africans - Forum/Discussions - TheBlackList Pub2024-03-29T05:50:17Zhttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/feed/tag/africansMonkeypox, Here We Go Againhttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/monkeypox-here-we-go-again2022-05-26T15:20:16.000Z2022-05-26T15:20:16.000ZJunious Ricardo Stantonhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/JuniousRicardoStanton<div><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Monkeypox, Here We Go Again</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;">Junious Ricardo Stanton</p><p> </p><p> “Monkeypox is a pox virus and is related to the variola virus, which caused smallpox. That once dreaded disease was declared eradicated in 1980. The symptoms of monkeypox are similar to but milder than smallpox. Infected people develop flu-like symptoms — fever, body aches, chills — but also swollen lymph nodes. With one to three days of the onset of fever, a distinctive rash appears, often starting on the face. Many conditions can cause rashes, but the monkeypox rash has some unusual features, notably the fact that vesicles can form on the palms of the hands. In this outbreak, a number of people have reported having had lesions on their genitals.” <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2022/05/23/europe-health-agency-warns-monkeypox-could-become-endemic/">https://www.statnews.com/2022/05/23/europe-health-agency-warns-monkeypox-could-become-endemic/</a></p><p> The latest ooga-booga from the <strong>World Health Organization</strong> regarding the emerging Monkeypox crisis is in my view is a replay of the AIDS and COVID scares. Monkeypox is supposed to have originated in West and Central Africa but deeper analysis shows a not in the wild origin but in scientific laboratories! “Monkeypox is a viral zoonosis (a virus transmitted to humans from animals) with symptoms very similar to those seen in the past in smallpox patients, although it is clinically less severe. It is caused by the monkeypox virus which belongs to the orthopoxvirus genus of the Poxviridae family. There are two clades of monkeypox virus: the West African clade and the Congo Basin (Central African) clade. The name monkeypox originates from the initial discovery of the virus in monkeys in a Danish laboratory in 1958. The first human case was identified in a child in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1970. Monkeypox virus is transmitted from one person to another by close contact with lesions, body fluids, respiratory droplets and contaminated materials such as bedding. The incubation period of monkeypox is usually from 6 to 13 days but can range from 5 to 21 days.” <a href="https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2022%20DON385#:~:text=Epidemiology%20of%20the%20disease&text=There%252">https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2022 DON385#:~:text=Epidemiology%20of%20the%20disease&text=There%2</a></p><p> The WHO was used as the conduit to spread massive fear and panic about SARS-COV-2 and give it a perceived status as a global epidemic akin to the Black Plague when it was nowhere near that lethal or dangerous. This is consistent with previous tales of diseases allegedly originating in Africa, among primates, also in keeping with racist Western propaganda that Africa is a continent ravaged by disease, squalor, backwardness and substandard living conditions.</p><p> The WHO propaganda sets the tone and tenor for global public health policy. The misery, madness and mayhem of the past two years was the result of WHO declarations, the bogus predictions and elevated numbers of the Gates backed agencies like the CDC, Neil Ferguson and Imperial College of London. The WHO pushed vaccines for COVID and is pushing smallpox vaccines for Monkeypox. “The World Health Organization (WHO), which we know is <a href="https://naturalnews.com/2020-02-09-why-is-the-who-engaged-in-bioweapons-research.html">actively engaged in bioweapons research</a>, launched an emergency meeting in the United Kingdom to discuss the alleged threat of monkeypox. The United Nations arm claims that ‘cases’ of the disease are expected to ‘double’ from nine to 18, requiring intervention. Authorities are already stockpiling more smallpox vaccines, which they say will treat people who may have already been exposed to monkeypox. The UK government has about 5,000 injections in its existing national stockpile and has ordered another 20,000 as a supplement to that. According to the ‘experts,’ homosexual and bisexual men are the number-one spreaders of monkeypox, so perhaps there will be a ‘remedy’ released just for them to help stop the spread.” <a href="https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-05-22-monkeypox-scariant-unleashed-demand-vaccine-compliance.html">https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-05-22-monkeypox-scariant-unleashed-demand-vaccine-compliance.html</a></p><p> In addition to the lab origin literature stating exists stating Monkeypox is spread via homosexual activity. “The monkey virus is spreading in many countries in the US and Europe. