The Hip Hop Hustle: Why Hip Hop hasn't changed

The Hip Hop Hustle: Why Hip Hop Hasn't Changed TRUTH Minista Paul Scott The year is 1991, alarmed by the raising level of negativity in Hip Hop, activists and artists from across the country gathered for a major Hip Hop Summit. One by one speakers stepped to the podium and pledged themselves to fight in the war to "save Hip Hop." Never again would they allow corporations to destroy their culture. Never again! The year is 2011, alarmed by the rising level of negativity in Hip Hop.... Every since NWA dropped "Straight Out of Compton" in the late 80's there has been a concern about the effect of corporate sponsored Hip Hop on the youth. Over the last 20 years , there have been thousands of conferences, lectures, books and CD's addressing the "problem." What is problematic is that after all of that we are no closer to finding the "solution" than we were two decades ago. Unfortunately, we rarely stop to ask ourselves why? Has there really been an effort to change Hip Hop or has it all been one big hustle to throw Hip Hop conference after- parties or sell books? Dr. Amos Wilson, once said, "the most practical thing that you can have is a good theory to guide your behaviour." The one thing that is lacking in our efforts to analyze Hip Hop is a good theory. In discussing the current condition of Hip Hop many in the "conscious" community, blame it on on COINTELPRO type "agents." Although this theory is over used and over simplified there are ,actually, three types of agents that would have an interest in Hip Hop. While some argue that "government" agents are attacking Hip Hop, that theory would really only concern a small percentage of artists that are actively, negatively, affecting America's national and international interests. This immediately disqualifies Waka Flocka Flame and 99% of commercial rappers. In an effort to "prevent the rise of a black messiah" which was the goal of COINTELPRO, the Fed's would have more of an interest in maintaining the current direction of Hip Hop than changing it. The second type of agent would be one sent by the entertainment corporations, as they would have an interest in making sure that their bottom lines are not messed with. So for them to send in operatives to disrupt any attempt to change Hip Hop is not only possible but probable. Perhaps that is why most of the "conscious" Hip Hop artist never name the names of those who really control the industry.. The third type of agent and the most destructive would be the agents of COINTEL-ego. These are the ones who show up at every meeting and disrupt it purely out of self interest. The next theory as to why Hip Hop has not changed has to do with interlocking relationships and conflicts of interest among black leaders and Hip Hop activists. The music industry is like a three headed dragon, each head representing the video channels, the radio stations and the artists, themselves. Unfortunately, most of the leaders to whom we look to be on point against the coonery of commercial Hip Hop are influenced by at least one of the entities which, despite the feel good speeches, makes them impotent when it comes to launching an effective campaign against the industry. For instance, suppose one leader can't go against the music video channels because he is scheduled to be on this year's Hip Hop Award Show. The next leader can't go against the major radio conglomerates because he has a show on one of the networks. And the last leader can't speak out against Hip Hop artists because millionaire gangsta rapper "Dr. Death" makes a yearly contribution to his organization. So, on some level, everyone responsible for the degradation of black culture is given a "ghetto pass." Another, barrier to changing Hip Hop lies within the propagation of myths that have been repeated since the late 80's but are rarely challenged. One of the most repeated is the myth of "balance" within Hip Hop, where the argument is that for every song that calls black women queens there must be one that calls them hoes. For every song that promotes healthy living there must be one that glorifies selling crack. And for every song that talks about saving the life of a black child there must be another song that promotes taking it. This is the nonsense that has been repeated for decades even though it goes against all scientific, philosophical and theological logic. It is a scientific fact that two objects cannot exist in the same place at the same time. So, scientifically speaking, good and evil, truth and lie, right and wrong will be constantly fighting for the control of space. Also, for a "conscious" community that can quote "The Art o War" and "48 Laws of Power," word for word, the question becomes, what military strategist goes into war with compromise as the end game strategy? Some have even used the MAATic balance as justification for allowing negativity in Hip Hop despite the fact that Anthony Browder in his book "Nile Valley Contributions of Civilization" states that, according to the principals of MAAT, in the final judgement, one's deeds are weighed against the weight of a feather. This same school of thought is repeated in most spiritual expressions of Afro-Asiatic origin. Perhaps the largest barrier against changing Hip Hop is Capitalism and its uncanny ability to absorb all opposition. As the saying goes absolute power corrupts absolutely. Capitalism can convince one that he can fight the power and be part of the power structure ,simultaneously. As Kwame Nkriumah wrote in his book "Consciencism," "running with the hare and hunting with the hounds is more than a past time to Capitalism, it is the hub of a complete strategy. What is most troubling is the fact that, compared with the other problems facing African people,globally, the assault on black culture would be the easiest to fight. In his essay "Rebellion or Revolution" Harold Cruse suggests that the "cultural front" is the weakest point in the armor of Capitalism. Cruse wrote, " the only observable way in which the Negro rebellion can become revolutionary in terms of American conditions is for the Negro movement to project the concept of cultural revolution in America." Dr. Claude Anderson echoes this sentiment in his book, "Black Labor, White Wealth, where he writes "the wealth and power of the music industry offer the most compelling reasons for blacks to recapture control of this cultural resource." So, the obvious question iafter all these years is, so, what's the problem? Dr. Frances Cress Welsing answers that in her book, the Isis Papers. The reason is fear and self doubt. Despite all of the revolutionary talk, many black folks are still mentally enslaved. As Dr. Cress Welsing wrote, "If we do not have confidence in our ability to make independent black analyses and Black plans for Black action, why should we talk about or seek Black liberation?" In 2011, we can no longer sit back passively while our culture goes to hell in a hand basket. The time for complaining without action is over. Either we are going to revolutionize Hip Hop and make it responsive to the needs of the people or we should all grab a 40 and a blunt, throw on a Gucci Mane CD and have a happy. The choice is ours. TRUTH Minista Paul Scott can be reached at (919) 451-8283 or info@nowarningshotsfired.com Article courtesy of The Militant Mind Militia http://www.militantmindmilitia.com

757 Event:ODU Intl Festival oppurtunity: 3/27/11 please come!

Looking for performers, vendors, and such for ODU's International Festival   We are having our annual ODU International Festival  on Sunday March 27 (it is free) from noon to 5pm at the big Ted Constant Center on Hampton Blvd. Over 33 countries participate and it is for the entire community as well as ODU students. Everyone is welcome!   I would like to encourage you to perform for us too- on a b ig stage. (We do not pay you however.) I love your drumming sessions, or spoken word, singing, dancing etc. There will be several African American tables, I believe. If you wish to apply, please call the office of Intercultural Affairs at ODU at 683-5080 (Lesa Clark is in charge) and ask for the web site of the Intl Festival, then apply online . You must apply by March 14, in about two weeks......   We also need more displays-African, African American, Arab, Muslim, Caribbean, Latino etc. Do any of you have beautiful souvenirs from a foreign country, for example? or African American, Middle Eastern, Muslim or Latino artifacts? You would get one free table and two chairs. We also need more vendors : you would get one table free (with a second table for $11, I believe) if you are selling books, for example. Food vendors however have to pay a lot; call ODU for specifics on that please.   If you have any questions, email me. But if you want to apply to participate, the best bet is to call the number above. They can also answer your questions at ODU.   Merci, shukran (in Arabic),   Christine Hoppe Multicultural Alliance of VA, Secy. Professor of French and Italian, ODU Colonial Place, Norfolk christine hoppe < cthoppe10@yahoo.com >

M1 (Dead Prez) Speaks

Fantastic new interview with Bro. M1 of Dead Prez, check it out (it's only approx. 10 mins long and very well worth it!) as you know the Bro. is speaking truth to da people, as always!! M1 from underground political hip-hop duo Dead Prez sits down with RT's Anastasia Churkina to discuss the corporate American media, propaganda, police brutality, imperialism, Egypt's uprising and whether the same revolution could come to the United States. "You can't fool all of the people all of the time, but if you fool the right ones, the rest will fall behind..." Bro. M1 You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aerqOA7ke8g&feature=player_embedded

Why the Heck Are you Celebrating Valentines Day?

Why the Heck Are you Celebrating Valentine's Day?

Imhotep All,

You know I was coming with some truth for you. Again as always, it's ok not to know, its shame not to want to know. They key is...once you do find out the truth do you keep doing the same thing which doesn't make sense or do you make a change for the better.

Now, I don't celebrate Valentine's day because I'm not going to let society and Capitalism tell me when I should shower that lady in my life with gifts of love and joy. If this person really is special to you, then the showering of love and gifts should not happen on a day Capitalist use to pimp your pockets of your finances.

On a side note, if people really knew the truth about Valentine's Day they'd think twice about celebrating it. I encourage folks to do some research and understand the truth behind exactly what it is that you are celebrating. Valentine's Day stems from Lupercalia who killed his girlfriend and stabbed her in the heart with an arrow out of a rage of jealousy.

