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Word
Up
w/ Minister
General Ahmad
 THE
MINISTER GENERAL began doing in depth reports on issues impacting our
people from Boston to Bouake and from Houston to Harare. News that people
of AFRIKAN ascent could scarcely find reported on traditional media anywhere
in the USA. His reports were accurate and from a perspective consistent
with our people's struggle for liberation and self-determination.
In February 1999 THE MINISTER GENERAL created the still growing SOA and
SONS OF AFRIKA on line community, now with a combined 2,100 Members in
more than 30 countries. He started receiving via e mail the gratitude
and praise of members like clergy in North Carolina to Black youth and
students in Columbus Ohio, Houston Texas, Seattle Washington as well as
from many in the U.K., Germany, France and South Afrika.
People from New Haven, St. Louis and other U.S. cities began calling in
to DRUMBEAT RADIO-NET CAST even on SUNDAYS when THE MINISTER GENERAL was
not scheduled to host DRUMBEAT RADIO-NET CAST, just to express their deep
appreciation for his work reaching, inspiring and bringing together people
all over America and the world, which he had been doing single-handedly,
with hardly any support from anyone since November of 1992 starting with
his writing and distribution of the pamphlet KNOWLEDGE.
The pamphlet KNOWLEDGE was written by MINISTER GENERAL AHMAD, distributed
on the streets of BOSTON and mailed all over the USA at his own expense
each month for 8 YEARS, until the summer of 2000, when expenses to conduct
SOA's work, on line, especially puchasing and leasing computer hardware
and software, made it all but impossible to continue the written pamphlet.
KNOWLEDGE addressed issues from the youth violence and fratricide that
was plaguing BOSTON through the 80's and 90's ( until 1995 when it began
to decline setting a national precedent ) to other fronts in our struggle
that all AFRIKAN-ascended youth and adults, no matter what former colonial
power enslaved their progenitors, should have a clear understanding of
in order live and work in UNITY and to be prepared for what we must do
collectively in this day and time for our advancement and survival.
KNOWLEDGE talked about issues such as how MIS-EDUCATION for generations
perpatuates our condition. Or what SOA * SONS OF AFRIKA calls THE FAKE
DRUG WAR in ARTICLE SIX (6) of its PROGRAM AND POSITION of 1971 and how
it was being used to criminalize an entire generation of our people for
decades. One only has to look at the astronomical prison population explosion
of recent years in the USA to see the devastating effects of prolonged
policies used toward white supremist or racist ends. Ends that can never
be justified because of the means. So-called LAW.
Sadly, even today, people on the streets of BOSTON still ask for the written
pamphlet KNOWLEDGE. Perhaps someday, with the help and support of some
from among our people, it will be back, making a contribution to the upliftment
of our people and making us all aware of aspects of issues many ordinarily
may not have ever given much consideration to.
THE MINISTER GENERAL WAS AND STILL IS A LONE VOICE ON EVENTS AND ISSUES
IMPACTING PEOPLE OF COLOR.
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