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They Vomit on Juneteenth, then Want Respect for July 4th

6/25/2026

“Juneteenth is a made up holiday!” Or, “there’s only one independence day in the U.S.” This idiocy goes on and on, but one thing is clear. In the U.S., disrespect for the African masses is as fundamental as the sun rising each day. Meanwhile, this backward capitalist system fully expects us to respond to it by showing unquestionable allegiance to the U.S. empire.

Confusion is everywhere. First, there are the strange people of African descent within the U.S. who are chasing clout, a potential pay day, or just prestige, by insisting that we have no connection to Africa. These people have some responsibility in this problem because in their uncompromising desire to tether themselves to the U.S. capitalist system, they wittingly or unwittingly provide an assist to the empire in discrediting our culture and dignity.

The colonizer empire is strengthened by our weakened unity. It uses this to dismiss all of us (whether we realize it or not). They do this by proclaiming the demand to respect their institutions – the fourth of July – while dismissing and discrediting our institutions – Juneteenth.

Even when they acknowledge Juneteenth with some legitimacy, this is only done in a way that misrepresents what Juneteenth really is (and there are plenty of Africans, mislead by this dysfunctional desire to mesh with the slave master, who contribute to this confusion). They claim that the Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln and the European (white) soldiers who fought on the side of the Union (the U.S. government) are responsible for ending chattel slavery. Therefore, we should be thankful to them, thus reinforcing the white supremacist narrative that everything we have, we owe to the master. The truth is, as Lincoln himself acknowledged, there were over 300 slave revolts carried out by the African masses in the Western Hemisphere within a hundred-year period. As C.L.R. James indicates in his classic work “A History of Pan-African Revolt”, from uprisings led by identified leaders like Sam Sharpe from Jamaica, Dessalines from Haiti, Carlota Lucumi from Cuba, or Gabriel Prosser from the U.S., or collectively led revolts like the Maroon communities of the Caribbean and South America, all of this made the institution of chattel slavery untenable from a political, economic, and social perspective. Lincoln and all the colonial leaders knew this. Also, the emerging Northern capitalist class within the U.S., enriched by the chattel slave system, had the vision of increased capital which they knew would require the Southern U.S. to be industrialized. So, the end of chattel slavery had absolutely nothing to do with the altruistic contributions of anyone white.

What all of this should mean for us today is that Juneteenth should be viewed, not as just some U.S. institution defined by the limited borders imposed upon us by our colonial masters, but the U.S. manifestation of our worldwide struggle to be free and united. What July 4th should mean for us is a rudimentary understanding of basic math. The overwhelming majority of Africans in the U.S. in 1860 were enslaved property on July 4th, 1776. (and those who had somehow gotten away from chattel slavery were certainly not safe and/or free). The Emancipation of Proclamation, which ended chattel slavery wasn’t signed until January 1, 1863, eighty-seven years after the Declaration of Independence. So, only a complete fool, house slave, grifter, fascist, or some combination of all of the above, would realistically expect us as African people to do anything on July 4th except enjoy a much-earned day off from wage slavery while burning a U.S. flag and/or their toilet paper constitution, just to keep things true and fresh.

Anyone who claims we should commemorate both is grifting for payday and/or suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. You cannot serve freedom and the master at the same time and any embrace of any type of American identity within the U.S. is nothing more than an overt or subtle embrace of white supremacy.

Ideally, the best result for all of this is our complete rejection of July 4th. We should treat that day with the same level of disdain that these people demonstrate for Juneteenth. We should continue focusing on building up the institutionalization of Juneteenth as the U.S. manifestation of African Liberation Day, our international day of unity and forward progress centered around the upliftment and liberation of Africa. Or, as the person who was most identified with our understanding of the Black Power concept in the 1960s, Kwame Ture, would say – “Pan-Africanism is the highest expression of Black power!” Frederick Douglas was 100% correct when he said “power concedes nothing without a demand. Never has and never will!” If we want respect, we must demand it. The best way to do that is to uplift our institutions for self-determination and liberation and to stop supporting the institutions of this empire that openly mock us with their very existence.

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Exposing the Anti-Cuban Revolution Scum in Florida

5/29/2026

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We are so sick of these tired people. That feeling isn’t a new one. In 1964, after Ernesto “Che” Guevara gave his historic “Not One, but Two, Three Vietnams!” against U.S. imperialism at the United Nations, the traitor community who deserted the Cuban revolution waged anti-Cuban revolution protests that spilled into Harlem, New York. When this happened, Malcolm X famously stated that African people don’t need white Cubans, who fled the Cuban revolution because they didn’t want to give up the privileges they gained through oppressing the African masses in Cuba, telling us who are friends are. Malcolm said that we will decide for ourselves who our friends are.

Sixty-two years after Malcolm made those statements and 67 years after Cuban revolutionary forces marched into Havana, Cuba, and declared victory, this white Cuban scum is still a very irritating element amid continued U.S. attacks against the Cuban people. We couldn’t be more tired of these low life roaches.

They have spent the last 67 years whining that the Cuban revolution was a dictatorship and that most Cubans never supported the revolution, but absolutely nothing supports this claim other than the usual criminal suspects, the U.S. government, zionist israel, etc. There has consistently been overwhelming evidence that Cubans support the revolution. The data is suffocating. Approximately 70% of Cuba’s 11 million people were born after the January 1959 revolutionary victory. Consequently, these seven out of 10 people have never lived in a reality where they had to pay for healthcare and education. As a result, they have been crystal clear that they have no desire to eliminate the socialist initiative of free healthcare and education. These same Cubans have stated and demonstrated over and over, that they understand that the revolution has its shortcomings, but they still believe in it. This was evident the moment the U.S. government issued its fraudulent indictment against Cuban revolutionary icon Raul Castro. Hundreds of thousands of people flooded the Havana street where the U.S. Embassy office is located to voice their displeasure. The support of the Cuban masses for their revolution is not in question with anyone outside of the thugs in Florida and their financiers – the U.S., etc.

It’s important to identify in clear terms who these people in Florida are. Louise Bardach is a U.S. author who built a career researching and writing about the so-called Cuban exile community in Florida. Many of her works, especially the book “Without Fidel” confirm beyond question that she could never be confused for a supporter of the Cuban revolution. Yet, her 2004 work “Cuba Confidential – The Extraordinary Tragedy of Cuba; Its Revolution and Exiles” is a well-researched reference to understanding the insidiousness of the so-called Cuban community in Florida. In this book, Bardach exposes that 98% of the Cuban community in Florida is of European descent (white). She attributes racism as a key factor that motivated these people and/or their families to flee the Cuban revolution over the last six decades. She uses little known facts about the Elian Gonzales case of 2000 to illustrate this point. Although most people who know about that case realize that Elian was a child survivor of his mother and other people’s attempt to raft to Florida from Cuba, most people don’t know Elians aunt and her African boyfriend also survived the raft trip. Bardach documents in the book how the boyfriend experienced significant racism in Florida once arriving to this country. This being the typical experience of Africans in Cuba and Florida by the white population.

This is not to say racism is the sole reason for the consistent sabotage from the so-called exile community against the Cuban revolution. The primary reason for their counter-revolutionary focus is class based. Like all societies dominated by white supremacy as the chief appendage of the capitalist system, the white population relies heavily on its elevated position and status above the African masses. Revolutions threaten that hierarchy since the elevation is based on systemic discrimination, not qualification. Just to be able to accept and defend such an evil way of life, these types of people expose their inhumanity. That’s why studying them reveals the extent to which they would support destroying the Cuban revolution. Even if doing so, destroys every living person in Cuba.

Since this anti-human scum in Florida share a hatred of the Cuban revolution with U.S. imperialism, they have of course always had a staunch ally in the U.S. in bringing material support to their efforts to sabotage Cuba’s revolutionary development. As early as 1961, the U.S. backed a criminal effort to invade Cuba which included 1500 Green Berets assigned to support so-called Miami exiles. That effort was quickly repelled by Cuban forces, but the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was undeterred in allying with these criminal forces in Florida to derail Cuba.

In 1967, once they discovered that it was indeed Che Guevara who was leading guerilla forces in Bolivia who were attempting to wage revolutionary warfare against the corrupt regime there, the CIA dispatched Felix Rodriguez, a so-called exile from Florida to work with the CIA. The Boliva mission was not successful, not because of the efforts of the criminals from Florida and the CIA as much as internal struggles among the socialist elements in Bolivia and their unwillingness to support the guerilla effort led by Che who was not Bolivian. It was Rodriguez who oversaw the execution of Che Guevara on October 8, 1967.

