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Jones, while 63 percent of White women cast their ballot for the accused pedophile.


Washington, D.C. resident and historian Dr. Shantella Sherman said Blacks went back to basics.


“These Black women took it back to Ella Baker and Fannie Lou


Hamer. They organized behind the scenes for quite a while,” said Dr. Sherman, a journalist, author and publisher whose professional concentration is Eugenics. “I’m absolutely floored that 70-year-old women transported people to the polls. They started to do it the way our parents and grandparents did it. In both instances, it was Black women taking center stage. They opened up a whole other thing and embody ‘the future of woman’ slogan. The past, present and future has always been the Black woman.”


Noted historian and author, Dr. Gerald Horne agreed with Ms. Ricks’ position, but took the issue further, saying that Blacks should be seeking and working toward alternatives to the Democratic Party.


“In terms of us trying to fight back politically and economically,


I’d give Black people a ‘C,’ ” said Dr. Horne, author of “The Counter- Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America,” released in 2014. “The main weakness of us in the Black community is not that we don’t resist, but that there’s a missing link in our struggle. There’s a powerful force we could link with and that’s internationally but we’re hesitant to do so.”


Dr. Horne—who has written at least two dozen books—asserts that


in the face of the unrelenting hostility Africans in America face, the fight waged by those in the social justice arena and anti-oppression movements in the U.S. would be considerably more effective if they linked up and coordinated with international allies fighting U.S. imperialism.


“But people are hesitant because there’s retribution if you begin to do


this. There’s intimidation. Look at Paul Robeson. The lesson of Robeson has not been forgotten,” he said of the civil rights icon who was stripped of his passport, ostracized and denied the right to work because of his support of Communism and willingness to partner with international allies.


Dr. Sherman said her concern has grown as the Trump administration


“has peeled back civil rights,” as gentrification has taken hold in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Brixton in London and Berlin, triggered displacement and affordable housing has disappeared. Of equal concern, she said, is the increasing number of wealthy Black businesspeople and others who have embraced economic nationalism.


“Please understand that you have a whole group of ultra-conservative


Black people who have bought into this idea,” said Dr. Sherman, who covered a Dec. 5 luncheon fundraiser and presentation by former White House strategist and Breitbart Executive Chairman Steve Bannon at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel in Washington. “For them, it’s not about race. They think of themselves as conservatives and are using Republican logic.”


“They complained about President Obama forcing them to be fair


to immigrants and hire ignorant Spanish people, people with green cards and Africans. It was amazing to watch. There wasn’t a single person who wasn’t cheering Bannon. They hero-worshipped Bannon and paid $500 a plate in the middle of the week to see him. They agree with Bannon but don’t want anyone to know that they’re in bed with Trump or Bannon,” she said.


The biggest triumph for Blacks in 2017 has been the awakening, the


sprouting of the seeds that Min. Farrakhan has been planting in his 40 years of labor in the absence of his teacher, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, said Dr. Ava Muhammad, national spokesperson for Min. Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam.


That movement toward self-determination and liberation must increase in 2018. Separation is the ultimate and best answer to the race problem in America.


People are witnessing globally Black people’s awakening and their desire to be free, justified, equal, and to go for self, she said.


“We are witnessing in every arena, from agriculture to entertainment,


young, Black people are making it clear that they no longer desire to be in servitude to the children of their slave masters. They desire that which Allah has intended for them,” said Atty. Muhammad.


(Final Call staffers contributed to this report.)


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