New Africa is composed of the people descended of the enslaved people of western Alkebulan (Africa) who had been brought into the USA until the 1830s. They altogether constitute a nation with various cultures and identities, with a universal history, commonly used language, and inter-cultural self-identity commonly expressed in a cohesive manner readily understood by others within the New Africa nation.The Homeland of New Africa is the area of permanent settlement by the families of African slaves, known as the "Black Belt" according to the vocabulary of the dominant settler nation. The People of New Africa are registered as Citizens of the USA, and are classified as "African-American" by all USA government agencies.
During the 1900s, two mass-migrations from New Africa to the industrial cities of North America began, motivated by the USA Federal work contracts, promising fair treatment for all Citizens despite their national status, during and after the mobilization of resources for both World War 1 and World War 2. After World War 2, during 1948, a conservative coalition of economic dictators and national vanguards within the dominant settler nation instituted a regime of repression and economic warfare against all external colonies of New Africa, while perpetuating their regime of economic captivity against the New Africa homeland.
The practice of the dominant settler nation of applying the term "Negro" to all people of African descent, including in legal papers, ended as a practice during the 1960s' "Black Revolution", and subsequent guerrilla war during the 1970s, when the absolute majority of "Negroes" (80% in many districts within the New Africa homeland and external colonies, according to surveys conducted c.1970 by Time newsmagazine) not only held high-esteem for New Africa national vanguards, like the Black Panther Party, but who wholly created a renaissance of independent culture, including adopting two new appellations: "Black" and New African.
The "Jackson-Kush" Plan for economic emancipation of the nation of New Africa, begun 2013 [link]
New African Vernacular English [link], a study of the national language.
Demographic maps produced by the USA Federal census show the regions of permanent settlement.
"The Black Belt", 1932 map from :
Cultural expression of New Africa:
Flag for the People of New Africa, designed by Marcus Garvey during the 1910s:
Marcus Garvey Day 2013 Parade in Los Angeles:
In the streets, in the churches, New Africa's national flag symbolizes the unity of a culture (photos 2013):
The colors expressed in the New African flag, red, black and green, symbolize the unity of the people to overcome permanent economic captivity:
"Black Infant Health (BIH)" of Solano County, CA [link] is a county government program that uses the Red, Black, Green to symbolize their nation.
“BLACK POWER HOOD2HOOD”, 2013 [www.BLAction365.com]
Lovelle Mixon, a warrior of New Africa [link]
Economic expressions of New Africa:
Expressions of New Africa are found in almost all economic sectors
Omali Yeshitela speaks: "Beyond the 60s: The Ongoing Struggle for Black Community Self-Reliance" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GExVy_AIsDo] [https://archive.today/x1Zh8]
Chairman Omali Yeshitela speaks at "Beyond the 60's: Supporting the Ongoing Struggle for Black Community Self-Reliance in 2011," an Uhuru Solidarity Movement Event held at the USF St. Petersburg campus on July 26, 2011 as part of the Uhuru Movement's 2011 Freedom Summer Project in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Akua Agusi [www.AkuaAgusi.com] and SEEDS Publishing [www.seedsbookpublishing.com]
“Queen of Nzingha” by Akua Ausara Agusi, published 2012-07
Ahh Justice taking her turn to read! Thank you for the wonderful feedback Sonik Soundwaveus! He said to me " when I read my daughter reading your book I was like that's what I'm talking about I love what you included in the book and how you worded it" Give thanks for your fatherhood Sonik!
2012 Black Market event May 18th 11-5pm @chuco's in Inglewood Ca!!! The Black Market is the perfect place to expose your business ,products ,services association to the community ! W/ live performances /fashion show/food demo/lectures / and connections !!!!! Join us!
Example of an artisan item sold at the Black Market, one of many ways which New African can create economic activity. Self-made objects with meaning are a worthwhile means at attracting buyers!
Akoben Klan Products Marketplace (A.K. Products) [www.akproducts.spruz.com] [http://www.akproducts.spruz.com/marketplace.htm] [http://www.facebook.com/pages/AK-Products/400111403387649]
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National vanguards of New Africa
Republic of New Africa [link]
Nation of Islam [link], Official website [www.noi.org].
The Nation of Islam (NOI) is a religious sect representing New Africa [link], and has been called for in questions of diplomacy between national vanguards of New Africa and has represented the People of New Africa without prejudice of religious affiliation with embassies to the Republic of Cuba, and with governments across Alkebulan (Africa).