Back in Florida, the so-called exile community has garnered more political lobbying strength in Washington than any other organized force except for the zionist pro-israeli lobby. The results of this anti-Cuban revolution lobbying were the creation of groups like the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF), which for decades provided above ground legitimacy to the criminal and terrorist CIA funded activities of people like Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carrilles. The CANF raised money coupled with CIA backing that led to the creation of anti-revolution propaganda forces like Radio Marti as well as the Carriles led shooting down of a Cuban airliner in 1977 that killed 73 people, including the entire Cuban National football (soccer) team. Organizations like Alpha 66 and Omega 7 served as the slimy underbelly to the CANF for years, carrying out countless terrorist attacks against the Cuban people and their revolution. All facilitated from Miami with the full blessing and support of the U.S. government.

There is even overwhelming evidence that the so-called “Brothers to the Rescue”, the organization that the U.S. claimed had a plane shot down over Cuban airspace in 1996 by the Cuban government, which was the criminal pretext used to indict Raul Castro, has been clearly identified as a CIA front group. In fact, Jose Basulto, the leader for the Brothers group, has openly bragged about being connected to the CIA. The CIA has also been proven to be a guiding force behind the previous so-called protest group in Cuba – the Ladies in White. This group was supposed to be a grassroots group formed to protest political prisoners in Cuba when they were primarily funded and made up of people from the Miami area.

To summarize all of this, the so-called white exile community in Florida is mad at the Cuban revolution because before it, they enjoyed the fruits of selling Cuba to tourism and the illegalities that come with it like Barbados, the Virgin Islands, etc. The revolution stopped all of that and for this, many of those people in Florida are still angry 60+ years later. There are some changes. With the latest round of attacks against the Cuban revolution by the U.S. government, some of the younger offspring of those who left Cuba for Florida are expressing, for the first time ever, reservations about the attacks against the Cuban people. The U.S. strategy is clear. Starve and freeze the people of Cuba against the revolution. Tighten the reins of the strict economic blockade against Cuba. Prevent the people from having access to anything they need to survive. No electricity. No heat. No food. Nothing. Still, the Cuban people are resolute in their steadfast commitment to the revolution. And, that last part is something most people in the U.S., especially the gusanos (worms) in Florida will mostly never accept and understand. The Cuban revolution has proven time and time again that it is based in principles of sacrifice and justice. With that foundation, you better believe them when they say they will defend themselves to the death against any attacks. Nothing against other countries who have been victimized by U.S. invasions, but Cuba is different. They have had 60 years to work to develop their revolution and the people there, despite the intense challenges, understand what all that means for them. They have no desire to work 80 hours a week for poverty wages. They don’t want accumulated student loan and medical debt that they will not live long enough to pay off. Within a revolution where living expenses can never be more than a set percentage of your income, they have no interest in a reality where living expenses could be more than what you earn (like the U.S.).

With their willingness to support the suffering of the Cuban people, and by willing to follow the lead of criminal thugs like Marco Rubio and Trump, the so-called exiles in Florida have demonstrated for the last 67 years that they only care about themselves and their ability to make money. They have made it plain that they will support racism and terror to protect their economic interests. Their continued efforts to label the Cuban revolution as a dictatorship and terrorist regime isn’t serious considering they have supported terrorist acts against the Cuban people consistently, including what’s currently happening. And, regarding democracy, all you have to do is walk through so-called Little Havana in Miami (as I have) wearing a pro Cuban revolution shirt, hat, etc., and you will find out quickly how little these people value democratic thought and practice.

There are some within that community in Florida who are questioning these attacks against the Cuban revolution on humanity grounds, but the overwhelming majority of those pigs down there have shown for quite some time their criminal element. At least it cannot be said that they didn’t make the right choice when they decided to come to the U.S. They had the correct criminal vision to swap out one small society built on the backs of slave labor for a much larger society built the same way. Of course, as is the case with all greedy people, no level of benefiting from oppression will ever be enough for these scum.

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The Criminal U.S. Indictment of Raul Castro; "A Dog is Always going to Bark!"

5/21/2026

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As a young boy growing up in an extremely aggressive inner-city environment, whenever I was bullied and taken advantage of, my grandmother would always say “you know where you are. A dog is always going to bark. That’s how you know it’s a dog!”
The United States (U.S.) government is always going to be the United States government. The problem is that government has very successfully convinced billions of humans that the U.S. government automatically equals freedom, democracy, and everyone who goes to the U.S. will have a Disneyland fantasy life provided you are obedient to the capitalist/imperialist agenda that the U.S. government has spent decades perfecting.

This narrative that the U.S. has spent so much time and money perpetuating couldn’t be farther from the truth. The invasion of European settlers escaping repression in Europe to form the original settler colonies within the U.S. known as the 13 colonies, was an experiment in barbarism and terrorism against the original inhabitants of this hemisphere. Along with that, the wealth that propelled the U.S. and Europe as world leaders resulted directly from the transatlantic slave trade which brutally exploited free African labor so that the sugar, cotton, textile, and coffee industries would provide the initial seed money to finance the so-called industrial revolution, or the beginning stages of capitalist development.

With that level of criminal history and a resume of violence and terror that has few historical peers, no one who knows who the U.S. is could be surprised by their latest announcement of the indictment against Cuban revolution legend Raul Castro. Now 95 years old, Castro represents one of the few living participants in the armed struggle phase of the Cuban revolution which marched to victory in Havana, Cuba, on January 1, 1959. Raul Castro is of course the younger brother of Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, but Raul is much more than Fidel’s relative. For decades he has been an instrumental figure in Cuba’s military apparatuses which every enemy force in the world, from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency to Britain’s M16, to zionist Israel’s Mossad, has named one of the best organized and trained militaries in the world. Raul Castro was a central figure in helping defeat U.S. green berets who led a contingent of 1500 berets and Cuban reactionaries in the invasion of Playa del Giron (Bay of Pigs) in 1961. The next year, Raul Castro, along with Fidel Castro and Ernesto “Che” Guevara, were the central brain trust in the “missiles in October” drama. The Soviet Union negotiated with Cuban leadership to place a number of nuclear missiles in Cuba, pointed towards the U.S. Despite the propaganda we learned in school growing up in the U.S., that American exceptionalism and having “God on our side” forced the Cubans to remove those missiles, the truth is that the U.S. had long had nuclear missiles stationed in Turkey, pointed at the Soviet Union. The removal of the Cuban missiles was negotiated in exchange for the missiles in Turkey being removed.

Raul Castro has been a major decision maker in every standoff with the U.S. From the ones previously mentioned up through the Marial Boat lift in 1980 where Cuba sent its most dangerous convicted persons to the U.S. (after U.S. President Jimmy Carter claimed that these persons, all very dangerous criminals, were political prisoners of the Cuban “dictatorship”). Raul, Fidel, etc., outthinking the U.S. in this instance was so dramatic that a popular culture movie resulted from this U.S. failure – “Scarface” starring Al Pacino.

There are many other examples, but the point is the U.S. has never forgiven Raul Castro for his role in these occurrences, as well as his role in helping facilitate Cuba’s major contribution towards preventing racist apartheid in Azania (South Africa) from spreading throughout Southern Africa by sending 500,000 troops to the region to help combat racist forces in the late 80s and early 90s. And for African people within the U.S., just like Assata Shakur being freed from U.S. prison, living in Cuba for four decades, Raul Castro, living today, represents another defeat for U.S. imperialism against the socialist revolution of the people of Cuba. It’s no accident that Raul Castro played a significant role in canceling out thoughts by Barack Obama in 2014 that he could use ending the crippling U.S. economic blockade against Cuba as a carrot to dangle over Castro’s head if Raul considered turning over Assata Shakur to the U.S. Consistent reports confirmed that Castro exact words to Obama when this proposal was made were “that subject is off the table.”

For African people in the U.S., who have a 500+ year history of being lied to every time for all forms of government in what is known today as the U.S., Raul Castro made a principled stand for one of our most respected freedom fighters in Assata Shakur. A stand that most people would not have made considering the continued damage the blockade makes against the Cuban people on the daily. Raul Castro is one of many people who have demonstrated that contrary to the beliefs many of us possess, we certainly do have allies and accomplices. In fact, the Cuban revolution and Raul Castro have demonstrated their commitment to justice, particularly towards Africa and African people, since their inception six plus decades ago.

