With the hunting of black skins being raised again to the level of an art form, Africans in America
must defend themselves against the worst assault on their lives since they were captured, kidnapped and exiled to North America.
With starvation, austerity measures/debt robbery being forced on the African working class throughout the world we can only
look to each other as saviors. We will save ourselves.
In the 1990's, as a result of the good work of
the African centered movement, millions of African people in the United States and the world began to feel pride in ourselves,
and in Africa's historical accomplishments. But this is not enough. Our guiding principle is unity, not divisiveness;
equal not hierarchy/nepotism based; work based not word based; African Kmt culture led not Greco-Roman/Arab led. In place
of the old anti-historical approach, we advocate a dynamic consciousness of history as process with real winners and losers,
and moral and mental foundations.
We are for the inclusive use of all sources, written and oral. We propose a
rational definition of the African people: historically, the entire continent's inhabitants before the Arab and European
invasions of the last three millennia. We advocate the reinstatement of Ancient Kmt at the heart/foundation of African history
and culture. We think African Humanities, as defined by Dr. Theophile Obenga should embrace the intellectual universe of our
entire continent, including Ancient African Kmt.
- Education is rooted in philosophy, not just on "programs",
"curriculum", "topics" to be taught;
- Education requires a social and historical context, cultural
purpose or function, philosophical orientation, and human intention or that toward which education ultimately strives as a
fundamental goal in accomplishing through perseverance of human destiny.
- The concept kheper means to bring into being,
transform
- To educate means to become noble (sah), wise (saa) and spiritual (sakhu) on
earth
- A body of teachings known as sebayit:
- To teach is to open the sight of the pupil: sun her
- To teach is to make a student a star: seba seba
- To learn is to be critical, that is, to
listen, understand, and judge: sedjem
- African Kmt pedagogy: was a process of physical, intellectual,
moral and spiritual transformation
- Historical Context of modern education of Black people: during enslavement, no
school, no education for at least 5 centuries; segregated schools and colleges after the Abolition of slavery, curriculum
is a cell-block of lies and falsehoods, glorifying white people; the Civil-Rights Movement, Black arts movement, Black studies,
Afrocentric movement, African centered.
- African Educational Programs: some "general ideas", but complete
lack of philosophy of education: African teaching and learning are contributing to which educational agency? Pure and simple
repetition of Western pedagogical paradigms, aims, and formats.
- Avoid all kinds of mis-educations
- Being
"African centered" is not enough: thinking or philosophy must empower emotional attitudes
- African classical
studies must become the ground of African teaching and learning in our modem times
- African ethics, morals, knowledge
and understanding of life, society, values, etc., must be part, explicitly, of the building of democracy and social justice,
- In conclusion, it is clear that we have operated under one paradigm of understanding education, that is, the western
paradigm. And all of our struggles and desires of improvement are deeply rooted in the western educational context. However,
it is crucial that we see the necessity of exploring the long history of African education systems
In order to
survive in white and Arab controlled countries and contribute to the African Liberation Movement, Africans needed the accumulated
political, economic, cultural and social knowledge of world civilization. Even with this knowledge, Africans still,
(in America and throughout the world) go to work for/or go hat-in-hand to the white man for food, clothing, shelter, health
care, education, language, transportation, education, technology and money because whites own or directly influence all of
the means of production, distribution, exchange, and consumption.
The white ruling class owns every major
industry in America and essentially throughout the African world. Africans in America live in a white society, with
a white supreme court, a white senate, a white president, a white house of representatives, a white religion, a white language,
white clothes and dress codes, white buildings, white schools, white culture, white history, white military, white laws---white
everything. Every institution in America is an institution made by white people in the image, interest, and direct benefit
of white people. In such an alien and hostile environment, Africans in America have only attempted to survive.
Now even that survival has been made temporary.
