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On April 6th in Hoodoo History: The New York City Slave Revolt of 1712 🔥✊🏾

23 enslaved Afrikans set fire to NYC one year after the slave trade markets officially opened by the East River on Wall Street.

• On the night of April 6th, 1712, 23 Afrikans armed themselves with swords, knives, guns - laced with prayer & faith - and fire against White Slavers in the streets of NYC. They set an outhouse ablaze at the home of Peter Van Tilborough on Maiden Lane, at what was then the northern edge of Manhattan. They then picked off any White Slavers nearby who tried to stop it, from the cover of darkness. 9 Slavers were killed and 6 others were injured by nights end.

• On the following morning, the Governor of NY ordered two militias to "drive the island" aka capture & kill the rebels. 6 Afrikans took their lives in protest. The rest were burned alive or "broken" at the wheel. This unprecedented event hitting the streets of NYC quickly spurred the NY State Assembly to pass an act that would permit Slavers to punish Afrikans to the extreme measures by "not extending to life or member", thus cementing a new precedent for their cruelty in the North. In addition, Slavers would now be required to pay $200 dollars in security fees to the State & annuity for any freed Afrikans. Despite these stringent laws, NYC would see more slave rebellions in the next two decades; the next being in 1741.

To be of Hoodoo is, and has always been, to fight back. Let this be a reminder, forever to be drilled into our psyches: We been fighting. We been sacrificing. We been spiriting. We been victorious.

Today, 83 Maiden Lane sits in the infamous Financial District of Manhattan & now serves as the headquarters of the AHRC (Association of Help for Retarded Children). But beneath the cloak of modern amenities & reconstructive efforts, the once-scorched Earth still remembers the night of April 6th. This is where we made our stand. This, & the streets along the northern edge of Manhattan, is a place of power.

It is important to remember the when & WHERE of this event (and those that followed) as many to this day falsely believe that the North was somehow the righteous exception to the Eurocentric cruelties of Maafa. The North was not the exception then & is not the exception now. May we:

• Meditate on the cost of true freedom that these Ancestors paid in blood so we wouldn't have to.

• Pour libations for them, especially those of us residing on or near the Financial District, as this is where our Ancestors were bought & sold from the docks on the East River to Wall Street.

• Remember our plight & presence in the Northern states that have lightened their reputation with the mask of progressive thinking.

[keyamsha]

Goal: Invent the rise of a Black Messiah

Invent the rise of a Black Messiah

If John Edgar Hoover can advocate preventing the rise of a Black Messiah, we can advocate INVENTING the rise of a Black messiah. Below are the pages of the notorious FBI Memo dated March 4, 1968, exactly one month before the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It is the infamous “Black Messiah” memo which states on page three: “Prevent the rise of a “messiah” who could unify, and…

[hate5sixofficial]

Maafa 2024-06-15 Foto Club Philadelphia, PA

[digiindie]

MAAFA - Because We Are (@maafahardcore)

 

[iphigeniacomplex]

I have long been interested in the resonances between the Nakba and the Maafa – this is the Swahili word chosen for what is otherwise dubbed the “Middle Passage” in the history of African enslavement in the Americas, in North America specifically in this case. Both terms translate to the same thing: disaster or catastrophe. Both are used for enormous dislocating experiences that go on to define ongoing lives of struggle. Whenever I hear “Nakba,” I think immediately Maafa. There is a need to insist on these terms in these languages because, as the argument goes, there is no way that the language of the colonizer – the language of the criminal who criminalizes us – can adequately express the experience of this crime,  a crime against humanity, our humanity, and a crime against history. The Nakba was a presence in the overwhelming majority of my interviews with Palestinian former prisoners (who might become prisoners anew at any time, we must add). I would begin by asking where they were from to find out who they are and how they began their lives in the revolutionary struggle. They would often narrate their histories in terms of origin in a now “far” place, followed by displacement around 1948. Each micro-autobiography was also a Nakba story, about families scattered and how people came to end up in Ramallah or Hebron from Haifa or Jaffa. It may be helpful as well then to think of the ongoing Nakba as part of a regime of captivity, and not only as dispossession and expulsion, as it is commonly discussed by other academic perspectives in particular. This is no dichotomy. A focus on captivity could nonetheless highlight Zionism’s ongoing attempts at controlling Palestinians, not to mention others, “here and there.” In the context of apartheid in South Africa or Jim Crow in the US, people often think the term “segregation” accurately identified what was going on. But this is misleading – there was never really “segregation” by any name in those cases. There was always a line that the colonizer could cross when he saw fit for purposes of economic or sexual exploitation or any other reason and that the colonized couldn’t cross without facing murderous violence. The “separations” of “Apartheid” are breached in and out of colonial interests, as a rule. Similarly, when we think of the Nakba it is very much about removing Palestinians from land as well as controlling and containing them at whatever remove at the same time—in Gaza, in the West Bank, in the diaspora beyond. Look at the assassination of the escaped prisoner Omar Zayed, who was newly captive in seeking refuge in the Palestinian embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria. Also, one former prisoner whom I interviewed in Majd El Kurum described that village as “a West Bank-style refugee camp” in ’48 Palestine. We could talk about how gentrification operates like this in Palestine and the U.S. with all its attendant policing and state violence. Like Malcolm X said, a long time ago now, this is very much about the power of control and containment in the bloody occupation of land, wherever you are or end up – all limiting terminology aside.

