Bring Back Black  

Members of the NATIONALIST Black Leadership Coalition realize that all Black people must come together if we are to survive. It will require our total involvement, commitment and resources, therefore we are Pan-Africanist and our ultimate goal is the world-wide unity of Black people and the redemption of our motherland Africa. We support all efforts committed to that stated goal and we seek to establish ties with those brothers and sisters. We are clear that our actions on a local level only have validity if they contribute to the universal goal of Black Unity.

We are not advocates of Black liberation as a lofty goal some where off in the future; we work daily to bring into being a new way of living today, now for Black people. We are seeking to bring into existence a “nation within a nation”, we believe that only a “nation” that exists in the hearts and minds of Black people can wage and win this war of survival. Its nation time again, it’s time for us to give all we have to the actualization of this “nation”, it’s going to take all of our patience, we must stay committed to the idea of nationhood and we must believe we can and will do it.

As we engage in this monumental effort, we must be conscious of the impact of five hundred years of slavery on our minds, our enemies have maintained their power over us by simply declaring us inferior and creating an institutional structure that supports that declaration. It is our acceptance of this specious declaration that gives it the power it has, we are calling on Black people to reject this declaration and prove to ourselves that it is a lie. We have internalized this declaration, and it results in our inability to come together and build a nation for ourselves, please remember that our first reaction is not us, it’s the five hundred years of conditioning that we must reject.

We have accepted another’s vision of who and what we are that is totality false; and we must consciously and intentionally reject their vision. Our quest to build this new world is based on our ability to fight this unconscious adherence to self destruction, you see it has become normal for us not to trust and depend on each other. It has become “the norm” for our communities to be crime ridden, underserved, filthy and poor. Our relationships with each other are strained because we have learned to hate ourselves, our history and our culture. Members of the NATIONALIST Black Leadership Coalition are committed to the restoration of our “African Minds” ; we understand and appreciate the importance of this restoration as a necessary step toward Black Nationhood.

How can we build a strong Black Nation when there is abhorrence to ourselves? Our unconscious acceptance of the white man’s declaration of Black inferiority has rendered us psychologically sick and powerless; and we have created an artificial culture a “slave culture” that seeks to mimic ‘white folks and is contrary to our well being and only serves to benefit our oppressor the white man. Albert Einstein, once said when asked about Racism, “that it is foolhardy to think that we can use the same consciousness that created Racism to solve it.” My mentor, Jaramogi Abebe Agyman, founder of the Shrine of the Black Madonna; told us when we joined the “nation” “that a new member must immediately break all ties with the “Slave Culture – Deliberately and Consciously; realizing that participation in the struggle for liberation depends upon the sincerity and completeness of this break.”

We must give up our belief that this “world” as it is alright, it is not. The white man has messed it up and our futile attempts to hold on to what we have learned in this place are suicidal. Their culture, values and lifestyle does not and will not work for us, we must build our own. The Nationalist Black Leadership Coalition is committed to the creation of this “new Black world”; we are looking for those brothers and sisters who are willing to give “total commitment” to that end. What will it look like? I don’t know cause we are creating this path as we walk. I do know whatever we create using our values, our culture and our lifestyle will be beneficial to us……..Are you ready to try? I’ll end with a great quote from my friend Dr. Asa Hillard who recently joined our esteemed ancestors…….

“Our problem is the disintegration of a sense of people hood. Pure and simple, we have reached a point in our history where we have been socialized to see ourselves as individuals and cultural neuters. We socialize our children to be the same way. As we become more and more isolated, alone, and culturally undefined, we lose the capacity to see group problems. Gradually the sense of belonging diminishes for so many of us, so there is hardly an ‘us’ at all. Without a sense of ‘we,’ collective action is nearly impossible.

Without a sense of us, collective action that may be possible will be limited and superficial. We can fight oppression together if we exist. But beyond fighting oppression, we can draw upon a common culture to fashion a new world, if we do indeed belong to that common culture. There really is no escape. Either we belong to a people or we belong to no one. Many of us try to belong to new groups or to the mythical ‘mainstream.’ Such attempts are accompanied by a profound sacrifice — the sacrifice of thousands of years of cultural heritage. The aesthetic loss is bad enough. Yet there is also a painful psychological, political, and economic cost as well. The lack of group unity is a guarantee of group vulnerability.”

Nana Baffour Amankwatia II (aka Asa G. Hilliard)
The Maroon within Us

LET’S BUILD THIS NATION!!!
Mwalimu Seyoum Oba Netfa