– KWANZAA OUTLINE –
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THE FOLLOWING IS PRESENTED FOR HISTORICAL CONTEXT
* WINTER SOLSTICE
– THE WINTER SOLSTICE OPENS THE CELEBRATIONS FOR THE WINTER SEASON WHICH OUR ANCESTORS HAVE OBSERVED THROUGHOUT HISTORY
* MID 1800s
– FREDERICK DOUGLAS NOTED THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 26TH TO JANUARY 1ST AS A WEEK OF SLAVE CELEBRATIONS
– DURING THIS WEEK WHITE KIDNAPPERS WOULD ALLOW BLACKS RECREATIONAL TIME
* EARLY 1900s
– THE RIGHT EXCELLENT MARCUS MOSIAH GARVEY FORMULATED AFRICAN PRINCIPLES WHICH WOULD LATER BECOME KNOWN AS THE NGUZO SABA
– RON KARENGA TRANSLATED THESE PRINCIPLES TO SWAHILI
* 1965
– ARTHUR GRAHAM BEARTH THE IDEA FOR AN AFRICAN HOLIDAY AS OPPOSED TO CHRISTMAS
– JOE VINCENT DELIVERED ARTHUR GRAHAM’S IDEA TO RON KARENGA DURIN A MEETING JOE & HIS WIFE GLORIA WERE HOSTING IN THEIR LIVING ROOM FOR KARENGA WHO WAS LOOKIN TO BEGIN A SAN DIEGO CHAPTER OF HIS US ORGANIZATION
– ON CHRISTMAS DAY 1965 NGAO DAMU & HIS DAUGHTER FURTHER INSPIRED KARENGA TO BUILD ON ARTHUR GRAHAM’S IDEA FOR AN AFRICAN HOLIDAY
* 1965 – 1966
– NGAO DAMU & HAIBA (KARENGA’S WIFE) WERE PART OF A COLLABORATIVE THAT WOULD GO ON TO RESEARCH & FORMULATE WHAT HAS COME TO BE KNOWN AS KWANZA (INITIALLY SPELLED W/ 1 LETTER “A” @ THE END)
* 1966
– THE 1ST KWANZA CELEBRATION WAS HELD ON DECEMBER 26, 1966 @ 4011 RAYMOND AVE. IN LOS ANGELES @ 6PM
* 1967
– DURIN THE THANKSGIVING WEEKEND OF 1967 RON KARENGA GAVE AN OUTLINE OF KWANZA TO SISTA MAKINYA FROM THE BAY AREA TO FURTHER DEVELOP
– ONE OF SISTA MAKINYA’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO KWANZAA WAS ASKIN THE ELDERS FOR PERMISSION TO SPEAK PRIOR TO BEGINNING AFRICAN CEREMONIES
– SISTA MAKINYA IS ALSO CREDITED W/ SPREADING KWANZAA CELEBRATIONS ON THE CONTINENT OF AFRICA
“I am a Thug, my father and grandfather were Thugs, and I have Thugged with many.”
– Buhram Jamadar
Leader of the Thugee Order
I remember back in the early 90s—between 1990 and 1992 to be exact—the most popular hip hop artists were A Tribe Called Quest, EPMD, De La Soul, Ice Cube, Public Enemy, KRS One, Brand Nubian, X-Clan, Redman, Das Efx, Nice & Smooth, Onyx and Naughty By Nature. These artists spoke for and represented millions of young Black men who were coming of age during that particular era. They conveyed different messages, each with their own style and uniqueness. Within their collective diversity, they were genuine reflections of who we were.
Vodou ( Voodoo ) The Misunderstanding of The Universals systetm of Nature -Haki Kweli Shakur
By 1993, however, rap music had become less diverse and more homogenized with the rise of Death Row Records. In the music video for “Nuthin’ But A G Thang,” you see a group of 40 ounce guzzlers pouring their beer out on a Black woman who is clearly less than pleased with how she is being treated. The video scene looks harmless by today’s standards, but up until that time you did not see this imagery in hip hop videos.
This marked the formal introduction of the subgenre of rap music widely known as “gangsta rap.” Many commentators trace the origin of the term to the white media. But the truth of the matter is that before the mainstream media ever acknowledged rap music to any significant degree, Dr. Dre had already coined the term. On the single “Let Me Ride,” off of his multiplatinum-selling 1993 solo debut The Chronic, he raps “just another motherfuckin day for Dre so I begin like this. No medallions, dreadlocks, or black fists it’s just that gangster glare, with GANGSTA RAPS that gangster shit, that makes the gang of snaps.”
Haki Kweli Shakur 12-24-52ADM Speaks on Vodoun/Voodoo, Tupac Shakur & Elders , Black Power in Richmond Early 1900s FREE MY BRO THE RATED R AKA YAHEIR TOBYAH SHAKUR OF THE ORIGINAL THUG LIFE GROUP/MOVEMENT ( Walter Burns f-19972 California Men’s Colony State Prison Cell 6267 PO Box 8101 San Luis Obispo, CA 93409-8101 Facebook Rated R of Thug Life )
Dre basically shat on the Black nationalist agenda and told us that he was all about the dollar. Mind you this is the same Dr. Dre who smacked up the petite female VJ, Dee Barnes, for interviewing Ice Cube when the two rappers were in a heated beef following Cube’s departure from N.W.A. Nearly 20 years later Dre filed a restraining order against Suge Knight whom he never mustered the courage to give the Dee Barnes treatment.
Only after Dre spat his rhyme did the media take the term “gangster rap” and run with it. Only after the rise of Death Row Records did you get a consistent barrage of rap music that conveyed a vehement disdain for the opposite sex, and an unwavering loyalty among men which was never inclusive to women.
Before long, east coast rappers who wanted to make the “gang of snaps” that west coast artists were making followed suit. So much so that the image of the so-called hip hop thug became a caricature that is well cemented in the minds of most Americans. However the misogyny that crept into a lot of hip hop music was all part of an incremental social engineering program designed to promote a disdain for Black women who are emanations of Ma, the cosmic mother in the form of Kali.