"You and I deserve and we demand reparations SASA (NOW)!!!", 2008 message from FONAMI:
Special photo exhibit, your inner views and filming coming soon to your Afrikan Nation, Village and Community. To support and help organize our efforts in your area, contact:
Baba Jahahara Amen-Ra Alkeulan-Ma’at c/o Foundations for Our New Alkebulan / Afrikan Millenium (FONAMI) PO Box 10963, Oakland CA 94610
Self Determination, Justice, Healing, Amen-Ra Hotep (God’s Peace and Blessings)
Nation of Gods and Earth ("7 Percenters")
"RBG National Strategy of the Front for the Liberation of the New African Nation" (Version 4)
The time is ripe to heed the long-standing, and most often overlooked, calls for New Afrikan Unity, Cultural Development, Education and Social Transformation. Such is what RBG most fundamentally represents. Contrary to the prevailing, misinformed assumptions,RBG (Black Nationalism / PanAfrikanism ) as an ideology, interaction and academic process is not a rabid assertion of Black supremacy. Unlike white Nationalism and American patriotism, RBG(Black Nationalism / Pan -Afrikanism ) and its proponents do not seek to humiliate, exploit, or oppress any person or people. Rather,RBG / (Black Nationalism / Pan Afrikanism ) is a positive affirmation of the cultural, political, social, economic and moral identity and concerns of African people. In its most rudimentary forms, it reacts to the brutally violent and repressive conditions under which African people have and continue to live. White supremacy / racism creates an environment where whites are necessarily viewed with suspicion, but we are not anti-white. We are New Afrikan / Black on purpose and Black folks must first and foremost be beholden to each other. The most basic expression of RBG (Black Nationalism/ Pan-Afrikanism ) thought is that Black / New Afrikan people in America and throughout the diaspora are bound by the common history and experience of historical chattel and present day mental slavery, suffering and death under the boot heel of white supremacy / racism. Most importantly, RBG is about self-reliance, self- respect and self-defense toward the total liberation and unification of all New Afrikan people that desire to defend, define and develop in our own image and interest.
In the last several years from many corners of the New Afrikan Independence Movement, there has been a clarion call for the building of the Front for the Liberation of the New Afrikan Nation. A revolutionary nationalist front to establish a movement for national independence, to free the national territory of Kush from the colonial (U.S.A.) government. This call has mostly come from BLA-POWs and their supporters who recognize the need to resurrect a militant resistance to continued national oppression, identifying the basis of our peoples' colonial subjugation as part of the anti-imperialist struggle being waged by Third World peoples in many parts of the world. of course, this means we have to once again develop a militant political organization that will challenge U.S. colonialism and organize New Afrikans to offensively pursue the ultimate objective of national independence. This task has to be greater than a survival program pending revolution: as all survival programs are in essence defensive in posture, based on the ideal to survive is to defend against attacks, but survival programs do not forge a movement, only sustain an existence. Therefore, to build Frolinan is to push forward the quest of national emancipation, as Frolinan's national strategy is not based simply on survival pending revolution, but rather, building the revolution to survive. This position on survival is not relegated to a defensive posture, but develops an offensive Program for Decolonization, establishing a revolutionary theory and program to militantly fight for national independence. I have taken the initiative to write this proposal and treaty for our numbers and revolutionary nationalist to build upon, for us to unite our forces under a single program and national strategy. Since. the destruction of the Black Panther Party, our movement has fallen in the hands of passive resisters, losing its vitality, momentum, and revolutionary fervor. It is now necessary to rekindle the spirit of militant resistance and rebuild our revolutionary movement. Build Frolinan, our revolutionary nationalist front, comprising the needed national organizations and programs that will assure not only our survival, but also, our inevitable victory in establishing the Republic of New Afrika in the western hemisphere. This document is presented for revolutionary nationaliit to discuss and seek the means and methods to create conditions to manifest the National Strategy of Frolinan. Of course, this is my conception of what needs to be done based on varied discussions amongst Comrades, and basic analysis of the general situation of opportunism, liberalism, and sectarianism effecting our overall struggle. Therefore, this document is not all conclusive or inclusive of our needs in struggle; rather, it seeks to forge the basis to establish a durable foundation by which we may unite our talents and resources to build Frolinan. Hence, this document is offered as a pivot to create the needed center of gravity from which we can rally our forces, and move forward in unity and struggle. Based on the foregoing, I'm requesting of those receiving this document and who are able, to make copies and redistribute to those you believe might be interested in building Frolinan.
