BLACK BOULE i.e. Internal Oppressors

Revolutionary greetings this blog is dealing with the internal contradictions and enemies who turned they backs on the Afrikan people and communities in the empire of amerika called The BLACK BOULE AKA TALENTED TENTH i.e. Internal Oppressors. These black men and woman are what we called euro-centric westernized thinking upper-class captalist , or i could use the term that our ancestor malcolm x uses the house nigga, these Boule negroes are on every level and field of life,business,work,entertainment,government positions they are not just occupying the entertainment field they are everywhere you can find the european capitalist slave master,actually its nothing new to the internal hinderance of the advancement of New Afrikan people in amerika, these collaberators have been around since the days of the attack on the motherland yelp right there sidelining with historical enemies helping capture our ancestors for a few goods, chump change and other materialist come ups to sooth there greedy compromising behaviors,we must realize on this rode to liberation that these boule collaberators will have to be dealt with and removed in order to gain liberation and independence from the empire of Amerika and internationally, but im a deal strictly within the empire of amerika.

For example the comrad Wide Awake states The Black Boule: Privilage and its terms you must learn overstand to get a clear view of the boule collaberators he states " To bring a clear understanding of who the Black Boule are, you first have to understand the terms, "field negroe","house negroe", and "Uncle Tom". The first two terms were coined because, although BOTH were slaves to the white man during slavery-times. One held himself above the other. The house negroe still had shitty living conditions and treatment however -- since they were typically half white or even the offspring of the plantation owner they had better digs and food than the darkies Yes, us "field negroes" kept it as real and endured torturous days in the field and ate pig scraps for dinner if we were lucky. "House negroes" spent their days and nights kissing ass and licking-up the dirt from the plantation owner's feet. Now, not all "house negroes" had a superiority complex over the "field negroes" but most did. It was the plan from the beginning to pit black slave against black slave to maintain white supremacy. Where there is bickering; there is no unity.

When there are class levels; there can be no unity. The white man knew this and controlled us with it. Is this beginning to look or sound familiar? If you have time check out the Willie Lynch letter. This will give more insight to the psychological warefare waged against blacks since the beginning of slavery " This view is basically recognizing that in the black colony there were two classes forming and being created by the colonialist with a oppressive tactic of seperation divide and conquer maneuvers, wether these boule negroes knew it or not they were being created by there slave masters to be used in there strategic warfare plans to keep the new afrikans controlled by there own kind, The black proletariats vs the black Boule was in full gear through the tyranny of slavery, before i move on lets get a defintion of the term " Uncle tom" the comrad mention in identifying these collaberators:

"I will go straight to URBAN DICTIONARY to define "Uncle Tom". There is no need to go into the whole regurg of who wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin...it's critiscisms or anything because I really don't care. This is what the term means at this day and age. 1. Uncle Tom A black man who will do anything to stay in good standing with "the white man" including betray his own people Now, the "Uncle Tom" isn't neccesarily light-skinned. The "Uncle Tom" is the black man who is willing to do ANYTHING not to be considered as lowly as us darkies (field negroes). Keep in mind we are all in the same boat, but these are the people that are trying to 'jumpship' for a better quality of life. Sell-outs. In a modern sense, this is still very prevailant. You have to consider all venues in which a black person excells in the United States. The brainwashed black person is quick to say everything they have is due to hard-work and a good education, but it's not. It's due to a sucessful network of sell outs. That brings us to black fraternities...

Before i move forward to these fraternies i wanna state that it was w.e. dubois who came forth to the table with information with this talented tenth ideology at the time i dont know if he was trying set a standard or principles for the talented tenth or he was speaking on it and didn't realize he was feeding the euro-supremacy strategic plan to use these boule collaborators as a part of controllism or it could have been that these neo-talented tenth didnt take heed to his words, heres a statement from a corperate european-amerikan C.e.o. he states;


"SELFISHNESS- INGRAINED IN THEIR MINDS THROUGH SLAVERY IS ONE OF THE MAJOR WAYS WE CONTINUE TO CONTAIN THEM ONE OF THERE OWN DUBOIS SAID THERE WAZ INNATE DIVISION IN THERE CULTURE A (TALENTED TENTH) HE CALLED IT HE WAS CORRECT IN HIS DEDUCTION THAT THERE ARE SEGMENTS OF THEIR CULTURE THAT HAS ACHIEVED SOME FORM OF SUCCESS HOWEVER THAT SEGMENT MISSED THE FULLNESS OF HIS WORK THEY DIDNT READ THAT THE (TALENTED TENTH) WAS RESPONSIBLE TO AID THE NON-TALENTED NINETY-PERCENT IN ACHIEVING A BETTER LIFE WHICH THESE ENTERTAINERS DNT DO INSTEAD THE SEGMENT CREATED A ANOTHER CLASS THE "BUPPIE" CLASS THAT LOOKS DOWN ON THERE PEOPLE OR AIDS THEM IN A CONDESCENDING MANNER, THEY WILL ACHIEVE WHAT WE HAVE THEIR SELFISHNESS DOES NOT ALLOW THEM TO BE ABLE TO WORK TOGETHER ON ANY PROJECT OR ENDEAVOR OF SUBSTANCE WHEN THEY GET TOGETHER THEIR SELFISHNESS LET THEIR EGOS GET IN THE WAY OF THEIR GOALS THEIR SO CALLED ORGANIZATIONS SEEMS TO ONLY WANT TO PROMOTE THEIR NAME WITHOUT MAKING ANY REAL CHANGE IN THEIR COMMUNITY THEY ARE CONTENT TO SIT IN OUR CONFERENCES AN CONVENTIONS IN OUR HOTELS AN TALK ABOUT WHAT THEY WILL DO WHILE THEY AWARD PLAQUES TO THE BEST SPEAKERS NOT THE ST DOERS IS THEIR NO END TO THERE SELFISHNESS.. THE STEADY FASTILY REFUSE TO SEE THAT TOGETHER EACH ACHIEVES MORE(TEAM) THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND THAT THEY ARE NO BETTER THAN EACH OTHER OF WHAT THEY OWN AS A MATTER OF FACT MOST OF THE "BUPPIES" ARE BUT ONE OR TWO PAY CHECKS AWAY FROM POVERTY ALL OF WHICH IS UNDER OUR CONTROL OF OUR PENS IN OUR OFFICES AN OUR ROOMS WE WILL CONTINUE TO CONTAIN THEM AS LONG AS THEY REFUSE TO READ CONTINUE TO BUY ANYTHING THEY WANT KEEP THINKING THEY ARE HELPING THEIR COMMUNITIES BY PAYING DUES TO ORGANIZATIONS WICH DO LITTLE OTHER THEN HOLD LAVISH CONVENTIONS IN OUR HOTELS " BY THE WAY DONT WORRY ABOUT THEM READING THIS LETTER REMEMBER THEY DONT READ"


This is a propagandist statement with sir truths in it wether it came from one OF these capitalist corperations slave master c.e.o. your guesse is good has mines even though it was said to be printed in a wall st article in new york times but overall you can see the strategic tactics that they have employed in there ongoing war to keep us controlled by our own cowardice kind who are in positions in the western society upper classs rich classes to finance liberation and help us gain victory but they rather be cowards and help keep us oppressed now to these black orgs(Fraternities) i wont stay here long e.g. There are nine historically Black Greek letter organizations (BGLOs) that make up the National Pan-Hellenic Council. Collectively, these organizations are referred to as "The Divine Nine." Each of these fraternities and sororities is rich in history - ties to one or more of these organizations may be found in many college-educated Black families in the United States. info from: Black Greek.com Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Founded 1906, Cornell University Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Founded 1908, Howard University Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Founded 1911, Indiana University Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Founded 1911, Howard University Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Founded 1913, Howard University Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Founded 1914, Howard University Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Founded 1920, Howard University Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Founded 1922, Butler University Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Founded 1963, Morgan State University Now you can see there is a web of black people that are essentially "Uncle Tom's"....obviously willing to go through the 'white' way to grab some spoils. They believe they are special and chosen. When in reality they are sell-outs.

What do they sell? GARBAGE on all fronts...propoganda. This is where you get your successful black politicians that don't care about black communities, black bussinessmen that don't support black bussiness, black actors that portray stereotypes and cross-dressers, black actresses that portray whores, black doctors that prescribe big buck PHARMACEUTICAL$, and black lawyers that lie to make a living etc... These people are AMBITIOUS. Not a good quality in the eyes of The Most High. It is utterly detestable! The bottom of the barrel. These are the lowly scum that mascarade as the black community. They are just SPIN. If you know a black person on a one-on-one basis you will notice our personal behavior is not in line with the perpetuated stereotype. let me say many wanna know "How did they get into such an elite clique?" -and- "Well then... why do a lot of black people still collectively act stereotypical manner?" comrad Wide Awake states " First off, they don't have to be from a frat or sorority...that is just one branch of the network. These people do some despicable and homosexual acts in secret to seal the deal. That's how they prove they are in it for the long haul. The knowledge of their nasty deeds is the black-mail to keep their asses in check. That's why you see so many black actors/actresses/singers looking a bit on the fruity or butch side. They swing both ways. They are shrewd and ruthless. In the entertainment industry, these Boule members only produce material that degrades black people (their own).

They undermine the black community from within like a cancer. This causes the young and impressionable to act in a predictable way (herd mentality) making them easy to control..Most black people are none the wiser of their real agenda" and many wanna know who are the opportunist of today's Neo-black boule comrad again states " SO WHO ARE THE SUPPOSED BOULE?? Well...It's not hard to recognize a status-seeker. Boule are always SEEN : ...criticizing the black community they've turned their back on ("pick yourself up by the bootstraps" BS) ...on tv, movies, and radio (of course) ...making millions/ billions. ..."donating" to "charities" ...attending upperclass galas ...cross-dressing in movies ...perpetuating stereotypes ...flapping their gums on Oprah ...they tend to "come from a long line of WHATEVER." ...often seen on the Forbes list"



Let me add on to this thats just mainly your entertainment Black boule but i would like to say that its not far fetch from the actions of your everday corperate business work place, your political local and state offices, There the main collaberators of the control system they are more identifiable with the traitors who help the siege and attack on our afrikan ancestors cause there the ones who are right there beneath notice i said beneath the global elites of Amerika whos helping them keep us un-liberated and not free they are also part of your Army,navy, airforce, military units of the united states of amerika in high position doing as the " House nigga" did in slavery overseeing us with there whipps but they traded they whips in for mind control thrashing the mentals of the non-conscious New afrikans with patriotic mindwash/mentacide Amerikanism, especially the ones who still suffer from post-traumatic slave syndrome Neo-slavery is more mental then physical in our day and time and more dangerous cause once you got them mentally the physical aspect is like a robot all they doing is pushing the buttons and the boule negore will take orders verbally and they will do what master say.

