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[no audio] ...imagination might think of something to make the connection real. The air conditioning in the room that we had previously reserved, and suddenly went off last night, and

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this is where we ended up. I'm not so sure it's all that bad. I guess if things get boring, the bar can be opened up or something. But nevertheless, we're really grateful that you came. We know that some of you came at great personal sacrifices.

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This was not a well-funded operation. And we genuinely and honestly appreciate the fact that many of you rose above professional privilege, given your commitment to these questions

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that we hope to raise today. And I think we're grateful, and I'm sure those of us and others concerned with South Africa are equally happy about your sacrifice. The effort, and this effort like all, will involve some bulwark and people who do the

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work and those of us like myself who often give the unjustifiable credit. Let me have, if you might, an opportunity to recognize a few people who made this possible by their work. Peter Jackson, Professor Peter Jackson, who is a visiting professor here and visiting

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professor at Texas Southern University, was the point man, if you will. Many of you heard from Peter before you heard from anyone else. He was the inspiration, I think, to keep the thing going and provided a lot of the work and make this possible.

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I wanted Peter to-- is Peter in here? Not in here? Well, he'll be around shortly. But he is, in many ways, responsible for this conference.

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I'd like to also thank Betty Nunley, my administrative assistant, for her persistence in this effort and making it possible as well. And then the woman who can change water into wine,

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Rhonda Schultz who came along again at a time when we needed some new blood on this project and made it happen. Is Rhonda here? She's not here.

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Betty, would you stand up? [applause] Likewise, again, we had a committee that kept the faith and I'd like to identify and thank them for their effort. Professors Rhonda Williams and Rose Brewer were on the

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committee and read the abstracts and participated vitally in making this thing happen. For those of us in the center, it means a great deal to have our faculty be so supportive. Is Professor Williams in the room? Rhonda Williams, would you stand up Rhonda?

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[applause] I don't think Dr. Brewer is here. If I might, another-- That's June.

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That's June, bro. [LAUGHTER] If I might, one other point of personal privilege, I'd like to introduce to you the new director

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of the Center for African and African-American Studies and Research, and let you know who this young man is. We're looking forward to working with him, and wish him well in his new position.

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He's been a fine colleague, and I look forward to our relationship. I'd like to introduce Dr. George Wright, who will be the director of the Center for African-American

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Studies as of September. Dr. Wright. [APPLAUSE] I see Dr. Jackson's coming.

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Peter, would you come forward just a moment? He paid your dues. I think he was there, as they say, in the black abuse of credit.

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Peter Jackson is really the person who, with the wheelhorse and the catalyst behind this thing, made it what it is today. And we're very grateful to Peter, as I'm sure I'm not. [applause] Lastly, we had some last-minute moral support, at least, and to some degree, the effort to finance the aspects of the conference that we had no funds for,

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with the Dean's office and we're grateful to the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts for his support. I can add very little to the purpose statement that's a part of your brochure that was put forward by Dr. Rhonda Williams. The statement that you see on your little yellow sheet, I mean little gray brochure. she stresses the urgency of the times and the events in South Africa that

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propel us and I quote "to share our research and collected experiences in an effort to explore every aspect of the South African experience." Granted this was an ambitious task but many of you in this room did not give second thought to this effort had encouraged us to persist to make this conference a reality. In that spirit, I'd like to go forward and introduce to you our keynote speaker.

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John Henry Clark was born in Union Springs, Alabama and grew up in Columbus, Georgia. He came to New York City in 1933 with the ambition to pursue a career as a writer. After four years in the U.S. Air Force, where he rose to the rank of Sergeant Major, he attended New York University where he majored in history and world literature. Beginning with his early years, Professor Clark studied the world, history of African

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people, and history in general. As a fiction writer, he has published over 50 short stories, which were published in magazines and periodicals in this country and abroad. His best known short story, "The Boy Who Painted Christ Black," has been translated into more than a dozen languages.

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His articles and conference papers on Africa and African American history and culture have been published in leading journals throughout the world. He has written or edited 21 books. The best known are "American Negro Short Stories," William Styrons, Matt Turner's "Ten Black Writers Respond," Malcolm X's "The Man and His Time," "Harlem, USA," and Marcus Garvey's "The Vision of Africa."

