 Hell with black. It's the morning show, you know, I'm saying ain't a 545 in the morning this time, but you know, it's still Still the morning Don't get it when you can't get how you live. Come on making a shake Hope y'all been enjoying this content, you know, this consistent content this Persistent content against all odds, you know, I'm saying making these podcasts Ain't really against all odds because we have a pretty nice setup. Oh, no, it's a good we got It's a good one having the right, you know, I'm saying books buying prison Walls and whatnot. Oh, yeah, but it's against all of us because we up against what we up against. So yeah against all of us Hella black. Yeah, we gotta have that historical understanding so that we don't make excuses as to why we can't do this But this is that's where I was coming from. I'm like, hmm. No You know, I mean, it's difficult to do though This is why I say like our podcast is the organizers podcast because it's for the people who can relate to actually organizing and understand the role that this kind of like communication plays in Educating the masses and spreading the politics like this shit is not easy at all. No, but it ain't again. It ain't You know, it's not like the the FLN who have to do a You know hijacked radio broadcast and shit like that It's not the Panthers office being under siege and still having to produce the paper. It's not that at all, but we do have The our own unique, you know, struggle as it pertains to trying to make money to live build the organization and also create this It's in the form of content but again to spread this knowledge to share history to combat all the Western propaganda and false stuff that's out there as it pertains to Liberation for new Africans formerly known as black people, right? So Yeah, and the way that y'all can support our struggle is by subscribing to patreon.com Backslash hella black pot by liking subscribing and commenting on our YouTube. That's a new channel that we're really trying to build out I know over the years We have been very inconsistent with that But if you look at the way the organization has grown Okay, it's a fair trade-off But now as a result of the organization growing and us having multiple cadres it gives a boss and I the chance to You know get a free hour to do these podcasts Weekly and so we trying to build that YouTube channel out and so like subscribe comment help us build this as always It's for the people by the people wouldn't be done without y'all and support our patreon It's a lot of patrons out there. They get supported and all they do is talk about supporting All they say is they support movements. They don't do nothing to build them They don't tell y'all what their proper program is. They don't work to build the programs You know y'all know we got multiple decolonization programs running y'all know what organization we are Accountable to y'all know what community we are accountable to What ideology we are trying to uphold so you know Supporting us is supporting more than just a boss a boss and I support in the nation for real the new African nation Yeah, and we wanted the few podcasts Where there's direct programming attached to the podcast like we ain't just podcast and we ain't just talk and we ain't just theorizing Everything we're doing is trying to put this theory into action It's learning from the actions we've taken that the program to you know looking back at our actions that we've taken and Trying to evolve them and change them as the conditions change, you know I'm saying but we wanted the few podcasts Or the hosts and the producers the editors, you know I've said the whole shebang Is directly tied to a cadre organization A cadre organization that has programs because there's a lot of organizations all year Not all of them have programs They were they were considered their They considered their book deals Well, I would say like you know you have people that do like I guess like book clubs or political education circles You know the media piece is a part of a program, but I just It can't be the only thing It can't be like if all if all your organization does is create media Like how is this media actually impacting the material needs the immediate material needs of the people like how does me watching a podcast How does someone listening to this podcast alone? How does this podcast alone? Materially benefit the people of Oakland it doesn't to some extent right it might lead to some sort of fundraising But it's this in collaboration with the free mobile health clinic the garden Or should I say the farm the I would say for us it's a complete it's a complete unity But some people only got just some some would just be like, uh, yes but that's I mean That was if we go back to the beginning of hella black You feel me that we seen that own contradiction within the podcast like okay, we're doing this talking We're doing this theorizing But we ain't doing this organizing the podcast wasn't directly tied to organization Then what would you what do we do we created people's breakfast Oakland? For me, I realized I think that's super important because right now it's like a lot of people Like organize organize organization organization join the organization But that organization doesn't have any material material program set up in any new african african or black community It's just talking. It's just theorizing that ain't gonna do nothing for revolution. Yeah You got to be outside in the community Building a material force in the community That's what's worked in the past So we'll suggest it learn from the past and put it into fruition right now in the current I look at someone like Or two folks like David Hilliard. What's it? I want to bring up the Black Panther newspaper as an example, right? You had like folks like Sophia David and Emory who all worked in production of the Black Panther Party newspaper, right? One of the most highly circulated papers of all time, especially from a revolutionary nazis group, right? um, and then you get These folks also working in the clinic also running the free grocery programs also leading the PE classes, right? Like that was doing more than just Creating more than just being artists more than just producing content. Like they was this was All a part of a larger program and I think we have to get back to pushing Uh, because art does play a really big role, right? Like the journalism is a really big role Uh, was it mamiya was the journalist, right? Yeah, like journalism plays all the plays a huge Photography all of it plays a huge role, but you that can't be the only thing you're doing I mean as finan say it's combat literature. You know what I'm saying, but that has to be a part of what? An organization a cadre organization or just not a part a part of organization, but also I think the Because you can say okay. Let's say if all you do in the organization is solely right. It's like My name is not it take that long to write these articles to write a book like you got no You got some free time like how