THE BLACK PANTHERS PARTY IN SPAIN 1984-2014

*Una fotografía de la madre de Malcolm X,* Louise Norton Little (1897-1989). Louise Little era una mujer brillante, hablaba varios idiomas y durante años, junto con su marido Earl Little, una dedicada activista de Marcus Garvey. Movimiento Panafricano (Asociación Universal para el Mejoramiento de los Negros y Liga de Comunidades Africanas). Louise Norton Little (1897-1989) fue una activista estadounidense nacida en Granada y madre de Malcolm X. Aquí hay algunos datos clave sobre su vida.- Nacida en Granada, hija de un ex esclavo de Nigeria y un escocés. - Criada por sus abuelos en Granada - Emigró a Canadá en 1917 y se unió a la UNIA (Asociación Universal para el Mejoramiento del Negro) - Conoció a su marido Earl Little en una reunión de la UNIA en Montreal y se casó en 1919. - Tuvo ocho hijos con Earl, incluido Malcolm X - Fue una activista garveyista que enseñó a sus hijos sobre el orgullo negro y la autosuficiencia. - Estuvo internada en una institución mental durante 24 años y fue liberada en 1963 con la ayuda de sus hijos. - Vivió con su familia en Grand Rapids, Michigan, hasta su muerte en 1989 a la edad de 91 o 95 años.

1. Among the books in my Trinidadian father’s collection were Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Fidel and Che Guevara. There were Patrice Lumumba, Eric Williams, Frank Hercules, David Hume, Voltaire, CLR James, Rousseau and Robespierre. It was not until I visited my Jamaican grandmother in the Bronx, that I was introduced to Malcolm X, whose autobiography I found on her bookshelf and once I started reading it, could not put it down. Reading Malcolm X, El Haj Malik Shabazz, whom only a month earlier I had seen on the front page of the “Daily News” assasinated in the Audubon Ballroom in NYC, made me militant at age 11 and eager to join the Black Panthers and Young Lords.

2. ⁠Malcolm X embodied black pride. He embraced and mentored the “Greatest” heavyweight fighter of all time, Muhammad Ali, who went to prison at the height of his fame, refusing to fight in imperialist wars with the refrain “No Vietnamese ever called me nigger!” Malcom X organized our people, first in the Nation of Islam, under the leadership of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and later in the Organization of African American Unity, rejecting Uncle Tom accomodationists at home, and neocolonial apologists abroad. That was when he told Dr. Martin Luther King, in the famous photo of them together “You know we’re both dead men.” They smiled. “Fidel Castro was sending 1500 elite troops to Angola as part of a security detail for Malcolm.$500 billion was put together by the Sheikhs of Arabia and North Africa for 50 years with zero interest to finance Malcolm’s plan for repatriation of Africans from the Diaspora back home. Castro advised Malcolm to stay in Afrika as the imperialists planned to kill him on his return to the United States. Malcolm went back anyway. The rest is our story.” The classic method of Malcolm X’s emancipation from mental slavery or mental decolonization is in his “Message to the Grassroots”. He talks about the house negro and the field negro. House negro lived in the house with massa. Ate his leftovers. Wore his old clothes. House negro loved massa more than massa loved himself. If massa got sick, house negro would say “Wassamatta boss? We sick?” We sick!?! If the massa’s house caught in fire, house negro would be the first one running to put out the blaze. If somebody came to the house negro saying “let’s runaway; break out; escape!” House negro would say “escape? From this good white man? Where can I get better clothes than this? Where can I get better food than this?” That was the house negro.  But the field negro? He hated his master. I say he hated his master. If massa got sick, field negro prayed that he’d die. Massa house on fire, he prayed for a strong wind. Someone come up to them and say “Let’s escape, break out, runaway!” Field negro would say “I’m with you bro. Any place is better than here!” Im a field negro! I’m one of 22 million field negroes in this country. I’m the man you think you are. Wanna know what I’d do? I’ll do the same thing you’d do - only more of it!

3. ⁠Malcolm X and his militancy inspired the Black Power movement and Caribbean revolutionaries such as Stokley Carmichael aka Kwame Ture, Maurice Bishop and the Grenadian Revolution, (Malcolm’s own mother was from Grenada and his father, a follower Garvey); Makandal Daaga, Khafra Kambon and the Black Power Revolution of 1970 in Trinidad and Tobago. Even Steve Biko and the Black Consciousness Movement of Soweto and South Africa were inspired by Malcolm X, who gave impetus to a new generation of Pan Africanists, as the children of the generation of Marcus Garvey, Paul Robeson and George Padmore.

4. ⁠Malcolm Garvey University in Spain is the intellectual and ideological Centre of the Cuarta Internacional Hispanic Pan African Movement. Having taken the leadership in organizing a physical and virtual Summit in Solidarity with the Confederation of Sahel States, who by their declarations and propels anti colonial actions have become the vanguard of the Pan Afrikan Revolution, on Nov.1-2,2024 in Madrid, Spain, which produced resolutions for presentation to the leaders of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, the revolutionary fighting spirit of El Haj Malik Shabazz/Malcolm X, lives on in the hearts of the people of the Sahel, its leaders and Pan Africanists freedom fighters around the world who are unwilling to compromise on the freedom and sovereignty of our people.

5. ⁠Viva Malcolm X! Viva El Haj Malik Shabazz!! Viva la Revolucion Pan Afrikana!!