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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...

Dr. Molefi Kete Asante

"In one instance the spread of Africans and Europeans to continents other than Europe and Africa helped to produce a world order that has reigned supreme in technology, science, economics, law, and sociology for five hundred years. It was, however, a racist construction created out of stolen land, broken treaties, stolen labor and broken backs. Any interpretation of the post modern views of the present world has to take into consideration that the entire discourse on the fluidity of cultures, the notion of subjective identities, the instability of social and cultural space, and the interaction and interpenetration of peoples is a direct result of the most massive forced movement of people the world has ever known (Cohen, l982). It becomes impossible to speak of the Americas or Caribbean without Africans or indeed Europe without Africa. One cannot speak intelligently about Portugal and its history without Brazil or without Angola and Mozambique; this is an incredibly interco...