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New Afrikan.. Black Unity is a home away from home so that we as Afrikans can be who we are and share information from a Afikans perspective. Some of our discussions, videos, events and groups focus on unification and upliftment, ancestoral rememberance, political prisoner updates and much more under the agenda of Black Unity.
Date / Time: 11/27/2008 5:13 AM UTC
There is a strange creature that lurks, behind the ebony colored typed words that fill you with angst, fear, excitement and the fire of longing for Mama Afrika. This creature has motivated you to action with its decisive words of Afrikan togetherness and the need for change; you jump from your chair with great jubilance amazed at what you have just read! You begin swiftly researching the source of this creature’s power, the movement of the creature throughout the earth. You began frantically looking for footsteps across the information superhighway, you attempt locate the creature’s alleged base of operation, its cave if you will, you search and search and you find…nothing. This mighty slayer of Global White supremacy, this being that magically whisked you away into a fog-filled land of esoteric teachings and higher spiritual consciousness, that monster that was able to move you through anger, through sadness, through joy that expressed how you had thought you found a kindred spirit in warfare. Yes, that great and mysteriously, beautiful creature you had fallen in love with is no more than a wisp of smoke, a shadow of Afrikan understanding, a small bit of steam and still lit embers of a fire that no longer exists. You have found that creature, its name….The Armchair Revolutionary!
"Armchair revolutionary is a pejorative term, generally used within the Radical Left and other left-revolutionary movements, to describe a person who endlessly criticizes the thoughts, ideology or practice of social movements or armed groups from a metaphorical armchair — i.e., from a mostly or totally inactive, theoretical position. When someone is referred to as, or accused of, being an "armchair revolutionary," it is always a term of abuse, intended to invoke a defensive reaction on the part of the accused, or to discredit the political ideas and/or practices that person subscribes to, or both.
Inherent in the meaning of armchair revolutionary is the idea that the person knows that their ideas require them to be physically involved in political struggles, but that instead the person chooses to be intentionally ignorant or dismissive of real-world issues and problems, in an attempt to continue believing in the false reality their views create. In this way the armchair revolutionary is often regarded to see the world in at least a quasi-idealist manner, i.e., one relative solely to his or her own perceptions, rather than bothering with what s/he should really do — to absorb the physical and practical reality s/he would be compelled to see around him/her if s/he stopped the alleged "political posturing" and became an activist in actual political causes.
revolutionary, when used as a noun, is a person who either actively engages in some kind of revolution, or advocates the revolution, with recognition from some government or party which is effectively carrying out a revolution of the same category [1]. The term is usually applied to political revolutionaries or social revolutionaries, and less frequently used to revolutionary scientists, inventors, and artists. In the political context, the term "revolutionary" is often used in contrast to the term reformist. While a revolutionary is someone who supports abrupt change, a reformist is someone who supports more gradual change. When used as an adjective, revolutionary refers to something that has a major, sudden impact on society or on some aspect of human endeavor."
From Wikipedia (Armchair Revolutionary and Revolutionary definitions)
How Do we break the cycle?
The Armchair Revolutionary must do a few things:
1. Look at themselves and ask the serious question of commitment, Do I have the commitment to take action?
2. They must also commit to a study of revolutionaries from the past and today, Assata Shakur, Nat Turner, Maria Stewart, David Walker, Harriet Tubman, Denmark Vesey, by doing this they can find their fire and see how actual work is to be done. Take this reading list found on AssataShakur.org
Recommended Reading List for Black Revolutionaries compiled by Assata Forums Members (Updated once a year)
Assata: An Autobiography Assata Shakur
Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton Bobby Seale
Ready For Revolution : The Life and Struggle Of Kwame Ture (Stokley Carmichael) Kwame Ture (Stokley Carmichael)
Inadmissible Evidence: The Story of the African-American Trial Lawyer Who Defended the Black Liberation Army Evelyn A. Williams
Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare Kwame Nkurmah
From Plan to Planet: Life Studies: The Need for Afrikan Minds and Institutions Haki R. Madhubuti
Afrocentricity Molefi Kete Asante
Black Power: The Politics of Liberation In America Kwame Ture and Charles Hamilton
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society Manning Marable
Metu Neter Vol. 1 & 2 Ra Un Nefer Amen
All Things Censored Mumia Abu-Jamal
Destruction of Black Civilization Chancellor Williams
The Huey P Newton Reader Huey P. Newton
The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans Marcus Garvey
Race First: The Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (New Marcus Garvey Library) Tony Martin
The Creature From Jekyll Island G. Edward Griffin
By Any Means Necessary Malcolm X
Soul On Ice Eldridge Cleaver
Black Skins, White Faces Frantz Fanon
Ijo Orunmila Fasina Falade
Two Thousand Seasons Ayi Kwei Armah
Stokely Speaks: Black Power Back to Pan-Africanism Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)
The Spirit of Intimacy: Ancient African Teachings in the Ways of Relationships Sobonfu Some
Notes for an African World Revolution John Henrik Clarke
The African Origin Of Civilization: Myth Or Reality Cheikh Anta Diop
Enemies: The Clash of Races Haki R. Madhubuti
Cultural Unity of Black Africa Cheikh Anta Diop
Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys series Jawanza Kunjufu
3. They should examine themselves and what talents, skills and abilities they may have that can assist the upliftment of our people!
4. They should lastly join or start right where they are, a movement of actual movers and shakers in the revolution, like the folks at Black Unity, Assata Shakur.ning, Assata Shakur.org, Something to show a commitment and stop simply complaining!
We can collectively eliminate the Armchair Revolutionary syndrome! We can collectively promote Black Unity! Despite what some may say!
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