What’s the most efficient way to deal with a ‘freedom fighting revolutionary’ who has a growing following? That’s easy. Kill him! Unfortunately, we’re not discussing some old Rambo knock-off, but instead a riveting b&w documentary that focuses on the short life of Fred Hampton, the founder of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, who, at the age of 21, was assassinated by a FBI-organized unit of the Chicago Police Department as he lay face down in his bed. The charismatic young activist’s life and work is a powerful revolutionary lesson, as he rallied the people to rebel against the oppressive power structure and educates supporters that if a “pig” gets in their way, simply pull your gun and “blow him away.”
Chairman Fred and the Panthers establishing free clinics and pre-school meals in poor neighborhoods, setting up a mock trial, discussing politics, being accused of an ice cream truck robbery (which led to a 25-year prison sentence for Hampton!), arming themselves in case of attack, and happily celebrating when cops are shot during a raid on their HQ. Hampton’s death occured in the pre-dawn moments of December 4, 1969, when the police fired 99 rounds into his apartment. We witness footage of the crime scene, Fred’s blood-soaked mattress, bullet-riddled walls, plus Hampton’s funeral, even as the police claim that the occupants shot first (though there isn’t one bullet hole in their direction to prove it) and the corporate media mindlessly regurgitates this propaganda. Although doctors, experts, reporters, eye witnesses, and even the physical evidence refute all of these police “facts,” a piece of shit State’s Attorney named Edward V. Hanrahan commends the cops for their use of deadly force and pigheadedly stands by every lie. Gosh, I’m surprised the guy isn’t part of the Bush administration nowadays. Sure, it’s biased, but with damned good reason. This scalding, thought-provoking, 89-minute film opens viewers’ eyes to a socio-political movement rarely covered fairly by the media and demonized by the government and police. And unbeknownst to anyone at the time, one of the Panther’s own members, William O’Neal, was actually a traitorous FBI informant who helped coordinate Hampton’s murder. An open-minded portrait of the Black Panther Party. Chairman Fred provided an intelligent and passionate voice to our people during the height of times when our voice was unheard and ignored.
“We Are Afrikan People Wherever We Were Born No matter where we were born in the world. Afrikan (Black) People are historically and culturally linked. Our history, identity, and culture are rooted in the many thousands of years of development of Afrikan civilization on the Afrikan continent. This is a consequence of the ever forward movement and motion of the New Afrikan masses. It is from this historical march of our people (Afrikan [Black] People) that we derive our African culture, the sum total of material and spiritual values created by our people. It is this invincible weapon, Afrikan culture, that has always served to fight against all forms of oppression and exploitation, to move forward New Afrikan People and Afrikan civilization.”
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Date of Birth: August 8, 1950 Nationality: New Afrikan Incarcerated at: Coleman, FL
Dr. Mutulu Shakur is a New Afrikan (Black) man whose primary work has been in the area of health. He is a doctor of acupuncture and was a co-founder and director of two institutions devoted to improving health care in the Black community.
Mutulu Shakur was born on August 8, 1950, in Baltimore, Maryland as Jeral Wayne Williams. At age seven he moved to Jamaica, Queens, New York City with his mother and younger sister. Shakur’s political and social consciousness began to develop early in his life. His mother suffered not only from being Black and female, but was also blind. These elements constituted Shakur’s first confrontation with the state, while assisting his mother to negotiate through the maze that made up the social service system. Through this experience Shakur learned that the system did not operate in the interests of Black people and that Black people must control the institutions that affect their lives.
Since the age 16, Dr. Shakur has been a part of the New Afrikan Independence Movement. As a part of this movement Dr. Shakur has been a target of the illegal Counterintelligence Program carried out by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (COINTELPRO). This was a secret police strategy used in the U.S. starting in the 1960’s to destroy and neutralize progressive and revolutionary organizations. It is believed that Dr. Shakur’s resistance to this program led to his arrest and trial.
During the late sixties Dr. Shakur was also politically active and worked with the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM), a Black Nationalist group which struggled for Black self-determination and socialist change in America. He was also a member of the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika which endorsed the founding of an independent New Afrikan (Black) Republic and the establishment of an independent Black state in the southern U.S. Dr Shakur also worked very closely with the Black Panther Party supporting his brother Lumumba Shakur and Zayd.
