FELLOW AFRIKANS,
It's couple of weeks now since the four killers of our brother Amadou Jallow
were freed by the KKK Injustice System of the USA. One of my sisters wrote
to me and she said the killing of the brother was ridiculous. I do not know
what she meant by that, but for me she was very right that the murder was
really ridiculous. It is ridiculous in the sense that in this age when human
kind has explored all avenues of knowledge and we are said to have reached
the zenith of civilisation that we could still behave in such a barbaric
manner. This becomes more ridiculous if we consider that AmeriKKKa which is
said to be the leading exponent of democracy and human rights in the world
could have a law enforcement agency that could massacre a small boy on the
pretext that the boy's wallet was a threat!!! Whatever threat he might have
posed, I think it has become totally insignificant and ridiculous by the
actions of the police whose actions are not only racist, but full with
hatred and barbarism. But the ridiculousness of the massacre is more
pronounced in the fact that Amadou was killed in a place were Marcus Garvey,
Elijah Muhammed, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King lived and fought for our
freedom and equality. It is ridiculous if we consider that Amadou is a
descendant of a people who were enslaved in that land where they gave all
they have by force to make sure that that land is what it is today:
prosperous and advanced. His killing is also ridiculous if we consider that
Amadou is a descendant of the Nkrumahs, Sekou Tourays, Cabrals etc etc who
spent all their lives to free Afrikans and have Afrikans live in dignity and
prosperity, but which was largely thwarted by the USA and its allies. His
murder is even more ridiculous if we consider that Amadou has to spend so
much money and face so much humiliation in order to have a US visa to go to
AmeriKKKa only to be massacred there by people who have always massacred his
people with impunity. So in all his assassination appeared as if there never
lived a person like Malcolm, or a Nkrumah, or Steve Biko, or that there was
never an enslavement of his people, or that the USA had paid for its unjust
treatment of Afrikans in AmeriKKKa. But still what is most ridiculous about
it all is that it looked as if Amadou has no people of his own, which makes
his death a mockery to the Ancestors who gave their lives for our freedom
today. Which also makes us a bunch of ingrates and hopeless to stand by and
see one us being massacred, and then a show be carried out in honour of his
death in the name of justice only to announce that he was after all
responsible for his own death. I know Malcolm would not have believed that
such a thing is happening to his people. If such a thing did happen in the
days of Malcolm, we could say anyway the situation was like that, but for
such a thing to happen at the end of the second millennium when Martin had
already made his dream and AmeriKKKa hypocritically honours him with a
national holiday, and mischievously puts that face of Malcolm on a stamp,
and still go ahead to kill a descendant of these Patriots is clearly the
height of ridicule. But the question we need to ask now is what next. For
what happened to Amadou could happen to any one of us, and in fact it is
happening to us day in day out, whether we are in Babylon, or in the middle
of Afrika. And should these things continue, and we watch????? The killing
of Amadou clear shows us that what we need is unity. AmeriKKKa was able to
kill Amadou and then blame him for his own death simply because Afrikans in
the US are not united, and we on the continent are also not united. So for
that matter we are weak and helpless. If it was an AmeriKKKan white boy
killed in this manner in the streets of Conakry, by now UN sanctions would
have land on Guinea, and the killers extradited to the US!!!But Guinea and
Afrika cannot do a thing because we are weak and disorganised. Afrikan
people need to realise that we have to do things on our own, and we have to
take decisions and actions in our interest even if the world has to swim in
blood. The time for negotiations, dialogue and considerations are ended. We
have to act and act by any means necessary. Those of our people who argue
that we have to take things easy, and follow official channels, or avoid
chaos have to look back in history. If other people who have always
oppressed and killed Afrikans have never thought of the implications of
their actions, who are we to think of the implications of our actions to
defend ourselves. If we look in our history we will see that never have our
opressors ever considered truth, justice, God, humanity and peace in their
engagements with us. The only thing they always consider is their interest
and they make sure they get that even if it means they have to massacre us
like chickens. They will even massacre God if He stood in their way. Look at
our history and you will see no place or time in which they have acted in
accordance with truth and justice. If you follow all the correspondences
between Afrikan chiefs and kings with their Euro counterparts, you will see
how our kings expressed disappointments, betrayals, breaches of agreement by
European kings. And these things are still continuing. And those of our
people who have always tried to appeal to the conscience of our oppressors
have always been disappointed at the least. This is because the people we
deal with have no conscience, and the sooner we know the better for us.
