Who was Kwame Ture?

Bismillah,

Quoting from Sister Angela's article from Purdue:

He said that a black militant is a black person who is angry at white folks for keeping him out of their system. On the contrary, a black revolutionary is an angry black person who wants to tear down and destroy an entire system that is oppressing the people and replace it with a new system where the people can live like human beings.

From reading this article, I see much more about Ture than from the others I read.  Basically, he sought to reclaim black people's humanity and dignity by uniting them in one political entity called pan-Africanism, which means a united Africa for black people.  He stated that black people need to develop their own organizations rather than try to fit into organizations created by people who had oppressed them.  I see his path as a path to peace through self-realized, self-respect and dignity for black people.

I agree with Martin Luther King that we can learn to respect each other together and create new organizations which exclude no race and show respect and honor human dignity.  Yet reading this, I admire people who when they believe in something advocate it with all of their lives and souls to realize it.  He wanted respect and unity for people who have been terrorized and marginalized and he stood up for that ideal.  I haven't read anything about any violent demonstrations that he instigated or cooperated with.

Peace

http://www.purdue.edu/bcc/library/haytur.htm

Very interesting article on Kwame Toure, but it has a better view of his push for Pan Africanism.

DavidC,

I agree.  Communism is a corrupt form of government.  Its destructive and far more oppressive than most people understand.  The former Soviet Union and Soviet Bloc nations will be recovering for a very long time.