Thats why i stated not to long ago before its all said and done we(conscious New Afrikans) gonna have to clash with our un-conscious brothers and sisters victims of Amerikan patriotic negro syndrome is what i call it now being used in the Black boule the uncle tom collaberators of european supremacy in order for us to get free clashing is very visual at this point i like to say Rip to Steve cokley Minister of information on a global level for battling the beast and keeping us informed up till his last breath, Us New Afrikans must keep these uncle toms in the scope the black boule cause there the main cause for our internal problems and our standstill in advancing closer to freedom and independence from the empire there the road block to cutting our historical enemies heads off and raising that Red black and Green flag in victory once again Free THE LAND REBUILD POWER TO THOSE WHO DONT FEAR FREEDOM AND REFUSE TO REMAIN FREEDUMB " THE BLACK BOULE MUST BE DESTROYED" written by Haki Kweli Shakur(T Martin) contact facebook.com/HakiShakur twitter.com/Haki_Shakur IG G_starmov3r

Man,God,Civilization (Pineal Body) John G Jackson

Pg 25 The factors and evidences of evolution, Pineal Body: At the base of the brain is a little organ known as the pineal body which exercises control over the functioning of the glands of internatl secretion. in the words of a distinguished neuro-surgeon: " The main function of the pineal organ is to retard the action of the hormones, or endocrines of the other organs, e.g. pituitrin, thyroxin, insulin,oestrin, and the testicular hormone, of the pituitary,thyroid, pancreas,ovary and testis, respectively. The pineal organ is thus a super-endocrine organ that checks over activity on the part of any member of the endocrine system" (10, p, 107n).. The pineal body is described in starling'ss Physiology as "a vestigial remnant of a primitive dorsal eye." McCabe in discussing the pinel organ states, " It is clear the relic of a third eye that once functioned on top of the head in a primitive animal. One can often see this third eye, through now covered with skin, standing out like a large marble on top of the head of a crocodile. In a very primitive New Zealeand lizard, the tuatara, it plainly shows structure of an eye, with retins and optic nerve in a state of decay. From the reptile level we trace it through the higher animals, sinking deeper and deeper in the head until it becomes the pineal body" (154,p 244) Admiral Beadnell made a study of the tuatara,and in explaining the evolutionary signifigance of the pineal body, gave his objections to calling it a third eye in the following words' "Remains of this third eye (as it is wrongly called) are present in lampreys, frogs and lizards, and can sometimes be seen in the frog on the top of the head between the normal lateral eyes as the so-called Stieda's organ. In the extinct amphibian reptiles of the Paleozoic and Mesozoic periods, this median eye, or rathe a pair of eyes, was much better developed. Recent embrylogical research has demonstrated that the remaining pineal eye in Sphenodon(tuatara) is the left eye of the ancestrial pair, while that in the lamprey is the right one. Birds and mammals also possess vestiges of this extra median pair of eyes" (10 pp. 106-70) From John G Jacksons Book Man,God,Civilizations on the third eye pineal gland/body

The Criminalization of Poverty in Capitalist Amerika - Jalil Muntaqim

The Poor, Welfare and Prisons An anonymous poet in the 1700’s wrote about crime: “The law will punish a man or woman who steals the goose from the hillside, but lets the greater robber loose who steals the hillside from the goose.”[l] When talking about “the greater robber” it seemed particularly appropriate in the midst of the biggest financial rip-off in history of this country to think about the billions of dollars the Savings & Loan criminals stole, and about how most of them have gotten away with it. I thought about the complete insanity of how this country defines crimes in society. If you steal $5 you’re a thief, but if you steal $5 million --you’re a financier. Thirty percent of the wealth of this country is controlled by one-half of one percent of the people. Eighty percent of the wealth is controlled by ten percent of the people. I think that is a crime. In the dictionary, the word “crime” means “an act which is against the law.” Crime applies particularly to an act that breaks a law that has been made for public good. Crime in one country, the dictionary continued, “may be entirely overlooked by the law in another country or may not apply at all in a different historical period.” That was interesting.

What that really said was that concepts of “crime” are not eternal. The very nature of crime is socio-psychological and defined by time and place and those who have the power to make definitions; by those who write dictionaries, so to speak. The more I thought about that and about those who write the laws, or at least define what law is, the more profound it became. I believe we all will agree that the United States is a nation of criminals. From its inception as a settler nation, exiled British criminals stole the land and lives from Native Americans and Africans. They justified their actions with making and defining the law of the land, for example defining Africans as 3/5 of a man during slavery. Hence the power to define is an awesome power. It is the power of propaganda. It is the ability to manipulate our ideas, to limit our agenda, to mold how we see, and to shape what we look at. It is the power to interpret the picture we see when we look at the world for the American people in general, and New Afrikans, in particular. It is the power to place the picture we see when we look at the world. It is the power to place a frame around the picture, to define where it begins and ends. It is, in fact, the power to define where our vision begins and ends, the power to create our collective consciousness.


That kind of social propaganda is not only tremendously powerful, but it is also mostly invisible. We can’t fight what we don’t see. Most people accept the images and definitions that we have been taught as true, neutral, self-evident, and for always; so that the power to paint the future, to define what is right and wrong, what is lawful and what is criminal, is really the power to win the battle for our minds. And to win it without ever having to fight it. Simply said, it is hard to fight an enemy who has an outpost in our minds. This indicates the need for revolutionary nationalists to develop a national agitation/propaganda mechanism. Specifically, nationalists need a single national publication and organ that represents the unified development of NAIM (The New African Independence Movement) to which each formation and organization contributes and supports its distribution. The Social Dynamics of Crime Though some may question, as did Marx, the system’s fairness in applying its rules, today most people don’t question the basis of the system itself. That is, people don’t question the relationship between those who own and those who don’t. Though many people vote every four years on who governs, they never vote on and rarely question what governs. People don’t challenge the legitimacy of the system, they accept it. The exception of course is when the oppressed rebel in insurrections. But usually we don’t step outside of the frame around the picture. We don’t disconnect the dots. Emile Durkheim argued that crime is “normal” and necessary social behavior. According to Durkheim, “the inevitability of crime is linked to the differences (heterogeneity) within a society. Since people are so different from one another and employ such a variety of methods and forms of behavior to meet their needs, it is not surprising that some will resort to criminality. Thus as long as human differences exist, crime is inevitable and one of the fundamental conditions of social life.” [2]


In this regard, the conservative view echoes this sentiment inasmuch as they seek to establish a genetic trait that explains criminal behavior. They argue, “If liberals have trouble with the idea that people’s genes influence their chances of committing crimes, conservatives have trouble with the idea that poverty causes crime. Conservatives do not deny that the poor commit more crimes than the rich. But instead of assuming that poverty causes crime, conservatives usually assume that poverty and crime have a common cause, namely the deficient character or misguided values of the poor.” (Jencks, p. 11) Concomitantly, the neo-liberals are essentially giving credence to the conservative position as it pertains to the “underclass.” For instance sociologist William J. Wilson purports, “The liberal perspective on the ghetto underclass has become less persuasive and convincing in public discourse principally because many of those who represent traditional liberal views on social issues have been reluctant to discuss openly or, in some instances, even to acknowledge the sharp increase in social pathologies in ghetto communities.” (Wilson, p. 6) Needless to say, such ideas as genetic traits are the cause of crime set a dangerous precedent. Trying to discern the social pathologies of the underclass harbors views that purport the wholesale contamination of entire communities. However, if one were to advocate that criminal behavior, especially of the poor, is either caused by genetic traits and/or born of social pathologies, then indisputably, it must be espoused that much of America suffers from these same causes.


In the March 12, 1993, issue of the Wall Street Journal an article entitled “Common Criminals --Just About Everyone Violates Some Laws, Even Model Citizens,” byline by Stephen J. Adler and Wade Lambert stated: We are a nation of lawbreakers. We exaggerate tax-deductible expenses, lie to customs officials, bet on card games and sports events, disregard jury notices, drive while intoxicated --and hire illegal childcare workers. The last of these was recently the crime of the moment, and Janet Reno wouldn’t have been in the position to be confirmed unanimously as attorney general yesterday if Zoe Baird had obeyed the much-flouted immigration and tax laws. But the crime of the moment could have been something else, and next time probably will be. This is because nearly all people violate some laws, and many people run afoul of dozens without ever being considered, or considering themselves, criminals. When we look at downtown urban centers, when we look at the lines of humanity waiting for food or a bed at the missions; if we look at the faces of people living in cardboard boxes on the streets of the cities, we must know that a crime has been committed. When we look at the faces of the dispossessed people, we see faces that look like people who lived in California when it was part of Mexico. In Miami we see faces of people whose great-great-grandparents were abducted and brought here from Africa.


