Tuesday, September 27, 2011

"African American" ... It doesn't apply ! - Glen Beck

Glenn Beck: 'African American' Is 'Stupid'

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Poor Glenn Beck. He's been thoroughly confused, and made to feel "afraid" and "bad" by the use of the term "African American." By the sounds of a recent rant on his radio show, he really can't take it anymore. Highlights of the commentary included the following:
Didn't you feel ridiculously stupid everywhere in Africa, in Europe, in South America, in Jerusalem, when you would say the word "African American" ... It doesn't apply! How can people be something one place and not anywhere else in the world!? (Um, perhaps because race is a social construct, and terms used to describe it will differ in places with different histories and social realities?)
In South America, no, South Africa, it's "black" and "colored" ... I don't remember the difference, but there is a difference ... maybe it was "colored" that was also like "Indian" or elsewhere ... " (OK, now we're confused!)
Finally, he wraps up with the conspiracy of the day:
"African American" was a term invented to make black people feel like "Superman" and to make Americans afraid to speak with each other, for fear of offending. (Right, that was exactly it.)
There's plenty of room for debate (even within the black community) about which terminology is most appropriate. But something tells us that if Beck really wants to see "African American" make its way to the "outdated and offensive" list, his best plan would be to continue using it. 
Read more at Mediaite.

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VIOLENCE & ABUSE OF BLACK WOMEN and GIRLS

TO ALL CONCERNED BLACK MEN !!!
From All Walks of Life. 
FROM ALL RELIGIONS, PROFESSIONS, AGES, PHILOSOPHIES, ETC. WHO REALLY CARE ABOUT "OUR MOTHERS, SISTERS, and DAUGHTERS",
IF THIS APPLIES TO YOU THEN THIS MESSAGE IS PARTICULARLY "FOR YOU"
 

WE WANT TO HEAR YOUR VIEWS, THOUGHTS. & PROPOSALS FOR SOLUTIONS

JOIN THE DIALOG, THE MOVEMENT, & THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN


 
STAND UP, SPEAK OUT & TAKE ACTION
COMMUNITY/VILLAGE FORUMS ON
"VIOLENCE & ABUSE OF BLACK WOMEN and GIRLS

Thurs. October 13 & Sun. October 16, 2011
7:30 PM
Philly, PA
This Special "Direct Action" Initiative will be Broadcast LIVE via internet and cable TV.
Physical Location for this forum will be announced on or around October 1, 2011
THIS EVENT WILL BE FREE & OPEN TO COMMUNITY AT LARGE
(Must Pre-Register to be scheduled for the "Speak Out/Proposed Solutions Presentation)
To be a presenter, advertiser. or co-partner contact:
nationalmwm@aol.com or call: 267-636-3802


