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Posted: Friday April 21st, 2006 19:05 |
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"We arrived, at our present time in history, a people with no knowledge of our heritage, our culture, our language, our history, our religions, and most of our ancient traditions. Again I call on Timothy Callender, for he describes our present condition best. He says, 'People without knowledge of their culture, drift about like corks on the ocean.' And this is exacly what we are doing; moving with the tides, bobbing up and down at the will of forces other than our own.
What we know of ourselves is, all too often, limited to the images of our people reflected on the television, radio, in newspapers and religious literature; where African people are rarely ever portrayed as playing a heroic role, if in fact, they are portrayed at all.'"
John Henrik Clarke
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Posted: Saturday April 22nd, 2006 09:32 |
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The knowledge that one is not alone...that the struggle is an international struggle for the dignity of man, and that you are part of a family of man this alone sustains you.
Winnie Madikizela
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Posted: Saturday April 22nd, 2006 09:39 |
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The people of Africa cannot continue to accept as their destiny the denial of human rights. We too have a right to live, to enjoy freedom and to pursue happiness like other human beings
NNAMDI AZIZKIWE
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Posted: Tuesday April 25th, 2006 07:58 |
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"Most African peoples suffer from a humanitarian disease they are overhelpful and trusting of outsiders and foreigners-especially white people. It becomes 'diseased' when Africans provide more cooperation, and demonstrate more unity with other races than to other African people. This learned African psychological chracteristic led to our enslavement [and] accounts for the betrayals of our African liberation warriors today."
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Posted: Tuesday April 25th, 2006 09:29 |
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Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking - Idi Amin
If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning - Idi Amin
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Posted: Tuesday April 25th, 2006 09:41 |
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The mind, a broad, vast array of aspiring mental, intellectual and psychological qualities by which human beings most complex endeavors are methodically consummated successfully.
When we think of life's complexities, it’s pressures and it’s disarray, we find that the best investment is to take the time to pray!
Gillis Triplett
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Posted: Wednesday April 26th, 2006 18:25 |
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African people had the longest history and culture of all peoples and could be justly proud of same. They created the first civilizations in Africa, which were the prototypes of all others. Only recently in world history were we brought down from our pinnacle of civilization and enslaved.
Not withstanding European propaganda we were not subhuman, but we were once great and could be great again. As he (Marcus Garvey) said, "History is the landmark by which we are directed into the true course of life". The history of a movement, of a nation, of a race is the guidepost of that movement's destiny.
So we must know our history and our past accomplishments and that will give us the strength and courage to accomplish even more.
Julius W. Garvey (Marcus Garvey's Son)
Letter to The Editor of The Observer (Jamaica)
February, 2001
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Posted: Wednesday April 26th, 2006 18:42 |
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"The lack of human dignity experienced by Africans is the direct result of the policy of white supremacy. White supremacy implies black inferiority.
Legislation designed to preserve white supremacy entrenches this notion. Menial tasks in South Africa are invariably performed by Africans. When anything has to be carried or cleaned the white man will look around for an African to do it for him, whether the African is employed by him or not.
Because of this sort of attitude, whites tend to regard Africans as a separate breed. They do not look upon them as people with families of their own; they do not realize that they have emotions - that they fall in love like white people do; that they want to be with their wives and children like white people want to be with theirs; that they want to earn enough money to support their families properly, to feed and clothe them and send them to school.
And what 'house-boy' or 'garden-boy' or labourer can ever hope to do this?"
Nelson Mandela
Taken from his statement from the dock at the opening of the defence case in the Rivonia Trial Pretoria Supreme Court
20 April 1964
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Posted: Wednesday April 26th, 2006 19:09 |
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"The black reaction currently assumes two forms in South Africa. Because of the persistence of racial discrimination and the emphasis on suppression of blacks, there has emerged what is generally referred to as a black consciousness which has resulted in far-reaching attempts to rally the black population.
Africans have reached the stage where progress will be made through their own actions. As their strength grows, they will draw support from everybody who comes to appreciate their strength and their determination and the inevitability of their struggle."
Oliver Tambo
TAKEN FROM ADDRESS TO THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION, SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
1973
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Posted: Wednesday April 26th, 2006 19:29 |
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"...Rastafarianism represented itself as a 'return'. But what it 'returned' us to was ourselves. In doing so, it produced 'Africa again' -in the diaspora. Rastafarianism drew on many 'lost sources' from the past. But its relevance was grounded in the extraordinarily contemporary practice of reading the Bible through its subversive tradition, through its unorthodoxies, its apocrypha: by reading against the grain, upside-down, turning the text against itself.