In America, in the l990s, as was the case in England in the 1800s, it is a crime to be poor. The poorer you are, the more criminal you are. If you are so poor that you have no place to live, and you live on the pavement or sleep in a car or in a park, you have committed a crime. It’s against the law to sleep on the streets or in a park. If we have no home, it’s against the law to sleep anywhere. Walter I. Trattner in From Poor Law to Welfare State: A History of Social Welfare in America makes the following observation in opposition to government policies that sought “to dismantle all benefit programs for working-age people except perhaps for unemployment insurance.” (p. 335) Indeed, others argued that structural changes in the economy and the erosion in anti-poverty programs were the causes of the problem, and that a strengthening, not dismantling, of the welfare state was essential in order to solve it. Such was the theme of Michael Harrington’s The New American Poverty (1984), a depressing sequel pronouncement, “The poor are still there.” They are poor, however, said Harrington, not because of any personal shortcomings or decisions on their part, but because of changes in the international economy, especially the “de-industrialization” of America, and the way in which they have been treated, or mistreated, here at home. They are the uprooted and the homeless, products of de-institutionalization, cuts in welfare programs, shortages in low-rent housing, and other social and economic forces over which they have no control; undocumented aliens who have become the new sweatshop laborers; unemployed blue-collar workers victimized by the disappearance of steady and relatively well-paying manufacturing jobs in the “smokestack industries” as a result of technological advances and global competition; white-collar workers who lost their jobs due to reorganization schemes in the name of efficiency, plant closings, or moves to new locations in the so-called Sunbelt; hopeless, uneducated, and untrained young blacks unable to get and hold jobs; families headed by poor, unmarried women; uprooted farmers and farm laborers hurt by the elimination of the subsistence farm and the agricultural depression; and millions of others in unskilled unsteady (and often parttime), low-wage, dead-end benefitless jobs in the service sector of the economy -- cooks in fast food restaurants, dishwashers and chambermaids in hotels and motels, janitors and cleaning women in schools, hospitals, nursing homes, and the like. Harrington and others demand that the government spend billions of dollars on social programs to meet the needs of these “rejects” of society. (p. 336)


When the government fails to be responsible to its citizens and ignores the social dynamics of poverty, people are generally forced to seek illegitimate means to eke out an existence. In this case, it is a question of national oppression, whereby the imperialist government maintains exploitative relationships with New Afrikans, Native Americans, Chicanos, and Asians. Too many of these “rejects” of society are caught in the vicious web of the criminal justice system. But the real criminals are those who create the socioeconomic conditions that perpetuate impoverishment. The real criminal is the colonial government itself. It then becomes necessary to assess the pathology of the capitalist and social policy makers that make crime big business, and deflect culpability of their criminal behavior. Crime is big Business The political decisions of the bankers are decisions about who will be poor. Corporate decisions made in the late ’50s to remove industry from communities of color were about who would be unemployed. Decisions by developers and bankers about redevelopment (redlining and gentrification) are decisions about who will be homeless. Such decisions affect everyone, but people have no say in the matter. Generally people, especially the poor, have no say in most social and economic decisions that affect their lives. Somehow that is not part of the democratic method of government, and because people have no say in the process, creating homelessness is not criminal, but being homeless is. Runaway plants and plant closures are legal, but vagrancy is a crime. Trattner says: Meanwhile the plight of the nation’s hungry and homeless worsened.


In November, 1984, in a pastoral letter on “Catholic Social Thinking and the U.S. Economy,” American Roman Catholic bishops had called poverty in America a “social and moral scandal that must not be ignored,” and stated that “works of charity cannot and should not have to substitute for humane public policy. … A little more than a year later, the Physicians Task Force on Hunger in America reported on a two-year nationwide study it had conducted and concluded that, despite fifty-eight continuous months of economic expansion, hunger was more widespread and serious than at any time in the fifteen years (affecting some twenty million Americans), largely, in its words, because of “governmental failure” … (Trattner, p. 337-8) Hunger and homelessness are deliberately imposed socioeconomic conditions of the disenfranchised large numbers of the American population. This is especially significant when consideration is given to the method and means by which the malfeasance of the powers that be operate to ensure that such conditions stay the same. Thus such pathology ensures the rich get richer, while the poor get prison and early death. Max Weber has argued that society is structured to function in a specific way to ensure its existence, that the social structure is subject to the mechanics of government, and that governing is all important above and beyond the immediate needs of the people. Weber held that social stratification depends on the distribution of three resources: wealth (economic resources), power (political resources), and prestige (social resources). Thus, in our society, wealthy business owners often gain power by contributing to political campaigns and earn prestige by making large donations to charity or to the arts. In other cases, however, the three are not linked. For example, in our society an individual acquires less prestige (in most circles) than someone who acquires comparable wealth by legitimate means. Artists, the clergy, and others may enjoy prestige but not wealth. On occasion people with few economic resources and little social prestige -- bureaucrats, for instance -- exercise considerable power. … Weber held that because stratification is multidimensional, the formation of groups depends on which interests or identities people choose to emphasize. In capitalist societies, for example, ethnic and national identifications have proved more important than economic or class identification.[3]


We are able to determine the social and racial implications of certain classes, then, having a vested interest in crime. It can be argued that because an elite class of criminals is in charge, they commit capital crimes, crimes against society and humanity. The jails are overflowing, but that doesn’t seem to help -- because the real criminals aren’t in jail. They’re in the board rooms and in the White House. They are the social policy makers that run this country. And today, they are increasing social repression by building more prisons, creating harsher legal sanctions (i.e. 52 death penalty laws, three strikes you’re out), and becoming ever more heedless to the social implications of poverty as an impetus to committing crime. Under their misleadership, over five million people are homeless, 37 million have no health insurance, 30 million are illiterate, 30 million more are functionally illiterate, one million are incarcerated, and 60 million live in poverty and are struggling day to day. By contrast, a tiny fraction of the population controls enormous wealth. The median net worth of the top 1% of households is 22 times greater than the median net worth of the remaining 99% of outstanding stocks and shares. The wealth of the richest 5% of the population increased by 37% from 1977 to 1988. The wealth of the richest 1% increased by 74.2%. At the same time, the number of people in poverty increased by one-third. In this case crime does pay. The U.S. Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics announced on July 15, 1990 that federal, state and local governments spent $61 billion for civil and criminal justice in 1988, a 34 percent increase since 1985. Other findings in the report were that federal, state, local governments spent $248 per capita: $114 for police, $78 for corrections, $54 for judicial and legal services, and $2 for other items.


Almost half of the nation’s justice spending was for police protection. Corrections accounted for almost one third of justice costs. Spending for corrections grew the most during that period, by 65 percent. Since 1979, state spending for prison construction increased 593 percent in actual (constant) dollars. That’s some 2.6 times the rate of spending to operate prison facilities. In October of 1988 the nation’s civil and criminal justice system employed 1.6 million persons, and the total October payroll for them was almost $3.7 billion. [4] Crime is big business in America. Annually the laws are changed to ensure profitability in the industry of crime. Social conditions that serve to maintain levels of poverty, feed the industry of crime, also put stress on the social stratifications of society. Given the fact that America is a nation of criminals as elucidated in the Wall Street Journal article, social conflict is inevitable. It then becomes a matter of identifying the real culprits of crime, and seeking the means to have them become accountable for their criminal behavior. This may very well include the redistribution of their wealth, and the reorganization of the social contract between the government and the governed. In response to the stratification outlined above, it requires revolutionary nationalist and socialist efforts to formulate a national political agenda and policy that will challenge the prevailing social contract between the oppressed and the oppressor nation. This means revolutionary nationalists and socialists must have a clear and concise mass-line and political program that identifies and explains the nature of poor peoples’ oppression, and how they are to be organized to confront their oppression. Notes

Without A New Afrikan Personality First There Will Be No RNA (Cinque Kofi Kinaya)

In the name of the Creator, to Whom all Praise is due! And in the memory of all our Freedom Fighting Ancestors, both known and unknown; who dared all; who sacrificed all; and died for our struggle for self - determination; Land and Independence. Now it is our time to do no less!Greetings of Peace and to Us belong a sovereign Black Nation. We are gathered here this weekend in Detroit, Michigan, to commemorate the 34th Anniversary of the founding of the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika (PG - RNA). The theme of New Afrikan Nation Day 2002 is, “Revisiting the Vision - Accomplishing the Mission.” Look back to 1968, a year in which 500 various Black Nationalists converged in this city and founded the PG - RNA. Indeed 1968 was a year of proclaiming a Black Nation and political murders. It was a year that 16 year-old Black Panther member ‘Little’ Bobby Hutton was viciously killed by racist Oakland police. Moreover in 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated, resulting in over 150 U.S. cities being engulfed in flames, rocked by Black rebellions; 1968 was a year that John Carlos and Tommy Smith raised clinched - fist salutes at the Olympics. It was a high tide year of Black struggle against the amerikan empire. From the first PG - RNA president, Robert Williams, who became an Ancestor, to our current PG - RNA president, Demetri Marshall, much has changed from 1968 to 2002.


The world has changed; the competition and crisis of imperialism has made the amerikan empire change, which has externally impacted upon our captive Black Nation, causing tremendous adverse changes. Inside the Black Nation, much has changed; our human rights struggle; our decolonization struggle for self - determination; Land and Independence, is at a very low - tide. Youthful Black power salutes have changed to throwing - up gang signs; youth saying Black Power has changed to saying ‘it’s all about getting paid’. Urban political power has changed from white mayors to Black mayors neglecting Black neighborhoods. Black labor has changed to becoming economically obsolete. Black men’s status has changed from working to being massively warehoused in prisons. In many instances police murders have changed from white pigs to Black soldier cops killing Black people. The school systems have changed in our communities from white teachers miseducating our children to, in many instances Black teachers doing the same mentacide.

Our neighborhoods have changed from Black businesses and Black Panther survival programs to dope houses, mega churches, and foreign economic monopoly. Alien businesses controlling almost every grocery stores, party stores, gas stations, coney - island restaraunts, used car lots, pawn shops / gold exchange, laundry mats, clothing stores, video stores, cleaners, and phone - pager shops. Most importantly, from my perspective, the New Afrikan personality has changed, from believing We could ‘Free the Land’, now to acting like We want some ‘Free Land’, or maybe ‘Buy the Land’ when We get reparations. For the most part, We are now abstract New Afrikans; superficial New Afrikans; We have basically African - American personalities, with New Afrikan lip - service. We lead ‘double - lives’; We say We want to ‘Free the Land’; but We don’t engage in nation - building; We say the community is more important than the individual (NA Creed #3); but We act like the individual is more important than the community. We primarily engage in surviving under the amerikan empire; instead of progressing toward Nationhood. This internal contradiction (loyalty vs. betrayal), reflects the dual - identity disorder in the New Afrikan personality; as W.E. B. DuBois stated:”One ever feels his two - ness, an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body; whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.” These warring ideals DuBois mentioned causes hypocrisy in our lives; it keeps us in a state of confusion; it causes split priorities and a ‘love - hate’ dilemma towards the amerikan empire; it results in a half - baked attitude towards nation - building.

For the New Afrikan Independence Movement (NAIM) to progress, an individual internal synthesis must occur, where the New Arikan personality becomes paramount - primary: *The New Afrikan personality affirmation is based on point #14 of the New Afrikan Creed:”i will keep myself clean in body, dress, and speech, knowing that i am a light set on a hill, a true representative of what We are building.” *The standard affirmation of the New Afrikan personality is based on point #10 of the New Afrikan Creed:”i will give my life if that is necessary. i will give my time, my mind, my strength, and my wealth because this IS necessary” *The mission affirmation of the New Afrikan personality is based on point #9 of the New Afrikan Creed:”Therefore i pledge to struggle without cease until We have won sovereignty. i pledge to struggle without fail until We have built a better condition than the world has yet known.” *The faith affirmation of the New Afrikan personality is based on point #1 of the New Afrikan Creed:”i believe in the spirituality, humanity, and genius of Black people and in our new pursuit of these values.” *The organizing affirmation of the New Afrikan personality is based on point #15 of the New Afrikan Creed:”i will be patient and uplifting with the deaf, dumb, and blind; and i will seek by word and deed to heal the Black family; to bring into the Movement and into the Community, mothers and fathers, brothers and sister left by the wayside.”


