Reposted from @free_breakfast - Happy Malcolm X Day! 😍 Repost from @august_third_collective_ ... #OmowaleDay Happy Malcolm X Day ❤🖤💚 "I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they’ll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action. - Omowale Malcolm X ( New Afrikan Proverb ) • • Three of Malcolm’s most influential speeches “Message to the grassroots,” “The Ballot or the Bullet,” and his Feb-ruary 14, 1965, talk—were given at GOAL sponsored events in Detroit. Imari Obadele dedicated his 1966 pamphlet War in America: The Malcolm X Doctrine to “the Malcolmites,” and an early draft to the RNA ’s New Afrikan creed staked its authority “by the Grace of Malcolm.” Setting itself up to Govern an internal colony, the RNA rallied around a demand to “Free the Land.” And that is what it tried to do, especially after the organization moved to Mississippi in 1970. The decision to organize in the rural South was as much for defence as ideology: based on his analysis of how Ghetto Rebellions were crushed in the mid-1960s, Obadele had long argued that Northern cities were strategically untenable. Even if majority Black, the cities of the urban North were surrounded by white people, making them easy to repress. The post-1960s Growth of suburbs only exacerbated this process of racially infected spatial separation. In the South, Obadele argued, the sizable Black rural popu-lation would provide useful cover. His position won out in contentious struggle! • #FreeTheLand #malcolmxday #omowalex #elhajjmalikelshabazz #malcolmx #ideologicalfatherofnewafrika #byanymeansnecessary #georgejacksonuniversity #georgejackson #newafrikanpoliticalprisoners - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxp4Vv8ghjg4pFeez4bJWbqZJ8Lq9JO5R4maRA0/?igshid=a9z5gwokugpr
