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Posted: Friday May 19th, 2006 16:21 |
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"Who we most want as tourists and investors are our own people who left 200 or 300 years ago,"
Obetsebi-Lamptey
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From CHICAGO TRIBUNE
May 15, 2006
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Posted: Friday May 19th, 2006 17:35 |
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"Africa for the Africans"
Dr. Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885)
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Posted: Friday May 19th, 2006 17:38 |
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"Africans and persons of African descent must assume the primary responsibility and leadership in historical research....if we are to continue to leave practically all important historical research and writing concerning the black race to the white man, then we must be prepared to accept, uncomplainingly, the white man's point of view."
Chancellor Williams
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Posted: Friday May 19th, 2006 17:50 |
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Breadfruit you could write a new Bible!!
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Posted: Friday May 19th, 2006 18:58 |
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Incognito wrote: Breadfruit you could write a new Bible!!
Only another 18,706 pages to go now African.
I can see the promised land on the horizon..............................
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Posted: Saturday May 20th, 2006 15:19 |
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"South Africa is my country in which I was born, the country of my forefathers. I regret to tell you this evening that we have no place to lay our heads. All theland was taken from us in the name of the Crown of Great Britain and the people were driven away from their ancestral homes which were turned into farms. That is where it is painted white on the map; that is where imperialism does exist. During the days of the opening of Kimberley mines when they wanted labour very badly, they induced the natives, because they had no money and did not value it, to go and work for them for rifles.
This they did, and they went to Kimberley in large numbers. They got guns - and afterwards they were disarmed and no compensation was given to them. One of the powerful chiefs did not understand the position at all. He did not know how it was possible that the guns should be handed to the government after the people had worked for them and had them given to them. He did not go when called by the messenger of the Government, and so a force was sent after him. He ran away and was brought back. His land was taken away and cut up into farms. He was sent to Robben Island, near Cape Town and then to Pietermaritzburg. He was kept there in misery until he died. That is imperialism."
J. T. GUMEDE
PRESIDENT OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
TAKEN FROM SPEECH AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS AGAINST IMPERIALISM
BRUSSELS
10-15 FEBRUARY 1927
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Posted: Sunday May 21st, 2006 14:55 |
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"History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is also a compass that people use to find themselves on the map of human geography. History tells a people where they have been and what they have been, where they are and what they are. Most important, history tells a people where they still must go, what they still must be.
The relationship of history to the people is the same as the relationship of a mother to her child."
John Henrik Clarke
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Posted: Sunday May 21st, 2006 15:07 |
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“Any individual or group of individuals who refuse to look after their own interests as things are today, are only courting their ultimate doom and destruction. Humanity maintains a historic behaviour that never changes.
From age to age it is always the same in the respect of the maintenance of the personal or selfish order. An individual is selfish historically, traditionally and currently because it is the first demand of nature that the man, so the group; as of the group so of the nation."
Marcus Garvey
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Posted: Monday May 22nd, 2006 17:01 |
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"The word that is your name is more than just a word. Your name is the real you. It is the moving power, your moving power toward success. It is a socially given power to you that no one can prevent. Your name is the most important word that you will ever know in your lifetime. As such, it is one of the most important keys to life. It has a radiating power in you and around you.
There is no day in your life when your name will not ring in your ears and mind. When it is called, it produces waves and radiations in and around you because it represents the content of your potential package of kinetic power. There is magnetization between you and your name when it is spoken."
Kimbwandende Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau
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Posted: Tuesday May 23rd, 2006 10:47 |
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"No systematic effort toward change has been possible, for, taught the same economics, history, philosophy, literature, and religion which have established the present code of morals, the Negro's mind has been brought under the control of his oppressor. The problem of holding the Negro down, therefore, is easily solved. When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions."
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Posted: Tuesday May 23rd, 2006 15:15 |
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The Zapatista Liberation Front of Chiapas, Mexico, had much greater success on the Internet than on the battle field. Over the past few years, we have seen how opponents of the Milosevic government, in Serbia, used the Internet to get around his efforts to silence them. Digitacy, or digital consciousness and capacity, will be essential to political organization in the twenty-first century. The irrelevance of “the left� in the United States can be traced, in part, to its persistent construction of capitalism as the same phenomenon witnessed by Karl Marx in nineteenth century Manchester. As we enter the age of digital capitalism, we need a theory of digital liberation. African American Cultural Studies should be in the “vanguard� of that theoretical project.
