"El esclavo negro doméstico ama a su amo, quiere vivir cerca de él, pagaría 3 veces el valor de una casa para vivir cerca de su amo, solo para luego jactarse de ser el único negro que vive allí".
Malcolm X, sobre la mentalidad de esclavo que agradece a su amo las migajas a costa del sufrimiento de la mayoría, hasta el punto de creerse que es del mismo bando del amo y querer civir como él.
Como decia Frantz Fanon, "Una mente colonizada luchará con más fuerza para proteger la imagen del amo que para recuperar su propia dignidad".
"The American black "leader's" most critical problem is lack of imagination! His thinking, his strategies, if any, are always limited, at least basically, to only that which is either advised, or approved by the white man.
And the first thing the American power structure doesn't want any Negroes to start is thinking internationally.
I think the single worst mistake of the American black organizations, and their leaders, is that they have failed to establish direct brotherhood lines of communication between the independent nations of Africa and the American black people."
The Auto-Biography of Malcolm X, pages 398-399
In the city of Timbuktu, the most valuable line of business was not the trade in gold, but the trade in books. We need to get back to our tradition of valuing the pursuit of knowledge and get away from the conspiratorial, pseudo-intellectualism which masquerades as insight and wisdom.
The Devil’s Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was a Civil War-era death camp. After the Civil War millions of freed Black people were funneled into concentration camps.
As the enslaved people were released from the plantations in large numbers following the Emancipation Proclamation and the advance of Union forces, Natchez became a refuge for many seeking freedom. But instead of freedom, the Union Army traps them in a concentration camp in this deep-ass pit surrounded by steep bluffs, known as the Devil’s Punch Bowl.
However, the influx overwhelmed the town’s resources. Union authorities, struggling to manage the situation, confined thousands of these ‘freed’ African Americans—men, women, and children—in a makeshift camp at a low-lying area dubbed the Devil’s Punchbowl. This natural depression was prone to flooding and offered little shelter or sanitation.
Disease started spreading, people were starving, and thousands—especially women and kids—died slow, painful deaths. Their bodies were left to rot, and the land is still untouched to this day because their remains are literally in the soil. Mass graves still hide under the town’s peach orchards.
Negroes Must Arm Through Organization:
"I am not advising you to arm now with the things they have, I am asking you to arm through organization; arm through preparedness. You do not want to have guns and bombs just now; you have no immediate use for them, so they can throw away those things if they want in Washington on Armistice Day.
I am saying to the Negro people of the world, get armed with organization; get armed by coming together 400 million strong. That is your weapon.
Their weapon in the past has been big guns and explosive shells; your weapon must be universal organization.
You are a people most favorably situated today for getting what you want through organization. Why? Because universally Negroes have a common cause; universally Negroes suffer from a common disadvantage. You are not like other people in that respect."
Hon. Marcus Garvey, "Philosophy and Opinions"