From my perspective, developing and solidifying the New Afrikan personality is a prerequisite for advancement and Independence. Our Independence movement without strong New Afrikan personalities won’t be able to endure the necessary sacrifices to ‘Free the land’. Without this New Afrikan personality We can’t ‘Accomplish the Mission’. We will only continue to ‘Dream the Land’. Rebuild to Win to Free the Land! *Cinque Kofi Kinaya

Mama Moses The Underground Railroad and Freedom Riders on the Same Road to Liberation

She was born a slave and severely abused by Massa, yet; she never gave up the fight. In fact, she not only refused to give up, she won the fight for freedom, and brought more than 70 slaves to freedom with her.She was born a slave and severely abused by Massa, yet; she never gave up the fight. In fact, she not only refused to give up, she won the fight for freedom, and brought more than 70 slaves to freedom with her. Tubman suffered severe head trauma as an adolescent that left her with life long debilitating temporal lobe damage (Larson, 2004). It is said that she refused to help restrain another slave so that he could be beaten because he had left the fields without permission. The other slave ran away and as he did so, his Massa threw a heavy weight at him which missed him and hit Tubman instead, cracking open her skull. She was left without medical treatment for two days and sent back to work in the fields. For the rest of her life, she suffered from disabling seizures, narcoleptic attacks, and headaches. She also experienced powerful dreams and visions, which she considered to be divine revelations from God. Harriet Tubman, also known as Mama Moses, is known mostly for her humanitarian and anti slavery efforts.


She escaped slavery in 1849 and went straight to Philadelphia, where she rescued her family. Using the safe houses and antislavery activists that comprised the Underground Railroad, she brought family members and dozens of others, one group at a time in the dark of night, out of the state and into freedom. It is said that Mama Moses never lost a passenger (Lowry, 2008). Large rewards were offered for the return of many of the fugitive slaves, but no one then knew that Mama Moses was the one helping them. When the Southern-dominated Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, requiring law officials in free states to aid efforts to recapture slaves, she helped guide fugitives farther north into Canada, where slavery was prohibited.


Volume 2 of Hoodoo and Conjure Quarterly features an article about Harriet Tubman by new contributor Witchdoctor Utu. Utu is the founder of the Dragon Ritual Drummers, the Niagara Voodoo Shrine, and is a member and drummer for the New Orleans Voodoo Spiritual Temple. Utu has a unique perspective on the conjure tradition as it was brought to and developed in Canada. As one who lives and works at the “end of the Railroad” so to speak here in St. Catharines Ontario Canada, I have a rather unique perspective on the traditions of Hoodoo, Voodoo and the conjuring ways of the North American tradition. It is here that many of the freedom seeking slaves brought with them, across the U.S. border and into my region in Niagara, via the Underground Railroad, an entirely distinctive brand of conjure. Harriet Tubman, the legendary conductor of the clandestine movement that brought several hundred people to freedom in St. Catharines alone, resided here for many years… While Quakers and Christians of a few sects were supporters and enablers of the cause, the religious and spiritual nature of those that made the journey over the years was as diverse and colorful as the quilts that came to symbolize the movement. Indeed, many of the freedom seekers were renowned root doctors and conjurers, and like Harriet Tubman herself, diviners. Spells of invisibility, protection, and animal totemic magick were common and paramount to each and every journey. At the height of the movement, there was a bounty on her head for $40,000 dead or alive. Harriet began to be known as “The Moses of her people” later becoming known as “Black Moses” and now more commonly as “Mama Moses”.


As one who lives and works at the “end of the Railroad” so to speak here in St. Catharines Ontario Canada, I have a rather unique perspective on the traditions of Hoodoo, Voodoo and the conjuring ways of the North American tradition. It is here that many of the freedom seeking slaves brought with them, across the U.S. border and into my region in Niagara, via the Underground Railroad, an entirely distinctive brand of conjure. Harriet Tubman, the legendary conductor of the clandestine movement that brought several hundred people to freedom in St. Catharines alone, resided here for many years… While Quakers and Christians of a few sects were supporters and enablers of the cause, the religious and spiritual nature of those that made the journey over the years was as diverse and colorful as the quilts that came to symbolize the movement. Indeed, many of the freedom seekers were renowned root doctors and conjurers, and like Harriet Tubman herself, diviners. Spells of invisibility, protection, and animal totemic magick were common and paramount to each and every journey. At the height of the movement, there was a bounty on her head for $40,000 dead or alive. Harriet began to be known as “The Moses of her people” later becoming known as “Black Moses” and now more commonly as “Mama Moses”.


I am deeply touched by the story of Mama Moses and grateful for this unique conjure tradition that is shared with us by Utu. Details about Mama Moses, building a shrine to her and suggestions for honoring her and her followers are provided in Volume 2 of Hoodoo & Conjure Quarterly, which will be out next month. Ninety-eight years after the death of Mama Moses, the fight for freedom and equality was still going strong. A court ruling had passed desegregating interstate transportation and hundreds of people fighting for freedom rode through the south on buses to test the new law. Those who rode the buses were called Freedom Riders. Fifty years ago, the Freedom Riders arrived on buses to New Orleans and were greeted at their destinations by angry, violent mobs. Yesterday, five of the original Freedom Riders stepped off the bus onto the paved streets of the Crescent City. This time, “they were greeted with music and thunderous applause” (Urbaszewski, 2011). My, the times they are a changin’.

7 Powerful Goddesses of Afrika oldest Monotheistic Belief

Revolutionary Greetings this blog is to show that the woman/wombman The great Matriarch of Matriarchy is the oldest known monotheistic belief of interpretation of what many in modern times call God many dont know that word god origins track back to the feminine etymologies of words that describe the feminine detail, actually the oldes image of god is a female e.g. Mother God of Willendorf She is inspired by Venus of Willendorf, believed to be the oldest image of God in existence, a small sculpture, perhaps as old as 70,000 BCE. She is an omnipotent creator and giver of life, fertility and abundance, This why we must continue to research and conclude to why she was subjugated and removed from here stance as the principle first known concept of god we all know what patriarchy masculine domination in religios has done to remove her for political control and spiritual control of the mind body and soul i think this has to be destroyed and return the Wombman and most of this tyranny of the mind and physical being in life will return to its peaceful domain especially for Afrikan people heres 7 more goddess of afrika enjoy.... -Rebuild Goddesses can be found in the historical beliefs or present day observances of most cultures and religions. In some cultures Goddesses represent nature and the earth, motherhood and love. However, in some cultures Goddesses are associated with death, war, and destruction. The word goddess is a combination of the Germanic word god and the Latinate suffix -ess. The term became a part of Middle English language around 1350 and is used to describe a female deity. The word goddess can describe a female deity of a monotheistic belief system with a single creator deity or a polytheistic belief system with many deities. While almost every culture includes the reverence of female deities, this article features seven Goddesses from various parts of Africa. Atete: Atete is an Ethiopian Goddess of spring and fertility. Atete is celebrated by farmers who leave a portion of their yield at the end of a harvest season. This offering is accompanied by women singing traditional songs. Buk: Buk is a Goddess revered in the southern regions of Ethiopia. She represents the fertility of women. When a woman in this region menstruates it is said to signify her union with Buk. Mawu: Buk is a Goddess revered in the southern regions of Ethiopia. She represents the fertility of women. When a woman in this region menstruates it is said to signify her union with Buk. Asase Ya: Buk is a Goddess revered in the southern regions of Ethiopia. She represents the fertility of women. When a woman in this region menstruates it is said to signify her union with Buk. Lamia: Lamia is a serpent Goddess observed in Libya with the body of a serpent and the head and breasts of a woman. Lamia is also called the Daughter of Heaven and the Great Lady. Lamia has been depicted in Greek mythology as a child-eating demon. Medusa: Medusa is the serpent Goddess of Libya. She represents female wisdom, female mysteries, and the cycles of life and death. In Greek mythology Medusa is characterized as a monster who turns people to stone. Ngame: To the Akan of Ghana, Ngame is a moon Goddess who gives humans and animals their souls at birth by shooting them with arrows from her moon-shaped bow. Ref Asante George

