250 Years of Black National Humiliation and Struggle

The existence of the so-called Afrikan-American (New Afrikan) within the American empire is the source of our wretched conditon. 250 years and the struggle for black independence continues.

The history of the internal black colony in the United States is one of endless national humiliation peppered by periods of intense open rebellion against said humiliation. We, as the internal black colony, are reminded of the failures of previous rebellions every July 4th. The continued existence of the black population as an internal colony within the American territorial empire is the consequence of our continued failure. We, as black revolutionary intellectuals who wish for a higher stage of development for the black population, should use July 4th as a catalyst to push us toward continued organizing and building the consciousness of our people.

This country, built on the labor of enslaved Africans and the genocidal conquest of indigenous land, is an affront to humanity. Those original sins of the United States best explain our current conditions. The US behaves parasitically and predatorily, just like the predators and parasites that founded it. The malconditions of the New Afrikan (black American) people are the result of our internal colonization that occurred after enslavement; the creation of black codes/Jim Crow, and now the creation of this black misleadership class/professional managerial class who represent the worst of our people. This system of internal colonization must be destroyed; for our sake as a people but also for all of humanity. The black freedom movement will be the grave digger of the settler-colonial state and the American empire.

The struggle of the black freedom movement is the struggle for black self-determination. The struggle for black self-determination is the struggle for black sovereignty and the building up of a black nation state. Anyone who remotely views themselves as “pro-black” and in support of black liberation must come to terms with this truth. All of the reforms the black political struggle has won have come either at “bargain rates,” to quote Martin Luther King on the failures of the Civil Rights movement. With the Trump regime, we are seeing the destruction of that bargain between the black bourgeoisie and the federal government that emerged from the Civil Rights movement. The black political class is failing in every category and has now given the black internal colony two choices: destruction or sovereignty.

These “victories” won by the black bourgeoisie are currently being taken away with relative ease. Our failure to understand that these reforms are not black freedom but the attempt by a colonial elite to better manage the insurgent black colony will doom the black population to an eternity in hellfire. These reforms are only placed under a particular set of international and internal conditions. Integration was won because the white capitalist class wanted better access to the black consumer market, and chattel slavery was abolished because of strategic necessity by the Northern capitalist class. Black sovereignty over the states of the Republic of New Afrika will come when the white techno-oligarch/FIRE Sector class sees it as a strategic necessity imposed by the insurgent black colony. It is our job as the Black revolutionaries to force this decision.

Of course, all of these major changes in racial-class relationships were marked with serious pressure from the insurgent black colony. During slavery, enslaved New Africans poisoned/killed their masters, burned down the plantations, and joined the enemies of the settler state, namely the indigenous and in some cases the Spanish. Post-slavery, during the Civil Rights struggle, much of the “gains” of integration could not have been accomplished without the urban rebellions and the resistance of black Southern workers to their particular conditions of colonization. The emergence of the black nation state will occur under serious internal and external pressure. Pressure from the contradictions within the Euro-American ruling elite, the failures of great power competition, and (most importantly) the increasing consciousness and resulting action of the New African people will force the birth of our sovereign nation.