On January 20 2009 Michelle and Barack OBAMA take up residency in the most powerful Office in the United States of A Merry Ka... In Africa/Ethiopia, on November 3 1930 Ras TafarI was Crowned Negus Negast, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, Light of the World...the 225th descendant in the Lineage of Solomonic Kings.
The abolition of slavery in the western world in the middle to late 19th century brought a formal close to the most brutal and inhumane period of world history. The destruction of Black civilizations and cultures led to the degeneration of the African World View and the assimilation of alien cultural practices that required the abandonment of African traditional family values, language, historical knowledge and religious orientations.
The arrival of the Mayflower.... Paul Revere and the Boston Tea Party......the establishment of the Freedman's Bureau...The New Deal...are significant political events/milestones in the journey of a people fleeing religious and political persecution at the hands of their cousins... the British. Landing in North America populated by the Indian Nations of Cherokees, Commanches, Apaches, etc. posed a problem for the new settlers. The domestication of the Indian population was critical to the organization and eventual colonization of the North American wilderness. The original 13 colonies of the US are represented in the national flag. This history of conquest is depicted in a Hollywood blockbuster movie titled 'How the West Was Won'.
The formation of a Political Union between the industrial North and the agricultural South, once bitterly divided over the critical and fundamental rights of a human being to be 'free' or remain 'enslaved' created A Merry Ka...a society based on dynamics of race-first... generated Black African American resistance fighters who challenged the impugnity and dastardness......of a supremacist philosophy that espoused "superiority of the aryan race" and the "inferiority" of the BlackAfrican Mind.
From Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, Booker T Washington, W.E. duBois to Marcus Garvey...in the 1920s... advocates of social, economic and political justice/equality for Black African people in A Merry Ka...and the rest of the world ..succumbed to the wrath of an unjust Order...evidenced by Officialdom's response of harrassment,persecution, imprisonment and death.
The emergence of Ras TafarI as a spiritual, social and political Resistance Movement took root in the belly of urban Jamaica. Disenfranchised Africans on the I Land of Jah Mek Ya formed a Vanguard for Resistance against the incessant injustices meted out to the population in the post Emancipation period. Inspired by Leonard Howell and brethrens, the Movement of Ras TafarI became the 'spiritual cutting edge' in the African-Caribbean resistance and struggle against oppression in all forms. The Crowning of the Majesty was the first signal that the Consciousness of Divinity dwells in the African Persona and the 'teachings of Rome' would now be challenged on empirical grounds. That there would be Ones in the Body of Ras TafarI who "sight up" HIM...as the Root of Jesse... posed a serious challenge to the government of Jamaica, the Catholic Church and the Power of the Papacy. The visit of HIM to Jah Mek Ya over 40 years ago[ April 1966] concretized the Image, Personality and Reality of Ras TafarI and exploded the myth that Black African People were bereft of [lack] 'divinity' and were pre-destined to be "slaves to their brothers", according to the popular racist-tinged interpretation of the Flood Story of Noah as recorded in the KJV Book of Genesis. Spiritual and mental liberation preceeds the social, economic and politcal aspects of liberation. Ras TafarI set the spiritual foundation for Leadership in the BlackSelf and energized the liberation movement in the West...a process that is set to reach a climax in 2009.
This "essence of leadership" and "revolution" was embodied and expressed globally through the Nyahbinghi music form [drumming/chanting/]created by Count Ossie and the Mystic Revelation of Ras TafarI... to the political and socially biting lyrical hits of the triumvirate Peter Tosh Neville Livingstone and Robert Nestor Marley...the internationally recognised Wailers... and the Army of Jah RastafarI Singers and Players of Instruments that preceeded, their contemporaries, and those that are currently on the spiritual and musical battle field.
Ethiopia's struggle against the fascist Italian dicator Mussolini and Haile Selassie appeal to the League of Nations provided Ras Tafarians with a Model for Leadership and Statesmanship that contradicted the general 'teachment' that Blacks were only "hewers of wood and drawers of water". The formation and vision of the Organization of African Unity(OAU) headquarted in Addis Ababa served to reinforce the powers of leadership within the Majesty. (I strongly recommend examining the very instructive Speech on Leadership by HIM). The Speeches and Teachings of Haile Selassie became the theoretical foundation for the intellectual prowess needed to balance the spiritual consciousness for development and sustainance of this revolutionary and liberating Movement.
