Status Updates From Stokely Speaks: From Black ...

"The missionaries came with the Bible and we had the land; when they left, they had the land, and we still had the Bible."

"The political and social rights of the Negro have and will always be negotiable and expendable the moment they conflict with the interests of their "allies.""

Appealing through conscience & decency is ineffective. These institutions & political orgs have no conscience outside of their own special interests. This is why it is imperative we resist compromising that risks the goal of "liberation"

-Inspiring to see the work of organizing the "masses" within Kwame Ture's language and praxis of education. Encouragement of directly impacted Black & Brown, regular, working-class, folks involvementinTheirLiberation

- inclusion into society cannot be the endgoal of our liberation. often inclusion is at the cost of assimilation, erasure, and injustice. our liberation must be EXPANSIVE and self-determined/governed.

Kwame Ture & learning more about Pan-Africanism has always been on my radar & boy, am I glad to have picked this one up. Getting to read about the voice within that tradition is energizing and informative about the Black Radical traditions expansion into the awareness of the African Diasposa around the world. Reading this already has me connecting back to my read of Assata Shakur's autobiography.