(ThyBlackMan.com) When I first heard about The Uhuru Movement from social media last year, I first checked it out and seen some of these “revolutionary comrades” as they claim to be actually said stuff that was not only intellectual, but they were saying things that were kinda negative and condescending like one particular mouthpiece of a member that dissed the sisters in a video last year that still leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.
I started to have some suspicions about the movement in the sense of them not really being as active in the community that they claim to fight for and protect as well as the disgusting and horrendous way that they treat their former “comrades” that saw the light and chose to leave on their own terms only to get harassed and slandered by the movement as one former “comrade” who I won’t name saw The Real Uhuru Movement behind the scenes explained:
“I tried to leave quietly, but after 3 months of still receiving harassment from this movement, I have to speak out. As everyone knows, I was a member of The Uhuru Movement (APSP) since 2015. This past January, I resigned because of the unending manipulation and drama present inside the movement. I resigned because I started to realize that the longer I was in the movement, the more I was losing myself, my life, and my individuality. I 
resigned because I saw The Uhuru Movement harass, slander, and tear down the character of anyone who tried to leave. People who they once called their “comrades”, people who they called their “favs” and even best friends turn into enemies for leaving.
There’s no loyalty to anything or anyone. Anyone who leaves can explicitly state why they are resigning and The Uhuru Movement will create their own narrative about why they left and even lie to hurt someone’s character. Sometimes I wonder if they even believe themselves. Beyond all of that, I started to realize that many of the political analyses that the party makes are great, but it means nothing when you don’t do anything to genuinely affect the black community. You spend all of your hours on social media ganging up on people who don’t completely agree with you, making yourselves feel good, and finding ways to harass people like me, but don’t even go into the communities that you claim to protect.
In all the years of me being there, we didn’t do so much as a damn backpack giveaway or a food pantry for the people of this city. Everything we did was always something that made profit for the movement itself. For three months, I have been dealing with The Uhuru Movement doing everything they could to interfere with my life from constant messages of them slandering my name to them even trying to turn my friends, family, and mother against me. They have even labeled me as an “anti-party force” and told people close to me that they are not allowed to talk to me. Regardless, I will remain positive and continue to live my life and will be teaming up with different organizations in the black community.
In deciphering this statement made by this former “Uhuru member”, one of the most hypocritical and condescending statements they always make is about preaching to the choir about opportunism in the black community, but the statement of “Everything we did was always something that made profit for the movement itself” blatantly exposes their opportunism and greed in the sense of them exploiting our community for their own self-serving gain like many other opportunists in our community.
Examples of opportunistic greed and corruption coming from the mouths of other former members themselves:
“Then seeing how they switch up on people who decide to leave the movement and IMMEDIATELY start to shit on them and slander them made me really rethink my position within the movement”
“Things like Africans Charge Genocide, which I worked hard to get as many contacts as I could for were just used to promote events instead of what they were actually originally intended for.”
“They called me a black capitalist for raising resources for African Martyrs Day and that I’ve spoken badly of the party because I opted to be a mass force. Also, it has been brought to my attention that I made up my apartment being broken into.”
“Why was it that The Chairman and his wife both drove push to start cars while many party members I knew personally could not afford more than one meal a day?”
“Why did the party need economic development programs that did not create any sustainable form of affordable access to food or shelter?”
“Why did the party needed furniture stores or a gym when the many people in their community are starving and homeless?”
“Why had I never heard The Chairman mention anything about his middle class background or military service?”
“Why were there issues of misogyny and hetero-patriarchal violence within the party apparatus being systematically relegated to issues that could only be addressed after the revolution?”
“Why did The Chairman stumbled and stuttered at The 2017 Plenary when explaining that the party’s properties were legally in his name?”
“Their own people inside the party are starving and scraping by just to eat, but are supposed to give up and sacrifice everything for a movement that doesn’t give anything back to our community and then they have their picks and chooses of who they’ll help and when.”
“I have personally seen on many occasions the party raising hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars at singular events, but the members barely had any idea where or how the money was being invested.”
“Why was The African community surrounding The APSP headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida so distrusting of the movement and specifically so distrusting of The Chairman?”
The part about ”loving their fellow comrades” is a facade because they also love to preach to the choir about “loving their fellow comrades”, but do another thing by harassing and slandering those that chose to leave on their own terms calling them “anti-party forces” and “dropouts”
They also claim that they “care about the community”, but this former member exposed that lie by saying that they don’t even go into the communities that they claim to protect. I have personally seen videos of them mostly organizing after a police murder or a Sunday rally. Another thing that bothers me about them personally is that they have not even attempted to stop the rampant gentrification that has almost parasitically devoured their community out of existence by not even buying up empty homes and lots in the hood.
Also, another thing that I noticed about them is that they often tell people to “join the revolution”, but the minute you tell them that you don’t wanna join, they tend to bully, harass, and slander those who refuse to join their movement and this negative condescending attitude towards those who refuse to join disgusts me.
Note: Last night, I saw three videos on the former Uhuru Member’s social media page of what The Uhuru Movement has done to this former member’s family by causing tension between the former member’s family and the former member’s brother who has been (aka mentally brainwashed) by the movement and I saw The Real Gazi Kozdo come out when he severely dissed GSNA women calling them “dykes” and said that another former comrade was a drug addict while the female member on the other hand stands there showing her complicity in the disrespect of GSNA women and your former comrade by not getting him to apologize.
This morning, I see one particular part of the video where one of their most corrupt and puppeted mouthpiece lies and says that they “don’t slander anyone” and saying those “forces are coming out now by saying “The Party has done this and that” this is clearly prancing around taking any sort of responsibility for what they’ve done to this former member and this former member’s family, but several former members noted that they personally seen them harass and slander those who decided to leave the movement, so I truly believe the former member’s accounts.
The corrupt and puppeted mouthpiece spews out more lies in this video She also says “these anti-party forces didn’t have a prior relationship with one another, had backstabbed one another during a point in time and they have one common enemy and that’s The APSP and then goes on to say “there was this anti-party force that was investigated for preying on young girls and was found guilty” which was actually found to be false by the way and “this force that used to be the local president that would not submit herself fully to the party” which is extremely low and dangerous to make such false accusations against a former member and all this other brainwashing tactical bullshit. She lies again by calling these former members “agents of The State” when in reality, they are speaking truth about the rampant opportunistic greed, cronyism, misogyny, hetero-patriarchal violence, brainwashing, and corruption that they had personally seen when they were members of the organization.
This corrupt organization is a cult that will not only brainwash particularly young black people into their toxic and destructive way of thinking, but will chew you up when you’re useful to them and will spit you out once you’re no longer useful to them and like a rapper once said back in the day, “They’ll find a new n***a next year”.
The Conclusion – I have learned a long time ago that not everything is as it seems and that The Uhuru Movement isn’t exactly what I thought it was, but a “movement” filled with drama, opportunism, cronyism, greed, and corruption. They are NOT the party of The African working class as they arrogantly claim to be, they are in reality the party of the class that they claim to despise, the so-called “black bourgeoisie” because all of the institutions they have are only bringing putting money in the pockets of the greedy opportunistic Chairman of the party, the guy who legally owns all the institutions that have been built.
Staff Writer; Kwame Shakir (aka Joe D.)
