THE NEW WORLD ORDER

AND THE ROLE
NEW AFRIKANS
MUST PLAY

by

Ali Khalid Abdullah

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Liberation Collective for Justice

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UNDERSTANDING THE ISSUES
OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER

Ali Khalid Abdullah

Many people in Amerikkka and around the world, as a matter of fact,
have heard the term the “New World Order, and from my observa-
tion, most people have given litl, if any, real thought or signifi-
cance to the phrase. However, the phrase, New World Order, has a
definite meaning with global and racial implicaions tied to t. These
implications have a great impact on all who are poor, disenfran-
chised, people of color and others who are deemed (by those who
have power) to be socially expendable.

‘The New World Order is being shaped and, to a large degree,
implemented right now for the benefit of the wealthy clite of the
world. For the kapitalistic prosperous few! For their benefit, the
plan (of those who want to see the realization of the New World
Order) is that the world will be run and lives will be controlled by
those who dominate the world's resources and its banking, lending
and wrading institutions. "The New World Ordér is no different in
scope or intent from the dream and plan of Nazi Germany's Adolph
Hitler who spoke of developing a pure race of people, a race that
‘would someday dominate and control all other races. The planners
and shapers of The New World Order intend to control the socio-
political agenda of how life on earth will be for everyone! They will
decide who will be "priviledged" and "underprivileged." who will be
the "haves" and the "have nots."

This New World Order consists of well-placed political/corporate
leaders, presidents and heads of state whose aim i to keep the
masses enslaved while, at the same time, using them to divide and
subdivide them into competing factions for limited allotted financial
crumbs... while making it appear that there is an overall economic
stability and independence. In other words, they ensure that there are
enough wage-slaves and they determine who they are and who they
will be in the future. These slaves (of various respective groups) are
targeted, manipulated and used to act, think and feel in certain ways;
they do the bidding of the manipulators behind the scenes.

e corporate sector, with its political stooges fronting as luw

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makers, has already begun to dominate the global economic scene.
‘What WE must recognize is the fact that the economic control of any
group of people leads toa dictation of the policies governing that
‘people. Once any particular labor force is controlled by others, the
people (the govemed) in that society are then reduced to subservient
positions.” They become fearful because they have been designated
foles designed and determined by others. This control is established
by first setting up *perimeters,” or boundaries, protecting the posi-
tions of those in control. The low-rung perimeter in Amerikkka is
the prison sysiem, where people on the "edges" of society are, first,
marginalized and, then, thoroughly controlled. The vast build-up of
prisons in Amerikkka is a direct indication of what is to come in
terms of an eventual control and manipulation of the society as a
‘whole, whereby more and more people will become afraid to stand
oract in sclf-determination. All the while, while this marginalization
i taking place, lawmakers are constantly "adapting" the laws which
continue to become increasingly unjust, draconian and no longer
reflective of the people’s rights. We know these changes are taking
place all across Amerikkka today simply by observing the unprec-
edented record numbers of people thrown into $tate and federal
prisons. Why? To reduce the evident overflow of unproductive (or
unemployed) labor in the new planned market ~ the New World
Order. With the constant downsizing of jobs (1o keep the economy
*up") and the growing disparity between the haves and have-nots,
prison represents the changing face of Amerikkka aud the
reinstitution of slave labor (as it was planned during chattel slavery)
in order to gain marginal employment for the millions of people on
the streets while those in prison are regulated to working at bottom
tier jobs for nothing. Al of this helps create bigger profits for the
corporations and their stockholders — which are heavily invested in
the prison govemment/industrial complex.

As the laws change and become more targeted against those who are.
at the absolute bottom of the economic scale, (ic., the New Afrikans,
Latinos and Native Americans), it is not hard to understand that there
isa direct linkage between the dark faces of Amerikkkan prisons and
the laws which have caused their massive incarcerations. New
Afrikan people especially must begin (0 look at what is taking place
‘and address these issues from a very serious perspective if we are 10
survive the 215t century.