West Afrika The Dogon, the Nommos and Sirius B

The Dogon, the Nommos and Sirius B: In Mali, West Africa, lives a tribe of people called the Dogon. The Dogon are believed to be of Egyptian decent and their astronomical lore goes back thousands of years to 3200 BC. According to their traditions, the star Sirius has a companion star which is invisible to the human eye. This companion star has a 50 year elliptical orbit around the visible Sirius and is extremely heavy. It also rotates on its axis. This legend might be of little interest to anybody but the two French anthropologists, Marcel Griaule and Germain Dieterlen, who recorded it from four Dogon priests in the 1930's. Of little interest except that it is exactly true. How did a people who lacked any kind of astronomical devices know so much about an invisible star? The star, which scientists call Sirius B, wasn't even photographed until it was done by a large telescope in 1970. The Dogon stories explain that also. According to their oral traditions, a race people from the Sirius system called the Nommos visited Earth thousands of years ago. The Nommos were ugly, amphibious beings that resembled mermen and mermaids. They also appear in Babylonian, Accadian, and Sumerian myths. The Egyptian Goddess Isis, who is sometimes depicted as a mermaid, is also linked with the star Sirius. The Nommos, according to the Dogon legend, lived on a planet that orbits another star in the Sirius system. They landed on Earth in an "ark" that made a spinning decent to the ground with great noise and wind. It was the Nommos that gave the Dogon the knowledge about Sirius B. The legend goes on to say the Nommos also furnished the Dogon's with some interesting information about our own solar system: That the planet Jupiter has four major moons, that Saturn has rings and that the planets orbit the sun. These were all facts discovered by Westerners only after Galileo invented the telescope. The story of the Dogon and their legend was first brought to popular attention by Robert K.G. Temple in a book published in 1977 called The Sirius Mystery. Science writer Ian Ridpath and astronomer Carl Sagan made a reply to Temple's book, suggesting that this modern knowledge about Sirius must have come from Westerners who discussed astronomy with the Dogon priests. The priests then included this new information into the older traditions. This, in turn, mislead the anthropologists. This is a possibility considering Sirius B's existence was suspected as early as 1844 and seen was through a telescope in 1862. It doesn't seem to explain a 400-year old Dogon artifact that apparently depicts the Sirius configuration nor the ceremonies held by the Dogon since the 13th century to celebrate the cycle of Sirius A and B. It also doesn't explain how the Dogons knew about the super-density of Sirius B, a fact only discovered a few years before the anthropologists recorded the Dogon stories. It is also important to remember that although many parts of the Dogon legends seem to ring true, other portions are clearly mistaken. One of the Dogon's beliefs is that Sirius B occupied the place where our Sun is now. Physics clearly prohibits this. Also, if the Dogon believe that Sirius B orbits Sirius A every 50 years, why do they hold their celebrations every 60 years? Sirius A is the brightest star in our sky and can easily be seen in the winter months in the northern hemisphere. Look for the constellation Orion. Orion's belt are the three bright stars in a row. Follow an imaginary line through the three stars to Sirius which is just above the horizon. It is bluish in color. Sirius is only 8.6 light years from Earth. Astronomer W.Bessel was the first to suspect that Sirius had an invisible companion when he observed that the path of the star wobbled. In the 1920's it was determined that Sirius B, the companion of Sirius, was a "white dwarf" star. The pull of its gravity caused Sirius's wavy movement. White dwarfs are small, dense stars that burn dimly. Sirius B is, in fact, smaller than the planet Earth. One teaspoon of Sirius B is so dense that it weighs 5 tons. So did alien fish-men pay a visit to ancient Earth and give the Dogon their knowledge? Or was the Dogon's culture contaminated by western visitors? Or could the Dogon's have had ancient technical or non-technical means to find this information out? Or is the whole thing just a matter of coincidence? The question maybe settled as larger and more powerful telescopes take a look at the Sirius system. According to the legend there is a third star: Sirius C, and it is around Sirius C that the home planet of the Nommos orbits. Most scientists do not consider any part of the Sirius system a prime candidate for life, though. When Temple first issued his book in the 1970's there was no solid evidence of a Sirius C. In 1995, however, two French researchers, Daniel Benest and J.L. Duvent, authored an article in the prestigious journal Astronomy and Astrophysics with the title Is Sirius a Triple Star? and suggested (based on observations of motions in the Sirius system) there is a small third star there. They thought the star was probably of a type known as a "red dwarf" and only had about .05 the mass of Sirius B.

42 Principles of Maat 2000 years before Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments, eight of them at least, were taken from the Egyptian Principles of Ma’at written at least 2000 years earlier.Written at least 2,000 years before the Ten Commandments of Moses, the 42 Principles of Ma’at are one of Africa’s, and the world’s, oldest sources of moral and spiritual instruction. Ma’at, the Ancient Egyptian divine Principle of Truth, Justice, and Righteousness, is the foundation of natural and social order and unity. Ancient Africans developed a humane system of thought and conduct which has been recorded in volumes of African wisdom literature, such as, these declarations from the Book of Coming Forth By Day (the so-called Book of the Dead), The Teachings of Ptah-Hotep, the writings of Ani, Amenemope, Merikare, and others. … One aspect of ancient Egyptian funerary literature which often is mistaken for a codified ethic of Ma’at is Chapter 125 of the Book of the Dead, often called the 42 Declarations of Purity or the Negative Confession. These declarations varied somewhat from tomb to tomb, and so can not be considered a canonical definition of Ma’at. Rather, they appear to express each tomb owner’s individual conception of Ma’at, as well as working as a magical absolution (misdeeds or mistakes made by the tomb owner in life could be declared as not having been done, and through the power of the written word, wipe that particular misdeed from the afterlife record of the deceased). Many of the lines are similar, however, and they can help to give the student a “flavor” for the sorts of things which Ma’at governed—essentially everything from the most formal to the most mundane aspect of life. Many versions are given on-line, unfortunately seldom do they note the tomb from which they came or, whether they are a collection from various different tombs. – Here is one collection to give you the general idea: All they did was add thou shall not and switched them around: I have not done iniquity. I have not robbed with violence. I have not stolen. I have not made any to suffer pain. I have not defrauded offerings. I have done no murder nor bid anyone to slay on my behalf. I have not trimmed the measure. I have not spoken lies I have not robbed God. I have not caused the shedding of tears. I have not dealt deceitfully. I have not acted guilefully. I have not laid waste to the land. I have not set my lips against anyone. I have not been angry or wrathful without a just cause. I have not lusted nor defiled the wife of any man. I have not polluted myself. I have not caused terror. I have not done that which is abominable. I have not multiplied words exceedingly. I have never uttered fiery words. I have not judged hastily. I have not transgressed nor have I vexed or angered God. I have not stopped my ears against the words of Right and Truth . I have not burned with rage. I have not worked grief. I have not acted with insolence. I have not avenged myself. I have not stirred up strife. I have not been an eavesdropper. I have not wronged the people I have done no harm nor have I done evil I have not worked treason. I have never fouled the water. I have not spoken scornfully. I have never cursed God. I have not behaved with arrogance. I have not envied or craved for that which belongs to another. I have not filched food from the mouth of the infant. I have done no hurt unto man, nor wrought harm unto beasts. I have never magnified my condition beyond what was fitting.

Who is the New Afrikan? l New Afrikan PP Zolo Agona Azania

by Zolo Agona Azania (published May 1988) copyright Zolo Agona Azania. Preface The true meaning and purpose of life is to struggle against that which is not good. Terrible damage is done in words and in deeds to a human being on the basis of race. But words live only by physical action. The slave masters knew this very well when they began labeling Afrikan slaves with the most negative degrading words. When the Afrikan slaves accepted those negative degrading words as their own they began to think and act negative, which made matters worse. The psychological (mental) enslavement of people with deceptive words and false labels is an old game of the world. This is the point of the preface. If We are ever to be free again We must struggle against this old game, by any means necessary, and win. A people ignorant of self, or miseducated with false knowledge about self does not see the significance, nor understand the importance of this struggle, and the righteousness of striving in the cause for nothing less than self-determination. It is incumbent (resting) upon the New Afrikan intellectuals to re-write comprehensive dictionaries and encyclopedias that adequately re-define the words and terminologies describing Our own race and culture in all spheres of life. These books are to be used constructively at home, in Our liberation schools, and everywhere there are people. The re-education (and re-training) of Our beloved people will bring us into unity. This little pamphlet was written by the author as an effort to make a humble contribution to this worthy cause.


Who is the New Afrikan? The New Afrikan is a Black person whose ancestors were kidnapped from many different Afrikan tribes (mainly from West and South coast of Afrika) and brought to Amerikkka in the holds of slave ships. They were stripped of name, languages, identity, religion, culture, country and family ties. For about the first 200 years after people of the Afrikan race were brought to Amerikkka as slaves and prisoners of war they continued to identify themselves as “Afrikan.” Then [New Afrikan] and Negro. These latter words were rejected for a while, but accepted in hostile reaction to, among other things, the option of some Afrikans living in quasi-free states going back to Afrika leaving loved ones behind in slavery. The organization which spearheaded this back to Afrika movement was called the “American Colonization Society.” But many influential anti-slavery abolitionists were in opposition to this particular movement. Quarles wrote: “The colonization scheme had a unifying effect on Negroes in the North, bringing them together in a common bond of opposition. Within a two-year span in the early 1830’s Negroes in twenty-two cities held formal resolutions might vary in form declare themselves the legitimate sons of America, leave their native desire to no with another group might report that they regarded the colonization society in the same light that lambs regarded wolves. But there was no mistaking their common attitude. Indeed, American Colonization Society led the delegates to a national Negro Philadelphia in 1835, resolution “to remove the title of Afrikan from their institutions.” But, one of the most damaging criminal offenses that destruction to contributed identity of the Afrikan was classifying Afrikan people according to the shade of their skin. How did that happen? Afrikan women and girls were raped by the Caucasian factors, millions of Afrikan people today have starkly different shades of skin complexion ranging from very dark to very light.


It is worthy to note however, that prior to the conquest of Afrikan land and the enslavement of its people, all Afrikans did not have one exact shade of skin complexion. Why? Those living along the North, Northeast, and Northwest coastal area of the Mediterranean and Red Seas had been in close contact with Asian, Arabs, and Caucasian tribes for thousands of years. Intermarriage with members of another group, family, tribe or nation, and miscegenation (interbreeding and marriage between white and relationships resulted in race mixing. The skin coloration of the children born of those relationships was an array of ochres to burnt sienas (light yellowish, ĵreddish brown, and shades in between). We also take into consideration the hot tropical climate which made some light-skinned Afrikans look like Caucasians or Arabs with a deep sun-tan. Afrikans living deeper in the interior (central Afrika), and those living along the West, South and Southeast coastal areas was a natural array of raw umbers to strong ebony (very dark brownish-[New Afrikan]) were less effected by race mixing. Be that as it may, each tribe or nation had their own individual characteristics and customs that identified ethnic group, tribe or nation from another, their blood, however, remained essentially pure and dominant during that epoch (a particular period, point, or time in history) than those in the North, Northeast and Northwest Afrika. people’s skin, contingent or dependent upon the region in which they lived and other circumstances involved, was an array or variety of shades prior to their arrival to what later became known as Amerikkka. In spite of those facts however, the variation of Afrikan complexion was not as widespread as it is currently (now).



The term New Afrikan is not a fly-by-night in thing or fad premised (introduction or proposition upon which an argument is based) upon regional and geographical consideration. Nor is it only a mere physical reality. It is a re-awakened people, a spiritual force, part of the human family creating within themselves a socio-national conscience of paramount importance to one’s dignity, integrity, strength, freedom, security and stability. In light of those sentiments We enter into further discussion: who is the New Afrikan? The Caucasian used deceitful words and scathing (harmful and abusive) labels designed to divide the unity of the Afrikan race according to the shade of their skin complexion. This was done by classifying the Afrikan as: “mulatto”, “quadroon”, “octoroon”, “sambo”, “coons”, “colored”, “nigger”, “negro”, “black”, and whatever else. Mulatto is a person having one Caucasian and one Afrikan parent. Quadroon is a person having one quarter (1/4) Afrikan blood and the rest Caucasian. Octoroon is one who has one eighth (1/8) Afrikan blood, the offspring of a Caucasian person and a quadroon. Sambo is a word used by the Caucasian to define Afrikan men as humble pets, apes, beasts, stupid, dumb creatures and rapists white women. Coon is a slang derogatory term short for “raccoon” used offensively against Afrikan people describing them as watermelon eating thieves. The watermelon is native to Afrika. Colored is a person having mixed Afrikan, Indian, and Caucasian blood, or a dark-skinned people of Afrikan descent. Nigger is Latin for blacken, darken, dirty, denigrate, disgraceful, belittle or defame. Negro is Spanish for [New Afrikan], dark, dirty, or someone that is no good.