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Dr. Clark has served on the staff of five different publications, and was co-founder and associate editor of the Harlem Quarterly. Among other positions he has held, feature writer for the Pittsburgh Courier, research director for the First African Heritage Exposition,

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director of the Heritage Teaching Program, RUAC, and special consultant coordinator of the CBS TV series, Black Heritage, the History of Afro-Americans. For the past five years, Professor Clark has served on the

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Consultative Council of the International Organization for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, and is one of their non-governmental organizational representatives representatives at the United Nations.

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He's also active in many national and international organizations. We devote their activities to studying and teaching of African history.

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And is the past president of the African Heritage Studies Association. Dr. Clark has traveled extensively in Africa, Western Asia, and in Europe,

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mainly attending conferences on world history, culture, and politics. In this regard, Dr. Clark has attended conference sponsored by UNESCO's International Committee,

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the drafting of the new General History of Africa. Dr. Clark has been a professor in the Department of Black and Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College in New York City for the past 17 years.

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He informs me he is now an emeritus professor there. 1983, Hunter College appointed him a Thomas Hunter professor. As a former distinguished visiting lecturer

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of African history at the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University in 1985, they dedicated their new library to Dr. Clark and his work. As I looked at this statement,

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I recognized this doesn't represent one-tenth of what John has done. As a child of the '60s, for many of us who would be scholars,

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John Henry Clark was our mentor and our model. For those of us who wanted to amount to something as regarded the intellectual and imaginative and subjective experience of black people, it was very clear that John Henry Clark stood above the crowd and gave us something to emulate. This is John's second trip here. We brought him down early in the 70s once I came to the directorship of the center,

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And I am pleased that he agreed without any hesitation to come and be a part of this effort today. He will speak to us on the topic, African, South Africa, the four apartheid, a historical view. Let me present my friend and mentor, Jonathan McClough. [Applause]

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I'm very pleased to be here, very pleased to be here in Texas again. I was here under duress because I was here in the Army when I was in San Antonio. I will go straight to the subject because I will need all the time that I can get. Yeah, you cannot understand this or any subject

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by focusing only on the subject. You have to focus on what led to the subject and what led to this subject is not apartheid at all because apartheid is a color word.

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The situation in South Africa is really not about a pod hike. Now let's go deeper and see if we can trace the origin of the situation. When, as a young teenager coming out of the South,

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I approached Arthur Schoenberg, a Puerto Rican of African descent, with a German sounding name. And I wanted to know the history of African people,

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all of it, within the hour. I was just that naive. The first thing he said is, "Son, go study the history of your masters.

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"Son, go study the history of people who took you out of history. He made me study the history of Europe. If you study the history of Europe,

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you will understand how you were replaced. You and your people were taken out of history to suit Europe. You are not going to understand South Africa by studying South Africa alone.

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You have to understand how history was changed to accommodate Europe, and how a cover word called apartheid covered up the sins of Europe. And it is a later day word.

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Now let's go back and look at the origins of European penetration of Africa. Look at the rise of Europe in the 15th and the 16th century, when Europe not only colonized the world, they colonized information about the world. When Europeans made a conscious decision, and that decision was that whosoever controls the world, it would be one of them.

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When in addition to colonizing the world, they colonized information about the world. when they divided the world and stole Egypt and non-valid civilization out of Africa, and they stole Greece and Rome out of Mediterranean civilization and attached it to European civilization, and Europe in general had nothing to do with the development of Rome and Greece

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because when Rome and Greece existed there wasn't one functioning nation-state in all Europe. So Europe in general had nothing to do with it, although every European schoolboy whose country didn't exist at the time can claim Rome and Greece as his intellectual heritage and while Africans had nation-states

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existing at the time of Egypt, they wish to deny Africans a relationship with Egypt, when the whole concept of grand Jew of the world began to be attached to Europe, including that grand Jew that existed before Europe existed. These concepts, including Egyptology that was going to develop later, began to be

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developed after chattel slavery and during colonialism. When the concept in the textbook began to be changed and many times the church went along with this change. Now we don't have enough time to get deeper into this. We want to more directly to the subject of the creation of South Africa. Now, slaves were taken out of nearly all parts of Africa. South Africa was the exception.

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Slaves were not taken out of South Africa. In South Africa, they enslaved the African at home. And you have to look at what's happening in South Africa. The Black reaction to the whites as a later-day slavery home. It is hard for your mind to conceive of South African action, those kids throwing rocks at tanks as a later-day slave revolt. But there are other actions in history that we have to look at.