The idea of New Afrikans integrating more people fully into this
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kapitalist system, which lives not only off of them but off of the
plunder of people in third world countries, is unacceptable. Instead,
we New Afrikans must try to develop our own economic infrastruc-
ture and share and connect with *poor” countries in Afrika and
elsewhere to develop mutual economic networks. It serves us and all
people of color to advance on the same line of thought, whichis to
build our economic forces so that we aren't any longer controlled by
the dangling "carrots" of economic equality with those who do not
have our interest or livelihood at heart. To this end, we must stop
glorifying those few Blacks who have selfishly profitted from this
"World Order" kapitalist system and begin to adjust our thinking
towands a collective thought rather than towards individualistic, self-
serving, materialistic ways of thinking. We must do this so that we
can develop ourselves. We can no longer continue to afford to
ignore the problems which continue to plague the New Afrikan,

Latino and Native American communities — poverty, unemployment,
discrimination, drug and alcohol abuse, dis-enfranchisement, and an
ever growing number of prisons and prisoners (largely enclosing
young men and wimmin who are not white). The New World Order
is thriving and WE are losing. We must educate about agitation
against all manner of oppression of New Afrikans and all peoples of
‘color, against police brutality, poverty, or al} other actions that
prevent us from determining our own destinies as nation of
peoples, whether in Amerikkka, Afrika, Brazil, Cuba or the Carib-
bean Islands.

In order to survive the 21t century and the New World Order, we
must begin to acknowledge the civilization WE pioneered and get
back on our feet again as a United Family. A family that's been
fragmented by slavery and the transplanting of untold millions of
peoples. Thus, to defeat any further erosion of who we arc as a
people, as humyn beings, we must begin to address the issues which
Tam now going to examine.

‘THE ELIMINATION OF RACISM

Racism is the vehicle by which all of Afrika, New Afrikans and other
peoples of color have been used to gain dominance of the world.
Race is principally used to devalue a group of people in order to
advance and legitimize *he plunder, rape and the stealing of the land
and its resources: historically this has been done by European white
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way of life. Racism devalues a people in order to justify the taking,
robbing, looting and raping of another people without conscience, so
that their psyche s not harmed by acts of aggression and barbarity.
Racismis also used to keep labor at a premium while those in
economiic control remain in power. In and of itself, racism (the
notion that one set of people: i
cance atall. But when you apply it to economic advancement it
plays amajor role. We must be able to understand that racism is a
by-product of kapitalst greed and not of normal thinking. Itis
artficial and callous. It is a man-made concept to deprive and
immobilize another group of people. We must be clear in our
understanding of race and racism in order to defeat the New World
‘Order and its practices. “The concept of “White Skin Privilege” must
be fully and totally dismantled and utterly destroyed and this can
only be done by those who are White — they must denounce the
concept and practice of racismi Those who call themselves "White"
‘must disengage in activities that shun people of color. They must
begin to recognize what they are doing independently and collec-
tively to sustain this prevailing myth of superiority. To sustain the
‘concept and the practice of racism. They must demand that all racial
preferences are hereby and forever abandoned. At the same time,
New Afrikans and other peoples of color have an absolute obligation
10 sc¢ 10it that racism s stopped by any and all means necessary.
‘We must develop Black Agendas, Native American Agenda and
Latino Agendas that will not be watered down or ignored, as so
many such agendas have been in the past.

‘There must be an absolute demand (with action if need be) that all
fabrics oflife in and outside of Amerikkka change in order (o fully
reflect the representation of ALL PEOPLES and not merely a section
or segment of people. That means all schools must provide fair and
equal education. This education must not merely stress European
culture but all people's cultures and history books muist be rewritten
10 reflect the true accounts of world history and traditions. The
educational system must be open 10 all and not just to those who
come from higher income families — because this is racism in and of
itself, We must demand and see 10 it that no child goes without
leaming how to properly read and write. That no child is deprived of
the knowledge of new technologies. If white people are going o join
in his fight for actual and real justice for all, the they can not
hypocritically live in all white neighborhoods and send their children
to schools where there are no faces of color. This in and of itself is

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racismin practice, in spite of protests to the contrary.

There has (o be an absolute demand that all media ~ television,
movies, magazines, theatre and other forms of communication ~
reflect the wide spectrum of people and don't represent people of
color in merely marginal ways. That is racism and anyone who
tolerates this is condoning racism in spite of what they say. Racism
‘must be dismantled. And then there is also the question of whites
accepting the roles their ancestors played in the enslavement of
untold millions of Afrikan people. For it is from their ancestors that
they are able to profit and live lives of relative ease today, because.
kapitalism and all of its investments were built up off the backs of
slave labor.

