 You know, today we have Brother Jalil to King, a veteran Black Panther member of the Black Liberation Army, to give us a talk, a talk about how we lead and impact as Black Unioners. Thank you, brothers and sisters. So, Brother Jalil is also an author and an activist, and one of his books, we are our own liberators, selected prison writings and escaping the prison, fated to black poetry essays. Now, thinking about that, as you heard about the map and said, there's going to come a time when Black people come together, there's going to be a reckoning. So, there seems like that situation has come. But when I think about what has gone on this week, we're talking about the Black diaspora and coming together economically. The question I have for you, Brother Woods King, is, as Black Unioners, how do we become our own liberators and foster unity among Black people? Thank you for the question. First of all, I want to thank the team that is the National Black Congress for his invitation. Actually, I was actually surprised to learn that I was invited to such an extremely event. I think it's very important that we come to understand that in regards to our struggle, in regards to Black people in the United States, we've only been at war. The war has been penetrating on us since 1619, and we've been in resistance ever since. Everything from armistice, if you haven't learned how to move your armistice, to today's conditions of mass incarceration that we've confronted today. These policies that we have confronted in the United States is actual war. Actual war against the too suppressed and to deny our human existence, our human value, our humanity that we might say. And so for us, it's important for me to understand that in terms of the union, that it's not just as much as the union. It's the issues of Black people. It's the question of Black people. The union is an organization that is, I guess you would say, a new partner of who we are as a people in this country. And if you're a capacity to organize or organize yourselves with an improvement and betterment of our community as Teamsters, but it's more than that. It has to be more than that because we have to recognize that you all represent just a small segment of who we are. Now, this does not mean that in terms of that small segment, it has to remain small. We can grow. We can evolve. We can build. But we have to be on the same page in order to do so. And what is that page? Unfortunately, for many of us, we don't understand the degree from which we have been traumatized and had to be divided. Right? We've lived in a system of 400 years of white supremacy, over 100 years of white supremacy. And you cannot tell me, cannot tell me that none of us have been traumatized and have lived in a system of 400 years of white supremacy. That's impossible. Now, we've got time and we need to understand the degree of that trauma. Come on. This is why we divide the way we are as a people because of the degree of trauma. And also because of the kind of leadership that we've had over the years. We always know that there's been a division in our leadership, right? We can give a few prime examples that we can really recognize is Martin and Malcolm. The integration and the other four, separation. But when I say separation, I'm going to understand that we're going to put the context into separation. When we talk about separation, we're talking about building a nation. A nationhood. Now, we understand that there are certain nations in the United States. Do you know what I'm saying? Are there certain nations in the United States? Native Americans have certain nations in the United States. My great-grandma is Creep from Alabama. Muscogee Creep. A great-grandfather is Jamaica. He came from Jamaica. He was a rebel. My grandmother told me he was a Maroon. Explain that because some people might not understand about Maroonage. Because last week, when all the things were going on about Montgomery, I hear a lot of young people say to me, we're not going to be like our ancestors during the Southern Whites. I said, young brother, you got it wrong. We have resisted from the time we were stolen. Maroons with those were fought back. Particularly when you fought back against the British. They were colonized. Remember in Wakanda? Remember in Black Panther? They made a movie behind it. When the white man came into that laboratory, he said, colonized. We can colonize them. We can colonize them. Those who have fought against the colonizers and removed themselves from their domination, from their authority, those are the Maroons. Here in this country, what is actually a real name is called Turtle Island. It's not America, it's Turtle Island by the indigenous. We also have Maroons who joined with the synonyms. In this country, in this... Spain. They're the four of them. They're Maroons. And so my grandfather was a Maroon. And he left a Jamaica, came to the United States. I mean, just briefly to give a little story. I've been 49 years besides prison. Inside the United States penal system. The penal system in and of itself is a slave system. Yes, it is. We don't understand that. Based on my truck information in the United States Constitution, it says, slavery and involuntary unfairness, slavery and involuntary service are not consistent in the United States police jurisdiction, except for those who have been duly convicted of a crime. That's the problem with that in terms of the issues of duly and also the exception clause. Because we know that we're not judged according to the law by our own peers. So it's a question of how we're being judged is that we're actually duly. That's the exception clause. The exception clause informs us that slaves in the United States have never been abolished. We have a penal system in the national slavery system. Where they are reabsorbing the profits from the labor of our people, more black and brown individuals inside these institutions or these slave camps. Exorbitant profits for free labor. Hey, now it's been too late to move on out. We're going to talk about a new free labor. How come y'all are not fighting against the 13th Amendment in the United States Constitution to allow some people of slavery in the United States? How come we're not as an organization, right, teachers, building a campaign to end the 13th Amendment? Now, I'll let you know. I guess I can't be happy. That's the campaign called 13 Forward. Google it, right? 