REVOLUTION NOW or REVOLUTION AS A PROCESS?

[Ɔkyeame Kwame]

REVOLUTION NOW or REVOLUTION AS A PROCESS?

Abibifahodie (Black Liberation) Afrikans,
In my close circle there has been discussion of revolution. One view is that, similar to Sun Tzu's recommendation of setting a fire to cause confusion (temporary breakdowns in the system) and to take advantage of that confusion, revolutionary acts need to be done now to prevent white world terror domination's tentacles from continuing to stretch out in the various operations it's running throughout the world in general and this country in particular. Others advise that revolution is a long and protracted process requiring the systematic education of Afrikan people citing things like Omali Yeshitela's post 9-11 speech in regards to immediate acts to disrupt white world terror domination that are actually counter-revolutionary.

The first view looks at current plans and acts of genocide being carried out against Afrikan people (concentration camps, schools, churches, ho-lice, chemical/biological warfare etc.) throughout the world and requires some type of systematic offensive.

The second view mentions the futility of the "fire" created if negroes are too brainwashed to take any advantage of it and would kill each other as self-hatred takes its course.

The first view looks at the need to break the system of coerced interactions with the static/dynamic global interlocking system of white world terror domination in the form of everyone, even (and sometimes especially) conscious Afrikans supporting white world terror domination through cell-phone use, use of gasoline, buying/wearing whitey clothes, use of electricity, eating, paying rent, etc. And in function, regardless of ideology, supporting w.w.t.d.

The second view looks at the first view as wanting a (probably ineffective) shortcut out of the intergenerational work and process that is the Afrikan World Revolution.

What do you think? REVOLUTION NOW OR REVOLUTION AS A PROCESS ?

[pain]

In my opinion, both.

Revolutionary action is always needed currently, in my opinion, in order to provide the time and atmosphere needed for us to come up with the ultimate resolution to the problem. Problem there is many of us look at the temporary fixes as cures and become complacent. We didn't learn the lesson that these mini-revolutions are merely part of the strategy of the major revolution/ resolution.

You work with what you have until you can get out of the situation and no longer need to do so. Just have to make sure that you are actually working towards the goal of disassociation with the systematically destructive ingredients implanted into society by yt.

In Jamaica, we put it on Ananse.

The mistake I think some people make is that they attribute technology to yt and pretty much encourage the abandonment of it because they equate technology altogether with evil & therefore yt and what they view as "natural living" with good & Afrikan.

This is where Ananse comes in for me.

In conversations I've been in where the topic is should we be nation building with people who won't abandon euro-religions, for instance, there are those who argue that the euro religions can be used to benefit Afrikan people in nation building and that if we're gonna ignore that and give it back to them then we should give back everything else as well.

I remember reading about the life of Araminta Ross and in particular the story about her attempting to free certain members of her family from chattel slavery by way of the Underground Railroad. I remember reading that her father, a "christian", would bring them food at night, but when he approached them he would walk backwards his explanation being that this way he wouldn't see exactly where they were because if "massa" asked him where they were he couldn't, as a good christian, lie to massa.

Me? If I could have even been that guy, I would have went front-ways, given them the food, kissed'em and went back to "massa" and told him anything but the truth and I'd feel perfectly fine about it. Wouldn't have been no contradiction for me. ( Ideally, I'd be runnin' away with them for the record.)

There may indeed have been some of us that were so militant that we wouldn't accept "massa's food" because of some feeling of hypocrisy. I think we can get extreme some times in what we attribute or give to yt. There are some things that definitely should be completely abandoned such as euro religion, but there'll be those who say religion altogether including Afrikan religions. This is where judgment comes in.

If you're unable to identify the significant difference between euro pseudo-religion (mechanisms of mental slavery) and Afrikan religion ( on a practical basis as well as on the basis of the overwhelming historical role it has played in our people freeing themselves from slavery) then you have made a costly miscalculation.If you attribute technology to yt, you've greatly limited your potential. If you say that this land belongs to him and the motto is to "give the devil" his due then you should either run and jump into the ocean to swim somewhere else or immediately die and dry up into nothingness.

I don't let these skewed, euro-contrived fallacies wrap, twist or bend me up in knots of compromise that are harmful to me. I recognize the lopsided, butt-backwards, topsy-turvy situation that I'm in and I summon the wisdom and cleverness of Ananse/ Esu to aide me in making the appropriate decisions.

I planted those crops on the plantation. I tended to them everyday. I played a critical part in its development. How can I turn around and then say that it belongs to massa?

What belongs to massa is the way that it came about i.e. Chattel slavery. Black people were never against the concept of agriculture/ farming. We just didn't practice chattel slavery as a way of growing food. Give THAT back to massa.

Cell phones, computers, automobiles? "Massa" would have NONE of this on his own. Never have these people ever shown to get anywhere near "advanced" on their own. Yet we have done it on our own several times. We have never been against communication or travel. We played a critical role in the creation and innovation of communications and travel technology. Technology is as much "ours" as anyone else. Give yt back the destructive way he has went about getting the raw materials for us to further these disciplines. Give yt back the wicked ways in which he utilizes some of this technology. Give yt back the overall carelessness in his thinking process whereby tecnology produces devastating effects upon plants, animals, land, sea, air etc. We don't have to have our people killing each other by the millions in order to get the cobalt or coltane or the rubber for the tires on the cars and such. We don't have to use planes to drop bombs on innocent people and we don't have to use oil, depleted uranium, nuclear technology etc.

When we work to get off of dependence upon destructive technology, we should keep this in mind because considering the fact that things like shelter, tables & chairs are technology, I'm thinking we may actually need technology for, among other things, the final solution to the problem of w.w.t.d.

[Nefertiti-Feyikemi]

I think we need a Revolution now!!!...Because we been in the process for hundreds of years...And some will ask... What do we do with the house niggas and honky lovers and black traitors...And we would say..."its just so unfortunate that your time is up"...Goodbye!!!(And you'll hear the sound of my machete)And thats just the least for all they've inflicted upon us

[Asantewa]

Although I voted for option no 2 I feel ALL of the first three options... I say revolution NOW but through the process of conscientizing and mobilizing the masses. Representations should be made BY THE MASSES as in demonstrations, petitions and BLACK MEDIA. The pen has been proven almost as mighty as (maybe mightier than) the sword. We can't keep getting mad about issues we hear about only on this forum - we have to make them public WORLDWIDE to EVERY BLACK COMMUNITY on the face of the earth. I personally am the 'all guns blazing' type but - being a media practitioner - I have unwillingly realized how effective relentless media exposure and nagging can become. They've mentally enslaved us via the media and it's high time we turn it back on them. BLAST THE AIRWAVES!!!