Education the highest form of struggle

It is my great pleasure once again - welcome to the house the Lord Church - welcome to the 10th up to lecture series dr. John [Applause] thank you very much I'm sorry that I wasn't here last week but came Wednesday with stitches and patches over my eyes I thought lovely of this church its people and I reaffirmed within myself that this is part of my spiritual family and a Home a spiritual home for me that I like to return to one thing about a warrior we've been in the field on the line 50 years the

fight for justice is norm abnormality and I'm not bility is the fight is being out of the fight these are the abnormal people the normal people in the fight now my subject is education struggle the highest form of education because the next time I be here I will be speaking on a new reality and education in education and Information so many people have got us wrong especially Western sociologists Western psychiatrists Western educators in general a brother went to a psychiatrist and he was telling me the story and so the whites of gayatri's he needed to

began as fight sukar just Brina what about your sex life my sex life is all right I get on with your mother that's a good thing my fine I can hit up at any time You know they come to the foundry new you know he's bringing present to mature this goodness wets the car doesn't know what are you crazy about see we become because our education is different when we are disturbed we are disturbed for different reasons this is why we have to develop a teacher core for us in an educational call for us and

in as much in basic western psychiatry was taken for African witch doctors as Sigmund Freud in myth why I Go to the second Raider go straight to the Wichita for our carbon copies go to the original the brother explained that his sense of being disturbed is that he'd worked on a job for 10 years he knew the job and he knew the factory he could supervise it he knew how to take it over then they had a young white man who learned unto him who was now his supervisor he wanted the job he needed the

job he had a family So his quandary will is that shall I own principle quitting the job therefore jeopardizing bacana me of my own family I'll continue in humiliation serving under an in-app human being that I had to Train my main point is that because of the nature of our education for reality even when we are mentally disturbed we are mentally disturbed for reasons other than that of white people a black man can have a perfect sex life perfect relationship with his wife and His children and still be crazy but price think that if you

can solve the sex business straighten out whether your mother change your diapers on time whether you invite your father for having the beautiful relationship with your mother if you get wound up in all of that they finger somewhere your trouble is in that arena I've said this before at a meeting and watch it someone came up to me and it was a German meeting of your own on Zionism and he said sheepishly almost apologetically other racial other ethnic groups in the United States's prove themselves by that by their own bootstraps why haven't your people done

the same and I said because someone stole our boots you can pull yourself by you up by your own bootstraps without boots you make a miracle now let's go back to struggle because of the education for reality has come out of struggle I have a meaningful education It's been a part of a struggle so therefore if you're educated in the midst of struggle it holds much better I am NOT saying that struggle is essential to education I'm saying that there's something special about struggle in relationship to education that gives you a concrete education you otherwise

would not have because when you educate it and struggle you educated with a new reality we as a people in the United States have been Mis educated miss named and Therefore we suffered the deliver of assuming that the method of our former slave master can liberate us when we either we liberate ourselves or we're not liberated at all education liberation is something you take with your own hands and if someone else hands it to you that someone else can take it back we're educated away from our traditions and this is what we went wrong in

the approach to integration basic there's Nothing wrong with integration in itself except when you integrate it into someone else's educational system you accepted their educational values and that's the dilemma right now we don't know how to measure ourselves based on our traditional values and we went wrong in Africa and we were wrong in the United States when we assumed that an oppressor can afford to educate us no one can afford to educate you and how to take that power away from them education In the West for whites is education to hold power and this is

the only education that is truly worth while everything else is a waste of time now I have spoken on this subject in so many different places with so many different types of emphasis based on the audience and based on the need and based on change that if I had an argument I've exhausted the argument long ago I maintain that in a rough huge way we are the most educated people in this country Our dilemma is that we cannot alter the education that was handed down to us soon enough to make education more relevant to us

we have not examined the great teachers and preachers of the world to find out where they went wrong mostly in regard to us now I have no problem with Karl Marx's class analysis and his economic analysis his analysis was apt was appropriate for Europe it wasn't even appropriate for all of Europe he was basing it on urban Europe partly industrialized Europe and when he prophesied the Russian Revolution he was dead wrong and I am mean I need a fight karmak but I'm showing you there's so many things in the world you just swallow and regurgitate

without examining the major factor in Europe is class in economics but the major class in the non-western world is culture and religion and there's no point of saying that religion Is the opiate of the people they're not going to discard it anyway because they have no other Avenue and neither will the Russians only being without God is that new God if they too have spirituality and one of my last visits to Russia I had to go up for winding stairs to some ceremony and on one leg of a linen next yes angle next ledge Karl

Marx and the band was playing putting us in the spirit I said these people are not atheists they've Just changed the name of the Saints seek our scene angle st. linen there's no such thing as a spiritual less people and when we look at other people's relationship to themselves we understand that there are several ethnic groups and several predominantly ethnic nations in Russia right now fighting for the right to exercise their own culture and religion and stay inside of Russia a formally declared atheist nation which most stupid thing they ever done Man is a long

way from sustaining himself without any form of God someone brought me a table Allen Bozek ghrelin Aaron Bozek speak to the Baptist Convention and his analysis was so correct is it when the European assumes that he can master the oceans when he could sue assume that he can rule over everybody else he is saying there is no God because I am God no student asked me because I was critical of said bombs of corruption within the church vessel club But you believe in God I said when I can make a rose a tree stop the

ocean from running from rowing when I can bring back the seasons I will say I no longer believe in God because when I could do that I will be God I do not conceive of any person of any religion religious a political persuasion existing in the world without some form of spirituality now spirituality and religion supposed to go together but sometimes they do not You can have research spirituality and be sympathetic to all of them when they are practiced in the name of the people now because I will struggle in the United States in the

