2008-05-22

Poetry and Struggle

This following is part of an ongoing struggle over someone's dislike of a poem I posted on Blackthought. The formatting follows the logical way you would read a conversation instead of the logic of the log, but it may be viewed at blackthought@yahoogroups.com. See who is trying to stop who from speaking, and who kno what point they making about a "general truism"? First, the poem Nyabingi Revolution. Amandla.

AWETU!



NYABINGI REVOLUTION


Imperialism is the enemy.
It's that simple.
For people who can't think straight: The GOVERNMENT!
For those who can't think slick: The CORPORATIONS!
IMPERIALISM: It's not butter…IT'S THE ENEMY!!!
War is obsolete. Militarism is Obsolete.
In plain language, war and armies don't work anymore.
They are useless. The World doesn't need them.
The World doesn't need warmongers, either.
Why is warfare obsolete? You need me to tell you?

America couldn't beat Korea, Vietnam, Irak or Afghanistan.
DID YOU HEAR WHAT I SED, DAMMIT!!!!
The greatest military power in history
couldn't defeat Asia's broke ass rice niggers and
broke, rag head Afghanis throwing stones at women,
and bomb-strapped sand niggers in Irak!
America dint jump themall at the same time, mind you,
one at a goddamn time! ONE AT A TIME
And America sucker punched em all! Sucker punched em!!!
Ain't that a bitch.

How the hell does Superman, the existentialist
Friedrich Nietzsche's white beast, sucker punch
a crippled sick man, and get his ass whupped? EVERYTIME!

Nose bloodied, teeth loosened, head busted, nuts kicked.
WAR IS OBSOLETE -MILITARISM IS OBSOLETE. That's why.

The white man is a racist pig who thinks everybody everywhere is like
his niggers here, ready to bend over and take it
endlessly for Imperialism! HAY YO THAT AINT ME.
Not for one nuffin moment won't own it under his umbrella
when the nuclear rain begins to fall, because he precipitated it all.
Now dinks and rag heads have atom bombs, and the
cracker caint buy em up fast enuf to protect his ass.

Imperialism can no longer achieve its goals thru
military empire-building. A Roman-style empire
cannot be achieved in the modern world by adding
direct colonies. Why doesn't the white man kno that?
He don't kno diddley squat when it comes to that.
Afro-Americans scaid to teach him.
Whitey barely has the capacity to learn from his past mistakes.
Otherwise, Johnson would have never got involved in Vietnam
after Ike lost in Korea. Oh, some of y'all think America won in Korea.
Better get a damn ass grip.

Some beg to differ. They may posit that America
doesn't need to win, that it is not trying to win
in Irak, that winning is not the strategy,
it only needs to defend its assets there. What!?
AMERICA DON'T OWN SCRATCH IN IRAK, BUDDY!

But you're right. It's a paradox.
So as long as there are troops enuf to allow the neo-colonial
government to function, and long as the troops can also protect
American oil extraction, which allows US corporations to get paid a
king's ransom everyday, at the sacrifice of Iraki lives and the
lives of those military recruits, money which finds its way back
into the pockets of the war's architects, Imperialism has already won.

The ruling class remains unscathed and
the working class in a pool of blood, bathed.
We need a paradigm shift, as the eggheads say.

AMERICA DON'T OWN SCRATCH IN AFGHANISTAN, EITHER!
And America ain't holding nothing down, America ain't winning,
America just maintaining, until the Taliban and Al Qaida
- which the CIA put together - start getting money
from the Russians, who want revenge
for the way America backed the enemies
of the Soviets in the first place.
Then all hell is gonna break loose. Mark my words.
WAR IS OBSOLETE AND YOU
BETTER START FIGHTING AGAINST IT!!!!

You think your little Saturday afternoon struts in front of the
military recruitment office gonna make a difference? The military
aint the problem, The POLITICIANS ARE THE PROBLEM!
The political process answers all military questions.
Anything pertaining to the military budgetz size, how many
troops it can train or deploy, how fast it can deploy them, what
equipment and weapons and supplies it has at its disposal, and when
and where it will fight or assist people, etc., etc., are political
questions. The political process can liquidate the military, if it
has sufficient will.

If you aint trying to end IMPERIALISM,
don't tell me you are anti-war.
If you are not against COLONIALISM,
you cannot be against war.

America needs a major policy shift to end IMPERIALISM.
America needs REGIME CHANGE.

Hell, two days after the Sean Bell verdict, pigs everywhere whupping
niggers asses across America. That's breaking wild. War which nobody
recognizes. That's a bloody war where America always wins since
niggers dont fight back. Yeah, bring the war home.
Bring some of those M-16s and AK-47s back to the Ghetto,
if ya don't shoot yaself first. Get some of those TOWs.
Fire up some police cars. Somepolice stations.
Yeah. I sed it. Me alone.

IMPERIALISM IS NIGGAZ ENEMY AND YA BETTA RECOGNIZE!!! !!
EVERBODY FIGHTIN BACK 'CEPT AMERICUZ BLACK SLAVES!!

