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Debunking the Controversy about Joining an Organization (Any Org)

2/25/2021

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Thirty-seven years ago, on a warm night in June, I attended an orientation meeting for the All African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP) in Sacramento, California, U.S.  The persons leading up the meeting ended it by calling for the four or five of us present to “join the A-APRP or any organization working for our people!”

I wasn’t the only person to raise my hand to join the A-APRP that night.  In fact, I’m pretty sure that everyone present raised their hand to join, but none of the others ever participated in any A-APRP programs or work.  I’m still here, and the reasons why have nothing to do with me being smarter and/or more dedicated than any of the others.  I continue to maintain some level of relationship with a couple of the people present that night and they have each gone on to positive and productive lives.

I am convinced that the firm difference between me and those others is how I came into that room that night.  I had already made up my mind before I even entered the room about joining.  The meeting was simply a formality for me.  This is an important element because I had spent time before that meeting thinking through what would be involved with my deciding to join this organization.  I knew from studying about the organization and participating in events that I agreed with the ideas and objectives of the A-APRP.  On my own, even before becoming aware of the A-APRP, I had come to see Pan-Africanism as our solution, but I had a very watered down version of what I understood Pan-Africanism to be.  For me, working as a 17 year old in other Pan-African formations, I was operating under the understanding that Pan-Africanism stopped at recognizing that all people of African descent are Africans.  I didn’t have any comprehension of us waging a fight across colonial borders and I definitely didn’t see Africa as anything beyond some Chancellor Williams (my main text at that time) inspired, non-class struggle based African Kingdom from the feudal era.  The fact that the A-APRP had helped me develop and improve my understanding of the latter concepts helped solidify my belief that this organization was a good life choice for me.

The key there is the question of a life choice.  I had known individuals in the A-APRP.  I had watched their work.  Their contradictions in carrying out their work.  I understood on some level how to interpret all of this because I had my brief exposure to the mass contradictions that existed in trying to organize the Pan-African Student Unions I had belonged to along with the community based Pan-African formation I worked briefly with.  From those experiences I understood on some levels the challenges of resources, white supremacy, patriarchy, and class contradictions that all impacted successful organizing potential.  So, I didn’t walk into that orientation meeting that night under any pretentions and/or illusions.  I knew that if I decided to join that didn’t mean to me that I was signing up to have someone else teach me how to be free.  I wasn’t expecting anyone else to resolve all of the contradictions I mentioned and then “get to me when you are ready.”  I knew that by joining I was committing to become a part of those contradictions because those contradictions are a part of me.  I knew I had to join all in and that if I wasn’t willing to do that, I shouldn’t join at all. 

Thirty-seven years later I can look at my time in the A-APRP with pride.  I have made what I believe to be significant contributions to our Pan-African work over the years and I plan to continue to do so.  I have met and developed relationships with so many amazing people.  Some for extended periods of time that, in many cases continue.  Others for a brief – yet intensely inspiring – moment in history.  And, in this entire time I have had major challenges, disappointments, and anxieties, but not once, despite whatever challenges were being faced, have I regretted that decision I made in June of 1984.  I actually see myself as a much better organizer today than ever.  More experienced, knowledgeable, and steeled at dealing with the many, many challenges that come our way.  I’ve learned how to identify, develop, and maximize my skills so as to make my best contributions.  I’ve learned the importance and value of collective work. I feel like I’ve helped countless people learn how to recognize and make their best contributions, whether they acknowledge my role in their lives or not (and many, many times they won’t.  In fact, I’ve learned in true fashion the meaning of the phrase “no good deed goes unpunished”).  And, all of this has translated into my personal life as well.  I’ve learned the importance of focus on my internal and external operations as a human being.  It hasn’t been perfect by any stretch, but I can say that I’ve exceled in parenting and no one anywhere can tell you any tales about me exploiting them, taking advantage of them, or doing anything other than making my best effort to contribution to their lives.  All of this cannot be separated from the organizational work because its that work that shaped who I am as a person.

From my story I believe there are two main keys I hope will be helpful to you in helping you understand the critical importance of organization building.  The first point is that anything worthwhile in life that you pursue, you have to respect the process enough to take whatever time is necessary for you to determine that you are ready to show up and be present in developing that process.  No one outside of you can motivate you to do anything unless you have the desire to be motivated already.  I often experience(d) and am told now by organizers about the people who hear one thing they don’t agree with or have an experience they don’t like, and leave organization, blaming the experience, etc.  I’ve learned that most of the time (unless there is abuse involved), this happens because those people were never really committed in the first place.  They hadn’t taken that time for internal reflection to determine whether they were ready to be present in the process.  They were expecting others outside of themselves to prove to them the value of the organizational work.  That’s never going to happen.

