Saturday, April 27, 2013

On the System














all the so-called "aware" folks on threads like this know that no BM, including President Obama, is in charge.The folks who decide if WIII will happen are all WM. Let's keep it real.

But some are still falling for the OLD CON GAME of racial scapegoating/distraction instead of facing the FACT that your worst enemy looks like the man or woman in the mirror.

At some point, you will have to make a choice: keep practicing racial politics OR deal with the real enemy to survive. It's just that simple.

-Crammasters


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@ UCCP

With 70% of BW being single parents, and 45% that will never marry, BW should be UP IN ARMS about all the defecting, interracial-dating BM, especially since MOST are leaving behind the black children they had with BW. I PERSONALLY know several BM who fit this description.

No other (sane) race of people, facing the problems that black folks currently face, would think it was acceptable to divide and conquer themselves, especially when faced by a powerful enemy that is literally stripping away EVERY so-called economic and employment gain that blacks have made over the last 40 years.

Nor would a sane (or self-respecting) male put the female of his oppressor on a pedestal OR put his precious time, money, love, and energy toward ENRICHING his own enemies instead of taking care of his OWN black women and children.

And for those who are confused about who this enemy is -- it's time to pick up a book and READ ABOUT YOUR HISTORY -- both past and present.

There are all kinds of indications that blacks are under severe systematic attack on every level, and we better start taking this SERIOUSLY..With the ECONOMY literally deconstructing right in front of our faces, with a black unemployment rate of OVER 26% and rising, with over ONE MILLION black people rotting in prisons, making one dollar a day for the prison industrial complex, with BM being the MOST LIKELY to be unemployed regardless of education, with the Jena Six, Katrina, and Sean Bell-type shootings on the rise, with the increase of white extremists groups who are arming up and doing WEAPONS TRAINING after the election of the "first black" prez (who doesn't address a SINGLE BLACK ISSUE);

Hell, the list is too long for this thread, and too damn long for a sane black person to ignore... and that is the problem, some of us are literally insane... I got to be blunt about this.. In light of the plight of black folks today, there are too many black folks who think coming together as a race is NOT a necessity even as they lose ground, jobs, homes, and their minds...

It is what I believe is the TOTAL psychological assimilation (destruction) of the black mind, to the point where some black folk have become so subtly INSANE that we see the world and ourselves and each other through "white eyes"

In other words, they think like white folks, are white-identified, and somehow, actually believe that they will be treated like white folks when the deal goes down.

Even as we (black folk) LOSE all the economic and employment gains that took our ANCESTORS over FORTY YEARS to accumulate.

We dismiss the rising racism as just "those ignorant white folks" instead of seeing it for what it is: SYSTEMATIC RACISM.

we skip along, all hugged up with white Mary and Bobby and think our romantic choices make us better (and safer) than being with other black folks.

And we don't understand that the efforts of the white media/system to divide and conquer the BM and BW have been SUCCESSFUL,  we don't see the mental trick bag of a BM (like bluebeam) who makes ugly and contemptuous comments about the women of his race are part of the problem, forgetting that his mother, sisters, and daughters (if he has any) are BLACK FEMALES.

And in their ignorance, BM like this forget that the MAIN reason so many BW do not like the hair on their heads is because WE BM are always rewarding, loving, and praising white and white-looking females who have straight or long hair on their heads.

It is a FACT that all this integration and interracial dating/breeding/and marrying has made us WEAKER not STRONGER as a people

It is also a FACT that this was all by design, that the white media pushed this concept on us by rewarding those celebrities who do it, by making movies and TV shows that push the notion that IR [interracial] is a better alternative than LOVING EACH OTHER.

And we still don't see the mind game, the trick, the trap and the plan to destroy our race, but I guarantee you, in the coming days, we will completely understand once the consequences hit home....

 
-crammasters

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Do you also OPPOSE racism when someone white is practicing it?

If your only interest in BW is purely physical then it AND you are no different than the long, long, long list of white males throughout the centuries who have enjoyed black flesh but are UNWILLING to oppose or give up the benefits of white privilege (racism) while doing so...

I would greatly advise sisters to keep comments like Maxwell's in a HISTORICAL perspective, because it may NOT be the compliment you think it is....

two questions for all the BM on this thread who are reading this:

If today, something happened, you got sick, got arrested, got in a jam, got beaten up by the police, or falsely accused of a crime....

who would YOU call first?

would it be your (black) momma?

Your black sister, cousin, auntie, female friend?

What organization would you hope would come to your aid if you were unjustly accused or beaten?

would it be a black organization?
a white organization?
a Hispanic organization?
an Asian Organization?

if you're not sure of the answer think back about a year or so, when the Jena Six hit the news about those 6 teenage black boys facing felonies for a simple schoolyard fight in Jena, Louisiana, and who started the movement to save the Jena Six (a college age young black female)

and who rode those buses for hours, dropping school and work commitments to stand up for six black male STRANGERS, the MAJORITY OF FOLKS WHO RODE THAT BUS WERE BLACK FEMALES there were NO Asian females, NO Hispanic females and maybe a few white females those who do not appreciate what they have will LOSE what they need the most\when they NEED it the most..

-crammasters


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edud01 Moderator 2 days ago in reply to CourtneyR
No doubt about it and you hit the nail on the head as both are right for DIFFERENT reasons and one CONTROLS their mental more than the other. Blackness represents that they desire the MOST but could NEVER be and that is genetic DOMINANCE. There is TWO TRUTHS that even THEIR scientist and anthropologists could NOT refute, in fact THEY agreed: 1). ALL humans on the ENTIRE planet derived from Africa.That Blacks ARE the WORLDS parents. And 2). That whites are genetically recessive(Including red hair, blue eyes, blond hair, etc)which means they are GENETICALLY weaker. Polar OPPOSET of Black genetics. And when you couple that knowledge along with their UNDYING FEAR that if left unchecked or CONTROLED Blacks and others of COLOR(every other race stems from us as well and while their genetics are not as strong as Blacks, they are stronger than whites)would soon CONTROL them and they CAN'T abide that or take a CHANCE on that occurring. Dark skin reminds them of their genetics as lighter skin represents genetic weakness in comparison to Dark, Dark skin. That's WHY the Dark/African look is TAUGHT by whites to be the UGLIEST thing on earth. And sadly, most of us agree.

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EjErica Moderator 1 day ago in reply to edud01
And in actuality, the whites that are getting their butts done are the ones that are chasing after black men for 1. And those that are getting their lips, breasts, and a tan is because there are whites that have full lips, darker skin(and I'm speaking on other ethnics, who are more prone to have the darker skin, full lips, and curves that have been allowed to call themselves white also) and any woman with curves is to be admired.
 I don't see them trying to be as black women. I don't feel they are trying to emulate blacks, it just so happens that black women are more inclined to have full lips, bigger breasts/butts, and of course darker. Which to me is a compliment because that's what they admire and would like to have as well.
And they are very jealous of a beautiful black woman that usually has all of that.

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edud01 Moderator 11 hours ago in reply to Disabuse
NOT SO!!! You DON'T have the POWER to reproduce in GREAT numbers like Blacks and other non-whites. The POWER you claim to have is NOT the GENETIC power you desire the MOST. And because you DON'T have genetic SUPERIORITY(The SOURCE of your JEALOUSIES)you have to use morally corrupt means in an attempt to CONTROL non-white population growth. But, EVEN that is NOT enough. In Vitro fertilization, test tube babies, cloning, etc have go you walking around looking like CLOWNS and has done NOTHING to advance your birth rates or genetic INFERIORITIES. Despite your so-called power, you STILL live with the KNOWLEDGE that MOST of the world(Which IS non-white)DESPISE you and look at you as a FREAK of Nature. Genetically speaking, you have NOTHING to brag about.





http://truthseeker24info.blogspot.com/2011/09/september-2011-words.html

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Usman yerima Moderator 1 day ago in reply to Mike Stein
"To make a long story short, an uncle tom, self loathing neggro board member, threw a monkey wrench in any special consideration for minorities for any reason. So you now have blacks with 3.7 AND HIGHER GPA's that STRUGGLE to enter the UC system and ultimately get rejected.."
Mike, excellent comments. Permit me to opine a little on your above observation. Many of the black commentators on this board often argue that both Republicans and democrats are basically anti blakc interest. Actually, they mostly have a a problem with black people's alliance with the Democratic party. Their argument is usually that the democrats take black people for a ride. However, when you look at policies, the Republicans are the ones gutting funds from any program that black people benefit from. Education is one major area where Republicans have gutted. The most affected people by the drastic cuts made in education are blacks, and hispanics. Black school districts have lost many schools due to closure, and many teachers in those school districts have lost jobs. And to speak to instance where a black person would argue against any consideration for black students seeking admission to ivy league colleges, that black person is often a black republican/conservative.
Today, the people responsible for rolling back the gains that black people have made over years of struggle, are white republicans. In Texas, they passed an education bill that basically re-writes history. Ethnic studies (Black and Latino history) are no longer taught as part of the curriculum. The hispanics there are still fighting to overturn it. If there is any initiative that is proposed that may help black or any other minority, Republicans block it with all their might. The fought affirmative action in Michigan, and succeeded in overturning any consideration for minorities into the University of Michigan Law school. This has been the trend, yet many black commentators here seem to wilfully ignore these facts and would argue against blacks-democratic party alliance or support. In a political chess game of this nature, what alternatives are the these people offering? Black people cannot simply cease participation in politics, but is the alternative then to throw support behind a party that cuts educaton budget, but has enough resources to build new and more prisons? Is it in black people's interest to follow the very people who wants to disenfranchise black people? I bring this up not because I think democrats are so pro black people's interest, but the fact is, we should be honest enough to pin point the people responsible for our diminishing returns rather than blurring the lines and playing that equalization game.