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And the main reason you are not looking at these actions is that you are focusing in on a word called "apartheid." This is an international magician's trick. The magician has you focus in on a word called "apartheid." that he is dealing with one hand so that you won't know what the other hand is doing.

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With the other hand, he's doing something else that is of paramount importance. Now, because the Western world controls the media, he controls the symbols, he controls the word. And through the word in the media,

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he controls the mentality that makes you think that the basic situation in South Africa is about apartheid. It is not about apartheid at all.

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It is about Western control over the mineral wealth of the world. Because Europe came out of the Middle Ages, people poor, resource poor, and land poor. And Europe recovered at the expense of non-European people. Europe maintains itself basically at the expense of non-European people.

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And if Europe had to adjust to living only on what Europeans had to offer the world in land and resources, you would have to adjust its economy to the point where Europe would have to ask for charity.

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Now, this would be catastrophic for them. And to understand this, you have to study Europe after the decline of Rome, when Europe went into what it called the Middle Ages,

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and study Europe during the Crusades, then studied Europe up to 1400, then studied the 200 year turning point in history, 1400 to 1600, when Europe came out of the Middle Ages,

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went back into the world again, and started a raping party that raped the world of resources to recover, and the raping party hasn't even started,

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stopped to this day. And what is happening in South Africa is a continuation of a raping party. Europe decided that Europe and such enclaves like the United States and Canada was its home. And all the rest of the world was its servant's water. And what you are witnessing in South Africa and what you are witnessing in the former colonial world is a revolt in the servants world.

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When people start playing games with you with words and tell you the truth, you are going to be using cover words like apartheid and you are not going to deal with this situation. All right, in Europe's craving for spices and sweets, they decided to pursue a course to go to Asia. They did not decide to go to get slaves out of Africa at first.

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Slavery in Africa was not an issue in Europe at first. They came down the coast of Africa not looking for slaves at first. They had lived for over 500 years in fear of the infidel Arab who had blocked them from the Mediterranean.

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Access to the Mediterranean was the one thing they craved most, and the Africans and the Arabs then controlling Spain and the shipping lanes to the Mediterranean had blocked off the Europeans, and the Europeans had been so blocked off from shipping, he had lost the concept of longitude and that it too, until Hender the Navigator got a catch of maps mostly made by Jewish gold dealers

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dealing in the western Sudan. And he had started a school of navigation and chart making in Portugal. Hender the Navigator called Hender, called the Navigator, why I don't know, there's no information that he ever went to see. But we've got to say, Europeans are experts in misnaming things.

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[LAUGHTER] A little-known sailor called Christopher Columbus, later Christopher Columbus, attended this school. And he says in his diary, "Man and boy,

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I sailed up and down the Guinean coast for 23 years." Now, I have information that Christopher Columbus was in the Glendale Portuguese slave trade, but that's not part of this lecture.

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We'll talk about that some other time. All right, now, my main point here is that the Europeans came down the coast of West Africa first, not looking for slaves,

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but looking for a legendary African emperor named Preston Young. Because this was a Christian emperor and they wanted this African emperor,

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They wanted to recruit him to help them against the infidel Arabs, because he was a Christian. The Europeans were mistaken, because Prestajon, if he existed at all, he probably didn't, he wasn't on that side of Africa. And Prestajon was not a human being, it was a title that the Ethiopians called all of their kings of substance,

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It was called Pestajon. It was a time they killed kings who distinguished themselves. It wasn't a time of a man, of a single human being. It's like Ghanaians called all of their kings of distinction

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nana. They called even a good father. A Ghanaian called a good father, a nana. He was the father of the shepherd, of the sleep,

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guardian, fine man, you know. And he called great women who were great mothers, Well, none. [INAUDIBLE]

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Europeans don't understand talent. They think that's the name of a human being. It's the name of a person who distinguished himself. So an African hustler, con man, heard

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about these fellow Europeans and wrote a letter to the Europeans and said, I am the Preston John [INAUDIBLE] I have so many ships, so many wives, so many [INAUDIBLE] and I will assist the Europeans against the Arabs.

