the whole African population of Earth. The document is hypocritical, what’s more it is deplorable to any careful African reader.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

We return to consent. Africans never consented to the standing armies of America, i.e. the Police Officers or the above mentioned patrollers. Our consenst isn’t what’s important to these Europeans; what’s important is attaining the Power to manage the Standing Armies, this is what they did.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

Would you believe that a European complained about this? The Military-Industrial-Complex notwithstanding the European has always been the most Militaristic people on the planet. Tribalism is simply Militarism. 40,000 Years of Tribalism is 40,000 Years of Active Military Duty. Alas, the United States has the Military among Militaries, so there is more Irony here.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

The following list of “pretended Legislation” is a mockery to African people; we suffer far worse.

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

Nevermind that the first action of European enslavers was building a fort, today Africans deal with their descendants as Police Officers.

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

We observe this with European Officers and Vigilantes, and not only for Murder but for everything. Tawana Brawley was raped–gang raped for four brutal days–and now Europeans are actively taking $400,000 from her; she’s never even been served papers–they are just stealing it.

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

Europeans shove us into ghettos and control all “official” trade within.

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

In America, if you refuse to pay taxes, you go to prison. Hardly an anti-tax people.

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

We are systemically rejected from juries and no one needs to explain how White faces line up the process. Beyond this, most Africans are pressured by their ‘court appointed’ or in other words European Lawyer into plea bargains or no court case whatsoever.

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

Not only are our cases rarely local, it’s not us making the laws. As far as pretended offences go, Malcolm X’s grandson, Malcolm Shabazz, was given a ticket for j-walking on November 1, 2012.

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

Recall that there were Plantations with Absolute rule during this time. Europeans have since expanded those plantations, called them “states” and “America” and “businesses” and “corporations,” and Africans remain under absolute rule despite our protest. We are so oppressed that most of us don’t even know African Laws.

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

A total joke. If the Europeans charters were taken away, if their laws were abolished, if their government was altered then what did they do to Africans who lost even their names? Please read the African Affirmation.

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

No African should read this with a smile. Europeans alone legislate in America. More than 99% of the Senate is European, since this declaration. And what has it meant? Frederick Douglass explained in plain English, “there are seventy-two crimes in the State of Virginia, which, if committed by a black man, (no matter how ignorant he be,) subject him to the punishment of death; while only two of the same crimes will subject a white man to the like punishment.”

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

I want readers to know what Chancellor Williams reminded us, “whites are the implacable foe, the traditional and everlasting enemy of the Blacks.” We have wars going back 40,000 years. And when you study history, you’ll learn that they tell you about it all the time. The coat of arms of ancient Africans were sometimes ‘dragons’ or ‘serpents.’ This isn’t a new conflict–these people HATE us, this war is real.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

And how did enslaved Africans reach America? I thought plundering seas, ravaging coasts, burning towns and destroying lives was how Europeans greeted other people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

These same people hung Mary Turner by her ankles, cut open her stomach, stomped her baby on the ground then riddled her with Bullets, as Frederick Douglass made clear, “Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the every day practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.”

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

Europeans went on to create a legislation called “Meritorious Manumission.” I.e. if you Empower Europeans or Disempower Africans you may–may–get freedom. That’s still in effect, that’s minstrel shows and hip-hop.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

Yet whose land is it and whose buried beneath it? I agree with John Edward Bruce, “The more I see of [Europeans] the more I like dogs.” How are the Natives savages when they’re dead from your invasion?

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.

These enslavers of the greatest people on Earth, the Creator’s closest creation, dare to call themselves injured. How can they complain about petitions when they don’t redress divine petitions. Bear in mind, these declarants only petition for wealth. This is a mockery.

A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Notice they said “free people.” This is directly related to enslaved Africans. The declarants are saying they are fit to be tyrannical to you, and two hundred years of America show it. It’s upon you to see what they tell you in this “lofty” document. It’s upon you to throw them off your back; they made it crystal clear they will be tyranical hereafter.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

Read this carefully. “We hold the rest of mankind” as “enemies in War” and “in Peace Friends.” These were “learned” men. Look to their “learned” to learn what they are saying. Augustine can explain, “So there may be peace without war, but there cannot be war without some kind of peace.” What’s the peace in question? Their Domination. This is a declaration of Tribalism, clearly expressing they want to dominate the world and Britain’s in the way. Yet 90% of Africans in America today celebrate the 4th of July making pulled pork at the anniversery of their heightened misery.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.

They are saying, “we are the New Tribe and we are after the World. Father you raised me well, but I want to bring fire and brimstone down on this Earth. You who are brutal are too merciful.” Meanwhile some Africans can’t wait to Barbecue. “Pass the corn, Ameria has another birthday.”

And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

African! Pledge your life, your fortune, your sacred honor toward restoring Africans. These Europeans pledged 200 years ago that they would bring fire and brimstone and they have. You make a pledge if you want a better world. They plead to make it worse. They are your enemies.

You go along to get along
With a song of forgiveness
A strong people would fight wrong
But you go along with it.

– Maroon and Build For Self

Comedy, Tragedy, how do they differ?  In differing the European from the African, Cheikh Ante Diop explained how theirs is tragic literature whereas ours is comedic; yet what’s more comedic than a Europeans’ musings?  A European had enumerated the “Top 10 Civil Liberties Violations that Helped Cause the American Revolution” and any informed reader may suspect the author is a comedian.  For if these violations were cause for an American Revolution, Africans ought revolt daily.  But maybe it’s truly tragedy, not comedy, for it’s certainly tragic that, enduring worse, the African revolts less, preferring to “go along to get along” and “go along with it.”  Clearly, it’s no wonder that tragedy defines as an African in European Society.  More Grievances are enumerated here.

Top 10 Civil Liberties Violations that Helped Cause the African Revolution in America
By Onitaset Kumat

(Tom Head for About.com wrote “Top 10 Civil Liberties Violations that Helped Cause the American Revolution.”  I blockquote each of his passages and rewrite them below as pertaining to the African Revolution in America.  In the rewrites, italics symbolize direct differences and bold symbolizes creative additions.  Obviously, most societies of Africans can field the same complaints against Europeans as Europeans have a Nature; like a dog is a dog, a European is a European.  9 Grievances are listed here.)

The Declaration of Independence that was signed on July 4th, 1776 did not represent the culmination of a practical policy decision to separate from Britain. It was a response–an angry, desperate response–to British oppression of North American colonists. Here are ten specific British policies to which the signers of the Declaration of Independence were responding.

The Declaration of Separation that was signed on [Unspecified Date] did not represent the culmination of a practical policy decision to separate from Europeans in America. It was a response–an angry, desperate response to European oppression of African denizens. Here are ten specific European polices to which the signers of the Declaration of Separation were responding.

1. Taxation Without Representation
To fund its military projects, and to assert its control over an increasingly independent group of colonies, Britain began to enforce painfully high taxes and tariffs on such goods as molasses, paper, sugar, and tea. With no representation in Parliament, American colonists who felt the taxes to be excessive had no recourse other than civil disobedience.

1. Taxation Without Representation
To fund its military projects, and to assert its control over an increasingly independent group of Africans, Europeans began to enforce painfully high taxes, limitations and tariffs on such goods as textiles, crude oil, vehicles, parts, cocoa products; such property as homes, businesses, and capital; and such resources as platinum, cobalt, and manganese.  With no representation in Congress, African denizens who felt the taxes to be excessive had no recourse other than civil disobedience.

2. No Free Trade
During the 18th century, Britain was an empire in competition, sometimes militarily and sometimes economically, with other empires. In order to prevent other nations from benefiting from the North American colonial market, Britain brought its navy to bear against U.S. attempts to purchase non-British goods. Given the prohibitively high trade tariffs enforced by Britain (see below), this policy was for all practical purposes unenforceable.

