Excerpts of A Commentary on St. Croix Fiyahbun and US Bailout 2008
On October 1st, 2008, in St. Croix, Virgin Islands, a revolutionary gathering and reenactment in commemoration of the 130th anniversary of the Great Fiyahbun of 1878 happened. This gathering of 99.9% Afrakans of St. Croix and the Afrakan Diaspora honoring the women and men who fought for our post-emancipation in the then Danish West Indies was powerful. The gathering of brothers and sisters carrying fire torches through the streets of Freedom City Frederiksted where the great Fiyahbun started over 130 years ago as the Afrakan laborers mostly cane field workers knew that "the time have come for us to start doing something." A principle cause of the 1878 Fiyahbun was labor and economic injustices against the people of African ancestry who were primarily cane field workers—common people. More than 100 years later, we are faced with another series of injustices in our labor resources and economy as our US government continues to pay the elite no matter what harm this brings to the common people of this nation. As you can see, this behavior is nothing new.
The philosophy and hope of every citizen of the USA, and its’ territories, being granted liberty, justice, security and the pursuit of happiness has been on a downhill roller coaster ride for many years. The concept of “We the People” and “the people are the government” has been clarified for who the “We” really are and how “the government” is an organized criminal syndicate that disrespects, bamboozles, degrades, ignores and oppresses the citizenry of this nation globally marketed as the “home of the brave” that supports freedom and democracy for all. Time for the truth to be told is of essence.
Our communities,especially PanAfrakan organizers and our people everywhere, need to take action to restore social, economic and political order in this nation. Please take a moment and write down how this drastic change in the USA economy has affected you, your family and your future generations. Please write to your local, national (US) and global (UN/AU) representatives who have been forced to support a measure orchestrated within “ a den of imperialist thieves”. The consistent web of deceit being spun by our leaders and invisible financial aristocracy that forces our well-meaning leaders to bail out the rich at the cost of destroying the very fabric of civility against the middle class and poor is outright criminal and carries an air of treason against the people of the USA. National extortion, embezzlement, treason and economic bondage are supposed to be crimes punishable by “the laws” of this nation. Our elected leaders and ultra-wealthy translucent rulers are now showing their carnivorous teeth before our children and all of humanity as they place in action their legitimate and legal acts of thievery, nepotism and fiefdom against the human rights and interests of the people of the USA.
The “Rescue Bailout” by the government of the USA on behalf of the few and select wealthy rulers, corporations, banks, financial institutions and foreign interests of this nation, while willfully ignoring the basic health, education, labor, housing and other social NEEDS of the people of the USA is a clear message to all of us-especially to the PanAfrakanists forging forward for reparations and resources for repatriation for our experience through the horrific and historic Maangamizi subjected to our ancestors with 21st century remnants still in effect. That this economic meltdown production has been directed and filmed to take place exactly one month before a major presidential election where the key candidate that is qualified, capable and loyal to this nation (by western traditional educational institutional standards plus more) is a man of African ancestry is not by accident. The devastating drop in stock values in Wall Street in September & October of 2008 reveals the fear & financial terrorism tactics the invisible rulers, the money-moguls, the investors, the bankers, the financial wizards etc.—the real governmental rulers of this nation, have in regards to revolutionary change the people of the USA desire in our day-to-day lives, in our leadership, and in our relations with other nations with a President like Barack Obama who really represents the last vestiges of decency, loyalty and honor in the context of being an American...at least to some people.
For the record, whoever wins on November 4th, 2008 will not be a total cure for the diseases of injustice, racism, economic deprivation, indigenous & human rights violations and other ills affecting our people. Whoever wins will not replace the sacred spiritual intervention of our Creator in providing genuine resolve, repair, sa-ankhtified intention and healing to the conditions mankind has plagued the earth with in such a short amount of time.
On this matter, please be open to the message and bring no further harm to the messenger. I encourage everyone to send letters of your concerns and perspectives with constructive solutions for how WE THE PEOPLE may proactively repair this vicious economic assault and financial terrorism launched against us. The US government needs to be placed on notice that WE THE PEOPLE need a Rescue Plan that benefits all of us not just the folks that have annual salaries of $5,000,000.00 or more. This nation's economic and social fabric in the USA is dying while wearing a mask of stability, liberty, freedom and justice for all. The lies, treason-filled thievery and treachery against the people of the USA especially people of Afrakan ancestry needs to stop. When financial moguls make mistakes and lose money we are not to be forced to pay for their errors as they continue to have a 10-car garage and a dozen homes all over the earth. The capitalist economy has reached its peak of diminishing return and is swiftly declining as evidenced by the current meltdown of the system. It is time for another Rescue Plan from this present form of governance and economic structure that is genuinely humanistic and environmentally sustainable for, by and with WE THE PEOPLE.
