The New Afrikan Shreveport: The Black Working Class is Shreveport’s True Rulers
The future of Shreveport is with the Black Nationalist. Shreveport will remain a dead city within the American territorial empire, but will be given new life under the Republic of New Afrika.
Shreveport is a majority-black city situated in Northwestern Louisiana. Like most majority-black cities, the black population is largely separated from any real control over the politics, culture, and social reproduction of the community, regardless of how important and large that black population is.
The black population’s alienation is due to black Shreveport being an internal colony. The black colony is occupied by agents of white financial capital, who have their petit-bourgeois agents in Bossier, Ellerbe, Broadmoor, and the exurbs that surround Shreveport. The agents of white finance/monopoly capital push policies that choke the life out of the internal colony, leading it into a multi-decade state of decay, promote gentrification and the destruction of historical neighborhoods. One simply needs to look at the I49 connector project that will demolish what is left of the historic neighborhood of Allendale.
Shreveport, as it is currently oriented, is a post-industrial city of little importance to the overall American economy. Shreveport is currently meaningless and simply serves as an appendage of the Barksdale military base and as a dumping ground for data centers. Shreveport is treated as one post-industrial city out of the hundreds of those scattered across the United States. To save Shreveport from inevitably becoming a wasteland, populated only by endless misery and pain (it is 80% there now), the black masses must take their place as Shreveport’s true rulers.
The Black Nationalist Vision of Shreveport
The vision of Shreveport presented by the Akata-Tribune is of New Afrikan nationalism. New Afrika is the theoretical country of the so-called “black American”. New Africa comprises the occupied states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. They host the so-called black belt, an area of intense cotton cultivation historically, and are currently the poorest states in the United States.
To be a black nationalist means you support sovereign/independent black development. The black population should be under control of its own land, institutions, and relations with other people. New Afrikan black nationalism is the ultimate expression of being “pro-black” as being black is in contradiction with being American. You cannot be pro-American and want black America to remain in Babylon while claiming to be pro-black. To be pro-black is to seek the separation of black America from Americanism and support the formation of a new national identity, i.e., New Afrikan nationalism. The permanent position of the Black population in the United States is against the American empire.
Cultural Autonomy
Shreveport would be the major border city of the New African State, with its capital in Jackson, Mississippi. Black culture is instead of being an obvious subculture in locations where the black population dominates demographically. Instead of having streets, courthouses, and neighborhoods named after known Klansmen and Confederate generals, streets would be named after cultural heroes like Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, and Assata Shakur. Actual heroes who resisted national/class oppression would be placed in the highest level of public visualization instead of the most backward crackerzoid creatures that we have now.
The culture of the black population would also move toward. The culture of a people is determined by their economic conditions and their political situation. By taking control of ourselves, by determining our own economic development, and by taking political power, we will see the culture of black Shreveport become much more confident. Now, it is one of social chaos, of degeneracy and violence within the working class and the lumpenproletariat (underclass), and a traitorous cowardice in the black middle class (petit-bourgeoisie) of which the latter is the worst of it. Sovereign economic, social, and cultural development means control over the direction of black culture into a more positive and cohesive direction. Currently, black culture is largely under the control of white capital owners. These owners direct their control through multi-national corporations like Universal Music Group or through various film industries in Hollywood.
The black church, which has historically taken a positive role in black cultural development, is now one of the arch centers of backward thinking. The black church promotes cowardice, weakness, and subservience to white power and needs to be radically reimagined. Black pastors, especially at the larger institutions, are some of the most degenerate elements in our community. They engage in decadent consumption at the expense of the more superstitious elements of our people (specifically the elderly) while doing little to support politics that will actually keep their communities together.
The black church is the primary vehicle of black petit-bougougie coon*ish power to keep the black population subjugated to white capital. The Black church’s political representatives are within the Democratic party, whose class is the professional managerial/small business owning class of the black population. These people will sometimes use vague black nationalist rhetoric, but act the same toward the white petit-bourgeoisie. Take Mourning Star Baptist Church and pastor Jackson’s support for data centers as an example. He supports the policies and politics of white tech oligarchs and parrots the claims by these devils while also claiming to be pro-black.
Political-Economic Development
Even though the black population dominates Shreveport demographically, we do not dominate the economy or the politics of Shreveport. Shreveport’s political economy is dominated by the smaller white population concentrated in Ellerbe, Broadmoor, and the Spring Lake Area. These areas are dominated by the increasingly right-wing white nationalist Republican Party. The Republican Party’s main interest is the suppression of the restless subjugated black Nation (in conjunction with the coonish parts of the black Democratic Party) and serving the interests of the white capitalist oligarch class. The main actors of this white nationalist party are the white petit-bourgeois (small business owner), the worst of creatures. They are the creatures who push the most backward policies about police, city expansion, affordable housing (being against it), and confederate/Klu Klux Klan idol worship. The white petit-bougougie is an outsized grouping of the white population and explains why the white population in the Deep South is so backward.
Under the Republic of New Afrika, the strongest and most numerous section of the black population, the black proletariat (working class) is the vanguard (leaders) of the black nation and the black national-liberation movement. Unlike the white petit bourgeois, the working class, and the black bourgeoisie (upper class), the vast 60 to 70 percent of the black population has no party. The black working class is the bastard child of the American political system. Our dual enemies, the white nationalist Republican Party and the traitorous black elements in the Democratic Party in the South, have their primary goal of our subjugation as a subnation within the broader territorial American empire. It is the historical duty of the most advanced elements of the black nation to seek its total liberation.
Under the Republic of New Afrika, the black population of Shreveport would be in control of itself and the direction of the city. The black population, with the black working class leading it, is in control of economic planning and will prioritize itself and the development of the vast majority of the population. Issues like Urban sprawl, lack of public transport, affordable housing, and community safety will be handled by the black working class, leading the black population toward a successful future.