TO ALL
MEN OF AFRICAN DESCENT:
(BLACK, AFRICA AMERICA,
HAITIAN, JAMAICA, CONTINENTAL AFRICANS, ABORIGINALS, ETC. )
YOU ARE INVITED  to attend and support two powerful Special Forums that will realistically, candidly,and critically examine, discuss,  help identify, and build towards the administering of the necessary solutions regarding  to the issue of violence and abuse of our (Black/Africana) women and girls. 
(This includes: rape, beatings, murder, incarceration, exploitation, kidnapping, torture. trafficking/selling,discrimination, intimidation,sexual harassment, racism, etc. )
There many programs,nationwide and often much discussion about Violence in the streets, Gun Violence in Our Communities, Youth Related Violence, Gang Violence, Black on Black Violence, Violence in Afghanistan, Violence Against Palestinians, violence regarding  anywhere and about everybody else, but when it comes to the VIOLENCE / VIOLATIONS and ABUSE, specifically, of our Sistahs, there seems to be very little to say and even less effort to do anything about it.
But we say, ENOUGH IS NOT ONLY ENOUGH,  IT WILL NO LONGER BE TOLERATED AND MUST NOW BE OF EQUAL IMPORTANCE AS SOME OF THESE OTHERS ISSUES  AND APPROPRIATELY ADDRESSED.The Official Million Woman Universal Movement for a progressive immediate and protracted plan for and of "DIRECT ACTION" that we will now unveil.
And don't get it confused or mixed up with some other things that may be orchestrated and/or administered from a Eurocentric modality. This (MWM) work is not about feminism or about so called "women's rights" per se, this program and plan is about "doing what's right" at that is to protect and defend the "MOTHER OF CIVILIZATION"  and the obvious necessity in understanding and holistically addressing the causes, effects, and solutions from a cultural, historical, and African entered perspective and to eradicate and eliminate,
as a FAMILY,the social, political, and systematic Cancers and other Maladies that is designed for our overall destruction
Please pass this message on especially to ALL Black men's groups, organizations, institutions, business persons, so called anti-violence program developers etc. AND MARK YOUR CALENDAR
OCTOBER 22 - 26, 2011
in Philly, PA
OFFICIAL NATIONAL MWM Programs and SPECIAL Announcements
AND ALSO: October 14-15, 2011  "FOR BROTHERS ONLY" CONFERENCE
Guest Presenters: Alton Maddox,  Mwalimu Baruti, Bro Kamau Kambon
"MILLION WOMAN MARCH 14"JOIN US FOR THE OFFICIAL NATIONAL COMMEMORATION
AND INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT LAUNCHING 
Many special events and activities will be held the entire month of October 2011
For more details E-mail: nationalmwm@aol.com   or   officialmwm@yahoo.com
 

 
 
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Monday, September 26, 2011

"Whose Black Presiden" - The Black Republican Voice of Paul Street

 
by Paul Street
In retrospect, we should have seen it all coming: the Black corporate politician wreaking havoc on the progressive legacy through a working alliance with the GOP. In fact, some of us did see it coming, including the author, who had Obama's number, early on. "The deeply conservative Obama governed from the big business-friendly, Teapublican-accommodating center-right," and pushed forward in his quest to savage entitlements at a time when "Republicans weren't even suggesting cuts to Social Security: this was something Obama apparently desired for its own sake."

Whose Black President?