Since the US government is able to print more money at will, thanks to Mr. Paulson’s total control of the US Treasury granted by elected leaders and the background producer-rulers of this "reality show", perhaps we may encourage our leaders (the few real ones remaining who have integrity and loyalty to our people) to bail WE THE PEOPLE of the USA and abroad out of the economic and political chaos we have been subjected to. Why should we pay taxes to bailout the ultra-wealthy while many live an exclusive life as expatriates in nations where the US dollar has value? Why has the USA government failed to bailout the people of this country when they needed "rescue"? This recent action may serve as a precedent that WE THE PEOPLE may demand a "Bailout" from the US Government too! The people of the USA have grown, sown, harvested, smelled and drank the coffee. It is time to wake up. This crisis affects all of us—among all classes, races, religions and more. Our families need to gather to secure our food resources, our sustainable energy needs, revisit & secure our acquisition of land resources with cooperative and communal focus, and we need to work on solidifying our principled unity for our survival. In US history, when the wealthy ask for a break in the form of a bailout or "economic reparations" for their "institutional losses", it is done on the backs, sweat, life and "futures" of the non-wealthy. It is time to take action. "The impact this action has on the PanAfrakan movement in Amerika and the Afrakan Diaspora demands immediate non-reactionary organizing for revolutionary change by our people."[Kahina:2007]
Just do it now for the betterment of our future generations.
The principles of Maat are truth, justice, order, reciprocity, balance, harmony & righteousness.
May Maat be restored!
Shared through HmtNtchrt ChenziRa
October 1.2008
Originally published on Living In Black [LIB] Network
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Excerpts of Autumn 2004 Statement to Ghana Trade Expo
Excerpts of International Statement to Ghana Trade Expo-Atlanta, Georgia September 2004
Hotep (Peace) to All Initiators, Planners, Practitioners & Business Participants of the Ghana Expo 2004:
We have reached a zenith in our global development as Afrakan people that requires we reclaim a productive fusion of our ancient, traditional and contemporary socio-kultural and socio-economical perspectives and programmes for the benefit of the larger populace of Afrakans—at home and abroad…
Our indigenosity to Afraka as the Diasporic descendants of those who survived the centuries of atrocities imposed against Afrakans, makes it imperative that we speak on behalf of all of the innocent ancestors whose lives were lost before, during and after the forced migration from continental Afraka to the western hemisphere and abroad. We are descendants of sovereign nations in exile and we need our land and resources to rebuild our nations. “When you take away a people’s land, you take away their nation. You take away their birthright. You might as well take away a woman’s womb and tell her, ‘Go ahead and have some more children.’ It’s impossible. No land, no nation.” —From Who Betrayed the World African Revolution by Dr. John Henrik Clarke (1995) Something must be done to rectify this situation as there tends to be no mention of what Afrakan people have genuinely been through that serve as a foundation of our current socio-economic and psycho-kultural imbalances.
At present, Afrakan nation states need to consider resolving internal family issues amongst the Afrakans within the continent of Afraka and the Afrakans within the Diaspora—BEFORE they invite other nations and rayces to reap and harvest the fruits and resources of our ancestral continental homeland. This needs to be explored and clearly defined in order to minimize the common limitations and lack of access to the socio-economic benefits of the natural resources of Afraka and Afrakans who were exploited during the Arabian—Afrakan and European-Afrakan-American tri-contintental TransAtlantic enslavement experiences and slave economic systems. Essentially, we need to address our familial splits and unresolved issues FIRST before we open the doors of opportunities to everyone else. There will be no HOTEP (peace) without MAAT—truth, order, reciprocity, balance and divine innerstanding. There will not be any genuine peace amongst Afrakans at home or abroad until our internal family imbalances are positively addressed and productively resolved.
Since Afrakans were forced from our continental homes we need constructive and free access to the resources necessary for the rebuilding of our communities, nations and civilization. Since we were torn unethically and unjustly from our social, economic, cultural and spiritual environments and our ancestors never had a chance to return home to reclaim what is rightfully theirs—we as their descendants have a right to reclaim the land of our ancestors in Afraka. We have the right to open access of our ancestral lands that are currently being exploited and sold primarily to the highest bidders without any recourse or input from the genuine heirs of most of these properties. We are divinely and huemanely entitled to reclaim our ancestral national throne.