—Professor Greg Thomas for the Nakba Files, “Palestine in the Sun of the Black Radical Tradition”

[ptseti]

Despite many African people writing about the MAAFA from being enslaved themselves, experiences of the diaspora both outside & inside of Africa, or from a historical perspective, many African people are indifferent or don't know about what happened to some of their own Ancestors

[madamlaydebug]

DESCENDANTS OF THE DIASPORA/MAAFA ❤️🖤💚

DI-AS-PO-RA / n. a dispersion of a people, language, or culture that was formerly concentrated in one place, to scatter, to displace, to live in separated communities.

"The only difference between a Dominican, Puerto Rican, Jamaican, Haitian, Cuban, Bahamian, and an African American is a boat stop."

[3rdeyeblaque]

Today we venerate Ancestor "Phillis Wheatley" on her 270th birthday 🎉

Her masterful talent & revolutionary use of words in poetry, spawned her storied success in becoming the first Afrikan descendant poet to be published in U.S. History.

I place quotations "Phillis Wheatley", because that was NOT her name. "Phillis" was the name of the slave ship that robbed her of her home, dignity, & identity. "Wheatley " was the name of the European slaver who "owned" her. Both names are a lie (as are many of ours today) forced upon her as a reflection of her circumstances. I feel compelled to emphasize this as the dark truth of our history & how it presently affects us generations later, is consistently ignored. Sadly, we will never know her true name. Yet she remains a shining example of how Black excellence always perseveres despite circumstance or any interruption to our history.

Born in Senegal/Gambia, "Phillis Wheatley" was just 8 years old when she was kidnapped and sold into Slavery. She was taken to Boston, MA where she was purchased by the Wheatleys as a hand servant. Even at such a tender age, "Phillis Wheatley" showed exceptional intellectual promise. At the Wheatley's instruction, she learned to read Greek & Latin. At age 12, she discovered Alexander Pope, who she'd begin to model her own literary work after. She was first published at age 13 when her work was featured in a Rhode Island newspaper.

As her prominence grew, the Wheatleys sought a publisher to release an anthology of her work. They pursued her publication in England. There, she garnered the interest of many & the support of a Countess, who was a pro-abolitionist. A publisher approached the Wheatleys with interest, but demanded proof that it was indeed "Phillis'" work. Shortly thereafter, a literary trial unsued. A young "Phillis Wheatley" endured 18 White male arbiters in Boston who were tasked with validating her work; none in the U.S. believed that an enslaved young Afrikan woman was capable of articulating her thoughts into such impeccable work. Of course, she proved them all very wrong. 11 months later, "Phillis Wheatley's" 1773 anthology was published.

Her work was deeply attuned to the societal issues of her time; from Slavery to the Abolition Movement, to the warped irony of the European transplants writhing to escape their British dominants in the wake of the Revolutionary War. Though her classical eurocentric literary training emanated from her work, it never diminishing her voice. Her masterful use of allegories - drawn particularly from Greek mythology- affirmed her perspective as an enslaved Afrikan Woman. Due to her growing popularity & growing wealthy patrons, John Wheatley caved into the pressure to emancipate her. With her life as her own for the first time in her life, "Phillis Wheatley" sought to pursue a career in writing poetry. However, the Revolutionary War quickly redirected the financial resources of her wealthy patrons on both sides of the Atlantic.