On the North American continent., the struggle for 'dignity and pride' through access to education became politically defined as one of 'human rights', as the former slaves fought for acceptance as a full fledged "human being" ...having to continuously struggle against the effects of a racist ideology that suggests that the Black Africans are not 'fully man' but "two-thirds" of a man....implying that the US Constitution's claim of "holding these truths self-evident that all men were created equal, and endowed by the Creator with certain inalienable rights"...and did not regard the Black African population in A Merry Ka.
The struggle for the "right to vote" .. ...and eventual "civil rights" implies that the BlackAfrican population were never given the political recognition as Citizens of A Merry Ka.The move from slave to citizen for the Black African was fraught with terror and brutal opposition from the Klu Klux Klan and the white power structure in A Merry Ka. The list of Black African resistance liberation fighters in A Merry Ka is long...but mention must be made of Medgar Evers, George Jackson, Angela Davis, Black Panthers, Elijah Muhammad, Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King...advocates of social and political liberation for Black African people in A Merry Ka..victims of State-sponsored harrassment, persecution, imprisonment and assassination.
The reality is that political leadership in A Merry Ka rests in the hands of elected officials from the ranks of Mayor, Congress man/woman, Senator, Governor, with the ultimate power resting in the hands of the President wjho is also Commander in Chief. In 1972 Jamaican born Shirley Chisholm became first Black African woman to make a symbolic 'bid' for the white House. Other 'attempts' have been made, most notably Jesse Jackson. Shockingly, nearly 40 years later[2009] the descendants of enslaved Black Africans brought into the West through the horrific Atlantic Middle Passage.. to endure the bitter winters of North America and suffer on the cotton and sugar plantations of both North America [and the Caribbean]...have pulled themselves up 'by their own bootstraps' to ascend to the Throne of Leadership in the world's most powerful military and technological democracy.
It is cryptic that the ascendancy of the Black African Family to the Seat of Political power in A Merry Ka is at a historical moment when the Globe is engulfed in the end - product of a WAR unilaterally declared by the US regime. A WAR against ALL who look "eastern"... plunging the World into a War... against real and imagined TERRORists...using the elusive and mystic bin Laden.. located in some tribal hills on the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan... yet still can not be found...and the fabrication of Weapons of Mass Destruction as a pretext for the illegal invasion of a sovereign State in Iraq ...creating a deep schizm in the global political framework...setting Christian vs Muslim ; the Axis of Evil vs the Axis of Bush and his Allies; orchestrating a polarized world ... driven by my way or no way; either with me or against. A merry con... population driven by yellow and orange levels of scares and fear[anthrax]... now morally and financially bankrupt.
The real tragedy in this all is that after the Black African people in A Merry Ka have with their blood, sweat and tears built up the Great Babylon...built on the back of the African Slave Trade and backed up by Jim Crow Laws and racial segregation and oppression...it is the Black African American who is to restore sanity to a "very sick" society facing dire economic collapse and social chaos....both pending and unavoidable.
President Elect Barack Obama is now being courted to use his leadership skills, spiritual strength, intellectual savvy and all the attributes that were previously not accredited to Black African People to set aright what the dominating white power structure has created... from the first Gulf War to the un-finished War in Afghanistan to the un-provoked War in Iraq... bringing the mighty A Merry Ka to its knees and into economic ruin... the Great Depression of 1929 is a tempest in a teapot when compared the present drama that is unfolding.
With the entire world begging for a 'change in direction', the choice of a war veteran to replace the "incumbent warrior" has proven to be quite unattractive...making way for a second-term senator from Illinois to emerge as the People's Choice for the Leader of that desired Change...African American Barack Obama...inheriting an economy on its debtbed... a lone super power that has lost much face in the international community...the impact of Katrina, Halliburton, Abu Gharib, Guantanomo,..sub prime market failure...Fanni Mae and Freddie Mac, AIG, Lehman Brothers, then one 70 year old man... Made-off with US$50 billion ..leaving global financial and humanitarian agencies in tatters...including suicides...key industries falling apart at the seams: banks, housing , travel, automotive...fast rising un-employment and shelterless-ness...as A Merry Ka approaches the "end game" of its reign as the world's Supreme Power. There was Egypt and Greece and Rome and Britain... there is a resurgent Russia, there is China and there is India. Kingdoms rise and kingdoms fall. Africa is on the horizon. The cycle of life is inevitable.
It is Barack Obama and his Family that InI celebrate in the representation of the BlackAfrican potential "to rise" above the boundaries and borders created by men and people. The resistance against inhumane treatment of man to man continues. Take a look at the stripping of GAza. It will require far more than a Black Family to "clean up" the "mess" and restore the image of A MerryKa...inside and outside...one that once represented equal rights and justice in the eyes of the ALMIGHTY. Aluta continua! Ras TafarI Lives!
