America has openly stated that they do not have any political prisoners locked up in their jails. If you ask this same question to Black people in America we would have a different answer. I can think of a few political prisoners like Matula Shakur, Mumia Abdul Jamal and these are some of the most popular cases so most people have heard of these two individuals. But there are many others like Michael Davis Africa, Herman Bell or Veronza Bowers, Jr. who is considered Americas longest incarcerated political prisoner in the world. We have been politically imprisoned since our time here in America from not being able to vote to getting locked up for believing we had the right to vote.

In our communities we have been terrorized and imprisoned by having bombs dropped on us for trying to establish our own business and business communities like Black Wall Street. On May 31st, 1921 white people in America attacked our communities and destroyed thriving black owned and operated businesses and killed Blacks young and old In Oklahoma for trying to better themselves. The government of America backed the white opposition in their actions and dropped bombs on us to destroy what we had built. Today we are imprisoned in our communities by white cops who shoot us down like animals and never go to jail for it. We have cases of  a 90 year old women in Atlanta (Black Mecca) being shot down to a 7 year old little girl in Detroit being shot by police in her sleep. How can our children dream of change if they are being murdered while they are dreaming? Quite disturbingly the rate of Black people being killed by police and racist mobs had increased since the election of America’s so called first Black President.

One of the first protest I was involved in as a young activist was against waste management companies trying to dump waste sites in the Black community in Minneapolis Minnesota. The company wanted to put dump sites right in the community next to schools, parks and houses where Blacks, Latinos and poor Whites lived. Now some may say, “what is the problem?” but if you take into consideration the fact that the environment is being poisoned and the air polluted and the aftermath of  these many careless and irresponsible practices of  these big, unchecked industries on health causing all kinds of diseases such as cancer, tumors and birth defects etc. then you realize, without question, “why this is a problem.”

It is 2010 and in some respects and in a number of arenas the notion of going green is now the popular thing to do or at least talk about doing and incorporating into one’s business model and mission, but 20 years ago going green was a newer, less acceptable idea, highly resisted by large industries and corporations because cutting back on habits that were environmentally unsound translated as loss of  company income.

The Black fisherman in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama  are feeling the same helpless feeling that our political prisoners feel when looking to the government for aid or compensation, for the BP oil spill. The government pretends like it isn’t affecting us in a different way than it effects the rest of America but of course it does. The money from the BP package is being distributed first to the people along the Florida Keys. The keys don’t have black fisherman but they do have a rich community full of mansions and condos that wealthy Americans rent and live in. They are the first to receive money then it is passed around to everyone else since the fishermen are obviously not in Florida the money when and if it comes will not be much when it gets to them, sounds a lot like the aid for Katrina victims. Until Truth Prevails my Eyes will be watching.

http://www.prisonactivist.org/archive/pps+pows/pplist-alpha.shtml

http://www.veronza.org/G-Summary.html

http://www.whitehouse.gov/deepwater-bp-oil-spill

http://www.myblacknews.net/the-forgotten-black-fishermen-in-the-gulf-oil-spill/14398

THE OFFICIAL MAMA NJERE family organized services and repast:

Friday July 2
7pm-11pm (Libation and Ancestral Drum Call and Open Mike)

...Tupac Amaru Shakur Center

5616 Memorial Dr
Stone Mountain, GA 30083



Saturday July 3
3pm-7pm (Homegoing Celebration)

Shrine of the Black Madonna

946 Ralph D. Abernathy Blvd., Atlanta, GA 30310

9pm-Until (Repast)

Othello's Place

1170 Sylvan Road

Atlanta, GA 30310

Mother NJERI June 24,1952-June 24,2010

BIO:

Njeri Akosua Aminah Alghanee, Freedom Fighter, wife of Ras Mausi
Alghanee (36 years) ,mother of six, grandmother of three and counting. Grew
up in the New Afrikan Independence Movement in Detroit, Michigan.  Fought
for the release  of the RNA-11 of the Provisional Government of the Republic
of New Afrika. Continues to fight for Reparations and African Liberation.  
Educated at Wayne State University, majoring in Mass Communications.
Earned a B.A. in Liberal Arts and A.A. in Early Childhood
Education.Cooperative Owner of NoName Roots Freedom Shule (1974-1978);
Co-Author of ' Let the Sisters Speak" (1980); Cooperative Owner of Saba
Shule ( 1985- 1988); Assistant Director of Georgia Citizen's Coalition on
Hunger ( 1989 -1996); Executive Director pf Georgia Advocates for Battered
Women and Children (1996-97); Southern Region Coordinator for the Million
Woman March (1996-98);  National Board of Directors for the National
Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America ( 1994-present); Founding
Committee of Empress of Zion ( Rastafari Women); Ethiopian Women's
Federation; Queen Mother Moore Foundation; New Afrikan Womens
Organization; Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation; ABISA, Unlimited Family
Corporation; Cooperative Author of " She Hand Us the Rule Book from the
Poles of Supreme Authority" (2003) ( Rastafari Women); Founding Unity Board 
Director of the African Community Centers for Unity and Self Determination(founded 
2003)

