Thread by @muthonikimathi

1 "...This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will..." Frederick Douglass, Social Reformer + Abolitionist.

2. He wrote this in the 1850s. There was a time when "radical abolitionists", under the motto "No Union with Slaveholders", criticized his willingness to engage in dialogue with slave owners, his response was "...I'd unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong."

3. In 1885, European Powers met in Berlin for the Partition of Afrika into workable units to exploit and expand their their industries, dump their waste, steal resources for their all round growth done by forced Labour where EXTREME indentured servitude bordering Slavery reigned.

4. The Partition of Afrika into the PLANTATIONS & LABOUR CAMPS units is what we now call countries. UK ran Gulags in Kenya where 2 million were CAGED like animals for "Resisting". WE have SHARED EXPERIENCES, those pretending otherwise are playing into the imperial Divide &

5. Rule + good old obfuscation. There are Differences & Peculiarities but our Collective should not allow wedge strategies. They came FOR US. ALL OF US. They're not coming For US Blacks, Haiti or Mali. They're coming FOR US.
After FINALLY finding each other, We're

6. still here in this position. This Imperialist still the determiner of our humanity. Our Fate. BECAUSE WE LET HIM. Now OUR Diaspora is doing #BLM hashtags after those many years of so called abolition of slavery. WE are Neo-Colonies & have no control whatsoever of our Continent

7. which is being Run by Collaborators. We're NOT Learning ANY Lessons AT ALL.
While Others who were in a miserable state just like us are uplifting their collective, they are gaining power, they are innovating, they are challenging the world order, we are SPECTATORS.

8. The West when it comes to those of Afrikans descent liberating themselves and reclaiming dignity, keep talking about "peaceful" solutions & responses to the EXTREME VIOLENCE their imperialism subjects our Collective.

9. Then they use foot soldiers who come as so called "Leftists" & " Progressives" to tell people about how all war and violence is bad. Where are these Leftists as Haiti, Somalia, Ethiopia, West Afrika, Burkina Faso, Eritrea are being

10. brutalized? I'll tell you, they're busy calling us all manner of Low IQ savages & saying all the crap we experience is coz of our savage not fit to govern ourselves ways. You saw the rhetoric on Afghanistan. They approve our subjugation & feign ignorance. They're on CODE.

Identifying as Anti-War DOES NOT make one Anti-Imperialist. However, being Anti-imperialist and Politically Conscious + Aware especially for the Oppressed means the recognition of the Reality that sooner or later a War of Resistance MUST break out.

#TheResistance