Ansari, Are you suggesting the American ruling class (capitalists) and United States government of the bureaucratic military state would yield significant portions of its territory -- say, the industrial East-Coast, and/or the industrial Midwest, or California, to African Americans? This is where Black worker's are concentrated. Do you honestly believe that the American capitalists and state will yield its industrial states, the productive forces and financial institutions in these areas to the Black working-class simply because the African Americans vote for succession? And the UN says so?
Notwithstanding significant UN opposition, America invaded, and now brutally occupy Iraq. Americans are not even willing to give Iraq to the Iraqis, and must be forced out by armed struggle. It is not possible for African Americans, who are but 10-12% of the American population to wage armed struggle and win a war against the US armed forces seeking succession. You see what's happening in Fallujah, and in Iraq there are tens of millions of Iraqis supporting, if not participating in the armed resistance. A 'race war' in America would result of mass slaughter of African Americans, a single nuclear bomb on Detroit for instance. Nor should we seek 'race war', which in reality is not only not an option, but Black folk don't want it. We are not suicidal. Black Americans are primarily working class, and it is with other American workers that Blacks must unite, based on common class objectives. While only 10-12% of the American population, Blacks are 30%of organized labor. The 'common objective' ought to be the formulation of an American labor party based financially on trade unions, and socially in the working class as a whole, from which the Black as well as White capitalists, and members of the Democratic as well as the Republican party, are excluded. The common objective of a working class party has to be the winning of the battle of democracy, legislating a working class agenda -- up to and including the expropriation of capitalist class property, the productive forces and financial institutions. By uniting the class, without regard to race, gender, religion or ethnicity, winning the battle of democracy means becoming the majority in the House of Representatives, thus legislating the transfer of the productive forces and financial institutions from the private property of capitalists to the public property of the working class. The issue of racial reperations will thus become mute, since public ownership of the productive forces, with workers self-management of industry and agriculture will have as its economic objective the elemination of capitalist commodity production and wage labor, thus ending markets and money. A Labor dominated House of Representatives must become the government - abolishing the Senate, Presidency and Supreme Court, and crushing the existing bureaucratic-military state, abolishing the Pentagon and standing army. Of course the capitalists, and the military officer corp will not give up without a fight. But, having won the battle of Democracy, the labor dominated House of Representatives would be in the political position, and have objective moral authority to call on the working class rank and file of the armed forces to mutiny on the side of the House of Representatives. Lil Joe ps: check out http://www.laborpartypraxis.org/ -----Original Message----- From: Ansari Mustafa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 11:59 AM Subject: [Africa-Politics] Re: [unioNews] AN OPEN LETTER TO MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN As-Salaam-Alaikum, Minister Louis Farrakhan and Minister Al-Arkam I join in the discussion and the call for unity of Minister Al-Arkam. I too am respectfully oppossed to another march, simply because the next day we are in the same position. Instead I would suggest a strategy that takes us from servitude and oppression to liberation called a "Plebiscite". I do so because it is apparent that we have the same goal in mind, which is a territorial inter-succession from the U.S. Accordingly, the strategy of a UN monitored 'democratic' vote in all 50 states will take us from A to B. The processes and the result of the vote will 'unify' any difference[If any] that we have in approach. As you know the Muslims [Point 4 of what the Muslim wants] for his brother and himself has been for over 40 years these types of self-controlled territories. Likewise, the African Indians have long sought these type of territories. Similarly the Africans in America who are Tri-Racial and indigenous are entitled to these lands as reparative tithes. In this regards, I join Minister Al-Arkam and Silas Muhammad to urge you most respectfully to join us in proceeding out of America to the UN. I do so out of no secret or hidden agenda of my own to undermine your undying efforts to bring our people together, I am simply suggesting a legal methodology to do so. I do so in the name of our political father [The Honorable Elijah Muhammad], our brother {Al-Hajj Malik Shabazz} my current Imam {Imam Jamil Al-Amin} , our ancestors and children. I have a staff of International lawyers that will wind us through the UN and I am totally willing to share duties and obligations with NOI, Brother Silis, Panthers, NCOBRA, Baptist, CARR, NBUF, and anyone else who desires to obtain a distinct self-determining identity. In this regards, I have no discernible ego, except to insist on being free from the authority of America. On this Saturday we will be discussing the implementation of the aforesaid Plebiscite with activist, groups, African Indians and interested Africans in 12 states and I invite you not only to participate but to sit as Co-chairs on the Indigenous Plebiscite Committee [IPC] as it will take a joint effort to hold a National Plebiscite. I am also inviting to serve as Co-Chairs, Eleanor[Gypsy Wyatt} Chairman or Angela