Furthermore, I'm requesting all authentic revolutionary nationalist to do the following upon review of this document:
1. Submit proposals to strengthen the basis to build Frolinan, ie., organizational structure, ideological format, political programs, etc.;
2. Establish a Frolinan organizing-cadre to build one of the Programs of Decolonization in your area, adopting Frolinan's National Strategy;
3. Discuss this document with others, and contribute financially, materially and personally to the National Strategy of Frolinan.
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TWENTY-FOUR COMMANDMENTS OF A BLACK REVOLUTIONARY Excerpted from Madhubuti, H. R. (1991) Black Men: obsolete, single and dangerous? the Afrikan American Family in transition. Pgs8-9 Chicago: Third World Press
1. Study-Oriented: reads, evaluates and debates books, newspapers, magazines and scholarly journals. Accepts the challenge of education.
2. Worker: looks for ways in which to actively work for self; may hold a job outside in order to sustain self and family. Self-Reliant.
3. Organized and Systematic - efficient and diligent.
4. Progressively Collective; conscious of others; Cooperative.
5. Family Oriented: regards mate as partner in struggle; loves children. Values trust in relationships.
6. Land Conscious: realizes that the only thing that nobody is making any more of is land.
7. Disciplined: strong, unyielding and energetic.
8. Serious. Practices fair play, order and punctuality. Honest and dependable.
9. Analytical and critical.
10. Frugal: buys mainly on need basis; saves.
11. Social life is developmental and involves children.
12. Creatively Aggressive: will dare the impossible if it is possible.
13. Respects Elders.
14. Dislikes incompetence and mediocrity.
15. Fights against Black on Black crime and understands that its root is white on Black crime.
16. Loves Black art, music and literature.
17. Can give and follow instructions. Encourages experimentation and criticism.
18. Committed to Black Liberation - local, national and international.
19. Does not use drugs.
20. Politically Active. Not crisis-oriented; acts on information rather than reacts. Plans ahead for the long term; alert; prepared for change.
21. Self-Confident. Respects others regardless of race or culture.
22. Understands the economic forces that control our lives on a local, national and international level.
23. Rational in decisions and actions.
24. Rewards merit and achievement.
"Community Solutions Center for Responsive Black Governance"
Community Solutions Center for Responsive Black Governance is an independent, Afrikan Centered, multidisciplinary think tank, policy institute, and operations center dedicated to increased organizational responsiveness, interest articulation, agenda development, and policy formulation in New Afrikan Communities, as well advocating for marginalized populations of New Afrikan descent and New Afrikan geopolitical strategic positioning.
CSC4RBG has 3 distinct roles: Think Tank, Policy Institute, and Operations Center. The primary role of a think tank is to investigate problems in a dedicated sector and develop solutions to said problems. A policy institute is VERY closely related to a think tank. Where as think tanks can serve many different constituent bodies, policy institutes cater their products for political and government clients. Traditional think tanks and policy centers regulate themselves to shaping to policy environment through their intellectual and political efforts. There must also be a body that executes and acts on the findings of think tanks and policy centers. This is where the rubber meets the road: "We have identified Solutions A, B, and C to Problem #1. Who will implement these solutions?" This is CSC4RBG's "crown jewels". Not only do we actively produce solutions intellectually and lobby executive leaders to implement them, we go out in the field and execute them.
Its takes systems to defeat systems. One must ask questions regarding what systems do we have, how effective are said systems, and what additional systems remain to be developed? These are the questions CSC4RBG was created to not only ask, but answer decisively for our stakeholders. CSC4RBG was established as an institution to leverage and apply new trends, techniques, and methodologies in the art of leadership, organization, team building, planning, operational art, and strategic decision making to the development of solutions to the family, community, and national problems experienced by the New Afrikan constituency.
Overall, it can be summed up that we are in pursuit of practical, effective efficient, and sustainable SYSTEMS. The relentless DEVELOPMENT and wholistic INTEGRATION of such SYSTEMS will be the source of Afrikan Power for the next 100 centuries. This is the foundation of a transglobal Pax Afrikan superstate.