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BlackHeywood Moderator 5 hours ago in reply to Mike Stein
 We shouldn't have complained, marched or protested  about Jim Crow either , I mean many Blacks sincerely believed White folks would eventually have given us Civil Rights. I got you and hear you loud and clear.I'm not surprised. In my 50+ yrs of being an American Black man, I know when we remain silent our problems GET WORSE that includes mocking, making fun and denigrating Black folks. We can NEVER be silent. I suggest you tell the Jews to stop complaining when they THINK they been slighted..


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tracy smith Moderator 1 day ago in reply to Tim
That's true brother Tim,think about this,can you imagine the world without the BLACK RACE. Hell this place would be boring as hell and all those other races who love us and love to hate us know that. That's why they can't live their lives without BLACK people on their minds.

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SoultrySoul Moderator 2 days ago
Okay...here we go again MY PEOPLE!
In trying to be like Jay-Z - spitting his lyrics on "Suit & Tie"...just hold the mic and lip sync, move back and forth, wave your hand mid level, raise 1 leg mid level and look like you're coo (That's what Jay does). 
By donning the Blackface you've proven and shown your racist mentality.
Really no need to investigate because the vid shows it all (exhibit #1 - your honor)


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As you are my INFERIOR, you must be an INSECT if I am an idiot. At any rate, Cesar Chavez and Angela Davis BOTH have long histories of commitment to the struggle of their people, and of oppressed people generally. Cesar Chavez--definitely no comrade of yours--was rooted in the struggle of the Latino people, surtout Latino working class folk. Angela Davis has been rooted in the Black Liberation Movement since the mid-1960s. Both suffered for freedom of their people, and oppressed people in general. As far as I know, you contributed NOTHING to the struggles of Black people or anyone else. Maybe because you're too busy admiring Mickey Mouse Romney and your beloved Uncle Joe Stalin. You buckdancing hypocritical son of a mongoose.

I've studied history, and know something about which white folk ADVANCED the cause of FREEDOM, and which one obstructed freedom. You resemble the latter crowd of smelly reactionaries who are not only enemies of Black people, but even of white people. Whites who are willing to burn Black a_-- while kissing white elite a_----, and selling other whites down the river. People like you must be neutralized. They will be no place for your in the new America.

Peut-etre je veux obtenir la double nationalite: La France et Les Etats-Unis. Mais je dois imprimer tres fort mon Francais. Ma famille et mon peuple (les Afro-Americains) sont ici. Mais il y'a beacouup des choses Francais qui j'aime tres fort. I could never abandon the USA. For one thing I cannot abandon my family the the ongoing struggles of African-Americans for liberation and social justice. But I would love to also have France as another home. And France has a growing Black population, and a much larger Left than we do. Mais il faut reapprendre la Francais.

Le terrorisme, c'est le terrorisme! Mussulman, chretian, Juif, Hindu, gaucheiste,,fascis te, Droitiste,KKK, Nazi, etc. I don't care your ideology or religion when you willfully slaughter civilians. I can even understand that in a just struggle carried out by armed force innocent people may be killed unintentionally. La Resistance en France et les autres pays sometimes killed innocent people unintentionally (The unavoidability of this is one reason why I lean toward the idea of NONVIOLENT REVOLUTION). But to intentionally target civilians is inexcusable.

I happen to KNOW that at least one COINTELPRO agent infiltrated the Bmore chapter of the Panthers all the way up to the leadership level. Political prisoner Marshall Eddy Conway was trying to expose them, but was himself railroaded to prison. He's still there. Much--probably MOST--of the so-called criminal activity associated with the Panthers were initially done or provoked by the FBI operatives. One I named an operative in my school newspaper. He threatened to sue me and the paper. I DARED him (and knew several former Panther sisters and brothers who'd witness to his treachery). The scumbag's reply: SILENCE.

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truthbetold on said:
To all
I’ve been slowly reading all of your comments and letting them sink in. The thing to overstand is Yurugu’s goal is to turn us into THEM. So pornography is a great way to introduce demonism to our culture. It also makes us more disconnected from each other and ourselves as we debase ourselves to their animal level.
Anal sex has the power to conjure demons. Which is why to join their forces of darkness, one must submit in that fashion. It’s all a game of mind control and many of us have fallen prey.
As for beastiality and scatophilia…that is apart of their history. Where do you think syphilis came from? I have not heard of blacks engaging in that…yet…but there are some of us that are so mentally sick in our desire to “be like them” that we’ll submit to that as well.


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edud01 Moderator 16 minutes ago in reply to Signal7
Do Blacks get TRUTH in school, or white versions of truth and history? If not why?...white supremacy. While wearing paints hanging low is indeed bad, it has nothing to do with REPRESSING others, and that style is No different than whites walking around with purple/green hair or safety pins in their face, or black lips/finger nails, etc. And if Black on Black crime/murder is NOT influenced by white supremacy what IS the Reason? And if white supremacy and white supremest "systems" play NO part in Black lives, WHY did your mother raise you in a crack/gun infested neighborhood??? Surely she could have located a safer environment for you to live in. WITHOUT outside influence(white supremest social structures)she HAD to make a DECESION to live in that neighborhood. WHY would she do that??? Like MOST you are arguing both sides. Either white supremacy and white supremest "systems" exist or it doesn't. Like many, you realized that SOMETHING was WRONG(Your living environment)and made a decision to escape, good for YOU.However, many are "caught up in the "system" at an early age(Most are indoctrinated at an early age to the superior/inferior "game"-Recall the famous Doll experiment)and don't recognize it until it's too late, IF ever.  And like MANY successful Blacks, once YOU have made it you want to PRETEND that white supremacy/racism does NOT exist to the extent it does(as YOU are evidence of that). If white supremacy is NOT to blame for "100% of black folks problems...", what PERCENTAGE are they responsible for??? 



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Obama 2004 Senate Race a Setup Beyond What You've Indicated

I've talk about this subject before here @ BAR.
Obama's from my home town, so I heard of him before his apparent  sudden burst [out of no-where] onto the public national stage in 2004. The first thing that seemed odd / peculiar was that the first & thus far only Black woman US senator from IL, Carol Mosely Braun [1992 - 1998], who had a good chance to regain her senate seat, instead chose to run in the Dim's 2004 primaries for POTUS- for which she had absolutely NO chance! [How many  even remember her 2004 run in the Dim's POTUS primaries?]! This was particularly odd since in the early to mid 2000s the IL Repug party was in quite a bit of disarray. YET- This did conveniently set the stage for Obama to run for US senator from IL without having to go up against a Black woman Dim ex-senator [Ms Braun]. Thus Obama wins the IL Dims primary race for US senator. PS: Ironically Obama backed Rahmbo over Ms Braun in Chicago's 2011 mayoral race, where Rahmbo trounced her as Chi-town's Blacks went overwhelmingly w Rahmbo based on Obama's endorsement.
The second odd / peculiar thing that happened in the IL's 2004 race for US senator was, as you've alluded to, how IL Repug Jack Ryan's candidacy blew-up in his face- due the embarrassing, yet personal / private & non-criminal / non-nefarious, circumstances of his divorce from actress Jeri Ryan. How is it that the sealed [by mutual agreement of both Jack & Jeri] divorce records in Hollywood, were ordered unsealed by request of Chicago's news outlets & papers- which the power elites knew full well that this info, though showing NO hint of criminal scandal [IE: wife-abuse, etc], was personally embarrassing enough to effectively torpedo Repug Jack Ryan's senate race??? End Result- The door to the US senate was swung wide open for the 'Obama Candidate' [what happened in this case was basically unprecedented]. As Ryan's replacement- Alan Keyes' bid was essentially a d_____ joke. Keyes, who's also 'Black', was NOT even from IL, thus the heads of IL's Repug party [which sank even further into disarray after the Ryan fiasco] FAILED to even support him.
Obviously the 'Obama Candidate' used his US senate seat as a spring board to the Oval Office! As Beverly indicates- Just how in H_---- did John McCain pick such an obvious nit-wit like Sarah's [ailin] Palin for his running-mate??! Also of interest is the fact that Obama's first degree [1983] is in political science from Columbia U- specializing in foreign affairs- & wrote his thesis on the USSR. At same time Zig-Zag Brzezinski, a known expert on foreign affairs especially RE: Russia / the USSR, was a tenured Prof of Columbia U's political science dept. So who shows up as  the 'Obama Candidate's' top foreign policy wonk during Obama's 2008 bid for POTUS- None other than Ole Zig-Zag!!!
PS- FYI: Also interesting is that when Obama graduated from Columbia U, he worked a yr or so for a firm that reportedly had ties to the CIA [IE: a CIA front].
PS2: Let not forget Obama's white momma was related to several US Pres IE: Bush Jr & Sr [& Cheney], LBJ, FDR, James Madison  as well as Robert E Lee & the late UK PM Winston Churchill!