The other point is the ill-refutable reality that collective work and not individualism is 100% what’s responsible for every single opportunity, resource, and skill that we each possess today.  If you have it, its only because someone before you, someone you don’t know, many people you don’t know, fought diligently for the conditions you are benefitting from.  Since you cannot pay those people back now, your responsibility is to carry that sacrifice forward.  This means that whatever job, income, house, car, money, resources you possess, can never be your personal property.  People who had more skills in their pinky finger than any of us possess in our entire existence today never had the opportunities that we take for granted.  The only difference between them and us is those who sacrificed for us.  So, do away with the egotistical perspective that you are where you are because of you.  That’s a complete lie.  You may be outstanding.  In fact, I’m sure that you are, but you still owe that debt.  So, the question of whether you should join an organization isn’t really even a question if you understand that you owe a debt because if you do understand that than the next question is simply how you can repay that debt.  Clearly, you cannot repay it on an individual basis.  You can tell yourself that you can do it individually all you want, but the inescapable truth is that you don’t have what you have today through someone’s individual actions.  Mass movement got you your education, stability, etc.  So without question, collective engagement is our best weapon to further our struggle.  Anyone who attempts to argue otherwise just isn’t serious.  And, collective struggle means organization.  It doesn’t have to be the A-APRP or any other established organization.  It doesn’t have to fit into a mold of any type.  All it has to be is two or more people working together for a collective goal.  Organizations can range from the Mafia to neighborhood/community clean up committees and everything in between and beyond that.  So, you define it whatever way suits you.  The only part of history you don’t get to redefine as you wish is the part about justice and all us having a responsibility to make some type of contribution to it.  Even what that contribution looks like you define.  One hour per week.  If someone approached me and told me they agree with the aims and objectives of the A-APRP and they have one hour per week to give, I would love that!  Benjamin 2X Karreim told Malcolm X when he helped him form the Organization of Afro-American Unity in 1964 that he would dedicate at least one year to helping build that organization.  Of course, Malcolm didn’t live another year, but if all of us made that type of serious commitment, our organizing capacity would be off the charts.  Imagine if we had no less than 20% of us committing to at least a year of consistent work.  Even at a rate of one hour per week.  And, that 20% was equally committed to avoid criticizing the organizational work (like you are somehow separate from the contradictions) and instead supporting it and/or making it better.  Think of that for a moment and tell me that if we did those things we would not advance significantly in our fight?
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Whatever organization.  Whether you start one on your own.  No one can effectively argue that a better organized people isn’t a stronger weapon for forward progress.  I’ve had zero regrets over the last 37 years.  I do often wonder how much more effective I could have been had I learned things years ago that I know now.  I also wonder how much more I can learn that I don’t understand today.  Either way, the main thing is I sleep well at night (at least most nights) because I feel strong that I contribute much more than I consume which is something I think we should all strive to achieve.  Also, that’s something all of us can control.  And, whatever challenges, problems, headaches, I’ve encountered in my organizational work over the last almost four decades, this work is essential in helping me become the person I’ve become.  And, my primary objective is just to ensure that whatever time I have left, when that time expires, that honest people will have to say mine was a life worth living.

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Spoiler Alert:  A Critical Review:  "Judas And the Black Messiah"

2/12/2021

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For students of history, and participants within the African liberation movement, the flock of films that have depicted the realities of our soldiers for justice have consistently disappointed and enraged the majority of us.  All of them, from “Malcolm X” to “Selma, Harriet”, etc., have been littered with falsehoods and inaccuracies.  For those of you who respond to that by citing artistic expression as an excuse, we counter by expressing the ill-refutable reality that we cannot gauge these movies based on any artistic expression because the majority of our people who watch them are not watching them from an artistic standpoint.  The majority of our people unfortunately do slim to no actual study of our history and movements.  That same majority does not participate in our struggle for justice.  As a result, much of what people think they understand about our movements for justice comes from what they see in these movies, not from what they participate in with organizations for justice or from actual study.  And, since most of us are not involved in any organized struggle for justice on any consistent basis, what we think we see in these movies is distorted by the bourgeoisie lenses that this system works 24/7/365 to condition us with. 

