Contemporary
African women
leaders-An
aRttFW'- ging r
In March, we presented a prelimi­
nary list of fifteen contemporary Af­
rican women leaders (1 -1 ),
with the intention of expanding the
list to twenty five. Thi fi n I li t
would be based on nomi nations. ub­
mitted by readers and callers.
Two women h ding our mitial
list were Spelman Colle e' Presi­
dent Johnetta Cole and W hi n on
DC based psychiatri t Dr. France;
Cress Welsing.
Dr. Cole.who by example, policy
making and vi ibility, i resh ping
the image of higher education lead­
ership in America.
Dr Wei 109, far ba k 1 70,
introduced the Cre Theory of
Color Confrontation and Ra 1 m
(White Suprema y). The other thir­
teen women presented at that time
were equally as di tmct and interna­
tional.
Since then, th II thrown to
over ninety. J n order for to comply
with our original g al f twenty.five
influential women, we are a ai n k­
i ng readers to view the follow in It t
and then give us your n w Ii ts.
We will compare, unt and then
publish our final It tin J ul y, there­
fore we need your feed a k (lis )
by June 15. \
Please call (9) 50 or
write us at 179 . Gar y Avenue,
:*101, Pomona CA 1767. Your
lists may have few on or
many as twenty five. Let' talk.
Lucy Addi on. De bie len
Maya Angclou, L Ul. e Bennett,
Mary Berry, Cardi Collm, Mary
McLeod Bethune, arol Mo eley
Braun Mildred Br wn, Eu enia
Charle , Azo ka hen>: ra, lu ric y
Chisolm. Johnnctta 01 .. Barb ra
Rose Collins, Cella 'ruz, An la
Davis Suzanne 0 Pas: c.
Fanny Ja n oppin, lu rley
(Jfaham Dufso: , Katherine Dun­
ham, Ramona d l t n , Mar ian
Wright Edelman. Ro crta Fla k,
Aretha Franklm Len ra Fulam,
Vivian Fuller, Amy J Garv ,Al­
thea Gibson. ikki Giovanm. lela
Greene, Lorrai Harsh .rrv, anru
Lou Ham r, Julia Hare.
PATRI I lIARRI·. Dor thy
Height, Anita Hill. BIllie Holiday.
Lena H me, th Hu zh . Char­
layne Hunter-Gaul. M' e Jarm on,
Eddie Berni e Johnson. urn
Johnson, Barbar Jordan: u ta
Kappner, Ja kt Joyn ir-K r
Coretta Sc tt KIn , In� KInl, In.
Knight Debra Lc ,Ro . P dr ..
Julianne Mal eau·" Be erl
Manley, Winnie Mandcla. Patn (J
KEITH
HILTON
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EDUCATION
Moore, Queen Mother Moore, TOni
Morri on. Linda John on Rice,
Jewel J ck on Mc-Cabe Parricia
Rus ell-McCloud, Cynitha McKin­
ney, Terri McMillian Tyretta Mu­
hammad, Janiee e sibou Jessye
orman.
Eleanor Holmes Norton Hazel
O'leary. Gwendolyn Patton, Ethel
Payn , Sylvia Rhone. JOyce RO­
b m on, Wilma Rudolph. Gloria
ott, Betty Shabazz, Ann Shirrell .
Albertina Si ulu, Portia Simpson,
Dolores Spike, Niara Sudarkasa,
u an Taylor, M.Undenwuaeze:
Altce Walker. .
C.J. Walker, Margaret Wangari
Manan Washigton, Maxine Waters,
Ida Well-Barn tt, Francces Cr
Wei in , Myrlie Evers Williams,
Oprah Winfrey.
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Dear Editor:
There are very inister imilari­
tie between the way in which
Bla k are being treated in the
United States today, and how Jews
and others were being treated and the
re ponse to that treatment by the
German people.
Here arc the imilarities:
Fi r tl y, the Ghettoization of
Bla ks In t inner city and in poor
easily controlable communiti have
made it eesy to occupy these com­
munitie with a para-military Nazi­
like police force. '
In Nazi Germany Jews were
Ghettoized,' refused entry into the
mai rs tream and the G tapo and po­
lice orccs were ed to keep them
under control.