Honor Ceremony Friday July 2nd from 7pm-12pm@ The Tupac Shakur Center
 

Tupac Amaru Shakur Center 5616 Memorial Drive Stone Mountain, GA 30083-3253 (404) 298-4223 Get directions - Is this accurate? 1 review - Write a review Open Weekdays 10am-5pm; Sat 12pm-6pm

Her work and memory lives on

Mama Njere was always a revolutionary. She had a close connection with our activist Queen Mother Moore who she felt passed her the mantel to fight for reparations.  Mama Njere was inspired to commit her life's work to achieving social change and reparations for our people. We give thanks for her energy and consistency in moving all of us closer to the liberation of Afrikan people.

Our thoughts and prayers are with the Alghanee family.

Mother, Sister, Soldier, Goddess

There is an account in our Sista/Mama/Queens name at Wachovia set up by her family. Please make donations. The account number is 3000194920747

                                                                        
 

                                                                         

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Richard Zulu Shabazz

O YE WHO BELIEVE! GIVE YOUR RESPONSE TO GOD AND HIS APOSTLE,WHEN HE CALLETH YOU TO THAT WHICH GIVE YOU LIFE, AND KNOW THAT GOD COMETH IN BETWEEN A MAN AND HIS HEART,AND THAT IT IS HE TO WHOM YE SHALL (ALL) BE GATHERED. REST WELL MOTHER ENJERE I WILL CONTINUE THE FIGHT. I LOVE YOU FROM THIS LIFE TO THE NEXT................PEACE AND BLESSINGS 

H.R.40 -- Commission to Study Reparation Proposals:  How will this benefit African Americans?


H. R. 40 - To acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to examine the institution of slavery, subsequently de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against African-Americans, and the impact of these forces on living African-Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes.

This bill was introduced in 1999 by Mr. CONYERS,  Mr. FATTAH, Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, Mr. HILLIARD, Mr. JEFFERSON, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas, Mrs. MEEK of Florida, Mr. OWENS, Mr. RUSH, and Mr. TOWNS.

This bill has been introduced as a study designed for the purpose of determining what can and should be done about the effects of slavery on African Americans who are descendants of slaves. The bill is not a proposal for reparations. We need to be clear about what the bill is for and what benefits or disadvantages it could have on New Africans in the States and in the Islands.

The bill would research the true history of slavery (dehumanization) and the effects of its psychological outcome on generations that followed once slavery itself had been outlawed. The bill is also asking that an apology be made from the government for its involvement in slavery. The greatest benefit from this research will be the findings on the physiological effects of slavery on African Americans who are still in this country. This research will help us as a community and people to explain why our communities and our youth are in the conditions they are in. The youth in African American communities are portrayed all over the media as gang bangers, drug dealers and murderers etc. The African American community is often questioned on why we are not able to do what other minority groups are doing in this country when it comes to building our communities into productive societies. Answers to such a question are hidden in such little known & scarcely taught historical facts as the black Wall Street, the great wealthy communities we had in the south like the black business district of  Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, which was described as the richest African American community in America before integration.  This is just one of the many detrimental consequences of  the oppressions and aftermath of slavery. The sources, true understanding and the making of gangs is never considered. The black gangs that were started were created out of the need for protection against white gangs.

The disadvantage of this bill is that it doesn’t include a provision for what the Government responsibility should be given in consideration of such on point and in dept research as aforementioned.

We need to have a study like this to start to put together the pieces of the puzzle. We also need to devise a study to assess the effects on Africans after Jim Crowe, Integration and the Civil rights movement. But just like we shouldn’t wait on the government for a check we shouldn’t  wait on them to do this psychological study for us. We need to create think tanks that study and monitor the conditions of our people from past to present treatments that stem from this racist system and the ignorance as well as covert and overt affects of slavery which remain at play among the descendants of both the oppressed and the oppressors still at play today.