SevenFootPelican 3 days ago
All of Mark Dice's videos (including this one) has racist undertones to it. Always undermining, mocking, and condescending black people. Plenty of black people make intellectual comments your channel, and you just pick the most ignorant of them all and then assume the author of the comment is black? I don't buy it, Mark. I sent to high school with white people like you - you get excited at your sub-par ability to mock black people while simultaneously having them agree to it.


Mark why even say "n______" ? Ive always enjoyed your videos and respected your views but when you say unnecessary/unneeded stuff like that, it makes u look ignorant when your clearly to smart to not see how that could offend people and take away from any point you are making. (and the more u bring up kissing a "black girl" the more suspect u look lol)

 

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Keith1818... Makes me wanna Holler..

Keith, even you can lead it.  It doesn't matter who and I think you are as qualified as anyone.  I am sitting in the local arena when it goes down, be it Cobo in the "D" or the "Omni" in ATL or the local auditorium in middle America.
I feel as impotent as anyone White, Black, Brown, Red or Purple given the present set of circumstances.
But I believe this in my heart (and I don't have a FB page) that in this EPOCH OF SOCIAL MEDIA AND VISUAL MESSAGING the visual imagery/sight of NONVOTERS-- "let's call ourselves the US REFUSNIKS if you will-- gathering in one place on the eve of a national election TO SHOW THE WORLD, we are mad as hell and we ain't taking it no more, MAY be revolutionary.  And MAY put some skid's on the US's PHONY moral authority, which is rooted in the LIE   of participatory democracy as well as the lie of HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION, the second based on the aforementioned PREDICATE LIE of the former.
John F. Kennedy shunned MLK for 2 reasons (and perhaps several others).  Kennedy needed the Southern Vote to win relection (raw politics).  And indeed, Nixon catapulted this reality into a decades long trend:  i.e..  The Southern Strategy.  Second, MLK refused to "stay in his lane." When he became HOLISTIC (and g/God-breathed) and intertwined concerns of domestic oppression with international oppression....and how the US of A wasted  federal fiscal resources to invest in the military complex versus alleviating the sufferings of the human condition at home, he signed is death warrant.  And if you listen to him he KNEW it... Martin knew he was going to die for speaking truth to power.
But here's the LIBERATING part:  In the words of one of my most admirable  White Progressive Bloggers Joe Bageant, "No one gets outta here alive."  (R.I.P. Joe).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Bageant
Keith.  If all of us fair-minded, people-caring folks in this world spent just 20% of our time, planning, resources (cash and in-kind) on just a few achievable and relatively modest symbolic and practical issues, if might make a slight difference versus spending a similar amount of time and resources on voting for those whom are destined to either screw or betray us. I am  speaking in terms of a STATUS QUO that either serves up CAPITULATION to the powers-that-be or devolves into SELF-AGGRANDIZEMENT.

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GWBush Sr & Jr Are Descendents of the British Royal Family...

Its probably true that the Bushes are descendents of the Mayflower gang; but I know for a fact they are decendents of the British Royal family as is/was John Kerry, & Obama's Mama, FDR, Colin Powell, Dick Cheney, etc... If you really study these facts you probably conclude that the US Presidency is in effect an extension of the British Royal Family.
IMO: The core issue is not the Puritans [which is not to deny anything you pointed out above], nor Dims vs Repugs, nor so-called 'Liberal' vs conservative, nor Capitalism vs Communism- these are just different fascists of the core issue. For non-white people the core issue is White Supremacy & White Domination over non-whites- Thats NOT to condenm white folks per-se' -but- any-one white or non-white infected w the madness of White-Supremacy! And make no-mistake about it- House-Negros like O-bomb-em, Susan & Condi Rice, Colin Powell, Uncle Judge Thomas, etc- are products of white-supremacy- thus they've bought into this white-supremacist system hook-line-&-Stinker! Bro Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations, articulated so well -  “We’ve got to uproot this system {of white supremacy}, so that our people & all people of the World can live,” - He went on further to explain that the concept of the Euro {white}Race was invented in the 1600s in order to unify whites, even those who had no personal stake in slavery, vis-a-vis non-whites whose cultures were under attack by & whose lands, resources & even the people [Africans] themselves were being stolen by Europeans infected w the madness of white-supremacy!  

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Films to Remind Us Why Not to Be Thankful for Thanks-Giving Day:

Here's a brief list of movies to Remind us why we should NOT be  so Thankful for for so-called 'Thanks-Giving Day' [Note: Feel free to add if you like]: Hombre', - Little Big-Man, - Dances w Wolves, - Geronimo_An American Legend, - Roots, - Armistad, - Sankofa...


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So Right

You hit the nail on the head, Nixakliel, Euro/white supremacy is a form of mental disorder.  How could any sane person even imagine that they were superior to a fellow human being?  Yet, many societies past and present are infected with this madness.
The disease vectors are parents, community, religious and educational institutions and media.  It is a sad fact that humans are prone to propaganda that makes them feel good at someone else's expense.
It is telling that the English, under Cromwell and other monarchs honed their tools of genocide against their neighbors in Ireland, Scotland and Wales long before they were aware of this hemisphere.  Those neighbors in turn became hyperagressive and hyperviolent partners with the English in Euro/white supremacy crimes against Native Americans, Africans, Asians and Native Australians.
Violence begets violence....


 
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Scribes for the Empire

These Right Wing bastards will give no quarter, we shouldn't be surprised or taken aback.
Let's take for example, Steven Brill's Time Magazine article on our health-care system OVERCHARING consumers to high heaven, like $10 bucks for a d_--- Tylenol capsule.  Brills opus seems to have never grasped the media's attention.  Interesting how they glossed over his meticulous research.  Wonder how many Post or NY Times Op eds or editorials emanated from that piece?
Did we hear anybody pushing for Congressional Hearings?
It's tantamount to the situation in Iraq, where, on the day of the so-called Boston Marathon bombing, OVER 100 Iraqi's died in bombings .  The violence in Iraq is numbing and the media's OUTRIGHT CENSORSHIP of it GALLING.
But let's face it, this is the evil, wicked Orwellian world we live in.
And please, for the sake of everybody's sanity, please stop thinking the situation is going to improve, because it won't.  Wait til the Koch Bros. purchase the L.A. Times or similar mouthpiece, they will make Wm. Randolph's Hearst's Yellow Journalism seem tame by comparison.
The Right Wingers got this shiggity down to a science.  I heard sorry a______ Al Sharpton on Tom Joyner this morning, talking about Obama's appointment of 2 or 3  Elite Negroes to a few lousy cabinet openings. (looks like the "new" Civil Rights paradigm)  Al claims that it resulted from his (and other's) push when they sat down with the White House.  And he took a swipe at us folks who support BAR by alleging some folks don't understand that you don't have to call something a Black Agenda in order for it to be a Black Agenda.
Whoopee Al, a couple of Elite, do-nothing Negroes get appointments from Obama IN HIS SECOND/LAME DUCK TERM, and that's Black progress?  (With Tom Joyner co-signing like a good c______n).   I'm telling yall right now we not only f***ked, we double f**ked, thanks to Cathy Hughes and Black America's embrace of the Black Minstrel radio shows that for some are their primary news source.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Steven-Brill-s-Time-Maga-by-Trudy-Lieberman-130310-350.html
Steven Brill's taboo-busting X-ray of the US medical system, "Bitter Pill," has a chance to reframe the way we think and talk--and report--about healthcare costs.
In a penetrating, systemic, and long (36 pages) look at medical care , US style, for Timemagazine, with tale after tale of the financial miseries befalling the system's victims, with number after number bolstering his analysis, Brill zooms in on the nation's unrealistic and destructive healthcare costs--why they exist and persist.
Brill, a journalist and an entrepreneur, offers the media a rare chance to move beyond the fence that usually corrals this discussion. High healthcare costs are spawned by a powerful ethic in American medicine that is too often nurtured by the press, an ethic that dictates that the medicine men--doctors, hospitals, and drug companies--sit at the right hand of God and deserve all they can get. Brill's article crashes right through that fence, in fact, and provides the stuff for further productive reporting.
"When we debate health care policy," he writes, "we seem to jump right to the issue of who should pay the bills, blowing past what should be the first question: Why exactly are the bills so high?" Precisely. Brill gives us some answers, too, not based on quotes from the self-serving players we hear from so often in this dreary debate, but based on serious investigation .