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Britain's health officials have decided to conduct raids on various ‘bars’ and ‘saunas’ to identify the spread of the virus this time. Their fear is that the infection has spread mainly from the sex cycle of gay and bisexual men. On May 7, the first monkey pox patient was diagnosed in London. The man had recently returned from Nigeria. Therefore, the experts believed that the person had somehow come into contact with the virus in Africa. But after that, experts were not sure how six more people got infected with the disease. Britain's Health Ministry said six of the newly infected patients were gay and bisexual men. Recently, all six of them reported having sex with a male partner. Not only in Britain, but in Spain and Portugal, 7 and 9 men have been infected with the virus, most of whom are reported to be gay or bisexual men. Britain's health protection agency has also advised gay men to be extra cautious for the time being. ” <a href="https://zeenews.india.com/india/monkeypox-virus-does-this-spread-through-sex-6-of-newly-affected-were-gay-or-bisexual-men-2466261.ht">https://zeenews.india.com/india/monkeypox-virus-does-this-spread-through-sex-6-of-newly-affected-were-gay-or-bisexual-men-2466261.ht</a> </p><p> Wow, so here again Africans are being blamed for a disease that is related to smallpox which was supposedly eradicated but we are seeing is spread not from or by Africans but homosexual Europeans! The World Health Organization is Chicken Little, the spreader of panic and is being used to create dread and overreaction in the mass consciousness. Remember it was the WHO that declared a SARS-COV-2 global health emergency in January 30, 2020 when most of the recorded incidents were still in the 1,000’s in China at a time when there were over 7.8 billion humans on the planet! Don’t keep falling for the WHO’s okey-doke.</p><p style="text-align:center;"> -30-</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p></div>#AfricansStopDancing4Whiteshttps://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/africansstopdancing4whites2017-11-24T21:52:34.000Z2017-11-24T21:52:34.000ZCharles E. Campbellhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/CharlesECampbell<div><p>#AfricansStopDancing4Whites</p><p>11/24/7</p><p>Charles E. Campbell</p><p>When Africans Stop Dancing 4 the Entertainment and Amusement of Whites, Asians, Arabs, East Indians and Black African Americans without them buying a ticket they will never regain Self Respect.</p><p>It perpetuates a backward Sterio type of African Nations. Each village should organize shows where tourist buy tickets, concessions and souvenires. Each village needs water and sewage and electricity, lodging and restaurants with the ability to transact commerce.</p><p>It’s almost 2018, Africans, and African Leaders must stop Shucking and Jiving themselves. Maybe Zimbabwe will now lead the way, because South Africa, Nigeria and Ghana have waisted countless opportunities.</p><p>The world is changing fast and if African Countries don’t stop the corruption, it will remain a mineral wealth continent, but underdeveloped and not meeting it’s full potential.</p><p>Black African Americans have a big role to play in the uplift and empowerment of Africa. Our knowledge, ideas and innovations must be welcomed in Africa with dual Citizenship. For example, my renewable energy startup, Allen Hydro Energy Corporation (AHEC) <a href="http://www.ahecenerg.com/">http:// www.ahecEnerg.com</a> has the potential to supply the entire African Continent with clean power and manufacturing jobs, while it’s being suppressed and ignored in the USA, Asia and Europe. We, Black African Americans, have an obligation to help Africa compete on a world stage, as we are soon to become an Obsolete Labor Force due to automations, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics rapidly replacing the few “Good Jobs” got. Due to poor Black African American Leadership, the future generations are at greater risk for poverty, mass incarceration and extermination. They too, have been and are “Shucking and Jiving”.</p><p>Those who truly know our potential, fear us and are working extremely hard to contain our genius in racist bottle. The pressure is too great!</p><p>Up You Might Race, Accomplish What You WILL!</p><p><img class="size-full" src="https://writers89.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/wp-image-1887462764.jpeg?w=700" alt="wp-image-1887462764.jpeg?w=700" /></p></div>A difference in African and African-American attitudes on racism in America: Could African-Americans Learn From Africans?https://www.theblacklist.net/forum/topics/a-difference-in-african-and2009-01-03T19:11:06.000Z2009-01-03T19:11:06.000ZTheBlackListhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/TheBlackList<div><p style="text-align:left;"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828789273,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="" width="200" height="200" /></p>
<b>In the wake of Obama’s presidential victory, African-Americans had finally had their ‘excuse crutch’ kicked right under them.</b>
The U.S. had long been dubbed - The Land of Opportunity. Generations have flooded to the U.S. from all corners of the planet; some seeking refuge, while others simply seeking a better education, a better opportunity and a better tomorrow.
One uniform belief that is shared by ALL is that the U.S. is the one place on earth where, dreams come true and all things are possible, if one perseveres and never quits. Yet African-Americans are the (only) group of people that play a pivotal role in filling up, all-statistics-gloomy-and-disheartening.
The question, ‘who is to blame for African-American’s failings?’ has been open for debate for the longest, and frankly for no apparent reason, when, specially all the evidences pointed back squarely at African-American themselves.
Obama’s presidential victory is a momentous and watershed moment, and particularly for this reason - it has helped shut the coffin cover down on the “racism” argument. It is also a vindication of the timeless creed, that - no matter who you are or where you come from, you can achieve anything, no matter how hard life might sometimes tests you.
Africans Hardly Blame, While African-Americans Enjoy Blaming. I am black, of African descent, and I have lived in the U.S. for almost a decade now. I am what you may choose to call an immigrant. And under the “white man’s” microscope, I and my African-American brothers and sisters are one and the same – BLACKS.