Kwame Ture said the worse crime is to be ungrateful. If the U.S. government attempts to touch a single hair on Raul Castro’s head, we must be prepared to disrupt every fiber of this backward society, on all levels. We cannot expect anyone to support us if we don’t support anyone else. Cuba has always supported us.

If a dog barks, it’s a dog. Regarding Raul Castro, the U.S. is barking. We cannot be hypocrites and cowards. This is a clarion call that we must be ready to defend those who have defended us. So, be ready. From out and out disruptions of commerce in this society to slowing down work, and/or even showing up to work, we need to let this criminal government feel pain for any further actions they take against Raul Castro and the Cuban people. How many of us are ready to do this beyond just protesting? How many of us are willing to act in support of Raul and Cuba the way they have always acted in support of us?

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Cesar Chavez: Terrible Men/individuals Defining Movement Work

3/20/2026

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For many of us deeply involved in the struggle for justice and forward human progress, the rumors of abuse against women by labor activist Cesar Chavez are not new. Murmurs about his unprincipled behaviors have been circulating around for decades, but for most people, particularly those from colonized communities, the need for individual role models is a constant cultural necessity. Due to the institutional way in which patriarchy is manifested throughout societies, its men who are almost always the ones anointed as these role models.
A simple understanding of the mechanisms described above makes a few things obvious. First, the absolute worst practice for evaluating serious allegations of patriarchy is for men, and/or the standing of men, to be the determinant, on any level, of the legitimacy of allegations. There is not a single conscious African man anywhere who would accept that Europeans should ever be in the judge seat on any questions about white supremacy, yet so many African men abandon that principle when it comes to patriarchy and the same is true of all men, and unfortunately many women as well.

So, we start here by saying we 100% believe the women alleging barbaric and brutal behavior against woman by Cesar Chavez. I have provided security and bodyguard work for Ms. Dolores Huerta twice in my lifetime. Such work requires you to make a clear commitment of risking your life without hesitation to protect the person you are assigned to. That’s something I would never do for someone I didn’t hold in the highest degree of respect. Ms. Huerta is one of those persons, but even if she was unknown to me, we should still always believe her and other women making allegations against Chavez and any other man, regardless of who that man is and/or how we feel about him. Does that mean that any of us could be accused of something? Of course, but I believe that’s a very small price and risk to ensure that the dignity of women and marginalized gender folks is upheld.

We should believe them because patriarchy as a system of oppression permeates everything, including the aura of consciousness and perfection that we assign to men who we determine to have conscience. In December of 2024, my 92-year-old mother-in-law made her physical transition. At the time of her passing, she had sixth level Altheimer’s disease. During her final days, I was the Uber driver, mail carrier, even someone there to burglarize the house and my wife, at best, was unknown to her own mother. Still, and amazingly enough to us, my dear mother-in-law never lost her understanding of white supremacy and patriarchy. One of our last conversations was her articulating, in clear terms, that African people, our people, could not be trusted on any level and that the only thing worse than that was trusting an African woman. So, we know the power of these systems of institutionalized oppression. Just like we expect Europeans to prove to us that they aren’t racist (which is one of the ways we either consciously or unconsciously maintain our sanity), as men we hold no less of a responsibility. So believe the allegations.

This means the resulting consequences of these types of serious allegations should be accorded the respect that they deserve. Disrupt, change, demand, expose. Expose Cesar Chavez, but we shouldn’t stop there. We should expose George Washington, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, Strom Thurmond, and all rapists, abusers, and the capitalist system which epitomizes abuse, rape, etc. All of them. And, for those who have the concern that exposing the man damages the movement, we have a solution for that.

Anyone who defines movements by these men doesn’t properly understand social movements. No matter how many men are credited with the work for social change of any kind, its always only the masses of people who make history, never individuals. For those of us who understand that unmistakable reality, it’s really impossible to damage the movement, despite whatever behaviors these men engage in and if that doesn’t make sense, we recommend a complete study of dialectics.

In other words, all of us would have to agree that one man cannot bring freedom and justice to any collective people. By the same token, no one man can destroy the principles of any movement, regardless of what that man does. The best any man can do is discredit himself because the principles of the movement are always based in values of justice, egalitarianism, collectivism, and humanism. Consequently, our task as human beings is to either live up to those principles, or as Franz Fanon told us, betray them.

Since we should identify the validity of our movement through its principles and not the individuals, we should look at moments like this in that way. Just as Kwame Ture was fond of saying that if we judged Christianity and Islam by its adherents, we would have to outlaw those religions tonight, the same is true of our movements for justice.

Call them out, expose them, support the survivors of their terrible behaviors. We should always do those things. We should also think carefully about how we can separate the abusers from being the face of these movements. There are just far too many of us who approach this work with a high level of integrity for us to sell ourselves out so easily. So, instead, we shouldn’t continue to have Cesar Chavez days. Martin Luther King days. We should instead have Respect for Indigenous Agricultural Work days or Respect Justice for African People days, etc.

In 2023, the All African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP) held its first historic Party Congress in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa. With dozens of selected delegates, we discussed and voted on resolutions designed to move A-APRP work forward. I was honored and humbled to serve as a delegate and participant in this congress. One of our most important debates and decisions was whether to change our previously existing ideology name from Nkrumahism/Tureism (for the ideas of Kwame Nkrumah and Sekou Ture – two giants in Pan-African work), to Nkrumahism/Tureism/Cabralism – adding in the honored contributions of Guinea-Bissau revolutionary Pan-Africanist Amilcar Cabral. As passionate debate around this question ensued, I argued that we should of course honor Nkrumah, Ture, and Cabral, but we should also honor Robert Sobukwe, Teodora Gomes, Patrice Lumumba, Thomas Sankara, Imbalia Camara, Carlota Lucumi, Malcolm X, etc. In the room we had organizers from Azania (South Africa) who would have loved to add Sobokwe. We also had organizers from Burkina Faso who vibed with Sankara being added. I’m here today because of Malcolm X so I would always be in favor of his addition, but instead, I and a few others, argued that we go in a different direction. We should select a Wolof, Akan, Swahili, etc., phrase or statement that would translate to our ideology being known as the people’s ideology. It was a passionate debate, but the impassioned positions articulated by the many A-APRP/PAIGC (African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau – the party founded by Cabral) in the room, coupled with our love and respect for Cabral, made the realization for me clear in that moment. We needed to have personalities to attach our ideological commitment to, at least at this day and time in history.

I understand the above, but I still suggest that it’s time for us to at least think about changing that way of thinking. The separation of the movement from the individuals permits us to continue moving because the mass titles don’t belong to any one person’s legacy. They belong to the masses of people.

I realize that for a lot of folks, especially those of the identity politics way of thinking, these concepts I’m discussing are insane, maybe even offensive, but I submit that even if I’ve failed to give justice to the position in this article, what I do know is someone like Cesar Chavez could do a million terrible things and that will never discredit the genuine sacrifices of the hundred thousands, maybe millions, of nameless, faceless people who make sincere contributions to the work on a daily basis. Who always have and who always will. We should do more to start ensuring that the work is defined by those people. The power in this growth is more than symbolic. Collective consciousness in this way advances the notion that we are all responsible for making the contributions that define the movement instead of thinking that if we aren't Chavez or whomever, we cannot do anything important. This is an important step towards dismantling the type of thinking which systems of oppression like patriarchy depend upon to continue to thrive.

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Socialist Cuba - A Consistent Accomplice for African Liberation

3/4/2026

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A common refrain heard from voices from the African (Black) community these days is that our struggle “has no allies.” Of course, these voices are not coming from Africans involved in our fight for liberation. These are the random voices of keyboard warriors who never seriously study and/or participate in our glorious struggle. We know this because anyone who does would know that Cuba has always been that ally. That accomplice. The entity that defines solidarity correctly by providing a history of service to humanity without receiving a single thing in return.

In that regard, since Cuba’s revolutionary victory in 1959, they have had Africa and African people’s backs, consistently, everywhere on the planet earth. The Cuban revolution’s origins were rooted in efforts by its leaders to forge strong relationships with African revolutionaries like Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana and Sekou Ture in Guinea. Cuban leader Fidel Castro’s historic speech at the 1960 United Nation’s General Assembly railed against U.S. attacks against the Cuban revolution, cleverly tying that sabotage to U.S. efforts to undermine, and eventually destroy Patrice Lumumba and the National Congolese Movement’s (MNC) efforts to hold together the fragile independence effort taking place in that country.

