Bound in Unity or Destruction: Black Women's History Month

 

                                              TransAtlantic Productions Dr. Barbara Sizemore

The narrative of the African American woman in the United States is of vital and national security importance to the Black family, and Pan-African Society. Our women, are our most important resource and treasure. Likewise, for the Black women, the Black Man is their most important resource and treasure for the maintenance of African or Khemetian society. The relationship is reciprocal and the seed and egg defines our oneness as an organism and species. For her to lose her mind, personal & historical identity, self value, and social role within the African American family, during our Diasporaic sojourn in the Americas, is to observe the slow genocide of a family and an entire group of people. 

 

Thus, the narrative of Black Women's History in the United States must take meticulous care to identify specific mechanisms and historical ideologies, which form the foundation of American society (English, Spanish, French, Dutch, or Portuguese) and dictate life in various manners. 

 

The Black American Women's History

First and foremost, the African American woman cannot forget the manner in which she came from the continent of African (Khemet) to the Americas under the White Capitalist Patriarchical Military Supremacy colonization of Western Europeans (Thinking Critically Bell Hooks). The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade is as much of cause and effect as The American Revolution or US Constitution is to the White American, it determines the legal socioeconomic realities of life in these lands. Furthermore, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade did much to the African woman, that she should never forget, lest she fall victim to the same devices which captured and enslaved her in these lands. 

Unforgettable Tenets of Black American Women's History 

1.

The separation from her original family and protection is the first of many traumatic actions which define this identity. The break up of her family is the catalyst for the rest of her life and her children. Thus, this is a theme that is constantly repeated in the course of all, each and every Black American Woman's life, especially if they are not conscience of it. Not enough can be said about this first historical aspect. Next, The monetary valuation of her body and subsequent, reevaluation for the uses of her body, especially as sexual vice without consequence or permission, secondly as labor, and third, as the mechanism for birthing new humans. The history of the Black American woman begins with dehumanization, the loss of identity and history, and the re-evaluation of her body, not for her essential social role as daughter, Sister, Wife, and Mother, but for her labor contribution to the capitalist system of the Americas, North, Central and South. This is how a proud African tribal woman becomes a Black American in Spanish, English, French, Dutch, or Portuguese. It is the same system in the diaspora of the Americas. Please understand, this recent western, post 1500s, Crusades inspired history, is not the same, or minutely equivalent to the holistic 200,000 year history of the African or Khemetian woman, but one very recent subcategory.

                                             Breaking Family on Coast of Africa

2.

Next, in the history of the Black American Woman is language and renaming. The loss of family and identity (clan & tribe) is replaced by a new social orientation of people, new language, new name, and forced mannerisms, in which to express herself. It can be argued that the Black American Woman is an created woman, much like the Black American Man, is an created man. For the record, Blackness is a concept and idea, not a factual place and there is no land known called Black land. Still, these specific aspects of the machinery of the system primarily shape the Black Woman, inside and out, spiritually and physically. Any narrative of Black American women must begin with this brokeness and disconnect with her original safety, original identity, original environment, and original reality. And most importantly, the narrative must identify the cause of the brokeness and the role the dominant society plays in causing this trauma and how the society constantly changes how it redefines Black Women over time. Again, black women are created by the dominant society and their reality is determined by that society's capital valuation of their body and how it will be used. 

3.

Given the above framework filling the foundation of the Black American Woman's History, the Black American Woman in the Diaspora of her people and land (in other words, in a massive forced migration of her people by war), begins her story.

Niggerification: How A Black Woman (Or Man) is Created

a. Separation from Original Clan, Tribe, & Family. 

b. Physical Separation from Original Homeland & Native Biological Environment

c. Physical Imprisonment, forced coerce behavior with violent torture including maiming and rape as tools of war. Physical Enslavement and separation from her native biological male, which is one and the same original organism species. The Black Woman is then coerced into breeding & sexual violence by her foreign captives.

d. Loss of Culture, language, traditions, style of dress, diet, belief system, personal value, unique customs, social roles, family identity, family name and re-education into another culture with another language, tradition, style of dress, diet, belief system, personal values, unique customs, social roles, new family/social orientation, and new family names. The new society and environment applies a capital value and assigns an occupation for labor.

e. A Black Woman or Man is created.

    

The Ugly Truth & The Horrible Past

4. 