about you come to the grocery program? How about you come to the Free food distribution. How about you go feed the baby's breakfast? Like you got to you got to do more and I believe that that we talked about in revolutionary art That's the only way the one like two episodes ago Uh, that all ends to I believe that our podcast is getting better as a result of our on the ground organizing Right as a result of our yo, we're learning different ways to communicate these things Because we're seeing the woes of capitalist imperialism, right? Uh, we're seeing those manifesting different ways through our daily organizing And your analysis is only going going to get strong by studying history Then being outside in the current time to make sense of that, you know what I'm saying? Like you ain't gonna have a how can you have a strong analysis if you ain't outside with the people if you ain't outside building You know I'm saying that's how you get a lot of people who'll be stuck in 1960 stuck in 1970 But ain't actually, you know having a strong analysis of the current, you know what I'm saying? So I think The community is a classroom, right? So it's yeah, we have these cadres we study internally, but getting outside in the program That's where you're going to learn a lot as well. You got to read the books Talk about the books build your ideology, but you got to get outside and Study with the program. Yeah, so I make a hella noise Day in the life man have a black wicked just Let's just pause to these niggas go by I'm excited for this episode. I think it comes at a great time We're gonna be taking a look at neocolonialism And when two of our cadres we're doing the wretched of the earth and The war before by sephia bakari wretched of the earth by france finna and In this one, I mean throughout the book of wretched of the earth neocolonialism is a theme And then in some of the chapters we were reading last night for the war before Neocolonialism came up And so I think as a cadre, you know something we're discussing but then You know cornell west recently announced his presidency or run for presidency And yeah, it just seems like it's a very Serendipitous time for us to be discussing neocolonialism on the podcast Because I've come to understand what Cornell west is doing as You know running for president is A containment strategy, which we'll get into a little bit later, which is a a method and strategy of a neocolonialism But before we even you know, we need to start with the definition of neocolonialism But I think before that we should also like start what colonialism is Yeah, I mean colonialism is about an alien about a foreigner about a foreign nation Establishing control of a territory politically socially and economically right to where The foreign nation the colonial force Subjecting that whole nation To the political social and economic and military control Right, so it's stealing the land stealing the resources in certain areas, you know colonialism might look like Being centered in the areas where the resources are so whether stealing those resources taking those resources out to where that mother colony in itself Can you feel me? Suck the resources dry And expand its capital right for the mother colony, right? So we see the french colonizing where algeria as well as a numerous amount of african nations Right, so we look at neocolonialism. It's that evolution of colonialism, right? It's the Winning a country might have all the quote-unquote outward illusion outward Looks of independence, but in reality it is still governed by the political social and economic control Either of the foreign colony of that same foreign colony or a new colony like america, right? So we've seen a lot of african nations getting their independence And then the cia They came in and were able to establish power Um and establish neocolonial control over these colonies Or over african nations Because europe was still in shambles after world war two, you know, right? So then Sometimes people will just leave it at that But I would say neocolonialism, especially if we're looking at ourselves And this is why identification is super important because if we identify ourselves as a new african nation and see ourselves Subjected as a nation subjected under colonialism subjected under settler colonialism meaning that this alien force not only colonized the land but then settled on the land To where they have political economic social military control over the land like america or the so-called state of israel If we look at these these settler colonies, we understand that neocolonialism in the settler colony is the same type of outward trapping of freedom the outward trapping of independence this illusion of freedom this illusion of independence And what it does is it integrates The new african nation select people within the new african nation Into the colonial force to do the job of the colonizer right to where you have black cops Black president black vice president black people in government, right you have Black people at the head of these, you know, very liberal non-profits Right, so it's the Integration of this colonized people into the colonial system to do the job for the colonizer right so it ain't the You know finan talk about the the the western bourgeoisie versus the national bourgeoisie, right? So in the united states, you know, you have that uh western bourgeoisie that the european settler bourgeoisie Which is then created what this uh National bourgeoisie of the so-called new african bourgeoisie, which is really a quote unquote bourgeoisie in spirit only because it Ain't a authentic bourgeoisie because You don't own you don't control your bourgeoisie, but he was getting He was getting your money. He was getting your control. He was getting your power from the uro american settler colonial capitalist imperialist system. That's giving you that power So that's how we would see and define your colonialism, especially From the new african perspective, you know, i'm saying because that's what we is Truly that is the biggest obstacle to national unity if we talk about the first phase of three phase theory, right? Class struggle for national unity the biggest obstacle is neocolonialism. I'd say neocolonialism and ourselves Two big obstacles. A lot of people wouldn't identify the new african nation uh black people As being in a neocolonial situation because because of western propaganda, uh, they presented colonialism neocolonialism as these uh You know these phenomena that do not happen domestically. All right, but again when we understand that uh First is it's getting new africans to identify as a nation Right, like we aren't a part of this nation Period point blank school quali torii always says if if i'm american why i can't do none of the things americans do if you look at the way that uh New africans have been forced to live on this land Uh, the history coming from chateau slavery jim crow Um in the genocide that we currently under was that does that sound like a person who has nationhood? That