Cuba’s support for the Congo wasn’t limited to words. In 1964, Cuba sent its Minister of the Interior and legendary guerrilla leader Ernesto “Che” Guevara to the Congo with 100 African Cuban combatants. They went to support the MNC in battling the pro-colonial forces who backed by the U.S., Belgium, and the imperialist powers. Although the efforts of the Guevara led Cuban combatants and the MNC didn’t result in victory, Guevara ended up in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, for several months. His work while there centered around strengthening the ties of the Cuban revolution to anti-colonial efforts taking place all over Africa. The results of this initial work were the development of a Cuban African Command. Led by Victor Dreke Cruz, the command provided support to the African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau (PAIGC) in its anti-colonial war against Portugal. Since the PAIGC staged its military efforts in neighboring Guinea-Conakry, this permitted Cuba’s revolutionary leadership, led by Fidel Castro, to strengthen relationships with Amilcar Cabral and the PAIGC, Sekou Ture and the Democratic Party of Guinea (PDG), and Kwame Nkrumah, who by early 1966 had been forced to take up residence in Guinea-Conakry as co-president after a Central Intelligence Agency organized coup d tat that toppled Nkrumah’s government in Ghana.

The Cuban African Command continued to generate support for African liberation efforts. Between 1985 and 1992, approximately 500,000 Cuban troops were deployed to Southern Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Zambia, Namibia, etc.) to support liberation movements in those countries. The racist apartheid regime in (Azania) South Africa was working to repress the African National Congress (ANC), Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC), Azanian People’s Organization (AZAPO), and other liberation movements. Recognizing efforts in Angola, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Mozambique, Zambia, as well as within its borders, South Africa relied upon the support of zionist Israel, Britain, and the U.S. to combat the anti-colonial forces. The imperialists also relied upon European mercenary groups led by the notorious Mike Moare to serve as shock troops in that region conducting countless atrocities designed to demoralize the anti-colonial forces. The Cubans played a significant role helping support and stabilize the anti-colonial forces. Within his memoirs, Moare wrote that he witnessed the impact of the Cubans on Angolan, and other regional troops and that, in his words, if the Cubans weren’t neutralized, it would be impossible to stop the tide of anti-colonialism taking place.

By 1990, the imperialist forces saw the handwriting on the wall. They had no choice except to come to the negotiation table. The results were a timetable for the racist apartheid system in South Africa to come to an official end. Also, Namibia was to become independent, and Nelson Mandela, a leader of the ANC who incarcerated for decades, was to be released. All of this in exchange for the Cubans agreeing to leave Southern Africa.

Cuba’s support for African liberation wasn’t and isn’t just limited to military support, as major as that has been. Cuba has been a refuge for African freedom fighters from the U.S. where racist practices forced them to flee to avoid imprisonment and worse. Starting with Robert Williams. He was the chair of the Monroe, North Carolina, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In 1957, during civil unrest, Williams rescued an elder white couple from attack near his house. City officials used this incident to accuse Williams of kidnapping the white couple because officials were concerned about William’s calls for Africans in the city to arm themselves against white terror. Despite the couple insisting Williams had saved them, Williams went underground to avoid illegal repression. He surfaced in Cuba in 1962 and stayed there a couple of years before relocating to China. His presence in Cuba and China permitted him to stay an active and respected voice in the U.S. African liberation movement. Eldridge Cleaver, the Minister of Information for the Black Panther Party, fled to Cuba to escape charges leveled against him for his role in instigating a shootout against police in Oakland, California, U.S., two days after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, was assassinated, which led to 17 year old Bobby Hutton, the youngest Black Panther, being murdered by police.

Black Panther Party co-founder and ideologue Huey P. Newton lived in Cuba for three years in the mid-seventies to escape charges from the state against him in California. And, Assata Shakur, the former Black Panther and Black Liberation Army member/leader, spent 41 years living in peace in Cuba after being assisted in escaping prison in 1979 (she appeared in Cuba in 1984), until her physical transition in Havana, Cuba, in September of 2025. Although her physical presence is no longer, Assata’s escape from the clutches of U.S. imperialism serves as an inspiration to millions around the world, many who were born after Assata emerged in Cuba. There are many other African freedom fighters who found refuge in Cuba, including Nehanda Abiodon.

Cuba’s commitment to its socialist principles were magnified by its actions in Africa and its unwavering support for freedom fighters like Shakur. In 2014, U.S. President Barack Obama negotiated loosening restrictions against the Cuban revolution. During the talks that occurred between Obama and then Cuban General Secretary Raul Castro, documents from those meetings confirmed that Obama floated lifting some elements of the devastating U.S. led economic blockade against Cuba if Cuba turned Assata Shakur over to the U.S. When this happened, many so-called revolutionaries in the U.S. who hadn’t studied the history and integrity of the Cuban revolution believed reports that Cuba was going to surrender Shakur. To be honest, after all that Cuba has done, and considering the crippling impacts of the economic blockade for six decades, Cuba could not be blamed if they had considered the proposal, but Castro’s words to Obama were explicit. Assata Shakur is “off the table.”

The fact that Cuba would sacrifice an opportunity to have access to much needed medicines, spare parts, oil, and the ability to use debit and credit cards, because they wouldn’t release one person, who wasn’t even born in that country, says all that needs to be said about socialist principles. Socialism means moral incentives. Everything discussed here Cuba did because of its commitment to justice and solidarity. No African country mentioned was in a position to provide Cuba with anything in response to Cuba’s support. Certainly, the African liberation movement in the U.S. possesses no capacity to reward Cuba for its protection of our freedom fighters. And, Cuba never expected compensation. They did what they did, from Guevara’s efforts 60 years ago, to Cuba sending doctors to 30 countries in Africa, and throughout the Caribbean and the U.S., to assist during the Covid pandemic, out of sincere solidarity. While the U.S. was fiddling around trying to figure out a way to ensure its corporations could maximize profit from a vaccine (while thousands were dying), Cuba was one of the first countries in the world to produce a vaccine. And not only did 98% of their people willingly take that vaccine (because they knew they could trust it), as mentioned, this poor nation, which continues to be immorally and illegally crippled by U.S. sabotage, did more to help people around the world against Covid than the U.S. and the capitalist countries combined.

In 2026, the criminal thug regime(s) in the U.S. are ramping up their attacks against socialist Cuba. They have always been here for the African masses so now its time that we ensure we are there for them. This is not the time for spouting nonsense about us having no allies. It’s not the time to be swallowed up by ignorant anti-communist propaganda. It’s not the time to listen to random dishonest folks who left the Cuban revolution. Now is the time for us to recognize that we owe a debt to the Cuban masses. We can repay it a number of ways. We can support organizations like the Venceremos Brigade which has provided material support to the Cuban revolution for decades. We can join organizations and participate in education around the merits of the Cuban revolution to combat the massive capitalist propaganda machines attacks against the island nation. We can tell the truth and live the truth. We can be people of conscience. Socialist Cuba has shown us the way for six decades. When we needed them, they acted. Now its our turn.

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When Did Ignorance Become Such a Flex?

2/10/2026

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This guy - Myron Gaines, and other grifters like Pearl Davis and Charlie Kirk have built lucrative careers out of spewing ignorance as entertainment. Many people have come to confuse this fast paced tactic as informed analysis when in reality, its fluff and no substance

In 2026, every topic – from the connection of people of African descent to Africa, to the Puerto Rican artist “Bad Bunny” performing primarily in Spanish at this year’s Superbowl halftime – is met with a barrage of disagreement based exclusively in ignorance. The people arguing that Africans born in the U.S. are not Africans cannot and do not support their arguments with ill refutable historical and genealogical evidence. They cannot produce a logical argument that disconnects our lineage through the transatlantic slave trade. They don’t make any attempt to scientifically explain the countless cultural, physiological, and historical evidence that we are Africans. Instead, the most prominent negation of African identity they provide these days is “I don’t know anybody in Africa. I ain’t never been there!”

An obvious point to that is if you never make an effort to study Africa, obtain a passport, and prioritize international travel, then without question, you will never go there. And, if you don’t go there, it becomes very difficult to know anyone there. Even that ill refutable and very simple logic never rises higher than the lowest levels of discourse around this issue. In fact, for more than a few people, the defense of not going and not knowing is considered viable evidence against any connection to the African continent.

By the same token, the Bad Bunny presentation is being dismissed because “I didn’t understand a word he said” as if many of the people saying this understand the words any entertainer says or as if learning Spanish is something that’s only possible for a secret 1% of the population. The issue is bigger than our ongoing identity struggles or a Superbowl performer. We could present the same argument as it relates to vaccinations, U.S. and world history, philosophy, racism, patriarchy, homophobia, and virtually any topic you can come up with. The requirement to disagree has been reduced to not knowing as an acceptable defense for not knowing i.e. I make no effort, thus I’m not required to know.