When I speak of race relations (racism) in America, I mainly speak from my experience as a black man in America, and everything else second, (Like pride in oneself, resilience, lack of inferiority complex.)
Am I a witness of racism in America? Absolutely. Do I believe whites have an advantage over blacks? Umm . . . Ye - - -S.
But nothing to cry and moan about. Probably very minimal advantage and one, in my African eyes, I have a hard time to identify. And definitely not something that a black man couldn’t overcome with a bit of hard work and vigilance.
What African-Americans have is a crippling disease called - Laziness. It is precisely a dangerous disease because it is the hardest to notice and one that hardly displays its symptoms in black-and-white. However, this laziness in the black community is one that has sipped through over time, and it was almost non-existent in the generations before.
African-Americans are the descendants of slaves who were subjected to hard and back-breaking labor, and this laziness that is prevalent among today’s generations of African-Americans is one that defies scientific theories, in my view.
More African-Americans had finished high school and attended college in the 70’s than they do today. In fact, the rate of an African-American in the 70’s graduating high school and college was the same as that of an Anglo-American. African Americans Need Only Look At Africans. Perhaps no evidence debunks the “racism” argument more than black Africans who come to the U.S. to lead a triumphant and prosperous life.
For that matter, one could point out the success rate of ALL types of immigrants. But for argument sakes alone, I choose to compare Apples-to-Apples (Blacks to Blacks, in this case) And for those who are reluctant to let go off the racism argument, I have one more news for you: On the list of obstacles an African-American faces in today’s America, racism was recently listed 18th. 18th! Making racism a non-issue by default.
So Why Do Africans Succeed Where African-Americans Fail? Hard work, education, accountability and responsibility.
It doesn’t get any more uncomplicated than that, though some intelligentsia in the African-American community would like to complicate things. These so-called intelligentsia in the black community are what I call those with, a-hang-over-from-the-civil-rights-era. They are still living in the 60’s and 70’s. They are still stuck in solving the puzzle that has been long solved.
In fact, Africans are faced with more challenges than any African-American ever could.
Most Africans are not born with a silver spoon in their mouth; they are usually faced with all sorts of problems when they first arrive in America (Challenges like learning a new system, a language barrier that takes years to break, in addition to all the other problems and obstacles African-Americans claim to face due to their pigmentation). So tell me, who has it hard? The African or the African-American?
The inescapable fact remains, that there is no substitute to hard work and resilience, and the sooner the African-American intelligentsia of the civil rights era fess up, the better for African-Americans.
Am I indifferent to the problems of racism in America? Puuuh-lizz! Only a mad man would think that. The day has come where racism can no longer be considered the alpha-and-omega of problems that black people face. That’s the point that I am trying to make.
As a human being first, and a black man in America second, I have never been able to push on an open door. All the doors that I had thus far walked through had to be unlocked by me. And I don’t know of a white man that had to stay in bed and have his bills taken care of at the end of the month.
In fact, I have never met an uber rich white man in a decade of my staying in America. And I ask myself is this really true that white people have an advantage? Could it be exaggerated? Because all my white neighbors are forced to get up every morning and sit behind their desk somewhere or earn a living somehow. I never see them going to a secret meeting where they are handed a manual that tells them the secret to successful life in America.
It is the “System.” African-Americans are constantly talking about the “system.” I am not going to go there, because it would waste my time. But let me say this quickly, this “system” that seems to be a part of a constant discussion in the black community is simply another, what else, excuse. Enough said about “systems”.
Entitlement Programs Suck, Plain Suck! I hate programs like the “Affirmative Action” with a passion. I frown upon it, and I detest it. Did I say I hate it? Programs like the Affirmative Action are simply, - Entitlement Programs.
No type of entitlement program, in the history of the world, has ever worked. Entitlement programs do nothing, whatsoever, to address the heart of the problem. Thus serving as anything, but adding salt to an injury.
For a society who has produced the like of W.E. DuBois, Frederick Douglas and many others like them, how should African-Americans ever say yes to programs like the Affirmative Action Program.
The fact of the matter is, Affirmative action would never solve the poverty and crime that is prevalent in the black community. What the latest “lazy” generation of African-Americans require is not an entitlement program, but rather a face-lift in attitude, thinking and approach. Attributes and traits that are pivotal for anyone to succeed are sorely missing in the black youth today.
Belief-in-oneself, sense of pride, and lack of inferiority complex are all important if one is to succeed and overcome obstacles.
What I am thankful for the most about Obama’s historical victory is that he had played a critical role in restoring and instilling the confidence back in the black youth.When those attributes are backed by a solid educations and hard work, the sky is truly the limit.
In short, where African-Americans see “racism,” Africans are thinking “let’s prove them wrong.” That simple difference in attitude could mean the difference between - succeeding and becoming a couch-potato.
<b>By Fay Venegas</b>
African Executive
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