Greetings Sister Mary Dread,
I trust all is going well with the I and the I family. I have
now been working out of the AU 6th Region Secretariat for two strongs
now and momentum is building. Baba Ras Marcus agreed to have his email
(below) posted. Give thanks.
Most raspectfully,
Ras Nathaniel
Greetings Ras Nathaniel,
Hoping all is well with you and your family and your entire African
Village. Thank you for this information and let me also hope, that the
bridges of community unity, which you and others are trying to build,
will become some of the bridges upon which African people everywhere
will be able to walk to become participants in the United States of
Africa and her people everywhere. The time is long over due, for
practical Governmental Administration in the Rastafari movement, so that
we can place ourselves in a positive position to serve African people
everywhere. When we talk about Africa for Africans, those at home and
those abroad, we must be talking and thinking about African people
everywhere, instead of just Rastafari people only. We must do practical
social and Governmental works, which becomes visible, to African people
everywhere, and from which our people get benefits, so that they can
respect us, for the services which we offer, and be attracted to us as
their brothers and sisters, as a result of our good work and services.
I respect the fact, that there are many African liberation
organizations, which are working together, in connection with the Africa
Union, which also means in connection with Mama Africa. One thing which
we must really learn, and learn seriously, is that ideas are the father
and mother of all inventions, and of all manifestations, therefore, when
we are working together as organizations, reasoning upon a subject can
not be too much, we must listen well to each other, because out of
reasoning comes forth ideas, and whether we wish to accept it or not, it
is the best ideas, which sober people will follow, not the best speaker,
or the more eloquent speaker, in the end it is the best ideas, which our
people and organizations will uphold. We do need to keep our various
organizations working together forever, therefore, we must be careful,
that we allow the best ideas to lead, so that individuals, do not accuse
each other of being dictators, and results in scattering instead of more
gathering, we only have time today for Unity in our African family
everywhere.
Workshops are very good educational activities, since they provide an
atmosphere for dialogues and conscious reasoning, which results in the
planting and cultivation of good ideas. It is also proper for presenters
to get reasonable pay for their services, but there must be some kind of
community accountabilities, in order to discourage assumptions, and
gossip mongering. I will be following the activities of these events to
the best of my ability, and I am hoping that it will have a very smooth
runnings, so the other African liberation organizations, will find great
pleasure to participate, so that the goals expected by the African
Union, and we as Africans in the diaspora, will be fulfilled in 2007,
when the day of the Joseph Project arrives. It is such a very good thing
that Africa Union, came to the realization, that Africans in the
Diaspora, are indeed Africans abroad, and therefore, are part of
everything in Mama Africa, therefore we are entitled, to become the 6th
region of the African Union, because we did leave our land and other
properties in Mama Africa, we did not and could not take them across the
middle passage.
I think what you are doing here is well structured Governmentally,
and I do hope, that for this one time, we as African people, can put all
our petty differences aside, and see in what way we can work together,
to make some successful moves, for the upliftment of African people
everywhere. If there are things which some of us do not understand about
this project, then we must ask questions, instead of going around
speaking without investigation. The time has really come for Rastafari
people to be engaged in real governmental activities. It is my opinion,
that when there are Iyabinghi Celebrations, the first part of the
celebration, should really be governmental reasoning, reports about what
is taking place in the community, should be discussed, and a collection
taken in for governmental works, and then we can proceed to Iyasies. I
know that many people do not share this view, but how else can we
function, if we do not support our social and economic structures. How
will we be able to feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, care for the
infants, protect the elders and clothe the naked, we can only do these
things by doing them.
Again I send many oceans of blessings and self-determination to
African people everywhere.
ONE BLACK HEART ONE BLACK LOVE
Baba Ras Marcus.
Diane Nguyen
AASG
Associate and Sudanese refugee