Caribbean islands and in South America was to look at ourselves through our eyes into our basic culture and our own spirituality struggle to do this struggle in the Arctic against the odds against us was really a form of education and might be the highest form Of education because with all of the murder with all of the change but all of the control of the images to survive in this in this environment is America I think in our struggle we have taught this nation a lesson without fully understanding the nature of our teaching one thing we

have failed to recognize that in the American melting pot we did melt and that the symbol of the melting pot could well be wrong symbolically I think We should have called ourselves a salad bowl because in a salad bowl the relish don't have to become a tomato the letters don't have to come a cucumber yet each one is essential to the south now this is the kind of nation we have but remember the nation was not originally designed for you or for anybody other than Protestant wife once you look at the design of this nation

and look at the design of the world beginning in the 15th in the 16th Century a lot of things that look like contradictions are no longer contradictions if you look at the present campaign for the presidency not a qualified person up there you look at queer quails or Falls a rich dumb bunny but when you look at his scores in school and look at when he fed a d-plus a black man could even get a job collecting the garbage with that kind of mops in school and yet they elect this man who might become President

of the United States in your sass and my making Presidents Day but not an outburst there are still doors in this country that opened on the presence of whiteness and clothes on the presence of blackness you can have all your illusions about the fight is over we got the laws from the main point I keep repeating can you pass a taxicab test you get downtown drop your black hand can't value by sometimes something is no that means That you didn't melt in the pot with some people in the party just wouldn't melt if you understand

the design of the United States but still intact no matter what kind of words they use this country was designed for free white Protestant males middle class and uh those who agreed with the prevailing status quo and who owned property when they said liberty and justice for all that was the all they were talking about so if you clear about that you will know Educationally what you would have to do and you will know information-wise what you will have to do there's a continuous struggle of people who live under the domination of other people to

get back to their real self in their real traditions we are people taken out of our culture incubator placed into someone else's culture into incubator and our soul is rejecting the climate of the interview in an incubator in visiting with a group in Africa at the End of the group at the end of the session I remember saying to the group you never heard the word ml since you've been here you never heard anybody calling anybody a since you've been here you haven't seen any children crying you seen laughter and beauty and contentment on their

faces they are in the cultural incubator that produced them they're not in an alien place and most of our education has been informal trying to Educate us to be contained within a culture incubator that we didn't create for the first time in the first place created for our containment and not our liberation what we have to do is to go back and look at the struggle to be educated and the dilemma between the Africans in the United States in the Africans in Africa in spite of slavery in spite of the devastating effect of Arabs as

well as who came before the Europeans the African in the main was in his culture in Hebei de he was spiritually when he was created to be and in as much as he had in his faith and still have all of the elements of Christianity Judaism and Islam he is multi spiritual because he belongs universally to all of the religions of the world and when he moves away from these religions to a religion fashioned to contain him not knowing that these religions were made from elements of his Religion in the first place he's got a

problem and going to an insane asylum in Ghana every single in mate with Western education and what caused his mental problem the lack of reentry he cannot go back into his traditional society and feel at ease when his traditional society was more socialist than anything Karl Marx ever said and they did not need any dogma to prove the part it was socialist by nature it was socialist by design you Did not ask am I my brother's keeper you just kept him you didn't put your sisterhood you just created it and lift it out in a

society that had some of the things that purified itself that protected itself there was no Society of large regions of unwanted ladies of men unmarried ladies because these things were taken care within the context of the culture and the religion not alien to the religion that people were selling to them and they began to think with the Coming of these different people these different religions began to sell a version of their own religion to them and began to use it as a political tool you couldn't make the African a Christian because it's Christian already he

was a Christian more Christian than you because if his brother older brother dies he's responsible for the maintenance of his brother's children and that's designed in the society itself we have gotten too far from these Basic societies assuming that there are unchristian not knowing that they are purely Christian and that they didn't have to use the word crystal a built a temple they lived it out you got enough bread for six people I mean things were divided so that everybody in the society could get a part of it so I'm trying to show that the

nature of that struggle was the highest form of Education because they got to know themselves now let's look at the dilemma of the African away from home let's start in the Caribbean olives mainly because the Africans were functioning revolting and trying to educate themselves in the Caribbean olives a hundred years before the arrival of Africans in Jamestown Virginia 1969 nineteen this is not satyr this is how to be truth because the rehearsal for the mass slave trade for the dispersion Of Africans throughout the new world started really the Caribbean islands I'm not dealing with the

pre-columbian present that you were told about and I've assumed that you know about the basis of that large migration would start on those islands all right what about struggle in relationship to education he got in some cases a basic education mostly an education to be a servant to the colonial administrator that held sway over the Oliver this is Why the word clerk means so much in these societies because if you the British train you to be a clerk when they train you at all and they train you these other thing because they're bad pathological lazy

and they do not want to ever be engaged in manual labor fortunately because of this trouble and because of certain nature built-in elements the Africans in the Caribbean Ali's got a rough-hewn education because he was educated not so much to serve Himself but to serve the colonial master and the colonial master did not know that these Africans were learning a lot of things that they could use in slave revolts he made the Cutlass now he made to repair the farm equipment and the sugar mill and from someone's back was turned he was fashioned a sword

or a dagger and put it carefully away for the time believed were needed now why did this happen they're different from here see I argue on the basis of the Difference of certain Africans in certain places I don't argue about who is better because there's nothing better to be attached to any form of slavery it's all bad it began to accommodate its local condition based on the absence in the presence of the authority of the master now I've said this before but it's worth going over there were the settlement of the Caribbean islands and with

the farm Up after that thug and the riffraff came the bridge began to route some aristocrats who had big houses and they brought over from England furniture made from soft woods and some of those Island termites began to eat the furniture for design now with the passing of the white craftsmen the slave craftsmen emerge not because anybody wanted him too much because there was nobody else to do it and he could duplicate that British furniture in Jamaican hardwood or Trinidadian hardwoods so he became indispensable now that he could do this other things were available to

him managed each of the mills making equipment blacksmithing shoeing the horses so he had a leverage of freedom in a free class emerged ahead of those in the United States and that free class through its struggle became the active freedmen because of that skill they could work in the evenings work on Sundays and could purchase that Independence or negotiate for it so these groups of freedmen all pursuing a form of higher education met in the first half of the 19th century a lot of part of a team first half of the 19th century there was

communication between the three men of New England the freedmen of the Caribbean islands they had enough lead way to meet each other on terms where they never used the word Jamaica and one never used the word America they Learned what we have forgotten that the slave brought no West Indians East Indians no deltas no aks no people belong to a blue vein society but none of them came on a boat everybody had to become what he thought he needed to become in order to survive so the meaning of the dynamic black ministry of the Caribbean

islands and the dynamic black ministry of the United States was a form of education growing out of struggle the two of them will Would create what they call the Negro convention movement we became then but we still are the most meaningless people and the most resolution as people we will meet and call a relative get out of resolution in a minute may not remember the next day but we'll get it out there George Padmore one of the early fathers of pan-africanism the three great pan African Saul came from Trinidad George's in the middle at the

top of course it's AIT's of Esther Williams In George Padmore the younger in the last of the living great Trinidadian pan-africanist still alive in England CLR James now when they began to meet one freemen with another noticing the others condition they began to assist each other as in African people and what we have lost and I was struggle for education we have created artificial divisions that the 19th century black did not have so there was nothing extraordinary about a Caribbean Minister being in charge of a black American Church a black American managed to be in

charge of curvature this how Henry Highland garnet with the systems are Russ Wan and Campbell both are Jamaicans got to go to Jamaica and rest up from the wall in the United States and from the encroachment of rights in the United States these were the New England freedmen this is where general and Gannett learning that condition in the United States had not changed he thanked his Jamaican holes and said I returned to the United States to fight the rest of my life I will not return to seek integration because I do not expect that I

will not return to seek justice because I do not expect that I will return to devote the rest of my life to tearing that Republic down black men don't speak this way anymore black men knows me they said integrate me into the house for the 19th century I'll tear the house down either I am a man within the house or I'll burn down we have lost something by way of communication one to the other because it was appeared each one of us understood each other struggle and we gave it a single name the struggle of