New Afrikan People's Liberation Army (Prison chapter)
"The New Black Panther Party calls on all Black People / Organizations to close ranks and settle all existing quarrels in our community"
Photo 2014-03-21 from "Justice For Alfred Wright" page at "facebook.com", showing a NBPP Warrior protecting the People from vigilantes lynching their people, including the police:
"9 LOCAL OBJECTIVES OF THE NEW BLACK PANTHER PARTY FOR SELF-DEFENSE"
A Guide for establishing Black Power, Black Nationalism and Self-Determination in the Cities and areas where we must struggle.
ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
NEW BLACK PANTHER PARTY FOR SELF-DEFENSE
9 LOCAL OBJECTIVES
These 9 Local Objectives are in accordance with the NBPP National 10 Point Program and Platform.
BLACK POWER MEANS -
* TO DEFINE: WHAT IS IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF BLACK PEOPLE.
* TO DEVELOP: WHAT IS IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF BLACK PEOPLE.
* TO DEFEND: WHAT IS IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF BLACK PEOPLE.
1. TO DEVELOP A BLACK POWER MOVEMENT:
We, the New Black Panther Party for Self Defense local chapter, representing the national New Black Panther Party, are currently organizing for the benefit of our people in this city, region, nation, and all over the earth. To this end we scientifically and consistently organize to redeem our people and ourselves. We recognize the necessity for Ujima (Collective work and responsibility). We strive to develop a Black Power Movement in the local area to develop complete constructive change amongst our people and to defend our rights.
We as a local and national party strive for Black Unity (Umoja) and Black Solidarity with other Black organizations worldwide. We shall build alliances with organizations, leaders, Churches, Mosques and like. When necessary we must deal firmly and appropriately with "Black" leadership who betray the interests of the Black community or Black Nation.
We recognize our Divine destiny and the need for Divine guidance in our movement. We are not a religion, however all faiths and spiritual practices are respected and studied
from a Black liberation perspective. We support Black liberation and salvation theology as a necessary weapon to redeem ourselves after our enemy has destroyed us. We affirm our Imani (Faith) in the victory of our just cause."One God, One Aim, One Destiny..." The Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey
2. TO DEVELOP BLACK POWER THROUGH EDUCATION:
We, the New Black Panther Party, work to educate our people, particularly the youth. To that end, our movement educates and teaches the community at our weekly meetings; public forums, rallies; programs; town hall meetings; on the streets; in the schools; in the projects; on the radio; through electronic and print media, and anywhere where knowledge needs to be forwarded.
Most of our youth are currently in the public school system. For this reason we will take an active role in school board affairs and general work in the regional public schools. We will struggle to turn the local school board back into the electoral hands of our people.
We also struggle to ensure that knowledge of self and history is taught in the local and regional School Board systems. We support development of independent African-Centered schools. We shall establish our own schools as a Party. We encourage college degrees, professional degrees, as well as trade and vocational training. We strive for the knowledge to compete with the best in civilization. Education also, includes a knowledge of better diet and health practices.
A proper education enables us to define, thereby develop and defend what is in our Black self-interest, giving us Kujichagulia-self determination.
See point # 5 of our National 10 point program.
3. TO DEVELOP AND DEFEND BLACK ECONOMIC POWER:
We struggle to promote and develop a Black economy. We must control the money that flows in our community. We must own and control the businesses in our community. We struggle for Black owned stores, banks, supermarkets, Laundromats, hotels, cab companies, beauty supply shops, retail outlets, restaurants shopping centers and the like. We must... WE MUST establish trade with our selves our motherland Africa, and the nations of the earth. We must BUY BLACK as often as possible and cease unnecessary spending with non-Black owned businesses. The Hon. Marcus Garvey's U.N.I.A. and the Hon. Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam are two great historical examples of building a Black economy. The businesses that currently operate in our community cannot be allowed to exploit the community. We shun exploitation, regardless of the race of the exploiter. We must remove the foreign economic "bloodsuckers", from our community. We support UJAMAA- (Cooperative Economics.) Please see point #3 on our National 10 point program.