I grew up with my father and I had the opportunity to know my grandfather and great grandfather so I can see the history of these men and see where I need to make corrections to be a better father. This is why recording of history and improving on past mistakes is very important. My great grandfather and great grandmother were very fair skinned and were known as blacks who could pass. This meant they looked white enough to be mistaken for being white and therefore were able to enjoy the privileges of white power. My grandfather, their only son, was effected by this because as a man he couldn’t respect his father as much as he wanted to because he had to watch him pretend to be something and someone he wasn’t. He was drafted into the air force as a young man and was never able to except the treatment he received because he wasn’t as fair skinned as his parents. He struggled with this as a man and passed down his issues to my father who was constantly angry about the fact he knew his father and he didn’t do anything for him financially. What my father was not taught were the laws that kept his father out the house. These laws allowed African American women to receive government assistance if no man was in the house. The frustration my father felt from not knowing this history caused him to hate his father as a youth. When I was a child there were times I hated my father because I couldn’t understand his frustration and his anger. Misdirected emotional issues were perpetually passed down from one generation to another. The effects of slavery caused a long line of anger from men in my family that led to me being angry and having to address a history I was not taught about. Like my fathers before me I was forced to participate in the same corporate slave system in the form of a job working for some one else for less than the value of the exchange of my time, skills and services in order to survive within a biased and racist capitalistic system, designed much like slavery that so many of us despise.

The learning of my history from The Most Honored Elijah Muhammad helped me to understand my father, grandfather and great grandfather. I am no longer angry and I have done a better job of showing love to my children and being able to understand some of the frustrations they have in being forced to still deal with the back draft of slavery in this country, including issues they recognize, such as other people running business in their community while abusing and never giving back to community residents and patrons to other people teaching them a false understanding of their history. I once read in the opening of a book by Aristotle where he said “ you can’t know or judge a man unless you know the time in which he lived”. Some people say we are living in the last days. People like myself believe we are living in new days and the last days of this wicked system are over. All the old ignorance of the past will be exploited for what it is and no matter what bill is introduced into law the righteous will be the winners living or dead. Until  Truth Prevails my Eyes will be watching.


http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c106:H.R.40

http://www.johnconyers.com/issues/reparations

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is a professor at Harvard and he writes plenty of books and does whatever research is needed to exempt America or White people from having any responsibility to the conditions of descendants from slaves in America. I read his latest article, “Ending the Slavery Blame-Game” on how we should all just stop talking about reparations because, Guess what? Africans played a part in the slave trade too. He makes the argument that most people who fight for reparations tend to overlook this fact.

I can remember back as far as fifteen years ago when I heard the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan speaking on reparations and he made a point to say “we will not let the Africans off the hook for their participation in the slave trade either”. He said these words when he was unveiling the book “The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews”. He spoke openly about the role the Jews played in the slave trade along with Africans. I find it funny when researching Dr. Gates that he also wrote a piece against the findings in this book. He spent the majority of the time defending the Jews.  

I will not waste time researching all of the facts to show how we have had plenty of educated fools stand in the way of our progress when it comes to us addressing our oppressors. If you study the history of the Jews, Native Americans and even the Chinese, you will find that an evil, greedy part of their society helped to contribute to the oppression of the people. You can do the research and find in the bible where reparations are valid and how Jonah was captured by his brothers and the country, Egypt was made to pay reparations.

I think at this stage of the game, we know about Africans who told on Africans that tried to escape on ships and on plantations. We all have heard the story of how slaves told on Nat Turner. We have all heard about Blacks who owned slaves.  The fight always comes back to us, the ones who want freedom, justice and equality. When we were slaves, there were actually debates as to whether or not we should fight for freedom.

How is this even open for debate? Who were the ones that wanted to stay in their conditions and play nice? Was it the slaves getting a few crumbs to eat and survive? Or was it the slave who was made to feel like one day he too could be accepted amongst the “elite”? He claims that since President Obama is now President of the United States, he can now offer a solution to the reparations debate. How can a man born from an African man and a Caucasian woman have all the answers to Black people problems in America? If it is because he is bi-racial, then I would rather follow another bi-racial man named Master Fard Muhammad who taught that the ‘WHITE MAN WAS THE DEVIL” and that “AMERICA IS THE MODERN DAY BABYLON”.

Photo by Richard ShabazzI would like to ask Dr. Gates who is responsible for the Jim Crow laws? Who is responsible for poor education in the Black communities? Who is responsible for Black codes and private prisons? Who is responsible for the Tuskegee experiment? Who is responsible for the colonization of Africa? Who is responsible for the “war on drugs” that put crack cocaine in our communities? Who is responsible for the difference in sentencing laws that disproportionately put Black people in prison at such an alarming rate in the last 20 years? Is this the fault of Africans or New Africans in America? Or is the same government that is still in place that created all of the above problems for people of color in America?

I read a book recently called “Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome” and in the book, the author talks about how when she visited South Africa and talked with the people about Apartheid, everybody seemed to be over it. White and Black. To make a long story short, she made the point that people were able to move on because the system and the government that created Apartheid had been destroyed. The problem we have in this country is the United States’ government is still the same government that enslaved us and the system of prison is still the same system of slavery that once enslaved all Africans.

