Black Nationalism

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"There’s still two Americas, one Black, one White, separate and unequal."

Louis Farrakhan

Black Nationalism, is a culturally variable ideology that advocates social, political, and economic empowerment of black communities and people, especially to resist assimilation into common culture (through integration or otherwise) and maintain a distinct identity. In the 19th century, some proposed that Africans in the United States were a nation within a nation "New Afrika", and that this nation is subject to Internal colonialism. On the societal scale, the ideology is usually progressive but some of its followers can be rather conservative.

Black Nationalism varies in how extreme it is. Many black nationalists seek black empowerment or liberation but do not wish to form a society exclusively for black people. On the more extreme side, Black Separatism wants black people to form their own nation and separate themselves from white people and other non-black races. On an even more extreme end, Black Supremacism believes not only that black people should form a black-only society, but that they are inherently superior to other races, genetically or otherwise, and thus should dominate society.

History

Black Panther Party

The Black Panther Party was founded in Oakland, California, by Afro-Americans Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in October 1966. It was designated a self-defense force, and later on became racialized as a far-left organization.

The Black Panthers were Marxist-Leninists who spoke out against the discrimination of Black Americans in the civil rights movement and provided humanitarian needs. More specifically, they were Maoists, who became aquated with mao, after selling his books and writings to rich college students, before realising they agreed with most of the ideas within them. J. Edgar Hoover (former FBI director) said that the Black Panthers were the single biggest threat to the United States. This was during the Vietnam War.

Within the organization, they gave basic human needs to Black communities. They picked Malcolm X's way of fighting struggle over MLK's pacificism.

Throughout American history, they have been regularly demonized, as a militant and overzealous activist group,(often twisting the intents of the Panthers) due to the efforts of organisations such as the FBI, some going so far as to say they were the black equivalent of the KKK. However in recent history, by the more balanced view of the black panthers, has been accepted by the general public.

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Brazilian Black Front

The Brazilian Black Front (Portuguese: Frente Negra Brasileira, FNB), part of the Black Movement of Brazil, was Brazil's first political party representing the Black community. Formed in 1931 and active until the November 10, 1937 suspension of political parties by the then president, Getúlio Vargas, the Frente mobilized Brazil's Afro-Descendant community for a project of racial equality. Desegregation campaigns and popular education focusing on literacy were just two of the ways the Frente engaged in activism. Besides Veiga dos Santos, José Correia Leite also lead the frente. While Arlindo was a promotor of Patrianovism, a far-right ideology, Leite was closer to socialists ideals.

Anarkata

Main article: Black Anarchism

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Frantz Fanon

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Marcus Garvey

Marcus Garvey was a journalist, businessman and one of the first black activists, founder of UNIA.

Born into a family of "petty bourgeois" peasants, Garvey had slave ancestors and (later discovered) Iberian ancestors, so much so that his surname is of Irish origin. Garvey had white friends and at age 14 was arrested for breaking church windows. In 1905, he started working at the Benjamin Manufacturing Company, where after a while he became a trade unionist, but the strike failed and he was fired, gaining a reputation as a troublemaker. In the same year, he converted to Catholicism. In 1910, he founded Garvey's Watchman, a magazine whose publication reached 3,000 copies, even though it was considered an exaggeration.

Subsequently, he traveled to Latin American countries, after starting work at the United Fruit Company as a timekeeper. In Panama he founded the newspaper La Prensa. In 1913, he became a pan-Africanist African Times and Orient Review handyman.

