When he took off his coat...i knew immediately that he was about to nourish our spirit & minds. This brother is so powerful & personifies black intelligence & strength

I remember watching footage from an owner of a black book store in Harlem during the 60s or 70s and he said it best: Black is beautiful; Black isn’t power. Knowledge is power. You can be black as a crow or white as snow but if you don’t know and you ain’t got no dough, you can’t go and that’s for sho’

@anibalcesarnishizk2205

3 жыл бұрын

How many people listened to that statement?.

@lilbru

2 жыл бұрын

That's a powerful statement

@blahblahblah9844

2 жыл бұрын

Black power mixtape

Speech begins at 1:45. Seriously i love Stokely Carmichael.

@inbankwetrustshakur3523

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@spookydoors3355

5 жыл бұрын

Ty

@rabekagonzalezshakur2021

4 жыл бұрын

*Kwame Ture

@ThegreatHera420

2 жыл бұрын

You're the best

@peopleunchained3704

Жыл бұрын

Read The*QURAN* the world's Love ; become a true Muslim. Discover 

I am a white, heterosexual, male. When I was a much younger man, this sounded threatening to me. I grew up in the white middle class bubble. Now, in my early 50s, Kwame Ture's words speak loudly and clearly. So much to be done and so far to go.

@skoobylove1971

5 жыл бұрын

Tommy Rock TEACH YOUR CHILDREN BETTER.

@TheNotBees

4 жыл бұрын

@@skoobylove1971 Trying to. Also restoring the Voting Rights Act would help a whole lot.

@mjsocks5929

4 жыл бұрын

Go wake your people up or shut up

@TheNotBees

4 жыл бұрын

@@mjsocks5929 I can't very well wake them up if I shut up now can I. You are unpleasant.

@vvvhhhhhbb

4 жыл бұрын

@@mjsocks5929 Your statement is what causes the issues we still see. Here is someone trying to learn and do the right thing, an you with antagonistic bulshit statements, say this. You are no better than the people you are speaking against, because when good comes out you can't notice it.

touch one of them, you got to touch all of us!!!!!! where our leaders at!!!!!!!!!

@skoobylove1971

5 жыл бұрын

Ebony Chante HERE I GO

@GAZAMAN93X

4 жыл бұрын

They are dead

He remind me of my brother Malcolm X

Hopefully the government doesn't come after me after looking at this speech.

@Bro_DT

10 жыл бұрын

lol true

@justinpettit3432

7 жыл бұрын

KinkyHairedTruth I saw this black power documentary on Netflix where Talib Kweli was talking about how he got questioned for listening to some of Carmichael's speeches while on a plane.

@kentlawton6446

7 жыл бұрын

KinkyHairedTruth I was thinking the same thing

@inbankwetrustshakur3523

5 жыл бұрын

Who Cares if they do?

@9175rock

5 жыл бұрын

Good news for you, they were already after you.

I’m here in 2020💪🏾✊🏾💕💞💪🏾✊🏾

@ridge7524

11 ай бұрын

2023🌌💓

This just sent chills up my spine!!! There’s is not a black man alive with a platform who is speaking this unapologetically. Literally beaming with pride!

@zeezydoesit7416

Жыл бұрын

@Kemonie I vehemently disagree.. Dr. Umar has developed into a character. He’s not a serious intellectual or freedom fighter anymore. He’s become a joke

I love this man his spirit will live on in another great man

Epic wonder why this guy isn't spoken upon like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King, he was part of a the "CIVIL RIGHTS" movement during the 60's #Black #Power GOD BLESS @kinoshi44htown

@walterjenkins4536

4 жыл бұрын

Because he wasn't assassinated like the other 2 , after the BPPFSD disbanded he left the country went to Africa & that was that

@simondilling5353

4 жыл бұрын

I can't say for certain why he is not talked about more often, but many black heroes from this era aren't talked about that much. It even took a long time for King and X to be remembered and honoured as it is today. But since Kwame Ture marched with King and they worked together, it makes you wonder why he is not mentioned more often. Many from that era, and before, should have more attention.