AFRIKAN/NEW AFRIKAN BLACK DIASPORA

It should be a well-settled fact that all New Afrikan/Black person of
the Diaspora have the right of repatriation, the right to retur and
settle in the original homeland which is Afrika. They should be
allowed to settl in any Afikan country they desire fo live in and
any Afrikan govermment should be inspired and encouraged to
‘accept and help any New Afrikan Black man or womyn who might
50 desire and choose 1o do 30 to come to Afrika to live from any
country of residence.

Al New Afrikan/Black persons in the Diaspora have rights of
citizenship in any Afrikan country of their respective choosing
because they are originally citizens of this continent and NO
Afiikan/New Afrikan Black person in Amerikkka has ever agreed to
be acitizen of this or any other country, but was forced and DE-
CLARED a citizen of Amerikkka (and other countries) when we
were shipped by slave ships. All Afrikans should have the right, if
desired, of dual citizenship in both Afrika and Amerikkka.

Within the Afrikan/New Afrikan Black Diaspora there exists a large
reservoir of raw talent of skilled men and wimmin ready to be
tapped and used to develop Afrika. Our brothas and sistahs in
Afrika need to take ull advantage of this potential power instead of
depending on or running to whites who, for the most part, only wish
1o further exploit and dominate for their own kapitalist gain.

New Afrikans/Blacks in the Diaspora should organize a strong and

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aggressive push 1o support Afrika and lend our expertisc and knowl-
edge (0 help our brothas and sistahs there develop the land and
resources available so that Afrika is independent, thus making us all
(who are descendants of Afrika) independent and resourceful.

And there is the need to develop a comprehensive campaign for
political prisoners of the Diaspora, who have been incarcerated for
‘years or who are incarcerated now, to be exiled (if they so choose )
1o any Afrikan nation that will allow them to come there and live the
rest of their lives there rather than inside U.S. or European prisons
around the world. These polifical prisoners should not be limited to
only those who were politically active before coming to prison. but
should include those who have been politicized and have changed
themselves since being in prison and who are engaged in active
struggle and, because of their activist struggles, are being persecuted
vital and necessary if we are o
defeat the plans of Amerikkka's and Europe's New World Order
project.

DEVELOPING OUR ECONOMIC STRUCTURE

New Afrikans in Amerikkka must come Lo terms with our economic
power and realize that as a nation of people we are actually more
powesful in terms of Gross National Product (GNP) than many Third
World Countries. We have the ability to change and shape our lives
and the lives of our children in the future if we come (o terms with
utilizing our GNP productivity rather than spending all our money
and not producing anything o help us sustain economic parity. We
must develop plans and strategies o build our infrastructure and also
work with our brothas and sistahs in Afrika so that we can build and
develop a global financial network whereby our cconomic power can
deliver us the political clout we need, rather than live in poverty and
indebled to European couniries who use our indebtedness to keep us
in perpetual economic slavery and dependence. We must also
scrutinize the type of leaders we choose Lo represent us and our
interests so that we aren't sold out or ripped off as a people

Our dealings with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the
World Bank should cease to be, for these are nothing more than
financial dictators and tyrants who have sured that all of Afrika and
other Black nations stay and remain impoverished to Europeans and
the Kapitalist sector. We should not allow the IMF and the World

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Bank to continue their normal operations. We should doall we can
10 destabilize them. New Afrikans in Amerikkka must also stand
against these financial controllers, for we too are weighted down by
their extraordinary power.

All Black governments the world over and all peoples of color, in
addition, (as the Pan-African Congress pointed out in their 1992
agenda), should develop and establish a "Global Afrikan World Bank
(GAWB)" and a "Global Afrikan Monetary Fund (GAMPF)" to
monitor all funds received from reparations, contributions from
Black countries and displaced Black populations. This is one of the
ways we can disrupt and dismantle the flow of the New World
Order's agenda. An agenda that does not include anything for the
Afrikan/New Afrikan Blacks of the world but oppression, repression,
imprisonment and economic slavery and dependency.