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This letter was circulated throughout the Europe, Europeans, and the Catholics said, and lastly found some help against the infidels. A hundred years back before they discovered

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the letter was a fake. Well, all right, now, they gotta get something out of it. So they began to transfer labor from one part of Africa to the other,

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African war, prisoners of war in African wars, because Africans end their wars if you are captive, you work out so many years of indentures. And so these indentures between the prisoners of war

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and African wars were intended as Africans enslaving Africans This is a major misinterpretation in Africa that continues to this very day when the Europeans say, "Well, you were doing it too."

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They were not doing it too. But Europeans have not seen the fine shades of difference in this quarter. Now, all right, all right.

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Now, because of the Portuguese and the Spanish having a political end with the paper trade, and England being at odds with the paper trade, England was late in entering the slave trade.

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Spain and Portugal led in the slave trade. And when England entered the slave trade, after breaking totally with Catholicism and establishing the Church of England,

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England drove the Portuguese out of West Africa, the slave trade, and became the master of the trade until England decided to change the trade only when it reached a saturation point.

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And everybody who wanted one had one. And they established slave breeding farms. And if you wanted one, you could just breed one, like you breed a horse.

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All right, now, England had massed in West Africa. The French had their peace. The Portuguese had been driven around to Southwest Africa.

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The Europeans had always wanted a filling station at the end of West, at the end of Africa to refuel their ship, wood, and basic fresh fruits on their way to India.

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The Portuguese have tried and failed. The French couvernants have tried and failed. Oh, it's a dissident element in Holland. Calvinist, religious dissident.

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members of the Dutch East India Company. The Dutch East India Company was found principally by Jews who had left Spain, who also were instrumental in finding the Dutch West India Company.

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They were instrumental in the establishment of both companies. And these Calvinists, and you have to remember the word Calvin, Calvinists, because they belong

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to a religion that said, as part of its creed, you are authorized by God to rule over lesser breeds. Now, these were Jew-hating Christians, while the religion was anti-Jewish.

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The commerce was Jewish established. Now, I know I'm dealing with a contradiction, But I'm also dealing with the fact that the commerce was Jewish organized, but the religion was anti-Jewish. So there were very few Jews, there were no Jews in the religion, a few in the commerce, at first very few, later on in the commerce.

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So when these boys arrived, this is the third arrival of whites in South Africa, they arrived at the Cape and they met a small group of people, non-dealing with the myth of the empty land. Now the boys say to this day when they arrived at the Cape the land was empty. And yet when you look at the early graphics in South Africa, they drew pictures of the people

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they met in the land that was empty. (audience laughing) They met a people called Koshong San. And when you speak of both people,

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sometimes you say Koshong, Koshong. The San people, Bushmen, sent the Koshong they called Hototot. Now, these two people were relatives,

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although sometimes they were at odds, one to the other. Now, the cause who say that they are against interracial mixing began to cohabit with the Hotentot women,

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what they called Hotentot. You will always find the most fictitious laws against interracial mixing where the greatest amount of interracial mixing has already occurred

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in Southern Africa and in the American South. Where it has already occurred, you will find the most strenuous laws against it. And so you see the basis of the colors,

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The colored colors mean the colors who came from mixture with the Africans and the white man. Now, there would be nearly two million of them now in existence.

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And later on when they bring in the Malayan and other colors, they were called Cape Malayans. And there would be mixtures between the white man and those women create the Cape Colors.

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Now, they don't generally speak to each other, they don't live with each other, but you got two set of colors in South Africa, numbering about a million from these mixture

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of people in South Africa. Now, I'm trying to avoid my unwritten book because sometimes I'm frustrated, I write a book in my mind and never put it on paper

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because the book frightens me. And the title of the book is The Role of the Bastard as a Factor in History. (audience laughing)

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I may never write it. And if I write it, somebody may kill me after I write it. 'Cause I might tell some truth

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that might get me driven out of town and somebody might kill me on the edge of town. Okay, now, my main point here is that in Africa and in the Western world too, if we want to deal with the Western world,

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in the exploration of the European and the outer world, at first he brought very few white women. He didn't abstain, and he didn't go all the way back to Europe to satisfy the necessary biological urge. And he was the one to make the laws against, satisfying that biological logic of urge

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outside of the ethnic group. He made the laws, you know, after he had satisfied it to his saturation point, to his saturation point,

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then he made the laws against it. Right now, once the Europeans saw all the cattle in the land in South Africa. And because young people were willing to give,

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and there was enough for both of them, he was willing to give him some land and to share the cattle and had no strenuous objection to sharing the women. The African is a perfect host, very generous, too generous,

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naive in its generosity. But the European didn't want a share, he wanted everything. You're naive if you think the European shares. The European don't want a share, he wants all.