@firekrueger3987

2 жыл бұрын

He wasnt American

From Jackson and I never learned of this dude until I began to research for myself 👀😂🤦🏽‍♀️ Black Power 🖤✊🏿 his ability to excite and motivate the audience !!!

@firekrueger3987

2 жыл бұрын

Im from the country he was born in and i never heard of him till i research

How have I not learned about this man before? He has such a great auroa about him/ speaking skills. Love it!!!!!!!

We're dropping The Slave Psychology book soon, and Stokely is one of the many revolutionaries we quote.

Salute to brother kwame ture for always staying solid

you know shits about to go down when the jacket comes off.

Damn, people were talking about reverse racism back in the 60's

@gay_spiritual

7 жыл бұрын

Thvndar, sad right? Reverse racism: A pathetic attempt by white people to feel victimized by a problem they created themselves. Herein lies the non-existence of such farce. Now, I've never in my 31 years of being alive, have heard of a white person being harassed or denied something because of their skin color. White people rarely get harassed for their skin color, it's almost non-existent; I'd call that prejudice or bias most likely induced by seeing racism or being victims of it themselves and are lashing out. Disagreeing with political parties is not racism. Disagreeing with something unless it's about a born characteristic, identity, or person in themselves, is not racism. Racism is now too much of a widely open word being twisted. It's original meaning is "a race (skin color/ethnicity) who feels superior to all others". That superiority can range in subtle ways from: dubious glares; dog whistle politics; being followed in a store; or to a systemic and institutionalized way from: discrimination, laws oppressing minorities, hate crimes. White people here in the United States don't experience that here. Here's why reverse racism in fact doesn't exist: * White people don't have laws oppressing them, never had. *They don't experience systemic and institutionalized discrimination motivated by racism in society, housing, employment, welfare and public and private services. *They don't experience the paranoid and dubious glares for their skin color. *They don't experience being denied services in schooling, jobs, careers, goods, transportation or accommodations because if their skin color. *They don't experience being belittled and berated for their skin color. *They don't experience the degrading verbal taunts and jeers for their skin color. *They don't experience the physical assaults and attacks for their skin color. *They don't experience the dog whistle politics; that is- in lieu of epithetical slurs that people use as tactics to instigate and degrade by indirectly using (a) phrase(s) or (a) word(s) because of their skin color/ethnicity/sexual orientation/sex/gender/disability. *They don't experience the degradation and indignity that we people of color/ethnicity (I'm half Mexican) experience and suffer through. So no, white people are NOT VICTIMS OF RACISM; REVERSE RACISM DOES NOT EXIST. You are however, ARE VICTIMS OF YOUR OWN VICES AND PERVERSION! #NeoNazis #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteSupremacists #KKK #Nationalism #ReverseRacism #ReverseRacismDoesntExist #Racism #Racists #WhitePrivilege #WhiteLash #Xenophobia #VictimsOfYourOwnVices #VictimsOfYourOwnPerversion

@Thvndar

7 жыл бұрын

gaychristianandproud Whoah, that is well fucking said! I'll have to post that on FB. Thanks for the feedback

