WORLD WIDE AFRICA THE VOICE OF THE PAN AFRICAN MOVEMENT

“The shocked the white man, and confused him, so that he backed down by calling my father crazy. the story spread quickly around town; my father became known as a “crazy man” because he would not give in to the harassment of whites.  Strangely, this “crazy” reputation meant that whites were less likely to bother him. That is often the way of the oppressor .  He cannot understand the simple fact that people want to be free. so when a man resists oppression, they pass it off by calling him “crazy” or “insane.”  My father was called crazy for his refusal to let the white man call him “nigger” or to play Uncle Tom or allow whites to bother his family.  Crazy to the he was a hero to us.” Huey P Newton, Revolutionary Suicide 

As to many of us Southern Black Americans our fathers where our only hero's or who ever was our father image. Sometimes it would be our Grand-fathers as in my case.  But we had our other hero's too and Denmark Vesey was one of them, Vessey is well known for planning a slave revolt in 1822.  A free Black Man who was a carpenter that won a lottery, and became a former slave in Charelston.   Before this he founded with others the AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, the first independant black denomination in the nation. His slave revolt was leaked by one of the members of his church and Vessey and his followers were judged and sentenced to death in a secret proceeding and hanged on July 2, 1822. A true REVOLUTIONARY .

Another hero was O. W. Gurely founder of Black Wall Street in Tulsa Oklahoma's Greenwood section today.  Who was an economic geneous in 1921, woh was killed with 3,000 others. The twon was bombed form the air and then the KKK looted and killed any surviors they found. by beating and hanging's most of the surviors were children