By Bashir Muhammad Akinyele
Let me first begin my lecture with giving thanks to the Creator of the heavens and the earth. A Creator that is called by many ancient names in this world, such as Yahweh, God, Allah, Dios, and Olodumare. But the oldest name for the Creator in human history is Amen-Ra. This word Amen-Ra for the Creator of the heavens and the earth comes from the Afrikan Nile Valley Civilization called ancient Kemet-known to the world as Egypt. Amen-Ra comes the world’s first writing system called the Medu Neter. Europeans and Arabs call it Hieroglyphics. Amen-Ra means the hidden one, the unseen one, the prime mover of the universe and all living things. That might be too deep for some people, but this is Black History Month. The world, and Black people, must know our contributions to all human civilizations and religions. And we as Black people have contributed greatly to all human societies and all faith traditions in the earth. Afrikan faith traditions were the first
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We as Afrikan people need to establish more independent Black media platforms in America to force the world to respect Black perspectives, especially the radical, progressive, socialist, communist, Afrocentric, Black nationalist, and Pan Afrikanist view. Because white supremacy has distorted one of American democracy s most cherished civil liberties-the freedom speech. This fundamental principle in Americanism is not enjoyed by Afrikan people. We do not have the freedom to shape and mold political opinions about news, especially Black radical views, to the America People. Only White people, and non threatening Black people, have the freedom to shape and mold opinions about news in America. For instance, the mainstream press did not seek Black radical opinions about Trump s failed insurrection on January 6, 2021. Trump, the duly elected 45th President of the United States of America, helped to orchestrate a failed coup d état to stop demo
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Donald J. Trump, the duly elected 45th President of the United States of America, helped to orchestrate a failed coup d état to stop democracy on January 6, 2021. Every four years, after the national US Presidential elections are over in November, the US government passes the electoral votes through the Senate in Congress to certify the winning presidential candidate as the official American President. This is America s democratic process for the executive branch of the US government. The Trump supporters organized an American coup to stop this democratic process. This happened in the millennium to a country that boasts to the world as the bastion of democratic ideals in the world. Fascism manifested its ugly head in the US. The ideology behind it was white supremacy and xenophobia. Human family, particularly my Black family, don t be shocked by the current turn of events. This is America. The United States, and western culture, hav
By Bashir Muhammad Akinyele W.E.B. Du Bois
Donald J. Trump, the duly elected 45th President of the United States of America, helped to orchestrate a failed coup d’état to stop democracy on January 6, 2021. Every four years, after the national US Presidential elections are over in November, the US government passes the electoral votes through the Senate in Congress to certify the winning presidential candidate as the official American President. This is America’s democratic process for the executive branch of the US government. The Trump supporters’ organize an American coup to stop this democratic process. This happened in the millennium to a country that boasts to the world as the bastion of democratic ideals in the world. Fascism manifested its ugly head in the US. The ideology behind it was white supremacy, and xenophobia. Human family, particularly my Black family, don’t be shocked by the current turn of events. This is America. The United States, and western culture,
By Bashir Muhammad Akinyele
-Imamu Amiri Baraka
White supremacy and systematic racism left Black people as one of the most oppressed groups in America. Many Afrikan American leaders came forward to help liberate Black people from centuries of socioeconomic disparities caused by racial discrimination. During the high levels of the Black Liberation Movement in the 1950s to the early 1970s, Civil Rights and Black power became the world wide rallying call for social justice. We as Afrikan people in the United States have been in a protracted struggle to protect our blackness and our humanity ever since 1619. That is the year Black people arrived on the American shores in chains. Like millions of Afrikans before us, we were kidnapped in Afrika and forced into an European-American slave making system that totally disconnected us from our land, language, and culture for the sole purpose to be exploited by whiteness and capitalism. But Afrika’s children were not the only thing European