13 Forward. I'm going to organize a 13 Forward in my city of Rochester, New York. We're building the foundation for which the end penal slavery and ensure that we don't want to go too far along. I've got some different places to go. 13 Forward is an ultimate goal and objective. It's to change the mentality of the judicial system of mass incarceration. Mass incarceration, yes. There's a system of mass incarceration. They want to continue to ensure that there's a capacity for which they can reap these over the profits for our backpacks. Yes. I'm going to take that away. I'm going to say I'll leave you. All right? You were family. Okay, thank you, sir. All right? We are family. When they look at us, they'll look at me and say, listen, look at you as Christian. Right? Let us as black. That's it. And we have to understand that in terms of all the divisions that we have to overcome. Right? So 13 Forward is a campaign to end penal slavery. And when we end penal slavery, we change the mentality of those on the inside. But now they get up in the morning, we're going to demand to have at least minimum wage for their labor. Right? So they get up in the morning, they go to work, they value it. They get compensated for their labor. What's going to happen when they come home? They'll get a job. They'll be trained. Five years, 10 years, 20 years. I need, like I said, 49 years. But I'm going to go with the other side of it. That's good. I'll find them. You know. So they come home, they get a job. Wish I'd take care of their babies. I'd take care of their families. That's what they do on the inside. So we change the mentality of a prisoner to an incarcerated worker. He's incarcerated worker now. Right? And this is part of the process we go towards the struggle of abolishing the entire system. Right? Tactical issues. Tactical mythology. From which we began how we fight back on the system. Right? So it's important for me to share with you the necessity for the teachers, for the unions, and you ask the question, right? What can we do to come around and liberate us? Right? One part of that aspect is enjoying the struggle to end penal slavery in this country. Right? As unions. And again, and as part of that process, beside these penal slavery institutions, we began to cultivate individuals and then train individuals when they come out. They have a job for them. Come back into the union. You understand what I'm saying? They have to be tactical. And I should choose a goal. Now what is the strategic goal? Right? Come back to Martin and nothing. There you go. Martin, strategic goal was integration and enforcement of word that I don't like using, but many of us have done so. Assimilation. We've assimilated. Yes, sir. Assimilated into a system that hates us. Many of us believe that let's get along. Let's go along and get along. Wait a minute. I'm going to push you a little bit. So growing up, I felt that I had to choose between brother Malcolm and brother Martin. Right. But then my father said to me, it was a story. Have you read their speeches? And two of the speeches that he gave to me was I've made it to the mountaintop in the ballad of bull. And when you read those two speeches, you know, when you get beyond the mainstream, you will see how similar Malcolm and Martin are, because by the time Dr. King was being assassinated in chaos and community, where do we go from here? That is not the king that is put out on TV. Like, just to remind us, this past week, next week is the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington. True. And people talk about the dream. The dream's not tangible. They don't talk about the first 22 minutes about the insufficient check. Then he was coming to get it. Then they don't talk about that. So how mainstream media and how mainstream history tries to divide us as a people? So how as an organization do we combat the divide and conquer? Because no, we have to leave here, not to go out and do this work. So how as an organization do we fight against divide and conquer and move as a human and as individuals? So like you see Bill and I've left our community. Okay, great. Good question. I'm going to answer that question this way. As many of you know, Malcolm criticized the March on Washington. They had what's called the big six. We organized the March on Washington and they called in to Washington to discuss this March and what happened to it. Remember the March on Washington was for jobs and freedom. Jobs and freedom. And it came out to become a dream. It ended up becoming a dream. And what did Malcolm say about that? It was black, originally. It was strong, originally. And then what did they do? They lighten it up. It was some coffee. It was some cream in that coffee. They shared the whole dynamics of what the March on Washington was. It was about black freedom. So let's understand something in regards to that issue. It is important that we stand on the prison through which we are moving towards and not allow those, the colonialists and the colonizers to integrate our movement or influence our movement or water down our movement. And it goes back to the idea what is our goals and objectives but not going to tattoo me but strategically. I may have mentioned the issue of sovereignty. I also identify myself as a new African. What does that mean? That means that I identify myself and I have not been identified by my colonizers. We have been named everything except the choosers of God. That's right. Is that right? What's the Negro? What's the Korean? What's the N word? What's an American? Some of us are in a state of mind where we call ourselves Ascan American. But America has never been a supportive African. If you know what's going on in Africa today with the Afrocon and Niger they try to recognize Africa. America has never been a supportive African except for export as resources as labor and as resources and yet we identify ourselves as American or African-American. So we have a split personality here. It's not such a bad part. Let me just finish this. I appreciate it. This was quite true. Speaking of truth brother, go ahead. But it's important for us to recognize who we are as African people. And I'll just give you a short story. A very short story on that. My mom was a student of African death as a young woman. My sister and I and her teacher used to tell us that you're African. So that's what she told us as a child. We are African. We have descendants of Africans. We're not a Negro. We're not a Koon. We're not an N-word. We're not any of the arbitrary names that are imposed upon us. Every African. And that's how I was raised. My vision, my world vision was that I was an African and everything outside of that was in my position to my very existence. My identity of myself. And so I was raised in that era of the 60's and 70's movement with the idea of the 50's and 60's movement with the idea that I'm a African. An opposing system that opposes my very existence. My identity of who I am as a person. My identity. And so for us it's important now to have evolved what I didn't mean. I didn't want to say it was New African because there's a movement to build what we call the Republic of New Africa. I thought about sovereignty. How can we not suffer? How come? Because we have that range of consciousness to agree or understand ourselves as a nation. Within a nation. An oppressed nation within a nation. We're not there yet. That's what we need to go on. Alright? We've been colonized by the