Saturday, April 13, 2013

Changes and Fighting for Truth








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http://racism.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=869:justice06-1&catid=143:colorblind-racism&Itemid=120

http://truthseeker24info.blogspot.com/2010_12_01_archive.html

http://truthseeker24info.blogspot.com/2011/07/new-political-information.html

http://racismws.com/2013/04/18/scapegoating-black-males-as-boston-bombing-suspect/


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TrojanPam says:
@ Mariama
I didn’t mean to bash “black leaders” because it is NOT their fault that they do NOT have more power in a white supremacy system. And the focus should be on the WHITE PEOPLE IN CHARGE, not on the failure of black leadership — in my opinion.
I think some of them — like most of us, including MYSELF– are caught in the trap of trying to thrive and survive in a white supremacy system–which is almost impossible UNLESS we cooperate with that SYSTEM in some manner.
While I don’t support them, I don’t want to condemn them — but I do understand your frustration which a lot of black people share
but what winds up happening is we wind up KICKING THE (black) CARS instead of going after the (white) DRIVERS
and in the end, we have not done a thing to dismantle the system of white supremacy that created AND deformed black leadership.
I think ALL black people must work on becoming LEADERS OF ONE, meaning we take what we can use from other people, and learn how to follow the LOGIC for ourselves.
Regarding white people and their selective memories, I think they know that MOST of what they say about black and non-white people is NOT TRUE (a lie)
but they SAY IT to convince their non-white victims that they are inferior and to maintain the system of white supremacy AND white privilege.
white people know what other white people do AND what they are inclined to do
Just like they know what black people do and are inclined to do
because they have STUDIED US for over 500 years.
that’s why when CNN’s John King made that statement about a “dark-skinned” (aka a black) male, I believe HE and ALL involved knew that it probably WASN’T


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Sinajuavi wrote:

Ron Paul I thought was useful to stir things up. In still think it would have been a good thing if he'd been elected President.
However, I cannot go along with his libertarian extremism, as in asserting there should be no public schools, no govt involvement at all in the provision of medical care, etc.
Rand, espousing the same “libertarian” ethos, however acts like a typical Tea Party shill for corporate interests... the populist version of the 80's yuppie/rich redneck conservative. He is doing nothing to confront corporate power, or the “corporatism” identified by his father.
Rand Paul I think has value in being one of the extremist nutcases who is going to do even more damage to the GOP than Reaganomics/Dubya have done.
 
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I was on Howard University's campus on the day Rand Paul arrived. I was too busy to attend his talk, but some of my students were there. These Howard students were not impressed with Rand Paul. They knew about his attitude towards Civil Rights. Also, they already knew that some Republicans---LIBERAL REpublicans--had contributed to the founding of the NAACP. These upper middle class intellectual black youth (not to mention their profs)were somewhat taken aback that Mr. Paul didn't know that this was OLD NEWS for most of them. They also knew that rhe Republican Party of 1909 was a different animal than today's Party.
Some students also knew that there were SOCIALISTS among the founders of the NAACP as well.....something that Rand Paul would not be so excited about.

-Savant

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Empty right wing rhetoric. The government, unfortunately, is largely an extension of the corporate structure.
Actually, one is then "shackled" by corporate power indirectly when one has a government job, and more directly in the private sector. It's a form of corporate serfdom.
The equating of the "left" (itself an often vague notion) with "plantation owners" is simple, mindless pish posh. There are no plantation owners in the 21 st Century, or so few you can easily count them.
When there WERE slaveholding plantation owners, it was mainly from the AMERICAN LEFT---the ABOLITIONISTS and rebel slaves themselves--that the staunchest opposition to the plantation owners came.
The plantation owners themselves were the most RIGHT WING element in American political life.
Hence your equating of the "left" with real or imaginary plantation owners is sheer fabrication.
But while the dominant class in America was once the planterrs, they are today the CORPORATE oligarchy. The corporate 1% are the nearest equivalent to planters of yesteryear. And BOTH parties are in bed with the corporate elite to some extent. But the Democrats are more like the corporate mistress, while the REpublicans are more like the WIFE.
It is from the LEFT that the main opposition to corporate power comes. And the largest single ethnic basis of progressive opposition to corporate power in the national Black Commmunity.

-Savant

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Actually, they're simply trying to improve their lives. if they meet solidarity rather than hostility from American born workers, then working people as a whole will gain. If they meet hostility and xenophobic animosity, the bosses will offer them jobs and benefits at maybe half of what they pay an American born worker. And if some of the better paid American workers are displaced, they will have partly brought this on themselves for directing their hostility toward immigrants rathern than the 1%. Same thing as when my people migrated from the rural South to the urban industrial north during WWI and WWII. Progressive unionists like the IWW aside, far too many white workers complained that lower paid Black workers were doign them out of their jobs. But were it not for their stupid racism, they may have formed bonds of solidarity with my fathers and grandfathers, demanding decent and equal wages and work conditions for ALL. That would have made it difficult, maybe impossible, for the plutocrats to play one agains the aother.

-Savant

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attai1 wrote:
What is a "conservative" (sic) Black person ?
A Black man like Herman Cain that wants to "conserve" - the basic meaning of conservative - a social order and a global organization conceived by whitey for whitey that is marginalizing Black people and downplaying Black cultures.

So yes these guys are not just "Uncle Toms" but really "Stephens", the vicious butler in Django Unchained that is actively supporting the white matrix.

Basically in the USA, "conservatives" are attracting less than 10% of the Black voters. It shows that the large majority of Black people have exactly the same analysis than me and do not condone the KKKluxer Walter's friends.
Plain and simple.
Nearly all so-called "conservative" Black posters on Topix are fakes and socks ...

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Note by Me: Many black warriors know that truth oppose militarism and injustice, so I want to make that clear.

By Timothy (Me)

Can't talk Rethuglican w/o talking Militarism

Wanted to share this excellent blog at Common Dream.  Isn't it fascinating that Liberals and African Americans not only remain silent about Obama's militarism, but they REFUSE to tie it Federal budget decisions, like Martin Luther King Jr. did.  And adding insult to injury they have the sickening audacity to put Obama in King's lineage.  Food for thought:
Money for Militarism, not for People: Obama’s Betrayal of Social Security
by Dave Lindorf

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/04/14-0

I recommend checking out the comments also.  Here's an example:

$30 trillion sits hidden in offshore tax havens, the majority of it from unimaginably wealthy Americans.
One out of three large corporations pays no taxes in a given year.
Reclaiming these lost revenues is not even part of the deficit discussion because the discussion is controlled by six media companies with interlocking boards of directors.
Comcast, Disney, Viacom and Fox decide the parameters of all debate in this country and they've decided that the debate will not include having the elite pay taxes.
Any suggestions outside the officially sanctioned debate are considered non-serious and are thus censored.
Until the licenses to broadcast over the public airwaves are ripped from the talons of the media megaliths and returned to their rightful owners, the public, nothing will change.
Whoever controls the media controls the county. Period.
 

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Food for thought: to the Right of Nixon?

For the record, I submit that Richard Nixon was 10x more progressive in his legislation and policies than Obama.
Think about how far we've come, where moderate Republican policies of days gone by are more progressive than present day "Liberal" Democrat policies.
Sure Nixon was a crook, but ALL politicians are crooks and all U. S. Presidents war criminals, none excepted.
http://boingboing.net/2013/04/08/obamas-regressive-record-mak.html
http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/3/1641-wibdi-a-prism-for-the-new-paradigm.html
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/03/1013155/-Nixon-more-liberal-than-Obama

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REALITY Here's the deal, the REAL DEAL. Immigrants (legal or not) are HERE, and they're here to STAY. It is estimated that there are about 12 million "illegals. " If you want to have a regime like that of Hitler or Stalin you can attempt mass deportation. The only alternative--a meaningful alternative relevant to REALITY---is to allow the attainment of citizenship rights by those who want to becoem citizens, or other forms of legal residence. I think MOST would prefer legal citizenship. Secondly, for working people--fi you don't wish to be DUPED by the 1% into a counterproductive racial conflict with immigrants which would harm ALL working people---then support citizenship rights, opt for SOLIDARITY, and insit on DECENT WAGES and WORKING CONDITIONS for ALL AMERICANS. Otherwise, you will be CRUSHED (along with the immigrants) under the iron hill of the plutocracy.

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West is no MLK. MLK would

West is no MLK. MLK would never have gotten on the Obama bandwagon from the get go. Dr. West is no dummy; he knows as much about the issues as BAR editors do. But instead of raising important questions and criticisms when Obama came on the scene, West dutifully jumped on the Obamabot bandwagon.  People such as he with access to a mainstream public soapbox should have spoken up and made demands way back 2007.  Just as with Obama, some may use the excuse for West that he couldn't say too much for fear of his job, the white power structure, etc. MLK wouldn't have feared such; he would have spoken out early and often. I wonder who West voted for last November? It's hard to be impressed by the good professor as he comes off as wishy washy. Like many on the Left, he ties himself in knots trying to sugar coat and rationalize Obama's evildoings instead of telling it like it is as the good BAR editors do weekly.

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Obama Re-Elected by 95% Black, 70% Hispanic, just 40% White Vote

How did Rahmbo, the guy who is now aims to close as many as 60 CPS schools this yr, all in Black Chicago neighborhoods, get elected by crushing the first & thus far only Black Woman ever to be a US Senator [Chicago's Carol Mosely Braun]??? Because his fellow Chi-Town home-boy Obama told Chi-Town black human beings to vote for Rahmbo, & they did just that [not sure how many Hispanics voted for Rahmbo but I suspect over 50%]!
How did Race to the Bottom's Arne Duncan, a guy who's only qualified to be a jr hi-school basketball coach / PE teacher [he's an ex semi-pro basketball player], get to be Sec of ED??? Because his Chi-Town basketball chum Obama picked him for the job that's how!  If a Repug like Newt Grinch-witch had said what Arne Duncan said that 'Katrina is the very best thing to ever happen to New Orleans schools...', Black folks would have been up in arms. So why haven't Blacks demanded that Duncan even apologize, let alone insist that Obama kick his a_--- to the curb??!!