Now, of course the Catholic Church changed the story around like they did with the pagan (Christmas and ST Nicholas story), that St. Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families, he outlawed marriage for young men — his crop of potential soldiers.

Valentine, realizing the injustice of the decree, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. When Valentine's actions were discovered, Claudius ordered that he be put to death, therefore making him the CATHOLIC martyr St. Valentine.

So, know what you are celebrating because when you know the truth behind it you may become appalled (i.e. Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, etc...)

Ankh Uja Snb (Life, Health, Strength)
Asar Gary

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Cleaning for a Reason...Please pass along.

Hotep (peace & blessings) All,

Cleaning for a Reason...Please pass along.

If you know any woman currently undergoing chemotherapy, please pass the word to her that there is a cleaning service that provides FREE housecleaning - once per month for 4 months while she is in treatment. All she has to do is sign up and have her doctor fax a note confirming the treatment. Cleaning for a Reason will have a participating maid service in her zip code area arrange for the service.

This organization serves the entire USA and currently has 547 partners to help these women. It's our job to pass the word and let them know that there are people out there that care. Be a blessing to someone and pass this information along.

Great information. <http://www.cleaningforareason.org/>

Ray Parks
Director of Nutrition & Transportation Services
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Amani (peace)
Asar Gary

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Our Bananas Displace Blacks in Columbia

Our Bananas, our people in Columbia

Written by Megan Felt
Wednesday, 02 February 2011 20:24
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Since early December, hundreds of private contractors of multinational banana corporation Banacol have illegally invaded and occupied Afro-Colombian peace communities in the Curvaradó river basin in order to clear the land for banana cultivation. Their actions have been supported and assisted by local paramilitaries, army soldiers and municipal governments.

The peace communities’ collective territory is protected under Colombia's Constitution and protective measures under the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

According to documents released by the Colombian human rights organization, Intereclesial Comisión de Justicia y Paz (Justicia y Paz) , Banacol workers are displacing vulnerable Afro-Colombian peace communities, thus enabling the corporation to occupy sections of communal, resource rich land. This violates the sovereignty of the long-standing communities, and puts them at risk for complete displacement from their collective territory in a country with almost 5 million internally displaced people. They are also bulldozing the subsistence farmers’ crops, destroying natural habitats and contaminating waterways.

Flyers posted in poor neighborhoods and communities across the northwestern part of the country lured the squatters into Curvaradó in the Urabá region of Chocó, Colombia. The flyers assured three months of paid living expenses, titles to 2.5-hectare plots, materials and pay to build settlements, and a contract with Banacol Inc. to grow bananas.

What the flyers didn’t include is that the Curvaradó territory is already inhabited by Afro-descendent communities, committed to maintain their collective territories, granted to them under law 70 of Colombia (1993), which recognizes and protects Afro-Colombians’ right to collectively own and occupy their ancestral territory.

The “bad-faith occupiers,” as the Curvaradó residents call them, are mainly made up of vulnerable individuals; some displaced by violence in other regions of the country, some farmers without land, and others recently unemployed by palm oil or banana plantations. Unfortunately, their vulnerable situations put them at risk to be taken advantage of by the corporate agenda, promising them “the good life”, and thus at risk to further impoverish other vulnerable communities for their gain. According to the ancestral inhabitants, the invaders admit that they collectively own the land, but contend to remain on the stolen plots because it is their only opportunity for work. Banacol, as so many other multinational corporations, has pitted these vulnerable populations against one another, putting them at higher risk of oppression.

The squatters say they expect to receive up to 180,000 pesos ($90 U.S.) for each hectare cleared. So far, according to Justicia y Paz, they have cleared-out over 200 hectares and built over 122 temporary huts and camps. The “bad-faith occupiers” are still arriving by the hundreds. Although the squatters would not identify who the money is coming from, the promised contracts with Banacol implicates them as the instigators and funders of an intended illegal displacement for profit.

The peace communities filed a legal complaint with the municipality of Carmen del Darién, but no response has been taken by local authorities thus far. The Carmen del Darién police ordered an eviction of the illegal occupiers, but then said that they do not have the resources to carry out such an action. The most recent demonstration of state support and collusion with the illegal occupation was the funneling of flood victims relief funds to the illegal land invaders by the Mayors Office in Carmen del Darién, according to Justicia y Paz.

History

These Afro-Colombian communities have lived in the region for generations, peacefully farming the land for subsistence. Chocó was a relatively low populated department of Colombia, with little conflict until the late 1990s, when violence erupted from the paramilitaries protecting large landowners from hovering guerrillas.

The paramilitaries protected certain properties, and attacked others, displacing thousands of indigenous, Afro-Colombians and mestizos in less than a decade, amidst the presence of a large military force.

Subsequently, demobilized paramilitaries and many survivors of the violence have testified to complete collusion of the military with the paramilitary that involved the sharing of information, weapons and even feet on the ground, to the extreme of the second shift idea in which military soldiers would work for the army by day and the paramilitaries by night.

One example of the military and paramilitary cooperation and collusion is Operation Genesis, the largest counter-guerrilla operation in Urabá during this period of violence between 1996-1997. Documentation of this state offensive shows that the Colombian army aerial bombed ancestral subsistence farming communities and immediately afterwards the paramilitaries entered on foot raiding, massacring, and burning the remains. In total, 140 innocent civilians were killed.

Since those mass violent displacements, palm oil plantations, extensive cattle ranches and banana companies have moved onto the vacant land, still protected by paramilitaries.

After ten years of living displaced in humiliating conditions, some of those displaced from the Curvaradó river basin decided to return to their land. The initial group was mainly mothers and children; the mothers determined to die for their ancestral lands if necessary.

As of today, approximately ten percent of the Curvaradó small-scale farming communities have organized themselves and nonviolently returned to their territory with the accompaniment and advocacy of national and international human rights organizations such as Justicia y Paz and Peace Brigades International.

With the territory as their history, the land is their only possible dignified future. Because their livelihood is tied to the land, some returned communities sought and received protective measures by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. With this protection, the communities’ plots are called Humanitarian Zones (living spaces) and Biodiversity Zones (native fauna and flora reserves). No armed actors, state or independent, are allowed within the premises of the zones, as a means to protect civilian life from the surrounding armed conflict.

Since their establishment, the communities have faced recurrent, rampant repression in the form of intimidations, death threats, political and media smear campaigns, and judicial frame-ups where they are accused of being guerrillas or guerrilla sympathizers.

Just last October Justicia y Paz received warning that a prosecutor in Medellín issued around twenty arrest warrants for Afro-descendant community leaders of Curvaradó. The anonymous source indicated that the warrants are based on the claim that the communities have been collaborating with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – Ejército del Pueblo (FARC EP), and that there are plans for armed forces to plant weapons and guerrilla publications on community private property in order to provide false evidence for the case. No arrests have yet taken place, but the warrants are now an available tool in the defamation campaign.

Consequences of Occupation

This invasion puts the Afro-Colombian communities at increased risk for two reasons. The first is that it greatly diminishes the communities’ ability to cultivate subsistence crops, such as corn, rice, plantain and yucca, since the invaders are clear-cutting the area, many of their crops along with native flora is being killed. The farmland resides outside of the established humanitarian zones because of a legal loophole in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruling, that only protects the life and safety, and ability to live in their ancestral territory, and only advocates for their ability to subsist in their ancestral territory. This legal impediment places the farmland outside of protective measures, making the crops more difficult to physically and legally protect. If the people have nothing to eat, they have to leave their homes to find food. And because they are subsistence farmers, they have no other immediate sources of income to supplement their diet.

The second reason is that such a drastic shift in the local population, with an average of fifty people in each humanitarian zone, greatly affects elections, which ultimately decide the fate of these communities.

Article four of Law 70 of Colombia (1993) specifically gives authority to and protects “Community Councils” as the governing body of each community. The establishment of this Community Council makes the community legally recognized and able to receive and occupy its collective, ancestral territory. As stated in article four, “…other functions of the Community Councils are: to watch over the conservation and protection of the rights of collective property, the preservation of cultural identity, the use and conservation of natural resources; to identify a legal representative from the respective community as their legal entity, and to act as friendly conciliators in workable internal conflicts.”

Because of continual disputes concerning who is the real regional community council in Curvaradó, a census has been ordered to establish who is living and subsisting in the collective territory. After the census is complete there will be regional elections for the regional community council (Curvaradó), to verify that the authentic inhabitants support the current, legally recognized community council.

With all the new “inhabitants” in Curvaradó, because of the land invasion and occupation, the elections could be substantially swayed by whatever their suspected funders, Banacol, want. Therefore, the ancestral inhabitants would also lose their power over their collective property, cultural identity, natural resources, and legal representation.