(c)2009
Dr IMAN BLAK
The abolition of slavery in the western world in the middle to late 19th century brought a formal close to the most brutal and inhumane period of world history. The destruction of Black civilizations and cultures led to the degeneration of the African World View and the assimilation of alien cultural practices that required the abandonment of African traditional family values, language, historical knowledge and religious orientations.
The arrival of the Mayflower.... Paul Revere and the Boston Tea Party......the establishment of the Freedman's Bureau...The New Deal...are significant political events/milestones in the journey of a people fleeing religious and political persecution at the hands of their cousins... the British. Landing in North America populated by the Indian Nations of Cherokees, Commanches, Apaches, etc. posed a problem for the new settlers. The domestication of the Indian population was critical to the organization and eventual colonization of the North American wilderness. The original 13 colonies of the US are represented in the national flag. This history of conquest is depicted in a Hollywood blockbuster movie titled 'How the West Was Won'.
The formation of a Political Union between the industrial North and the agricultural South, once bitterly divided over the critical and fundamental rights of a human being to be 'free' or remain 'enslaved' created A Merry Ka...a society based on dynamics of race-first... generated Black African American resistance fighters who challenged the impugnity and dastardness......of a supremacist philosophy that espoused "superiority of the aryan race" and the "inferiority" of the BlackAfrican Mind.
From Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, Booker T Washington, W.E. duBois to Marcus Garvey...in the 1920s... advocates of social, economic and political justice/equality for Black African people in A Merry Ka...and the rest of the world ..succumbed to the wrath of an unjust Order...evidenced by Officialdom's response of harrassment,persecution, imprisonment and death.
The emergence of Ras TafarI as a spiritual, social and political Resistance Movement took root in the belly of urban Jamaica. Disenfranchised Africans on the I Land of Jah Mek Ya formed a Vanguard for Resistance against the incessant injustices meted out to the population in the post Emancipation period. Inspired by Leonard Howell and brethrens, the Movement of Ras TafarI became the 'spiritual cutting edge' in the African-Caribbean resistance and struggle against oppression in all forms. The Crowning of the Majesty was the first signal that the Consciousness of Divinity dwells in the African Persona and the 'teachings of Rome' would now be challenged on empirical grounds. That there would be Ones in the Body of Ras TafarI who "sight up" HIM...as the Root of Jesse... posed a serious challenge to the government of Jamaica, the Catholic Church and the Power of the Papacy. The visit of HIM to Jah Mek Ya over 40 years ago[ April 1966] concretized the Image, Personality and Reality of Ras TafarI and exploded the myth that Black African People were bereft of [lack] 'divinity' and were pre-destined to be "slaves to their brothers", according to the popular racist-tinged interpretation of the Flood Story of Noah as recorded in the KJV Book of Genesis. Spiritual and mental liberation preceeds the social, economic and politcal aspects of liberation. Ras TafarI set the spiritual foundation for Leadership in the BlackSelf and energized the liberation movement in the West...a process that is set to reach a climax in 2009.
This "essence of leadership" and "revolution" was embodied and expressed globally through the Nyahbinghi music form [drumming/chanting/]created by Count Ossie and the Mystic Revelation of Ras TafarI... to the political and socially biting lyrical hits of the triumvirate Peter Tosh Neville Livingstone and Robert Nestor Marley...the internationally recognised Wailers... and the Army of Jah RastafarI Singers and Players of Instruments that preceeded, their contemporaries, and those that are currently on the spiritual and musical battle field.
Ethiopia's struggle against the fascist Italian dicator Mussolini and Haile Selassie appeal to the League of Nations provided Ras Tafarians with a Model for Leadership and Statesmanship that contradicted the general 'teachment' that Blacks were only "hewers of wood and drawers of water". The formation and vision of the Organization of African Unity(OAU) headquarted in Addis Ababa served to reinforce the powers of leadership within the Majesty. (I strongly recommend examining the very instructive Speech on Leadership by HIM). The Speeches and Teachings of Haile Selassie became the theoretical foundation for the intellectual prowess needed to balance the spiritual consciousness for development and sustainance of this revolutionary and liberating Movement.
On the North American continent., the struggle for 'dignity and pride' through access to education became politically defined as one of 'human rights', as the former slaves fought for acceptance as a full fledged "human being" ...having to continuously struggle against the effects of a racist ideology that suggests that the Black Africans are not 'fully man' but "two-thirds" of a man....implying that the US Constitution's claim of "holding these truths self-evident that all men were created equal, and endowed by the Creator with certain inalienable rights"...and did not regard the Black African population in A Merry Ka.