"In every human Breast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance." - "Phillis Wheatley"  

We pour libations & give her💐 today as we celebrate her for her perseverance & revolutionary words, and elevate her in healing. May be remembered for her truth spoken through the power of words & the truth in her identity.

Offering suggestions: libations of water, read/share her poetry, & foods/music from Gambia/Senegal

*Note: offering suggestions are just that & strictly for veneration purposes only. Never attempt to conjure up any spirit or entity without proper divination/Mediumship counsel.

[kwanzaa-wakanda]

"But Karenga--"

I do not give a shit about that nigga. He's largely irrelevant to my life and practice.

Would he take issue with that? Probably, I know his defenders do.

But when you try to lead a cultural revolution, you have to expect that the best of what you create/give shape to will become larger than yourself.

Kwanzaa and the concept of Maafa are bigger than Karenga. They belong to us, not him. They reflect us, not just him.

The man is not a god, his views are not gospel, and we are not a religion. I can and will pick which parts of his philosophies I think are useful and which ones I don't. I encourage us all to do the same, so we don't make the mistake of turning our cultural struggle into a parade of idols.

[eraserheadbabydriver]

Bob Vylan has 🔥 albums

Other artists (sorry dk full albums)

Cinnamon babe, banshee, MAAFA, the 1875

i'll check out the others soon but bob vylan is slayinggg i love bait the bear and drug war

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Maafa 2023-12-09 The Meadows Brooklyn, NY

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MAAFA - "Welfare" (@maafahardcore)

[reasoningdaily]

Rapper Boosie Badazz says if he were back in the antebellum South, he would probably be a slave.

During an interview with former battle rapper turned talk show host Math Hoffa, the “Wipe Me Down” chart-topper was asked about the almost equally controversial Kanye West.

Boosie shares on the “My Expert Opinion” show that he was “p##### off at Kanye West” last year when he made several inflammatory statements about the Black Lives Matter movement, George Floyd, the Jews, and slavery. He said he was so upset that he could not stop tweeting and “misspelling words” trying to get his outrage out on Twitter.

“I don’t like what Kanye do to our Black race,” the Louisiana recording artist said. “I don’t know what Blacks done done to him, bro.”

Math Hoffa jumped in and asked if he was referring to the White Lives Matter shirts— which caused an uproar with the other guests in the barber shop setting.

Still, Boosie didn’t get distracted. He was clear on what he feels Kanye’s perspective on is on Black people.

“[Ye] said slavery was a choice,” the guest blurted out.

Math Hoffa dropped a bomb and said he felt the same way, shifting the conversation to what he would have done if he was a victim of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (the MAAFA).

“I don’t,” Boosie said, vehemently shaking his head “no,” and mimicking what a whip might look like going against an enslaved person’s back.

Hoffa tried to challenge that and ask why didn’t people rise up and fight back or stop Europeans from going into Africa and stealing his ancestors. He asked why people didn’t risk their lives or choose death.

Boosie (nor many of the other guests) jacking Hoffa.

“I don’t agree with nothing Kanye West says about Blacks. I feel as a person, from what I seen him do and talk about Black people, I feel like he has no love or respect for the Black race,” the rapper said, adding, “I feel he loves the white race more.”

To this point, Math Hoffa brought the infamous 2005 Hurricane Katrina telethon and Ye’s comments about the then-sitting president.

Boosie was clear.

“He said ‘George Bush doesn’t care about Black people,’” the rapper said, “but he shows he doesn’t love Black people.”

One of Boosie’s problems with Kanye is that he believes the artist has a dynamic platform but has chosen to use it multiple times to tear down and “disgrace” Black people, particularly pointing at his comments regarding Floyd.

As the conversation intensified, Hoffa asked Boosie if would he have fought to the death to not be enslaved or have his family members enslaved.

“At that time, I am going to do what I have to do to stay alive,” Boosie said. “If I run, I’ma die.”

