Ideology
We believe that history is a big part of our culture and identity.
“The Atlantic slave trade robbed African Americans of more than our freedom. It robbed us of our identity, our deep knowing of who we are.” https://www.tallahassee.com/story/opinion/2019/09/08/400-years-after-slavery-began-african-americans-still-lack-identity-opinion/2233692001/
“Africans enslaved during the transatlantic slave trade not only lost their families, their friends, their homes, they also lost their identity.” https://rrpress.utsa.edu/handle/20.500.12588/751
Many articles regarding our people only discuss issues during and after we were put into bondage. But what about before?
This period before our bondage, we believe, is more significant to us as it shows who we truly are, where we came from and what our true identity is. We are told that once we were put in bondage, our name, nationality and culture was stripped. But our name, nationality and culture is never mentioned, we are just told, from the point of bondage until now: we are Niggers, Blacks, Coloreds, Negros, African American and now BIPOC.
But we can’t be descendants of Niggers, Blacks, Coloreds, Negros, and African Americans, as these names only were put on us AFTER we were forced into bondage.
And for these reasons, we look into who we were before slavery, as who we were before, is who we are now and not the names given to us in place of our original names, culture, nationality, religion and ideologies. What we’ve found, is an African Empire known as المملكة المغربية
“The Atlantic slave trade robbed African Americans of more than our freedom. It robbed us of our identity, our deep knowing of who we are.” https://www.tallahassee.com/story/opinion/2019/09/08/400-years-after-slavery-began-african-americans-still-lack-identity-opinion/2233692001/
“Africans enslaved during the transatlantic slave trade not only lost their families, their friends, their homes, they also lost their identity.” https://rrpress.utsa.edu/handle/20.500.12588/751
Many articles regarding our people only discuss issues during and after we were put into bondage. But what about before?
This period before our bondage, we believe, is more significant to us as it shows who we truly are, where we came from and what our true identity is. We are told that once we were put in bondage, our name, nationality and culture was stripped. But our name, nationality and culture is never mentioned, we are just told, from the point of bondage until now: we are Niggers, Blacks, Coloreds, Negros, African American and now BIPOC.
But we can’t be descendants of Niggers, Blacks, Coloreds, Negros, and African Americans, as these names only were put on us AFTER we were forced into bondage.
And for these reasons, we look into who we were before slavery, as who we were before, is who we are now and not the names given to us in place of our original names, culture, nationality, religion and ideologies. What we’ve found, is an African Empire known as المملكة المغربية
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Addressed to all Black Americans
WHAT SHALL WE CALL HIM?
So often our various journalists find trouble in selecting the proper name for the Moorish American. Some say "Negro," another will brand him "Race Man," still another will call him "Afro-American," and then come "Colored," "Dark American," "Coon," "Shine," "The Brethren," and your "Folks." It is indeed a hard matter to find something suitable for the various occasions where a title needs to be used. Is it that these people have no proper name? Did they have a national name when first brought to these shores in the early part of the Seventeenth Century? If so, what was it? Did not the land from which they were forced have a name? It now appears a good idea for those whose duty it is to write for the various journals to find out what the National Name of the forefathers of these people was.
Also look into the history of the founders of civilization and see who they were and where they stood in the building of the present civilization. Probably two hours in an up-to-date library would serve to relieve the strain on our men of letters. When the occasion presents itself for a title for these people. The matter of the various names given to these twenty-two million people with all colors of every race of the globe was an act of European psychology. They gave him a name, then defined it as something inferior to theirs, "White," they defined as a color of purity; "Black," they say represents everything of evil. The "Negro," as they were called in this nation, have no nation to which they might look with pride. Their history starts with the close of the Civil war or more properly with his being forced to serve someone else. Thus, he is separated from the illustrious history of his forefathers who were the founders of the first civilization of the Old World. This matter should be looked into with a hope of correcting it.
- Noble Drew Ali
Also look into the history of the founders of civilization and see who they were and where they stood in the building of the present civilization. Probably two hours in an up-to-date library would serve to relieve the strain on our men of letters. When the occasion presents itself for a title for these people. The matter of the various names given to these twenty-two million people with all colors of every race of the globe was an act of European psychology. They gave him a name, then defined it as something inferior to theirs, "White," they defined as a color of purity; "Black," they say represents everything of evil. The "Negro," as they were called in this nation, have no nation to which they might look with pride. Their history starts with the close of the Civil war or more properly with his being forced to serve someone else. Thus, he is separated from the illustrious history of his forefathers who were the founders of the first civilization of the Old World. This matter should be looked into with a hope of correcting it.
- Noble Drew Ali
The Olmecs of Old Amexem, Mexico
In the House of Representatives, the chairman of the committee of foreign affairs, (Mr. C. J. Ingersoll,) on the 3d of February, 1845, made his remarkable declaration to the same effect. He said The stupendous deserts between the Nueces and the Bravo Rivers are the natural boundaries between the Anglo-Saxon and the Mauritanian races. There ends the valley of the west. There Mexico begins. Thence, beyond the Bravo, begin the Moorish people, and their Indian associates, to whom Mexico properly belongs; - ocm39986872-1847-HB-0187.pdf (state.ma.us) https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/bitstream/handle/2452/751349/ocm39986872-1847-HB-0187.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
The Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits, and Settlement between the United States of America and the United Mexican States is the peace treaty that was signed on 2 February 1848, in the Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo (now a neighborhood of Mexico City) between the United States and Mexico that ended the Mexican War (1846–1848).
With its army's defeat and its capital's fall in September 1847, Mexico entered into negotiations with the U.S. peace envoy, Nicholas Trist, to end the war. On the Mexican side, some factions did not concede defeat or seek to engage in negotiations. The treaty called for the United States to pay US$15 million to Mexico and to pay off the claims of American citizens against Mexico up to US$5 million. It gave the United States the Rio Grande as a boundary for Texas and gave the U.S. ownership of California, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado, as well as an area comprising most of New Mexico, and approximately two-thirds of Arizona. Mexicans in those annexed areas could relocate within Mexico's new boundaries or receive U.S. citizenship with full civil rights.
With its army's defeat and its capital's fall in September 1847, Mexico entered into negotiations with the U.S. peace envoy, Nicholas Trist, to end the war. On the Mexican side, some factions did not concede defeat or seek to engage in negotiations. The treaty called for the United States to pay US$15 million to Mexico and to pay off the claims of American citizens against Mexico up to US$5 million. It gave the United States the Rio Grande as a boundary for Texas and gave the U.S. ownership of California, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado, as well as an area comprising most of New Mexico, and approximately two-thirds of Arizona. Mexicans in those annexed areas could relocate within Mexico's new boundaries or receive U.S. citizenship with full civil rights.
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