I certainly favor an independent (preferably democratic) Palestinian state, and have long favored the two state solution to the Israeli/Palestine crisis. For me this is a human rights issue. And this may help lessen the force of terrorism to an extent. But I doubt that the resolution of the Palestine question would solve the problem of groups like ISIS. ISIS didn't emerge out of the Palestine/Israel crisis. If I'm not mistaken their base is in Syria and Iraq. Had America not invaded Iraq in 2003 both ISIS and Al Quaeda would be less of a force in the world, NEITHER had a footing in Iraq until AFTER GW Bush's disastrous blundering in Iraq. (Of course, I would have like to see an end to Saddam Hussein, but preferably by a democratic POPULAR REVOLUTION). At the same time, a military solution--or at least a PURELY or primarily military solution--will probably be like pouring gasoline on a fire. I wish I could say what the best solution might be. Attai suggested somewhere (I forget when and where) that had decisive military action been taken when ISIS was first forming it could have been neutralized. Perhaps. But now? I doubt it.
My French friends here in Baltimore don't seem to think such condolences are "hollow" , and they do not share your xenophobia and barbaric racism. And I seem to recall that 9/11 horror was carried out by fanatics who were not immigrants or citizens of this country. The West (especially the USA today) has to own up to its part in creating the crisis that exists in the Middle East today; and Western global capitalism must be held responsible for destroying the economies and social infrastructure of poor countries, which is largely (maybe primarily) the source of the global immigration crisis. If I hold ISIS and its leaders responsible for their actions, I likewise hold the leaders of the West (surtout les Etats-Unis) and the corporate power system responsible as well.
-Savant
http://socialistworker.org/2015/11/25/the-black-bolsheviks
Saturday, November 21, 2015
Sunday, November 15, 2015
Savant on the Paris attacks
freddy is a buffoon who acts the fool on any occasion, even one of such tragedy as we see in France now. He may think he's being funny, but some of my friends have FAMILY over there including a lady (of 68 generation) who teaches in Baltimore. I've two students from France who don't find this in the least amusing that their family might be in danger. I may disagree with you or Attai on certain things from time to time; and I know how much you may disagree with each other. But this massacre is no laughting matter, and hardly the time for the childish game of trying to score points as freddy does here and elsewhere. On THAT I think we all agree--including you and Attai. My condolences to the French people---les blancs, les noirs, les juifs, les mussulman francais et les autres. Mort au terrorism. Mort au Fascisme! Vive la liberte! Franternit! et Egalite!
-Savant
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Mon amis, Attai: My condolences to you and your compatriots. Again, your country has been targeted by theocratic loons. I hope that no harm has come to you, your family and friends. A French teacher here in Baltimore, and one of my long time friends, has at least learned that none of her family was directly touched; but she is unsure about the sons of one of her friends who may or may not have been in or near the club that was attacked. I say to you as I said to her that I sincerely hope your family has not been directly touched, and that your country can defeat this scourge of terrorism on her soil without surrendering your traditions and ideals of liberte, fraternity et egalite.
-Savant
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There is no "150 policy of ghettoes and increased gang violence" by either Democrats or Republicans. One hundred and fifty years ago we were in the last phases of slavery. At least 90% of Blacks were RURAL folk, not residents of inner cities. I know of NO Marxists in the Democratic Party, though Bernie Sanders is reportedly a socialist of sorts. "Successful Lives", if you mean economic prosperity under global capitalism, is less and less available to ANYONE; and given the super-exploitation and economic dispossession of Blacks (and Latinos apparently) this "success " is even less available to us as a group. As far as I am concerned BOTH Democrats are Republicans are essentially corporate parties; parties subservient to corporate interests. Both practice racism, though nowadays (unlike the past) more blatantly among Republicans than Democrats. Hence both can go to hell. A plague on both your houses!
-Savant
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Liberal" or "conservative ," the white who presumes he has the privilege (while denying white privilege exists) of deciding who is "authenticall y" Black or African American, is in his/her very presumptuousness acting and revealing his racism. Just as it is up the Jews to determine was Jewishness means, or Latinos to determine (if they wish) what is authentically Latin, Blackness or "authentic " African-American identity is to be decided by the AA people and community.
-Savant
-Savant
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Mon amis, Attai: My condolences to you and your compatriots. Again, your country has been targeted by theocratic loons. I hope that no harm has come to you, your family and friends. A French teacher here in Baltimore, and one of my long time friends, has at least learned that none of her family was directly touched; but she is unsure about the sons of one of her friends who may or may not have been in or near the club that was attacked. I say to you as I said to her that I sincerely hope your family has not been directly touched, and that your country can defeat this scourge of terrorism on her soil without surrendering your traditions and ideals of liberte, fraternity et egalite.
