Blog Entry 2025–Ep12} (Episode #R49)
Originally Livestreamed on April 05th, 2025
(LINK) https://youtu.be/3wNOTxuVA8M

ORIGINAL YOUTUBE DESCRIPTION: This is from the DVD entitled: African American Culture: A Culture, Not A Sub-Culture A speech delivered by Dr. T’Shaka on February 22, 2003 in Atlanta Georgia, before the Malcolm X Grassroots’ Movement Banquet. The occasion was the honoring of Brother Malcolm X, and the date was the day after his assassination on February 21, 1965. The audience was largely made up of Black Liberation Movement activists, including Dr. Asa Hilliard. The sister that introduced Dr. T’Shaka is, Dr. Haiba Sonyika, MD a former student of his at San Francisco State University. To Donate to the Dr. Oba T’Shaka Show Cash App: $panafrikanpub, Venmo: @DrObaTShakaShow

FIRST THOUGHT OF THE EPISODE IDEA: Sometimes history turns on a dime and maybe this is just a coincidence but, on the day this Archival Replay streamed, mass demonstrations were being orchestrated all over the country in to place before the political mind the steep and growing opposition to what the Trump Administration was doing to the Government, the Social Safety Net and non-military domestic spending. Originally delivered in the throes of the first Bush II term, the problems outlined have only grown in intensity since his eloquent words were spoken; correlative to the present moment, questions pertaining to how Black folks specifically would respond to the crisis bedeviling the entire country, specifically if that response would be culturally specific or inclusive to an extent where our culture would be consciously set aside. Further conversations are being had by minority elements within the community, most noticeably in digital spaces, trying to controversy our people’s name and the culture it draws from. Dr. T’Shaka has always been adamant that our culture is the key to our surviving enslavement and Jim Crow, he has equally been adamant that is was our culture that fed our movements since the modern Civil Rights Movement began; so the name we choose to attach t ourselves does carry significant weight as our minds automatically attach a cultural element to it. For these reasons and many more, this speech should be listened to, not only once but many times so that the aura protruding from it will enliven the listener.

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