In 1970 Dr. Shakur was employed by the Lincoln Detox (detoxification) Community (addiction treatment) Program as a political education instructor. His role evolved to include counseling and treatment of withdrawal symptoms with acupuncture. Dr. Shakur became certified and licensed to practice acupuncture in the State of California in 1976. Eventually he became the Program’s Assistant Director and remained associated with the program until 1978.
From 1978 to 1982, Dr. Shakur was the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Black Acupuncture Advisory Association of North America (BAAANA) and the Harlem Institute of Acupuncture. Where, at Lincoln, Dr. Shakur had managed a detox program recognized as the largest and most effective of its kind by the National Institute of Drug Abuse, National Acupuncture Research Society and the World Academic Society of Acupuncture, at BAAANA he continued his remarkable work and also treated thousands of poor and elderly patients who would otherwise have no access to treatment of this type. Many community leaders, political activists, lawyers and doctors were served by BAAANA and over one hundred medical students were trained in the discipline of acupuncture.
By the late 1970’s Dr. Shakur’s work in acupuncture and drug detoxification was both nationally and internationally known and he was invited to address members of the medical community around the world. Dr. Shakur lectured on his work at many medical conferences, and was invited to the People’s Republic of China. In addition in his work for the Charles Cobb Commission for Racial Justice for the National Council of Churches he developed their anti-drug program.
Dr. Shakur has furthermore been a dedicated worker and champion in the struggle against political imprisonment and political convictions of Black Activists in America. He was the founding member of the National Committee to Free Political Prisoners. He has been a leader in the struggle against the illegal U.S. and local American law enforcement programs designed to destroy the Black movement in America and has worked to expose and to stop the secret American war against its Black colony.
Through his political work, Dr. Shakur has been associated with the Committee to Defend Herman Ferguson, a Black activist and educator charged with conspiracy in the RAM conspiracy case of the 1960’s; the National Task Force for COINTELPRO Litigation and Research, which researched and initiated suits against the FBI and American law enforcement agencies for criminal acts, spying and counter-insurgency warfare tactics; and the National Conference of Black Lawyers. He has also endorsed support for the legal defense of political prisoners and prisoners of war, including Imari Obadele, Ph.D., Rev. Ben Chavis, Geronimo (Pratt) JiJaga of the Black Panther Party, and Assata Shakur and Sundiata Acoli of the Black Liberation Army.
In March 1982, Dr. Shakur and 10 others were indicted by a federal grand jury under a set of U.S. conspiracy laws called “Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization” (RICO) laws. These conspiracy laws were ostensibly developed to aid the government in its prosecution of organized crime figures; however, they have been used with varying degrees of success against revolutionary organizations. Dr. Shakur was charged with conspiracy and participation in a clandestine paramilitary unit that carried out actual and attempted expropriations from several banks. Eight incidents were alleged to have occurred between December 1976 to October 1981. In addition he was charged with participation in the 1979 prison escape of Assata Shakur, who is now in exile in Cuba (the question of Dr. Shakur being charged with participation when in fact they alleged he masterminded her escape creates the true fact of COINTELPRO).
After five years underground, Dr. Shakur was arrested on February 12, 1986. Dr. Shakur is the father of six children. His son Tupac was assassinated in 1996. He has solid evidence that it was a continuation of COINTELPRO. The F.B.I., the Federal Bureau of Prisons and law enforcement made every effort to keep him separated from his son Tupac.
“NO WE HATE WHITE SUPREMACY/RACISM AND OPPRESSIONAND EVERY PERSON, PLACE, THING AND SITUATION ASSOCIATED WITH IT” RBG Street Scholar doesn’t hate America or white people. But I / We do hate its / their racist and oppressive practices when dealing with Afrikan / Black people and other people of color here in the U.S. and throughout the world. And though I love people here and have no desire to live elsewhere (for now), overstand that America is no utopia. I believe concerned citizens / educators such as myself have a moral obligation to expose and crush problems and strive / fight for positive change by any means necessary. Running away from our problems or resorting to escapism via alcohol, drugs, material etc. will not solve them. This country was built off our Afrikan ancestors blood, sweat and tears from can’t see morning to can’t see night for no pay. Why the hell would I wanna leave- I / WE WANT OUR REPARATIONS (then I might be audi). Why you asks, because America is a sinking ship, the secrete government is blowing up pentagons, world trades and killing their own people for money and oil; and most walk around with their heads in the sand and /or are too afraid to fight for own their life. But also know this, if I / we were to leave this country, the problems inherent to the united snakes (especially militarism-police state and corporate exploitation) most likely affect us more elsewhere, because that is where they do most of their stealing and killing so they can live in glitter and glamor.
