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Tom-Tom by John W. Vandercook (1902-1963) Preface Black slavery did not end with the ‘Mancipation. The fact of bondage died, but the mood lived. The four centuries during which the white race preserved its conquest of the people of Africa was ample time for

the imposition of an ideal. That ideal the gigantic, cruel absurdity (Cont. on page 3)

It is time to bring the African descendants of the Slave Trade Home �1

Harriet Tubman, personification of the UNIA ACL PCEC, appeals to Africans globally at Home and abroad to accept we are one people diversified. Slavery and Colonialism made it so. Racial disunity led us to offer ourselves as obedient slaves to white men — the ones we obeyed. African Euro/Americanism is leading us into racial death. Race First leads the self to obedience to the God of Africa; that leads to Black Racial Righteousness! One God! One Aim! One Destiny!

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Traditionally, the drum was the heartbeat, the Soul of most African Communities. Drums have been an intrinsic part of African life for centuries and for countless generations, an ancient instrument used during the kidnapping of the slaves to transport the news and other aspects of life.During the era of slavery and colonialism in Africa and elsewhere the drums held a deeper symbolic and historical significance. They herald political and social events attending ceremonies of birth, death and marriage. They were and are used as an alarm or a call to arms stirring up emotions for battle and war.


(Cont. from page 1) that the white race is, through some weird miracle of pigmentation force the supreme, heaven-wrought master of the worldstill survives. Tragically, the Negro has accepted the truth of what was originally nothing more than an

opportunist hypocrisy with the quiet, passive, eternally waiting fatalism of his race. In the United States particularly, and in the “civilized” world generally, the observer is treated to a spectacle of ugly farce without parallel in human history. There are upwards of 12 million Negroes in

America. All are free, so far as their bodies are concerned. All are equal sharers in the great jest of democratic equality. Yet, with so few exceptions that the rule is merely strengthened, the Negroes have tacitly accepted and, deep in themselves, actually believe that they are somehow lower in the scale of things than those of us who glory in white complexion. Proofs of that state of mind abound.

Most conspicuous is the devoted acceptance of Christianity by the American Negro. In Western theology God is white. Christ is white, the Church is white. Yet the “free Black” has swallowed this bait hook line and sinker. The Negro worships the white God as unhesitatingly as four hundred years of forced and utter weariness have taught him to worship the



white state, white manners, white clothes, customs, legends, brutality, inventions, and material accomplishment. Whether these various gods of things are right or wrong or best or worst doesn't matter. I cannot see how anyone with respect for what is called “the human soul” can view without distaste and a secret sense that something is amiss a race of men admitting to the very act and thought their own inferiority.

And now each Africa-bound ship carries American Negro missionaries of the white church who are off to risk their lives in the pitiful task of telling their “heathen” brothers in the homeland that the old gods are wrong, the ancient pride is false, and the wonderful tales of the forest children are merely antique lies. Yet in the jungles to which these modern slaves are going there exists a marvelous world which they have forgotten and the white conquerors have never known or tried to know. The jungles are tall and far away and wide and strange. Yet since morning broke above the world they have sheltered a people who have survived, who in the warmth and wonderment of the sun have reared up dreams that comfort, founded states that last, and imagined gods who are supremely kind and wise. It's a black world, a foreign world, a weird and sometimes fearful world. But it is their own.

To my mind there is no hope for the modern day Negro in the way he is vainly going. Slavery lasted too long and ended too suddenly for the whites ever to forget and forgive enough to allow the Black people into our sancta. Our state, our civilization is our own, for we made it. It is fair as things in this partial world can be fair, that we should keep it, use it for ourselves, and shut the outcasts that we made away from it.



A race is like a man. Until it uses his own talent, takes pride in its own history, and loves its own memories it can never fulfill itself completely.

The civilized Negro must lose his contempt for his ‘heathen’ brethren in Africa and in the jungles of Melanesia and Suriname. He must learn that the fathers of the race had and still possess blessed secrets, wonderful lores, and great philosophies, that rank the jungle Negro’s civilization as the equal and in many respects superior of any way of life that is to be found anywhere in the world, whether among whites or yellow people, black or red.

This book is a description of that civilization, and attempt to show some part of its curious loveliness and wise serenity.

John W. Vandercook West Africa1926

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A Fact for the Negro Family!from UNIA ACL Elder Oduno A. Tarik, Universal

Negro Improvement Association African Communities League’s PostColonial Cultural &

Economic Conference Field Director, Facilitator for Our Own History Club, Advocator for the Policy —

“There is NO Culture without Agriculture”

The authentic Spiritual Law bound the Constitution of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League on August 13, 1920. UNIA INC and UNIA August 1929 of the World merged in 2008 and later was registered with the state of Ohio in 2010 to become one, the UNIA & ACL 1918 and 1929 of the World. The constitution is a sacred, solemn document of descendants of Africa in the power and authority of the largest elected assembly of Africans globally; the 1920 UNIA ACL International Conference with upward of 40,000 representatives; in the capital of the world, New York City, NY, Madison Square Garden, and this plebiscite established for Africans at Home and Abroad, and the sovereign interim-government of our Noble Ancestors, under 1G1A1D (One God, One Aim, One Destiny). The terrestrial author i ty of these Afr icans and thei r descendants; AFRICA is Ours to Rehabilitate — Educationally, Economically and Culturally.

