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Challenging Oppression (modern and old-fashioned)
Warriors:
Let us call the names of African Warriors...
Ya
Asantewa, David Walker, Nandi, Henry H.
Garnett, Mbande Zinga, Martin Delaney, Ida B.
Wells Barnett, Marcus Garvey,
Candace, Kwame
Nkrumah, Amilcar Cabral, Malcolm X, Amos
Wilson, Nyabinghi, John Henrik Clarke, Nat
Turner, Patrice Lamumba, Queen Mother Moore,
Mackandal…and many, many more.
Some are in your family, some anonymous, some famous; some have passed to the other side, some are still with us; they are African Warriors all!
Marcus Garvey
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In this part of the workshop we seek to become more keenly aware of the lingering impact of "old-fashion" oppression and seek a clearer vision of the multi-faceted nature of "modern oppression" (racism, sexism and classism, etc) as it impacts Black men and women, Black youth, Black families and the Black community.
Our seeking is purposeful. Warriors seek clarity to gain an advantage. We will look for opportunities to mount challenges (personal, inter-personal, institutional and cultural) accounting for our individual and collective resources. We will define areas of development and support we need to sustain such challenges through to success.
"If you the
men of Ashanti will not go forward, then we will. We the women will. I shall
call upon you my fellow women. We will fight the white men. We will fight until
the last of us falls in the battlefield."
---Ya Asantewa, an Ashanti queen who led the resistance to British colonial rule in Ghana. She succeeded in the short run, but the Ashanti were heavily outgunned.
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