“Now let me flip it on you. If a million of your brothers and sisters got burned up in a fire, would you like somebody talking about them or saying anything that is not supporting them?” he asked Math Hoffa.

Hoffa didn’t answer the question, perhaps not understanding that Boosie was referencing the Jewish Holocaust.

During the discussion, Hoffa continued to be challenged, even by his co-host who said, “You’re speaking from the perspective of a free man. You don’t know what it feels like to be in captivity. You have no idea what that is like and to sit there and judge someone who was…”

Boosie jumps in and says, “You don’t know if you’ve never been in captivity. Some people not gonna run if you over them with guns and whips on your back.”

Hoffa asked, “What you gonna do?”

“I wouldn’t know. I wasn’t in captivity,” Boosie, a man from the deep South, answered.

“If I run, I’ma die. I probably would have been a motherf##king slave,” he said. “If I was born in captivity…”

Math interrupts and says, “You? That’s hard to believe.”

The consensus of Boosie and the other host, “It’s hard to think about being born into captivity.”

“That’s just like me being born in the hood and staying a hood n##ga. If I was born into captivity and all I know since a child is praising and being took care by a white man I probably would have been a f##king Django or a slave overseer. I would probably be f##k up,” he said.

Check out the very powerful interview by clicking here.

[rwizakakiza]

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3. 13. TABIA YA 13: "UASI - REBELLION"

Uasi ni tabia ya kukaidi au kupinga mamlaka au utaratibu fulani iliyowekwa. Ni kuvunja sheria au kukosa utii yaani upinzani wa wazi kwa mamlaka inayotawala. Mamlaka hiyo inaweza kuwa ni utawala wa kidunia au utawala wa MUNGU.

Mfano

MUNGU ameweka kanuni / katiba / utaratibu / mwongozo wa Ufalme wake ambao unajulikana kama MAANDIKO MATAKATIFU (Biblia /Neno la MUNGU) ambamo ndani yake kuna Sheria / Amri za MUNGU. Unaposhindwa kutii Neno lake, Unafanya UASI dhidi ya utawala wa MUNGU yaani unampinga MUNGU. (Kibiblia uasi unaitwa dhambi)

.....Kila atendaye dhambi, afanya uasi; kwa kuwa dhambi ni uasi.

......1 Yohana 3:4.....

Hivyo huwezi kusema.... Mimi nampenda MUNGU wakati upo kinyume na utaratibu aliouweka mwenyewe, Huo ni uasi.

Mfano

...Wewe ni mwizi unamuhukumu anayezini...

... Wewe Mseng'enyaji unamuhukumu aliyebaka...

... Wewe mtukanaji unamuhukumu mwongo...

... Wewe ni Fisadi unamuhukumu mchawi...

... Wewe unaishi mke/mume wa mtu unamuhukumu anayelawiti...

... Wewe ni husamehei unamuhukumu muuaji kweli...

Wote mpo kwenye boti moja la kumpinga MUNGU ila vitengo tofauti kwa sababu

.....Yeye aliyesema, Usizini, pia alisema, Usiue. Basi ijapokuwa hukuzini, lakini umeua, UMEKUWA MVUNJA SHERIA.

......Yakobo 2:11.....

ZINGATIO.

Uasi wowote unauona duniani umeanzia Rohoni yaani mtu anaanza kutomtii MUNGU, katika hali hiyo inapelekea hata mazingira ya nje kuasi iwe ni kuasi ndoa, Serikali au jamii ni kushindwa kuvumilia na kutii anachoelekezwa na MUNGU kabla.

3. 13. 1. DALILI /MATOKEO YA TABIA YA UASI.

(i). KUKOSA UTII.

Mtu anayekosa utii kwa MUNGU kamwe hawezi kutii wazazi, jamii au Serikali na hata kama ataonekana kutii ni utii wa macho (bandia /anaigiza), lakini ndani ni mpizani hatari, na kuna siku hali ya uasi itaonekana wazi. Kutokutii kunaleta maisha ya laana na maafa mengi kwenye maisha yako na duniani kiujumla na hapo ndio mwanzo wa kusema... MUNGU ametuacha au hakuna MUNGU, kumbe wamesahau waliomtenda.