Black is English for dirty, shameful, ugly, evil, sadness and everything negative. The aim of the Caucasian was not only to enslave Afrikan people physically, but, also to enslave them psychologically. The Afrikan was forced by violence to denounce their heritage. Afrikan babies were brainwashed from the cradle to believe they were members of the so-called colored, nigger, or negro race. They grew up not knowing their true ethnic identity, or nationality. Even had this not been so, the fact that We were kidnapped and dispersed throughout various parts of the Earth, enslaved and colonized held in isolation cut off from Our ancestral homeland and subjected to the most barbaric treatment imaginable, contributed to the dissolution of Our direct relationship with Afrikan culture. This also led to the destruction of the normal Afrikan mind-set (mentality). It’s very important for one to be conscious of one’s own ethnic identity [which] indicates belonging to a particular nation by origin or birth. For example, some light-skinned Afrikan slaves were so mentally confused that if one had asked what was their ethnic identity the reply would often be, “mulatto”, “quadroon”, “octoroon”, “colored”, or something of the sort. Light or high yellow complexion was considered a status symbol. Dr. Kenneth M. Stampp wrote: “But the most piteous device for seeking status in the slave community was that of boasting about in pride taking or ancestors white complexion.”


After a period of time went by they accepted the label “Negro,” and would feel angry, hurt or both if one would call him or her Black. They hated the descriptive word Black being attached to them because they hated their own self. Many mistakenly thought being associated with Black was shameful and ugly. arrived of time period Another consciousness of Afrikan people increased again. They gradually returned to identifying themselves as BLACK people. One by one they threw off the deceitful words and false, abusive labels put on them by the Caucasian. identify themselves to continued Afrikans nigger and negro because they had been brainwashed to believe that lie all their life; and were fixed in their old ways and conceptions. Others simply refused to change the negative way they thought about self in fear for their People go through psychological crisis when sudden changes occur in their lives. Like being shocked or awakened from a deep sleep all of a sudden. That is what happened to those Afrikans whom suddenly became conscious of their true identity (nationality). The sudden impact of reality left them mentally confused and disoriented. For this reason many had resisted change, no matter how positive it was and is. Deceitful words and false, abusive labels used for over 400 years to describe members of the Afrikan race are no longer accepted. The term “negro” has fallen into being accept gleefully now Afrikans disuse. BLACK. It added positive meaning to their lives. instance, the Afrikan definition of Black is not the same as the Caucasians definition. Indicative of this is the expression: BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL. One drop of Afrikan blood in their body is enough to make them Black. it doesn’t make any difference what shade of color their skin is. The word Black, as used in this context, is a state of mind (Black-consciousness).


The word “Afrikan” had also been shameful backwards, with synonymously unintelligent. This word or term infuriated those Afrikans who hated self more than any other because, considered it a vicious insult to remind them of their true identity. But now they’re happy to be called “Afrikan”, “Afrikan-American,” or “Afro-American.” That is the NEW AFRIKAN mind-set (mentality). On the other hand however, there were many beloved New Afrikan sisters and brothers like Sojourner Truth, Denmark Vesey, Gabriel Prosser, David Walker, Turner, Dr. Martin R. Delaney, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Marcus M. Garvey, Paul Robeson, Elijah Muhammad, Harry Haywood, Ella Jo “Fundi” Baker, El- Shakur, Malik Zayd El-Shabazz, Malik Jackson, Kuwasi Balagoon, Mtayari Shabaka Sundiata, Bobby Hutton, and Jonathan Jackson, only to name a few, who always acknowledged their Afrikan heritage, even under pain of death. The rise in the level of New Afrikan consciousness is the flowering of the human mind. It took a long time before the term “New Afrikan” gained wide acceptance by the masses of Our people. Indicative of this is the desire and progressive action of the descendants of the Afrikan slaves to define the words or terms to identify and describe Our own race. It was a continuous process of spirited struggle, of defiance, and of self-sacrifice to re-claim Our humanity; to re-define Our own identity; to re-shape Our own destiny (self-determination). The New Afrikan represents unity of mind and body of the highest order. Yet on this point there need not be any doubt who is the New Afrikan. Our history brings Us together. The bottom line is that, in slavery We came to Amerikkka from many different Afrikan sometimes called tribes. Here We became one people, a New Afrikan people, and a New Afrikan Nation.

Zolo Agona Azania #4969 P.O. Box 41 Indiana State Prison Michigan City, IN 46361

STATEMENT FROM DR. MUTULU SHAKUR TO ABENA MAKINI OWUSU AND FAMILY

THE NEW AFRIKAN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT HAS LOST A VERY IMPORTANT, DEDICATED, AND TIRELESS FREEDOM FIGHTER. HE HAPPENED TO BE ONE OF MY OLDEST FRIENDS IN THE STRUGGLE. VERY FEW INDIVIDUALS DO YOU GO TO JUNIOR HIGH AND HIGH SCHOOL WITH IN THE SAME NEIGHBORHOOD, BECOME FRIENDS, AND JOIN THE SAME MOVEMENT AND BECOME COMRADES, THEN PURSUE A CAREER AND BECOME ALLIES. MY BEST FRIEND, THE ONE I GOT INTO ALL THIS TROUBLE(*_*), AND WHO I RECRUITED INTO THE REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRIKA (RNA) IN SOUTH JAMAICA, QUEENS AND HE NEVER LOOKED BACK. I NEVER HAD TO BE WITH HIM TO KEEP HIM MOTIVATED, HE EMBRACED THE IDEOLOGY, AND AT THAT TIME THE PRACTICALITY, THAT WE AS A PEOPLE MUST DETERMINE OUR OWN DESTINY LIKE ALL OTHER PEOPLE ON THE PLANET, AND STRUGGLE AGAINST OPPRESSION AND FOR SELF RESPECT. HE BELIEVED WE HAD TO HAVE A NATION THAT CONTAINED LAND, SO FROM 1967 HE WAS OUR NATION BUILDER. THIS MESSAGE CAN ENCOMPASS THE MANY JOYS, PAINS AND CAMPAIGNS THAT SEKOU OWUSU, MYSELF, AND MANY OTHERS SHARED IN THE BATTLEFIELD. THE VISUALS ARE COMICAL IN THEMSELVES – HE WAS AN UPRIGHT, BESPECTACLED, BUREAUCRATIC LOOKING KOSI, AND MORE FIT FOR A UNIVERSITY OR BETTER YET AN ACCOUNTANT’S OFFICE. DEEP IN THE BACK WOODS OF MOUNT BAYOU MISSISSIPPI, HIS GLASSES BROKE WHILE HE WAS DRIVING THE VAN, MOLOTOV COCKTAILS LINING THE FLOOR IN PREPARATION FOR DEFENSE AGAINST THE MISSISSIPPI KLAN TRYING TO RUN US OUT OF TOWN. WITH THEIR PROMISES OF 6 FEET UNDER FOR US, WE FORGED AHEAD TO SECURE EL-MALIK, THE FIRST PIECE OF LAND WE HAD DEDICATED TO THE REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRIKA AS MEMBERS OF THE NEW AFRICAN SECURITY FORCE. A TRUE,TRUE, FREEDOM FIGHTER COMMITTED TO SACRIFICING IT ALL, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME COMPLAINING THAT WE HAD IT ALL WRONG. HE WAS NOT ONE TO LET CRITICISM GET IN THE WAY OF HIS ACTION ( HE COULD HAVE LEFT THE CRITICISM AT HOME). WE WERE A RAG TAG BUNCH, BUT WE BUILT A FOUNDATION WHERE SOME DOUBTED THE PRACTICALITY OF THE NATION, BUT THEY COULD NOT DOUBT THE DEDICATION AND LOVE HE HAD FOR OUR PEOPLE.I COULD IMAGINE WHAT HE THOUGHT OF CHOKWE BECOMING MAYOR OF JACKSON. ALL DURING THE 70′S HE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR ESTABLISHING A POLITICAL EDUCATION CLASS FOR ALL THE VICTIMS OF THE DRUG PLAGUE THAT WE TREATED AT LINCOLN DETOX IN THE SOUTH BRONX. HE INTEGRATED THE PRINCIPLES OF NGUZU SABA. HE PROVIDED THE POLITICAL FOUNDATION TO AUGMENT THE TREATMENT FOR THE VICTIMS OF THE DRUG PLAGUE WITH HIS NERDY SELF. FOR 10 YEARS HE FORMED A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE BOTTOM OF DESPAIR. HE WAS A KIND OF BROTHER WHEN YOU NEEDED SOME SMALL CHANGE HE WOULD DO THIS UNIQUE ZORRO SLASH TO HIS LEFT BACK POCKET, AND PULL OUT THAT DAMN WALLET OF HIS, THE ONLY ONE OF OUR CADRES THAT HAD ONE, AND OF COURSE A LONG LECTURE!!! IN THE MID 70′S I RECEIVED A PHONE CALL. SEKOU NEEDED SOME PEOPLE TO HELP HIM MOVE. MY FIRST QUESTION WAS FROM WHERE TO WHERE? I SAID GIVE ME THE ADDRESS AND ME AND THE BROTHERS WILL COME AND HELP YOU. HE GAVE ME AN ADDRESS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SOUTH BRONX DRUG MARKET, ON HOE AVE. THE BUILDING WAS ABANDONED, AND ON THE THE FLOOR WHERE HE WAS MOVING 8 APARTMENTS WERE BURNED OUT. THE WHOLE COMMUNITY LOOKED LIKE GERMANY AFTER THE BOMBING. WE HAD TO POST SECURITY ON OUR CARS. SEKOU WAS HELPING A SISTER IN TROUBLE MOVE INTO THE APARTMENT AND HE WAS GOING TO MOVE IN THERE WITH HER TO PROVIDE PROTECTION, AND SHE WASN’T EVEN A GIRLFRIEND OR A WIFE. BUT HE LOVED HIS PEOPLE, AND BOY DID HE TRY HARD FOR OVER 5 DECADES TO BUILD A BLACK FAMILY. HE CALLED THAT NATION BUILDING. LAST STORY. AFTER THE FBI MILITARY SHOOT-OUT ON THE REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRIKA GOVERNMENT CENTER, BROTHER ALAJO CALLED IN REINFORCEMENTS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY. SEKOU, WHO WAS THE RNA COUNSELOR, AND I AS THE MINISTER OF DEFENSE, ORGANIZED A (5) MAN CADRE TO GO AND REINFORCE, EXCEPT THAT SEKOU LEFT ME IN CHARGE OF NEW YORK AND HE TOOK THE CADRE SOUTH. HE TRIED TO PULL RANK – POLITICAL OVER MILITARY. IN THE 5 MAN UNIT THERE WERE A COUPLE OF NERDY COLLEGE DUDES FROM QUEENS, NOT FAMILIAR WITH COINTELPRO. AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI WAS AN ARMED CAMP FULL OF FBI, LOCAL POLICE, AND KLAN MILITIAS, ALL ENCASING OUR CENTER. THE STRESS WAS SO INTENSE THAT ONE OF OUR CADRES FROM QUEENS HAD A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN AND POSSIBLE STROKE TRYING TO GET IN THE MIDDLE OF A ROAD BLOCK. SEKOU TOOK RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CADRE. HE TOOK HIM TO THE HOSPITAL AND TOOK CARE OF HIM. HE REFUSED TO LET THE FBI, JACKSON PD OR ANYONE ELSE TALK TO OR QUESTION HIM, AND IN THOSE NEW AFRICAN SECURITY FORCE UNIFORMS, WE STOOD OUT LIKE AN INVADING ARMY. HE HELD HIS POST FOR 2 DAYS UNTIL ALAJO SENT IN REINFORCEMENT – AND THEN HE FAINTED ON THE SPOT FROM EXHAUSTION. THAT IS OUR SEKOU. I JUST WANT A LOT OF PEOPLE TO KNOW HE IS A PART OF OUR FOUNDATION THAT BUILT THE RNA. AFTER YEARS OF STRESS HE SEEMED TO BE THE LAST ONE STANDING, HOLDING OUT FOR ALL HIS COMRADES OF THE PAST, AND FOR THAT WE LOVE HIM AND HONOR HIM. IT IS SAID THAT THE REWARD IS MORE REWARDING THAN THE TEST, SURELY HE HAS BEEN TESTED. I PRAY TO ALLAH THAT HE SEES FIT TO GRANT HIM SUCH REWARD WHEN OUR GOVERNMENT HAS REALIZED WE MUST HONOR HIM AND HIS FRUGAL NATURE. I FEEL YOUR LOST SISTER AYISHA AND BROTHER TAKARHARA LONG LIVE HIS EXAMPLE, PRAISE HIS EFFORT, AND RECOGNIZE HIS SUCCESS. STIFF RESISTANCE DR.MUTULU SHAKUR “We Must Pick Up The Work To Free ALL Our Political Prisoners & Prisoners Of War!”

