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 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------