In the 1960s, Gil Scott-Heron and The Last Poets declaimed “the revolution will not be televised.� That “revolution� was, in fact, televised and commodified and can be rented from Blockbuster. Sectors of the African Atlantic are still in transition from the pre-modern to the modern. Other sectors are already in transition from the modern to the post-modern. The digital revolution will be a black (w)hole, sucking us through modernity at the speed of light.
The revolution will be digitized. In the twenty-first century, forty gigabytes and a mouse will be the new version of “forty acres and a mule.� Linux will be a more useful language than Kiswahili - electronics more relevant than ebonics. In the twenty-first century, your username will be of greater significance than your slave name.
Robert Hinton
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Posted: Thursday May 25th, 2006 17:17 |
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"The battles of the future, whether they be physical or mental, will be fought on scientific lines, and the race that is able to produce the highest scientific development is the race that will ultimately rule."
Marcus Garvey
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Posted: Friday May 26th, 2006 13:32 |
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"Consider this also: at school the spirit of the Declaration of Independence is instilled in us. We are taught to admire bold, indomitable spirits like Julius Caesar, William Tell, Patrick Henry, and George Washington. We are expected to be brave in war, in short, all the standards of the whites are impressed upon us. Do you suppose then we can remain passive whilst our most elementary rights are trampled upon? Has taxation without representation ceased to be tyranny?"
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Posted: Friday May 26th, 2006 16:12 |
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"So when they give those weapons to these people, it was to destroy our democracy. We were building a state of law, and they give weapons to the folks to prevent Haiti to have a state of law. And it is like if they were telling us they are superior, and black people are inferior, so black people cannot have democracy, although they are preaching democracy or freedom. They were telling that black people should not have democracy.
And when we put that in an historic perspective, we can clearly understand. In 1804, black people, African descendants, they fought for freedom, and they became free. From that day to today we continue to pay for nothing. We should be seen as an example, because we fought for freedom and freedom for every single human being. You are white, you are black, you are rich, you are poor. We care about you because you are a human being. So freedom for you, freedom for us, freedom for all of us. But on their side I don't think they put it this way. You are black, you should not be seeing, as a reference, your freedom. So for 200 years they did that, and in 1904 France refused Haiti to celebrate the first 100 years of independence. They did worse. While Haiti was preparing to celebrate 200 years of independence, it’s a racist issue, very clear. Very clear."
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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Tuesday, May 10th, 2005
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Posted: Friday May 26th, 2006 17:12 |
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"If you are the son of a man who had a wealthy estate and you inherit your father's estate, you have to pay off the debts that your father incurred before he died. The only reason that the present generation of white Americans are in a position of economic strength is because their fathers worked our fathers for over 400 years with no pay
We were sold from plantation to plantation like you sell a horse, or a cow, or a chicken, or a bushel of wheat
All that money is what gives the present generation of American whites the ability to walk around the earth with their chest out . . . like they have some kind of economic ingenuity. Your father isn't here to pay. My father isn't here to collect. But I'm here to collect, and you're here to pay."
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Posted: Friday May 26th, 2006 17:29 |
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"I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.�
Don King
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Posted: Friday May 26th, 2006 18:05 |
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"We have spent years telling those in authority how we perceived what has happened. When one of your children has been brutally murdered you are looking for those with power to do something about it.
My son was stabbed and left to bleed to death on the night of 22 April 1993 while police officers looked on.
They treated the affair as a gang war and from that moment on acted in a manner that can only be described as white masters during slavery.
Since Sir Paul Condon took over the role as Commissioner he has spent a lot of time defending his officers while those he was employed to protect were vulnerable and at the mercy of the racist officers who walked the streets in the name of the law.
On racism, the report said that there was nothing that suggested or implied that all police officers are racist, even though they believe that institutional racism was apparent...
It seems that we had all the officers who were racist handling our case. Well, no wonder that we are in the position we are today that no one is serving time for the murder of my son
What I see is that black people are still, dying on the streets and in the back of police vans.
To me institutional racism is so ingrained and it is hard to see how it will be eradicated out of the police force."
"This society has stood by and allowed my son's killers to make a mockery of the law and it seems like this society is going to stand by and support the inquiry led by the judge, but there is part of this inquiry that I do not support.
My feelings about the future remain the same as they were when my son was murdered. Black youngsters will never be safe on the streets.
The police on the ground are the same as they were when my son was killed."
