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Preparing for NBUF’s 30th National Convention - Worrill's World - By Dr. Conrad W. Worrill, PhD - BlackCommentator.com Columnist
 
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The National Black United Front (NBUF) is preparing for the Thirtieth Annual National Convention to be held in Chicago, Illinois from July 16-19, 2009. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan will give the opening keynote address on Thursday, July 16, 2009 at the new Kennedy King College Great Hall, 6300 South Halsted. Doors will open at 6:00 p.m. and the program begins at 7:00 p.m.

Time has a way of moving forward and it’s hard to believe that NBUF has been in existence thirty years. It is a remarkable achievement that a Black Movement organization made up of committed volunteers, with limited resources, has survived and continues to grow and develop.

NBUF grew out of the spirit of the 1960’s and 70’s when African people in this country were aggressively organizing around numerous issues. The activism of the Civil Rights Movement and its challenges against legal segregation was a spark that set off the mass motion of African people in America.

The mobilization and organizing of the Civil Rights Movement transitioned into the Black Power Phase of our movement in the late 1960’s, sparking the renewed call for Pan Africanism and Black Nationalism.

Through the disruptive tactics of the United States Government and its counterintelligence programs (COINTELPRO), the Black Liberation Movement, in America, suffered serious setbacks. Many leading activists and organizers were arrested and convicted on false charges, and continue to remain locked up, as political prisoners. Others were assassinated, such as Malcolm X. Dr. King, Fred Hampton, and Mark Clark.

By the late 1970’s, the Black Liberation Movement was in serious disarray. This stimulated numerous leading Black activists, organizers, and leaders to convene a series of meetings. Twice during the latter years of the 1970’s (1976-1977), in Brooklyn, New York, several organizations attempted to bridge the gap of ideological disunity among the various forces in the Black Movement and to formulate a United Front formation.

Many of the members of NBUF can remember the all–day meetings held in the East in an attempt at national unity. But the commitment, positions, and images of most forces were fixed. The mistrust and apprehensions of the past years lingered in the memories of most participants.

However, a core group of participants in these meetings, from around the country, agreed that it was urgent that a call be made to convene the founding convention of the National Black United Front / NBUF.

The founding convention was held in Brooklyn, New York at the Old Armory in June of 1980. More than 1,000 activists from thirty-five states and five foreign countries participated in this four-day convention. Rev. Herbert Daughtry was elected interim National Chairman and we approved a draft of the Constitution and By Laws. In 1985, I was elected National Chairman and have continued to serve in that capacity.

At the second national convention, once again, held in Brooklyn in July of 1981, NBUF ratified a permanent Constitution, By Laws, and leadership structure. NBUF Chapters emerged across the country in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Raleigh, Greensboro, Mississippi, Houston, Dallas, Kansas City, St. Louis, Portland, Seattle, the Bay Area, Muskegon, Lansing, Detroit, New York, New Jersey, Milwaukee, Memphis, and Chicago. Most of these chapters continue to function today - thirty years later.

Over this thirty year period, NBUF has organized around the following principles:

  • To struggle for self determination, liberation, and power for Black People in the United States.
  • To work in common struggle with African liberation movements and African people throughout the world.
  • To build a politically conscious, unified, committed, and effective Black mass movement.
  • To struggle to eliminate racism (including Zionism and Apartheid), sexism (the oppression, exploitation, and inequality of women), monopoly capitalism, colonialism, and neo–colonialism, imperialism, and national oppression.
  • To maintain strict political and financial independence of the National Black United Front.
  • To build unity and common struggle with oppressed peoples in the United States and throughout the world, as long as the best interests of people of African descent are not contradicted or compromised.
  • To continue to struggle to maximize the unity of the Black Liberation Movement and of people of African descent; to eliminate internal violence, character assassination, and self-destruction; to establish a viable process to arbitrate all major conflicts within the Black Liberation Movement and the African community.
  • To continue the political/cultural revolution to create a new vision and value system and a new man, woman, and child based on the common struggle around the needs of the African majority.

NBUF believes that in order for Black people in America to become free, liberated, and independent, we must be organized. Therefore, we believe all Black people should join an organization that is working in the interest of our people. We believe that the National Black United Front is such an organization and we urge you to join us and part icipate in our Thirtieth National Convention.

This year’s theme is “Turning Point 2009: Connecting the Black Power Generation to the Hip-Hop Generation.” NBUF takes the position that only through our own economic self-sufficiency and self-help will we truly liberate ourselves from the continued devastation of racism and white supremacy in this country.

I will write more on the convention theme in future columns. Please save this date and prepare to participate in this historic 30th Annual National Convention of the National Black United Front (NBUF). The convention will be held at the renowned Jacob H. Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies at 700 East Oakwood Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois.

BlackCommentator.com Columnist, Conrad W. Worrill, PhD, is the National Chairman of the National Black United Front (NBUF). Click here to contact Dr. Worrill.

 

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