Until the land, resources and access issues are MAATIKALLY and adequately addressed amongst Afrakans globally—until MAAT is restored for those ancestors and their descendants who experienced and are still experiencing that suffering—Afraka will not be free because our ancestors will not rest.
We need to look at what was the purpose of this great tragic atrocity as the “MAANGAMIZI” ~a great disaster or catastrophe perpetuated towards a person or a people deliberately for planned destruction—for the injustices and enslavement experiences of Afrakans were more than a “MAAFA”~a great or natural disaster (Mfundishi :2006). We need to remember the millions of Afrakans whose lives were sacrificed during those imbalanced and unmaatikal (unjust) times of the Afrakan enslavement and holocaust experiences. Is it in vain that so many families died or were torn apart or nations usurped and leaders exiled? There must be a greater purpose to those sacrifices. It must be that a purpose is beginning to unfold as Afrakans within the Diaspora need to work with Afrakans at home—in MAAT and not exploitatively—for the re-unification, re-birth and re-civilization of a proactive, internationally sound and harmonious Afraka.
It appears that our current nation states in Afraka are building and supporting economic trade and social developments based on failing European or western standards and constructs that are beneficial for only a few and not for the whole village. It is reminiscent of the paramount chiefs inviting foreigners to come and take the loaves that they want as long as some crumbs are left for a chosen few to exploit and benefit from—even at the loss of body, mind, spirit and soul of the many.
…We need to have land and its’ natural resources—debt free—to restore a semblance of genuine global economic stability—especially amongst the millions of Afrakans within the Americas, the Caribbean nation states and elsewhere with unaddressed living and survival issues. We have some serious house cleaning to do before we discuss, implement and explore what Afrakan nation states project they will or will not do regarding the reapportioning of land or importation/exportation of resources within the continent which genuinely belongs to Afrakans at home & ABROAD. We need to erase the historical divisiveness perpetuated amongst Afrakans by Afrakans, Arabs, Europeans, Americans and others during our collective falling away from MAAT.
Afrakans lost civil and human right codes of conduct during the historic exile and migrations, and this led to us moving into barbarism and the human slave trade historically engaged in and benefited by Afrakans—especially at home. Every fort on the shores of Afraka is a symbol and reminder of the hydrocaust of chattel slavery. The landlessness of Afrakans within the Diaspora should not exist. Especially, as there are many non-Afrakans buying and owning millions of acres of land being sold to them by the present caretakers and misguided stewards of our ancestral inheritances. This must stop. As we represent sovereign nations in exile, our Afrakan ancestors will not rest until we establish: “Sovereignty of every African mind…state…soul…land & natural resource…Sovereignty that shall free everything we call our own from continuous looting and exploitation by the mighty and powerful well into the 21st century and beyond.” From Resolution of the African Civil Rights Movement by Godfrey Binaisa (Former President of Uganda) of ACRM & The Schiller Institute (2001)
The congenitally inhumane and uncivil are unable to genuinely support, initiate or maintain civil and human rights amongst Afrakans—or even within the global community. Greed coupled with gun-god bomb solutions have led to serious indoctrination experiences that may terminate the effectiveness of our international trade and economic agreements.
We need our Afrakan continental and Diasporic families and caretakers of our homeland to know that we give tua ankhs (living thanks) for them coming to the west to reconnect with the descendants of our ancestral homeland. We need:
1. Restitution for the wrongs committed against our ancestors that have lasting effects in the 21st century;
2. Reparations and access to our legally inherited royal throne and resources for our nation and civilization reconstruction efforts;
3. Repatriation opportunities for Diasporic Afrakans who desire to return to our ancestral homelands; and
4. The Restoration of MAAT and Maatikal compensation for all the hueman and civil rights violations experienced by our Afrakan ancestors and descendents—especially during the Maangamizi of the TransAtlantic enslavement experience
Smai Tawi represents the oldest historical terminology or phrase for PanAfricanism. According to the late Dr. John Henrik Clarke:
“I define Pan-Africanism as any effort on the part of African people to reclaim any portion of Africa that has been taken away, mutilated, misunderstood, or misinterpreted by a non-African to the detriment of Africa. Therefore, my definition goes beyond the word, “Pan”, which means “all”. When I look back at the historical role and the historical manifestations of Pan Africanism, I deal with the first organized society in the Nile Valley, when the people of the South and the people of the North (the Upper and the Lower Nile) came together to roam a country now known to the world as Egypt…The unification of the Upper Nile and the Lower Nile was an act of Pan-Africanism, putting a portion of Africa together for the whole of Africa to be together.”—From Who Betrayed the African World Revolution (1995)
Smai Tawi represents the oldest indigenous Afrakan Nubian Kushianu Khamitik Heritage (ANKKH) unified nation. Smai Tawi is a concept of spiritual, cultural, social and philosophical unity that transcends politics. Smai Tawi means divine unity on multiple levels of complementariness and correspondence.