Still, the question begs to be answered: what exactly is a thug? To answer the question accurately, we would first have to know where the word initially came from. You’d probably be surprised to learn that it was not even known to English-speaking people before the dawn of the 19th century. The word originated in India, and the story of how it made its way into common English vernacular is not often told.
The Order of Thugee was an all male secret society that struck fear in the hearts of the British until they crushed it like peppers at a local pizzeria. Its members, who were nicknamed Thugs after their order, spent much of their time robbing and murdering the wealthy by strangling them to death with yellow silk scarves called “rumals.” The Thugs’ membership was estimated to be close to 5,000. Although they were known for committing violent acts against the more affluent members of Indian society—who were usually British colonizers—the Thugs were not known to lay their hands on the impoverished Untouchables.
Indian society is held in place by a rigid caste system and the Untouchables occupy the lowest rung on its social ladder. These Untouchables are the descendants of the Harrapans, who were the indigenous Blacks who occupied a large stretch of land bordering between modern-day India and Pakistan as far back as 7,000 B.C.E. The Harrapans, who set the foundation for Indus Valley civilization, are the ones who wrote the Upanishads, which is arguably India’s most sacred repository of spiritual knowledge. The Untouchables also gave the world many of the elaborate yoga and meditation systems that were later credited to Buddhists.
For those of you who mistake the information I am sharing for some lame attempt to raise Black people’s self-esteem by feeding them lies about Asian history, I suggest that you read Dalits: The Black Untouchables of India. The book was written by Vontibettu Thimmappa Rajshekar, a native of India who was the founding editor of Dalit Voice (www.dalitvoice.org). After not visiting the website for a few years, I was recently disappointed to see that it no longer exists. Fortunately you can still learn about Rajshekar’s incredible work elsewhere on the web. Rajshekar was also a strong supporter of the Dalit Panthers, which was modeled after the original Black Panthers in the U.S. It is already widely known that Tupac’s mom, Afeni Shakur, was a member of this organization
The Harrapan civilization fell to ruin around 1500 B.C.E when it was overrun by hordes of Indo-Europeans who flooded India after plundering ancient Sumer. These barbaric invaders, who had no previous civilization of their own, later called themselves “Aryans”. The word Aryan means “noble” in Sanskrit. Its use was originally indicative of one’s class and social standing. However, the word was later perverted and given racial implications because the European conquerors who implemented the caste system made race THE only grounds for one’s class and social standing.
Hinduism, which currently ranks third as the world’s most practiced religion with over one billion adherents world-wide (Judaism only has about 15 million devotees), incorporated deities from the original Harrapan pantheon. The spiritual system practiced in ancient Harrapa was Tantra, not Hinduism.
If you ask most people who are familiar with Tantra what it is they will likely tell you that it is a spiritual approach to sex. However, the term “Tantric Sex” clearly implies that Tantra can be defined outside of a sexual context given that the word “Tantric” is used as an adjective, a word that describes a subject, which in this case, would be sex. Tantra may involve a spiritual awareness about sex, but it is not limited to sexual activity, at least not in the manner that Western man understands it.
The Kama Sutra does not come out of the Tantric tradition. It is a racist sex manual that promotes the caste system. Hinduism was created by India’s Brahmin class to reinforce the racial stratification of Indian society. This is very similar to how many white Christians use the curse of Ham myth to mind-fuck Blacks. Indians who were very dark, or had Black skin (shudras), were said to be cursed and therefore deserving of their lowly status as servants and nobodies. When India was colonized again by the British in 1757, the Thugs were viewed as a growing threat to British imperialism. As a result, they were eventually snuffed out by William Sleeman, a British army officer who led a crusade against them.
After infiltrating the Order of Thugee, Sleeman discovered that the Thugs’ ritualistic robberies and murders were actually sacrifices to the Black goddess, Kali-Ma. Although she is a part of the Hindu pantheon, Kali, who is also known as Durga, is a holdover from the original Harrapan pantheon of deities. Her worshipers gave her offerings of milk and severed heads dripping with blood. Wearing a garland of 50 skulls, she is colorfully described in original thug poetry:
“Terrific-faced Kali, holding a drawn sword and a noose and a club wreathed with human skulls, lean, emaciated and terrible, wide-mouthed, tongue dreadfully protruded, maddened, blood red-eyed filling the four quarters of the globe with hideous cries….”
dawood ibrahim from india where the first word thuggee was said an then transformed into thug. he was labeled this in the revolt against the europeans british who he faught against for his people of indian descent from colonized slavery.
The Thugz have been at War against The British since the 1830s. The arrival of the British and their development of a methodology to tackle crime meant the techniques of the Thugs had met their match. Suddenly, the mysterious disappearances were mysteries no longer and it became clear how even large caravans could be infiltrated by apparently small groups, that were in fact acting in concert. Once the techniques were known to all travellers, the element of surprise was gone and the attacks became botched, until the hunters became the hunted,In the 1830s they were targeted by William Bentinck, along with his chief captain William Henry Sleeman, for eradication.
To the Western mind which has been predisposed to Judeo-Christian values, Kali might seem to be the Indian personification of Satan. However, she is more like a responsible mother: she loves you to death, but she’ll bust your ass if you misbehave. Her complete name is Kali-Ma. A lot of Black people in America instinctively say “Hey Ma” when greeting a Black female. I’ve never heard a Black person call a female of another race “Ma.” There are a lot of things that we do and say and don’t know why. Kali is the personification of divine retribution, but her vengeful wrath is not directed towards the righteous. It is directed towards the wicked. Metaphysically speaking, Kali is the motivating cosmic force behind those who give the most reverence to the feminine principal in their extreme attempt to rid the world of spiritual wickedness in high and low places.
Tupac Amaru Shakur, who was named after an Inca king, embodied the original thug ethic more than any other rapper that I can readily recall. He recorded classics like “Dear Momma,” “Brenda’s Got a Baby,” and “Keep Ya Head Up.” It is no coincidence that those hits were recorded BEFORE the T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E. (The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everyone) advocate signed to Death Row records. Yet even then, one of his biggest hits on that label was “Kali-fornia Love.” This song takes on special significance once you learn that Tupac wasn’t even from the state of California. He was born in Harlem, New York and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. Tupac didn’t move to the west coast until he was in his late teens, so when you consider the fact that he was murdered at the age of 25, he was essentially an east coast artist.
