My Official Statement today is that, I speak for No One I speak for no
one, EXCEPT for all the Ancient Afrikans of Kemet- the original name
that was changed by the greeks to Egypt- who were invaded and murdered
in mass numbers, over the course of centuries by:the hyksos, the
assyrians, the libyans, the persians, the turks, the greeks, the
romans, the spanish, the portuguese, the french, the british and the
arabs-all of whom desecrated and pillaged Kemetic Temples, Royal
tombs, and robbed from these Afrikan sanctuaries priceless artifacts
and sacred texts that now sit in european museums,
“prestigious� university basements, and the private homes
of the rich throughout the world.I speak for no one, EXCEPT for all of
the Afrikans who were enslaved, shackled, made to march miles and
miles over the Sahara by the Arabs who committed this atrocity for a
period of approximately 1,300 years. According to some research, over
50 to 80 million Afrikans were murdered during this Arab enslavement.
The survivors of this savage devastation were forced onto slave ships
by these same Arabs and exported over the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea
to parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mediterranean.I speak for no one,
EXCEPT for the millions of the Afrikans in West Afrika who were
terrorized and kidnapped by the europeans and enslaved in the dungeons
of El Mina, Cape Coast, and in the hellholes of dungeons in Senegal.I
speak for no one, EXCEPT for the millions of Afrikan men in those
dungeons who refused to submit and were put three to four in a cell
and were left there for all of the other enslaved Afrikans to see them
die a slow and painful deathI speak for no one, EXCEPT for the
millions of Afrikan women who were put 200, 300 and sometimes more in
a stone room no bigger than small auditorium where they had to fight
each other to get air that came only through a hole in the rock cell
no bigger than the size of a soccer ball.I speak for no one, EXCEPT
for the millions of Afrikan women who were selected by the white
commander of the dungeon to be raped repeatedly and sometimes left to
die in their own blood.I speak for no one, EXCEPT for the millions of
Afrikan men and women who survived the dank, cold dungeons only to
face being forced through THE DOOR OF NO RETURN and onto waiting ships
that would transport them to places of grief and agony beyond their
own Afrikan comprehensionI speak for no one, EXCEPT for the millions
of Afrikans who were shackled to the bowels of stink ships where they
had to ride next to their dead uncle, dead brother, dead sister, or
dead mother on the long journey to lands where incomprehensible
anguish awaitedI speak for no one, EXCEPT for the millions of captive
Afrikan women aboard those ships who felt compelled to murder their
own beautiful babies so these infants would never know or experience
the nightmare of enslavement.I speak for no one, EXCEPT for the
millions of captive Afrikan men who tore off their own legs from the
shackles to dive overboard from those stinking vessels and who would
rather face death in the jaws of man-eating sharks than remain
enslavedI speak for no one, EXCEPT for those millions of Afrkan men,
women and children who suffered THE MIDDLE PASSAGE and whose bones are
in the watery burial ground called the Atlantic Ocean- better known to
those who know their history as THE AFRIKAN OCEAN because it overflows
with the blood and life force of over 100 MILLION AFRIKANSI speak for
no one, EXCEPT for the millions of Afrikans who landed in the
Caribbean Islands where they underwent THE SLAVE MAKING PROCESS of
further de-humanization and the breaking of their arms, legs and
AFRIKAN SPIRITS in preparation for the long and hard work and burdens
they were to bearI speak for no one, EXCEPT for the millions of the
Indigenous of the americas who were savagely brutalized, tortured,
raped, secretly given smallpox in blankets, and murdered, simply for
opening their hearts, minds and arms to white strangers coming off a
long and weary journey. Impact of christopher columbus, as written by
Father Bartolome De Las Casas in his book, “The Disruption of
the Indies”, highlighted that, directly or indirectly, columbus was
responsible for the deaths of between 12 to 25 MILLION indigenous. The
population of the indigenous was reduced from 100 MILLION to 25
MILLION, according to T. Browder, Nile Valley Contributions to
Civilization.I speak for no one, EXCEPT for all those Afrikans who
arrived in North America bewildered, brutalized, weak, robbed of their
culture, language, religions, families, cosmologies and longing for
their own homelandI speak for no one, EXCEPT for all the Haitians who
soaked the earth with their own blood in war by giving their lives to
defeat Napoleon, who led the mightiest army of that time. I speak for
Boukman, for Toussaint, for and Dessailines, the leaders of the
Haitians who never gave up their struggle for Freedom and
IndependenceI speak for no one, EXCEPT for Harriet Tubman, who made 19
trips to free enslaved Afrikans, forcing some, as she said, “to
be Free or Die� In her moments of contemplation, she was
overheard saying, “ I freed hundreds of slaves, and would have
freed hundreds more, if only they knew they were slaves�I speak
for no one, EXCEPT for Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. DuBois, Fredrick Douglass,
and all the Black people who begged and petitioned the american
government to intercede to stop white people from the wanton beatings,
murdering, lynching, raping and terrorizing of Black men, Black women
and Black children-the government did nothing-the deaths continuedI
speak for no one, EXCEPT for all of the thousands upon thousands of
the enslaved Afrikans who were set “free� by the
emancipation proclamation but given absolutely nothing by their former