You worried bout Obama and he aint worried about you.
What'd he say bout Sean Bell?
NUFFIN!! NOT A DAMN THANG!!

Yakkin nuffin crap bout the white man's psychology,
his religious make up, who sed what on CNN, how that Imus
had the nerve, was Britney wearin
panties, they don't like Rev. Wright, what'd he say anyhoo…
Keep talkin bout 500 years ago, what Willie Lynch spit,
who Sally Hemming slept with, Abe Lincoln wuz black,
Birth of a Nation, that was wrong what they done to Garvey,
and why our communities went bust…

IMPERIALISM IS YOUR ENEMY,
YOU DON'T NEED TO KNO MUCH ELSE.

If you can identify IMPERIALISM in all its forms,
if you can organize against it, we can win.
Won't no damn ass racist uncle tom and
cracker pigs be whuppin on OUR heads anymore.
They gonna need a damn army to hold us down,
and that will halt a couple of wars.You SCARED?
Then how you gonna make a change?
Read this again from the top, maybe
you'll get some inner standing,
or a pair of balls.

INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CAPITALISM
is the fusion of industry with finance.
It is a worldwide system of political and economic control
where the military solution has become increasingly obsolete.
Militarism has become so outdated that even the most advanced
weapons systems have failed to defeat simple uprisings
by even the poorest populations determined to fight a protracted war.
You cannot win, America. You cannot sell us on your war.
The old societies refuse to be bowed.
Eventually, they will bankrupt and break this political system.
It will collapse. What will become of its willing slaves?
Rev. Wright only told part of the story.
The chickens have come home to roost.
But when they all return to roost,
the coop cannot hold them all.
What then, America, what then?

Malcolm X sed they coming home to roost.
He forgot to let you bootlickers kno
AMERICA WILL THEN EAT CROW.

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The dialog, starting with the first shot, by sikivu...

> --- In http://www.blogger.com/group/Unite_and_Resist_Campaign/post?postID=ImtgW1APz6ctJ3uPXQEPEfQPOVpQL8JxjjdvnzVPzBBtTVc2B8RUdTQi6-XN5Pf8mvY66ZM5vYb16bdTjAMBmurd3ezF, sikivu@ wrote:
> >> > all of this is just general truism, which have no practical value> at all.> > the question is, can you help build a movement and institutions to> house the> > aspirations of the masses to become a full, proud and productive> people. If so> > meet us in New Orleans in November, for the Caucus to build a> National> > African American Congress.> >> >> >


>>> In a message dated 5/19/2008 10:22:59 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,> unite_n_resist@ writes:
>> sikivu, what a dry, cynical reply to something you do not obviously> understand and lack the clarity to express. So, you prefer to spread> disunity by throwing belittling insults at political education,> agitation and propaganda. Then you mistakenly expect to effectively> organize me, by starting out with infantile insults? Who schooled you> and where did you get your street cred. Check yourself at the door.>>

--- In http://www.blogger.com/group/Unite_and_Resist_Campaign/post?postID=ImtgW1APz6ctJ3uPXQEPEfQPOVpQL8JxjjdvnzVPzBBtTVc2B8RUdTQi6-XN5Pf8mvY66ZM5vYb16bdTjAMBmurd3ezF, sikivu@ wrote:>> FYI, I GOT MY CREDENTIALS IN THE STREETS OF HARLEM, WHERE i WAS BORN, TENN.> STATE, GRAD, USC WITH HONORS.; UCLA GRAD SCHOOL, POLI. SCI. WITH> SPECIALIZATION IN SOUTHERN AFRICAN POLITICS; MEMBER OF SIMBAWACHANGA, MOST DISCPLINED> YOUTH MOVEMENT OF 60'S; VICE CHAIR, Us ORG. (FOUNDED KWANZAA), AND CURRENTLY> MEMBER OF CAAPEI (A BLACK THINK TANK).>> I WASN'T TRYING TO BE RUDE BUT JUST GIVING HONEST CRITIQUE. SORRY IF YOU> CANNOT TAKE IT IN THE SPIRIT IT WAS GIVEN. NO MATTER, THE CRITIQUE STANDS. TRY> MAKING THOSE ARGUMENTS IN THE REAL WORLD SOMEWHERE. WE HAVE TO SET SOME> STANDARDS IF WE GONNA COMPETE ON THE WORLD STAGE. I AM WILLING TO UNITE WITH ANYONE> AFRICAN, BUT IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING OF IMPORT TO SAY, ALLOW OTHERS, OR> ELSE SILENCE IS THE BEST RESPONSE. NOT HATIN, JUST SPEAKING TRUTH.>> W. KABAILA

