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12 Steps to Recover from Colonized Thinking

~ The aim of RCT is to provide people a process for changing how they've been taught to think and behave matriarchy which fosters equity vs patriarchy which fosters inequality, i.e., classism, sexism, and racism. The 12 step process, if followed, has been proven to begin to change how one thinks and behaves in 90 days. To promote permanent change, this 12 step program includes New Way of Thinking (NWT) classes to correct the lies patriarchy has spread around the world. The 12-18 month classes include 1) Understanding the two primary global cultures, matriarchy and patriarchy, 2) Understanding the system of racism/white supremacy, and 3) Pre-Columbus-colonial African History.

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white Bishop “knowingly employed pedophiles” = Toxic Masculinity

20 Wednesday Mar 2019

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white Male Toxic Sexual Masculinity…

 

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West Virginia Sues Bishop and Diocese Over Sex Abuse, Citing Consumer Protection

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W.Va. suit accuses diocese of knowingly employing pedophiles

 

Toxic Masculinity…is a white male thing…via white male patriarchal culture

 

 

 

 

My 1st Critique of The WAMU Program, ‘The Invention of Race’

29 Friday Dec 2017

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My 1st Critique of The WAMU Program, ‘The Invention of Race’

This book, Witnessing Whiteness is used to teach whites how to be ‘allies’ in ‘anti-racism’ work..because…


NOTE: whites can’t teach Blacks about racism according to the book above. 

Whites will always leave something out…  And, what they leave out is what is usually of ultimate importance to us, the victims of racism/white supremacy, i.e, Black cultural genocide…like…

1.  The WAMU program didn’t define the different kinds or forms “slavery”, i.e., , bondage, indentured servants, servitude, and chattel slavery.  “Slavery” in America was ‘chattel’ slavery or the ownership of people and was the invention of America…historically.

It was unknown in Africa where “enslavement” of a person was never ownership, life long, nor did it deny them of their human rights.  Plus, they could not only marry into the group but become the leader or chief.

Consulting one of ‘our’ experts on the topic…

Dr Molefi Kete Asante, spoke on The Ideological Origins of Chattel Slavery in the British World, on Slavery Remembrance Day 2007 in Liverpool, and he said: 

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“…prior to the 16th century, but there was no culture of slavery in Africa, and no chattel slavery.”

He also spoke of the ‘different types of enslavement’: 

The English word slave comes from the Middle English …is related to the Greek sklabos, from sklabenoi…is closely linked to the Old Russian Slovene. It is thought that the contemporary word slave is directly related to the Slavic people, many of whom were sold into slavery.

Europe also practiced indentureship and serfdom. Neither of these forms of service, one with a time period attached to it, and the other with land attached to it, could be compared to America’s chattel slavement of Africans.

…chattel slavery is not synonymous with serfdom. They have a fundamental difference… European serfs had  rights…enslaved Africans …had neither rights nor freedom of movement, and were not paid for their labour because they were seen as ‘things’… was expressly the property of another person to be held, used, or abused as the owner saw fit.

Dr Molefi Kete Asante, is a distinguished author, most recently of ‘The History of Africa’, and professor in the department of African-American Studies at Temple University, USA.

Black Needy DCPS Students Have Always Gotten a Lot Less Funding Than white Children

20 Wednesday Dec 2017

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Black Needy DCPS Students Have Always Gotten a Lot Less Funding Than white Children

But what do you expect…if you understand “#educationalracism” and how racism functions in the other areas of your life…economics, entertainment, health, labor, law, politics, religion, sex, and war, you know Black kids will get less funding.  

Ballou parents say graduation controversy shows schools need for more support  but  yet…

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…last year, D.C. Public Schools cut Ballou High School’s budget by about $300,000…  But why, after 400 + years, do we keep asking the white controlled public school system to do for our children what they do for their own?  They’re not going to do it.  So, what do we do?

Answer:

Stop putting your kids in the European educational system where whites take care of white children.  Send your children to an independent Black school, like Kummba Educational Center, in Ward 8 where Blacks take care of Black children.