4. TO DEVELOP AND DEFEND BLACK POLITICAL POWER:
We recognize the reality of politics as being a process that controls the distribution of resources in the city and our community. We built the city, region and country, and are currently forced to pay taxes. To that end we, the New Black Panther Party engage in the political process to ensure the proper use of our communities' tax dollars and other dollars that were stolen, by whites, from us."Politically, Black Nationalism means to control the politics and politicians in our community."...Malcolm X. We shall be active in the affairs of the politics of the District, region, and National Government, which impact our people. We will deal with the local city council, regional governments, school boards, ANC's etc. We shall back strong Black candidates when they meet the Black Agenda test requirements. We encourage political awareness and activity to further the Black agenda. All Black politicians who betray the people must be dealt with. We understand that political power is limited, absent economic power and a true knowledge of self. We are 100% opposed to gentrification or white takeover of the inner city. We demand full self-determination for particularly after having built the city and nation. Self-determination today is denied because of blatant racism. We struggle to establish our own provisional government (in unity with other Black organizations), in order take control of our communities and in preparation for our own government soon to come! We advocate political alliances with all African -Black Organizations that are uncompromising in the struggle for liberation. We also will organize with the other oppressed people of color. The New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense is all Black, not integrationist.
5. TO DEVELOP AND ENFORCE ACCOUNTABILITY IN LAW ENFORCEMENT AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM:
We respect the Police in our community who show proper respect for our community. We respect those in authority as long they respect us. God alone is our master.
We, the New Black Panther Party for Self Defense, mobilize and organize for an end to police brutality and misconduct. We demand the police in our community, and elsewhere, respect the Human Rights of our people and their constitutional rights. We call on Black Police officers to recognize that they are Black men and women first and police officers second. We call on Black police officers to recognize our common enemy who put our people in this condition.We demand full accountability of the police to the citizens of the Black Community. We strive for community police review boards with legal power to seek indictments, punish and discipline rogue police officers. We will monitor and observe the police according to the law. We call for an immediate end to surveillance cameras in the Black community. We struggle to reform areas in our community or nation from the negative behavior that the slave master and the decadent American way of life imposed upon us. We believe in our divine and legal rights to self-defense after over 400 years of abuse.
The criminal justice system must be held accountable to the will of our people and not a cruel ex-slave master that desires to see our people continuously incarcerated. Of course, our work is in the jails and prisons where many great brothers and sisters are locked up. We demand immediate freedom for all political prisoners and prisoners of racist political circumstance.
6. TO DEVELOP AND DEFEND BLACK YOUTH:
The New Black Panther for Self-Defense recognizes the good qualities and leadership potential in Black youth. We seek to help them to become leaders and defenders of our community. The future of our nation depends on this so-called lost generation. The history of the liberation struggle shows us Black youth at the forefront. We excitedly welcome Black youth into our ranks. We call for an end to gang violence and an end to Black on Black violence in general. We demand, locally, billions of dollars in reparations specifically for the salvation and education of our young people. Every Black youth or able-bodied person in this city and region should be afforded a proper education and reasonable job at a good wage after the robbery of our people for over 400 years. We demand an immediate end to the wholesale incarceration and criminalization of Black youth. We invite Black college student participation and affirm continuity in struggle through youth!
7. TO RECLAIM AND DEVELOP BLACK NIEGHBORHOODS:
We strive, with community residents, to reclaim and clean up our community, block by block. We organize patrols, community events, and programs to reclaim our neighborhoods. We feed and clothe the homeless (with community support) and always work with the downtrodden in our society. We demand adequate health care and rehabilitation in our community!! NO, WE ARE NOT GUARDIAN ANGELS. Again we must fight gentrification or THE WHITE TAKEOVER of the (CITY). We recognize this as a conspiracy to remove our people, and will fight against it by any means necessary. We, with the community, shall establish a new code of conduct in the Black community of love, sisterhood, brotherhood, intelligence, peace, respect and unity and struggle.
8. TO DEFEND BLACK RIGHTS IN GENERAL:
We shall struggle and organize against all forms of racism and discrimination against black people in the region: federal, state and local government racism, corporate racism; consumer racism; police discrimination, housing discrimination and racist discrimination in general. The New Black Panther Party is the vigilant defender of Black people's divine, human and legal rights. To this end we work through the BLACK DEFENSE LEAUGE (an OAAU) and call On Black legal organizations, attorneys, Black activists, pastors; preachers; churches; organizations, and leadership of every Black stripe to join with us against the evils of racism, inequality and injustice."FREEDOM OR DEATH!"