--- In http://www.blogger.com/group/Unite_and_Resist_Campaign/post?postID=ImtgW1APz6ctJ3uPXQEPEfQPOVpQL8JxjjdvnzVPzBBtTVc2B8RUdTQi6-XN5Pf8mvY66ZM5vYb16bdTjAMBmurd3ezF, "Iskandar" wrote:
I DO 24/7 AGITPROP:
Everyday I see people posting news articles from some hideous act that American racism has committed against Africans. My thought concerning Africans is like Ho Chi Minh's thought concerning Vietnam. It is like Chairman Mao thought on China. It doesnt need to be screamed to be heard.
Enemies dont scare me. Black-skinned compradors who pose as black liberation fighters to hi-jack our trend from the inside, by creating the kind of conflict that, say, US organization did to the Black Panther Party. Such forces hide behind the fact that COINTELPRO had as its mission the divide and conquer strategy, yet one side has to be down for a cut from Imperialism for that to work. Nobody is that stupid, because the State went after one group and left the other alone. I don't believe you are that stupid, even tho you sound quite convincing.
Like, f'instance, define TRUISM. What do you mean by that? Do you kno? I don't have your type creds. I'm just working class black.
I have comrades African, Indio, Asian, and white who kno my work and my history. I can go on any street in the black community in America because I was trained by the best: UNIA, AAPRP, APSP. Plus some. I have also trained some of the best. If you can't talk to them, you cannot talk to me.
Sikivu, you can hate and disguise it in whatever petty bourgeois cloth you may. You stepped on my toes because I put something down that struck a nerve. Nothing but Imperialism made you to step out like a Jonas Savimbi or Mobutu conducting a crackdown. It wasn't the first time you stated something out of line to me tho this is the last time I waste time replying to your reactionary commentary.

2008-05-19

Imperialism or African Freedom

The War of Words and the Struggle for Africa

The Imperialist United States power structure wages a racist class war against colonized Africans inside America to the effect that we are dragged into all of its struggles, under the cover of Democracy. While some define this war as a low-intensity conflict and others call it a counterinsurgency, rather it forms a (white nationalist) ruling class offensive to break the Ghetto (the black colony). Bill O’Reilly calls it a culture war. So if the current strategy of the bourgeoisie (capitalist ruling class) is to break the African community, by what methods and to what outcome will this strategy prevail? Or, has it prevailed already, and merely forcing its domination as far down the throats of black people as it can go?

The conditions and relationships which define this war are exhibited thru a balance of forces in the class struggle which revolutionaries must recognize and analyze; and, we must learn the historical process thru which to build a social force strong enuf to break with Imperialism.

We must not underestimate the viciousness of the Imperialist system nor fail to reckon with its black-skinned operatives, America’s neo-colonialists. US reactionary ideologues contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union, after swearing to bring about its demise. They have sworn to take away Voting Rights, Civil Rights and other laws which protect the rights of America’s black citizens. The reactionaries have made it clear that they oppose the military victory over apartheid and colonialism in southern Africa, and we must be prepared to defend that as well.

It is important to recognize the important role the Soviet Union played in the stability of Africa and other regions. While anti-colonial and anti-Imperialist wars may have raged around the globe, a form of proletarian dictatorship kept the racist depredations of the West more or less in check. With the collapse of the USSR, hell broke loose. There was no “peace dividend“, as promised by the US presidents. Instead, forty years of fascist culture repressed by the Soviets became unhinged with the Serbian onslaught in Bosnia.

At the same time, tensions built up and exploded in Sierra Leone, where a ten-year-war embroiled neighboring countries and slaughtered about 120,000 people. Others were mutilated by machete in a manner performed only by European and Arab colonial overseers. This type of warfare had been committed as recently as the Eighties in Mozambique, Angola and Nicaragua by forces financed by Portugal, South Africa, Israel and the United States. Now it was being financed by Africans themselves, sub-imperialists nevertheless, who backed their power bid with blood diamonds.

Africa and the Caribbean are the crucial links to black identity in the USA. Once we become cut off from those linkages, the Imperialists may as well place the shackles back on our wrists and ankles.

Imperialism, realizing this, saturated the American consciousness with pictures and reports of African misery thru out the Nineties to demoralize blacks and drive us into the arms of the racist white power structure. Yet the Soviet Union had a great deal to do with how Africans internalized their class relationships, tribal relationships and national identities. The proletarian dictatorship had supported the wars against colonialism and apartheid around the World. When it fell, an explosion of internecine violence erupted, even within black communities across the United States.

We cannot go back and pick up the Soviets, to restore them tho they were, indeed, our noble comrades. Today we have to pick ourselves up and build our own self-led black working class World revolution.

In so doing, the pride we have in ourselves as Africans has not so much to do with our past as with our present. We will not prosper as a people without doing away with superstition, yet we must simultaneously seek a path of development which diverges from the wanton path of consumerism and waste.

We have to understand our relationship to wealth and power. We must recognize that Africa has all the necessary resources to be independent in every area, and that Africans must become absolutely committed towards its development. That demands a strategy to defeat Imperialism and its supporters in Africa. It demands nationalization and collectivization of African resources, plus political support from Africans in America’s ghetto, or black colony.

But a confrontation is necessary. A war within the black colony is necessary. It is necessary to create breathing room for revolutionary forces to define the movement and the future of African people. We cannot permit Imperialism or its lackeys to make that decision. The war of words is where we begin, but it is never where we end.