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white people take care of their own…so, when Blacks send Black kids to the white controlled public schools, they get less than whites children…as Malcolm said, 

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And, our professional educator on how to effectively educate Black children, Gloria Lanson-Billings, PH.D., Assistant Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs at University of Wisconsin-Madson, says, to be successful, Black children need to be culturally competent in their African culture…they’re already competent in European culture.

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My 1st Response To Joe Madison…

28 Thursday Sep 2017

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My 1st Response To Joe Madison’s Call To Black Sororities & Fraternities

Is, Glad I Didn’t Pledge

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Joe Madison, the Black Eagle, of Sirius Radio, channel 126 has called out the out to our sororities and fraternities…to no avail, it seems.

At Howard University in the ’60’s, I was tempted to pledge Delta vs AKA’s  because the AKA’s wouldn’t accept my mother at, what’s now, Salisbury University in Salisbury, NC  because she was ‘too’ dark. ‘Internalized inferiority’ had us thinking ‘lighter’ skinned Blacks were superior to ‘darker’ skinned Blacks.

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Now, in 2017, Joe Madison has called out to our Black ‘intelligentsia’, on several occasions, to act like DuBois’ ‘talented tenth’ and take a collective stand on issues (a term that designated a leadership class of African Americans in the early 20th century).  

Specifically, Donald Trump calling Black women ‘bitches’ and their sons, ‘sons of bitches.  

 

POLITICS 

09/23/2017 12:23 pm ET Updated 1 day ago

Trump Called White Supremacists ‘Very Fine People’ But An Athlete Who Protests Is A ‘Son Of A Bitch’

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And, it seems a significant number of our Black ‘talented tenth’ still have not grown beyond their ‘internalized inferiority’ such that they still feel ‘superior’ and unaffected by issues affecting the rest us.  That is, Trump was not talking about them and their mothers.  That’s what not speaking out means.

It also means Black ‘intelligentsia’ has left our youth, Black Lives Matter, for example, alone to speak up, and stand up, and protest.  

Why?

1st African American Fund Egyptian Dig

21 Wednesday Sep 2016

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September 21, 2016 Tony Browder Presents: Kushite Royalty of Egypt’s 25th Dynasty…7PM 1816 12th St., NW, DC

Personally, I was with Tony in Egypt in 2008 and apart of the group that decided to fund the dig.  And, the young people in my family are the youngest or among the youngest people and/or African Americans to contribute to the funding of an Egyptian archeological dig.  That is, for several years now, I’ve been doing an automatic payment of $5.00 in the names of 8 children.  

So, there’re many ways we can contribute to saving our culture which is to save ourselves.

He started project in 2008 and, he's still at it.  You can help; how, contribute financially &/or go to Egypt with him next time & actually dig.  Make history yourself, be among the 1st group of African Americans to fund &/or participate in an Egyptian archeological did

You can even goad take a child to Egypt with Tony next time & actually dig…volunteer. 

Make history yourself, be among the 1st group of African Americans to fund &/or participate in an Egyptian archeological dig.

The Miles Davis Movie…F

09 Monday May 2016

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12 Year Old Devin’s Review…What He Learned From The Movie: He Did Drugs, Was Devorcded By His Wife, And Ran Around Trying To Get His Music Back From A Theft

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…nothing about…

…his birth date, May 26, 1926, the same day as my grandmother’s birth day; his home in Alton, Ill.; his affulent childhood, his family even had a ranch…my grandmother’s paying for me to go to a horse riding camp this summer; his father was a dentist and mother a ‘closet’ blues pianist; age 13, a year older than me… he got his 1st trumpet; and 5 years later he was playing with Billy Eckstine, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker…man, he must have been good; and the same year, he even went to Julliard but dropped out because ‘the’ music was too white…I understand than…

And…

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Miles Davis on piano with Howard McGhee (trumpet), Joe Albany (pianist, standing) and Brick Fleagle (guitarist, smoking), September 1947

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He died, September, 21 1991

Mr. Cheadle didn’t do a good job, at all, telling Miles Davis’ story, he was really much more than a ” dead beat drug head’.

 

 

For Mother’s Day…Matriarchy or Patriarchy?