@gay_spiritual

7 жыл бұрын

Thvndar, I added a bit mote, this one is a bit better Reverse racism: A pathetic attempt by white people to feel victimized by a problem they created themselves. Herein lies the non-existence of such farce. Now, I've never in my 31 years of being alive, have heard of a white person being harassed or denied something because of their skin color. White people rarely get harassed for their skin color, it's almost non-existent; I'd call that prejudice or bias most likely induced by seeing racism or being victims of it themselves and are lashing out. Disagreeing with political parties is not racism. Disagreeing with something unless it's about a born characteristic, identity, or person in themselves, is not racism. Racism is now too much of a widely open word being twisted. It's original meaning is "a race (skin color/ethnicity) who feels superior to all others". That superiority can range in subtle privatized ways (prejudice) from: dubious glares; dog whistle politics; being followed in a store; or to a systemic and institutionalized way (discrimination and racism) from: discrimination, laws oppressing minorities, hate crimes. White people here in the United States don't experience that here. Let's clear up some definitions here: RACIAL PREJUDICE- the belief in biases and stereotypes of a group of people(s) RACIAL DISCRIMINATION- actions and unfair treatment based on prejudice RACISM- a form of discrimination (institutionalized in society, culture and laws) based on skin color and/or ethnicity/ethnic origin Here's why reverse racism in fact doesn't exist: * White people don't have laws oppressing them, never had. *They don't experience systemic and institutionalized discrimination motivated by racism in society, housing, employment, welfare and public and private services. *They don't experience the paranoid and dubious glares for their skin color. *They don't experience being denied services in schooling, jobs, careers, goods, transportation or accommodations because of their skin color. *They don't experience being belittled and berated for their skin color. *They don't experience the degrading verbal taunts and jeers for their skin color. *They don't experience the physical assaults and attacks for their skin color. *They don't experience the dog whistle politics of specifically racism (they can be gay, transgender, disabled or a woman and experience dog whistle politics, that's prejudice and discrimination based on other characteristics though, not racism); that is- in lieu of epithetical slurs that people use as tactics to instigate and degrade by indirectly using (a) phrase(s) or (a) word(s) because of their skin color/ethnicity/sexual orientation/sex/gender/disability. *They don't experience the degradation and indignity that we people of color/ethnicity (I'm half Mexican) experience and suffer through. So no, white people are NOT VICTIMS OF RACISM; REVERSE RACISM DOES NOT EXIST. You are however, ARE VICTIMS OF YOUR OWN VICES AND PERVERSION! #NeoNazis #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteSupremacists #KKK #Nationalism #ReverseRacism #ReverseRacismDoesntExist #Racism #Racists #WhitePrivilege #WhiteLash #Xenophobia #VictimsOfYourOwnVices #VictimsOfYourOwnPerversion

@gay_spiritual

7 жыл бұрын

Thvndar and thank you, it's the truth

@ayjank2216

6 жыл бұрын

gaychristianandproud that's not what racism is. racism is discrimination or prejudice against a particular race. Anyone can be racist to anyone, no matter how extreme they demonstrate their beliefs.

powerful speaker

Trini people always in the big league...very intelligent man at the forefront of the early struggle..we should be proud of this great man T&T..

@Madnezzmonroux

4 жыл бұрын

Trinavara don’t separate us...he is a blk man one of us all

@elrededwards863

4 жыл бұрын

U so right now and always we Caribbean people change the world

@Trinavara

4 жыл бұрын

@@elrededwards863 yeah I should've said Caribbean really...good that you know what I mean..

@jmute44

3 жыл бұрын

Elred Edwards lol

@dhatchick22196

2 жыл бұрын

@@Madnezzmonroux yes and he is also Trini. Being Trini doesn’t negate his Blackness.

I wish there was really no more unpunished murders after this

@amidreaming333

4 жыл бұрын

Still very relevant :(

@neadageorge4009

4 жыл бұрын

More and more today 😔

@catherha1

4 жыл бұрын

RIP to Mr George Floyd 💔🖤💘

Truly wish there were no more unpunished murders ..

Salute!!!✊🏿

@inbankwetrustshakur3523

5 жыл бұрын

🖤✊🏿

So mad I didn’t witness the confrontational rhetoric💁🏽‍♀️💪🏽🗣

The great Kwame Toure.

@wileyjohnson5681

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah there will never be another one like him R.I.P.

He was at Central Washington State College in Washington State at our "Revolution" Symposium the month before, March 1967.

My favorite speaker!

ASHE...POWER!!!

luv him!!!

Speech starts at 1.57

Magical.

It’s some attractive about this man ..

