The State of Afro-California, aka Oakland, CA.
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2018, 2:23:42 PM PDT
Subject: Exclusive: Break-up of California moves a step closer as billionaire gets enough signatures to trigger vote
Marvin X Notes
4.12.18
The State of Afro-California, i.e., Oakland as a Model for North American African Statehood and steps toward Nationhood as a sovereign people
In any splitting of California, The Black Radical City of Oakland must become the Sovereign State of Afro-California!
Preface
With respect to the Oakland tradition of Power to the People, we think a plebiscite or vote of the North American African people is in order before we proceed with declaring the State of Afro-California in Oakland, CA. And perhaps before the plebiscite there should be a period of PE or political education to ensure the people have the political consciousness to demand or reject the State of Afro-California within the geographic boundaries of Oakland, CA., including the Port of Oakland.
Presently, our pervasive state of ignorance does not qualify us to vote on an independent state even though other ethnic and economic entities are proceeding without a plebiscite but with the petition that has garnered enough signatures to possibly qualify as a ballot measure.
As per North American Africans in Oakland, we should have no problem with consensus for a short period of political education preceding the plebiscite that will be conducted under the auspices of the United Nations as called for by our ancestors and elders in their quest for self determination and nationhood, especially during the 1960s era of Black nationalism under the guidance of Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, the Republic of New Afrika and the Black Panther Party here in Oakland CA.
Historically, there has always been at least two political strands, the assimilationist and separationists, or the integrationists and the Black Power Nationalists. In the Crisis of Negro Intellectuals, they often flipped and switched ideological positions, from W.E.B. DuBois who first argued for Civil Rights in America and Marcus Garvey who preached for Pan Africanism, i.e., Africa for the Africans, those at home and abroad. Ironically, Garvey never set foot in Africa although our greatest champion of Pan Africanism.
After opposing Garvey and helping to orchestrate his imprisonment and deportation from America, DuBois ended his own life as a citizen of Ghana, West Africa, under the regime of Kwame Nkrumah who called for the United States of Africa that despite the African Union’s quest for unity after the EU model that is presently facing Brixit and other nations desiring a return to national independence in this era of anti-globalism.
Alas, nations in the African Union have yet to establish trade within the AU, succumbing to colonial and neo-colonial economic disparities, now compounded by the Chinese economic and political invasion in their quest for global hegemony in competition with Europeans, Americans, Arabs, Indians, et al, especially as per the quest for precious minerals necessary to achieve global domination that may not benefit African peoples but only the African elite. For North American Africans, Blaxit has long been our alternative to eternal trauma under American white supremacy. In the Sisyphean manner, whenever things have gotten rough on our journey up the mountain top to the promised land in the US, we have considered Blaxit as a generation of our children, my included, have done, departing America with no regrets, yes, with no desire to return to these United Snakes of America.
But for the majority of our people, Africa is not a possibility for many of us can hardly go around the corner or leave our turf even when we have the means to do so. Fear is the great monster. Massa de plantation is all I know. We know Harriet Tubman had to put a gun upside the head of those she was liberating, including her husband. She said, "I could have freed more slave if they had known they were slaves." So for those of us who can Blaxit, we must support them although we note the brain drain on North American Africans still in the belly of the beast and we need all of our minds, especially our best and brightest, to liberate us from the quagmire and conundrum that has perplexed us for 400 years, since the 1440s when the Portuguese arrived in West Africa.
Toward the State of Afro-California
In any splitting of the State of California, we demand Oakland, California be declared the State of Afro-California!. We claim all land and property for North American Africans. All others leave their keys if they do not desire to submit to the laws and regulations of the State of Afro-California, declared such by the ancestors, elders, the living and yet unborn North American Africans.
We, North American Africans, take authority over this land in the name of God, Creator of the Universe. Our sacred cry is liberty or death, for persecution is worse than slaughter says Holy Qur'an.
It is further agreed that all land in Afro-California shall be placed in the Afro-California Land Trust to prevent corruption and especially gentrification. All properties shall belong to the State of Afro-California, based on its radical heritage of power to the people.
Non-North American Africans shall be permitted to remain if they are willing to be equitable in the redistribution of their wealth to the North American African impoverished masses who never enjoyed the benefits of black bourgeoisie political administrations under Democratic Party regimes although we are prepared to work with progressive bourgeoisie politicians if they swear loyalty to the people rather than the Democratic Party..
Africans who were displaced will have the first right of return. The homeless shall be provided housing with the life estate title to their abodes that shall be under the State of Afro-California Land Trust.
We call upon our Congressional Representatives, especially Congresswoman Barbara Lee, to enjoin the Congressional Black Caucus to lobby the US Congress for the establishment of the State of Afro-California, especially if the move to break up California appears to becoming a reality.
Afro-California shall be the minimum request on the agenda of North American Africans in California. We are speaking on behalf of North American Africans in Oakland, the most radical city in America that helped give birth to the first national Black Union, The Pullman Porters,spearheaded by C.L. Dellums, uncle of US Congressman Ronald V. Dellums, who later became Mayor of Oakland. We suspect other enclaves of North American Africans may desire to be in the State of Afro-California Federation, e.g., Central Valley NAF and Southern California NAF.
As per other ethnic groups within our state boundaries, we only demand equitable economic agreements with them should they desire to remain in the State of Afro-California, i.e., the space previously known as Oakland.
FYI, Afro-California shall include the Port of Oakland since it was established by North American African Thomas Berkley.
For sure, we shall not witness the splitting of California into ethnic enclaves, especially enclaves of white supremacists, right or left, while we are allocated the lowest rung of the multicultural ladder. There is no doubt Latinos shall inherit their fair share since they now enjoy de facto political domination of California, from Sacramento through the Central Valley to San Diego. There is no need for Latinos to cry La Raza, La Raza, La Raza when they have achieved La Raza throughout California, including the right for illegals to obtain a driver license and other benefits in health and education from Head Start to the university.
--Marvin X
A West Oakland Nigga fa Life
7th and Campbell