Exactly 53 years ago today, on April 14, 1971 at 14:37 Central Standard Time I entered the earth at Longitude 88 W 15 Latitude 41 N 45.
That means that the vital life force energy housed within my body has completed 53 revolutions around the sun today.
My parents Jeremiah Nathaniel Blake and Yolanda Marie Harris were victims of U.S. state sanctioned ethnocide and thus did not know their Balanta and Yoruba ancestral lineages. Thus, at the moment of my birth I received none of my ancestral birth rites and rituals, my placenta was not buried under the family sacred tree to invoke continued nurturing and protection outside of my mother’s womb and instead, my parents were tricked by a dock(tor) who destroyed the placenta that served as the instrument and symbol of my spiritual protective shield and made them sign a berth/birth certificate of manifest certifying that I had been delivered from my mother’s sovereign waters into the jurisdiction of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, thus making me stock in a Maritime Admiralty (UCC) banking scheme. I became capital with a value calculated by the amount of my future labor and held as collateral to secure the debt which the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA owes to international bankers. In this way I was subjected to perpetual servitude as authorized by Pope Nicholas V on June 18, 1452 in his Apostolic Edict known as the Dum Diversas that authorized in the name of Jesus Christ the invasion of my ancestral homeland, the seizing of all our lands and property, and the enslavement of my people. According to 31 U.S.C. § 3128, as a result of the birth certificate,
“a finding of death made by an officer or employee of the UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT authorized by law to make the finding is sufficient proof of death to allow credit in the accounts of a Federal reserve bank or accountable official of the Department of the Treasury in a case involving the transfer, exchange, reissue, redemption or payment of obligations of the Government, including obligations guaranteed by the Government for which the Secretary of the Treasury acts as transfer agent.”
THUS, DESPITE PRESIDENT LINCOLN’S EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION AND THE 13TH AMENDMENT, I WAS BORN INTO SLAVERY.
Like Moses in Egypt, I received the most privileged education in the world that culminated with graduation from Yale University. Nevertheless, I was never taught the nature of my perpetual servitude by Apostolic Decree and my true, dehumanized status on planet earth. Rather, I was lied to and taught that I was free, that I was a citizen of the United States of America, the most powerful nation on earth, and that this was something I should be proud of.
Knowledge of the lie caused such psychological and emotional trauma that after 21 revolutions around the sun, I tried to kill myself. Unsuccessful, I left Yale University and sought truth. I traveled around the earth seeking to understand the mystery of life and the means to free myself and my people from their perpetual servitude. In this way, traveling around the earth that was traveling around the sun, I became a REVOLUTIONARY. I then received a REVOLUTIONARY education from members of the New Afrikan Independence Movement (NAIM) and especially by the Rastafari Movement.
A few days ago, I came to seven conclusions and posted them on Facebook which alarmed many people. I wish now, on my 53rd Earth Day, to take some time to explain each of the conclusions.
1) no one has integrity, vision and power - you can have one or two but not all three
As I learned from Neely Fuller Jr., author of The united-independent compensatory code/system/concept: A textbook/workbook for thought, speech, and/or action, for victims of *racism (white supremacy), if anyone had all three, they would have produced justice on planet earth by now. And what is justice? It is the condition on planet earth where 1) no one is mistreated; and 2) those who need the most help receive the most help.
2) there is no moral authority
By this I mean, there is no institution with the power to provide justice. My primary occupation since leaving Yale and becoming REVOLUTIONARY has been pursuing justice through the international legal order. I was re-educated and trained in political education classes at the NAIM Nkrumah Washington Community Learning Center (NWCLC) and legal classes by the remnants of the NAIM NCBL/Fred Hampton Community College of Law and International Diplomacy. I discovered that at the founding of the United States of America and continuing until today, I was excluded from the statement, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” I tried to pursue these inalienable rights in the United States and was arrested several times for trying to sleep in abandoned buildings (trespassing), possessing two pounds of a green herb bearing seed of its kind (felony cannabis possession) and defending my life and liberty (resisting arrest). I defended myself in court each time and each time I lost. At about this time I joined the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (NCOBRA) meeting at the Washington Park Field House in Chicago, IL. When the 1st Session of the 111th Congress passed S. CON. RES. 26 acknowledging “the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery and Jim Crow laws;” and “apologizes to African-Americans on behalf of the people of the United States, for the wrongs committed against them and their ancestors who suffered under slavery and Jim Crow laws” it also included the following disclaimer: “NOTHING IN THIS RESOLUTION— (A) AUTHORIZES OR SUPPORTS ANY CLAIM AGAINST THE UNITED STATES; OR (B) SERVES AS A SETTLEMENT OF ANY CLAIM AGAINST THE UNITED STATES.”
