Mos Def Reads Malcolm X
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Hip hop, rap and spoken word artist Mos Def reads Malcolm X's "Message to the Grass Roots" on November 9, 2006. Part of a reading from Voices of a People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn
and Anthony Arnove)
http://www.amazon.com/Voices-Peoples-History-United-States/dp/1583226281
or
http://www.sevenstories.com/book/?GCOI=58322100666900
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That's what Afro African (black) people of West Afro African (black) slave kin LACK!
Afro African (black) people are hooked on and dwell on slavery and racism! Instead they should be thinking: I'm MIGRATING BACK TO AFRICA! I WILL BE FREE AND LIBERATED TO LEARN MY OWN INDIGENOUS ANCESTRAL LANGUAGE, RELIGION, CULTURE, CUISINE, ETC.
But NO! Instead all you Afros in USA think is "I'm owed something! I suffered!"...LOL!
Or if you had a time machine, to the Egyptians!
Both of these peoples enslaved Afro African (black) people! Afro African(black) people practiced slavery as part of their culture!
Asides from that, race is nothing more than a category to distinguish certain human populations that share common phenotype traits....that's all! We're all one! However, what are you doing to MIGRATE BACK TO AFRICA if you so call believe that race is a hoax!
The problem is that in order to advance in USA you need to ASSIMILATE, but when you decide to advance your trapped into further adopting European (white) values and culture which is a dead to your so-call cause! Instead of EXCUSES view Africa as a home land! And view what you ...yes...YOU can do for African and its Indigenous people...but you can't because of your self-centered and selfish desires!
If you don't like the idea of MIGRATING BACK then you should ASSIMILATE (like OBAMA has) and learn everything about Western Civilization and maybe even marry and make babies with a European person!
Afro African(black) people of West Afro African(black) ancestral slave kin have been LIBERATED since the mid-1840s!
Some did leave: They formed LIBERIA!
However, the ones who stayed and their desendents who REFUSED to take the grand leap toward TRUE freedom,liberty,and self-determination are the ones still here dwelling in the past yet they can easily MIGRATE BACK and presto their problem is solved, but NO they view Africa as a death setence and something as foreign as Mars.
Culture is concept! It's shaped by its people's experiences which then shape their philosophy,language,world view, religion,mythology,cuisine,& their perspective on nature and its creatures which is then passed down to the next generation, etc.
Afro African(black) in USA don't speak their Indigenous language, nor do they practice their Indigenous religion,cuisine,mythology, etc!
What's your Indigenous culture?
First of all, 1960s if you go by YOUR books but you forgot the Klan, Jim Crow, segregation, shitty school systems, lack of ability to vote (mostly but not always because of the Klan) sharecropping, police brutality, incarceration for crimes we didnt commit, poor housing etc. you act like after slavery white people were just like Ok, they can do whatever they want.
The Afro African(blacks) that were purchased as slaves were from WEST AFRICA region where the religion was Indigenous tribal shamanism...and NOT Islamic!
This is something that most Afro African(black) people in USA are ashamed to acknowledge;there's nothing wrong with shamanism or voodoo religions!
And Hip-Hop is a pop trend and not an authentic culture! That's like saying "hey I'm Hip-Hopian"!
That was an option! Look at the Afro African(black) people who did MIGRATE BACK...they formed the nation of Liberia!
If you have a vision and a dream you can also help create a new nation in Africa.....but first you'd have to MIGRATE BACK!
There's proof that it doesn't work... look at Liberia now! 15 years of Civil war and countless atrocities. My Liberian friends can't even talk about it... they seen their whole families killed by rebels. That shit's not liberation. You kiddin me?!?
I hate amerikkka.
Do YOU consider them part of your kinship?
VISION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP,UNITY COMBINED WITH MIGRATION BACK TO AFRICA is the solution!
Vision is to begin to see the ideal that YOU can offer Africa!
Entrepreneurship is the array of ideas that YOU bring forth and initiating them in Africa!
Unity is to bring ALL Afro African(blacks)in line as ONE people while respecting each others RICH diverse backgrounds!