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All Black Lives Matter!

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     By Heru Ammen     We are again dealing with the aftermath of what appears to be another unjust shooting of an Afrikan American by a white police officer. As of 10 am eastern time today the shooting victim, Jacob Blake is currently recovering from surgery and is in serious condition paralyzed from the waist down. There is the distinct possibility that he will have to live the rest of his life unable to walk; having been shot by a police officer for opening his car door. Let that sink in for a minute…shot for opening his car door. It is evident to this writer that the modus operandi of the white police culture in America when faced with an entanglement (if you will) with an Afrikan American is to shoot first and asked questions to determine what the threat “may have been” after shots have been fired and the victim has been incapacitated. Whether the white police officer is racist or just lacked the proper training to properly handle a confrontation precipitated by an Afrikan Amer
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Barrack Obama & the African American Cognoscenti

Cornel West and Tavis Smiley have three things in common. They are African American. They believe they have some relevancy in and influence on the Greater African American Community (they don't) and all of them are overt and consistent critics of President Barrack Obama.  Their main complaint is that President Obama didn't do anything and/or enough for African Americans. They and their apologists also believe that anyone supporting President Obama does so because he is black and his supporters are just Land-o-Goshen-tickled pink, black, brown, beige, red and tan to have had an African American in the White House and aren’t sophisticated enough to see and agree with the complaints West and company offers to the greater African American community with their diatribes against President Obama. The arrogance of their position would be laughable if the stakes weren’t so high and Obama's accomplishments hadn't been so great. President Obama ended the war in Iraq
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1978: An Ode To My Father

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An Ode to My Father January 9 th , 2020 marks the forty-first anniversary of my Father’s death. That year, 1978, was the year my life changed. Looking back over my life, the path I’d chosen prior to 1978 made little sense to anyone but the 20 year old me. I’ve never been one to choose or capitulate to the status quo definition of how one should live life. I’ve always chosen to go up what the majority of society, and African-American society in general considered to be the steepest and roughest side of the mountain. I did so not because I had something to prove. I did it because I wanted to experience life unconditionally and do so without owing a debt to anyone or anything that would cause me to compromise my will and self-determination. To put it where the goats can get to it and in my Mother’s own words, “I was a hardheaded motherfucker.” The summer of 1978 is when everything changed for me. The Saturday before Father’s day that year, Dad came over to my apartment to visi
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Opinion: The Problem With #ADOS

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#ADOS is the latest feel good, social media driven movement seeking reparations from the U.S Government for the enslavement of Africans in America. Like many other human and civil rights social media movements, #ADOS was born out of our people’s frustration with the status quo and the current reality of racism directed at and negatively affecting people of color; primarily Africans in America.  It is a movement whose primary mission is to seek compensation payable to African Americans for the forced and free labor extracted from our Ancestors in America from 1619 until the end of the American Civil War.   There are several issues I have with #ADOS that I find problematic. First and foremost, the acronym itself is insulting and highly disrespectful to our ancestors and their rich history, culture and contributions to human civilization prior to what is called American slavery and of which Pan-African people rightfully call the African Holocaust. I am not, nor have I ever ascrib
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Ufafanuzi wa Afrika U naozingatia (Afrikan Centered Manifesto) Preamble: We, the ascendants of the great peoples of the African Continent recognize and consciously acknowledge that we are free and sentient-human beings. We also recognize that we are profoundly African through our cultural heritage, melanin and our life experiences. We overstand and are conscious of the unmitigated truth that our African Ancestors created the first Sentient-Human, High Culture Civilizations beginning (at the latest) in circa 12,900 B.C.   This fact is proven through the truth found in physical, mathematical, astronomical, astrological and geographical data found in calculating the positions of the stone edifices of Kemet, Nubia, Sumer and Itiop built by our African Ancestors in relationship to the planets, stars and the unchanged and unchanging patterns and precise movement of all known bodies throughout the universe.      I.             Utangulizi (Introduction) : The indigenous pe
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