British by the Portuguese by the Spanish by the Dutch to speak all those languages and not diaspora. We speak all those languages. Who says we don't have the obligation all the way to speak in regards to what is going on in our country and around the world for my voice. Our greatest organization is Michael Scott. Alright, you know that, huh bro? Appreciate that, man. Michael Scott. He organizes in Africa, the Caribbean, here in the United States and Britain. That's why that motherhead J. Evo Hoover at the time he was an agent can really notice history. He's an agent, he's the one investigating and creating conditions for markets to be sent out and exported out of the country. Right? Then he became the director of the FBI. Right? And he created a condition of a program called Quarantel Pro. And part of that policy of Quarantel Pro was to prevent the rise of a black man's side. Where did J. Evo get that from? From his experience to his return to that reality, to that root. Right? A miracle of the world called Return to the Source. Right? A miracle of the world. He was an African leader of Guinea-Bissau. Right? And he fought the war on one revolution in Guinea-Bissau. Right? We have to return back to the source, yo. And so for me in explaining the conditions of the relationship between Martin and Malcolm, Malcolm understood that integration cannot serve our best purpose as a people. How do you integrate into a system that don't want you in the first place? Right? And unfortunately for many who have integrated, they have also become assimilated. Right? And that's our divisions. So we have both two things. We have the class struggle and the national immigration struggle. And that's the race struggle this year. The majority of black people in the United States live in five states. Right? South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama called the Black Belt South. Why so the Black Belt South? Good question. Who do the majority of us live at? That's right. That's right. Right? And at one point we're building our own sovereignty. After the United Spaces of Proclamation right? And field order number 15 by Juno Tukumseh, Sherman right? That informed that those who were emancipated would have from St. John's South to the Florida Basin who established their home land. Africans. And we began to organize ourselves in that capacity called freedom in the world. This is the governing organizing of a new nation at that time. Right? Then came what? The Hays Children's Compromise. Brother we can't remember for Hays one of the the electoral votes, right? Tillman, Samuel Tillman won the popular vote. Samuel Tillman's Confederate. So they had a compromise. They said, oh the Hays, we're going to take the presidency. Right? But you have to remove the identity soldiers from the territory that were becoming our nation. A new nation. Hays agreed to that. They removed the Yankee soldiers and we had 100 years of lynching followed. Right? Where the Confederate became the Ku Klux Klan. Right? And they started by first major migration to the south and to the north and to the west. Right? Destroy the foundation, the basic principles of foundation of the nation for them. But keep this also in mind. 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution. We talked about 13th, 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution. Right? Due process. But it's also nationalization. How do we become citizens? Are we citizens? Well that's another question. How do we become citizens? 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution. They imposed that upon us. Say that we become citizens. 14th Amendment. We never had what it called a plebiscite vote. To determine where we want to be as a people. Right? Do we want to return back to Africa? Do we want to establish our own homeland? Do we want to become citizens of this country? Plebiscite vote. It was never afforded us. So this idea of citizenship was imposed upon us. Imposed. And we accepted it. It means a tragedy. Like 27th Amendment they permit us. But we still have a colonial persuasion. Colonial authorities. Alright? And so let me just share a couple passages from my book. And we all look great as we all look great as it is already That's right. Notice the universal declaration of human rights all over the 15 states everyone has a right to a nationality. Two, knowing it should be arbitrarily deprived of its nationality or nationality or their nationality no denying the right to change the nationality. We're not going to change the nationality. Alright? there was a convention in Detroit at the Reverend Franklin's Church. Who's Reverend Franklin? Y'all know a reason, right? Yeah. That's right. That's right. At a daddy's church, a daddy was a guardian. Right? And as a result of this convention, 500 people came together, and they decided at this convention that they were going to create what it was supposed to be, the provisional government of New Africa. Provisional government of New Africa. They raided the place. They raided the place. Chata, Reverend Franklin's Church. Why? When I say they, you know who I'm talking about, right? I don't have to be infec- I don't have to be infecis- I've got to be infecis- I've got to be infecis- And I said, we're a woman. We decide we are independent. We decide to use, to determine our own destiny, right? To become these emancipators, to emancipate ourselves from a colonial government, to become abolitionists, to abolish anything and everything and dehumanize the graves and the means, the value of black people, abolish it. And yet, that has to exist. Oh, it's just because we committed to exist, right? Can we all become abolitionists and what we're talking about? So, to your point, talking about this. I didn't know what was going on. So, to your point, in terms of liberation, and as we're moving forward, how do we decolonize our minds? Yeah. And they would also, I want you to go into the difference between emancipation and liberation. Yes. Because there's two different things. You emancipate property. Oh, that's not liberation. Yeah. So, when, because they thought of us as their property, that's why we were emancipated. They gave us permission. Not that we weren't fighting for our own liberty. So, liberation. So, I don't want to be emancipated. I want to be liberated. So, we want to be liberated. Unliberated for what? Well, we're liberated for that. All right? And we're liberated for what? Unliberated to what? There you go. Where are we going? As a people. Let me, in this discussion, because there's a lot more to be shared in terms of what's going on on the ground, right? That many of us who are so caught up in our gaming lives, right, that we have not been in touch with. Right. December 17th, 1951. About two months after I was born. I'm 71 years old. I'll be 72 in there. All right. All right, so listen. Important time. The great W.D. Du Bois told me they heard of him. Oh, yeah. William Patterson. Some of y'all may have heard of him. William Patterson, all right, made the first charge of genocide against the United States. We charge genocide. Look it up. You can find the book. The FBI, J. N. Koguru, prevented Paul Roberson from going to Geneva to present the petition. They didn't want, uh, uh, William Patterson to return back to the United States. All right, for that. All right? He's talking about, uh, Michael Nets and his, uh, message to the grassroots. He talks about genocide. He's listening to Martin Luther King and his speech, uh, The Other America. Right? He talks about genocide. We decided, 2021, we called the International Juris to the United States. International Tribunal, you're looking up. International Tribunal at the El Haas Milit, Malcolm X, Betty Shabazz, Education and Cultural Center in Harlem. That's the area, that's the place where, uh, Malcolm was murdered. The Autobahn turns into what he's saying to you now. Appropriate place to have the International Juris. All right? Three days testimony. 