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Serenasailor
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, July 29, 2006 - 11:46 pm: | 
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Did you guys hear this?
Activist Explains his ‘Exterminate Whites’ Comment
by Cash Michaels
Special to the NNPA from The Carolinian
RALEIGH, N.C. (NNPA) – It last month during a pre-Millions More Movement conference in Washington, D.C. about improving Black media and activist communications in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, that Kamau Kambon’s world was turned upside down.
Activists at the televised “Pro-Black Media Forum” held at Howard University hammered home the same message – after the horrendous events surrounding Hurricane Katrina, African-Americans dare not trust the government again, and had better regain control over their communities and destinies.
But Kambon, one of the invited speakers, angered by what he believed was a continuation of hundreds of years of White oppression of Black people without redress, and sickened by the self-genocide of the community he loves so much, stunned those gathered, and thousands more watching live on C-SPAN, with the following:
“…[T] hey're monitoring our people to try to prevent the one person from coming up with the one idea. And the one idea is, how we are going to exterminate White people, because that in my estimation is the only conclusion I have come to. We have to exterminate White people off the face of the planet to solve this problem.''
After a scattering of applause, the college professor and Black Raleigh bookstore owner continued, ''I don't care whether you clap or not, but I'm saying to you that we need to solve this problem because they are going to kill us.''
He reiterated the point by declaring, “White people want to kill us.”
In contrast to nonviolent leaders of the 60s like the NAACP's Roy Wilkins and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Black nationalists throughout history, like Malcolm X (“By any means necessary”), H. Rap Brown (“Burn, baby burn”) and the late, fiery Nation of Islam ex-minister Khallid Abdul Muhammad (“Lift every voice and sing, yes, but also, lift every fist and swing”) always warned that the day of the “final comedown” was approaching, where Blacks would have to take up arms against the White majority to stop police brutality, drug trafficking and racial discrimination.
But none had ever publicly used the powerful word “extermination” before.
When Kambon, a quiet, well-studied apolitical man who is unaffiliated with any group, religion or cause, used that term on television, intended or otherwise, it ignited a firestorm of national controversy that he neither expected, nor intended.
By the middle of the following week, outraged Whites were abuzz on the Internet not only about Kambon’s remarks, but that he was a visiting professor at North Carolina State University.
They wanted him immediately fired. The school issued a statement distancing itself from the educator. He is no longer there.
“Why hasn’t this professor been arrested and charged with inciting violence, solicitation of mass murder, and promotion of genocide, which is an international crime against humanity?” wrote someone called “Umnumzana” at The Political Teen, a conservative Web site.
One wrote, “This man is a true racist,” while another stated, “This man is a human savage.” Still another identified himself as “Angry Whitey.”
On other Web sites, bloggers who identified themselves as White, said they were arming themselves, using racially derogatory language in the process.
Radio talk shows across the nation picked up on the controversy, and phone banks were jammed with angry White listeners. Conservative bloggers, still smarting from defending former U.S. Education Secretary Bill Bennett’s abort “every Black baby” remark, spun the story to portray Kambon as “Black racist number one.”
Even Black leaders were called to task to publicly denounce Kambon’s remarks.
The problem was while the controversy was boiling over in the White community, few in the African-American community were aware it, even days after the fact.
Conservatives at the John Locke Foundation tried to get North Carolina Black congressmen Mel Watt and G.K. Butterfield to sponsor a resolution in Congress to denounce Kambon, just like they did Bill Bennett. But neither was aware of the Kambon controversy.
When William J. Barber, state NAACP president, was asked to denounce Kambon on NBC-17 News “At Issue” three weeks ago, he hadn’t heard anything about it. Still, he made clear that “exterminating White people” was not something the NAACP believed in. “We don’t believe in exterminating people,” Barber said. “ We believe in exterminating bad social policy.”
Every local African-American leader The Carolinian spoke to within three weeks of the controversy also knew nothing about it, and were surprised to hear it.
Those who knew Kambon for many years were especially surprised and said they didn’t agree with his “solution.” But they added that he and his family throughout the years have always answered the call of the community when needed, allowing various causes to use their Blacknificent Books and More store, or adjoining Bennu’ Cultural Center for important meetings and events.
