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General Ralph Scriptic Long

General Ralph Scriptic Long wrote: As Black People, we tend to try to measure injustices towards Afrikans from a moral standpoint, not realizing that the 'people' that we try to invoke Humanity from, ain't Human....when your enemy can kidnap you when he meets you, rapes you, then beats you, divides you to defeat you, then his ambition is see-thru....we were stolen, stolen from, abused, murdered, separated, lynched, overworked, demonized, segregated, ostracized, robbed, brain washed, targeted, economically castrated, profiled, degraded, poisoned, used, etc. for over 500 years, yet we expect some sort of reprieve because of a few lines on an old piece of paper that politicians don't even acknowledge.... In ANY OTHER language, by ANY OTHER race, this is called stupidity. This is one of the reasons why we should never allow emotions to help "guilt" our Oppressors, like crying in a courtroom. When you inherently have no morals, conscious or conscience, then...

Geronimo Pratt

(born  Elmer Pratt , September 13, 1947 – June 2, 2011), also known as  Geronimo ji-Jaga  and  Geronimo ji-Jaga Pratt , was a high-ranking member of the  Black Panther Party . The  Federal Bureau of Investigation  targeted him in a  COINTELPRO   operation, which aimed to "neutralize Pratt as an effective BPP functionary."  Pratt was tried and convicted of the kidnap and murder of Caroline Olsen in 1972, and spent 27 years in prison, eight of which were in  solitary confinement . Pratt was freed in 1997 when his conviction was vacated. He was working as a  human rights  activist up until the time of his death. Pratt was also the  godfather  of the late rapper  Tupac Shakur .  He died of a heart attack in his adopted country,  Tanzania , on June 3, 2011. Elmer Pratt was born in  Morgan City, Louisiana , where his father was in the scrap metal business. Pratt was a high school  quart...