Confusion...

In this post and there after I will use the term "black", and "Moor/ish". I'm not using them interchangeable which most would like to do but to identify the confusion. This is confusion that plagues the black community from achieving solidarity. To know that confusion come from words that we don't understand in the process of self identification. I personally think if we can collectively clarify this confusion for the sake of unification of a lost nation, then a lot of the issues we face or put ourselves in would cease to exist. The separation of our society will plague our future generations. 

How can we use the different organizations and ideology to set the stage for one aim and still implement a curriculum for the society to gain understanding publicly and privately. Let's do a quick description of the different organizations in our society.

1. Pan-Africanism is an ideology and movement that encourages the solidarity of Africans worldwide.^[1] It is based on the belief that unity is vital to economic, social, and political progress and aims to "unify and uplift" people of African descent.^[2] The ideology asserts that the fate of all African peoples and countries are intertwined. At its core Pan-Africanism is "a belief that African peoples, both on the continent and in the diaspora, share not merely a common history, but a common destiny"
2. Pan-American, Pan American, Panamerican, Pan-America, Pan America or Panamerica may refer to: Collectively, the Americas: North America, Central America, South America and the Caribbean. Something of, from, or related to the Americas. Pan-Americanism, an integrationist movement among the nations of the Americas.
3. Nation of Islam:  The Nation of Islam (NOI) is an Islamic religious movement founded in Detroit, United States, by Wallace D. Fard Muhammad on July 4, 1930.^[1] Its stated goals are to improve the spiritual, mental, social, and economic condition of African Americans in the United States and all of humanity.^[2] Critics have labeled the organization as being black supremacist^[3] and antisemitic,^[4][5][6] and NOI is tracked as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.  Then you would have to ask what's the name of the Nation that represent the Nation of Islam?
4. The Black Panther Party first publicized its original Ten-Point program on May 15, 1967, following the Sacramento action, in the second issue of the Black Panther newspaper.^[41] The original ten points of "What We Want Now!" follow:

1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community.
2. We want full employment for our people.
3. We want an end to the robbery by the white men of our Black Community.
4. We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings.
5. We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present day society.
6. We want all Black men to be exempt from military service.
7. We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER of Black people.
8. We want freedom for all Black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails.
9. We want all Black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their Black Communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States.
10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace.

• Black nationalism (BN) advocates a racial definition (or redefinition) of national identity. There are different indigenous nationalist philosophies but the principles of all Black nationalist ideologies are unity and self-determination—that is, separation, or independence, from European society. Martin Delany (1812-1885), an African-American abolitionist, is considered to be the grandfather of Black nationalism.^[1]
  Inspired by the success of the Haitian Revolution, the origins of Black and African indigenous nationalism in political thought lie in the 19th century with people like Marcus Garvey, Henry McNeal Turner, Martin Delany, Henry Highland Garnet, Edward Wilmot Blyden, Paul Cuffe, etc. The repatriation of African American slaves to Liberia or Sierra Leone was a common Black nationalist theme in the 19th century. Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association of the 1910s and 1920s was the most powerful black nationalist movement to date, claiming 11 million members.
• The Pacific Movement of the Eastern World (PMEW) was a 1930s North American based pro-Japanese movement of African Americans which promoted the idea that Japan was the champion of all non-white peoples.
  The Japanese ultra-nationalist Black Dragon Society was an influence upon the PMEW. The Black Dragon Society was a paramilitary organization, with close ties to the Empire of Japan, which viewed the United States as Japan's enemy in the Pacific War. The organization was frequently taken advantage of by one of its founders, Ashima Takis, who ultimately was arrested for embezzling funds from the group.
• The Moorish Science Temple of America is an American religious organization founded in the early 20th century by Timothy Drew. He based it on the belief that African Americans had descended from the Moors and thus were originally Islamic. Drew put together elements of major traditions to develop a message of personal transformation, racial pride and uplift. It also intended to provide African Americans with a sense of identity in the Western Hemisphere and promote civic involvement. One primary tenet of the Moorish Science Temple is the belief that African-Americans are of Moorish ancestry, specifically from Morocco; in their religious texts, adherents refer to themselves as "Asiatics".^[1] An adherent of this movement is known as a Moorish-American Moslem and are called "Moorish Scientists" in some circles.
   
• The term black church or African-American church refers to Christian churches that currently or historically have ministered to predominantly black congregations in the United States. While some black churches belong to predominantly African-American denominations, such as the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), many black churches are members of predominantly white denominations, such as the United Church of Christ (which developed from the Congregational Church of New England).^[1]
  Most of the first black congregations and churches formed before 1800 were founded by free blacks - for example, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Petersburg, Virginia; and Savannah, Georgia.^[2] The oldest black Baptist church in Kentucky, and third oldest in the United States, was founded about 1790 by the slave Peter Durrett.^[3]
  After slavery was abolished, segregationist attitudes in both the North and the South discouraged and, especially in the South, prevented African Americans from worshiping in the same churches as whites. Freed blacks most often established congregations and church facilities separate from their white neighbors, who were often their former masters. These new churches created communities and worship practices that were culturally distinct from other churches, including unique and empowering form of Christianity that creolized African spiritual traditions.
  
   
• The phrase Black Muslims may describe any black people who are Muslim, but historically it has been specifically used to refer to African-American Black nationalist organizations that describe themselves as Muslim. Some of these groups are not considered to be Muslim within mainstream Islam.
  These include:
  
• Nation of Islam
• Moorish Science Temple of America
• United Nation of Islam
• Five-Percent Nation
• Nuwaubian Nation
• American Society of Muslims

In a more general sense it can describe,

• Islam in the African diaspora
• African American Muslims
• Islam in Africa
  
  
   I hope you can understand the confusion. There is a solution.
  
  
   

In this article I want to stimulate thought in the Moorish community and to other nations on this land. As a nation we have been conditioned to think a certain way, which has nothing to do with who we are.  It’s time that we start to think for ourselves, and learn to be ourselves.         

“The fallen sons and daughters of the Asiatic Nation of America need to learn to love instead of hate; and to know of his higher self and lower self.  This is uniting of the Holy Koran of Mecca, for the

teaching and instructing of all Moorish Americans, etc.”

What we need to realize is that we are not functioning as a nation or a community. We have accumulated a number of behaviors that require a remedy.  The first step to obtain a remedy is realizing that there is an issue; once you realize the issue would you be ready to carry out the solution?  I know we are strong enough to carry out solutions; we have plenty of examples to keep history from repeating itself in a detrimental way.   What it comes down to is that we are going to have to reeducate ourselves and use our ancestors for guidance.  That’s reeducation nationwide, truth be told we have all been through miseducation.  We have been miseducated on who we are and the world has been miseducated on who we are.  The more we read and reeducated ourselves we will see who we really are.  Nations abroad will then recognize us and identify us by our free national name and standards. We are a Nation and the mindset of the Moorish Nation should be just that.  The pen is mightier than the sword.