Point of The Spear

"Political Africans must not be tricked into the unprincipled white arena where O.L. and the various white communist organizations are performing autopsies on the exhumed 'national question.' Let the dead bury the dead, we must be about the task of national liberation. After all, we are our own liberators!"

Editor's note: This Point of The Spear first appeared in February 1980. It was written 40 years ago for a Party conference in Gainesville, Florida by Chairman Omali Yeshitela. This document was actually a political report that preceded the Party's First Congress two years later.

The nation cannot be defined by measuring itself against itself. If there is no “other,” there is no logic for the “nation.”