Doreen Lawrence
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Posted: Friday May 26th, 2006 18:26 |
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"I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was."
Muhammed Ali
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Posted: Saturday May 27th, 2006 16:43 |
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Necessity brings innovation.
Bottom line is sex sells so those on the bottom line will sell and promote sex!
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Posted: Sunday May 28th, 2006 19:24 |
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"We have a school system that is based upon the psychology of white children and white people. We are trying to educate our children in that system; they are bound to fail. The very structure of the educational system itself is based upon a white model and therefore it
has a built-in failure mechanism for us, one way or the other. We must develop a psychology of our children based upon our history and experience. It is only then that our pedagogical and educational approaches will be in line with their personalities. Only then can we move our children forward to fulfill our needs and desires as a people."
Amos N. Wilson
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Posted: Sunday May 28th, 2006 19:33 |
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"It would be interesting to study if there's any connection between Blacks being forced to inflict punishment on one another and today's Black on Black crime. Can there be any deep rooted hatred ingrained in our sub-conscious mind? Or is it that European savagery has rubbed off
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Nana Wkow Butweiku I
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Posted: Sunday May 28th, 2006 19:51 |
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"It is by design that today, many black people around the world, cry that they do not want to be culturally connected to Africans. 'Color me human and do not separate me' is the shallow cry of those bent on perpetuating a mythical 'colorless' yet firmly European orientation; as if to suggest that claiming, respecting, and using one's indigenous
traditions is anti-human."
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Posted: Sunday May 28th, 2006 20:57 |
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'The great Senegalese historian, Cheikh Anta Diop, tells us that we were at our best and were most secure in the world when we were in charge of our state; and when we built the great Nile Valley civilizations, the Niger Valley civilization and the great river civilizations.
Our basic guide then must be our basic guide now - high morality and collective discipline.
Everybody cannot "do their own thing, if that 'thing' has no relationship to their people's thing." He said there were no men in Africa physically assaulting women, deserting them or calling them outside of their names. When we were at our best, there were no wide spread teenaged pregnancy, and no large number of unmarried men or women in Africa. If a young person was not married, the community took charge, the older women took charge, the uncles took charge, and selected someone for you.
Now, if to your romantic western mind this seems unromantic, let your practical mind take over.
Every woman in this society had, at least, one man. Ask yourself, in our society, do you have one?
At least, in Africa, you would have a man and your would have a committee of concerned persons, from his family and from your family, looking over the prospective husband to make sure that by temperament he was the best for you. You didn't marry a man, you married a family.; and you had protective mechanisms on both sides. What I mean by that is that, if the husband acted out of line, the uncles in the family would take him for a walk and explain to him what was expected of a husband in their group. If the wife act out of line, the women in the family took the same procedure. If during the walk they could not agree to mend their ways or refused to understand what was expected of them, they were often told to keep on walking.
During that trip to Ethiopia and parts of West Africa, I realized that I had not heard anybody calling anyone else any vile names, and I hadn't heard children fighting among themselves. It took me a while to understand that I was seeing a people in the cultural container that gave them birth, and that they understood it, felt comfortable with it and were not rebelling against it. We, in the Western world, are living in an alien cultural container that we do not feel comfortable with and are rebelling against [it]."
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Posted: Tuesday May 30th, 2006 20:03 |
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"I place the practice of imprisoning African Americans, particularly the males, in the founding fathers' structural design of this nation....From the beginnings of this nation, we, African Americans, have lived (and do live) with the fear that if we do not end up in prison or in some other form of institution, someone in our families will. I claim that our incarcerations occur not because of criminality
or accidents of injustices but due to the structural design of this nation. Institutionalization became the ultimate solution in which Whites address the problem of having free Blacks in this country."
Charshee C.L. McIntyre
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Posted: Tuesday May 30th, 2006 20:26 |
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"Simply because we choose to forget a traumatic event, simply because we choose not learn of a traumatic history and a history that may make us feel ashemed, does not mean that that history is not controlling our behavior. Simply because we don't know our history, and may have not heard of it, does not mean that the history does not control our behavior. One of the most profound things that we've learned in psychology is that the most powerful
forces that shape human behavior are those factors that are consciously not remembered by human beings, that are unknown by the person, are those experiences the individual can swear he's never had.
That is one of the paradoxes of human behavior, that the very things that shape us and make us behave the way we do, see the world the way we see it and relate to people the way we relate to them, are those things that occurred in our lives at points we cannot remember or recall."
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