The critical question about this, as it is with every social phenomenon, is who benefits the most from this reality? The answer is that the capitalist system is the big winner when it comes to an extremely ignorant and uninformed population. If Africans in the U.S. don’t know they are African. If they aren’t the least big interested in knowing anything about Africa. If all they want to do is be entertained, worship colonial dominated religions, and buy stuff, then the capitalist system would have things no other way. This is true because the capitalist system relies heavily on exploiting Africa. Our Mother Africa is the most resource rich land base on the entire planet. Richer in this regard than the rest of the planet combined. And, Africa provides the most inexpensive access to all these resources than anywhere else. Multi-national corporations depend upon this reality to systemically exploit coltan, cobalt, diamonds, gold, silver, platinum, steel, zinc, bauxite, cocoa, uranium, chromite, oil, and many other rare earth natural resources. Meanwhile, the masses of African people, scattered all over Africa, Europe, and the Americas, are poor, disorganized, and have zero control over any resource production anywhere. If these Africans – over 2 ½ billion of us in and out of Africa, woke up one day and asked why we come from the richest land base on earth, yet why are we the poorest people on earth that would spark a whirlwind of questions that would lead to a massive uprising. The capitalist system doesn’t want to see this happen because when it does, the system knows its days are numbered. So, instead of promoting education, they discourage it. They dismiss our history. They send overt and covert messages that our history isn’t important to you and many of us accept this messaging. We accept their suggestions that we needn’t worry about Africa, just making it in this capitalist system. As a result, very few of us ever question why these capitalist, industrialized societies are rich and Africa is poor. Without ever giving it a moment’s thought, most of us probably believe the standard capitalist lies that this is true because capitalism is blessed by God and that they work harder, both lies, but these lies reinforce that we need to get as close to capitalism as we possibly can.

Of course, ignorance is the key driver for the above strategy to gain traction and stay in place. Without ignorance, they would never be able to exploit us and our resources they way they do. Without ignorance we could never chase unscientific fantasies about who we are so that we can avoid facing who we are, and more importantly, what we need to do because of who we are.
The Superbowl performance requires ignorance because without it, it becomes impossible to “other” people and without a consciousness that prevents that, it becomes easy to dehumanize people. Once that happens, you don’t care if those “others” are rounded up and brutalized. Their others, just like a roach. Just like you don’t care what happens to a roach. Under this pretext, Spanish or any language is seen as “others.” So why would you learn it? Why would you respect it? Just like the African identity question, the actual basic questions within this scenario are never asked, never. Like how the hell did African people in the West come to speak English anyway? And, why are there just as many of us who speak Spanish or French? We are so uninformed by these basic questions that many of us who have French names believe we descend from France in Europe. This is classic ignorance which of course, is reliant on self-hatred which is more ignorance about Africa, etc.

The good news is all of us can help stem this tide of ignorance becoming some type of flex in people’s minds. We can do this by raising simple questions. The bar is so low that doing this is very easy. When you hear someone say something like “I ain’t been to Africa” or “I don’t speak no Spanish” or “ain’t no such thing as being gay”, etc., try responding by asking “why not and/or other open-ended questions. Open-ended is always good because it forces them to think through a response. Ask them to explain their source of reference. Some of them will get angry and retreat, but that’s still better than letting the ignorance blossom. I do it all the time. While in Cape Town, Azania (South Africa) a couple of weeks ago, I was sitting in the lobby of the hotel where I was staying. I was talking to some of the employees when I was approached by a European. He recognized my U.S. English accent and he said “I wanted to come over and ask what brought you here?” My response to him with an absolute straight face was “the better and more accurate question is what brought you here?” He stopped, looked befuddled and then continued on his way. He may have eventually picked up the irony of my response, or maybe he didn’t. Either way I couldn’t care less. What I was more concerned with is the two or three African employees who were present smiled and understood exactly what I meant. In one swoop I reaffirmed them, myself, and Mother Africa’s history while refusing to let that man shape the narrative. The only problem is not enough of us travel through the world this way. The more of us who do, the less ignorance becomes acceptable. The less it becomes acceptable to higher levels of existence we create for ourselves.

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Guinea-Bissau; Coup d'Etats in Africa & Continued Imperialist Tricks

12/4/2025

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Members of Guinea-Bissau's Electoral Commission reporting that most established records of the election results from the November 23, 2025 election were destroyed as a result of the military coup d'etat

On November 23, 2025, the West African country of Guinea-Bissau held a national election, but on November 26th, 2025, a military coup d’etat, led by Brigadier General Dinis Incanha was carried out. The military coup has disrupted any potential for civilian governance in the country for the foreseeable future.

The international capitalist/imperialist media is reporting this incident within the context of it being the ninth coup d’etat in Guinea-Bissau since the independence war was won by the African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau (PAIGC) in 1974. The often repeated and easily defeated refrain by these media sources is that coup d’etats in Guinea-Bissau, and all of Africa, are automatic byproducts of African people when we make any attempt to govern our own lives. The fact these sources consistently make note of the claim that Guinea-Bissau is a hub for illegal narcotics trafficked from the Western world to Europe simply reinforces this racist and simplistic perspective around African politics.

In order to gain a proper understanding of what’s taking place in Guinea-Bissau its essential to understand that country (and Africa’s) history. Viciously colonized by Portugal for decades, Amilcar Cabral founded the PAIGC in 1956. From that day forward, the PAIGC, staged its revolutionary anti-colonial war against Portuguese occupation, staging its operations from neighboring Guinea where they received logical and practical support and assistance from the Democratic Party of Guinea and its president – Sekou Ture.

As a result of the resilience of the people of Guinea-Bissau along with this clear example of revolutionary Pan-Africanist cooperation, the PAIGC was victorious in 1974. Although Amilcar Cabral, Titina Silas, and other leaders within the PAIGC were assassinated by agents for Portugal in 1973, the PAIGC governed the country until 1980 when Luis Cabral, the brother of Amilcar, was overthrown as president in a coup d’etat.

Those historical occurrences provide some backdrop for the events of 2025. In 2023, the country had a national election where results and the fairness of that election were confirmed by international observers such as representatives from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Those results showed that the PAIGC, and the Terra Ranka (PAI Terra Ranka) Coalition won an overwhelming majority of seats for the National Assembly (the national legislature in Guinea-Bissau), and Domingos Pereira, the President of the PAIGC, won the election for president by almost 100,000 votes (a significant victory in a country of only slightly more than two million people).

At the time, Umaro Embalo held the position of president. He was and is the universally selected candidate by imperialism being their neo-colonial choice to continue to make the country available for international and illegal interests while doing nothing to improve the conditions for the people of Guinea-Bissau. Consequently, Embalo invalidated the 2023 election results, refusing to permit the majority Terra Ranka Coalition Assembly seat victors to take their seats. He also refused to recognize the results of the presidential election, calling it invalid. He demanded that a re-election take place and this time, he won that second race by about 80,000 votes. Universal condemnation of voter repression and corruption during that second election in 2023 set the stage for the November 2025 election.

Fast forward to 2025 where Embalo, recognizing the national popularity of the PAIGC and Brother Pereira, outlawed the PAIGC from participating in the November 23rd, 2025 election. As a result, the PAIGC threw its support behind Ferdinand Dias who ran against Embalo. Before the results, which initially pointed to a victory by Dias, could be confirmed, the coup d’etat took place, invalidating the election, resulting in the arrest of Brother Periera, and causing Dias to flee Guinea-Bisau for neighboring Senegal.

Embalo also left Guinea-Bissau for Brazzaville, but there is substantial evidence that suggests that the military coup leaders could be in league with Embalo in a play to prevent Dias and the Terra Ranka National Assembly victors, from ever being seated. Before leaving the country, Embalo was permitted to address the people of Guinea-Bissau through national media sources which would represent the first time in known history that military coup d’etat leaders allowed a displaced politician to have such a privilege. In comparison, when the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) led the overthrew of Kwame Nkrumah’s government in Ghana in 1966, everyone even suspected of being supportive of Nkrumah was forced to leave Ghana immediately at the threat of losing their lives. Nkrumah himself was out of the country when the coup happened and although he lived for six more years, he was never able to set foot in Ghana again.