Thus, the story and history of the Black American Woman must begin with her slave experience and her narrative. What happened to her parents, her Mother and Father and how did she come to be born? What happened to her family, Brothers and Sisters, and what was the nature of their existence and cooperation? How did the American system of enslavement affect her family? How has America changed towards her family over the years? How are mature Black mates brought together to produce another generation and what does life look like for those children? In outlining these things, the Black Woman will begin to understand that she is not an individual, but a sum of many parts. It is impossible to separate the plight of the Black Woman, since she is apart of the Black Family. The eras of Black Women's history are adjacent to Black History in America. Understanding this unity is vital to the safeguarding of the Black American family and Black Women's History should always be used to scaffold to the larger picture.

a. Colonial Era (1499-1830)

Examples:

Bars Fight by Lucy Terry (1724)

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley (1798)

b. Antebellum Era (1776-1865)

Examples: 

Ar'n't I a Woman? by Sojourner Truth

A Narrative of Sojourner Truth

Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality by Maria Stewart

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriett Jacobs

Thirty Years A Slave and Four in the White House by Elizabeth Keckley

Our Nig by Harriett Wilson

c. Post-Bellum & Reconstruction Era (1865-1877)

Examples:

Famous Women of the Negro Race by Pauline Hopkins

An Appeal to My Country Women by Frances Harper

The Scarlet Woman by Fenton Johnson

I Sit & Sew by Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson

d. Jim Crow America (1877-1965)

Examples:

A Red Record by Ida B Wells-Barnett

Before the Feast of Shushan by Anne Spencer

Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston

Mules & Men by Zora Neale Hurston

Hoodoo in America by Zora Neale Hurston

To a Dark Girl by Gwndolyn Bennett

Saturday's Child by Countee Cullen

The Living is Easy by Dorothy West

The Mother by Gwendolyn Brooks

A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry

A Blue Book from the Blue Black Magical Women by Sonia Sanchez

The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara

From A Logical Point of View by Nikki Giovanni

I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Beloved by Toni Morrison

e. Civil Rights Integration & Contemporary History (1965-Present)

Women by Alice Walker

Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid

The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor 

Teaching Critical Thinking by Bell Hooks

Aint I a Women by Bell Hooks 

 

How the Black Woman is Portrayed Today

5. 

"The Modern American feminist movement has convinced the Black woman that she doesn't need a man (Interview Dr. Umar Johnson 2022)." 

Since the American Civil War, the perpetual enslavement of Black Americans has been outlawed except in certain Criminal cases, which indicates that the Slave system in America is still in existence (13th Amendment 1865). After the overt enslavement period in the United States, it is vital to portray Black American Women in unity with the Black Male, which is an symbol broken by the Slave institution. The education of the Black woman in the Diaspora and in the United States must withstand the dominant American discourse, which seeks to represent Black American Women as the same caricatures that were forced upon her by dominant society during the Antebellum (Slave) Era. These portrayals include Mamie, Tragic Mulatto, Jezabel, and the miseducated, misguided "Independent Woman," in post modern times. 

 

 

Mammie I & II Archetype Courtesy of Sean Smith for I Color

 

 

Tragic Mulatto Courtesy of Jim Crow Exhibit Ferris

 

 Jezabel I, II-Josephine Baker, III- Twerking Team, IV- Modern Jezabel

Single Black Mother Archetype

 

Independent Black Female Courtesy of Atlanta Black Star 

The Fight For Proper Black Women's Portrayal

We must inform our daughters, sisters, wives and Mothers of the coerced behavior forced upon them during enslavement and the sheer strength it took for Black Enslaved Ancestors, Black Men & Women, to fight for our current generation of Black Women to be able to be, daughters, sisters, wives, and Mothers, as opposed to property for labor and sex. The American society intentionally seeks to separate the Black male or female, physically & psychologically, for the purpose of control and division from the group, which would lead to the destruction of the entire unit, and continual enslavement and poverty. This is the moral summit of Sojourner Truth's A'n't I A Woman? Truth, encouraged by the early White Feminist Movement to split from her inextricable support of equality & suffrage of the Black Man for the universal suffrage of White Women, voiced her understanding the the plight of the Black Woman cannot be separated from the Black Man. Truth too, would like someone to place a rain coat over a puddle of water, but since she is a Black, no one would waste a coat, but "An't I a Woman?" The devices to divide Black Women and Men are not new. However, the Black women must be reminded that it took the sacrifice of everyone in the Black American culture, to understand and fight those devices, so our women and families today could soar out of the government planned ghettos and contributed to the American Society in monumental ways. We must identify those ways, while still drawing the connection to the Black American historical origin and plight in the United States. Today, the Black Male is being destroyed by mass incarceration, in many cities the percentage of single Black women are as high as 70%, and the percentage of children coming out of two parent households has dropped from 7 out of 10 in the 1960s to 2 out of 10. The hegemony of the United States has directed the same slave  "Mammie- Tragic Mulatto, Jezabel, Single independent Women," propaganda, legal  (Auction Block-Child Support), and socioeconomic (Section 8) attempts to drive a permanent wedge between the Black Male and female to effectively break the Black family, through divide and conquer, once and for all. The result will create a permanent caste of Blacks in the Americas suffering from the ills of broken family, and the poverty it breeds. Thus, our Black women must be well versed not to be fooled by the popular American social attempt to separate her from the Black Male. Black Women must be specific and particular about the Women publicly endorsed as role models and icons. The Dominant American Society will endorse Black Women, who fit the traditional roles of Mammie, Tragic Mulatto, Jezabel, and Independent Women. Thus, the leaders of genuine Black Feminist organizations must counter these popular forces with drug free, authentic, tenacity, and historically knowledgeable Black female Icons. The same must be done for our Black American Men, to provide role models of substance and character. Essentially, in America,two groups will be pushed, a group embedded by the White American Establishment for social control, and another endorsed by the community for the genuine representation of values, direction, and cultural mores. History has given us examples of the type of Black American Women, we should support and endorse. It is time to raise up another generation of daughters, sisters, wives, and Mothers of substance and character.