Towards A New Amerikan Revolution - Jalil Muntaqim

In 1776, North American’s became independent of the British Empire, creating the United States confederation that existed until 1789, after which the United States evolve into a Union. In 1865, the United States enacted the 13th Amendment to end chattel slavery of Afrikans. Approximately three years later, the enactment of the 14th Amendment in 1868, was not only to impose citizenship on Afrikans brought to this country against their will and used as chattel slaves, but also to impose Federal corporate control on sovereign states not made part of the Union as result of the civil war. Naturally, the ending of the civil war and Afrikan chattel slavery resulted in the need to rebuild the economy, thus in 1871 members of the U.S. Congress and the then President of the United States formally incorporated the United States as a for-profit commerce enterprise.


The Act to Provide a Government for the District of Columbia, Section 34 of the Forty-First Congress of the United States, Session III, Chapter 61 and 62, enacted on February 21, 1871, states: The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is a corporation, whose jurisdiction is applicable only in the ten-mile-square parcel of land known as the District of Columbia and to what ever properties are legally titled to the UNITED STATES, by its registration in the corporate County, State, and federal governments that are under military power of the UNITED STATES and its creditors.” 1 (Emphasis added) 1 Since April 15, 1861, every succeeding so-called President has issued an Executive Order proclaiming a national emergency virtually extending federal military powers and control of the United States, Inc. The introduction to Senate Report 93-549 (93rd Congress, 1st Session, 1973), states in part: “A majority of the people of the United States have lived all of their lives under emergency rule… And, in the United States, actions taken by the Government in times of great crisis have - from, at least, the Civil War - in important ways, shaped the present phenomenon of a permanent state of national emergency.” See, also, November 14, 1994, Executive Order No. 12938, by then so-called President William Jefferson Clinton, where he states: “…Therefore, in accordance with Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d), I am continuing the national emergency declared in Executive Order No. 12938.” The United States, Inc., comprises a 10-mile radius of Washington, D.C., in accordance with Article 1, Section 8, clause 16 & 17 of the U.S. Constitution, and the corporation adopted the U.S. Constitution as its Articles of Incorporation and bylaws. Hence, as early as six years after the ending of chattel slavery, in 1871, the U.S. Corporation formally began the process of forging economic corporate interest as the foundation for building the nation. It is extremely important to know these historical facts are not taught in schools.


The majority of Americans are unaware that the United States is a for-profit corporate commerce enterprise, and this corporation considers Americans as commerce property of a Federal corporation according to the 14th Amendment of its constitution and bylaws. As such, Americans have relinquish their sovereignty as human beings, and have virtually made a contract with a corporate-governing body to expend their rights and lives as they deem necessary to fulfill the corporate interest of the United States, Inc., as wage slaves.2 Often there are debates about the importance of the Madison and Jefferson papers being the principle architects of both the Declaration of Independence and the Article of Confederation evolving into the Constitution of the U.S. Corporation. However, what is often neglected in any discussion about these Federalist is their disdain for private banking, the control of the United States, Inc. wealth by a private corporate interest. In fact, in 1802, Thomas Jefferson warned: “If American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks… will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered… The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people. To whom it properly belongs.” James Madison had warned: “History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance.” In 1881, then, President James A. Garfield held: “Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.” In his Inaugural Address, Garfield stated: “The chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value. Grave doubts have been entertained whether Congress is authorized by the Constitution to make any form of paper money legal tender.


The present issue of United States notes has been sustained by the necessities of war; but such paper should depend for its value and currency upon its convenience in use and its prompt redemption in coin at the will of the holder, and not upon its compulsory circulation. These notes are not money, but promises to pay money. If the holders demand it, the promise should be kept. Yet, the United States, Inc., as a capitalist system utilizes the financial institutions and private banking of the Federal Reserve System,3 which is obligated to fulfill its mandate as established by the March 9, 1933, U.S. Senate, House Joint Resolution (HJR) 192, 73rd Congress, 1st Session, Chapter 1, page 83, 1st paragraph, third sentence states: “Under the new law the money is issued to the banks in return for Government obligations, bills of exchange, drafts, notes, trade acceptances, and banker’s acceptances. The money will be worth 100 cents on the dollar, because it is backed by the credit of the nation. It will represent a mortgage on all the homes and other property of all the people in the nation. The money so issued will not d) On June 5, 1933, this same Congress at Chapter 48, stated: “The ultimate ownership of all property is in the State; individual socalled “ownership” is only by virtue of Government, i.e., law, amounting to mere “user” and use must be in acceptance with law and subordinate to the necessities of the State.”

This language for all practical purposes implies a socialist notion of government control of property in negation of the espoused democratic ideal about private ownership of property rights. However, as one example, eminent domain, virtually denies the existence of ownership of private property when a member of the plutocracy, and/or corporate entity via the application of state or federal law, decides to take possession of specific property/real estate despite the 5th Amendment proclaiming this should not be done without just compensation. As further verified by the following quote from the “Civil Servants Year Book, The Organizer” of January 1934, informing: Capital must protect itself in every way, through combination and through legislation. Debts must be collected and loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as possible. When through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed by the strong arm of the law, applied by the central power of wealth, under control of leading financiers. People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principal men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capital to govern the world. By dividing the people, we can get them to expand their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd.


Thus by discreet action we can secure for ourselves what has been generally planned and successfully accomplished.” Subject to the above, the U.S., is a for-profit corporate enterprise, utilizing a private banking system, the Federal Reserve Bank, to control the wealth and property of the nation, it is not difficult to understand how the housing market is utilized to upend the economy and how easily corporations are able to outsource jobs overseas (NAFTA CAFTA, GATT, APEC, etc). Although U.S. currency is printed by the Treasury Department, the currency is purchased at cost of printing, procured and distributed by the Federal Reserve Bank.4 Thus, Americans do not own real estate property, houses or cars for as long as they have to pay taxes to the government, rather they are leasing such tangible items from the government, the bankers and corporate interests. If an American is delinquent on their payments of taxes, fees, corporate interests, etc., the government will seize their property(s) and assets, impose a fine and possibly incarcerate them depending on the amount of property and taxes that is unpaid. U.S. citizens by virtue of the 14th Amendment, are considered no more than commerce property, of whom are not to own tangible property, but are duped in the illusion of being able to do so, resulting in permitting the extremely rich and powerful to maintain their quest for capitalistimperialist global hegemony. For example, on February 17, 1950, Senate hearings held concerning the U.N. and its organization, James P. Warburg testified that: “We shall have world government, whether or not we like The question is only whether world government will be achieved by consent or conquest.


Since the illusion of democracy disguises the reality of a plutocracy, the rich continues to control the seats of government, and write the legislations that preserves their wealth at the expense of common folks.6 Americans are deluded in their belief of living in a democracy is exacerbated by the ideal of one man-one vote electoral process. However, again, this ideal was blatantly exposed as fraudulent when the 2000 presidential election was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court selection of George W. Bush as president in negation of the popular vote. When consideration is given to the fact the total cost of the 2004 congressional and presidential election was $4 billion, an increase





of one billion from the 2000 election, and it is projected the 2008 candidates for the House, Senate and president will double spending to $8 billion dollars to win their elections, affirms the reality that the rich rules.7 In “Towards an American Revolution: Exposing the Constitution and Other Illusions,” Jerry Fresia informs, “Never has a U.S. president been elected by a majority of the nation’s adult citizens.” Given that fact, neither the capitalist economic system or electoral politics benefits the majority of Americans, but rather serves the interest of corporate entities that according to law are persons, as Americans are considered commerce property, there is no wonder there is a need for a new American revolution.

