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Mama Khandi Case Summary
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Image: Mama Khandi and a student, displaying and instructing how
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Mama Khandi Case Summary
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My name is Rev. Khandi Konte-Bey (Paasewe). i
(intentional lowercase) am affectionately known as
Mama Khandi. My bio includes but is not limited to
being a multi-talented Afrikan artist of writing
poems, plays, essays, commentaries, articles, books,
sing in 13 languages, make and play sekere,
seamstress, sketch artist and a host of other artistic
talents. i graduated college with honors (while
multiply disabled [including brain injury] and
homeless from a tree that fell on my home during a
tornado storm) and am the recipient of a host of
academic, activist and artistic awards. i am an
original Black Panther Party member from age 13,
Garveyite at age 13, MOVE (Family Afrika Supporter),
community activist; co-founder of DEC (Determination &
Empowerment Collective created to address the rights
of food stamp recipients in the Montgomery Country
area of Ohio), Pan Afrikanist Congress of Azania
member, All Afrikan People's Revolutionary Party
member, conscious citizen of the Provisional
Government Republic of New Afrika, Wachitaw citizen,
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delivered all my own children at home, immunized my
own children homeopathically, educated my own children
and delivered hundreds of babies for sistas at home
for over 35 years. i am a certified herbalist and
homeopath, mother of 14 children: 6 from my womb
(would have been 7 but filthydelphia kkkops beat one
out of my womb when they kicked my doors in, came in
on horseback and trampled 3 of my daughters while
beating me into miscarriage) and 8 adopted, foster
parent/tutor and mentor to hundreds of children. i’ve
helped build four independent Afrikan schools, was a
member of Save Our Land Community Patrol -
organization developed to protect the community from
police brutality, ideology: Afrikan centered cultural
matrix and Pan-Afrikan Internationalist. i am the
internet website designer for 92% of the chairpersons
for the Million Woman March; Co-chair for the Mid West
Region (17 states plus Canada) for the Million Woman
March. How did i come into all of this activism of
Human Rights? My Ancestors!
Queen Mother Moore, Nana Ansaa, Nana Akosua
Tankyiampon and Nalo Talib are greatly responsible for
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my being involved in the Human Rights struggle as they
guided me and supported me when i was focused on
issues beyond that of the normal 13-year-old. These
influences were my foundation for the woman
affectionately known now as Mama Khandi. They guided
me with their activism. Queen Mother Moore filed
charges against the u. s. a. of genocide. She worked
tirelessly for POW’s and political prisoners. Because
of her efforts and those of my big sista Nalo, i began
supporting the Black Dragon Unit of the Black
Liberation Army in Tenna. for 22 years until the
release of their Major General Hamisha Halifu Utumwa.
This cadre collective crowned me Queen Mother. Hamisha
was given a life sentence for fighting back when a
white boy attacked and disrespected his mother. It was
a challenge to gain access to, for and from these
brothas through the penal system. Revolutionaries are
treated with much more injustice, harshness and
imperialism than the average brotha or sista who is
incarcerated. i had to use creative ideas and methods
to assist, aid and provide support for these brothas.
Thus, gaining my Reverend status, in pertinent part,
was a tool for being of service to POW’s and political
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prisoners.
Mumia Abu Jamal and i grew up together as We use to
talk and share ideas, strategies and ideology. He and
I were in the Black Panther Party together, attended
the same broadcast school and were in Move together.
When i would teach my classes in the independent
Afrikan school system, i would assign my students to
choose a POW to write to for academic credit. Many
students chose Mumia. Many chose other brothas and
sistas who are POW’s that i am close to like. The list
is exhaustive as at one time, i corresponded with as
many as 57 POWs at once! The list includes, but is not
limited to: Veronza Bowers, Mumia, Sundiata Acoli,
Meryl Afrika, Jalil Muntaqim, Zolo Azania, Mutulu
Shakur, Ojore Lutalo, Sekou Kambui, Cinque McGee,
Russell Maroon Shoats, Albert Woodfox, Ali Khalid
Abdullah, Sekou Cinque T.M. Kambui, and many others
whose names escape me or are too numerous to mention
here. To say this was a challenging undertaking is an
understatement at best!