When my great, great, great, great, great grandfather Brassa Nchabra was trafficked as a prisoner of the Dum Diversas war and enslaved in South Carolina in the 1760’s, THE SOUTH CAROLINA SLAVE CODE OF 1740: AN ACT FOR THE BETTER ORDERING AND GOVERNING [OF] NEGROES AND OTHER SLAVES IN THIS PROVINCE decreed:
"V. If any slave who shall be out of the house or plantation where such slave shall live or shall be usually employed, or without some white person in company with such slave, shall refuse to submit or to undergo the examination of any white person, it shall be lawful for any such white Person to pursue, apprehend and moderately correct such slave; and if such slave shall assault and strike such white person, such slave may be lawfully killed."
Two hundred and eighty years later, my cousin Jacob Blake, was shot seven times in the back in Kenosha, WI for refusing to submit to the white police officer Rusten Sheshkey. The state sanctioned legal genocide and ethnocide of the South Carolina slave code of 1740 had been replaced by “PROTECTED BY QUALIFIED IMMUNITY”. After eight generations, nothing had changed. Me and my people were still subjected to the perpetual servitude of the Dum Diversas Apostolic Edict now codified in United States law and practiced throughout the United States. I lived with the real prospect that any day I could lose my life at the hands of racist police officers in the United States.
As I could find no justice in the local, state or federal courts for the harms done to my family and me for eight generations, I concluded there was no moral authority in the U.S. Legal System. Dr. Y.N Kly encouraged me to study international law, I discovered such things as the Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. In 1997, at Dr. Kly’s request, I attempted to submit under the UN 1503 procedure a Petition of the Nkrumah-Washington Community Learning Center on Behalf of their Members, Associates and Afro-American Population Whose Internationally Protected Human Rights Have Been Grossly and Systematically Violated By the Anglo-American Government of the United States of America and Its Varied Institutions. I thought I could simply state our grievances and a fair-minded guardian of moral authority at the UN, would see to it that justice was served. Of course, that did not happen. Nothing happened. Since then, I have submitted my family’s grievances for state-sanctioned ethnocide at the Inter American Commission for Human Rights, the only jurisdiction when an individual can bring such reparations claims against the United States. My petition was dismissed without explanation. I have confronted the U.S. State Department concerning state-sanctioned ethnocide against the Balanta people it enslaved in the U.S. Fifth Periodic Review under the ICCPR at the US Permanent Mission to the UN. Nothing came of that. I have tried to bring the case on behalf of all Afro Descendants, and particularly those identified as New Afrikan citizens of the Republic of New Afrika, into the world court by requesting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice only to discover that the entire system is set up to prevent me and all subjugated African people suffering alien domination, from accessing the highest court on planet earth.
Meanwhile, a few weeks ago I submitted a Request for Arbitration at the Court of Arbitration for Sports for the perjury, fraud, discrimination and theft committed by the Guinea Bissau National Olympic Committee, the Guinea Bissau Ministry of Sport and World Aquatics (the international governing body of aquatic sports) that prevented me from competing in the Olympics in Tokyo and prevents me from competing in the upcoming Olympics in Paris and has resulted in the loss of $300,000 in payments, endorsements and potential sponsorships, the loss of a Hollywood movie deal, and much anguish resulting from becoming impoverished and unable to see my sons after three years. My 49-page Request for Arbitration, meticulously documented, was erroneously rejected.