08 Sunday May 2016

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A Mother’s Day Gift of Major Cultural, Historical Significance for Black/African Mothers

Was recently made aware of bell hooks’ August, 2015 artical, ‘Understanding Patriarchy’…And…

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There was no mention of ‘matriarchy’…the Black/African family social structure…still in existence, from ancient times.

Even though the Afrocentric community introduced us to Cheikh Anta Diop’s book, The Cultural Unity of Black Africa: The Domains of Matriarchy & of Patriarchy in Classical Antiquity, in the 1980’s, his book per his 1950’s thesis told us that ‘matriarchy’ was African.  

Now, Heide Göttner-Abendroth is a German feminist, is advocating a  new (Modern) Matriarchy Studies academic field, focusing on the study of matriarchal or matrilineal (Black/African) societies.  

White feminists are saying that your/our matriarchal family/social structure is, 1) a possible solution to a society (western, US) in crisis, 2) the perfect family/social structure, 3) better than the white patriarchal family/social structure…so good that it’s their preference…the social structure that guarantees them…equality.

Ironic though…because even after 2 world conferences, there’s still no credit to Diop who discerned that ‘matriarchy’ as the and a viable…social structure is still, currently in existence…and is the Black/African family/social structure because…

Because, Diop is the 1st to disprove the white ‘scholars’ (Johan Bachofen, Lewis M. Morgan, and Friedrich Engels) who said ‘patriarchy’ was the superior culture having evolved out of ‘matriachy’, thus replacing it.  

To replace is to render non-existent…Diop disproved this in is 1950’s thesis.  And, now Göttner-Abendroth affirms his work recording in her book, Matriarchal Studies: Studies On Indigenous Cultures Across The Globe.  She Affirms it to the extent that it’s warranted 2 world conferences so far and is significant enough to warrent an academic field of study of it’s own…Modern Matriarchal Studies.

Do Black feminist know this?  

I don’t know if they know this or not.  They’er more influential than am I and it would be a more noted gift it came from them…but today, I’m giving it to Black/African, Mother’s of Color of the diaspora and African…to us all…for Mother’s Day, 2016.

I’m giving it because I think if it could become the focus of our discussion on patriarchal racism/white supremacy, it would ultimately lead us to the right answers and lead us to victory in this ‘war’ on our culture.

So, in my humbleness, Happy Mother’s Day…to all of us Black, African, Mother’s of color the world over.

 

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The Cultural Unity of Black Africa: The Domains of Matriarchy & of Patriarchy in Classical Antiquity (Karnak History) (English and French Edition)

Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology

Matriarchal Societies: Studies on Indigenous Cultures Across the Globe. Revised Edition

Whites Only, Kymore Freeman’s An Angry Black Man In Therapy One Man Play

03 Tuesday May 2016

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Black Men…Seldom Talk About Their Anger…They Need To As Does Kymore Freeman In

His One Man Play, ‘Whites Only’

 

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In the age of tweets and soundbites, candid conversations about white supremacy’s clutch on the lives of people of color rarely occur outside of black circles, perhaps out of fear that white people might be offended. Local activist Kymone Freeman, however, says that forcing Caucasians to confront this elephant in the room will heal the nation and save humanity.

Freeman, a self-described “angry black man in therapy,” plans to make audiences across the D.C. metropolitan area uncomfortable this spring in “Whites Only,” a one-man play in which he reflects on the bitter lessons he learned about white supremacy’s seemingly innocuous yet pervasive reach during his coming of age. Freeman said that while this performance may upset both black and white people alike, he has no qualms about telling the truth.

“I’m doing this for me and my sanity,” said Freeman, program manager at We Act Radio in Southeast. Throughout the month of March, Freeman has performed “Whites Only” for audiences at local Bus Boys & Poets restaurants with the hopes of bringing the play to the Mosaic Theater Company of DC in Northeast later this year.

The March 12 show at the 5th and K Streets location in Northwest attracted nearly two dozen people, three of whom were white. Freeman said that while black audiences have enjoyed his material, he looks forward to the day that he can express his unfiltered thoughts before an all-white crowd.