The struggle for the "right to vote" .. ...and eventual "civil rights" implies that the BlackAfrican population were never given the political recognition as Citizens of A Merry Ka.The move from slave to citizen for the Black African was fraught with terror and brutal opposition from the Klu Klux Klan and the white power structure in A Merry Ka. The list of Black African resistance liberation fighters in A Merry Ka is long...but mention must be made of Medgar Evers, George Jackson, Angela Davis, Black Panthers, Elijah Muhammad, Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King...advocates of social and political liberation for Black African people in A Merry Ka..victims of State-sponsored harrassment, persecution, imprisonment and assassination.
The reality is that political leadership in A Merry Ka rests in the hands of elected officials from the ranks of Mayor, Congress man/woman, Senator, Governor, with the ultimate power resting in the hands of the President wjho is also Commander in Chief. In 1972 Jamaican born Shirley Chisholm became first Black African woman to make a symbolic 'bid' for the white House. Other 'attempts' have been made, most notably Jesse Jackson. Shockingly, nearly 40 years later[2009] the descendants of enslaved Black Africans brought into the West through the horrific Atlantic Middle Passage.. to endure the bitter winters of North America and suffer on the cotton and sugar plantations of both North America [and the Caribbean]...have pulled themselves up 'by their own bootstraps' to ascend to the Throne of Leadership in the world's most powerful military and technological democracy.
It is cryptic that the ascendancy of the Black African Family to the Seat of Political power in A Merry Ka is at a historical moment when the Globe is engulfed in the end - product of a WAR unilaterally declared by the US regime. A WAR against ALL who look "eastern"... plunging the World into a War... against real and imagined TERRORists...using the elusive and mystic bin Laden.. located in some tribal hills on the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan... yet still can not be found...and the fabrication of Weapons of Mass Destruction as a pretext for the illegal invasion of a sovereign State in Iraq ...creating a deep schizm in the global political framework...setting Christian vs Muslim ; the Axis of Evil vs the Axis of Bush and his Allies; orchestrating a polarized world ... driven by my way or no way; either with me or against. A merry con... population driven by yellow and orange levels of scares and fear[anthrax]... now morally and financially bankrupt.
The real tragedy in this all is that after the Black African people in A Merry Ka have with their blood, sweat and tears built up the Great Babylon...built on the back of the African Slave Trade and backed up by Jim Crow Laws and racial segregation and oppression...it is the Black African American who is to restore sanity to a "very sick" society facing dire economic collapse and social chaos....both pending and unavoidable.
President Elect Barack Obama is now being courted to use his leadership skills, spiritual strength, intellectual savvy and all the attributes that were previously not accredited to Black African People to set aright what the dominating white power structure has created... from the first Gulf War to the un-finished War in Afghanistan to the un-provoked War in Iraq... bringing the mighty A Merry Ka to its knees and into economic ruin... the Great Depression of 1929 is a tempest in a teapot when compared the present drama that is unfolding.
With the entire world begging for a 'change in direction', the choice of a war veteran to replace the "incumbent warrior" has proven to be quite unattractive...making way for a second-term senator from Illinois to emerge as the People's Choice for the Leader of that desired Change...African American Barack Obama...inheriting an economy on its debtbed... a lone super power that has lost much face in the international community...the impact of Katrina, Halliburton, Abu Gharib, Guantanomo,..sub prime market failure...Fanni Mae and Freddie Mac, AIG, Lehman Brothers, then one 70 year old man... Made-off with US$50 billion ..leaving global financial and humanitarian agencies in tatters...including suicides...key industries falling apart at the seams: banks, housing , travel, automotive...fast rising un-employment and shelterless-ness...as A Merry Ka approaches the "end game" of its reign as the world's Supreme Power. There was Egypt and Greece and Rome and Britain... there is a resurgent Russia, there is China and there is India. Kingdoms rise and kingdoms fall. Africa is on the horizon. The cycle of life is inevitable.
It is Barack Obama and his Family that InI celebrate in the representation of the BlackAfrican potential "to rise" above the boundaries and borders created by men and people. The resistance against inhumane treatment of man to man continues. Take a look at the stripping of GAza. It will require far more than a Black Family to "clean up" the "mess" and restore the image of A MerryKa...inside and outside...one that once represented equal rights and justice in the eyes of the ALMIGHTY. Aluta continua! Ras TafarI Lives!
(c)2009
Dr IMAN BLAK
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