Good point...

Kwama Ture my hero

There were thousands of unwarranted deaths of brothers and sisters for decades after he said they would no more.. 😔

@extraordinarytv5451

Жыл бұрын

Because we have yet to get serious about the things he ended up preaching for. Malcom X too.

💪🏾✊🏾💞💞💪🏾✊🏾

Am trying to figure out which one is the cia!!!!!

Asé!!!✊🏿

@DIOPJR I never mentioned the incidents you mention.

That was Elder Lewis Micheaux who made the clever but accurate rhyme in the film "Black Power Mixtape." However, statistically speaking in the United States, most black people aren't poor and most poor people aren't black.(see Statistical Abstract of the United States).

@skoobylove1971

5 жыл бұрын

The American Storyteller SCHOOL'EM!!

2020✊✊

As far as your opinions on my writing, this is the last time I'll address that. I started reading newspapers when I was five years old, and read at a college level before I left grade school. I've never gotten anything but A's in any of my English or Composition classes, and was fast-tracked to advanced programs all through school. You, meanwhile, have at best a nervous grasp of English- understandable, since you're a foreigner, but don't try to blame your incomprehension on my writing style.

@DIOPJR No. I brought up the Nobel Prize, because the fact that Milton Friedman received gives him credibility. It is amazing how much you namedrop. "I know first-year IR undergrads who know about Amin and Arrighi..." So what? You brought them up as an example of an alternative to thinkers like Milton Friedman and I said that I didn't know them. I have never claimed to know every author or thinker who has said something about Africa. Being able to name people doesn't give you more credibility.

@DIOPJR It has nothing to do with entry requirements. I am not talking about new immigrants i am talking about people who are third-fourth and fifth generation americans

Kwame ture is such a legend

@DIOPJR I never stated that. Don't know where you got that from. All I said that receiving a nobel prize in an academic discipline makes your opinion qualified. Unless you think nobel prizes are given to random people. I have no idea who the two people you mention are and I have never brushed away anything they have said.

@baroh2413 Glad you agree.

@ChrisnSnoop yeah wow

@DIOPJR I do listen to people who know what they are talking about instead of agitators who make things up.

We all are Ethiopian American people named after the Ethiopian oceans

This man is a trinidadian native my country never thought me about him... im proud to be a Trinidadian living in america i love america but we as humans black white or whatever race need to come together

May Allah have mercy on him.

@DIOPJR It doesn't mean that everything Krugman says is true but it means that he is qualified to speak and that I will listen. Even though I don't agree with him. Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, not the Nobel Prize in an academic discipline. There is a huge difference. Milton Friedman could teach african countries about equal opportunities and incentive.

As far as why model minorities are successful in America, it's because of the entry requirements set by the US government. African immigrants to this country are actually, statistically, the best-educated 'ethnic' group, and why? Because of the stringency of US admission requirements. It's certainly not because their culture leads to 'success' wherever they go. If it were, then most the citizens of Nigeria would be affluent. Draw the necessary inference.

@DIOPJR I never said that Europeans were the same. Contrary I said that Europeans are different. The same is the case with Africans. Between Africans the difference is even bigger.

@baroh2413 so Samir Amin, Immanuel Wallerstein, Paul Sweezy, Paul Baran, Walter Rodney, Amilcar Cabral, and other economists, sociologists and historians are merely agitators, while Milton Friedman is some kind of expert on the international division of labor? Yet another assumption: that my views are based merely on the rhetoric of Kwame Ture.

@DIOPJR by namedropping i mean throwing around names of people, that you have been told are your great leaders instead of forming a theoretical arguments based on your own situation and what you have experienced yourself? Writing "like Malcolm X, like Nkrumah, like Garvey, like Toure etc etc" frees you of the responsibility of writing what you, principally, think yourself. History can be used, and it can be abused so arguing against a proposition by throwing around names will get you nowhere

We must dispel the notion that Africans are not seriously talking about Pan-Africanism anymore. Within the last decade, we can look at the schism in the African Union over the integration of its nation-states into a United States of Africa as an echo of Nkrumah...thirty years delayed. In a time when the EU protects its farmers while the global financial institutions destroy the African farmer, artisan, and merchant, we must unite!

