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The World Warns Africans in the U.S. "Don't Forget Who You Are!"

1/9/2020

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Former U.S. National Basketball Association (NBA) player Mahmoud Abdul Rauf, bravely refusing to acknowledge the imperialist and racist U.S. national anthem before a game in the 1990s

Based on the grade school level arguments I'm often presented with here from my writings, and the childish videos dominating youtube these days, there are unfortunately more than enough of us (Africans) who are still very much confused about who we are as a people.  Rampant liberalism is the benchmark of a society that thrives on untruths and misrepresentations.  Consequently, efforts by many of our confused elements to disparage Mother Africa by claiming no connection to her are able to exist temporarily in this reality where truth, justice, and reality, are completely disconnected, but the rest of the world is not playing along with this utter confusion.  And, there is ample evidence that Africans within the U.S. would do well to wake up and stop pretending that you are this country, and more importantly, that this country is you.
A few days ago, U.S. Army Specialist Henry Mayfield Jr., an African from the Chicago area of Illinois (U.S.), was killed along with two U.S. private contractors, in Manda Bay, Kenya.  This was a coordinated attack that was carried out by as many as four or five members of the group al-Shabad.  This killing comes on the heels of the attack two years ago where four U.S. Green Berets were killed in Niger.  The lone African among them, LaDavid Johnson, was separated from the three European soldiers and dismembered.
These deaths by Africans who were unfortunately adorning U.S. military uniforms when killed (and therefore representing U.S. imperialism) have important precedent.  Back in the 1980s, the anti-apartheid movement was in full swing.  People all over the world were protesting the illegal racist settler regime in Azania (named South Africa by Europeans).  At that time, the African National Congress (ANC), Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC), Azanian People’s Organization (AZAPO), etc., were engaged in armed excursions against the racist regime. Cuba also contributed hundreds of thousands of Cuban troops to battle back the racist and often European mercenary forces that were not only attempting to save apartheid, but expand it.  Sensing impending defeat, the U.S. began to seriously weigh the options of sending in U.S. troops to support the racist apartheid regime which up to its final moment was a staunch ally of the U.S.  The PAC and AZAPO, being Pan-Africanist formations that recognized that African people everywhere on earth are a part of the African nation, shrewdly counted on their relationships with African organizations with ties within the U.S. to deliver a clear propaganda message; “if you Africans in the U.S. decide to come here representing U.S. imperialism against your own people, be advised that we will not be taking any African prisoners from the U.S.   You will find your immediate grave upon your return home to Africa!”
The point being made here is that the grievances many colonized people around the world have against the U.S., the world’s chief imperialist power for the last 80 years, has nothing to do with African people in the U.S.  Although most of us here are completely ignorant and unaware of political developments anywhere, the people around the world who are claiming their dignity understand clearly that we are not the people making decisions that are adversely impacting their lives.  Still, as citizens of the planet, they are demanding of us that we stand with them and not on the side of our oppressors.  And, make no mistake about it, when you put on a U.S. military uniform and travel to other countries, particularly Africa, in the eyes of the world, you are standing with our oppressors.
Understanding this, you can see clearly why the reception Pan-Africanists like us receive in Africa is universally different than that received by Africans representing the U.S. military.  And, that reception isn’t just limited to countries in Africa.  Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Cuba,  as well as groups like the so-called Islamic State (of which al-Shabad is affiliated), Boko Haram, al-Queada, Hezbollah, and others have all made statements and/or taken actions that illustrate their message to us to not stand on the side of the oppressors against the majority of humanity. 
This is not to say that all of those entities are our allies.  Certainly, some of them are i.e. Cuba are, but what Africans in the U.S. need to be thinking about is how we can not alienate ourselves from the rest of the world.  Especially when the world is morally correct about the evil of the U.S. empire.  These absurd distractions taking place in our community here such as the so-called American Descendants of Slaves (ADOs), Foundational Black Americans (FBA), Africans claiming no history and allegiance to Africa, etc., are setting forth a confusion that is placing Africans from here at odds with truth and justice.  The people promoting this nonsense have dollar signs in their vision.  They are xenophobic so they don’t travel anywhere (only about 10% of Africans in the U.S. even have passports), but those of you in the U.S. military do travel.  You are letting these people fill your head with confusion that will get you killed. 
And, when that happens as it did in Kenya, Niger, and probably (unfortunately) more places to come, we don’t wish to say we told you so, but we have been telling you for decades.  No African has any business in the U.S. military.  The only military we should belong to is the All African People’s Revolutionary Army and the only U.S.A. we should be representing is the United States of Africa i.e. Pan-Africanism or one unified socialist Africa.  The wife of Johnson who was killed in Niger is still searching for answers two years later and the same will be true for Mayfield’s family and any others.  The U.S. military has proven when it comes to troops they only care about being able to ensure they are available to fight for imperialism.  Beyond that, this is a government that drops chemical weapons on its troops, provides them limited to no resources to cope with the traumas of war.  Then, abandons them to live and die in complete agony.  We must start having serious discussions within the U.S. about whether paid college tuition and a mortgage loan is worth that level of sacrifice.  Or maybe you should just ask that question to the families of Mayfield and Johnson. 
We have historically embraced economic challenge to promote the cause of justice.  This question is absolutely no different.  We realize Africans join the military for economic opportunities, but the questions of this day prompt us to question that.  The question of justice demands us to do that.  What we decide today on this question will influence what happens with our people for generations to come.