Banacol's Bloody Bananas

The Colombian tropical fruit company Banacol bought all of Chiquita Brands Inc.'a Colombia banana plantations back in 2004, while accusations were mounting that Chiquita was funding the paramilitary group the A.U.C. (United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia). This purchase made Banacol the largest banana producer in Colombia. Chiquita pled guilty in 2007 to the felony, “Engaging in Transactions with a specifically designated Global Terrorist,” admitting to funneling funds to the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC) through its subsidiary Banadex Inc. (now Banacol), from 1997 through 2004, totaling 1.7 million.

This all took place in the same Urabá region where Curvaradó is located.

According to reporting done by El Espectador, a Colombian newspaper, the Colombian prosecutor’s office found that Chiquita Brands Inc. acquired two cover companies to continue their relationship with the A.U.C.: Invesmar, by means of Banacol Inc. and Olinsa Inc. The Prosecutor’s Office even has testimony of a former A.U.C. member, alleging that Banacol Inc. paid his group three million pesos. The Attorney General’s Office investigated the claim by reviewing Banacol Inc.’s accounting records and found funds given to terrorist groups.

Natalia Springer of El Tiempo, Colombia's most prominent newspaper, reported that Banacol paid taxes to a local death squad to protect their plantations and profit, thus reaping the bloody benefits of their purchased paramilitary violence.

Through interviews with ex-paramilitaries and banana businessmen, Springer found that in late 1997, with high paramilitary violence across Colombia, banana corporations operating in the country met to strategize a collective approach to interacting with the country's powerful and growing right wing paramilitary death squads. According to Springer’s interviews with the former AUC leader Salvatore Mancuso, “Chiquita Brands Inc., Dole, Banacol, Uniban, Proban, and Del Monte all entered into this agreement. They paid us one cent for every box of bananas that left the country.”

Banacol and their paramilitary allies are being assisted by the U.S. supported Colombian government to occupy the sovereign Afro-Colombian territory, clear-cut natural habitat, and displace peasant farmers in order to produce and export bananas for profit.

The more the international community allows multinational corporations to exploit our brothers and sisters, and our environment in this way, the more we allow them to exploit all of us.

We need to put tremendous international pressure on Banacol Inc. through public denouncements and boycotts, and on the Colombian government by U.S. representatives to hold corporations accountable to Colombian law, so that these ancestral Afro-Colombian communities will not again be displaced and desolated by death squads for the profit of the multinational Banacol Inc.

Megan Felt is a Catholic Worker in Des Moines, Iowa, and an international human rights activist. She has traveled throughout Latin America, most recently to Colombia. She has been to Colombia three times for human rights work and anthropological research, each time accompanying the Afro-Colombian peace communities focused on in the above article.

The Wedding Masters (Hampton Roads Virginia)

This is a sponsored advertisement from a sponsor of The Imani Foundation.
Black owned company presents an event for companies who market their services to Virginia's wedding market. Contact Monica @ monica_f_bond@hotmail.com or call 757-515-5699, or visit http://happilyeverafter.be/theweddingmasters.html to inquire about participation.

The Truth about Canola Oil & White Sugar

Kaebo (What's UP) All,

Check out this site...this brother's research says and proves it all. If you care about your health, you'll at least view the information to educate and protect your family.

The evidence presented will help you make the decision to stop poisoning your body with man-made experiments and go with what the Creator has provided for us at no charge.

Here's additional info regarding the effects of white sugar, really called refined sucrose. Watch these 3 Video Articles seen on DGTv:

http://daghettotymz.com/dgtv/videoarticles.html

1) Canola Oil: A Drop of Death
2) White Sugar: The Mark of Cane
3) White Sugar 2: Killin' You Sweetly

"It's ok not to know, it's a shame not to want to know."
Dr. John Clarke

Ankh Uja Sbn (Life,Vitality, Health)

Asar Gary

"Ignorance of your true Self is the root cause of your bondage to the karmic (Ari) cycle of life-death-reincarnation-life-death-reincarnation, etc."
Pert m Hru

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Kemet, Judaism, and Christianity - Jared Ball

Christian Sensitivity Warning:

An essay from Jared Ball downloadable at the below webpage:
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Omega Psi Phi Talent Hunt 2011

2011 Talent Show Application

Download the application to participate by clicking here !

Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.
Gamma XI and Tau Lambda Chapters
Virginia Beach, VA

Date: January 5, 2011
To: Talent Hunt Prospects
From: Bro. David J. Whitted, Talent Hunt Chairman
Re: ANNUAL TALENT HUNT PROGRAM 2011

The Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. is proud to present its Annual Talent Hunt Program. The Talent Hunt Program strives to provide young American individuals an opportunity to develop, express, and receive recognition for their talents. This Talent Hunt has been a proud tradition of the fraternity since 1949, and that same enthusiasm still exists today. We take great pride in recognizing talented youth. An essential part in locating individuals for our program is nominations we receive from principals, guidance counselors, teachers and churches.

As chair of the talent hunt committee of Gamma XI Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity located in Virginia Beach, I am soliciting your assistance in nominating and encouraging students to participate. All creative and honorable forms of entertainment are eligible. Examples of desired acts include musical (Classical and Semi-Classical), Interpretive movements to music (ballet, modern dance and tap), Speech (poetry, orations, monologues, etc.) Awards will be given for first, second and third place and a certificate to all contestants involved.

The Talent Hunt will be held on Saturday, February 19, 2011, 12:00 p.m. at Grace Episcopal Church at 1400 East Brambleton Avenue Norfolk, VA. The deadline for entries is February 15, 2011. Names of all interested applicants are to be mailed:

DOWNLOAD THE APPLICATION HERE:

Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc
Gamma Xi Virginia Beach
P. O. Box 64535
Virginia Beach, VA 23467
Attention: TALENT HUNT 2011
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If you have any questions, or need further information, please feel free to contact Bro. David J. Whitted at 757-549-2346 or 757-288-9116. Thank you for your consideration in this matter.

White Man Tells Truth About Black (Not Arab) Kemet (Egypt)

White Man Tells Truth About Black (Not Arab) Kemet (Egypt)
And
Christ in Egypt: The Horus-Jesus Connection

Hotep (Peace and Blessings) All,

Check out these videos, click on the links:

#1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJzVX_OHnOE

#2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_ZmsRUmuWU

If you haven't been to AfRAka...when are you going? I'm putting it out there right now, I'm trying to get 50 Black people interested in learning OUR-STORY to join me on the KEMET NU – Kemet(Egypt)/ Cairo to Nubia 15 day tour on July 10-23,2011. Come see the truth for you own eyes so you will not be bamboozled any longer.

Don't believe me, check out this video I took while we were visiting the Pyramids as I question our tour guide on why they were changing the names of the 'Great Pyramids', to Greek names instead of calling them by their AfRAkan given names: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDtUb0V90z0

So, what are you waiting on Black people? Let's go to back "AfRAka" and see where it ALL STARTED AND SEE THE TRUTH WITH YOUR OWN EYES! WITHOUT BLACK HISTORY, THERE WOULD BE NO HISTORY!

If you are going to go on the tour please let me know or you can contact Kemet Nu directly and say you are with the G&G Travel group. You can pay on an installment plan so start paying now to keep your payments low. The itinerary for the trip is now available. Contact G&G Travel for payment arrangement details.

Visit www.gngassociates.net, click on the "G&G Travel" link for more details. Without a doubt…please pass this information on to every person you know.

Click on the link for the itinerary and brochure:
http://www.gngassoc.com/GNGTravel/Kemet_2011_Brochure.pdf

Click on link for prior tour videos:
http://www.kemetnu.com/view_videos.htm

***Remember, when you sign up for the trip mention you are with the G&G Travel group***

Ankh Uja Snb (Life, Strength & Health),
Asar Gary

"The further back we look, the further forward we'll be able to see."
Marcus Garvey

Additional FYI links on AfRAka:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN1KYkeBYTk&feature=fvw <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN1KYkeBYTk&feature=fvw>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYXE3tnXVKo&NR=1 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYXE3tnXVKo&NR=1>

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Kwanzaa Celebration 12 30 2010-Norfolk

Video from the 12/23/2010 Hampton Roads Show on Channel 43 with Seko VArner and the Urban Arts Ensemble as they prepare for the Varner Family Kwanzaa celebration on 12/30/2010 in Norfolk, Virginia at the Murray Center from 7 - 9:30 PM. In the audience were members of the Urban Arts Ensemble of Portsmouth, Virginia and members of Hampton Roads' Conscious Community.
The event's webpage is
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Live Studio Audience : 12-23-10: fox43tv.com

Christmas: --The Sun God, Lies, Deceptions and the Truth

Alafia All,

A must read article thoroughly researched and I suggest you do the same. I don't want you to believe what this author or what I have said in the past in my newsletters on this or any other subject. But, I do ask that you do critical research on all the topics to prove us wrong if you can or at least to place some credibility to what you believe. Don't go on what people say, go on what you learn from your own due diligent research.