Mary McCloud Bethune

 

Biddy Mason

Ida Wells-Barnett

Zora Neale Hurston

 

Toni Morrison

 

Bell Hooks 

 

Michelle Obama 

Black Women in Unity or Black Women in Destruction

It is unfortunate in the sojourner of the American Diaspora and the long fight of Africans in Americas from the Middle Passage, Revolutions to the Plantation and Jim Crow, that we find among ourselves traitors and those who would betray our sacred heritage for temporary convenience. The Black Women, who are in solidarity with the Black Man, the struggle for the Black family, and the plight for the future of our children cannot be praised enough. Black Women's History Month, must center around these characters of substance within our communities; daughters, sisters, aunts, wives, and Mothers. Their stories are ubiquitous and their triumphs are inspiring.

 In opposition to Black Unity are the very loud, historical trauma driven, Black women in Destruction of Black people and the costs are mighty. Of late, these are the Black Women, American Media & Popular Agencies promote to influence Black behavior and thought. Again, the characteristics are the same as during the slave era caricatures, "Mammie, Tragic Mulatto, Jezabel, and the Independent Woman." Each character is toxic towards Black people, consuming them for their worth, then jettisoning them when they are finish. This is all done in over appreciation and service of the White Capitalist Patriarchy Militant Supremacy system. Furthermore, there is a serious development in the destruction of the Black family and Black Male, which is caused primarily by the toxic Black Woman. 

The Auction Block of the Courthouse, which sold millions of Black Men, women and children by law during slavery, has rebranded itself as Family court, where millions of Black families are broken apart again, just like the slave days. Not only is family court turning millions of Black Men into Debtors or Peon Slaves, but as a consequence of failure to pay, criminals and in time, slaves again according to the 13th Amendment. Thus, Black American Women, who were brought to America without the rights of a citizen, are seeking justice from the very system which legally enslaved her and her Ancestors, and in seeking justice from another individual, a previous lover, who also was brought to America without the rights of a citizen, in a court that historically sold millions of Black Men and Women. The logic, I cannot make up but the end result is not only the destruction of that specific Black Man, but if repeated systematically, the re-enslavement of the Black Man by testimony of the Black Woman. Such a betrayal on a mass scale cannot be brushed under the rug of a lover's quarrel, if 7 out of 10 Black men are currently within the system, than, this is one of the most important issues in Black America today. A reason for "Fatherless" homes and mass incarceration among Black families. The taxes received by the Courts from Child Support are used to perpetuate the system, and is actively after the school-prison pipeline, the second leading avenue for Black Men to enter the criminal system. Black Women must acknowledge this and take responsibility.  Black America cannot be silent on the Child Support System any further for not only is it criminalizing Black Men, but taxing the Black Family during calamity.

Jezabel

The Jezabel caricature for the Black American women is the most destructive on the community and the person. The market for hyper-sexuality of Black Women, constantly available, was created by European men in the slave system, and thus, is hyperbole in reality, often coupled by economic need. Keep Black families poor and White America will always have a steady supply of Jezabels for consumption. Before the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, it did not exist for African women and so, Jezabel is strictly created as an Black American Woman caricature because it is ultimately in service for miscegeny and white men. This is a creation of American popular culture from everything from the language, to the style of dress, occupations (Stripper, prostitute, Video Vixen etc), and types of dances a Jezabel does (social or twerking). Of late, this caricature has arisen to influence Black American Woman in the face of literally a decline to Black Men due to mass incarceration, and death. Due to the influence of the modern Jezabel on Men, the impression and influence to other women and for little girls to pursue this type of lifestyle or employment as a viable means to earning a living increased, and the poverty of mind that descends into all type of decadence from drug & alcohol abuse, sexual promiscuity, sexual deviance, and poor moral compass is a grave trauma that can be inter-generational. The spirit of Jezabel is not to be miscalculated because the spirit is all consuming and is hedonistic, narcissistic, and nihilistic. The psychological zeitgeist is to consume men, constantly be available for sexual advances, cheeky behavior, and uses feminism to justify what cannot be justified by honesty or true morality. If a man marries a Jezabel, his family will be destroyed within a matter of time, with the reality of being taken to the modern auction block, likely. We caution our women to find value, historical identity, and fruitful relationships with men which helps develop the experience of different types of love to experience with men, such as Fathers, Uncles, Brothers, Nephews, and sons. All these relationships are not based on sex and so a women develops character which is useful in a community of people, that is not toxic driven or based on consumption. A woman needs to develop this type of fruitful relationship with females as well to be balance.