We all have to apologize and repent for whatever role we played. I apologize for selling drugs in my community and falling victim to this system and I am willing to give all my time and money to repent. Is America or her citizens willing to do the same? Until Truth prevails, my eyes will be watching.

Ending the Slavery Blame-Game - By HENRY LOUIS GATES Jr. Published: April 22, 2010

MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN ON BLACK REPARATIONS (SPEECH, 2002) FROM THE FINAL CALL NEWSPAPER

 Reparations: What Does America & Europe Owe? (Part 1)

The whole speech is in 24 separate videos on YouTube

Jim Crow Laws History

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome – Dr. Joy DeGruy

N’Cobra – National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America

Slavery, A Global Demand for Apology, Reparations

Other opinions online regarding Dr. Gates’ article:

Geder Genealogy - Evangelist for African Ancestored Genealogy - Inspiration, Family History & Photo Restoration

Shaka Barak Refutes Dr. Henry Louis Gates Article: Ending the Slavery Blame-Game Part 1

Emancipation Proclamation two years later and people still didn’t know they were free. I would like to ask the question, can anyone actually give you freedom? What will cause people to still act like slaves even after they have been freed for two years or for 200 years? I ask this question because in 2010 with an African American President, most African Americans still conduct themselves like slaves. I can remember working in Corporate America as recently as last year and people would talk to me about issues they had and when certain people with melanin deficiency would walk in, they would get nervous and start to whisper. This would not have been as weird if the person they were afraid of would have been the C.E.O. or the owner of the company but they would do this even if the person was the janitor.

 I can remember when I requested to take off work for the Presidential Inauguration and they told me I couldn’t take off because I didn’t put in my request in enough time. I thought to myself, are they serious? I felt like anybody who was Black or White that wanted to attend should have been able to if they could make it to D.C. This was a historic event in this country because this country is known to promote division, hate, and the murder of people of color who try to reach these levels of success. Well to make a long story short, I attended the event and the company fired me a few months later for no sensible reason and all of my co-workers called me saying how sad they were and how they knew it was a setup. I listened and I felt bad for all of them because they actually thought I cared about the job or the company. I love and miss all my co-workers from Chicago to Minnesota and Atlanta that have  witnessed me get fired from companies because I actually speak up for those who are too afraid to do it themselves. I was often told by my Caucasian and African American managers that, if I just play the game, I could be so successful. I realized when I was young that with a name like Richard Harvey and the gift to “speak well”, as my early managers would tell me, that I could go far if I could just let go of loving ME. I could never do that so I left the north and moved down south to be with people who looked like me and love themselves.

Yeah I found out quick why some people walked from Mississippi to Chicago to be free or from Virginia to New York and other folks stayed in the south and dealt with Jim Crowe and lynching. I don’t fault anyone who lived in the past that fought and died for freedom, justice and equality of all. I agree with Malcolm X who openly said, “I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.” and as such, those that fought for our freedom. I have to, on the other hand, say that I am against all people who didn’t fight because they were ignorant or afraid. I have often wondered why the slaves didn’t commit suicide instead of facing dehumanization but then again I know it is only my connection with the creator of the heavens and the earth that makes me take the stands that I take.

The idea that laws give you freedom or that money gives you respect is deeply rooted in the ‘slave and master’ mentality. I once read what a wise man from Georgia once said, “that if people don’t treat you right, they will not teach you right.” The problem with New Africans in America is that we are not educating our own children about our history. The Jewish community teaches their children to never forget and we teach our children to never remember. It is too painful. I have heard plenty of African Americans say this in my presence and I often ask, is killing each other and selling drugs to each other not painful? Yet we can go see movies about this foolishness with a body rocking soundtrack to follow and not feel any pain. We sit up and listen to rap music with our children that degrade us as a people and we do nothing but sing along “Super soak them hoes” “do the stanky leg” etc. and feel no pain.

Why and how is that? We have to arrest ourselves for everything going wrong in our communities and in our children's lives because we have not created the proper environment for them to be free. We need to create not just our own schools but our own curriculum to be taught worldwide if ever our children are to be taught. I got upset when I read one my children’s history books and they were making slavery look like it wasn’t so bad. I said to myself, if I did things as wicked as this country has, to a whole continent of people, I realized they could over-throw me any given time they saw fit to. I too would try to convince the babies I was their new brother and friend.

The problem is more than the fact that slavery happened but that we are still defining our freedom by the criteria set by those who enslaved us. I am not an Angry Black Man at all. As a matter of fact, I feel pretty good since I decided to write and record my people’s history myself. We can’t fight others for our own shortcomings. We have to take responsibility for our youth and redirect the negative energy they possess and make it positive and then we will truly be free.

Please join me on June 19^th at 1554 Ralph David Abernathy at 12 p.m. to honor and listen to our children. Until Truth Prevails, My Eyes Will Be Watching.

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