30 testimonies, 30 witnesses testified. Right? Books, I mean, uh, documentations that gave us news. All right? October 25th, 2021, nine international jurists, esteemed judges of international law determined that the United States is guilty of genocide and it's black, brown and business people. This is why. I don't say black out. You know, and you have to do type, and you have to bite out, and you don't want to see that word no more. What's changing is white out in this. You know what I'm saying? If I'm guilty by esteem by the international jurists of genociding black, brown and business people, you know the impact that is? I was in Greece last year. All right? Last year I was in Greece for an international post among political prisoners. All right? And then when I told them, I'd be free to black people. This year, and there's a brother here out of Saab. I'm going to get too much into his case. Alex Saab gives a diplomat to Venezuela. The United States kidnapped him. He's in the MCC here in Florida. They invited me over there to discuss the issue with him. All right? And I told them the same thing. You will not be free to black people. But let's talk about genocide. All right? In 1914, the United States did this here. Right? The President's conviction of genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy and hold or impart a national ethnic, racial or religious group such as one, killing members of a group. Did any of you kill enough? Oh, yeah. Every day. Every day. Some of you hear about, but Georgia, we do not. Oh, yeah. We've come to the members of the group. Are we suffering here tomorrow? Yes. Have you been traumatized? Yes, sir. By racism? White supremacy? Absolutely. Deliberating 50% of the group because this is calculated to bring about institutional destruction and hope or impart. In the last 50 years, our population has not grown between and has grown. Is that us? You think? Why are we not growing? It's genocide. Let's go. In Poland, you mentioned to prevent the births within the group. Sterilization of our women without their consent. There are kids going on to a child in a prison in California right now when the sisters are fighting against the system because they've been sterilized without their consent. So the Puerto Rican has had a big, big, big campaign using sterilization of their women in Puerto Rico. We know that they were Native Americans and indigenous people in this country. Sterilization. It is an issue that continues today. Let's go. Forcibly transferring children of a group to another group. To another group. We know what they did with the indigenous community. Taking their children, giving them to mercenaries. To mercenaries. To mercenaries. To mercenaries. Changing their name, changing their language. What are they? You know what I'm saying? The foster care assistant today. The majority of the children are foster care assistants today. Who are they? Black and brown. They're families. They're short families. They have that kind of numbers in the foster care assistant. And we're silent. Why? Because we're assimilated into a civil integration. All right. Article 3 further states that the final shall be punishable. Genocide is punishable. Conspiracy commit genocide is punishable. Direct or public insight commit genocide is punishable. Conspiracy commit genocide is punishable. Conspiracy commit genocide is punishable. Conspiracy commit genocide is punishable. And so International Jury's on October 25, 2021 and final of the 90's guilty of the charge of genocide because Black and Brown indigenous people on five counts, one of the five counts that we brought. Now remember, I was I was in sad prison when we first began to organize the genocide and the tribunal. All right. And I don't have time to go through all my history and the things that have done me inside the prisons, but initiating this campaign to have the International Jury's come back in like the 7th time they came to the United States while I was in walk-up, I was in segregation. They put me in segregation school, I was teaching approved program and out-of-the-pressing facility by Christian. All right. In 1961, I was all with 1966, all right. So I talk about the Black and Browns party, nobody did. Shut it down. Shut it down. Put me in isolation, all right. Now I'm teaching the guys how to have my class are JD's blood, scripts and so on. They were through the state and that mentality. They didn't want us to teach them the history of resistance. Yeah. So they locked me down for four months, right, to show a new program, approved program and at that time I had to call my comrades outside and say, listen, this time to bring the International Jury's back because we brought back the International Tribunal and we decided to bring these charges to the sides. One of the five charges, mass incarceration. All right. We know they exist, they know they target our community mass incarceration. The second one is is resistance to political prisoners. They have political prisoners in the United States. Besides they don't want to be recognized to why to be recognized to political prisoners is to be a recognition of resistance who has supremacy of capitalism. They don't want to do that. They don't want the world to know that they have resistance and they falsely hypocritically tell the world in the United States, right, that this is the country of peaches and cream and the streets made of gold and ethnic health inequities and other charges, health inequities. Why is it that white people live twice as long as black people in this country? Twice as long because they give their proper healthcare that's neglected to us. Twice as long they live. Environmental racism and no charge. Environmental racism. We know what happened in Katrina. We know what red riding is, right? So why is our community held in areas where it's most polluted? Why do we have the high level asthma? High level heart disease, liver