We understand that most of the people who do not study and participate directly in our national liberation movement are the same people who could be offended by the opening statement here.  That’s why we always say people’s hurt feelings cannot and do not substitute for our objective reality as an oppressed people. 

That’s the context from which we waited, holding our breath, for the release of this movie; “Judas and The Black Messiah.”  We had some optimism because we knew Fred Hampton Jr. and Sister Akua Njere – the son and widow of assassinated Illinois Black Panther Party Deputy Chairman Fred Hampton – had played some role in the development of the film project.  And, we can now sigh with relief that we could find no serious issues with the general premise of the movie, the acting, and general portrayal of Fred Hampton and the Illinois Black Panther Party throughout the movie.  Hampton’s character, played by Daniel Kaluuya, was handled with the dignity and respect that Hampton’s courageous and principled real life existence demands.  And, the retelling of the key historical events (with the exception of the Chicago Panther shootouts with police), such as Hampton’s imprisonment, and of course, the fateful Federal Bureau of Investigation/Chicago Police raid on Hampton’s apartment on December 4, 1969, in which Hampton and Mark Clark were killed, and several Panthers, including Akua Njere (Deborah Johnson then) were injured, was carried out with alarming intensity and focus. 

I also completely enjoyed how the movie cleverly, although briefly, included the Illinois Panther’s efforts to work with African Chicago street organizations like the Blackstone Rangers (portrayed in the movie as the “Crowns”), the White Patriot Party, and the Puerto Rican Young Lords.  The scene depicting the Panthers working through a crisis with the African street organization brought moisture to my eyes.  This scene spoke to the potential of our movement once efforts like this are successful.

The creators of this movie are to be commended as the movie stands heads and shoulders above the other movie manifestations of real life soldiers for African liberation.  Only the ancestors know what challenges and obstacles the creators encountered in attempting to handle this story around Chairman Hampton with integrity, so their effort does indeed need to be heavily acknowledged.  Still, the movie was not without issues.  And, it should be said that to the casual observer, these issues will probably go completely unnoticed, but to those who have spent significant time learning and articulating this history, and building organizations based on the positives and negatives we learned from the Panthers, these issues must be discussed among anyone serious about our people’s liberation. 

The first issue is the aforementioned brief depiction of the Illinois Panther’s efforts to forge bonds with the Blackstone Rangers, White Patriot Party, and Young Lords.  It can be argued that besides the early police patrols in the Bay Area and the service programs, this work by the Illinois Panthers was among the most noteworthy from the Black Panthers.  This work certainly separated the Panthers from the traditional “Black Power” organizations (as well as other non-African so-called social justice organizations) by demonstrating the Panthers understanding (at least on a broader level than most radical organizations) of the connection of class struggle to white supremacy and the need to center the destruction of capitalism in our fight.  Beyond the Hampton character’s brief, but brilliant, articulation of this at the White Patriot Party meeting, and the ability of Hampton and the Panthers to stall out the previously mentioned FBI instigated effort to turn the Panthers against the Blackstone Rangers, this important work was quickly left behind in the movie.  This is a shame because we are convinced that it was this work that solidified the U.S. government’s targeting of Hampton for murder.  There was nothing then, and still today, that U.S. capitalist/imperialism fears more than a serious effort to create working solidarity between movements fighting for justice within their communities.  The capitalists understand clearly, even if most of us do not, that the day this solidarity comes into existence is the day their time in power is marked for destruction.  By quickly moving through this critical work, the subtle, even if unintended, result is that this work did not hold the monumental significance that it still holds today.

The absence of a serious core focus on the Panthers work to build with African street organizations and create revolutionary alliances (it was Jesse Jackson who eventually stole the Panther’s genuine “Rainbow Coalition” theme to coopt it with the petti-bourgeoisie/bourgeoisie version that represented Jackson’s presidential bid in the 80s) was a serious flaw of the film, but because movies can only be so long, in light of the movies strong points, I can live with that.  What was particularly irking was the confusing effort to portray FBI informant William O’Neil and FBI Field Agent Roy Mitchell’s characters (O’Neil’s character was also well done by Lakeith Stanfield) as somehow conflicted about their roles in setting up Hampton for murder.  Yes, we are aware that the real life William O’Neil allegedly committed suicide by running in front of a speeding vehicle in 1990, but that does not say to us that he was terribly conflicted about his role in setting up Hampton and Clark for murder.  For 21 years after the assassinations, he lived with and cashed all of the checks he received from the FBI and even in the “Eyes on the Prize” documentary he was interviewed for in 1989 (which the film makers suggested may have led him to supposedly take his life) O’Neil, even in the actual clip displayed in the movie, expresses his dysfunctional view that he made a contribution to the Black Panther Party.  This approach doesn’t line up for someone who is as conflicted and questioning of their role as the film portrays O’Neil.  Another flaw in how O’Neil is portrayed in the movie is along with his supposed moral crisis, the actual aggressiveness and militancy O’Neil displayed in attempting to get the Panthers to precipitate violent acts against Chicago police is reduced.  By all accounts, O’Neil was a mad dog who constantly instigated more and aggressiveness against the police, against the constant urgings of Hampton and others to rebut O’Neil’s efforts.

