New Moon-Mycology

My name is Kazi Ajagun Toure, aka, Chris King, I grew up in Portsmouth, N.H. After I graduated High School in 1969,  I went to Laney Community College in Oakland California, after I lost two basketball scholarships, one to Loyola University Chicago, and Tulsa University.  Laney was Sister campus with Merritt Community College, where Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale attended.  I lived on MacArthur Blvd. in Oakland.  Three blocks up the hill from Black Panther Party National Head Quarters. I naturally gravitated little by little to the Party.  Attending many educational teach ins, study groups, selling the paper and attending many rallies.  

“I have believed in my convictions and have been convicted for my beliefs, conned by the constitution, beat up and harassed by the police.”  I grew up believing that we all were “equal” that we had the right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Those were some of the flowery words in the Declaration of Independence, and I Believed them.  

  Malcolm said, we cannot call ourselves citizens if we do not enjoy the same constitutional rights as all citizens.  I agree, and it’s why I consider myself as well as the 40million people descendants of Afrikans who were brought here in captivity a New Afrikan.  

On Feb. 7, 1982, I was arrested in a shootout with the Massachusetts State police, I was charge with Federal possession of fire arms, and sentence to 6yrs, six months later the State of Massachusetts charged me with possession of the same guns, and gave me a four to five year sentences running on and after I did the 6 for the feds.  

In May of 1986, I was charged with “Seditious Conspiracy, and being a member of the United Freedom Front, an armed clandestine unit, that carried out several actions against U.S. imperialism in El Salvador, Puerto Rico, So. Afrika, and right here in Boston. December 1986, I plead guilty, and was sentenced to 7 years, on and after the previous two sentences.   

I was released on October 1, 1991.  That very year 10k New Afrikan youth kill 10k New Afrikan youth.  Since my release I have worked with many people who claim to be abolitionist, from the 2001, Conference on Racism in So. Afrika, to Mycology.  I hope this weekend proves to be as fruitful as the New Moon.