by Paul Street
This article was previously published in Counterpunch, and was written before congressional passage of the debt ceiling legislation.
"Barack Obama has belonged to Wall Street, corporate America, and the Pentagon from the beginning."
Consider the following quote from Progressive Magazine editor Matthew Rothschild last October: "With economic pain at the highest level ever seen by most Americans, and with minorities especially hard hit, we're seeing a revolt not by people of color, not the unemployed, nor the foreclosed upon.  Instead, we're seeing a revolt by the white middle class.  It's a revolt against the very notion of a positive role for government in helping people.  It's a revolt against Latin American immigrants.  It's a revolt against Muslim Americans.  And it's a revolt against our black president."  
Written before the Wisconsin uprising and its offshoots would have compelled Rothschild to qualify his judgment by noting the rebellion of Midwestern public sector workers and their sympathizers in February and March of 2011, this passage offered a useful perspective on the significantly racist Tea Party phenomenon and the nothingness of the Democratic Party and the United States' "progressive movement" in 2009 and 2010.
Getting Things Done…for the Rich and Powerful
But why did Rothschild feel compelled to say "our black president?" Barack Obama has belonged to Wall Street, corporate America, and the Pentagon from the beginning. Consider his first year in the White House – a study in the triumph of corporate-imperial conservatism. With its expansion of the monumental bailout of hyper-opulent financial overlords, its refusal to nationalize and cut down parasitic financial institutions, its passage of a health "reform" bill that only the big insurance and drug companies could love (consistent with Rahm Emmanuel's advice to the president: "ignore the progressives"), its cutting of an auto bailout deal that raided union pension funds and rewarded capital flight, its undermining of global carbon emission reduction efforts at Copenhagen, its refusal to advance serious public works programs (green or otherwise), its green-lighting of escalated strip mining and hazardous deepwater oil drilling, its disregarding of promises to labor and other popular constituencies (remember the Employee Free Choice Act?) and other betrayals of its "progressive base" (the other side of the coin of promises kept to its corporate sponsors), and its appointment of a Deficit Reduction Commission "headed [in economist Michael Hudson's words] by avowed enemies of Social Security" (Republican Senator Alan Simpson and former Clinton chief of staff Erskin Bowles), Obama's "change" and "hope" (corporatist Bill Clinton's campaign keywords in 1992) presidency epitomized the power of what Edward S. Herman and David Peterson call "the unelected dictatorship of money."
"Leftists and sincere liberals were accused of being 'purists' who do not live in the real world, who make 'the perfect the enemy of the good' and fail to grasp the necessity of 'compromise' to 'get things done.'"
Along the way, the "new" White House escalated Superpower violence in South Asia, passed a record-setting "defense" (Empire) budget, rolled over George W. Bush's not-so counter-terrorist assault on human rights (in the name of "freedom"), extended the imperial terror war to Yemen and Somalia, disguised escalated U.S. occupation of Haiti as humanitarian relief, aided and abetted a thuggish right wing coup in Honduras, and expanded the Pentagon's reach in Columbia/Latin America – a fascinating record for the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. It called progressives who dared to criticize these and other White House policies "fucking retard[s] (former Obama chief of staff Rahm Emmanuel) who require "drug testing" (former Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs).  Leftists and sincere liberals were accused of being "purists" who do not live in the real world, who make "the perfect the enemy of the good" and fail to grasp the necessity of "compromise" to "get things done." Never mind that much of what the administration did involved compromises made before Republican opposition was aroused and has been no damn good at all.
A Vacuous to Repressive Neoliberal Player
It was all too richly consistent with Obama's career from his law school days, when the future president climbed to the head of the Harvard Law Review by cutting a deal with right wing students linked to the arch-reactionary Federalist Society. The black and left political scientist Adolph Reed, Jr. met Obama at the beginning of his political career (1996) and found the newly minted state senator "a smooth Harvard lawyer with impeccable credentials and vacuous-to-repressive neoliberal politics" marked by "small-scale solutions to social problems...the wave of the future in U.S. black politics here, as in Haiti and wherever the International Monetary Fund has sway." It's not for nothing that candidate Obama set new Wall Street and corporate fundraising records, consistent with the following comment of a leading Washington lobbyist to Ken Silverstein in 2006: "big donors would not be helping out Obama if they didn't see him as a 'player…What's the dollar value of a starry-eyed idealist?'" In the spring of 2007, The New Yorker's Larissa MacFarquhar painted the following picture of the future president after a series of in-depth interviews with candidate Obama: "In his view of history, in his respect for tradition, in his skepticism that the world can be changed any way but very, very slowly, Obama is deeply conservative….It's not just that he thinks revolutions are unlikely: he values continuity and stability for their own sake, sometimes even more than he values change for the good."
The Language of the Right Wing as the Language of the President and Both Parties
When Obama's center-right corporate-imperial presidency yielded the predictable consequence of demobilizing the Democratic Party's "progressive base" in the mid-term elections and thereby enabling an "historic" right wing sweep in Congress, the president quickly moved yet further to the business-friendly right like a hungry shark to a bleeding seal. Claiming (falsely) that "the American people had spoken" in the Republicans' Tea Party-fueled electoral triumph of November 2010, Obama agreed to sustain George W. Bush's deficit-fueling tax cuts for the rich beyond their sunset date of 2010.  Accepting the false business and Republican claim that "overpaid" public sector workers were a leading force behind rising government deficits and economic stagnation, Obama froze federal worker salaries and benefits.  He published an Op-Ed in the plutocratic editorial pages of The Wall Street Journal – an essay that praised "free market capitalism" as "the greatest force for prosperity the world has ever known" and said that government places "unreasonable burdens on business" that have a "chilling effect on growth and jobs." (The tone of his editorial suggested that it wasn't neoliberal deregulation that sparked the financial collapse, but all those pesky government rules that crush growth).Obama signed an executive order calling for a government-wide review of regulations to remove or revise those that supposedly inhibited business. He appointed JPMorgan Chase's William Daley – a leading agent of the corporate-globalist North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) under Bill Clinton – as his chief of staff.  He put Goldman Sachs' Gene Sperling (another legendary neoliberal) at the head of the National Economic Council.  He tapped General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt to head his new "President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness" – an ironic selection since fewer than half of GE's workers are employed in the United States and less than half its profits come from U.S. activities.