The FBI's Murderous Targeting of the Shakurs - John Potash

On May 2, the FBI held a press conference announcing that they were putting the first woman on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist List: Joanne Chesimard, better known as Assata Shakur. Few knew that the rap icon Tupac Shakur maintained a similar social justice agenda as his godmother Assata. Evidence supports that U.S. intelligence targeted Tupac Shakur using many similar tactics that they used against Assata, Tupac’s Panther leader mother Afeni, and Tupac’s extended family of Black Liberation leaders. The Shakur family was involved in many black leftist movements. Abbah Shakur worked with Marcus Garvey’s UNIA and was a close associate of Malcolm X. Abbah’s son Lumumba Shakur started the Harlem Black Panthers. Lumumba’s brother, Zayd, was a Minister of Information for the Bronx Black Panthers, before he was chased underground and co-founded the Black Liberation Army. Lumumba’s wife, Tupac’s mother Afeni, helped lead the Harlem Black Panthers. The undercover intelligence agent who first arrived at Malcolm X’s body, Gene Roberts, infiltrated and helped frame the New York Panthers as part of the FBI’s Counter-intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) against leftists activists. The New York Panthers, dubbed The New York 21, were jailed for two years before they were acquitted in 1971. (Lumumba divorced Afeni when she got pregnant with Tupac while out on bail.) The FBI had stepped up its COINTELPRO tactics around the time of the New York 21 trial. One of their tactics involved what was dubbed an “East Coast versus West Coast Panther War.” The FBI created fake letters and sent them between Afeni’s New York Panthers and Huey Newton’s Oakland National Panther Office. Bronx Black Panther Joanne Chesimard, in fear for her own life after having fellow activists framed and killed, followed her close friend Zayd underground. Out of respect for Zayd and the Shakur family, she changed her name to Assata Shakur while in hiding in 1971. That same year, Afeni named her new son Tupac Amaru Shakur after the last Incan leader and raised him to be a “black prince of the revolution.” Afeni named her close comrade, Los Angeles Panther leader Geronimo Pratt (later changed to Ji Jaga), Tupac’s godfather, Assata was named Tupac’s godmother—Tupac grew up calling her Auntie Assata. By the mid-1970s, Afeni had moved in with Lumumba’s adopted brother Mutulu. Mutulu was assistant director of Lincoln Detox in the Bronx and a co-founding member of the national activist group, the Republic of New Afrika. The FBI started a propaganda campaign against Assata Shakur, calling her “the revolutionary mother hen” of the Black Liberation Army. They accused the BLA of murdering a number of New York City police officers (most of these accusations came with little evidence and few valid convictions). The FBI conducted a nationwide manhunt for Assata in 1972. Posters with her face appeared in police precincts and banks that cited her involvement in serious criminal activities, putting her on the FBI’s most wanted list; and to all levels of police she became a shoot-to-kill target. In May 1973, New Jersey police pulled over Zayd and Assata Shakur’s car. Police Police fatally shot Zayd, while wounding Assata and former Panther 21 member Sundiata Acoli. Shots from one of the three killed a police officer. Assata said that police proceeded to beat her at the scene and torture her in a hospital. She said that in the hospital, she was only saved from more torture when a nurse intervened. But, she said, prison officials used torturous tactics on her thereafter. New Jersey police charged Assata with killing the police officer. The case didn’t reach trial for four years because prosecutors brought Assata to trial six times for alleged involvement in a half dozen other major criminal actions from 1971 to 1973. They failed to gain a conviction at any of those hearings. By 1976, Assata’s trial lawyer, Stanley Cohen, reported several breakthroughs in her case. He was found dead from a physical attack soon after with all his papers stolen. At the trial, William Kunstler, Lennox Hinds, her Aunt Evelyn Williams, and Assata’s other lawyers presented tests and medical experts to prove her innocence in court. For example, Assata’s fingers tested negative for gun residue. That test and doctors’ findings supported that police shot Assata while she was in a seated position with her hands raised. They said the bullet immediately severed a median nerve that wouldn’t have allowed Assata to pull a gun trigger. Nonetheless, prosecutors won a conviction against her for killing the police officer. In 1979, Assata Shakur escaped from prison. Mutulu Shakur, Silvia Baraldini, former Panther Sekou Odinga and Weather Underground member Marilyn Buck were charged with helping Assata’s prison break. Mutulu was also charged with “conspiracy” involvement in a Brinks Bank robbery and went into hiding. Several days before Mutulu was captured in Louisiana in 1986, Lumumba was found dead nearby. Despite the judge finding the FBI using illegal COINTELPRO actions against Mutulu, he and Odinga are still serving as political prisoners Early Police Attacks While Tupac was still in his late teens, the New Afrikan Panthers elected him as their national chair, according to his business manager. By the age of 20, Tupac left his Panther leadership, realizing he could add money and influence to his activism as a rapper. Police attacks ensued. First, police choked Tupac unconscious and pounded his head against the curb several days after his MTV video debut in 1991. Tupac’s manager, Tyehimba, confirmed that Tupac starting hiding his radical leftist politics behind a gangsta rap façade around this time in order to appeal to gangs and then politicize them. This was part of his Panther family’s work in extending peace truces between the Bloods and Crips that started in Los Angeles. Many of these gang members quit dealing drugs and got into community activism. In 1993, police watched as gunmen shot at Tupac at a public event. Instead of arresting the shooters, they only arrested Tupac and his stepbrother, Mutulu’s son Mopreme. This occurred in the California Bay area where FBI chief Richard Held still presided and was caught covering-up Newton’s murder. Attacks Increase U.S. intelligence-linked attacks continued against Tupac Shakur with witnesses saying that allegedly off-duty Atlanta cops ran up to Tupac’s car, broke his window with a gun, and shot at him in 1993. While Tupac grabbed a guard’s gun, shot back and hit them, he wasn’t found guilty as it also came out in court that the cops used a gun stolen from an evidence locker. A police officer said this is commonly known as a throwaway gun that could easily be discarded for an illegal police murder. A few weeks later in 1993, evidence supports that undercover agents set up a sexual abuse conviction that landed him in jail. Tupac’s New York trial lawyer for that case was Michael Tarif Warren, renowned for his work freeing the Central Park Five and as a European spokesperson for the Free Mumia campaign. Warren found strong evidence that Tupac’s codefendant, Haitian Jacques Agnant, was a police agent who had set up the situation as part of a frame-up. Murderous attacks on Tupac Shakur continued in New York. Gunmen went into a Times Square recording studio lobby and put two bullets in Tupac’s skull that miraculously missed his brain. A studio guard tried to give police a security video of the gunmen but police refused it, calling it a random mugging and halted their investigation. Similar to the divisive tactics used on the Panthers, people tried to convince Tupac that his friend and fellow rap star, Christopher “Biggie Smalls” Wallace, had a connection to his Times Square shooting. The media-dubbed this feud the East versus West rap war. Death Row Cops Attack U.S. Intelligence had a number of undercover agents working in the music industry. For example, a high-level white police detective, Russell Poole, found dozens and dozens of his fellow cops at all levels of Death Row Records. One of Poole’s superiors said these cops could be seen as “covert agents.” Police reports found that Death Row was also involved in trafficking drugs and guns. Death Row’s Suge Knight and his moonlighting Los Angeles police employees further tried to end the Bloods versus Crips peace truce on which Tupac and his extended Panther family had worked. This was coordinated by Death Row’s head of security, “former” police officer Reggie Wright Jr. Wright’s father headed the Compton, California police department’s gang division. Compton was one of the first Los Angeles neighborhoods where the Bloods and Crips called peace truces and turned to activism. While Tupac had been in prison, corrections officers used Penal Coercion techniques on him. This and Death Row manipulations led Tupac to produce his most negative lyrics. Ten days before Tupac was fatally shot, he finalized his leaving of Death Row by firing his lawyer, Death Row founding owner Dave Kenner. One of Tupac’s bodyguards was FBI agent Kevin Hackie. After Tupac’s death, Hackie said he had documents proving that other FBI agents were in cars following Tupac when gunmen murdered him in Las Vegas. Las Vegas Sun police reporter Cathy Scott also said that the FBI presence was widely known. Besides evidence supporting that Los Angeles police officers working for Death Row aided in Tupac’s murder, these undercover police agents appeared to have the goal of ending the gang peace truce. They did this through starting conflicts among gang members in Death Row. Part of the evidence around the FBI’s targeting of Tupac Shakur was a Justice Department worker saying Tupac had over 4,000 pages in his FBI file. While only 99 pages were released, CIA documents, court documents, hundreds of personal interviews and thousands of articles and books show how U.S. intelligence targeted him. The cover-up, through media censorship and many more killings, has appeared to go on even longer than his adult life. Since Tupac’s death, other linked murders included Tupac’s backup singer Yafeu Fula, the son of Bronx Black Panther cofounder Sekou Odinga, and Tupac’s business partner, Yasmynn Fula. Fula was the top witness to Tupac’s murder, saying he thought he could identify the shooter. Another murder linked to Tupac’s was Tupac’s former rap star friend, Christopher “Biggie Smalls” Wallace. Police Detective Russell Poole was assigned to Biggie’s murder investigation and said that he found his fellow police officers murdered Biggie to cover up their murder of Tupac. They hoped to make it look like part of the East/West rap war. Along with other linked murders, Tupac’s bodyguard in the car behind Tupac’s, Frank Alexander, was found dead of a gunshot wound to the head on April 28, 2013, four days before the FBI announced they were putting Assata Shakur on the FBI Most Wanted Terrorist List. Alexander had co-produced the film, Tupac: Assassination, and a sequel released in 2009 that incriminated the Los Angeles Police officers working at Death Row. Police told the Huffington Post that the death is being investigated as a suicide, without giving an explanation of why they weren’t also investigating it as a possible homicide. Reference: John Potash is the author of The FBI War on Tupac Shakur and Black Leaders. Potash did his graduate studies at Columbia University where he published an award-winning national social work school newspaper, Social Justice Action Quarterly. He has also published articles in Covert Action Quarterly, Z Magazine, The Baltimore Chronicle, The Baltimore City Paper, and Rock Creek Free Press. He has been interviewed on dozens of radio programs throughout the U.S. as well as programs in England and New Zealand. http://www.zcommunications.org/the-fbis-murderous-targeting-of-the-shakurs-by-john-potash