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Spartacus R.
editor of Global Africa Pocket News and author of "Violation" and "The Maat Mystery" takes another look at the world.

Gate Keeping is a serious problem which has been blighting the African (Black) community ever since the early invaders of our continent discovered that it was more profitable and less risky to rule by proxy through an artificially created, bought local elite.

Today we have so many Gate Keepers and such a vast variety of gate keeping activities, it has become an almost "normal" experience. So much so that we often find ourselves pointing fingers at the militant, revolutionary activists (gate crashers) and tagging them "trouble makers", without questioning why they have to cause trouble in the first instance (see The Fox and the Hunt). Most of us nowadays do not see gate keeping as a problem. Mainly because most of us are practising Gate Keepers.

What is a Gate Keeper? What makes a Gate Keeper; are they born or are they made? How do you recognise one? Who do they work for? And how are they appointed and rewarded? What can we do about this disease?

A Gate Keeper is a person who guards the interests of the oppressor against the advancing demands of the oppressed. He or she believes that it is their duty to prevent another person from doing something, saying something or going somewhere which the Gate Keeper thinks might cause offence to or encroach upon the authority or which might give the other person some kind of advantage in a real or imagined competition for favours from that authority. Gate Keepers are usually from the community which they feel duty bound to disenfranchise or act against. In other words, a Gate Keeper is a traitor.

Of course, there are people in our community who misbehave in exactly the same way and have exactly the same negative effect on our liberation struggles as those treacherous Gate Keepers, but who we do not normally call Gate Keepers or traitors, because their reasons for doing what they do are slightly different. For example, the "Pan-African" activists or the new "cultural" con artists calling themselves Brother, Leader, Master, Prince, King, Queen and Chief, who undermine and sabotage the activities of their colleagues in their quest for leadership of, or status within, their particular organisation or the wider Global African community. I would consider those individuals even more traitorous than the Gate Keepers because they are usually more aware, and would know at the time that their actions were anti-African. Imagine the strides we would have taken, if some of the most powerful people in our community had not been betrayed by their own colleagues through ego mania, envy, jealousy, greed and rampant personal ambition. Any reference to Gate Keepers here includes those traitors.

What makes a Gate Keeper? Gate Keepers are not born backward, I do not believe that there is such a thing as a self-destructive traitor gene. Many diverse things may happen to a person as he or she grows up, that causes them to become who they are.
How do you recognise a Gate Keeper and where do you look? The first thing you do is look at yourself. Do you see:

1) someone who feels comfortable, energised, motivated and inspired when listening to, or associating with, anyone who speaks the truth, talks about freedom, opposes racism, exploitation, oppression and actively campaigns against social injustice?
2) someone who gives credit where it is due, never trying to diminish the power or credibility of her or his comrades?
3) someone whose allegiance cannot be bought - at any price - by those who are currently waging a genocidal global war against you and your people?
4) someone who will never betray their colleagues under any circumstance?
5) someone who loves her / his people more than money or the trappings of "success"?

You might say you are not a Gate Keeper because you don't work for the enemy. Which brings us to the question of who the Gate Keepers work for. Most Gate Keepers believe that they are working in their own interest - for themselves. Some are paid directly, indirectly or in kind by the enemy (see COINTELPRO UK). Others are not paid by the enemy at all in any way. Nevertheless, all Gate Keepers benefit personally in some way, as a result of their actions, but the community always loses in the long run. Some of the more high profile Gate Keepers are rewarded with knighthoods, lordships, ladyships and dameships after pretending to serve the interest of the African community in their high powered, well paid jobs, while delivering what is expected of them to our enemies.

Some Gate Keepers are spotted by our enemies from a very early age as having good leadership qualities and groomed for that purpose, becoming members of the political elite as Congressmen and women, Mayors, Members of Parliament, Presidents, Prime Ministers, etcetera, and bosses of quangos, "independent" state funded "community" organisations, charities and subsidised private enterprises (see Leadership and Self-Determination).

Any community which harbours and celebrates Gate Keepers as role models is not only a dysfunctional community but one bent on self destruction. Global Africa is one such community. So how do we get rid of this disease? The first step towards eradicating the plague of gate keeping from our community is to look honestly within ourselves both as individuals and as organisations and try to deal decisively with what we find there. We need to purge ourselves individually until we can answer in the affirmative, all five questions above. Then we need to support, encourage and protect individuals and organisations whose stated objectives and practice are towards the realisation of a free and powerful Global Africa. We need to make truth, transparency and open governance the cornerstone of all our interactions within the Global African community. We should practice inclusionism, the African way of being, giving every African person the opportunity to speak and act freely in every situation, on any platform, regardless whether we agree with what that person believes or proclaims, at the same time exercising our right to question, criticise and sanction, equally as freely, everything that person says or does. Every voice must be heard because every opinion is valid. We need to speak up and take action against all organisations and individuals who practice exclusionism against our own people.

The healing process is a long and painful road to travel but with the guidance and protection of our great and noble Ancestors who started this journey, we will heal ourselves and build a world fit for Gods to live in.