Secondly, a well organized
propa anda machine called 'talk ra­
di ' pre d li ,tereotype hatred,
and big try gainst Blacks without
bein h lien ed. Thi outright ha­
tred tirs up the majority white com­
munity, and their allie, u ually
whrte r other n n-Black aliens who
came to the United Stat looking for
r d m only to deny Bla ks their
r dom.
In death in life, however, con-
troversy continu urround the leg­
acy of 0 of th great t African
lead of all time.
At i ue i the qu tion 0 Mal­
colm' transformation during th I t
years of hi life. When he broke wi th
the Honorable Elijah Muhammad
am the ationoflslam,didMalcolm
abandon Blac Nationalism to be­
come an integrationi t?
For some Malcolm' pilgrimage
to Mecca mar ed a turning pcior in
his life, not only in terms of his af­
fiImation of orthodox Islam, but in
terms of his embrace of the universal
brotherhood of hum ani ty.
Some read into hi recounting of
his experience in Mecca a rejection
of Black nationalism in favor of inte­
gration.
Others ert that the Mecca ex-
perience had a negligible imp t on
Malcolm, that Malcolm never
"devi ."
Malcolm came to th coneJ ion
that the problems of raci m am ceo.
nomic exploit ion were institutional
am y mic. They were th function
of the cuJture and valu of the capi­
tal' t political-economy. Hence that
sy tem w the real "devil."
Thi did oot mean that individual
white fol in t U.S. were not rae­
i l Malcolm left Mecca convinced
that whi Americans in particular
were infected wi th a virulent racism
rarely eem anywhere eJ e in the
world.
The truggle, th refore, was not
about a blam "integration," but for
an end to raci m, racial oppression
and economic exploitation.
The Mecca experience persuaded
Malcolm that there were people with
ligbter pigmentation that were peo­
ple of good will. Therefore, unlike
his position wben he was in the Na­
tion of Islam, Malcolm could not en-
role for hit
illinth
om. Ho e
ot in t Bl
White people m t
here it liv • in th
nity.
TbJugh
to "inject" him elf into tbe civil
rigb vement, hich omi­
nated by inte tionist, the tru
for human righ rem' ned his pri­
mary foe .
Hence, M calm w building n
tional am international upport to
t e th U.S. government, the "crimi­
n ," to t United ations and the
World Court to charge the U.S. with
genocide and the m ive violation
of the human righ of Africans in
America.
It w this internationalization of
t truggle of Africans in America
aoo th linking 0 that truggle with
the truggles of Africa and the ThiId
World which more than anything
else made Malcolm a threat in the
eyes of the U.S. government am a
target for "elimination."
There houJd be no controversy
over where Malcolm tood during
the I t years of his life. His words
am deeds are clear.
In hi 1964 peech "Ballots or
Bulle ,"Malcolm reaffirmed his
commi tment to Black nationalism
and declared that in its mo t basic
terms Black' nationalism was con­
trolling the poll tics and economics of
the Blae communi ty.
o longer constrained by the nar­
row interpretations of religion am
politics harbored by the Nation of
VA T. (I
POINT
lam, Malcolm free to en ge
more openly in tbe truggle for
democratic rigb in the U.S. while
imultaneo lyp i theca of
human righ for Afri in Amer­
ica on the pan-African and in ema-
tional e.
Freed of the bio-gcocdc mythol­
ogy of Yocub and the white man
the "devil," M eolm oould Offer a
fuller critique of rae' m and eco­
nomic exploitation cultural, insti­
tutional and systemic manifes ions
of capital' m am imperial' m.
. The I t years 0 Malcolm's life
wi tn ed the emergence of El Hajj
Malik Shabazz 8 growing, m ur­
ing revolutionary Black national' t,
pan-Africanist aDd intemationalist
dedicated to the liberation of African
people and all of oppressed b�
ity.
Ron Daniels S� as Pruidoat
of the Institute for Community Or­
ganization and DevelopmDll in
Youngstown, Ohio. He may be con­
tocted at (216) 746-5747.
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traying them as the worst vermin in
exi tence, and thus causing hatred
amongst the German population for
the Jew and others.
