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THE UNITED NATIONS AND PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT

By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill

(Dr. Worrill, National Chairman Emeritus, National Black United Front / NBUF

located at 1809 East 71st Street, Suite 211, Chicago, Illinois, 60649, 773-493-0900,

Fax# 773-493-9819, E-mail: nbufchic@sbcglobal.net, Web site: nbufront.org)

We must regain the momentum which the Reparations Movement had in the first few years of this century. The United Nations World Conference Against Racism in Durban , South Africa recognized the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery as a Crime Against Humanity for which Reparations are due!

The U. N. has declared 2011, the “Year for People of African Descent.” There are different activities being planned. As Malcolm X taught us, we must use the international arena to highlight our National Human Rights’ Demand for Reparations! Let us review the work of the December 12th Movement and NBUF leading up to the World Conference Against Racism.

In 1999 , the National Black United Front ( NBUF ) joined forces with the December 12th Movement in organizing a delegation of Africans in America to attend the United Nations World Conference Against Racism. The conference was held in Durban , South Africa from August 31st to September 7 , 2001 . We should never forget the impact and significance of this organizing project.

The December 12th Movement International Secretariat , the International Association Against Torture , North South XXI has official Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) status with the United Nations. Over the last twenty years , this group has committed much of its organizing efforts to participating in the United Nations Human Rights Commission by presenting numerous issues that impact African people in America . They have been NBUF ’s eyes and ears at the U.N.

As Atty. Roger Wareham of the December 12th Movement recently revealed in an article circulated on the internet , “Since 1997 , when the U.N. agreed to hold this World Conference , the United States , Canada , and Western Europe (the WEO Group of countries) have done all they can to prevent it from succeeding.”

In the spring of 1998 , at the African Group meeting during the Commission on Human Rights in Geneva , a Resolution was drafted identifying the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade as a Crime Against Humanity. The United States used all of its influence and blocked the resolution. However , this did not stop the momentum throughout the African World to pursue this resolution’s becoming an official position of the United Nations World Conference Against Racism.

At the African Regional Preparatory Conference , for the World Conference Against Racism , held in Dakar , Senegal ( January 22-24 , 2001 ) , the African Ministers developed what has been called the “Dakar Declaration.” In their deliberations , they affirmed , in part , the following:

· Affirm that the slave trade is a unique tragedy in the history of humanity , particularly against Africans— a crime against humanity which is unparalleled , not only in its abhorrent barbaric feature , but also , in terms of its enormous magnitude , its institutionalized nature , its transnational dimension and especially its negation of the human nature of the victims.

· Further affirm that the consequences of this tragedy accentuated by those of colonialism and apartheid , have resulted in substantial and lasting economic , political , and cultural damage caused to the descendants of the victims , the perpetuation of the prejudice against Africans on the continent and people of African descent in the Diaspora.

· Strongly reaffirm that States which pursued racist policies or acts of racial discrimination , such as slavery , colonialism , and apartheid , should assume their full responsibilities and provide adequate reparations to those States , communities and individuals who were victims of such racist policies or acts , regardless of when or by whom they were committed.

International law supports the position that the enslavement of Africans was a crime against humanity. The Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal defined crimes against humanity in this manner: “Murder , extermination , enslavement , deportation , and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population… whether or not in violation of the domestic law of the country where perpetuated.”

The African Reparations Movement explains that , “Historians and their experts can show , without difficulty , how the invasion of African territories , the mass capture of Africans , the horrors of the middle passage , the chattelization of Africans in America , and the extermination of the language and culture of the transported Africans , constituted violations of all these international laws.” Thus , the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade was a Crime Against Humanity and, it is clear, African people are owed reparations throughout the world.

Again , as Atty. Wareham explains , “Before the U.N. World Conferences are actually held , they are preceded by PrepCom (Preparatory Committee meetings) in the various geographical regions of the world where the actual content of the final document , the program of action was worked out , and the PreComs were completed. All of the regional PreComs are over. In Geneva , Switzerland , a working group meeting held March 6 –9 , 2001 to consider a Draft Declaration (the Durban Declaration) and tried to resolve a dispute about whether compensatory relief (i.e. reparations) should even be considered as a theme of the World Conference. This was only an issue because of U. S. and Western European opposition.” The dispute was not settled and another meeting will be held in May in Geneva .

The New York Times revealed , “A conference on racism this summer could be one of the most explosive meetings this organization (United Nations) has ever held , with moves afoot to cast globalization as a racial issue and to demand reparations for the slave trade and colonialism.”

For more than twenty years , the December 12th Movement International Secretariat has fought in defense of the human rights of African people at the United Nations , in both Switzerland and New York. During this time , they have come to help us understand that while we , as African people , may not recognize the importance of the international agency to the progress of our struggle , but the United States and its allies are crystal clear about it.

NBUF agrees with the December 12th Movement that we must continue to organize at the international level in bringing the issues of African people before the world and especially the issue of Reparations. One way we can continue this work is to organize around the United Nations declared 2011 “Year for People of African Descent.”

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Two things here for anyone who can help. A- I saw a picture on the “internationalization of the vampire”, one white blood sucker who is pulling the African blood via a house-boy black, in this sense it can be any current African leader or someone like Obama, Koffi Annan etc. I need that picture, so how can I get it? B-for everyone who feels concern about the Africans everywhere in the world particularly in African, please go here and add your name and make your voice be heard. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/africa-is-on-dire-need-for-bretton-wood-accord/

The HONOURABLE Min Farrakhan has been raising the Konsciousness of Black Folk for years now and he is doing a GREAT job for he has saved many a Black man & woman from the clutches of the beast prisons where they are a mere commodity whose PERSON is traded on Wall Street.