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Lea Therman
1/10/2020 07:08:35 am

Ahjamu! I agree that you are thoroughly confused. Like a long hair being slowly and torturously dragged across your buttocks, your underlying annoyance certainly comes from a lack of understanding about who you are. I listened to a statement delivered by Mayfield’s aunt and I don’t hear a trace of an African accent in her voice, so how can you use the word ‘us’ to mean that every richly melaninated person that possess a ‘certain’ phenotype is naturally a descendant of Africa? Can you name Mayfield’s African tribe or African country of origin? If not, don’t assume him to be African.

If you accept Mayfield as African you have to accept every other so-called race on earth as African too based on the purported out-of-Africa theory; including the Eurasian Albions who purportedly evolved from the African. Don’t assume allegiance to Africa from anyone based solely on phenotype. If this was the only unifying factor, then true Africans would not be fighting and killing other Africans if they recognized their common kinship.

Geopolital bullcrap aside, Africa is one big continent that extends through a strip of landmass through the Middle East and into Eurasia; no different than the American continent is one landmass that connects through a strip of land in the center that is even tinier than the one connecting Africa to Eurasia. Based on location alone, African and Europeans would have more in common genetically based on ancient migratory patterns than would a Black American or Pacific Islander does to the African.

All of us have our own unique heritage and believe it or not, there is overwhelming evidence that Black indigenous people populated the Americas long before the transatlantic slave trade began. If you bothered to do real research rather than ingest the revisionist history you have been fed you would discover that darkly-hued, richly melanated indigenous people (aka ‘Black people’) existed in every corner of the earth’s landmass.

The facial reconstruction of Luzia – the oldest skeleton found in the Americas – is shown to have skull features resembling those of Negroids, Indigenous Australians, Melanesians and the Negritos of Southeast Asia. Another American archeological dig discovered a prehistoric man nicknamed Apiuna who bore a close likeness to Luzia. Even, Naia, the oldest Native American ‘s facial skeletal reconstruction showed her to have a Negroid phenotype. None of these ancient American skeletal remains share genetic resemblance to the mongoloid Native Americans who crossed the Bering Straight landmass into the Americas from the Altai region of Siberia.

But if the preceding scientific information does not convince you that Black people populated the Americas long before the Atlantic Slave Trade, read about Albert Perry, a contemporary and unmistakable Black man and resident of South Carolina whose Y-chromosome precedes that of and is separate from the genetic African “Adam” by over 338,000 years. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23240-the-father-of-all-men-is-340000-years-old/

Next time a Black American who knows their true history tells you that they are indigenous to America and not African, you might want to believe them. Much of Black history in America was told in the reverse; which is why not even Africans know much or are taught about the Transatlantic Slave Trade until they come to America. Over 20 million Black indigenous people were kidnapped from the American content and enslaved in the Caribbean. Others were shipped to Europe and Africa and then returned to the Americas with a reclassification as African. Black Americans may have relatives in Africa, not because they descended from Africa, but because their American relatives were enslaved in Africa. Many colonizers were in fact Black Europeans who enslaved Black indigenous Americans. Latinized Black Europeans were known as Black Ladinos in Spain, who were said to have been Africans descendants who were acculturated in Europe for 100s of years. Don’t blame the Albions for getting the real Africa-descended Europeans to do their dirty work.

Blacks all over the world have been long indoctrinated by the Albions with a false narrative of African history made solely for the purpose of ridding Black indigenous Americans from their very own homeland. While there may have been a tiny amount of African enslaved the mixed in with the indigenous population more than 85% of so-called African-Americans are in fact indigenous to America. And the programming is working because now West African nations are offering citizenships to entice so-called-African-Americans to ‘return’ to a homeland from which they never originated. I wonder who is behind that agenda?

Do you wonder why only Mayfield was dismembered? Dismemberment is an act of RAGE! It’s one of the most dehumanizing acts a killer can make that stems from

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Lea Therman
1/10/2020 07:15:19 am

(continued) Do you wonder why only Mayfield was dismembered? Dismemberment is an act of RAGE! It’s one of the most dehumanizing acts a killer can make that stems from a deep level of psychological competition and aggressive need to dominate a victim in order to magnify their own sense of self worth. This act was one of deep ancestral African rage passed down through blood memory against a Black indigenous American man. The African-descended European Albion raped and pillaged their own continent, leaving their black African brethren in the dust. The black African was just projecting his anger, rage and trauma than came down from his blood memory onto one that was not his actual kin, just like his Albion brother did before him.

P.S. I’m white!

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Danchav
1/12/2020 03:28:00 am

Wow and wow..."drops the mic and exits stage left".

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