Final Words

The narrative of Black Women's History is of vital importance to the Black Family and ultimately can influence the Black American experience for the positive or the negative. The history of Black American Women is ugly and horrific, but it is a lesson that is not to be forgotten, lest we repeat them again. It is also a history that is inextricably bound to the Black Man and family, from which Black Women cannot be separate. Any attempt to portray the Black Women as separate is a device by dominant society to divide and conquer the black community. Still, the fight is to portray Black women as daughters, sisters, aunts, wives, and Mothers to inspire triumph and human dignity among our women. Black women will either live in unity with the Black Man & Family or she will destroy it within this American society. History will record the response

  

 

written by Cowan Amaye-Obu

Things to Do: Black History Month 2024 (Revised)

                                               We Family Love Daniel Raticliff; Akron Beacon Journal

February is African American History Month in the United States, and this year, in 2024, The American Mastodon Publication would like to help Black America set the narrative. Black History, is not solely for the profit and capitalism by Large American Corporations, but for the education and remembrance of the long history of Africans in America. In 1926, Carter G. Woodson, the "Father of Black History," and author of The Miseducation of the Negro, initiated the celebration of Negro History Week to correspond with the birthdays of our great Forerunners, Frederick Douglas, and Abraham Lincoln. In 1976, Negro History Week, expanded to the entire month of February. This year, in 2024, we would like to reignite the spirit of commemoration of the African American experience and our Elders. Thus, we would like to challenge all African Americans to plan Family Reunions, Family Brunches, and to redraw Family Trees. We would also like to encourage African American Tours of Black Museums and African American Historical sites across the United States. These are Things to Do: Black History Month 2024

                                                     River Bend Reunion by John Holyfield

1. Plan Family Reunions or Family Brunches (Form Committees in the Family to organize the event & use family, local, & Black businesses to furnish the lodging, event space, decorations, food, and book signing.)

2. Draw Family Trees & create Photo Albums

3. Tour African American Museums and African American Historical Sites (This list does not include a complete list of Museums & Sites. For example, my favorite museum is the National Museum of Black American Music in Nashville Tennessee. Each State has specific African American Heritage Sites, for example, Florida, Fort Moses.

4. Plant Flowers & Tokens at the Cemetery to celebrate your Family Ancestors, who've "crossed over the river." Send your love, pray for their support, and make sure your children know where their loved ones are buried.

5. Attend Black History Festivals & Celebrations

6. Attend African Drum & Dance Class

7. Support Black American Businesses: Make a real effort to spend money within our community, beginning with businesses owned by your own family & friends.

8. Read a novel by an African or African American Author. The AMP Approved List of Short Stories & Novels will be updated continuously.

9. Enjoy African American Films. List will be updated.

10. Join or volunteer for a local African American organization.

The American Mastodon Publication is proud to celebrate Black History Month 2024 and to challenge African Americans to set their own narrative, organize family functions, and to educate themselves on the long experience of Africans in the United States.

Written by Cowan Amaye-Obu

Director Satuye Cultural Arts & Science Coalition/Editor of The Dancing Mastodon Magazine

Sources:

Black Art Depot

                                              Priceless Moments by Dennis Jinguo Dai

                                                               Papa's Girls by Robert Jackson

                                                              Courtin by John Holyfield

Sources:

How Negro History Week Became Black History Month; NY Times

Carter G Woodson; Association of African American Life & History

Miseducation of the Negro; Carter G Woodson 1936

National Museum of African American Music; Nashville, Tennessee

Frederick Douglas; National Park Service

Abraham Lincoln; White House

Wikipedia Foundation: African American Museums & African American Sites

Things Fall Apart; Chinua Achebe 1958

Southern Belle; Black Business 

Setting the Narrative for Black America

                                                        Photo Courtesy of: Myths of Propaganda
 

One of the most essential priorities for the leadership of Black African Americans is setting the Narrative for the people. Massive groups of people are impressionable and control of the narrative allows for the manipulation of behavior, cultural mores & taboos, as well as standard majority consensus. What Black Americans support, what Black Americans hate, and who Black Americans want to reward or punish, is all directed by the Narrative. Unfortunately, a national leadership directing the Narrative for Black African Americans with a population of over 45 million people, has been largely absent since the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the late 1960s, save the last survivor of the Avant Garde, massive Civil Rights Organizations Era, the Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan. Farrakhan has organized two separate Million Man Marches on the United States capital in Washington D.C., with commanding authority, loyalty, and respect enough among Black Americans to end both marches peacefully. The wealth of wisdom, knowledge of the struggles, and the extensive network of experience from the Nation of Islam is one of the last vestiges of collective Black power in the United States. However, the dominant hegemonies of The United States with various interests have invested in subverting the influence of Minister Farrakhan and any other national Black leadership. Largely, this allows for the control of the Black American economy by dictating the national agenda of Black America from the outside. The issues which matter, fashion, popular music, movies, and the entire culture dictated from the outside. In turn this allows for the widespread cashing out and wealth extraction from Black communities into the hands of outsiders. Setting the calendar and narrative is as imperative as breathing for of the national momentum of the entire group can be constantly derailed, misguided, and disinformed, then the group, like children following the Pied Piper, can be lead to their confusion or deaths by hypnosis.

                                                 Photo Courtesy of Library of Congress 2023

We must by all means end the dictation and hypnosis of our population. The greatest weapon of the West is propaganda. It is through propaganda that values, issues, concerns, traditions are advertised and expressed. Black America has been largely lost since the 1960s and the last of our national organizations. 

So, what is the Outside Hegemony instructing us to do in 2022-2023? How is it affecting our behavior? For example, the worldwide African population boom of 2016-2020, caused the Western Hegemony to enact a culling campaign within the worldwide population. Now, while the entire continent of Africa had performed better than any other region in the world and lost less lives to the campaign than Europe, Asia, the United States, or Brazil. The African American communities in North, Central, & South America under the direct colonization of the West, experienced a massive population loss and in the United States, over $75 million was set aside to advertise among African American influencers, celebrities, social programs, and Christian organizations, to have African American vaccinated. The paid propaganda is the instruction and so, it is by propaganda, African American organizers can determine what Outside Hegemonies are planning and their intentions. Another example, the fear of the Black Male in the United States has lead to the creation of the Prison Industrial system, which is a factory system for either pacification or the elimination of Black American Men in America.

                                                Photo Courtesy of NPR Mass Incarceration

 Now, Black labor is still worth well over $1.6 trillion dollars to the United States and Black labor is the commodity Africans have to offer since 1620. This labor must be taken up by African American women, but how will society get African American women to accept the incarceration of their men, and justify their leaving their husbands & children for massive entrance into the workforce in numbers? In 2018, American propaganda mills invented the "Genderless," phenotype and marched across the airwaves demanding Trans-LGBTQ rights to have access to public bathrooms in the South. Now, the invention of "Genderlessness," does two things, it questions the existence of gender and confuses the existence of gender roles or responsibilities. The entire argument for Trans-gender bathrooms is a farce. However, psychologically it invents confusion about what genders are entitled to do. Hence, in the aftermath of the Trans-gender Bathroom Argument, American students began to have trans- gender issues in public schools, where boys wanted to be identified as girls, and girls wanted to be identified as boys, officially. The entire argument was political theatre, as the American Medical establishment firmly purported that biology cannot be voluntarily decided. Still, the propaganda had already completed its mission. Black American women began to come out in support of the Trans-LGBTQ, and demanded their rights be respected. The rise in Black women participating in the Lesbian community skyrocketed and consequently, because there are no men around, the women have to work to provide for themselves and their families. The entire scheme is a psychological masterpiece because traditionally, the African American community is against the LGBTQ community, thus to have Black women joining the cause of homosexuality & transgendered in public, politically was a testament of the power of propaganda and the rift between Black Men & Women. In the absence of African American Men, Black women didn't stand a chance, especially because what they chose to do by free will, was psychologically implanted. Furthermore, Outside hegemonies plan to push African American women to the extent of their free will through feminist ideology, which has become more of a pseudo-religion.