"It's very clear then, that if Negroes got their conception of religion from slave holders, libertines, and murderers, there may be something wrong about it and it would not hurt to investigate it."
Carter G. Woodson

Narmer (Think With a Unified Brain and Mind)
Asar Gary

"Christmas: --The Sun God, Lies, Deceptions and the Truth"

by Fahim A. Knight

This brief article is on the origin of Christmas and its so-called
correlation to the SUN GOD concept, which the western parable of Jesus
originated; moreover, December 25 is the BIRTH OF THE SUN GOD and in
reality, this fabrication and/or truth has nothing to do with the Historical
and Prophetic man called Jesus (there are actually two Jesus, perhaps
another subject for another time) and this propaganda is continually being
perpetuated in the name of tradition. But the beneficiaries of the Christmas
tradition have always been the merchant class in the United States and
around the world, which accumulates over 75% of their annual gross sales and
financial profits during the month of December.

Allauddin Shabazz in his book titled, "Symbolism, Holidays, Myths and Signs"
The word "Christmas" means "Mass of Christ," or as it came to be shortened,
'Christ-mas.' It came to non-Christians and Protestant from the Roman
Catholic Church. And where did they get it?---NOT from the New
Testament---NOT from the Bible-NOT from the original apostles who were
personally instructed by Christ-but it gravitated in the fourth century into
the Roman Church from paganism"

Tradition reaps in huge monetary gains and that HIDDEN HAND who do not
believe in Christmas or Jesus---THEIR GOD IS MONEY and WE SHOULD CALL THEIR
HOLY "PROFIT" GREED. This writer, wonders do the SUN-DAY School teachers
admonish that the worship of the SUN was replaced with the divinity and
worship of the SON popular associated with the man named Jesus. This article
should not be viewed as an attack on the faith--tradition of Christianity,
But like the Reggae Revolutionary Artist Bob Marley's use to sing "NONE CAN
FREE OUR MINDS, BUT OURSELVES."

Allauddin Shabazz book validates this contention relative to the
commercialization and the nonreligious connection Christmas has with the
birth of Jesus; in his small, but powerful book titled, "Symbolism,
Holidays, Myths and Signs" he stated, "Christmas has become a commercial
season. It's sponsored, kept alive, by the heaviest retail advertisement
campaigns of the year. You see a masqueraded "Santa Claus" in many stores.
Ads keep the masses deluded and deceived about the 'beautiful Christmas
spirit.' The newspaper, who sells ads, print flowery editorials exalting and
eulogizing the pagan season, and spirit. Gullible people have become so
inoculated, many take offense when told the truth. But the 'Christmas
spirit' is created each year, not to honor Christ, but to sell merchandise!"
(reference: Symbolism, Holidays, Myths and Signs" by Allauddin Shabazz).

This writer understand and humbly accept that a 4000 word thesis places
serious limitations on a subject of this magnitude where scholars such as:
Gerald Massey, Albert Churchward, E.A. Wallis Budge, Josef Ben Jochannan,
Alvin Boyd Kuhn, Godfrey Higgins, John G.Jackson, Kersey Graves, Cheikh Anta Diop, Manly P. Hall, John Henrik Clarke,Jacob Boehme, Arthur Edward Waite, G.R.S. Mead, Louis H.Spencer, H.G. Wells, H.P. Blavatsky, Ishakamusa Barashango, J.Van
Rijckenborgh, Albert Pike, George Oliver, J.S.M. Ward, etc., have spent many
years researching and writing scholarly treatise on the above subject.

This thumbnail sketch, is by no means, written to represent a definitive and
exhaustive study on the this subject; there are to many links, which expand
the schools of thought of esoteric, religious, philosophical, occult,
metaphysical science and the truth extends to many cultures, far beyond the
limitations of this research could ever begin to address. But it should not
be viewed that the author perhaps does not understand the depth and
complexity of this subject pertaining to Jesus, a god of the Sun and the
origin of Christmas.

E. Curtis Alexander (aka Mwalimu I. Mwadilifu) in an essay titled, "African
Foundations of Christendom" he stated, "Christendom began as a Council of
Bishops in Nicea, a city in Bithynia, in Asia Minor on the southside of the
Black Sea. The Council was convened by the Roman Emperor Constantine. Many
events took place at this Council and the formation of many theological and
theosophical doctrines were established such as the Patriarchal doctrine of the Trinity, the name of JESUS, THE Virgin Birth and perhaps the biggest act was making of the Bible.The books that were not canonical at this Council are known to us today as "Lost Books of the Bible' and the 'Forgotten Books of Eden' " (Reference:"African Foundations of Christendom" by E. Curtis Alexander).

In a book compiled by William Josiah Sutton titled, "The Illuminati 666"
stated, "There is no scriptural evidence that supports the Birth of Christ
as being December 25th; but history says December 25th was kept thousands of
years before the Birth of Christ, in honor of the pagan Messiah. Another
name for Tammuz, the pagan-child, was 'Baal-bereth' which means Lord of the
Fir Tree." (Reference: "The Illuminati 666" by William Josiah Sutton).

The majority of the scholarship on this subject totally contradicts the
Christian version of the man known as Jesus Christ, but reaffirms this story
within the scheme of historical and mythological allegory, metaphors,
symbolism, prototypes, similes, etc. There is a sizable amount of precedent
evidence which informs us that the entire story of Jesus, as far as, his
birth, death, resurrection, and ascension were not concepts indigenous to
European cultures, it flourished in that region of the world after they came
in contact with Ancient Egypt (Kemet).They borrowed the Solar God concept
from Egypt.
(Reference: "Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World" by Gerald Massey).

John G. Jackson in his enlighten book titled, "Ethiopia and the Origin of
Civilization" stated, "A study of the images of ancient deities of both the
Old and New Worlds reveals their Ethiopic origin.
Thus is noted by Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie in T.A. Buckley's CITIES OF THE
ANCIENT WORLD, p. 180:--'From the wooly texture of the hair, I am inclined
to assign to the Buddha of India, the Fuhi of China, the Sommonacom of the
Siamese, Xaha of the Japanese, the Quetzalcoatl of the Mexicans, the same,
and indeed an African, or rather Nubian, origin.'

Jackson continues on to state, "most of the black gods were regarded as
crucified saviors who died to save mankind by being nailed to a cross, or
tied to a tree with arms outstretched as if on a cross, or slain violently
in some other manner. Of these Crucified SAVIORS, THE MOST PROMINENT WERE
OSIRIS, AND HORUS OF EGYPT, KRISHNA OF INDIA, MITHRA OF PERSIA, QUETZALCOATL
OF MEXICO, ADDONIS OF BABYLONIA AND ATTIS OF PHRYGIA. NEARLY ALL OF THESE
SLAIN SAVIOR-GODS HAVE THE FOLLOWING STORIES RELATED ABOUT THEM:---THEY ARE
BORN OF A VIRGIN, ON OR NEAR DEC.25TH (CHRISTMAS); THEIR BIRTH ARE HERALDED
BY A STAR; THEY ARE BORN EITHER IN A CAVE OR STABLE; THEY ARE SLAIN,
COMMONLY BY CRUCIFIXION; THEY DESCEND INTO HELL, AND RISE FROM THE DEAD AT
THE BEGINNING OF SPRING (EASTER) AND FINALLY ASCEND INTO HEAVEN."
(Reference: "Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization" by John G.
Jackson).

There is an overwhelming of historical evidence that the worship of the SUN
GOD (which was celebrated by many names depending upon the culture and
nation) Jesus was a story of antiquity that had played out on the stage of
human civilization some thousands of years before the birth of Jesus who
lived 2000 years ago and before Constantine concocted and devised the
Christian Creed, which was designed to control how Christianity would be
disseminated, as well as theologically protect the half-truths, distortions,
and outright lies. They lied on Jesus, the Christ. (Reference: "The
Historical Origin of Christianity" by Walter Williams).

Wikipedia online research engine stated, "December 25 was also considered to
be the date of the winter solstice, which the Romans called bruma. It was
therefore the day the Sun proved itself to be "unconquered" despite the
shortening of daylight hours. (When Julius Caesar introduced the Julian
Calendar in 45 BC, December 25 was approximately the date of the solstice.
In modern times, the solstice falls on December 21 or 22.) The Sol Invictus
festival has a "strong claim on the responsibility" for the date of
Christmas, according to the Catholic Encyclopedia. Several early Christian
writers connected the rebirth of the sun to the birth of Jesus (sun/Son).
"O, how wonderfully acted Providence that on that day on which that Sun was
born . . . Christ should be born,"

Anthony Browder in his book titled, "Nile Valley Contributions to
Civilization" he stated, "Ausar, Auset, and Heru is the first story recorded
in history of man of a holy royal family (the Trinity), immaculate
conception, virgin birth and resurrection. Evidence of this Trinity is known
to have exist." (Reference: "Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization" by
Anthony Browder).