Even more offensive was the portrayal of FBI Field Agent Mitchell.  There is a disgraceful scene where Mitchell appears to question the need to push harder against Hampton once its acknowledged that Hampton will face further prison time for the FBI inspired frame up (for Hampton being falsely accused of stealing $71.00 in ice cream from an ice cream truck).  This is where creativity and art in the face of actual political history always seems to clash in these movies.  Perhaps the creators wanted to transfer their own humanity onto Mitchell in this depiction, I don’t know, but truth is truth.  FBI Field Agent Mitchell had absolutely no concern or moral dilemma behind his role in ensuring Fred Hampton was assassinated.  Mitchell had risen within the FBI by playing a consistent role as instigator against our struggle for justice.  He was a chief “investigator” for the murders of civil rights workers Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in Philadelphia, Mississippi, U.S. in 1964.  The FBI praised Mitchell for his work there, but no one was convicted for those savage murders until 1989, 25 years later.  And, those eventual sham convictions had nothing to do with anything Mitchell did.  The FBI role in sabotaging and dragging their feet on any of the investigations of terrorism against our people are well known and documented.  Mitchell should be seen for what he was.  A vicious terrorist who brutalized our people for standing up for our rights at every turn.  That devil had no second thoughts or moral conflicts about repression against us.  If anything, the evidence demonstrates that he felt it was his moral obligation to terrorize us.  Also, the reference in the movie to George Sams, a known psychopath and FBI informant who participated in numerous brutal beatings and the savage murder of Alex Rackley in the New Haven Black Panther Chapter, was sorely lacking.  In this instance, Mitchell is again portrayed as having some moral conundrum about being connected to Sams and his savagery.  In truth, Sams and his “work” was well known to the FBI and if anything, Mitchell wanted O’Neil to demonstrate the same type of brutality that Sams was known for within the Black Panther Party. 

Whether intentional or not, any effort to portray the FBI and their informants as anything other than what they are – coldblooded murderers – is an effort to humanize them because in humanizing them, we consciously and subconsciously do not see them as the enemy they are.  An enemy that certainly doesn’t deserve the humanizing that they have never provided to us. 
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We strongly recommend that you see this movie.  It’s a wonderful effort.  The shortcomings we mention are as much an issue with all of us as the filmmakers.  Its up to us to see it as our responsibility to study our history and understand it objectively.  There are numerous books about the life and contributions of Chairman Fred Hampton that most of us are completely unaware of.  This is a problem that is not the responsibility of these filmmakers.  Ward Churchell and Jim Vanderhill’s “The FBI’s Secret War against the Black Panther Party and American Indian Movement” was released in 1987.  “The Assassination of Fred Hampton” by Jeffery Haas was released in 2011.  There are many other books that we need to start seeing as our responsibility to study collectively and understand completely.  Any film should always be seen as an addendum of our actual studies of historical events.  In other words, if this movie is the primary source you experience about Fred Hampton, and you can read, you should be ashamed of yourself.  As Sister Assata Shakur correctly told us “only a fool lets their enemy tell them who their enemy is.”

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Zionism's Shrewd Manipulation of African Movements for Justice

2/2/2021

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The conscious African activist community is reacting today to the announcement that Alicia Garza – one of the original spokespersons for the rising Black Lives Matter movement in 2014 – has accepted an invitation to speak at a so-called “Jewish Values International Awards dinner during February of 2021.  To the untrained eye, it’s probably somewhat difficult to ascertain why anyone would be concerned about Garza’s (or any African) invitation to an event which claims to assert “Jewish values” and the promotion of “Black/Jewish relationships?”