"He offered no bold, large-scale economic stimulus, antipoverty or public works programs to address the mass unemployment and economic destitution still stalking the land."
Obama's January 2011 State of the Union Address falsely claimed that American business was plagued by the highest corporate tax rate in the world and promised to slash that rate "without adding to our deficit." He offered no bold, large-scale economic stimulus, antipoverty or public works programs to address the mass unemployment and economic destitution still stalking the land. In February, he quickly signed a "deal" that stripped $40 billion from the federal government's 2011 outlay (the biggest losers were the Environmental Protection Agency and high-speed rail).Unbowed by a terrible summer jobs report suggesting a likely return to technical recession and the urgent necessity of major counter-cyclical government jobs and social assistance programs, Obama responded to Republican threats to block the raising of the debt ceiling by advancing a hideously regressive long-term  austerity program to the right of what even the average Republican voter wants. He hit the fairways with Republican Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) to offer a "grand bargain" to reduce federal spending by $4 trillion over ten years, predominantly on the basis of Social Security and Medicare cuts, including a rise in the age of Medicare eligibility.  (Republicans weren't even suggesting cuts to Social Security: this was something Obama apparently desired for its own sake).  Claiming falsely that Congress' failure to tackle what he (sounding like a good Republican) calls "entitlement reform" will endanger seniors' ability to receive Social Security checks, "Obama has come," Michael Hudson notes, "to bury Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, not to save but kill them."
Preparing to run for re-election as a "moderate" in 2012, Obama appears to share the G.O.P's 'preposterous claims that the deficit, not unemployment, is the top economic issue facing the U.S. He says that "Government has to start living within its means, just like families do. We have to cut the spending we can't afford so we can put the economy on sounder footing, and give our businesses the confidence they need to grow and create jobs." As activist and writer Shamus Cooke notes, "This is the language of the right wing, now the language of both the Democrat and Republican parties. In reality, the U.S. government could easily access trillions of dollars in revenue; it simply chooses not to. Both political parties refuse to discuss how raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations could easily fix the current deficit issue on both the federal and state levels." This is quite true, just as the ongoing elite-manufactured "crisis of Social Security" could be solved simply by lifting the regressive cap on payroll taxes and taxing investment income.  
A Silly Narrative
Obama keeps "caving in" to the Republican Party, much to the all-too credulous dismay of many liberals and progressives who cling to the childish notion that the president is really one of them. One of the more ridiculous aspects of this summer's debt-ceiling drama has been the claim of certain Democratic pundits and spin doctors (e.g. MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell) that Obama never really meant to institute draconian Social Security, Medicare and social spending cuts – that the "grand bargain" he offered was really just a clever ploy to expose the Republicans' real partisan and arch-regressive agenda. This is a preposterous claim, as was seen when Obama subsequently signed on to the bipartisan "Gang of Six" budget plan, which "offered huge tax breaks for some of the wealthiest people in the country, while lowering Social Security benefits for retirees and the disabled" (Dean Baker)
"He and his party stood down progressive organizations, energies, and voters."
We are familiar by now with the standard liberal defense. The president, an all too persistent story line goes, is a progressive, left-leaning man of liberal instincts boxed in by cra-a-a-zy Tea Partiers who "took over the Republican Party" and left him no choice but to shift rightward to "get something done."' This narrative ought to be understood as embarrassing nonsense. "The Tea Party" is an expression of the long-term rightward drift of the ever more radical, pseudo-conservative Republican Party, for which "deficit reduction" is just a tool in its long-term war on those parts of government that do not serve the rich. Consistent with his longstanding identity as a corporate and imperial "player," the deeply conservative Obama governed from the big business-friendly, Teapublican-accommodating center-right in his first year, when the Democrats held both houses of Congress, including a filibuster-proof Senate majority. He and his party stood down progressive organizations, energies, and voters (another promise kept to corporate and Wall Street sponsors) in 2009 and 2010, leaving the door open for the Republicans' Tea Party-re-branding and triumph – a victory that helped Obama move yet further into his right-leaning, privilege-pleasing "comfort zone" (Glen Ford).
What Matters Above All
It is historic that a black family has resided since 2009 in the White House. But let's be clear about whose black president Obama really is at the end of the day: theirs, not ours. As John Pilger noted two years ago: "The clever young man who recently made it to the White House is a very fine hypnotist, partly because it is indeed exciting to see an African American at the pinnacle of power in the land of slavery. However, this is the 21st century, and race together with gender and even class can be very seductive tools of propaganda. For what is so often overlooked and what matters, I believe, above all, is the class one serves [emphasis added]. George W. Bush's inner circle from the State Department to the Supreme Court was perhaps the most multiracial in presidential history. It was PC par excellence….It was also the most reactionary."
Paul Street is the co-author with Anthony DiMaggio of the newly released Crashing the Tea Party (Paradigm Publishers, 2011). He is also the author of Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Paradigm, 2004) and The Empire's New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power (Paradigm, 2010.) Street can be reached at paulstreet99@yahoo.com

