The literary skill of our people is impressive, but, like with many of our major conferences and speeches, we are turning the Internet into a huge Pan-Afrikan Cyber Talk Shop.  Quite frankly, we spit at each other entirely too much.  We take to the Internet and email to trash each other’s models for developing Pan-Afrikan Unity instead of getting together to work out our similarities and differences in sincere, face-to-face meetings.  We prefer to lean on our own lack of knowledge about the efforts of others and to spew critical anal-yses of why the plans of everyone else will fail and why ours alone will succeed (despite the fact that, so far, our own plans have also failed for the most part).  Even the idea of our different organizations coming together in a coalition to at least try to forge some sort of Pan-Afrikan United Front has been criticized as ineffective or improper or as an attempt to mislead, hijack and otherwise destroy the Pan-Afrikan movement.  We constantly warn each other about attempts by our historical oppressors and their Negro Stooges to Divide and Conquer us, while our own actions further that very same Divide-And-Conquer process.  We assume, without any proof whatsoever, that those with whom we do not agree are “Uncle Toms” or “collaborators” and thus the unification of our people is over before it starts.  We are not backing up our Pan-Afrikan words with sincere action to bring about that Pan-Afrikan Unity that we all claim to cherish.  Might this be because if we were to act on our words and succeed in bringing that unity to our people, we risk losing the very topic that gives us license to prattle on incessantly?

When are we going to stop doing our oppressors’ work for them and start coming together?

Over the last year or so, I’ve encountered a few people who seem to feel the same way as I do.  But there are too many of us who either feel their way is the only way, or who want to go it alone, or who want to be the leader over everyone else, or who simply want to shut others out for some reason.  As long as this is the prevailing attitude, we as Afrikan People will continue to suffer “and the band will play on.” (Apologies to The Temptations.)

I look forward to hearing from anyone who is truly ready for us to accept each other and come together.  I don’t need to hear from those who want to trash me, my organization or each other; those who insist upon putting up barriers will ultimately isolate themselves and consign themselves to the “dustbin of history”.  It’s time for us to stop making excuses for why we will not unite, or at least start communicating and meeting with more mutual respect in an attempt to develop some Pan-Afrikan Unity.  When that day comes, I will rejoice.  Until then, I will settle for working with those few among even our self-described “conscious” Pan-Afrikan community who are ready to put the words of unity into action.

Peace and Power,
Bro. Cliff
KUUMBAReport Online
https://kuumbareport.com