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The Truth About Black HistoryBy Ashahed M. Muhammad - The Final Call

The State of Black Americans Part One -by Raaw’el Letrice Ware

Most of us are familiar with the Asante Adinkra symbol or the Akan, West African Sankofa bird and Prov-erb “se wo were fi na wosan kofa a yenki” - “it is not taboo to go back and fetch what you forgot.” Sankofa teaches us that we much return to our roots in order to see where we have come from, to know where we are, and to see clearly where we are go-ing. Americanized African people were robbed and cut off from roots, culture and traditions; however, our ancestors left us bread crumb trails to find our Way back. Clues in songs and art have helped many of us to reconnect and uncover our Truth.

Think about traveling. When one comes to a cross road or simply a dis-tance away from our starting point, wisdom says stop to see where you are, note from what direction you came, get your bearings together so you can proceed in the right direc-tion. Some of my people have not left the mental plantations. Some have come to cross roads and have not been able to move beyond that point. There are some that have gotten free and not looked back to help others to get up, get out, and get something.

Fear, ignorance, laziness, selfishness and conformity are the hindrances. Thus, the state of our families and our children is self-inflicted illness and death. Not only is genocide against us through population control strat-egies but black on black is the larg-est method by which we die. Why?

We are African people. It is sad to say that many of my brothers and sis-ters feel that being born in these Unit-ed Snakes has determined that we are no longer “African”. Being born in a barn yard or stable would not make you a cow, a horse or pig so being born in America, for me, does not change my DNA, the melanin in my skin, the kinkiness of my loc-ed hair, the thickness of my lips nor the path that i take to live unapologetically Afri-can. Over a period of 400-500 years, some crackers got into the cookie jar it is true, turning sweet brown sug-ar to white, brown whole wheat to bleached flour and grade “A” maple colored women to saltines. Yet I say the dominate over recessive genes of my people will produce the lightest of the lights and the darkest of the darks - with that said we are God’s chosen African people which from us come all others. Most have forgotten.

It is sad that many Africans have come here today and assimilated so deeply into the Eurocentric culture and ideologies that only the exter-nal features leave evidence of who they are; but even then skin bleach-ing, body sculpturing and an utter change in dialect, gestures, man-nerism, and thinking eliminates ex-ternal African traits. We have lost the Way, the Truth and the Light. How do we “return to our roots” get it back and rebuild our nations?

(END) - Raaw’el is a speaker, busi-ness owner of RISE, advocate of

self-education and author. FB, Twit-ter, YouTubeuser/msraaw (BA degree in Communication/Minor African American Studies; Associate in Liber-al Arts/Science with a concentration on Women’s Studies. Google to find her or Email msraawel@gmail.com)

During his involvement in the Black American’s fight for free-dom and self-determination,

Minister Hajj Malik el-Shabazz was very critical of the Civil Rights Movement. One reason for his criti-cism was that the focus of this move-ment was in fact, civil, rather than human rights. His stance was either ridiculed or ignored by individuals in the movement, because to them it was very clear that we are human. Minister Malcolm’s point was not aimed at convincing us; however, his

very devastating analysis was aimed, not at proving our humanity to our-selves, but rather at removing any question of our humanity from the minds of the white system that ques-tioned it. Decades later, listening to Officer Darren Wilson refer to young Michael Brown as a ‘demon’and a ‘monster’, it would seem that the esteemed freedom fighter’s concern still holds some validity. Malcolm understood that human rights must necessarily precede civil rights. Non -humans after all, are not inher-ently expected to be treated civilly.

America’s willingness to classify us as less than, or as sub-human was formally documented as early as the U. S.Constitution, where we were classified as 3/5th human. This des-ignation is supposedly acceptable, because it was used to determine how many members in the Houseof Representatives each of the original 13 states received. This was called a great compromise, which ultimate-ly allowed enslaved Africans to be counted and acknowledged while still denying them the rights and respon-sibilities ofcitizenship. Regardless of the several arguments the apolo-gists for the ‘founding fathers’use to justify this decision, it is clear, our

(Black American) humanity, could be, depending on white need, bartered, negotiated or denied.

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Where Are We Now?

By Raaw’el Letrice Ware

Otherization & Human Rights

By Obidike N.Kamau, Ph.D.