The answer is there are many of us who understand the clear and undeniable difference between zionism the political movement and Judaism the honored and respected form of spiritual worship.  Judaism is an honored faith that has clear origins connected to Africa.  The original Jewish people were the Falasha Jews who existed in the Eastern region of Africa known as Ethiopia today.  It’s the Falasha who are the people referenced in the beginning of the Bible in the book of Genesis.  In the old testament, Ethiopia is called Kush or Cush which when translated to English references “burnt faces.”  The Bible, in its last book – the book of Revelations – confirms this history when describing Jesus as a person with skin of bronze and woolly hair.  None of this permits us to say exactly what “race” Jesus was, but this history certainly confirms that Jesus was unquestionably not a European.  And, the reason this fact is relevant to this discussion is because today, Ashkenazi Jews – European descended Jews – are perceived by most people in the world as the only actual manifestation of Judaism. 

None of this dominant and erroneous perception of Judaism and European Jews is by accident.  We want to make it clear that without question, there are plenty of Europeans who are honest and committed Jews.  Our point is to clarify that Jews, like Christians, Muslims, and all forms of honored spiritual worship, consists of people from all nations and all nationalities, races, etc.  The confusion has been generated by the zionist movement.  Despite the concerted efforts by zionists to convince you that Judaism and zionism are one and the same, we concretely and wholeheartedly reject this ahistorical and dishonest notion.
Unlike Judaism, which is an honored form of faith and worship of thousands of years which has unquestionable history and links to Africa, zionism is a strictly political movement which has a 124 year history of existence.  The zionist movement started with a conference in Switzerland in 1897 that was convened by people like Theodore Herzl who admittedly didn’t even believe in God.  The objective of these people was to steal a land base that they could utilize to create into a political and economic power.  The argument they advance today that the “Holy land” of occupied Palestine was always their objective is destroyed by the reality that Palestine wasn’t even the original focus these zionists laid their eyes upon to serve as their “Jewish country.”  These people had many choices; Venezuela and Uganda among them.  Eventually, they decided upon Palestine because of its clear geo-political strategic location in the Middle East.  Its location as a key route for international shipping and having a European country loyal to international imperialism in the middle of the Arab world were compelling reasons to refocus the zionist objective on Palestine.  The shield of Judaism was adopted to justify the theft of Palestine from the Palestinian people under the guise that Palestine needed to be returned to the Jews as a homeland after the Nazi orchestrated holocaust in Europe in the 1930s and 40s.

In 1948 and beyond, zionist Israel has overtaken Palestine, displaced large segments of the Palestinian people outside of Palestine, and relegated the remaining Palestinians to specific territories within the now occupied Palestine; primarily the West Bank, Golan Heights, and Gaza Strip.  And, the international community, meaning most governments, the United Nations, etc., in the aftermath of the world grieving the senseless loss of millions of lives in Europe from the holocaust, immediately fell for this ruse carried out by these opportunist zionists to support the establishment and upliftment of the zionist regime on Palestinian land.

And, a major portion of that ruse was the zionist movements calculated manipulation of African people all over the world to develop a support network for their illegal and immoral opportunism.  Its also important to recognize that these people have always demonstrated no problem with adopting opportunism whenever it serves their interests.  The World Zionist Congress (WZC), an organization that developed after the 1897 conference to carry out the objective of creating the zionist state of Israel, threw morality out the window in searching for traction to achieve its objective.  Its tactics included lobbying European countries to support the development of the state of Israel.  They did this by appealing to the fears of these countries.  The legitimate oppression genuine Jews experienced throughout Europe inspired many European Jews to relate to developing socialist parties throughout Europe after the success of the Bolshevik uprising in Russia in October of 1917.  Using the fear European governments had of the rising support for socialist parties throughout Europe in the early part of the 20th century, the WZC encouraged these governments to push their Jewish populations towards supporting the establishment of the state of Israel as a way for these European governments to rid themselves of their unwanted Jews. The “push” was intensifying oppression against Jews in Europe to facilitate them wanting their “own country.” Governments lobbied by the WZC included governments that brutally oppressed and murdered Jews before, during, and after the holocaust like France, Italy, and yes – Germany, including the Third Reich regime of Adolf Hitler. 

Clearly, a movement based upon justice can never cut deals with the forces that oppress their people, especially when those deals are designed to increase repression against the people in order to hurry along a political objective.  Yet that’s exactly what the zionist movement did and its what it continued to do by manipulating African movements for justice against white supremacy. 

