African Empowerment Program: Weekly Discussion Groups

Listen Seeker, I come in peace,

“Seek Africans and Develop Loving Africans.” — Onitaset Kumat

African Empowerment must come from Loving Africans, a type which must be developed by Africans themselves. If you are an African without an Organization, or if you are an African Blood Siblings Member, your task hereafter is the Development of Loving Africans toward African Nationalism. For this, you are invited to attend a Weekly Discussion group in one of your local public spaces. The host is you. Choose a day and time (the place can be changed regularly,) then seek Africans whom you can convince of the need to stop the Genocide against us through Power and Self-Determination. These Africans are invited to invite further participants. The Discussion should begin with an African Libation and end with the African Affirmation, but most importantly, through the Discussion Guide, it will Develop Africans into Loving Africans, informed on the Knowledge, Wisdom and Love of our Ancestors, who ready to Wage War are ready to end the active, long-standing Genocide against our Race.  As John Edward Bruce wrote, “We must organize to secure uniformity of utterance and action among the darker races and to meet organized wrong with intelligently organized resistance.”

More information on the Discussion to come. Email AfricanBloodSibs@aim.com for more personalized information. At the start of each meeting, hand out a copy of the Discussion Guide to each participant and retrieve them lest a participant wishes to purchase one. Keep fifteen on hand to account for uninvited Africans. Proceed from the topic of the last meeting until all eight topics are exhausted then restart. These Discussions are taking place in several states of America, in Europe and in Africa, and with you more will be and our means of self-protection can increase more rapidly. Save yourself.

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African Empowerment Program: Weekly Discussion Groups
By The African Blood Siblings

Nat Turner’s Insurrection

On May 12th, 1828, a Spirit told Nat Turner, an African Liberator in Virginia, U.S., to prepare for War, yet keep his lips sealed until the signal in the sky. In February 1831 the sign came: an eclipse and a message, “Arise and slay the enemies of God with their own weapons.” Nat Turner broke his seal. In light of meritorious manumission, a law whereby Africans were promised manumission (freedom) if they benefited Europeans, he divulged his plan to trustworthy Africans who recommended others. By August 31st, 1831, seven–Henry, Hercules, Nelson, Sam, Will, Jack and Nat– were ready for War. Nat Turner’s Insurrection of seven people was Powerful enough to have nearly ended Slavery in Virginia, the largest Enslaver in the U.S.  Our Ancestors applied “The Science of Struggle:” Listening then Creating.

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

No two Races have cohabited as equals. Whether Africans and Europeans, Europeans and Asians, or Asians and Africans, in each Integration one was Subordinate and one was Superordinate. In examples of African Superordination, i.e. Ancient KMT (Egypt) to Ancient Greece, Ancient Shang to Ancient China or the Ancient Mande to Ancient Mexico, the result has been War. When our Power is inferior, either the Subordination of Africans or the Genocide of Africans had visited us. War is a necessity between cohabiting Races. One should not even conceive Race without conceiving War. For this, the African must Empower herself and join Units of Racial Organization, Units of an African Army, Units of War. These outfits must discipline Africans for Combat–Organized Resistance, without which Genocide is as certain as Egypt, China and Mexico are non-African.

Discipline in war counts more than fury.

Fury, Anger, Sadness count little in War. African, not a soul cares that you are upset if you are unprepared to protect yourself. If you ever wonder why European Police Officers can subordinate a whole city of Africans or why European people can subordinate a whole world of Africans and Asians, it’s because our Discipline for War is lacking; particularly as we are endowed with the natural Physical, Mental and Spiritual advantage over Europeans and Asians. You do not understand Warfare if you doubt our ability to be Victorious. You do nothing against our Genocide–absolutely nothing–if you are not a part of an African Army, a Racial Organization, an Organized Resistance.

There are several kinds of Negroes in this country whose idiosyncrasies retard the progress of the race.

John Edward Bruce described four types of Africans: the jealous, the ignorant, the very smart and the loyal. Each can be addressed in their own way. Yet certainly the Loyal African is the only type which needs to be in African Armies and Racial Organizations like the African Blood Siblings. This Loyal African however needs discipline and membership. And without this Discipline or Membership (Love), the Loyal African is no more useful to Africa and African people than the “Dis-Loyal.”

The seed includes all the possibilities of the tree.
The seed will develop these possibilities, however, only if it receives corresponding energies from the sky.

Yet every single African can be developed into a Loyal African, just like every single person can be developed into a soldier. It’s upon you to develop yourself into a Loyal African first, the African Blood Siblings Literature is a Key, then oversee the development of yourself and other Africans into Loving Africans, through dialogue and an encouragement of our Literature. An African includes the possibilities of the Warrior. Today, if you have not, join the African Blood Siblings and form a Local Army for your empowerment.

There grows no wheat where there is no grain.

Neither Power nor Restoration will come without Africans seeking and developing Power and Restoration. As Mis-Education precludes thought along these lines, Readers must become Leaders and make Power and Restoration the goal of a Unit of Africans.

African Blood Siblings Weekly Discussion Groups

The African Blood Siblings invites Readers and Members to be Leaders and Liberators, providing for each a template for Weekly Discussion groups on Politics, Economics, Culture, Ethics, Sociology, Ecology, Psychology and Ideology with African Quotes, Proverbs, Tenets and Rules of Warfare. Set a day and time and gather Africans for the task. As your group grows, just as Nat Turner listened for the Loyal and selected them for a Project, so too will you be able to develop then select Loving Africans for the goal of Prosperous, Independent African Communities. You will make a Project and you will start an African Blood Siblings Community Center and you will Re-Organize Africans toward our Self-Determination and Organized Protection.