Furthermore, I believe that white supremacy / racism has and continues to be the major obstacle in the way of progress for the masses of our people here and throughout the diaspora , so we speak and teach on the unadulterated, documented truth of it all the best I know how, in a way that is accessible to the masses. And uncompromisingly. Things must to change for the better for everyone – that’s why I’m doing my part with this Communiversity. I’m basically trying to counteract measures that have been put in place systematically and with malicious intent for 500-5000 years in order to thwart Afrikan peoples growth and development as a self determined group. And for the record, no, RBG Education doesn’t support terrorists (U.S. or otherwise) or terrorism, and, no, we’re not calling for violence to be inflicted on anyone. Remember, freedom of speech to voice dissent at injustice is NOT a privilege, but “a right afforded to us according to the constitution”. To not exercise that right when faced with injustice and oppression is unpatriotic – not the other way around.
THE WAR AGAINST MELANIN: A deep cut analysis of European (Aryan and Semitic) scholarship and culture (including philosophy, mythology and religion, politics/governance, social theory and history, current events, education and economics, law and medicine, media communications, creative productions, arts and humanities) demonstrates that they all speak in one voice, and always in concert when it comes to those with the ability to produce color (melanin). But, precisely because melanin is more than a matter of color (skin pigmentation). It is the center of “hue-man” organizing, unifying and protecting probability, possibility and potentiality for Afrikan people. The European group has historically and presently continues to wage an undeclared “melanin war”. This war is characterized by remarkable unity of thought and action in all the aforementioned discipline in an effort to maintain a veil of falsification over a fundamental truth-WE AIN’T FREE. Henceforth, Afrikan peoples study of their history, politics, social science and culture must set out to ruin all tendentious theoretical frameworks and practices of global white supremacy/racism.
IN RE OF PSEUDO-NATIONALIST AND FAKE REVOLUTIONARIES: N.B. There are a lot of hot-sauce integrationist on the web these days flexin red, black and green and claiming to be revolutionaries and Afrocentric educators in their work like its a damn fad. Please be careful, as these folk are really deceivers and enemies of our struggle /re-education process in black face. They are diluting and dumbing down the truth and presenting “safe” issues as to not offend the enemy (their boss). Some B.E.T. shit. For example, Malcolm X defined himself as a Black Nationalist Pan-Afrikanist Freedom Fighter, but most of what you will find on the web is” Malcolm X, civil rights leader”. They took his life for speaking the truth and still continue to piss on his grave by perverting his message. Malcolm fought for human rights and argued that (paraphrase) “you have to have human rights before you can have civil rights; human rights is the right to be a human being.” He told us this some 50 years ago and the reality of his words ring a most resounding cord today. “You can never get civil rights until you have human rights”. And I say to this, when a stick is shoved up a man’s rectum ripping apart his insides and unarmed Black men are shot 41 and 51 times by the police, I would argue that we are not being given consideration as a human beings . So know wonder they can write in civil rights laws like the voters rights act one year and threaten repeal the next–“they are not really entitled to civil rights, as we don’t ever consider/treat them as human beings”. So, it is dis-respectful to our true Afrikan Scholars and Freedom Fighters for the word revolutionary to even come out of their pseudo-nationalists’ mouth. Remember “the man who butters your bread feeds your stomach”; all you have to do to know who they are and what they are really about is follow the money. What our re-education and socialization process must be about is not merely a sterile, objective academic process; real lives are involved here and our people are/have been dying. Our education must teach us how to get involved in real struggle that yield a better quality of life for those that are suffering with nothing in the land of plenty. Again, Minister Malcolm X taught us that “the price of freedom is death”. Freedom is the ability to defend, define and develop in our own image and interest as a collection, not private success. Certainly we want peace, but the key to peace in dealing with this beast is the ability to make war. That’s why they did Iraq and not North Korea. My main point is, these closet boot lickers and toe suckers need to sit down and shut up. And you would be wise to avoid them like the plague, because they are just as fatal to our struggle freedom. AT SOME POINT THEY NEED TO BE CALLED OUT AND ACCOUNTED FOR.