disease, diabetes, he's by chance. It's deliberate. It's deliberate. Again, we are assimilated. In terms of blind eye, we'd rather go along to get along but we fight back. Ethnic equities, environmental racism, mass incarceration, this is the political prisoners and most importantly, state-sponsored killing. State-sponsored killing. Let's put it this way. Now let me make this point. Clouds and the teams also have a law enforcement as part of the union. And I understand the necessity for as we live in this social water, the purpose of law enforcement. How many of you know the history of law enforcement? Slaves. Slaves, that's true. Slaves, that's true. Slaves, that's true. Let's talk about the... No, we have to talk about it. Slaves, that's true. And how do they function today in our social water? Slaves, slaves. Control and contain black people in their communities. As if they keep up on the plantation. Yes. That's their history. That's their legacy. Now again, I'm not a political law enforcement opposed to like racism, like supremacy. I think there's a necessity to have security in our community. Why don't we organize our own control system? We build communities of elders to bring our issues to our community of elders. We have to change the culture and our thinking of who we are as a people. We have to build our own community. So we build the community of elders. We establish our own, we're not the party establishment, but our control systems. In our communities. That's the reason why Ronald Reagan who was the governor of California at the time, because California was an open state. Open care every state. That's the only way you got control. Right, open care every state. But we're black people on themselves. That's not written in law. They change it. That's how we're living. They want us to have a capacity to raise our own pressure. So, here we are today. 2023. And we have successfully got a verdict of Paul Robeson. Then we need a voice. And when Pat was unable to do, we achieved it. We got a verdict from the and esteemed by the International Jewish determined that the United States has engaged in genocide in this black, brown, indigenous people. We have to remove ourselves from harm. From continued harm. We have to separate ourselves out of how we should act. And that's it. Enforce ourselves from a system that has been harming us. That's been killing us. Let's do that. And so, we're in the process of building we call the People's Center. We can talk about that in a minute. So, one last question. I was just giving a flash. Where do we go from here? As a collective in individual TNBC chapters, how do we assert our power as the collective but as individual chapters? Keeping in mind what you just laid out for us. Thank you. That's an excellent question. First of all, you have to make a decision of where you're going to do. You're going to be integrations and assimilationists or independents and developing means for which we can build our own separate nation. Are we coming to console? That's a hard question for us. That's a hard question for us that we have to decide. So, if the unions continues to this, if the black or the national black caucus, if they decide that they want to know war room, even if under a system of being colonized, a system that has been engaged in the process of genocide against us and continue to engage in the process of genocide, then I encourage you to go to spiritamandela.org one word, spiritamandela.org and join our efforts to build the People's Center. Now, let me explain to some people more about that. The United States is going to build 28 USC 3002 section 8, 15 states. United States is a federal corporation. And what is that? A business. And, so therefore, you have placed allegiance to a corporation. Let's understand that. My words here would be mad boozles. We're going to destroy them. We're going to destroy them. Do you understand? We have to summon them into a system of a corporation. In the United States Supreme Court engaged all citizens of the United States. State of corporations of what? Of people. Corporations of people. Make me success out of that. Okay, we can. So, therefore, when the United States can do business, that is for us, it's not for blood or veins. It's for corporations. Everybody in the United States corporations, 40 people by the people, they ain't talking about us. They ain't talking about other corporations. And the Supreme Court vouched that corporations are people. But when they do business, they do business for corporations. That's why in certain instances some people believe that that's necessary for us as individuals to incorporate ourselves. In that way, in that capacity. That whole different story. So I encourage you all to support the dynamics of a movement that separate ourselves from our colonial oppressors. The United States is a supporter of the People's Senate. We'll build assemblies all across the country. By Mr. Alphys, we'll build assemblies across the country. And then out of those assemblies elect a person to become a senator. And we'll have a congress, a senator who's going to change the dynamics of what it means to be governed for the people by the people. Real people, not corporations. Spirit of the man down about work. Right? Slash the People's Senate. Learn about it. I asked about the materials that will be laid out here. Both on the verdict. I have enough for everyone. Both on the verdict. And also on the building of the People's Senate and other information that we're developing. My cousin here Abbas he has a program called the People's Program in California. And basically he's redeveloping what was the Black Panther Party's survival program. We changed the name from survival to decolonization program. And decolonize our thinking. As who we are as a people. We're going to be happy again to look at ourselves as a nation within a nation. Within an oppressed nation. As a process to decolonization. As a process to understand who we are as a people. And also as I made mention having gone to different other countries and telling them that we're doing a military. Let me just make this one clear. The world is waiting on us. The world is waiting on us. Why? Because we are in the belly of the beast. We are in the belly of the beast. So everyone who's fighting are trying to end colonization or new colonization. And in the United States this country, this corporate entity continues to try to export and reap the profits from reap the export the resources of other nations and countries. And then fighting back, I can do this with like Nicaragua, like Cuba, like Ghana, like Nigeria, like Mali, like Niger, right? Are responsible for the freedom. Because we understand this is an empire. Because history informs that empires are not getting rid of by external forces. Never having a will. Empires are destroyed by internal forces of the empire. When the people rise and say, we're done. We're done. No more. That's how