Chokwe Lumumba

That's a good point, too, 'cause sometimes they just wanna wrap up a case.

And, and since this brother was boasting about doing it and then, uh, recanted after he found out the seriousness of, of the event, and they say, "Okay, we got him, so you know, let's close the chapter on Tupac Shakur." But for many people, the, the chapter's still not closed.

Uh, so that's probably part of it, too.

The DA said, uh, uh, "Just let, let's, let's prosecute and, and see if we can get him." If they, and they, obviously, they got him.

Oh, [chuckles] definitely.

And we do have pockets of, um, groups all over the country, I think, um, you know, trying to, uh, redevelop the Black Panther Party.

I know it's a brother here in Detroit named, um, Brother B- Blair.

Um, and he has, um, worked with, um, young people in trying to redevelop the party here.

Got her law degree from UCLA.

And worked with Chokwe Lumumba at the Black Law Institute.

She has worked on many, many important civil rights cases.

But currently, she is the Executive Director of Black Alliance for Just Immigration, or BAJI.

We were talking about that in office hours in Nubia on Monday night.

Chokwe Lumumba, Nkechi Taifa, who, uh, now has been republished, Reparations, Yes!, the question of reparations back in print.

We were never asked what we wanted as a group of people, African people.

If Harold Cruse is right, we should think about us as a group, and you should think of everybody else as a group, too, even as there are differences within those groups.

Hamer's model, right? Again, starting with urban farming.

They've got, uh, uh, an education center, a cafe, and some other issues that had a larger project when the mayor, Chokwe Lumumba I, was in charge, right? They wanted the whole city to kind of embrace, do co-op education, and have more municipal businesses that were cooperatively owned.

So again, using this whole notion that we, Black folk, or we, the most impacted, or we, uh, the most marginalized, need to own things together and combine the education, the land ownership, the housing, the work, right, into ecosystems of cooperatives that both support each other, but also make sure, um, that the community has that self-determination and the economic democracy and economic justice that would help to eliminate most of the economic challenges.

That is wonderful.

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I've also heard that the mayor, the, the former mayor, the Black mayor, Chokwe Lumumba's son, is up on charges, some trumped up stuff.

So this is, it's a lot of stuff, and I heard they overcharging people for water down there, like $2,000 water bills.

What?

It will take a lot, um, to get that fixed.

The infrastructure here is terrible.

Um, when the last mayor, Chokwe Lumumba, secured the $900 million-

Mm.