With good-faithed, thoroughly documented efforts to seek justice, I have exhausted all local, state, domestic and international legal jurisdictions. This is why I have concluded there is no moral authority, at least on planet earth. If I am incorrect, I challenge anyone to inform me where I can go today and have justice in my case enforced. Here
3) so-called leadership is defunct
Despite decades of reporting and millions of pages submitted to United Nations organs, no one with power and authority has saw fit to initiate a case at the International Court of Justice seeking reparations for the victims of the Dum Diversas war and the resulting 100 million deaths and trafficking of 12 million prisoners of war, and the resulting Maangamizi suffered by African people. No one even saw fit just to request an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice concerning the fundamental legal questions pertaining to the perpetual servitude effected by the Dum Diversas declaration of war.
The African Union has no positive sovereign power and therefore is not and can not produce justice.CARICOM has even less power.
By virtue of #1) no one has integrity, vision and power, I do not see anywhere where competent individuals or groups are issuing clear, step-by-step instructions leading to effective coordinated actions that result in the cessation of the perpetual servitude effected by the Dum Diversas apostolic edict and subsequent war. There are individuals and groups which are indeed taking action, but it amounts to nothing more than a rocking horse - there is movement but no forward motion. We are left in the same place at the end of it.
Because of the United States war conducted against New Afrika (see below), New Afrikan Leadership has been completely neutralized and/or discredited.
4) Unity of African people based on Ubuntu is not possible now
Perhaps I should have said “unobtainable” instead of “possible” because of course, “anything is possible.” I need not recount all the current examples of dis-unity among African people at home and abroad. I will just give just one main reason why I have concluded that the unity of African people based on Ubuntu is not possible now.
In 2003, I was at the African Union when it amended its Constitution with the Article 3(q) amendment that officially “invite(s) and encourage(s) the full participation of Africans in the Diaspora in the building of the African Union in its capacity as an important part of our Continent.” From that time until now, I have championed this cause and have been met with nothing but hypocrisy, excuses, denials, misdirections, and ignorance at all levels from African Union officials to my African brothers and sisters in the streets struggling to survive at home and abroad. After twenty-years, Article 3(q) has not been realized, we are not embedded in Au structures, and the AU 6th Region has not organized itself under a single Ubuntu 6th Region High Council. NONE of the substantive components that have been discussed at every conference, symposium and summit have materialized simply because #3 so called leadership is defunct and unable to reconcile the divisions among us despite decades of Pan African teaching and preaching. About a week ago, this point was brought home to me when Pan African elder Baba Baye told me that he had a conversation with John Henrik Clarke in 1993 in which our greatest Pan African Historian said that he was seriously worried that there was only a 50 year window of opportunity for Pan Africanism and that if we didn’t get it together and truly unify and put into place effective Pan African government (A United African States) and appropriate institutions, we will be defeated without prospect of recovery. The point was that we African people are not acting with the appropriate sense of urgency. We are so fractured and intentionally miseducated and distracted that, with our current defunct leadership, Unity of African people based on Ubuntu is unobtainable now. The key word here is now.
5) integrity is no protection against misfortune
My father taught me the power of personal excellence as a protective defense against misfortune. Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie taught me that,
“To embark successfully in a career involving leadership demands a courageous and determined spirit. Once a person has decided upon his life’s work and is assured that in doing the work for which he is best endowed and equipped he is filling a vital need, what he then needs is faith and integrity, coupled with a courageous spirit so that no longer preferring himself to the fulfillment of his task he may address himself to the problems he must solve in order to be effective. . . . Leaders have to submit themselves to a stricter self-discipline, and develop a more exemplary moral character than is expected of others. To be first in place one must be first in merit as well. . . . How noble and great a deed is the act of sacrificing one’s wealth, land and money, to one’s needy community instead of for selfish purposes! . . . Your conviction to help the country must be demonstrated in your determination to work. To do that, you must, instead of working for personal ends, toil for the community and common results. . . . We remind you, therefore, that you utilize all your thoughts and knowledge to the ultimate objective of moral satisfaction and the pride of your countrymen, regardless of your personal interest. Your job takes care of you and there will not be any need to concern yourselves with your personal affairs.”
