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Re: To Rootswoman and those who feel insulted

"Is it wrong for dark skinned Afrikans to cry for Freedom via their own Leadership? Or is it only the very light skinned Blacks to keep their frontrunner seats and lead?"

I would like to ask you to please point out where myself or anyone has made such a statement. Where have we denied that darker skinned Afrikans aren't "enemy number one"? Where have we promoted the leadership of light skinned Afrikans as opposed, or to the exlusion of our darker skinned Afrikans???? Where have we not admitted that of course, under a white supremist system, the darker you are, the more you suffer the injustices of this world order? Where have we ever said "Afrikan movements need to be led by lighter skinned AFrikans?"

Instead, what is being said (over and over again) is that to make the distinction between "Real Black" versus Afrikans of lighter complexions is DIVISIVE. It is, in our opinion, a regurtitation of the Apartheid system which seperates Black from Colored and so on. What IS being said is that in the overstanding that WHITE SUPREMACY causes this DIVIDE, that we should instead focus on the MINDSET and WORKS of ones and ones, and not use melanin as the measuring stick for integrity of "Afrikanity", as we can clearly see that historically speaking, dark skinned Afrikans are not excluded from betraying the collective.

Was it ONLY light skinned Afrikans that destroyed the Garvey movement? Or pulled the trigger on Malcom X? Was it only light skinned Afrikans who sold and betrayed their brothaz and sistaz to the Holocaust? Or were they all subject to a White Supremist System, irregardless of degrees of melanin?

The repeated FALSE suggestions that we want to deny the COLOR CASTE SYSTEM is truly pathetic. I have not sighted any Afrikan Mind here (irregardless of shades of brown) deny this truth.

ROOTS

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