9. WE DEMAND LOCAL REPARATIONS AND COMPENSATION:
WE AFFIRM THAT THE GOVERNMENTS, CORPORATIONS AND WHITE PRIVATE CITIZENS OF THE REGION, HAVE WILLFULLY, INTENTIONALLY AND RECKLESSLY ENSLAVED, DISCRIMINATED AGAINST, ROBBED AND DISFRANCHISED OUR PEOPLE IN COUNTLESS AND INNUMERABLE WAYS. WE AFFIRM THAT THE SAME ENTITIES WEALTH IN THE REGION IS ROOTED IN THE SLAVE TRADE-SYSTEM AND CURRENTLY PROFIT FROM CONTEMPORARY RACISM & DISENFRANCHISEMENT. WE THEREBY DEMAND THAT THE GUILTY PARTIES RELINQUISH BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OWED IN FINANCE, LAND AND OTHER NECESSARY SUPPLIES, AS PARTIAL REPARATIONS, TO PARTIALLY COMPENSATE FOR OVER 400 YEARS OF SLAVERY, DISCRIMINATION, RACISM, BRUTALITY, ROBBERY, THEFT, LAND-STEALING, SUFFERING, DEATH, PHYSICAL AND MENTAL INJURIES, GENERAL ABUSE, DEFAMATION, SLANDER AND A HOST OF OTHER CRIMES AND TORTS OF THE BROADEST AND WORST MAGNITUDE.
WE DEMAND THE USE OF THESE PARTIAL COMPENSATORY DAMAGES FOR
THE INSTITUTIONAL REBUILDING OF THE BLACK NATION AND COMMUNITY WITH ABSOLUTELY NO STRINGS ATTACHED.
WE FULLY SUPPORT ALL NATIONAL REPARATIONS MOVEMENTS, AND CALL ON ALL BLACK ORGANIZATIONS TO FIGHT FOR REPARATIONS BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!!
ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
"10 POINT PROGRAM OF THE NEW BLACK PANTHER PARTY FOR SELF-DEFENSE" (What the New Black Panthers Want; What the New Black Panthers Believe)":
1. We want freedom. We want the power to practice self-determination, and to determine the destiny of our community and THE BLACK NATION.
We believe in the spiritual high moral code of our Ancestors. We believe in the truths of the Bible, Quran, and other sacred texts and writings. We believe in MAAT and the principles of NGUZO SABA. We believe that Black People will not be free until we are able to determine our Divine Destiny.
2. We want full employment for our people and we demand the dignity to do for ourselves what we have begged the white man to do for us.
We believe that since the white man has kept us deaf, dumb and blind, and used every "dirty trick" in the book to stand in the way of our freedom and independence, that we should be gainfully employed until such time we can employ and provide for ourselves.
We believe further in: POWER IN THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE! WEALTH IN THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE! ARMS IN THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE!
3. We want tax exemption and an end to robbery of THE BLACK NATION by the CAPITALIST. We want an end to the capitalistic domination of Africa in all of its forms: imperialism, criminal settler colonialism, neo-colonialism, racism, sexism, Zionism, Apartheid and artificial borders.
We believe that this wicked racist government has robbed us, and now we are demanding the overdue debt of reparations. A form of reparations was promised 100 years ago (forty acres and a mule) as restitution for the continued genocide of our people and to in meaningful measure and repair the damage for the AFRICAN HOLOCAUST (Maangamizo/Maafa).
We believe our people should be exempt from ALL TAXATION as long as we are deprived of equal justice under the laws of the land and the overdue reparations debt remains unpaid. We will accept payment in fertile and minerally rich land, precious metals, industry, commerce and currency. As genocide crimes continue, people's tribunals must be set up to prosecute and to execute. The "Jews" were given reparations. The Japanese were given reparations. The Black, the Red and the Brown Nations must be given reparations. The American white man owes us reparations. England owes us reparations. France owes us reparations, Spain and all of Europe. Africa owes us reparations and repatriation. The Arabs owe us reparations. The "Jews" owe us reparations. All have taken part in the AFRICAN HOLOCAUST and the slaughter of 600 million of our people over the past 6,000 years in general and 400 years in particular. We know that this is a reasonable and just demand that we make at this time in history.
4. We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings, free health-care (preventive and maintenance). We want an end to the trafficking of drugs and to the biological and chemical warfare targeted at our people.
We believe since the white landlords will not give decent housing and quality health care to our Black Community, the housing, the land, the social, political and economic institutions should be made into independent UUAMAA "New African Communal/Cooperatives" so that our community, with government reparations and aid (until we can do for ourselves) can build and make drug free, decent housing with health facilities for our people.
5. We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this devilish and decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history/herstory and our role in the present day society.
We believe in an educational system that will give our people "a knowledge of self." If we do not have knowledge of self and of our position in society and the world, then we have little chance to properly relate to anything else.