H.P. Blavatsky in her monumental book titled, "Isis Unveiled" through
meticulous research traces the original man's history and culture back to
Egypt (Kemet) which all philosophy, science, theology, and in essences human
thought evolved.

Blavatsky stated, "What Egypt (Kemet) taught to others she certainly did not acquire by the international exchange of ideas and discoveries with her Semitic
neighbors, NOR FROM THEM DID SHE RECEIVE HER STIMULUS.
'The more we learn of the Egyptians (Kemetans),' observes the writer of a recent
article, 'The Marvelous they seem!' From whom could she have learned her
wondrous arts, the secrets of which died with her? She sent no agents
throughout the world to learn what others knew; but to her the wise men of
neighboring nations resorted for knowledge. Proudly secluding herself within
her enchanted domain, the fair queen of the desert created wonders as if by
the sway of a magic staff. 'Nothing" remarks the same writer, whom we shall elsewhere quote, 'proves that civilization and knowledge rise and progress with her in the case of otherpeoples, but everything seems to be referable, in the same perfection, to the earliest dates. That no nation knew as much as herself, is a fact demonstrated by history."

There is no doubt that the story of Jesus was steeped in duality and
shrouded in the mysteries, but the WICKLY WISE, the ten (10) percent who the
Honorable Elijah Muhammad referred to as, "The rich, the slave makers of the
poor, who teach poor lies to believe that the almighty true and living God,
is a spook and cannot be seen with the physical eye. Otherwise known as the
bloodsucker of the poor."

Muhammad further maintained that December 25 was the birthday of Nimrod who
is mentioned in the Bible (Old Testament) he is styled as a mighty hunter
who is in opposition to God and he turned against the teachings of Moses
(the law giver). Nimrod was born 300 years before Christ. Thus, he
manipulated the teachings of Moses and set-up the early pagan empires such
as Greece and Rome. According to the Bible he is the son of Cush. Nimrod
killed his father and married his mother, whose name was Ester, and the
Easter celebration is also tied to advent of Nimrod and the entire SUN GOD
scheme. (Reference: The True History of Elijah Muhammad" Edited by Nasir
Makr Hakim)

Moreover, when Nimrod's wife (his mother) had their first child, he feared
that people would lose respect for him, if they knew he was making babies
through his own mother (it was a secret that they were married) therefore to fool the people Nimrod told people that the Holy Ghost had impregnated his mother. This was beginning of the GREAT LIE told about the birth of Jesus." there is a lot in Muhammad's lesson and was Christmas set-up by non-Christians who do not believe in Jesus Divinity, but has a stronger conviction to manipulate money and play on the theological ignorance of the people.
(Reference: "The History of Nimrod" by Elijah Muhammad).

Manly P. Halls stated, "For reasons which they doubtless considered
sufficient, those who chronicled the life and acts of Jesus found it
advisable to metamorphose him into a solar deity. The HISTORICAL JESUS WAS
FOR GOTTEN; nearly all the salient incidents recorded in the four Gospels
have their correlations in the movement, phases, or functions of the
heavenly bodies. Among other allegories borrowed by Christianity from supposed pagan antiquity is the story of the beautiful, blue-eyed Sun God, with His golden
hair falling upon his shoulders, robed from head to foot in spotless white
and carrying in His arms the Lamb of God, symbolic of the vernal equinox.
This handsome youth is a composite of Apollo, Osiris, Orpheus, Mithras, and
Baccus, for HE has certain characteristics in common with each of these
pagan deities." Manly P. Hall whom this writer considers one of the foremost
free thinkers in the history of mankind and he uncovers and interprets
symbolism, signs and delved into ancient wisdom unlike any other this writer
had read (Reference: "The Secret Teachings of All Ages" by Manly P. Hall).

This next quote is from a book titled, "The Lost Books of the Bible to Jesus
Christ, His Apostles and Their Companions" originally published in 1820 by
William Hone. Most Christians do not know their were some lost books to the
original Bible or perhaps this writer should say that a number of books were
deliberate and intentionally removed from the Bible as an act of deception.
Nevertheless, Hone stated, "Now Herod, perceived that the wise men did delay
and not return to him, called together the priests and wise men and said,
Tell me in what place the Christ should be born? And when they replied, in
Bethlehem, a city of Judea, he began to contrive in his own mind the death
of the Lord Jesus Christ. But an Angel appeared to Joseph in his sleep, and
said, Arise take the child and his mother and go into Egypt as soon as the
cock crows. So he arose, and went."
(Reference: "The Lost Books of the Bible to Jesus Christ" by William Hone).

December 25 had nothing to do with Jesus Birthday in fact his name was
probably more like Yeshua Ben Yosef or Isa Bin Yusuf (Jesus the Son of
Joseph) in accordance to the Amharic and/or Hebrew languages that were
spoken in that region of the world, long before the English language was
even a thought. Jesus was atypical of pagan tradition that evolved around
the sun god concept and there were many more world saviors who had similar
histories of that of Jesus and many of the things we ascribed to Jesus were
actually borrowed from more ancient cultures and civilizations. The birth,
death, resurrection and ascension fables seemed to have been concocted by
money changers and merchants which as stated above, many of them do not
believe in Jesus divinity, but the commercialization and the exploitation of
his name is their only motive. (Reference: "The World's Sixteen Crucified
Saviors" by Kersey Graves).

How then did December 25, become associated with the birth of Jesus Christ?
John King in his monumental work titled, The Celtics Druids:
Seasonal Cycles of the Ancient Celts. King states "In fact, Christ
birth-date was deliberately and artificially set, during the third century
AD, to coincide with, absorb and supersede the pagan festival dedicated to
Saturn. It is not even certain that Christ was born in the winter: many
legends speak of his being born in the spring. The controversy caused by the
switch from the old Julian calendar to the Gregorian persists in the popular
folk story that Christ was actually born on 6 January, and that at midnight
on the eve of that day animals kneel in homage to the Christ child in
mangers and stables. Many of the original customs of the Saturnalia have survived into the Christmas celebrations with remarkable persistence. The theme of the advent and the Virgin Births is, of course, not Celtic or Roman, although there are virgin births in other religions and mythologies."
(Reference: "The Celtics Druids: Seasonal Cycles of the Ancient Celts" by
John King).

King's research points to the fact, that the entire Christmas tradition
perhaps has it roots in pagan tradition (interpret to mean Christmas is a
non-Christian ritual), which ancient people had developed sophisticated
customs and rituals that pre-dated the birth of Jesus. The Ancients charted
the universe sun (son), moon and stars, thus developing agricultural rites that
paid homage to the power of life and death as it was seen in nature (the
Freemasons, Rosicrucian, Elks, Illuminati, Sun Gods of Kemet and quite
naturally the Sun Gods of Ancient Greece and Rome), as well as others have
relied in an interdependent manner on the winter and summer solstice for
ritual justification and theological explanation. Nature dies (winter
months) and it resurrects itself every year (spring time) and all of the
above Societies, as well as Christianity developed elaborate customs and
theological rites giving to some aspect of death and resurrection that was
observed in natural creation. (Reference:
"Secret Societies: Inside The World's Most Notorious Organizations"
by John Lawrence Reynolds).

Moreover, as the earth rotates on her axis the Ancients became infatuated
with the mystique of the winter and summer solstice. The word Sol is a Latin
word meaning Sun and word Stice mean to stand still and in scientific terms
the winter solstice and the summer solstice are one of the ecliptic at which
its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by
the Sun each year around June 22nd and December 22nd. In our hemisphere
(North America) December 22, starts winter, in which days get long and nights get
shorter and it was believed by the Ancients that the Sun died during this
time, but the manipulators of truth switched and presented us with the story
of Jesus, the "Son God" and then concocted a story that is very much
inconsistent with the Holy Bible about the events surrounding Jesus birth.
(Reference: Recapturing the African Mind" by Bruce Bridges).

For example, in the book titled, "The Book the Church Doesn't Want You to
Read", edited by Tim C. Leedom. Leedom maintains that, "It is also
noteworthy that during the month of December, Bethlehem and its surroundings
are subject to wintry cold weather, chilling rains, and sometime snow. One
does not find shepherds with their flocks outside at night during that time.
This is not a recent weather phenomenon. all of this indicates that weather
conditions in Bethlehem in December do not fit the Bible's description of
the events connected with the birth of Jesus Christ---Luke 2:8-11."
(Reference: "The Book the Church Doesn't Want You to Read" by Tim C.
Leedom).

