Two Great Black Leaders
Thomas Allen
Antony Johnson and Stokely Carmichael are two great Black leaders who are seldom discussed, even during Black history month. Yet, both have made great contributions to America and American history. Johnson has the honor of being the man who introduced African slavery in what is now the United States. Thus, he gave Blacks a perpetual excuse for all their shortcomings and failures: slavery. Also, Blacks found that slavery was an excellent tool to use to get Whites to grant Blacks Black power and supremacy. To Carmichael goes the honor of leading his people out of the darkness of White power and supremacy into the light of Black power and supremacy. Because of his labor, America now enjoys Black power and supremacy.
Anthony Johnson
Anthony Johnson was a most remarkable Black man, who may hold the record for the most firsts in Virginia. Yet, most likely, one may never hear about this extraordinary man.
Johnson was among the first group of Blacks to land in Virginia, and he may have been the first Black man to set foot on Virginia soil. He was the first free Black in Virginia. (When the first Blacks landed in Virginia, they were treated like indentured servants from Europe. Once they had worked for another for a specific number of years to pay for their passage, they were set free.) Also, he was the first Black landowner and established the first Black community.
Here is the reason that one never hears about Johnson: He was the father of slavery in Virginia and the first slave owner in Virginia. He became a slave owner when he refused to release one of his Black indentured servants, Jim Casor, after he had served the term of his contract. Johnson convinced the court that he was entitled to the lifetime service of Casor. Thus, Johnson brought slavery to Virginia.
(Johnson achieved his court ruling making Casor a slave in 1655, and Virginia enacted its first law to legalize slavery in 1661. However, Massachusetts led both Johnson and Virginia in legalizing slavery when it enacted its slavery law in 1641.)
Stokely Carmichael
Stokely Carmichael is one of the greatest Black leaders ever and should be heralded above even St.
Martin Luther King the Divine, who has been elevated above Jesus. He saw an enormous opportunity, and he took advantage of it. Even today, the United States are enjoying the fruits of his labor and will continue to enjoy his work for decades to come. After seeing how the United States surrendered unconditionally to King and his Communist comrades, Carmichael recognized a void that needed filling — and fill it he did.
By 1967, most Whites had become
racial nihilists and were practicing the
new morality of sacrificing the White race on the altar of humanity. White supremacists and White preservationists were so few that they no longer had a voice in political, social, or economic matters.
Like most Blacks, Carmichael was a disciple of the old morality of preserving, protecting, and promoting his race. Consequently, he began to promote Black supremacy to replace the now-dead White supremacy. As a result, Black supremacy has brought Blacks privileges that White never had under White supremacy. Thus, Blacks receive all sorts of preferential treatments, such as quotas, set-asides, lower standards, and efforts to recruit Blacks. They even have agencies of the federal government whose primary purpose is to promote and protect these special rights, privileges, and immunities that Blacks have while denying them to Whites. (For a list of 75 such privileges, see
“Black Privileges” by Thomas Allen.)
As Black supremacy has advanced, the
White race and Western Civilization has faded. Today, only Black lives matter. Whites are nothing more than a cancer, a blight on humanity.
Carmichael was born in 1941 in Trinidad. In 1956, he moved to the United States with his parents and became a US citizen the following year. In 1964, he graduated from Howard University with an A.B. He became an activist in the so-called civil rights demonstrations in 1960 with a sit-in demonstration. The following year, he joined a “freedom-ride” in Mississippi. This demonstration led to a 49-day jail sentence for him.
Carmichael became the head of the
Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee (SNCC, which is called “Snick”). In this position, he rose to national prominence. Under Carmichael’s leadership, SNCC organized riots in Puerto Rico and in Selma, Nashville, Atlanta, and other Southern cities.
At the urging of Martin Luther King, SNCC was organized to manage sit-ins, “freedom rides,” and related demonstrations, which came common throughout the South. It was the militant arm of King’s civil rights movement. King would go into a community and present his demands. If the community did not surrender unconditionally to King, SNCC would come into the community and riot and loot until it capitulated to King’s demands. Although it claimed to be nonviolent, SNCC used violence and the threat of violence to achieve its goals. Like nearly all civil rights organizations, SNCC was closely associated with Communists. (SNCC was the Black Lives Matter of its day.)
Carmichael helped organize the Black Panther Party in Mississippi and New York City. In 1966, he began earnestly promoting Black power. Promoting Black power, he expressed vehement hatred for all Whites.
Carmichael allied with Fidel Castro and other leftist leaders. At a conference of the Communist’s Latin American Solidarity Organization, he urged a revolution to turn the Western hemisphere into one country. He also promoted guerrilla warfare in the United States with Negroes returning from Vietnam being the soldiers for this war.
In 1968, SNCC dismissed Carmichael because of the differences between the two. However, the disagreement was not about equating Black power with Black violence. Nevertheless, Carmichael left SNCC with its rallying cry: “To hell with America . . . [which is] racist from top to bottom, from left to right.”