                                             Black Enterprise: Black Women Truckers 2019

 Instead of taking care of the family and providing the most nurturing environment for her husband and children, like the other races of women understand as their gender role, the Black American Woman will fight to work in any capacity, thinking this is right and castrating any opposition to her right. Furthermore, not only are Black Men the majority prison population in various states, the women have to find the means to support their families. Meanwhile, her husband and children will be devoid of an environment of love and support, similar to the slave caricature of Mamie. In fact, the lack of historical knowledge has lead the Black American Woman back to the role of Mamie for all of America's Industries and the world to see. All this can be extracted from the current American propaganda machine. Last, ask yourself what type of television or films do Black African American Men have the most prominent roles? Drugs, Sports, & War films. These are the images the Outside Hegemony has given the African American Male to envision himself. These are the psychological implants, which will lead these men by free will straight to prison, hospitals, or a coffin. Thus, setting the narrative for the African Americans is as important to the people as healthcare.

Source:

Propaganda Photo: Vox Ukraine; 8/5/22 

Transgendered Classrooms; Gender Spectrum

Gender Neutral Preschool; CNN 2017

US Appeals Court Uphold's Florida Bann on Transgendered Bathroom Bann; Reuters 12/22/2023

Mass Incarceration: NPR 2019

Sodium Fire: Why The Struggle for African Self Determination is Obsolete

                                                             Photo Sodium Fire of 2016 Asia

"A sodium fire is a commercial fire of the liquid metal sodium. It can be sparked by the presence of air and cannot be quenched by water, which acts to fuel additional combustion. Even, the fire extinguisher will intensify the fire. The only solution to such a catastrophic tragedy is dry sand. Politically, socially, economically, societally, militarily, and intellectually, the African is in a sodium fire. The only solution is dry sand."

The contemporary age is full of wonder and awe. To be born in such an age is a gift, or a intelligently designed, curse, the product of thousands of years of human technological socio-evolution. Today, is the moment where the once impossible, is possible. Technology has even outpaced social governance like democracy, which is entirely insufficient to keep pace with emerging advances in commercial scientific organization. If threaten, a society would flatten for technological progress, even Nature, the creator, holder, teacher, and preserver of technology. Ironically, given the inability of any intelligent being or species, to holistically comprehend the infinite possibilities & infinite mathematical realities, Nature is often the first victim of progress. It is the thin line between knowledge and evil. For the thin line, in reference to the African Man, and his struggle for self determination, the time for peaceful compromise is over. Marginalized groups can never reclaim the ground lost by thousands of years of their Ancestral cultural socio-evolution, or push forward constructive agendas to cause the technological retreat of the post modern society. A successful marginalized group is rare and must affix themselves with aspects of the technological age, which ensures their indispensibility. Why?

The apparatus of technology has created global monolithic gigantrian systems of economies, which no small group has the power to oppose. All the simple substances of the modern and post modern society are the products of giant systems, for example coffee, sugar, tea, gold, aluminium, glass, Big Oil or even, electricity. All these systems include years of scientific processes, research, and physical organization on a massive scale using land resources in Asia, Africa or Australia, transportation vessels, refineries & factories in highly industrialized locations, distribution channels, legal structures in corporations, illegible courthouses, complex currency systems in a multi-component, highly complex globally organized apparatus monitored & protected by military units under the command of the owners of the regimes, their families, and their civilization hegemonies. Complex products like televisions, computers, and cellphones are built on the simple industries and are evolutions of decades to centuries of thought. The Architects, Physicians, and Engineers of today, with their foundations in classical studies and manufactured thought, are the most intelligent "Jack of All Trades," or Beings, in the history of mankind. The civilization that rests on top of this behemoth structure will rule the Earth.

The African movement for self determination is obsolete because it fails to weigh the sheer weight of technological advances, which increasingly depend on their labor, intelligence, ancestral lands, and its physical resources. The contemporary age is composed of behemoth systems of technology, represented by corporations and protected by laws, all of which are designed to provide simple and complex products consumed by every culture in the world. The self determination of the African, at this junction in the 21st Century, would jeopardize and even halt the entire world's technological advances, in every system, industry, and economy. Why else has the numerous attempts at African liberation in the Americas, the continent of Africa, and all over the world, not been ultimately successful? African American Slave rebellions like those of Nat Turner in 1830s Virginia, did not understand that their struggle was not just against the ordinary White American Enslaver and the plantation system, but against the Behemoth Tobacco Industry, Rice Industry, Coffee, Industry, Tea Industry, Sugar Industry, Cotton Industry, Christianity, and all the Capitalist components of the American Empire, which had components locally and abroad making plantations, haciendas, and encomiendas, possible. Haiti's Toussaint Louverture and Jean Jacques Dessalines were closer to the solution for African liberation in 1804, by challenging the owners of the entire system, the French Empire, and they succeeded in overthrowing and releasing the shackles of political, social, and intellectual enslavement. Haiti, even assisted their neighbors to the South on overthrowing the owners of the Spanish Empire in South America. Together these Empires of Europe, Spain, England, France, and the Netherlands were members of the European civilization and it is this civilization, that punished the Haitian revolutionaries with their last component of power in the physical corporation apparatus of ships, goods & products, distribution lines, laws, treaties & currency, which ultimately crushed the success of the liberation of Haiti. One needs friends and money to sustain a civilization and the liberation of the African continent, one century later in the 1960s, will also suffer from the same strategy. No one group, nation, or people can defeat all the component features of a Civilization. And because the Africans will not assemble themselves together, by physical resources, shipping systems, currencies and laws in civilization, as in times past, when the continent was not known as Africa, a province of Rome, but Khemet (Black land), Axum, or Abyssiania, under the 12 tribes, using all the component features of their intelligent industries, lands, resources, currencies, laws, and people for the aim of defense and Khemetian Civilization, their individual struggles is obsolete. I compare the current global situation of the African to a sodium fire because mere compromise, the solution water of shaking hands and legal treaties is long past. We are in an age where technology depends on our ignorance and so, water, air, and special means cannot quench the fire which has encompassed around us. 