As I stated, my primary occupation since leaving Yale and becoming a REVOLUTIONARY has been seeking justice. My swimming career, interestingly, has become directly a part of this. Think Arthur Ashe and Muhammad Ali. However, in spite of my demonstrated personal excellence acknowledge by friends and foe alike, I have suffered great misfortune and become impoverished. This has happened to many before me, like Marcus Garvey and John Henrik Clarke and countless others unnamed or unknown. I now understand that it doesn’t matter how developed I become or how much integrity I have, or how well I perform my duty to my people: integrity has NOT protected me from misfortune. In fact, it could be said that it has created misfortune. As Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I himself said, “In every significant event in history you will find a courageous and determined leader, an inspiring goal or objective, and an adversary who sought to spoil his efforts.” My adversaries have been having the upper hand since the moment I was born into perpetual servitude.
6) to succeed in this world I must become someone I don’t want to be
The key word here is “THIS” world…. Nelson Mandela once said, “When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
I was raised to have a patient and gentle, non-violent spirit. I was taught to be forward looking, not to make decisions based on strong emotions, especially anger. I was taught to respect everyone, hurt no one, play fair, and that in case of conflict and violations against me, I could appeal for and expect to receive justice. As I have concluded that there is no moral authority and I have exhausted appeals to all levels of judicial systems, I am forced now either to take justice into my own hands or abandon the quest for justice. Since this world respects power, I with little power am at a disadvantage. Since this world respects money, I with little money am at a disadvantage. Since this world respects violence and war, it is against my nature to conduct them. Dr. Kly explained my predicament well:
"The revolutionary individual does not come to be so because that individual chooses to accept or expound revolutionary ideology or actions but rather because certain keenly sensitive and intelligent individuals perceive societal injustices to such a point that they are trapped in a situation wherein their personal morality and rationality is threatened by having to accept the injustices perceived. The result is the Franz Fanon concept of mental contradictions arising within the individual to the point whereby the rationality-saving way is to 'act out' against oppression and injustices. The only way out of the dilemma then is national liberation or revolutionary change. The revolutionary individual thus is nothing more than the product of environmental factors. He or she is a natural outgrowth of a situation wherein the peoples' ideals and the societal written law differ too greatly. After attempting to straddle these contradictory laws (supported by hope of reform), the revolutionary individual then finds himself mentally unable to envision a reform that is adequate to bridge the gap between the societal law and structures that are out of step with the desires and needs of the people. He thus declares the former unjust and unjustified, and falls back on the ideals of the masses to sustain his humanity and rationality. In this way, he is an automatically-produced potential intellectual, statesman or soldier of the people. According to Franz Fanon, if such an individual refused to reject the oppressor's institutions, he is likely to suffer from an unresolved mental conflict, or from some form of serious psychosis. The essential understanding is that a revolutionary individual is the natural product of a situation wherein severe collective oppression dominates, which he cannot accept, and he has no choice other than to become revolutionary or mentally ill, whether he realizes it or not."
I have been both intellectual and statesmen for my people. I must now become a soldier. When I say that to succeed in this world I must become someone I don’t want to be, I mean that I must become someone who is now willing to use all the military arts, including espionage, camouflage, combat, etc. in order to secure the justice denied to me by this world. It’s either that or continue to suffer indignity resulting in mental illness or psychosis, OR, LEAVE THIS WORLD.