African people away from home we were clear on it we're not clear now if we were clear on it right now everybody would be getting food blankets or something to Jamaica there won't be any Argument about it won't be much of a discussion about it so collectively any place for our people are in danger but natural causes or nature causes we rally the one thing we want to know is that happy they got trouble I come to you when your troubles you come to me when I'm in trouble we would live out pan-africanism we won't

preach about it and forget about it we would live it out a union and something went wrong because different ones of us were educated under Different types of slave masters and when you look at the early Free School in New York City and the light when you look at Rochester New York as a meeting ground they incubator for so much that would go into African education in this country Frederick Douglass's home was Frederick Douglass publishes monthly from Rochester minute slaves escaping from the north the south through the North went to Rochester isn't it peculiar that

I've never known as blacks Colorado PhD thesis on the role of Rochester and and our freedom struggle now as the 19th century Oh fun we had behind us a good relationship one to the other and because one of us had an education since there was not an educational system it all was outlawed the other thing could basic learning not for the mass because British education was never meant for the mass not even now the British educate an elite a technically Li flying Ally militarily Their education is for elite public the whole concept of the public

school for everybody is new in England so in the Caribbean islands they educated a technical leap leap most of the technical elite educated themselves and maybe the word a lead is not even right here these were skilled craftsmen and they kept the plantations going they built the big houses they cut the mahogany they took care of the harvest while in the United States and we need To look at this now because we were outnumbered they made a special point of not letting us see ourselves are not letting others see us in a skilled position now

growing up in the South that was a custom even in the collection of garbage and nightsoil blacks would do the collecting a white man would drive the truck they did not want to see them in a skillful position that required thinking this is why a certain mentality developed in one place They did not develop quite the same way in another place in the Caribbeans you could see people in petty officer job schoolmasters Chief of Police it was not because the British love them because they didn't want the job they did not want the job that's

just labor that's where this was demonstrated in the closing years of the 19th century for a young man he was too young was mature enough but came to the United States and He had been a tax collector on his native Island and a good one well-qualified heard of a test is going to be given in Long Island to be tax collector for the rich neighborhood in Long Island they said the person will make the highest mark gonna get gonna get the job his name was T a for those three initials in her name Shaw mr.

Shaw took the exam and passed through the eyes ma no black of malgo took the job because They knew damn what else it has allowed mother was gonna get the job so they didn't know she all took the test and shall never understood American racism Pisa your paper says those who make the one who make the highest MA would be appointed now what's your problem I made half ba ba wasn't why didn't an American take the same attitude because he grew up in a country where he never seen his people collected taxes when you grew

up in the country well you see not Only senior people collected taxes connect them yourself you have the confidence that one brain can collect taxes another one can collect taxes so that was in between these two people different atmospheres different types of oppression but their education was now coming out of struggles and in somewhat political naivete when Prince Hall came to the United States from Barbados he heard all of the talk about living in justice democracy and not growing up in The United States where he were no better he assumed that they were talking about

us also his assumptions led him to investigate how do you get justice in the United States if you get justice at all someone told him if you had poverty you could get a little jest you got probably didn't change nothing if you're a preacher you could get a little judge became a preacher to change you know Cause his coloration didn't change father they told him if you have an organization you can get some justice so went to the British trying to get a charter for the Masons first black Masons religion give him one a scotch

and Irish Regiment angry with the British gave him a charter and when he found and laid the foundation for black masonry in this country he did not call it a Masonic Order he called it the Africa large know what you need to Understand is that throughout other to the early part of the 20th century both of us were hanging out with the word African as against color as against being a black British art it is the ninth or in the part of the 20th century when our dilemma in education became such a problem because self

education community education and indoctrination had been part of our education and to educate African people in the United States in the same way they were Educated in the Caribbean educated to serve that colonial master but once you once you got the education could be taken away from you good fundamental education while in the United States you would denied basic education so it was a circus thing but to do it aside were to it at night I'd do the secret four was limitation that was no University in the whole of the Caribbean so that means that

no one intended for you to have higher education but basic education for The reality of containing in Ireland for the profit of your colonial master while the whole thing is operating differently in the United States the few educated ones were the New Englanders who had work their way out of servitude our escaped and they would come together after the convention movement got underway and formed the American Colonization Society now a lot of Americans had difficulty with the society because of too many white Endorsers and Frederick Douglass was against it because he said that I'm a

right to stay in this country was unenviable for thousands we sweat for this country push the Foresters aside they raise the cotton we are the immigrant group though coming against our will we are the one immigrant group that came with with an invitation now the nature of the invitation will not be discussed because the invitees brought some guns and some chain to make sure we Didn't jump out of the boat we arrived in good shape for work of course and they tap the flower of African man who had physically they didn't take the second-best it

took the best they could find they didn't take the cripples but my main point getting back to Prince Hall and we need to study this relationship why do we need to study Prince Hall Prince Hall Barbados Peter Ogden Antigua the largest number of freedom fighters joining the freedom Fighter in the United States from Jamaica Russell I'm Jamaican Robert Campbell Jamaica and quite a few others because of the size of Jamaica and the little leverage they had want to invite one to the other Jamaica became kind of the resting place for the activists ministers in the

