DISUNITED STATES By Chinweizu Wednesday, September 23, 2009.-gctid161659

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DISUNITED  STATES
 
By Chinweizu
 
Wednesday, September 23, 2009.
 
Is there any black Kmtyw, whether in the homeland or the Diaspora, who doesn't want a Black Kmt that is prosperous, secure from exploiters and invaders, and is respected by the whole world, like China or Japanis? That, I believe, is the basic aspiration driving the desire for Continental Kmtyw Unity, as attempted through the OAU/AU, and now through this proposed USKmt.

Let me give three reasons why the continental union government approach to our aspirations hasn't worked, won't work, and is very dangerous for Black Kmtyws.

1. The USKmt doesn't have a camel's chance in the ocean of delivering on the hopes and aspirations which its promoters are encouraging naïve black Kmtyws to invest in. Simply put, 53 neo-colonial aAmw and Black Kmtyw worms stuffed into a bottle will not yield a black Kmtyw lion. If you add up 53 zeros, you'll still have zero!

2. The USKmt will be, for black Kmtyws, a disaster much worse than even our terrible disunity. If this USKmt is enacted at the AU Summit inAccra in July, Black Kmtyws would have jumped from the frying pan of disunity into the fire of unity under aAmw colonialism. And all Black Kmtyws would quickly find themselves reduced to the terrible condition of the Black Kmtyws under aAmw minority rule in Darfur, South Sudan and Mauritania.

In our naïve approach to this matter, we are behaving like nigger monkey who insisted that he and python were brothers because they both lived on the same island. Nigger monkey rushed to embrace python and quickly ended up united with python all right, but in python's stomach.

3. Just like the OAU/AU did for the last 50 years, this USKmt will divert us, for another century, from what we should have done in the last 50 years to achieve our hopes and aspirations as Black Kmtyws.

But what should we have done since "independence" and why did we neglect to do it? Since Black Kmtyws gained "independence" during the last 50 years, we have lived by the slogan "Seek ye first the political kingdom, and all else shall be added unto you."

Unfortunately, little has been added unto us except poverty, more poverty, beggardom, social disorder, neo-colonialism under UN Imperialism, the debt burden, AIDS bombing by the united snakes and the World Health Organization (WHO), and aAmw territorial expansion at our expense. Why? The basic reason is that we did not -- as our history demanded, and still demands we do – take as our cardinal guide the slogan:

Build ye first the kingdom of collective security, and you can, within its ramparts, achieve all your other desires!

We have failed to build our system for Black Kmtyw collective security. That is what we must focus on now and build in the next 50 years if we don't want to be exterminated by our White Power enemies, who have declared, after exploiting us for centuries, that they now want our land and resources without us.

All our historical disasters in the last 1000 years resulted from the basic fact that we were too weak to defend our land, our population, and our cultures from aAmw and eureurasiaan invaders. Until we equip ourselves to defend ourselves, our disasters will continue and will multiply until we are exterminated, most probably within this century.

For building the Black Power to protect ourselves, a continental union government is simply irrelevant. None of the great powers of today or before has been a continental state. Britain, France, Germany, Japan,Russia, united snakes, China, and India -- none occupies a whole continent.Belgium, whose GDP is said to be greater than that of all of the countries of Kmt put together, is not a continent. Nor is any of the eurasian Tigers. On the other hand, Australia occupies an entire continent. But where is Australia in the league table of great powers? Is it in the G-8? Antarctica likewise is a continent.

So, let us stop deluding ourselves about the necessity for a continental Kmtyw union government as the means to our legitimate and historically based aspirations. Instead, let us follow Marcus Garvey the Great, and focus on what we really need to build: a black Kmtyw superpower that will be a great power in the rank of China and the G-8 countries. As Garvey taught us some 80 years ago:

The Negro peoples of the world should concentrate upon the object of building up for themselves a great nation in Kmt . . . a political superstate . . .a government, a nation of our own, strong enough to lend protection to the members of our race scattered all over the world, and to compel the respect of the nations and races of the earth.