7) personal excellence is no match against witchcraft
In my attempt to escape the perpetual servitude of the Dum Diversas Apostolic Edict, I left the United States and took up residence in my ancestral homeland of Guinea Bissau with the intention of reconnecting to my Balanta culture and divesting myself of my Western, colonial mindset, habits and behavior. Immediately, I suffered misfortune upon misfortune and I have come face to face with the Balanta reality of Befera - Witches who gain fortune and elevate themselves above their peers by harming those around them. Had someone launched a witchcraft attack against me? Was I the victim of djanfa, the evil eye? It was starting to feel like it. I needed, I wanted, my Balanta ancestors to step in and help me, protect me. In Balanta fashion, I consulted a diviner or healer called “sik”. I then asked, “Since I came to Bissau in May, I have suffered great misfortune. What is the nature of it?” The b’sika answered, “You have a lot of things from your past that have attached to you. You attempt to do great things, and right at the moment that you are near to achieve them, they get blocked.” The b’sika then said that I needed to cleanse myself of these blockages that were clinging to me.” I did what he prescribed. I also went to two Balanta villages and consulted my ancestors with the help of the village elders. In each instance, I was told that all I would do would succeed and that I would be protected. Yet the misfortunes continued. I was betrayed by the people closest to me. I was betrayed by my sport. I was betrayed by my government. People stole money. People stole laptops. Access to funding was blocked. Access to justice was blocked. High level conspiracies continued to ruin my swimming career and my ability to earn a living. And nearly everyone familiar with my situation in Guinea Bissau said it was clearly the case of witchcraft. Was this because my placenta was destroyed and I received no spiritual protection against this sort of thing, and now that I was in my ancestral homeland, it was open season on me to be the target of Befera - Witches who gain fortune and elevate themselves above their peers by harming those around them? Christians told me I should pray to the very same Jesus Christ whose authority and church was used to reduce our family to perpetual servitude. Muslims, who unsuccessfully tried to enslave my family before the Christians, told me to pray to Allah. I chose to consult my ancestors the best way I knew how. But I was totally unprepared for this experience. Once again, I was brought to the point of suicide - WANTING TO LEAVE THIS WORLD.
On Monday, April 8, 2024 I received the straw that broke the camel's back. While teaching swim classes and fulfilling my national duty to the Republic of Guinea Bissau to develop a national swimming program - this is actually mentioned in the legislation granting my citizenship - a young man who was supposed to be working security at the pool, went into my back took my wallet, and stole 140,000 XOF (US $240). He was eventually caught by the police and the money was returned. I was allowed to interrogate the young man and when asked, “Why did you steal my money”, he said “The spirit of a dead girl entered his body and forced him to take the money and bring it to the baloba (sacred tree) along with three human heads.” The boy was visibly terrified. Apparently neither the Christian God, the Muslim God, nor my ancestors could prevent witchcraft from harming me.
THE UNITED STATES WAR AGAINST NEW AFRIKA
Pope Nicholas V - a high level befera - issued the Dum Diversas Apostolic Edict and declaration of war in the name of Jesus Christ reducing my people and myself to perpetual servitude. It granted authority to seize all our possessions. Christendom then enslaved my family in the North and South Carolina colonies. We suffered dehumanization and ethnocide. In the book, 𝑹𝒆𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒀𝒆𝒔! 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒍 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑷𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝑨𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒌𝒂𝒏𝒔 - 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑷𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝑰𝒏 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑼𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔 - 𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝑩𝒆 𝑷𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝑵𝒐𝒘 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒏𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑶𝒖𝒓 𝑨𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒔 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝑾𝒂𝒓 𝑨𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝑼.𝑺. 𝑨𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑺𝒍𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚, former President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika (PG-RNA), Imari Obadele, stated
"The central proposition of this paper and the draft bill for reparations which is annexed hereto is that our enslavement in the Thirteen Colonies and the United States was a matter of war - war conducted against Afrika under authority, initially, of the British government and the legislatures of the Thirteen Colonies and ultimately under authority of Clause One, Section 9 of the First Article of the United States Constitution. . . . It was a war conducted against Afrikan people - who grew into a nation, an oppressed nation, between 1660 and 1860 - within the United States under British and Colonial authority and, ultimately, the authority of Clause Three, Section Two of Article Four of the U.S. Constitution."
The war and slavery continued in the United States after the Emancipation Proclamation and 13th amendment under new forms. In 1964, the Campaign for New Afrikan Liberation intensified the war with the United States of America. In response, the United States revised its war strategy. On August 25, 1967, the United States government launched a new CounterIntelligence Program against “Black Nationalists” calling the “Hate Groups” instead of freedom fighters seeking justice. According to the The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) memo revising the United States’ war strategy,
“The purpose of this new counterintelligence endeavor is to expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit or otherwise neutralize the activities of black nationalist organizations and groupings, their leadership, spokesmen, membership, and supporters, and to counter their propensity for violence and civil disorder. The activities of all such groups of intelligence interest to this Bureau must be followed on a continuous basis so we will be in a position to promptly take advantage of all opportunities for counterintelligence and to inspire action in instances where circumstances warrant. The pernicious background of such groups, their duplicity, and devious maneuvers must be exposed to public scrutiny where such publicity will have a neutralizing effect.”