.....Lakini itakuwa usipotaka kuisikiza sauti ya BWANA, MUNGU wako, usiyaangalie kufanya maagizo yake yote na amri zake, nikuagizazo hivi leo, ndipo ZITAKAPOKUJIA LAANA hizi zote na kukupata.

......Kum 28:15 - 68....(Soma yote)

(ii). KUKOSA UVUMILIVU.

Mtu anapokosa utii kwa MUNGU anapoteza tunda la Uvumilivu ndani yake, kisha UBINAFSI na TAMAA ZA DUNIA zinamtawala hataki hakose kitu anatamani kila kitu, Mwisho anakosa Uvumilivu, anasaliti ndoa yake, au familia yake au Serikali yake au MUNGU wake ili apate matamanio yake, huo tayari ni uasi.

.....MSIIPENDE dunia, wala MAMBO YALIYOMO katika dunia. Mtu akiipenda dunia, kumpenda BABA hakumo ndani yake. Maana kila kilichomo duniani, yaani, TAMAA ya MWILI, na TAMAA ya MACHO, na KIBURI cha uzima, havitokani na BABA, bali vyatokana na dunia. Na dunia inapita, pamoja na tamaa zake, bali Yeye afanyaye MAPENZI ya MUNGU adumu hata milele.

.....1 Yohana 2:15-17.....

(iii). SHARI /UKATILI /VITA.

Kukosa utii na Uvumilivu kunapelekea Uasi na matokeo ya Uasi ni Vita, magomvi, uvunjifu wa amani, ukatili wa kupindukia. Hayo yote yapo kwenye jamii kwa sababu ya tabia ya uasi, Wewe Usiasi.

.....Bali wewe, mwanadamu, sikia neno hili ninalokuambia; usiwe wewe mwenye kuasi kama nyumba ile yenye kuasi; funua kinywa chako, ule nikupacho.

...... Ezekieli 2:8......

Ukweli tabia ya uasi ni tabia hatarishi na epukana nayo kwa sababu inakuingiza kwenye vita dhidi ya watu na MUNGU pia. Unakumbuka wazi kilichomkuta shetani alipomwaasi MUNGU, na shetani anataka uwe upande wake.......Je wewe una nguvu za kupigana na MUNGU ili umtawale?

.....Hamwezi KUSHIRIKIANA katika meza ya BWANA na katika meza ya mashetani. Au twamtia BWANA wivu? Je! Tuna NGUVU zaidi ya MUNGU?

.....1 Kor 10:21-22.....

Acha uasi mkimbilie BWANA YESU akuokoe na kukutenga na tabia ya uasi ndani yako, Amina.

3. 14. TABIA YA 14: "UCHUNGU - PAINFUL".

......Tutaendelea......

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"Do we [really] provoke the LORD to jealousy [when we eat food sacrificed to handmade “gods” at pagan feasts]? Are we [spiritually] stronger than He? [Certainly not! He knows that the idols are nothing. But we deeply offend Him.]

......1 Corinthians 10:22......

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Chief Adjuah Live Preview: 1/31, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago

Chief Adjuah

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Since we last recommended jazz trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer Chief Adjuah (fka Christian Scott), he's released a few terrific records on longtime label Ropeadope. Most recent was 2023's Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightning, his first to not feature trumpet and instead the n'goni and his own handcrafted string instrument. The album combines influences from West African music as well as that of his birthplace, New Orleans, as he continues to reclaim his identity as part of a long lineage of Black Indians in Louisiana. (He's Chieftain and Oba of the Xodokan Nation.) Fittingly, on the day of its release, the Ashe Cultural Arts Center named him as the Maafa 2023 Grand Griot. The inventor of Stretch Music continues to expand the reach of contemporary jazz.

Tonight, Chief Adjuah performs at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts. The concert is supported by the Logan Center Jazz Forever Fund, a gift of the Revada Foundation and the Harve A. Ferrill Concert Fund. It's presented in partnership with Chicago Jazz Magazine, DownBeat, Jazz Institute of Chicago, and WDCB 90.9 FM. The show, currently sold out, starts at 7:30 P.M.

[deblala]

Maafa 21: Black Genocide in 21st Century America

https://banned.video/watch?id=6673404e6fc870596d762c60