Solidarity with African people

The African People’s Solidarity Committee is a white organization that
was formed by the African People’s Socialist Party and works under its
leadership. We go into the white community as the voice of the
oppressed out of the mouths of the oppressor. 
This is a strategic function, a strategic relationship. The African
Liberation Movement needed to win allies to their struggle from behind
the enemy lines. We are there to break the assumed unity that this
government expects us to have with its imperial policies that it enacts
in our name. 
We are there to build a movement of white people who can see our
future in the future of African people, and the Iraqi people and
Palestinians, Lebanese, Mexicans, Indigenous and Venezuelan and
everyone else struggling for their liberation.
This year we are building African People’s Solidarity Day, with events
in Philadelphia, Boston, Oakland and St. Petersburg. African People’s
Solidarity Day will feature speakers from all over the African world to
educate us about the real history, the real possibilities for the future. 
These are events to tell this truth that we are speaking here on these
pages. To urge others like ourselves to look at the bitter reality of the
crimes and violence committed by us directly or in our name against
African people and the peoples of the world for centuries, so that we
could enjoy the lives we so take for granted. 
Through African People’s Solidarity Day we can begin to talk about
reparations to African people. Not just from the government or from
corporations but from white people ourselves. Support for African
reparations is a stand to begin to rectify the wrongs done to African
people, to build a principled relationship with African people. This is
the process by which we can join humanity instead of policing it,
exploiting it and attacking it for our own benefit.
As part of the stand of reparations you can return your diamonds to
African people to be used as resources to develop Africa in their own
interest. Reverse the flow of the past 500 years. Send the diamonds
back. This is the real certification process—liberated diamonds in the
hands of African people who are calling on us to stand in solidarity.
This is not about charity. This is not about movie stars having babies
in Africa or rock stars having concerts for Africa. This is the united

African people themselves working to liberate their country and rebuild
it brick by brick. 
This is our chance to join humanity’s forward motion and be part of
building a new world in which peace and mutual respect among all the
human family can finally become possible.
For more information on the African People’s Solidarity Committee see
www.apscuhuru.org
 or call 215-387-0919 or 727-894-6997.
Uhuru!
Acknowledgements:
Janine Farrell Roberts, author of
Blood Stained Diamonds
The transcript of “The Diamond Empire,” PBS Frontline program, 1994
Cheryl Sanchez, “African diamonds/Jewish/European Business:
Patterns of Inequality”
Omali Yeshitela,
One Africa! One Nation!
www.burningspearuhuru.com
Omali Yeshitela,
The Road to Socialism is Painted Black
Penny Hess,
Overturning the Culture of Violence
www.burningspearuhuru.com