empires are destroyed. Right? And the world is waiting on us. Look around the world. Look around the world. I'm going to go to Australia, New Zealand, Germany, South Africa, black people are down-tribe. Brazil, anywhere you look in the world, black people, African people, people from the citizens of Africa are down-tribe. And the bridge is touching the world. And we don't have no responsibility to ourselves and to our people in the capital. Right? Why? Why? How do you think the German factor of what you do is that correct? So if you think like a criminal, you act like a criminal. Is that right? Okay. I feel like a revolutionary. Okay. I act like a revolutionary. I feel like a liberator. And that's been on my mind. What did you say? Liberate. What did you say? Sorry, this time, if you don't mind, we want to open up a couple questions. Two questions. We have a mic stand over here and a mic stand over there. Please, my man. Call myself an angry black man because of stuff you're talking. I think about it constantly all the time and I see it amongst my people, man. And it's sad. You know, we're killing each other. I mean, and a lot of times I see kids, I mean babies, man. But I want to have to get these damn guns and stuff, you know. And something is going on with our people that I can't seem to wrap my head around me. I'm here right now with all these people. I'm glad we're here getting together. It's like people. But the thing about it is what we're going to do when we leave here. That's the place for you. And then, way back in the day, man, I took 50 something. We're still doing the same things today. Something is wrong, bro. It's terribly wrong. I don't know how to solve it, but I can see it. I can give you an example of something that's so simple for everybody here to do right now. One simple thing. We said we have to do this, right? But when we spend our dollars, we spend them on the white man to store the right place to where the angry apps at. Taking my money to open up a store. I thought about this before. But I can see my people when they still turn up anywhere on the white man. It happens every day. Like you said, we got to get in his mind right here. We ought to provide money. It's going to make it real simple. We say we're Africans, but when we spend our dollars, again, we go to every European country there and get them our dollars. If anybody here had ever thought about taking their dollars to fucking Africa, it's 54 countries. It's 54 countries over there. They say if the white man in the United States of America today, you know some country lives on tourism alone. When you're going on vacation, take it to Uganda. Take it to Kenya. Spend our dollars over there and you'll lift these people up a little bit. It's a simple country on your next vacation. If you're a white man, I was just talking. I ain't gonna do it myself. I can keep talking all day now. But I'm not gonna do that, but I'm gonna tell you one thing. Until we get out of my name, next year, next year, next year, next year, next year, next year, next year, next year, next year, next year, next year, next year, next year, next year, next year, next year, next year, next year, next year, next year, next year, next year, next year, next year, I'm sorry, man. You're talking about us. That is a chance for us to all come together. And I got one more question. I wonder what you think about that song by Jason Aldean. Try that in a small town. I'm just surprised how many young people looked at that video and didn't see the symbolism of that church where the black man was hung. Another man was killed during the rally. And I look at Facebook and I see these kids bobbing their head to the song. And let me say, it's catchy. It's catchy as hell. But if you don't see the symbolism in it, then you've lost. And a lot of our young people up there that like to travel with you, our songs that was good in our day, I don't see nothing wrong with it. And I just can't get past that mentality. That's all. I appreciate your comment and also your statement. And it's really important that we come to some understanding that we have a responsibility for our young people. That we have to get out and the community boosts on the ground the organization. But many questions are questions of issues of guns in our community. Where do they come from? We're not a manufacturer. We're not. Do you want to deal with the issue? For us and our young people? Yeah, okay. Right folks, they're not doing drugs. They just have a heart. They don't have to use the public usage and the moral kind of concept of how to use a weapon. We don't do that. Right? Now let me say this here. We're not doing that. Okay, that's what Reagan did. When the black press party began on ourselves, it's got a good club. It changed the law. They don't want to get rid of guns in the community or in that good club. We got a schedule we got to add here too. We're going to do these last groups so we're going to cut off right here. Questions? Thank you. Good morning. Good morning. My question is just in reference to the black diaspora. Sitting on the side where as a woman of color, as a black woman here in the United States without a history that is recognized, how do I speak to my sisters and brothers from countries who have been told that I am lazy, that I am worthless and have the same beliefs as some of our oppressors and colonizers? What steps can we take starting today in conversation with our brothers and sisters in this room throughout the diaspora to say that we are one and to provide a united front as we move through this process? I appreciate that question. Very much so. The reason why I appreciate it so much is because in my book, I have reference back to this book again. I have a book called, Front for the Liberation of New Africa Nation. National status you're falling on. And you said a united front. We have to begin that. We have to organize that. We call it a united front. Amongst black people in this country. But again, we have to understand what our goals and objectives are. What are we seeking to achieve? For me as a nation, I no longer want to see the empire. I don't see the empire destroyed. In no uncertain terms. Because I have done any good for us as a people or any other people of color on this planet. Right? There are 740 billion dollars in the United States. 