2. No Free Trade
During the 21st century, Europeans in America were in competition, sometimes militarily and sometimes economically, with other people. In order to prevent other people from benefiting from the African in America’s market, Europeans brought its law enforcement to bear against African attempts to purchase non-European goods unless from strategic Asian allies. Given the prohibitively high trade tariffs enforced by Europeans (see below), this policy was for all practical purposes enforced through mental and physical slavery.

3. Unlimited Search and Seizure
To discourage smuggling, the British government awarded Writs of Assistance to British officers in the colonies. The Writs gave officers the power to search any residence or building, without warning or supervision, and to confiscate whatever they deemed to be smuggled or otherwise improperly obtained goods. This widely abused policy would ultimately inspire the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

3. Unlimited Search and Seizure
To discourage smuggling, the Europeans awarded Stop and Frisk Laws to European officers in America. The legislation gave officers the power to search any residence or building, without warning or supervision, and to confiscate whatever they deemed to be smuggled or otherwise improperly obtained goods. This widely abused policy would ultimately trample the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

4. Destruction of Colonial Government
The governments of the colonies, unrepresented in the British system and remote from the imperial legislative process, began to create their own elected bodies. The British government did not care for this idea, and took extra measures to see to it that local elected colonial government did not achieve autonomy, even with respect to matters that did not directly affect the larger British Empire.

4. Destruction of Self-Government
The governments of Africans, unrepresented in the European system and remote from the imperial democratic legislative process, began to create their own elected bodies. The European government did not care for this idea, and took extra measures to see to it that local elected self-government did not achieve autonomy, even with respect to matters that did not directly affect the larger European Empire people.

5. Oppression of Political Protesters
As colonial protest against British government became more common, British colonial law enforcement authorities took measures to crack down on dissent. Among the more infamous examples of this were the 1769 imprisonment of Alexander McDougall (on “libel” charges) for his work To the Betrayed Inhabitants of the City and Colony of New York, and the 1770 Boston Massacre in which British troops fired on a crowd of colonial protesters, killing five.

5. Oppression of Political Protesters
As African protest against European government became more common, European law enforcement authorities took measures to crack down on dissent. Among the more infamous examples of this were the 1977 imprisonment of Assata Shakur (on trumped up charges) for her work in the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, and the 1956 to 1971 (and unofficially beyond) COINTELPRO Massacre in which FBI agents engaged in active warfare against African protesters, killing an innumerable amount.

6. Immunity for Corrupt and Abusive British Officers
The Boston Massacre trial was an interesting spectacle. Eight British soldiers were accused, but defended by the future president John Adams, who won acquittal for six of the eight and the equivalent to a dishonorable discharge for the other two. Still, British leaders were concerned enough to pass a law mandating that any British officers accused of an offense be tried in England (where witnesses would be hard to find) rather than in the colonies.

6. Immunity for Corrupt and Abusive European Officers
The COINTELPRO Massacre trial was an interesting spectacle–it never happened. In the case of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, a sacrificial lamb took the place of exposing the systemic oppression of African people. Still, to this day, the Government officially states innocence in his and many other assassinations and acts of oppression. No remuneration, no apology, no truth.

7. Direct Control of the Criminal Justice System
Over a period of decades, as distrust of colonial authorities grew, the British government began to deny jury trials and place both verdicts and punishments in the hands of judges. As time wore on, the British government also took measures to ensure that those judges would be selected, paid, and supervised by British rather than colonial authorities.

7. Direct Control of the Criminal Justice System
Over a period of centuries, as distrust of European authorities grew, the European government began to deny jury trials and place both verdicts and punishments in the hands of judges. As time wore on, the European government also took measures to ensure that those judges would be selected, paid, and supervised by Europeans rather than African authorities. It’s at a point where 1 in 9 African children have an incarcerated parent (compared to 1 in 57 European children.)

8. Guilty by Parliament
Centralized British control of the criminal justice system, with no possibility of trial by jury, may seem to suggest that colonists were at the mercy of British officers–but the truth is that they always had been. By sheer fiat (through resolutions called Bills of Attainder), Parliament could declare any person to be “tainted,” imprisoning or even executing the subject and confiscating all of his/her property without trial.

8. Guilty by Congress
Centralized European control of the criminal justice system, with no possibility of trial by jury, may seem to suggest that Africans were at the mercy of European officers–but the truth is that they always had been. By sheer fiat (through resolutions called Bills of Attainder), Congress could declare any person to be “tainted,” imprisoning or even executing the subject and confiscating all of his/her property without trial.

9. Forced Quartering of Soldiers
From the beginning, colonies were held responsible for hosting facilities to house British soldiers. But as colonial dissent began to grow, the British government mandated a new and far more distressing requirement: Individual colonists would be required to let British soldiers live in their private homes. In the wake of the Boston Massacre, and given the particular sense of conflict in the pre-Revolutionary years, this was as traumatic as it was inconvenient.

9. Forced Quartering of Soldiers Officers Individuals
From the beginning, Africans were held responsible for hosting facilities to house European soldiers officers. But as African dissent began to grow, the European government mandated a new and far more distressing requirement: Individual Africans would be required to let regular Europeans live in their private homes (gentrification). In the wake of the COINTELPRO Massacre, and given the particular sense of conflict in the pre-Revolutionary years, this was as traumatic as it was inconvenient.

10. Closure of the Boston Port
Colonial and British tensions came to a head when sixty colonists, dressed up as American Indians, protested high tariffs and the British monopoly on imported goods by dumping 342 crates of tea delivered by the British East India Company into the Atlantic Ocean. The event, referred to as the Boston Tea Party, provoked Parliament to pass a law closing the Boston port until the colonies managed to gather up enough money to pay for the tea. To this day, the tea debt has not been paid.

10. Bombing of the Greenwood District
African and European tensions came to a head when ten-thousand Africans, dressed up in dignity and race pride, protested high tariffs and the European monopoly on imported goods by creating a Prosperous, Independent African Community in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The development, referred to as the “Negro’s Wall Street”, provoked Europeans to invade the African district closing the Tulsa community until the Africans managed to gather up enough money to rebuild. Immediately, following the attack, 10,000 were left homeless, thousands were killed, 600 successful businesses were ruined and pass cards like South Africa’s were put into effect. It was the first U.S. city bombed from the air. To this day, the atrocity is censored.

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“An answer brings no illumination unless the question has matured to a point where it gives rise to this answer which thus becomes its fruit. Therefore learn how to put a question.” — African Proverb (KMT)

To be meaningfully shown something, one’s perception must be prepared for it. For instance, one can never understand that the x-derivative of 4x is 4 without the mathematical preparation in differential calculus. It was understood in ancient times: “routine and prejudice distort vision.” The typical pedagogy, or science of education, today doesn’t take into account either routine or prejudice in accessing students. When neither are considered, students are unlikely to see what they are shown, justifying teachers mis-labeling students disabled as well as discouraging students from the tradition of self-development. Marva Collins in what she calls “The Socratic Method,” though Socrates was only a student to Africans, puts to her students questions which paced at the right time expands the student’s routine and prejudices to where the student is perceptive and has their genius awakened. This method is why she can teach 4-year-olds to read in months and why she has had exceptional success in educating our youth, creating thinkers as a rule unlike public education which creates thinkers as an exception.

I first became familiar with Marva Collins through the 1981 film “The Marva Collins Story.” It is embedded below. Further down, you can read excerpts from her books “Ordinary Children, Extraordinary Teachers” and “Marva Collins’ Way”–these excerpts were only preserved on a non-African website, showing where our priorities ought to be. On the next page, you can read her own educational philosophy.

