Cass Yarborough’s Reviews > Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism > Status Update

These few pages really hone in on the fact that capitalism by its very nature is reliant on racism. It cannot by any means create structures free from exploitation. We cannot get free by relying on the systems that it creates and we must refuse assimilation into a capitalistic society built in a way that relies on the subjugation of in particular Black individuals.

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

-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.