They reiterated they didn’t agree with Kambon’s “solution,” but they did agree with what they understood he saw as the problem – the steady genocide, through violence, drugs, poor health and discrimination - of the Black community.
Some also noted that while Kambon has always been upfront about his abhorrence of White racism and White supremacy, he knew that there were good, supportive Whites out there.
The abolitionists of history who, under threat of death, taught enslaved Africans how to read, and helped found several historically black colleges and universities.
And then there’s Chapel Hill civil rights attorney Al McSurely, who represented the DOT-7 in the infamous hangman’s noose case. McSurely also has represented Kambon when he sued St. Aug for age discrimination after he was terminated several years ago.
Those Whites who, in Kambon’s view, “just don’t give a damn about the great, great, great grandchildren whose ancestors’ blood is soaked in the very ground on which we stand,” are the enemy, he says, though he’s quick to note that liberal Whites are not standing for justice as they said they would.
But those who see him as a “hater” have stopped at nothing to vilify him.
Kambon’s critics are so incensed that they’ve even created fake interviews online with “Kambon,” even though he’s never said a word publicly about the controversy until this interview.
While all of the mania was going on, threats were being called in to both the store and his home, worrying his family and friends. There weren’t a lot, but enough to give pause.
There were also calls of support from around the country, however, particularly from young people. They encouraged Kambon to respond, to say something before his remarks were further distorted.
Saying anything immediately would only ramp up the fire. Kambon felt it best to let things cool down for a while, and speak only when he was prepared to do so.
That time came last week at the Bennu’ Cultural Center.
In a seven-page statement that was videotaped for later distribution and put up on the Web, Kambon set out to not only respond to critics, but even to those who didn’t understand what he says he was saying.
He felt the media ran wild with the “exterminate” line, but did not report the rest of what he said, the context for such a dire and dramatic assessment.
“I made a statement on a panel in Washington, D.C. on October 14, 2005 and today I am prepared to bring remarks on my original comments,” he told a select audience of community supporters.
“My official statement today is that I speak for no one.”
Using that as his recurring theme, Kambon said he “spoke for no one” except “the ancient Afrikans of Kemet – the original name that was changed by the Greeks of Egypt – who were invaded and murdered in mass numbers over the course of centuries by” several peoples, including the Arabs, French, British and Romans
Kambon took listeners through a history lesson he was well versed in, recounting the enslavement and “murder” of “Afrikans” by the Arabs over several centuries; the enslavement and imprisonment of millions of West Africans by the Europeans.
“I speak for no one, EXCEPT for the millions of Afrikan men in those dungeons who refused to submit and were put three to four in a cell and were left there for all of the other enslaved Afrikans to see them die a slow and painful death,” Kambon wrote.” “The millions of Afrikan women who were selected by the white commander of the dungeon to be raped repeatedly and sometimes left to die in their own blood.”
As Kambon, the author of several books on Black history, Black genocide and other topics about how Black people struggle to overcome the horror of their history, sees it, there has been no historic redress for the millions of “enslaved” Africans, brought from their motherland of Africa, chained in great number in cramped, dark and inhuman conditions in the belly of slave ships.
The Middle Passage; the Black Holocaust.
Many of them ripped off their chained limbs, he says, to jump over the ships into shark-infested waters, preferring to face certain death than enslavement in the “New World.”
“I speak for no one EXCEPT for all of the Afrikans who arrived in North America bewildered, brutalized, weak, robbed of their culture, language, religions, families, cosmologies and longing for their own homeland,” Kambon said.”
Kambon went on to cite heroes of Black history such as Harriet Tubman, Ida B Wells, W.E.B. DuBois and Frederick Douglass “….and all Black people who begged and petitioned the American government to intercede to stop White people from wanton beatings, murdering, lynching, raping and terrorizing of Black men, Black women and Black children. The government did nothing. The deaths continued.”
Kambon even paid tribute to the thousands of Black soldiers “who gave their lives” in every war of this nation, “only to return to their America and be lynched physically, economically or socially, while wearing their u.s. uniforms as White people sang “America the Beautiful.”