Right before Tupac spits his verse on “Kali-fornia Love” Roger Troutman, who is the father of autotune, sings “shake it, shake it mama. Shake it Kali!” What a beautiful segue for a man who promoted Thug Life “Against All Odds.” Also, Tupac was cremated and among many Kali devotees, cremation is actually preferred to burial. In India, this crematory is called a “smashan.” One of Kali’s names is Smashan Tara. Tupac may not have known who the goddess Kali was in his lifetime, so let’s not be naïve. Nevertheless, he was a devotee to the goddess in spirit, and the spirit is what we are concerned with here at Mind Glow Media.
You are who you are, whether you’re conscious of it or not. Tupac’s early hit “Holler If Ya Hear Me” lyrically exemplifies what the Thugs of colonial India were all about. Tupac was one of the first people to give us the real scoop on the so-called Illuminati when most people who were knowledgeable of it were feeding us nothing but scary stories. Tupac was a multi-platinum selling artist, which means that through his music he was telling millions of people across the globe not to fear the Illuminati. He had much more potential to influence the populace than William Cooper, author of Behold A Pale Horse, ever did.
“Niggas is telling me about this Illuminati shit while I’m in jail right?,” he once said in one of his many poignant interviews. “That’s another way to keep your self-esteem down. That’s another way to keep you un-confident. And that’s why I’m putting the ‘K’ to it, cause I’m killin’ that Illuminati shit.” We all need to kill the Illuminati shit and recognize that we are the only real Illuminati that exists in this day and time. Why should we empower others by jerking off our pineal glands to intellectual pornography that only seeks to glorify the phallic prowess of global white supremacy. Let’s work on empowering ourselves, instead of hyping up conspiracy obsessed fear mongers.
Dre and Snoop Dogg recently gave a live stage show at the Coachella music festival in Kali-fornia. The duo garnered international headlines after they performed alongside a hologram of Tupac. A hologram is an optical illusion, and illusions are the very things that Kali is hell-bent on destroying. So if Tupac was a spiritual devotee of Kali, then bringing him back to life as a hologram can be seen as the desecration of who he was when we examine his life within a metaphysical context.
According to news reports, Dr. Dre’s camp is talking about taking the Tupac hologram on a major tour, which means that Dre will be profiting off of the dead rapper’s memory. Tupac was one of the first rappers to question Dre’s sexuality on the “Toss ItUp” single which was featured on Pac’s last studio album, Makaveli. Maybe The Doctor is still sore about that and is having what he thinks is the last laugh by getting money out of Tupac’s ass. Then again, Dre may have put that all behind him and just wants to celebrate his former comrade’s legacy. Only Dre knows for sure. Either way, I don’t think that the hologram was Dre’s idea. Perhaps, it’s a litmus test for how the general public would respond to the alleged Project Blue Beam.
Dallas At 3:30 AM on December12th, Maroon was told to pack. He was on the road by 5am arriving at SCI-Dallas at 7:30pm. Sharon spoke with Maroon yesterday and he was doing very well. The reason given was that Maroon has a single cell status and there are no new single cells in at the new prison – SCI-Phoenix.
Family and friends are disappointed by the long distance it will now take to visit.
New Address:
Russell Maroon Shoatz #AF-3855
SCI-Dallas 1000 Follies Rd, Dallas, PA 18612
An Ongoing Cost to Be Free Full Documentary Russell Maroon Shoatz
DECEMBER 19th, 1865 South Carolina Requires Blacks to Enter into Contracts with White “Masters” Following the Civil War and emancipation, many freed black people in the South remained beholden to their former white masters. In South Carolina and other former slaveholding states, many freed people continued to reside in the same communities, sometimes on the same land, working for whites who had previously purported to own the men, women, and children as property. Freedmen had limited opportunities to earn money to support themselves and their families and often continued to work as manual laborers in slavery-like conditions. In many ways, “black codes” enacted following emancipation sought to maintain white control over freedmen and perpetuated the exploitation black people had experienced during slavery.
Why Reparations ? (modern business systems are slave systems in origin)-Haki Kweli Shakur ATC NAPLA NAIM MOI 12-19-52ADM
South Carolina’s black codes, like others, contained many laws that applied only to black people. One measure restored freed blacks’ subservient social relationship to white landowners, stating that “all persons of color who make contracts for service or labor, shall be known as servants, and those with whom they contract, shall be known as masters.” The law required black “servants” to work from dawn to dusk and to maintain a “polite” demeanor. South Carolina reached even further into black laborers’ personal lives, prohibiting apprentices to marry without their masters’ permission, forbidding farmers living on their masters’ land to have visitors, and imposing a curfew. Another black code sought to restrict the upward mobility of the black community by forbidding freedmen in South Carolina from pursuing any occupation other than laborer unles
In order to better understand the differences between the African-American democratic movement ,and the New Afrikan Independence Movement. We place them both in there historical context.
Briefly stated, The African-Amerikkkan democratic movement is the off spring of the Negro revolution. The civil rights movement for justice, equality, and first class citizenship through peaceful protest, marches, reform, integration, and the vote. This movement is lead by the traditional house Slaves (ministers, Rev. Sambo) Their goals and objectives today are the same as the day before. They support Capitalism, They support imperialism, They support the rights of white people to rule them. They look to the US constitution for instructions and a better way of life. This movement embraces the slave religion, slave food, slave names, and they hate The New Afrikan Liberation Revolution. They hate the red black and green, and live near their master. On the other hand we have the New Afrikan Independence Movement.
Stated briefly are the off spring of The Black Liberation Movement and the Black Power Movement. The Black Revolution which struggles for Land, self-determination, socialism and a Nation of our own. The Black Liberation Revolution can be traced back to the field slaves, Where the leadership came from among the field slaves. From those who gave clothes to the other slaves who needed them. From those who fed the hungry and housed the homeless. From those slaves who taught us to read and write despite the watchful eyes of the house slave and old master.
