Prizmm said:
Peace!
Brother 'O' and Brother 'Ed' I am one of those trying to blend my Malcolm awakening with my Fuller awareness. Unbeknownst to you both, and you are 'individuals' who are light years beyond many us including myself. I am attempting to spritually incorporate the clarity of Malcolms words which were spoken so many decades ago, and I am able to see where with the steely logic of Brother Neely Fuller, who it appears also heard those same speeches and masterfully constructed his great work around many of those themes and conditions. His clarion call to united independent codification requires that I at least try to meld these concepts. Malcolm has infused me with an awareness of my dangerous ignorance, and I have for thirty years challenged myself to grow based on his speeches, and I am still learning. Brother Neely Fuller has provided me a concept that allowed me to begin a structured codified approach to tearing down the walls. Brother Omowalejabali and Brother Edward Williams, the best thing that could happen to us here is if you two brothers time permitting were able to synthesize your visions. I won't say any more, but I hope you are feeling me!
Still Learning
T.S.C.
Peace!
Brother Prizmm, thanks again for your response and insight. I think that even though many of us share alot of things in common the differences at times I find irreconsilable. There is a collection of brother Malcolm's speechs but hold up. I need to start making a change here. So, just as I refer to brother Kwame Ture, as Kwame instead of Stokely, I need to refer to brother Malcolm as brother Malik el Shabazz. Brother Malik's speeches are contained in a book entitled 'The End of White World Supremacy' and it is for this reason that the 'logic' or Dr Fuller doesnt resonate with me. I go to primary, Master teacher first. And in the order of my Master Teachers Dr. Fuller is way down on my list. In fact, I have never met Dr. Fuller, heard him speak, outside of chat here, so I cannot put Dr. Fuller's teachings before Malik Shabazz, Elijah Muhammad, Heuy P. Newton, Kwame Nkrumah, Frantz Fanon, Dr. Ben Yochanan, Cheikh Anta Diop, Dr. Francis Cress Welding, Ernie Smith, Runoko Rashidi, Legrand Clegg, Kwame Ture, Khalid Muhammad or Louis Farrakhan and Steve Biko.
The difference for me is in the category of ACTION as opposed to ideology. If Dr. Fuller represented a mass movement or mass organization then I would have some measure to determine the effectiveness of his teaching. This is not to dismiss his work but grass-roots organizing is more of an indicator of my own ideological framework.
Since I am also won who has a difference of opinion in relation to others also on the issue of self-defence (see poll on thread Can We defend Ourselves against Re-enslavement) I also have difference of opinion and ideological orientation in regards to the viewpoints concerning the victimization of Black people.
If I dont see myself as non-white (rather I don define myself as such), if I dont believe that white supremacy is the major obstacle to Black liberation, and if I dont view white people as being superior to the mass of humanity then I see no common ground between some of us without a proper and viable organizing framework. Personally, I find it practically impossible to incorporate Dr. Fuller's teaching within my own independent action. Its like some of us speak Swahili, some Arabic, some Zulu and others Youruba. Some of us historically have identified with cultural nationalism. Some revolutionary nationalism. Some black capitalism, others African socialism. Bottom line my makor battle is not countering racism but battling against my own demons. One forces me to look inward, the other necessitates me looking to external cause which I view as the effect of our own spiritual weakness. Peace.
