Prof. Ali A. Mazrui
28 November 2009
opinion
Never has the Black population in the United States been as diverse as it is today. If Global Africa means people of African ancestry all over the world, the Black population of the United States is a microcosm of Global Africa. Today, this Black population includes people from literally every Black country in the world: from every member of the African Union, Organisation of American States and from other parts of the Black world as well.
Black population in the United States has been diversified as a result of several factors. First, the immigration policies of the United States were liberalised in the second half of the 20th century as compared with the first half, thus admitting more Black immigrants. Secondly, the racial situation within the United States has been desegregated enough to make the country more attractive to middle-class Blacks from other lands.
Finally, post-colonial problems in Africa and the Caribbean have created an emigration flow to the Northern hemisphere, including the United States. Haiti has experienced the exodus not just of the intelligentsia, but also of members of the poorest sectors of society. For a while, the problem of apartheid in South Africa also created a steady trickle of refugees to Europe and North America.
Partly because of the stimulus of new immigrants, the religious landscape of Black America has also become more diverse. Haitians have not only strengthened Catholicism, some of them have arrived with residual 'voodoo' culture. More ancestral traditional religions from Africa have become more legitimate in some African-American circles. Yoruba religious culture has been particularly influential. Religion, too, has its Diasporas.
Within the Protestant tradition, there is also more diversity now in Black America than there was in the first half of the 20th century. Immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean have enriched Protestant diversity in the country, ranging from Anglicans from Nigeria to followers of Simon Kimbangu from the DRC. In addition, African versions of the Eastern Orthodox tradition are now better represented in the United States. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church and the Coptic Church now have stronger leadership in the United States.
The Rastafarian movement from the Caribbean has also become a force in the American scene since the second half of the 20th century. It is as much a cultural phenomenon as it is a religious one.
The term Diaspora originated with the Jews. Black Jews are not a new phenomenon in the US. Sometimes these are basically Old Testament Christians who have become more and more Abrahamic. African-American Jews have sometimes had difficulty being recognised by Israel under the Law of Return.
The Black Jews of Ethiopia, the so-called Falasha, were also slow in gaining full recognition in Israel, but most of the Ethiopian Jews were at last moved to Israel in the 1980s under Operation Moses and subsequent transfers. A few Ethiopian Jews have migrated to the United States and become Americans.
There are now virtually as many Muslims as Jews in the US, but the Muslims are less visible and much less influential than are the mainstream US Jews. Islam provides some direct African-American linkages with both Africa and the Middle East. But there are also areas of contrast between African-Americans and West Indians in relation to both Islam and indigenous African religion.
Among Diaspora Africans of the Western hemisphere there are two routes toward re-Africanisation. One route is through Pan-Islam, the transition chosen by Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X. The other is the route directly through Pan-Africanism, the transition chosen by Marcus Garvey and the Rastafari Movement.
Curious questions still arise: why has Islam made more progress among North American Blacks than among Blacks in the West Indian Diaspora? Second, why do beliefs rooted in sacred Africanity, sometimes appear to be more visible in the Caribbean than among Africans of North America?
Prof. Mazrui teaches political science and African studies at State University, New York
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IS AFRICA FOR SALE ?
1) I’ve heard that one African country made a 99-year deal with an Asian country to lease a part of their land.
2) How can anyone make a deal for the next generation ?
3) What can we do about it ?
4) Organize and get those crooks out of office or any position of power.
5) Pray to God For insight and divine intervention.
6) Africa Is being targeted by many who are not respecting Africa.
7) We must stop selling ourselves and respect ourselves, our families and God.
8) AFRICA IS BEING FINANCIALLY & SPIRITUALLY GANG-RAPED By The ROBBERS OF OUR PEOPLE !!!!!!!
Daniel 11:44 But NEWS OUT OF THE EAST (CHINA?) AND OUT OF THE NORTH ( RUSSIA ?) shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forward with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many
Revelations 16:12 And the 6th angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water of it was dried up, that the way of the KINGS OF THE EAST might be prepared.