is a quote-unquote american right that has uh the ability to identify with a place and and work to build it up That's what that's what nationalism. That's what a nationalist is someone who's identifies that nation and then works to build it up that suffered that uh not suffers but is able to benefit all the from all the uh It have all the benefits that a company that accompanies being a citizen of a place and won't have that Well ask yourself why every other nationality, right? Uh, are every other ethnic group you look at white americans from 1950 they've grown from 130 million or 240 million something like that Hispanics have grown from 2 million to 60 millions Uh new africans that went from 15 to 40 Everybody else got this crazy exponential growth Double triple 15 times What we got you look at the growth of the new african nation and what has happened Yeah And that's why the united states of america has been found guilty of genocide If you want to ask yourself as a as a black person if you find yourself in a neocolonial situation Ask yourself There is your life on a social economic and political level governed by your own interest And then look at the masses of the people that lets you know that you are in a colonial situation Who's who whose culture is this? We talked about this on the episode with q that's about to come out soon, but like whose life are we living? Is this how you want to live? Our only answer to that no Ask yourself listen to this by this is this shows this shows social economic and political interest the way that this country functions If you say no, you new african Colonial subject neocolonial subject If you try and exercise control what's going to happen? Let's say like hypothetically you try and exercise like you don't want to buy into any of this shit You just want to do what you want What's gonna happen? Like if you don't like if you don't pay taxes. Oh, I'm like, I mean Living on the streets You don't get to reject this you don't get to reject this world Now without an organized mass body, which is what we're trying to build here We're trying to have mass rejection. You don't get it. You know what a real ideology you have a job You don't get by and I'm just gonna come in late every hour. You know what I'm saying, but You don't have control neocolonialism presents pay your water bill. What's gonna happen? I mean pay your life bill. You don't have control. It's it's the farce of Freedom That's it. You was talking a bit about its historical development. Can you dive? A little deeper for all the listeners in terms of the historical development of neocolonialism. Yeah, well You know, most people would start at the post quote-unquote post colonial period Which they would say is Well, see some people would say the colonial period is what the Berlin conference up until The end of world war two right so 1864 to 1945 I would personally argue that the colonial period started the minute we started selling after other Africans From there, we were no longer acting in Africa's social economic and political military interests by expatriating by sending off millions of our own I would say the colonial period started 15th century the moment niggas started engaging with will Europeans and selling slaves, right? Our 16th century 15th century. Yeah and so If we know the end of the colonial period to be The end of world war two. This is where you see a few factors leading to Neocolonialism, right? one being the consciousness of The african masses rising up, right? So here in the so-called united states you had I believe like a million New africans serving some form of the armed forces, right? And then also in the The allied powers of the colon of the colonizers like the french the british, right? The french the british who else? And then you had like belgian forces you had like Africans fighting with the belgians too. So you had like a nut you had like two million africans Across the diaspora fighting in this world were fighting in world war two and for them to rid It's about liberty and liberating people, right? So we got to save the jews from this fascist from these We got to save the jews, right? That's what it's about. We got to stop We got to establish democracy and so as africans you like damn We saving these people we putting our lives on the line, but look at how we living in the congo look at how we living in Ghana look at how we living in guinea. Look at how we living in zambia. Look at how we living in rwanda Look at how we living in texas. Look at how we living in louisiana. Look at how we living in arkansas so i can go and fight these wars but Establish democracy other other places, but i don't got shit here The colonizer realizes real quick like oh shit these niggas is realizing we own some bullshit If we want to conspecie on the continent if we want to continue to milk this place for all its resources We have to shift that's what fascism always going to do right fascism is going to do whatever it needs to do to Keep a stranglehold on the economy and to establish white supremacist capitalism So if that means i got to give you a black president I'm gonna give you a black president if that means i got to give you an independence day I'm gonna give you the black i'm gonna give you an independence day if that means i got to give you a flag I'm gonna give you a flag that means i'm still going on if i'm gonna give you i'm gonna give you Juneteenth a national holiday Juneteenth should be accompanying the masses of black folks Having some sort of uh exponential growth in their material reality some Increased quality of life brah I was in the gym on Juneteenth and it was just like the normal time I go it's usually like an off hour It was just hella europeans and they're working now i'm my man But you had the black folks in there don't get me started because somebody said they couldn't do something for us Because it was the juneteenth was off and it was not black, but you know Regardless that's neither here nor there Regardless like so you have these things right you have world war two Since africans across the aspera fighting to us to save Jewish people and to establish democracy across the world they come home They realize i fought i've died and look at how we still living across the continent across the us Across the south in the so-called united states and the the colonial forces say yeah We got to give these people something before they fucking bear arms against us. So this is where but with that Comes what kwame and krumacaw is neocolonialism, right? He says they give you the black prime minister the black president But who still owns the natural resources Right and then the united states them being a place that says look at we don't have any colonies That was they whole message through our world war two. We don't have colonies It's the land of the free the home of the brave life literally in the pursuit of happiness You feel me like we this is we know we was we support y'all we did the same thing broke free from europe All right, so the