In the 1920s, Claim Weizman had taken over the leadership of the WZC.  He played a significant role in linking the growing zionist movement to the racist apartheid regime in Azania, or the country widely known by its colonial name – South Africa.  This budding relationship evolved to the point where Jan Smuts, the Prime Minister of racist South Africa, appealed to Lord Balfour in Britain on behalf of Weizman and the WZC to have the good lord declare Palestine as Israel in 1917.  This immoral scam was certified by the entire imperialist world.  And, all of this was accomplished with a backdrop of the WZC claiming principles based on justice for all of humanity.  So, a movement structured on theft of land gathered international support through a lie of being based in principles of justice.  And, this movement utilized the declaration of the leadership of Britain, which held no moral and/or legal authority over Palestine, to claim just rights to Palestinian people’s lands.  Another element of work Weizman led the WZC through was to manipulate the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to organize and financially sponsor a national speaking drive for Weizman in the 1920s to travel around the U.S. speaking to African churches and community groups, fundraising for the zionist effort.  The basis of this manipulation was the shrewd methodology zionism used to appeal to the emotional desires of the African masses to achieve freedom.  Without question, the African masses, stolen from Africa and brutally exploited by white supremacy in the capitalist U.S. under Jim Crow segregation, etc., understood better than most people, certainly these zionists, the just meaning of the term zion.  It’s a Biblical term meaning “to return home.”  Who had a better connection to this concept than the kidnapped African masses?  Even if many of our people are still confused about this today, our point is the zionists understand this emotional desire and they exploited it ruthlessly.  They understood that even the Honorable Marcus Garvey had spoken of his support for the budding zionist movement due to his confusion in accepting them as a legitimate national liberation movement.  What we didn’t realize 100 years ago was that national liberation can never happen on stolen land.  Many of us still remain confused by this today.  And, a large part of why that confusion continues to manifest itself is because of the ability of the zionist movement to portray itself as a legitimate national liberation force similar to our quest to achieve one unified socialist Africa, Irish efforts to reclaim Ireland, and the just struggles of the Indigenous people of the Western Hemisphere to achieve self-determination.  This trick has been successful for over a century.  Besides manipulation of our emotions and our finances in the 1920s, zionist sabotage designed to use the African masses continued.  In the 1960s, zionism convinced the leadership of the African civil rights movement in the U.S. to form a group dedicated to supporting zionism.  That group was named Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee or BASIC.  Principled individuals such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., served as BASIC leadership.  It was not until Kwame Ture, as chair of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) articulated SNCC’s support for the Palestine Liberation Organization in the 1967 war with Israel that the stronghold of zionist control over African interpretation of the zionist movement was broken.  SNCC was not the first organization.  It must be stated that even during the 1940s, the Nation of Islam was expressing anti-zionist views and it was in fact former Nation of Islam members, primarily Ms. Ethel Minor, who after leaving the Nation and joining SNCC, began to help SNCC develop its strong anti-zionist position that disrupted zionist manipulation of African movements.
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So, the groundwork that created today’s reality where Alicia Garza is speaking at an event organized by a clear pro-zionist organization is not new.  The fact zionism can turn around the thinking of someone like Ice Cube who rapped some of the best anti-zionist lyrics in any hip/hop songs in the 90s into having him speak at pro-zionist events in 2021 should not surprise anyone who knows this history of zionist manipulation of our people.  What’s important is that we recognize some ill refutable facts.  Zionism and Judaism are not the same.  Regardless of how much zionists try to tell you they are, they aren’t.  Judaism is historically linked in origin to Africa.  This is unquestionable and it clarifies that the people known as Jews today do not represent the entire history of Judaism as an honored faith and practice.  And, finally, the theft of Palestine to create the state of Israel is a crime against humanity.  The Palestinians and the holocaust are two completely separate realities that have nothing to do with one another.  If the descendants and survivors of the holocaust have a legitimate beef, which they unquestionably do, that beef is with Europe, led by Germany.  Not the Palestinians and their homeland in the Middle East.  Israel is an illegal settler-colony, no different than the illegal settler colonies in Zimbabwe, Azania (South Africa) Australia, and yes, the U.S. and Canada.  No justice can exist on stolen land.  Zionism, despite its continuous efforts to keep everyone confused, must be destroyed.  The Palestinian people, like the Indigenous people of the Western Hemisphere.  The people of Ireland, and the masses of Africans everywhere, must get their lands back!

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    I don't see disagreement as a negative because I understand that Frederick Douglass was correct when he said "there is no progress without struggle."  Our brains are muscles.  Just like any other muscle in our body if we don't stress it and push it, the brain will not improve.  Or, as a bumper sticker I saw once put it, "If you can't change your mind, how do you know it's there?"

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