The narrator has his own bias as he tries to tell viewers how to interpret what Kwame Ture says in this speech. No Black Messiah. Where's the words on the War in Vietnam.

@catherha1

4 жыл бұрын

Yes I heard all of that 👀🤦🏽‍♀️ SMH

They don't make black crowds like this anymore!!!

@DIOPJR The reason i call it a "ready-made-argument" is because you are very eager to get me to explain why it is an example of "race-hustling-opportunism". I have never said that that specific incident was an example of that. But the man behind it is an example of that. A travelling demagogue building his powerbase upone "helping the oppressed" and using reverse racism and revisionist "black history" to do so.

@baroh2413 what's pathetic is to make statements like this without backing it up. In what sense was Ture an opportunist?

@baroh2413 Ture did not come out of the womb espousing Black Power. It was a stage in the evolution of his political thinking. It was informed by his study of Malcolm and Marcus Garvey in the years of disillusionment towards integration. If he was such a persona non grata, a man of limited vision and dubious character, how did he find himself in the position of educating King on the political history of the Vietnam conflict?

@DIOPJR That is a postulate from a man who has realised that he cannot argue when he is not in his own ballpark. Can you support your postulate with facts? Without falling back to your ready-made-arguments?

@DIOPJR I know he changed his name to Kwame Toure, but i prefer to call him Stokely Carmichael. It suits him better. You are the one who ramble. I only answer your ramblings as good as any sane person can.

(cont.)...you pay lip-service to democracy as against 'dictatorship' in the case of Guinea but deny the importance of, and even lambaste the organization around, the principle of democracy in the African freedom struggle in the US. Thank you for unwittingly showing the contradictions in the attitude of the mainstream toward African political movements.

@DIOPJR The difference between pygmies of central Africa and people from Sudan is bigger than the difference between people from Portugal and people from Sweden. Likewise is the difference between people from South Africa and people from Senegal bigger than the difference between people from Germany and people from Hungary. If you had ever been to Africa (or Europe) you would know that. But since you haven't you probably think that all Africans are like the black people around you in America.

@DIOPJR That explains why you have a hard time arguing without throwing in references to 50 odd people everytime you try to build up an argument. Reading, thinking and experience goes hand in hand. Just reading can be bad for your mental health. As far as your grades go, I am not your teacher or your classmate. Nor am i going to hire you for a job, so your grades doesn't really matter to me. But you sound like you have been a good boy. You parents must be proud of you.

@baroh2413 to be clear, I've already alluded to the influence of Friedman on international policy, when I discussed the effect of neoliberal policy from GFIs like the World Bank several posts ago. Your unwillingness to 'discuss real politics' with me, ostensibly because of my ideology, is the hallmark of ignorance. Or cowardice. Or both.

@baroh2413 what you have to do now is to admit that you were incorrect in saying that he didn't contribute to anything positive. You yourself admitted that he 'may have' helped people. Just accept the loss and keep it movin'.

@DIOPJR What people like you don't understand is that political power is not the most important kind of power. That is why a person such as Mohamed "Mo" Ibrahim (a sudanese billionaire and entrepreneur, who set up the Mo Ibrahim foundation) has tried to do more for Africa than any american agitator has ever done. Sadly not many people have heard of him because he is a realist and not just an idealist. (before you accuse me of namedropping, I explained who he is and why i brought him up).

@baroh2413 that sounds like something you've shoved on me. I don't remember saying anything like that. In fact, there are plenty of Pan-Africanists who would say that we are not, as you stupidly called it, a "unity." That we *can* be a unity, and that we can be so quicker than the West can, is what I will affirm always. We share trans-continental political interests and our common experience of dehumanization as 'Blacks' gives us a common cultural enemy: white supremacy.

he was forced into exile by the FBI.