Our leadership came from those field slaves who escaped ,and came back again and again to free us. Our leadership came from those field slaves who fought the system of slavery and Jim crow , not to reform it ,but to destroy it. The Black Liberation Movement of yesterday is todays New Afrikan Independence Revolution. We follow in the foot steps of the conscious field slaves. Those who wanted freedom ,not integration. Wanted Land, wanted their very own cities, towns, Kingdoms,and Nations. Breifly stated…There is only one Nation for which we fight to free…The Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika. Therefore, Lets join forces brothers and sisters (New Afrikans) and fight for the liberation of the RNA.
The New Afrikan People Liberation Army (BLA), The Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika (RNA), NAIM ( New Afrikan Independence Movement) , The Black Panther Party ( with many of it’s current names), belongs too you ,the current generation, the youth of today. The generation (of the 50’s 60’s 70’s and up to this day is dying out. We made our contributions to you and future generations, as best as we could. Hundreds, even thousands of us, are dead, some have fallen by the way side, some driven insane and murdered in the penal colonies, some have just been released from the capitalist / imperialist kamps after receiving the much needed support from aware brothers and sisters and organizations. Many of us are too old and disease ridden. Never the less, we still continue to stand by you and with you (we got your back for ever more). Now we must pass the banner of Liberation to you the current generation. We will share our experiences , our mind powers ,our labor powers, our skills and talents, with you till the day we make the transition. Even then we will continue to guide you.
Fight hard and never give in. The generations to comes will need all of you.
Free The Land!! Peace comes after the WAR!! From Brother Hamisha
They said this while kidnapping African people in mass from another continent 3,000 miles away. Between 75,000,000 and 110,000,000 Africans were kidnapped, with less than 10,000,000 surviving the Middle Passage, to reach these shores. By the end of slavery there were only 4,000,000 of us. Having endured every conceivable atrocity, including the forced separation and sale of family members, rape, murder, the raping and selling of children who were themselves the offspring of rape. Olmsted reported, “In the states of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri as much attention was paid to the breeding and growth of negros, as to that of horses and mules.” J.E. Cairnes, the English economist, computed from reliable data that Virginia bred and exported no less than 100,000 slaves, which at $500 a piece (per head) yielded $50,000,000. George Washington sold a slave to the West Indies for a hogshead of “best rum” and molasses and sweetmeats, and said it was because “this fellow is both a rogue and a runaway.” Thomas Jefferson sold slaves on the open market. To refer to Washington, Jefferson and the rest of those hypocrites as “the father of our country” is outright provocation.
Suwanee New Afrikan Seminole Maroons Guerilla War vs U.S. For Autonomy 1818 – Haki Kweli Shakur
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Slavery was defended thusly: it was said, except for slavery, “The poor would occupy the position of society that the slaves do as the poor in the North and in Europe do, for there must be a menial class in society and every civilized country on the globe, beside the confederate states, the poor are the inferiors and menials of the rich. Slavery was a greater blessing to the non-slave holding poor than to the owners of slaves because it gave the poor a start in society that would take them generations to work out, they should thank god for it and fight and die for it as they would their own liberty and dearest birthright of freedom.” This is the real justification for colonialism today. Chattel slavery was an institution built on racism, that built the U.S.A., which for all practical purposes meant that the owner of a slave had complete control over the slave and also that any white person could order about any Black person. The slave patrols and militias were the predecessors of the fugitive squad, red squad and joint Terrorist Task Forces of today. The economy not only of the agrarian autocracy but of the whole south, through marshals, militias, breeders, auctioneers, overseers, slave drivers and patrols looking for fugitives, was based on slavery and there was much slavery in the North also Maryland, Delaware, Washington, D.C., New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, etc. The Civil War that ended chattel slavery was carried out by the North not for that purpose, but to stop the separation of the U.S. and to ensure industrial domination over agriculture. “The Negro became in the first year contraband of war that is, property belonging to the enemy and valuable to the invader. And in addition to that, became as the South quickly saw, the key to the Southern resistance. Either these 4 million laborers remained quietly at work to raise food for the fighters, or the fighters starved. Simultaneously, when the dream of the North for manpower produced riots, the only additional troops that the North could depend on were 200,000 Negroes, for without them, as Lincoln said, the North could not have won the war.” (W.E.B. DuBois, Black Reconstruction.
Outlaw Maroon Bob Ferebee, Blue Ridge Maroons, Casual Killing Act Of VA 1669 – Haki Kweli Shakur
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As the North began to secure victory over the rebellious states, the U.S. government with the Union Army and volunteer organizations established the Freedman’s Bureau, which in conjunction with the treasury and newly freed slaves, lands throughout the confederacy were confiscated, and put into the hands of New Afrikans who quickly proved they could support themselves even in the wake of war as well as assist many people who had no land or provisions. Schools and universities were established and many New Afrikans attempted to become citizens of the United States. On February 5, 1866, Senator Charles Sumner addressed the Senate, and among other things said, “Our Fathers futures and their sacred labor… and now the moment has come when the vows must be fulfilled to the letter. In securing the equal rights of the freedman and his participation in the government which he is taxed to support, we shall perform our early promise of the fathers, and at the same time the supplementary promises only recently made to freedmen as the condition of alliance and aid against the rebellion. A failure to perform these promises is political and moral bankruptcy.”The moment he spoke of has long passed, the promises have not been kept and the reason for this is inherent in the very nature of the U.S. empire. This was understood by 19 out of 20 Black leaders of a delegation that met with Gen. Sherman. When asked if they preferred to be part of the U.S. or live separately, 19 said, “live by ourselves.” In short order the U.S. government took back the bulk of the land confiscated from the Confederacy and handed it over to the New Afrikans who had been working on it. The Freedman’s Bureau was dissolved and President Grant urged removal of all political disabilities of former Confederates in December, 1871. A bill was passed in the House to serve that purpose and was tied by Sumner to a Civil Rights Bill in the Senate, when it finally passed Congress in 1872, however, the civil rights feather was omitted. Black federal troops were disbanded and removed from the South, at which point the militia searched Black dwellings for arms and took them away.
