Time to Decide What's in Our Own Best Interest

Black people have to decide what is in their own best interest. This is something we have to do for ourselves without outside influence or interference.

The miserable conditions that Black people live under in America and around the world would make a brass monkey cry. Our condition in the Western Hemisphere is the direct result of the world's greatest crime - the transatlantic slave trade.

Africans, Arabs, Europeans and Americans participated in the slave trade. Animist, Muslim, Christian and Jews have the blood of millions on their hands. The stolen labor of enslaved Africans in the so-called New World created untold wealth for Europe and made possible the Industrial Revolution that gave the West the technological advantage it enjoys today.

At the end of the day, any honest leader of Black people will have to lament over the terrible condition of our people. They will be forced to admit, it is not getting any better for the MASSES of Black people. Unless and until a decision is made to do that which is in the best interest of our people, nothing will change for the better. Nobody is going to do for us what we refuse to do for ourselves.

Now is the time to put all options on the table. Assimilation, integration, accommodation or separation, reparations, repatriation? Time is running out. Our people are suffering and dying. We can't afford to wait 40 more years for the answer. Black leaders have to decide whether they are truly Black leaders or the tools of others while wearing a black face. Decide now or we perish.

Long Live the Spirit of the Million Man March!

Houston-Recent events in North Africa and the Middle East show clearly that the youth are exercising their power on the streets of Cairo, Tunis, Damascus, Beirut and Amman. Their demands for freedom, justice and equality are rocking the foundations of their governments and putting fear in the hearts of the ruling elite. What image, what idea and whose example are they following? Where would the youth of Egypt get the idea of a "million man march"? You have to look no further than right here in the United States of America for the answer.

The biggest state in United States is the state of denial. White supremacy in America is an idea and system that won't acknowledge the accomplishments and aspirations of darker people unless they have no choice or it is on their terms. Today, the events in North Africa and the Middle East are frightening to those who have lived lavishly on the backs of the poor darker masses of the world.

The pain in the faces of the network news commentators having to utter the words "million man march" as it relates to Egypt is evident. Why? The historic Million Man March of October 16, 1995, led by Nation of Islam leader Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan was America's biggest nightmare. For nearly two million or more of their ex-slaves to come to Washington, DC on a Monday without permission - led by a man they didn't approve of - was traumatic. America thought they had written the Million Man March out of history. White America may have given themselves a collective pacifier by claiming only 400,000 attended the march in 1995. Now, they are reminded of that great day by the youth of Egypt and the Middle East.

My advice to the ruling elite is this: stop looking for the leaders of the revolt. The leader is Allah (God) Himself. It was Allah (God) who inspired the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan to call for the Million Man March. It is the example of the Black men in America that heeded his call that is inspiring the youth of the world. Long Live the Spirit of the Million Man March!