UAM: Make-over or Break-up

Hopefully, United African Movement will celebrate its twentieth anniversary on Sunday, August 17, 2008. UAM was established on August 17, 1988 in honor of Marcus Mosiah Garvey. Substantial expenses will arise with few people to shoulder them between now and then. Bankruptcy is imminent.
Given UAM’s myriad activities this duration has not been a small feat. You do not need all the fingers on one hand to count Black organizations in this country that have been able to function without any white involvement. White people are inclined to finance Blacks because they understand the value of control. Blacks believe in free rides and good Samaritans.
The first clue of our inability to associate with each other was the slave codes. Blacks were conditioned to stay away from each other. Three Blacks grouped together constituted a crime. This is still a legacy of slavery because it has been bequeathed to succeeding generations of Blacks out of habit and if necessary, terrorism.
It is certainly still in the minds of whites. The Black and Latino boys in the Central Park jogger case were initially charged with unlawful assembly. At a subsequent Huntley hearing, Alton Maddox questioned the cops about the constitutional basis for the initial arrests. The cops had observed this group walking peacefully and civilly on Central Park West. Nonetheless, it was still an unlawful assembly under New York Penal Law.
The judge ruled that it was proper and correct to arrest a group of Black and Latino boys who were observed in a large group even if they were not involved in any additional criminal activity. After the cops had separated the boys and questioned them over several hours, the charges of rape arose. Thus, there was no violation of the Fourth Amendment.
New York City, in its history of nearly four centuries, has accused only UAM of operating without any white presence or support. Most Blacks will never associate with a group that has no white stamp of approval. This results from four hundred years of white conditioning.
Even when Blacks attend an all-Black meeting, they will, nonetheless, boycott the offering. With uneven support from a few supporters and no media publicity, the past twenty years for UAM have been miraculous. Seemingly, no Black organization can function without white resources or white advice.
Term limits will bar Alton Maddox from continuing to serve UAM after August 17, 2008. He has virtually carried UAM on his back for nearly twenty years. The period between now and August 17 will either be a period of transition or a period of liquidation. Hopefully, it will be the former.
Every group, except descendants of enslaved Africans, know that it will never advance into the future without organization. For starters, everyone must show up at a venue and exercise the right of association and assembly. Four hundred years of terrorism have conditioned Blacks to stay in their place.
All groups in this country except Blacks are xenophobic. Blacks, on the other hand, love strangers and hate themselves and all people that look like themselves. Blacks comprise the only group that demands integration. This is akin to a chicken suing a fox to get into a fox den.
Risk follows Blacks in the United States like a lion follows a zebra in Africa. Kwame Ture would often say that Blacks are not poor. Instead, they are poorly organized. This is why Black politicians vote consistently against the interests of their own people.
Blacks are the greatest risk-takers and, yet, they refuse to organize for protection. Even most animals run in packs. Slavery has robbed Blacks of their survival instincts. This is why slavery is a crime against nature. Blacks demand integration as official policy.
Insurance companies are organized to provide compensation for risks. Similarly, unions like the PBA and the Detective’s Endowment Association are formed to protect its members against the consequences of criminal conduct. See for example, Sean Bell, et. al.
In the struggle between the estate of Sean Bell and the DEA for justice, the DEA will win. No Black organization exists in New York and Sean Bell was not a member of a “Black organization.” This conclusion is obvious when you seek to define “Black organization.” For starters, it would have to include the concept of self-determination.
Blacks are only allowed to be members of social clubs and religious organizations that allow for the cohabitation of Uncle Sam and a white Jesus. Social clubs allow for entertainment. Political speech is not permitted in these assemblies.
The Democratic Party, today, resembles First Baptist Church of New York City in 1807. The following year, because of the presence of Jim Crow in this house of worship, Black spectators fled. They formed Abyssinian Baptist Church in 1808.
Despite Jim Crow in the Democratic Party, Blacks refuse to leave it in 2008. Whites are the policymakers and Blacks are the political pawns. They give political directions and we follow orders. People who write policies do it for their own benefit.
In the early 1990’s, UAM sought to form a third party. If UAM had been successful, it would have become the only Black political organization in the country. Instead, the Giuliani administration sued UAM and harassed its landlords. Gov. George Pataki seized its political name “Freedom Party” and supplanted the Tax Cut Now Party with Freedom Party to end UAM’s involvement in politics.