Obama- The Lesser Evil Or The More Effective Evil ?

Bruce A. Dixon "Is Obama The Lesser Evil Or The More Effective Evil?" at www.blackagendareport.com
 
My comment:
 Obama is the ultimate puppet and ultimate fall guy of the rapidly decaying white American ruling class.  The fall of the intensely wicked USA is accelerating and irreversible.  We invite Mr. Dixon to interview President Ajani Mukarram in the near future on the quest of our Afrodescendant Government for Human Rights & Reparations for all 250 million slave descendants in the western hemisphere.
As-Salaam-Alaikum,
 
Minister Malik Al-Arkam

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Local males aged 11 - 17 who need a Big Brother/Guide/Father Figure ?

 
     Do you know any Hampton Roads Virginia males aged 11 - 17 who could benefit from a Jegna/Big Brother/Guide/Father Figure ? The Golden Fold Movement provides FREE guidance to boys 11 - 17 years old every two weeks in Virginia Beach Virginia. Visit thier site to obtain a sample of what The Golden Fold provides FREE every two weeks: http://thegoldenfold.blogspot.com . Contact The Golden Fold with these contacts: thegoldenfold@yahoo.com or call/text message 757-353-7008.
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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Troy Davis!


 
Thank the Creator for Ancestorhood-Troy Davis is not "dead" but is alive in the world of the Ancestors!
Thank the Creator for Eternity-"May I assume whatever form I want, in whatever place my Spirit wishes to be. How long am I to live? You shall live for a period of millions of years; you shall never die"
The Husia


Thank the Creator for Persistence- "Aluta Continua"-The struggle continues.  We must continue to fight the power  by any means necessary, until Justice is done in this physical life as it is in Eternity.

