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You have heard the name Brown Condor a lot recently, ever wonder where the name Brown Condor came from?
by Teddy Fikre: Posted Wednesday, June 9, 2010
The first answer that comes to mind: A large black vulture with a ruff of white feathers surrounding the base of the neck and, especially in the male, large white patches on the wings.
Good try, but I guess maybe the question should have been “who is Brown Condor?” Before I go into the full details about the amazing story behind the Brown Condor, let me tell you what Brown Condor represents. Brown Condor is the fusion of the long and profound history of Ethiopia—with her culture, her defiance against colonialism, her essence—with that of the history of the African Diaspora and our bond with the African-American community.
So who is Brown Condor? The Brown Condor is the nickname of Colonel John C. Robinson. Born in 1903 in Carrabelle, Florida, Robinson was infatuated with airplanes when he saw his first plane after he moved to Gulfport Mississippi upon his father’s death. Throughout his childhood, he held tightly to his audacious dreams—dreams to one day fly his own plane. However, the menace of racism and Jim Crow mendacity was too much for even the most audacious mind to overcome.
Through his labors as a delivery and stock boy for a local department store, he never let go of his dream. Seeing the unbending will Robinson kept, his parents made provisions for young John to attend the Tuskegee institute. Thus, in 1920, John Robinson embarked on his endeavors to earn a higher education—a dream almost beyond reach for black men in the 1920s. After graduating from Tuskegee in 1924, he moved to Detroit and started working as an auto mechanic; all the while, never giving up on his dream of one day flying a plane.
While the story can be told in a million words of how his dreams were realized and the will it took for him to gain that opportunity between 1924 – 1935, the one watershed moment that transpired that enabled him to soar took place on October 3rd, 1935. Although the world would not quite know it at that time, this date marked the beginning of an onslaught that would end with the loss of more than 50,000,000 lives throughout the world. On that day, a fascist Italy invaded Ethiopia.
Haile Selassie would go to the League of Nations and plead, not for a handout, but for military equipment that would enable Ethiopia to withstand the brutal tactics of Mussolini.
“The Ethiopian Government never expected other Governments to shed their soldiers’ blood to defend the Covenant when their own immediately personal interests were not at stake. Ethiopian warriors asked only for means to defend themselves. On many occasions I have asked for financial assistance for the purchase of arms That assistance has been constantly refused me. What, then, in practice, is the meaning of Article 16 of the Covenant and of collective security?”
Ethiopians bravely standing up to fascist Italian invaders.
To his dismay, and to the dismay of the entire world four short years later, the League of Nations showed itself to be a feckless group of deniers. It was at this occasion that Haile Selassie told the League of Nations, in one of the most prophetic speeches ever:
“Apart from the Kingdom of the Lord there is not on this earth any nation that is superior to any other. Should it happen that a strong Government finds it may with impunity destroy a weak people, then the hour strikes for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.”
H.I.M. Selassie’s pleadings fell on deaf ears, thus Italy ravaged Ethiopia with the horrors of Mustard gas, exterminating brave warriors by dropping lethal bombs from the safe distance of the air. While Ethiopian soldiers fought valiantly, they were no match for the militarily superior Italian counterparts. Word of this aggression spread quickly throughout the world, and nowhere did it stir more anger and outrage than in the African-American communities in the United States.
For African-Americans, Ethiopia was a special symbol of defiance, a hope that symbolized their eventual conquest over racism and hatred. When Ethiopia defeated Italy in the late 1800s, it marked the first time ever an African country had defeated a European colonial power. The Battle of Adwa literally shook the world, and it stirred in African-Americans the audacity to think they too could be free—that they too could overcome oppression.
Thus, African-Americans in the early 1900s always saw in Ethiopia a symbolism of defiance, pride, and hope. So when Italy once more decided to invade Ethiopia, African-Americans stood up boldly and started to send whatever money they had to Ethiopia. This is where the life of Robinson and the fate of Ethiopia intertwined. What became apparent shortly after Italy invaded Ethiopia was that Ethiopia’s air force, which numbered around 20 planes, was no match for Italy’s superior planes. Consequently, in 1935, Colonel Robinson volunteered his services to Haile Selassie. His illustrious career is too long to be recounted on this short essay, however, Colonel Robinson flew reconnaissance flights and commanded the Ethiopian air force—he became one of Ethiopia’s most decorated soldiers.
Colonel Robinson would go on to instruct the first generation of Ethiopian aviators, most of whom would later on become the first set of pilots in the Ethiopian Airlines—the first African airline company. Colonel Robinson lived the rest of his life in Ethiopia and was buried in Gullele Cemetery in Addis Ababa in 1954.
