Now as we prepare to
enter the third decade of the 62nd Century KC [21st
Century CE] we as Global Afrikan peoples, i.e. Watu Weusi, Wafrika Weusi, if we
view the world through an Afrikan Utambuzi wa [Kiswahili: Utambuzi wa- Consciousness of] KT
MЗ KT/Ket.Ma.Ket [Kush/Kemet: Collectiveness] or World-View,
and analytically consider our socio-political economic condition will cogently
arrive at the conclusion that we reside in a spiritual, cognitive, affective
and psycho-motor physiological socio-cultural crisis. Our socio-political economics, culture and
socio-historical consciousness exists at a critical point, a figurative cross
roads defined by dire epistemological and ontological difficulties and
subsisting of existential catastrophes that place the potential resurgence and
expansion of Utamaduni Mkubwa ya Afrika and the optimal continuation of Afrikan
biological life at perhaps the nadir near a point of no return from the abyss
of conquest, subjugation and exploitation that has with interludes of respite
plagued Global Afrikan peoples for two and a half millennia.
The extremity of the socio-political
economic crisis of Global Afrikan peoples is systemic and thus impacts all
aspects of Afrikan life. By way of
example, at no time in the history of Global Afrikan peoples has the military
differential between Global Afrikans and Eurasians been at its current levels
whereby the scale of weaponry possessed by Eurasian nations is at a magnitude
where they are capable if so choosing of eradicating Global Afrikan peoples
from the face of the earth with not the least bit of concern of preventative
strategies or retaliation being implemented by Global Afrikan nations. For Global Afrikan nations have not for the
last half millennia engaged in the domestic research, development and production
of technologically innovative military hardware; instead, purchasing sub-par
weaponry from Eurasian nations in numbers and capabilities sufficient not for
offensive maneuvers but for the neo-colonial comprador continued subjugation of
Global Afrikan populations. This allusion to military differentials and thus
warfare is by no means accidental for it is an apt way to begin an analysis of
the Global Afrikan predicament that derives from nearly three millennia of
Eurasian domination of Global Afrikan peoples.
It takes us directly into the heart of the implementation strategy of
Eurasian nations the use of overwhelming military force in warfare, or
international political interaction, i.e. diplomacy by aggressive means. To
affect a public policy of domination Eurasian powers resort to a
socio-political economic strategy of violence.
Violence the result of the
socio-political economic use of subversive and devastating spiritual,
cognitive, affective and physiological coercive power in the social harassment,
political intimidation and economic oppression of a people is an infringement
upon the cultural standards of a people, an egregious violation of the sacred
customary laws of the Wahenga na Wahenguzi founders of a nation and a means of
destroying the socio-political economic harmony of a people. The following description of this violent
condition as presented by Mhenga Malcolm X, though describing the American
Afrikan socio-political economic condition over half a century ago is widely
applicable to the current socio-political economic circumstances of Global
Afrikan nations:
“All of us (pimps,
prostitutes, drug users and dealers, alcoholics, etc.) who might have probed
space or cured cancer, or built industries- were instead
Black victims of the White man’s American social system… In the Ghettos
the White man has built for us, he has forced us not to aspire to
greater things, but to view every day living as survival-and in
that kind of community, survival is what is respected…The Black
prisoner…symbolized White society’s crime of keeping Black men oppressed
and deprived and ignorant and unable to get decent jobs, turning
them into criminals…The White man wants Black men to stay immoral
unclean and ignorant. As long as we stay in these
conditions we will keep on begging him and he will control us. We never can win freedom and
justice and equality until we are doing something for ourselves.”[1]
Ignorance perpetrated
through cultural misorientation, compulsory sub-par mis-education and internal
ghettos or colonies within the Eurasian nations and ‘nigger boxes’ or
neo-colonial flag independent states are key components in the continued
oppression of Global Afrikan peoples to this day. As they are the established socio-economic
and socio-political structures that murder Global Afrikan peoples by the
hundreds of millions. The spiritual,
cognitive, affective and psycho-motor physiological enslavement and
colonization of Global Afrikan men women and children for forced labor and
sexual trafficking in this day have historically been and contemporarily are
socio-economic institutions which were historically and currently are supported
by socio-political institutions and murder millions through socio-political
economic violence. The socio-political
economic policies supported by political violence or the threat thereof which
allow the ruthless exploitation and murder of billions across the world by
market-oriented multinational corporations and political elite collaborators in
all countries is yet another example of how so-called legal structures can be
and generally are sadistically violent.