The 'Babylon' of which it spoke, where its people were still suffering', was not in Egypt but in Kingston- and later, as the name was syntagmatically extended to include the Metropolitan Police (...) Rastafarianism played a critical role in the modern movement that further translation, this strange doctrine and discourse 'saved' the young black souls of second-generation Caribbean migrants in British cities in the 1960s and 1970s, (...) it decolonized minds. "
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Thinking the Diaspora: Home- Thoughts Abroad, in Small Axe: A journal of criticism: It all started with a movement
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Posted: Saturday April 29th, 2006 12:13 |
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Blackman Know Yourself
I see the problem since the slave trade end
Blackman never regain consciousness
We get the wrong people for government
Who force us to think with colonial sense.
Na wrong information scatter your head
You reject your culture for Western sense
Bringing shame to yourself and your continent
Blackman today done lost himself.
Blackman know yourself
Be confident
Our ancestors
Civilized this world
Blackman know yourself
Don’t forget your past
Femi Kuti
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Posted: Saturday April 29th, 2006 20:14 |
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"The physical confrontation diminished as the slave trade turned into Colonialism (another form of slavery) and the Africans soon realized that missionary efforts were also a form of slavery. The Europeans began to take away the African energies and began to destroy the African images of god. One of the ways to continue to enslave a people is, after removing one set of chains from their body, to place another set of chains on their mind. Not only make them change their religion but make them abandon their religion. Make them change their dress, their tastes, their music, their food, and when this is done, you don't need any prison walls to confine these people. The prison walls inside their mind will be more binding than any prison walls you can construct."
"Once we understand the nature of our oppressor's religious oppression, we must look at the mentality of our respective oppressors. The oppressor in the United States has taught us to face reality better than any of the others. The oppressors in the Caribbean area and in South America gave their black population the illusion that one day they would be allowed to join the club. The oppressor in the United States has taught us explicitly that we will never join the club. Even with what we like to call integration, another fakery, they still let us know that if we manage to get into the club, we will never be accepted."
John Henrik Clarke
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Posted: Monday May 1st, 2006 03:13 |
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Reverend Jesse Jackson, "Excellence is the best deterrent to racism."
Short and sweet! And word I try to live by.
I noticed a number of people on here, harping 0n about black people trying to "living up to white standards" and "adopting white values" that just sounds a total cop out and the rantings of people who are too arse lazy to work to any high standard or are too frightened to compeate on any level with whites.
I would be great to see black people excelling in fields outside of enterainment and sports. Yes I know there are some, but there could be more.
I'm seriously disappointed in the number of black youth who are wasting their time trying to break into music or pursuing dream of being a footballer.
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Posted: Monday May 1st, 2006 03:26 |
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"I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by melanin. When you put it that way, it sounds like a foolish reason for fame. In a just and free society it would be foolish. That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black and a woman proves, I think, that our society is not yet either just or free."
Shirley Chisholm, who in 1972 became the first black woman to run for US President.
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Posted: Tuesday May 2nd, 2006 16:46 |
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"Africans who studied in the US like Nkrumah and [Nigerian independence leader] Azikiwe were more aware of the Diaspora and the global African community than those of us who studied in Britain. They were therefore aware of a wider Pan-Africanism. Theirs was the aggressive Pan-Africanism of WEB Dubois and Marcus Garvey. The colonialists were against this and frightened of it."
Julius Nyerere
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Posted: Wednesday May 3rd, 2006 00:05 |
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"No society can be great where those who rule it, see men as objects of cynical manipulation and see our country as a canvas on which to paint a picture of personal power."
Michael Manley, former prime minister of Jamaica . He was talking about Jamaica, but it certainly could be used to describe the ruling class/party in America...
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Posted: Thursday May 4th, 2006 23:03 |
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"To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships."
The Souls of Black Folks, p 12, W.E.B Du Bois Last edited on Thursday May 4th, 2006 23:21 by Shemsi en Tehuti
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Posted: Thursday May 4th, 2006 23:10 |
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"The opposition to Negro education in the South was at first bitter, and showed itself in ashes, insult, and blood; for the South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro."
The Souls of Black Folks, p 29, W.E.B Du Bois Last edited on Thursday May 4th, 2006 23:25 by Shemsi en Tehuti
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Posted: Thursday May 4th, 2006 23:18 |
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"We seldom study the condition of the Negro to-day honestly and carefully. It is so much easier to assume that we know it all. Or perhaps, having already reached conclusions in our own minds, we are loth to have them disturbed by facts."
The Souls of Black Folks, p 99, W.E.B Du Bois Last edited on Thursday May 4th, 2006 23:32 by Shemsi en Tehuti
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Posted: Thursday May 4th, 2006 23:21 |
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"Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor,-all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked,-who is good? not that men are ignorant,-what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men."
