Salifu Mack: Why I Reject "Black American"

<p><strong>Pan-Africanist and organizer with the All-African People's Revolutionary Party, Salifu Mack, is my guest in this episode. Salifu simply refers to himself as an African that was born in the United States (South Carolina), but is currently organizing in Burkina Faso - organizing for the unification and total liberation of Africa under scientific socialism. The subject of this discussion is based on a piece Salifu wrote for the </strong><a href="https://hoodcommunist.org/2022/04/28/why-i-reject-black-american/">Hood Communist</a><strong> titled: Why I Reject African “American.” The basis of this write up, in Salifu’s own words, is “America is Illegitimate &amp; we must reject it outright.” He further makes the point by saying that “what our ancestors based in this country [US] have fought and died for has never been about creating ‘America.’” making a prophetic foresight, Salifu says the revolution for the end of America is inevitable, and when that revolution begins, Black and other colonized people will be the ones who will deliver it. Speaking about the liberation of Africans, he posits: “We will borrow from the old and we will innovate anew.”</strong>

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