He also noted more than 2,000 lynchings of Black people at the turn of the 19th century.
And Kambon didn’t forget North Carolina history.
''I speak for no one, EXCEPT for the many men, women and children who were murdered in Wilmington, NC and Tulsa, Oklahoma – both considered “Black Wall Streets” – and their land stolen from them with the sanction of the American government. The 7,600 Black and poor women in North Carolina, and [31] other states, who were sterilized without their knowledge or permission in clinics as part of the population control program. These sterilizations went on from 1929 to 1974. 65,000 Black and poor women, in this country, were sterilized during this period.
Kambon also noted the infamous Tuskegee experiments conducted by the federal government, where black men with syphilis were allowed to die over a 40-year period.
Kambon noted many other atrocities put upon Black people and their leaders throughout history that have never been redressed, though many had asked.
He talked further about Black babies dying because of poor nutrition; the millions of Black men and women behind bars; elderly Black people not able to make ends meet and forced to give up their properties; the generations of Black people in Africa dying of AIDS.
The “Black Holocaust” is still going on, Kambon says.
“Some have asked White people, referring to the government and corporations, to just consider talking about reparations, and those requests have fallen on deaf ears,” he writes. “Why are White people not listening to, and implementing the suggestions of all the civic groups trying to advance the social, economic, educational, health and cultural concerns of Black people?
“I speak for no one, EXCEPT for my ancestors, our dead, and for myself, and I am saying that I don’t even know half of the true history of Black people. but I have seen and know enough to be able to say, “The war and genocide against Black people, in all of the areas of life activity, worldwide, must stop.”
In further remarks to his audience, Kambon admitted that Black people are in no position to do what he said on Oct. 14, and that his remarks were more a reference to if something isn’t done to stop the genocide of Blacks at the hands of whites, “we’ll be wiped off the face of the Earth.”
Realizing that his “solution” is not popularly shared in the African-American community, Kambon closed by asking, “Do you have a better solution to offer to solve this problem?”
(His full seven-page statement can be read www.blacknificent.com)
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Lil_ze
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, July 30, 2006 - 12:06 am: |
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old news. he made some of these comments over a year ago or maybe more than that. he is not the only person who has spoken about the extermination of the white race. there are some black groups here in nyc (that i know personally), that have spoken about not only the extermination of whites, but enslaving all nations on the planet earth for 1000 years. these nations being the chinese, japanese, east indians, africans, arabs, white race etc. they teach that only the blacks who were brought to the new world as slaves and the indians throughout north, south, and central america (mexicans, north american indians, mayans, indians of peru, guatemala, etc) will rule the planet earth. all other nations will be enslaved for 1000 years. at the end of the 1000 year period the white race will be exterminated. im not saying i agree or disagree with this position, what i am saying is all kind of people or groups have expoused this "white race extermination" theory. its nothing new. |
Semperfemme
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, July 30, 2006 - 12:29 am: |
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Peh, hypocrite. When whites want to exterminate blacks its wrong, but when blacks want to exterminate whites its a "solution". It's like people who are against the death penalty but for abortion.
Lil_ze: Who is "they" and shouldn't we exterminate them for blatant stupidity? Our planet is hopelessly overrun with idiots who find themselves in leadership positions. (GW for example) |
Schakspir
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I can understand the guy's anger. And besides, most whiteys stink, anyway. But I wouldn't want to kill ALL of them--70% would be nice. |
Lil_ze
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the "they" are a group called "the hebrew-israelites". if this country we have freedom of speech and thought. they are not calling for people to take up arms to accomplish this end. they are speaking about them getting spiritual power from god to enslave the nations. im not saying i agree or disagree, but this is their position. i personally don't believe in exterminating people for their thoughts. this group was speaking in times square in nyc for almost 20 years. they have churches all over the united states. |
Lil_ze
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i meant to say "in this country". |
Semperfemme
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Lil_ze: "if this country we have freedom of speech and thought."
"if" this country we also have freedom of wit and sarcasm.
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