The model in Africa since the independence movements in the 50s and 60s has been to infect these anti-colonial efforts with neo-colonialism. Since the very structure of colonialism was always to establish exploitative mechanisms in Africa, Asia, and the Americas, that would serve the interests of the capitalist countries, that strategy of course relied on keeping the colonial subjects dependent upon the colonizers. As a result, the only education made available in Africa was that which promoted loyalty to the colonizing country. This reality explains why coup d’etats have been so common in Africa since the 1960s because the chief responsibility of a neo-colonialist leader is to demonstrate their ability and commitment to ensuring the country they govern is always readily available to foreign exploitation as its priority. In the case of Embalo, the alleged disposed president in Guinea-Bissau, his refusals to seat the PAIGC/Terra Ranka Assembly members (with zero proof that they did not legally and fairly win their elections), his subsequent banning of the PAIGC from the elections, the ill timing of the military coup d’etat to happen just before the results of the most recent election were most likely going to declare Dias victorious, the relatively soft treatment towards him from the military and his non-dramatic exit from the country into Brazzerville, all reek of a planned and scripted coup d’etat in which Embalo isn’t the victim of a coup, but rather the person(s) who orchestrated it.

Meanwhile, at the time of the preparation of this article, PAIGC President and President of the Guinea-Bissau National Assembly – Domingos Periera remains locked up in military custody, the PAIGC remains banned, and Dias has been forced to exit the country.

Understanding the shaky ground that international imperialism and neo-colonialism occupy in today’s world, a scripted coup d’etat in Guinea-Bissau makes sense. The popular support of the PAIGC in Guinea-Bissau is undeniable. And, the PAIGC’s history and developing Pan-African consciousness connects Guinea-Bissau’s destiny with that of all of Africa and with all African people everywhere on earth. This is the exact thing that has imperialism shaking in its boots. And, for good reason because even if many of us on the right side of history remain confused, the imperialists understand clearly that their tricks in Guinea-Bissau, Somalia, the Sahel region, the Congo, Sudan, Western Sahara, etc., will work temporarily, but the writing is on the wall for them. The people of Guinea-Bissau are in the streets, refusing to be fooled by these neo-colonial tactics. This type of rising consciousness is all over Africa and the African world today and its continued development does not bode well for the enemies of humanity.
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Centuries of Continued Attacks against African Identity

11/19/2025

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Since the first European invasion into Africa centuries ago, and the institutionalization of colonialism and slavery in the process, the logic of African people understanding and identifying with Africa has always been under attack. As Europe normalized stealing and selling Africans into slavery while also controlling African territories to exploit the human and material resources there, a vicious assault against the ability of African people to connect with our true history and culture has been relentlessly perpetuated.

Many Africans in French colonial territories like Senegal, Guinea, Mali, Benin, Burkina Faso, Niger, etc., identified as French. Their highest aspirations becoming visiting and/or living in France and advancing through the highest stages of French life available to them. For Africans in the British, Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish, etc., colonial territories, the same reality exists whether in Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, or wherever.

The U.S. is somewhat of a unique situation because unlike Africa and the Caribbean nations, Africans within the U.S. have always been a numerical minority to the Europeans. Consequently, the efforts by Europeans to disconnect Africans in the U.S. from everything Africa was a much more effective process then similar efforts elsewhere in colonies in Africa, or throughout Central, South America, and the Caribbean.

As a result, Africans everywhere on earth are systemically encouraged through political, educational, faith, and social institutions to relinquish any connection to Africa and this is even more true within the U.S. Despite the ill refutable truth that the first organizations Africans established within the U.S. proudly expressed African identity i.e. the Free Africa Society (one of the first documented social justice organizations for African people in the U.S. which formed immediately following the so-called American Independence war in the 1700s) and the African Methodist Episcopalian Church (AME), which was the first organized and documented church organization established by African people in the U.S. in 1816, today in 2025, there are a number of African people in this country who flat deny any connection to Africa whatsoever.

Presently, one of those trends are Africans who claim to be Native to the Americas. This argument takes bits and pieces from African historical documentation of Africans who traveled to the Western Hemisphere before colonialism and slavery to formulate a position that a significant portion of Africans here today are direct descendants of people who have been in the Americas always or at least are distant descendants of people who immigrated from Africa thousands of years ago to the Americas.

Besides the historical efforts to sabotage our connection to Africa, there are other reasons why people advance these types of notions. In the case of the claim of being Indigenous to the Americas, there is a hope by some that the possibility of legal recognition as Indigenous people will bring qualifications of tribal monies from the federal government. For the people hoping for this to happen, the concept of monetary reparations for Africans being enslaved is still just a conversation while monies for so-called recognized Indigenous ethnic groupings is already a current reality.

A larger reason for this is simply shame at being African. The capitalist/imperialist/colonial system has done such a masterful job painting Africa as a hapless, ineffective, useless, burden on the European world. And, Africans have, at least up to this point, demonstrated little desire to engage in the type of collective study necessary to deconstruct those mythical narratives. Consequently, there are many Africans today who see value in creating fictitious identities rather than acknowledging their real one.

The latter statement is easily verified because the overwhelming majority of Africans within the U.S. have direct ties (literally no more than one or two generations removed) to Southern slave states within the U.S. With family from Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, etc., all slave states, and surnames that are French, British, German, etc., there isn’t a logical argument that refutes a connection to slavery ala to Africa. Plus, DNA testing is popular within the U.S., including among Africans. Scores of people are getting, or have received, results confirming their physiological connection to Africa. Even the “we’re Native American” crowd hasn’t produced rebuttals to challenge any of this strong evidence.

For those genuinely interested in the forward progress of African people everywhere, this problem must be understood within context. Anyone reducing a connection to Africa to purely a psychological desire demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of why colonialism and slavery happened in the first place. Similar to how the zionist movement uses faith as a cover to justify the theft of Palestinian land, the subjugation of Africa, and the chattel slave system that it produced, serves to justify the continued exploitation of Africa’s human and material resources. This is the reason why reactionaries keep talking about the “benefits” of slavery and colonialism. Its also the reason such consistent efforts have been systemically applied within every institution within these capitalist countries, to drive Africans to look in all directions except at their mother. That is an essential element of their strategy because Africans being conscious about who we are threatens to create a vision for us about where we want to go. That type of vision greatly challenges the capitalist system because instead of demeaning and fighting each other, many Africans will start to ask why we come from the richest land base in the world, yet we are some of the poorest people in the world? This is the question imperialism cannot risk African people connecting the dots around. That’s why a simple scroll through Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok, produces so many anti-African identity videos, aimed exclusively at Africans in the U.S. There are 50 million Africans living within the most powerful capitalist country in the world. We are well positioned to engage in active sabotage against this system once we have the consciousness to see doing so as our role and responsibility (as opposed to integrating into the capitalist system).

The good news for conscious Africans in the U.S. and everywhere is that this latest confusion about being Native to the Americas, although completely disrespectful to the real Indigenous people of the Western Hemisphere, and our African ancestors, is nothing more than the latest stage of these attacks against our culture and identity. In the 1920s and 30s, after economic collapse in this country, the militancy and African focus of the Garvey movement was largely replaced by the escapist evangelism of the Daddy Grace and Father Devine periods. In the 1980s and 90s, the 5% Nation of Islam did a great job influencing hip/hop culture/music thus launching constant claims that Africans were not Africans, but were instead Asiatic Black people. Ten years ago there was the proliferation of the Foundational Black American (FBA) and American Descendants of Slaves (ADOs) xenophobic identities.

Like the Asiatic Black identity, ADOs, FBA, etc., the Native to America identity will play for a while, but it won’t last. It won’t because like the others, its not based in reality for the masses of our people i.e. there are certainly a handful of us who can trace back thousands of years in this Hemisphere, but without question, the overwhelming majority of us are descendants from Africa and all the evidence clearly points to that.

The capitalist generated identity that has lasted in various forms through all of these periods, and will continue to be the most important threat aimed at convincing our people that we are Americans above all else. This one is much trickier because it has a much stronger basis than the others. Its rooted in the concept that we have been here for centuries (true). And, we have done a lot to contribute to this society (also true). And, since the U.S. is still the strongest country on earth, there is always going to be that emotional desire from oppressed people to relate to the winner. So, because of these factors, unlike the others, this American question will not just play for a while and begin to fade. This one will require a much more dedicated, sustained, and consistent propaganda effort to demonstrate to our people that where Africa goes we go. That, not only should we not see ourselves as consistent with U.S. identity, but we shouldn’t even want to go where this country goes because each and every time, this country is on the wrong side of history where it will stay because of its foundation of theft and repression. The class struggle over American identity overwhelms all of other false identities combined. The struggle for African identity must continue and it must be refined and clarified to mean a connection to the land base, whether we live there or not, whether we like the name Africa or not. The land and what happens to her is our salvation.

