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BLACK POWER PAGE 2b, SWAHILI LESSON #1 : THE PRESENT TENSE The present tense in Swahili corresponds to the "I am doing," "you are doing" tense in English . The verb 'kusema' means "to 'speak :" Thus, to form the present tense, we drop the -ku from the infinitives We see that the verb is made up of a : In practice, this is EXAMPLES : NOTB ; In the monosyllabic verbs, e.g ., kola, kuja, and the verbs kwenda and kwisha, the -ku of the infinitive is retained in this tense to make it easier to say : The present tense in Swahili corresponds to an action in progress . Thus in the case !hinasema' we may translate it as either "I am doing" or "I do," with it understood that "I do" in this case means that the speaker is doing the action right now . VERBS FOR PRACTICE : For each of the following verbs, form the present tense using "I" and "You" as subjects : AIUHAI~MAD' SPEAKS ME'WSRAPER 1.'. ¢~{ EAST 791h iT. CMICA00. ILL. 60919; t O 1 YEAR ( 52 issos !~~ Date . . . . . . . . . . . . : . , '~ q b MOS. {26 issues :< a0 Enter my~ subt,cription to MUHAMMAD SPEAKS. Ehdosed is my mohey ordor ; i Checkhow you wish to receive LQ MAIL SINSCRIPTION for E : . : . . . ~ . ~ 1 Muhammad Speaks Newspaper p HOME DELIVERY . . ~ Names f1 ADDRESS . . ni-na-sema I am speaking u-na-sema You are speaking Subject Prefix Tense Sign Verb Stem ni na sema written as one word : ninasema ninafanya Lam doing unafanya You are doing ninafua I am washing unafua You are washing ninafunga I am shutting unafunga You are shutting ninafika I am arriving unafika You are arriving ninakuja I am coming unakuja You are ninakula I am eating unakula You are ninakunywa I am drinking unakunywa You are kuleta to bring kuweka to put, place kungoja to wait kuanguka to fall kwenda to go (see note) kola to eat (see note) NDUGU ZAI~U WAMEKUFUAA WAISHI :e (LONG LIVE OUR ANCESTORS : :) coming eating drinking " +~~ ~~ Please CI ip and Mnil 'to: ~ Nuey P. Newton Defense funt~ , oddr~ss 1 Plsdy~ ~ P .O . BOX 8641 Emery villa Branek Oakl,arld, Galifnmin city - ~ Eindassd Yoer Wilt Pind ; ...r. .r.~~~.~,.._~ .._- .~ ._ ..._ e
REPORT FROM FUNK CITY ., . There are a lot of things which can hit you upon first walking behind the Reflecting Pool into Resurrection City, U .S .A . : Some people talk about the mud . It is a sea of mud which is everywhere, stretching from plywood shanty . t o plywood shanty, covering your shoes and socks, trailing on your pants, and somehow' getting up to your face in little brown splatters . It has rained on the, average of three times a week in D . C . since the Poor People's Campaign began in mid-May, and 'the once-grassy plot where Resurrection City now stands has turned from bright green to a muddy reddish brown . Some of the houses are like little islands, completely surrounded by water which refuses to dry even in the heat . Some people first notice the shanties themselves . Most were built in V-shape up from their plywood flooring, with no area to stand in and only enough room for bed and belongings . Most of the Brothers and Sisters do little else but sleep and dress in their shanties . Some, however, have planned on longer stays, and have built up duplexes, three-and four-room flats, and even two-story ho~xses, all from the original one room :"V" plan . Almost everybody has slapped some paint upside their shanties and the inspirations range from "000 Poor Avenue,", "House of Ma~colm #1" and "Carl B . Stokes says "Cleveland Now :" to the out-of-sight paintings of the "Wall of Hunger^ or the New Breed center . The thing that hits most folks first, though, is the smell . Collecting garbage for 3,000 people ain't no small thing, especially when they're living in such small quarters . It is a smell of rotting trash., hot mud, and the sweat of the people, all increased by the 90-degree heat . To~ tell the truth, though, it was hard for me to tell the smell in Funky City, as it's been called, from the rest of the D.C . ghetto, where garbage pickup by the government has been less than perfect . One thing you do notice, however, is that there are no rats in Resurrection City, even though they are a hazard in the rest of Washington . Maybe they drowned in the mud . ., This report was written one week before Resurrection City was closed down by the enemy, and comes to BLACK P06VER exclusively by one of our reporters on the scene there . But the thing I dig about Resurrection City is Black People, my people . We came from all over the country ; from the ghettos of Chicago, from the waterfronts of Oakland, from the hills of Pittsburgh . It must be the first time since we were ripped off to this country . 