Dear T. West, I agree with you that "The Black Agenda in America must be that of hands off in African," but then how should we be involved--involved in a way that does not reproduce the super-exploitation, and inequalities that exist on the continent--and also it seems to me that if Africa goes down or continues to be hobbled by the neo-colonial, economic, military, disease, and environmental degradation black people in the US will be hard pressed to hold on to the little bit of liberty (and I didn't say freedom) that they now seem to have.   I am planning to visit Ghana, and maybe South Africa this summer.  Anyway, just some thoughts. Regards, Robert

Robert, thank you for your feedback and questions regarding the CART Analysis, “New Black Agenda”. The way that we should be involved is to first establish a relationship that is not based on a need for economic gain on our part.  This is what I refer to as the UKT process.  It is the process of building Understanding, Knowledge, and Trust with and between the various Black ethnic groups.  This is what we are doing here in Seattle where the African immigrant population is almost greater than the African American population.  This begins in your area of residence where African Americans network with the African immigrants. This is how you begin to build the spans to the bridge to the Motherland. The second process is to establish an equitable economic partnership with one or two pilot African nations.  Those nations must qualify under the rules that we have predetermined.  For example, the government cannot be hording profits while much of the country suffers.  It cannot be a supporter of the misdirected Bush policy on "terrorism" (that might require deeper explanation).  It cannot be accepting foreign corporate or government dollars to carryout policies that are not beneficial to segments of their population. They will be required to smooth relations with the opposition within the country. The opposition cannot be accepting monies from foreign governments as is the case in Zimbabwe where the Bush Administration admitted to funding the opposition. This includes foreign corporate dollars. Zambia may be a prime candidate for our capital investment but not until the UKT process has been developed.  Capturing upstream control of Africa's raw resources through African Diaspora capital investment will drastically reduce poverty, disease, war, neo-colonialism, etc.  The problem has been that African nations rarely had much of a choice of who they had to deal with when they needed money in the form of capital investment.  It was the European and American corporate structure that they beckoned. Knowing the great collective with of Blacks in America, some Africans tried to solicit the African Americans but that largely fell upon deaf ears, as many in the Civil Rights Movement merged themselves into America’s corporate interests without balancing it with Africa’s needs. America’s corporate interests are naturally and historically in opposition to the interests of Africans, in general. That will now drastically change!  Now China is the major player and that is good.  However, African Americans must immediately become a major player.  China will also be a partner to hold the "good ol boy" network of the American and European Investor Class in check.  This means we integrate some critical areas such as oil & gas in with the Chinese.  They have ships to ship the oil, if American and European shipping companies fail to cooperate.  They have capital leverage because the American government owes China many billions of dollars.  Lastly, they have a military.  This is about leverage and balance of power through diplomacy, not physical conflict.  The Black Agenda is about establishing new economic alliances to assure the vision is attained. “The Market”, Mantra of Capitalism The “market” in America started with naked African men, women and children being paraded across a stage on Wall Street. Today, it is the booty acquired from Africa, that is, its precious raw resources at a slave price. I am totally against the American brand of capitalism!  All Blacks who espouses it must be denounced.  All should earn a living and be paid fairly for the work that they do. However, I do not subscribe to the “market” concept where greed is dismissed as “letting the market function”. I’m sure you constantly hear this garbage from the talking heads on the news programs. You hear it as the gas prices at the pumps in America rose nearly 70 cents a gallon within a few weeks. This is mumbo jumbo from the mis-educated cookie cutters who went through the universities and were trained to perpetuate the status quo. There are simply too many Blacks in poverty for any of us to believe in the concept of "maximization of profits" which is the definition of capitalism. A real example of this is when the Israeli or Belgians buy a diamond in Africa for $200 and then sell it in America for $40,000! How is that for “maximization”? Economically, Ghana is a secondary plan.  There are some who are bamboozled with the “brick and mortar” trickery. In other words, it’s like a typical Black religious leader, the first thing he wants to do is “build a building”. The buildings look far better than the overall state of Black America or Black Africa. Some are even promoting these concepts in certain African nations using Diaspora dollars for building commerce centers. If there is no big economics going down, what good is a building other than, perhaps, for someone’s ego of having their name on it? A building is not a cash cow unless it is a factory or commerce center that is guaranteed to bring a return on the investment within a few years. Oil & gas is a cash cow! It is the biggest on the planet. The first plan is to acquire wealth in oil & gas and then backfill cocoa beans and other industries with part of the profits from the most critical industry.  Oil & gas profits can provide the capital to build a chocolate producing factory so that Ghana will no longer have to import chocolate from the Swiss who could not produce chocolate unless it received Ghana’s cocoa beans. Our objective must be to first share the vision, i.e., cultivate the Black minds of every socio-economic persuasion (grassroots) which assures Black politicians coming onboard. The alternative is to be consumed by the wave. It assures African leaders giving priority to private Black dollars over American and European government and Wall Street dollars. Wall Street dollars is a compilation of African blood and, currently, billions of dollars which includes Black pensions. Thank you, T. West CART