A Black Revolutionary Nationalist Response to President Obama's Speech to Muslims

A Black Revolutionary Nationalist Response to President Obama's Speech to the Middle East

Talk is cheap. Politicians glorify in the world of make believe, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. After oppressing the people in North Africa and the Middle East for decades, we now learn the imperialists will come with new tricknology to appease and assuage the wounds suffered by the neo-colonized people.

Don't believe the hype. Dad taught me that charity begins at home and spreads abroad. If America is sincere about aiding the people of North Africa and the Middle East, let her set the example at home by liberating the 40 million North American Africans.

Firstly, recognize our human and Divine right to self-determination, which may include a nation of our own on territory of the United States of America but separated from the USA in recognition of those persons too traumatized to live within the boundaries of the United States.

We must have the human and divine right to separate from the United States of America into a nation of our own. We have given four hundred years of free and nearly free labor to the USA to make her the most powerful nation on earth.

In our condition of wretchedness, economic, educational, spiritual, political, and moral, we cannot sit on the sidelines of history while our President pontificates on how America will address the woes of the others but ignore the condition of 40 million North American Africans.

We heard our President say he will aid the youth of North Africa and the Middle East by giving them assistance in loans, grants, jobs, housing, etc., yet we have not heard him say he will do the same for the home front, for the youth of America who are without education, jobs and housing.

As he promised for the Middle East and North Africa, we want him to forgive the debts of North American Africans, forgive the outstanding mortgages.

We want the USA to establish land trusts in the cites to implement an immediate halt to gentrification. This must occur coast to coast, including the Dirty South and anywhere gentrification is occurring.

As an immediate solution to the housing crisis, we want North American Africans to acquire life estates in apartments and houses in communities where we reside in large numbers.

If America can do the same for North Africa and the Middle East, we shall not sit quietly by without receiving the same for us. We are in harmony with the people of North Africa and the Middle East: liberty or death! We have no fear of your guns, tanks, bombs, jails, prisons and torture chambers. What time is dinner?

We want a general amnesty for all prisoners held unjustly in the numerous jails and prisons of America. Release them immediately to the North American African Council of Elders.

How can you promise economic security to the youth of North Africa and the Middle East, yet not provide the same for North American African youth who languish in the putrid cities suffering drugs and violence because you refuse to provide them jobs with a living wage?

North American Africans are human beings and we demand respect due human beings. You cannot support self-determination for human beings abroad but not at home. Don't be a hypocrite. We shall challenge you every step of the way!

Do not claim you oppose violence while Israel plummets Palestinians to death with guns, tanks, bombs and planes paid for with the money of US taxpayers. Stop supplying the hood with guns and drugs provided by your armies, police, politicians and big time drug dealers in cahoots with such.

You want self-determination for individuals, well, this must be true at home and abroad. There are forty million individuals who have the right to vote in a plebiscite on whether we shall remain under your oppressive regime or seek independence. You supported independence for the Sudan, well, we have the human right to the same. There are those of us who have no desire to live under your wicked regime of socalled democracy and freedom.

We have the divine and human right to establish a nation of our own on some of this land in which we have labored under the sun for over four centuries.

--Marvin X

5/19/11

Happy birthday, Malcolm X