Thi rdly, in 1.0 Angeles and other
parts of th United States, whites do
not only clutch their purs when
they ee a Black person coming
down the treet, they line the streets
'to buy emi-automati weapons to
·'defend' themselves against some
Black invasion.
In Nazi Germany, Germans fall to
the propaganda and begin treating
Jew and other with con empt
which i ncl uded becoming part of the
killing machine.
Forth, the authori ties in the
United States declare the Black male
to be a threat and 0 if they are
murdered, brutalized. killed or
treated like animals by the police, its
all right to the whites.
In Nazi Gennany Jew are re­
garded as a threat and the well organ­
ized propaganda make po ible
'Kristalnacht' which encourages the
destruction of Jewish bu ine es.
Jew are openly attacked by the
authoriti and th ir h nchmen. The
life of Jew i not worth too much.
Fifth, Jews are rounded. up and
nt to conceptration camp where
they are exterminated in a sini ter
fonn.
BLACKS IN THE United States
are ent to the new concentration
camps, or prisons allover the U.S.
for simple crimes or for no reason
that requires prison. Their lives are
destroyed forever ..
Police brutalize Rodney King in
Los Angeles, whites say they support
action, police say, 'we were just fol­
lowing orders.
German murder six million
Jew, and millions of others, they say
we were following orders," German
.populatlon say," we did not know."
Jews fi nally leave Germany after
ix million have been exterminated
and finally realize that the only way
they will urvive is when they take
their destiny in their hands. '
B COl U to bear
raci m of American public and bru­
tality of police and oth r authoriti
without taking a les on-from the
Jews without even the thought of
separation in an independent tate or
agitation for independence comin
to mind.
Any BI k pers n who believ
that as a people we are afe in thi
Babylon had better th'nk again. The
recent wave of violence on an organ­
ize<1 (i rm and by organized peopk
agtirs· Bla ks i no different from
what was practiced against the Jew ,
and others in Nazi Germany. .
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What i worse is that the majority
of people in thi land, the whit
quietly support the ame type of
atrocities against Blacks that their
cousins in Germany supported
against the Jews.
Well, the time has come to say
enough is enough: The Babarian is
the same everywhere, and that
Babarian happens to be of the 'arne
Germanic stock who hold Blacks in
erni-slavery in South Africa, fire
bomb the hom of Blacks in Ger­
many today, and in France, England
and other place practice raci m and
violence against Blacks in the U.S.,
and encourage emetic and wannabe
Semetic genocide against the de­
scendants of the Kushites in Sudan.
We Blacks must top this world­
wide conspiracy to commit genocide
against the Black race and we must
do everything in our power to stop it
or our fate will e wors than that of
th Jew . Slavery did not accompli h
t he goal, but let us not forget that
Blacks were the original inhabitants
of california and were exterminated
by 18 0 by the Spani h and other
whit
B C WE exterminated
from the island of Tasmania, and
part of Au tralia. Hunting for
Blac i a port in Irian Jaya Indo­
nesi-a where Papuans are being
driven off their land. And 0 t
Blacks who continue to accommo­
date the enemy had better start think­
ing. Someone wan us gone,.and it
is time that we fight back and elimi­
nate these people once aoo for all ..
If a war has been declared, aoo it
has, why are we goi ng to it like sheep
to the slaughter. And 0, let the Og­
boni Secret Society be reorganized
in the United States, Europe, South '
Africa and every place on earth
where Blacks are being oppressed
including the Sudan. To 'arms: To
arms: We hall have to fight, or we
hall be extinguished after being in
exi tent for three million years. After
th rush to prepare for the slaughter
of Blacks in L.A. by whites, and Ko­
rean aliens, we Blacks had better
know who are our enemies.
It i time to ecede, to create our'
own Black nation on this mainland
where Blacks have lived ince before
Columbus by thousands of years.
To tho who talk about Mexico,
- or Spain having owned California or
parts of the United States perhaps
they should read the old Spanish
chronicles about the first inhabitan
of earty Florida and California who
were Blacks, and who had been liv­
ing on the territory before the crea­
tion of the Mexican type, or before
there was any nation call�d the
United States.
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