Kwasi

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Dear Black Man: I Need YOU - By Clever Speaks

Dear Black Man: I Need YOU

by Clever Speaks on Monday, September 19, 2011 at 6:54pm
On FACEBOOK:     http://facebook.com/clever.speaks  
 
Last week it was reinforced to me that possibly right after food, water and my family, the next thing on my list of needs is indeed YOU, the Black Man. It is dire at this point. It has surpassed a want and it has become eminent that I have YOU. But guess what? I'm not selfish. I'm traditional and futuristic at the same time so I am beyond willing to share YOU. In the immortal words of Snoop Dogg and Korupt, "It aint no fun if my homies can't have none." Besides, what you have to offer is much more than what I can use alone. Yet, here lies the problem. I understand the urgency of my need for YOU but so many of YOU do not understand your tremendous importance in this equation. See I'm trying to solve for x here and there is no way I can get the correct answer without YOU, the Black Man. Try as I may, but it will not add up without YOU.
 
See, last week quite a few things happened that made me realize that I have to make YOU realize why I need YOU so badly. I run a youth program at my job and my babies are from low-income neighborhoods. I have them a few times during the week and I notice they are lacking in many areas but they lack nowhere in potential. However, many of them do not receive enough time and attention to help cultivate their potential and bring it to fruition. After doing activities with them about setting goals I had to reprimand one of them for speaking negatively about her friends. A few minutes later I found this same little pumpkin sitting off to the side crying. When I asked her what was wrong she got up and hugged me and through teary eyes she told me that she has a problem. She said she gets angry and says bad things and she doesn't know how to control herself. I asked this little third-grader what she believed it was that made her so angry. She told me she was mad because her father left her and it makes her act out. Now I realized that someone else must have articulated this to her because of how clearly she stated it. She told me she was seeing a therapist. She told me her father left when she was three years old. In the midst of keeping my other 12 children on task I had a heart to heart with her. In that short window of time I had to explain her value and worth to her as well as the fallacies and selfishness of adults. But I realized I was not YOU, a Black man. She always calls me mommy and she always needs extra love and attention from me. But this baby does not even read on grade level yet I've heard her talking to her peers about who she is going out with. She wants YOUR attention. She seeks validation from YOU.
 
In a few years it is certain that she will develop physically. Her future level of academic, emotional and mental development is indeterminate at this point. She will probably be a knock out because she is a beautiful little girl. She's hurting on the inside though. So here lies my need, damn near desperation for YOU—Black man. How different would she be if daddy had stuck around? How different would she be if her uncle or neighbor or family friend decided to pick up the slack where daddy left off? I am doing what I can but I know that if YOU were there to tell her she is smart, capable, beautiful and worthy it would strengthen or possibly surpass my efforts. It would shape how she conducts herself as a woman. It would affect the standards she sets for herself. I told a friend about this occurrence and he told me this little girl would probably end up on a pole. After snapping and telling him I didn't find that funny at all then stopping to buy a bottle of wine, I realized he may be right. But YOU can change that—Black man. YOU can even change how her male peers conduct themselves. YOU can help them look at their female peers as their sisters rather than objects to prey upon. YOU can teach the boys how brilliant and powerful they are. YOU can teach them what type of woman to choose and how to elevate their sisters rather than break their hearts. YOU can teach the girls that they don't need to use their bodies to get male attention. YOU can show them that they are worthy of being loved just because of who they are. YOU can keep this baby girl off the pole!
 
So Dear Black Man: I don't mean to overwhelm YOU. I just want YOU to understand how powerful YOU are. I just want YOU to understand that YOU are worth more than YOU know. YOU are like a tree with roots that are far reaching. Your actions have ripple effect. YOUR rightful place is not in prison, in numerous women's beds or in an untimely grave.  YOUR rightful place is being a dedicated husband, father, a community warrior and a stand up brother. YOU are the example of what a man is. YOU are the example of what a father or father figure is. You are the example of how a man should treat a woman. YOU are the strength of our communities. Reclaim your strength brothers. Yes, Black women are strong. Yes, we do a lot on our own. But we need YOU. I need YOU. Our babies need YOU. Do NOT be afraid to speak up and act on behalf of what is right. Do NOT wait until you obtain said degrees or salaries to be a role-model, a father, and if you are in a relationship—a committed man. YOU can do it. I believe in YOU. I see YOU Black man and though I am not always happy with each and every one of YOU, I believe in YOU. I know YOU are great. Do YOU? Do YOU know there is more power in YOUR heart, soul and mind than there is inside
your pants? Do YOU know that I understand sisters can be difficult at times? Do YOU know that too many of us suffer from not being loved correctly? Do YOU know that YOU can break this cycle? Do YOU know that a hurt woman with a good heart will calm her ass down from YOUR sincere touch—from YOUR proof and dedication to do the right thing by her? Damn YOU are powerful! My hands tremble as I type. How can I make YOU realize this? YOU have to know this!
 