1am placing much emphasis on the fact that New Afrikans must be:
tied and connected to Afrika economically because unless we
develop along with Afrika we will allow kapitalism and those in
economic power to find their way to continuing the oppression of
Afrika and all of the Black Diaspora. Therefore, the connection (o
Afrika, the continent that has the world's resourges in ts belly, must
be protected and we as New Afikans have a duty to see 1ot that
Afrika is protected. No kapitalist or imperialist country can operate
without Afrika. ‘This is an historical fact. To maintain its kapital
monopoly, Europe and all of the kapitalist/imperialist countries must
move on Afrika. The New World Order cannot even exist without
Afika. This is an economic fact! Further, all Black leaders and
governments ought (0 stop accepting any foreign aid and loans that
are designed for the destruction of Afrikan cconomies because it is
impossible to meet the interest rates and/or other conditions made for
aid and loans. The same applies to New Afrikans, Latinos and other
peoples of color here in Amerikkka and wherever else we reside.
This will have a dramatic effect on the kapitalist system and the
plans being implemented for the New World Order.

Another effective way to defeat and dismantle the economic
stranglehold on the Afrikan/New Afrikan Black nation of people is
1o Buy Black. We must support and shop at Black owned busi-
nesses, today and tomorrow and everyday, We must deliberately
seek out Black individuals and companies all over the world to
establish a network of commercial and business contacts, and buy

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and sell goods and services to one another as the Europeans do for
themselves. This is the only sure way to develop economic power.
‘We ought to and must repudiate foreign debts. We must come
together, as the Pan-Afrikan Congress suggested in their address in
1992, form a *debtors'cartel” to resist further servicing of bad and
doubful international debts while putting all theoretical "interests"
into Black nations' infrastructures. Why should we, the masses of
Black people, who did not benefit from these dubious loans be
forced to pay twice because of imposed extended long term debts?
‘We shouldnt, and each time we pay we are largely paying not on the
deb self but on the interest of that debt, thus forever keeping the
black nations imprisoned financially. This must stop!

‘We must be more assertive and creative in our various lines of
business and commerce deaings. - All our business dealings should
be structured around the best of humyn ethics, morality, values,
collective responsibilties and professionalism to insure that we as a
nation of Afrikan/New Afrikan peoples not be tied down to any form
of economic slavery. This too will break the back of the New World
Order and the European nations' never-ending quest to bleed dry the
dork nations of the world and keep us impoverished.

THE NEED FOR REPARATIONS

All New Afrikan/Black people between Afrika and the Western
Hemisphere are owed by the colonial powers and the U.S. for
Kolonialism, neo-kolonialism, slavery and the genocide of Afrikan
‘people, including spiritual, emotional and psychological suffering
known as the Maafa. Since ita is a fact that Afrikan free labor built
the wealth of the developed European world, half of the gross wealth
of the kolonial powers and the U. $. should be transferred from them
to the Black world in compensation for general and special damages
for the wrongs done to Afrikans and New Afrikan people the world
over. We deserve this. This is only right since other peoples, i.c..
Japanese Americans and those who call themselves Jews, and to a
smaller degree Native Americans, have received some form of
‘compensation for the injustices done to them. "Reparations" is not a
disgracing word nor an act of welfare or charity. Itis a right and
duty owed to a people who havae suffered the worst in humyn
conditions, without question or doub. For there has never heen a
people who have lost as much, suffered as much as Afrikans and
New Afrikans and other Blacks throughout the world. We must

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vemember that we have been the ones to have not only been
forced from our original homeland (Afrika), but also to have lost
our names, culture, language, and religious practices and belicfs.
No other people have suffered tahe ill-effects of having entire
ilies sold off and uprooted to the extent that their knowledge
of their origins is so destroyed that it is all but impossible to
trace family ties and roots. ‘This is what reparations OWE us -
anyone who suggests that reparations aren't needed or shouldn't
be paid is not only a fool but a blind fool and a supporter of
continual racism. For it is precisely because of racism that the
Turopean nations and the U.S. refuse to pay us reparations.