And he’s right the youth know within them that something is NOT right that’s why they’re rebelling. How long can we continue in such a shitstem? What can the adults teach the children if they are following incorrect precepts? The adults are just happy to get a ‘degree’ and act as ‘overlord’ to carry out the master will. They have NOTHING to offer the young ones.

To constantly plead our case before the United Nations or any other white owned/controlled forum is simply a ‘waste’ of our Time and effort. How the hell can we beg the enslaver who benefits while he sleep from our labour and god-given resources to release us or to free us. We first need to free GOD-GIVEN minds and we can only do this by coming out from among the beast and his filthy ways. We gotta get right and the only way we can do this is to get back to the ORIGINS of our BLACKNESS. Instead of feeding our children a toxic eurocentric cirriculum, we should feed them a wholistically, African-centered cirriculum.

Look at us and look at them! There’s not another ‘man’ or ‘woman’ on this planet that look like us. Look at our hair and the way it spirals just like our DNA helix… Communication travel in waves just like our Black hair…. Grow out your hair in an Afro and look at a tree and tell me you don’t see a similarity…..look at our Black skin and do a study of melanin…..is there another race of people here like us….aren’t we the original ones who were created in the image of the Almighty? All those green food that we Black folk should be eating are loaded with melanin, compatible with our system but we rather feast on the poison that the beast give us.

This beast has thought us to hate our Blackness while he and his woman are surgically altering their physical appearance to achieve that of the Black race. Why can’t we see thru their game?

BUT

We can make a big change and one way we can start is to educate our children…start them at a very young age about the science of their Black Minds and Body. Teach them about themselves first and all other secondary. Let them know that science, mathematics, astronomy, philosophy etc ….all started with our Black Ancestors back in Africa. [THEY DID NOT START WITH THE GREEKS NOR THE ROMANS] Teach them that they don’t need the beast Tricknology for advancement, for it is this same tricknology that’s has sophisticated our continual mental enslavement and kept us in his Matrix. Let the children know that it was thru the Minds of our Black Ancestors that they interfaced with our Creator…that’s how they became the multi-geniuses that they were. Let them know that there’s no Beast ‘civilization’/society that has ever outlasted those of their Black Ankhcestors because the Black ‘civilization’ were built on ‘truth’ as opposed to those of the beast which are today crumbling because they were ‘erected’ on theft, lies and deception.

Let them know that when the beast and his wicked ways die, [which is in the very near future] that

‘TRUTH ONCE CRUSHED TO THE EARTH
SHALL RISE AGAIN
THE ETERNAL YEARS OF GOD ARE HERS
BUT ERROR, WOUNDED, WRITHES WITH PAIN
AND DIES AMONG HIS WORSHIPPERS.’

Amun Ra!

An interesting article indeed.

New revelations about slaves and slave trade

    January 05, 2011|By David Eltis and David Richardson, Special to CNN

Most students of American history understand that a dramatic re-peopling of North and South America began in the years after Christopher Columbus first landed in the New World. But they may not realize that it was Africa, not Europe, that formed the wellspring of this repopulation process.

In the 3¼ centuries between 1492 and about 1820, four enslaved Africans left the Old World for every European. During those years, Africans comprised the largest forced oceanic migration in the history of the world. Who were they? Who organized the slaving voyages? Which parts of Africa did they come from? How did they reach the Americas? And where exactly did they go?

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On the topic of past, present and the future of the sleeping giants (the African) I would like to go with some of the views of Hopi, but I will reject some. However, before I go any further better I make it clear that you Africans who were born and living out of Africa particularly in the Americans you the ones people like me who think Africa WE HOP ABOUT YOU.

Is very sad and sorry to tell that nearly in all over Africa the really history of the Africans and Africa is not been taught. Most of the history is been taught all over Africa up to now is white history, you find that the normal African student know much, much more about Europeans than about Africa, it’s sad but true so you guys are the ones who can do something serious on this. The very few things which use to be told is a mouth stories and some very few distorted story written by Europeans about Africa, and the reasons of this is vary include financially means.

You Diaspora Africans; yes your children must be taught the proper African history which must be written by Africans. I don’t go with the view of HoPi that our kids should not need technology for their Excellency on learning. We must provide the best to our kids if we want them to be the best in the world.

Africans we have the natural talents but it need the means to help & enhance the process. Whites never want us be in their sports and now when they let us in we are producing the best on every spot field. Today when you look at national Olympic teams of traditionally racist courtiers like the UK & France you might feel like its African teams because of the number of African players, and those Africans are been brought to these teams because they have the talents. And on entertainments we are growing better & better, so we can be the best in everywhere but we must learn.

one of the things which must be on fronts of our agendas is our African languages, it’s sad to know that all over Africa no African country have full educational system done by the local languages from a-z but all are in European languages and again the financial means is helping our opponents.

And here keep in mind that the fact is not only that our languages are dying on front of our eyes but African child is becoming victim of the European vocabularies which he or she have to strive all of his schooling years since he have to speak one and write on another language.

There are many books someone can read on the subject of African slavery but my eye stuck on one book calls “Servants of Allah African Muslims enslaved in the Americas” by Sylviane Diouf . It’s a fabulous Book; and people can even read it on Google for free. thank you.