 
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Sincere on said:
I laugh too. The 1st Black President of the western world was Vicente Ramón Saldaña Guerrero aka Guerrero Negro or Black Warrior. He was Mexico’s 2nd President. He abolished slavery before Lincoln. Like Garvey he too was slain by his main man/2nd in command. Yanga Veracruz, free slave state/municipality like Haiti , lead by Yanga himself a maroon/runaway slave like Toussaint. This the closest we will have to high ranking leadership that cared/layed their lives down behind POC. To those watching us: I now know who I am & The Power I possess. Yes, you should worry.

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Great exchange Bev and Keith 1818

Please allow "King Solomon" to "split the baby."
In the interest of full disclosure I was a proponent of immigration reform and accordingly  vigorously debated those posters who took the contra position.  Now I understand where they were coming from CLEARER.  Those Bruhs and Sis were warning us that "we are on our own, that no ethnic or racial group would reciprocate our "love," or match our equanimity, well damn, I have to agree with them now.
So when you factor into the mix Obama's abysmal "jobs policy/programs, particularly w/r/t to African Americans whose plight continues unabated, you "get it" that Immigration Reform while FACIALLY valid and the humanitarian thing to promote, will simply put Black folks back another 10 or 20 years.  Because the inescapable truth is that the type of jobs "exempted" in the Immigration Reform Package are precisely the type of jobs, under-skilled, under-educated or post-prison Blacks are most suitable for.
So I have no doubt BLACK UNEMPLOYMENT WILL RISE, due to Immigration Reform.  How can it not?  I challenge ANYONE to refute me.
So what is the lesson learned?  We can all change our thought process and should as we receive and discern additional information.  This is the crux of my debate with LifeLongStudent who's analysis I otherwise concur with.
West gets indicted (like a whole slew of other educated/professional Black folks who should know better) for being too intelligent not to suspect that Obama would be a corporate tool given all the SIGNIFYING Obama did in his sorry bio and associated speeches.
But perhaps West  dreamnt for a moment and was induced to rationally think the guy would be an improvement over the last one, or a half-ass Liberal worse case.  Despite his earlier Kook-Aid drunkenness, I give West credit for putting it all on the line by speaking truth to power now when it became apparent we (or yall) voted in Bush 3, and not even a poor substitute of a moderate Rethug like Nelson Rockefeller or Jack Kemp.
West ain't MLK ( and Obama d_---- sure ain't FDR or LBJ, not even Tricky Dick), but I'll take any public intellectual willing to risk fame and fortune who will speak truth to power.  It's a different media/format era also and that presents different problematics on its own.
p.s.  Wonder how Jay-Z's Cuba trip and his new song/release about the same will shape either him or the media that used to kiss his behind (as a empire water carrier)??  Stay tuned, let's see if he and Beyonce will remain on the WH "A-List" or be Blackballed??
C. N.  I'm taking bets on you know what.  Wonder if Jay-Z will REDISCOVER his "ghetto" roots once he discerns (IF he discerns) the Obamas giving him the cold shoulder in order to pacify Rush Limbaugh's audience.  LOL  Is Jay-Z bout to be a Sista Souljah remix???!!  "Who knew!?"
p.s.s.  Moving forward, let's see how frequent West or Tavist appear on Bill Maher, will they equal appearances by Michelle McGhee Bootlicker John Legend?  Inquiring minds want to know.  Stay tuned Boys and Girls.



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http://web.archive.org/web/20071015200030/http://newsconfidential.com/FS/FS_Story.php?RequestID=60001

Well, I wasn't thiking much about the distinction between "legal" and "illegal " because the difference, at least in regard of the point I was making, seems minimal. Legal or illegal, immigrants come seeking a better life. That is nearly always the case. They wouldn't come here for a fraction of the wages American born workers receive (less even than is paid to African American workers) if they weren't seeking a better life. But corrupt businessmen want them here because they can pay them lower wages, usually rely on them being unorganized and defenseless, and have available as weapons against such workers the threat of deportation and nativist American xenophobia. If anything, they're commonly living clandestine lives of quiet desperation. Remember that you have to apply for welfare, medical assistance and other such benefits. How many are willing to expose themselves by applying for such benefits? How many would have trouble circumnavigating the system if they've little or no knowledge of English? For the more enlightened American born worker the attitude, on both moral and political grounds, must be SOLIDARITY with fellow workers (regardless of race, creed, national original, legal status, etc), the call for full citizenship rights, and decent wages, benefits and working conditions for ALL. Any other position is probably unethical, and would amount to American workrrs shooting themselves in the foot.

-Savant


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http://www.topix.com/forum/afam/TNRM2PC8TSI75GLB5

Great info! The awakening is on the way i have been given the task of visiting all of the black churches in my area the pastors are obligated to let our people know who we are. The times of the white man white washing our history is over. I wish others would do the same and spread the message to their local AA churches.

-Kola Koca





Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Thursday, March 21, 2013

More Social Commentaries









http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/pan-afrikanism-afrocentricity/33291-lets-celebrate-afro-latino-identity-all-year-long.html



http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/Unspeakable/ConvMartyrdom.html


http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/open-forum/33040-jesse-jackson-set-up-martin-luther-king-steve-cokely.html

http://truthseeker2473.blogspot.com/2012/05/crammasters-and-other-folks-words-shown.html

http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/detroit-cyprus-banksters-search-prey

http://realhistoryww.com/world_history/ancient/Misc/True_Negros/Assorted/The_History_of_Slavery.htm



hesacon Moderator 17 hours ago in reply to SoultrySoul
 I could care less if he looks like Obama.  Black folks should be ticked because satan is portrayed as a black entity.  I don't appreciate that at all.

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 That is a tough one. Either spend your whole life fighting for what you are owed, and perhaps getting it several generations in the future, or go someplace where you can enjoy life now, and be treated as a human for a change.

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Mardell007 Moderator 2 days ago
Intelligent and a decent piece of writing. Seems you're all so powerful grandfather's legacy is still haunting the powers which be from his grave. Be ready and equipped. This stink ain't going away anytime quick. Malcolm X was a great man and it's a shame we haven't anybody like him to unite the mass Black community world wide..

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FreeBLACKman804 Moderator 2 days ago
Looks like COINTELPRO is still up and running.  Which would explain why they still will not make those records public.  Those of you that still question why we as a people are in the condition that we are in need to look no further than our elected public officials that appoint certain people to positions of power and then look the other way when things like this happen.  People such as myself always push for Black unity, but the truth is that there has always been, and always will be a force within the USA that will never allow black people to truly be organized and work together for the good of ourselves.  And there will always be those among us that would rather  continue eating the scraps dropped from the oppressors table instead of doing something for ourselves.    

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Kristopher M. Mosby Moderator 6 hours ago
When Essence removed the tag line: "For Today's BLACK Woman" we all knew it was all over!

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Once the national black community was full of revolutionaries. I've even met a few of the 1960s revolutionaries in the middle or old age: Angela Y. Davis, Huey P. Newton, Stokely Carmichael, Kathleen Cleaver & even CLR James.
These were/are men and women devoted to bring about a fundamental change in the sociel order, and in our order of values.
Freedom, self-determination, the transcendence of racism and economic exploitation. And, in Fanon's words, the settting "afoot of the New Man."
What they seek is as much a moral and spiritual revolution as an economic and political one.
In the 1960s, many gave their lives for the liberation of our people, black people, and indeed oppressed people throughout the land and throughout the world.
Even thier idea of freedom was different, as in no. 1 of the Ten Point Prgoram of the Black Panther Party: "We want FREEDOM. We want the power to determine the destiny of our Black community."
Community was at the heart of the very conception of freedom. And then you had Dr. King with his idea of Beloved Community.

Do we have it in us now to be revolutionaries? Or are we totally immersed and bemused by the toxic culture of consumerism and narcissism?
Have we a vision of a better life transcending the Established order?

Fred Hampton was not an armchair revolutionary. The corporate police state doesn't usually bother to take out arm chair revolutionaries. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and others were not armchair revolutionaries.
Revolution involves a process of radical social transformation, and a tremendous degree of commitment.
Do we have such people today?

-Savant

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Revolution to end the tyranny of the coporate racist state, and the racist capitalist order of society.
Revolutions are always from within and without; involving a radical transformation of the social order(its institutions, for examples) and a radical transformation of values and interhuman relations.
And while you obviously don't know this, you bemused millions of WHITE SERFS need a revolution nearly as badly as do we Blacks.
But the main difference between we Blacks and yourselves, is that most of us know we're not free, while you believe you are.


-Savant

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Yes there are many the problem is their voices are being drowned out by those puppets. I would suggest checking out Dr
Jeffries, Dr Umar Johnson, Dr. Cresling, Dr. Henrik Clarke there are others, but this is a great start

-dkanela

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Why now allow the race baiters,(I'm not going to call them a "racist",debunk this?

http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130314/Res...