slave masters: no food, only the clothes on their backs, and no way to
get awayI speak for no one, EXCEPT for the thousands of newly
“freed� enslaved Afrikans who were arrested en masse as
vagrants, panhandlers, and bums; then hired out to corporations and
chain gangs to be forced to work for free, again, and these men
literally worked themselves to deathI speak for no one, EXCEPT for the
thousands of Black soldiers who gave their lives in the Civil War,
World War I, World War II, Vietnam, and the Gulf War only to return to
their america and be lynched, physically, economically or socially,
while wearing their u.s. uniforms as white people sang “America
the Beautiful”I speak for no one, EXCEPT for the over 2 THOUSAND
Black people, mostly men, who, at the turn of the 19th century, were
lynched, castrated, some burned alive, and others whose fingers, toes,
penises and eyeballs were cut from their living bodies and used as
souvenirs and trophies by white peopleI speak for no one, EXCEPT for
the many men, women and children who were murdered in Wilmington,
North Carolina and Tulsa Oklahoma-both considered BLACK WALL STREETS-
and their land stolen from them with the sanction of the american
government. Mention here about Las Vegas where Black people lost their
land, like they did in Tulsa, OklahomaI speak for no one, EXCEPT for
the Tuskegee men who were experimented on by the white doctors who
intentionally gave the Black men syphilis while the antidote was
withheld as the experiment went on for some 40 yearsI speak for no
one, EXCEPT for the 7,600 Black and poor women in North Carolina, and
two other states, who were sterilized without their knowledge or
permission in clinics as part of the population control program. These
sterilizations went on from 1929 to 1974- 65,000 Black and poor women,
in this country, were sterilized during this period.I speak for no
one, EXCEPT for the over 6 million Black people in america who were
members of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and who mourned
the arrest, trumped-up trial and deportation of the Honorable Marcus
Mosiah Garvey. This man, the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey, was a man
who wanted only to give his people back their true BlackNificent
history, teach them meaningful skills, teach them to love their BLACK
SELVES, and return to AFRIKA and resurrect the Black Woman and the
Black Man to their rightful place of glory and majesty among the
families of the earthI speak for no one, EXCEPT for all those Black
people around the country who watched in anguish as the u.s.
government harassed Elijah Muhammad, W.E.B Dubois, Paul Robeson, and
many others and drove one of our greatest politicians, Adam Clayton
Powell, Jr., out of office on concocted charges.That night, October
14, 2005I speak for no one, EXCEPT for the 1,227 Black troops who were
SLAUGHTERED, BY THEIR OWN WHITE SOLIDERS, AND BURIED IN a MASS
GRAVE-at Camp Van Dorn, a military base in southwestern Mississippi
and near a small town called Centerville. The full story is outlined
in the book, “The Slaughter�, by Carroll Case.I speak for
no one, EXCEPT for the many Black people who supported William
Patterson and Paul Robeson who were two of the many authors of a
petition to the United Nations entitled ‘WE CHARGE
GENOCIDE�, that catalogued the evidence in the form of names,
dates, times and places of Black people murdered around america at the
hands of savage white people, while no one in government did anything
to stop the violence or improve the social, housing, educational or
health conditions of under which Black people lived..I speak for no
one, EXCEPT for all the Black Panthers who were killed under
COINTELPRO, and for Dr. Mutulu Shakur, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Imam Jamil-
Al- Amin, and all the MANY BLACK POLITICAL PRISONERS who languish in
the maximum-security hell pit jail cells of america. I speak for those
Black political prisoners who have been held for over twenty to thirty
years and are tortured, experimented on and put on hallucinogenic
experimental drugs because their crimes include trying to stop the
police murders of young Black men, implementing breakfast and food
programs for those in their communities, trying to provide decent
housing and good health care for all those in need and trying to
educate the children so they don’t grow up ignorant.I speak for
no one, EXCEPT for all the dead members of M.O.V.E., in Philadelphia,
who the city decided to drop a bomb on and kill babies, children,
women and men in an act of premeditated murderI speak for no one,
EXCEPT for Emmitt Til and the countless Black boys and Black men who
have been murdered by white men and their bodies thrown in swamps,
rivers, streams or whose lifeless Black bodies now rest in shallow,
unmarked graves all around the countryI speak for no one, EXCEPT for
all the mothers, and grandmothers, who have lost their sons to the
streets, drugs, prisons and graveyards, and their daughters to a
concocted white standard of beauty that is absolutely impossible for
them to attain. These inherently beautiful Black girls and women have
spent millions and millions of dollars every year in an industry that
helped to create an inferiority complex in them and then profits from
it.I speak for no one, EXCEPT for the untold numbers of young Black
men who write to me from prison cells asking me to send them books, or
who are on death row, soon to be executed, screaming to me through
their letters, “I DIDN’T DO IT, MY LAWYER OR JUDGE MADE
MISTAKES DURING THE TRIAL�I speak for no one, EXCEPT for all
the young Black men who come to me, just released from prison who,
like the newly freed enslaved Afrikans under emancipation, have no
where to go, no job possibilities, and no hope for a brighter future.
