June 12; We bring you MKO Abiola's Lecture to CBC;KEYS TO ECONOMIC KINGDOM REPARATIONS AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER

Basorun MKO Abiola
June 12; We bring you MKO Abiola's Lecture to CBC;KEYS TO ECONOMIC KINGDOM
     REPARATIONS AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER
xcerpts of the lecture delivered by Basorun MKO Abiola to the Black Congressional Caucus/ Americans at the Bethune-Dubois Award, Held at the Capital Hilton Hotel, Washington DC. USA. On MAY 21, 1991.
t It gives me great pleasure as well as honor, to be present with you today, to receive an award which associates me with such outstanding African -Americans as Brother Dubois and Sister Mary McLeod Bethune.
These two geniuses sacrificed themselves on behalf of the down trodden masses of African-America, the rest of Africans in Diaspora, and the great long sufferings and mutilated continent. But neither Sister Bethune nor Brother Dubois was content to remain in the dark, nor allow us, their children, to think that darkness and despair were our lots in perpetuity. Their heroic struggles against injustice and discrimination taught us to reach out and turn on the light, to give birth to hope and keep that hope alive.
BEYOND RACIAL STRIFE:
If for brother Dubois the main problem of the twentieth century was the color, we can suitably honor him by the extent to which we have solve this problem, so that the 21 st. century will not continue to be stained with the vile of colors of man’s inhumanity to man and woman, packaged in the obnoxious doctrines of racism.
As great statesmen and women speaks with visionary certitudes about the new world order, they must be told that there can be no order without justice, equality and right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, for which men and women has fought throughout the ages, and continue to fight today.
You cannot have a new world order in an affluent United States of America where African American teenagers are forced to kill each other over drugs because they are denied equal opportunities for education and employment. And you cannot have order in the world old or new where hundreds of millions are condemned to poverty , famine, civil wars and premature death because they are denied equal economic opportunities in the global market place.
If a few hundred of millions of people delude themselves that their wealth protects them from the inhuman poverty and wrath of billions of fellow human being, they are very much like   the beautiful flowers which blooms in ignorance on the edge of a volcano.
INTERNATIONALIZATION OF BLACK POVERTY.
In Africa the wise man rushes to pour water on his neighbor’s thatched roof so that the conflagration will not spread to consume his own. Similarly a man who hunts alone runs the risk of being hunted by wild animals who wisely hunts in pack. And who ever heard of one hand clapping?
The world we wish to see in the 21st century must be the hand work of all men and women of all races, continents, and regions regardless of sex, race, religion and economic circumstances. My plea tonight is directed at you, brothers and sisters in African American, but it is also meant for the great rainbow of people who make up this land of fantastic opportunities, truly the first modern nation in the world.
REPARATIONS AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER
The issue of Reparations is at the very heart of the social solidarity and justice necessary for mankind to survive into the next century because it demands compensations for wrongs done against individuals and for the evils perpetuated against Nations. To realize our vision of a new world order, however, we must now right the wrongs of previous centuries, redress the imbalance, and remove the blinkers of bias, prejudice, and discrimination which prevents us from seeing our common humanity and act in solidarity to solve the problems which threatens us all of mankind.
Today Africa is a wounded continent, many of our people, where ever they find themselves are destitute, discriminated and desperate. And it is our duty as African Americans who are in position of some privileges to help put things right if the wounds are to be healed and if the illness not to prove terminal. Let us assist our unfortunate brothers and sisters to march, with heads held high and wrongs righted into the next century.
  
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