united states becomes a simultaneously you mentioned earlier right Europe is in shambles because of the war like Socially economically Politically on a military level right there like literally broken and this allows america to establish themselves as a global power Especially a power industry. So what happens here in the united states all these jobs Right, you get like general motor general motors, right all this industry is here and that allows that Because don't forget when the white working force left from america to go fight the war who stepped into these places This is how you get legacy workers at longshore ministry, right? That's how we started working at the ports and then So you get black folk a black workforce built out of world war two niggas ain't about to just go back to not having No jobs boom United states is able to gain power as an industry you get forward motors all these different industrial things coming over here Now the united states is leading global economics. So what the ports growing even larger now? There's even more jobs coming here White people are moving up in their ranks. So now they can afford maids, etc. So now black women are now Put into the workforce, right all these things are A byproduct of neocolonialism because it seems like what like black people are moving up That's what is the sham independence under guys of like integration then then all that capital that is being made Is doing what to the the continent? You know i'm saying through through loans and all you know i'm saying that that quote unquote economic development of africa africa then becomes Into a neocolonial situation Here again is that dialectical unit between the oppression of new africans here in this land They call america and the oppression of africa the oppression of africans on the continent Because where are they getting the tantalum the cobalt the box site to make these cars these televisions these phones It's coming from the continent, but these are all the things that allow uh Folks in the united states because even the white worker is feeling like they getting gaining up We and they and manager positions and all like niggas. No, you still being exploited the capitalist still has this Reserve this huge vast amount of wealth. All right, and then you even look at situations like ganna They had like the head of their forces was british You look in the congo the belgians Were the head of their military This is how you have these nations quote unquote getting independent But then the military officials are still the head of their military then look at the civil servants Then we look at you feel me the intelligence agencies Using those military officials because what do they they ain't no ghanayan military official working in these embassies Who's working in the hospitals who's working it's not act like so things aren't really quote unquote nationalized, right? It's not really You know the nationals of these different countries running them It's still it's what's the neocolonial situation like yeah, you got a president You got you might have majority parliament all these different things But nigga you got the it was a union mineral was the mining company the belgium mining company in fucking uh In the congo still owning Deciding where these natural resources go. They're still setting the markets. They're they're divvying up the markets They're setting the prices is that okay a bus You get to have all the rooms in the house, but I actually own the house All right, like you know what I'm saying like around like it's my house Or a nigga like you get to live on the farm But I tell you what crops to grow I set the I set the market I set the price for the crops. I say where we where we gonna distribute nigga you ain't But hey, I run the farm no you don't have real freedom and that's what was happening in the neocolonial situation We had all these different african nations getting a independence day getting a flags, but When it came to playing in the in the world market, they didn't have much much power because you had the european union in america Running everything then you get projects like post world war two. This is when nato pops up This is when the united nations pops up formally the league of nations But because of america's power they able to say no we shifting all of this and bringing it right over here to america right here to the Set of colonies right here to new york right here on the world trade organization all these things are These ships start to happen post world war two and this is a byproduct of neocolonialism and we have to understand neocolonialism as a containment strategy and I would say like you know talking about cornell west as a containment strategy You know me you and while I was talking to q about this and then me and you was talking about it as well Think about we've been talking about cornell. I think about how much money is going to be used to fundraise for his campaign over these next few years Money that could actually be going millions upon millions of dollars are going to go to him just for cornell west to end up Doing exactly what he did the last election doing the last What did he do he just did the last election win go by for biden go vote for biden go vote for bernie is what cornell That's what you feel me. So he he did the whole thing for bernie sanders was a zionist imperialist He was a surrogate a national type of spokesperson speaking on behalf of uh, bernard sanders bernie sanders zionist And then what does he do okay bernie loses and then what does bernie do bernie said okay, uh, joe biden What does cornell west do he does okay joe biden so the same thing that's going to happen And this election is he's going to get the as a containment strategy and we're seeing it work. We're seeing people who align themselves With revolution and quote-unquote Abolition and quote-unquote cornell west call yourself a revolutionary in an abolitionist, but that's how i'm like he needs to define But that's that but that's the containment strategy because you use the language of revolution But in reality, what are you you are a neo-colonialist you're a neo liberal even all the criticisms you have of it You function on the foundation of neo liberalism You were for empire even though you can say oh the empire is doing this Even though you quote-unquote support civil and human rights, but he didn't say like i'm like i don't I watched a whole probably hour long interview with him and i could not tell you what Based off that interview what his ideology. I mean i i can tell you his ideology is based off my own analysis Right, but like he keeps saying his first thing was like we're attacking fascism. We're attacking the empire And all he says is what he supports, but what does that material support look like? You know you name dropping jameel. I mean and shit. It's like I went to see how much he's talked about Jamil i mean over the course of the years and I found one birthday post You ain't really campaigning and these neo-lip these neo