In the hands of the capitalist press, Black Hammer becomes an ink blot for white anxieties around Black revolt, immigration, overseas communism. Increasingly for far-right groups like the Proud Boys, Hammer City is seen as the legitimate program of a growing, mass-based movement to the immediate left of Black Lives Matter. They even set up a press conference to flaunt their newfound fame to the world. The leadership in Colorado is visibly hype. Instead, in the post-Floyd, post-Breonna mood of white panic, the story of the Hammer City “ethnostate” is picked up by Fox News, Newsmax, and other right-wing news sites with mainstream traffic. Maybe in other circumstances, this moment might be seen for what it really is: the determined drive to Black freedom that moves each generation, crashing right into a dangerous scam. Portentously, the Black Hammer website speaks of the need for “dictatorship over the lives and labor” of colonized people. Printouts booming the phrase “BUILD HAMMER CITY” appear on lamp-posts and bus shelters in major cities across the US, where they vie for space with promo stickers for drill rappers, and fliers for tenants’ unions. A TikTok video shows an enthusiastic young person sitting at a nearby stream, shouting “Land Back Yall!!” with performative rolls of the neck (the video will later be taken down). The Black Hammer Organization, “the baddest anti-colonial organization on the planet,” has just reportedly purchased 200 acres of land in the Colorado Rockies-“ten thousand feet in the air with RICH soil!”-on which to build a communist utopia, complete with “indestructible” huts and an underground farm. Augustus Romain, Jr., along with two members of the Black Hammer Organization, who like so many others have since left Gazi’s side Pictured: “Commander-In-Chief” Gazi Kodzo, a.k.a. Our aim is simply to let the victims’ voices be heard to alert the Black liberation movement to the clear danger of this social media cult for Black and all colonized people and to get the remaining members of BHO to a place of safety, far beyond the grasp of Gazi Kodzo, their alleged abuser. We also cannot speak on behalf of any of Gazi’s alleged victims about what should happen to this individual, so that justice can be served. We are categorically opposed to carceral or state solutions to the acts that are alleged herein, though we do know that Black Hammer itself is quite comfortable with calling the police (which in this case would be an even bigger mistake than the initial attack). Red Voice is a prison abolitionist publication. Though we had no plans to do so originally, we are therefore using this platform to denounce Gazi Kodzo as an enemy of the people, and to elevate the voices of these brave comrades, who have accused Gazi’s self-styled “dictatorship” of serious counter-revolutionary crimes, that include but are not limited to: racketeering, domestic violence, reckless endangerment, sexual harassment, routine physical and emotional abuse, threatening comrades with deadly weapons, blackmail, coercion, destruction of property, labor exploitation, and kidnapping. As principled communists, we refuse to back down from fascist assaults, especially one as cowardly and poorly executed as this. The attack is itself compelling evidence that Gazi and Black Hammer feared what might come from those interactions. The demagogic YouTuber known as Gazi Kodzo wanted to be “the leader of the anti-white revolution.” Instead they may go down as one of the more repulsive cult leaders in recent Black historyĮditorial Note: Red Voice News is publishing this exposé in response to a cyber-attack perpetrated against our website, which our tech team was able to trace, with mad receipts, directly back to a member of the Black Hammer Organization, who goes by the initials “DP.” It is believed that this crime was greenlighted when one of our staff was seen interacting with alleged victims of the cult leader called Gazi Kodzo.
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