Excerpts from Ordinary Children, Extraordinary Teachers and Marva Collins’ Way
By Marva Collins

AVOIDING MEDIOCRITY AS A TEACHER

“…make the poor student good and the good student superior…” OCET, p. 9

“The good ones [teachers] are constantly trying to find answers; the poor ones are constantly making excuses.” OCET, p. 11

“Some teachers think that just what is given to them in the classroom is all there is to be used. These are very poor teachers. You have to go beyond.” OCET, p. 20

“To just read what is given to me in a classroom and not explore other means and not explore other connecting topics, still guarantees failure as a teacher. Learning is everywhere. I think that is the one thing that is missing in the minds of many teachers. Everything in life has knowledge attached to it, and students are just waiting to learn things.” OCET, p. 21

“We can all pay teachers to teach, but how much do you really pay a teacher to care?” A dedicated staff will “take personally the failure of just one child.” OCET, p. 23

A school will only work “because of motivated leadership and dedication from the teachers.” OCET, p. 23

“Students may know nothing, they may be complete illiterates, but they know when we know, and they respect when we know. A good teacher must be more than a 2×4 teacher —bounded by the four walls of a classroom and the two covers of a book. I have a passion for being the very best teacher than I can be.” OCET, p. 27

“I hear teachers and educators complaining about how far a child is behind; what a child doesn’t know…That’s what we’re there for. It’s not a problem. You can see it as a problem, or you can see it as a challenge…you innately have all the right stuff that it takes to make a good teacher, if you eradicate yourself of the idea that these children cannot learn.” OCET, pp. 34-35

“…you can only do one day at a time. You can’t teach a whole year in one day. Prepare to be the very best teacher you can be that one day, in that classroom. Then come home Day One and prepare to be the very best teacher you can be on Day Two.” OCET, p. 40

Have a positive attitude toward teaching. “…think of the power that you possess to manage a whole group of children. You can bend them like a piece of putty. You can make them what you want.” OCET, p. 42

“…teach every day. Do whatever profession you’re in, do it every day, every moment, as if the whole world were watching. I teach as if Jesus Christ Himself were in that classroom. And when you do that, you’re bound to see great things happening.” OCET, p. 43

“Each of us can make a difference. Each of us has what it takes to make a difference —and that’s a passion for being excellent in what we do …All of us are what we are, and are where we are, because of the excellence of somebody before us.” OCET, p. 44

The “miracle” of teaching is “…dedication, common-sense, determination, and a love for our students.” OCET, p. 109

“… most human beings are as good as they are because some unknown teacher cared enough to continue polishing until a shiny luster came shining through; because some teacher cared enough to remove the previous fetid tags and labels of failure from their psyches.” OCET, p. 152

FOSTERING A POSITIVE ATTITUDE TOWARD LEARNING

“…the teacher can never write anything negative about a child…Everything is positive.” OCET, p.10

“…find something positive to say about a child every morning.” OCET, p. 11

“When our children walk in the door, I say, ‘Welcome to success. Say goodbye to failure because you are not going to fail. I’m not going to let you fail.’” OCET, p. 16

“We have created an attitude that puts joy back into learning, that creates satisfaction at doing something correctly.” OCET, p. 20

“We always find something positive to say about their papers — ‘Very good, but let’s proofread this.’ No teacher ever uses the words, ‘That’s wrong.’ We always find something positive to say about a child.” OCET, p. 26

“Create an ambience of positiveness in the classroom where children learn that it takes more courage to be wrong than to play it safe without ever responding to questions.” OCET, p. 110

“Children respond to love and positive feedback rather than negative programming.” OCET, p. 110

“Write encouraging notes to children, not just when they are in trouble.” OCET, p. 111

“Never let students say ‘I can’t.’ Say to them, ‘We remove the ‘t’ from the ‘can’t’ and we have ‘can.’” OCET, p. 111

“When a child gives an incorrect answer, say, ‘Very good try, but not quite.’” OCET, p. 113

“Praise is essential in developing the right attitude toward learning and toward school. We all know this in theory. In practice we often forget the importance of praise in dealing with children.” MCW, pp. 42-43

DISCIPLINE

“…I usually detect a child who wants to act out…I stand right behind that child…and talk directly to him because the children who are behaving do not need my attention. [These children] usually see themselves as failures.” It is good to “give them a taste of success.” OCET, pp. 15

“In our school, the children do not give a ‘problem child’ an audience. Therefore, there is no need for him to act out; there is no laughing if he gets smart-alecky or if he comes out with a comment.” OCET, p. 16

“…turn disciplinary situations into positive lessons…react positively to whatever children do…I think we tend to make too much out of nothing.” OCET, p. 17

If a child is drawing in class, compliment him on his beautiful picture and have him write about it.

If a child is chewing gum in class, have him write a composition on the history
of gum; grade it as a regular assignment.

Have a child write a composition or deliver a speech entitled “Why I Am Too Bright to Waste Time in School.”

If a child shoots a rubber band, take the rubber band away. Don’t turn it into a big deal.

“Usually when children act out, or when children refuse to learn, it is a signal that something is wrong, just as an illness or pain is a signal that something is physically wrong with us …I consider myself parent and teacher. It is my responsibility to let my lessons go for a few minutes to find out what may be bothering this child. I try to empathize with whatever is bothering him…” OCET, p. 18

“…we do not have the discipline problems that most schools have…a child will say to another one, ‘You’ve taken away my right to learn.’…Or if a child insists on acting up, we will say, ‘Why aren’t you going to do that?’ Their retort to us is, ‘Because I’m too bright to waste my time.’” OCET, p. 31

“…anybody can send a child to the office; that’s a very poor teacher. The superior teacher always has the idea that just one more time will do it…” OCET, p. 36

“Children respect the fact that you care. They rebel against order, but they respect nothing else…They respect the fact that you maintain your own classroom.” OCET, p. 36

“…ignoring it [negative behavior] is saying negative behavior is right.” OCET, p. 40

“Never place problem students in the corners or in the back of the classroom. Keep them near you; remember, we need to reach the troubled child quickly.” OCET, p. 111

“Avoid telling parents negative things about their children. You and the child attempt to solve the problems that arise in your classroom. You earn the respect and trust of your students, and you become a more effective teacher.” OCET, p. 111

“Do not send students to the office. Remember, you, the teacher, must be able to handle your own ‘family and your own household.’ Your household in this case being your classroom.” OCET, p. 112

“Always make friends with each student before there is a discipline problem.” OCET, p. 114.

“Reduce ridicule and laughter in the classroom by telling the student who speaks out that he or she is very courageous, and it took courage to be wrong, but they who stood silent or laughed took the easy path, and the child who speaks out is to be praised not mocked. …create a spirit of group effort in the classroom.” OCET, p. 115

THE TEACHER’S EXAMPLE —CARING FOR EVERY CHILD

“The teacher sets the ambience in any classroom. The teacher has total control over the learning environment and children respond exactly to the atmosphere a teacher creates. Teachers have been known to ridicule children, or to laugh if a child cannot get the answer, even subtly. Nothing could be worse for a child. In our school the teacher and the rest to the children pull for a child to get it right.” OCET, pp. 10-11

A classroom is “like a total family, and it starts with the teacher, setting the climate for support and care.” OCET, p. 11

“…when the other children see me accepting the child, they learn to accept that child too …As a teacher, you have to be accepting of everyone…” OCET, p. 12

“Some of my most important work with children takes place at lunchtime…I have always insisted on eating lunch with my children instead of being separated off with the other teachers. I try to rotate, sitting next to a different child every day.” OCET, p. 12

“You say …by your actions, that you are accepting that child and you expect the rest of the children to accept him too…You are providing a model of behavior for all children to follow.” OCET, pp. 12-13

Get to know all of your students …fraternize with the children. OCET, pp. 40-41

You establish rapport with the children “by letting them know that you truly care about them.” OCET, p. 43

“Some students are not easy to like, but never pick on a student. If you find a student with undesirable behavior, go out of your way to like this student, and you will find out that one day, you will like the student.” OCET, p. 111