these neo-colonialists Who use neo-liberalism as a method to Have their own success in this system These black ones for show these legacy niggas all they gonna do is name drop because that that does something for us You name kwame charade you talk about what the work you did with what mardin you talk about Knowing jaleel alameen when he was known as hrab brown and the snick and all that you feel me. It's like bruh It's but that's what bruh. That's what they do neo-colonial agents. They they use the race card Yeah, they were to use quote-unquote race and no race ain't real but like they use Black is in that's how I'm because they know people buy into it and what they're doing is they trick in the left They trick in the quote-unquote whatever the black left is whatever that means, you know I'm saying now they're getting people back into quote-unquote talking about what electoral politics Getting people to talk about what the presidential election because guess what's gonna happen Are you saying like they getting black left to talk about these type of things? Yeah, I would argue that those people who are doing that are neoliberal If we know I will call them fascist myself because if we know fascist to be Uh, a belief in practice that does whatever it needs to strengthen Right white supremacist capitalist imperialism The the fact that at any given moment you swinging your Politics like what do you call that? No, that's what you're gonna do is ever profitable. That's what fascism does right? I said the so-called black left because these are the people who I would say take up the quote-unquote space of Oh, he is the leftist we is the black left whatever that's why I said whatever that means They on the same for whatever that means because I'm gonna push this shit into the presidency come the presidency comes I'm gonna push electoral politics when the electoral politics. Hey, she happens. I'm gonna go back to this radical It's bro. It's just like pendulum you feel me because why is it the pendulum because there's a bag associated with it And that's what they do whatever is quote-unquote fame associated with money pushing radical shit They're gonna push the radicals quote-unquote money pushing the liberal shit. They're gonna push the liberal shit Come on and we have to be able to identify Exactly what is going on because this is happening over and over and over again And here we are getting full with the same damn oaky-doke time and time again but who are they really fooling because Who's We talked about this in kajar last night They say that you know, I was looking it up Uh new africans account for 13 percent of the voters In the so-called united states now. I'm curious like what is that demographic of the 13 percent? It's probably going to be The same middle class because you've got to think like if you got a felony you can't vote, right? Some states are shifting, but you know, it's like it's a lot of things that It's not the masses of black folks who are voting. So like who are you really fooling you fooling the niggas who been getting forwarded for the last but that's I mean, that's a significant amount Yes, if we talk about class struggle too, we need those people and uh But that's what they're looking at. They're looking at these percentages, you know, I'm saying like they're looking at these percentages They're looking at what gets these people to vote. You know I'm saying because that's what it really is about right because Yeah, you're just seeing shifts might be you're seeing shifts in the black vote, right? So what is the state coming do? You know I'm saying with the containment strategy is okay. We're gonna attack it from multiple levels Let's get this old civil rights Negro to run for president to You know use that type of Languages, you know I'm saying Cornell West. He he's a he's a good speaker. I'll give him that to some degree, right? He has that he has that orator. He has that uh southern type of preacher aspect, right? So what are they really looking for right now the democrats, right? They're looking for that black vote in the south That's what they're doing. You feel me? Like they trying to get the south. They're trying to get that vote So what are they doing? They're deploying in Cornell West to get people Uh, rowdy up get get people excited about voting all these damn you feel me and then what is he gonna do? He's gonna be like a fucking dog Cortell and a whole bunch of fucking lamb right into the democratic party. That's what he is. He's he's a shepherd I mean He's gonna put that whole vote his whole thing now was like he was calling he was calling obama a puppet Then you look in 2012. He says i'm a vote for obama. I don't agree with shit But i'm a vote for him. Okay. If you really just divested and understand If you doubt if you that divested from the system Why have you not done anything to organize the grassroots masses? Because what program have you put together for the masses this there's shit that you could be doing every four years And I ain't talking about the I ain't talking about the little charity event I'm talking about like actual programs to Educate and provide for the masses because I still don't know what this program is I actually don't know what his plan is. He says oh, we need to defund native We defund african. How many bases are you talking about closing the wind? and we know that defund means what? Don't you know he ain't gonna say shit about he ain't gonna say shit about rid of He ain't gonna say shit about israel throughout this whole campaign because who paying who paying for them campaigns who paying for his Who fresh it them Zionist he ain't gonna say shit He ain't gonna say shit about israel or he said before he said that I believe that palestine and israel can Can coexist or something like that? No, I understand if if israel exists palestine is not free Israel isn't real. It's not a real place It don't exist, right? So like these are these are his things and this is the type of stuff we got to be At the same time they'll say oh, we need justice for palestinians. That's what you'll say. Yeah He said I believe they can coexist. Yeah, but he said uh, but coexistence between my my jewish brothers and my my my muslim brothers and sisters and uh Something to get out of here But sometimes we just we have to look at it for what it is be able to identify this but also like look at Like I saw people like oh because of you know, if you listen to the bricks episode People have this delusion to where they think like the empire is just can imagine we fall But every time europe is in crisis anytime euro america is in crisis They respond to crisis is very well of that that that's one thing we should look at, you know, I'm saying you got to sometimes credit I said sometimes they contain this shit Like from uh the way they have us sometimes like it's that shit beautiful in terms of it's destructive. It's ugly But the way they it's efficient the efficiency of it because every crisis they've had they've been able to Make that crisis and