This international message is being shared on behalf of the many Afrakan ancestors, elders, contemporaries and the unborn who desire the prostablishment of the hueman, universal and spiritual rights of our people—who are unable to attend this historic Afrakan continental and Diasporic session of unity.
In MAAT (truth, order, reciprocity, balance & harmony), Djhty (divine thought and wisdom)—
We extend Ankh, Udja em Seneb to All (Life, Strength and Wellness)—09.18.04
Note: A collective of scribes/writers of Per Ankh em Smai Tawi, Smai Tawi Ankh Ascension Renaissance & other ANKKH temple initiates shared in the composition of this statement with approved editing and rasynthesis by MwtDrChenziRa.
Hotep (Peace) to All Initiators, Planners, Practitioners & Business Participants of the Ghana Expo 2004:
We have reached a zenith in our global development as Afrakan people that requires we reclaim a productive fusion of our ancient, traditional and contemporary socio-kultural and socio-economical perspectives and programmes for the benefit of the larger populace of Afrakans—at home and abroad…
Our indigenosity to Afraka as the Diasporic descendants of those who survived the centuries of atrocities imposed against Afrakans, makes it imperative that we speak on behalf of all of the innocent ancestors whose lives were lost before, during and after the forced migration from continental Afraka to the western hemisphere and abroad. We are descendants of sovereign nations in exile and we need our land and resources to rebuild our nations. “When you take away a people’s land, you take away their nation. You take away their birthright. You might as well take away a woman’s womb and tell her, ‘Go ahead and have some more children.’ It’s impossible. No land, no nation.” —From Who Betrayed the World African Revolution by Dr. John Henrik Clarke (1995) Something must be done to rectify this situation as there tends to be no mention of what Afrakan people have genuinely been through that serve as a foundation of our current socio-economic and psycho-kultural imbalances.
At present, Afrakan nation states need to consider resolving internal family issues amongst the Afrakans within the continent of Afraka and the Afrakans within the Diaspora—BEFORE they invite other nations and rayces to reap and harvest the fruits and resources of our ancestral continental homeland. This needs to be explored and clearly defined in order to minimize the common limitations and lack of access to the socio-economic benefits of the natural resources of Afraka and Afrakans who were exploited during the Arabian—Afrakan and European-Afrakan-American tri-contintental TransAtlantic enslavement experiences and slave economic systems. Essentially, we need to address our familial splits and unresolved issues FIRST before we open the doors of opportunities to everyone else. There will be no HOTEP (peace) without MAAT—truth, order, reciprocity, balance and divine innerstanding. There will not be any genuine peace amongst Afrakans at home or abroad until our internal family imbalances are positively addressed and productively resolved.
Since Afrakans were forced from our continental homes we need constructive and free access to the resources necessary for the rebuilding of our communities, nations and civilization. Since we were torn unethically and unjustly from our social, economic, cultural and spiritual environments and our ancestors never had a chance to return home to reclaim what is rightfully theirs—we as their descendants have a right to reclaim the land of our ancestors in Afraka. We have the right to open access of our ancestral lands that are currently being exploited and sold primarily to the highest bidders without any recourse or input from the genuine heirs of most of these properties. We are divinely and huemanely entitled to reclaim our ancestral national throne.
Until the land, resources and access issues are MAATIKALLY and adequately addressed amongst Afrakans globally—until MAAT is restored for those ancestors and their descendants who experienced and are still experiencing that suffering—Afraka will not be free because our ancestors will not rest.
We need to look at what was the purpose of this great tragic atrocity as the “MAANGAMIZI” ~a great disaster or catastrophe perpetuated towards a person or a people deliberately for planned destruction—for the injustices and enslavement experiences of Afrakans were more than a “MAAFA”~a great or natural disaster (Mfundishi :2006). We need to remember the millions of Afrakans whose lives were sacrificed during those imbalanced and unmaatikal (unjust) times of the Afrakan enslavement and holocaust experiences. Is it in vain that so many families died or were torn apart or nations usurped and leaders exiled? There must be a greater purpose to those sacrifices. It must be that a purpose is beginning to unfold as Afrakans within the Diaspora need to work with Afrakans at home—in MAAT and not exploitatively—for the re-unification, re-birth and re-civilization of a proactive, internationally sound and harmonious Afraka.