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So he began to take. And so this started a series of wars, called the Capa Wars, or to be true and accurate at the same time,

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the Nigger Wars. because that's what the word kappa meant to the Europeans. Now these walls, lasted through 11 walls,

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and they are well recorded in the history of South Africa by Thomas McCall Bell. Bell is one of the early South African historians.

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I don't like his words because he's always calling people savages who fought back. But now, I'm focusing on the African reaction to the European presidency.

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Now, after these wars, the wars as a result of another migration occurred. Along the coast of East Africa, a people called Nguna began to react to another people trying

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to impose a religion on them not of their making. And they began to migrate from East Africa to the central Congo basin. And when the basin became crowded with people

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with flocks and hoods, they began a migration down into Southern Africa. There were two groups called, for simplicity, the A group and the B group.

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The group that came down the coast called the A group, the Amazulu, the Imaneli. This group, take the Ema and you, and leave the word Zulu,

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and you will find that the leader was called Zulu. And that's the person that led them down to the new land. And they took the name Zulu as their name. The Ema, father of Zulu.

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Zulu was our guardian. So Zulu became the name of that group, Zulu. in its various branches, but the most powerful branch of that group was the MTY. And the MTY became the most powerful branch, ruling over the other branches.

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The other branch became the B group, the Bama Katsis, Bama Wetas, and the Botswanas. they move in the center of the group. And some settled in the edge of the Congo. Some became the Bakutu,

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and the, that's a group you take as the Batutsi. There's a group called the, famous pro-war hero,

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if you take it, they call the... Well, anyway, they call him out of the name because the European he is a bad thing. They call him Wattootses,

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and they're not Wattootses, they're Wattootses. Just subtract the B-A from the name, and you will find a great leader in them, called Tutsi. Tutsi was the leader who led them to that group from the coast.

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You will find out that with the presence of the Arabs, what we have in depth with the Arab slave trade, it came 600 years before the European slave trade and with just as disastrous as the European slave trade. We don't have time to deal with that, see, because, so in the classroom I deal with the Arab slave trade. that three two-hour sessions just in the Arab state

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to trade the law. But the brothers who've been converted to Islam don't want to deal with it at all. Don't want to deal with the Arabs at all,

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because they've purified the Arabs. It's like Jackson converted to Christianity, but don't want to even deal with the princes of slavery. So we are true believers.

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We out-cultivate folks that out-man the pound. [LAUGHTER] We simply don't want to deal with history, [INAUDIBLE]

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I found in Islam a few days before the Mohammed. It's our Islam started with Abraham. How I don't know. Don't tell me.

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How I don't know. I don't know. All right, now let's get to South Africa, because I'm losing my time.

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Now, after the war, the empty wars controlling the Zulu, forced the Zulus, after the Zulus freed themselves heartless from the domination of the Mtuars, a great Zulu leader emerged called Chaka.

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Chaka's mother came from the Mtuar group, and Chaka's mother had married the king, of the Zulu. And Chaka's mother was the first of the wives

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to give birth to a son. And the other wives were jealous because they had only given birth to daughters. Then the wives became jealous of her

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because she was the wife, had given birth to a son. Then they began to tabulate the months between the marriage and the birth of a son. And they took only five, six months

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between the birth of the son and the marriage. They suspected there had been some night house evening before the marriage. (audience laughing)

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It was against custom. Because the custom among the Zulu is that the women who marry king supposed to be certified version at the board.

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And how do you certify big black without a coat? Don't. I'm not a medical person. I'm a lowly teacher.

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I have some inefficiencies in this doctrine. But now, for this, they drove her away from Zululand, and she went to live with her people while Chaka grew up. Chaka did not return to Zululand until the death of his father,

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he was restored by the force of Chekivia as king of the Zulu. As king of the Zulu, he began a series of wars of consolidation. Most people who misread history think

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Chaka fought white people. Chaka never fought any white people. Didn't have to fight white people. He was so strong, he told them what to do, and they did it.

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He said, you do not come across Ulu territory. You better not set foot on Ulu territory. And you better not come here until I give you permission. And they did not.