• In 1914, he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA), being one of the first black movements. The UNIA adopted mottos such as "One goal. One God. One destiny" and "establish brotherhood among the black race, promote a spirit of racial pride, recover the fallen and help in civilizing the backward tribes of Africa". UNIA promoted self-confidence and self-esteem for people, in addition to racial separatism and pro-black emigration. After the first world war, he tried to join to fight, but was rejected for his physical issue. He later opposed the participation of blacks in a "war of whites" and increased his radicalism on the radical question, even saying "for every black lynched by whites in the South, blacks should lynch a white in the North". After accusing Garvey of using the UNIA to make money, Garvey resigned from the UNIA in 1917, but returned the same year, suing some members. In 1918, UNIA was incorporated (business) and gained more membership. In the same year, Garvey founded the newspaper Negro World, which was supported by philanthropists. The Negro World published 10,000 publications, being read even outside the USA in Latin American and Caribbean countries, even if some accuse it of having been propaganda. There was also an altercation between Garvey and his old friend Wilfred Domingo over Domingo's socialist views. After the end of World War I, Garvey and other black activists founded the International League for Darker People, to pressure then-President Woodrow Wilson and the Paris Peace Conference to give more respect to people of color, causing the UNIA to send the Haitian Eliezer. Cadet to the conference, but it was in vain because the conference ignored his efforts. After the party's high growth (reaching branches in 25 states in 18 months and even on some other continents) it began to have disagreements with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), in which W. E. B. Du Bois came to claim that Garvey was a "reactionary under the pay of white men" and "a fat little black man, ugly, but with smart eyes and a big head". Garvey, later founded the African Legion, which became a secret service, worrying the Bureau of Investigation, even having an infiltrator, there were also accusations of personality cult, even claiming that Garvey was the provisional president of Africa, who would take the power after decolonization, being ridiculed for it. UNIA began to have relations with the Liberian government (ruled by the True Whig Party), with various agreements and collaborations, such as raising 2 million loan for the reconstruction of Liberia. In the meantime, Garvey suffered assassination attempts and fights in his relationship with his then-wife Amy Ashwood, leading to a divorce. In 1919, Garvey founded the Black Star Line as a way to generate black participation in the maritime industry and challenge white domination. The company received support from African-American businessmen, the UNIA and white businessmen, even receiving aid from the United Fruit Company, but it ceased to function in 1922, when it was abandoned, generating losses ranging from US$ 630,000 to US$ 1.25 million (today US$20,236,000).

There were criminal allegations surrounding Garvey, such as selling shares in a ship that the Black Star Line did not own, in which he claimed he was part of a plot by the NAACP to arrest him, but that justification didn't work and the press went ahead. to see him as a crook who lied to black people. He also ended up having contact with KKK wizards and even supported some ideals, such as, according to himself, "He believes that America is the white man's country, and he also says that the black man should have a country of his own in Africa [...] Klan". He subsequently resigned (again) the presidency of the UNIA and the African Provisional Government. James Eason had also left the UNIA, founded the rival group Universal Negro Alliance, but in 1923, he was assassinated by Garveyites, who, Garvey denied any involvement, but launched a campaign of defense for the assassins, tarnishing Garvey's image. After the 1923 mail fraud trial, a trial in which Garvey uttered anti-Semitic phrases and slurs, he was arrested that year, but released on bail from 1923-1925. He and the UNIA wanted a colony in Liberia with 3,000 African Americans, but when he got there, Charles D.B. King arrested and deported him, in which Garvey accused Du Bois of this change. He was imprisoned again between 1925-1927, when released, he returned to Jamaica and then went to London, dying at the age of 52.

Rastafarianism

Rastafari is an Abrahamic religion that developed in Jamaica during the 1930s. It is classified as both a new religious movement and a social movement. There is no central authority in control of the movement and much diversity exists among practitioners, who are known as Rastafari, Rastafarians, or Rastas.

Rastafari beliefs are based on an interpretation of the Bible where God is referred to as Jah, who partially resides within each individual. Rastas assign key importance to Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia between 1930 and 1974, who is regarded variously as the Jah incarnate. Rastafari is Afrocentric and focuses attention on the African diaspora, which it believes is oppressed within Western society, or "Babylon". Many Rastas call for this diaspora's resettlement in Africa, which they consider the Promised Land, or "Zion". Rastas refer to their practices as "livity", which includes adhering to Ital dietary requirements, wearing their hair in dreadlocks, and following patriarchal gender roles. Communal meetings are known as "groundations", and are typified by music, chanting, discussions, and the smoking of cannabis, the latter regarded as a sacrament with beneficial properties.