North Carolina Slave Conspiracies of 1802 (North Carolina Afrikans Wanted Nation Hood) – Haki Shakur
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The U.S. government, now consolidated, went back to playing the same role in regards to New Afrikan people as before the war—that of users. Carl Schurz, who was an advisor to President Johnson, observed: “The emancipation of the slaves is submitted to only insofar as chattel slavery in the old form could not be kept up. But although the freedman is no longer considered property of the individual master, he is considered the slave of society, and all independent state legislation will share the tendency to make him such. The ordinances abolishing slavery passed by the conventions under pressure of circumstance will not be looked upon as barring the establishment of a new form of servitude.” New Afrikan people could see this and Henry Adams, testifying before the U.S. Senate Committee on Petitions on behalf of a petition by New Afrikans in Louisiana and Mississippi (2 of the highest states in concentrations of New Afrikans) in 1874 said, “Well, in that Petition, we appealed there if nothing could be done to stop the turmoil and strife, and give us our rights in the South, we appealed then at that time for a territory that could set a part for us to live in peace and quiet.” That’s not asking for very much; however, the U.S. government rejected that petition. As it does now. The 14th amendment reads, “All persons born and naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state in which they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privilege or immunity of citizens of the United Sates nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” Certainly it can’t be argued that New Afrikan people have ever received equal protection under the law, and besides being another official pompous lie, the 14th amendment “wrongfully and illegally precluded New Afrikans from exercising their options fully. New Afrikans were forced to accept the label of U.S. citizenship and they had not been asked whether or not they wanted such citizenship or such a label.
New Afrikan Activity of Slave Resistance in Virginia Month of May 900 Armed Slaves – Haki Shakur
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In 1856, 400,000 Afrikans had not been born in the U.S. These people could not be deemed to have been made citizens by an interpretation of the 14th amendment.” With a substantial portion of the New Afrikan people in the country legally unaffected by the 14th amendment and petitioners from 2 of the most populous states in regards to Black people noting that they were not receiving equal protection of the laws and asking for “territory set apart for us,” what could have possibly been the motives of the Government of the United States of America outside of deceit, war and colonization,Between 1868 and 1871 there were 371 cases of violence, including 35 murders of Blacks in Alabama. Six churches and many school houses were burned before the election of 1870. General Davis of the Freedman’s Bureau reported 260 attacks, whippings and murders of freedmen between January and November of 1868 in Georgia.
North Carolina Maroons Settlements , Black Self Government, Resistance – Haki Kweli Shakur
Great works measure up, inspire higher standards of intellectual and moral honesty, and, when appreciated for what they are, serve as a guide for those among us who intend a transformation of reality. “Settlers, the Mythology of the White Proletariat”, caused quite a stir in the anti-imperialist white left and among nationalists of the Third World nations within the confines of the U.S. empire as well as anarchists and Moslems of this hemisphere. In short, among all of us who are ready and willing to smash or dismantle the empire, for whatever reasons, and whatever reasoning. This is in spite of the fact that it is a Marxist work, because it isn’t out of the stale, sterile, static, mechanical mode of the vulgar sap-rap that has carried that label.
Its historical recounting of the sequence of horrors perpetrated against non-white people, from the beginning of Babylon to the recent past, has not been discounted publicly, to my knowledge, by anyone, including the cheap-shot artist who offered an underhanded review of it in the Fifth Estate called “The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism.” [Editor’s Note: This review was written by the late Freddy Perlman, and is also available as a pamphlet.] Mythology should serve as a reminder (to anyone who needs one), of the genocidal tendencies of the empire, the traitorous interplay between settler-capitalist, settler-nondescript, and colonial flunkies. The flaws and short-comings of the IWW, which marked the highest point of revolutionary conscientiousness among whites here, the fraud carried on by the Communist Party USA, and assorted other persistent offenders of common sense and common decency. To my amazement, a couple of white anti-imperialists I know had started the book without finishing, complaining that it was old hat, but I’ve heard nothing particularly new from them and I suggest that they take special note of detail, and I’ll remind them that this work is so accurate as to be able to serve as files on people who will say anything to support a position that doesn’t support real action.
Haki kweli Shakur ATC NAIM NAPLA MOI 12-13-52ADM Who Are New Afrikan Afrikan Political Prisoners?
Not being one to take figures verbatim without cross-checking, and believing that class struggle or war within the white oppressor nation would be a prerequisite for complete victory of the captive New Afrikan, Mexicano, Native and Puerto Rican nations, I decided to cross-check with the most authoritative work available to me and perhaps anyone, “The Rich and the Super Rich”, by Ferdinand Lundberg. This was necessary, I felt, in order to get a clear picture of the material conditions of white folks. This in order to investigate white Americans’ interest in revolution. Professor Lundberg used two graphs to illustrate his point: “Most Americans – citizens of the wealthiest, most powerful and most ideal-swathed country in the world – by a very wide margin own nothing more than their twin household goods, a few glittering gadgets such as automobiles and television sets (usually purchased on installment plans, many at second hand) and the clothes on their backs. A horde, if not a majority, of Americans live in shacks, cabins, hovels, shanties, hand-me-down Victorian eyesores, rickety tenements and flaky apartment buildings…”
The second and third tables help us to make things out a bit clearer; it shows that 25.8% of households had less than $1,000 to their collective names and the third showing us that 28% of all consumer units had a net under or less than $100. With 11% with a deficit and 5% holding at zero, a total of 16%. This goes on to show that 35% of all households had a net worth of less than $5,000. Is this affluence?
It certainly looks like a good case for classic class struggle, with the evidence that Lundberg gives us. Sakai warns us, however, “most typically, the revisionist lumps together the U.S. oppressor nation with the various Third World oppressed nations and national minorities as one society.”
In this light, the figures check out. New Afrikan income, which today averages 56% of white income and stood at about the same or less in 1953, makes up a disproportion of the deficit, zero, under-a-thousand and under-five-thousand dollar consumer units. Definitely more than 10% of them, which was our percentage of the population. If we could make a sensible judgment, we’d have to say that the combined captive nations: New Afrikan, Mexicano, Puerto Rican and Native, or about one sixth of the population as of 1981 all make up a disproportionate amount of the consumer units with deficits, and below $5,000. This forms a cushion for the white population.