make the empire stronger. So again, we see neocolonialism as a that that colonial versus neocolonial phase It was it was a crisis and what do they do? They said, okay, we are gonna we can't have the same type of strategy They adjusted their strategy to have full economic political and social and military control of the continent Same thing happening here. We have uh, we look at integration in the time period So, okay, we need to we need to quote unquote integrate as a containment strategy. So that revolution doesn't happen What happened fast forward to 2020? They had a whole containment strategy launch ppp all you know, I'm saying basketball came back on and They said, oh, we have Kamala Harris. We have Joe Biden and people was around parading that again was a containment strategy So every single time Europe is in crisis They have figured out a way to contain rebellion And it's psychological. It's a psychological warfare. That's why we have to be able to identify exactly who was for us and who ain't That's why race ain't enough to unite on If race was enough to unite on Look at our people. We all we always say they all skin folk and kinfolk Barack Obama in our can Kamala Harris in our can and guess what cornell west ain't either He does not believe in new african dependence. He does not believe in the unification of all african people He does not believe in pan africanism He does not believe in egalitarianism. He does not believe in communalism He's again. He says he against the empire. He for the empire If you against the empire, why are you running for president? Last time I checked a president is the head of the empire unless he just you know Plans to get assassinated Which he he he playing he ain't even gonna get elected. This is all that's that's part of it He has no plans to actually be the president He's no plans at all. He's being an opportunist The democratic party is using him as a puppet. He's not being used. He's he's well aware of it Oh, he knows he said, okay, let me be Let me be used. Yeah Let me be a prostitute for the democratic party But he's using it for his own economic gain and that's what So he's a part of the national bourgeoisie Folks have to realize this all comes down to economic subjugation From an economic system all aspects of life Are birth, right? And so if you want to understand neocolonialism as uh economic that's political subjugation I'm gonna give a stat from like 1965 This is a stat that shows up in kwame and krumas book neocolonialism the last stage of imperialism So in 1965 Africa accounted for eight percent of the world's population That's a lot higher than the united states of america period point blank But they only accounted for two percent of the world's gdp So ask yourself how they're one of the the largest continents and mineral rich Places in the world Accounted for two percent of the gdp because who owned the who owned the who owned the factories who owned the industry The raw materials were getting taken and produced somewhere else and then sold back to them, right? in present day Africa has nine countries on the top 10 poorest countries in the world list The u.s. Has the world's highest gdp over 23 trillion right like 23.1 23.2 Uh while the democratic republic of congo Being the largest producer of cobalt the shit that has that allows our phones to work our computers to work planes cars Right, we found anything Has a gdp of 55 billion Uh, the united states produces like they have like 90 they produce here 96,000 metric tons of bauxite, right? Which is a mineral used to uh make aluminum We know we can look around our house and see where aluminum is you can walk outside We see where aluminum is A guinea. So united states produces 96,000 metric tons All right, guinea has a reserve Of seven was seven billion metric tons of bauxite of bauxite How does the country have all these resources all these natural resources but has no wealth? Because who who who dominates the industry? It's They aren't trying to develop africa in a sense to where the masses of the people can that can gain the skills To produce industry right if industry is just a process of taking a raw material into a final Why are they out there mining cobalt tantalum and bauxite? But can't produce the cars the phones the planes we was we was we was flying in the continent Know them planes from the planes you know them planes from the same The same materials in the seats from the 80s probably from you feel me like that they bought them from an old European airline you're producing all brother. You got a but you can't have an airplane without it I mean you even look at uh gana gana and chocolate Coffee all the chocolate all the coffee, but then it has to be exported And you got a place like swedish being the biggest exporter chocolate I mean you got the united states make all these money off natural resources But they don't even have the materials on their own soil. How does someone else get what? You you ain't finding laura you ain't finding seven billion metric tons of bauxite in the united states I just told you the 96 000 of what they produced and ain't in utah Zambia is three in in a production top three in production of copper In the world They gdp is 22.1 billion In the us is 23.2 trillion They don't produce bauxite. They don't produce tantalum. They don't produce cobalt. They don't produce copper They don't produce more coffee than Ethiopia and Uganda But yet they have so much more money. How does uh You gotta that don't make sense to me. It's a superstructure of capitalist imperialism neo-colonialism is what's boosting it all We have to get control economically We we have to Even if even if you look at the the workforce here, right new applicant workforce here look at how much time Folks spend making these capitalist money What you can't give me one excuse that says That the average amazon worker driving these packages should make that much less than jeff bezos because what he had the idea What we talked about this with the cats with the with the students at pit it was like well if I had the idea I'm like so if you have the idea that means for the rest of time You were the oligarch you were the king you was in control and then you get to exploit all your classroom or all your classmates Is that sound fair? No, no, no, you're right But that's because he what had a human connection to his people because they in there shaking hands and this ain't just This is latinx talking about new africans and euro americans in asians they like no, I wouldn't want to oppress none of them because what Since when are ideas things to commodify not things to make the world a better place But that shows you where we are as as a human to be like my sole purpose is to amass At the expense of the other A lot of these humans they want to become quote-unquote immortal They want that is their legacy forever. It's like even when they is quote-unquote gone Ah, this is jeff bezos all The bezos is still running you feel me all that money is still running The rock feathers, you