Sunday, September 20, 2009

Negroes with Guns and the Fall of Amerikkka

Via Brother Keidi

Below is a 1968 interview in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania of Robert F. Williams  (1925-1996). Williams was an NAACP leader in North Carolina. He advocated armed self-defense against white brutality. Williams was forced to flee the US and lived in exile in Cuba and China. Williams foretells the destruction of America and the capitalist system. He was an iconic figure in the Black Power movement--influencing Malcolm X, the Black Panther Party and numerous other black radical freedom fighters.





In 1962, Williams chronicled his life in a book titled Negroes with Guns. More recently, a film by the same title featuring Williams and his wife, Mabel, was produced. Parts 1-3 are posted below. You can view parts 3-6 on YouTube.


Part 1



Part 2



Part 3

Neo-Marxist, Immanuel Wallerstein, predicts a "super depression." The United States will lose its global dominance, the economy will tank, the US dollar will collapse and no longer be the global standard. There will be multiple geopolitical poles vying for power instead of one or two. President Obama, Wallerstein asserts, will try to stop the slide of the American empire, but "he can't possibly succeed." (video repost @ professor Sharra.)



From the 1930s until his death in 1975, a black man also predicted the fall of the American empire, albeit in more apocalyptic and Manichaean terms. That black man's name was the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Muhammad taught that white people were Devils, the black man was God, and that the black race would awaken from their slumber to rule the world again.

2 comments:

  1. wow, this is a really comprehensive list of vids to go through. I've watched the first and can''t wait to watch the rest.
    thanks Kwame
    all the best
    akua

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  2. yes, glad you like 'em akua. Baba Williams was incredibly courageous. we need more folks like him today. lemme know with you think of wallerstein and muhammad if you get to them. kzs

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