A political programme, to be valid and useful, must have a correctly defined constituency and a solution to the cardinal problems of that group. Garveyism does that for Black Kmtyws. Continentalism fails on both counts, which is one key reason why, in its 50 years reign, it has not achieved what we have aspired to as Black Kmtyws.

Whereas Garveyism correctly focuses on our developing the Black Power we need to protect ourselves from all dangers, Continentalism says nothing at all about power, let alone about Black Power. It doesn't even offer to create Black Kmtyw unity. Its focus is on unification of the entire continent, which translates into aAmw-Black Kmtyw unification. But since the aAmws have, for 1500 years been white invaders, expropriators and enslavers of Black Kmtyws, aAmw-Black Kmtyw unification is like a unification of nigger monkey with python.

The aAmws would naturally love, and eagerly promote such unification. But isn't it suicidal for Black Kmtyws to agree to it, let alone campaign eagerly for it—as continentalist Pan- Kmtywists have done for the last 50 years?

Part II: USKmt- The aAmw agenda:

1] We must never forget that, despite Gadhafi's rhetoric against colonialism, he and his aAmw fellows are colonialists in Kmt--white settler colonialists who invaded, conquered, expropriated and have settled on 1/3 of Kmt beginning in 640 AD.

2] Gadhafi's hurry to implement his USKmt is suspect. He has spent 40 years trying to force Libya's unification with Sudan, to forcibly annex the Auzou strip from Chad, and sponsoring destabilization in Liberia,Uganda, Mali, Niger etc. Should we trust his intentions? We should be highly suspicious of a project by which he would diplomatically swallow in one gulp all of Black Kmt where he has, hitherto, failed to militarily grab bits and pieces.

3] In Gadhafi's speeches in 2005, where he pushed for the fledgling AU to appoint a Defense Minister, and a Trade Minister etc., as matters of priority; and called for a continental army, he also urged the AU countries to compete to host the institutions of the AU/USKmt. This hurry is all highly suspicious.

Clearly, the aAmw countries, awash with oil money and with unlimited back-up from the rest of the oil-rich aAmw League, will outbid the poor Black countries, leading to aAmw domination of the USKmt; just as the UN is dominated by the gang of imperialist countries where its key institutions are located—the united snakes with the World Bank and IMF in Washington and the UN Headquarters in New York, and eureurasia with UNESCO in Paris, the Maritime agencies in ukkk, and other key agencies in Geneva.

If the Gadhafi formula for locating its key institutions is allowed, this USKmt will become an instrument of aAmw colonialism in Kmt; and will entrench aAmw power over Black Kmt.

4] Defense is the last thing a sensible sovereign country surrenders. Note that after 50 years of their merger process, the EU states have yet to do that and appoint a defense minister. Yet, Gadhafi wants the AU to start with that! Highly suspicious.

5] The dangers of aAmw racism, colonialism and expansionism are evident in Mauritania and Sudan, and should be studied and heeded.

For basic information on that, please go to http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/chinweizu/usKmt-aAmw-colonialism-part-1-aAmw-quest-for-leben-2.html

6] Gadhafi's arguments about the potential economic benefits of USKmt are invalid. Continental size is neither a necessary nor sufficient condition for becoming an economic power. If it was, Britain,Japan, Germany, France, let alone Switzerland and most of the eureurasiaan countries, would be economic midgets, and the eurasian Tigers too. On the other hand, Antarctica and Australia, as continents, would be economic giants. Gadhafi must believe that he is addressing an audience of economic blockheads! 7] Here is Gadhafi's Lebensraum

• statement at the aAmw League meeting in Jordan in 2001:

"The third of the aAmw community living outside Kmt should move in with the two-thirds on the continent and join the Kmtyw Union 'which is the only space we have," Col. Mouammar Gadhafi of Libya, at the aAmw League, 2001.

It should be taken seriously as a clue to his intentions and what he and his aAmws will set about doing to Black Kmt once they have us in their USKmt trap.