When Martin was preaching that high philosophy of humanity, they could only
respond with a bullet. And Dubois knows that it was out of frustration at
the attitude of the oppressors that he had to eventually return to the
motherland, because they would not understand his call for the peaceful and
harmonious co-existence of Afrikans and AmeriKKKans in the US. So for how
long will we continue to appeal to other people to stop killing us. Afrikans
in the US need to set up their own police and army forces to protect Black
communities. Let no one tell us that this would be in contravention of any
so-called constitution or law. And such is the behaviour of our so-called
intellectuals, liberals and civilised people. If the AmeriKKKan Injustice
Justice system can allow the massacre of Afrians, why the hell do we have to
respect that law. We have a responsibilty and a right to protect ourselves
by any means necessary. Just a few days ago I was arguing with a friend
about the land issue in Zimbabwe and South Afrika. He thought it is not wise
for the government to take lands from white people and give them back to
their rightful owners, and secondly he said such a move would hamper the
economy. Thirdly he said we need to negotiate with the white farmers for a
gradual distribution of land. This is clearly a confused and
self-destructive and deafitist argument. In the first place those whites do
not own the land. They grabbed the land by force. They never considered the
chaos and misery such a thing would cause the Afrikans. Since then we have
been suffering, so why should we consider an imaginary chaos and bloodshed
when we have already encountered and experienced the most bloody and chaotic
incidents. The economy he was arguing about do not benefit the Afrikans. The
economy benefits only the white farmers and their bourgeois Afrikan cohorts.
So which economy is going to be destroyed and for whom. The problem with us
is that we forget too soon and forgive too quick, and we are not trying to
learn from our history. We cannot continue to negotiate with people who have
always been cheating us and never honouring our agreements. People who are
surprised by the killing of Amadou and its endorsement by the US KKK
Injustice system are not only ignorant of their history with white people,
but will go ahead to carve their own destruction by such an attitude,
because they will still believe in the Injustice system and hope to get
remedies, but which in actual fact is going to prepare their graves for
them. We should have confidence and trust in no-one but ourselves. The
evidence is there for us see that all thru-out history we have been
sacrificed and fooled. Anytime we put trust in them, they betray us and kill
us. Remember Patrice Lumumba when he trusted the UN. They cleared the way
for his assassination, and then celebrated it. Remember when Emperor Haile
Selassie trusted the League of Nations during the Italian invasion of
Ethiopia in the 30s, under that fascist and abominable swine Bennito
Moussolini. Instead of the League of Nations doing justice as it should they
used that organisation as a cover up to support the Fascists to destroy
Afrika. Let us unite and fight for ourselves. Intellectualising,
philosophising, theoretising and rationalising the situation is not the
solution. We are tired of that. Afrika and her people face a serious future
of hardship and destruction if we continue to believe in other people, and
not in our own selves. The problem with most of us is that we still look at
|Afrika and her problems from a European point of view. Thus we therefore
accept and promote those racist and unjust conclusions. Look at the Zimbabwe
case. It clearly shows that my friend is arguing as a European. The White
people in that country are a minority, and no where have we seen the welfare
and the interest of the minority is considered more than the welfare of the
majority. the majority people in Zimbabwe are the Afrikans, and there
welfare and interest overrides the welfare of the minority. But because we
consider the welfare of others more than ours, it is then possible for them
to give any absurd argument and we accept it. For example the world likes
saying that Afrika is the poorest continent, but we know that this is false.
We are poor because the rest of the world has seized the resources of Afrika
for their own benefit, while the people of Afrika are being used to work on
those resources for them. And this is largely possible today because of the
sick leadership that we have. Just imagine them bundling themselves in Egypt
with their Euro counterparts to talk about partnership, as if there has
never been partnership between Afrika and Europe. For the past 500 years
there has been strong partnership betweeen us, but that partnership has been
that of domination and exploitation of Afrika by Europe, which has weakened
us to this level. This is because they draw the game and make the rules, and
we accept. So whatever they came out with from Egypt cannot be favourable to
us because we are arguing from a position of weakness against the strong
partner. Our leaders should first of all strengthen Afrika, and that means
by going for the strategic objective of political and economic unity. I am
an organiser for s group here in the Gambia. and our call has always been
based on what we call the tripple C : Consciousness, Connection and
Congress. We believe that we need to engage in serious drives to raise the
consciousness of Afrikans about themselves, their condition, and the world.
This should lead us to the understanding that what we need is to connect
with each other. This is because we believe that Afrikan people have great
potential and power, but we could not effectively use this power for our own
good simply because the power is scattered and isolated. So we need to
concentrate that power into a one big Black Power. The third element of our
call is congress. The congress should bring us together so that we could
discuss issues of ideology, tactics and strategy, and the front we are going
to employ for our final and total victory over the forces that weaken us
disunites us. This is our call to the Afrikan community.
madi jobarteh
edward francis small group
gambia
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