The European Civilization is not willing to risk the natural evolution of their Capitalist culture, nor is the Asian Civilization willing to curb their natural Social program, for the Khemetian to catch up with the times. And even if, the more humane Asian culture, were willing, the European Apparatus has built their entire wealth structure on the labor, intelligence, and now, land resources of Africa. Such a generous gesture of "humanity," would cause their migration to a secondary or tertiary civilization. And since, when the Khemetian Civilization was at the head of the Earth, it neither ceased to invade Europe and Asia, except for the exchange of knowledge and mathematics, the full ferocity and righteous violence of superiority requires all the components of the full force for the acknowledgement and title of Civilization. Thus, the only way forward for the self determination for Africans (Khemetians), is direct competition and the mathematics of alternative technological progress, alternative education, alternative currency, economies , and bankings, alternative medicine, alternative diet, etcetera. The African or Khemetian, must outflank the European, just as the European outflanked the African during the Crusades. Excuse me, the historical rebranding is the European Age of Exploration. The African must minimize liberty from individual freedom to a gradual familial compromise and a negotiable tribal halt, such as the Asian Civilization successfully did, during the final decades of the 20th Century. 

Why fight progress when either by leadership or enslavement, we will be brought to the same zenith of human perfection in technological advances. So, we must create new alternative behemoth systems and industries for human technology and solve our socioeconomic tragedy by commanding our families to move forward together, forbid individualism & sexism strategies which destroy family, and jettison any detrimental system or industry set on blocking our progress into the technological future. I believe in Afrofuturism, and I believe that the 22nd Century is the beginning of a millennium of African Civilization, but it is a future that aligns us with mathematics and nature, and leaves behind all of the ignorance, demonic vices, & trauma of the Arab & European Slave trade, Holy Wars, and it is a era where we are not as a second caste, or servant of another race of Men. The only solution to a sodium fire is dry sand and fixed structures of Earth. The only solution is Nature. Our own human nature is our only solution.

January Movie of the Month: Rosewood (1997)

 

Rosewood directed by John Singleton; Warner Bros 1997

This January 2023 marks the 100th Centennial of The Rosewood Massacre. In memorial of the next two week's events sponsored by The University of Florida and The Southern Poverty Law Center. As a Gainesville, Florida native, this event is historical for my community. Please show your support for our memorial.

Rosewood Survivor Interviews

Director John Singleton Interview 

Voices of Civil Rights 

The Summers of 1917-1923 in the United States, marked a very turbulent time in racial relations. African Americans were seeking permanant settlements across the country and this was a direct challenge to the White American Status quo, where land ownership remained under White control and labor was the only alternative for African descendants. From race riots in Chicago, St. Louis, Houston, New York City, to massacres in Greenwood, Ocoee, and Rosewood, violence and lynchings became the American experience for African Americans across the country. Lynching became an American passtime, especially on July 4th, where White Communities across the South & North would gather together for a lynching to celebrate American Independence Day. The American Horror story of being Black in America, effectively, creating two Americas, one for the Whites, and another filled with fear for the Black Africans. Thus, Black Floridians must not forget the long history of this struggle for land ownership in this state, which goes back prior to the massacres of the 1920s, but to the Black cities of Angola, Fort Mose, Minatti, Pilaklikaha, and Tobasa. The struggle for Black African self determination in Florida has been fought for a long time. However, in this article, we will remain in commemoration of those who lost their lives 100 years ago, across the state of Florida.