Kersey Graves in his book titled, "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors",
wrote about the historical fact that there were at least Sixteen Saviors
that resembled the story attributed to Jesus Christ.
He maintained that all of these world Saviors were born of virgin birth
(immaculate conception), wise men predicted their birth, the heavens roared,
born on December 25, died, resurrected and ascended to heaven. These various
Saviors born on December 25th could be found in Kemet (Egypt), India,
Persia, China, Mexico, Greece, Rome, Germany and all of them represented
aspects of the Sun Gods who were deified long before the man, we came know
as Jesus. It was at the Council of Nicaea (modern day Turkey) on May 20, 325
AD that Constantine and his Biblical scholars conveniently and
systematically set-up Christianity (meaning the establish creed and
doctrine) and in most instance it went contrary and was outright
inconsistent with the original teachings of Jesus.

The two authors Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas in their book titled,
"The Hiram Key: Pharaohs, Freemasons and the Discovery of the Secrets
Scrolls of Jesus" describes some of the challenges that the non-Christian
Constantine the Great and the Council of Nicaea faced, "The result of the
Council was the 'Nicene Creed', which sought to reconcile the differences
between various Christian factions and to avoid doctrinal gulfs that had
looked as though they might split the Eastern Church away completely. The
rulings that emerged still provide the basis for most Church establishments
today, covering many points of detail such as when congregations should
stand and when they should sit during services. The central issue, however,
was the problem of whether Jesus Christ was a man or a god, and if he were
indeed a god, what was the precise nature of his divinity."
(Reference: "The Hiram Key: Pharaohs, Freemasons and the Discovery of the
Secrets Scrolls of Jesus" by Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas).

Also, the entire system of Freemasonry is built on the on the Solar Deity
hypothesis; thus, one can point to the allegorical story of Hiram Abiff
(this story has no Biblical foundation) and he too is a prototype of the SUN
GOD conjecture. Hiram Abiff was considered a Master Builder of King
Solomon's Temple and served as a duality in Operative Masonry (Guild
Masonry-Trade Skills) and Speculative (philosophical) Freemasonry and He is equivalent to Jesus in fact andfiction. Shabazz "Symbols, Holidays, Myths and Signs" stated, "In Masonry the sun has many symbols. One expression of the solar energy is Solomon, whose name Sol-om-on is the name for the supreme light in three different languages. Hiram, the Chiram (Hiram) of the Chalders, is also a color deity, and the story of his attack and murder by three Ruffians."

The circumstances of Hiram Abiff's death transcends earthly reality and
moves into immortality (eternal life and the realm of infinity).
Hiram Abiff was murdered at high noon by three Jewish Ruffians that
conspired to steal his LIGHT (knowledge and wisdom). Death is viewed as
temporary, no different than the changing of the seasons and Jesus life is
styled as the zenith of the concept of immorality (Christians believe that
Christ has ascended to heaven and is sitting on the right hand of the
Father, but will return). Hiram Abiff's fate is only temporary just as all
the other SOLAR DEITIES which life and death is charted by the sun, moon and
stars. Hiram Abiff like Jesus suffered a cruel death and was resurrected (He
was raised from a dead level) from the grave in which he eventually stood Ninety degrees upright as a LIVING PERPENDICULAR ON THE SQUARE.

The Worshipful Master stationed is in the East (there is where the Sun
Rises) and HE is considered the light of the Masonic Lodge and as the
physical sun gives light which to set the earth into rotation, the
Worshipful Master is styled as Wisdom and the Craft should radiate from his
illumination and enlighten coming out of the EAST. The sun as it crosses the meridian sets in the WEST and this is the station of the Senior Warden and HE is styled Strength and in the SOUTH stationed Junior Warden, he is styled as Beauty. (Reference: "Who is Hiram Abiff?" by JSM Ward)

John G. Jackson in his book titled, "Man, God, and Civilization" he stated,
"Interesting relics of ancient sun worship may be observed in the
ceremonies, symbols and ritual of modern Freemasonry. According to Masonic
Tradition, the word of Freemason can be traced back to ancient Egypt. It was
derived from two Egyptian words, 'phee" (the sun) and 'mas' (a child), meaning children of the sun or sons of light; and from this combination we derived the word freemason. A Mason is advised to travel to the East in search of light, for the sun rises in the East. The Masonic initiation rites like those of the ancient mysteries of Egypt, are drama based on the astronomical allegory of the death and resurrection of the sun, and the doctrines of the unity of god and the immortality of man; and these tenets are learned from Dr. Oliver's Dictionary of Symbolic Masonry , that a lodge has their lights situated in the East, the South and the West respectively."

Jackson continues, "They are so placed in allusion to the sun rises in the
East, cross the meridian by way of the south and sets in the West. There is
no light in the North part of the lodge, since the sun directs no rays from
that area. Every Masonic Lodge Should be oriented due East and sets in the
West because the sun, the glory of the Lord, rises in the East and sets in
the West and in the lodge, the Master stands in the East, the Junior Warden
in the South and the Senior Warden in the West, which positions are
representative of sunrise, noon, and sunset, respectively." (Reference:
"Man, God, and Civilization" by John G. Jackson).

Perhaps the most colorful of all the SUN GODS was Osiris of ancient Kemet
and in reality, this writer could have started this topic with Osiris ended
with Osiris because of all the SUN GODS, it was from his legend that all
other legends sprung. The Christianity Trinity perhaps originated in ancient
Egypt long before Jesus the Christ. Osiris, Isis and Heru-is the father, son, and the holy ghost. These ancients' tales were derived from agriculture and fertility festival rites. Osiris had a jealous brother names Seth (Satan) who conspired against him in a vicious plot to take his life just as the Cain and Able story of your Christian Bible.

Seth succeeded in murdering his righteous and innocent brother moreover,
cutting his body-up in 14 pieces and depressed the pieces in the river to be
ever lost. But Osiris had a zealous sister named Nephthys who desired to
search the river in order to find Osiris to reconstruct his body. She found
Osiris' body, some historians say that she found his body in pieces
scattered throughout the vast river with the exception of his penis. Osiris'
sex organ was forever lost. The Egyptian started constructing the obelisk symbols as duplication of Osiris lost penis. Osiris being associated in the larger scheme of the sun. However, there are many different slants to the Osiris myth.

Fahim A. Knight Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in
Durham, NC; our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of
good will of the pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the
symbolisms and reinterpret the hidden meanings behind those who operate as
invisible forces, but covertly rule the world. We are of the belief that an
enlighten world will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of
ignorance and not be willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is
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August 4th Celebrate & Support the President

Since his historic election, President Obama has been inundated with a barrage of venomous criticism. From the first cries calling for the failure of his administration by Vitter and Limbaugh to the media critique of his handling of the BP oil spill, his critics are unequivocal in telling us that he can do no right.

In the face of contrary evidence, “Birthers” rant that the President is not a US citizen and should be removed from office. Once closed by Senator Barry Goldwater, the “father” of modern conservatism, the Republican leadership has opened the doors of their party to the John Birch Society and other reactionary extremists. With cries of wanting to “take back OUR country” and “we want OUR America back,” the Tea Partiers clearly tell us that there is no room for his (The President’s) kind in their America – at least not in a position of leadership or Presidential Authority. Who remembers someone ever disrespectfully calling out “You Lie!” to either of the Bushes, Reagan, Ford or Nixon in the chambers of the US House of Representatives or someone openly carrying a loaded weapon to one of their political events?

For years our borders have been as porous as cheesecloth, but suddenly critics tell us the Administration is failing to live up to its responsibility to quell the flow of immigrants from our southern border. Without questioning the impact of our non-existent northern border on illegal immigration, reactionary responses from municipal to state governments tell us that if “Obama won’t do anything, we’ll stop these Mexicans from coming here.”

Living up to expectations, the actions of Fox News have denigrated from constant criticism of President Obama to their appeal, by the likes of Beck, to the basest elements in society to “revolt” against the oppressor Obama or to “spill the blood of tyrants to water the tree of Liberty .” Disappointingly, most mainstream media just turned its attention and focus to President Obama’s critics, while excluding a balanced assessment of the political landscape.

That having been said, there are millions out here who support the reasoned and measured approach of the President. We understand from the evidence he presents daily that he has an extraordinary, almost encyclopedic understanding of issues impacting this nation and the world. We see him lauded by his peers around the world as a “thinker” or as a no-nonsense leader who understands, and can articulate, the positions of friends and adversaries alike. While not addressing or achieving goals the way the media “puppeteers” would choose, HE GETS THE JOB DONE!!!