Malcolm X

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Nation of Islam

Main article: Black Islamism

AZAPO

AZAPO or Azanian People's Organisation, is a Scientific Socialist South African party. It emerged as a party in 1978, even though it had already existed as a movement. In 1987, the party was banned, but it was unbanned in 1990. AZAPO had an armed wing called the Azanian National Liberation Army (AZANLA), in which it fought in the first gulf war with the support of China, Iran, Yugoslavia, etc. He also supports SOPA (Socialist Party of Anzania). The main foundations are: Black Consciousness, Scientific Socialism, South Africa's Isolationism and anti-apartheid.

AFUN

AFUNism (African Unionism) is a black nationalist adaption of Nazism, but it describes itself as fascism for black men. It believes in the preservation of the "ZAMINT" race, which is any dark-skinned native African who descended from a bloodline composed of purely dark-skinned Africans. While not as explicit as Nazism, most of its followers display tendencies of Anti-Semitism.

How to Draw

Flag of Black Nationalism

1. Draw a ball
2. Divide into three even horizontal sections
3. Fill top with red, middle with black, and bottom with green
4. Add the eyes and you're done!

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	Red	#E31B22	rgb(227, 27, 34)
	Black	#141414	rgb(20, 20, 20)
	Green	#00853E	rgb(0, 133, 62)

Personality & Behavior

Black Nationalism has several personalities, but all connected in the struggle of "his people" and hatred for white supermacy. The Black Power movements for example (like Black Panthers), believe that Capitalism exploits the oppression of Afro-American communities and gets along with most left-wing ideologies (especially Mao, Afrsoc and Gaddafi. He is very violent in riots towards police officers and clashes with them. He hates the FBI, and CIA, and the US government in general for eventually sabotaging the Black Power movements and the assassination of Black Panther leader.

In comics, people often use him to fill the typical 80's or 90's hip-hop star character. Other notes include Black Nationalism speaking African-American Vernacular English.

Stylistic Notes

some props for Black Nationalism to have:

• A kente kufi
• Some jewelry
• Black Panther pin (If African-American)
• Military beret (If African-African)
• Protest sign
• Fried chicken
• Watermelon
• Grape soda
• Menthol cigarettes

Also celebrates Kwanzaa with black, red and green candles.

Relationships

Brothas

• Populism - BLACK POWER!
• Pan-Africanism - One Africa!
• Indigenism - We went through what this country threw at us together.
• Black Lives Matter - There needs to be more attention brought to police brutality and systemic racism!
• Maoism - Showing the way to the Panthers.
• Separatism - Black Americans cannot be freed from systemic racism until we split off from white ameriKKKa!
• Left-Wing Nationalism - Class conscious can not come without black consciousness. Black revolutionaries must recognize both and otherthrow the white establishment!
• Sankarism - A true Marxist revolutionary and a hero, we should follow your steps!
• Mugabeism - Ended the white occupation of Zimbabwe.
• Castroism & Guevarism - True revolutionaries!
• Juche - Thanks for your support! Self-reliance is based!!!
• Non-Interventionism - I wish them whitey would finally leave us alone and deal with their own business.
• John Brownism - Malcolm X said you was the only white person he would let in the OUUA.
• Black Islamism - My fellow brother, but he's a bit esoteric.
• Showa Statism - Your Black Dragon society was based and you supported the Jah. You also helped create and fund Black Nationalist movements in the United States like The Nation of Islam.