United States Prince Hall would lay the basis for not only the Masonic Order but responsible lodges and community activist organizations in this country so as we enter the bottom Part of the 19th century Prince Hall had already organized his Masonic Order the African large Frederick Douglass had already started his Douglass monthly at the in the north star freedoms journal was being edited by Ross wom and an afro-american after freedom journal Russ one would go to Liberia we'd found a paper called the Liberian horror still in existence and he became a governor of one of the

provinces in Liberia and he took a stand from Frederick Douglass was Against it he said the American Colonization Society has given us the opportunity to prove that we could run a state and though it was infiltrated by whites who want just to get us out of here they didn't care what we ran and Lincoln was one of them it gave us the opportunity to be sovereign again and he took that thought it took this opportunity Douglass continued to argue the point but Douglass said incorrectly if their Whites in America want to give an African a

trip back to Africa why are they anxious to give the African free man a trip and not the slaves who would appreciate it a little more maybe he liked to judge see but amidst this the Africans in the whole of the Western world in the Caribbean islands and parts of South America and in the United States began to create myths about Africa to sustain their motions to keep from being holy this is what whole Legend of the flying African started everyone plantation would talk the South flew home down for the last night so why didn't

you stay all these young as I got here come back family so if you grew up in the south when Tom I grew up you grew up with mythology and allegory and folk tales that we told each other to enhance ourselves one to the other each one had a set of myths that they use to sustain themselves I have listened to all the stories about hi John the Conqueror I Know they're not saying one of his true I like the story of John Henry who could stop a train because it rescued my ego at I

said you know when I look at them in the midst of oppression how weak I was I go into black folklore into the John Henry stories in the high jaunty conqueror stories and even the broad rabbit stories there's an essential myth in the life of every people if you understand that sustaining myth sustaining story is Good now let's take a car event I'm a great admirer of Jesus Christ as a teacher with or without the holiness some of you understand what I'm saying he always taught using information in front of them in front of him

he taught he addressed himself to the culture the current situation and when he said that he whose without for cast the first stone there was somebody in front of him about to be killed I like to think this might Have been the beginning of psychiatry making people look look at themselves if you so pure you go ahead you look inside of yourself you find something you wouldn't apologize for something you regret you did and something you want to keep to yourself and you feel a little different when you look at other people now let's take

a car event that's the story of the got people that beautiful legend that comes out of their folklore about the defeat of their Santee's I've Investigated this on the spot and I've listened to both sides now that's an exaggeration of the on the part of the gods but when the shanties tell the story they exaggerate too and when the Apple teams who help the gods tell the story they said they fought the battle all by themselves and the gods and do nothing and tell the god story they said that we thought it all out said

that Opium's didn't do no but each one tells the Story to Brandeis himself and sometimes you spoil the beauty of the story but being Oh stuffy historian who going around looking for the truth just happen to be one of those stories where I searched out the real truth and the truth is there was a king at Kumasi of the Oh sire to to line or sorry to to kawaman aid and the bridge wanted to take the hinterlands and he said that it was a young British governor named MacLean Mac he said it if you come

up Here I'm gonna send your head back to the coast on a silver platter MacLean played the fool went up to a safety oh sorry to kawaman a send his head back to the coast on a silver platter knowing full well that this would provoke war he had his best warriors stay home in the midst of this crisis he had a slight disagreement with the GAR people and so he can only set his grubby army down to a crawl to deal with the cat would deal with the gods the gods of cause beat the Hell

out of them but they didn't beat the hell out of the number one team because the number one team won even about now if you go to awake and awake in in Africa especially Ghana the stories spell out and the women seeing that brave God Warriors coming back from the field throw down a gamma for the men to dance on after the dancing is a great feasts and the women dance waving at these retreating Santa's shame shame on you Why did you hit why did you bother us in the first place every time there's a

wake of great feast the story gets told and danced out I'm saying the real story is just as interesting as the myth you have to learn how to enjoy both of them and they again tell the story of that creation because as as many creation stories in Africa as there are African people I've heard amar Olin didn't argue with any of them in time and I realize that we are the most homogeneous Africans in Africa you just that's very nice go ten miles down the road nothing will tell you the same thing and among the

Moosey people said they said when we conquer people we don't integrate that why we don't even integrate our capital the Moosey cow is second he not to mix his blood with these alien cows over them and if they conquer you and if you needed a wife they give you permission to go home and choose you I don't don't be choosing Almost EP the mostly woman is his preserve well The Herald in Southeast Africa now called Namibia acted the same way the same struggle and the same approach so one day after hearing the story of how

that God I mean blew his breath on a fire created a hold and created some tsumtsum scald soul say go forth you greater can people civilize the world and as they march to civilize the words allowed said stop you gotta have a child nothing good enough for the Stars before the banquet so now being served place of go over beautiful maiden now with your stomach full contentment now go forth and civilize the world among the Evo's here similar story you ever tell you see is this why you got to learn how to enjoy people's folklore

and your none I've accepted the history from the folklore because this is part of the education and understand the nature of culture in the enhancement of the human Being in relationship to culture that being enslaved or being threatened we had to create stories to get us outside of it in order to save our sanity so our struggle was a part of our education years later my first trip in Africa why I read all these stories before I was with an African professor who took me out to show me the sacred hole but the people were

born well God blew his breath he created the Sun soon the soul of the people and I said very casually You know professor my research proves that it can people especially used to live in East Africa he says yes that is true and because they were vote against anyone trying to fasten a religion on them not of their choosing they move out of the way then they moved to central did the Volta River ever yes that's true they found a kingdom called Acadia this is the basis of that name I can well in 18th century

they Began to migrate in larger numbers Oh though the first migration appeared about 10 73 with the invasion of the area by a North African named Abu Bakr he said yes that is true as if this is essentially true what about the story about the hole and the crane over some songs is it do you want us for a good story with the truth I said no I will not spoil a good story with the truth I would not give up hi John the Conqueror John Henry so you Know reason why they should give up

that God was so powerful that he can breathe fire create a hole and create souls and tell him to go forth and civilize the world the main point is that in struggle in an education and in folklore and in listening to the old man under a tree there was a farm of informal education that locked them into their culture and our crisis today that we have been given an education did not that does not lock us into our culture so therefore we'll Be being miss educated in all of these places in South America and the

Caribbean islands they could maintain a cultural continuity much better because they spoke the same tonal language they speak the same drum language and they could communicate with each other in front of the same master without the slave master understand in this country our oppression was so brutal they literally outlawed the language they outlawed the rituals until we Became a linguistic prisoner to our slave masters language not knowing any of our own so this kind of education and mis-education came out of the nature of struggle and this struggle will be set in motion first in the

Caribbean island it is no accident that the massive slave revolt in the United States came after the tried of Tucson L ouverture in Haiti black sail is going back and forth on ships began to get the word out it's Somewhere on an island the Africans it rose up and made themselves a nation what confused me is that they called Tucson or L ouverture oh man Tucson and Tucson was valid I don't think an old man as old as 50 anybody at the age that I am is not considered oh you consider old if you older

than me and while I did useful service at 50 in marriage a second time on the verge of being 50 I'd love to see 50 again and will be very satisfied with it and could do justice to it I hope so by people referred to to sent over to an old man of 50 who never saw a unit farming that he was boarding but the main thing is that hate is that hate it became an independent state and the inspiration of the Haitian revolt and sparked massive revolts in the United States why is it that