" Researchers show vitamin D supplementation may help African-Americans lower blood pressure

High blood pressure, a risk factor for heart attacks, heart failure and stroke, is 40 percent more common in African-Americans than in other American ethnic groups. In a new study from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), along with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital, researchers show that vitamin D supplementation may help African-Americans lower their blood pressure. The study publishes online in the March 13, 2013 edition of the American Heart Association journal Hypertension.

"This study may explain and help treat an important public health disparity," said the study's lead author, John Forman, MD, a physician in the Renal Division and Kidney Clinical Research Institute at BWH. "More research is needed, but these data may indicate that vitamin D supplementation lowers blood pressure in African-Americans. "

Start debunking.

-Hotaltanta


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FyLe ForMatz |
“Stop allowing others into everything we do. They will neva contribute or enhance anything we do,only drain us of our natural talents. They need us. We don’t need them. I wish My People could see that!”
i agree 100%!

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crazychris Reply:

no whites need somebody to emulate they need blacks to make the music or come up with styles and trends then they send in a token white who learn then starts off so called urban but then they get to the point where that white artist does’nt need to be around blacks anymore.
everlast was the token in ice t’s rhyme syndicate then he went from house of pain still hip hop from being solo to singing country.
same thing with kid rock, mark walberg, elvis who started out in black churces.
fred durst, britney, christina, they all don’t really need to be the token for black music anmymore they made they’re millions.
while the black artists expand as well but they’re forgotten and tossed back to the streets when they go broke.


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Why is there a dte energy billboard at the top of the page?

Anyway. I think they want to kill off or leave a considerable amount of the population for dead.
There's no other plausible explanation for what's happening if you consider the fact that the banks don't pay any sales tax on its financial transactions/turnover.
The private "Federal" Reserve prints billion's every month, hundreds of times greater than the deficit of Detroit. This money is handed out to the banks and used to fuel new speculative bubbles.
You can't start a 401K because they might snatch that (plus they're using your retirement for attacks on places like Detroit). You can't put your money in the bank because they're gonna snatch that. And you can't keep your money in the house because they wanna take your guns. We pay into Social Security, Medicare, and other retirement programs and they wanna take that.
We can't win.
Glen is right, lawsuits ain't cuttin it. We can't trust the Unions and old civil rights groups. Time to start pushing the idea of a General strike.
http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/2013/03/michigan-gov-snyder-imposes-

 

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I understand where she is coming from (as women of every color ought to be treated with respect), but didn't we as blacks tried this decades ago. Decades ago, we did everything we can to find some acceptance from mainstream Western society via assimilation and post racial rhetoric. What is the fruit of that? That fruit has been rotten to the core. So, we as black human beings of both genders should be concerned about building up our own culture and of our own way of thinking. White supremacy has allowed a huge amount of false beauty standards and so forth in the world. White women are highly represented in the fashion world and in magazines globally, but it is rare for a black woman to be on a cover of other prominent, international magazines. Some of our people want to placate a vicious society when the Jews, Hispanics, white ethnic groups, Indians, and others don't care what others think about them (they just create their own infrastructure and keep it moving. They could care less about acceptance from white supremacy. They want Power). I do not feel like we should hate non blacks since that is wasted energy. More energy should be made in promoting black African interests instead.

-By Timothy (Me)

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JoAnn Gamble Moderator 15 hours ago
I feel if Jada wants to see more white girl on our black magazine she has money maybe she should start with that, may that can be her way of giving back(white) I haven't seen a black girl on "Marie Clare" just saying it has taken black over 50 years to get a foot in the white door. Had it not been for Mr. Johnson we'd still be struggling to get recognized .

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I did some research on this series. Many of the advisors are from the same prosperity gospel movement that infiltrated some of Christianity to this day. They even get some of the Bible stories wrong. I have more respect for the History Channel (other than this issue) than the Discovery Channel since the History Channel at least tries to talk about some mysteries of life that I enjoy. As for the Obama controversy, far too often, the President is being used as a scapegoat for our country's ills collectively. It is so easy to say it's Obama's fault 24/7, but it takes a wise human being to witness & acknowledge Obama's errors while at the same time acknowledging that our oppression never started when President Barack Obama was elected at all. As for God and Satan, blacks are the first humans on Earth. God created black humans in his image first, so who do you think God is? It is obvious who God is. We all know who is Satan.

-By Timothy (Me)

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Yeah....because all black women behave in this manner right pal!

NO not hardly....stop acting as if all black women are exactly alike...they're all no more alike than we black men are all alike!

Stop acting like a victim...it's weak,pathetic and unbecoming!


-moorspeaks
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@Freddie47

As to your last point: Human relations, human community, is more involving than two points connected by a line. A new human community is what I've got in mind. It is an active relation of self with others and the world. There can be no "I" without a "thou".
In part, I have in mind something like Dr. King's idea of the World House, if you're familiar with WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE, CHAOS OR COMMUNITY? And I find myself in stream with the moral sentiments implied in the following words of Black revolutionary humanist Frantz Fanon:"What we want to do is to go forward all the time....in the company of Man, in the company of ALL men."
This is the fundamental meaning of a new Revolution. FREEDOM RISING!!!

-Savant

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Tell that to the Algerians of whom the French massacred about 1 million. Or the Iraqis who were subjected to poison gas by the British long before Saddam Hussein. Or the Hereros, nearly exterminated by the Germans. Or even Europeans exterminated by other Europeans
Racist whites probably would not have allowed Muslim Arabs into Europe, except as cheap labor. Same way in which they admitted Blacks and others. But racist whites didn't mind allowing THEMSELVES in Muslim and other Third countries.

And after what those whites did to women of color in Africa, Asia and the Americas, don't b_--- to me about rape.
-Savant




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SoultrySoul Moderator 8 hours ago in reply to Mardell007
Last month he was on tour assisting Sister Souljah, promoting her new book - which I was very surprised.

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Angelo Darden Moderator 9 hours ago
Jada naively believes that all covers are created equal. You see, Jada, it is already assumed by white Americans that Black magazines are inherently "inferior". Just as Black colleges and all other Black institutions are also considered inherently "inferior". You will never see a white contestant for Miss Black America, because it
is already assumed that Miss America represents "all" of America which
is predominately Caucasian and inherently superior

We play into the inferiority by preferring white owned and operated firms and institutions rather than our own; we eschew even our own culture when we process our hair and when women try to emulate the same physical figure as white women. Consider the case of Zoe Saldana being cast as the lead for a biopic about Nina Simone. While Ms. Saldana is indeed a talented actress, she bears no resemblance to the late Ms Simone. Now while there are other talented Black actresses who would be equally
as capable of portraying Nina Simone and have a greater resemblance to
her, Ms.Saldana's complexion is more acceptable to white audiences rather than a Black actress who would more resemble the darker skinned Nina Simone who was proud of her looks to the point of militancy (God Bless Her) and Hollywood is not willing to risk huge amounts of money alienating white audience members. And yet they say there's no more segregation.
I would challenge Jada to request one of her Caucasian friends in Hollywood to offer to pose for a Black magazine and see what their reaction would be. The only one of note would be Coco Austin (wife of the rapper Ice-T) and you already see how white America in general regards her. I would welcome any discussion on the subject from Jada Pinkett-Smith or anyone for that matter if you think I'm wrong on this subject.


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Real Lesson RE Dims vis-a-vis Bush Jr: Capitulation & Complicity

The Dims capitulated [or were in cahoots] from the very beginning vis-a-vis Bush Jr. First they 'conveniently' scape-goated Nader in 2000 because the Dims let Bush Jr get away w hi-jacking the 2000 election in broad day-lite [so Bush Jr did it again in 2004] & because Gore failed to win his own [& Slick Willie's]  home states of TN & AR. They then confirmed their capitualtion / complicity when the CBC tried a last ditch effort to challenge Bush's thievery in 2000 yet could NOT GET not even ONE so-called 'liberal / progressive' white Dim senator to sign on. In fact the CBC members were MOCKED by the senate. IMO this set the stage for the 9-11 'New Pearl Harbor' event including the Anthrax Home-Grown [via Fort De-trick MD] {false-flag}Terrorist Attacks on the Bush Jr / Cheney / NeoCON watch.
But the modern fore-runner to Dims' capitulation to Repug skull-duggery RE: Bush Jr- was the Iranian Oct [thru Jan] surprise 1980-81 w Skippy-Jiff Carter vis-a vis Holly-weird Ray-Gun. Word is that Carter refused to even listen to those who tried to tell him how Mr CIA / Skull{duggery}& Bones Bush Sr, Bill Casey & Bob Gates [all were top Ray-gun_Repug type CIA Guys] sabotaged his efforts to negotiate w the Iranians to end the hostage crisis. 


 

Monday, March 11, 2013

Words of Truth




http://academic.udayton.edu/race/04needs/affirm25.htm

http://www.winningprogressive.org/tag/martin-luther-king-jr

http://www.opposingviews.com/arguments/dr-martin-luther-king-would-have-supported-affirmative-action

http://www.aavw.org/index.html


http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/mlk3.html

http://www.aclu.org/files/images/asset_upload_file670_37287.pdf

http://www.irehr.org/issue-areas/race-racism-and-white-nationalism/item/376-who-is-alex-jones

http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/archives/2013/jan/15/previously-unreleased-interviews-reverend-dr-martin-luther-king-jr/

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/01/21/1474891/celebrating-martin-luther-kings-progressive-legacy/?mobile=nc

http://www.thekingcenter.org/archive/document/cbss-face-nation-interview





MsDivagod 5 days ago
I love to listen to this brutha, he is informed, enlightened, thinking outside of the box and passionate. We need to hear more bruthas like him come forward and speak.

