Africa and all its resources belong to African people everywhere

 century Belgian genocide of African people in Congo,
an observer wrote, “This rubber traffic is steeped in blood, and if the
[Africans] were to rise up and sweep every white person on the Upper
Congo into eternity, there would still be left a fearful balance to their
credit.”
Across the globe oppressed peoples are again rising up and
challenging the U.S. and imperialist control of their resources and the
accompanying slaughter and poverty. This is the basis for the crisis of
imperialism that we see all around us.
It’s simple. People are not going to just sit back and watch the
resources that ought to be feeding their children and raising their
miserable standard of living going to North America and Europe for our
benefit. They want their diamonds back. They want their oil back. They
want their land and culture, and their sovereignty to determine their
own lives and destinies back. 
African people want reparations for centuries of stolen labor and for
the crimes of genocide and terrorism against them. They want U.S.
and Western imperialism out. They want the U.S. military, the CIA,
proxy armies and neocolonial puppets out of their land and out of their
lives. They want peace without the interference of any thieving,
ravaging force. 
The white population of the world sits on the pedestal of their
suffering, but the oppressed peoples are going to turn this equation
around now. It’s a life and death question. They will be free by any
means necessary, just as they were enslaved and colonized by every
means possible. The terror represented by the U.S. and the West
won’t just go away. It has to be destroyed. There has to be the
violence of the just to end the violence of the oppressor, or the people
will not survive. This is the struggle for national liberation. 
Any progressive minded white person ought to support national
liberation for oppressed peoples. We had better, because there will be
no peace ever on this planet until the oppressed peoples win their
liberation from the grip of imperialist power. 
The resistance in Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq represent the future.
The longevity of Fidel and the Cuban revolution despite ongoing U.S.
attacks represent the future. The swagger and confidence of Hugo
Chavez who identifies himself as African and indigenous in Venezuela
represents the future. The power and determination of Omali Yeshitela
as he organizes African people around the world to unite their
homeland and come back for what is theirs represents the future.
For half a millennium Africa has been a bottomless pit of wealth and
resources for us, for our world, our dreams, our opportunity to climb
the ladder of success. Now the growing movement for African
liberation will make the aspirations of African people a reality.