Sakai points out that, “the medium Euro-American family income in 1981 was $23,517, and “that between 1960 and 1979 the percentage of settler families earning over $25,000 per year (in constant 1979 dollars) doubled, making up 40% of the settler population.” We may have had a general idea from neighborhood walks, but Sakai gives us an idea of the extent.
This extent, and the “conspicuous concentration of state services – parks, garbage collections, swimming pools, better schools, medical facilities and so on” and the fact that “to the settlers’ garrison goes the first pick of whatever is available – homes, jobs, schools, food, health care, governmental services and so on.” Not to mention racism within settlers, puts to rest an idea of a multi-racial class struggle that includes whites. “Nation is the dominant factor, modifying class relations.”
Lundberg who overlooked the national factor in the economic tables he based his argument on, notes that “in the rare cases where policy is uppermost in the mind of the electorate it is usually a destructive policy, as toward Negroes in the South and elsewhere. Policies promising to be injurious to minority groups such as Negroes, Catholics, foreigners, Jews, Mexicans, Chinese, intellectuals and in fact, all deviants from fixed philistinish norms, usually attract a larger-than-usual supporting vote,” or mandate if you will.
“Approximately 10% of the European-American population has been living in poverty by government statistics. This minority is not a cohesive, proletarian stratum, but a miscellaneous fringe of the unlucky and the outcast: older workers trapped by fading industries, retired poor, physically and emotionally disabled, and such families supported by single women.”
How many of this group of whites will side with the revolution, how many whites will come to view their interests with the long-term interest of those of us who prefer to live on a living planet, and how many will fail to equate their quality of life with 50,000,000,000 hamburgers is anyone’s guess.
However, it’s a small wonder why white anti-imperialists have been giving me blank stares whenever I’ve mentioned class struggle to them.
The left in this country is very small, by whatever way you might want to look at it. If you define left as those of us who stand for a decentralization of wealth and power – taking the question is completely out of the realm of bourgeois civil rights and rightfully includes the independence of captured nations, which is part and parcel of the decentralization of wealth and power – the left is microscopic.
We are left with ourselves. Left in homes that police drop bombs on from helicopters, and without any shared sense of outrage. We are left where murders by police and other racists are commonplace and for the most part celebrated. Left in the ghettos, barrios, and other reservations.
Let’s not forget that New Afrika has a class problem. That not only do police, but politicians, poverty hustlers and representatives from the established Black publishers and churches, move up in the world when they join the ranks of the oppressors. The oppressors never have a problem finding Black leaders to condemn their blatant disregard for life, like that which took place in Philly [when police bombed a home with eleven Black people, including four children]. We only have established leaders to draw us into the ranks of a Democratic Party without being able to introduce as much as one Black plank into a white platform. Leaders who beget other leaders like Mayor Goode [a Black mayor who was thought of as being a victory for Black people].
Where I differ with Sakai is the assertion that “building mass institutions and movements of a specific national character under the leadership of a communist party are absolute necessities for the oppressed.” What communist party is he talking about? I feel that we must build revolutionary institutions that buttress on survival through collectives, which in turn should form federations. Grassroots collective building can begin immediately.
In an epoch where New Afrikan nationalists and Marxists have voluntarily taken the defensive, without even a fraction of a blueprint of a party or consistent practices in the colony, it’s incredible that people outside the ranks and currents of those who believe in magic words aren’t encouraged to collectively take matters in their own hands, to build the collective institutions and superstructure of a superseding society. We must begin where we are, with each other and the time we don’t waste.
I think that the building of revolutionary collectives and forming of federations of collectives is the most practical and righteously rewarding process of preserving and enhancing life and developing the character of all nations. We can change ourselves and the world.
This review of J. Sakai’s Settlers, Mythology of the White Proletariat was published in the January/February 1995 issue of Prison News Service (#49). Kuwasi Balagoon was a New Afrikan anarchist member of the Black Liberation Army, captured by the State after the ill-fated 1981 Brink’s holdup carried out by the Revolutionary Armed Task Force. He died of AIDS while in prison.
The Gods and Goddesses of Africa Most African cultures, if not all, believe in a Supreme Creator in one form or another. A God behind the Gods, a Supreme God who created everything. The Creator is thought to have once lived on Earth, but left it for His Kingdom in the Sky because of human infractions. Because he was no longer in direct contact with the people, Lesser Gods were created directly from His power to do certain jobs that were given to them. These Lesser Gods are the Gods of Earth, The Rains, Water, The Winds, Fire, etc. The Deities are capable of answering human prayers by use of their own power and can intercede on man’s behalf with the Creator Himself. Although The Supreme Creator is usually referred to by him etc. it is beyond sex, being both male and female. It has no form and is thought of in an abstract way. It is available to any human, regardless of their position. A breath of Its Divine Being is within all animate and inanimate things.
It is known as Mulungu (East Africa), Leza (Central Africa), Nyambe (West Tropics), Nyame (Ghana), the Molder, Giver of Breath and Souls, God of Destiny, One Who Exists of Himself, God of Pity and Comfort, the Inexplicable, Ancient of Days, the One Who Bends Even Kings, the One You Meet Everywhere, etc.
Among many tribes, the creation of the Earth took four days. The fifth day was reserved for worshipping the Orisha Nla (Chief of the Deities), who actually created the Earth with the instruction and aid of the Supreme Creator. The Orisha Nla was also given the task of creating bodies out of clay. When this was complete the Supreme Creator secretly placed the spark of life within the forms. These newly created humans were then placed on the Earth to li
Afrikan deities(Gods/Goddess) Are The origin of other races deities/prophets/ -Haki Kweli Shakur
The Gods and Goddesses
Adroa
Other Names: “God in the sky”, God on Earth”, Creator God, River God.
Location: The Lugbara of Zaire and Uganda.
Description: He is pictured as tall and white with only half of his body visible.
Rules Over: Social order, law, death.
Akuj
Location: The Turkana of Kenya.
Rules Over: Divination.
Ala
Other Names: Ale, Ane.
Location: The Ibo of Nigeria.
Description: Extremely popular Goddess and Earth Mother. She is a Creator Goddess and Queen of the Dead.
Rules Over: Community laws, morality, oaths, harvest.
Anayaroli
Location: The Temne.
Description: River demon.
Rules Over: Wealth.
