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Nation State of Mind
@OmowaleAfrika
Planning, Plotting, Strategizing. #LetsWork Not actively using social media, feel free to email info@omowaleafrika.com and check my links below.
Sep 5, 2020 • 4 tweets • 5 min read
#UnAmericanMiniDoc Update & Special Thanks 🍾🎉🍾🎉 pscp.tv/w/ciJBHDFWR2p2… Special Social Media Shoutout to these amazing contributors:

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Jun 25, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
First Marc Lamont Hill, now this. Black Male Feminists are going out “Hella” bad this week 🤦🏾‍♂️ These dudes get around these bourgeois liberal feminist/queer circles & start buck dancing for nigg* trinkets & protest pu**y then get themselves caught up.
Jun 21, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
#FathersDay inspiration for the Men on my TL.

In 2018, I attended the @ausarausetpa Atefu Conference.

An “Atef” is the Kemetic word for Father, & the standard for fatherhood, that all men should aspire to.

Please take a moment to listen to the remarks below #AsABlackFather. Image Clip 1 of 2 #AsABlackFather
Jun 20, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I wrote this tweet 10 days ago, when folks were first celebrating the removal of these racist relics from the past. Now today, I’m seeing calls coming from some well meaning folks (@Mysonne) for the removal of additional relics.

Robert F. Williams lecture —
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Jun 16, 2020 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
Did you know that August 13, 2020 marks 100-years of the Red, Black, and Green, a national symbol of race pride that was adopted by our ancestors a century ago?

❤️🖤💚

#RightBack2Garvey Image Did you know that the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey led the largest global movement in history, teaching black people to be proud of their skin, their history, and their Afrikan features?

❤️🖤💚

#RightBack2Garvey ImageImage
Jun 3, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Most of the books on this list appear to be contemporary works. I’ve pulled together, below, a must read list of classic texts to help you make sense of this moment. With this foundation, you can ignore anything written in the last 30 years, because literally nothing has changed: 1. Image
May 30, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
1/4- @therealstylesp consider reexamining the root of your question.

Why are we looking for so-called black leaders?

What do we expect from them?

And what is it that they can do, that we can’t do as a people, with proper organization, and political education? 2/4 I’ve addressed this topic before, the people we refer to as Black leaders, held leadership positions in organizations that were created to serve the Black community:

Marcus Garvey - UNIA & ACL
Malcolm X - NOI & OAAU
Dr. King - SCLC
Robert Williams - NAACP ImageImage
May 28, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
- @Diddy read Marcus Garvey.

Outrage, without philosophical/ideological grounding, is nothing more than hot air.

If you’re serious about justice, then you need to do the necessary work of getting politically educated, and better organized, to bring it into existence. 1/3 “The powers opposed to Negro progress will not be influenced in the slightest by mere verbal protests on our part. They realize only too well that protests of this kind contain nothing but the breath expended in making them...”
Mar 9, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Why are so many people confused by the Democratic Party purposefully throwing the 2020 Presidential election, to protect itself from nominating a populist candidate? They did the same exact thing in 2016. Can you imagine how bad it would be for the Democratic Party, if Bernie beats Trump, and his own party has to spend the next 4 years blocking Medicare for all, free college, expanded housing rights, and higher wages?
Feb 28, 2020 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
As part of the urgent week of action, calling for the compassionate release of Dr. Mutulu Shakur (@FreeDrMShakur), I published 3 essays encouraging Prison Reform advocates to “claim no easy victories,” by abandoning our Political Prisoners @teamroc @MeekMill @KimKardashian ImageImageImageImage The struggle to free political prisoners in the United States, is inextricably linked to the struggle to end mass incarceration, and @REFORM the Criminal Justice System. To pursue reform, without acknowledging political prisoners, is a grave injustice.
Feb 25, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
I just published Why is Jay-Z’s Criminal Justice Reform Helping To Erase the Struggle to Free Political Prisoners? link.medium.com/EubjccpPm4 In the spirit of transformation through political education—I’ve written this piece to highlight the contradictions in Jay-z’s @REFORM that NOBODY is speaking on. If Hov asked to be held accountable, why are folks scared to speak truth to him?

