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A LOVE SUPREME
iVA 1NATEGENEZAJI
FEditorial
ON UMOJA (UNITY AND CR ITTCISM (FROM THE TEACHINGS OF'
Recent discussion which has come up among variou's Blac
concerns the proper role of UMOJA (Unity) and critic m
for liberation .
There are Black groups which still criticize
olently that no room
tween them .
~ .y~Pr for fear of breaking
of UMOJA is that UMOJA
c riticism which does not lead to UMOJA .
Contents page
BLACK MARKETERoeeeeeW ee 2
SWAHILI LESSON, a e a e , a 2b
DRUM,eeeveeeoeW,eeWWO 3
GLOBAL VIEWS, e e e e ,v ,W 4
BURNING SPEAReeeeeeeee~ W 6
RHYTHM AND BLO~e:eaeeoe T
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HOUSE of UMOJA
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94115
each othe'
left open for the purpose ot'c
the other hand, there are other grou
scale which .desire UMOJA among Black organizations so Madly that they completely
lbok.over the differences between them, thinking that ) if d .visiou~s a,re ignored.,
they will somehow disappear by magic (Black or otherwi . e) ~ These xgrou~as are un-
a1Sle'to criticize either Black organizations or Pilack
the UNITY of the Black nation,
without constructive
r
weary because we mu st preseMt ~a common :front
the oppressor, ~'
litically . At the
grou~rs' acx',os the na ion
n our nat a~nal struggle
so :~~cequt~r~tly and so vi-
eating boe~c~s Qf UMOJA be-
s at the other end of the
ndivxduals when tliey mess
IT~e position of the HOtJSE
criticism lis ,just a~ invalid as any
I
The fact is that Ilal~ Black pieople need one
another (even when r~e mess up~',~ because ever~r
one of us ha s a co on wntexest which is mares
-..w...~ *.,~.~
im ortant than all ~' our diPfe ences_ put to-M
ether, and that ini~ezest _lies ~in y tie ,surviv
1 of all Black people . Black UNITY i~s nee-
s well as
o-
cvnsaructiv~ ,