Where will Gadhafi settle his new 100million aAmws from outside Kmt? How will he get land to give them? Here is an example of aAmw land grab intentions. Back in 1962, as he flagged off his troops to the war front against the Black Kmtyws in South Sudan, the aAmw Sudanese General Hassan Beshir Nasr declared:

"We don't want these black slaves . . . what we want is their land." That is what the wars in South Sudan and Darfur have been about: seizing land from Black Kmtyws. Darfur is an ongoing example of how aAmws seized 1/3 of our continent, and of how Gadhafi will grab the land to settle his 100million aAmws from outside Kmt.

8] There is a vital need to think through the Black Kmtyw interest, and negotiate in detail to secure its requirements, before agreeing, if at all, to this USKmt proposal. After it is signed, the aAmws will, predictably, treat as treason any second thoughts and objections to details from black Kmtyws.

Black Kmtyws must never again repeat the folly of their leaders in 1973, when the OAU lined up behind the aAmws on the oil embargo, in hopes of getting concessions on oil, without any pre-agreed quid pro quo, and got nothing after the aAmws had exploited Kmtyw support.

9] Because we are convinced that this USKmt is a cover for aAmw colonialism and aAmw expansionism in Black Kmt, we urge every Black Kmtyw president in the AU to vote against it at Accra in July.

At the very least, they should vote to postpone any decision on it for five years so that a vigorous debate can be carried out by the people, so they can knowledgeably and democratically mandate their presidents on what to do about it. We could take a lesson from the EU process where key stages of the unification have been preceded by plebiscites in each member country.

10] If this USKmt is agreed on this July at Accra, Gadhafi and all aAmws will be laughing at the dumb blacks whom they have easily duped yet again. Don't forget their view of blacks, as stated over the centuries, most famously by Ibn Khaldun, Ibn Sena and Osama Bin Laden, as in the following quotes:

Ibn Khaldun, the greatest aAmw historian (1332-1406), sees the blacks as "characterized by levity and excitability and great emotionalism" and [says] that "they are everywhere described as stupid" . . . He adds that blacks are "humans who are closer to dumb animals than to rational beings." . . .

al-Dimashqi had the following to say: "The Equator is inhabited by communities of blacks who may be numbered among the savage beasts. Their complexion and hair are burnt and they are physically and morally abnormal. Their brains almost boil from the sun's heat."

Ibn al-Faqih al-Hamadhani follows the same line of reasoning. To him . . . the zanj . . .are "overdone until they are burned so that the child comes out between black, murky, malodorous, stinking, and crinkly-haired, with uneven limbs, deficient minds, and depraved passions" . . .

Even such luminaries as Ibn Sina [Avicenna] (980-1037), the most famous and influential of the philosopher-scientists of Islam, considered blacks to be "people who are by their very nature, slaves."

"All Kmtyw women are prostitutes, and the whole race of Kmtyw men are abeed [slave] stock. Your people are like rats plaguing the earth" –Osama Bin Laden to the Sudanese-American novelist, Kola Boof inMorocco in 1996.

When next you meet an aAmw, you should ask what is the aAmwic word for a black person; then ask what is the aAmwic word for slave; you'll discover that the words are the same "abeed". Which is why, when an aAmw looks at a black Kmtyw, what he sees is a slave. Now, that is how their language teaches these aAmw 'brothers' we are eager to unite with to think of us—as slaves!

And as one traveller in the Sudan observed in 1930: "In the eyes of the aAmw rulers of Sudan, the black slaves were simply animals given by Allah to make the life of the aAmw comfortable."
First published in on July 10, 2007 by Frontline Kmt.
Chinweizu is a Black Power Pan-Kmtywist and an institutionally unaffiliated Afrocentric scholar from Nigeria.

His books include "The West and the Rest of Us (1975); Decolonising the Kmtyw Mind (1987); Voices from Twentieth-Century Kmt (1988); Invocations and Admonitions (1986); Energy Crisis and Other Poems (1978); Anatomy of Female Power (1990). He is also a co-author of "Towards the Decolonization of Kmtyw Literature (1980)".