Myths

"Revolutionaries will hear three myths which can seriously erode their morale. One is that you can never remove your enemy. Another is the assumption that a revolution cannot occur without a general consensus at the grassroots level. And the third misconception...is that revolutions must include everyone in order to be successful. The latter is the most damaging assumption of the three because it implies that the revolution cannot possibly become successful without including those of us who have a vested interest in being European, as well as those who may not want to be them but still live for their love and validation. Together, these two groups add up to the vast majority of Afrikans in this society. Since this discussion has already begun, we will deal with this last myth first. How quickly we forget, in the effort to move in any direction signaling the possibility of empowerment, that revolution has never been an option for negroes. "A domesticated dog does not know how to hunt." It only knows how to beg. In Kelly Miller's words, "the negro pays for what he wants and begs for what he needs." A nonconfrontational compliance with their oppressors is their innately fundamental political philosophy. They can only act against their own. That is the ingrained nature of the negro. Sure, they would love to talk with you about the "Black problem" under the pretense of group solidarity. But it is only to distract you from your purpose with protracted, meaningless, barren debate, thereby earning themselves invaluable brownie points from their sworn masters. When you get caught up in the issues and lives of those members of our community who absolutely do not want to change into someone better, you find yourself riding a counterrevolutionary treadmill. To blindly embrace those with a deep commitment to their self-defeating philosophy simply because it is phrased in the spirit of humanity or brings us together momentarily as a people is ludicrous if we wish to independently empower an Afrikan nation. You do not embrace those who will take you straight to hell, no matter how much blood you share with them. Some will never listen. Everyone is not able to see. And, most importantly, it is not healthy to keep the company of people who proudly wear the scars of the generations of their physical and mental rape. There are casualties in every war. The conversion of negroes is not of interest or a goal for Afrikan warrior scholars, regardless of the potential based on them being born of Afrikan lineage. Some in our community have a vested interest in not being Afrikan. So, the idea that finding meaningful, incompatible differences among Afrikans only serves to further divide and weaken us, but does not take into account the fact that there are people within our group who must be routed out in order for us to make Afrikan progress and, eventually, become one. It misses the point that this is already the case, and has been so for quite a while now. You cut the infectious animal from the herd. You don't keep it there just for numbers. Progress cannot occur by embracing enemies within. The need to include everybody in our war, especially those who boast about subsisting in the deepest states of mentacide, who hate the idea that someone might think that somewhere in them there might be anything recognizable as Afrikan, is extremely problematic. If we have to get over anything it is the idea that it is necessary to bring everybody into the fold in order to win. This is the diversity sham working its finest magic on the minds of those Afrikans seeking an easy way to peace. It is the idea that everyone of Afrikan descent must be brought into the decision making fold because we think we are a democratic family. It intentionally forces us to overlook the fact that there are those in our family who hate us. The diversity sham operates on the principle that you cannot make revolutionary progress without everyone included. It is so easy to become completely misdirected when believing that everybody must be together in order to return home."

BY Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti