Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Friday, December 26, 2014
Assata Shakur at World Youth Festival 1997 (Bless Sister Assata Shakur)
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First of all, you don't know what my social philosophy is; and if you're mentally challenged enough to actually believe that Obama is a Maoist, and the Democratic Party a "Che/Mao Liberation Front," then you're clearly incapable of understanding anything above the mental level of a two year old. And as long as you're not denouncing police terror against the Black community and Latin community, then I could care less about alleged colleagues (mainly figments of your fevered imagination anyway) attacking NYC cops. -Savant
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This is also a guy who started threads on Black Nationalism, Revolutionary Black films, "Bring Back the Black Panthers?". Revolutionaries in AA Forum, etc. But once hardly expects you to be surprised. People who don't think are seldom surprised. They lack intellectual curiosity.
-Savant
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I won't be leaving this country, but working to drive out people like you. Now as for the point of my comment, it's simple. Whether you change your name or not it will make little diffrenc if you don't change your consciousness. Martin Delaney, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks Marcus Garvey, Bobby Seale, Ella Baker, Paul Robeson, Fannie Lou Hamer, Angela Davis, and innumerable other brothers and sisters have contributed to our people's fight for liberation without changing their names. If you want to change your name (as numerous other freedom fighters have done), that's fine as a cultural or political statement. The name is less important than commitment to the struggle. A dude with an English name infiltrated the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party, enabling the cops to murder Fred Hampton in his sleep. Another dude with an African name infiltrated the New York branch of the Black Panther Party. A dude with an English name infiltrated Dr. King's organization And the rivals of Dr. King in Memphis, a group called THE INVADERS were infiltrated by agents with both African and English names. I care less about name than about commitment. But...if you are going to change your name choose a REAL African name! Not a made up one. Know what the name means, and consider that meaning in deciding what name to choose for yourself and your children. One other suggestion....As the rulers of America are still primarily WHITE, it may be wise to have a European name you or your children can use when needed. If the name on a job application happens to be Kwame, you will probably be deleted immediately. You may at least get an interview if your name is Joseph, Robert, John, Mary or LInda. And definitely no "Shaniqua ". They already hav you pegged as a "welfare queen" with that name even if you've a degree from Columbia. But I still say--focus on raising consciousness. And if you change our name let it be a name which reflects that RAISED consciousness..... and be a REAL African name.
-Savant
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No community is a terrorist organization, and indeed no community is an organization. The Black community is thought that way only by racists. As for rampant police violence against our community that has been verified numerous times not only by anecdotal by Blacks themselves, but by the UN, Amnesty International and the ACLU, and various cultural studies. The case is closed on that issue. The only question is what to do about the racist terror. As for Hot Spittle, his description of Black community as terrorist or criminal reveals the same kind of thinking as that of those Nazis who saw the Jewish people as a community of shysters, warmongers and seditionists. He belongs to the same sewer as they.
-Savant
Saturday, December 13, 2014
More Commentaries
And do they see POLICE VIOLENCE as disgusting? Do they find disgusting the corporate media's focus on a few violent incidents in the context of a situation in which most protest has been NONVIOLENT even when attacked by police with tanks and rubber bullets? Perhaps some Europeans, like some white Americans, have a tendency to see what they want to see. Your own comments seem more concerned with the few incidents of violent protest--which were provoked by police violence---than with the violence of the police. One's perceptions and concerns are not necessarily apolitical or neutral. As for some of your other comments, I may address them when I have more time.
-Savant
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There's no widespread "left wing violence" in America. In fact, that kind of violence is nearly non-existent. But racist and right wing violence is rampant in America. Indeed, that is the only kind of violence that has predominated in the USA. I suspect that may have even been true for most of Europe's history, but I know that right wing violence has predominated in ALL of American history.
-Savant
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Am I expected to believe that the world doesn't see the MASSIVE NONVIOLENT PROTESTS happening from coast to coast in the USA? They've been in the news for MONTHS!!! As recently as YESTERDAY tens of thousand of people--Black, white, Asian, Latino, Jews, Arabs and heaven knows who else--were marching in Washington, D.C., New York, LA and scores of other cities throughout the nation. And those nonviolent protests---actuall y beginning this past summer--have been going on far longer than those scattered few outbreaks of rioting. Even on the day of the decision not to indict Darren Wilson, the day the rioting broke out, the great MAJORITY of the Black community and its allies were engaged in nonviolent demonstrations. If these things weren't seen one can only wonder why some people have such SELECTIVE perception. I hear there were even sympathy demonstratins in solidarity in some countries OUTSIDE the USA---also nonviolent. How do people manage to miss that? -Savant
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Civil and political liberty did replace fascistic autocracy in South Africa. Democracy (albeit not fully social) and racial equality is replacing the apartheid police state. I don't like police states. So, I criticize the ANC for its limitations, and I call upon them to fulfill as well as possible the social democratic aims enunciated in the Freedom Charter and eloquently propounded by Nelson Mandela at the Rivonia trial. But I comment them for ending the regime of fascistic terror. As you are a pro-Nazi fascist it hardly surprises me that you cannot appreciate the values of that achievement in South Africa. No doubt the previous regime was more to your liking---more "civilized " in your colonialist language. -Savant
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The demonstrations were 99% NONVIOLENT. And the greatest danger to the citizenry came from the police. Demonstrators weren't attacking crowds with rubber bullets. But while most of the actions of protestors were NONVIOLENT, the police were violent. By the way, were you asleep when demonstrators BLOCKED the way of a group trying to loot stores? It was on TV. I'm not so sure that I cannot hold people accountable for their selective attention. What they NOTICE tells one more than may be obvious. But as I said before, while the opposition has been MAINLY nonviolent--and in mass demonstrations all over the country--there's no guarantee that they will remain that way if the police abuse is not corrected, and is even sanctioned by the judiciary under the pretense of law.
-Savant
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blackfirst3 weeks ago:
So you must think i`m some fool that`s gonna be swayed by your white supremacist propaganda,trying to deflect the issue,of racism white supremacy?Blacks and whites are not in the same boat, whites are not being killed in mass by racist policeman who are allowed to get away with it,whites are not being brainwashed in schools to feel inferior like they do to blacks,whites are not being demonized in the media to encourage more racism towards whites like whites are doing to blacks,the media is't spreading bullshit statistics like,:theirs more whites in jail then in college", or 1 in 4 whites are in prison or on probation",like the they do to blacks in order to encourage racism towards blacks,Whites are not being racially profiled like blacks are,whites are not being discriminated on the level of blacks. Most of the crimes in the U.S is committed by whites.The reason their are more blacks in prison is because of the racist judges who give blacks higher sentence and they also often give whites a smack on the wrist when they commit a crime.Plus the law enforcement racially profile blacks and don`t target whites. And black folks are justified in rioting because many of you whites allowed Darren Wilson and others to get away with the murder of blacks.You whites riot all the time,everytime whites favorite team wins or loses whites riot,and turn over cars and burn them.What justification is their for that?
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If police killed a 12 year old white child, and then claimed he looked 20 and his toy gun looked like a real one, I suspect the Court's decision would have been different; especially if he were a white child of the privileged classes. Of course, the police would have known better than to make that "mistake. " Like the time when the police fatally mistook a 10 year old black child for a 40 year old bank robber. Or the time when at 17 I was almost fatally mistaken for a 35 year old who supposedly stuck up a bar. In short, the Black community (and more morally conscious parts of all communities) in America are getting tired of these fatal errors on the part of the police, and the jive a___ excuse of courts who exonerate them. Angry black students of one of my colleagues asked their professor: "So, how long are we supposed to put up with this? How long do they THINK we will put up with this?" And one Black coed stated "We need to bring back the Black Panthers!" She wasn't even born when the BPP was around. But I hear more and more this same kind of thing being said by YOUNG Black people, not the 1960s generation. And you'd be surprised at how many of their white and Asian (not the mention Hispanic) "millennial " contemporaries find this completely understandable
-Savant
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It was Hitler who gave FDR the pretext by declaring war on the USA. But it was Europe that created Hitler, or allowed conditions that enabled him to rise. I think my uncle wanted a respite from "ni****r " hating America which lynched one of his siblings, and had no objection to fighting to crush racists abroad (as he would have like to do at home). What is little known outside of Black America (or inside by the younger generation) is that many Black Americans were INCENSED at the Italian Fascist invasion of Ethiopia. (Later we would be incensed by the atrocities in Mozambique or South Africa) . This helped turn the attention of many Black Americans of that era toward (and against) the rising tide of Fascism. Most leaders in our churches, schools an civic organizations were indignant and publicly spoke out against it. Some Blacks fought with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade against Franco in Spain. And Dr. W.E.B Du Bois warned that the fate of the Jews in racist Europe could become the fate of the Blacks in racist America; that in a racist society that is always a possibility, sometimes near and sometimes distant, but always there. Thanks heavens that the political Right is marginal in Black America, having less traction in even the middle and upper classes of AA society than among (sadly) the working and poor classes of white America---and Europe.
-Savant
-Savant
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There's no widespread "left wing violence" in America. In fact, that kind of violence is nearly non-existent. But racist and right wing violence is rampant in America. Indeed, that is the only kind of violence that has predominated in the USA. I suspect that may have even been true for most of Europe's history, but I know that right wing violence has predominated in ALL of American history.
-Savant
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Am I expected to believe that the world doesn't see the MASSIVE NONVIOLENT PROTESTS happening from coast to coast in the USA? They've been in the news for MONTHS!!! As recently as YESTERDAY tens of thousand of people--Black, white, Asian, Latino, Jews, Arabs and heaven knows who else--were marching in Washington, D.C., New York, LA and scores of other cities throughout the nation. And those nonviolent protests---actuall y beginning this past summer--have been going on far longer than those scattered few outbreaks of rioting. Even on the day of the decision not to indict Darren Wilson, the day the rioting broke out, the great MAJORITY of the Black community and its allies were engaged in nonviolent demonstrations. If these things weren't seen one can only wonder why some people have such SELECTIVE perception. I hear there were even sympathy demonstratins in solidarity in some countries OUTSIDE the USA---also nonviolent. How do people manage to miss that? -Savant
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Civil and political liberty did replace fascistic autocracy in South Africa. Democracy (albeit not fully social) and racial equality is replacing the apartheid police state. I don't like police states. So, I criticize the ANC for its limitations, and I call upon them to fulfill as well as possible the social democratic aims enunciated in the Freedom Charter and eloquently propounded by Nelson Mandela at the Rivonia trial. But I comment them for ending the regime of fascistic terror. As you are a pro-Nazi fascist it hardly surprises me that you cannot appreciate the values of that achievement in South Africa. No doubt the previous regime was more to your liking---more "civilized " in your colonialist language. -Savant
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The demonstrations were 99% NONVIOLENT. And the greatest danger to the citizenry came from the police. Demonstrators weren't attacking crowds with rubber bullets. But while most of the actions of protestors were NONVIOLENT, the police were violent. By the way, were you asleep when demonstrators BLOCKED the way of a group trying to loot stores? It was on TV. I'm not so sure that I cannot hold people accountable for their selective attention. What they NOTICE tells one more than may be obvious. But as I said before, while the opposition has been MAINLY nonviolent--and in mass demonstrations all over the country--there's no guarantee that they will remain that way if the police abuse is not corrected, and is even sanctioned by the judiciary under the pretense of law.
-Savant
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blackfirst3 weeks ago:
So you must think i`m some fool that`s gonna be swayed by your white supremacist propaganda,trying to deflect the issue,of racism white supremacy?Blacks and whites are not in the same boat, whites are not being killed in mass by racist policeman who are allowed to get away with it,whites are not being brainwashed in schools to feel inferior like they do to blacks,whites are not being demonized in the media to encourage more racism towards whites like whites are doing to blacks,the media is't spreading bullshit statistics like,:theirs more whites in jail then in college", or 1 in 4 whites are in prison or on probation",like the they do to blacks in order to encourage racism towards blacks,Whites are not being racially profiled like blacks are,whites are not being discriminated on the level of blacks. Most of the crimes in the U.S is committed by whites.The reason their are more blacks in prison is because of the racist judges who give blacks higher sentence and they also often give whites a smack on the wrist when they commit a crime.Plus the law enforcement racially profile blacks and don`t target whites. And black folks are justified in rioting because many of you whites allowed Darren Wilson and others to get away with the murder of blacks.You whites riot all the time,everytime whites favorite team wins or loses whites riot,and turn over cars and burn them.What justification is their for that?
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If police killed a 12 year old white child, and then claimed he looked 20 and his toy gun looked like a real one, I suspect the Court's decision would have been different; especially if he were a white child of the privileged classes. Of course, the police would have known better than to make that "mistake. " Like the time when the police fatally mistook a 10 year old black child for a 40 year old bank robber. Or the time when at 17 I was almost fatally mistaken for a 35 year old who supposedly stuck up a bar. In short, the Black community (and more morally conscious parts of all communities) in America are getting tired of these fatal errors on the part of the police, and the jive a___ excuse of courts who exonerate them. Angry black students of one of my colleagues asked their professor: "So, how long are we supposed to put up with this? How long do they THINK we will put up with this?" And one Black coed stated "We need to bring back the Black Panthers!" She wasn't even born when the BPP was around. But I hear more and more this same kind of thing being said by YOUNG Black people, not the 1960s generation. And you'd be surprised at how many of their white and Asian (not the mention Hispanic) "millennial " contemporaries find this completely understandable
-Savant
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It was Hitler who gave FDR the pretext by declaring war on the USA. But it was Europe that created Hitler, or allowed conditions that enabled him to rise. I think my uncle wanted a respite from "ni****r " hating America which lynched one of his siblings, and had no objection to fighting to crush racists abroad (as he would have like to do at home). What is little known outside of Black America (or inside by the younger generation) is that many Black Americans were INCENSED at the Italian Fascist invasion of Ethiopia. (Later we would be incensed by the atrocities in Mozambique or South Africa) . This helped turn the attention of many Black Americans of that era toward (and against) the rising tide of Fascism. Most leaders in our churches, schools an civic organizations were indignant and publicly spoke out against it. Some Blacks fought with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade against Franco in Spain. And Dr. W.E.B Du Bois warned that the fate of the Jews in racist Europe could become the fate of the Blacks in racist America; that in a racist society that is always a possibility, sometimes near and sometimes distant, but always there. Thanks heavens that the political Right is marginal in Black America, having less traction in even the middle and upper classes of AA society than among (sadly) the working and poor classes of white America---and Europe.
-Savant
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
More Words
The cage was CREATED by racists, by segregation, institutional racism and capitalist superexploitaton. In the REAL WORLD, ghettoes were directly and intentionally created by segregation, both northern and southern. That's historical reality, not a matter of opinion. But at least at one time the super-exploited, colonized Black community had a relative stable place in the economic as exploited laborers---albeit at the BOTTOM of the economic system,. That is what my parents endured. Degrading, but largely STABLE. And so my mom worked in the same miserable factory in Bmore for about thirty or forty years. My dad had a poor paying gig most of his life as a mechanic. And there was Bethlehem Steel in Bmore. In other cities you may have had GM or Chrystler. When Blacks were not excluded they were relegated to the BOTTOM. But at one time that bottom tended to hold steady. But then came the ELECTRONIC REVOLUTION within domestic and global capitalism. Then the whole picture changed. Industrial capital gave way to electronic and piratical finance capitalism. Capitalism has long been known as a system giving rise to technological revolutions. These revolutions mainly created labor saving devices which allowed the creation of more and more wealth (mainly for the capitalist) with less and less labor. But the new electronic revolution tends to created not labor saving but LABOR REPLACING devices. This new electronic revolution first obliterated that section of the economy with jobs that Blacks---thanks to centuries of racial caste--were disproportionately confined. Hence the current crisis in the Black community and the Black family. The fathers often CANNOT provide. I won't go now into a critique of the patriarchal family, which was no paradise. But now even that kind of family is increasingly impossible to sustain. Moreover, it is not just a coincidence that broken families are more common EVERYWHERE, not just in the Black community. Singlehood, not marriage, is now the statistical American NORM. Since capitalism can increasingly create wealth, profit without labor, the old New Deal social contract is now torn to shreds. Capitalism destroys families, jobs, communities, culture and civilization itself. The plight of the Black community is only a more severe example of the plight of America. Similarly, the fascistic police terror against Blacks is a foreshadowing of the fascistic future of America if this militarized police abuse isn't ended. Let's be clear. If the Black struggle is lost it will mean the end of democracy and freedom in America--what little democracy and freedom we still have left. And all you white people who demonize Black people rather than fighting the 1% are putting a noose around your own necks. An elder (who was a university student in the 1960s) tells me that when Dr. King visited Baltimore in 1967 he said at a meeting in our community "The REAL difference between us and our bemused white brethren is not what they think, and maybe no what we think. It's not that they're free and we're not. It's that we KNOW we're not free, and they think they are." Wake up, white America! It's later than you think.
-Savant
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Would you believe I had memorized those words when I was 13, and that the Black Panther Party ended their presentation of their 10 Point program with those words from the Declaration of Independence?
-Savant
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Savant's words in refuting a skeptic:
There is widespread, rampant police terror in America against the Black community. And there has been since the beginning of this decadent, racist society. The United Nations, Amnesty International, the ACLU have all spoken out against racist police terror against Black and Latin people in America. The UN has specifically named Ferguson as just one example of a PATTERN of racist abuse and police brutality. (Perhaps the whole world is "acting like a 15 year old). And your denial is an implicit apology for that terror. Your racist demonizing of Black youth (while dishonestly b_____ about "race baiters") makes you an accomplice. Furthermore, this fascistic terror cannot and will not be confined to Black and Latin communities. It will spread. Indeed, we've already seen an indication of that danger with the violent repression of Occupy activists on the West Coast a few years ago (with one veteran of our loony wars in the Middle East getting his skull cracked by a cop's rubber bullet). You'd better pull your head out of the sand. As for the Black community we're pretty fed up. Today our protest mainly takes the form of massive nonviolent resistance and demonstrations. I commend our young Black people for their preference for that kind of activism. Some of my students--black, white, Latin and other--are planning further demos as well as a series of actions (including Berkeley style teach-ins, etc) for the following semester. I am proud of them. But let no one be deceived. Our protests NOW are mainly NONVIOLENT in character. I guarantee no one that they will remain so if the terror is not curbed and ended. Would you like to see the emergence of an African American equivalent of the Irish Republican Army?
-Savant
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Interestingly enough, I know a Black social worker whose job includes some work with poor whites in South Baltimore, a part of town who economic conditions resemble those of black East Baltimore. Most of the same issues are there, but perhaps more hidden because those poor are of European descent. Low income employment, unemployment, broken families, drugs, etc. They're not stigmatized by race. But they are victimized by class. And yes, there is police brutality in those areas though not exactly on the scale of police violence in Black communities. It might intensify if these communities become conscientized. Kind of like what happened with the IWW. If there's one thing that you, I and Attai do seem to agree on, it's the need for at least the equivalent (in contemporary terms) or the ORIGINAL Black Panthers, SNCC. I would add we need the equivalent (in contemporary terms) also of the IWW.
-Savant
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Sorry. but your claim is simply and FACTUALLY false. The Democratic Party is a rotten corporate capitalist party, but not so far to the right as the Republicans. That's a FACT, and the rest is right wing paranoid nonsense. But I WISH Barack Obama was a socialist; a democratic socialist, not a Maoist. We might then have universal health care rather than the watered down ACA program. We might have had a SERIOUS effort at national reconstruction (somewhat like with FDR) rather than the tepid stimulus package. We might even have the Economic Bill of Rights that Dr. King intended to put forth had he lived to lead the Poor Peoples Campaign in spring of 1968. And the political and cultural climate of America might be more humane, democratic and radically anti-racist. No militarized police such as we've seen in Ferguson and numerous other American cities and town. I wish Obama was even HALF as left-of-center as rightists imagine, and that he had won the election on precisely that kind of platform.
-Savant
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Drilling's "Che/Mao Liberation Front" sounds as unreal as those conspiracies of Jewish Communists and Bankers that old European racists (of which Nazis were only the most notorious) use to rant and rave about. It sounds like the American (especially in the South) talk about commie, pinko, liberal Jewish conspiracies which were alleged to be behind and controlling the Black freedom Movement of the 1960s. Hey, it ain't REAL! I'm not just saying that the Democratic Party, subservient to corporate interests and money, is not the "Che/Mao liberation front." I'm saying that I do not actually believe in the existence of such a Front.....not in the real world. -Savant
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Savant Refuting a Reactionary:
Moron! Timothy is referring to positions of Malcolm X AFTER he left NOI (though thee's some indication his thinking tacitly moved in a revolutionary direction even BEFORE breaking with that bankrupt outfit), Malcolm X, who had to deal with sexist attitudes in his new organization, had to remind brothers that at least in the MOST PROGRESSIVE African nations, there was emphasis on the emancipation of women. At least the most progressive elements he met in Algeria's FLN (who unfortunately lost out to more conservative elements) emphasized not only the end to white supremacy, but also opposition to CLASS OPPRESSION and the oppression of women. Malcolm's thinking ran along similar lines. And in that respect he was a REVOLUTIONARY Black nationalist, not a reactionary one (as were NOI and Karenga's United Slaves or US). The Cuban revolutionaries also reject racism, patriarchy and class oppression and exploitation. Unfortunately, they follow the Leninist model, which defeats the ultimate aims of the Revolution. But neither Che nor Castro were reactionary nationalists. To the extent that they are nationalists it is in opposition to US imperialism which had plundered Cuba for nearly a century. Maybe if you READ some Black thinkers (or read ANYTHING) you might at least distinguish between progressive and revolutionary nationalism and the conservative or reactionary varieties, Even in Europe there;'s a difference. French, Polish and Czech Resistance were at least progressive form of nationalist resistance to Nazi occupation. But Nazism, Italian Fascism and the Fascism of Franco were REACTIONARY European nationalisms. By at least the standards of the time the Italian nationalism Mazinni and Garibaldi were democratic and progressive. The Italian nationalism of Mussolini was fascistic and reactionary. Get a clue.
-Savant
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Bravo, young brother!!! Folk ought to READ Malcolm X or hush. Also, there's a interesting documentary called "MALCOLM X: MAKE IT PLAIN". Made by Orlando Bagwell, who also made CITIZEN KING. And who is a Bmore homeboy from a progressive black middle class family. (Probably my contemporary since his folk were involved in Baltimore's civil rights movement). We must cherish the legacy. -Savant
-Savant
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Would you believe I had memorized those words when I was 13, and that the Black Panther Party ended their presentation of their 10 Point program with those words from the Declaration of Independence?
-Savant
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Savant's words in refuting a skeptic:
There is widespread, rampant police terror in America against the Black community. And there has been since the beginning of this decadent, racist society. The United Nations, Amnesty International, the ACLU have all spoken out against racist police terror against Black and Latin people in America. The UN has specifically named Ferguson as just one example of a PATTERN of racist abuse and police brutality. (Perhaps the whole world is "acting like a 15 year old). And your denial is an implicit apology for that terror. Your racist demonizing of Black youth (while dishonestly b_____ about "race baiters") makes you an accomplice. Furthermore, this fascistic terror cannot and will not be confined to Black and Latin communities. It will spread. Indeed, we've already seen an indication of that danger with the violent repression of Occupy activists on the West Coast a few years ago (with one veteran of our loony wars in the Middle East getting his skull cracked by a cop's rubber bullet). You'd better pull your head out of the sand. As for the Black community we're pretty fed up. Today our protest mainly takes the form of massive nonviolent resistance and demonstrations. I commend our young Black people for their preference for that kind of activism. Some of my students--black, white, Latin and other--are planning further demos as well as a series of actions (including Berkeley style teach-ins, etc) for the following semester. I am proud of them. But let no one be deceived. Our protests NOW are mainly NONVIOLENT in character. I guarantee no one that they will remain so if the terror is not curbed and ended. Would you like to see the emergence of an African American equivalent of the Irish Republican Army?
-Savant
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Interestingly enough, I know a Black social worker whose job includes some work with poor whites in South Baltimore, a part of town who economic conditions resemble those of black East Baltimore. Most of the same issues are there, but perhaps more hidden because those poor are of European descent. Low income employment, unemployment, broken families, drugs, etc. They're not stigmatized by race. But they are victimized by class. And yes, there is police brutality in those areas though not exactly on the scale of police violence in Black communities. It might intensify if these communities become conscientized. Kind of like what happened with the IWW. If there's one thing that you, I and Attai do seem to agree on, it's the need for at least the equivalent (in contemporary terms) or the ORIGINAL Black Panthers, SNCC. I would add we need the equivalent (in contemporary terms) also of the IWW.
-Savant
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Sorry. but your claim is simply and FACTUALLY false. The Democratic Party is a rotten corporate capitalist party, but not so far to the right as the Republicans. That's a FACT, and the rest is right wing paranoid nonsense. But I WISH Barack Obama was a socialist; a democratic socialist, not a Maoist. We might then have universal health care rather than the watered down ACA program. We might have had a SERIOUS effort at national reconstruction (somewhat like with FDR) rather than the tepid stimulus package. We might even have the Economic Bill of Rights that Dr. King intended to put forth had he lived to lead the Poor Peoples Campaign in spring of 1968. And the political and cultural climate of America might be more humane, democratic and radically anti-racist. No militarized police such as we've seen in Ferguson and numerous other American cities and town. I wish Obama was even HALF as left-of-center as rightists imagine, and that he had won the election on precisely that kind of platform.
-Savant
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Drilling's "Che/Mao Liberation Front" sounds as unreal as those conspiracies of Jewish Communists and Bankers that old European racists (of which Nazis were only the most notorious) use to rant and rave about. It sounds like the American (especially in the South) talk about commie, pinko, liberal Jewish conspiracies which were alleged to be behind and controlling the Black freedom Movement of the 1960s. Hey, it ain't REAL! I'm not just saying that the Democratic Party, subservient to corporate interests and money, is not the "Che/Mao liberation front." I'm saying that I do not actually believe in the existence of such a Front.....not in the real world. -Savant
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Savant Refuting a Reactionary:
Moron! Timothy is referring to positions of Malcolm X AFTER he left NOI (though thee's some indication his thinking tacitly moved in a revolutionary direction even BEFORE breaking with that bankrupt outfit), Malcolm X, who had to deal with sexist attitudes in his new organization, had to remind brothers that at least in the MOST PROGRESSIVE African nations, there was emphasis on the emancipation of women. At least the most progressive elements he met in Algeria's FLN (who unfortunately lost out to more conservative elements) emphasized not only the end to white supremacy, but also opposition to CLASS OPPRESSION and the oppression of women. Malcolm's thinking ran along similar lines. And in that respect he was a REVOLUTIONARY Black nationalist, not a reactionary one (as were NOI and Karenga's United Slaves or US). The Cuban revolutionaries also reject racism, patriarchy and class oppression and exploitation. Unfortunately, they follow the Leninist model, which defeats the ultimate aims of the Revolution. But neither Che nor Castro were reactionary nationalists. To the extent that they are nationalists it is in opposition to US imperialism which had plundered Cuba for nearly a century. Maybe if you READ some Black thinkers (or read ANYTHING) you might at least distinguish between progressive and revolutionary nationalism and the conservative or reactionary varieties, Even in Europe there;'s a difference. French, Polish and Czech Resistance were at least progressive form of nationalist resistance to Nazi occupation. But Nazism, Italian Fascism and the Fascism of Franco were REACTIONARY European nationalisms. By at least the standards of the time the Italian nationalism Mazinni and Garibaldi were democratic and progressive. The Italian nationalism of Mussolini was fascistic and reactionary. Get a clue.
-Savant
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Bravo, young brother!!! Folk ought to READ Malcolm X or hush. Also, there's a interesting documentary called "MALCOLM X: MAKE IT PLAIN". Made by Orlando Bagwell, who also made CITIZEN KING. And who is a Bmore homeboy from a progressive black middle class family. (Probably my contemporary since his folk were involved in Baltimore's civil rights movement). We must cherish the legacy. -Savant
Monday, December 8, 2014
Savant's Words
PTWB is always mouthing off--shamelessly-- on matters concerning which he is totally ignorant. Once he said (or at least implied) that there was no substantive difference between Swedish social democracy and Nazism since they were both "big governments." Duh....a difference of over fifty millions deaths caused by the latter, and one of the freest (though not perfect) countries in this unfree world in the case of the former. That he has no greater understanding of Malcolm X is hardly surprising. PTWB is too ignorant to know that he's ignorant, and too stupid to know that he's stupid.
-Savant
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If you're not a white racist yourself, if you are an African, then you're an enemy of the people. Someone starts this thread to promote UNITY, and you immediately enter in order to provoke a quarrel between Africans and African Americans. I'd suspect of being a CIA agent except you're too obtuse to belong to that enemy organization.
-Savant
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Young brothers like you are inspiring. And you mentioned in one thread that your YOUNGER brother is reading CLR James!!! This is encouraging. Keep up the good work--both of you! We can win this struggle. A Luta continua! Power to the People!
-Savant _______________
I won't say that the CIA was literally built by the Nazis, but we do know that there was great collaboration with the Nazis by the CIA and the FBI at the end of WWII. I hold them responsible for the deaths of brothers Patrice Lumumba in Mother Africa, and Fred Hampton in Chicago. And those are just two of the most obvious victims of this criminal agency.
-Savant
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In fact, democratic government have become more common in Africa as of late. But the progress of social justice require more, much more, than parliamentary regimes. There's still neocolonialism and economic exploitation. This is the problem that South Africa faces. Having ended the fascistic white supremacist regime of the apartheid era, the after effects of white settler colonialism and global capitalism continues to plague the people of South Africa. Economic justice and self-determination are goals yet to be won.
-Savant
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Swedish social democracy have given one of the highest standards of living on earth, along with the highest levels of personal and civil freedoms. Nazi German, whom that jack ass Jericho admires, created one of the bloodiest tyrannies in history, and he complains about the lack of freedom in Sweden.
-Savant
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CAPITALISM creates unemployment, and institutionalized racism compounds the problem.. The other explanation refer to secondary issues, or are simply false. Also, there seems to be reports that unemployment has shrunk in the Black community as well, but not to the same extent as in the white community. It may be that different studies are arriving at different conclusions on this.
-Savant
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T-BOS is like SadbutTrue with her "Maceo" rantings. An irrelevant space cadet from another world than reality. I don't know if I can even convey the sense of anger and indignation in Black communities now. The young, who are the primary targets of police terror and whose futures are at stake; the elderly for whom the rising tide of terror reminds them of the bad old days of the sheriffs, the burning torches and the hanging trees; the poor who are primary victims of racist police terror; and the affluent and educated who are reminded that even their incomes and education do not necessarily insulate them from the terror---EVERYONE seems to be angry. BlackAgendaReport. com is lambasting not only the police but those whom they call the "Black misleadership class--most definitely including Obama, Eric Holder, Al Sharpton and others--are virtually calling for INSURRECTION as a response. And I'm not exactly sure they mean NONVIOLENT insurgency--which is what I'd prefer if it is possible. Meanwhile, I do support the wave of nonviolent protest and resistance. But let no one be deceived. There is a limit to what we will put up with. And if the terror persists the resistance will not remain nonviolent. "We are a righteous people who anger slowly, but rage undammed!" George L. Jackson, SOLEDAD BROTHER
-Savant
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87% of whites are killed by whites, but the white community is not--NOT YET--subject to growing fascist police terror. And if you, like the typical white racist, think you can either justify or deflect from the issue of police terror and the looming danger of fascism, then you too are a part of problem Maybe you should read Frantz Fanon's THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH so that you may at least get some insight into the forces making for fratricide in oppressed communities. Maybe you should study your history and ask "why did the crime rate in black Montgomery drop by 60% during the 1955 bus boycott?" Why did solidarity replace internecine violence wherever social struggles happen? And maybe you should read the May 13, 2014 AlterNet.com article "White People Commit the Most Heinous Crimes, So Why Is America Terrified of Black Men?" When you've done some homework then maybe we can have a fruitful discussion.
-Savant
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Progressive white folk in Baltimore, Chicago, NYC, and Ferguson itself are standing in solidarity with us while you reactionaries spit, scream and mock. They risk being gassed or shot by militarized police. I know. I've been in some of those demonstrations. Those white people I commend and embrace and friends and comrades. The others, at least those defending the repression and demonizing my people--they're not worth my time.
-Savant
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-Savant
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If you're not a white racist yourself, if you are an African, then you're an enemy of the people. Someone starts this thread to promote UNITY, and you immediately enter in order to provoke a quarrel between Africans and African Americans. I'd suspect of being a CIA agent except you're too obtuse to belong to that enemy organization.
-Savant
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Young brothers like you are inspiring. And you mentioned in one thread that your YOUNGER brother is reading CLR James!!! This is encouraging. Keep up the good work--both of you! We can win this struggle. A Luta continua! Power to the People!
-Savant _______________
I won't say that the CIA was literally built by the Nazis, but we do know that there was great collaboration with the Nazis by the CIA and the FBI at the end of WWII. I hold them responsible for the deaths of brothers Patrice Lumumba in Mother Africa, and Fred Hampton in Chicago. And those are just two of the most obvious victims of this criminal agency.
-Savant
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In fact, democratic government have become more common in Africa as of late. But the progress of social justice require more, much more, than parliamentary regimes. There's still neocolonialism and economic exploitation. This is the problem that South Africa faces. Having ended the fascistic white supremacist regime of the apartheid era, the after effects of white settler colonialism and global capitalism continues to plague the people of South Africa. Economic justice and self-determination are goals yet to be won.
-Savant
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Swedish social democracy have given one of the highest standards of living on earth, along with the highest levels of personal and civil freedoms. Nazi German, whom that jack ass Jericho admires, created one of the bloodiest tyrannies in history, and he complains about the lack of freedom in Sweden.
-Savant
_________________
CAPITALISM creates unemployment, and institutionalized racism compounds the problem.. The other explanation refer to secondary issues, or are simply false. Also, there seems to be reports that unemployment has shrunk in the Black community as well, but not to the same extent as in the white community. It may be that different studies are arriving at different conclusions on this.
-Savant
______________
T-BOS is like SadbutTrue with her "Maceo" rantings. An irrelevant space cadet from another world than reality. I don't know if I can even convey the sense of anger and indignation in Black communities now. The young, who are the primary targets of police terror and whose futures are at stake; the elderly for whom the rising tide of terror reminds them of the bad old days of the sheriffs, the burning torches and the hanging trees; the poor who are primary victims of racist police terror; and the affluent and educated who are reminded that even their incomes and education do not necessarily insulate them from the terror---EVERYONE seems to be angry. BlackAgendaReport. com is lambasting not only the police but those whom they call the "Black misleadership class--most definitely including Obama, Eric Holder, Al Sharpton and others--are virtually calling for INSURRECTION as a response. And I'm not exactly sure they mean NONVIOLENT insurgency--which is what I'd prefer if it is possible. Meanwhile, I do support the wave of nonviolent protest and resistance. But let no one be deceived. There is a limit to what we will put up with. And if the terror persists the resistance will not remain nonviolent. "We are a righteous people who anger slowly, but rage undammed!" George L. Jackson, SOLEDAD BROTHER
-Savant
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87% of whites are killed by whites, but the white community is not--NOT YET--subject to growing fascist police terror. And if you, like the typical white racist, think you can either justify or deflect from the issue of police terror and the looming danger of fascism, then you too are a part of problem Maybe you should read Frantz Fanon's THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH so that you may at least get some insight into the forces making for fratricide in oppressed communities. Maybe you should study your history and ask "why did the crime rate in black Montgomery drop by 60% during the 1955 bus boycott?" Why did solidarity replace internecine violence wherever social struggles happen? And maybe you should read the May 13, 2014 AlterNet.com article "White People Commit the Most Heinous Crimes, So Why Is America Terrified of Black Men?" When you've done some homework then maybe we can have a fruitful discussion.
-Savant
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Progressive white folk in Baltimore, Chicago, NYC, and Ferguson itself are standing in solidarity with us while you reactionaries spit, scream and mock. They risk being gassed or shot by militarized police. I know. I've been in some of those demonstrations. Those white people I commend and embrace and friends and comrades. The others, at least those defending the repression and demonizing my people--they're not worth my time.
-Savant
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Saturday, December 6, 2014
Real Conscious Words
Nixak*77* a month ago
Dr Alexander confirms yet again that whites {men} have higher substance-abuse rates [for both illegal & 'legal' drugs] than Blacks do- they just don't go to jail for it anywhere near as often as Blacks do [FYI: the disparity in drug convictions between Blacks vs whites in MD is 17.4 to 1]. Thus just because 45% of young Black men who are HS dropouts are 'officially' 'branded' [for life] as criminals vs just 5% of their white 'peers' [a 9 to 1 ratio], don't mean that Blacks commit 9Xs more crime than their white 'peers', they're just forced to go-to jail 9Xs more often!!! And Because 45% of Black men from low-income back-grounds are 'branded' [for life] as 'criminals' / ex-cons vs just 5% of their white peers, they have a much harder time finding a decent paying job which can support a family. This means that Black women from working-poor back-grounds are 4Xs more likely to be single [moms?] than their white-women 'peers'- forced to live alone & in poverty along w their kids [if they have any]. Thus this race-biased so-called 'War on Drugs & Crime' has effectively been a WAR on the Black Family & Community.
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Nixak77
What WM fails to acknowledge but is definitely true some people so-call succeed in spite of themselves- IE: they fail to apply themselves but because of insider connections / family ties etc... they're never allowed to fail. IE: the Wall St Banksters after they crashed the economy in 2007-08 were 'bailed-out' to the tune of TRILLION$$$, & even though they committed all types of felony frauds including laundering BILLION$$$ in drug money- NOT one Wall St Bankster has gone to jail [save Bernie Maddolf for swindling others in the 1%]. Then there's Bush Jr who FAILED his way to the top as a failed business man, & before that went AWOL from the Air National Guard [which he was allowed to join as a 'dodge' from the being drafted for Vietnam] & then was kicked out of for refusing to take a routine drug test [likely due to coke use], plus he's an admitted {ex?}Alcoholic. The reverse of those above cases is many so-called 'fail to succeed' [depending on how one defines 'success'] NOT for lack of effort, but because the odds [IE: system] were / are stacked against them. Again pointing out the very few exceptions that so-called 'made-it' against long-odds [IE: Mr Cosby-Kids, Oprah, MJ, LeBraun, Denzel, etc...] as is WM's shtick, does NOT negate that rule. In fact what WM & his ilk fail to acknowledge is that the US' corp capitalist system MUST have its share of 'Hi-Profile' Cosbys, Oprahs, Obamas, etc to hype to the masses, lest it be too obvious that most folks [aka 'the 99%'] especially Black & Brown folks- have the deck [aka the system] stacked against them. Even the mafias who run Las Vegas know that they have to allow a small handful of 'hi-profile' big winners here & there, plus a few small / modest winners more regularly, to keep the 'suckers' 'hooked' & coming back for more. PS: IMO WM badly misrepresents the God of the Bible, especially the message of Yeshua [aka Jesus]. Thus IMO WM & his ilk effectively 'Takes the Lord's name in Vain'- Such that his / their narrow minded mis-representations not only turn off atheists & agnostics, but also Judaics, Muslims, etc... & even more progressive minded Christians. __________
Nixak*77*
Facts RE KILLER Cop Darren Wilson gunning down Mike Brown Jr:
1} Mike Brown was unarmed at the time KILLER Cop Darren Wilson gunned him down.
2} KILLER Cop Darren Wilson shot Mike Brown at-least 6Xs including once in the eye & once to the top of his head!
3} KILLER Cop Darren Wilson began the confrontation w Mike Brown at his squad car. Apparently Wilson fired the 1st shot that hit Brown at or near the car. Wilson's supporters claim there was a struggle for Wilson's gun at / inside the squad-car- well if Wilson snatched Brown toward him [thru the car WINDOW] w one hand while drawing his gun w the other, of course Brown likely tried to struggle for the gun to try [unsuccessfully] to stop KILLER Cop Wilson from shooting him [Duhh!], which Wilson apparently first shot Brown at or near his squad-car.
4} Wilson stopping, confronting & ultimately killing Brown had absolutely NOTHING [ZERO] to do w the alleged ?shop lifting? incident 15 min - 30 min prior. 5} Mike Brown & his friend ran from Darren Wilson in fear of their lives. Killer Cop Wilson chased after Brown for about 200 ft away from the squad car.
6} All eye-witnesses [including 2 white construction workers] confirm Mike Brown's hands were up & was giving up when KILLER Cop Wilson gunned Mike Brown down w at-least 6 shots in total- including 2 to the head!!! Wilson apparently caught up to & then gunned Mike Brown down some 150ft - 200 ft away from his squad car after chasing after a fleeing Mike Brown.
7} The cops then left Mike Brown's body lying in the hot sun for over 4 hrs- WTF was that all about??? PS: You can't chase-down someone & then shoot them 6Xs including 2 to the head, by 'accident'! __________________
Nixak*77* 14 days ago
I got a better understanding of what the G20 is really all about from Prof Panitch, than I have since I began hearing of a G20. So Bush & Paulson cut the BRICS in on the deal in 2008 to save the US' & EU's capitalist system from falling into the abyss. This proves what I've already concluded re: the BRICS though some may give lip-service to socialism, they've all bought into some form of capitalism & have even agreed to the rules set by the 'traditional' capitalists. Thus any dispute they, especially Russia & China, have w the US & EU is over sovereignty & national pride, spheres of influence & access to resources- NOT over which economic system should be the main global system.
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Nixak*77*
At-least 1/3 to almost 1/2 of the people of India & Bangladesh are vegetarians / vegans & have the lowest per capita meat consumption of all major countries. Before India became so-called 'modernize' [= westernized] INDEED most Indians were vegetarians / vegans. The fact is Westernized countries of the US, Australia, Canada, the EU, etc have by far the highest per capita rates of meat & dairy consumption- Yet American's are among the World's FATTEST Folks. Getting 3rd World Peoples hooked on the US' SAD meat-based diet along w GMO crops is exactly the WRONG approach to any food shortages they may face. If all that corn & soy that's fed to fatten cows [that should be eating grass], were instead used to feed hungry people hi-quality vegetable protein, it would be a much better solution. The best solution is for these countries to become self-sufficient in basic [Non-GMO] food crops- but this goes against neo-liberal capitalist dogma. Cuba is a good example & model for other 3rd World nations, of how a nation w a traditionally fairly hi meat consumption, switched to a more plant based diet out of necessity, due to the US +50yr embargo, to meet Cubans' basic dietary needs.
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Nixak*77* '
What happened to the bison is in the past and should stay there. That bridge has already been crossed.' Spoken like a true die-hard carnivorous, white-supremacist, predatory capitalist! Concurrent w the killing off of nearly all the bison was the near extermination of the Indigenous peoples & mass enslavement of Africans. But why bring up the past of just 150 yrs ago? Even though students are taught to study history going back 1000s & even millions of yrs. US [& Canadian] cattle-ranchers virtually exterminated the bison, but just before the bison went totally extinct, the very ones responsible for their near extermination decided to save just a handful, as tourist attractions, 'live' scientific 'specimens' & curiosity pieces [aka live trophies]. WOW!!! Ain't that a real humane gesture- NOT!!! But Hey What-ever.... PS: That you'd try to compare the Beef & meat industry's long time 'market' manipulations & damage done to both the environment & human health, as well as animal welfare- to that of PeTA's- Is Truly Astonishingly WTF ASTOUNDING!!!
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Nixak*77*
RE: The So-called Rioting & Looting Note This: Did a KKK / Covert Cop Nexus burn down the Church of Mike Brown Sr in Ferguson- as the Lame-stream media blamed Black ‘rioters’??? From AlterNet: ” ‘Anonymous’ Dumps KKK Leader’s Personal Info Online in Ongoing Ferguson Dispute’ [@ www.alternet.org/anonymous-dum... ]: } Members of the Anonymous offshoot NOWsec claimed last week that a source within the St. Louis County Police Department had told them Ferguson-area law enforcement officers were affiliated with the “Ghoul Squad,” which the activists described as supportive of the local KKK chapter…. The pastor of a church where Michael Brown’s father was baptized over the weekend said he believes White Supremacists [ala the KKK], not protesters, burned down Flood Christian Church overnight Monday. “I’m very vocal in regards to the Michael Brown case,” said Rev. Carlton Lee, who has taken part in in rallies and press conferences with Michael Brown Sr… { FYI: KKK type white-supremacist groups [often in combo w racist cops] have a long sordid history of burning down / fire-bombing Black Activist Churches ala the infamous fire-bombing of the 16th St Baptist Church in Birmingham AL in Sept 1963- Killing 4 young Black Girls. _____________
The reason Killer Cop Wislon's Grand jury failed to indict him for gunning unarmed Mike Brown down, was because his Attny masquerading as the St Louis, DA Robert McCulloch, rigged the whole thing in Wilson's favor- IE: Effectively LYING to [Killer Cop Wilson’s] Grand Jury, by instructing [Killer Cop Wilson’s] them that it was ‘lawful’ for Killer Cop Wilson to gun-down Mike Brown for fleeing, even though that MO so-called ‘Law’ was ruled Un-Constitutional by the SCOTUS Court in 1985 [before Wilson was even born]!!! [I'm starting to even doubt if there really were Blacks on the Grand Jury- held in secrecy- so who really knows]. IMO what Wilson's now said was his Tesi-Lying is actually enough to indict him, if the DA had actually been acting as a prosecutor instead of as in effect, KILLER Cop Wilson's attny! This is enough for Obamaa's & Holder's DA to indict Robert McCulloch for PERJURY & Obstruction of Justice, but I don't expect Obama & Holder to do a Damn thing except speech-ify & try to pacify.