The Ocoee Massacre

Outside of Florida: St Louis Massacre, Greenwood Massacre

St. Louis Massacre

Greenwood Massacre

Sources:

1. Rosewood; Warner Bros Entertainment 1997

2. 100th Commemoration Celebration; Univ. of Florida, Southern Poverty Law Center, Holland & Knight, City of Gainesville, Florida: January 8-14, 2023

3.60 Minutes- Rosewood Survivor Interview & Greenwood Massacre

4. Director John Singleton Interview on Rosewood; Television Academy Foundation 2017

5. Voices of Civil Rights: Rosewood

6. Ocoee Massacre; Eyewitness News 9 2011

7. The Purge: St. Louis Massacre; Hezakya News (distributor)

8. Six Black Free Towns; Jaxsons & WJCT 2023 

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The American Mastodon Publication celebrates Allhallowtide with the Release of The Legends of King Odum

 

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In honor of the Saints, Holy Martyrs, and our Dearly Departed during Allhallowstide, Oct. 31st- Nov. 2nd, The American Mastodon Publication would like to celebrate with the release of two great works; The Legends of King Odum and The African Diaspora Census Report of 2022-2023. This is a time to remember our dearly departed and the lessons of life they left behind to enrich our time among the living. We lift their names in our prayers, visit their resting places, and plant flowers/give gifts in their honor.

The Legends of King Odum 

       Set during the reign of the Benin Empire, Akaso, the primary literature from The Legends of King Odum, is the story told from the natives a century before Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and after, Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. King Odum, is an actual figure from the late 1700s. As a young prince in the Niger Delta, during the European exploration of the Guinea coast, Odum sets out on a journey to find an Ingiminji (Mermaid), a local cult figure, only to discover she has been seized by a mutinous group aboard an infamous vessel of the East India Company, The Hartwell (1787). The challenges of Prieta, the mermaid, lead to a grand alliance within the Empire.

          To summon the reader to better understand the culture of this novel, “Two Gods,” allows the two greatest ideas of the East and West to coalesce and ascertain the better concept. Through the guise of this cult, we discover two tales, which helped to shape the imagination and moral values of Prince Odum in, “Abayomi,” and “The Merchant’s Children.”

           Finally, in an act of war against Elem Kalabari, a region responsible for the sale of over 4 million enslaved persons out of Guinea, Odum is forced to relinquish his throne, in order to save his own kingdom from enslavement by neighboring tribes. King Odum, is a fallen medieval figure of precolonial West Africa researched by GI Jones, Trading States of The Oil Rivers (1963) & Kenneth Dike’s Trade and Politics in the Niger Delta (1956). The cross-cultural connections are widespread and abundant, bringing readers into the heart of Guinea and the Benin Empire, as well as the renown Frigates of the British East India Company. This short historical fiction creates written art out of history and opens an entire world for many to view with their spectacles, or open eyes, the wonders of the Dark Continent.

The African Diaspora Census Report of 2022-2023

The American Mastodon Publication is proud to announce The Afro American Quadrennial Census Report of 2022. Since 2013, the AMP has published a four year study on the population of Africans in the Diaspora. This year, in addition to Africans or Blacks in North, Central, and South America, we will include the African populations of Europe. Our last Census Publication, The African Census of 2020-2021 by Cowan Amaye-Obu reported that the worldwide African population was over 1,425,983,327 people as of July 2021 (African Census AMP 2021), and in comparing it to our Black Census Report of 2016 (Devil in the Details AMP 2016), AMP reported the African population had boomed over 400,000,000 people from the year 2016 to 2020. The most significant fact in our previous report was that Africans are the second largest population of people on Earth as of 2020. This fact was overshadowed by the SARS-COVID 19 Pandemic, but the effect of the virus was not as severe on the continent of Africa, as in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Due to the organization of Pan-African nations and the coordination of epidemic response protocols, experience, and performance, African nations were able to avoid large scale preventable deaths and weather the controversial introduction of COVID 19 into their nations with meticulous control of their borders, immigration, and consideration of the facts over Western propaganda & financial influence, whether for advice, treatments, vaccines, or lack of cooperation due to mistrust. For this reason, the African continent performed better than every continent save Australia, which was also able to minimize the effect of SARS-COVID 19 among its population. However, the Afro America or Africans in Diaspora populations in the Americas did not fair as well. Afro American populations in the Americas are subject to all manner of treatment from marginalization to the continued racial caste enslavement by their 21st Century Post Colonial European governments in rule of the nations of the Americas. Thus, health, unemployment, poverty, life expectancy, GDP per capita, marriage, and education remain vital statistics for African American Census Reports for Africans in Diaspora. The African Diaspora Census Report of 2022 will compare the results from the previous Report of 2017-2018. We hope to disclose some vital information and present our findings for review. We appreciate your donations to aid in the publication and with God's providence, will see you during Allhallowstide, Oct. 31, 2022. Thank you!