Tagged: restoring the collective African personality

“I think that the mission is to unify all African people throughout the world through a single pan-African program to reclaim every inch of Africa for African people, all twelve million square miles of it. To restore African dignity to Africa, to stop imitating Europe, to put Africa back on the road to believing in itself again. Producing for itself, and to end this whole cultism around consumerism and begin to produce the things we eat, the clothes we wear, and the transportation we use. We need to restore self-reliance, because it is a terrible thing for a people to be out of power; and when a people are out of power for so long, they long desperately for power and when they get close to it they panic, because they have not rehearsed for power…education has but one honorable purpose, one alone; everything else is a waste of time… that is to train the student to be a proper handler of power. Being Black and beautiful means nothing until ultimately you’re Black and powerful. The world is ruled by power, not blackness and not by beauty.” — Dr. John Henrik Clarke

Source: Dr. John Henrik Clarke. My Life in Search of Africa. pg. 96. 1999.

“The United States Human Rights Network has announced that the United States will undergo a five-year Universal Periodic Review on May 11 of its compliance with human rights treaties to which the United States is a signatory. The issue of political prisoners from the COINTELPRO era has been put before the treaty review team…Efia Nwangaza, director of the Malcolm X Center for Self-Determination, spearheaded a four-year campaign to engage the United Nations with unresolved COINTELPRO crimes and unjustly convicted prisoners. Nwangaza frequently talks about ‘the existence of COINTELPRO/Civil Rights Era political prisoners, the conditions of confinement, and the basis for release and compensation under a Truth and Reconciliation Commission.'”

How many African Americans or American citizens of color work for the United States Human Rights Network?

Source: Michael Richardson. “United Nations To Hold COINTELPRO Review In May Under Human Rights Treaty.” Examiner. April 8, 2015. http://www.examiner.com/article/united-nations-to-hold-cointelpro-review-may-under-human-rights-treaty.