Colonel Robinson live the rest of his life in Ethiopia and was buried in Gullele Cemetery in Addis Ababa in 1954. This is the history of Ethiopians, fused with the history of Africans-Americans and intertwined with the history of the world. Colonel John C. Robinson—the Brown Condor—represents the essence of defiance, the love of the Ethiopian culture and history by African-Americans, and the essence of unity—the essence of HEBRET.
That is what Brown Condor Production represents, the fusion of Ethiopian culture with the traditions of the African Diaspora and the history of the African-American experience. Ethiopians and African-Americans are not separate entities; we are one, sharing a history that dates back to 1808 when Ethiopian Merchants and freed slaves in New York started the First Abyssinia Church in Harlem. We are one when African-Americans shed blood on the soil of Ethiopia in order to defend her from fascism and colonialism. And today, we are one, sharing a common hope and a common purpose to thrive in this land of opportunity.
The mission to create a United States of Africa on July 4th 2012.
“When the missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the missionaries had the Bible. They taught us to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened our eyes, they had the land and we had the Bible,”
Jomo Kenyatta
The Time of History is NOW!
The Formation of:
A United States of Africa
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We all all know these manipulations have been going on with or without the validating studies because in every facet of our everyday lives, it
( the manipulation ) exists….
I single handedly lobbied the African Union for 2 years to make a session of the AU summit designated for the sole purpose of creating a United States of Africa which resulted in the Accra, Ghana summit of 2007 that could have created a United States of Africa on July 4th, 2007.
My efforts continue and should be noted by your organization for recognizing the real nuts and bolts people who are stepping up and having an effect on the world.
That’s why all my e-mails on a United States of Africa have the sentence: ” The Time of History is Now!” because as you have said each day we live is a day to make history.
That is why I e-mail and post to keep and awaken those that do not know about the mission to create a United States of Africa on July 4th 2012.
It’s like we are all an extended family and each of us must do a task to contribute to our home based business of building a USAfrica. The one thing I have found in my USAfrica efforts since 1996 is the profound lack of major media coverage on a United States of Africa outside of Africa save for a few mentions and polls in BBC.
There has never been an NBC Dateline or CBS 60 Minutes news special to bring the matter of USAfrica to the 98% of US blacks who still know nothing of the formation of a USAfrica.
“If we understand the mechanism and motives of a group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without t hem knowing it” ; — Dr. Edward Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud…
I have told you how I approached the heads of BET, Ebony, Essence, Black Enterprise, VIBE ( many of which, now are no longer black owned so if they could not report on a USAfrica then, they sure cannot do it now that they are white or corporate owned. ) and how they heemed and hawed and ended up never even having the words United States of Africa even appear in their pages.
“When the truth comes along and you know in your bones that it’s the truth yet you still refuse to accept and defend it you then really begin to die..”
If there is no groundswell for a USAfrica developed in the United States, there is no “wave” to add the the groundswell already taking place in Africa despite the sparse coverage of USAfrica there. Thus the movement remains stalled except for the occasional blurb on Ghadaffi more meant to give the impression of “those silly Africans” than cast any real spotlight on the formation of a United Africa.
You are one of the few who know of my USAfrica efforts from my earliest days and in the years since then, you clearly see how the United States of Africa has been kept off the major media radar map.
My mission is to get black celebrities involved in the fight for a USAfrica because their voices manage to get heard one way or another. If the people never know, they can never get involved and THAT is how the illuminati and puppet masters that really control the world want to keep it.
We have Bono with us on the USAfrica mindset instead of setting up flows of charity but where are OUR major black stars stepping up and in on the matter?
Africa is ear-marked as the breadbasket of the New World Order that is being put together on a pace far exceeding our efforts to form a United States of Africa.
A united Africa would topple the New World Order’s main plan to dominate the world because this is the last opportunity for a “People’s Government” on scale of a super power if united, to be formed.
Remember the NWO’s mandate is that “the people” can never rule themselves, it need’s to be carried out by the Illuminati, the enlighten few….
“Our lives began to end when we stopped speaking up for the things that matter”
— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
We have our work cut out for us…. So Let’s Get To Work People!
A USAfrica is man’s last chance to prove the people can rule themselves and not be ruled.
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I am Ethiopian and always be Ethiopian! I am not african american and I will never be! I don’t know why you wont to relate us with african americans. Guss what, I do not wont to relate with african americans or whatever the name is for any reason. Majority, I prefer to die instead of relating with blood with african americans! It might sound stupid but I know were you trying to go!