740 billion dollars in the United States. And they control 69999 trillion dollars. All the wealth of western Europe. All the wealth of western Europe is in the hands of 740 people in the United States. Right? We have a population of 330 million people in this country. And we're complicit in allowing this 40 above to our collective detriment. We're fighting for the crumbs off their table. All right? When we talk about freeing the mind and the answer we follow. Right? We have to have a goal and objectives to achieve. My goal and objectives to achieve this new Africa. All right? Sovereignty. Nationhood. All right? So, black women who are the mothers of the universe. Okay. Thank you. All right? The universe and the partialness of the race and the understanding. She's asking. She raised her truth from that understanding. How are we raising our children? And because we have a colonized mentality to provide them with something that's all detrimental. So, our mental and physical well being begins at the foot of the mother. Teaching our babies. Remember, rock sugar is not a sprint. This is a marathon. All right? This is a marathon. And we have to prepare the path to the ton. That's right. Keep that strive going. But in order to do so we have to prepare those to take after the ton. They're going to struggle. But we want to go from here. So, you say, but where do we go today? I already told you. SpiritMendela.org People's Senate. All right. Kind of Experimentela.org People's Senate. Yes. Go ahead. Go ahead. Right here. That's how we're going to organize our future. And also, we're going to be able to run a front for liberation of the nation. We're going to develop the decolonization program as my dear brother, cousin here, or the people's program. The people's program is developed all across the country. Here's in Louisiana last week, was it? A week before that. Organizing a decolonization program there. We're going to organize the new organization programs in the rock sugar. Also in Indiana and other parts of the country. And we're going to develop this network under the name of front for liberation of the nation. All right. That's what we're going to do. That's our future. Okay. I said it. It's in the universe now. Speaking it to existence. That's right. It's there. All right. That's what we're going to do. And I need your help. Okay. Right here. For speaking on divide and conquer. This is a strategy that they have used since indentured servitude. When they separated the white indentured servants from the black indentured servants. Then as you saw it with Malcolm and Martin. More recently, they did the same kind of, they used the same kind of strategy between Barack and my pastor whom I grew up under Jeremiah Wright. Oh, bring them all right. How can we erase the mentality of divide and conquer to get to a more united front? That's my first question. And then my second question is another form of polarization is that we have been programmed to be poor. How do we erase that mentality that says wealth is bad? Rich people are bad because that programming is also keeping us in poverty. Great. Great question. I'm taking the second one first. We live in a system that's based upon two particular principles, right? In terms of capitalist system, capitalist imperialism, two principles. Individualism, right? A competition. There is no capitalism but running individualism in competition. Okay. But what is the opposite of that? Cooperation and unity. More cooperation amongst us as people, right? And so doing, by being more cooperative with ourselves and the community, or as a nation of people, we build greater unity. Right? And it usually has to be enforced. It has to be a wall. Right? An impenetrable wall. But anything that's not according to our goals and justice and achieve is blocked. So that's the first point. Cooperation and unity. Second of all, yes, we have these established allies. Okay. The People's Senate is part of that process of building these allies. Where we have individual organizations who will understand that our goal and objective is sovereignty. Right? Independence. Nationhood. Right? And they are supportive of that in the course of our overall struggle. Right? As I may have mentioned over here, right? We have the free of mind and our eyes will follow. Okay. So first of all, we have to recognize that we have a good colonized mentality. To what degree we have navigated 400 years of white supremacy and traumatized us. Suffered. So we have to go in the process of decolonization. Right? And as I'm doing, we have to also choose our goals and objectives going forward. What is, what are we meaning our children? Our grandchildren. I'm a great grandfather. Right? Right? I'm lucky for me before I went in. I told them that's why I said look for me when I went in. My daughter was in the womb. Right? And I spent a day with her until I got out in 2000. 2020. Right? So she lost. For me. Not being there for her. So we have to be there for our children. Right? We have to post the children. Yeah. Post the children across this country who are impoverished or in dysfunctional families. Yeah. Right? And they want that. We'll keep it that way. Because if we don't have a strong family, we don't have a strong community. We don't have a strong nation. Right? So that's a divided conflict issue that you raised, sis. Right? Let's begin at home. Let's begin in our community. Let's begin in your heart. And understanding that this system is not for the best interests of us as people never have been and never will be. Right? That's affirming that in our lives. That's affirming that in our understanding. This system is basically for competition. Right? And what? Individualism. Right? And our Golden Judges can build greater cooperation and unity amongst us. All right? And we build that within the family, build that within our communities. We build a nation. Thank you. I hope I answered your question. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. First of all, thank you for being a part of where we're at today. One thing I want to say, you reminded me of a documentary I watched called Exterminate All Brutes. Anybody watch that documentary? He's speaking to everything that's in that documentary. Second, my question. I'm out of cast. Father, too. For the Commonwealth of Association School of Educators. We're educators. Okay. Most of us principals, sister principals, time managers and so forth. And so one of the things we have to do, right, is enforce education. Yeah. Make sure teachers are teaching, and so forth, right? My question to that, because we know that in America, the education system is not creative for black people. Your time was cut out if you knew how to articulate. If you were killed, if you were found writing a letter, or knew how to read. With that, work within that construct of racial systemic system and education, to work on decolonization, because I believe my education system imposes and reinforces a level of colonization to conform to that assimilation, right? That you speak of. And I believe that that happens. Although some of us, we're whispering to our kids on the side, like, don't believe that. But, we have to, in that system, unfortunately, have a lot of conformity within that. How do we, you know, how do we begin to have those conversations with entire rugs that are designing the curriculums in the system that we have to impose? Okay. Thank you for the question, bro. And I don't want to throw any shade on this confidence, right? All right. All right. Thank you. But, why be