These culturally unjust socio-political economic systems can be as
violent, if not more, than rampaging ideologically deficient armies:
“Unjust economic
systems can be as violent as rampaging armies: “All kinds of violence are the same ...the violence of the soldier who kills, the revolutionary who
assassinates; it is true also of economic violence-the violence of the
privileged corporate owner against his workers, of the 'haves' against the
'haves-not'; the violence done in international economic relations between
Western Nations and those of the developing world; the violence done through
powerful corporations which exploit the resources of a country that is unable
to defend itself.”[2]
This is a socio-political
economic situation of depopulation by Eurasian, i.e. White privilege morally
requires “…revolution against the established order…the criterion of a living [spiritual]
faith…”[3]
The affluence of the Eurasian nations depends on the poverty and unjust
socio-political economic structures that make the Eurasian nation elites, i.e.
the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Western and Eastern Europe, China,
Japan, the two Koreas, etc. and the socio-political economic comprador elites
of neo-colonial Afrika, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the internal
colonies within the Western Nations wealthy and the grassroots of the external
and internal neo-colonies diseased, malnourished and impoverished. As an example, land throughout these areas is
used to grow export crops to sell to Western nations, rather than being used to
feed the grassroots in the home countries since the Global socio-political
economic system is facilitated by a price methodology. Even the grassroots and internal colonies of
the Western nations participate. By their consumption based lifestyles the
socio-political economic structures which are blindly followed they participate
in those institutions which support those unsustainable lifestyles such as the
political system which they maintain by cooperating in system preservationist
symbolic pseudo-politics thus engaging in murder. All of this even while professing in the main
to be Christians but ignoring the words of their own religious doctrines:
“Woe to those who
decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who Keep writing oppression, to turn aside the needy
from justice and to Rob the poor of my people of their right that
widows may be prey, And that they may rob the fatherless.”[4]
A
course of action by Global Afrikan peoples that may contribute to the
alteration of this state of affairs is the propagation of the idea that in
order to make certain that there is Kulinda [Kiswahili: Preservation, Protection,
Conservation], Udumishaji [Kiswahili: Perpetuation, Permanence], Uendelezaji [Kiswahili: Prolongation, Flourishing,
Developing] of the NIWT/Niu.t [Kush/Kemet: Community] there must be an Itikadi [Kiswahili: Ideology] that coalesces the
cognitive, affective, psycho-spiritual and psycho-motor aspects of the Utambuzi wa Wafrika Weusi [Kiswahili: Consciousness of Black Afrikans]
focusing attention on Mvu ya
Ankh [Kiswahili: Spiral of Life], Afya ya juu Kabisa [Kiswahili: Optimal Health], Ustawi wa Afrika [Kiswahili: Afrikan Prosperity], Umoja wa Afrika [Kiswahili: Afrikan Unity], Uweza wa Afrika [Kiswahili: Afrikan Power] and Uongozi
wa Afrika [Kiswahili: Afrikan Leadership, Management].
All Mapokeo Afrikan Itikadi are infused by MЗ‘T/Maat and express unity in diversity as seen through the Methali wa Afrika [Kiswahili: Afrikan Proverbs]:
Mimi ni kwa sababu sisi ni. [I am because we are.] Mtu ni watu. [A
human being is human beings.]
[1] Alex
Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, (New York: Ballantine
Books, 1968) pp. 65, 107, 135.
[2] Jacques Ellul, Propaganda:
The Formation of Men's Attitudes Konrad Kellen & Jean Lerner (Trans.) (New York: Knopf, 1965)
[3] James
W. Douglass, The Non-Violent Cross: A Theology of Revolution and Peace
(Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock, 1968)
[4]
“Book of Isaiah 10: 1-4,” Holy Bible: With Apocrypha King James Version (London, England:, 1611)
and New International Version (Colorado Springs: International Bible Society,
1984); William Tyndale, (Trans.) Holy Bible (London, 1530); Lancelot
C. L. Brenton, (Trans.) The Septuagint: With Apocrypha (London: Samuel
Bagster & Sons, Ltd., 1851)
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