Africans must bear in mind that the struggle with whites
for partial demands of an end to slavery, an end to segregation, voting rights, etc., and the winning of token concessions
such as affirmative action are only petty skirmishes, petty encounters on the outpost, whereas the decisive engagement is
still to come. Each concession is being taken back daily. Look at voting rights, affirmative action, quotas, set-asides,
busing, even desegregation. Look at Supreme Court decisions over the past 10 years. Look at the Patriot Act
closely. Africans must understand, with much clarity that our purposes in life must be higher than temporary survival
in a this decaying society. Africans lives are worth more than this. The goal, the outcome, the purpose of African
lives must not continue to be a life long exercise in helping whites to build their societies and civilization. It is
time to do for ourselves. It is time to place the same precise value in rebuilding African civilization in Africa
that Africans place in building white civilization for whites and Arabs.
In essence, Africans must not organize
just to buy time in a 2700 year old white/Arab genocidal process which has had us reduced to being treated as the lowest of
life forms on in the world: chattel. African workers must not suit up in this emerging race and class struggle merely
to bargain for more time to dig graves for their children in white/Arab controlled countries. What should an African
in the United States, or any place in the world care about "from each according to their ability, to each according to
their need" (i.e., communist phraseology), if whites slaughter the majority of people of African descent to arrive at
white communism that again benefits whites most? Africans problem is bigger than socialism, or communism for whites.
Africans had planned communal societies in ancient African Kmt without slavery. Model and modernize that system of Maat
social organization/society without the obsolete kings, queens, and religious mess. Economies are organized around technologies
used to produce the necessities of life. Surely Africa's Kmt economic/planning principles can be modernized and
adapted to a period in history that has negated wage labor and thus requires planned communalism. Africans goal is higher
than living in a white communist society that benefits whites first and as usual. Africans are fighting on
two major fronts. Lenin, Marx, and Mao had only one. They did not have to worry about their hides just because
they had black skin and woolly hair. They did not have their cultures, civilizations, and societies completely decimated
by whites. Their history was not totally debased. They were not reduced to mere animals, beasts of burden,
by whites and Arabs for thousands of years. Culture was not an issue with them, neither was race (skin color).
Africans, subjugated on the basis of a color and class surtax, must forever remember what whites have done to us---and
what, daily, they practice to do. Just look at the hundreds of white Nazi organizations springing up everywhere, each
with a genocidal final solution. Accordingly, African workers must organize not only a necessary immigration apparatus
and outlet, but they must also develop a federation of their own independent working class African centered organizations
which will prepare them to apply certain historical fundamentals of survival in periods similar in savagery to Nazi Germany.
Survival and self reliance in America and any white/Arab controlled country, therefore, can only be a temporary
immediate aim.
As established before, the solution to the 2700 problem for Africans is not simply a question
that can be resolved by dispensing with feudalism, capitalism, or socialism. This historical process of the African
renaissance---rebirth, reconstruction---is much more significant to the total liberation of Africans than class struggle.
Class, race, gender, culture, and generational/tradition struggles must be posed, opposed, and composed properly and with
equal focus. This must be Africans ultimate aim---the renaissance of the whole of African civilization.
To
create a new African society, and to unearth and reconstruct ancient African civilization and culture, survival methods are
not enough. Africans in America will never build an African civilization in America; the white man cannot allow it.
Therefore, Africans must leave. In time they will. But much corrective work is to be done where we are at, detoxification,
purging, cleansing, repenting, redemption, resurrection, rebirth, being born again. This will take years and unprecedented
effort and honesty. However, to build a new African form of society in a period of Scientific and Technological Revolution
(STR), Africans need a higher conception of social development. Africans need a higher appreciation, respect for, and
understanding of African culture and ancient civilization before white invasions and pillage destroyed them.
Such
an objective demands: (1) a complete break with Europeans and Arabs who take advantage of us; and (2) a complete unification
of Africans of good standing/moral innocence around the world. Alliance from outside cannot be built in a healthy way
until inner alliances have been built. Look at Black organizations the world over---almost all of them are dependent
on whites and Arabs for funding, planning, program, and policies. They really only serve their masters.