Jamaica fought longer and harder without being the inspiration of the vote a revoke Jamaica Fought longer and harder but had to deal with a different slave master in a different military lay of the land different geography different political attitudes the French was that was stupid people get nervous when I called Napoleon was an idiot France hasn't got one inch of the soil he conquered for France it was a big ego trip anybody who would invade Russia in the summertime as a fool you're very Russian at one time you are more than that There are two

nations in the world no one should ever invade Russia and China they don't fight you they move away from you and let you wear yourself down looking for them then they bring out gentle wind rain and snow but as you all leave it to the elements in China they look they move about and your arm is tired when you think you found it one third of all the Japanese and invaded China never went home they move about they got so tired one drink a wall want Some food and look and looked around and saw a

beautiful Chinese girl and may China his home never went off someone to pull your troops never left Russia stayed that mad Russian women live from then on lost that way home all that snow everything is white you don't know peaceful west in LA don't want to show you God show you home is welcome sometimes he showed you home and he was a man the venom and you became a Russian because she made You Russia now back to our struggle because we've never used the uniqueness of our struggle in revolution why am i pointing out Haiti

in Jamaica first because they have a similar geography they have some hills than so monstrous challenging that you can go up into those hills and live indefinitely internal conflict with the white man because you can't get up there and you can look down and see him but he don't even see you and a good supply of rocks Would discourage him from coming up now you see how struggle is creating a form of education that otherwise would not exist knowing that they didn't have the weapon to do match England knowing that they did not have enough

firepower to face them frontal they had no great cavalry so they had to hit fight hit-and-run and they were successful until concessions were made to them that lightened that burden but not eliminated that but let no one tell union nonsense About slavery was mild in the Caribbean slavery will not mile any place it was different at different times and you cannot boast about slavery was eliminated in the Caribbean islands thirty years before lemonade in the United States that all needed your bakery came in front of our bakery because you're not liberated now slavery was transformed

but not eliminated we still live on the farm of slavery this is what Marcus Garvey was talking About this is why each time we analyze I was struggle we can't make Marquez God that go away I said recently in a conference in Jamaica if Marcus Garvey lived in Jamaica out today some Jamaican was throwing him to death they nothing Gavi out about Jamaica today there's nothing Garvey out about the spirit in the Caribbean today there is a developing spirit but it's developing as a challenge coming from the youth who Were tired of imitating the former

colonial masters who read innovate to bring for something new and literal demand and in an educational system that be more meaningful to them they are tired of reading the British classics and remembering all the British Kings when they can't remember the family that lives on the other side of the hill in Jamaica no tired of being read read out of history and now they're beginning to learn something which surprised to Others our hope is not anything anymore now the revolutions in the Caribbeans came before the American Revolution you mean about the American revolutions the first

revolution it establishes a republic it was a revolution in Guiana the Bobby's revolution revolution in Palmeras revolution in VI by year all of these revolutions led by blacks came before the American Revolution they weren't even a revolution at all it's an Argument between the senior and the junior branch of a British family the junior branch decided that they didn't want to be ruled by the other and many Englishmen in the United States did not even fight in the American Revolution they went to Canada instead because they were royalist and many of them sent Africans to

fight in the American Revolution a replacement for the son who would not fight and you see if you look at our honor rolls look at the muster Rolls this the the list of people who've been discharged a read of the late Lorenzo Turner he only died a few months ago book called the Negro in colonial New England and he went look at the records of the large enlistment of blacks in the American Revolution many of them sent by rich families who did not want to sacrifice their son but who wanted to sacrifice the slave why

I know some basic things about the subject that laurenzo Turner Was one of the people that adopted me I've always been fortunate because there's senior black teachers before I was a senior always adopted me and fed me good information including some information they day I'm not teaching the classroom Jay Rogers and most people don't know the Jay Rogers wasn't Jamaican and a bit probably making a certain in the British Army and walk like a soldier to the last day of his life with many times together men Without a good argument but one thing that Rogers

did was to establish the five blacks as as revolutionary figures and the social change of Europe and the social change of the world and he pedaled his books almost door-to-door and that broke because he was giving out a certain kind of education that others had neglected now I've written a piece that I'm going to go over be with the Caribbean presence and they have American freedom movement not to flatter Either side because if you look at it honestly at the incubator at the beginning of this struggle in the 17th and 18th century well it began

at a farmer says with Prince Hall of Barbados participation that were men before Prince Hall who became lesser known or I forgot to tell you that Shaw got the job as tax collector in the Hampshire's cuss of rich neighborhood and kept the job for over 20 years it is after Shaw that a black American specialists own taxes so I'm sure you have one - from the other one takes inspiration from the other Charlie and the Sun became tax collector of New York City first and second District and when he died he was tax collector the

third District he was so astute in the collection of taxes he could read taxation into almost everything I remember mentioned the Joseph and Mary story in his presence is it a surtax or you know one thing it is The Romans wanted everybody together be counted so they couldn't know how much taxes every hand had to pay taxes you can't make everybody pay let you count and find out what they are it's not only a taxed oh it's a beautiful story I'm gonna I'm gonna write this in the wrongness of it I'm saying that it's a

very revealing story everybody going to be counted so the Romans would know how much tax they do from different villages now when you look at the education of Charlie Anderson Republicans and look at his counterpart on the Democratic Party for an Ncube Morgan you have to the early truly brilliant paper politicians who delivered patronage they got something for their community the black politician of today is not delivering much to the community by way of patronage he now [Applause] Chadda Anderson and Ferdinand Q Martin pretended they were mortal enemies and Charlie Anderson Republican would go Republican

would go to his head of the Republican Party and said that if you don't give me more money more apartments that modern will take everything from us we won't be getting into votes out of that community bitterly beginning all then further a few more time ago these people say you know that Charlie that marriage he's he's gonna get all the votes unless we give her Democratic Blackmoor so finally idli who created Charlie Anderson the heart of African politics in that there was a black belt ha named idli whose bellhop at the old Warwick hotel what