400 years ago that these many Black People from these many areas have been able to spend this much time together . The Sisters are fine and the Brothers are strong ; there is the constant hum of coming and going, ing . of building, and of liv- It hasn't always been pleasant, full of Brotherly and Sisterly love . A sister was found in the Reflecting Pool one morning, her throat cut . An immediate problem for the SCLC staff was to keep Brothers and Sisters from fighting each other, and from stealing what little one another had . A Love Supreme for our Black People does not come by magic, we learned, but by a example . long process of teaching and Another problem has been the white people . They seem to be everywhere, although they are greatly outnumbered by the Brothers and Sisters . They range from hippies to liberals to radicals to the truly poor whites, who are without a doubt the nastiest people I've seen . Although food is free and easy non-residents, to obtain, even for I watched a white man from the hills of Tennessee collect half-eaten oranges, and sandwiches after every meal, stuffing his pockets with them . "The white man been messing with them clouds," an old Brother who moved from his D .C . home to Resurrec- tion City told me . "Ain't rained this much in Washington in all my life, and I been- .here some time . T believe the white man is putting something in them clouds to make it rain ." PAGE 3 gLpCK POWER It has gotten so bad that everytime a plane flies over Resurrection City, a brother groans, "Oh hell it's gonr.a rain tonight ." And it usually does . At night, under one of the big tents, there is entertainment . Sometimes it is big Billy Stuart singing "Summertime" and wailing on his portable organ . Sometimes it is . just a local D,C, kid who will someday be headlining at the Howard or the Apollo learning now where his fans and his strength really are . Most of the time, it is Resurrection Citv people, patting their feet, cJ_apping their hands, playing whatever instruments they can find, singing spirituals or popular rhythm and blues sides . It was late afternoon on June 19, the day of the giant "Solidarity Day" march . The crowds were beginning to thin in the summer heat, and the speakers were all sounding the same as they droned in the background . The sister and I walked thigh-deep in the Reflecting PooJ., feeling strangely along the middle of the giant world . Only a few children played at the end of the pool . hundreds of yards down the way . The sister. looked up at the gigantic Washington Monument which stood on the hill at the opposite end o .f the Reflecting Pool . It was huge and white, thrusting its cone-shaped head up into the vacant blue sky in defiance . "You know," she said absently, "the monument always did remind me of the Ku Klux Klan . That's what it looks like ." And it did, with the little'windnws at the top staring out like two beady cracker eyes, watching over all the niggers in Resurrection City . At the other end bulked the massive statue of Lincoln, the "big Massah", who scowled across the length of the pool at the Ku Klux Klan . I suddenly remembered what Malcolm had said . . BRAIN POWER BOOKS 2630 San Pablo Avenue Berkeley, California Phone : 848-9210 "Without Brain Power, Black Power is only Skin Deep.
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BLACK POWER PAGE 2b,<br />
SWAHILI LESSON #1 : THE PRESENT TENSE<br />
The present tense in Swahili corresponds to the "I am doing,"<br />
"you are doing" tense in English . The verb 'kusema' means "to 'speak :"<br />
Thus, to form the present tense, we drop the -ku from the infinitives<br />
We see that the verb is made up <strong>of</strong> a :<br />
In practice, this is<br />
EXAMPLES :<br />
NOTB ;<br />
In the monosyllabic verbs, e.g ., kola, kuja, and the verbs kwenda and<br />
kwisha, the -ku <strong>of</strong> the infinitive is retained in this tense to make it<br />
easier to say :<br />
The present tense in Swahili corresponds to an action in progress . Thus<br />
in the case !hinasema' we may translate it as either "I am doing" or "I do,"<br />
with it understood that "I do" in this case means that the speaker is doing<br />
the action right now .<br />
VERBS FOR PRACTICE :<br />
For each <strong>of</strong> the following verbs, form the present tense using "I" and "You"<br />
as subjects :<br />
AIUHAI~MAD' SPEAKS ME'WSRAPER<br />
1.'. ¢~{ EAST 791h iT. CMICA00. ILL. 60919;<br />
t O 1 YEAR ( 52 issos !~~<br />
Date . . . . . . . . . . . . : . ,<br />
'~ q b MOS. {26 issues :< a0 Enter my~ subt,cription to MUHAMMAD<br />
SPEAKS. Ehdosed is my mohey ordor ;<br />
i Checkhow you wish to receive LQ MAIL SINSCRIPTION for E : . : . . . ~ .<br />
~ 1 Muhammad Speaks Newspaper p HOME DELIVERY . .<br />
~ Names<br />
f1 ADDRESS . .<br />
ni-na-sema I am speaking<br />
u-na-sema You are speaking<br />
Subject Prefix Tense Sign Verb Stem<br />
ni na sema<br />
written as one word : ninasema<br />
ninafanya Lam doing unafanya You are doing<br />
ninafua I am washing unafua You are washing<br />
ninafunga I am shutting unafunga You are shutting<br />
ninafika I am arriving unafika You are arriving<br />
ninakuja I am coming unakuja You are<br />
ninakula I am eating unakula You are<br />
ninakunywa I am drinking unakunywa You are<br />
kuleta to bring<br />
kuweka to put, place<br />
kungoja to wait<br />
kuanguka to fall<br />
kwenda to go (see note)<br />
kola to eat (see note)<br />
NDUGU ZAI~U WAMEKUFUAA WAISHI :e<br />
(LONG LIVE OUR ANCESTORS : :)<br />
coming<br />
eating<br />
drinking<br />
" +~~ ~~ Please CI ip and Mnil 'to:<br />
~ Nuey P. Newton Defense funt~ ,<br />
oddr~ss<br />
1 Plsdy~ ~<br />
P .O . BOX 8641<br />
Emery villa Branek<br />
Oakl,arld, Galifnmin<br />
city -<br />
~ Eindassd Yoer Wilt Pind ;<br />
...r. .r.~~~.~,.._~ .._- .~ ._ ..._ e
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