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NOI is the acronym for the Nation of Islam, a sort of religious sect in Black America. Perhaps one day I can explain what it's about. In the meantime, you might gain some insight by reading THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X. There are also some revealing info in Robert Allen's BLACK AWAKENING IN CAPITALIST AMERICA. See also James Cone's MARTIN & MALCOLM & AMERICA:A DREAM OR NIGHTMARE. I never finished reading Manning Marable's book on Malcolm X, and it's very controversial in Black intellectual and left political circles, but I hear that it is often quite revealing about the inner life of the NATION OF ISLAM. I can't vouch for (or against) the cogency of that revealing until I've competely read the book. Was too busy with my book on King when it came out. Will finish reading it this summer, if possible. START with the AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X.

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My gosh thank you! Just because ONE man mention this does not make it so. We even have members on this site posting about rappers as if ALL Black Men are the same. First they will combine ALL Black men into one group as losers and then later come back to say,*I don't mean all Black Men* after they have made over ten comments putting down the men of their race while uplifting non-black men like they do no wrong. I'm so glad Black women are not listening and following their nonsense anymore. That as Black women who are individual thinkers, who see Blacks selling out their own race are just slaved minded people on a mission to divide. I think its so pathetic for people to say they are through with their own kind, yet they post 24/7 about them. You don't see whites doing this stupid mess... On their forum uplifting another race.

I mean dang, do she really believe Black Women are not intelligent? That WE don't know how to choose between good and bad MEN?

White women also have to choose. EVERY white men is not perfect.

If it was that easy, one date is all it would take. That first white men would have been the right men.

Life is hard and a relationship is even harder. Every relationship will not be perfect. All this bashing on your own is pure stupidity.

Men supposedly are the chooser, however its the women who have the last say on which men to choose from. And believe it or not most Black women are choosing their own race. Black love is not dead and its strong because Black Men and Black Women are choosing their mate based on self. A Good Black man chooses a Good Black woman.



-MsNewNew

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They don't have to be fat or unattractive, but there's still a common denominator for many non-Black women (whether they date Black men or not): they will usually think that they're better than Black women.

-A Person

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It's not just ww who date black men. Insecure people in general love to hang around stereotypical people. It makes them look good. Racists love stereotypes too.

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fmcneillii 1 week ago
Make sure they know which UNIA-ACL because there are two claiming to be representative of Garvey's organization. From what I been told the legit one is uniaacl (dot) org (slash) w w w (dot) uniaacl dot org

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Tim Moderator 4 days ago
This is a good article, I would also add that the hiring practices or need for those blacks in positions to help other blacks is also the problem. Closing the door on others once your in, Siding with whites against others who look like you by choice (Causes of Uncle Toms), and often projecting white peoples racism out first against other blacks before they do is the problem!
I mean how many times have you worked at a place where the white mentality out numbers Blacks yet there are more Blacks working there than Whites?  Also, with this new practice of Human Resources being farmed out to Employment agencies that seem to be Indian (From India) I am surprised anyone is working who is Black. I have actually had friends say they will have several contractors on a location and the white ones make more than the Blacks, all they may all be doing the same work
I agree with Ben Carson that policies should be made to address this, but to not acknowledge the fact that attitude and privilege are not at head of the table when talking about this issue is not going to cut it anymore. Carson who lives in Baltimore, and works for a employers that has a history of treating Blacks badly as it pertains employment in the past, he should know this. He wrote a book stating how he got his shot and the things he went threw until that time came. With Blacks we get shots at whether we belong or not, while others can mess-up over and over again. Knowing Carson is friends with people like Armstrong Williams and has been seen at events hosted by Williams with Clarence Thomas in attendance, this view of "I did it alone without laws to get me there" attitude was sure to catch on.
Yes we need policies but when you speak on behalf of a party that would see things the other way, how can one make such arguments? You work in a place that treated you badly(based on privilege), Vivian Thomas badly(based on privilege), and lets not get on the Henrietta Lacks paradox! Yes, Hopkins did that! Have any policies been made to address that Mr. Carson? Policy is not written by one man but the congress, but look at who has blocked, obstructed, and voted against most things that could have nipped most of this in the bud two years ago?


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4787opium 3 days ago
Umar Johson May the ancestors guide you an help you prevail

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It's funny

It's funny how the rich always blame the poor and how 1% of the worlds population has 90% of the worlds riches.
Now, the rich not only do they want more money and want other people to be poorer but they also want to get rid of all those pesky taxes that burden them. I mean come on, you have milions of dollars, spend them on crappy things then want your money back while others struggle to put food on the table.


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Addressing the replies

I'm a black man but not American. Dailing in from the UK.
I have never voted for or offered any kind of support to any American president or British prime minister and therefore accept no responsibility for the actions of any holder of either office.
Neither do I accept that the conduct of the people I come from has been as destructive as that of whites.
Simple as.
Lastly, other than the fact that Obama is the current potus, I'm not really seeing why BO is being singled out as a singularly  injurious president since his (mis) deeds are a mere continuation of the atrocities that are a staple of ALL American presidencies.
They're all bastards in my book and the people most responsible for allowing these mad men to unleash the horrors they inflict on the world and its peoples are the whites who elect them and do their bidding.
No doubt Karma may come knocking on my door to demand to redress for my misdeeds, but mine don't include any of the following:
I haven't invaded, genocided, raped, enslaved bombed tortured and looted my way around the globe.
End Of
Funny how the only area that whites are willing to accept blacks as equals is in wrongdoing. No "white guilt" there then.
Indeed white guilt =
whites are guilty of everything but feel guilt for nothing. 

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An analysis with much merit, G.Ford.

When I was a grad student in "American Civilization" (funny name,yes), I preferred to wait for analysis after, rather than as newspapers spun history-in-the-making.  I was young, naive and although I knew, even then, that who wrote the history bent the results in the telling of it, it was much later that I realized the same errors I'd objected to, in the newspapers, at the time they were current, would "work their way into history" because the bias, as well as error, would be used as basis.  That is, what the history writer quoted decade(s) later as primary sources, would be the NYTimes, etc. with their errors and bias.  Howard Zinn didn't write "A People's History of the United States" (publish it, I mean, since he worked on it for 20 years while teaching, beginning at Spelman College in Atlanta) until much later.  Historiography was just beginning, so to speak, as I was leaving grad school to begin my art career in the mid1960s.  So I had a lot to learn. Still learning.
    So many people around the world protested before the U.S. attacked Iraq ten years ago, bombing starting today.  I had protest art going out, citing the above mentioned "Project for a New American Century" was mentioned during the media build-up, in a critical way,in a column  in the not-very-radical Atlanta Journal Constitution, the daily paper.   I was able to get out for awhile, wearing a sign protesting the war on the day of the big march in NYC, rolling part of the way, spouse pushing my wheelchair.  At Columbus Circle, a reporter from Japan wanted to push me, in my wheelchair, towards the camera and his cameraman, so my individual protest could be seen in Japan:wheelchair user as photogenic item.  Even though he protested that he pushed his own mother's wheelchair, I said, "Only my husband pushes my wheelchair."  So, the reporter couldn't bear not being the smiling pusher in his newsreport.
     My art of protest after the Iraq invasion began is in two places on the internet: my art webpages and the musuem archive webpage.  Note that the CLARA database of the museum has never changed the date, which they typed wrong, but I had put the date I completed the art, 4-28-2003 on the art itself, in the margin of the French Liberte stamp.  The piece is titled "Liberte".  To  find it, google search "sanda aronson".   


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crazychris |
yes funny how most of these whites who do black music never marry outside their race.
okasy gwen stefani had her wigga moment and her hip hop phase who’d she marry.
j lo never married a black dude.
britney spears married 2 white dudes.
christina aguilera married a white dude.
madonna never married a black guy or had a child by a black guy lourdes is mixed but she’s hispanic.
we know who pink, fergie, and other white girls who love hip hop marry.
who’d justin timberlake marry blink and you missed the fact that he dated tatyana ali who shocked me by dating drake.
a black woman was’nt good enough for elvis to marry.
mick jagger disowned his biracial daughter by marsha hunt for years and refused to pay child support.