Tammany Hall went for extracurricular activities not necessarily with their wives no gambling or drinking visiting the ladies so Charlie being the chief elevator operator and supervisor of the POTUS had dirt on everybody and when when idli asked the head of Tammany Hall William cloaca for the money to start a Tammany Hall branch in Harlem he got the money and corporate told him I will put a Negro in every department of government we need to reanalyze this because that's one of the few political promises that were made to us it was almost kept during the time

we had black a system supervisor sanitation a system this insist on that but we did have them in every department between it between no further 9q modern for the Democrats these the men who came after ad Lee Charlie Anderson they found within the Democratic Party something called a United color democracy that was the black arm of the Democratic Party and they began to deliver patronage and to finally they had tricked or played all kind of tricks on the white pretending to be mortal enemies when it came up town they broke a bottle of scotch and

that's what old custom was scotch and milk started quart Of milk and scotch and drink themselves on the table laughing and tricks they played a rifle black Republicans and Democrats don't unite today in order to get patronage from that people based on the fact that you don't give them this they're not gonna vote they don't threaten the white political machinery that these men did Charlie Anderson became collective taxes first District he had the nerve to call in old JP Morgan say mr. Morgan you are delinquent In your taxes Morgan won no from his secretary who

let him in and who gave him an appointment and the secretary said mr. marvel nested collective in tongue revenue for the first district I didn't know that he needed an appointment he reminded the Morgan family that they left America 63 million dollars during the spanish-american war and every time the United States tried to pay back the Morgan they refused to take the money But instead of paying me back right now we know the Cubs government is having a little difficulty if we get any information on stocks and bonds and inventions in foreign country just give

it to me first they had more than enough made that money by having an intra inside track on German adventures French adventure basic detergents will come the whole soap industry literally stolen by the DuPont's came out of it now you see our labor and our self education and Mis-education creating the basis for American capitalism the basis for the economic system we now live under I would like one day for a black child look up at a skyscraper and realize except for 300 years of free labor extracted from my people either the skyscraper wouldn't be there

or I would be the owner of the skyscraper once he liberates his mind from the smallness of striving just to be alive petitioning each day for the right to live to the End of the day having his time so tied up and that the matter of surviving and putting some bread on the table or some shoes on his children see takes so much time he cannot a spy he cannot plan to revolt he he could do nothing but Gulman eat and take a shower get ready for the next day now this explained in part four

most revolutions are started by middle-class people it was started by middle-class people because the middle class is angry with the upper class and They're trying to say to the lower class as you and I you know and deal with the upper class he wants to deal with the upper class for one reason he can't get into it and they got something he wants I've been let him in that would tone down his anger and be more less satisfied but he's trying to get in his fail together now as we were being educated to serve and

developing independent institutions of our own we had no choices except Either we created independent institutions or we have no institution at all and we have not made an assessment of the argument for education and the closing years of the 19th century we have not looked at the emancipation the proliferation of schools endorsed by white missionaries some totally independent run by black churches some of these schools still exist having some difficulty but they still exist we had to either build an Independent institution I have no institution at all while in the Caribbean islands they got assistance

in building institutions so long as the institution conforms to a British concept of Education they fasten them with a concept of Education alien to their historical interest but in people with historical interest of the colonial mass so when people come among you and laugh at your culture that make you laugh at your Culture then change the color of the deity to look like them instead of you they don't have to build it in jail we dare not tell them our concept of God as black was here before your concept away we failed to see that

the Pope's in Rome commissioned Michelangelo and other master artists to paint the Holy Family and so they painted them to resemble themselves gave Moses a beard because his uncle had a bearded uncle was his mother nobody can prove that Moses had a Beard how he looked at all or what the existing at all but the story about him is some of the most beautiful of all biblical stories most of us became religious without learning how to read the Bible and how to extract from it a lot of supporting things for ourselves other than spirituality we

would not admit then or now that it is a basically a Jewish survival book and a very good one there's no objection to it because it contains the body of some of the Finest wisdom man has ever been capable of but if you understand who wrote it who put together what they put you together fall you could probably get more out of it by extracting something for yourself without violating its moral long you look at an Ethiopian Bible there's only one white character the devil some of us have taken these biblical stories and made classic

sorrow mm um one a few weeks ago speaking of Earth Oh van Peebles who's a fine humorous then they're a fundraising event someone's apartment was telling the story that two men was sitting at the gates and as people approach the judgment once it's heaven for you hell for you maybe heaven for you so finally brother approach and the devil was standing about non-commital this playing around with his tail like a nightstick he finally said hell are you there was a kondañña the devil said that We don't discriminate down here and we like to treat people

just the opposite of way they were treated on early there's a cool part of hell I'm gonna send you to for you will eat pork chops and neck bones fried chicken the rest of your natural life now that's a lie but it's it's a good innovation on the story on a biblical story if you had it hard in real life I'm gonna make itself here so he reverses heaven in hell to mean Different things this is a excellent interpretation using humor I think we'd get more out of it and we understood the stories from their

basic roots of the stories I think become more spiritual to us not less now I can argue against the corruption of religions but I never argue against spirituality that is universal and that no single human being on this face can live without in any form he must have it in some farm but when he's when when he Has no spirituality in any form he might as well go live among the dogs in the beasts because the one thing that establishes us the one thing that differentiates between us if we woke up right and we think

and we reproduce ourselves with some kind of consistency with a reason so I've never met on unspiritual people I never really met an atheist people not even in Russia who lies about it so we are neatly discussed people without spirituality or without Religion they have religion in some form now what we fail to understand in relationship to education is what that debate with Du Bois and Booker T Washington was about it was about an approach to education not against education itself Washington had the more practical program then more applica to our needs right now a

people not so long after slavery need good carpenters and roofers good bricklayers and before they get politicians because if you get the Basics of life on your own home own farm this is going to in ever lead you to politics because you want to protect it so the Booker T Washington approach would have logically led to the Dubois approach that was premature given the time not wrong but misplaced Dubois himself had to go through a process of learning after he had created his small classic work souls of black folks and the gifts of black folks

and that process of learning would come Out of struggle principally in 1906 there's a riot in Atlanta Du Bois proper gentleman moustache came Spanish one to deal with these fight rough one to ask fights how to deal with these ruffians so he were trying to get a cost advantage to communicate and roof he discovered why is it closed doors cut off the water cut off the electricity but he found communities where the lights had been turned on the water was flowing in the ruffians had opened up The grocery store and with great humanity giving out

food women and children first this is what I call the bo diddley syndrome we have not studied that poo reun crowd we have not studied the fact that all the education and degrees make you love life so much you hesitate to hit anybody he hasn't got it and he don't care it got one life forgive me might as well give that one up and take some company with him he becomes more of A revolutionary hero then a cautious middle-class Du Bois discovered that some of them would barefooted climb to telephone poles and then they found

the right leg would turn the lights back on look through manholes until they found the right wheel to turn to get the water back on and was distributing food Dubois nun a lesson from that struggle that carry him the rest of his life that until you capture the soul in the attention of the working class you can't Bring off no revolution the middle class brother negotiate both didn't in his crowd I'm gonna have it one way or the other I'm Chuck I'm trying to point to how education comes out of struggle and why struggle is

the highest form of education because it is a practical education I am NOT against formal education but I'm for people learning from survival struggles learning from what they have to do out of the same struggle 1906 Dubois took a Stand and the Browns were raised along with with Washington coming ordinaire black people understood that this was a grave injustice in Brownsville Texas and a crime charged to black soldiers it back soldiers had not committed and it was wrong and Dubois it asked for clemency and Washington had asked for clemency and both of them were wrong

because neither one asked for justice it was Luke these ordinary black soldiers that understood The nature of that case so as we moved into the 20th century arguing about education WB Dubois at the center stage of it all Booker T Washington would die 1915 Dubois would published his first overview of African history the same year a little book called the Negro the same year a Jamaican had made plans to come to the United States and couldn't get the funds together having been invited by Booker T Washington he got the funds together by 1906 by 1919