Oduno A. Tarik Thursday, February 28, 2019




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From the Desk of Oduno A.

Tarik Minister Professor —

Founder organizer 1977-2019 Woodson-

Banneker Div. 330 Commissioner #3 UNIA ACL 1980-84 Founder, Our Own History

Club, 40th year 1979-2019 Currently

UNIA ACL PCEC Field

Director

OPPORTUNITY, RESPONSIBILITY AND CHALLENGE

By NANNIE HELEN BURROUGHS

Nannie Helen Burroughs Was The First Woman To Be Spring Commencement Speaker At Tuskegee Institute In 1934. The Local Newspaper Reprinted The Entire Speech And Reported That The Message Was Heard Far Beyond The 3,000 Graduates, Faculty And Local Community (Black And White) Who Crowded The Institute’s Grounds That Day. Her Message Reached Thousands More Through The African American Press. It Was Introduced As A “Battle Cry”, Chartacterized By Sane And Practical Optimism. Here’s A Portion Of The Speech:”

“ ...So This Afternoon You Young Men And Women Who Are Soon Going Away Sit Here In Doubt, And Wonder Whether You Will Get A Job, Whether There Is A Ready-Made Job For You. Come All The Way Down To Tuskegee To Tell You, No! All The Jobs In America Are Taken.



I Have Come All The Way Down To Tuskegee To Tell You, No! All The Jobs In America Are Taken. There Are No Ready-Made Jobs Anywhere; But, There Are One Hundred And Twenty Million Jobs That Can Be Made; And That Is Your Job. If You Can’t Take That Challenge, If You Can’t Go Out And Blaze New Trails And Find New Avenues Of Employment To Make New Roads, Find New Highways And Discover New Ways To Do Old Things --- If You Can’t Do That, Well, ‘Look To The Lord And Be Dismissed”.She Addresses The Problems In The Country And Invites The Graduates To Face And Solve These Problems In Her Closing Remarks.“I Want You To Take The Struggles, The Hardships, And The Handicaps Of This Civilization And Turn Them Into Stepping-Stones. That Is What Other Races Have Done, Black And White. Disregarding Their Handicaps, They Decided Within Their Own Souls That They Were Men And Could Look This Old World In The Face, Could Beat Down The Barriers And Climb The Rough Side Of The Mountain...You Young Men And Women Are Going Up The Rough Side Of The Mountain, Going Through Handicaps And Barriers; You Will Have To Meet The Struggles Of This World. But Out Of The Depression You Are Going To Come Forth A New Group Of Men And Women, Strong And With Powerful Characteristics And Lasting Influence”In This Speech, Burroughs Invites The Tuskegee Institutes Graduates To Change, Fundamentally And Dramatically, Their View Of Themselves And Their Standing In America. She Vigorously Challenges The Audience Towards Innovation And Inventiveness, As She Offers A Compelling Vision Of A “New Day” As She Fortifies The Battle-Weary, Transforms The Current-Struggle, And Proclaims Future Victory. But Humorously Taunts Them To Go Before The Good Lord And Be Dismissed.



Throughout Her Life Burroughs Used The Oratorical Skills Learned At M Street High School (Now Dunbar).One Of Nannie’s Favorite Quotes Is: “If You Can’t Find A Job, Make One.”Nannie Helen Burroughs’ Ultimate Message To Our Children Was Reinforced By Ninety-Five Year Old Tuskegee Airman, Colonel Charles Mcgee, During His Black History Month Presentation At The University Of The District Of Columbia. He Reminded Our Young People That The Tuskegee Airmen’s World War II Experience, Known By Some Through The Movie, “Red Tails”, Sends The Message That They Must Be Able To Recognize Opportunity, Take Responsibility And Seize The Challenge. Most Importantly, However, They Must Be Prepared When The Opportunity Presents Itself.

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Free Land In Ghana For Slave Descendants (Year Of Return 2019) FREE LAND IN GHANA!



UNIA ACL, President General Miller & Brother Benjamin Farmer visit the memorial to Sir I. Emmanuel Morter. Sir I. E. Morter was a Knight Commander of the Distinguished Service Order of Ethiopia. He was born in Belize, formerly British Honduras, Central America/Caribbean.He was a member and staunch supporter of the Universal Negro Improvement Assoc ia t ion Af r ican Communities League.

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