Why Pan-Africanism?
Worldwide socialism will, ultimately, help cure the problems experienced by people around the world as a result of capitalism’s negative impact. However, for African people, the quickest cure is Pan-Africanism. Instead of waiting years and years for institutions to be changed to guarantee fairness to all no matter what their skin color, Pan-Africanism will give African people the much needed “jump start” toward full equality and justice.
In many locations of the world, African people make up only a small fraction of the population. In the U.S., that fraction is 13.5%. Being such a small number of people living on someone else’s land, African people in the U.S. can only come to the bargaining table as beggars, dependent on the kindness and fairness of others.
Before China closed its doors and freed itself from western imperialism, a popular saying existed throughout the west, particularly in the U.S.: “You don’t stand a Chinaman’s chance in hell of doing . . . [something].” The Chinese people’s condition throughout the world was so “lowly” that they were called “niggers”. Today, Chinese are thought of as very intelligent people. It doesn’t matter whether she ever opens her mouth. When a Chinese person walks into a room, you don’t even know whether he is a third generation Chinese who speaks only English or someone who has just come from China. It does not matter. The image of the Chinese has evolved along with the evolution of the land base, China.
Sisters and brothers, at home and abroad, let us all stand up and be counted as a part of the African Revolution to defeat global capitalism and build Pan-Africanism. Join a Pan-African, Revolutionary, Socialist organization today. Forward ever, Backward never!