HIGH AND CONSISTENT EXPECTATIONS

“Our approach pushes students to excel, and students like to be pushed. They want to do well. They want to succeed. And once they have a taste of it, they will never again settle for mediocrity.” OCET, p. 20

Be consistent in your expectations. “If we allow children to use incomplete sentences in our classes, and then we write on their papers ‘incomplete sentences’…We’ve allowed them to speak in incomplete sentences, so they don’t know what writing complete sentences is all about.” OCET, p. 25

“…when you aim low, there’s really no place to go.” OCET, p. 28

“…we are in a just good enough attitude generation …we have to get back to that precision, that doing it right again.” OCET, p. 38

“We let them know whatever they do must be the very, very best that they can do.” OCET, p. 39

“The problem with our schools is that our expectations are too low.” OCET, p. 58

“Excellence is not an act but a habit. The more you do something the better you will become.” OCET, p. 114

THE VALUE OF CLASSICS —NECESSITY OF TEACHING VALUES

“We emphasize a total learning experience. Not only must students be able to pass tests, perform academically, and work through social situations, but they must also have a sense of humanity and compassion.” OCET, p. 12

“I’ll often say to my students that we can be ever so clever, but we also have to learn first how to be human. That’s why I emphasize philosophy as found in some of the world’s classic literary works.” OCET, p. 12

“Everything a teacher does affects children. That’s why you, as a teacher, must be aware of what resources are available, and you must know the moralities of what children read, the actual lessons of life you want them to take into the world.” OCET, p. 14

“As soon as our children learn to read, they must read one classic every two weeks and report it to us orally. That means every teacher in our school must also have read that book.” OCET, p. 26

“…we’ve removed the values from our schools, and we wonder why they behave the way they do. We’re expecting them to behave the way we think they should behave, because we grew up on certain values. But these children have not been exposed to those values.” OCET, p. 37

Teach children the classics with the lesson inherent in each and we will have different students. “These lessons will take them through life, not just a reading exercise to fill the school day.” OCET, pp. 58-59

“Remember a few years ago how lessons were prefaced with Casey at the Bat; Paul Revere’s Ride; Aesop’s Fables; and The Boy Who Cried Wolf? —the classics that taught us the hard knocks of life and perseverance?” OCET, p. 60

“Let us once again return the teaching of classics and poetry to our children. Let us once again set our children adrift in a sea of morality …Could it be that we have allowed them to grow up without direction, without morals? Without attempting to help them arrange the puzzles in their minds? Without giving them heroes and heroines to believe in? Is their definition of a hero just a sandwich? OCET, pp. 61-62

“There was a time in our curriculums in American schools when virtue occupied center stage. There was also a time when children memorized poetry and had to tell what the moral lesson in that poem meant to them…The large objective of schools some time ago was to train the moral character and nourish the souls of the students.” OCET, p. 76

“Pure scholarship purged of every other moral concern is, in my opinion, dangerous scholarship.” OCET, p. 81

TEACHING IN GENERAL

“…syllogistic reasoning is so important…unfortunately…We have gotten away from any kind of deep thinking in our teaching…” OCET, p. 15

“We give all of our students daily exercises in phonics. I am convinced it is the most effective way to teach reading…” OCET, p. 18

“…all teachers need…to admit they do not know…that he or she has a great deal left to learn.” OCET, p. 20

“None of our teachers has a desk. Every teacher walks from student to student to mediate errors before they become permanent errors…If you red-mark papers and give them back to students a week, two weeks later, the errors mean very little to them.” OCET, pp. 25-26

“…we use a lot of the Socratic Method: teacher-pupil dialogue. We are not much for the Xerox sheets where children only have to check ‘T’ for true or ‘F’ for false, or guess at multiple-choice questions. There is a dialogue between the teacher and pupil every day. Our blackboards are perhaps the most utilized tool in our classrooms.” OCET, p. 26

“Every child in our school is articulate. Every child speaks standard English…Our teachers are correcting consistently – all day, every moment, infinitely – throughout the entire year. We have been correcting the children’s grammar until they realize that there is the standard grammar that must be spoken universally if we are going to function.” OCET, p. 28

Whether reading a story or teaching history, you have to make it come alive. In teaching math, “remove yourself from the pre-packaged lesson plans. For example, we’ll take an entire group of children and we’ll go ‘Seven times three! Plus two! Divided by four! Minus six! Plus eight!’ Every child is listening because the next child knows that he or she is It.” OCET, p. 42

“Let us once again teach our children to tell time as well as purchase digital watches for them. Let us once again teach our children to tie their shoelaces as well as provide Velcro closures for them. Let us once again teach our children the multiplication tables before we buy them calculators. Let us once again teach our children that the mind is the best computer before we put them on computers.” OCET, p. 62

“The good school does not place readiness above thoroughness, memory above mastery, glibness above sincerity, uniformity above originality, and the rules and modes of the dead past above the work of the living present.” OCET, p. 92

“To see things as they really are is one of the crowning privileges of the educated man, and to help others to see them so is one of the greatest services he can render to society.” OCET, p. 92

“Reinforce what has been learned in class. If a recently-introduced vocabulary word is appropriate, use it when speaking to a child. Say, for example, ‘I am chagrined at your behavior right now.’” OCET, pp. 110

“Do not be afraid to be wrong and to admit that you are wrong. None of us have all of the answers all of the time. Have children proofread the blackboard for errors; remember, children cannot create havoc and find your errors, too. Make children a part of the learning environment.” OCET, p. 110

“I find that children often understand a concept better when you take them to the blackboard rather than trying to show them at their seat. This practice helps the rest of the class at the same time, especially the shy child who will never come out and say that he or she does not understand…One child’s errors become a lesson for the whole class.” MCW, p. 43

“…I stress proper speech and pronunciation with my own students. I try to get them in the habit of using correct grammar when they speak and I have them read aloud every day so I can check pronunciation as well as comprehension. Having children read silently in class only allows their mistakes to go unnoticed.” MCW, p. 44

“Another reason for reading aloud is to build vocabulary. A child reading silently skips over big words he doesn’t know. When I am there listening to a child read, I can interrupt to ask the meaning. The whole class benefits as we can look up the definition, the base word within the larger word, and the part of speech. I also have my students read aloud for tone, inflection, and punctuation.” MCW, p. 44

“I even have them read their composition aloud every day. It makes children more conscious of sentence structure, allows them to proofread for punctuation errors and word omissions, and helps them develop a certain presence and authority in front of an audience.” MCW, p. 45

ADVICE FOR PARENTS

“Responsibility is often thought of as a fourth “R.” We can teach reading, writing and arithmetic here, but much of the responsibility for your child’s education must come from home. Being a responsible student means making the right choices. It means paying attention to the teacher’s directions, it means doing nightly homework, and doing just a little more work than the teacher assigned.

Remember, school is a microcosm of the real world. The reason most schools do not work is that school is just the opposite of what is expected of citizens in the real world. This, therefore, means that a child must practice being above average in school so that they can take what they’ve learned into the real world. This means giving each task in school a real effort, not just doing enough to squeeze by.

Most experts agree that responsibility is learned from parents. Here are some suggestions for using the ‘example’ and ‘practice’ method that will allow you, the parent, to teach your child responsibility.

Let your child help you with household chores. As you work together, be clear about the purpose of each task. Praise your child for the good efforts and positively point out the negatives by saying, ‘I think you can do this better, don’t you?’ Explain that if you do not polish the furniture that the wood will crack and dry out. This allows the child to lean that most things we do have a cause and effect. Thus the child comes to learn that some actions have consequences attached to them.

Point out to your child that you, the parent, work when there are other things you would rather do. Show a child how to do a task correctly, and be patient as your child learns.

Teach your child organization. Make certain that each night, at the completion of the day’s homework, all materials are put away and ready for the next day of school. This means getting shoes and other personal items together and all in one place so that the next morning will not be filled with the frustration of: ‘You are going to be late.”