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Nixak*77* IMO Whether Obama's & AG Holder's DOJ can 'legally' prosecute Killer Cop Wilson on FEDERAL CHARGES is unclear [though IMO Wilson committed multiple counts of perjury which in & of itself is a serious offense especially in a felony homicide case] -BUT- IMO Obama &'s Holder's DOJ could if they would [but I seriously doubt it] potentially bring federal charges against the St Louis DA [& possibly even the Ferguson & St Louis Police Depts] in this case- Because: According to this report @ BrassCheck TV [@ www.brasschecktv.com/videos/la... ]: Killer Cop Wilson's Attny masquerading as a prosecutor- St Louis DA Robert McCulloch & His assistant DA Kathy Alizadeh, effectively LIED to [Killer Cop Wilson’s] Grand Jury, by instructing them that it was ‘lawful’ for Killer Cop Wilson to gun-down Mike Brown for fleeing from him, even though that MO state so-called ‘Law’ was ruled Un-Constitutional & over-turned by the SCOTUS Court in 1985 [before Wilson was even born]!!! Thus St Louis DA Rob McCulloch & His assistant DA Ms Alizadeh effectively committed PERJURY to Obstruct Justice, jury tampering & prosecutorial misconduct to effectively violating Mike Brown’s family’s civil rights!!! If this is confirmed IMO that's more than enough for Obama's & Holder's DoJ to bring a federal case against McCulloch & Ms Alizadeh, but I wouldn't hold{er} my breath!!!
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Nixak*77* Since 2002 cops have killed between 400 to 500 people per yr [one yr they killed over 600]- Yet not only has the violent crime & murder rates been in a genral decline; but only about 50 [give or take] cops, state troopers, FBI-DEA-AFT-ICE agents & federal marshals, etc all combined been murdered on duty ea yr for the entire US- Which = about 1 cop murdered per state per yr. In fact about as many [or even more] US cops are killed on duty from a combo of traffic accidents, hi-speed [often ill-advised] car & motorcycle chases, & training & other accidents ea yr as are actually murdered on the job. Thus the disparity of cops being killed vs cops killing civilians is about 8 - 10 to 1.
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Nixak*77*
Maybe you had trouble reading what I wrote, though it's NOT even a long post! So again here's 2 quotes from above: 'Why are the Repugs ranting against [& the DIMS TOO, just a bit less odiously- thus likely more disingenuously] so-called 'illegal' immigrants, but are all for [just much more quietly] H1B visa immigrants?.... Yet because the Chamber of Commerce & Big Biz wants them, most Repugs [& DIMS TOO] are just fine & dandy w H1B visa [mostly white & Asian plus well educated] immigrants...
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Nixak*77* Can't even get an indictment [let alone a conviction] of a cop who's actually FILMED CHOKING a Black guy to death w an ILLEGAL Choke-Hold, for the {non}'Crime' of [NOT] selling loose cigarettes! Welcome to 'post-racial' USA in the age of Obama!
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Dr Alexander confirms yet again that whites {men} have higher substance-abuse rates [for both illegal & 'legal' drugs] than Blacks do- they just don't go to jail for it anywhere near as often as Blacks do [FYI: the disparity in drug convictions between Blacks vs whites in MD is 17.4 to 1]. Thus just because 45% of young Black men who are HS dropouts are 'officially' 'branded' [for life] as criminals vs just 5% of their white 'peers' [a 9 to 1 ratio], don't mean that Blacks commit 9Xs more crime than their white 'peers', they're just forced to go-to jail 9Xs more often!!! And Because 45% of Black men from low-income back-grounds are 'branded' [for life] as 'criminals' / ex-cons vs just 5% of their white peers, they have a much harder time finding a decent paying job which can support a family. This means that Black women from working-poor back-grounds are 4Xs more likely to be single [moms?] than their white-women 'peers'- forced to live alone & in poverty along w their kids [if they have any]. Thus this race-biased so-called 'War on Drugs & Crime' has effectively been a WAR on the Black Family & Community.
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Nixak77
What WM fails to acknowledge but is definitely true some people so-call succeed in spite of themselves- IE: they fail to apply themselves but because of insider connections / family ties etc... they're never allowed to fail. IE: the Wall St Banksters after they crashed the economy in 2007-08 were 'bailed-out' to the tune of TRILLION$$$, & even though they committed all types of felony frauds including laundering BILLION$$$ in drug money- NOT one Wall St Bankster has gone to jail [save Bernie Maddolf for swindling others in the 1%]. Then there's Bush Jr who FAILED his way to the top as a failed business man, & before that went AWOL from the Air National Guard [which he was allowed to join as a 'dodge' from the being drafted for Vietnam] & then was kicked out of for refusing to take a routine drug test [likely due to coke use], plus he's an admitted {ex?}Alcoholic. The reverse of those above cases is many so-called 'fail to succeed' [depending on how one defines 'success'] NOT for lack of effort, but because the odds [IE: system] were / are stacked against them. Again pointing out the very few exceptions that so-called 'made-it' against long-odds [IE: Mr Cosby-Kids, Oprah, MJ, LeBraun, Denzel, etc...] as is WM's shtick, does NOT negate that rule. In fact what WM & his ilk fail to acknowledge is that the US' corp capitalist system MUST have its share of 'Hi-Profile' Cosbys, Oprahs, Obamas, etc to hype to the masses, lest it be too obvious that most folks [aka 'the 99%'] especially Black & Brown folks- have the deck [aka the system] stacked against them. Even the mafias who run Las Vegas know that they have to allow a small handful of 'hi-profile' big winners here & there, plus a few small / modest winners more regularly, to keep the 'suckers' 'hooked' & coming back for more. PS: IMO WM badly misrepresents the God of the Bible, especially the message of Yeshua [aka Jesus]. Thus IMO WM & his ilk effectively 'Takes the Lord's name in Vain'- Such that his / their narrow minded mis-representations not only turn off atheists & agnostics, but also Judaics, Muslims, etc... & even more progressive minded Christians. __________
Nixak*77*
Facts RE KILLER Cop Darren Wilson gunning down Mike Brown Jr:
1} Mike Brown was unarmed at the time KILLER Cop Darren Wilson gunned him down.
2} KILLER Cop Darren Wilson shot Mike Brown at-least 6Xs including once in the eye & once to the top of his head!
3} KILLER Cop Darren Wilson began the confrontation w Mike Brown at his squad car. Apparently Wilson fired the 1st shot that hit Brown at or near the car. Wilson's supporters claim there was a struggle for Wilson's gun at / inside the squad-car- well if Wilson snatched Brown toward him [thru the car WINDOW] w one hand while drawing his gun w the other, of course Brown likely tried to struggle for the gun to try [unsuccessfully] to stop KILLER Cop Wilson from shooting him [Duhh!], which Wilson apparently first shot Brown at or near his squad-car.
4} Wilson stopping, confronting & ultimately killing Brown had absolutely NOTHING [ZERO] to do w the alleged ?shop lifting? incident 15 min - 30 min prior. 5} Mike Brown & his friend ran from Darren Wilson in fear of their lives. Killer Cop Wilson chased after Brown for about 200 ft away from the squad car.
6} All eye-witnesses [including 2 white construction workers] confirm Mike Brown's hands were up & was giving up when KILLER Cop Wilson gunned Mike Brown down w at-least 6 shots in total- including 2 to the head!!! Wilson apparently caught up to & then gunned Mike Brown down some 150ft - 200 ft away from his squad car after chasing after a fleeing Mike Brown.