@Mysonne @JoeBudden @oldmanebro
Feb 19, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Came across this gem of a panel, that was done 8-YEARS AGO, where an attendee from the audience says, during the Q&A, the killer of Malcolm X— who was working with NYPD— is alive, and living in New Jersey 👇🏾 Again, none of this is “New” information. The Netflix documentary only served to provide further cover for the State’s involvement in his assassination, by reducing his killing to a 20th century crime drama, and reframing the obvious NYPD assassin as a reformed neighborhood hero.
Feb 4, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The American Rapper/Mogul, Jay Z, is the embodiment, incarnation, and direct result of the United States efforts to manufacture a global class of “Good Men” & Respectable Negroes to protect and advance their empire. I’m a fan of Jay, but I’m also critical of the role he plays within empire. But no matter how hard I am on Hov, posterity will be much harder, if he doesn’t break free from the corporate-liberal reform efforts that currently pre-occupy his activism.
Jan 5, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
When the underlying ideological thrust that animates an oppressed subgroup, is based on the desire to be amalgamated/integrated into a more powerful group, it makes sense to strengthen your position, by disaggregating your particular identity from the larger oppressed group. In the case of intersectionality, proponents of said ideology seek to free themselves from the burden of Black men, and in the case of ADOS, they seek to escape the collective burden of Blackness. Both groups are cutting off their legs in an attempt to run towards “freedom.”
Jan 3, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
How do you define war? As an internal colony, Black folks in America have been subjected to domestic sanctions in the form of Anti-black policies, para-military occupation, in the form of urban policing, outright ethnic cleansing, mass incarceration, and political repression. In Herman Ferguson's book, An Unlikely Warrior, he describes a situation where Black folks in New York City tried establishing their own gun club, for protection. After researching all existing gun clubs, they stumbled upon a sobering finding.
Dec 31, 2019 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
In the last decade, we’ve witnessed the Protected Identity Extremists bring Kevin Hart to his knees; Torpedo Nate Parkers, Birth of a Nation, and run Cthagod off of Twitter. Meanwhile, #SlavePlay, has been given the full throated support of Rihanna, the Blueminati, and the white-ally industrial complex.

Selective-outrage culture seems to only be fixated on Straight Black Men. 🤔
Dec 26, 2019 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
The danger with these “Hotep” memes, is that it’s socializing people who are already deeply indoctrinated, to accept or reject information, based on how closely the presenter of said information, resembles, and upholds the Eurocentric status quo. Every time someone uses the word Hotep, in a perjorative manner, it only serves to devalue, and make obscure, some of the most brilliant Afrocentric Scholars, and further aide in the destruction of their work. ImageImageImageImage
Dec 25, 2019 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Let's discuss:

The so-called, women's liberation movement, and the gay liberation movement, were counter-revolutionary measures, introduced by the CIA to disrupt, divide, and stifle the global struggle against colonialism & imperialism, throughout Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The "People's Wars against colonialism," which reached a high water mark during the 60s, were effectively beating back the imperialist powers, in their struggle for liberation.
Dec 12, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Why do these dingbats never ask the same question of West and Central Europeans, when they identify Greece and Rome as their classical civilizations? But y'all got all the smoke for Black folks who identify Egypt & Nubia as classical Black civilizations. "The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in the air and cannot be written correctly until African historians dare to connect it with the history of Egypt." 1/2
Dec 7, 2019 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Reading these correspondence from Dr. Clarke, re: White Media's Distortion/Perversion of the History of Nat Turner, and it seems we still haven't learned our lesson. I refuse to support any film/book, about any Black Historical personality, that is not wholly produced by us. ImageImage I respect the fact that their generation was able to apply sustained pressure to Hollywood, and forced them to abandon production of the movie, Confessions of Nat Turner. lifeisacinema.com/lost-films-the… ImageImageImage
Feb 23, 2018 • 41 tweets • 10 min read
Dear Black Americans,

I hate to be the one to break it to you, but the #BlackPantherMovie was not made with you in mind 😢

Everything about Disney’s “Blackest Production Ever” was strategic, including its target audience:

‘Continental Africans’ We all know that Disney is great when it comes to creating enchanting cinematography, so we can’t be too hard on ourselves for being easily spellbound by the rich blackness displayed through the lens of Ryan Coogler.