Teach your child to be time-oriented. Remember, in the real world, the workplace will not tolerate tardiness and excuses. Therefore, teach your child to accept responsibility for his or her actions, and not to make excuses for shortcomings.

Make certain that you discuss the day’s activities with your child on a daily basis. This can be done while eating, driving to school, getting the child dressed or any activity within the home.” OCET, pp. 50-51

Source: http://www.edocere.org/articles/marva_collins.htm
(Only quoted on a Non-African source which goes to show where our priorities should be.)

“When the governing class isn’t chosen for quality it is chosen for material wealth: this always means decadence, the lowest stage a society can reach.” — African Proverb (KMT)

Europeans standing on top of a pile of Buffalo skulls. This is entertainment to them!

For what reason would you kill a bear? In the last post we discussed separating from as opposed to exterminating all bears as an allegory on how to view Europeans who have done incomparably more damage against Africans and Africa than bears can ever dream of. Whereas Africans would rarely will the slaughter of bears, it’s imperative to understand that other races, Europeans especially, would make a sport of killing bears regardless of the threat the bear may make. Europeans kill things for fun.  Europeans kill things for entertainment. Europeans find entertainment in killing. Europeans would purchase plane tickets, travel with their family and friends to another country, go into another people’s land and kill those people and the animals–for fun. Europeans enjoy killings things and have enjoyed killing things for tens of thousands of years. Europeans kill things–for fun. Europeans watch things die for fun. Europeans cause death for fun. Europeans simulate killing in virtual worlds for hours on end as entertainment, calling it ‘videogaming’–to them it’s fun.  Europeans kill things for fun. For fun! For fun! For fun!

A Lion in Tanzania. It’s these animals that Europeans want to kill for fun. But they will kill Tanzanian Politicians and Tanzanian Residents (the Maasai) to kill these Lions, because to Europeans killing is killing is fun.

All that is said to reinforce one natural fact that is oft ignored in African circles, and its part of one of our core tenets: The problem with Europeans is Europeans. We ignore this reality. For some reason, we understand to never cross paths with a Crocodile, or a Bear, or a Lion, or a Tiger.  We understand that if one of these creatures mauls a person, it’s in its nature and that person should have known better. Yet, the European who is incomparably more dangerous, malicious, heartless, cruel than any of these beasts, still surprises Africans when he or she does something dangerous, malicious, heartless, or cruel. When a Police Officer beats an African youth in the streets, Africans protest “How is he allowed on the force?” as if these same Europeans never enslaved Africans and whipped and raped us at their leisure; as if these same Europeans never visited their own schools and shot every man, woman, or child for whom they had a bullet; as if these same Europeans never initiated two of the largest wars in history, the latter killing over 75 million in 6 years with over 100 million participants, roughly the population of the U.S. at that time; as if its somehow surprising that the people who daily abuse us are capable of abusing us!

Granted Europeans mis-Educate Africans and beat into our heads in school and on television that we are the uncivilized ones so naturally it would be hard to conclude the opposite of what one is taught one’s whole life (one’s foundation); yet this Ignorance has its backlash, Europeans are influential in our Governments at home and abroad. So for instance, in Tanzania, Europeans who want to kill things tell Tanzanian politicians that they can either kill Wild Animals or African Politicians, and with an ultimatum like that, it’s not surprising that Tanzanian politicians are ousting the Maasai people.

Problem number one is the Maasai are peaceful with a people with 40,000 years of Military Experience (and nothing else!) under their belt. Give a European an inch and he’ll take an ell.  Didn’t the Natives of America try to make peace with the European, too?

Europeans are the problem. This Knowledge will lead you to the natural consequence: You need to build Power to Protect yourself from the Problem. As Marcus Garvey said, “The only protection against INJUSTICE in man is POWER—Physical, financial and scientific.” When you think about Tanzania and the Maasai, think about Ancient KMT (Egypt.) Ancient KMT was part of the Nile Valley High Culture. The Nile Valley High Culture originated at the start of the Nile River. The Nile River starts in Uganda and travels through Tanzania and other nations until finally ending in KMT. This means that Tanzania was once part of the most powerful Civilization on the planet. You can still see today, remnants of that High Culture in the Maasai’s dress. Today, despite being descendents of the founders of KMT, and descendants of Ancient KMT’s diaspora, the Maasai are being exterminated by Tanzania in order that Europeans can hunt in Tanzania. When did African Power become synonymous with rolling over? Below is the letter from the Elders of the Maasai; following are articles on their ousting; throughout this newsletter are strategies on true organization. The African Blood Siblings needs more hands to recreate Powerful African Civilization. African Power somehow became synonymous with rolling over. If you believe it shouldn’t be, join the African Blood Siblings.

Marches are alright for exercise but we need Power for protection. Garvey started the UNIA with 13 people, ended up empowering over 6 million. The African Blood Siblings follows this strategy. Those who want justice will join.

Letter from Maasai Elders on Displacement,

Dear friends,

We are elders of the Maasai from Tanzania, one of Africa’s oldest tribes. The government has just announced that it plans to kick thousands of our families off our lands so that wealthy tourists can use them to shoot lions and leopards.The evictions are to begin immediately.

Last year, when word first leaked about this plan, almost one million Avaaz members rallied to our aid. Your attention and the storm it created forced the government to deny the plan, and set them back months. But the President has waited for international attention to die down, and now he’s revived his plan to take our land. We need your help again, urgently.

President Kikwete may not care about us, but he has shown he’ll respond to global media and public pressure — to all of you! We may only have hours. Please stand with us to protect our land, our people and our world’s most majestic animals, and tell everyone before it is too late. This is our last hope:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/maasai_fb_dm_3/?bNDofcb&v=23793

Our people have lived off the land in Tanzania and Kenya for centuries. Our communities respect our fellow animals and protect and preserve the delicate ecosystem. But the government has for years sought to profit by giving rich princes and kings from the Middle East access to our land to kill. In 2009, when they tried to clear our land to make way for these hunting sprees, we resisted, and hundreds of us were arrested and beaten. Last year, rich princes shot at birds in trees from helicopters. This killing goes against everything in our culture.

Now the government has announced it will clear a huge swath of our land to make way for what it claims will be a wildlife corridor, but many suspect it’s just a ruse to give a foreign hunting corporation and the rich tourists it caters to easier access to shoot at majestic animals. The government claims this new arrangement is some sort of accommodation, but its effect on our people’s way of life will be disastrous. There are thousands of us who could have our lives uprooted, losing our homes, the land on which our animals graze, or both.

President Kikwete knows this deal would be controversial with Tanzania’s tourists – a critical source of national income – and does not want a big PR disaster. If we can urgently generate even more global outrage than we did before, and get the media writing about it, we know it can make him think twice. Stand with us now to call on Kikwete to stop the sell off:

This land grab could spell the end for the Maasai in this part of Tanzania and many of our community have said they would rather die than be forced from their homes. On behalf of our people and the animals who graze in these lands, please stand with us to change the mind of our President.

With hope and determination,

— The Maasai community of Ngorongoro District

Source: http://thepeoplesrecord.com/post/47228168365/got-this-in-my-email-today-dear-friends-we

Further Reading:

• The Guardian: Maasai fury as plan to lure Arabian Gulf tourists threatens their ancestral land

• allAfrica: Land Grab Could Spell ‘The End of the Maasai’

• IPP Media: Maasai villagers frustrate efforts to vacate for Ortelo 

• The Guardian: Tanzania denies plan to evict Maasai for royal hunting ground 

• The Guardian: “Tourism is a curse to us”

• New Internationalist Magazine: “Hunted down” 

• Society for Threatened People: Briefing on the eviction of the Loliondo Maasai 

• FEMACT: Report by 16 human rights investigators & media on violence in Loliondo

• The Endorois people (also in Kenya) were removed from their sacred land in the 1970s under similar circumstances & for similar motives (the establishment of parks for colonial tourists.)