7} The cops then left Mike Brown's body lying in the hot sun for over 4 hrs- WTF was that all about??? PS: You can't chase-down someone & then shoot them 6Xs including 2 to the head, by 'accident'! __________________
Nixak*77* 14 days ago
I got a better understanding of what the G20 is really all about from Prof Panitch, than I have since I began hearing of a G20. So Bush & Paulson cut the BRICS in on the deal in 2008 to save the US' & EU's capitalist system from falling into the abyss. This proves what I've already concluded re: the BRICS though some may give lip-service to socialism, they've all bought into some form of capitalism & have even agreed to the rules set by the 'traditional' capitalists. Thus any dispute they, especially Russia & China, have w the US & EU is over sovereignty & national pride, spheres of influence & access to resources- NOT over which economic system should be the main global system.
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Nixak*77*
At-least 1/3 to almost 1/2 of the people of India & Bangladesh are vegetarians / vegans & have the lowest per capita meat consumption of all major countries. Before India became so-called 'modernize' [= westernized] INDEED most Indians were vegetarians / vegans. The fact is Westernized countries of the US, Australia, Canada, the EU, etc have by far the highest per capita rates of meat & dairy consumption- Yet American's are among the World's FATTEST Folks. Getting 3rd World Peoples hooked on the US' SAD meat-based diet along w GMO crops is exactly the WRONG approach to any food shortages they may face. If all that corn & soy that's fed to fatten cows [that should be eating grass], were instead used to feed hungry people hi-quality vegetable protein, it would be a much better solution. The best solution is for these countries to become self-sufficient in basic [Non-GMO] food crops- but this goes against neo-liberal capitalist dogma. Cuba is a good example & model for other 3rd World nations, of how a nation w a traditionally fairly hi meat consumption, switched to a more plant based diet out of necessity, due to the US +50yr embargo, to meet Cubans' basic dietary needs.
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Nixak*77* '
What happened to the bison is in the past and should stay there. That bridge has already been crossed.' Spoken like a true die-hard carnivorous, white-supremacist, predatory capitalist! Concurrent w the killing off of nearly all the bison was the near extermination of the Indigenous peoples & mass enslavement of Africans. But why bring up the past of just 150 yrs ago? Even though students are taught to study history going back 1000s & even millions of yrs. US [& Canadian] cattle-ranchers virtually exterminated the bison, but just before the bison went totally extinct, the very ones responsible for their near extermination decided to save just a handful, as tourist attractions, 'live' scientific 'specimens' & curiosity pieces [aka live trophies]. WOW!!! Ain't that a real humane gesture- NOT!!! But Hey What-ever.... PS: That you'd try to compare the Beef & meat industry's long time 'market' manipulations & damage done to both the environment & human health, as well as animal welfare- to that of PeTA's- Is Truly Astonishingly WTF ASTOUNDING!!!
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Nixak*77*
RE: The So-called Rioting & Looting Note This: Did a KKK / Covert Cop Nexus burn down the Church of Mike Brown Sr in Ferguson- as the Lame-stream media blamed Black ‘rioters’??? From AlterNet: ” ‘Anonymous’ Dumps KKK Leader’s Personal Info Online in Ongoing Ferguson Dispute’ [@ www.alternet.org/anonymous-dum... ]: } Members of the Anonymous offshoot NOWsec claimed last week that a source within the St. Louis County Police Department had told them Ferguson-area law enforcement officers were affiliated with the “Ghoul Squad,” which the activists described as supportive of the local KKK chapter…. The pastor of a church where Michael Brown’s father was baptized over the weekend said he believes White Supremacists [ala the KKK], not protesters, burned down Flood Christian Church overnight Monday. “I’m very vocal in regards to the Michael Brown case,” said Rev. Carlton Lee, who has taken part in in rallies and press conferences with Michael Brown Sr… { FYI: KKK type white-supremacist groups [often in combo w racist cops] have a long sordid history of burning down / fire-bombing Black Activist Churches ala the infamous fire-bombing of the 16th St Baptist Church in Birmingham AL in Sept 1963- Killing 4 young Black Girls. _____________
The reason Killer Cop Wislon's Grand jury failed to indict him for gunning unarmed Mike Brown down, was because his Attny masquerading as the St Louis, DA Robert McCulloch, rigged the whole thing in Wilson's favor- IE: Effectively LYING to [Killer Cop Wilson’s] Grand Jury, by instructing [Killer Cop Wilson’s] them that it was ‘lawful’ for Killer Cop Wilson to gun-down Mike Brown for fleeing, even though that MO so-called ‘Law’ was ruled Un-Constitutional by the SCOTUS Court in 1985 [before Wilson was even born]!!! [I'm starting to even doubt if there really were Blacks on the Grand Jury- held in secrecy- so who really knows]. IMO what Wilson's now said was his Tesi-Lying is actually enough to indict him, if the DA had actually been acting as a prosecutor instead of as in effect, KILLER Cop Wilson's attny! This is enough for Obamaa's & Holder's DA to indict Robert McCulloch for PERJURY & Obstruction of Justice, but I don't expect Obama & Holder to do a Damn thing except speech-ify & try to pacify.
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Nixak*77* IMO Whether Obama's & AG Holder's DOJ can 'legally' prosecute Killer Cop Wilson on FEDERAL CHARGES is unclear [though IMO Wilson committed multiple counts of perjury which in & of itself is a serious offense especially in a felony homicide case] -BUT- IMO Obama &'s Holder's DOJ could if they would [but I seriously doubt it] potentially bring federal charges against the St Louis DA [& possibly even the Ferguson & St Louis Police Depts] in this case- Because: According to this report @ BrassCheck TV [@ www.brasschecktv.com/videos/la... ]: Killer Cop Wilson's Attny masquerading as a prosecutor- St Louis DA Robert McCulloch & His assistant DA Kathy Alizadeh, effectively LIED to [Killer Cop Wilson’s] Grand Jury, by instructing them that it was ‘lawful’ for Killer Cop Wilson to gun-down Mike Brown for fleeing from him, even though that MO state so-called ‘Law’ was ruled Un-Constitutional & over-turned by the SCOTUS Court in 1985 [before Wilson was even born]!!! Thus St Louis DA Rob McCulloch & His assistant DA Ms Alizadeh effectively committed PERJURY to Obstruct Justice, jury tampering & prosecutorial misconduct to effectively violating Mike Brown’s family’s civil rights!!! If this is confirmed IMO that's more than enough for Obama's & Holder's DoJ to bring a federal case against McCulloch & Ms Alizadeh, but I wouldn't hold{er} my breath!!!
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Nixak*77* Since 2002 cops have killed between 400 to 500 people per yr [one yr they killed over 600]- Yet not only has the violent crime & murder rates been in a genral decline; but only about 50 [give or take] cops, state troopers, FBI-DEA-AFT-ICE agents & federal marshals, etc all combined been murdered on duty ea yr for the entire US- Which = about 1 cop murdered per state per yr. In fact about as many [or even more] US cops are killed on duty from a combo of traffic accidents, hi-speed [often ill-advised] car & motorcycle chases, & training & other accidents ea yr as are actually murdered on the job. Thus the disparity of cops being killed vs cops killing civilians is about 8 - 10 to 1.
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Maybe you had trouble reading what I wrote, though it's NOT even a long post! So again here's 2 quotes from above: 'Why are the Repugs ranting against [& the DIMS TOO, just a bit less odiously- thus likely more disingenuously] so-called 'illegal' immigrants, but are all for [just much more quietly] H1B visa immigrants?.... Yet because the Chamber of Commerce & Big Biz wants them, most Repugs [& DIMS TOO] are just fine & dandy w H1B visa [mostly white & Asian plus well educated] immigrants...
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Nixak*77* Can't even get an indictment [let alone a conviction] of a cop who's actually FILMED CHOKING a Black guy to death w an ILLEGAL Choke-Hold, for the {non}'Crime' of [NOT] selling loose cigarettes! Welcome to 'post-racial' USA in the age of Obama!
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