The policy was then expanded on March 3, 1968 in another FBI secret memo that listed the goals of the war against the New Afrikan people:
1. Prevent the COALITION of militant black nationalist groups. In unity there is strength; a truism that is no less valid for all its triteness. An effective coalition of black nationalist groups might be the first step toward a real “Mau Mau” [Black revolutionary army] in America, the beginning of a true black revolution.
2. Prevent the RISE OF A “MESSIAH” who could unify, and electrify, the militant black nationalist movement. Malcolm X might have been such a “messiah” he is the martyr of the movement today. Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael and Elijah Muhammed all aspire to this position. Elijah Muhammed is less of a threat because of his age. King could be a very real contender for this position should he abandon his supposed “obedience” to “white, liberal doctrines” (nonviolence) and embrace black nationalism. Carmichael has the necessary charisma to be a real threat in this way.
3. Prevent VIOLENCE on the part of black nationalist groups. This is of primary importance, and is, of course, a goal of our investigative activity; it should also be a goal of the Counterintelligence Program to pinpoint potential troublemakers and neutralize them before they exercise their potential for violence.
4. Prevent militant black nationalist groups and leaders from gaining RESPECTABILITY, by discrediting them to three separate segments of the community. The goal of discrediting black nationalists must be handled tactically in three ways. You must discredit those groups and individuals to, first, the responsible Negro community. Second, they must be discredited to the white community, both the responsible community and to “liberals: who have vestiges of sympathy for militant black nationalist [sic] simply because they are Negroes. Third, these groups must be discredited in the eyes of Negro radicals, the followers of the movement. This last area requires entirely different tactics from the first two. Publicity about violent tendencies and radical statements merely enhances black nationalists to the last group; it adds “respectability” in a different way.
5. A final goal should be to prevent the long-range GROWTH of militant black organizations, especially among youth. Specific tactics to prevent these groups from converting young people must be developed.
The war was then updated and expanded on March 17, 1978 with National Security Memorandum 46. The President directed that a comprehensive review be made of current developments in Black Africa from the point of view of their possible impacts on the black movement in the United States. The review considered “Appropriate steps to be taken inside and outside the country in order to inhibit any pressure by radical African leaders and organizations on the U.S. black community for the latter to exert influence on the policy of the Administration toward Africa.” The review also stated,
“An occurrence of the events of 1967-68 would do grievous harm to U.S. prestige, especially in view of the concern of the present Administration with human rights issues. Moreover, the Administration would have to take specific steps to stabilize the situation. Such steps might be misunderstood both inside and outside the United States. In order to prevent such a trend and protect U.S. national security interests, it would appear essential to elaborate and carry out effective countermeasures.
RECOMMENDATIONS
In weighing the range of U.S. interests in Black Africa, basic recommendations arranged without intent to imply priority are:
1. Specific steps should be taken with the help of appropriate government agencies to inhibit coordinated activity of the Black Movement in the United States.
2. Special clandestine operations should be launched by the CIA to generate mistrust and hostility in American and world opinion against joint activity of the two forces, and to cause division among Black African radical national groups and their leaders.
3. U.S. embassies to Black African countries specially interested in southern Africa must be highly circumspect in view of the activity of certain political circles and influential individuals opposing the objectives and methods of U.S. policy toward South Africa. It must be kept in mind that the failure of U.S. strategy in South Africa would adversely affect American standing throughout the world. In addition, this would mean a significant diminution of U.S. influence in Africa and the emergence of new difficulties in our internal situation due to worsening economic prospects.
4. The FBI should mount surveillance operations against Black African representatives and collect sensitive information on those, especially at the U.N., who oppose U.S. policy toward South Africa. The information should include facts on their links with the leaders of the Black movement in the United States, thus making possible at least partial neutralization of the adverse effects of their activity.”