Class has always been a problem. The question is, to what degree does racial-cultural prejudice feed the false consciousness that keeps a materialist conception of social problems from pushing to the fore?

@DIOPJR those things are the core of race hustling opportunism. Sekou Toure was a dictator. I know. I have faily from Guinea

Y'all.. Why can't we all blend in? Tehee:)

Kwame Ture*

The first Black man president appeared, after 50 years after M.L.King. So, who is the first female president of the United States of America ? The USA always give us the greatest entertainment, or the progress of history.

@skoobylove1971

5 жыл бұрын

carlos kleiberthegod TRUMP IS THE FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT. GO STUDY BEFORE U START TALKING. THE FIRST PRESIDENT WAS A MAN OF COLOR.

@baroh2413 name-dropping is a kind of argument from authority. Where have I argued from authority? Merely mentioning the names of people is not the same as not having your own perspectives on things. To wit: where have I said that something is so because of such-and-such authority? Everywhere I have asked, on what basis do you malign the work of Ture as 'race-hustling opportunism'? I can't possibly pose that question without reference to his personality.

@baroh2413 ah, so one has to have won a Nobel Prize in an academic discipline in order to say something relevant about Africa? That's what you seem to be driving at. The fact is that guys who influence my political views like Amin and Arrighi are internationally-reputed scholars of globalism theory, and you've brushed aside everything they've said because they're not neoliberals.

@DIOPJR You knew what I meant. So this comment has no purpose.

@DIOPJR If Toure looks like a dictator, acts like a dictator and sounds like a dictator, don't expect me to call him a freedom fighter. But you show me why it would be unwise to even begin to argue against what you say. Instead of leading a principle discussion you have ready made examples that you throw around. And then you hope that I would start arguing against them so you could be on your homeground. That is how you recognize a namedropper

@DIOPJR So you think that a pragmatic approach to solving problems is "an empty category" . Why do you think orientals, jews and indians are far more succesful in America than blacks?

@baroh2413 when I offered his work in SNCC as an example of something he's done positive, you bunched it together with his work with Toure and Nkrumah, probably because you knew nothing about it. As far as the 'traveling demagogue' crap, you do know that this speech was well after the MFDP and LCFO, right? 'Traveling' was not a part of that work; he had to live with country folk in terrible segregated conditions in Miss. and Alabama, facing down Klansmen, sheriffs, and lynch mobs.

@baroh2413 I'm sorry, what did Friedman write about Africa again? What, specifically, makes him an expert on the political economy of underdeveloped nations? My 'heroes' are either intellectuals and organizers who have directly experienced colonialism, or are academics who have described how neocolonialism works in the 21st century. Who cares that he won the Nobel Prize? Does that mean that everything Krugman or Obama says about every topic is true?

@DIOPJR I do agree that living conditions and the socialsystem in scandinavia is far superior to that of America (or Africa for that sake). We're very proud of that. But that doesn't mean that we can't criticize professional troublemakers such as Stokely Carmichael.

@baroh2413 yes it is. Just because you state something peremptorily does not make it so. To deny a historical group a history is an exercise in ignorance; when you ignore their history because of their race, it is racism. Next you'll be telling me there's no Native American history.

@baroh2413 you think that I did not know that Sekou Toure is called a dictator by the West? Yet another assumption that you've made. Now, I know plenty of Africans, from Ghana, from Nigeria, from Ethiopia, and they all greatly admire Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah. Nkrumah is so popular in Ghana today that there is not a serious party that does not claim his legacy in some way or another. So if all we're basing African mass opinion on is private conversations, you've lost.

@baroh2413 assumption after assumption after assumption. You assume that it's a 'ready-made argument', as if I expect people to overlook what Ture did in SNCC. In fact, I don't; it's probably what he's best-known for, which is why I found your comments about his 'race-hustling opportunism' all the more shocking. What you call a 'ready-made argument', I call background knowledge of the subject. I'm sorry we don't share equally in that.