Asa
Other Names: Father God, “the strong lord.”
Location: Akamba of Kenya.
Rules Over: Mercy, help, surviving the impossible.
Asase
Other Names: Yaa, Aberewa, Efua, “Old Woman Earth.”
Location: The Ashanti of West Africa.
Description: Goddess of creation of humans and receiver of them at death.
Rules Over: Cultivation, harvest.
Behanzin
Location: West Africa.
Description: Fish God.
Cagn
Location: South Central Africa among the Bushman.
Description: Creator God.
Rules Over: Sorcery and Shape-Shifting.
Chiuta
Other Names: Mulengi, Mwenco, Wamtatakuya Tumbuka.
Description: Creator God, Rain God. Is self-created and omniscient.
Rules Over: Rain, help, plant growth, food.
Chuku
Other Names: Chineke.
Location: The Ibo of East Nigeria.
Description: “The first great cause”, “Creator”, Father of Ale, The Earth Goddess. Offerings and sacrifices were done for him in groves.
Rules Over: Help, goodness.
Danh
Location: Dahomey.
Description: Snake God. Rainbow Snake shown with tail in his mouth.
Rules Over: Wholeness, unity.
En-Kai
Other Names: Parsai, Emayian.
Location: Masai.
Description: Sky God. Grass is used in rituals for him.
Rules Over: Rain, vegetation, blessings.
Gauna
Other Names: Gawa, Gawama.
Location: Among the Bushmen.
Description: Leads the spirits of the deceased.
Rules Over: Disruption, harassment, death.
Ge
Location: Dahomey.
Description: Moon God.
Gu
Location: The Fon of West Africa.
Rules Over: War, smiths.
Guruhi
Location: Gambia.
Description: Evil God. Meteors are his sign.
Rules Over: Power and death over enemies.
Heitsi-Eibib
Location: The Hottentots.
Description: Sorcerer God.
Rules Over: Shape-shifting, magick.
Imana
Other Names: Hategekimana, Hashakimana, Habyarimana, Ndagijimana, Bigirimana, “Almighty God.”
Location: The Banyarwands.
Rules Over: Power, goodness, children, planning.
Ison
Other Names: Eka Obasi, Obasi Nsi, Ibibio, Ekoi.
Location: West Africa.
Description: Tortoise-shelled Goddess.
Rules Over: Fertility of the Earth.
Jok
Other Names: Jok Odudu, Alur.
Location: Uganda and Zaire.
Description: Black goats were to be sacrificed to him when rain was needed.
Rules Over: Rain.
Juok
Other Names: Shilluk, Supreme God.
Location: White Nile.
Description: Created all men on Earth.
Kaka-Guia
Other Names: Nyami.
Location: The Volta areas.
Description: He brought souls to the Supreme God.
Katonda
Other Names: Lissoddene, Kagingo, Ssewannaku, Lugaba, Ssebintu, Nnyiniggulu, Namuginga, Ssewaunaku, Gguluddene, Namugereka.
Location: The Ganda of East Africa.
Descriptiojn: Creator God.
Rules Over: Help, Judgment, aid when the odds are against you, control over spirits, divination, oracles.
Kwoth
Location: The Nuer of South Sudan.
Description: Great Spirit God.
Rules Over: Nature, help, compassion, judgement.
Mbaba Mwana Waresa
Location: The Zulu of Natal.
Description: Goddess of what she rules over.
Rules Over: Rainbows, rain, crops, cultivation, beer.
Mawu
Location: Dahomey.
Description: Supreme Goddess, creator of all things. Mawu is worshipped by The Fon of Benin in West Africa as a Moon Goddess and creatrix of everything.
Mukuru
Location: Macouas of Zambesi, Banayis.
Description: Supreme God, creator of everything.
Rules Over: Agriculture, architecture, the harvest.
Mungo
Location: Giryama of Kenya.
Description: Rain God.
Rules Over: Rain.
`Nenaunir
Other Names: The Rainbow Snake.
Location: Masai of Kenya.
Description: An Evil Storm God who was linked to the rainbow. Resided in the clouds and was a dreaded spirit.
Rules Over: Storms.
`Ngai
Location: Masai.
Description: Creator God.
Rules Over: Life and Death.
Nyambe
Location: Koko of Nigeria.
Description: God.
Rules Over: Restoring Life.
Nyambi
Other Names: Nyambe.
Location: The Barotse of Upper Zambesi.
Description: Gread God. Creator of everything.
Nyame
Location: The Twi of West Africa.
Description: Great God who prepared the soul to be reborn on the physical plane and gave out its fate.
Rules Over: Fate.
Nyamia Ama
Location: Senegal.
Description: God of storms, rain and lightning. A sky god.
Rules Over: Storms, rain, lightning.
Nzambi
Location: The Bankongo of the Congo.
Description: Great Goddess who created everything. She played the role of Justice and rewarded and punished according to the deeds of man.
Rules Over: Justice.
Oba
Description: Santeria river goddess.
Ochumare
Location: Yoruba.
Description: Santeria Goddess of the rainbow.
Ogun
Other Names: Ogoun.
Location: The Nago and Yoruba of West Africa.
Description: God of iron and warfare.
Rules Over: Iron, warfare, removing difficulties, smoothing the path to a desired result, Justice, Smiths, Hunters, Barbers, Goldsmiths, Steel.
Olorun
Other Names: Olofin-Orun, Olodumare.
Location: Yoruba.
Description: Sky God.
Rules Over: Truth, control of the Elements, Forsight, Victory when the odds are against you, Destiny.
Pan
Location: Agni.
Description: Son of the Earth.
Rules Over: Cultivation.
Rock-Sens
Location: The Serer of Gambia.
Description: Sky god, controlled the weather.
Rules Over: Rain, Thunder, Lightning.
Rugaba
Other Names: Ruhanga, Kazooba, Mukameiguru.
Location: Ankore of Uganda.
Description: Creator God, Sun God, Sky God.
Rules Over: Life, healing, death, sickness, judgement.
Ruhanga
Location: Banyoro.
Description: Great God.
Rules Over: Fertility, abundance, children, animals, harvest, health, sickness, death, judgement, rebirth.
Sakarabru
Location: Agni of Guinea.