We must come together with a comprehensive plan of action to
keep our demands in the minds of people all over the world.
Thus, we need to focus on developing and coordinating for the
entire Bluck world a media blitz that will continuously draw
attention to our call for reparations until we obtzin and achicve.
our demands. We should use our economic power and resources
10 bring the apitalists to their knees. Our Latino, Native Ameri-
can and other peoples of color around the world have direct and
indirect iaterest in seeing that Afrikans and New Afrikans obtain
reparations. How beter to defeat the New World Order than to
demand and keep our demands real by forcing the issue of
reparations until we obiain them!

Our call for reparations is also tied to the urgent need o insure
that all of the people in Afrika, Amerikkka, and other nations
where Blackness presides are fed. No man, womyn or child
should go hungry. Our elderly must have the proper health care
and nutrition needed to sustain their lives in a respectful manner.
‘We need to demand ot :parations and then use our money to
develop programs and inifiatives to feeding ourselves. We must
eradicate and combat hunger through the elimination of wars
which are used as weapons to starve a people into kapitalist/
imperialist submission. For example, we need only look at
Amerikkka's use of economic sanctions to deny food, medicine
and other humyn necessitis to part of Afrika, Cuba, Irag, the
Sudan, Afghanistan, Iran, Libya and elsewhere. These economic
sanctions are unholy attempts to create massive suffering and
genocide on a whole group of people so that kapitalistimperial-
it interests will be obtained. We have a duty to prevent these
goals from occurring. As brotha Abdul Olugbala Shakur noted

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in his pamphiet Poverty, Crime and Government, "Many tactics of
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ture a successful illusion of freedom... (and] our ancestors' strong.
desire to be free from slavery [in Amerikkka] has also left them
vulnerable to further explojtation." (underlining mine) When we:
take this into sccount, we must recognize the fact that under the
illusion of freedom we did not challenge the advantages of economic
advancement made off the backs of our labor. Thus, we accepted a
false notion of freedom and were thrust into being "hereby Citizens
of the United States” without ever petitioning (0 be citizens. This, in
and of itself, was a tactic used to deny all rightful compensation to
the millions of Afrikan slaves so-called emancipated in the U.S. This
same economical trick was used in other Afrikan and Black nations
around the world.

We have an obligation to fight for our rights. An obligation to
demand that al that we have rightfully coming to us from this and all
‘govemments which have denied and deprived us as a Nation of
‘people, as descendants of Afrika, and as ex-slaves still denied respect
and honor throughout the world. This we must demand and struggle
forf there is ever going to be real harmony in the world. But the
New Afrikan/Black nations of the world must be ready to confront
the serious and hard issues and not be cowed down with fear.
Comrad Abdul Olugbala Shakur made it very plain in his pamphlet,
Poverty, Crime and Government, under the subheading ‘The eliber-
ate Application of Poverty,' that ... it is the citizens who are endur-.
ing 95% of the suffering and the Amerikkkan government is quite:
aware of this." Not only is the Amerikkkan government aware of
this, WE SHOULD BE AWARE OF IT AS A PEOPLE! Once we
are aware of the way we have been dealt with economically, then we
‘would not be so happy under this kapitalist/materialist system and
we would seck to develop ancther beter system. Nor would we be
50 gracious as to thnk that being FORCED into Amerikikan citizen-
ship was a blessing coming up out of slavery because it wasn't. It
was a rouse when the Amerikkkan government created the 14th
amendment and it has been a shameful rouse ever since its enact-
ment, as we can see by the way New Afrikans have fought at every
tum to be treated s citizens only to have inequality in every aspect
of their lives. The new Afrikan Declaration of Independence says in
part: "We claim no rights from the United $tates of Amerikkka other
than those rights belonging to human beings anywhere in the world,
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arievous injuries sustained by our ancestors and ourselves by reason
of United States lawlessness."

The demand for reparations is only a natural and rightful thing and
can't be denied by any class, culture or race of people when the facts
are as they are in terms of how Afrikans were and stll are treated
and what we have done to contribute to this world's economy. Our
white comrads, friends and supporters must also stand firm to insure:
that justice prevails, for they have gained many advantages from this
inequality. 1 recognize that there arc whites who are cconomically
oppressed and poor, but even so, their ability to obiain and to climb
up the economic ladder is much greater and they have avenues open
0 them that New Afrikans and Black Nation's people don't. Further,
our white comrads, friends and supporters, who would stand and
oppose reparations for New Afrikans and the Black Nation, can not
truthfully claim or say that they empathize, sympathize or stand with
us UNTIL they do their part to see that faimess prevails, and the only
way they can do this is to begin attacking the basic foundation and

principles of racism, which is the major component for reparations
not being given. 1t's just that plain and simple.