Aight

• Racial Nationalism - Don't think that black nationalism is on the same ground as white supermacy. One oppress, one is liberation for the oppressed.
• Black Conservatism - I hate you try to convince racist whites you're "one of the good ones", "massa" does not care doesn't matter how much you hate your own kind, at the end of the day you are a tap-dancing c**n who will be disposed off the moment everyone else is deal with. You are NOT a part of the team (and never will be)!
• Black Zionism - ...whatever you say, dawg.
• ANC - I'm thankful you ended the apartheid regime, but there's still a disportionate amount of inequality between the majority African population and the Boers. Until you change things up, I will vote for the EFF.
• Lincolnism - You did us a service championing the 13th Amendment, but streets were saying you weren't really the biggest fans of us.
• Longism - Thanks for giving free education and cracking down on illiteracy. But you a ruthless opportunist, and "genuinely" care about blacks so long as it benefits you.
• Christian Socialism - You were a good-hearted man with a vision, one I wished was true. A part of me did wish the the sons of slaves and slave owners could sit down and join hands with one another, I really did, when you were shot that dream slowly died with you. I don't think co-existence is possible.
• Revolutionary Progressivism - Operation Weather Underground! Although some of our variants don't like you.
• Gandhian Socialism - I'm not a kaffir! At least, you changed your views later on
• Fascism - Another colonizer who occupied Ethiopia. Garvey called himself one of you and AFUN is the same. Did you sing a song of how much you love Ethiopian women?
• Griffinism - You're a white nationalist so I don't fw you, but you support our self-determination so you're not the worst of them.
• Theodemocracy - Racism has "no place" in your Church anymore, what about 2 Nephi 5:21?
• Anarcho-Capitalism - I don't really like anarchism and I'm conflicted about whether capitalism is good or bad, but Lipton Matthews and Murray Rothbard are based.
• Authoritarian Capitalism - Many of us detest capitalism, but Garvey, Kagame, Ibrahim Babangida and others are based.
• Feminism - Black women participated in the women's suffrage movement, but klanfems stabbed them in the back so had to fight for them alone. When it comes to black men, we think baby mommas raising young black men is the cause of a lack of manliness and responsibility. BITCH THIS CHICKEN IS COLD!
• East Asians - You were discriminated too, but POC unity is more of less unlikely a lot of you idolize white culture and retain a hatred of us as a result, leading to tensions between us.

Wizards of the Ku Klu Klan

• White Nationalism - You crakkkers do everything you can to fuck us over, we'll never be free until we get our own nation!
• Imperialism - You were the reason my people suffered for millenniums. You bulit your backs off of us in your homes.
• Police Statism - F*** 12! ACAB!
• Blue Lives Matter - Really? Fuck you too!
• Neoconservatism - Your "war on drugs" was really a war on blacks. Heroin weren't a issue in the community until you gave police officers the right to mass incarcerate people. Thank you George W. Bush for PEPFAR.
• Zionism - You're just another colonizer from Europe, not to even say you held diplomatic relations with other Apartheid states. You promote decadence in our communities.
• Confederalism - Your entire cause was to keep black people in chains. It was never about states rights, fucker.
• Slavery - We were sold off to slave traders and suffered generational trauma. The white men would always hit us with the whip and rape our women. We techinally bulit America, but I'm in the wrong for wanting reperations?
• Nazism - Fuck you and your conception of "da massa race"! Kanye bro wtf....
• GOPism - You turned your backs on us!
• Bidenism - Don't think I forgot about your past, Jim Crow Joe!
• Vaushism - Equating my ideology with his? You cannot be this serious bro. Fuck off.
• Leopold II of Belgium Thought - All that bloodshed in the Congo, out of all of the colonizers, I hate you the most.
• Alt-Right - Put this baatard in a room with some n*ggas and he'll be as quiet as a chruch mouse.
• Hutu Power - The conflict of Tutsi and Hutus is the result of a divided and conquer policy. By instigating blk infighting, you are keeping us divided.
• Boers - Shoot the Boer! (Also, I don't ACTUALLY want to shoot Boers, learn how context works.)
• Tribalism - Enough. This tribalist mentality is the reason why black people are and always taken advantage of. We must be conscious and unite as a people against oppression!
• Reaganism - “Ronald Wilson Reagan? Each of his names has six letters? 666? Man, doesn’t that offend you?” - Riley Freeman

Further Information

Article

• Marcus Garvey By Tony Martin

Literature

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
• Huey Newton Talks to The Movement about the Black Panther Party: Cultural Nationalism, SNCC, Liberals and White Revolutionaries by Huey Newton
• Documents of the Black Liberation Army: Documents from the Underground by the BLA

Wikipedia

• Black Nationalism
• Marcus Garvey
  • Garveyism
    • Universal Negro Improvement Association
• Malcolm X
• Black Power Movement
  • Black Panther Party
  • Black Liberation Army
  • Weather Undergroud
  • Revolutionary Action Movement
  • African People's Socialist Party
• AZAPO
• Black Separatism
  • Republic of New Afrika
• Frantz Fanon

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