To King Rashawn, son of Piankhi
and King Raylon, son of Xzyzst.

Your fathers have, with great honor, prepared for you in prison zine format

Write or Die Zine issues titled:
1. NGR vol. 1 New Generation Rising
2. California on Blast (NGR sup edition)
3. NGR vol. 2 The Verses
4. The Vent The Ultimate Compilation edution

With love, we beg you to question everything as never-ending students of life.

With humility, we demand that you demand from yourself to be teachers, open to engage, share diversity, and provide clarity for our next generation.

And with vigor, we ask that you welcome true levels of courage to forgive others and create ways to establish peace, without constituting self-destructive behavior.

Now bless us as fathers as we share these open letters to both of you, with society, in prisoner zine format. We understand that not everyone will agree with the content of our work, for we only care that your generation can have at their fingertips zines and information that supports you against the so-called self-righteous that blame you for, well, everything.

Black on black crimes can be factually traced before slavery, in fact, we as a people have betrayed each other to such shameful degrees that it became the very sign of weakness that Christianity, Judaism, Islam, the British, French, the Dutch, and other Europeans and Latins needed to achieve slavery in America's west.

Your generation must know that reparations and lawsuits for crimes against humanity during the slave trade is coming not by the so-called best of us because a lot of us have already converted into the religions of the American co-defendants that we have just named.

As we provoke you to study your own history, you are required to view the no clean hands facts available in history and be confronted with the reality that many African tribes and governments are also co-defendants that served as a component of slavery on levels unspeakable.

An international court would, in the event all of the immunities were extracted, require that the black man present our claim for reparations with detailed facts and the mere shame of our own airing of dirty laundry has prevented us as a people to engage freedom and reclamation as a reality for our ancestors and generations of victimization that affects you to this very day.

Forgive our failures and short comings as a people.

It is therefore easy to yell revolution while at the same time attack our youth over the n-word to deflect.

Then they look down at your generation and ask, "Where is the black man's armed struggle against our oppressor?"

Forgive our people with all of your heart for placing these burdens upon your lap. We command you to never repeat this cycle with your seeds.

We would like to end this letter with a confirmation of your generation's direction of unity and reclamation of the n-word.

We invite you to add your own research and discovery into this matter. As the youth of the 1960s in America took back the word black and as the youth jacked words like "whips" and "chains" through hip-hop culture, your generation is on a nice movement to force the n-word back home to where it originated.

Out of all the things that belong to us that still exist in museums around the world, underneath the Vatican in Rome and in banks and jewlery stores in every nation, nothing is more valuable than our name and identity, for everything else is material.

New Generation Rising, led by creativity. Enjoy your reading.

Love forever,
Piankhi—son of Byron Sr.
XZYZST—son of Floyd Sr.

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The Reclamation of Self: The NGR Review

Ogily's Africa (London, 1670): Nigritaum: a map showing a region called Nigritarum, south of the Sahara to stretch from the Atlantic to the Nile, as in the Nile River

Century Dictionary (1904): Nigritia, a region in central Africa nearly equivalent to Sudan and is the home of the most pronounced types of the Negro race.

Understanding Nigritia is merely a latinizing of the word Sudan, which means, Land of the Blacks. We researched to discover how both Europeans and Arabs could associate the word black, words that mean black in both Arab and Latin languages, and then agree to associate these words with African people.

We not only discovered that the word Africa itself is not an African word—go figure—but we did find that gir, with a wadi in the west. WadiGir?

Looking at the Songhai languages, also known as Habe and Kuria, nicknames in Gur languages, we find Koria Kine—which means "Speech of the Country". Kine itself means speech, talk—yes, Gur languages.

We all know of the Ni origins to Africans, which almost every time, is either associated with a body of water or river or mother or aunty, etc. (example: Nile River) and also Nini.

Yes, the n-word is more African than the word Africa itself!

Here we discovered that Gir also has its origins in African languages like Gir, which is the river of Bounan. Yes, another geographical location on Earth.

There's that water association again. Not only is Gir native to this part of Africa, it is also applied to a river of the Sigilmesa (inquire vowels and oral sonics).

Now the Arabs and Latins had to consider what we've found in our inquiry. That native people to the continent and in several different languages, all associated both Ni and Gir to rivers and water. Yeah, both Latin and Arab invaders had aforeknowledge of the ancient terms in native languages. They were not ignorant.

This means that to us, the descendants of Africa, the word Niger River is of African origin and not Latin. Niger in Latin means black. Both Ni and Gir, Ger, and Gur means river in ancient African languages with an unmistakable association with water—not created by white people from European descent. We can play word games with inner city youth of America all day, but what we can't do is discover one shred of evidence that Ni-Ger, Niger, Nile, Ni, Nini, Gur, Gir, Nigiria, Nigritia, Nigritarum, Nigger, Niggar, Nigga, Niggah, or any other variant of the word has its origins in disrespect or shame.

United States Southern white people did not invent the word nigger. In fact, the only thing they did was mispronounce it. So PTSD is the greater issue here for sufferers, for no unity nor revolution is possible without total reclamation.

In 2017, urban youth are doing to the N-word what the urban youth of America did to the word "black" in the 1960s. In fact, the word nigga is one of the few things with African origins that has survived long enough to reach urban American youth today. Because we can now prove that nigga ain't no government name, and we still exist.

—Piankhi
—XZYZST (exist)