know what I'm saying like all that money is still running and controlling the world the buffets Running and controlling the world I mean, what what is the justification for the working class not having access not reaping the benefit to their labor jeff bezos doesn't deliver those packages He not only assembly line. Eli. Eli musko don't assemble them cars. He won't even go out and sell them Like if we're talking about ideas, how would you justify how would you justify talking about ideas to tesla wasn't even his idea But he gets to control everything but it's like what what's the justification for these The elite right the folks who Own the major corporations who are the managers who are the directors of these corporations banks and foundations. What's the justification of them? I'm trying to actually find one Can you think of one like if you had to argue it? These niggas worship satan That's all it's some evil It's pure evil and why she wouldn't even aspire to that like think about how How disconnected from the planet you got to be from fellow humans, but I want to Make as much as I possibly can I don't care how it impacts the world or how it impacts other people I mean if you can define a human being as someone that is A breathing Living organism that finds connections and finds meaning and finds life from other human beings If we can define humanity as that right as like the interconnectedness of humanity And these people see themselves as essentially Godlike figures Which I would say their satanists They is completely the opposite of humans. They are not human beings If you have that much greed that much Obsession with destruction That's all That's why I say it's pure evil It ain't just about them reaping all these resources Are you have to be an evil person To know that billions of people millions of people are oppressed and you get off to that Bro, and these people have crazy amounts of money narcissism. That's a form of just I don't know I like I just can't we talking about cool money, bro. We ain't talking about like these people have money. I don't think We ain't talking about somebody with a million two million dollars talking about billionaires We're talking about the real capitalist like we ain't talking about five million ten million We talking about billionaires You know I'm saying That's what we talking about who can give a five percent of their wealth and change the entire world I mean again if we talk about the history of how a lot of these folks got their money It wasn't under fairness. It was the exploitation of people and so again I'm not I'm not exploitation in the enslavement. No, yeah I'm eyes of people think socialism Is the absence of hard work is handout. No Julius now you've been told us now We're gonna have to work hella hard before we won't and I'm down to work I just want to reap the benefits of said labor. Yeah, I mean A world where I mentioned this quote all the time six of eight People who are American control half of the world's wealth. So six people eight people control half of the world's wealth and we think that's fair But what like that is insane that is completely insane That's not fair that like that. What are we talking about here? What do we talk about that And six of them are american and we know how the wealth of america was built Off a transatlantic slavery off of the genocide of indigenous people off the genocide of african people after shadow slavery after jim crow After this prison industrial complex And this is how they have their wealth So it's like we ain't asking for a handout, but we hear for what's ours We hear for what's ours and we're gonna work hard to get that and once we have that we're gonna keep working hard To develop humanity into a new way of being To where you feel me at is that combination of work hard but developing You know I'm saying to actually make our lives as human beings The best it can be because that's what we're supposed to do. We're supposed to strive to be the best we can be as humanity But this ain't it having A few people in control to dictate your your daily life And these few people are trying to lead you to a path of destruction So you destroy yourself so you enslave yourself Nah, man. We that is contrary To existing as a human being So we got to take away that parasite that doesn't want us to live We got to take away that parasite that doesn't want us to uh see each other as a human family We got to remove that parasite from humanity Because it's sucking us dry Taking everything the resources Our own soul our own spirit our own state of being day to day our own mental health That's that's what neocolonialism is doing Some of us that parasite is so strong and we'd be thinking we free That's that's the purpose of it But this this is all shit that this is all things that can be addressed Uh, then the first step is just being able to identify what you up against understanding that you are in a neocolonial situation That your social economic and political interests Are not your own or even if you think you are by being by participating electoral politics Like what do you have to ask yourself? What do you really want as an individual? What do you want for the rest of humanity and ask yourself through the present situation? Does it present that as a possibility to come into fruition? Like so if you say you want a world where healthcare is free You say you want a world where how everybody has access to housing Everybody has access to a decent education clothes food shelter all these things you have to ask yourself What is the system now that is preventing this from happening? Right, you have to understand what capitalism is you have to understand what colonialism is what neocolonialism is You have to understand these things that way you can start to fully address them because you don't understand them the system will will Take advantage of your lack of understanding it will say okay, you've have come to think that white is what's wrong So i'm gonna put black in front of you and i'm gonna run the exact same play Okay, you have become you've have become to think that gender is what's wrong Pay that that a man is what's wrong or a woman is wrong. Okay, so now i'm gonna put a trans person in front of you But i'm still keep the same system in place. Okay. Now you just okay Let's put asian in place. Let's put hispanic in places This all these things don't you have to understand what the root cause is what yaki says don't combat the shadow Neal neocolonialism puts all these shadows in front of you But the real problem here is capitalist imperialism neocolonialism Capitalist imperialism in this in this last age and we have to organize to address it It's a part of cadre's educating the people identifying the problems and then putting real solutions and real proper programs in front of them The electoral process as it currently exists. This is not true democracy when you don't own the means of production You don't own the resources when they put in these Reactionary humanists shit in front of