Chairman Omali Yeshitela’s message on the colonial murder of George Floyd and the righteous revolutionary resistance of the African Nation

On Monday, May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old African man, was murdered by Minneapolis police who knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes, suffocating him. In the days and weeks that followed, militant uprisings took place in thousands of cities around the world, including the torching and destruction of police vehicles and buildings as well other government buildings and businesses.

On Friday, May 29, 2020, 3 days into the protests that have rocked the foundation of the colonialist capitalist world, African People’s Socialist Party Chairman Omali Yeshitela broadcast this message, the original video version of which can be found on the Burning Spear TV channel on YouTube.

The full transcript of this message can also be found on The Burning Spear newspaper online.

Chairman Omali makes several key points:

1. "What we are looking at in Minneapolis is the existential crisis of a system that came into existence through the genocide of the indigenous people who were called "Indians," the indigenous people of this land, and the captivity and colonial enslavement of African people."
2. "When the people go into that Target and the various other colonial corporations that exist in this country and around the world, they are expressing reparations in a very serious kind of way."
3. "We fight colonialism, not racism. We are so opposed to this notion of racism because fighting against racism doesn't take you to power, It doesn't change anything about your lives. It just makes you a servant to white power. It makes you someone who spends your time trying to win appreciation by those who colonize us."
4. "All of our communities around this country and the world are encircled by steel, by armed forces who are there for the purpose of maintaining this social system - that’s what the police is! They are not there to help us. They are there in order to maintain this relationship that African people who are colonized have with white power, with colonial capitalism."
5. "We are Africans. We have to fight for our freedom against this colonial domination which means among the other things that we have to achieve is self-government. We can’t have any freedom as long as somebody else controls our ability to feed, clothe and house ourselves."

For more information on the African People’s Socialist Party, visit apspuhuru.org.

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