“Cultural nationalists” -- including those that call themselves Africologists -- “don’t want to change the world; they want to change how they can move in it,” said activist Kashara White, speaking at an all-day conference on the life and work of Black Panther co-founder Huey Newton, at Temple University, in Philadelphia. “Their Black nationalism is not Huey’s Black nationalism,” said White, who majored in African American Studies. “They want money” and “a positive relationship to capitalism. They will snitch on you” to the white authorities.
The antidote to police lawlessness isn’t more training, or fancy equipment, but putting the community in charge of the cops.
One approach treats injustice as discreet individual actions, the other recognizes the weight of world history.
The global depression has fossil fuel corporations reeling, but only a people’s movement can take away their power to poison the planet.
The Historical Quest for a Black Nation
The contemporary Black struggle should draw on the experience and example of maroons, the escaped slaves that formed communities of freedom beyond the reach of the slave masters, said
