David Walker's Appeal

[Clifford Black]

Read this book and then comment on why it is of such importance---

           http://docsouth.unc/walker/walker.html

[Lumumba Ali]

http://www.jpanafrican.com/ebooks/eBook%20David%20Walker's%20Appeal...

 

How many copies do you need for class Baba?

[Clifford Black]

wait---call me!

(B)

[SHANTE THEPHILOSOPHER RAYFORD]

 

 THIS BOOK IS IMPORTANT TO GIVE AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IT WAS TO BE LIVING IN A TIME WHEN PEOPLE WERE CALLED SLAVES. I LIKE HOW MR. WALKER POINTS OUT ALL THE HYPOCRISIES OF THE AMERICANS THAT OWNED SLAVES BUT PROFESSED TO BE CHRISTIAN, THEN MR.WALKER MADE THE COMMENT ,THE WHITES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AN, UNJUST, JEALOUS, AVARICIOUS AND BLOOD-THIRSTY SET OF BEINGS, ALWAYS SEEKING AFTER POWER AND AUTHORITY, WHICH IS TRUE IN OUR DAY IN TIME, JUST AS IT WAS 300 YEARS AGO, AND ITS DEEP BECAUSE AINT NOTHING CHANGED ABOUT THEM. THEN HE WENT ON TO SAY THAT WE ARE THE MOST DEGRADED, WRETCHED AND ABJECT SET OF BEINGS, UNDER THE HANDS OF CHRISTIAN AMERICANS. ON HIS TRAVELS HE SEES REALITY AS IT EXISTED AT THAT TIME. THIS BOOK IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT MAKES US AWARE OF OUR HISTORY TOLD BY ONE OF US AND GIVES US SOMEONE TO LOOK UP TO. THIS BOOK ALSO DEALS WITH THE INJUSTICE AND CRUELTIES THAT WE SUFFERED AT THE HANDS OF WHITE AMERICANS! ITS LIKE MR.WALKER WAS SAYN HOW CAN YOU DO US THIS WAY AND TALK ABOUT US THIS WAY WHEN INFACT YOU ARE CHRISTIAN, AND WE SERVE THE SAME MASTER IN JESUS, SO WHY ARE WE CALLING YOU MASTER, NOT TO MENTION THE PREACHER HE HEARD SAYN BE OBEDIENT TO YOUR MASTER AND MUST DO THY MASTERS DUTIES OR BE WHIPPED. SO I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY HE SAYS FOR WHAT IS THE USE OF LIVING, WHEN INFACT I AM DEAD! THIS BOOK ALSO TELLS US ABOUT OURSELVES IN A WAY, WHO WE ARE. HOTEP!

[Clifford Black]

Brother Philosopher, as u move forward there will be much more that u will learn how to discern from the writings of Mr. Walker.  As you learn you will overcome the anger and the frustration that one sometimes feels at the start of a long journey. You must learn how to relax and get comfortable so that you will be able to handle the weight. We can discuss in class some of the thoughts that you may not be able to notice at this point.

(B).

[Clifford Black]

This book is no longer to be found at this location---check with Brother Black if you need to acquire a copy David Walker's appeal.

B.

[Clifford Black]

scroll up to the reply by Lumumba Ali and then click on the link and you should be able to find the book.

B.

[Brandon Imhotep]

I read Walker's Appeal last week and the first couple times that i started to read it, i stopped, it was a hard read for me and the heavy Christian lingo turned me off a bit. But, after reading it i saw that he was calling out so-called white christian practicing people and pointing out their hypocrisy. By the time i got to the 3rd article, i thought.. "David Walker is a brave man". He addressed Thomas Jefferson like a God and exposed the preachers and ministers with the same scriptures that they were supposed to live by. Reading the pain that he says was inflicted before and around him. 

Almost every book that i have read recently from past scholars is the same story. It looks like people relative to me have been going around in circles for at least a couple hundred years, most never crossing the crossroads, squaring the circle and building foundation. Every book starts off always proving that people of color are not inferior. Then addresses the state of ignorance, dependency, sell-outs and solutions. I was just re-watching Dr. John Henrik Clarke (8th Melanin Conference of youtube) talking about how the "African World" isn't truly reading and doing the solutions that the "African elders" left behind as a blueprint to independence.

He mentioned David Walker's Appeal and said... (in a disappointed "scalding" way)

"What do you think David Walker was telling you? Generations grow up and not read David Walker's Appeal." 

I think David Walker was saying freedom or death? To be or not to be?

B.I.

"Remember, to let the aim of your labours among your brethren, and particularly the youths, be the dissemination of education and religion. Never mind what the ignorant ones among us may say, many of whom when you speak to them for their good, and try to enlighten their minds, laugh at you, and perhaps tell you plump to your face, that they want no instruction from you or any other Niger, and all such aggravating language. Now if you are a man of understanding and sound sense, I conjure you in the name of the Lord, and of all that is good, to impute their actions to ignorance, and wink at their follies, and do your very best to get around them some way or other, for remember they are your brethren; and I declare to you that it is for your interests to teach and enlighten them." ~David Walker article 2

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150448380958796&set=a...

[Clifford Black]

sometimes you have to learn to move a little slower so that u can get a view of everything that needs to be seen.

B.

[Clifford Black]

Brandon you are learning to see the central question that William asked.

B.

[Clifford Black]

This is aimed at those that attended the Wednesday evening class and were interested in finding David Walker's Appeal.

http://www.jpanafrican.com/ebooks/eBook%20David%20Walker's%20Appeal...

 B.

[Clifford Black]

Try this link and see if it works for you---This is a message for those that were in class and wanted to find the book

http://www.jpanafrican.com/ebooks/eBook%20David%20Walker's%20Appeal...

B.

[Clifford Black]

The link that is under the picture does not work-try the one that is found on Lumumba's post below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Walker_(abolitionist)