Robert S. Muhammad is the Student Minister of

Muhammad Mosque No.45 Houston

What does it take for the Black community to realize how much this society devalues our lives and communities? Policemen gun down our children, while school districts

close down our schools. Grand ju-ries no-bill our killers in secret pro-ceedings, while Hollywood studio executives mock our leaders and actors behind closed doors. Gov-ernment officials sanction torture of foreign enemy combatants, while torturing Black so called citizens like we are enemy combatants. Banks and government deny us funds to rebuild our communities, while making finances available for “investors” to buy up our communi-ties at tax foreclosure sale auctions. Our children and our communities are being destroyed before our very eyes. Dear elders, what’s wrong with

this picture and our reaction to it?

Now is the time for us to have a sober, sane, and serious community dialogue about our future in Ameri-ca. Trust is something to be earned. It should not be given away with-out some evidence of one’s worthi-ness to receive it. Why do we trust a people and a system devised to keep a numerical minority in power and wealth? Why are we so compla-cent and trusting that everything is going to be alright when evidence shows otherwise? We have waited 459 years for this society to treat us as equals under the law of God and Man. How long is too long?

To the elders, this Joshua Gen-eration is not willing to wait another 459 years. Nor are they willing to choose an apologist leader to take us back to Egypt. This generation is not afraid of the “giants” in the Prom-ise Land. These youth stood up to tanks and military might without fear in Ferguson, Missouri. At a certain point, even a cockroach will flee or fight for its life. Perhaps it’s time for us to make our Exodus or die trying.

Robert S. Muhammad is the Student Minister of Muhammad Mosque No.45 Houston, Texas, the Southwest Regional Representative of the Nation of Islam,

and an urban planning and environmen-tal policy expert. He is the host of KPFT’s Connect the Dots and KCOH’s Final Call to Community ACTION radio shows. Fol-low him on Twitter @dotsconnector

Black Wall Street Journal (BWSJ) monthly is a newsletter devoted to the social, economic and cultural uplift-ment and development of the global black community. BWSJ will use the power of the press to isolate and os-tracize those who consciously betray the aspirations and liberation of black people. Today I call on the black con-scious community to rise above emo-tions, blood relations and paternalistic relationships and stand on the princi-pals of freedom, justice, equality, sister and brotherly love that stems, from a shared ideology. BWSJ calls on the people to be judge and jury against two of our own whose immoral and inappropriate behavior is inexcusable.

First we must examine our own individual integrity. We must hold these individuals to a high stan-dard of accountability. This is the groups’ responsibility in order for us to maintain national solidarity. There is an unwritten law that says Uncle Toms can come in the black com-munity and sow the seeds of distrust and disunity and avoid retribution for their betrayal of black people. BWSJ offers a solution to this type of

thinking. Individuals that think they can get away with such inappropriate behavior will no longer be tolerated. The Holy Quran says oppression is worse than slaughter; BWSJ plans to expose these types of individu-als with the power of the press. Dr. Perry Khepara Kyles and Ernestine Johnson you are being put on notice. You purposely manufactured a lec-ture series called the Blueprint Con-ference to defraud and deceive the

black community. This is inexcusable!

The black community is already wounded and injured by white su-premacy and black inferiority. We in the community have entrusted you with a responsibility to be a guardian of our faith and we trusted you with that. As a community, we have sup-ported your business, looked upon you as leaders and educators; but you have betrayed us like Judas betrayed Jesus. BWSJ is looking forward to helping drive hypocrisy and ill intent out of the house of the conscious commu-nity. Let it be known, you have been put on notice. No more excuses!!

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No Excuses!By Robert 7X Muhammad

When the world gets to meet Genesis Blu – oh, what a day. Born on the same day as music icon Prince Nelson Rogers, June 7th, she is destined for great-ness. In fact her sorority sis-ters of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. refer to her as “The Entertainer”.

FEMALE SOUL-FUL HIP HOP ARTIST

Born, raised and currently residing in Houston, TX, Gen-esis is in a realm all her own with a strong deeply rooted desire to push the limits of Soul Hip Hop back to its origi-nal source. The “Golden Age of Hip Hop” the era of: MC Lyte, Roxanne Shante and Lauryn Hill. “My goal, my vision, my passion is regenera-tion, restoration and relevancy. There no other art form that impacts all people the way that music does. When I listen to the Golden Age of rap I feel enlightened and inspired. Of-ten, when I listen to the Dark Age, this current era of hip hop there’s a hopelessness that en-sues. As a youth advocate and

creator of “No Bully Camp” I am always seeking to be light.”

With the music, she has a large platform to engage, educate and create change.

Positioned at the beginning like

the rising of the

sun or the

mys-tical Phoe-

nix rising from the ashes, Gen-esis comes to rule, reign and begin anew in Hip Hop a genre she loves. Waxing poetically, Genesis is well loved, “ev-erybody loves me” she states. Beloved she is, as winner of “Matthew Knowles Music World Artist Showcase & $50K Singles Deal” which was held at the House of Dereon early 2014.

