U Don't Define Me, I'm Free: The Blueprint for Freedom and Liberation: Volume One

By Esa

U Don't Define Me, I'm Free, was written for the following reasons:

Corporate glass ceiling benefits who?

Who does it limit?

Why is the corporation structure compared to the slave plantation?

Why is divide and conquer still practiced within socioeconomical classes and religious nations such as Judaism and Islam?

Why are people still purchasing real estate within countries such as the United States and Africa where they will never own the land?

The greatest lie ever told but constantly promoted globally is the "year of the return." Who does that truly benefit?

Those are some reasons why I wrote this book, there are a few more reasons.

The youth and unconscious adults label entertainers and repeat jail offenders as leaders of the African nomad communities. We have lost our way. Prison rapes are now accepted and even considered a rite of passage for our youth. Sexism is enforced within our community while programming our young sisters to accept the oversexed title and mentality that was birthed during slavery and enforced in the modern day through music and other entertainment. U Don't Define Me, I'm Free was created to assist young and hungry minds with tools that will break them away from their mental chains and traps.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Newman Springs Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jul 27, 2022
• ISBN: 9781684980581

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U Don't Define Me, I'm Free

The Blueprint for Freedom and Liberation: Volume One

Esa

Copyright © 2022 Esa

All rights reserved

First Edition

NEWMAN SPRINGS PUBLISHING

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Red Bank, NJ 07701

First originally published by Newman Springs Publishing 2022

ISBN 978-1-68498-057-4 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-68498-058-1 (Digital)

Printed in the United States of America

Table of Contents

Dedication

Introduction

Now Since the Heavy Lifting Is Done, Let Us Begin

Poetry for the Soul

We must destroy then rebuild.

We were born free then sold into slavery by those that look like us. We were set free by the ones that purchased us. Yes! This is an old story that carries hidden facts. We begged our former masters to take back our freedom by making us into citizens. So they granted us our wish. Now, forever, or until we renounce our citizenship, we and our offspring will remain enslaved. We have made no progress in the pursuit of freedom since our ancestors arrived in 1619 on the privateer the White Lion. The White Lion brought twenty African slaves, with shackles on their necks, wrists, and legs, ashore in Virginia to the land we refer to as the land of the free. It sounds like a contradiction, doesn't it? Well before the European takeover, Africa and her people were free. Since the European takeover, Africa and her people have been misused and abused while trapped within a psychological matrix. This is the obvious truth. The question is, Is there an escape route?

Dedication

This body of work is dedicated to my mother Victoria J. Clemons, Assata Shakur, my mentor Sundiata Acoli, H. Rap Brown, Mumia Abu Jamal, Leonard Peltier, Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (Hubert Gerold Brown), Zolo Agona Azania (Rufus Lee Averhart), Herman Bell, Kojo Bomani Sababu (Grailing Brown), Joseph Bowen, and all the other political prisoners that President Barack Obama left trapped behind those walls. In 2017, The FBI listed Assata Shakur on their top ten most dangerous terrorist list in the world. She was placed on this list during the Obama administration. How can Obama represent change when he failed to fight for change? No political prisoner cases were reopened during his term in office. So whose objective did he serve? Not the ones who voted for him. Not the Black and Brown people who believed in him. Not the freedom fighters of the sixties who fought, died, and went to jail for him. So whose objectives did he serve? Ours were overlooked.

Introduction

If a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound? Of course it does, regardless if you are far or near. So if one African is attacked, every African should feel the pain or hear the scream for help, regardless of where you are.

On May 19, 1918, Mary Turner, a Black woman who was eight months pregnant, was lynched by a White mob from Brooks County, Georgia, at Folsom's Bridge. Folsom's Bridge is sixteen miles north of Valdosta, Georgia. Our sister Mrs. Turner was murdered for speaking publicly against the lynching of her husband, which took place two days earlier. A White mob bound her feet then hung her from a tree with her head facing downward, threw gasoline on her, and burned the clothes off her body. Sister Turner was still alive when the mob took a large butcher's knife to her stomach, cutting the unborn baby from her body. When the baby fell from our sister's abdomen, a member of the mob crushed the crying baby's head with his foot. The mob then riddled our beloved sister's body with hundreds of bullets, killing her. No one from the White mob was brought to justice for this sinister act of violence. America's model is Home of the free and land of the brave. What is brave about a gang of White people murdering one African nomad sister? Personally, it spells out cowardness and fear, but this book is not about opinions, so let us move on. When a person cannot exercise their natural and legal right of freedom of speech, are they truly free (https://calendar.eji.org, A History of Racial Injustice)?

Three years later, the Tulsa race massacre took place on May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of White residents, some of whom had been deputized and given weapons by city officials, attacked Black residents and destroyed homes and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Alternatively known as the Black Wall Street massacre, the event is considered one of the single worst incidents of racial violence in American history. Eight hundred African nomads were either murdered or seriously injured. The White mob's weapons of choice were guns, explosives, and arson. No one from the White mob was brought to justice for this crime. This act of violence on this African nomad community derived from jealousy, envy, and hatred. Whites in that area could not bear the reality that a people they once owned as well as dehumanized were now excelling spiritually, scholarly, economically, and socially without their involvement, assistance, or influence. So they had to destroy it. The Whites understood that if this community remained around, it may stimulate other innovative minds and movements that could eventually give the African nomad a seat at the equality table. It is important to note that the White mob did not stop at destroying homes and businesses that made up Black Wall Street, a.k.a. Little Africa. Of our brothers and sisters that they murdered, body parts were removed and worn as souvenirs or eaten by members of the White mob. For example, penises were cut off and worn around the neck of a White person or auctioned off to be eaten. This act of savagery isn't new. It's actually the American way.

In December of 2005, The Journal Article released a report titled The Black Body as Souvenir in American Lynching (https://www.jstor.org; https://researchgate.net). This article was written by Harvey Young and published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. The article discusses in detail what a White mob did to our brother Sam Hose's body. On April 2, 1899, in Newman, Georgia, two thousand White men, women, and children participated in the torturing of Brother Sam Hose. Before the mob torched the brother's body, members of this mob cut off Brother Sam's ears, fingers, and genital parts. While our brother pleaded pitifully for his life while the mutilation was going on, his body stood an ordeal of fire with surprising fortitude. Before the body was cool, it was cut to