NEW AFRIKANS DOING FOR SELF AND COMMUNITY

‘The New. Afarikan/Black Nation's leaders have an obligation to their
people. An obligation that will help us become self-sufficient,
economically strong, politically acknowledged and safe from being
taken advantage of. An obligation to make their people viable in the
21t centuy. if our leadership fails us, then we will only suffe
greatly under the plans of those implementing the New World Order.
New Afrikan farmers must be granted agricultural equality, and, in
fact, must not have their lands and properties taken by this govern-
‘ment due to their being unable to pay debts too enormous to pay off.
Debis artificially created to make possible the theft of the land. We
‘must fight (0 save our Black farms. In understanding this, there must
be a partnership developed between New Afrikans in Amerikkka and
Blacks globally to support and work with one another, to share ideas
and technologies so that we can develop our economic/agricultural
skills, .¢., improving farming methods and establishing mutual
research programs with al the historically Black US. colleges and
universities which have agricultural departments and with other
Black nations which have similar programs and research capabilities.

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New Afrikan/Black youth should be encouraged to develop skills in
gardening and agriculture just as vigorously as they are encouraged
0 piay basketball, footbali and other games. The process of this
training should begin at an early age and the idea of farming should
not be viewed in a negative light but s a tribute and anhonor. A
people who can'tfeed and support each other is a people who can't
survive and are slaves to those who feed them. [NOTE: The So-
journer Farm School, headed under Dr. Dorothy B. Farden, is an
example of an attempt to develop New Afrikan youth with the
knowledge of leaning about farming and agricultural skills in
general. To contact the Sojourner Truth Farm School and Dr.
Dorothy B. Farden, see address listed in this pamphlet.]

Current health care needs of New Afrikans/Blacks, (i.e., physical,
psychological, emotional and spiritual), are not being met. We must
be able to meet the challenge of these badly needed services and
ensure that our people are medically treated. We cannot allow others
o be truly concemed about our well-being if we are not going to be
concerned ourselves. The current trend regarding the propagation of
the New World Order has already scen (in the later part of the 20th
century) claims made about Blacks as being genetically inferior and
intellectually unequal to whites. ‘This was made evident when the
book The Bell Curve came out to support a racist myth of Black
inferiority, a myth measured by the warped psychology of Europeans
‘who have an agenda to reduce New Afrikans/Blacks to the position
of sub-human and thus incapable of being seen as equals. Such
thinking will only sid those who have dubious plans for this New
World Order regime to not only dominate the world but see to i that
the minds of non-Blacks acoept whatever diabolical racial schemes
are being laid out regarding the Afrikan/New Afrikan/Black world.
‘Thus, it is ever more important and imperative that Black people
develop themselves in areas of psychology that are based not on
European thought but on the thought of New Afrikans. The same
applies regarding all forms of health issues. WE must learn to DO
FOR SELF and DEVELOP SELF if we are to advance ourselves as a
people and grow as a people.

Our religious leaders must be true religious leaders and not pimps
and predators upon the people (a very spiritual people who have

nothing left but our spirituality with which to endure another day's
hell). The spiritual application must be real and it must be taught
truly and without tricks and games. We must learn our spirituality

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and not ailow it (o enslave us or have us depending on some

Spook god to rain justice down upon us. We must advance true
spiritual awakening and that means our religious Icaders should not
View their congregations as means (0 gain cconomic success but as
ways to change our poor state of low self-esteem and rise above our
spiritual deficiencies. Once this happens, our thinking will change
and our atitude about one another will change and thus the Black-on-
Black crime and murder rates will cease to be at an all time high.