THE RHYMES THE RHYTHM

Genesis taking Soul Hip Hop to the beginning is mul-tifaceted. The manifestation is similar to a librarian and a

vixen. By day she entertains churches and students with “Relax”, an easy listening me-lodic tune inked to encourage also delves into the spiritual aspect of life to grow and flow.

At night, the vixen steps in with diva wit to tell them off in “No Cuddling”. “No Cud-dling” a fan favorite, is a lyri-cal anthem, a declaration that anyone with relationship issues can relate to. It most definitely sets the party off.

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“I Am Present”By Latonia Muhammad ~aka~ magnificent

I am presentMy soul bleeds through the ink in my pen.

Untainted vibrations spilled in the color red on my col-lege ruled paper.

Generated from source of spiritual paper.

As I practice the Law of Al-lowing/every step feels like De je vu.

Confirmation that my life is where is needs to be/ on the proper track.

Developing a confident from the inner sanctum of the first atom that sparked in the darkness of my mother’s womb/I am my own first poem/my passion/my vibe/ my authentic style was divinely engraved in the life force of my father sperm.

I was here in the beginning/I’ll be here in the end/November 16 is not my birthday/it’s the day the Originator assigned me to come forth as “The Bright-ness of the Day”

I am present.

~magnificent

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Sister Shahrazad Ali is a for-mer freelance writer originally from Cincinnati, Ohio via At-lanta, Georgia, who has been writing for over 35 years spe-cializing in social issues affect-ing Blacks in America. She has earned numerous awards and citations for her literary con-tributions and for community involvement in helping to im-prove the life and diet of Afri-can-American families. She is now one of the nation’s most dynamic speakers, a best sell-ing author, independent pub-lisher and social activist.

Her title of being “the Moth-er of the Black Book Explo-sion” is gleamed from her 1990 blockbuster hit “The Black-man’s Guide to Understanding the Blackwoman,” plus “Are You Still A Slave?” and “Things Your

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Other relationships, the psy-chological impact of slavery, so-cial responsibility, diet and sur-vival are valid topics Sister Ali clearly addresses in her books.

Sister Ali, has been the fea-tured guest on multiple talk shows for over 20 years and is currently a regular panelist on the popular HLN’s Dr. Dr on Call and national television, as an outspoken Social Commentator specializing in race relations. Almost singlehandedly this sis-ter’s presence has pushed the Dr. Drew show into national prominence with high ratings.

Her clear voice and firm opinions have penetrated the radio airways for over 15 years, and she has been written about in over 1,000 newspapers and magazines nationwide includ-ing Newsweek, Today, ESSENCE, The New York Times, EBONY, The Washington Post, The Lon-don Times, and the Final Call. She continues a busy schedule of lectures and interviews.

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Shahrazad Ali “Strengthening The Black Family”

Building Competitive Communities This nation will be color-blind when Whites proclaim their

Black blood like they proclaim Indian and European lineage.

A group’s ability to compete is determined by its internal cohe-siveness and self-interest. Black Americans must therefore build functional communities within which they can ethno-aggregate then practice group economics and group politics. A functional community can best be defined as a grouping of peo-ple who come together and organize for their own self-interest rather than misdirected altruistic interests. Once built, whether based upon geographi-cal boundaries, ethnic or racial com-monalties, a community cares for the collective interests of its members. Building our own communities will allow Black Americans to become

economically and politically com-petitive, but will also give us some-thing we have never had- a chance to compete from the vantage point of our own physical space, cultural val-ues, resources, intuitions and history. For the first time, we will be free to organize and work in our own best interest rather than the interest of a universe of ethnic and class competi-tors.

Historically, societies were built upon three institutions that served as pillars-the family, the church and the community. True communities are communities of mind and physical structures within a space. Both are important, but no traditional society built on land that it did not own or control, has been successful or pros-pered. Neither the landless European serfs nor the landless Jews, under the Pharaohs of Egypt were able to do it. For this reason, Black Americans need a solid

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Unfortunately, we are not the only group whose humanity has been called into question.In fact, mankind, on both individual and group levels engages in the prac-tice ofdehumanization so regularly that we often speak of ‘man’s in-humanity to man’. We see it every-where, all over the world. It is dem-onstrated in how women are treated; in how immigrants are treated in what seems like every country.Mankind has developed the terrible tendency of creating ‘the other’. ‘The other’is a peculiar entity, a specific group made relevant by their ability to demonstrate the worthiness and superiority of at least the defining

group. ‘The other’shows how deplor-able the attitudes and behaviors of his non-favored class are. They also allow these characteristics to justify whatever is done to the offending group. Whatever happens to them is admissible, simply because they are members of the offending as-sembly. It is permissible to discrimi-nate against them, to deny them both rights and privileges, to ceaselessly jail, and if necessary, murder them indiscriminately.This inclination to create the other is not only exhibited by the ruling class or ‘race’. It is clearly a human ten-dency, engaged in by groups and in-dividuals in all cultures, and it is bothintra-group and inner-group. It takes on added seriousness when it is prac-ticed by the dominant culture, how-ever, because this culture has the ability both de facto and de juris to add the attribute of dehumanization to otherness. The dominant culture can actually have the ability to com-mit genocide. The consequence of being the other can range from sim-ple dislike all the way to excessive imprisonment, or unfortunate, but regular deaths. The ultimate other-ness happens in a war, where it be-comes permissible for one group to kill as many of the fertile, potentially productive young men of another group as possible.

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Black Wall Street: Can a historic example help birth a new Black economic reality?

By Ashahed M. Muhammad -Assistant Editor- The Final Call | Jun 4, 2014

Bombs were dropped in America in 1921 but they weren’t part of an aerial attack by a foreign invader, they were incendiary devices dropped by those intent on destroying a prosperous Black community in the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and removing any traces of what resourceful Black people had accomplished.

Because of the racial discrimination prevalent at the time, Blacks were relegated to limited areas for shopping and land ownership. According to the Greenwood Chamber of Commerce, the area, also known as “Little Africa” encompassed over 400 businesses and housed 11,000 residents. Residents included well-educated Blacks who were doctors, lawyers and had earned advanced degrees.

However anyone desiring to obtain an education, start a business, raise a family or anything other than

servitude was a threat to the existing White social, economic and political order.

“The Blacks who struggled and prospered in Oklahoma’s Black Wall Street knew an intense form of segregation which many of us today could not fathom,” said author and economist Cedric Muhammad. “That painful reality created a circumstance of suffering and limited freedom which forced a level of unity and social cohesion that laid a foundation for economic independence. The entire community-regardless of class, ideology or status-found itself bound together in the same condition,” he added.

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foundation of communities upon which to begin empowering our-selves.

Like Moses, we must begin to build physical communities and maintain a strong sense of communi-ty. Moses used his vision of the prom-ised land to mobilize his people for a 40 year journey to a land upon which Jews built functional communities-families, religious institutions, com-merce, schools and a strong sense of a community.

Boundaries Lines: The New “Color Line”

Nearly a century ago, W.E.B. Du Bois accurately proclaimed that the color line would be the problem of the 20th century. It’s a new millennium now, and it is becoming clear that the problem of the 21st century will be community boundary lines. America is Balkanizing along racial, ethnic, economic and religious lines. Across America, groups are aggressively seeking territory or communities in which they can store their wealth, re-sources, and political power to enjoy and preserve for their future genera-tions. As noted earlier, Hispanics for example, are assembling their eco-nomic and political intentions behind their Spanish language and culture. They intend to use both to capture territory, rights, and a political base within the United States. (1)

The practice of seeking territory for communities will intensify as more and more people from around the world immigrate to America. They come to America in search of a better

quality of life, not to integrate with Whites or to get along with

Black Americans. They are coming to this country to get ahead economi-cally and to find wealth and fortune. They commit themselves to com-peting with any and all groups eco-nomically and politically on behalf of themselves, their families and their native countries. Typically, their initial destination is close to own or within Black neighborhoods. They have learned from official and unof-ficial sources they can find great op-portunities in Black neighborhoods. Within Black neighborhoods, ethnic immigrants expect to find the least expensive housing, lax enforcement of laws and regulation and little busi-ness competition. They also find readily accessible consumers, gov-ernment assistance, easy access to elected officials and employment op-portunities. Though they are aware of the crime problem in Black neigh-borhoods, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. They find territory and build communities.

As ethnics fill in business voids in Black neighborhoods with a modi-cum of success, they begin to prac-tice ethno-aggregation. They bring in and aggregate their families and oth-ers from their native lands. They then develop more businesses in Black neighborhoods. As they capture ter-ritory, they establish powerful econo-mies and political organizations, us-ing their ethnic culture, language and religion as their common ground.

Watching how these new arriv-ing immigrants use a sense of com-munity to build social and economic power-bases should be instructional for Black Americans. It takes a fully functional community to raise a child and to raise up a competitive race of people.