Penny Hess, chairwoman of the African People's Solidarity Committee

JANE writes: 

As reported by the Philadelphia Independent Media:

I do not think these flash mobs are the spontaneous random acts of young thugs that the media wants us to believe they are. If you think “hungry bears” with cell phones are dangerous, think “hungry bears,” cellphones and APSC. That’s even scarier. This video, From Flash Mobs to Black Power, is a good example of the fervor being developed in the black communities.

Laura writes:

Penny Hess, of the African People’s Solidarity Committee, looks like a perfectly harmless and friendly woman in the photo above, but here is a description of her work from the group’s website:

Penny Hess, the chairperson of the African People’s Solidarity Committee, an organization of white people organizing in solidarity with the movement for the liberation of Africa and African people. APSC works under the leadership of the Uhuru Movement, led by the African People’s Socialist Party.

Penny has been a member of the African People’s Solidarity since its founding in 1976. She is a tireless organizer who speaks throughout the U.S. and Europe in an effort to educate people that white society everywhere owes its affluence and democracy to the enslavement and colonization of African and oppressed peoples.

Hess believes that the only way for white people to understand the current crisis of imperialism is to unite in solidarity with the struggles for national liberation being waged by African and other oppressed peoples. [Laura writes: The Uhuru News Organization previously called participants in flash mobs “freedom fighters,” so it is safe to assume that Hess sees flash mobs as part of the “struggles for national liberation.”]

Years of research for workshops and panels about white complicity in the enslavement and oppression of African people, and the ensuing economic benefits, led Hess to write The Culture of Violence in 1991 and an updated edition, Overturning the Culture of Violence in 2000.

Her ongoing research and analysis can be seen in videos and PowerPoints throughout the African People’s Solidarity Committee web site and on the Uhuru Solidarity Blog. Hess is also a frequent guest commentator on Africa Live: Voices of the People, a weekly current events show on UhuruRadio.com.

Here is a blurb on Hess’ book Overturning the Culture of Violence:

This controversial, eye-opening, now-classic book indicts not only the imperial powers but white people as a whole for their role in the slavery, genocide, lynchings and ongoing attacks on African people. This book documents the basic points of Omali Yeshitela’s theory of African Internationalism and exposes how the entire white society enjoys life by sitting on a pedestal of African oppression. Chairwoman of the African People’s Solidarity Committee, Hess exposes how white violence carried out against African and oppressed peoples of the world is as American as apple pie. Overturning the Culture of Violence portrays the possibility of a positive future through the liberation movements of African and oppressed peoples and calls on white people to stand on the forward side of history by working in solidarity with the struggle for African liberation. [emphasis added]

Hess presumably sees “liberation” as consisting of massive economic reparations for blacks, such as the $1.1 billion the Uhuru organization recently called for in response to flash mobs. She calls this “returning the resources of the African people.”

So to sum up, here is what we have: a white woman who believes that whites are guilty for the violence of blacks, including apparently the brutal beatings of white pedestrians in public places. She believes this in the face of massive evidence that blacks are overwhelmingly more violent toward whites, raping and murdering them out of all proportion to any danger posed by whites. Here is a video of Hess speaking in January to the organization’s conference on the “oppressed and colonized people throughout the world.” In the speech, Hess says that it’s not enough to protest imperialism. It has to be “beaten down and kicked to death.”

Hess, in her speech, thanks the “comrades” who have been especially important in the struggle. Judging from the names, such as Janet and Sandy, they are mostly white women.

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Van Wijk writes:

One wonders if Ms. Hess agrees with Kamau Kambon.

How many of these white women would happily accept Kambon’s blade across their throats if they thought it would finally achieve the death of white imperialism?

Laura writes:

Here is a black woman responding in 2008 to Kamau Kambon’s call to exterminate white people. She calls him “Hitler with locks.”

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