Ancestral Libation
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To all our ancestors of antiquity, who developed great knowledge and gave civilization to the world. (Group)Your will to be, lives in me. Ase! To all our ancestors who were fortunate to be buried on the soil of Alkebu-lan (Africa) our motherland. (Group)Your will to be, lives in me. Ase! To all our ancestors who were lost and killed during the voyage of the Middle Passage. (Group)Your will to be, lives in me. Ase! To all our ancestors who suffered the cruelty of the horrible institution of slavery, racism, segregation and oppression in North America, South America, the Caribbean Islands, the Middle East, and throughout the world. (Group) Your will to be, lives in me. Ase! We say thank you, great ancestors for the precious gift of your blood, sweat and tears who fought for freedom, justice and equality. (Group) Your will to be, lives in me. Ase! To our ancestors, in your honor, (Group) I promise, as a descendant and benefactor of your life, to uphold truth without fear, and to never forget you and your sacrifices as I teach myself and our children to honor and respect you. Ase! To our ancestors, in your honor, (Group) I promise to assume the responsibility in continuing on the path of progress and build upon the foundation you have laid before us. Ase! To our ancestors, in your honor, (Group) I promise to remove the fear, ignorance, shame and self-hatred of my African History and Re-claim the cultural heritage and consciousness of spiritual oneness. Ase! To our ancestors, in your honor, (Group) I promise to continue to build a new world for and with our children, based on our traditional cultural principles and values. Ase! To all the spirits of our individual families, known and unknown by name, and whom we silently remember in our hearts. (Group) We praise and honor you. May your spirit be filled with light and progress and may the light guide us through the fear and ignorance of our times. Ase! Moment of Silence:
ADUPE ARIKU BABA WA (Thank You, by the Spirit of Our Ancestors)
Trk# 1-3 is an entire talk entitled “Upon the Ashes of Babylon” from a powerful Muslim spoken word artist, Amir Sulaiman. The event was part of Islam Awareness Week 2006 at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, AB, Canada. Amir’s words manifest a quiet confidence which I find compelling. He has a way of framing issues which is really cathartic and healthy… it reminds me of how I felt when I read Malcolm’s speeches for the first time.
A native of Rochester, New York, writer, activist, and educator Amir Sulaiman is a member of Goodestuff Entertainment, an Atlanta based collective providing culturally relevant programming. With a political consciousness that is profound without being preachy and stately without being stand-offish, Sulaiman has garnered the respect of such notables as Kevin Powell who invited the riveting performer to open for his State of Black Men in America Tour Kickoff held at Rev. Dr. Barbara King’s Hillside Chapel and Truth Center. Even media mogul Russell Simmons sat in awe as Sulaiman dropped science to a fervent audience during a recent taping of HBO’s Def Poetry. In addition to writing and recording, Sulaiman gives presentations and workshops. His presentation, The 40 Year Itch: The Harlem Renaissance, The Black Arts Movement and Modern Spoken Word, grounds the burgeoning spoken word movement in cultural, historic, and literary roots. He also molds the minds of youth teaching the elements of poetry, the power of voice, and style development. In his Communication Workshop, he explores the intricacy of human language and the process by which ideas travel from one mind to another. Sulaiman was an active participant in Goodestuff Entertainment’s First Annual Southern Poetry Conference held at the historic Auburn Research Library as well as the Atlanta Congressional Debate.
Amir Sulaiman began writing poetry at the age of twelve. In 1996, he began performing at colleges, universities, bookstores, and coffee shops as a student at North Carolina A&T. In his sophomore year, he released his debut poetry collection Words of Love, Life, and Death. This early work distends across the broad canvas of truth, struggle, relationships, and poetry. During his tenure at NC A&T, Sulaiman’s work was published in literary journals and collections including The Hazmat Review, All That Jazz, and Sauti Mypa. After obtaining a B.A. in English from North Carolina A&T he moved to Atlanta, G.A and released his breakthrough CD “Cornerstore Folklore”. Bolstered by the success of Cornerstore Folklore Tour– which reached such cities as D.C., NY, Oakland, San Francisco, Norfolk, Richmond, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Raleigh, Greensboro—Sulaiman began whispering in the same breath of elders like Amiri Barka and solidified himself as a voice of light in the midst of a dark day.
Buy his Book Here: Love, Gnosis & Other Suicide Attempts – Poems By Amir Sulaiman
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