No matter the negrocities or contradictions, Islam gave North American Africans the possibilities of detoxing and recovering from our addiction to white supremacy. It was our original Black Studies not authorized by the white man's institutes of mis-education called universities. It gave us a necessary antidote to the toxin of white supremacy mythology. Elijah Muhmammad tricked the trick out of the tricked so-called Negro. The white supremacy institutions provided colonial elite intellectuals stuck in the muck and mire of white mythology or black mythology approved by the white masters. Rather than focusing on the black national needs of our community, there was a shift to pan-Africanism, as if the socalled Negro can solve Africa's problems when social/economic conditions are clear evidence he can't solve his own problems.
The recent snubbing of the African Union by NATO when the AU tried to mediate the crisis in Libya is clear evidence there is much work Africa must do for itself, and the socalled Negro has no role in the matter. Alas, where is the North American African revolution at this moment? As Sam Anderson noted some time ago, this is the first revolution in history led by senior citizens. For example, the events in Oakland this past weekend that celebrated Black Muslims in the Bay Area and the Celebration for Geronimo by Black Panthers were attended by mostly adults, not youth, the classical vanguard of revolution. Absent radical change that brings youth into the revolution, we shall see the elders making revolution in walkers and wheel chairs, meanwhile youth will be somewhere discussing hip hop, 5 percent issues and Moorish Science issues that are more or less esoteric and irrelevant.
--Marvin X,
Academy of da Corner
14th and Broadway
Oakland
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ReplyDeleteThanks Marvin for your observations. I hope our youth will wake up and create revolution in a new way that will shock the world as the uprising in North Africa and the Arab world has. It would be a shame that folks will have to make revolution from their walkers and wheel chairs as the youth wade in esoteric ideas and irrelevant anti-revolutionary rhetoric. But all is not lost; at least there are celebrations like the Black Muslims in the Bay Area event and the celebration of the life and struggle of Geronimo Ji Jaga by the Black Panther Party). In regards to the shift to Pan Africanism by Black Studies departments and programs you must remember that the Black Arts Movement was also in full swing around the same time, so actually the shift gave us the needed international focus we needed so we could understand not only our national situation, but also the international links of our struggle (our BPP friends and others via inter-communalism know about this reasoning). Alas, the ‘North American African’ revolution is a bit sleep now, but when we realize the little progress we have actually made, we will begin to question ourselves and the system, and then anger will set in to signal the time for the elders and the wise to help guide the revolution.
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