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We must Organize! Organize! Organize Organize!
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Kwame Ture
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His last words !
Organize!
Organize! |
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From: Kwame Ture (formerly known as
Stokely Carmichael
Organizer, All-African People's Revolutionary Party |
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We know that one of the greatest
crimes an individual can commit is that of being ungrateful.
I have made many errors, but of one thing I am certain, my ability to continue serving
in the African and World Revolution is greatly attributed to a number of contributions
that I have received from the masses of African and other Oppressed Peoples worldwide.
We cite here, just a few examples.
In 1966, when I had just been elected Chairperson of the Student Non-violent Coordinating
Committee, my first official act, was to visit the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and
the Nation of Islam. It is then that he ordered all members of the Fruit of Islam
to protect me wherever I traveled, anywhere in the world. I am still under that umbrella
of protection today, here in Africa, in Guinea. I could never be ungrateful to the
Nation of Islam, to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, nor to his incarnation - Minister
Louis Farrakhan.
In 1967, U.S. imperialism was seriously planning to assassinate me. It still is,
this time by an FBI induced cancer, the latest in the white man's arsenal of chemical
and biological warfare, as I am more determined to destroy it today than in 1967.
It was Fidel Castro who before the OLAS Conference said "if imperialism touches
one grain of hair on his head, we shall not let the fact pass without retaliation."
It was he, who on his own behalf, asked them all to stay in contact with me when
I returned to the United States to offer me protection. I could never be ungrateful
to the People of Cuba nor to Cuba's incarnation - Fidel Castro.
In 1967, Presidents Ahmed Seku Ture and Kwame Nkrumah, through the intercession of
Shirley Graham DuBois, invited me to attend the 8th Congress of the Democratic Party
of Guinea (RDA). They invited me to live, work, study and struggle here in Guinea,
an invitation which I readily accepted, despite tremendous criticism from almost
every quarter. Thirty years later, I still live in Guinea, working, studying and
struggling for the African Revolution. And I will continue to do so until the last
second, of the last minute, of the last hour, of the last day. And it is my wish
to sleep here in Guinea, eternally. I could never be ungrateful to the People of
Guinea, nor Guinea's and Africa's incarnations - Ahmed Seku Ture and Kwame Nkrumah.
Today, on behalf of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party (A-APRP), I am honored
to accept an invitation that has been extended by Brother Muammar Al Qathafi and
the People of the Libyan Jamiriyha to travel to Tripoli, which is in Africa, so that
they might assist me in my eternal fight, against an unyielding enemy. It would be
ungrateful, and unAfrican for me to refuse.
We wish to thank Brother Muammar and the People of the Libyan Jamiriyha for sending
us this hospital plane which I, and members of my biological and ideological family
now board. This act is just one more act of an infinite number of Brother Muammar's
and the Libyan People's contributions to African and World Humanity. I am sure I
will never be ungrateful to the revolutionary People of the Libyan Jamahiriyat as
long as I live, as I shall remain eternally steadfast and faithful to revolutionary
principles. And I know that my biological and ideological family will remain steadfast
and faithful as well.
Sisters and Brother, Comrades, we know that the Cuban and Libyan Revolutions have
a base of solid support among the Africans in United States and around the world.
Imperialism also knows this. This support has been earned by Cuba and Libya, at great
sacrifice. All Africans in the United States know anytime imperialism is hunting
an African Revolutionary, if they make it to Cuba, as in baseball, they are home
safe. From Robert Williams to Assata Shakur, Cuba has paid a heavy price as a haven
for Revolutionaries throughout the world. We also know, first hand, Libya's contributions
to, and protection of African and other Revolutionaries worldwide. U.S. imperialism
is doing everything possible to corrode Cuba's and Libya's support among the Africans
in the United States and the world.
Today, we board a hospital plane to travel nonstop from Conakry to Tripoli, Libya,
a revolutionary country, an African country. All of our Brother, Sister and Allied
Organizations, worldwide, have been requested by our Party, the All-African People's
Revolutionary Party, to join us in Tripoli; and on our return from Tripoli to Conakry.
Travel to a revolutionary country, especially one in Africa, must lead to concrete
action to advance the African and World Revolution. We have a heightened responsibility
to help protect Cuba and Libya at this time. We must move before U.S. imperialism
is strengthened and attacks, not after, by strengthening our people ideologically
and practically now. We must cement Cuba and Libya to Africa, and to African People
worldwide, and vice versa.
We must make it clear, that an embargo and travel ban against Cuba and Libya, is
an embargo and travel ban against Africa and against 1 billion African People who
are scattered, suffering and struggling in every corner of the world. We must make
it crystal clear that if you attack Cuba and Libya, you attack all African People
worldwide, and we must break U.S. imperialism's hands off Cuba and Libya. We must
end this illegal and immoral embargo and travel ban now. And with this act, by our
example of boarding this hospital plane, we declare an end, once and for all, to
this illegal and immoral embargo and travel ban, an end to this latest crime against
African and World Humanity.
As children, we joined the Freedom Rides, to break the back of segregation and apartheid
in interstate transportation in the United States. Today, we ride on the front of
the bus, we charter buses to take one million men, women and children to marches
in Washington, Philadelphia, New York and Atlanta. And we will never turn back.
In the 1960's, we said "Hell No, we won't go" to Vietnam, to fight against
a people who never called us a nigger, and we didn't go. We said that they would
defeat U.S. imperialism, and the heroic Vietnamese People, under the sterling example
and leadership of the eternal Ho Chi Minh did.
Today, we say "Hell yes, we are going to Libya." We are traveling nonstop,
all the way, from Conakry to Tripoli, and we warn the U.S. government not to interfere.
We are certain today, that the people of Cuba and Libya, under the steadfast leadership
of Fidel Castro and Muammar Quadafhi will be victorious.
The embargo and travel ban against Libya, Cuba, North Korea, Iraq and Iran is finished,
as of this day. The All-African People's Revolutionary Party is honored to make our
humble contribution towards this end. We thank the you. As African youth worldwide
say, "the beat goes on."
As always, we remain Ready for Revolution!
Kwame Ture
Central Committee Member of the
All-African People's Revolutionary Party and the
Democratic Party of Guinea
Conakry, Guinea
Statement by Kwame Ture
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