NYMetro

1) Barack Obama stepped to the mic and spoke of the importance of non-violence … for oppressed people. When any representative of the U.S. ruling class preaches non-violence, they mean non-violence for those who might get in the way of their empire. Obama was referring to people who had suffered under Jim Crow segregation and lynch-mob terror. This from the commander-in-chief of the global Amerikkkan empire, who has presided over more than 280 drone missile strikes, maintains a torture chamber prison at Guantánamo Bay and presides over a criminal injustice system that is carrying out a slow genocide aimed at Blacks and Latinos. There might as well have been blood dripping from his jaws as he spoke.

2) Obama said: "If we're honest with ourselves, we'll admit that during the course of 50 years, there were times when some of us, claiming to push for change, lost our way. The anguish of assassinations set off self-defeating riots." That's Bull Shit! People didn't lose their way in the '60s: In fact, they were beginning to find their way, coming to see that the horrors they were up against were built into the very fabric of this set-up and couldn't be reformed away. But they were met with vicious repression—leaders assassinated, activists dragged into court on trumped-up charges, and railroaded off to prison and more. In the face of all that, the movement of that period wasn't able to develop the understanding needed to do what was needed: make revolution and end the horrors Amerikkka enforced on humanity then and continues to enforce today.

3) Many, many people are asking big questions about the unjust nature of this system, and this has forced Obama to speak to some of the problems Black people face today. But he doesn't get into the depths of these problems or what to do about them, except to say rely on him to work on them. For example, he didn't say a fucking word about the more than two million people warehoused in prison. He did say that the unemployment rate for African-Americans has consistently been about twice that of whites and that the wealth gap between Blacks and whites has GROWN over the past decades. But he talked about this like it had nothing to do with the system he presides over.

THE CHALLENGE—There is a way to uproot all these horrors. It'll take Revolution—Nothing Less! I speak to this in depth in a recent talk: "We Don't Need a New Civil Rights Movement—We Need Revolution!" Watch that talk at revcom.us. And dig into BA Speaks: REVOLUTION—NOTHING LESS!

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  • Caricom

    Another thought. Could we, as a people, be nearing the end of our sojourn into slavery and misery? Join me in reading and understanding the prophesy of Deut.28:15-68 and Gen.15:13, 14. Seems we coming to the end of the road and now the insane rush to war and to steal as much wealth as possible fits the picture of regime change. The world is undergoing major paradigm shifts - resignation of Pope Benedict, the new 'Pope' refuses the vestments, the title and the apartment set aside for the Pope. Global debt forgiveness has been mandated. The federal reserve is being absorbed by the U.S. Treasury. Russia has nationalized it's banks. And much, much more is going on.

    Brothers and sisters, are we prepared to shape and mold the new world rapidly approaching us? Study, read, observe and learn - for our deliverance is getting near. Asha'

  • South

    3829051721?profile=originalIndeed, we have suffered much then and now, my brother.   Sometimes, we miss the mark when one speaks in order to hear truth.  Change is here and dots are being connected.  You my friend and each one of us will receive common law, a higher ascension, and wealth very soon. 

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  • South

    Hotep,i will talk with you later.on this one.lol

  • Caricom

    Brother Carl,

    Greetings. I feel your pain and frustration as well as your contention that what we need is revolution. I believe you are referring to a revolution of the Black mind because this is the root cause of most our problems - self destructive and self defeating thinking and behaviors. 

    I am reading "PowerNomics" by Dr. Claud Anderson and that book lays out that revolution of the mind and how our thinking and creativity can turn things around for Black people. It is an empowering and stimulating volume. I know that you will enjoy it as will all those willing to devote the time to read and absorb the strategies.

    Now, as a result of reading Dr. Anderson's book, I am pondering how we can develop a national movement of self-empowerment and self-sufficiency in the midst of mind-numbing ignorance. 

    Peace, light and love to you and yours.

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