6. We want all Black Men and Black Women to be exempt from military service.
We believe that Black People should not be forced to fight in the military service to defend a racist government that holds us captive and does not protect us. We will not fight and kill other people of color in the world who, like Black People, are being victimized by the white racist government of America. We will protect ourselves from the force and violence of the racist police and the racist military, "by any means necessary."
7. We want an immediate end to POLICE HARRASSMENT, BRUTALITY and MURDER of Black People. We want an end to Black-on-Black violence, "snitching," cooperation and collaboration with the oppressor.
We believe we can end police brutality in our community by organizing Black self-defense groups (Black People's Militias/Black Liberation Army's) that are dedicated to defending our Black Community from racist, fascist, police/military oppression and brutality. The Second Amendment of white America's Constitution gives a right to bear arms. We therefore believe that all Black People should unite and form and "African United Front" and arm ourselves for self-defense.
8. We want freedom for all Black Men and Black Women held in international, military, federal, state, county, city jails and prisons.
We believe that all Black People and people of color should be released from the many jails and prisons because they have not received a fair and impartial trial. 'Released' means 'released' to the lawful authorities of the Black Nation.
9. We want all Black People when brought to trial to be tried in a court by a jury of their peer group or people from their Black Communities, as defined by white law of the Constitution of the United States.
We believe that the courts should follow their own law, if their nature will allow (as stated in their Constitution of the United States) so that Black People will receive fair trials. The 6thAmendment of the United States Constitution gives a man/woman a right to an impartial trial, which has been interpreted to be a "fair" trial by one's "peer" group. A "peer" is a person from a similar economic, social, religious, geographical, environmental, historical and racial background. To do this, the court will be forced to select a jury from the Black Community from which the Black defendant came. We have been and are being tried by all white juries that have no understanding of the "average reasoning person" of the Black Community.
10. WE DEMAND AN END TO THE RACIST DEATH PENALTY AS IT IS APPLIED TO BLACK AND OPPRESSED PEOPLE IN AMERICA. WE DEMAND FREEDOM FOR ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS OF THE BLACK RED AND BROWN NATION!
We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. And, as our political objective, we want NATIONAL LIBERATION in a separate state or territory of our own, here or elsewhere, "a liberated zone" ("New Africa" or Africa), and a plebiscite to be held throughout the BLACK NATION in which only we will be allowed to participate for the purposes of determining our will and DIVINE destiny as a people. FREE THE LAND! "UP YOU MIGHTY NATION! YOU CAN ACCOMPLISH WHAT YOU WILL!" BLACK POWER! History has proven that the white man is absolutely disagreeable to get along with in peace. No one has been able to get along with the white man. All the people of color have been subjected to the white man's wrath. We believe that his very nature will not allow for true sharing, fairness, equity and justice. Therefore, to the Red Man and Woman, to the Yellow and to the Brown, we say to you "THE SAME RABID DOG THAT BIT YOU, BIT US TOO!" BLACK POWER! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
"Reflections on the 2008 Presidential Election and the African American National Question"
2008-11-18 | :
Here are some interesting maps that show a fascinating correlation between the historically constituted territory that makes up the African American Nation and the 2008 election of Barack Obama, the first Black president of the United States. I would like to look at these maps, and based on this data, and on a dialectical and historical materialist look at the U.S. in general and the African American people in particular, try to draw some conclusions about the African American national question.
The maps above are from "From Pickin’ Cotton to Pickin’ Presidents" article at the "Strange Maps" website [strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/330-from-pickin-cotton-to-pickin-presidents/], [begin excerpt]
The bottom map dates from 1860 (i.e. the eve of the Civil War), and indicates where cotton was produced at that time, each dot representing 2,000 bales of the stuff. Cotton was King back then, and mainly so in the densely cultivated border area between Louisiana and Mississippi, and in an equally dense band of cotton cultivation starting west of the Mississippi-Alabama line, tapering out across Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina. Other cotton centres are the areas around Memphis and what appears to be Lawrenceburg in southern Tennessee.