“The New Afrikan community has a serious issue with drugs and
alcohol, a problem that must be eradicated and stopped if we are to
advance healthiness in our communities and end the blood-stains of
the outside influences of drug trade. However, the fact remains that
we have a serious problem with drugs and alcohol which aren't being
addressed adequately. Further, it is a well-known fact that liquor
Stores are strategically placed in the New Afrikan communitics at an
extent that would never be accepted or tolerated in white communi-
ties. These liquor stores are not owned by New Afrikan/Black
people, and that in itself is a strong statement. It is also an indictment
against those who do not have New Afrikan people's healt and lives
in their interests. They are making millions off the humyn misery of
those who purchase alcoholic beverages and drugs in order to find
some type of psychological relief from their rabid daiy lives ina
racist society, never able (o live their lives cleanly without having to
consider their skin color when walking down the street, driving a car
orlooking for work. Nevertheless, this does not excuse the New
Afrikan community from being responsible beings or taking respon-
sible action. We have a responsibility, a respousibility 1o change our
thinking and to remain free from substances that will deterioraie our
thinking, our lives and our communities. We must force our cleced
Black leaders to cffectively deal with the drug/alcohol problem and
our communitics must demand that change takes place. For starters,
we can siop spending our moncy where the interests of New Afrikans
are not taken to heart. If we refuse to spend any money at liquor
stores, for example, this would send a message. If we develop
aggressive community watches and stop the drug dealers from
pushing their drugs in our communities and, if we mean it, we will
see change. But as things stand now, nothing will change and the
government fully well knows this. They aren't really rying to stop
drugs because that would take billions of dollars away from the.
federal, state and local government agencies. It would also slow
down the exponential growth of Amerikkka's prison industrial

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‘complex which feeds off the drug and alcohol business and the
convictions which result from partaking in these drugs.

‘We must come to the realization that alcohol is also a drug which
devastates Afikan people far more than all other illegal and pre-
scription drug use combined. We must begin (o examine the correfu-
tion between the under-development of our communities in relation
10 alcohol abuse, by the educated and the uneducated, the wealthy
and the poor, and by the law abiding citizen and the criminal. We
‘cannot blame our irresponsible action on whites when it comes 1o
using and partaking in self-destructive behavior. No one makes us
use drugs o alcohol. That s a personal choice we make. A choice
‘we must begin to stop making and, instead, choose to act collectively
10 see toit that we move away from self-destructive behavior so that
we can begin to meet the chailenges of the 215t century.

EDUCATION! EDUCATION! EDUCATION!

There is a powerful need to develop an educational system that is
based on truth, equality and faimess for all. This need for education
is vital for the New Afrikan communities and the Black Nations
globally. It s through education that we will obtain fiberty and real
justice. For centuries New Afrikans in Amerikkka and Blacks in the
Western Hemisphere have been poorly educated or, better stated,
‘mis-educated — so that inequality and white supremacy remain intact.
For New Afrikans and all Blacks, education worldwide should be
rooted in the Afrikan-centered paradigm and its curricula throughout
the Black world must reflect this, regardless of European or other
languages spoken. This should be a priority and such education
should be available worldwide. These are some of the ideas and
concepts we ought to be thinking about and we ought to be develop-
ing ties with our Black leaders to be championing this educational
agenda,in arcas of history, cultural perspectives, social responsibility
and spirituality.

We should also encourage the development of independent schools
within the New Afrikan/Black communities as a way of attacking the
current llteracy and high dropout rates. Justas white schools teach
French, Spanish, German, Arabic and otfler languages, there should
be:a DEMAND that languages are taught to our children so they will
have knowledge of the languages spoken in Afrika. This is impor-
tantif we are going to reach back to Afrika and work with our

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Afrikan brothas and sistahs. These are ties that must be met by us,
just as whites have continued to be knowledgeable of the languages
of their ancestors. If we can't communicate with our people, we can't
save ourselves or work hand in hand with our people abroad. If we
can not work with our people abroad, then surely we as a people are
doomed.

CCLOSING NOTE

Itis important for me that my people and the entire Black Nation
prepare ourselves for the 215t century and not take what is approach-
ing for granted. Change these days is rapid and, if history is a guide,
change for the betterment of anyone who has been the subject of
concentrated abuse and oppression does not come easily. The power
of the New World Order is real and its current and potential conse-
quences serious. This New World Order will not only affect Blacks
adversely but all those who oppose apitalism. But it will hurt the
Afrikan/New Afrikan Black nations and all Black people more,
which is the reason why this pamphlet was written.

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