Communicating with these brothas and sistas proved to
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be a hardship as i would write to them and they would
not receive the letters for months at a time. Often
they would move brothas and sistas from prison to
prison without warning to disrupt and strong hold of
elevating the consciousness of the prison population
in any location. Once i heard back from Mumia over 9
months after i had written to him. These are the petty
tactics the prisons use to break the spirit of those
incarcerated. The medical care is laughable if it
weren’t life-threateningly UN-funny.
These brothas and sistas informed me of my
POW/political prisoner status when i was attacked by
the state of ohio and incarcerated in solitary
confinement for almost 6 months with no medical care
(i’m multiply disabled), almost died (losing over half
of my weight). For the first time, i was on the other
side of the coin. Not the one providing care but the
one in need of care. Like these bold and courageous
freedom fighters, i survived without compromise. i
refused to plea-bargain, while my skin hung off of my
bones with deathly weight loss. Upon my arrest, under
fraudulent multiple felonies, i was taken to jail,
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spat on, hair pulled, head slammed on concrete floor,
yanked out of my wheel chair, stripped, taunted,
cussed, denied my wheel chair for 5 days, laid in my
own urine for 4 days and fed one meal in 24 hours of
baloney on white bread with cow’s milk. i did what any
respectable vegan/vegetarian would do: i peed on it!
In solitary confinement, i was denied a diabetic diet,
food was thrown in the floor and in the trash,
commissary was denied, i never saw population and was
held in solitary the entire 6 months i was
incarcerated, was denied medical care, had my diabetic
gluco-reading performed ONCE! It took 3 months to have
an attorney assigned to me. Much of my mail was
returned to sender, marked, “DOES NOT EXIST”. Most of
my phone calls were blocked. One time, my daughter,
who was 8 months pregnant, on her birthday, waited in
line for 2 hours to see her mother for 15 minutes.
Another time, when my daughters visited me, they could
see the skin hanging off of my bones and knew their
mother was dying in jail. To break the ice, my
daughter who has always thought of herself as too fat,
said, “dang mom, if i knew they had the bomb
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weigh-loss plan in here, i would have come to jail a
long time ago!” That did it! We laughed and were able
to visit without tears and sadness.
Long story short, it took THREE YEARS, but i was
acquitted of all criminal charges. i lost everything:
my home, good name, income, son, medical coverage,
subsidies, freedom, health, etc. And presently, for
the 4th time since these fraudulent charges were
brought against me, i am losing my home that was
donated to me! The offer has been rescinded. My
diabetic reading, without funds to control it as i had
before the state’s attack against me, is around 449!
Yes! A Walking Diabetic coma! Any assistance that can
be afforded to me would be greatly appreciated. Email
khandipages3@yahoo.com to be added to the COASADOS
Mama Khandi UPDATE list about my court case and
fallout from the attack against me. To donate, go to
the COASADOS Legal Defense Committee website listed
below and click on the paypal donation link or send a
postal money order to Rev. Khandi I. N. Konte-Bey
Paasewe, P. O. Box 6965, Columbus, Ohio, 43205.
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Thanx everyone for taking the time to read this
article. Remember to stand firm in the face of
cultural imperialism and white supremacy! Do not
compromise! Support our freedom fighters, POWs and
political prisoners!
Rev. Khandi I. N. Konte-Bey
Box 6965, Olentangy/Washitaw (columbus) OHIO, 43205
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Afrikan Sekere Art by Mama Khandi
Item #002
Blue cat's eye Afrikan wax print sekere bag w/front view, vecro opening and strap, padded
Mama Khandi Case Summary
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