Print 15 copies of this Discussion Guide. Sell some but always have 15 on hand. Gather as many Africans as you can for the African Blood Siblings Weekly Discussion Groups. It is through this that you will Save Yourself.

Dialogue between an African and an Exploiter (Graphic Language)

Listen Seeker, I come in peace,

“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

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

Listen Seeker, I come in peace,

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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Also research: Rosewood, Florida, and East St Louis, Illinois

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Kamau Kambon’s “Exterminate White People” Speech and Related Articles

Listen Seeker, I come in peace,

“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.

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Play: Inevitable Daughter — Directorial Introduction

Listen Seeker, I come in peace,

“But there were always two factors psychologically dominant in his personality. First, through some quirk of circumstance, he had become estranged from the religion and the folk culture of his race. Second, he was trying to react to and answer the call of the dominant civilization whose glitter came to him through the newspapers, magazines, radios, movies, and the mere imposing sight and sound of daily American life. In many respects his emergence as a distinct type was inevitable.” — Richard Wright

What Richard Wright said of Bigger Thomas, for the next month, I’ll try to do for Nigeria Thompson. As “Bigger” is eponymous for “Nigger,” so was “Nigeria” chosen. As Bigger was a “Native Son,” so is Nigeria an “Inevitable Daughter.” But I don’t have the luxury of years planning and months writing; rather this was planned for only days and will be finished by March 30th.

The effort is not to showcase literary talent. Why do that? The effort is to encourage among us youth amusements and provide again for our people. How many of us actually think of how to entertain our own people? How many options do African people really have for good, wholesome socials? Is it any surprise that Africans partake in unwholesome societies when wholesomeness is generally neglected?

This is an all-African seven-person play where five of the actors have two characters (12 character total.) Should you choose to perform this play (or even only a scene), do not include other people and only cast African actors. In emulating Native Son’s plot, Europeans factor in the story. Yet it’s not upon us to employ Europeans or enlist them for our storytelling. That said, record scenes of this play, perform it in parks, schools, homes, and pay yourself and donate money here whenever you sell tickets. You may also like this play.  Subscribe, share, love.

The Inevitable Daughter: An Introduction
By Onitaset Kumat

Plot: A young woman kills a man in panic–a European. She’s African. But maybe if she stays calm, nothing will go wrong?

Characters:

1. Nigeria Thompson — A young Woman
2. Sister Dallas Ng — A disbarred Lawyer
3. Somal Thompson — Nigeria’s Brother
   Eddie Puxt* — Mr. Puxt’s ABS Sympathizing Son
4. Mrs. Thomspon — Nigeria’s Mother
   Kate* — The Private Investigator
5. Leah Thompson — Nigeria’s Sister
   Jane Torren*– Eddie Puxt’s Girlfriend
6. Isiah East — Nigeria’s Boyfriend
   Melville* — The District Attorney
7. Judge Tom — The Judge
   Mr. Puxt* — Nigeria Thompson’s New Employer

*European Character: Theatrically, just the above actor with a Mask.

Acts and Scenes

Act 1 — Fear
Scene 1 — In Mrs. Thompson’s House
Scene 2 — In Office
Scene 3 — In Office
Act 2 — Flight
Scene 1 — In Isiah East’s House
Scene 2 — In Office
Scene 3 — In Hideout
Act 3 — Fate
Scene 1 — Prison
Scene 2 — Court
Scene 3 — Prison

Theatre Mechanics

In New York City there is a Theatre troupe in one of its parks which before an assembly of onlookers, performs a play wherein at the change of a scene the actors themselves move to another part of the park where awaits the next scene. This isn’t that sort of play–though it can be for some scenes.

For Inevitable Daughter, a Table, Four Chairs, Three Bedsheets (White, Floral, Black) and Five Masks (or White makeshift hats [such as shirts wrapped around the head]) will be sufficient for communicating a change of scene and a change of race (for European characters.) The sheets can be used as curtains before being spread on the table or floor to depict a different scene. The masks and a changed voice can be used to signify a European character. The costs of production should not be a factor for the performance of the play.

Differences from “Native Son”

The play shares the plot to an extent. A young African kills a European in a panic then tests fortune by remaining at the crime scene. Everything that follows speaks toward European society and its Power over African people.

However, the differences are dramatic. Not only is the Protagonist now a Woman, but the story is told in a Play’s format rather than a Novel’s. Novels afford wider appeals to senses, observations, more visually charged movements and more scenes. They can also be more serious and realistic. For this play, I figured I had 30 days (of March), a post every 3 days including this introduction, so only 9 Scenes to work with. Given that “Native Son” had 3 Acts, I chose 3 Scenes from each Act. This leaves out a lot, and while referencing undisplayed scenes has its merits, obviously I encourage those who enjoy the play to read “Native Son” by Richard Wright for the more full experience.

Other differences include a lack of an inner monologue, which really made “Native Son” understandable, and the lack of the Communist Party, putting instead the African Blood Siblings into the story. This promises to be particularly tricky. There are also scenes in “Native Son” too graphic for a young audience. How to include such plot devices as rape and murder are still not clear.

Overall, it’s expected to be a good story. Stay tuned.  And consider reading and performing my other play, “Dinner After Europe.”