Kwame Ture – Making the Unconscious, Conscious
IntroductionKwame Ture – Making the Unconscious, Conscious
“Our task is not to teach the unconscious to be conscious but to make them conscious of their unconscious behaviour because unconscious, instinctively they seek Freedom.
What we must do, is make them conscious.
Look you want Freedom anyway, let’s be serious, let’s sit down, let’s plan it, let’s wage protracted war and let’s tear down the system and let’s walk on to Liberation.
It is as simple as that.
Those of us who are revolutionary, are not concerned with issues, we are concerned with the system.
We must know clearly the difference between Mobilization and Organisation
One of the characteristics of Mobilization is that it is temporary
Organisation is permanent and eternal
Clear differences must be made because the unconscious, can usually be captured easily around one issue item’s, around Mobilization item’s but it’s hard to catch them around organisation but these unconscious must be brought to organisation.
We must transform Mobilization to Organisation
If we are not careful, we allow Mobilization to become events.
The Struggle is never a event, it’s a process, ah continual eternal processYou know our theme is Organisation,
We want POWER
We don’t want money
We don’t want fame
We don’t want fortune
We don’t want popularity
We Want POWER...POWER
And POWER comes only from the Organised MASSES
As Pan – Africanist we have every right to be concerned with it.
African after all is the richest continent on the face of the Earth, properly Organised she will be the most Powerful Continent on the face of the Earth
Therefore our drive to POWER is clear.
A MASS Party
Every African in the world inside our body
That’s what I’m working for and if I don’t get it, my granddaughter ganna get it but I’m working for it.
We will never tire of saying it, Capitalism does not LIE some of the time, it LIES all of the time. When it tells the Truth it’s the result of a Double Lie. It’s a logical fact
So Capitalism has us believe you can’t organise all the people around the same thing
That’s not true
You can organise all the people around One thing – TRUTH
Now what Capitalism will try to make it appear, as if the truth is not one truth but anybody can have the truth.
This is stupidity
Nobody is born with the truth inside of them, if they were they wouldn’t need to live
We come to know the truth from outside of us
Some people think they know the truth because they were born to know the Truth, that’s a Lie
You know the TRUTH from constant Struggle against LIES
That’s how you know the TRUTH
For example they try make it appear, as if we Africans will not arrive at Uniting ourselves even around the question of our Identity.
You may call some of the Africans but some call themselves Black, some still call themselves Coloured.
That’s fact but this is because they have been miss educated by a system which seeks to keep us divided and this is the TRUTH
We must be One Thing
We are Africans, end of discussion
This Struggle is not a easy struggle
The Struggle to go from Negro to Black was a difficult struggle
Capitalism did everything to roll it back, even had us confused
I’m not Black, look at me I’m brown coloured. Yes
I’m not Black I got Indian blood in me. Oh
What nonsense they didn’t have us say, just to run away from the TRUTH
Once your just African, ain’t no question
All Africans, Once you have proper identity, one of your biggest problems SOLVED
Because a People must know their National Interest, A People must have a cleat understanding of their National Interests
The first Conscious act in Organising our People is to let them know who they are
A African United Front
My Brother’s and Sister’s, I will tell you the Truth
You must never get discouraged in struggle. You will build something and the enemy will knock it down and you have to start from zero.
As a matter of fact, the easiest way for the enemy to take you out, is to make you frustrated and disgusted:
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Oh I went to that meeting, they ain’t doing nothing, I ain’t got not time for them, till they get serious, I ain’t going there.
What you doing?I ain’t doing nothing
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And they really think they are intelligent, they think they made a great statement.
In spite of obstacles, you must do your work
In spite of obstacles, you must persevere
Chinese say if you make a error and you know it’s a error, you don’t correct the error, you made your second error
Our People have only one stage left in their struggle and that is MASS Organisation
Malcolm X was assassinated when he was in-between Organisations, Building Organisations.
I saw quickly.
I said Ooh, so they killed him before he got his Organisations off the ground
If Malcolm X had got his Organisations off the ground, they couldn’t touch him that easily because Malcolm X was not a Mobilizer, he was a Organiser
History plays it’s self out, even if the leaders play themselves out
History Will Not Be Denied
Our People are looking for direction and the conscious must provide direction
And the direction the conscious must provide is to make the unconscious, conscious of their unconscious behaviour
So no master plan is necessary here
The people are looking of Unity
Let’s give them Unity in a United Front
The people are looking for POWER
Let’s give them Organisations
The masses want Unity
Let’s move from Mass Mobilization to MASS Organisation
We intend to Organise Africans in Africa, Africans in the Caribbean, Africans in South and Central America, Africans in the United States of America, Africans in Canada, Africans in Europe, Africans in Africa into ONE Organisation
A African United Front”
- Kwame Ture ( Extracts / Fragments )