Carmichael was a leader of the riots in Washington, D.C., following the assassination of King. The following year, Carmichael began distancing himself from the Black Panthers because the organization was seeking to contaminate itself with White activists. Then, he moved to Africa and formerly condemned the Black Panthers for not being separatist enough. For the last 30 years of his life, he devoted himself to the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party. Carmichael died in 1998.
Sayings of Carmichael
“We want black power! Every courthouse in Mississippi ought to be burned down to get rid of the dirt.”
“I don’t ever want to hear you apologizing for a black man. Don’t you apologize for anyone who’s driven to throw Molotov cocktails. And don’t you call them riots, call them rebellions, for that's what they are.”
“I don’t think black people ought to wait to get the vote. . . . You ought to get together and tell the [white] man that if you don’t get the vote you’re going to bum down this city. Tell him, ‘if we don’t get the vote you’re not going to have a Washington, D.C.’”
“They’re building stores in Cleveland with no windows. It just means we have to move from Molotov cocktails to dynamite.”
“This nonviolence bit is just a philanthropic handout. I don’t see why people keep thinking about that. The violence is inevitable. I don’t try to stop the fight. I try to prepare the people I am organizing so that when the right time comes they will be able to win it. Our country does not run on reason; it is run on violence. That’s the reality of how things are done here. It is to my benefit to get the Negro out on the streets to stop the machine which is keeping me from my rights. Whether they do it by marching, singing, dancing or fighting is irrelevant.”
“Any time they give a black man a gun and tell him to shoot his enemy and he don’t shoot Lurleen and George and little junior [the Wallaces], he’s a fool. Lurleen Wallace is your enemy. These white helmeted cops are your enemies.”
“I tried it [non-violence] for five years and now he [a policeman] is no longer going to beat his humanity into my head. If he touches me, I’m going to kill him.”
“We do not want peace in Vietnam. We want the Vietnamese people to defeat the United States.”
“We will win our rights or we are going to burn the country [U.S.A.] down to the ground.”
“In Newark we applied tactics of the guerrillas. We are preparing groups of urban guerrillas for our defense in the cities. The price of these rebellions is a high price that one must pay. This fight is not going to be a simple street meeting. It is going to be a fight to the death.”
"Afro-Americans in the United States have a great deal of admiration for you [Che Guevara, Fidel Castros’ hatchet man]. We eagerly await your writings in order to digest them and to plan our tactics based on them.”
“Our [American Negroes’] struggle is not confined to the boundaries of the United States. We are for a truly United States of America from Tierra del Fuego to Alaska.”
“Yankee imperialism has existed too long. We [Negroes] are ready to destroy it from the inside. We hope you [Latin Americans] are ready to destroy it from the outside. We must join those who are for armed struggle throughout the world. . . . As we develop our revolutionary conscience, we must begin to develop urban guerrilla warfare. We are ready to meet the savagery of the white United States with arms.”
“We must internationalize our struggle and if we are going to turn into reality the words of Che to create two, three, and more Viet Nams, we must recognize that Detroit and New York are also Viet Nam.”
“[American Negroes] are taking the offensive now. They want to settle the score and will kill first and aim for the head. We must take our vengeance against the leaders of the United States. We don’t know if our people are ready yet, but our list is ready: McNamara, Dean Rusk, Johnson, etc.”
“The United States has taught us how to kill. Our brothers returning from Vietnam are going to use that training well in the cities of the United States.”
“[Negro guerrillas] must develop a consciousness so that when people who are struggling get killed, the retaliation will be against the leaders of the West. Let us develop a consciousness that when they touch one guerrilla, Lyndon Johnson, Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara and Harold Wilson must pay the price. We are not waiting for them to kill us. We will come to kill them first or rather, we are working towards that goal. We have no alternative but to use aggressive armed force, violence, in order to own the land, houses and stores inside our communities and to control the politics of those communities.”
"The only way the Negro in Alabama will get justice is to smash the Democratic Party. . . . We have the power to smash (it). . . . I want to work toward 1972. By then the Negroes should be organized as an independent force."
“When you talk of Black Power, you talk of bringing this country to its knees.”
“The Black Man is sick and tired of being held as a slave of the White man’s imperialism; the American Negro no longer owes any allegiance to the American capitalist society, and in this fight for liberation he will align himself only with international forces sympathetic to our movement.”
“We (Black Power) will align with any foreign power that will help us in our fight for self-determination', and join us in the total destruction of capitalist imperialism.”
“We're going to shoot the cops that are shooting our black brothers in the back in this country. That’s where we're going.”
“The white man is a devil!”
(The above quotations are from Francis X. Gannon,
Biographical Dictionary of the Left, Consolidated Vol. I, 1969, pp. 269-271; Wes Andrews and Clyde Dalton,
The Black Hammer: a Study of Black Power, Red Influence and White Alternatives, 1967, pp. 31, 49, 75, 92.)
Copyright © 2020 by Thomas Coley Allen
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