Revolutionary Daily Thoughts: The Philosophies and Opinions of Our Ancestors/Elders

[Olùkọ́ Ọbádélé]

"There is a society. It's made up of a few men who are willing to
take some risks. They don't initiate anything; they don't even
choose. They are as indifferent as rain. But when a Negro child,
Negro woman, or Negro man is killed by whites and nothing is done
about it by their law and their courts, this society selects a
similar victim at random, and they execute him or her in a similar
manner if they can. If the Negro was hanged, they hang; if a Negro
was burnt, they burn; raped and murdered, they rape and murder. If
they can. If they can't do it precisely in the same manner, they do
it any way they can, but they do it. They call themselves the Seven
Days. They are made up of seven men. Always seven and only seven. If
one of them dies or leaves or is no longer effective, another is
chosen. Not right away, because that kind of choosing takes time. But
they don't seem to be in a hurry. Their secret is time. To take the
time, to last. Not to grow; that's dangerous because you might become
known. They don't write their names in toilet stalls or brag to
women. Time and silence. Those are their weapons, and they go on
forever."
"You? You're going to kill people?"
"Not people. White people."
"But why?"
"I just told you. It's necessary; it's got to be done. To
keep the ratio the same."
"And if it isn't done? If it just goes on the way it has?"
"Then the world is a zoo, and I can't live in it."
"Why don't you just hunt down the ones who did the killing?
Why kill innocent people? Why not just those who did it?"
"It doesn't matter who did it. Each and every one of them
could do it. So you just get any one of them. There are no innocent
white people, because every one of them is a potential nigger-killer,
if not an actual one. You think Hitler surprised them? You think just
because they went to war they thought he was a freak? Hitler's the
most natural white man in the world. He killed Jews and Gypsies
because he didn't have us. Can you see those Klansmen shocked by him?
No, you can't."

--- Nobel Laureate, Toni Morrison from her book Song of Solomon on
The Seven Days

[Olùkọ́ Ọbádélé]

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to
think critically.. . Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of
true education."

Martin L. King, Jr.

[Olùkọ́ Ọbádélé]

"You've got to be prepared to lose your life in order to gain your
life."

Queen Mother Moore

[Olùkọ́ Ọbádélé]

To refer to ourselves as ""nationalists"" would suggest that we
desire, at some point in the future, a nation of our own! One clear
lesson that we should have learned from the past is that our enemies
aren''t going to ""give"" us anything but a hard time. Therefore if
we are going to get our liberation, we are going to have to take our
liberation.
One of the first steps toward taking our liberation is to have
a through knowledge and understanding of our own history of
resistance to the system of white supremacy as well as resistance
efforts by other victims of this same oppressor.
A second step toward taking our liberation is to have a through
knowledge and understanding of our enemies theories, methodologies,
strategies, tactics, and habits in regards to oppression in general
and use of force and violence in particular, since their entire
system rests on the actual or threatened use of military force.
Within that context, we need to examine the Europeans recent and
current use of terrorist groups, militias, death squads, etc as
extra legal means to accomplish state desired goals without direct
government involvement. Serious attention needs to be paid to the
current use of tactical training schools, information and venues as
a method of preparing the general white citizenry for what they have
described as an inevitable racial war.
Since we are a numerical minority in this country, we need to
look at the various current and past methods used by numerical
minorities to successfully prevent numerical majorities from abusing
them.
Finally we need to seriously examine, address, and develop
solutions to address the ""fear factor"" which prevents so very many
people from overtly or covertly challenging our oppressors and
the ""safe, non-threatening"" activities we engage in, to give the
appearance of fighting against oppression, when in fact, we are not!

Gimbu C. Kali
"Proposal for a Resistance Traditions Committee"

[Olùkọ́ Ọbádélé]

"The couple is the bedrock of the nation. Without it there is
no family, no people. Without couples there can be no family to
procreate and rear confident, untroubled, anchored children. No
viable, community-respecting generation can be born to continue the
process of life, living, building and defending.
Afrikan couples must be whole, individually and as one. They
must be able to trust themselves and each other implicitly. And
that is what makes it imperative that we carefully choose our mates
for Afrikan reasons. We must choose with vision. For we are the
vanguard.
Our unions have purpose far greater than the wants or needs of
either member individually or the couple together. We do not bemoan
this privilege. In fact, it is just the opposite. We are soldiers
in love with forming beautiful families; rearing happy, thinking
children; building strong, lasting communities; raising a mightly
nation and removing all enemies. For Afrikan warrior scholar
complements, there is no other reason for being."

Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
Complementarity: Thoughts for Afrikan Warrior Couples

[Olùkọ́ Ọbádélé]

"History should tell a people who they are, where they came from and
what their potential is as a people. If it fails to do so, it is
useless."

Anthony Browder
Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization

[Olùkọ́ Ọbádélé]

"Use to the limit what we already have."

Zora Neale Hurston
"Court Order Can't Make the Races Mix" (1955)