“The Problem with Europeans and Asians is Europeans and Asians, the Solution for Africans is Africans” — An African Blood Siblings Core Tenet

I do not advise for any person to live alongside bears.  Not that bears can not live peacefully with people, but because the nature of bears is both deadly to people and also antithetical to the nature of people.  However, despite this fact of nature, I do not advise the extermination of bears, only the separation from them.  This is common practice and this reasoning extends to Europeans.  The nature of Europeans is both deadly to African people and antithetical to our nature as Civilization builders; however despite this fact of nature (and that Europeans have done more damage to Africans than bears), I do not advise the extermination of Europeans (or Asians) but rather our Separation.  However I can not speak for Kamau Kambon.  In 2005 following the tragedy of Katrina, Kamau Kambon, along with such speakers as Joe Madison (Activist / WOL Radio), Askia Muhammad (Journalist), Ron Pinchback (WPFW GM), Denise Rolark- Barnes,Esq. (The Informer), Khalif Khalifah (Publisher), Opio Sokoni (Filmmaker/ KBMS Radio), Nkechi Taifa (HU Law Adjunct Professor), Valencia Mohammed (The Washington Afro), Delani Aamon (Harambee Radio Network), Davey D (Hip Hop Journalist), Jared Ball (FreeMix Radio), Lawrence Guyot (Activist), Chokwe Lumumba (Mississippi Attorney), Soffiyah Elijah (Harvard Law Professor), Jeff Smith (DC School Board), Phile Chionesu (Organizer, Million Woman March), Dr. Omar Reid (Author), spoke in Howard University’s School of Law during a live broadcast on C-Span (the same channel that airs unedited U.S. Congressional Proceedings.)  Here Kamau Kambon delivered a 10 minute speech which culminated in a call to exterminate White people.

He was widely denounced and, unfortunately, his family and he received numerous death threats for the speech.  Militarily, it was incompetent as “No proceeding is better than that which you have concealed from the enemy until the time you have executed it.”  Philosophically, it’s foolish as Genocide is the European’s game, not the African’s.  However, his follow-up statement is superbly written.  I share it below.

The statement, as well as some answers to some questions are seen on pages 1-5 (page 4 is a list of recommended books).  His Son, Obadele Kambon, also responded, comparing him to the noble David Walker (see page 6.)  Patrice Lumumba’s nephew, Omsirisi Olenga, also responded (see page 7.)  Finally Professor Kim answered whether this is news (see page 8.)

The first seven quotations are from the Assata Shakur Forums.  There are grammatical and transcriptional errors, but I won’t bother with correcting them.  Anyone who wishes to can email the correction to me and I will happily replace the incorrect version.  More, Kamau Kambon’s website can be seen here.

THE OFFICIAL AND ONLY STATEMENT
OF
Dr. Kamau Kambon

I made a statement on a panel in Washington, D.C. on October 14, 2005 and today I am prepared to bring remarks on my original comments:

My Official Statement today is that, “I speak for No One”

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for all the Ancient Afrikans of Kemet- the original name that was changed by the greeks to Egypt- who were invaded and murdered in mass numbers, over the course of centuries by:
the hyksos, the assyrians, the libyans, the persians, the turks, the greeks, the romans, the spanish, the portuguese, the french, the british and the arabs-all of whom desecrated and pillaged Kemetic Temples, Royal tombs, and robbed from these Afrikan sanctuaries priceless artifacts and sacred texts that now sit in european museums, “prestigious” university basements, and the private homes of the rich throughout the world.

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for all of the Afrikans who were enslaved, shackled, made to march miles and miles over the Sahara by the Arabs who committed this atrocity for a period of approximately 1,300 years. According to some research, over 50 to 80 million Afrikans were murdered during this Arab enslavement. The survivors of this savage devastation were forced onto slave ships by these same Arabs and exported over the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea to parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mediterranean.

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for the millions of the Afrikans in West Afrika who were terrorized and kidnapped by the europeans and enslaved in the dungeons of El Mina, Cape Coast, and in the hellholes of dungeons in Senegal.

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for the millions of Afrikan men in those dungeons who refused to submit and were put three to four in a cell and were left there for all of the other enslaved Afrikans to see them die a slow and painful death

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for the millions of Afrikan women who were put 200, 300 and sometimes more in a stone room no bigger than small auditorium where they had to fight each other to get air that came only through a hole in the rock cell no bigger than the size of a soccer ball.

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for the millions of Afrikan women who were selected by the white commander of the dungeon to be raped repeatedly and sometimes left to die in their own blood.

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for the millions of Afrikan men and women who survived the dank, cold dungeons only to face being forced through THE DOOR OF NO RETURN and onto waiting ships that would transport them to places of grief and agony beyond their own Afrikan comprehension

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for the millions of Afrikans who were shackled to the bowels of stink ships where they had to ride next to their dead uncle, dead brother, dead sister, or dead mother on the long journey to lands where incomprehensible anguish awaited

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for the millions of captive Afrikan women aboard those ships who felt compelled to murder their own beautiful babies so these infants would never know or experience the nightmare of enslavement.

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for the millions of captive Afrikan men who tore off their own legs from the shackles to dive overboard from those stinking vessels and who would rather face death in the jaws of man-eating sharks than remain enslaved

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for those millions of Afrkan men, women and children who suffered THE MIDDLE PASSAGE and whose bones are in the watery burial ground called the Atlantic Ocean- better known to those who know their history as THE AFRIKAN OCEAN because it overflows with the blood and life force of over 100 MILLION AFRIKANS

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for the millions of Afrikans who landed in the Caribbean Islands where they underwent THE SLAVE MAKING PROCESS of further de-humanization and the breaking of their arms, legs and AFRIKAN SPIRITS in preparation for the long and hard work and burdens they were to bear

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for the millions of the Indigenous of the americas who were savagely brutalized, tortured, raped, secretly given smallpox in blankets, and murdered, simply for opening their hearts, minds and arms to white strangers coming off a long and weary journey. Impact of christopher columbus, as written by Father Bartolome De Las Casas in his book, “The Disruption of the Indies”, highlighted that, directly or indirectly, columbus was responsible for the deaths of between 12 to 25 MILLION indigenous. The population of the indigenous was reduced from 100 MILLION to 25 MILLION, according to T. Browder, Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization.

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for all those Afrikans who arrived in North America bewildered, brutalized, weak, robbed of their culture, language, religions, families, cosmologies and longing for their own homeland

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for all the Haitians who soaked the earth with their own blood in war by giving their lives to defeat Napoleon, who led the mightiest army of that time. I speak for Boukman, for Toussaint, for and Dessailines, the leaders of the Haitians who never gave up their struggle for Freedom and Independence

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for Harriet Tubman, who made 19 trips to free enslaved Afrikans, forcing some, as she said, “to be Free or Die” In her moments of contemplation, she was overheard saying, “ I freed hundreds of slaves, and would have freed hundreds more, if only they knew they were slaves”

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. DuBois, Fredrick Douglass, and all the Black people who begged and petitioned the american government to intercede to stop white people from the wanton beatings, murdering, lynching, raping and terrorizing of Black men, Black women and Black children-the government did nothing-the deaths continued

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for all of the thousands upon thousands of the enslaved Afrikans who were set “free” by the emancipation proclamation but given absolutely nothing by their former slave masters: no food, only the clothes on their backs, and no way to get away

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for the thousands of newly “freed” enslaved Afrikans who were arrested en masse as vagrants, panhandlers, and bums; then hired out to corporations and chain gangs to be forced to work for free, again, and these men literally worked themselves to death

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for the thousands of Black soldiers who gave their lives in the Civil War, World War I, World War II, Vietnam, and the Gulf War only to return to their america and be lynched, physically, economically or socially, while wearing their u.s. uniforms as white people sang “America the Beautiful”

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for the over 2 THOUSAND Black people, mostly men, who, at the turn of the 19th century, were lynched, castrated, some burned alive, and others whose fingers, toes, penises and eyeballs were cut from their living bodies and used as souvenirs and trophies by white people

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for the many men, women and children who were murdered in Wilmington, North Carolina and Tulsa Oklahoma-both considered BLACK WALL STREETS- and their land stolen from them with the sanction of the american government. Mention here about Las Vegas where Black people lost their land, like they did in Tulsa, Oklahoma

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for the Tuskegee men who were experimented on by the white doctors who intentionally gave the Black men syphilis while the antidote was withheld as the experiment went on for some 40 years

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for the 7,600 Black and poor women in North Carolina, and two other states, who were sterilized without their knowledge or permission in clinics as part of the population control program. These sterilizations went on from 1929 to 1974- 65,000 Black and poor women, in this country, were sterilized during this period.

