THE ORIGIN OF THE FLAG GREEN, RED and BLACK, are the oldest national colors known to man. They are used as the flag of the Black Liberation Movement in America today, but actually go back to the Zinj Empires of ancient Africa, which existed thousands of years before Greece, England, or America. The Red is for the blood. The Green is for the land. The Black is for the Black People. The symbolism of the flag as used by the Republic of New Afrika is obvious. The Black is on the bottom. We in the Western Hemisphere must obtain land, represented by the green, which is at the top. It is so placed because, until Black People in this hemisphere obtain land they will remain on the bottom; and because the acquisition of land is the highest and noblest aspiration for Black People in this continent, since without lane there can be no freedom, justice, independence, or equality. The red, or the blood, stands at the center of all things. We lost our land through blood; we cannot gain it except through blood. We must redeem our lives through blood. Without the shedding of blood there can be no redemption of this race. Yet the red stripe is slightly smaller than either the black or the green. It is smaller because the bloodshed and sorrow will not last always. They are not the most important part of the picture. The red simply stands in our flag as a reminder of the truth of history, that men and women must gain and keep their liberty, even at the risk of bloodshed. The colors were resurrected by the Hon. Marcus Garvey, Father of Pan-Afrikan Nationalism, as the symbol of the struggle sons and daughters of Afrika, wherever they may be. Since the 1950’s when the independence struggling began to reap fruit, the Green, Red, and Black have been plainly adopted by Libya, Kenya, and Afghanistan. Other Afrikan States have included the colors Black and Red, combined with Yellow or White. Our flag has no place in it for white. Not even as a border. Kenya has the black on the top; where indeed it must be, since they have a base of land (green) on which their freedom rests. They have the red in the center covered with a sword and shield, as an ever present reminder that the price of liberty is bloodshed, and armed struggle. The colors were established in 1920 as the banner of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and adopted as the symbol of the Afrikans in America at the convention of the Negro People’s of the World. It is a symbol of the devotion of all Afrikan people to the liberation of the Afrikan Continent, and the establishment of a Nation in Afrika ruled by descendents of enslaved Afrikans from the Western World. With the formation of the Republic of New Afrika, it has become in addition, the symbol of the devotion of Afrikan people in America, to the establishment of an independent Afrikan Nation on the North American Continent. Thus, the colors were not chosen at any limited convention of black persons; but have been, in centuries past and are now, the emblem of true black hope and pride, as embodied of Pan-Afrikanism and Black Nationalism. FREE THE LAND!
Posted on: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 00:52:30 +0000
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