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[LAUGHTER] But he fought wars against other Africans to bring them into a consolidation in order to save South Africa for African people.

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And had he succeeded, there would have been no apartheid. There would have been no South African problem because Africa was belonged to Africa. And he almost succeeded.

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But in his nine walls, he took 2/3 of South Africa was under his control. But after the death of his mother, Naina, he ordered the entire Julu nation in Pomona.

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No matter how this sounds to your Western mind, This was one of the best, one of the greatest tributes a man ever paid to the woman who gave him birth. He ordered the cows to be maimed

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so that they could mourn for the passing of his wife, his mother. He ordered there be no laughter for a year. And anybody smiling was plenty.

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He ordered 15,000 men to guard her grave for a year. No farming. That was all right. No vegetation. Kill cows, but no farming. No, no, no, no, no farming. Then he made his fatal mistake. He ordered no cohabitation for a year. Then the old woman had a council. She said that he had ordered the death of the Zulu nation.

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And although the Zulus are a matrilineal group, as against the matrilineal, most African countries, most African groups are matrilineal, meaning the lineage comes down to the female side.

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The Zulus are exceptional, meaning the lineage comes down to the male side. The old women gathered, had a council, said that our king has gone crazy.

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[LAUGHTER] Now Lord life itself. Now he must die. So he was ceremoniously put to death.

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And it said that his royal and holy royal hands must touch him. So they chose his half-brothers to kill him. When they entered his tent to kill him, he looked up at them and said,

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"You think by killing me that you will be king? You will be the bondsman and the slave. Whites are waiting like ants to come and take this country. When they stabbed him for the first time and did a bad job of it, he said,

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"The king, the kingdom's wane, wax and wane, but the dreams of man go on forever." And when they continued that bad job, he said, You have called me many things, Saint, God, Devil. To some extent I might be all of these things,

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but I'm something else it would do you well to remember. I am the greatest hope you have of freedom in this century. May it disrupt the fatal blow, the last thing he said to them,

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"Oh, what have I done to you, sons of my father?" the death of Chaka, the last hope of saving Africa, for Africa, Southern Africa. Thong, Chaka's half-brother, one of the assassins,

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Nyingpong, came to power and tried to save Africa, save Southern Africa by the Carol Chaka tradition. But something happened now. The British began to push the Boers.

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The Boers began to push the Zulus, and the Zulus pushed back. Now the fight between the Africans and the whites started, not with Chaka, but with Dingong.

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They were trying to push across the Vail River to start a Boer Republic so that the Boers could bypass British taxation and British control. fell river, the Africans called the Fish River, or the Orange River, because of the bodies

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floating down that river during the battle was called the Blood River. This was one of the decisive battles for the control of southern Africa. Finally, the British thinking that the Boers would be defeated, although the British tainted their guts then and now, came to their rescue,

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defeated Dingong, drove him into exile, and he died 1840. After 1840, the British picked the Zulu king. His name was Impande.

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He ruled for 36 years, ruled and misruled. He was a Slav. He did not marry the women chosen to marry Zulu kings. He married common women and changed them almost daily.

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He was a degenerate. But out of him came a strong son who pledged to avenge the honor of the Zulu. His name was Ketchiwayo.

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Ketchiwayo started the Zulus to training again, started the discipline again, making Zulu run 50 miles a day to keep in shape. And he, in order to avenge the dishonor of his father, prepared for the Zulu War of 1879 in the famous Battle of San Telvino. This is one of the great battles in southern Africa.

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He started the battle by attacking a missionary station called Rokey's Jar. If you saw a bad movie called Zulu, you might see it on the late, late, late, late show. It's technically wrong because the Zulus fought in a regimental formation, white shield, brown shield, black shield, and they got everything wrong because they got them all

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fight together. Because the White Shield Regiment, these are trainees. They hit the enemy to let the enemy know the battle has started. They get the hell out of the way. The Brown Shield Regiment gets into the fight and try to win. And when they were, if they have to withdraw, the Black Shield Regiment comes in. The Black Shield Regiment can never leave battle. They must win or die. The Black Shield Regiment is

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the Zulu elite guard and they're the only ones permitted to marry. And the idea of the fight to get into the Black Shield Regiment, not only are you permitted to marry, but there are special women rilled to marry into that regiment. Special beer, food for you alone. You are the elite Zulu guard, you know, regiment. Specially trained, special treat, special treatment,

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and special living quarters. Now, two military techniques were studied in the military schools of the world, including West Point. We're not talking about no savage running wild.

