Letter 2 My People

I write this to yall as an open letter, a conversation about the state of our people and how we can get ever closer in our pursuit for freedom. Freedom has eluded our people since europeans left their shores and began their genocidal war against Africa and Africans. When I name this european war against Africans as genocide I say so out of the scientific evidence that proves my indictment as facts. I say so based on the Spirit of Mandela’s International Tribunal held in New York in October which found the so-called United States guilty on all five charges of genocide, I say so based on the terror and violence I see inflicted upon my people every day at the hands of this decadent amerikkkan society, I say so as a kidnapped and physically colonized African inside the amerikkkan empire.

So where do we go from here? How do we press forward in our pursuit of our liberation? Malik El-Hajj Shabazz (Malcolm X) told us, “I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they’ll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.” If Black People studied Malcolm as much as we love to put his image next to Obama then we might be able to mature politically to develop programs to meet our people’s needs. In order to take the necessary steps to throw off our chains, we must evolve past the illusion that freedom can come…