“I’ve committed my life to telling the lion’s story. I attempt to do that through We Act Radio, testimonies at D.C. council hearings, and in the streets,” said Freeman. “We live in a system that has determined one rule of law for one group of people and one rule of law for another group. Do you think that if black cops were shooting white children that the end result would be the same? No one has answered in affirmation. Our silence is approval of the situation.”

In “Whites Only,” Freeman stands onstage sporting a black shirt with “Don’t Shoot” emblazoned across the front. The two-hour show starts with his plea to guests to understand from where their long-held beliefs and traditions originated. He later regales guests with stories from his adolescence and adulthood while sipping wine.

Each of Freeman’s anecdotes touch on his interaction with family members, friends, employers, and old beaus, with a critique of America serving as the common thread. At times, he holds up a large white sign with a smiley face — representative of what he describes as the façade black men often have to put up in a white-dominated society — drawn in the middle.

Freeman leaves no stone unturned in his assault against American capitalism, the military industrial complex, gentrification, police brutality, and corporate media. Some stories, like one about an argument with a woman who wore weave, drew chuckles. Other stories, like one in which he had to comfort a young woman traumatized by a sexual assault at the hands of a drunk white man brought the room to complete silence. Guests later shook their heads in disbelief as Freeman reminisced about his violent encounters with police officers in Georgetown and Northern Virginia.

“I’ve never said any of this stuff out loud,” Freeman said. “You can’t walk around with all this rage pent up. Writing this play has given me a lot of clarity about what has happened in my life. There’s an empathy that white people don’t feel for black production because they don’t think it’s for them. That’s part of the problem. I think we need to challenge white and black people to be honest with themselves.”

Natalie Molinaro, a white woman from Chevy Chase, Maryland and guest at the March 12 viewing, shared Freeman’s sentiments. Molinaro said that “Whites Only” compelled her to think more deeply about the United States’ race problem and her experiences with white and black people.

“I learned so many facts that made me even angrier about the situation unfolding in this country,” said Molinaro, 19. “I feel a little embarrassed for my race but I don’t represent all white people. I went to a Catholic school in Maryland and had classmates who teased me about being Italian. I have friends who are black, including one who’s from Kenya. People who are racist are behind the times and I didn’t even realize those kind of people existed until I went to college.”

“Whites Only” has already found a fan in Roger Moulden II, a local minister and guest at the recent viewing. Moulden said that hearing Freeman articulate his frustrations as a black man emboldened him to do the same in his life.

“It was phenomenal and liberating to hear the things that I knew in my journey,” Moulden, 27, said. “Kymone broke down how white supremacy’s fascination with monsters comes from white people wanting others to not see them as villains. Everything he said from start to finish caught my attention. It’s important to tell the truth and let the world know that we have a point of view. We’re telling our story,” said Moulden, a Temple Hills, Maryland resident.

Freeman’s newest project comes on the heels of two previous productions and a trip to Cuba in the months after the United States changed its foreign relations status with the island nation. As a founding member of protest group DC Ferguson and frequent guest commentator on TV One’s News One with Roland Martin, Freeman has made a name for himself as an agitator of the status quo.

“I had an opportunity to go on the big stage, do some damage and contribute to the Black Lives Matter movement,” Freeman said. “If this play becomes a financial success, I will become more of a threat to the system but it will take some outside support. People in our community who are interested in seeing something different should come out. People often place a different value on white stuff than black stuff and that’s the white supremacy I’m attacking, not white people.”

We missed the play…when will it return?

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Race, the movie…Is Good For Black Kids

25 Thursday Feb 2016

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If A Movie Teaches Black Kids Black/African Cultural Values…It’s A PUUR 10

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Joe Madison, Sirus talk show host, agrees with me, Race, dispute artistic liberties, the writers and directors, did a good job.  

But…PUUR agrees with UNESCO, ‘Until the lions (African Americans) have their own historians (movie writers & directors, etc.), the history (movies) of the hunt will always glorify the hunter (white man).      

