Post by sublime92 on Aug 9, 2017 17:41:33 GMT
Muslim agitator Sekou Odinga spoke recently at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at City University of New York, a place where students presumably go to learn about American law and order based on the U.S. Constitution.
But Odinga brought another message.
The community organizer received applause at several points during his speech titled “Minorities and immigrant communities in the U.S. have a right to armed struggle and self-determination
Odinga, born Nathanial Burns, joined the Black Panthers in the 1960s and later the Black Liberation Army. He was convicted in a 1984 trial of attempted murder of six police officers related to his role in the deadly Brinks Armored Car robbery in New York. He was released from federal prison in November 2014 after serving 30 years of a 40-year federal and 50-year state sentence.
The Marxist newspaper Workers World published an article in February 2015 celebrating Odinga’s release, stating: “He was unjustly framed on six counts of attempted murder of police for ‘fighting for the freedom of Black people and the building of the Republic of New Africa.'”
Odinga, 73, now travels around speaking and radicalizing young Americans, describing himself as a “former U.S. political prisoner.”
On the campus at CUNY on June 2, he told his audience of mostly Marxist professors and students that the United States was built by “settler colonialism” based upon “fundamental injustices.”
He inadvertently admitted that the generous U.S. immigration system has helped create nations within a nation of unassimilated, “oppressed nations.” These are the people he believes will help spark a revolution to take down the government and replace it with something more “just.”
“The internally oppressed nations, the indigenous people, New Africans, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Hawaiians, etc., have the right to freedom and self-determination,” he said. “They have a right to struggle, using whatever tactics and strategies, armed and otherwise, for their self-defense and liberation.”
Odinga was speaking at the opening plenary session of the annual Left Forum convention.
But Odinga brought another message.
The community organizer received applause at several points during his speech titled “Minorities and immigrant communities in the U.S. have a right to armed struggle and self-determination
Odinga, born Nathanial Burns, joined the Black Panthers in the 1960s and later the Black Liberation Army. He was convicted in a 1984 trial of attempted murder of six police officers related to his role in the deadly Brinks Armored Car robbery in New York. He was released from federal prison in November 2014 after serving 30 years of a 40-year federal and 50-year state sentence.
The Marxist newspaper Workers World published an article in February 2015 celebrating Odinga’s release, stating: “He was unjustly framed on six counts of attempted murder of police for ‘fighting for the freedom of Black people and the building of the Republic of New Africa.'”
Odinga, 73, now travels around speaking and radicalizing young Americans, describing himself as a “former U.S. political prisoner.”
On the campus at CUNY on June 2, he told his audience of mostly Marxist professors and students that the United States was built by “settler colonialism” based upon “fundamental injustices.”
He inadvertently admitted that the generous U.S. immigration system has helped create nations within a nation of unassimilated, “oppressed nations.” These are the people he believes will help spark a revolution to take down the government and replace it with something more “just.”
“The internally oppressed nations, the indigenous people, New Africans, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Hawaiians, etc., have the right to freedom and self-determination,” he said. “They have a right to struggle, using whatever tactics and strategies, armed and otherwise, for their self-defense and liberation.”
Odinga was speaking at the opening plenary session of the annual Left Forum convention.
Mass incarceration has been used to “repress, control and destroy black self-determination,” Odinga said.
“This is the same way the war on terror and the xenophobic war on immigrants is being used to control and repress Muslims and immigrant communities today,” he explained. “These are strategies of war, meant to dismantle, disrupt, and otherwise neutralize poor working-class families and communities. They are meant to prevent self-determination and the potential for militant resistance.
“It is the responsibility of the left to educate, agitate and organize the people, especially young people, to resist the oppressor state by any and all means.”
“This is the same way the war on terror and the xenophobic war on immigrants is being used to control and repress Muslims and immigrant communities today,” he explained. “These are strategies of war, meant to dismantle, disrupt, and otherwise neutralize poor working-class families and communities. They are meant to prevent self-determination and the potential for militant resistance.
“It is the responsibility of the left to educate, agitate and organize the people, especially young people, to resist the oppressor state by any and all means.”