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Dedicated to Our Ancestors Who Have Names; lynched, outraged, raped, and murdered by Euro-American oppressors in the United State Empire (the U.S.E.). With this work/project we offer them libation and commend their souls and spirits to Lord God, Almighty who will meet out Divine Justice in that “Great Git’in-Up Morning!” Their spilled blood cries up continually from the Earth and from the Oceans to the Throne of the Lord God Almighty, as affirmed by Holy Scripture: When the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the sake of the word of God and for the testimony of the Lamb they had kept. They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, holy and true Master, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” A long white robe was given to them. They were told to rest for a little while longer, until the number of their fellow bondservants and brethren (who would also be killed as they were) should be fulfilled. When the Lamb opened the sixth seal, I saw that there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as a coarse sackcloth, and the whole moon became as blood. The stars of the sky fell to the earth, like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when it is shaken by a great wind. The sky was removed from its place. At this, the kings of the earth, every slave, and every free person sought to hide themselves in the caves and the rocks of the mountains. They said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of the one who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of his wrath has come, and who is able to stand?” [Revelation 6:9-17, EOB, my Italics]. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it. [Revelation 2:17, KJV, my Italics] In the meantime “with the jawbone of an ass, we fight against the enemies of God.” In the immortal words of the South African martyr Steve Biko who declared “I write what I like” in this work and project “we write what we like” as one way of fighting for Divine Justice, for God-given Freedom, for our children, for our posterity, and for Our Ancestors Who Have Names. In this hypocritical PC culture of disrespect writing what you like can at the very least subject your person and/or ideas to public shaming and at worst lead to loss of employment as those who affirm that you have freedom of speech seek to destroy you (i.e. your career, job, etc.) for saying things opposed to what they believe or what they do not want to hear. Of course this was nothing like what Steve Biko had to face as he spoke out publicly against South African apartheid. Steve Biko faced death. itself which was very real and often immediate. He finally paid the ultimate price for using words to fight for his people and for God-giving human freedom. “Steve Biko died in 1977 at the age of thirty from a head wound suffered while in the custody of police. For his steadfast refusal to keep silent about the heinous crimes of apartheid, he is honored as the martyred hero of the South African liberation movement.” 1 In the late 1960s and earlier 1970s the Black Power Movement fired the imagination of Nu Africans led by Stokely Carmichael, a.k.a. Kwame Ture (1941-1998), a youth leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and erstwhile follower of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. About the same time the Black Consciousness Movement began to fire the imagination of black South Africans led by Steve Biko. In his paper Black Consciousness and the Quest for a True Humanity Steve Biko stated: Black Consciousness is an attitude of mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time. Its essence is the realization by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression – the blackness of their skin – and to operate as a group to rid themselves of the shackles that bind them to perpetual servitude. It is based on a self-examination which has ultimately led them to believe that by seeking to run away from themselves and emulate the white man, they are insulting the intelligence of whoever created them black. The philosophy of Black Consciousness therefore expresses group pride and the determination of the black to rise and attain the envisaged self. Freedom is the ability to define oneself with one’s possibilities held back not by the power of other people over one but only by one’s relationship to God and to natural surroundings. On his own, therefore, the black man wishes to explore his surroundings and test his possibilities – in other words to make his freedom real by whatever means he deems fit. At the heart of this kind of thinking is the realization by blacks that the most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude, but if one’s mind is so manipulated and controlled by the oppressor as to make the oppressed believe that he is a liability to the white man, then there will be nothing the oppressed can do to scare his powerful masters. Hence thinking along lines of Black Consciousness makes the black man see himself as a being complete in himself. It makes him less dependent and more free to express his manhood. At the end of it all he cannot tolerate attempts by anybody to dwarf the significance of his manhood.2 [my Italics]. These war of words coming from Steve Biko with the aim of securing the black man’s freedom “by whatever means he deems fit” is what ultimately got him killed; and it is a similar phrase from Shahidi Malcolm X and his determination to free the Nu African People “By Any Means Necessary” (BAMN!) that ultimately got him killed. Like contemporary Steve Biko the first phrase of Malcolm’s liberation struggle was to move the Nu African People toward a stronger and genuine black consciousness. The question since the Black Power Movement began is: What comes first black consciousness or black power? Well, logically the rise in black consciousness among the Nu African’s in late sixties to seventies with the cultural mantra “Black is Beautiful” should have come first and would have been the unseen hand or impetus behind the rise and development of the Black Power Movement. The problem is that no one clearly articulated it beyond the date of the 1965 martyrdom of Malcolm and so we ran with the exciting mantras of “Black is Beautiful” and “Black Power!” with a vision and hope that our liberation and freedom was right around the corner. We were indeed black and beautiful people (recognizing our special contribution to both the world and American civilization) but we actually had no real power. Black consciousness (as in the old conundrum which comes first the chicken or the egg?) should have continued to be articulated first and continuously beyond the death of Malcolm, who really was the one leader we had who understood this old chicken and egg conundrum and began this conversation articulation for our freedom by first raising our bla consciousness through a war of words. This was the right place to begin with a thorough articulation and rationalization of black consciousness that has to be collectively internalized well before we could effectively organize to acquire real Black Power and move closer to demanding autonomy, territory and recognition as a Nation within a Nation. This work and project aims to continue this articulation in hopes of advancing genuine black consciousness and is one of the important reasons why in this work and project Shahidi Malcolm X is memorialized here as our martyred hero who fought for and gave his life for Nu African liberation and our God-given freedom. Both Steve Biko and Malcolm X (as others we will mention including Frederick Douglass) engaged in a war of words in their fight for black freedom and liberation as a way to raise the levels of black consciousness in the minds of black people needed in order to move us closer to nationhood. So despite the dangers posed by this deadly PC culture of disrespect the least we can do here is continue a similar articulation using a war of words by writing what we like. We do so not only in memorial of the martyred life and legacy left to us by Shahidi Malcolm X but in memorial of Our Ancestors Who Have Names and the many nameless black martyr’s who were systematically lynched, brutalized, gang raped, mutilated, spit upon, denied due process, and other outrages by our white oppressors, who even today subject their posterity the Nu African People to further outrages and violations of human rights by murdering us under the color of law and racial murders under the pretext of standing their ground. The Nu African People are still and even today subject to genocidal attacks by white people in this country (from its white police officials to its ordinary white citizens carrying around hatred in their black hearts) and for this reason and others in this project we memorialize Shahidi Malcolm X and Our Ancestors Who Have Names so that we will never forget that they suffered and were ill treated then as we do today because we are black because in the mind of white people we pose some kind of ontological threat to who they are and their way of life. With this knowledge we should never forget that to this very day there are white people here in the United States Empire & Imperium (U.S.E. & I) that believe the answer to the Nu African Question is the Indian Solution.