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Joe Shrapnel

Joe Shrapnel

Writers: Anna Waterhouse & Joe Shrapnel

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(on right) Director, Stephen Hopkins; Coach in the movie, Jason Sudeikis, and Stephan James who played Jesse Owens

 

What Transformed Malcolm from a Street Hustler to a pan-Africanist…ANSWER: African, not just Black…But AFRICAN HISTORY

03 Wednesday Feb 2016

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What Transformed Malcolm from a Street Hustler to a pan-Africanist…ANSWER: African, not just Black…But AFRICAN HISTORY

50 Years On: Reclaiming Malcolm X for Revolutionary Pan-Africanism

By Ahjamu Umi
Global Research, February 21, 2015
 
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From street hustler to powerful orator, Malcolm X’s life was cut short when he was brutally murdered in front of family, friends and supporters. Fifty years on he is still at the forefront of political debate, but his legacy as a towering revolutionary pan-Africanist with important messages for our time is not in doubt.

Many people are aware that 21 February 2015 will commemorate 50 years since the brutal assassination of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz – Malcolm X – in front of hundreds of supporters, including his wife and children.

A cursory study of Malcolm’s life quickly illustrates the reasons behind his popularity and the desire of so many to move him into their political camps. Malcolm’s well-documented journey from street hustler to world renowned spokesperson and organizer for African liberation reflects the hard work and determination that many of us can only dream about. His fearlessness in articulating the problems of white supremacy and capitalism and his unique ability to take difficult political and economic concepts and break them down for common consumption and understanding were skills that motivated millions since Malcolm first joined the Nation in the 1950s.

His organizing skills are often overlooked; however, he built two organisations after leaving the Nation of Islam – the Muslim Mosque Inc. and the Organisation of Afro-American Unity (OAAU). Most of us have a difficult enough time just belonging to and participating in one organisation. Even with including discussions about Malcolm’s personal shortcomings, such as his occasional ruthlessness towards some Mosque persons when he was a leader within the Nation of Islam and his patriarchal attitudes towards his wife Dr. Betty Shabazz, we are still impressed with Malcolm’s ability to acknowledge those shortcomings and to grow from them.

So it’s easy to understand why and how Malcolm was so attractive to so many people. His sincerity and honesty were qualities that all of us who are just loving people strive to reach in our own work and lives. His commitment, discipline, and determination were all characteristics that define the level of greatness required in order for our people to be propelled forward. Of course, the only proper way to pay homage to those qualities within Malcolm is to properly acknowledge who he was as a person and what ideals he dedicated his life towards. This is important because we believe it was his dedication to those particular ideals that ultimately cost him his life.

We believe that understanding Malcolm X means understanding his growing commitment to and relationship with Africa. The book The Final Speeches of Malcolm X (not to be confused with The Last Speeches of Malcolm X) provides a vision of where Malcolm’s head was. Those last twelve speeches were those he gave leading up to that Sunday meeting on February 21st, 1965 where his life came to an abrupt end. In all of those final speeches Malcolm’s focus was specifically on Africa. Much of what Malcolm had to say about Africa in those last two weeks of his life has been edited out and eliminated from the public discourse on what drove Malcolm’s evolving thinking but those final speeches give much insight into this question.

It was during those last two weeks that Malcolm began to clearly spell out his developing understanding that the struggle for African freedom and self-determination within the US was only part and parcel of the worldwide struggle for African liberation, freedom and socialism and that this struggle was in fact the struggle for Pan-Africanism, which was properly defined as one unified, socialist Africa.

Malcolm’s final speeches are filled with invectives for Africans in the US to stop expecting freedom in the US, while Africa was subjugated because Africa’s freedom was dependent upon releasing the very same forces that keep Africans in the US oppressed. Malcolm characterised this reality with his statements that Africa “is at the centre of our liberation” and that socialism is “the system all people in the world seem to be coming around to”.

The writing on the wall had been provided to Malcolm by his meeting Pan-Africanists like Kwame Nkrumah and Sekou Toure. For anyone who doubts the impact these meetings had on Malcolm’s thinking all one has to do is read his own words in his autobiography. Malcolm described his meetings with Nkrumah as “the highlight of my travels” and “the highest honour of my life”. These words are true despite those meetings being ignored in Spike Lee’s 1992 biopic film and in pretty much everything else portrayed about Malcolm’s life.