Before I close it out I want to add that I have many male friends. Those of my friends who are fathers, happen to be excellent, dedicated fathers. I am the product of a loving, dedicated father and all of the  men in my family are the same. Therefore, I know the possibilities. I speak of no tall tales here. Talib Kweli stated "No question. Being a Black man is demanding…" Brothers, I believe it. I see it every day. We all have been wounded. But I want to speak to those of YOU who are looking to sex, substance abuse and violence as a way to mask the pain. I want to speak to those of YOU who know YOU are destined for more but are secretly fearful or don't quite know how to claim YOUR  rightful place as well as those who have not quite realized it yet. I want to speak on behalf of every sister who gave her time, energy and spirit to try and cultivate the potential of a Black man she loved—potential that she saw but he didn't. We love your skin. We love your bodies. We love your rhythm. We love the way you make us smile. Yet we love and NEED your strength, discipline and leadership. Those things will help us sleep at night. Those things equal peace and security for us and our children. Those things make us proud to call YOU our fathers, brothers, husbands, mates, friends and sons.
 
So do not be afraid of separating yourself from people, places or things that hinder your growth. Do not be reluctant to read. Do not be reluctant to seek like minds or to seek counsel from men who are where you aspire to be. Brothers who are there, do not be afraid to share. Please don't be condescending towards a Black man who desires to change his life for the better. Black man do NOT be afraid of the responsibility. We will help YOU but we need to see that YOU are trying. Please understand that your very existence is powerful beyond what YOU know. You are impacting generations to come. So again, I repeat, I NEED YOU. I cannot do this without YOU. We cannot do this without YOU. It's time to break the chains and cycles, conquer the fears of failure—and success and get involved! The Black Community's Hierarchy of needs places YOU right underneath food, water and shelter. Please, please don't let us down.
 
 
 
by Clever Speaks on Monday, September 19, 2011 at 6:54pm
My Website:     http://www.cleverspeaks.com
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

REBUTAL: "I am not an African, you people sold...





-----Original Message-----
From: M'Bwebe Ishangi <mbwebe@daghettotymz.com>
To: kwsi708 <kwsi708@aol.com>
Sent: Mon, Sep 19, 2011 11:16 am
Subject: Re: REBUTAL: "I am not an African, you people sold...

Agreed and Asante Sana Brother Kwasi! I often tell hedz if they want to overstand how/why Afrikanz reduced themselves to participate in this atrocity is the read Chancellor Williams, 'The Destruction of Black Civilization'. 

With that said, I also overstand there's a significant percentage who just won't get his book, or will get it, but won't read it, hence the reason for my writing my piece, 'When Knowledge Became Kryptonite' -- http://daghettotymz.com/current/kryptonite/kryptonite.html

I salute your efforts in keeping this topic at the forefront!

Bless...

--
M'Bwebe Ishangi

On Sep 19, 2011, at 7:24 AM, kwsi708@aol.com wrote:

 
 
 
 

It's a damn shame that more people of Afrikan descent were not present at
Ancestral Path's recent "History Forum" held at the House of Consciousness in Norfolk where we addressed the issue of Ancient Afrikan enslavement of people, domestic and foreign, among other relevant topics.
 
