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POWs

The Black Panther Party said that all African prisoners in US jails are prisoners of war (POWs). It should now be clear to all, doubters included, that they were right, but such is not the case. As the war between the oppressor and the oppressed has intensified, the weapons used against us, the means and the styles of attack have diversified.

Some tactics, like the pro-abortion / sterilisation campaigns, are so subtle and devious, that even the people directly under fire - our women - respond negatively against those who try to inform them of the facts.

More blatant and obviously genocidal strategies like the introduction of AIDS, drugs and guns into our community are so massively destructive that we dare not believe they are deliberate. Even though history teaches us that Global Europe have done worse to Global Africa and other nations already, we can't believe it.

So it would be even more difficult to believe that Africans, who are locked down in prisons all over the world, are POWs, because most of them have been convicted of committing some kind of "crime". In many cases these are real criminal acts against our communities, which must be dealt with, but by our own communities, not the people who set the scene for their criminalisation and our failure.

If we were able to understand that there is a war going on; that we are under physical, psychological, spiritual and emotional attack, waged economically, socially, ideologically and culturally, we begin to see that the criminal "justice" system is not designed to protect us. It is designed to remove from our communities those whom they fear the most. The young, fearless, rebellious, creative, vibrant, enterprising and active. It should not be surprising for Bill Clinton to propose life imprisonment for three convictions, even stealing a car radio or joy-riding.

When you understand that it costs more to keep a person in prison for ten years than to educate that person from kindergarten through university, you question the logic of the system and the motives of those who control it. You begin to realise that it is more profitable for Global Europe to lock up the sector of the African community which can be most effective in our struggle for liberation, than to educate them and thereby increase their effectiveness.

That is why the Senate passed a motion last year to terminate the free education programme for prisoners. Which will affect five times as many African prisoners as European convicts.

That is why Denver police (and most big city police departments) have a hit list which "identifies" two thirds of all African youths as gang members.

The majority of those listed have never been officially accused of any crime but in a city where gang membership increases the length of sentence, this hit list could also help to guarantee conviction.

Rodney King

Rodney King, whose savage beating by a gang of Los Angeles police officers was broadcast on national TV, was recently awarded damages of four million dollars against the authorities.

We are pleased for him, though most of it will go to his lawyers and doctors. But we are now in danger of prematurely celebrating the arrival of Justice, while millions of other less fortunate Africans are still suffering the brutality of the state's front line troops.

Black Rage Man Critical

Collin Ferguson, who carried out an armed attack on a commuter train in which five white people died and several more were injured, has been savagely beaten by at least five inmates while awaiting trial. It appears that the attack was initiated in collusion with the guards, some of whom actually participated in the assault with baseball bats and kitchen utensils.

Mr Ferguson, an African from Jamaica, was arrested after the shootings which took place on December 7 last year. His motive was clearly revenge for the mistreatment he, a proud African man, and his people have received at the hands of Global Europe in America. (See Black Rage, GAP News #4).

Melanin Synthesised

There has been some speculation about the properties, purpose and value of melanin, the chemical which all human beings have in every organ of our bodies. African people have it in greater quantities in our skin than any other nation of people, hence our dark complexion.

In a recent conversation with Dr. Patricia Newton, a psychiatrist / neurologist / molecular biologist / behavioural scientist and one of the most outstanding African teachers from the USA, Spartacus R. asked her about melanin and whether it can be ingested without adverse side effects.

"Well, that's interesting, because there are several companies in America that have begun to produce and synthesise an aspect of melanin that they are making from tobacco plant. One is used now in a pill for tanning. There is some research data, particularly done in a book called 'Melanin and the Organotrophins', where it talks about the infusion of melatonin. Apparently in experimental infusion in laboratory rodents for example, after a certain point

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From GAP News May 1994
Volume 1 Number 5 pages 12-13


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