It appears that our current nation states in Afraka are building and supporting economic trade and social developments based on failing European or western standards and constructs that are beneficial for only a few and not for the whole village. It is reminiscent of the paramount chiefs inviting foreigners to come and take the loaves that they want as long as some crumbs are left for a chosen few to exploit and benefit from—even at the loss of body, mind, spirit and soul of the many.
…We need to have land and its’ natural resources—debt free—to restore a semblance of genuine global economic stability—especially amongst the millions of Afrakans within the Americas, the Caribbean nation states and elsewhere with unaddressed living and survival issues. We have some serious house cleaning to do before we discuss, implement and explore what Afrakan nation states project they will or will not do regarding the reapportioning of land or importation/exportation of resources within the continent which genuinely belongs to Afrakans at home & ABROAD. We need to erase the historical divisiveness perpetuated amongst Afrakans by Afrakans, Arabs, Europeans, Americans and others during our collective falling away from MAAT.
Afrakans lost civil and human right codes of conduct during the historic exile and migrations, and this led to us moving into barbarism and the human slave trade historically engaged in and benefited by Afrakans—especially at home. Every fort on the shores of Afraka is a symbol and reminder of the hydrocaust of chattel slavery. The landlessness of Afrakans within the Diaspora should not exist. Especially, as there are many non-Afrakans buying and owning millions of acres of land being sold to them by the present caretakers and misguided stewards of our ancestral inheritances. This must stop. As we represent sovereign nations in exile, our Afrakan ancestors will not rest until we establish: “Sovereignty of every African mind…state…soul…land & natural resource…Sovereignty that shall free everything we call our own from continuous looting and exploitation by the mighty and powerful well into the 21st century and beyond.” From Resolution of the African Civil Rights Movement by Godfrey Binaisa (Former President of Uganda) of ACRM & The Schiller Institute (2001)
The congenitally inhumane and uncivil are unable to genuinely support, initiate or maintain civil and human rights amongst Afrakans—or even within the global community. Greed coupled with gun-god bomb solutions have led to serious indoctrination experiences that may terminate the effectiveness of our international trade and economic agreements.
We need our Afrakan continental and Diasporic families and caretakers of our homeland to know that we give tua ankhs (living thanks) for them coming to the west to reconnect with the descendants of our ancestral homeland. We need:
1. Restitution for the wrongs committed against our ancestors that have lasting effects in the 21st century;
2. Reparations and access to our legally inherited royal throne and resources for our nation and civilization reconstruction efforts;
3. Repatriation opportunities for Diasporic Afrakans who desire to return to our ancestral homelands; and
4. The Restoration of MAAT and Maatikal compensation for all the hueman and civil rights violations experienced by our Afrakan ancestors and descendents—especially during the Maangamizi of the TransAtlantic enslavement experience
Smai Tawi represents the oldest historical terminology or phrase for PanAfricanism. According to the late Dr. John Henrik Clarke:
“I define Pan-Africanism as any effort on the part of African people to reclaim any portion of Africa that has been taken away, mutilated, misunderstood, or misinterpreted by a non-African to the detriment of Africa. Therefore, my definition goes beyond the word, “Pan”, which means “all”. When I look back at the historical role and the historical manifestations of Pan Africanism, I deal with the first organized society in the Nile Valley, when the people of the South and the people of the North (the Upper and the Lower Nile) came together to roam a country now known to the world as Egypt…The unification of the Upper Nile and the Lower Nile was an act of Pan-Africanism, putting a portion of Africa together for the whole of Africa to be together.”—From Who Betrayed the African World Revolution (1995)
Smai Tawi represents the oldest indigenous Afrakan Nubian Kushianu Khamitik Heritage (ANKKH) unified nation. Smai Tawi is a concept of spiritual, cultural, social and philosophical unity that transcends politics. Smai Tawi means divine unity on multiple levels of complementariness and correspondence.
This international message is being shared on behalf of the many Afrakan ancestors, elders, contemporaries and the unborn who desire the prostablishment of the hueman, universal and spiritual rights of our people—who are unable to attend this historic Afrakan continental and Diasporic session of unity.
In MAAT (truth, order, reciprocity, balance & harmony), Djhty (divine thought and wisdom)—
We extend Ankh, Udja em Seneb to All (Life, Strength and Wellness)—09.18.04
Note: A collective of scribes/writers of Per Ankh em Smai Tawi, Smai Tawi Ankh Ascension Renaissance & other ANKKH temple initiates shared in the composition of this statement with approved editing and rasynthesis by MwtDrChenziRa.
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