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DIVIDE & CONQUER TACTICS- PITS PUBLIC VS PRIVATE SECTOR WORKERS

From The Real News Network- Feb 28 2011: 
Paul Jay: WI Gov Walker talked today about how one of the provisions of his bill will allow union members not to pay their dues, and they could use what he says will amount to almost $1,000 a year towards the new pension and health care benefits contributions he'd like them to be making. The unions respond that this is just another piece of trying to break the union altogether. In the battle in WI is the kind of publicity & TV ads, that attempts to split the workers in the private sector from the workers in the public sector, a lot of specific references to 3 plants, Kohler plumbing, Mercury Marine, & Harley Davidson, 3 big factories in WI where the workers took a 2-tier contract agreement, under the threat that the factories would leave WI if they didn't agree. So workers that are already there are going to make around $22.50 / hr & they have a 5yr wage freeze, new workers are going to start at $14.50 / hr. And then these people are being told, well, you should support WI Gov Walker so that public sector workers get cut as well, because then it will all be fair. What do you make of this split they're trying to engineer?
FRANK HAMMER, FMR. PRESIDENT, UAW LOCAL 909: The Corp / Biz Elites have been threating to taking our livelihoods away & sending them to non-union areas or overseas. That's been their leverage, especially with the free trade agreements that have been passed over the last 20 years [IE: GATT & NAFTA - So this is on-going since at least Reagan]. But they don't have that leverage on public workers. They can't move the WI's Gov't to North Carolina... Every time they attack one sector of the workforce they use that to bring along the other sector of the workforce & slowly but surely ratchet us all down to the level of mere survival...
JAY: When I talk to un-unionized, lower-paid workers, they're  resentful about higher-paid, unionized private sector workers... Is this having an impact, that people resent the sort of job security that public sector workers have that private don't?
Hammer: Between public & private, one in eight or one in nine  are w unions. The vast majority of working-class don't enjoy the benefits of either private sector workers in unions or public sector workers in unions. Jealousy is really an amazingly destructive human emotion. Folks like the Koch brothers & all these anti-union institutions in the US are making use of jealousy to say, well, if I can't have it (I'm speaking as a non-union worker), then why should they have it? It's jealousy gone amok being stirred & manipulated by folks like the Koch brothers, who would like to do away with all collective organization of the working class as a whole. A friend of mine today told me they saw an article in The NY-Times quoting a UAW member from a Jaynesville plant who was laid off. He's unemployed- so he's supporting WI Gov Walker because he's feeling like, since I've lost my job & I'm now being asked to pay taxes to pay for what public workers now have that he doesn't have, then he feels resentment and doesn't want to do it. I think it's a question of unions reaching out to the non-union sector, reaching out to the community to explain that unions are the best thing since sliced bread, - the more of us that gather inside unions & work for our behalf, the better off we're all going to be. As long as we non-union workers gang up on union workers, we're all going to lose.
JAY: How much fault do you put towards union leadership for over the last few decades not being as vigorous about unionizing non-unionized workers as they could have been? Certain sectors of the working class got very privileged, while most of the other working class became totally unorganized. Maybe there's a bit of chickens coming home to roost here [Due to a Selfish / Darwinistic- I got mine so You get yours - Looking out for Number One - Survival of the Fittest Mentality]?...

Then there this from Feb 24 2011 DemcracyNow! broadcast where WI Gov Walker thinking he's talking to a Koch Bro says:  [I pulled out a picture of Ronald Reagan. And I said, "You know, this may seem a little melodramatic, but 30 years ago, Ronald Reagan," whose hundredth birthday we just celebrated the day before, "had one of the most defining moments of his political career, not just his presidency, when he fired the air traffic controllers." "To me, that moment was more important than just for labor relations or even the federal budget. That was the first crack in the Berlin Wall and the fall of communism, {thus he's equating busting unions w defeating communism - meaning people like him, 'I can't recollect'-Reagan, the FOXes, Koch Bros, OH Gov Kasich, etc- see any union member as a communistbecause from that point forward, the Soviets and the Communists knew that Ronald Reagan wasn’t a pushover." And I said, "This may not have as broad of world implications, but in Wisconsin’s history"—little did I know how big it would be nationally—Wisconsin’s history, I said, "This is our moment. This is our time to change the course of history."] - And also this: [IAN MURPHY: {as David Koch} "We’ll back you any way we can. But what we were thinking about the crowds was planting some troublemakers." - GOV. SCOTT WALKER'{sresponse}: "You know, well, the only problem with—because we thought about that. The problem with—or my only gut reaction to that would be right now the lawmakers I’ve talked to have just completely had it with them. {and} The public is not really fond of this." - And also This: [WI Gov Scott Walker: "I've got layoff notices ready, we put out the at-risk notices, we'll announce Thursday, they'll go out early next week...  we'll probably give five to six thousand state workers... at-risk notices for layoffs. We might
 ratchet that up a little bit too."] 
So newly elected Govs Walker [WI] , Kasich [OH]  & the Koch Bro phony Tea B_----- had going after Gov't worker unions in mind from the get-go. Further WI Gov Walker is apparently ready to use five to six thousand Wisconsin state workers as pawns in his political chess game- denying them the ability to feed their families- to use as leverage in his show-down w WI State workers' unions. We also see planting agent provocateurs to stir up trouble as an excuse for the storm troopers to crack down [IE: crack heads] -or- even as one IN official just said 'Shoot to Kill' WI protesters [sounds like what Boss Daley said during the 1968 riots after MLK assassination & Khadifi's orders to put down the current Libyan up-rising]- is standard operating procedure by the Fascist Gov'ts & the Power Elites. So why didn't so many working class white folks in WI & OH [& else-where] see this coming when they voted these guys in this past Nov? Could it be that so many of them where caught up in the FOX Noise Tea Bagger thinly disguised race-baiting [presented as anti-Obama, anti-AlQaeda] rhetoric - that they've been blind-sided??!! 
This is how the Power Elites pit the people against each other - to their advantage [& our dis-advantage]- the old Divide & Conquer Strategy. Pit- Black vs Brown vs white, - young vs old, - men vs women vs children, teachers vs parents vs students, - private sector workers vs public sector workers, - union workers vs non-union workers, - employed vs un-employed, - Christian vs Muslim vs Jew, etc, etc, etc [The Ole Willie Lynch letter tactics]... If we keep falling for this Ole Okee Doke [Rope a Dope] We're All Gonna Lose [IE: We're done for].


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ON So-Called Socialism in The Bible & Liberation Theology

Many so-called poly-trickal hard-core right-wing GOP FOXes like to wrap themselves in the mantle of the Bible [& the flag] as they rail on & on about the evils of socialism. But the reality is most of them are really Social Darwinists- I don't care if they say they believe in Creationism or how much they hoop & holler about Jesus [generally thats nothing but poly-trickal posturing anyway]. But most so-called political leftists run from the Bible [as well as embrace Darwin's concept of evolution] so they don't how to neutralize these fake FOX type holy-rollers w the BIBLE [fight fire w fire so to speak].
So here is a few verses that might help:
I am my Brother's Keeper...- The greed for money [power & materialism] is the root of all Evil...- You shall protect & watch out for the fatherless, the widow & the old...-
[And when you harvest your fields- you shall not strip it completely bare- but leave some so that the poor, needy & the sojourner don't go hungry...]
[And they {the Apostles} were not fixated on there own personal stuff - but rather shared all things in common - according to their needs...]
[And the Lord said: I was hungry but you refused to feed me, I was homeless & out in the street but you refused to give me shelter, I was sick but you denied me medical care, I was unjustly imprisoned &/or treated unjustly in prison because you denied me justice...  Verily I say... since you haven't looked out for the welfare of the least of [my people], then you have neglected & abused ME... And those who do so shall face condemnation...]
[And a rich-man came to Yeshua [aka: Jesus] saying- I believe in your teachings & I'm ready to get w what you're talking about. So Yeshua responded That's Great - but I've got one more thing to ask of you - Take all that excessive material stuff that you possess [but don't really need or even use] & give it to the poor & needy [who have far more need of it than you]. And the rich-man left from him rather upset because he was very rich. Then Yeshua said to his apostles- It is easier for a camel to go thru the needles' eye than for the rich to get into the Kingdom I'm talking about-(So what the heck did he mean by that- its impossible for a camel to get thru a sewing needle's eye - That seems like an utterly ridiculous statement- EXCEPT- Old Jerusalem was a walled city w several main gates. But it also had smaller passage ways which only 1 or 2 men could pass thru simultaneously- called Needle Eyes. So when traders w goods came to the city w only 1 or 2 camel loads instead of a whole caravan - instead of opening one of the main gates {especially during conflict} they stripped the camel down {naked so to speak} of all that stuff it was carrying & made it hunch down on its belly so it could crawl thru these narrow openings called Needle Eyes -&- Most rich folks aren't going to be willing to share their wealth w nor see & treat ordinary folk as their equals - Now do you see his point...]
Now people often refer to these scriptures as a call to so-called Christian charity - But- One could easily say they are referring to a type of Socialist Society - except that modern Euro concept of Socialism has removed the spiritual [IE: Biblical] essence from that ideology. So faux holy-rollers FOX Noise types get to call so-call socialism = communism which is supposedly godless- Except - what they are pushing is Social Darwinism [disguised as so-called Free Market Capitalism, Disaster Capitalism, Neo-Liberal Global Free Trade, etc] which is just as godless [IE: cut-throat / dog-eat-dog]- if not more so. But because most so-called leftists avoid publicly talking about concepts of Faith - even to defend their own political positions - they lose in this arena by default... Rather They spend too much time {pseudo}intellectualizing about issues- But most people [especially Black & Brown people] are not that kind of faux intellectual.
I think Rev Dr ML King, Haitian Pres Aristide, & Arch Bishop Romero called it Liberation{for the masses}Theology!