1916 a year after the death of Budweiser now we got to deal with something which we've been misinterpreting all these years for flattery the assumption that there was no movement back therefore there's no African consciousness before Marquez God it was African consciousness Bishop Turner had literally taken people back to Africa Paul Coffey had done the same thing a hundred years ago Robert Campbell the Jamaican had accompanied Martin Delany and trips back to Africa to establish a place for settlement everything Marcus Garvey advocated except one item had been tried before Marcus Garvey got here contrary to

a lot is often told Marcus Garvey found black American with a wishbone and gave him a backbone that sounds cute but it's not true we had mounted a hundred year war against oppression and after the betrayal of the reconstruction we had to Mount still another then what did Marcus Garvey bring then attracted so many people the concept of state formation and the reintroduction of the concept of state management we were fighting for a piece of bread from someone else's kitchen and Marcus Garvey said we won't read on from our kitchen we want to control the

baker the cook and the stove and everything that goes with it and we'll accept the responsibility he introduced the concept that had been Driven out of black America the concept that they wants ruled Nations and would have to give that mind to do it again I maintain that however you look at Marcus Garvey if you looked at him honestly he understand he was a great educator and he was teaching many things that sounded like fantasy but he was teaching a new reality his Liberian scheme alone would have brought about the African freedom explosion a whole

generation before the curve in his library Liberian scheme the Librarians who do to go for tools to the United States then a to to the United States now a sloppy American colony no my how you cut it was told to let Marcus Garvey have the illusion that he can settle in Liberia he had a spy network he would give copies of his paper the Negro world to black sailors they drop him off at different ports and so he became an international man from his vantage point in the Harlem community while we were thinking and we

were Fighting and we were planning but not on the same international scale we were not thinking nation he made us think nation think ho he demonstrated it through ceremony many black men downtown elevator star of Porter white mr. hey George hey Joe downtown that same man would come uptown as a major in a crawl in the paramilitary organization of Marcus Garvey who Creed even a dukedom make us to make us stick realize that we were was raw real people and we had to Once more become royal people he was bringing a whole new lesson that

had not been taught before quite that way he was saying me not only you can board the ship but you can own the ship and run the ship you don't have to be adjuncts to somebody else's something you can be the something I do not think he was understood in his time and I do not think he is understood right now and in my search for this new material on work on pan-africanism and I've devoted most of the summer in practically finish short history of pan-africanism I kept looking at Marcus Garvey again especially his African

fundamentals his men had laid out a basic constitution a political approach to Africa read David Walker's appealed to the colored people world read Marcus Garvey's African fundamentalist and read Malcolm X's message to the grassroot they're all saying the same thing land is the basis of nation and what we Went wrong that that was a bait between Melvin husk Yvette's and he Franklin Frazier and he Franklin Phaedra assumed that the African and the United States and the African hold of the new world had lost all of his African ass and he had no lawyer to need

it no loyalty because he was a physical ethnic creation created in the United States by the United States it is unfortunate but Melvin husk events in anthropological hustla saw a goal of opportunity to get A reputation among and so he repudiated Frasier by pointing out the African culture in the new world that was the sustaining factor in his life in the new world this debate between eath Franklin Fraser and husk of its need to be going over out of it Husker business wrote his book called the myth of the Negro past and yet while Husker

this became kind of a hero for that book people forgot that husk events had said blacks cannot be objective in Interpreting themselves they are too emotional and he deliberately kept most blacks out of the field of anthropology but did not go into anthropology in any depth until the early years the mid years of the 20th century he let one or two through who praised him the rest of his life without understanding there was no praise dude into this atmosphere of the early works of Husker based the education to an understanding of history by Carter Woodson

other great teachers Unfortunately forgotten rap your powers still alive the first one to take up this word Negro and to show how the word is a negative factor in our life and to point to the fact that the proper name over people must always relate to language history and culture land history and culture if there was no Negro land there's no Negro people see black tells you how you look but it don't tell you who you are all white people take a name that means nature Just recently and they're still trying to work it out

Simon & Schuster is big publishing house want to publish they publish a timetable of American history timetable of Jewish his timetable of various histories in the world now they want a timetable of black history and they're giving 30,000 and advance was not very much money could I even turned it down can you imagine me turning down ik see I know this is a three year project and $10,000 Won't even pay for your clerk typist so there's not enough money that to work with to compile a monumental work dealing with the dates and personalities relevant to

African people all over the world for all times there's nothing that not enough for that now if you go out and raise extra money that's impossible my main point is that they wanted the one the one on Marvin is calling them one Jewish is called Jewish they want this one to be called a timetable of Black world history and I said that I will not edit anything that does not identify us as part of a nature part of geography now you see the results of hanging out with Richard be more and all that crowd some

left some right even though our crews it's absolutely a genius in creating a towel a good title for a book but totally an apple writing the content that goes with the book the crisis is a Negro intellectual is not even really about the crisis the Negro In tracks but how crews the crisis of how crews in relationship to the blanket legs that's a good book in his latest book that I'm gonna have to review and at a conference in Cherry Hill New Jersey and about three weeks from now plural but equal now what is Herald

talking about it's a plural society but all the parts are not equal it's still the male white syndrome see Lorraine Hansberry said you never tell a larger man whose clothes are dead maybe I'll hung around too long because I knew some of these guys when they needed a change a political change of course I was in those clubs hell was writing about and I know it's a personal anger that plagues him other than a common political interest no in his book plural but if we maintain this society but everybody its equal within this society all

white people are not equal within the society I grew up in a south wind Italians ran corner grocery stores in the black neighborhood and lived behind the store with a black mistress and many of our outstanding people came out of these Italian nobody called him Italian didn't call him there goes light-skinned now they've emerged the most brutal police on the force Irish Catholic Italian Catholic but we forgotten all this living we've forgotten the conquer biology of the black woman punishing children for Them when they didn't even have Italian when we forgotten two of our outstanding