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for the over 6 million Black people in america who were members of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and who mourned the arrest, trumped-up trial and deportation of the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey. This man, the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey, was a man who wanted only to give his people back their true BlackNificent history, teach them meaningful skills, teach them to love their BLACK SELVES, and return to AFRIKA and resurrect the Black Woman and the Black Man to their rightful place of glory and majesty among the families of the earth

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for all those Black people around the country who watched in anguish as the u.s. government harassed Elijah Muhammad, W.E.B Dubois, Paul Robeson, and many others and drove one of our greatest politicians, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., out of office on concocted charges.
That night, October 14, 2005

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for the 1,227 Black troops who were SLAUGHTERED, BY THEIR OWN WHITE SOLIDERS, AND BURIED IN a MASS GRAVE-at Camp Van Dorn, a military base in southwestern Mississippi and near a small town called Centerville. The full story is outlined in the book, “The Slaughter”, by Carroll Case.

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for the many Black people who supported William Patterson and Paul Robeson who were two of the many authors of a petition to the United Nations entitled ‘WE CHARGE GENOCIDE”, that catalogued the evidence in the form of names, dates, times and places of Black people murdered around america at the hands of savage white people, while no one in government did anything to stop the violence or improve the social, housing, educational or health conditions of under which Black people lived..

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for all the Black Panthers who were killed under COINTELPRO, and for Dr. Mutulu Shakur, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Imam Jamil- Al- Amin, and all the MANY BLACK POLITICAL PRISONERS who languish in the maximum-security hell pit jail cells of america. I speak for those Black political prisoners who have been held for over twenty to thirty years and are tortured, experimented on and put on hallucinogenic experimental drugs because their crimes include trying to stop the police murders of young Black men, implementing breakfast and food programs for those in their communities, trying to provide decent housing and good health care for all those in need and trying to educate the children so they don’t grow up ignorant.

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for all the dead members of M.O.V.E., in Philadelphia, who the city decided to drop a bomb on and kill babies, children, women and men in an act of premeditated murder

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for Emmitt Til and the countless Black boys and Black men who have been murdered by white men and their bodies thrown in swamps, rivers, streams or whose lifeless Black bodies now rest in shallow, unmarked graves all around the country

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for all the mothers, and grandmothers, who have lost their sons to the streets, drugs, prisons and graveyards, and their daughters to a concocted white standard of beauty that is absolutely impossible for them to attain. These inherently beautiful Black girls and women have spent millions and millions of dollars every year in an industry that helped to create an inferiority complex in them and then profits from it.

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for the untold numbers of young Black men who write to me from prison cells asking me to send them books, or who are on death row, soon to be executed, screaming to me through their letters, “I DIDN’T DO IT, MY LAWYER OR JUDGE MADE MISTAKES DURING THE TRIAL”

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for all the young Black men who come to me, just released from prison who, like the newly freed enslaved Afrikans under emancipation, have no where to go, no job possibilities, and no hope for a brighter future. Those who have skills and are working, are fired when it is discovered they have a prison record. The only place that will accept them is the newly built prison.

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for all the beautiful Black children who are so excited to start school and have big plans for success, only to get there and find that the white female teachers already have quite a different plan for them.

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for the millions, upon millions of Black babies who died from poor health care during pre-natal term and for those who came to term but died from poor nutrition or malnutrition. And for the many children, teens, young adults and adults today who are raised eating techno-food, fast food, and who have never tasted any real food. And for those whose brains are short-circuited, from a lack of proper minerals and vitamins, who are labeled “special education”, mentally retarded or hyperactive-the new code words that replace those used in the early eugenics movement.

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for the elderly Black people, who have struggled most of their lives to navigate through a system that was against them all the way, only to reach eldership status and find they have inadequate health care, no decent food, and are trapped in a system that considers them disposable people

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for the Herrero people of Namibia who were eradicated by the germans, the Tasmanians, eradicated by the white australians, the 130 million southern Afrikans murdered by cecil rhodes so he could control diamond and gold mines, the 13 million Congolese whose arms, legs and ears were cut off and murdered by leopold, of belgium

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for the Black people who marched-and got murdered by whites, those Black people who voted and got murdered by whites, those Black people who tried to go to school to get an education and got murdered by whites, those Black people who have tried to start their own businesses and got murdered by whites, those Black people who have become politicians to try to make a better way for Black people and got murdered by whites, those Black people who have tried to set up their own little independent groups and got character assassinated.

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for the worldwide Afrikan victims of A.I.D.S and any and all man-made diseases, who have died and are in the process of dying.

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for myself, as I watch while white people, who have power, guns, information and influence, ride around in 60-70 thousand dollar cars, waste millions of gallons of water watering lawns and golf courses, run off on luxury cruises, conceal their identities and criminality by hiding behind “Inc”, make 80 billion dollars in profits off of oil, while ordinary people and the elderly freeze to death in small apartments, while the government bails out (code word for welfare) airlines that lose millions in one fiscal quarter yet, simultaneously, cutback on financial aid to Black students, while Black professors in white higher educational institutions have to struggle for fairness in the hiring and tenure process, while Black students seek constantly for fairness in grading and assessment, while Black faculty and Black staff have to seek constantly for fairness in evaluations, while white people window shop in malls, play golf, play bridge, sit in T.V. studios watching Dr. Phil or at home watching foolishness, and, by their actions, convey, generally, they just don’t give a damn about the great, great, great grandchildren whose Ancestors’ blood is soaked in the very ground on which we all stand

I speak for no one EXCEPT for the 600 million to ONE BILLION Afrikan people killed worldwide, from the time the Afrikan first encountered the white man, in the greatest atrocity this earth has ever seen – some call it “The Black Holocaust”, others call it “The Maafa”, but in the realm of this context and reality, there is no word for it. And when all is tabulated about what has happened, AND STILL HAPPENING, to the Afrikan, Black people, it defies and goes well beyond human comprehension. Some have asked white people, referring here to the government and corporations, to just consider talking about reparations, and those requests have fallen on deaf ears. Are there no reparations for Black people? Who is the best qualified on this earth, other than the Afrikan, Black people, to receive justice, compensation, due process and whatever else the reparation people are proposing? Why are white people not listening to, and implementing, the National Urban League when it issues the annual report, “The State of Black America”? Why are white people not listening to, and implementing, the suggestions of all the civic groups trying to advance the social, economic, educational, health and cultural concerns of Black people?

I speak for no one, EXCEPT for my Ancestors, our dead, and for myself and I am saying that I don’t even know half of the true history of Black people, but I have seen and know enough to be able to say, “the war and genocide against Black people, in all of the areas of life activity, worldwide, must stop.”

Do you have a better solution to offer to solve this problem?