The top map dates from 2008, and shows the results of the recent presidential election, on county level. Blue counties voted for Obama, red ones for McCain (darker hues representing larger majorities). In spite of Obama’s national victory, and barring Virginia, North Carolina and Florida, all Southern states (i.e. all states formerly belonging to the Confederacy) went for McCain. The pattern of pro-Obama counties in those southern states corresponds strikingly with the cotton-picking areas of the 1860s, especially along the Louisiana-Mississippi and Mississippi-Alabama borders (the pattern corresponds less strikingly and deviates significantly elsewhere). [end excerpt]
Strange Maps also included the following overlay of the two maps:
This shows the correlation between the history of cotton production by slave labor and the 2008 presidental election, geographically. We can make things even simpler by looking at this map showing slave distribution from 1861:
Now lets look at the following census maps showing African American population density in the years 1990 and 1890, respectively, to get a sense of continuity over the span of a century:
Note that that all of these maps line up almost perfectly with the Black Belt agricultural region, the core counties of which have been counties of Black majority throughout almost all of U.S. history.
Map from James Allen's 1938 pamphlet, Negro Liberation:
According to the Marxist-Leninist understanding of the national question in the United States, African Americans make up an oppressed nation in the Black Belt South, a historically constituted, stable community of people with a common territory, language, economic life, and culture. This African American Nation has the right to full equality and self-determination, up to and including the right to independence, that is, the right to form their own state within their historical territory, the Black Belt. These maps help to illustrate this.
According to Karl Marx, [begin excerpt]
Direct slavery is just as much the pivot of bourgeois industry as machinery, credits, etc. Without slavery you have no cotton; without cotton you have no modern industry. It is slavery that has given the colonies their value; it is the colonies that have created world trade, and it is world trade that is the pre-condition of large-scale industry.
The vast wealth of modern capitalism, and the rapid advance of U.S. capitalism, was built by the blood and sweat of African slaves. The slave trade brought together various African tribes in the southern U.S. and through the common experience of toil and struggle in the South, an African American oppressed nation was forged. [end excerpt]
The rise of monopoly capitalism and the betrayal of Reconstruction locked the African American nation into a state of national oppression and set the conditions by which the national liberation struggle of African Americans and other oppressed nationalities are inextricably linked to the question of proletarian-socialist revolution. This theory was pioneered by the Comintern, particularly by the great African American communist leader, Harry Haywood. This was further developed by the New Communist Movement.
From this understanding, the recent election of the first Black president of the United States is particularly interesting. Because of the uneven development cemented into place by imperialism, the African American national question in the United States has a dual character with a democratic aspect embodied in the demand for full equality, and a revolutionary socialist aspect embodied in the demand for national self-determination. Of course these maps provide little more than raw data, and a narrow empericist view doesn’t do justice to the tremendous struggles and organizing that the data actually results from. There were other factors that played a role in things turning out the way did, including the significant differences between the political positions of the candidates. That said, what this data seems to confirm is that the election of Barack Obama is an expression of the national democratic aspect of the struggle and is seen by the African American Nation generally as a progressive advance. The electoral map indicates very clearly that there there is a strong national consciousness in the Black Belt that was expressed in the election of the first Black president. While it would appear that the national democratic aspect is principal in terms of national consciousness, the revolutionary land question, the question of territorial self-determination, remains the determining aspect in the final analysis. The maps clearly show that the Black Belt, rife as it is with acute poverty, inadequate infrastructure, anti-union “right to work” laws, Third World-like rural decline, woefully inadequate education, substandard health care, dilapidated housing, and high rates of crime and unemployment, conditions that Harry Haywood called the “shadow of the plantation,” is contained firmly within the still solidly reactionary states that make up the former confederacy - the white supremacist land of Dixie – which, with a couple of exceptions, voted for the ultra-right McCain ticket.
Full equality and self-determination for African American and other oppressed nationalities should be supported by all workers. As Comrade Mao Zedong says, “In the final analysis, national struggle is a matter of class struggle.” Under the conditions of imperialism, ultimately full equality and self-determination are only possible if the Black Liberation struggle is led by the working class and is fused with the multinational, proletarian-socialist revolution. These dual aspects of the African American national question must be understood dialectically and in an all-sided way. This means both that the election of the first Black president should be seen as a leap forward and as a major blow against white supremacy, and that the objective, systemic aspects of racist, national oppression, and the subjective aspects (racism and white chauvinism), remain firmly in place. In other words, we are quite simply not entering a ”post-racial era” as so many pundits and heralds of the “american dream” would have us believe. Only the socialist revolution will begin to resolve these contradictions in a thoroughgoing, all-round way.
Photograph showing People's Republic of China leader Mao Zedong with Black Liberation leader W.E.B. Du Bois