This year I’m a happy man, football wise. Real Madrid has just been crowned the UEFA champions, Manchester City is doing well and Mamelodi Sundowns are the CAF champions. But these victories didn’t come without putting any effort. All the soccer players had to put extra time for gruelling training: Fight, fail,
fight again, fail again, fight again . . . until their victory. They picked themselves up, tried again, help their tired and injured comrades to their feet and went into battle again.
Most of the political education I learned about political power I learned by watching soccer games. If I support any black nationalist organisations, it is those black nationalists who wholly dedicated to the liberation of the African people and work entirely in the African people's interests—lift their economic burdens and broaden their political education through propaganda among the masses, organizing and arming them in order to help them to establish revolutionary political power.
Without an economic, political, genetic, and military struggle it would be IMPOSSIBLE to overcome our difficulties and defeat modern slavery, colonialism and imperialism. Confidence Chizoro Ehieze-Okeke describe these vices as ‘a cannibalistic world where using other people’s bodies to create wealth still happens.’
All our generals and freedom fighters must always bear in mind that we are the great African Liberation Army, we are the troops led by the great African Nationalist Movement. As brother Malcolm X said ‘The price of freedom is death.’ And those who don’t want to pay the price of freedom deserve to be slaves to their oppresssors. When a group of people such as ours, whose SURVIVAL instincts have been destroyed and lacking a social theory, it demands that we change our style of fighting - courage in battle, no fear of death, no fear of sacrifice, and continuous fighting until we win victory.
No matter what the difficulties and hardships, so long as there remain African people, they must fight on. In the fight to destroy the enemy and to restore confidence in African heritage and increase financial, educational, industrial and agricultural capacity, you have overcome many difficulties and hardships.
In conclusion, not only are we Africans going to work with our women, but we are going to empower them as well. The African woman has a rightful place in the African community. Failing to do so, means that we are assisting in the oppression of our women and as a result, they are vulnerable to sexual vampires—be it African or non-African.
For instance, in the White male-dominated media industry, black females are usually shown as not only sexually desirable, but also sexually available. Do you call that Black Woman Empowerment?
Even when a white man dates/marries a black woman, he will never empower or uplift her above the white woman. Despite mistreating their only ally—the white female, white males will ensure that she’s better off than the black woman.
In a white supremacy society, it is enough proof that the African woman will only benefit from the African man’s agenda (Black Nationalism). Because the only allay of the African woman is the African man.
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