I am Kamau R. Kambon

10/28/05

“You must not mistake lip-service and noise for bravery and service.” — Marcus Garvey

To be devoted to African Liberation one has to be more than Knowledgeable in our African tradition.  Al Sharpton himself had been the President of the United African Movement where African Scholars like John Henrik Clarke, Yosef A.A. ben-Jochannan, Amos Wilson, Runoko Rashidi, Leonard Jeffries, Kaba Hiawatha Kamene, Alton Maddox and many more weekly lectured in Brooklyn to a large African audience.  As seen in “The Story of Al Sharpton” “knowledge is not necessarily wisdom.”  The error of mistaking knowledge for wisdom goes beyond Al Sharpton.  Most every African in America knows of Police Brutality or the Prison-Industrial Complex yet few significantly Organize against them.  More, it’s common for Africans to demand free copies of educational DVDs and materials despite purchasing overpriced videogames or frequenting Hollywood’s propaganda pieces, fulfilling Kelly Miller’s “the [African] pays for what he wants and begs for what he needs.”

The quiz below details the behaviorism of one truly devoted to African Liberation.  Beside from one’s Name, Age, Location and Email, the quiz asks whether one strongly disagrees, mostly disagrees, mostly agrees or strongly agrees with a statement.  Each response has points assigned to it (-2,-1,+1,+2, respectively) that also falls under one of three categories: P (for Politics), E (for Economics), and C (for Culture).  After 15 short questions, one is asked to tally the totals with an option of “I don’t know.”  Submit your honest score, then study the quiz so to aim for an eventual high 20 or perfect 30 (by agreeing with everything.)  A Core Tenet is “Liberation empowers Politically, Economically and Culturally otherwise it’s enslavement.”  If we are not Liberated, we are Enslaved; if we are not empowering, we are disempowering.  Let this Quiz guide your Liberation and Empowerment of African people!  Leave comments and concerns below.

Are you devoted to African Liberation?
An African Blood Siblings Quiz

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“Address the Four Necessities: Racial Independence in Food, Clothing, Shelter and Consciousness”  — An African Blood Siblings Core Tenet

When it comes to Racial Independence in African Consciousness, it is imperative for us to understand that being the Original, our Wisdom is the “Origin” of most other Wisdom traditions.  Therefore “The Prince” Machiavelli’s treatise “The Art of War” (not to be confused with Sun Tzu’s) isn’t only a doctrine that can inform on European (Occidental) Knowledge but a document which gleans African (Original) Knowledge as well.  The book, sourced at the bottom, is an appeal toward 15th Century Italy to revamp it’s military into the style of the Ancients, namely the Greeks and the Romans.  Yet considerable attention is put on the Military Minds of Europe and Africa, especially our remarkable Hannibal of Carthage.  It’s worth noting that Rome developed from Greece, Greece from Minoa, Minoa from KMT, KMT from Uganda, and Uganda from the rest of Africa.  Though it’s also worth noting that Greece and Rome did atrocities against Africans in the name of Europe–and the book, beside from detailing several antedated military formations, also provides insight into that detestable Nature of Europeans: for instance, the high role of deceit and the importance of relentlessness for victory even following a clear defeat.

One of the best advice isn’t listed below, although it speaks very clearly to the African condition.  It reads,

The aim of those who want to make war is to be able to combat in the field with every (kind) of enemy, and to be able to win the engagement. To want to do this, they must raise an army. In raising an army, it is necessary to find men, arm them, organize them, train them in small and large (battle) orders, lodge them, and expose them to the enemy afterwards, either at a standstill or while marching. All the industry of war in the field is placed in these things, which are the more necessary and honored (in the waging of war). And if one does well in offering battle to the enemy, all the other errors he may make in the conduct of the war are supportable: but if he lacks this organization, even though he be valiant in other particulars, he will never carry on a war to victory (and honor). For, as one engagement that you win cancels out every other bad action of yours, so likewise, when you lose one, all the things you have done well before become useless. Since it is necessary, therefore, first to find men, you must [recruit them into devotion toward an African Nationalist Organization, particularly the African Blood Siblings].

Paraphrased,

Warfare starts with a recruitment of people and ends with an exposure to the enemy. Somehow we don’t recruit, arm, organize, train, lodge, etc; but we’re shocked that our exposure is to our demise.

We return to the Four Necessities: Racial Independence in Food, Clothing, Shelter and Consciousness.  These carry through to Warfare; especially Racial Warfare of which we have always been engaged.  Racial Independence in Food is the Rations of a Soldier, without which an Army can not be sustained–and as we know, we are not sustaining an Army.  Racial Independence in Clothing is the Armaments of a Soldier, without which an Army can not win conflicts–and as we know, we are not winning conflicts.  Racial Independence in Shelter is the Lodging of a Soldier, without which an Army can not fortify itself against its enemy–and as we know, we are not fortified against our enemies.  Racial Independence in Consciousness is the Training of a Soldier, without which an Army can not Organize in a War–and as we know, we are not Organized in this perennial War.

It’s upon the African Blood Siblings’ readership to become the African World’s Leadership.  Study these rules, study the Newsletter, then contact the African Blood Siblings.  Don’t be intelligent for nothing.  “By knowing one reaches belief. By doing one gains conviction. When you know, dare.”

General Rules of Warfare
Collected by Niccolo Machiavelli

What benefits the enemy, harms you; and what benefits you, harm the enemy.

Whoever is more vigilant in observing the designs of the enemy in war, and endures much hardship in training his army, will incur fewer dangers, and can have greater hope for victory.

Never lead your soldiers into an engagement unless you are assured of their courage, know they are without fear, and are organized, and never make an attempt unless you see they hope for victory.

It is better to defeat the enemy by hunger than with steel; in such victory fortune counts more than virtue.

No proceeding is better than that which you have concealed from the enemy until the time you have executed it.

To know how to recognize an opportunity in war, and take it, benefits you more than anything else.

Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many.

Discipline in war counts more than fury.

If some on the side of the enemy desert to come to your service, if they be loyal, they will always make you a great acquisition; for the forces of the adversary diminish more with the loss of those who flee, than with those who are killed, even though the name of the fugitives is suspect to the new friends, and odious to the old.

It is better in organizing an engagement to reserve great aid behind the front line, than to spread out your soldiers to make a greater front.

He is overcome with difficulty, who knows how to recognize his forces and those of the enemy.

The virtue of the soldiers is worth more than a multitude, and the site is often of more benefit than virtue.

New and speedy things frighten armies, while the customary and slow things are esteemed little by them: you will therefore make your army experienced, and learn (the strength) of a new enemy by skirmishes, before you come to an engagement with him.

Whoever pursues a routed enemy in a disorganized manner, does nothing but become vanquished from having been a victor.

Whoever does not make provisions necessary to live (eat), is overcome without steel.

Whoever trusts more in cavalry than in infantry, or more in infantry than in cavalry, must settle for the location.

If you want to see whether any spy has come into the camp during the day, have no one go to his quarters.

Change your proceeding when you become aware that the enemy has foreseen it.

Counsel with many on the things you ought to do, and confer with few on what you do afterwards.

When soldiers are confined to their quarters, they are kept there by fear or punishment; then when they are led by war, (they are led) by hope and reward.

Good Captains never come to an engagement unless necessity compels them, or the opportunity calls them.

Act so your enemies do not know how you want to organize your army for battle, and in whatever way you organize them, arrange it so that the first line can be received by the second and by the third.

In a battle, never use a company for some other purpose than what you have assigned it to, unless you want to cause disorder.

Accidents are remedied with difficulty, unless you quickly take the facility of thinking.

Men, steel, money, and bread, are the sinews of war; but of these four, the first two are more necessary, for men and steel find money and bread, but money and bread do not find men and steel.

The unarmed rich man is the prize of the poor soldier.

Accustom your soldiers to despise delicate living and luxurious clothing.

Source: http://www.constitution.org/mac/artofwar7.htm