I Believe In Spirituality, Which Is Out

A People's Relationship To Their Heritage Is The Same As The Relationship Of A Child To Its Mother.

I Am A Nationalist, And A Pan-africanist, First And Foremost. I Was Well Grounded In History Before Ever Taking A History Course. I Did Not Spend Much Formal Time In School - I Had To Work.

Most Human Behavior Is Controlled By Images. Image Is A Factor In How People Look At Themselves And What They Use To Reflect Themselves. The Control Of Images Is A Major Factor In World Power.

Africans In The United States Must Remember That The Slave Ships Brought No West Indians, No Caribbeans, No Jamaicans Or Trinidadians Or Barbadians To This Hemisphere. The Slave Ships Brought Only African People And Most Of Us Took The Semblance Of Nationality From The Places Where Slave Ships Dropped Us Off.

As The Eldest Son Of An Alabama Sharecropper Family, I Was Constantly Troubled By A Collage Of North American Southern Behaviors And Notions In Reference To The Inhumanity Of People. There Were Questions That I Did Not Know How To Ask But Could, In My Young, Unsophisticated Way, Articulate A Series Of Answers.