-Savant
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There is no "150 policy of ghettoes and increased gang violence" by either Democrats or Republicans. One hundred and fifty years ago we were in the last phases of slavery. At least 90% of Blacks were RURAL folk, not residents of inner cities. I know of NO Marxists in the Democratic Party, though Bernie Sanders is reportedly a socialist of sorts. "Successful Lives", if you mean economic prosperity under global capitalism, is less and less available to ANYONE; and given the super-exploitation and economic dispossession of Blacks (and Latinos apparently) this "success " is even less available to us as a group. As far as I am concerned BOTH Democrats are Republicans are essentially corporate parties; parties subservient to corporate interests. Both practice racism, though nowadays (unlike the past) more blatantly among Republicans than Democrats. Hence both can go to hell. A plague on both your houses!
-Savant
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Liberal" or "conservative ," the white who presumes he has the privilege (while denying white privilege exists) of deciding who is "authenticall y" Black or African American, is in his/her very presumptuousness acting and revealing his racism. Just as it is up the Jews to determine was Jewishness means, or Latinos to determine (if they wish) what is authentically Latin, Blackness or "authentic " African-American identity is to be decided by the AA people and community.
-Savant
Crammasters Exposing the Evil sick male 'King" Noble
At the heart of anti-black female rhetoric is Homosexuality on the DL. No normal heterosexual black male man spends time downing women. There might be women he doesn't personally like, but he would never advocate harming black females he has never met. What if someone takes his message to heart and rapes his mother or sister? My guess is he is so mentally deranged and self-hating that he might not care. Black people will never be free of oppression until we eliminate this element from our communities and the best way to do that is put them on ignore. Don't give them a second of attention and they will dry up and go away. "King" (Queen) Noble will eventually self-destruct on his own.
For a black male under the foot of white oppression to focus his rage on black women and children, he is a sniveling coward, he has been beaten, he is frightened of his enemies and cowers before them like the coward he is. He is not a man, he is barely a male, and has no idea what a man is. He is doing his white masters bidding and for all purposes is doomed to be a slave forever.
-Crammasters
For a black male under the foot of white oppression to focus his rage on black women and children, he is a sniveling coward, he has been beaten, he is frightened of his enemies and cowers before them like the coward he is. He is not a man, he is barely a male, and has no idea what a man is. He is doing his white masters bidding and for all purposes is doomed to be a slave forever.
-Crammasters
Saturday, November 14, 2015
Saturday, November 7, 2015
Savant's new words
This sentiment is widespread in the Black communities of America, and is likely to remain widespread for the forseeable future. My question is how will the collective or ethnic identity of Black America be affected as a growing secularism begins to encounter more and more often the traditional religious sentiment expressed by Phoenix? In THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK (in 1903), Dr. W.E.B Du Bois claims that the Preacher and the Teacher once represented or symbolized the most cherished values of the Black world. The Preacher symbolized the centuries old striving for righteousness and justice, for a better world of deliverance from bondage. Is that still true today? We can infer for a number of reasons that a kind of homespun Black social gospel, a gospel of deliverance has been a part of AA popular culture since the time of slavery. It certainly suffused the southern civil rights movement of the 1960s, James Baldwin goes so far as to say that the devout Afro-American tends to picture himself as a Hebrew in captivity, awaiting a god sent Moses for deliverance. But if secularism spreads and become more commonplace, how will this self-perception be affected? How is identity affected? I've already mentioned an article which indicates the contemporary young black activists seem to be keeping a certain distance from religious leaders. But religion remains strong in Black communities. Will there be a cultural bifurcation in AA communities and identities?
-Savant
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It's probably unlikely that sizeable number of Blacks in this country will convert to an ancient Egyptian religion. They're mainly still tied to Christianity, with Islam as a distant second. Those who are disillusioned with the Abrahamic religions are likely to become secular, or maybe lean toward some Eastern religion.
-Savant
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So now some white conservative journal founded by William Buckley assumes the authority to judge who is an "authentic " African-American? Ah, the blissful blindness of white privilege!
-Savant
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The vast majority of American Blacks--those not in the universities, or with professional jobs in corporate America--have very little if any contact with East Indians; and certainly do not direct hatred or hostility toward East Indians. Most Blacks are not members of our bourgeois or petit bourgeois strata; rather, they are working class folk, some even sub-proletarian. The non-white people of color with whom the mass of black folk have anything like regular contact would be mainly Latinos and Asians (as in from the Far East). Sometimes you find tensions there. East Indians? Well, there are Indian restaurants which I supposed Blacks from any walk of life might have contact. There are certainly a good number here in Baltimore. But just generally? Not much. In the universities or corporations? That's a different story. Also, the person was posting from UK. How much hostility there is between Afro-British and East Indian people in the British Isles? Of that I'm not sure? I've heard and occasionally read about tensions between British East Indians and Blacks. I don't know how severe it is. But if the poster want to paint this picture of Black vs Indian hostility for the USA, then he's talking a load of pish posh. At least as far as the great majority of Black Americans are concerned there's little attention to Indians, let alone an abiding hatred.
-Savant
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Liberal" or "conservative ," the white who presumes he has the privilege (while denying white privilege exists) of deciding who is "authenticall y" Black or African American, is in his/her very presumptuousness acting and revealing his racism. Just as it is up the Jews to determine was Jewishness means, or Latinos to determine (if they wish) what is authentically Latin, Blackness or "authentic " African-American identity is to be decided by the AA people and community.
-Savant