It has now become clear that the war against my family and my people was continued by the United States government through a clandestine style of warfare utilizing espionage, sabotage, propaganda, and psychological operations in preparation for direct, overt military engagement that it had begun with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in World War II and continued under the title, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Because of the post-World War II rise in New Afrikan political consciousness and empowerment that culminated with the Black Liberation Movement and the March 28-31, 1968 National Black Government Conference which issued the Declaration of New Afrikan Independence and established the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika (PG-RNA), the New Afrikan Independence Movement was perceived by the United States (oppressor state) as a direct proxy threat controlled by the COMINTERN (international communism). A mass movement of the former-slave descendant population underwritten by an armed New Afrikan-nationalist insurgency whose above-ground face was Malcolm X, constituted a military threat that could not be tolerated, and that required a military solution. US (oppressor state) law and purported legal ethics underlying its “state persona” prohibited using military forces for domestic policing (Posse Comitatus Act, etc.). Of more importance, a significant aspect of suppressing and destroying the “Black Nationalist’s” movement was the need for creating and maintaining the public perception and belief that the conflicts of interests were merely domestic issues with political solutions. This was necessary both for dissuading international recognition of New Afrikan national identity and struggle, as well as undermining and marginalizing slave-descendant popular support for New Afrikan Independence mobilization. Overt general military application was contrary to these goals. Solving this dilemma began with militarizing domestic policing. The development of SWAT teams and other police special operations concepts and capabilities was established. Additionally, the United States (as oppressor state) media propaganda narrative mis-identifies, defines and describes “African-Americans” in the context of “domestic policy” matters in order to prevent an New Afrikan national identity from taking root while actually treating them as a national security threat under foreign policy.
Thus, in fact (law) and practice, matters affecting the political existence of New Afrikans are calculated and acted upon as foreign policy and the United States now recognizes and institutionalizes a condition of permanent “counterrevolution” as a national security requirement. It’s a matter of national security because a politically independent and assertive New Afrikan social order inherently undermines the continued dominance and power of the established Anglo political construct, both domestically and internationally. Under the doctrinal theme of ‘continuity of government, the United States, as the oppressor-state, undertook the establishment of infrastructure designed to suppress rebellion against the “authority of the United States”. The focus of this national security doctrine is on domestic insurgency and the need to preemptively neutralize it. This has been a matter of policy beginning with, and since, the 1950 Internal Security Act (McCarran Act). War was declared on New Afrika, and has escalated successively in New Afrikan national territory and New Afrikan communities outside the national territory through the militarization of domestic police and infusion of special operations tactics, techniques and procedures in black communities under the Campaign Code name: War on Poverty; through the institutionalization of COINTELPRO concept and infusion of federal control and resources into State and local police agencies and prosecutorial offices at the tactical engagement level (Multi-jurisdiction Task Force) Campaign Code name: War on Drugs; through formalization of COINTELPRO policy goals and legalization of procedures into official National Security Doctrine, and establishment of a permanent, integrated agency management system - Department of Homeland Security/ U.S. Northern Command - Campaign Code Name: War on Terror (Countering Violent Extremism). The result of these wars have been the incarceration of millions of black people, a legally-permissible form of slavery under the U.S. 13th Amendment, including the specific imprisonment of New Afrikan political dissidents and leaders and the siphoning off of New Afrikan wealth into the prison industrial complex. Thus, there were more black slaves in US prison than there were slaves in 1850 before the start of the civil war.
A memorandum issued issued on April 27, 1971 - thirteen days after I entered the earth in this body - captioned “Counterintelligence Programs” listed seven sustained and overarching operations involving collaboration with local police to establish special units, with FBI “assistance” and “influencing” street gangs and criminal enterprises through infiltration and undercover activities. Street gangs and drug-gangs became the proxy forces employed to effect and control de-politicization of the youth in the communities with special police elements created to “combat” them (the public narrative was to “combat crime” but the special police function was to manage it.) Hence, the drug-task force, gang task force, street-crimes task force, gang intelligence units, etc. While the stated targets of under-cover infiltration were gangs and criminals, the actual practice of operations was directed at all organizations and group activity of New Afrikans, either through placement of an agent, or development of an asset (confidential informant). The language used for indoctrination narratives directed at police personnel and organizations characterized the “threat” as “Black nationalist hate groups,” however in practice, the policy of infiltration, disruption and suppression included any and all groups advocating for “Black empowerment,” “equal justice,” or any other socio-political interest of New Afrikans.