people one in sports one in literature came from one of these marriages Roccat Roy Campanella and Nikki Giovanni so the evidence is still here now you want to call governor Cromwell cousin cousin grumble he's in a poor position to object so much of the change came about that you will always find the greatest laws against mixing where the greatest amount of mixing has already occurred The American South and in South Africa but the greatest amount of mixing has already occurred you will find the greatest laws against it and the laws is to keep you from

realizing the kind of education you need to survive and to face reality and to what extent other ethnic groups have gotten that financial start preying on the black community sent their children to harlot taught them how to look down their nose at us in the initial money that sent him to Harvard came from running a bar in the black community are selling bedrooms to the black music while we have educated ourselves a lot to struggle we have not converted the struggle into an instrument of liberation because we celebrate victory without analyzing victory the civil rights

movement could survive even today if you understand if we understood that it had to have a political force it had to have a political definition Under it to take us from one place to the other because the civil rights movement came at an appropriate time in history but we have not learned the lessons from it we needed to learn it came at a time of the Caribbean Federation effort the time of the African freedom independent explosion in the time that we realized that the American dream was not dreamed for us the American promise while that

he would mean to us what Marcus Garvey added by Way of political education is the acknowledgement that someplace in the world you were sovereign once and will be sovereign again and when he said up up you might have race you can accomplish what you will he meant that if one mind can do it another mind can do it all you need to produce an automobile is one automobile tear that one down and see I was made and build one of y'all this is the kind of knowledge that has to come out of Struggle and when

you have to innovate on it I have said that two hundred years ago the Japanese did not have a good wheel barrow no one is repudiated look at them now they learned what they had to learn but the one thing they held on to that we lost a great deal of a sense of themselves as part of the totality of the culture of the world but with us they change our religion change our method to worship to atomic bombs Japan did not change their religious concept one iota and did not destroy their self-esteem because he

said in many ways to the Americans if I wasn't successful and kicking your behind militarily I'm going to kick it economically they lost the battle and won the war they're better off now than ever were and still advancing why can't we learn that the higher education of struggle is the rehearsal for nationhood and the you rehearse for nation world by Being the master of your own community if we have billion people on the face of the earth we in the Chinese the only one who get both of a billion through all the untouchables of it

in India now saying that were your brothers everybody won't come back to the Brotherhood now the trillions in India ten million ten million 100 million Untouchables so we're picking up populations all the time people in the Solomon Islands all you getting all of it out flow between The Caribbean islands South America in the United States you've got maybe 250 million people but I wanted million in Africa I suppose we say I will wear no shoes except the shoes made by a good person now I have might be made by now even but the leather must

come from an African car I will not be bearing a coffin at me I want to be bearing a coffin made of African mahogany don't bring me no other mahogany except that it comes out of Africa we'd have to open up coffin factories have to take the industry away from the Mafia suppose we say that we're gonna behave among ourselves with dignity and respect stop cutting up each other stop taking from each other you won't put a whole lot of people out of job maintaining you in prison is an industry that adds to the economy

of the United States just make the decision to stay Out of jail how many guards they need to guard an empty prison if we could just understand the basic point then Marcus Garvey had Dubois had the same point from a high intellectual point of view that wasn't coming over not even to most of his inter legs but Dubois was wise enough discover after creating a concept of the talented tenth that the talented tenth had no talent except to imitate white people now you can see through struggling through understanding Dubois His drift toward socialism a red

logical drill but Marcus Garvey would introduce to us a concept originally coming from the Caribbeans that we had forgotten and that is the concept of nation so in the building the building of the largest black movement before our sense he tried to get the concept of nation across and after Marcus Garvey the concept of nation did not disappear he went to Jamaica failed the second time and he was alive in Jamaica today He would still fail because the political atmosphere to support him is not that I read a press conference that Marcus Garvey agreed to

and I might have told you this before but it's worth something and that you make off today he had tried I ran for office once in the middle class blocked him the second time middle class was the Light Brigade I mean those Jamaicans who walk children out this other way there still didn't you making a steel entrench And they stood as color conscious as ever only now they would have to lie about it no at this press conference is leavened you make gone to England you never see to make again except for brief visits with

his second wife what do you want to say now that you are leaving Jamaica is it yes yes come on get your pencil make statements all polls their pitfalls their pencils on their notebooks Marcus Garvey said one sentence Jamaica is a Real Nicholas country but what Marcus Garvey was addressing himself to is a situation that we have not dealt with today the situation of fragmentation based on color gradations we have faced it when we see a silly movie like school days and I only saw it because I had to review it on Gus Hindenburg's program

we see technically is a good movie you see the the director Lee Spike Lee he's banging up a lot of Themes he resolves only one thing you never resolved the South America South African theme he never resolves the fraternity and sorority theme he never balances it this whole thing all had there been somebody in that movie said that while they were talking about sriracha it's all garbage goes after all the Greeks had no for LA had no pretenders instead they came in touch with the African that's what he stole it from had one character saying

that all Of this is garbage we're wasting our time we could be learning how to build a nation and we arguing about the AKS and the deltas and the fire kappa samples all of which started back in africa suppose someone said take it back to its african base and make it served african people why did he bring up the problem of color without someone counteract not only disagreeing with but saying how the colors came into being in as much as we Arrived here all black where who started the intrusion who made the midnight walks this

is illustrated by our Henri Christophe encounter with a new lotto name that time he had one side of Haiti and he was practicing democracy everybody starving Christophe was a bold dictator everybody's being fed and everybody's being where everybody was working in fact Iran faced in one day knowing Christophe was a farm a stable Boy and a head waiter the French in and he said if the had the French dealt with you as severely as they deal with other slaves I wouldn't have you to contend with and then the cutting flow and Christophe turned to fat

donors if your grandmother had the decency to keep Frenchmen out of her bed I wouldn't have you to contend with now this is cruel and it's unfair because some of our finest patriarchs who come from this class and some of our Best colleges come from this class too if some of our patrons have been jet-black and some about cop-outs have been jet-black well look at why in us you have no problem with identifying his African s but you have a problem identifying his commitment to black people he's a black conservative with nothing to concern but

his change in his slave state my main point in trying to conclude is That we might have to practice the method of the sink of a bird we might have to look back at the past in order to understand the present and the future sonnez reading who died only a few months ago said in a speech that culture is the mainstay of a people heritage is the thing that stimulates a people's honest effort and that if people must relate to their history in order to relate to the world and to relate to themselves finally he

said the Relationship of a people to that him is the same thing as the relationship of a child to his mother's breast and when you away from your history alien from your history then you have not been not yet to the point where you can be