Its no coincidence that over the centuries since Africans have been in the U.S. the two identities we have struggled around the longest has always been some variation of – “are we Africans or are we Americans?” Although class drives everything, this identify contradiction is the strident one i.e. who’s interests do we identify with, Africa’s or the U.S.? The American versus African is a simple question. Are you for the masses of our people everywhere or are you only for empire? And, unlike the other cursory/false identities, this one every African everywhere is already being forced to choose a side.

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Kwame Ture and the Battle for Collective Consciousness

11/10/2025

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Kwame Ture at Democratic Party of Guinea HQ in 1997 in Guinea-Conakry with other A-APRP cadre who also belong to other Pan-African formations in Africa like the PAIGC, the Pan African Union of Sierra Leone, Convention People's Party of Ghana, etc.

November 15, 2025, commemorates 27 years since the physical disappearance of Kwame Ture (formally known as Stokely Carmichael). If one is to seriously use Kwame’s life to reflect on what lessons we should learn from his example, one of the most critical ones is his often stated quote – “power only comes from the organization of the masses of the people!” Although its going on 30 years since Kwame himself was able to utter that phrase, the comment is often repeated and shared in articles and throughout social media platforms. Still, there isn’t a logical argument to be made that people today have any greater understanding of what Kwame meant by that statement than they had during the 1990s when he made it.

The capitalist system drills individualism into our heads 24/7/365. By individualism we mean the core belief that our interests, perspectives, philosophies and actions only need to be guided by what we perceive to be our personal vison of the world, not the interests of the masses of humanity. As a result, individualism requires that we don’t see ourselves as a part of a collective. Instead, we see our accomplishments as solely the result of individual initiative. We define advancement as individual representation within the capitalist system. This dysfunction explains why celebrity culture is so dominant within the capitalist system because celebrities portray the myth of individualism better than anything else. In other words, the capitalist system relies on individualism because as long as people continue to see the world through that backwards vision, they will never see collective victory as realistic. And, despite the fact that the capitalist system understands clearly that collective struggle is the sole approach that can effectively dismantle capitalism and build something better, they also know that they have so effectively convinced so many of us to worship individualism that provided they can continue to promote this lie, they need not worry about a serious threat to their dominance.

We believe one of Kwame’s most significant contributions was to advance the notion that individualism is a trap of the capitalist system and that collective consciousness and action is truly what we must strive to achieve. Kwame knew this lesson firsthand. As a young man in the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) he was unfortunately able to consistently witness and experience the brutality of the capitalist system against the masses of Africans in the Southern U.S. who were simply fighting for basic human rights. From that critical work, he learned that the masses were truly the key to any meaningful work towards achieving power. Any study of his life and work during his Stokely Carmichael years in the 1960s will illustrate this. Kwame knew that no one in the civil rights movement, not even Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was more important than the masses of people. In fact, Kwame understood that without the masses, Dr. King would have been nothing more than another African Baptist preacher in the South. Kwame articulated this understanding when he recounted the story of when the Montgomery Improvement Association was founded in 1955. At its inaugural meeting, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) used the meeting to announce its plans to lead a one day bus boycott of Montgomery buses. Ms. Rosa Parks, an NAACP member, had fulfilled an NAACP strategy (that actually was tested with other women who refused to give up their “whites only” seats on buses before Ms. Parks) by refusing to relinquish her seat in the “whites only” section of the bus. After the one day boycott, and its perceived success, a second meeting was called and E.D. Nixon issued a nomination of Dr. King to become president of the association. Kwame Ture’s consistent point about this is the inspiration for the expanded bus boycott came from the collective actions of the people of Montgomery and Dr. King being thrust into leadership was a manifestation of that, not the reason for it. Quoting Ture – “if Dr. King wasn’t there, the people were ready. They would have chosen Dr. Smith, or Jones, etc., to lead the organization!”

This perspective provided by Kwame Ture flies in the face of the capitalist interpretation of history that people like Dr. King are exceptional and no one else could play the role that he played. Certainly, he demonstrated great skill, courage, and intellect in his leadership capacity, but it would be ahistorical and undialectical to suggest that the movement only moved because he was in it. That type of individualistic interpretation of history has always been brought to us by this capitalist system which wants you to believe that if you are not King, Malcolm, Nkrumah, Sekou Ture, Franz Fanon, Assata Shakur, Cabral, Carmen Peirera, Imbalia Camara, Huey P. Newton, etc., then you cannot make the level of contribution that they made so why even try?

The truth of Kwame’s analysis is that each of our contributions may not be exactly the same as those historical African giants, but each of us has a contribution to make and once we make it, we find that it has value and is very necessary. It was this level of consciousness that led Kwame Ture to embark on the work which, although much less known than his work in the U.S. civil rights and Black power movements, was in our view much more consequential and important.

Kwame spent from 1961 through 1968 in SNCC, seven years. He spent approximately one year in 1968 in the Black Panther Party. In 1969, he moved permanently to Guinea-Conakry, West Africa, where he worked and lived until his physical transition in 1998. He spent that last 29/30 yeas of his life organizing within the Democratic Party of Guinea (PDG), the party of Sekou Ture. He served as a political secretary to Kwame Nkrumah who was living in Guinea-Conakry as co-president (until his physical transition in 1972) after being illegally overthrown as president of Ghana by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 1966. As a citizen militant of the PDG, Kwame Ture shed the name Stokely Carmichael in 1977, choosing to honor his political mentors Kwame Nkrumah and Sekou Ture. He accepted the assignment asked of him by Nkrumah to carry out the mission of Nkrumah’s “Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare (1968) to unite revolutionary Pan-African formations on the ground in Africa under the All African Committee for Political Coordination and All African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-ACPC/A-APRP – pages 56 to 60 in the Handbook). Kwame Ture took the assignment seriously, working feverishly within the PDG, eventually becoming a lead coordinator for the youth of Guinea and then a member of the PDG Central Committee. All the while, being a Central Committee member of the A-APRP as well. Kwame used his political contacts and relationships to help move A-APRP cadre into neighboring Guinea-Bissau to join the Amilcar Cabral founded African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau (PAIGC), following the work example Kwame illustrated in Guinea in Guinea-Bissau and several other countries in Africa.

The other aspect of Kwame’s assignment from Nkrumah was to help build the A-APRP in the Western Hemisphere. This was the reason he returned to the U.S. annually to conduct speaking engagements. Many people, unfamiliar with revolutionary organizing work mistakenly assessed that Kwame’s speaking engagements didn’t produce the type of mass mobilizations that happened in the 1960s so, in their eyes, his mission was unsuccessful. What they missed is his work was designed to recruit and create revolutionary Pan-African cadre within the A-APRP who would be committed, disciplined, and dedicated to continuing to carry out Nkrumah’s vision after Kwame Ture was no longer walking the earth.

We see that his work in Africa after the 60s was his most important because as great as SNCC and the Black Panthers were, they are no longer operational in 2025. Kwame has been away from this earth for the last 27 years, but the A-APRP cadre that he helped establish the foundation for continue to organize today in every corner of the African world. This is the highest expression of collective work. It was this level of political activity that ushered in Kwame’s political maturity beyond his 1960s activism, where some SNCC comrades referred to him as “Stokely Starmichael” based upon their criticism that he didn’t work collectively with staff. Within the A-APRP and PDG, Kwame helped institutionalize criticism/self-criticism, the antithesis of the criticisms against him in SNCC. And most impressively, his work those last 29/30 years demonstrated without a doubt his commitment to mass empowerment over individual advancement.

After the 1960s, virtually every major civil rights and Black power movement figure who was not murdered or imprisoned leveraged their position within the movement for individual positions of visibility. Andrew Young, Jesse Jackson, John Lewis, Bobby Rush, Marion Barry, the list goes on, but unlike all of them, Kwame never ascended to U.S. politics. He never wanted to be mayor of New York or some other major city. He didn’t want to be chancellor of some large university. Certainly, since his notoriety was as large, if not larger, than all the others around 1970, he could have pursued those interests had he desired to do so. We would argue (without disparaging any of those aforementioned civil rights workers turned politicians) that although their names were more popular than Kwame who abandoned U.S. capitalism at the height of his personal popularity , none of their works will have the long lasting and critical impact of Kwame Ture’s work to build revolutionary cadre operational on the ground, all over the world. Cadre who do the work everyday to build the type of collective consciousness and organization that we are convinced will led us to the victory that our most sincere warriors gave their lives for. This is Ture’s biggest gift to his people and to humanity. And, even if the cadre he spawned are somehow unsuccessful in our mission, he has helped demonstrate that the collective organizing approach is the correct model. It’s a living testament to Ture’s statement that he only ever wanted “the power of the organized masses!”