Still, Malcolm illustrated his commitment to those statements by returning to the US and starting the OAAU, which was to be patterned after the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which Nkrumah started in Africa the previous year. In Malcolm’s mind, as he articulated in speeches during those last two weeks, the OAAU was to be the US branch to the OAU since the ideas both men were developing were focused on organising the African masses worldwide towards the Pan-Africanist objective.

Also, it should be understood that Malcolm and Nkrumah’s relationship extended far beyond a few meetings. Nkrumah had designs on building a political relationship with Malcolm around doing Pan-Africanist work and if one knows anything about Nkrumah’s history in Ghana, this shouldn’t be difficult to fathom. With Ghana’s independence came Nkrumah’s call for Africans all over the world to come to Ghana to help build Africa (Pan-Africanism).

George Padmore, the Pan-Africanist from Trinidad, heeded the call and moved to Ghana to become Nkrumah’s advisor. Both Shirley Graham DuBois and her more famous husband, W. E. B. DuBois also heeded that call along with many other noteworthy Africans (Louie Armstrong and Maya Angelou). Nkrumah’s book of letters The Conakry Years, which consisted of all of Nkrumah’s personal letters written and received while he was in Guinea after the Central Intelligence Agency’s sponsored coup that overthrew his government on February 24, 1966 (almost a year to the day after Malcolm was assassinated) contains letters Nkrumah wrote to Malcolm and to others about Malcolm, detailing Nkrumah’s efforts to persuade Malcolm to stay in Ghana and become a part of Nkrumah’s staff to work on their Pan-Africanist objective. Nkrumah’s letters to others indicate that Malcolm weighed the offer before indicating he could not just pick up and leave his work in the US and that it was unlikely that his wife would be willing to suddenly move to Africa anyway. Nkrumah’s letters mention that he confided in Malcolm that Ghanaian intelligence forces had revealed that Malcolm would be killed within months if he returned to the US but according to Nkrumah, that revelation seemed to spark Malcolm’s desire to return to the fire-hot situation against him in the US. Still, Malcolm collaborated in his recently published diary his intense desire to become a part of this network of Pan-Africanists in West Africa.

Malcolm’s personal notes point to a dinner discussion he had with Sekou Toure in Guinea-Conakry where Toure praised his work and told him that Africans need dignity, not money. The way Malcolm recalls that conversation in his diary entry indicates great affection and respect for Sekou Toure’s commitment to African self-determination as well as the extent to which Malcolm was being continually influenced and broadened by the thinking of revolutionaries like Nkrumah and Toure.

It’s also worth noting that three short years later another African revolutionary from the US ended up accepting Nkrumah’s offer to move to Guinea-Conakry and become his political secretary. Kwame Ture – then known as Stokely Carmichael – left the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panther Party and agreed to accept the task of building the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP). The A-APRP is the political formation that Nkrumah birthed in his Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare in 1968, a book Nkrumah wrote as a response to his developed understanding of the role neo-colonialism played in Africa and the reasons why the OAU, a government top-down organisation, would never bring about any true liberation in Africa. The thesis of the handbook was that the A-APRP would be the mass revolutionary alternative to the OAU.

Before Kwame Ture emerged and decided to dedicate himself to Nkrumah’s Pan-Africanist vision, it’s clear that Nkrumah had designs on Malcolm X as the person to step into that role and the writings of Nkrumah and Malcolm confirm that. Perhaps, if Malcolm had been in the same situation that Kwame Ture i.e. was younger, single and childless history would have taken us in a completely different direction but either way, the point is that Malcolm clearly had developed a commitment to African unity, the primacy to Africa in our fight and an understanding that there is no freedom for African people in the Western world as long as Africa is not free, liberated and socialist.

Finally, it is necessary to talk about the assassination of Malcolm X. Recently, a white writer wrote an article about Malcolm X’s influence on US politics. In that essay the writer casually mentions that the Nation of Islam killed Malcolm X. Although this theory is widely accepted by white scholars, even the ones supposedly on the Left, within Pan-Africanist and African/Black nationalist circles, it has been repudiated ever since the day Malcolm was murdered.

