Pan African Word.

                                                         I Am... By Jack Miller Rugged and old , tough soul I am streaming up the Mississippi and the Niger that bends and curves,  where Planters never defend                this soul... nor any amends from their human               flaws.  I am Savannah, I produced rice, indigo, tobacco and king cotton... 4 my traffic Czar at the Southeast coast,          of dirt, filth and rotten. Afflicted with acts of sin and evil, harvesting rice and cotton crops as blood spills. I Am... Rugged and cold, bitter soul I am my ancestors tolled soil under Hacienda's burning son to grow, Brazil's sweet savory sugar for exporting  of capital gains across the Pond! I am Favela-Guarani indigenous...  Rugged and bold, uprising soul I am Dread Ras Scott I (eye) of the fighting Maroons... living up and off land in Caribbean hills, resisting left whip and broken chains amid          whirlwind typhoons. Alongside Tainos with Africans that cultivated Maro

The 21 st century so far is being characterized by imperial wars, denials of people’s sovereignty through occupations by military might, mass displacement of peoples, labor diasporas, the criminalization of refugees and migrants, and imminent environmental catastrophe.   These are all consequences of global capitalism.   Global capitalism’s hegemony made possible through western European and Euro-American militarism.   This system is legitimized through its knowledge system, international laws, and its ideology based on the sanctity of property.   This ideology legitimizes extreme violence against non-European peoples. To mask their nefarious designs and behavior around the world, Europeans and Euro-American imperialism established a discourse of human rights, which justifies their interventions in the sovereign domains of non-European governments and economies.   Their behaviors reaffirm the global status quo of existing global inequalities. In the 20 th century, the European-Am