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The Anticipated Attacks against Assata Shakur's Legacy are Coming

9/29/2025

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On Thursday, September 25, 2025, at 1:15pm (the time according to her daughter Kakuya Shakur) former Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army activist Assata Shakur made her physical transition in Havana, Cuba at the age of 78. For Black nationalists, Pan-Africanists, and radical activists/thinkers, Assata was a symbol of resistance to U.S. imperialism. She participated in the underground Black Liberation Army (BLA) in the early 70s. The BLA was never shy about their mission. They even arranged to have petitions filed with the World Court to substantiate that they were a military operation at war against the U.S. government. The BLA claimed that under the decisions of the Geneva Convention, the BLA and all African liberation fighters, had the right to declare all U.S. police, military, and other armed agents of the state, as enemies of the people who they had the international right to wage armed struggle against (just as the U.S. declared its rights to not only go to war with, but invade Europe, North/South Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Libya, Panama, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, as well as supporting such efforts all over Africa and the rest of the world).

Assata Shakur became that symbol of resistance after comrades calling themselves the May 19th Brigade, a collection of radicals/revolutionaries from the BLA and Weather Underground, staged a successful prison break, freeing Assata on November 2, 1979. She spent five years moving around underground before surfacing in Cuba where the Cuban socialist revolution provided her safe haven from 1984 until her transition on September 25, 2025.

Of course, Assata was in prison in the first place because of the shootout on the New Jersey turnpike with state troopers in 1973 in which former BPP and BLA comrade Zayd Shakur was killed and former BPP and BLA comrade Sundiata Acoli was captured and imprisoned for over four decades. Regarding this incident, for the defenders of the capitalist state, the many political opportunists who jump at every opportunity to dance when the system says move, and any and everyone who relies on capitalist news sources to shape their political perspectives, Assata is seen today as a cop killer and escaped convict.

Also, the story of Assata Shakur, and all African liberation fighters, can never be told without discussing the role of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) infamous counter intelligence program (COINTELPRO). This program, according to the introductory document produced by then FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in 1967, was dedicated to stopping the rise of a “Black Messiah” who could “electrify and ignite the Negro masses.” Hoover was never shy about expressing his racist fueled belief that “the greatest threat to American security is the unity of the negro masses.” Consequently, the FBI and COINTELPRO were committed to stopping at nothing to meet their objectives, including murder.

The mistake any activists make today is assuming that COINTELPRO discontinued the aggressive physical attacks of the 60s/70s that saw the murders of Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, the framing of Panther leaders Gerinomo Ji Jaga (Pratt) and Erika Huggins, and the fanning of artificial internal conflict which led to the murders of Panthers Alex Rackley, Lil Bobby Hutton, Alprentice “Bunchy” Carter, and John Huggins to name just a few as well as the imprisonment of Mumia Abu Jamal and others. That shootout on the New Jersey turnpike also falls within these categories.

Today, the FBI isn’t doing as much on the ground sabotage of the movements, although that does still occur (the installation of a violent FBI informant into the active, yet inexperienced Black Lives Matter chapter in Denver, Colorado in 2020). COINTELPRO in 2025 and beyond is much more about surveillance of activist activities, particularly on social media. There is a major influx of new and inexperienced activists and while this is a great thing, it has great challenges like so many people providing the FBI all the tea on weaknesses within our movements due to these people avoiding principled ideological struggle within the activist circles they participate in, opting instead to trash talk people online. Another much more subtle, yet overwhelmingly effective, FBI tactic today is discrediting the people and principles that surround our movements. This is where and how the attacks against the legacy of Assata Shakur are coming and why they should be absolutely no surprise to any of us who have studied the approaches of the enemies of humanity.

Just a day after it was confirmed by Assata’s daughter and the Cuban Foreign Ministry, that Assata had made her transition, the discrediting ratcheted up. There are hit pieces on Assata that are appearing in major news outlet sites that trumpet up the fact Assata was convicted of the death of New Jersey State Trooper Warren Forrester in 1973. Forrester’s family, always useful to the FBI’s efforts to discredit Assata, are trending again, calling her an escaped con and murderer. The unfortunate thing that most untrained eyes will miss is these attacks against Assata’s legacy rely on her conviction, while either ignoring and/or dismissing (just as the FBI influenced jury did during Assata’s trial) the medical examiner’s reports that the injuries Assata suffered from gunshot wounds inflicted by the state troopers were only possible from a physiological standpoint if her arms were raised (in surrender) which would have made it impossible for her to fire any weapons. In other words, the work of the FBI over the last 52 years against Assata Shakur is being raised up by them again right now. That Assata killed that cop, regardless of the fact the only real thing indicating that is the FBI repeatedly saying it.

The other element of the current FBI effort, which was also largely anticipated by those who study their methods, was the attempts they are making to criminalize the Cuban Revolution and the fact Assata spent the last 41 years of her life in that socialist country instead of doing so in a U.S. prison. To attempt to accomplish this, these current efforts at discrediting Assata rely on the same old tired and consistently disproven Cold war allegations against the Cuban Revolution about it being undemocratic and violating the human rights of the Cuban people.

One such article produced over the weekend after Assata’s passing, made the argument that Cuba was a dictatorship using the example of the so-called “Ladies in White” a group of family members to people jailed in Cuba for confirmed anti-government activities in 2006. The article mentioned, doesn’t even make an effort to inform those reading it that this group was discredited when they came out in 2006 after it was confirmed that they received training and funding from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

With Assata’s passing, what needs to be said over and over is that we as independent thinking people will determine who we love, support, and are inspired by and the U.S. government, which has been an enemy to Africa and African people since its colonized inception, will have no say in any of that. We have to yell from the highest mountains, especially where our youth can hear, that Assata was our freedom fighter. She is and should be beloved by African people and all peace and justice loving people everywhere. She stood up to the capitalist system and won (and this is really the reason they don’t want us to be inspired by her example). Any African who stands up against this system should be loved by us and we have to resist the pressure to submit to the anti-African narrative that we need to mourn our enemies. Objectively, police of any kind, anywhere, regardless of who they are – your family, etc. – are enemies to African people and all of humanity. The police all over this country participated in an illegal assault against African revolutionaries and we have dozens of bodies that verify that, thousands of families and people who have been devastated by this and they expect us to stop the presses because of the death of that state trooper. We have to resist that and any and all efforts to discredit the Cuban Revolution. For anyone serious about African liberation, you would be very hard pressed to find any entity on earth who has supported our quest for freedom harder than the Cuban Revolution. From Che Guevara physically fighting with African combatants from Cuba and the Congo in the Congo in 1964 against neo-colonial efforts, to Fidel Castro directing 500,000 Cuban troops to fight against racist apartheid in Southern Africa in the late 80s and early 90s, to Cuba being a safe haven for African freedom fighters from the U.S. from Robert Williams in 1962 to Huey P. Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, Assata Shakur, and many others, anyone still saying we are all alone in our struggle is just someone who clearly flunked any real history of the world.

In truth, all of this can be summed up by looking at the statement released by chief U.S. police terrorist Kash Patel (current FBI Director). He issued a statement calling on people not to commemorate Assata Shakur in the wake of everyone from the Chicago Teacher’s Union to Democratic Socialists of America, acknowledging Assata Shakur’s contributions and life. He called Assata a terrorist. For anyone who has even the slightest understanding of the terrorism the FBI (formally the Justice Department) has historically carried out against African liberators for the last 100 years, this should be laughable. It’s the equivalent of a cat calling for everyone to condemn the mouse for standing up for their right to live.

Absolutely not. Celebrate the life of Assata Shakur and be inspired by it. If you don’t have much information about her, start by reading the two books that are most connected to her existence – her autobiography “Assata” and “Inadmissible Evidence” a book written by her auntie Evelyn Williams, who was Assata’s attorney who worked on her case in the 1970s. Continue to raise up Assata’s name as well as all freedom fighters who refused or refuse to bow down. And, make a commitment to get engaged in the very same struggle Assata represented because we all know the absolute best and only way to truly honor someone is to continue their work. Assata’s physical body is no more, but her impact on all of us will continue and there is nothing at all our enemies can do about that unless we let them.

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