AFRO-AM

ALLIANCE

SPEAKS

FOR THE SAKE OF THOSE THAT COME

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We, this generation of Black men and Black women are responsible for the greatest awakening of a people that history shall ever bear witness to. The outcast of the earth has come to reclaim what is theirs. Sleeping minds are refreshed and brought to life by the impact of new found drops of "Wisdom".

Knowledge with her piercing dagger has laid open the ignorance of the great Black masses, revealing a treasure house of ancient, mystic, and glorious knowledge of ones self that goes into the very creation of Man.

Wisdom is the application of ones knowledge. We must make our bid at mastering and using long-hidden past. A man without a past in which to guide his future is an arrow shot into the sky, on a dark stormy night, and where it will come to rest the archer could dare not say. But one arrow does not stop an on-coming army because the task is to great. But one single arrow flown by the strong, well trained archer can indeed start the battle.

We have begun to use the potent tool of our self knowledge and by using this we shall be made wise in the ways of overcoming our plight. Each Black man and each Black woman whose eyes shall open from the "Negro Slumber" shall indeed be an arrow in the struggle for our fighting leaders. This is an arrow ready to fly sure and true to its mark. So let us hold dear to our ancient history and grow wise through its knowledge.

Understanding is knowing why nature works its work and what part you play in these works.

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If we as a people would cease to pity ourselves and apply what our oppression has taught us, and preceive what result will come from these efforts, we would learn great truths about our inner selves that has been hidden for so long.

It is heart-warming to realize we are Black and being Black is Beautiful. We must also find out what makes us beautiful. Now we are beautiful and why we are beautiful.

We know that with the price of many Black bodies, we have been able to service a cruel and most vicious system of Dehumanization. But we have survived and not escaped, and those of us that are committed to this struggle need be remindful of this fact. Moreover struggles lead us into the worst captivity that we find ourselves presently in.

The struggling Black youth of today cry out for universal freedom and individual expression. We need our souls to reach out to God, but not the God that this system has trampered into the mud, not the impotent, sterile God that we castrate each Sunday, nor the God we mock with the other six days of our lives. No! we need the companionship of the God of our fathers, the God that gave these strong people the breath of life and with that their Beautifulness. We need to allow our souls to touch the God that is within us. We plead for the unfolding of the God strength and wisdom that has been kept from our soul eyes.

There is a generation behind us that would look upon our weakness with wise understanding, but look upon our self-pity as ignorance. The generation that is now budding shall compromise of all that we are lacking, and they will for no price compromise their dignity, their liberty, their religion, or their humaness for the few pieces of gold that we accept daily.

It is our responsibility to spear-head the way for those that will take the bow from our hand and bring our long struggles to a conclusion.

So let us strive on and on and on and willfully never compromise our ancient Beautifulness.