you claiming that they care about human life But all these things cost it have been commodified, right? These are things that we can't address It just comes through organizing it can be addressed though Yeah, and that's why we have to unite on principles We have to unite on ideology We have to unite on national consciousness of all of humanity Right, because if we look at neocolonialism it tries to confuse you You feel me it uses race, right? Like I say like The europeans they created race But we the ones who really be tripping off of it all the time, you know i'm saying because They're gonna use a white man to get what they need They're gonna use a brown person to get what they need They're going to use a black person to get what they need They're going to use an asian person to get what they need because ultimately all they see is green But we over here set tripping over race because if we look at it We'll get if we look at the city of oakland district seven trevoree black woman district six kevin jankins a black man no, well gallo district five latin x jennani rama shondron district four south asian woman carol fife district three black woman nicky bass council president in district two asia women dan cab district one euro-american rebecca caplin at large Euro-american So out of all the council members one two three four five six six out of eight are people of color And when we're gonna do this we don't do a town the mayor asian We're gonna do an episode because the uh the budget for the next two years goes out tomorrow And when y'all see some of the stuff that's been proposed that i'm sure it's gonna pass Recognize that it was these city council members who we just named to uh pass them So we have all these people of color in city council all these people in these seats making the decisions for oakland But we all yelling around white supremacy These are neo-colonialists doing the job for this euro-american settler structure And who's hurting the most new africans? The latin x community I just want to say this because people This is not an attack on Someone because of the gender ethnicity nationality This is we have to just call We have to point out capitalist Imperialist methods and the folks who either wittingly or unwittingly support them uh You know, I just say that because it's every time we speak on objective facts somehow we Putting people in danger We being anti-black this ain't about race This ain't this is about calling Pointing out contradictions that are a byproduct of capitalist imperialism and saying about gender this ain't about sexuality. This is just like, yo The fact remains that we want a city And ultimately a world where housing Education quality of life are at the center of our society. I pay taxes. That's what I want. So all my tax dollars to go um And if a budget is passed again where opd has millions and millions of dollars And then spends another 70 million and over time If there's a budget where resources for houseless folks are being cut like the lake merit lodge where they want to propose Where they're proposing closing 100 beds that serves mainly black elders and black disabled folks I have the right In the duty in the obligation to humanity To speak out and say, oh, who are the people that's allowing this to happen? That's all it's about But because these people are black and latinx and queer you can't speak on you can't speak on Jewish and that's neat That's how neocolonialism functions. They put these people who are fascism. They want to use identity secretary in politics to be able to Give a buffer zone essentially for the neocolonialism for the neocolonialists do exactly what they want to do That's why we can't just say white We can't just say white supremacy. You can't just say it's white supremacy and you can't just say black is right Queer is white queer is right trans is right. Disabled is right No, it ain't about that. It's about the politic you pushing The end of the day Do you surprise just this has no color you support sovereignty or do you support colonial subjugation? Do you do you support socialism or do you support capitalism? That's do you support pan-africanism or pan-Europeanism? That's that's what I have to ask myself in a place that wants uh OPD to continue to have hundreds of million dollars at disposal a place that's closing Shelters that's cutting back resources for the people that's closing public schools. I gotta speak on that But the message is understand neocolonialism because that's what we up against Neocolonialism the last stage of imperialism by Kwame and krumah is a great book to read meditations on wretched of the earth by by yaki the wretched of the earth By france fanon. These are all some text class struggle by kwame and krumah is a great book to read It's four texts for you. I'm gonna just repeat them kwame and krumah Neocolonialism the last stage of imperialism Kwame and krumah class struggle in africa france fanon the wretched of the earth James jockey sales Meditations on france fanon's wretched of the earth are great books to read on neocolonialism I would say for in terms of like very action-based book that addresses neocolonialism None other than we are our own liberators All right, this is why we is discussing what we is discussing you feel when we pointed out We is trying to be able to identify it right if we ain't able to identify the enemy And how the enemy uses our own our own people against us. We ain't gonna know ain't gonna know how to fight All right, so this is this process of class struggles being able to identify Who's for us and who ain't and drawing that line of demarcation to say? Okay, these people these people they're on the side of our oppressors And if they refuse to come and join the people then we have to call them out for exactly what they're doing You feel me and this is why we build the programs in the heart of the community To struggle with our community to show people that no we can govern ourselves We can liberate ourselves. We can build true power that is an offensive force that will ultimately free the land That's what we have to do We have to build these programs in our community to draw out these contradictions of capitalism to draw the contradictions of neocolonialism So that our people can be able to see mm-hmm Yeah, these people we voted for they ain't here doing it. They ain't here serving us week after week They ain't in here in the projects with us building they ain't over here trying to organize tenants They ain't over here trying to make sure everyone has a right to food housing water They ain't over here trying to make sure we have the right to be a dignified human being And through that program, that's how we develop unity in our community That's how we develop the national unity new african unity Because that new african unity that's stronger than any type of weapon That's the power of the program Be able to identify our our enemy and then create a material force to combat that enemy And that's what we got to do thrown on forward free to land