Its After the End of the World, Don't You Know That Yet?

We must not allow our self doubt, self hatred, and distrust of this country to cloud our understanding of the global political economy and what is and will be the impact on people of African descent. Look at the condition of African people all over the planet. Obama has ignited a much needed discussion among us. We have been forced to face the jive way in which we have been fronting and not taking the correct position on Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Haiti, Cuba, or on the jive bankrupt politicians who have been misrepresenting us. We, as a people, have not taken any collective stands on anything. The fault is not in Obama but in ourselves.

Obama is running for the Presidency of the United States of America. We should not have any illusions about this fact.Because many rich and powerful white people see him as a better representative of their interest when it comes to China, the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean, Latin and Central America than Hillary Clinton,does this mean that we can't be for him? An old man once told me that "it is a skill game and a fool can't play it". We must quit being slaves and fools to our own fears and use this precious moment to organize and unite African people in the tradition of Dubois, CLR James, Amilcar Cabral, Marcus Garvey, George Padimore, Malcolm X, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Yes I said Dr. King who said in a speech to SCLC in 1967 that" we must move from reform to revolution" and "from civil rights to human rights". He also said that "power without love is reckless, but love without power is sentimental."We need to stop being sentimental and reckless with our thoughts and actions. It is 2008 and as Sun Ra said "it's after the end of the world, don't you know that yet"