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We're talking about a military technician who is mistaken to call him Napoleon. About, it's a mistake to call people after Napoleon. I think Napoleon was an idiot.

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(audience laughing) You can think whatever you want to about the police. I think it's an idiot. I think he's wasting time.

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Anybody who would pay Russia the summertime and the wintertime is a fool. That's it. You can see that as a man.

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This is not about the police. I can tell you that. You understand, I can take it. But you see that as a white person.

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Now, my main point here is that Ketchiweyo won this fight and made a mistake that a lot of African leaders made in contemporary times. He won the fight and he went to England to talk to Queen Victoria. Queen Victoria, a naive queen who really didn't know what was happening while the empire was being built.

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She wrote a letter to our Prime Minister and said, "Leave this man alone in this territory. What do you think of Wilder, this man? He was a nice gentleman, he's done it." The war wasn't popular in England. The British tailor said, "Oh, look at him in his nice,

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"savage clothes, I don't know if they give him a British suit." The British tailor made him a tuxedo, free of charge. (audience laughing) Let's see what you wear on a tuxedo.

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But when he got back to the Zuma land, the British had split his country's territory, and he couldn't even communicate with his own country. destroyed while he was away. He shouldn't have flown away.

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Almost the same thing that Hitler's done. This country fell while he was away from home. All right, now the British breathed easily and said, "At last the Zulu has been broken." They had spoken prematurely. They had to deal now with the second Zulu Empire. because a Zulu named Mtelagazza that the British called Moselagazi

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had broken with Chaka and moved over the Druckenberg mountains and found the country. On my shore land, I met the Belelag, that a British thief later called Northern Rhodesia and Southern Rhodesia. John Cesar Rhodes had consumption. And in England they said that if you stay here,

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you live six months, if you go to Africa, maybe you live two years. The African climate cured him and he lived almost 20. Stole everything that wasn't passing down,

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including some things that was passing down. joined with other thieves, stole mineral tarot, killed people, betrayed England itself, but stole so much in the name of England,

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ended up being murdered by England. Develop a concept of an English communication system from Cape to Cairo. And he went into countries

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while the Englishman had laid claim to everything and said that I claim what they may have forgotten to claim. This stealing of mineral wealth, chimney mines,

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joined with another thief named Jameson, Jameson raid, literally taking a raid. And another thing,

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If you compare the Southern mind with the Boer mind, you'll find a similarity. I made a comparison because I made a comparison between the New England mind and the British mind

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versus the Boer mind and the Southern mind. It was frightening because the Southern mind focused so much on keeping the blacks down, They don't forget, they forget that the New England mind

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controls them. And that the Civil War was a waste of time. The New England mind eventually had its way anyway. The New England mind eventually controlled everything

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in the South, it still controls everything, a consequence in the South anyway. Even things started by surgeons, eventually end up in New England hands.

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[ Laughter ] Holiday Inn started in the south. Coca-Cola started in the south. I can name 20 industries started in the south by southerners

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that's now redundant in New England. [ Background noise ] The summer spent too much time with the black issue. He hadn't even had time to perform his own economy.

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The boy spent so much time with the black issue, outsiders would come up and take over his economy. But it's frightening when you study these two mentalities. That's the boy's mentality is dumb.

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He'd bring you challenges that are stupid. Anybody that thinks any religion designates them to rule over the rest of the people, and anybody that thinks any religion allows anybody to be a lesser breed is a fool.

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And anybody that thinks any religion curses anybody defiles God because God is not a curse on anybody. God doesn't curse people. It's a misreading of the Bible. It's mythology. You have to separate mythology from religion.

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You can't say God is love and God curse somebody. (audience laughing) You can't be bold. It's the misreading of history.

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All right, now. Cesar Rolls declared war on untelegated son, Logan Belloc, and he takes over Metabelly Land and Nashona land and calls it Southern Rhodesia

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and Northern Rhodesia. His time ends 1893. The British breathe easy again and said, "At last the Zulu war, the Zulus have been finished.

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"They have spoken prematurely one more time. "After the Boer War, between the British and the Boers, where the Zulus serve as coders and land of masters, the British promised to remit the taxes of the Zulus.