helping me here in Miami? Right. Why be helping me in Miami when this guy gets out there? All right. Who's opposed to the curricula of mass theory? Oppose to the truth? Yes. You understand what I'm saying? Our brother said, we put our spending power, our money power, where, that's why we live in the city or state that supports our liberation and independence. Right? That's all. Our brother here, the former chair of this organization, he said, he said that his own objective was to empower them towards power. If you want it like me, understand that I'm working towards power. You never know Chris? Yeah. It's gonna bring that out. Right? For power. Yes, bro. I'm in conversation with a friend of ours, Chris, friend of ours, assistant by the name Ashaki, right? And also a professor, I can yell at an emotion out of Atlanta, Atlanta University. And we are working towards building what we call a national curriculum. Right? An educational national curriculum. But we are fighting against these dissentant ones to prevent a critical race theory. Right? Because they want the truth be told to their children. That's right. Of their what? The barbarity. Yes. The savagery. Yes. Because they have done over centuries. Okay? Let's not go to the heart of the situation. Right? The minimum doesn't understand. Okay? 1492, there was a popular bull from the Catholic church. Right? Pope Nicholas, the sixth, I think his name was. Right? Called the doctrine of discovery. That's right. If you have not seen a red body, please look it up. That's right. A doctrine of discovery. That's right. All right? And what happened to the doctrine of discovery was that he told the Portuguese and the Spanish to go around the world as you find people that adherent to their police system that he'd been murdered or enslaved. It's written record. This is where it began. Right? And it evolved into this idea, this average idea of white supremacy. Okay? That's the average idea of white supremacy because if you look at the DSMV book, which is the diagnostic book of psychology, all right? It's a superior argument complex. It's a mental disorder. Here we are. This is what I'm saying. Superior argument complex is a mental disorder. It's a book. So what is that supremacy? Are there any other people on this planet? Yes. Yes. Yeah. You see, I saw you. Yeah. That light turned on right here. I saw that, bro. What you're doing is a system of people who are insane. Yeah. Our own National Director of Education. Yeah. Right? That's liberatory. Mm-hmm. That frees our minds. That builds towards nationhood and understanding who we are as a people. All right? So that's what we're working on. Again, come to spirit in that, brother. Right? See what we're working on. Join us. Support us. Strengthen us. It can only lead to our freedom. That's the only direction we have to go. There is no other direction for us. That's the direction of independence. There is no other direction. And here, the world is waiting on us. Yeah. And when we free ourselves, we free the world. Yeah. A white supremacy Yeah. Right? And countless exploitation of people's resources and human value and labor. Are you an educator? Yes. I need your information. All right? We're working on this national curriculum. Yeah. My whole local, this principle. How do we How do we How do we How do we How do we work? Okay. That's what we're talking about. All right. So we have our last question this morning. So leading into my question. Yes. I was told to relate it. The reason why I say my name is because TNBC started it. And they were meant to do it in 15 years. True, brother. I did that very well. Yeah. Leading into my question. I was told to relay a message. That TNBC was started in Miami. And they wanted to reclaim their legacy in short when they're not going to get run out of here. They were supposed to do the 50th here in 2020 with the pandemic happening. Okay. So that's just the answer that part. Hey listen. They really came to fight. Really. Right. Listen. All positive people. All positive people. We have a rare opportunity here. There's not often that you get to be in a room with an organized body of black people nationwide. Yeah. So I want to know that being that this is an organized body of African people nationwide across the country. Yeah. What kind of power does TNBC have? Like what can TNBC do is this organized body to help bring the fruition of a lot of the things that you're talking about. Self-determination. Yeah. Decolonization. All these things. What are some ways that TNBC could actually help things like further the people's program is going on openly. Right. And free programming in different states across this country, different black communities across this country. Okay. Thanks for the question. It's an excellent question. Right. I'm going back to my cousin again. Right. He's also a podcaster. Yep. Right. He has a podcast called Hello Black. Hello Black Podcast. Oh, you know about Hello Black. Okay. All right. So you know about all right. Very good. All right. We have to be there to support our podcast. Right. Hello Black, like BMP, like Power Media and other sources like that. Right. Cool Who Race Theory. Right. Ensure that the ideas in discussion Cool Who Race Theory goes on across this country. Right. But we want the truth. We have to be truth-tellers. Right. We can no longer hide under the hypocrisy of democracy. hypocrisy of democracy. Right. So we have to be truth-tellers. So Cool Who Race Theory is extremely important. Raise our ideals up so that we can understand our true history of resistance in this country. Cool. All right. Everything from Armistad to the Great Reverend Nat Turner to our heroine of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of of forming decolonization programs, housing, education, health care, things that we're slowly neglecting our community. Build those kind of institutions in our community. Empower us with our unity and our determination and our inspiration and aspirations to be liberated, to be abolitionists. Become an abolitionist. Abolish anything and everything that dehumanizes the means and degrades the value of black people in this country. Abolish it. Raise up our leaders. Right? Raise up our leaders. Our real leaders. Not the assimilationists. Not the integrationists. But our Chris. Right? And our professors. Right? Who understand that history. And understand the dynamic. Raise up the national black caucus. Go to the office. Do that. And this time we begin to move forward. And begin to have greater discussions of unity across the country. I'm glad you get that assimilation, brother. Why y'all come to Miami. Yeah. Thank you. I appreciate that. Right? That would mean that we more have more love for you all. Right? I'm gonna make a fight. What? I'm coming home now. You gotta run out of time. Thank you. On behalf of the teachers national black caucus. I want to say thank you for coming. Let's give them a round of applause.