Guess what? White Amerikkka is sick and tired of us. Nooses here nooses there nooses every damn where! The manipulation and guerilla war style control of the minds of our youth with trash-hop (hip-hop) music. The blatant disrespect for our lives with current and past police murders, the mass murder and neglect of African people in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the systematic dismantling of affirmative action, the overflow of crack/cocaine which is a form chemical warfare, the imprisonment of our warriors and the dehumanization as well as efforts to destroy the African womanhood has come to it’s head. It is time for our own. Time for us to move past the amerikkkan dream and create a new reality for ourselves.
We must first realize that our enslavement was a thought out process as so our struggles for freedom and self-reliance should be. With that said I choose to implement and introduce to the African born in America post the 1970’s the aspect, strategy and idea of a different yet very effective way of struggle. It is called Armed Resistance. I define armed resistance as the final political action after diplomacy has failed to free a subjugated and oppressed people, and that it consist of military means to achieve total liberation and independence for self determined people who suffer from a racist regime. What will happen when your right to vote, assemble or practice your religion is removed from the laws that govern this land? What course of action are you willing to take?
We often hit the streets when we protest and yell out “No Justice No Peace”. Usually there’s always the no justice part, but where’s the no peace? Maybe a sporadic and unorganized riot or uprising but then there’s peace and the enemy is back to work. Repetitious solutions to evolving problems will only hinder the ultimate goal of liberation. Armed struggle must work within the parameters of a unit that is not armed. The armed resistance cadre must be the fighting arm of the people made up of both men and women. There is no victory that can be accomplished without our women and a small yet dedicated to freedom group of African people.
Neither Geneva Convention rules nor international law can stand in our way. We cannot continue to struggle and fight within the parameters of the enemy’s laws and guidelines. The enemy will strongly oppose this course of action but that is expected. We say we strongly oppose the racist oppression and inhumane treatment we are continuously subjugated to. To my daughters I plea with you to continue this legacy of armed resistance laid forth by our mother and father ancestors. As I stated earlier, armed struggle is a last course of action and will become a necessity sooner than later. Affirmative Action is gone in Michigan. Will the little so-called freedoms you have left be on the ballot next voting season?
The bottom line is to achieve land. Land where a free and independent people can dictate and mandate their own lives according to their own culture, values, norms and policies. This is the basis for any freedom struggle. There is no fruit of labor to continue to fight within the paradigm set up by the enemy. You either capitualte and support what you previously fought against, you are jailed for life or worst yet, murdered.
Uhuru Sasa
On Armed Struggle:
Amilcar Cabral- Leader of the P.A.I.G.C.: “Our army is an instrument for the people to fight for independence”
Samora Machel- Former President of FREELIMO: “Ours was a peoples war. First one must have a clear political concept in order to understand the enemy’s policy, to know the enemy’s objectives and assess the enemy’s strength correctly. Unless one reaches this political understanding point, it is not possible to adapt the right strategy.”
Assata Shakur-Mother of today’s African Liberation Struggle: “Either we want a better world or we don’t. And either we gon fight for it, struggle for it, work for it or we ain’t!”
Basil Davidson-Historian: “No amount of racist aggression or an assassination is going to able to withstand the onward surge and drive for a people longing and determined to be free. And freedom, whatever problems it may bring with it, is the only groundwork for peace.”
Unknown- “Only by persevering in armed struggle at home can any nation overthrow hated vicious colonial rule and win complete national independence and liberation.”
Mao Tse Tung-Former Communist leader and ruler of China: “Without armed struggle neither the proletariat, nor the people, nor the Communist party would have any standing at all in China and it would not be possible for the revolution to triumph.”
Kwame Ture- Former leader of the All-African Peoples Party: “Were now at the front where we are encouraging people to pick up arms and fight back.” “…We want the right to politically control the communities in which we live. When we say that we insist, we say very clearly, that the only solution is black revolution and that we are not concerned about peaceful coexistence, armed struggle is the only way. So all the slave has to do is kill the master if the master refuses to stop enslaving him. That’s the only solution. …Armed struggle, that is all, no time for talk. Urban guerilla warfare is the one way we will beat the United States. You must disrupt the system by any means necessary.”
Nomzamo Winnie Mandela- ANC revolutionary: “It was never a policy of the ANC to be violent. All that this people’s organization is doing is responding to the violence of the system. Our great leader, Chief Lutuli, said, “When a man attacks my kraal, I must take my spear and defend my family”-a man who was one of the greatest Christians, who wouldn’t lift up a stone to kill a fly. It was out of context that Umkhonto we Sizwe was born.” Umkhonto we Sizwe means, “spear of the nation”. A non-violent organization was forced to pick up the spear and defend the honor of the black man against an enemy, which had been waging war since the arrival of Jan van Reibeek in 1652. We are determined to fight to the bitter end for our people. I am afraid that the white regime will have to decide whether to give in, when they realize they are fighting a futile battle. It is their decision whether they want to give in violently or sensibly and save our country.”-From the book “Part of My Soul Went with Him”-1984
Sun Tzu on armed struggle:
http://www.sonshi.com/sun7.html