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They're lying again. After the war, the British doubled the taxes to pay for the war. 1906, the Zulus began to revolt again,

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which rang on the last of the Zulu physical walls. A young Zulu king, Bambara, he wanted for cow feed and horse feed, and he told the British,

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you didn't bring any cows, he didn't even brought no horses here. Every time I want a horse or want some cows, I take them because they belong to me anyway.

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They were mine in the first place. So now he's escaping from the British, he goes to the oldest Zulu king alive, the Sigananda. The Sigananda had lived through the rise and fall of the Zulu Empire. He was the finest servant of childhood.

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And he had gone, during the difficult period of the Zulus, he'd gone up in the Congo and fought for the, was a Congolese king named Tam Tam Anna against a black slave trader called Thibautil, that's another Latin name.

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Thibautil was a contract laborer, connected labor for people. Might have been there before they ever got home, but that's what he said.

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But now, then he had been in jail, and he was head of a small group of men called the Kube. he came home and saw that the Zulus were taking, that they were violating bad laws. Said, "What kind of Zulus are you? Your women are being violated, and your land being taken,

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and no blood on your spills. Why don't you Zulus wear dresses now that you are women?" He started a little Zulu war of his own. He was working in jail for city. He came out, but his people wouldn't follow anybody but him. Now he's out of jail and the British put this tax.

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And Bambara goes to him and asks him, will he pay the tax? Then Bambara, he said, no, I'm not gonna pay the tax, the British put a tax on dogs.

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He said, I like dogs, I got six, and I'm not gonna pay no tax. I got 17 sons and I'm not gonna pay a tax, I'm 14. Then Bambara made the mistake, he said,

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When my father was running from the Jews, when you was running from the British, my father hid you. Then,

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sitting on the curse, in most African languages, there's no curse word. Most of the languages of the world,

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there's no curse word. There's curse gesture. So he made a curse gesture. He stood on the ground,

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sissed, and stepped back. I mean, almost, you were your step. I'm a Zulu and your father was a Zulu.

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I helped your father because it's my responsibility to do so. Don't tell me what I did to your father. What your father did to me. Zulu's supposed to help Zulu.

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You don't have to tell me the fact that it's wrong. And so, he goes to, Bembata goes to see Denizulu. Ketchiwayo's last living son, Ketchiwayo said, "I'm tired of being in jail.

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"I'm not gonna fight the war." But Ketchiwayo, seeing the last of the great Tuluwa warlords standing by, he said, "I will not fight the war, but if there's anybody

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"within the sound of my voice wanna help this young man, "my eyes did not see his form disappear, "and my ears did not hear him walk away to a city." double talk in African tales, world over.

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It's beautiful. Sinjani goes away to help them borrow, planned the last of the Zulu war in 1906, the last physical confrontation in southern Africa.

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Lasted nine months when they captured the old man, was a pitched battle. This is well recorded in a book called Chaka Zulu by A.E. because all the book is fully written. The record was taken already mostly from Sigur Næssøy, the last of the great Zulu recorders.

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He was 95 when the war started, 96 when it ended. And the British said that you would have thought that we were his prisoners. He came into jail, spit him on us, they called him a dog, invaders, you know, and but he died six months later in jail. But then the genizulu had gone, I mean, Pembata had gone to the grave of Ketseweyo to pay his respect on the eve of the last battle and the British said that they cut him down. They zipped his head,

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stopped the war, but when Mbatha's wife refused to moan, the British stopped, would not stop exhibiting his hair, and the Zulus failed to punish her. If the British knew Zulu culture, they would have had sick, because when a Zulu king dies, his wife moans for the rest of her life. His wife said, "If my husband is not dead, and he will rise again from the eternal room.

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A man named Viness, who did a work on Denizulu, discovered that Bembara escaped and lived in an obscure village in South Africa until 1923, where he died of natural death.

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He said his wife was right, he was not dead. And she was right in refusing to go in the morning, or Zulus or writings, using to send you up, send you up or refusing to do so.

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All right, now, the talk is over, and I have not gotten very far. But my main point is that, after 1916, the African National Congress came into power,

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mostly with the help of liberal whites, Like the NAACP, the 1930s, NAACP coming to power came into being about three years before.

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Supposedly, the help of liberal rights gave it the kind of guidance that controlled. [ Silence ]