Where is the North American African Nation?
Pan Africanism is great as per internationalism. The African Union of the Diaspora is fine as per internationalism, but where is the apparatus of the Nation of North American Africans? Where is your sovereignty, self determination. How can one even accept Pan Africanism without nationalism. Yet, every African in Africa is a national. There is no nation called Pan Africa, unless you mean Brooklyn, New York!
Michael Jackson, rest his soul, told us to remember the time! Remember Nation Time? Remember when North American Africans were serious about establishing a sovereign nation here in the wilderness of North America? Remember the Nation of Islam, the Republic of New Africa. Were these idle dreams of romantic idealists with rose colored glasses?
But what is Pan Africanism but another dream, certainly more difficult to achieve than the first, especially for North American Africans who would enter the Pan African nation as stateless persons. How can you seriously represent yourself in a collection of nations while you are victims of the slave system called the United States of America.
You want to connect with other independent people while you exist in a dependent status, neo-colonial subjects of the US, persons who have never exercised self-determination and most certainly not sovereignty. You can't even conceive of such! You have no idea what freedom is!
Sun Ra taught if you don't do the right thing, the Creator got it fixed so you can't go forward or backward until you do so. Pan Africanism is an ideal, but the realization of the idea must be grounded on nationalism. Pan Africanism is the logical next step after nationalism. Think globally, but act locally, nationally.
Call me a narrow minded nationalist, I don't give a damn. I am not trying to win a popularity contest. I don't care if you ever invite me to speak at your gatherings. I am quite satisfied writing. In fact, I'm having the best time of my life. So I'm going to call it as I see it, since we won't be around forever, and who wants to be? As my elders made plain to me the other day, it doesn't get any better with time!
I just want to see some sanity in this matter of North American Africans in time and space. Too many of us want to nick pick and cherry pick freedom, a job, a woman, money, materialism, international relations. Yet how can you have international relations when you have no national relations. You can't go around the corner with two North American Africans, yet you want to be a Pan African. My parents taught me charity begins at home and spreads abroad.
When will we come out of space and land on solid ground? Dr. Nathan Hare calls it other-worldism. Some of us are ready to follow another Jim Jones to some jungle to drink poison Kool Aid. We want to claim allegiance to Africa, the Moon, Russia, China, anywhere but casting down our buckets where we are and seizing the time, the space, the land that we have every right to a fair share, yes, the human and divine right to own a piece of America, four or five states, where we can live in peace, free of the eternal hostile environment of the White Supremacy American slave system.
Yet we tarry in Jerusalem, standing on the corner with our dicks in our hand and hearts racing, thinking the whore is coming back. She ain't coming back, brothers, so stop being the trick. Our generation is on the way out, so what shall we leave our children. American politics is a grand delusion--Elijah told you no politican of this world can save you--yet you persist. Even I fell under the momentary illusion Obama could and would make a difference. If anything, the noose has gotten tighter under his watch. He's outdone Bush with wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Libya and elsewhere. He's promised terrorists education, employment and housing if they lay down their arms. Why can't he do the same for brothers and sisters in the hood? I am astounded at the cost of housing our children in juvenile halls, $200,000 per year. Hell, send them to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, so they can learn how to be big time criminals, so they can join the Wall Street blood suckers of the poor. My daddy told me, "Boy, if you gonna be something be the best!"
But no, North American Africans will vote en mass to re-elect Obama to four more years of black face white supremacy and we will be quite satisfied. North American Africans aided African liberation, but where is our nation, our piece of the pie. You want to sit at the table of Pan Africanism but you bring nothing. You represent no one except yourself. You have not organized a plebecite or vote of the people. You have not prepared your people for independence. Our thinkers and intellectuals are quite satisfied being tenured Negroes at white supremacy colleges and universities, yet claim they are Pan Africanists. The white man surely laughs at his Negroes.
He knows they are damn fools. Even my friend Dr. Cornel West was asked by an interviewer how he could talk all this radicalism within the halls of Princeton, a bastion of white supremacy mis-education.
It is no wonder Elijah had to pick a man like Malcolm X, from the grass roots. We will linger on in this nothingness and dread until a crop of brothers and sisters come to the front of the line who are well grounded in revolutionary nationalism and Pan Africanism, with the priority on nationalism. Pan Africansim is simply a matter of foreign affairs. Nation Time!
We will need to summon ineluctable energy to bring about the Nation of North American Africans. We will need to discard sloth, laziness, niggardliness and myopia. We will need to detox and recover from our full blown addiction to white supremacy, wage slavery, bleaching cream and Korean hair.
Stop worrying about interracialism. If a black sister wants to be with a white man, let her alone. She got to have white consciousness to desire a white man, so why worry about her. As Elijah said of the UN Undersecretary Ralph Bunche (the Negro who helped establish the nation of Isreal, while he was without a nation for his people), "Ralph Bunche is a Negro we don't need." So those black brothers with white women are black men with white hearts, so let them go in peace. We have enough brothers and sisters to form a nation. We have enough wealth, North American Africans are the 16th richest nation in the world, except we're victims of tricknology that has us addicted to conspicuous consumption or full blown materialism, the addiction to the white man's world of make believe. Jump out of the box, North American Africans. You can do it, just like Jack! Nation Time!
--Marvin X
6/6/11
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