Molete of the 5 civilized Tribes Kwaku Duren National Panther Vangard Movement Brother Pruitt Committe for African American Reparations Dr. Nikita Imani -Indigenous African American ReparationsTribunal Shereeta Lacy Youth NCOBRA Dr. Conrad Worrill NBUF Ukali -Republic of New Africa [RNA] Randall Robinson Manning Marable El-Zakur Washita Tribe Queen Quet -Gullah Geechee Empress Chi [Million Womens march] This list is not exclusive and does not serve as a list of exclusion of any and every qualified African in any of the 50 states. The telephone number for Saturdays conference is 641-497-7300 Access code 784315 Time Saturday December 11th at 11:00 A.M. Eastern Standard time. Dr. Mustafa Ansari Chief Justice Indigenous African American Reparations Tribunal As-Salaam-Alaikum, Minister Louis Farrakhan: I hope that this letter finds you and your entire family in the best of spiritual and physical health. Thank you for making Reparations for our long-suffering people one of your top priorities. Thank you also for inviting me to accompany you in March 1977 on your visit to both Egypt and Uganda, where I was blessed to interview President Idi Amin (may peace be upon him). The articles commemorating that historic tour were published in Bilalian News, First World and Sepia. Recently the moderator of [EMAIL PROTECTED] groups.com asked the members to share their views on the next Million Man March planned for 2005. Some were pro, others were con. In a message entitled "Are Leaders Willing To Set Aside Egos And Unite On Reparations Demand?" I wrote that, instead of another march, I believe that our people would obtain a far greater benefit if all the Civil Rights and Black Nationalists leaders would confer and agree upon a common strategy to secure Reparations. In addition to yourself, some of the other leaders I have in mind include: Representative Cynthia McKinney, Representative John Conyers, Professor Charles Ogletree, Mr. Silis Muhammad, Mrs. Dorothy Lewis, Dr. Mustafa Ansari, Professor Manning Marable, Mr. Randall Robinson and Elder Osiris Akkebala. For the past twelve years a few dedicated African-American scholars and activists (including Mr. Muhammad, Mrs. Lewis and Mr. Akkebala) have been working inside the United Nations to establish Human Rights and secure Reparations for all Afro-Descendants in the Western Hemisphere. In numerous interventions before diverse U.N. bodies, including the Human Rights Commission, they have documented how the U.S. government's long-term practices of ethnocide and forced assimilation blatantly violate U.N. Covenants. They have also called upon the U.N. to place a Reparations Sanction upon the guilty USA. Although I have every right to politely express my views on the March and to request that all leaders who desire Reparations work together more closely, a person who identified himself as one of your followers reacted in a very disrespectful and emotional manner to my perspective. Reuben Muhammad inaccurately charged me with disrespecting you and compared me to a devil and a hypocrite. (See his message #3369 posted on December 6th). One of the reasons I am writing this Open Letter is to let you know that I am well aware that the rude and abrasive language of Reuben Muhammad does not properly reflect you as a leader, nor does it properly reflect the civilized attitudes of the vast majority of Muslims I have encountered over the decades. In contrast to his harsh verbal attack, which mistakenly assumes that I have evil motives, I want to commend some of your followers here in Boston who have repeatedly shown me respect and courtesy and who have always been shown respect and courtesy by myself and the other followers of Mr. Silis Muhammad. Circa 1995 some friction occurred in Boston between your followers and the followers of my leader, Mr. Silis Muhammad, as they were enthusiastically selling the Final Call and Muhammad Speaks in Roxbury. To our credit, Minister Don Muhammad and I spoke by phone and agreed that there was absolutely no reason for any friction or conflict. And that established enduring peace. Many times since then I have seen Assistant Minister Rodney Muhammad at the WRBB Radio station, where we both have programs, and each time we have greeted each other with courtesy. The same was true when we both addressed the opening session of the National Black Agenda Convention earlier this year. All Afro-Descendants have the right to freely follow whichever leader they deem worthy of support. And no one should verbally attack a brother or sister for favoring or disfavoring a march as a strategy or tactic. I am certain that our people, who have now been in bondage for 449 years, yearn for the day when all the Civil Rights and Black Nationalist leaders will stand on the same platform and communicate to them A SHARED VISION FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIBERATION. As I explained to the members of Black Solutions, this is not an either-or situation. Many of our people may choose to both March on Washington again AND encourage our best and brightest scholars and activists (including yourself and Mr. Silis Muhammad) to converge on Geneva, Switzerland and take a UNITED STAND ON REPARATIONS at the next meeting of the U.N. Human Rights Commission. According to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad (may peace forever be upon Him) there will be no peace anywhere on Earth until the so-called Negroes (today identified as Afro-Descendants) are separated from our open enemies and return to our Original Homeland. For us Reparations means far more than financial restitution for 310 years of chattel slavery and many subsequent decades of de-facto apartheid. Reparations means Restoration. We deserve our own Government and our own Economy on some of this Earth that we can call our own. Thank you for reading this letter. 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