Description: God who is strongest during the main phases of the Moon. Swift to punish wrongful deeds.
Rules Over: Medicine, justice, retribution.
Shango
Other Names: Schango.
Location: Yoruba of Nigeria.
Description: Carries a double-headed axe much like the nordic Thorr.
Rules Over: Thunder, Storm, War, Magick.
Soko
Location: Nupe of north Nigeria.
Description: Creator God.
Rules Over: Control of the Elements, Witchcraft, Communication with the Deceased.
Unkulunkulu
Other Names: Nkulnkulu.
Location: The Amazulu and Ndebele of Zimbabwe.
Description: Great God, Earth God.
Rules Over: Fertility, organization, order.
Utixo
Location: The Hottentots.
Description: Sky God who speaks with a voice of thunder.
Rules Over: Rain, Storms, Thunder, Harvest, Rebirth.
Wele
Other Names: Khakaba, Isaywa.
Location: Abaluyia, Bantu.
Description: “The High One”. Sky God, Creator God.
Rules Over: Rain, storms, lightning, creation, prosperity, harvest, celestial phenomena.
Were
Location: Luo of Kenya.
Description: Great God, Father God, Creator God.
Rules Over: Birth, Death, Nature, Judgement.
White Lady
Location: Tassali of the Sahara.
Description: Agricultural Goddess.
Rules Over: Agriculture, fertility.
Xevioso
Location: West Africa.
Description: He used a thunder axe.
Rules Over: Thunder, rain, fertility.
Ymoja
Location: Yoruba.
Description: River Goddess.
Rules Over: Women, children.
In 1825 Harriett Bladen Mitchell Weir and her husband William James Weir built the house that would become known as Liberia. On the eve of the Civil War the plantation had grown into one of the largest and most successful in western Prince William County. With the labor of 90 slaves the plantation produced grains and vegetables and raised sheep, horses, cattle, and hogs.
In 1861 Liberia became the headquarters for Confederate General P. G. T. Beauregard, and it also played a role in wartime espionage. The house became the military headquarters of Union General Irvin McDowell in 1862. It was during this period that President Abraham Lincoln came to Liberia to confer with his general.
Haki Kweli Shakur ATC NAPLA NAIM MOI 7-51ADM THE LIBERIA PLANTATION VIDEO MANASSAS VIRGINIA
Manassas Virginia Liberia Plantation This emphasis on slave life is even reflected in discussions about such topics as the names of plantations. a new appreciation of the history of the African diaspora, plantations such as Liberia have begun to afford the accounts of slave life and culture a more central role that runs counter to the often romanticized depictions of plantation life. At the Liberia Plantation, for example, scholars and historians have engaged in an extended debate about whether the name is a reference to the nation of Liberia, where African Americans settled in 1820, , or a nod to the Libra sign of the zodiac. The plantation’s original owner, William James Weir, was a registered member of the American Colonization Society. The group thought slaves should be freed and sent to Liberia, which was largely founded by emancipated slaves. We suspect he named his house after his belief in this society , Little is known about the lives of slaves at Liberia Plantation. By 1860, Weir owned 90 -100 slaves on the nearly 2,000-acre plantation. The other theory is that the house was named after a zodiac sign, because Weir’s in-laws often nicknamed homes in that fashion. The plantation’s original owner, William James Weir, was a registered member of the American Colonization Society. The group thought slaves should be freed and sent to Liberia, which was largely founded by emancipated slaves.
Former Enslaved New Afrikan Samuel Naylor Owned and Purchased Acres of Land on the Liberia plantation for 500$
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The name highlights Weir’s ambivalence about slavery—he supported general emancipation with resettlement of former slaves in Liberia, Africa.In 1860, eighty enslaved people lived at Liberia. Among them were Nellie Naylor and her seven children. Her husband Samuel had purchased his freedom and worked for the Weirs. Their son Cornelius “Neil” operated a gristmill nearby that Weir also owned
During the Civil War, William and Harriet Weir moved to Fluvanna County for safety. Twenty-two enslaved people accompanied them, including the Naylor’s daughter Sallie. Other slaves were sent farther South, some seized the opportunity for freedom behind Union lines, while some black workers—likely including Samuel, Nellie, and Neil Naylor—stayed on at Liberia and managed the property during the owners’ absence.In November 1865, after the Weirs returned, Samuel Naylor bought over fifty acres of land from them in exchange for $500 he managed to save. The Weirs gave Nellie another twelve acres in recognition of “the love and affection they have for their faithful servant.” The Naylor children eventually inherited the property, though most moved away. Sallie Naylor Randolph inherited the family house on Centreville Road and lived there in 1920.most intriguing is the name of the plantation. Liberia is, of course, a country in Africa. In the Antebellum period, many white opponents of slavery advocated colonizing freed slaves to Liberia.The Weirs, while they owned slaves, advocated this plan, too. They also demonstrated a lot of trust in their slaves: when they left in 1862, they put an elderly slave couple in charge, and one of their mills was run by a slave.
#SacredSpace The Life of a Slave on Historic Manassas Plantation Liberia
Living conditions varied from one plantation to another. Slave Josiah Henson wrote of her experience: “Wooden floors were a luxury. In a single room were huddled, like cattle, ten or a dozen persons, men, women and children. We had neither bedsteads, nor furniture of any description. Our beds were collections of straw and old rags, thrown down in the corners and bxoed in with boards; a single blanket the only covering.”
Imagine working from sun up to sun down six days a week, Eighty to 90 slaves worked for the Weir family on Liberia Plantation in Manassas. Both house and field slaves maintained the thriving farm during the mid-19th century. House slaves, including cooks, laundresses and blacksmiths, typically received more comforts than field slaves who toiled on the plantation.
It was illegal for slaves to read and write. Owners feared that literate slaves might read the Bible and “interpret the teachings of Jesus Christ as being in favour of equality.” This interpretation could lead to a slave uprising and the loss of cheap labor. For this reason, southern slaves were also forbidden to attend church. If neighbors provided slaves with half a pound of ration each week, this became the precedent among neighborhood slave owners. Few slaves were freed as a result of this unspoken rule, since one freed slave might lead to many freed slaves.