An overwhelming number of Americans elected President Obama and millions still support him, but too many of us do so silently. If the progressive agenda we elected the President to achieve is to be successful, we must help the President achieve it. We cannot allow the media to report from negative positions without challenge. Just as others demonstrate their hatred and disrespect of President Obama, we must actively demonstrate our support.

We call on ALL who support President Obama to take action. On August 4th, the President’s birthday, we ask those who support him to wear any campaign item from the Presidential election as a demonstration of our ongoing support. Bring out your old campaign paraphernalia.

If you don’t have caps, buttons or tee shirts, wear a red, white, and blue tri-color ribbon or clothing on August 4th. If nothing else, this simple demonstration of support for our President will provide a counteraction to the negativity that spews forth daily. We can do this. YES WE CAN. YES WE WILL.

In the unlikely story that is America , there's never been anything false about hope.

~Barack Obama

757 Event - Soul Line Dancing with DJ Seko 7/23/2010

Enjoy Soul line dancing ? Come out and hang out with DJ Seko on 7/23/2010 at DejaBlu Resturant and Lounge in Virginia Beach ! Enjoy live music, great cuisine, and flowing adult beverages from 9:00 pm - 12:00 am and then Party with Seko from 12:00 AM - 2:00 AM. Seko will be doing a YouTube video taping of his line dances "The Hula Slide" & "Electrified By Jesus Slide" as well as playing favorites such as the Mississippi Cha-Cha Slide, the Cupid Shuffle, the Booty Call, The 4 corners, The Janet Jackson, and the Cha-Cha Slide before going into a flurry of Old School Soul, Funk, & Disco classics and todays newest Steppin' and Grooving R&B.

For the Youtube taping of The Hula Slide & Electrified By Jesus slide you are invited to visit the websites that teach these dances to learn them ahead of time ! (Cultural attire encouraged !)

Learn the Hula Slide: http://www.thehulaslide.tripod.com/

Learn the Electrified By Jesus Slide: http://www.electrifiedbyjesus.tripod.com/


Write the word "Imani" onto a peice of paper. Bring this paper with you to DejaBlu. Show the staff at the door of Deja Blu to be placed upon Seko's gratis guest list ! Party with the Conscious Community and the larger community ! Only Seko's newest soul line dances will be video taped to be distributed online.

DeJa Blu -1910 Atlantic Avenue, Virginia Beach, VA
Featuring delicious "Nawlins" inspired menu selections, original potions and live music daily, dejaBlu brings the Jazz Supper Club groove to the Beach.
757.226.7477
http://dejablusupperclub.com

Professor Griff - 7/24/2010 Norfolk Virginia

Greetings in Good Health:
House of Consciousness would like to invite you to an event on July 24, 2010 at 4:00 p.m.
Please see attached flier
Stay Strong in the struggle
Peace and love
Brother William

Conscious Tuesdays (Hampton Roads Virginia)

Conscious Tuesdays @ The House of Consciousness
Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Location: The House of Consciousness
Street: 600 West 35th Street (formerly the Self Improvement Center)
City/State/Zip: Norfolk, Virginia, 23508
Phone: 757-748-5940 c/o Brother William

(Begins 07/06/2010 and continues each week - Get Improved !)

The House of Consciousness and The Imani Foundation presents our weekly delve into conscious media materials each Tuesday night from 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM @ 600 West 35th Street in Norfolk, Virginia. Watch conscious videos by the likes of Phil Valentine, Dr. Ben, Tony Browder, Ashra & Meri-Ra Kwesi, Dr. Cress Welsing and other sisters and brothers who provide important conscious-raising products. Watch sections of and dissect/discuss Hollywood releases such as Avatar and the Book of Eli and more. Enjoy Underground Movies with meaning (films that Hollywood wants you to ignore) ! Learn, share, and connect with the Conscious Community of Hampton Roads Virginia a.k.a. Nat Turner Nation !

Bring a homie, bring a lover, bring a friend ! The 1st Tuesday of each month will be “Dissect Hollywood” nights. The remaining Tuesdays will feature conscious and Underground media. Enjoy and feel free to legally purchase your copies of the conscious media ! Enjoy healthy snack and drinks for purchase. Donate $1.00 to support the activities of the Imani Foundation ! Be ye improved !

Call the House of Consciousness @ 757-748-5940 as they are open to serve you and to serve us !

This is a joint venture involving the House of Consciousness and The Imani Foundation.

African and Caribbean Culture Camp 2010

CAMP CELEBRATION 2010

6 weeks of African and Caribbean Culture June 28 – August 6, 2010
Monday – Friday 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Steel Pans, African Drumming, Dancing, Creative Writing, Personal Development, Performance Arts, Art Show/Contest, Camp Tee-shirts, Field Trips, Qi-Gong / Exercise class, Weekly performances and 2 grand Performance Galas.

Cost is $ 250 per child. Scholarships are available.
St. James Episcopal Church
928 Effingham Street
Portsmouth, VA 23704

Contact Camp Celebration / Urban Arts Center at 399 – 0925
http://ccdi-va.net/UAC/uac.htm

In partnership with The Center for Community Development Inc., The Wesley Community Service Center, St. James Episcopal Church and the Urban Arts Center 440 High St. Suite 204, Portsmouth, VA 23704
(757) 399-0925/Fax (757)399-2642/ profit4@ccdi-va.net

The Libation Walk (757 Event)

Following traditions from the motherland, on Father's day the Imani Foundation invites you to honor your / our ancestors (Forefathers/Foreparents) who have graduated from earthly life. Following the beat of a drummer we will walk silently around the lake trail of Mount Trashmore in remembrance to our beloved familial, personal, national, and Diaspora ancestors. Carry memorabilia, pour walking libations, carry spiritual/religious materials, pray, honor, recognize, and the like as one walks the lake trail. End the silent walk with a drumming circle and social moments. Approximately a 30 minute walk. 8:00 - 9:00 AM. Cultural attire is encouraged. Open to the public.

Date: Sunday June 20, 2010
Time: 8:00 am - 9:00 am
Repeat: This event repeats annually on the third Sunday of June.
Location: Mt. Trashmore, Virginia Beach, Virginia
Street: 310 Edwin Drive
City/State/Zip: Virginia Beach, Virginia, 23462

Wall of Return Dedication 6/23/2010

Join us for the Wall of Return (Africa)

Dedication Dinner
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
BWI Airport Marriott
6:00pm - General Reception

7:00pm Dinner & Program

Dear Friends and Supporters of African American Family Heritage,

It is our honor to invite you and your family to join us at the Wall of Return (Africa) Project Dedication Dinner on Wednesday, June 23, 2010 at the BWI Airport Marriott in Baltimore, Maryland. The Wall of Return is a memorial project created by Eric Sheppard, president and CEO of Diversity Restoration Solutions, an international trade development firm focused on U.S.-Africa trade and cultural relations. The dinner is part of the annual 2010 Africa Business Conference for U.S. and African small businesses.

The project, which began almost 3 years ago, will serve as a way to symbolically return home to Africa the names of our enslaved and freed African diaspora ancestors who were part of the transatlantic slave trade beginning over 400 years ago. The Wall will also serve as the 21st century healing response to the "Doors of No Return" that many of our ancestors walked through at slave castles and holding facilities throughout West Africa. Individuals who purchased name space to support the project will also be listed on the Wall and recognized at the dinner.

Our guest speaker will be Her Excellency Amina Salum Ali, Ambassador for the African Union Mission in Washington, DC. The African Union represents 53 member African states and is headquartered in Addis Abba, Ethiopia. Ambassador Ali, a friend and supporter of our reconnection efforts, will be welcoming the Wall of Return project to the continent of Africa.

As many of you know, our passion for family history, genealogy and recognizing the contributions of our enslaved ancestors does not start with this dedication dinner, but has been consistent for almost 10 years ago with the discovery of an enslaved ancestor named Moses Grandy and formation of our former nonprofit, Slave Descendants Freedom Society, Inc.

You may have also attended our annual slavery symposiums, which educated the general public on the legacy of African American slave history, attended a lecture on genealogy and family history or had your child participate in our Children's History Club. But overall, it was the inspiration, courage and tenacity that Eric received from Moses Grandy’s documented legacy and accomplishments which makes this project possible today.

Tickets are available for $60.00 per person or a table of 10 sponsorship for $600.00 with premium location seating for your group. Tickets are on sale now at www.regonline.com/wallofreturndinner and will be available through June 15th or until sold out. Space is limited. Please call us immediately if you plan to purchase a table so that your name can be included in our dinner program booklet.

For more information, contact us at (757) 484-0906 or email us at info@diversityrestoration.com . We hope you will be able to help us celebrate at this historic occasion, and please feel free to share with others who might be interested in attending as well. If you are not able to attend, please continue to keep the project and our Africa reconnection efforts in your thoughts and prayers.