Yoftahe: The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about. With that said, you are one ignorant person and the reason why so many think we Ethiopians are racists. Today, your comment puts me to shame. I pray that your kind will be extinct one day because there really is no room for that kind of mentality. I am proud to call myself black, and an African-American because that’s what I am. Whether you like it or not, that’s what you are too.
NO ONE CAN GIVE ME A NAME OR DEFINE ME SOMTHING THAT I do not NEED TO BE called OR I AM NOT. IGNORANCE CALL IT IGNORANCE! I CAME FROM DIFFERENT COUNTRY, SPEACK DIFFERENT LANGUGE, COME FROM DIFFERENT RACIAL BACKGROUND…………… I DO NOT GROW UP TOLD TO BE WHITE, BLACK, BROWN, NATIVE AMERICAN, AFRICAN AMERICAN, OR AFRO AMERICAN. i AM ALWAYS ETHIOPIAN AND ALWAYS BE. IF YOU DO NOT RESPECT THAT, GO TO HEAL. I LOVE AMERICA AND AMERICANS BUT I DON’T HAVE TO BE AFRICAN AMERICAN TO SHOW MY LOVE FOR THIS COUNTRY. YOU CAN SHOW YOUR LOVE AND LIVE TOGETHER WITH RESPECTING YOUR DIFFERENCES. KNOW ONE CAN NOT GIVE ME NAMES. I am Ethiopian and that is who i am. no one can not TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME BY GIVING ME NAMES. TRY TO define me somthing that i do not wont to be or I AM not. this is a human priference and right to be called whatever i need to becalled. I always been Ethiopian (habesha) and always will be. just because i came to your world and you have the power, can not give me names that you wont me to be or try to relate me with somthing that i am not. I respect who you are (african american) but I don’t have to change my identity to show you my respect. loveing who i am and refuse to be defined somthing that i am not is human right and that is not being racist. there is no one who knows about that more tham self. they used to be given names that they don’t agree with. know, thay are trying to do that same thing that had been done on them! you shoud respect my need of Ethiopianism, INSTADE OF CALLING ME A “RACIST”! YOU SHOUD DIFFERENTIATE THE MEANING FIRST!
Yofath… offa ok you are an Ethiopian I approved that LOL… kelal Ethiopiawe nehe ha ha ha
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A real source of pride and inspiration of my heritage. Thanks for sharing!!
Have you seen this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYdZiVlDqbs
Yofath.. what are you doing here? this is for us that want black united.Thank you Brown Condor
Where is there so much venom? Is the term “African-American” nasty?
I am Ethiopian and always be Ethiopian! I am not african american and I will never be! I don’t know why you wont to relate us with african americans. Guss what, I do not wont to relate with african americans or whatever the name is for any reason. Majority, I prefer to die instead of relating with blood with african americans! It might sound stupid but I know were you trying to go!
To “yofthae”…you are a very bitter person. Why?
CAN WE ALL GET TO HEAVEN?
Can we all get to Heaven, or is it just for those that go to church on Sundays, repent now, or cry later, back to sinning on Monday. My goal in life is that we all get to Heaven, right, wrong or indifferent, you can put on a show for the world, but only God knows where the heart is sitting. Jesus Christ has given us an opportunity that cannot be compared, and with weapons aimed at my chest, whom or what shall I fear. No background checks required, enroll today, no fee, If Jesus came to save the world, then why do they judge me? I’ll admit I’ve been in many bad places and still wonder, how I made it through, God saved me for this very moment, so that I can share these words with you. Take back what the devil stole from you. Take it back to your beginning, no wavering faith, no more being a slave to the sinning. The devil has taken me to dark places, revealing all my enemies, planting seeds deep that would only bring the worst of me.
Many deny the existence of God, but mention his name at least once a day. Instead of being your Pharisee, I will continue to pray. I pray for the world, for once I too was doomed, if they continue to ask for me, tell them I’ll be on the moon. In God We Trust, but the God I serve delivered his people from Egypt, dollar bills to cheap thrills, my cup is full please don’t spill it. What would Jesus do? Would he make a gold idol of himself, wear it around his neck, then proceed to talk foolishness, turn around and talk church, it all seems so useless. Lord who am I, for I was made in the image of you, and though it hurt to leave, Satan, I stand no longer with you. So can we all get to Heaven, I affirm, yes we can, surrender yourself to Jesus and put your life in God’s hands.
KEEP THE FAITH BRUGH.
By Albert B. Cassell Jr.
OMEGA PSI PHI
FALL 1999 MU EPSILON CHAPTER
nice
leave yoftahe alone. He knows what he is talking about. I personally knows why he is saying that. He is not African American but habesha African, Ethiopian, Ethiopian American period!!!
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/194224/Ethiopianism