It is important to understand that, the oppressor-state regime decision-makers and controllers have never had any illusions of expectation that the idea of New Afrikan national independence will just evaporate in the near term. Therefore, it has been planned from the beginning to prosecute this war to completion which ensures eradication of even the mere notion of a national identity among the African-slave descendant population. To say that “war” is being waged against New Afrikan people is not rhetoric, nor is it imaginary. Again, the COINTELPRO long term goals are:
Prevent unity
Prevent rise of a leader
Identify and neutralize [warriors]
Alienate the concept of nationalism from the people
Prevent nationalism from embedding in youth and future generations
These goals are no different than those of King Ramses the Second in Egypt who was advised to eradicate all potential threats to his throne and came up with the idea of killing all male newborns born at that time. In a small village, southern Egypt, there was a pregnant woman who feared for the safety of her newborn son, Moses, and so “God” instructed her with the idea to let her son, Moses, go with the tide of the Nile with the promise that God will keep him. The mother was in profound anguish that she would do that to her son, but she believes in God and His word of protection and watching over Moses. Moses is then given the best education at the “Yale” of Egypt and decides to rise up a nation and lead them out of so-called captivity. I’m not going to go into the historical analysis of the story, but I make note of it here because most people are familiar with the story and its meaning.
On January 2, 1971 the Black Panther Black Community News Service Volume V, #27 (Berkeley, CA) declared 1971 as the year of the youth and depicted “The Year Of The Youth” issue, with back cover artwork by Emory Douglas depicting a young girl handling a rifle with the caption “Death To The Fascist Pigs”. One hundred and two (102) days later I entered the earth in this body. Thirteen days later the FBI issued its “Counterintelligence Programs” update memo involving collaboration with local police to establish special units, with FBI “assistance” and “influencing” street gangs and criminal enterprises through infiltration and undercover activities.
ON JANUARY 27, 1997 THE NKRUMAH-WASHINGTON COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER WAS RAIDED BY THE CHICAGO POLICE, THE BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS (ATF), THE SECRET SERVICE AND SPECIAL GANG TASK FORCE. I WAS DETAINED AND EVENTUALLY RELEASED.
On Friday August 6, 1999 I was ticketed for parking on city property, driving without insurance and failure to produce a driver's license. I was also arrested and charged with 839 grams of cannabis sativa, a violation of Illinois Criminal Statute 720550/4 of the Cannabis Control Act.
On January 7, 2024 I was sworn in as the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Interim Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika.
And in just a few hours, I will be boarding a plane for Geneva, Switzerland to attend the third session of the Permanent Forum on People of Afrikan Descent (PFPAD)and continuing my campaign to bring the case of Afro Descendants and New Afrikans before the International Court of Justice. The former President of PFPAD, Ms. Epsy Campbell Barr, in her July 21, 2023 letter to me stated, “Dear Siphiwe. I have carefully read your letter addressed to me, in my capacity as Chairperson of [PFPAD].... I would like to indicate that your request will be brought to the attention of the plenary at the next session of the plenary. . . . As president of this space, I have requested the incorporation of this item in the agenda of the next meeting . . . I also inform the High Commissioner of the United Nations of this. . .”
And thus it is, at this moment, on the occasion of the completion of 53 revolutions around the sun and the start of the 54th, I am contemplating my life and my destiny. Last night, I hosted a Zoom Town Hall meeting with the Coordinator of the 9th Pan African Congress. Tomorrow I will be engaging the international community as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of New Afrika. The United States government has considered this a national security threat and has tried to prevent it for the past 56 years, 7 months and 22 days.
It is not delusions of grandeur which afflict me, it is the very real understanding of the responsibility I have been entrusted with and the weight of the forces allied against me, both supernatural witchcraft and official U.S foreign policy which identifies me as a national security threat. I am now, more than ever, at the mercy of destiny.