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Túpac Amaru: Senior Prefect in the liberation pantheon
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By Owei Lakemfa
I HAVE a confession. Some times, I have caught myself thinking about the world and what humans have done to it. Many times, I have been lost in thought about humans and what they have done to other human beings. Several times, I have caught myself debating who have been the most vicious colonialists who for lust and greed and in order to plunder riches, sent millions of other humans to early graves.
Does this infamous trophy go to the British who massacred the Kikuyus in Kenya for daring to demand freedom? Even after the massacres and defeat of the people, the British still executed 1090 Kenyans. Can it be the Americans who in their desperation to stop Vietnamese independence got some two million of them killed? Is it the French who in Algeria alone, killed over two million people in a vain attempt to stop the Algerian independence?
Túpac Amaru: Senior Prefect In the Liberation Pantheon, By Owei Lakemfa
He continues to rest in power.
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Túpac Amaru became a mythical figure whose spirit guided not just Peru, but also a number of Latin American countries to independence. He led in the pantheon of Latin American liberators, which include Simon Bolivar, Jose Marti, Antonio Maceo ‘The Bronz Titan’, Augusto Sandino…Ernesto Che Guevera, Fidel Castro…
I have a confession. Sometimes, I have caught myself thinking about the world and what humans have done to it. Many times, I have been lost in thought about humans and what they have done to other human beings. Several times, I have caught myself debating who have been the most vicious colonialists who, for lust and greed and in order to plunder riches, sent millions of other humans to early graves.
everybody feels that way. i just want to show the washington post. there was a piece titled, i was a civil rights activist in the 1960s. but it s hard to get behind black lives matter. written by barbara reynolds. where she kind of goes through and does the full respectability politics saying you can t tell whether or not there are mob actors or the protesters. just, wait. look, i love reynolds but i think that analysis is something i d have to push back on. when you meet these young activists, like those we have here. what you find is they recognize the value of moving forward politically, taking a social movement, and now turning it into a political movement. so by emfa itphasizing the impoe of making change, yes in the broad sense of raising their voices, but in the specific sense of going to the ballot, generating new voters and helping to engage in the
when the cbc foundation held its first gather. because this year the dominating idea of the conference is quite simply black lives matter. still with me, representative barbara lee and the leadership conference s wade henderson. joining us is efoma ekai, attorney and co-creator of black and brown people vote and dee watki watkins, columnist and english professor, awe are though of living and dying while black in america. thank you, guys, for being here. talk to me a little bit about how you think black lives matter is starting to transform the political landscape, like the black political agenda. first of all, i m glad i m here with what i would consider intergenerational allies. that s one thing i think is great about this movement. it s a continuation of activism that has been going on within our community literally since slavery. we ve always had individuals