The Souls of Black Folks, p 161, W.E.B Du Bois
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Posted: Friday May 5th, 2006 12:54 |
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"Identities are the names we give to the different ways we are positioned by, and position ourselves within, the narratives of the past"
Stuart Hall
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Posted: Friday May 5th, 2006 19:18 |
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"Our cultural heritage is our connection to our past and, as such, is an important component of our identity and critical self worth. How we understand or perceive our past will be directly related to how we act in the present and what efforts we place toward building for progress in the future"
"Yet there is the need, especially in the intangible cultural heritage, to focus on the significance of traditional knowledge in the consolidation of communities and the wellness of the general society. This knowledge represents the reservoir of creativity of Jamaican society, being contained in such cultural expressions as folktales, belief systems, codes of behaviour, values and attitudes, superstitions and proverbs, transmitted orally from generation to generation as some of the defining constructs of national cultural identity. This knowledge, guarded by our people over the years as the very foundation of their capacity to survive the onslaught of slavery and its practices, is an essential constituent of the creativity and dynamism associated with our cultural diversity and expression. As such we must constantly recognize our traditional knowledge bearers and the role they have played and continue to play in cultural development."
"The process of development is as much related to the act or action of knowing as of having or achieving. Unfortunately, development over the years of emphasis on economics has been structured along lines of having and possessing, being reflected in such concepts as balance of payment, gross domestic product, et al.
Yet, the object of development is the human being, that individual who is called upon to be both the main actor and the goal in development. It is the state of the human being, often referred to as social capital or human resource, which must be the final determinant among development indicators.
Culture, then, must be the face of development, or, as aptly expressed, development without culture is development without a face. For this reason, culture must be at the center of development programmes. It is related to who we are, where we come from and what we want to become. It is a people’s identity, their way of doing and knowing and making meaning. Without it, all development programmes will fail for either the people will participate and support it or they themselves might destroy or curtail it.
Development must therefore be based on the inclusion of culture and cultural policy in every aspect of development. It is about the facilitation of the unleashing of energies and a creative spirit that will be quintessential to success. It is reflected in human resource development strategies and is therefore related to the quality of the work force, of a people committed, or not, to national development or who would be irresponsible, as the Right Excellent Marcus Mosiah Garvey averred, in the face of development issues.
Economic and social programmes must be founded on cultural realities for development occurs both at the level of the individual and the community. Private citizens and their collective efforts whether at work or play weave the basic fabric of a community and civil society as a whole. Since the nation is the sum of the composite number of its communities, community development will be critical to national development. Culture and cultural expression is at the root of community life, its beliefs, traditions and customs, its spiritual and moral values, its rituals, its behaviour patterns and social relationships, its creativity, heritage and every aspect.
Culture must therefore be used positively to motivate community action and enrich and animate community life so that they may willingly engage in nation building. It is the only means to achieve sustainable development."
TAKEN FROM THE NATIONAL CULTURAL POLICY OF JAMAICA
TOWARDS JAMAICA THE CULTURAL SUPERSTATE
MARCH 2003
CULTURE DIVISON
Ministry of Education, Youth and Culture
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Posted: Saturday May 6th, 2006 13:27 |
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"It would appear to be established government policy that, as long as the National Party is in power in this country, there can be no black freedom struggle, and no black freedom fighter. Any black political organisation which, like us, fights for the liberation of its people through armed struggle, must invariably be dominated by the SACP.
This attitude is not only the result of government propaganda. It is a logical consequence of white supremacy. After more than 300 years of racial indoctrination, the country's whites have developed such deep-seated contempt for blacks as to believe that we cannot think for ourselves, that we are incapable of fighting for political rights without incitement by some white agitator."
Nelson Mandela
TAKEN FROM THE MANDELA DOCUMENT
A document presented by Nelson Mandela to P.W. Botha before their meeting on 5 July 1989
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Posted: Saturday May 6th, 2006 14:48 |
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"To control a people, you must first control what they think about themselves and how they regard their history and culture. And when your conqueror makes you ashamed of your culture and your history, he needs no prison walls and no chains to hold you."
John Henrik Clarke
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Posted: Sunday May 7th, 2006 17:25 |
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"Here, we need to momentarily delve into the question of just what being Afrikan centered means. For many of us, being Afrikan centered is nothing more than a label which gives us a sense of importance outside the white supremacist power structure since Europeans refuse to willingly allow us in as equal exploiters. It is a reactive label, with little form and no substance. Many in this peripheralized group still see working toward subintegration as befitting an Afrikan centered label. As their predecessors, including a number of the so-called radicals of the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, these individuals 'fight' against Europeans only to force them to accept them into their ranks, homes and hearts.
In the end, success is still measured by white approval, white trinkets, white affiliations, white realities. They fight for independence only as a last resort, and an undesirable last resort at that. Fo |