There’s little question that people within the Nation had some involvement. The antagonism between Malcolm and the hierarchy of the Nation of Islam at the time, including National Secretary John Ali, Elijah Muhammad Jr. (son of Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad), Minister James Shabazz from New Jersey, Clarence X Gill the Fruit of Islam Captain from New Jersey and others, is well documented.

The troublesome statements against Malcolm made at the time by Minister Louis Farrakhan (then Louis X) are also well documented. Still, writing that the Nation of Islam killed Malcolm X is no different than writing that James Earl Ray killed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. or Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing John F. Kennedy when there is overwhelming evidence to the contrary. The same is true of the murder of Malcolm X. It may be easier for white scholars and activists to casually write that the Nation killed Malcolm because they had no affection for an organisation that had historically been known to refer to white people as a race of grafted devils but that doesn’t change history.

There’s no refuting that Malcolm was diagnosed as being poisoned in Egypt and his recollection of the experience in his diary will make your own stomach tighten up. There’s also no doubt that the French Government, which had no policy of rejecting entry to persons, refused Malcolm entry into their country shortly before his murder while the rumours swirled that their decision was based on their desire to not permit Malcolm to be killed on French soil.

This is especially triggering when remembering Nkrumah’s harrowing admonition to Malcolm. The US Government had the same interest in neutralizing Malcolm that Nkrumah had in recruiting him. Imagine a respected and articulate African revolutionary who came from the streets of the America being on the world stage criticising US racism. Then think about it in the context of the relationships being forged at the time between African revolutionaries like Nkrumah and Toure and other revolutionaries like Nguyen Al Thoc (Ho Chi Minh) from Vietnam, Fidel Castro and Ernesto Che Guevara from Cuba and Mao Tse Tung in China.

Malcolm was to become a central player in that alliance. He was to be the African voice from the belly of the beast. Something the US certainly could not risk happening. Thus, it comes as no surprise that files released under the Freedom of Information Act provide proof. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) report indicates a still un-named top-level informant for the FBI was paid a “bonus” of $300.00 USD and congratulated “for a job well done” immediately after Malcolm was murdered.

So, in quoting an often stated comment within the African liberation movement: “they (the Nation) may have pulled the trigger but they didn’t buy the bullets!” And, to write that they did without putting all of that in context does no service to African people or our movement for liberation.

It shouldn’t surprise anyone that we have to explain these things about Malcolm; we have spent the last 50 years dispelling half-truths and miss-representations about Malcolm. Even his daughter’s comments about her dad and Obama are not surprising despite the fact nothing in Malcolm’s history would suggest he would even consider supporting any candidate for US president. My own daughter loves me as her father. She’s a conscientious young woman but she doesn’t possess a deep understanding of my Pan-Africanist work because she’s not involved in it. So although Malcolm’s daughter would be a great person to ask about how he was around the house (if she remembers), she isn’t the best person to ask about his political ideology.

Malcolm X was without question at the point where he was a Pan-Africanist and being so means he understood that the total liberation of Africa under scientific socialism is the solution to the problems facing Africans everywhere. Nothing about anything he said, did or suggested indicated that he felt the capitalist system could be reformed or that anything short of revolutionary struggle could bring us what we need.

And nothing indicated that he was confused about the primary, not secondary, not cursory but primary role Africa will always play in our liberation struggle. We are completely aware that it is the job of our enemies to confuse people about whom we are and who our leaders are, so the Malcolm X postage stamp and every other way the capitalism system makes a concession to recognising the revolutionary Malcolm is only happening because they want to frame his image before we do.

It won’t work. Sekou Toure was correct when he said “truth crushed to Earth shall rise a thousand times”. Malcolm was a Pan-Africanist, that’s why there are as many, if not more, tributes to him outside of the US as there are inside. The people of Ghana expressed their understanding of this phenomenon in 1964 when they named him Omawale – “the son who has returned home”.

Ahjamu Umi is an organiser for the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party. He’s the author of The Courage Equation and the soon to be released ‘Mass Incarceration; It’s about Profit, Not Justice’.

Reposted from Tom Porter…Thanks, Tom.

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