@baroh2413 the point is that you don't know about the most important thinkers to address themselves to questions of Africa's political economy, yet pretend to educate me on African political reality. This would be like me saying to an Austrian School economist that they don't know how markets work because they have not read Marx (who only addressed them in a very speculative way) and then being insulted when they bring up Hayek or Mises.

it was a white anthropologist, Melville Herskovits, who noted the unscientific tendency of Europeans to believe that so-called 'primitive cultures' could not withstand the overpowering influence of Western ones when the two come in contact. Why are you so slow in catching up with your white brethren?

@baroh2413 you don't know what the hell you're talking about. A White-minded African is a person who believes that every solution to their problem must come from White people. Now, the 'identity crisis' of former slaves is directly relevant to the problems of Africans- which is why Steve Biko was able to organize so many South Africans around Black Consciousness literature coming from the African Diaspora. (Do not embarrass yourself by mistaking my historical example for 'name-dropping'.)

careful theirs a trump supporter in the comments from 2 years ago replying toxically to positive posts and his views I'm sure they came here just to be in a better time when they thought racism was fine

@DIOPJR he made a career out of complaining. he made things up. he agitated and he didn't contribute to anything positive.

@baroh2413 Now, MFDP and LFCO are organizations that he helped build among poor, disenfranchised Black people; they're instance of constructive work he's done, the merits of which no one, except a dyed-in-the-wool racist or a person completely ignorant of the background in which SNCC was organizing, could deny. How in the hell is that name-dropping? Is this just another case of your lexical limitations? Also, how do you know if I've been to Africa? How have you shown that you know more than me?

@baroh2413 a bunch of claims for which you have no evidence, as is your custom. Where did I say that every argument against Pan-Africanism is racist, neo-colonialist or imperialist? Just because I think those adjectives apply to statements you've made, doesn't mean they must apply to every possible statement. Now, how do you justify the claim that the differences among Africans are greater than those among Europeans?

@baroh2413 you've got a strange habit of redefining things. By 'name-dropping' you mean referring to actual events and people; by 'opportunism' you mean actual organizing around the political needs of disenfranchised groups; by 'conspiracy theories' you mean well-established facts that anybody can learn in an introductory African history course, or (in the cases of Lumumba and Nkrumah) by studying FBI documents released under the FOIA.

@baroh2413 you haven't admitted that you were wrong when you said that Ture did not contribute to anything positive. A person who cannot admit his own mistakes is not educable. What kind of precedent are you setting for good faith argumentation? By the way, the only person who has been dealing in facts this whole 'discussion' has been me. MFDP is a fact. LCFO is a fact. Global (vs. continental) Pan-Africanism figuring in the program of the African Union is a fact. As are SAPs.

I really don't know what your purpose is here. Fact: I am putting out more information than you. Fact: your responses have been mainly terse, one- or two-sentence ad hominems and generalizations that have made it that much easier for me to expose the universality of the 'Omnipotent Administrator' syndrome to which I earlier referred. Fact: I hope to convince people that Ture's message is still relevant b/c of the lingering ignorance of Westerners to African issues, and you're helping me out.

@baroh2413 I refuse to talk to you about Africa's political situation until you prove yourself competent about the subject of this video, which is only fair. You can ramble on meaninglessly about dictatorship and name-dropping all you want; you can't change the fact that you've been proved wrong in your characterization of Stokely Carmichael (the last Ture I referred to; perhaps you didn't know that he changed his name to Kwame Ture?). Answer the MFDP/LCFO question or shut the hell up.

@baroh2413 what is your point white man? There are physical and cultural differences between Africans, but there are cultural and physical commonalities as well as political ones. So your point about 'differences' is moot. Everyone is different. This does not mean that human beings cannot form polities, which is all that a United Africa would be.