[Daniel 11:14 ]]
And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south(AMERICA / BABYLON ): ALSO the ROBBERS OF OUR PEOPLE shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; BUT THEY SHALL FALL !
WAKE UP ! STAY UP MY BROTHERS & SISTERS !
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Genesis 10:1
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and JAPHETH: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
Genesis 10:2
The sons of JAPHETH ; GOMER, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
Genesis 10:3 And the sons of Gomer; ASHENAZ, and Riphath, and Togarmah
REVELATIONS 2:9 I know your works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but you are rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
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Absolutely !!! But with one correction, not only the power structure so does the economic structures.
"Mazrui teaches political science and African studies at State University, New York"
So, he is no longer teaching in Kenya.
AMERICA IS THE WHORE OF BABYLON : Revelations 17 & 18 AND Jeremiah 50 & 51
HERE ARE SOME KEY POINTS :
Jeremiah, chapter 50 : 8 - 9
8: Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.
9: For, behold, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon AN ASSEMBLY OF GREAT NATIONS FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from there she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain. .
[ Their will be an exodus of nations leaving America ; returning to their ancestral homes e.g. Black Africans to nations like Ghana, Sierra Leone, etc…] [ .Get out of New Babylon America !!! ]
[ 1 ] Jeremiah, chapter 50 : 16
16: Cut off the sower from Babylon ;and him that handles the sickle in the time of harvest .For fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.
[ 2 ] Jeremiah, chapter 51 : 6
6: Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul. Be not cut off in her iniquity. For this is the time of the LORD's vengeance; he will render to her a recompence.
[ 3 ] Jeremiah, chapter 51 : 9
9: We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed. Forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country. For her judgment reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
Jeremiah, chapter 50 : 35 - 37
35: A sword is upon the Chaldeans, the inhabitants of Babylon, her princes, and her wise men; says the LORD.
36: A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote. A sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.
37: A sword is upon their horses, chariots, and upon ALL THE MINGLED PEOPLE that are in the midst of her; they shall become as women. A sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.
ALL THE MINGLED PEOPLE – What Nation Has More Different Cultures Than America ?
Jeremiah, chapter 51 : 7
7: Babylon has been a golden cup in the LORD's hand; that made all the earth drunken. The nations have drunk of her wine. Therefore the nations are insane.
10: The LORD has brought forth our righteousness. Come, and let us declare in Zion (our souls) the work of the LORD our God. [ Zion = The Kingdom of Heaven which is within us..within our souls ]
[ This same spirit of the Medes ( Arabs)…is against New Babylon (Anerica) ]
[ 1 ] Jeremiah, chapter 51 : 11
11: Make bright the arrows; gather the shields. The LORD has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.
[ 2 ] Jeremiah, chapter 51 : 27 - 28
27: Set you up a standard in the land. Blow the trumpet among the nations. Prepare the nations against her. Call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz. Appoint a captain against her. Cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------- These three(3) kingdoms today are : a) Ararat - (Armenia / Turkey) b) Ashchenaz – ( Khazarians aka Fake Jews ) c) Minni – Armenia
These kingdoms are (Arabic ) Medes
Turkey& Armenia agree to establish diplomatic ties (August 31, 2009) [ http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090831/ap_on_re_eu/eu_turkey_armenia ]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------- 28: Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains, all the rulers of it, and all the land of his dominion.
[ The people will stop immigrating to America; once the word gets out of her impending doom ]
[ 1 ] Jeremiah, chapter 51 : 44 -45
44: And I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up. And the nations shall not flow together any more to him. Yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
45: My people, go you out of the midst of her, and deliver you every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.
[ a) For Two(2) years shall the people [ still here ( in America) ] hear rumors
b) Civil Wars will break out before the final day of America’s destruction
[ 1 ] Jeremiah, chapter 51 : 46
46: And lest your heart faint, and you fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land. A rumour shall both come one year. And after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land; ruler against ruler.
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REVELATIONS 17 & 18 : Also witnesses to Babylon’s destruction
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