Sincerely,

Eric and Lisa Sheppard
Diversity Restoration Solutions

Conscious Community 06 05 2010 (Roman Calendar)

Newsletter:

1) African Memorial Day
On May, 31st, 2010 the Khildren of Southampton took time out to pay homage to an Afrikan Memorial Day. Exactly 89 years ago in Tulsa, OK, hundreds of Afrikans were murdered at the hands of whites during one of the most notorious Race Wars of this country's bloody history. If you missed our Afrikan Memorial Service on Harambee Radio show yesterday evening, we have posted it on our Archives page.
http://www.ourkos.com/KOS/Radio_Show_Archives.html . Listen and find out why the only thing that has changed is the Black Family!

2) The Black Panthers & The Tea Party
This article is an excellent response to a very weak article put out by The Root comparing the Black Panther Party to the Tea Party. I was three years old when I watched my father, mother, and three-week-old baby brother nearly murdered in a hail of bullets during a police raid on our home in September 1973. My father, Robert Seth Hayes, was a member of the Black Panther Party (BPP), and ever since that day some 37 years ago, he has been a political prisoner in the state of New York. So when I read Cord Jefferson’s article, “Is the Tea Party the New Black Panther Party?” on The Root.com, I could not help but remember, and relive, the pain and trauma of that day. I also became frustrated and angry because Jefferson’s article is ahistorical and continues the tradition of attacking the Party and misrepresenting its history and legacy. What’s more, it does so in a forum that prides itself on getting African American history correct.
Jefferson begins his piece predictably, by drawing on caricatures of the Party – images of armed, angry, Black men going to war against the US government, Read more here: http://www.theroot.com/views/tea-party-new-black-panther-party .

3) Self Improvement Center becomes The House of Consciousness
Peace my peoples!!!!! We have been in talks to take the landmark bookstore (you know who) on 35th street to a new level. We have finally succeeded!!! We are changing the name to The House of Consciousness. (we had to) We will be open by friday and do a grand opening on Monday. The doors are open to the entire community!!! We are going to do the same things and little more. Give me a call at 757-748-5940 757-748-5940. The House of Consciousness - 600 W 35th street, Norfolk, VA 23508

4) Juneteenth from two sides of the coin
(A) JOIN ANCESTRAL PATH FOR THE TRUTH ABOUT JUNETEENTH. NO MORE LIES ABOUT LINCOLN OR HIS FAKE EMANCIPATION DOCUMENT. ALL POWER TO OUR ANCESTORS WHO LITERALLY FOUGHT FOR THEIR OWN FREEDOM! SAT., JUNE 19, BLYDEN BRANCH LIBRARY, NORFOLK, 1pm-4pm
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. A "FAMILY~FRIENDLY" EVENT
(B) 2010 JUNETEENTH'VA FESTIVAL, Saturday, June 19, 2010
http://juneteenthva.com/2.html
12noon - 6pm @ Dr. Clarence V. Cuffee Community Center
2019 Windy Road, Chesapeake, VA 23324 757.648.8549

5) Line Dance with DJ Seko
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqGO07NODTc
DJ Seko, of Positive Vibes DJs & The Imani Foundation, shoots a video for his new Gospel line dance song Sunday June 13th, 2010 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM at C.C.U. 6049 Indian River Road, Virginia Beach, VA 23464 (Church next to Hardees).

6) The NOI's FOI & The Secret Service
http://www.playahata.com/?p=8962#more-8962

7) BACKING UP THE DEMAND FOR REPARATIONS:
REFLECTIONS AND THOUGHTS IN PREPARATION
FOR THE ANNUAL N’COBRA CONFERENCE
By H. Khalif Khalifah
MAY 31, 2010
SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA - The dynamic word within the Great Issue of Reparations is DEMAND. Demand implies that if you don’t receive a positive response there will be consequences for the Nation that the demand is made on. In short, not caring about consequences is the basic reason why “the powers that be,” are turning a deaf eat to the great work of N’COBRA and other proponents of Reparations for Black people, at home and abroad, at this time in history. “The powers that be” at the rulers of the nation called the United States of America.
As an Elder and Pioneer in N’COBRA and the “modern Reparations movement,” I offer the following as food for thought to the National Black Community in general, but in particular to the delegates to our Annual Conference in New Orleans this June 25 - 27.
N’COBRA’S FIRST PRIORITY MISSION WAS
“EDUCATING THE AFRICAN MASSES ABOUT REPARATIONS”
All persons joining should understand and agree, that at the founding of N’COBRA “The First Priority Mission” was to educate the masses about the National Black Communities right to Reparations. That was some 20 years ago. While the education process MUST continue unabated, for obvious reasons, all information I am reading about Reparations today is still within the frame of the First Priority Mission: I believe if we upgrade the “priority mission,” we’ll find appropriate strategies to back up the Demand and get the job done. Less we forget, the “done job” is to win and not to just show our profound evidence and explain our understanding about the case for Reparations.
With the understanding that there are some legitimate, credible reasons why some Reparations advocates feel all that is needed to win Reparations is to simply lay out the case for Reparations: that layer upon layers of both, historical and current evident, will be enough to get the job done, a certain degree of understanding of the knowledge about to WHOM our demand for Reparations is made will give us the Wisdom to understand this is not sufficient to get the job done.
PAY REPARATIONS OF ELSE!
The implication in the Demand for Reparations is there will be consequences if we are not paid. If the Criminal Nation, i.e. the U. S. A., consisted of a citizenry of good, moral, enlightened, sorrowful people about the “Crime Against Humanity” their Nation is guilty of, laying out the evidence in our case for Reparations would certainly be sufficient. A good, moral, enlightened, sorrowful people would apologize and go into good faith negotiations to seek a remedy that will effectively get them amends for the ill, criminal behavior of it’s government: the DEMAND would be met.
However, the above is evidently not being the case (the USA does not consist of enough good, moral, enlightened, sorrowful people): it is also certain that more needs to be done than letting our profound, unquestioned CASE/EVIDENCE to Reparations IMPLY what we will do: Clearly the Rulers of America give no indication they will accede to the overwhelming evidence. Any criminal facing this “small mountain of evidence” (a favorite expression of Pro. J. H. Clarke) would plead guilty and negotiate for a favorable punishment. THAT IS, a criminal who has a fear of consequences for what will happen when the case is properly prosecuted.
DEVELOPING STRATEGIES TO BACK UP THE DEMAND
What will Black people do to back up our demand for Reparations: clearly, we must move from the process of laying out the case/evidence to building strategies/systems to back up the demand. But what, and how do we proceed to find strategies?
“With the understanding that all political remedies within the system are known or have been tried; AND with the understanding that our economic potential is known or have been tried; AND with the understanding that all legal remedies within the system are known or have been tried; AND with the understanding that the cultural good health of Afrikan people is known or have been recovered; AND with the understanding that the military power and might of Afrikan people is known or have been effectively used in the past; THEREFORE, at the 9th Annual Reparations Convention, in Hampton, Virginia, June 26-26 & 28, 1998, N’COBRA will bring together all of the known and as many of the unknown elements as possible to derive the wisdom needed to frame the FINAL DEMAND on the USA to pay our Reparations…”
The above was made in my report to the N’COBRA National Board of Directors in preparation to host the 9th N’COBRA Conference in 1998. While some great, dynamic resolutions were passed and implemented at the convention/conference (Lifetime Membership, Economic Development Commission & addition of Black Farmers to the itemized Demands for Reparations, Sister Dorothy Lewis elected National Co-Chair and etc.), exploring ways to “back up the demand,” was not found or deliberated on.
The information is presented here as a possible place where we may well begin to formulate a workable/possible ULTIMATUM to back up our demand for Reparations. The only caution that I offered in my statement was that the ultimatum be within the capability of N’COBRA. It must be characterized to reflect the membership; not to sell “wolf tickets” to impress anyone. What was not possible under the old leadership may well be possible under the new leadership of N’COBRA.
However, the leadership of my time felt that the membership of that time would not support an ultimatum. Hopefully in 2010 this fact has changed and a consensus can evolve out of the deliberations by the generation that is charged with finding the next Priority Mission to enforce our Demand for Reparations.

H. Khalif Khalifah is a Black nationalist Journalist who lives in Southampton County, Virginia. A member of N’COBRA since 1991; he served 6 years on the National Board of Directors of N’COBRA during the 1990’s; was the Liaison of N’COBRA to the Million Man March; is the author 15 books about Black people in the Liberation Struggle, including “A Brief History About N’COBRA and the Reparations Movement.” To contact Khalifah: khalifah23844@yahoo.com or www.ubuscommunicationssystems.com