I'm not going to go into the exhaustive coverage that we gave this subject, because we are finding that our people are getting lazy and won't support local efforts to bring truth to us in scholarly forums such as the one mentioned above.  Instead, we seem to want accurate information without expending the effort to come out to hear it.
 
So I'm just going to leave you with 3 thoughts;
 
1.  The "African-American" who made the statement below that "I am not an African, you people sold us!", may just as well also say, "I am not an American, you people sold us too."  But knowing how easy our people are to forgive the euro for their atrocities against us, that person likely will never claim not to be american.
2.  Slavery is not just a "Black thing".Many, many cultures around the world have either been enslaved or enslaved others, including european, asians, and arabs.
3.  If our people want to learn the truth about these issues, then they have got to support efforts like ours to bring it to them.  We will repeat the History Forum, if y'al are really serious about participating.
 
Kwasi
 
 
In a message dated 9/18/2011 9:59:44 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, imanifoundation@yahoo.com writes:
 
Morning,

A key issue in this documentary is the role that Africans played in the selling of other Africans. When I arrived in the US my first encounter with an African American whom I "mistook" for being an African led to the statement "I am not an African, you people sold us!" My first reaction was shock, then hurt, anger then reflection. This is a sentiment shared by some African Americans and it is crucial that it be addressed. Now, not ALL African peoples were involved in the trade....but what of those that were?

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In the early 18th century, Kings of Dahomey (known today as Benin) became big players in the slave trade, waging a bitter war on their neighbours, resulting in the capture of 10,000, including another important slave trader, the King of Whydah. King Tegbesu made £250,000 a year selling people into slavery in 1750. King Gezo said in the 1840's he would do anything the British wanted him to do apart from giving up slave trade: "The slave trade is the ruling principle of my people. It is the source and the glory of their wealth…the mother lulls the child to sleep with notes of triumph over an enemy reduced to slavery…"

But is that the entire story? What of the "extenuating circumstances" claimed by the Mende when Isaiah Washington confronted them? Here is what a descendant of a trader has to say.

LIVING WITNESS
Some of the descendants of African traders are alive today. Mohammed Ibrahim Babatu is the great great grandson of Baba-ato (also known as Babatu), the famous Muslim slave trader, who was born in Niger and conducted his slave raids in Northern Ghana in the 1880's. Mohammed Ibrahim Babatu, the deputy head teacher of a Junior secondary school in Yendi, lives in Ghana.

"Babatu, and others, didn't see anything wrong with slavery. They didn't have any knowledge of what the people were used for. They were only aware that some of the slaves would serve others of the royal families within the sub-region. He has done a great deal of harm to the people of Africa. I have studied history and I know the effect of slavery.

I have seen that the slave raids did harm to Africa, but some members of our family feel he was ignorant…we feel that what he did was fine, because it has given the family a great fame within the Dagomba society. He gave some of the slaves to the Dagombas and then he sent the rest of the slaves to the Salaga market. He didn't know they were going to plantations…he was ignorant…"

Can't help but notice the obvious contradiction -- "it was a bad thing for Africa but it was a good thing for our family.."

Can I also be a little contraversial and point out that the greatest traders in African slaves were the Omani Arabs or Muslims? At one point, the very capital of Omani was Zanzibar! The slave trade on the Eastern coast of African was the longest, running for over 1000 years.

Interestingly enough, bringing an END to the trade in Africa was another "justification" for colonialism.

In East Africa, the British believed that the only way to stop the Omani Arabs at the coast from trading in human lives was to take over control of Kenya and Tanzania.

In Ghana the British attitudes changed when the King of the Asanti (the Asantehene) resisted British colonial authority. The suppression of the slave trade became a justification for the extension of European power. With the humiliation and exile of King Prempeh I in 1896, the Asanti were placed under the authority of the Governor of the Gold Coast and forced therefore to conform to British law and abolish the slave trade.

The history of Africans as it relates to the Arabs and Europeans is such a bait and switch. It was truly a clash of cultures and Africans paid the
ultimate price.

Thanks

Peres Owino



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