Those who have skills and are working, are fired when it is discovered
they have a prison record. The only place that will accept them is the
newly built prison.I speak for no one, EXCEPT for all the beautiful
Black children who are so excited to start school and have big plans
for success, only to get there and find that the white female teachers
already have quite a different plan for them.I speak for no one,
EXCEPT for the millions, upon millions of Black babies who died from
poor health care during pre-natal term and for those who came to term
but died from poor nutrition or malnutrition. And for the many
children, teens, young adults and adults today who are raised eating
techno-food, fast food, and who have never tasted any real food. And
for those whose brains are short-circuited, from a lack of proper
minerals and vitamins, who are labeled “special
education�, mentally retarded or hyperactive-the new code words
that replace those used in the early eugenics movement.I speak for no
one, EXCEPT for the elderly Black people, who have struggled most of
their lives to navigate through a system that was against them all the
way, only to reach eldership status and find they have inadequate
health care, no decent food, and are trapped in a system that
considers them disposable peopleI speak for no one, EXCEPT for the
Herrero people of Namibia who were eradicated by the germans, the
Tasmanians, eradicated by the white australians, the 130 million
southern Afrikans murdered by cecil rhodes so he could control diamond
and gold mines, the 13 million Congolese whose arms, legs and ears
were cut off and murdered by leopold, of belgiumI speak for no one,
EXCEPT for the Black people who marched-and got murdered by whites,
those Black people who voted and got murdered by whites, those Black
people who tried to go to school to get an education and got murdered
by whites, those Black people who have tried to start their own
businesses and got murdered by whites, those Black people who have
become politicians to try to make a better way for Black people and
got murdered by whites, those Black people who have tried to set up
their own little independent groups and got character assassinated.I
speak for no one, EXCEPT for the worldwide Afrikan victims of A.I.D.S
and any and all man-made diseases, who have died and are in the
process of dying.I speak for no one, EXCEPT for myself, as I watch
while white people, who have power, guns, information and influence,
ride around in 60-70 thousand dollar cars, waste millions of gallons
of water watering lawns and golf courses, run off on luxury cruises,
conceal their identities and criminality by hiding behind
“Inc�, make 80 billion dollars in profits off of oil,
while ordinary people and the elderly freeze to death in small
apartments, while the government bails out (code word for welfare)
airlines that lose millions in one fiscal quarter yet, simultaneously,
cutback on financial aid to Black students, while Black professors in
white higher educational institutions have to struggle for fairness in
the hiring and tenure process, while Black students seek constantly
for fairness in grading and assessment, while Black faculty and Black
staff have to seek constantly for fairness in evaluations, while white
people window shop in malls, play golf, play bridge, sit in T.V.
studios watching Dr. Phil or at home watching foolishness, and, by
their actions, convey, generally, they just don’t give a damn
about the great, great, great grandchildren whose Ancestors’
blood is soaked in the very ground on which we all standI speak for no
one EXCEPT for the 600 million to ONE BILLION Afrikan people killed
worldwide, from the time the Afrikan first encountered the white man,
in the greatest atrocity this earth has ever seen – some call
it “The Black Holocaust�, others call it “The
Maafa�, but in the realm of this context and reality, there is
no word for it. And when all is tabulated about what has happened, AND
STILL HAPPENING, to the Afrikan, Black people, it defies and goes well
beyond human comprehension. Some have asked white people, referring
here to the government and corporations, to just consider talking
about reparations, and those requests have fallen on deaf ears. Are
there no reparations for Black people? Who is the best qualified on
this earth, other than the Afrikan, Black people, to receive justice,
compensation, due process and whatever else the reparation people are
proposing? Why are white people not listening to, and implementing,
the National Urban League when it issues the annual report, “The
State of Black America�? Why are white people not listening to,
and implementing, the suggestions of all the civic groups trying to
advance the social, economic, educational, health and cultural
concerns of Black people?I speak for no one, EXCEPT for my Ancestors,
our dead, and for myself and I am saying that I don’t even know
half of the true history of Black people, but I have seen and know
enough to be able to say, “the war and genocide against Black
people, in all of the areas of life activity, worldwide, must
stop.”Do you have a better solution to offer to solve this problem?
