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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary
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2016-04-08T23:30:00.000Z
2016-04-08T23:30:00.000Z
Nana Baakan Agyiriwah
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<div><p><b style="font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;"><i>Nana's Commentary:</i></b></p><div dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;"><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/--09cNPe6JDE/VwgCsHG64KI/AAAAAAACY9w/a9AvNgS0qdAY_y46U_ijOQpjtQqy79Rvg/s1600/tumblr_n6e2q8Xfzf1ram4lgo1_500.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/--09cNPe6JDE/VwgCsHG64KI/AAAAAAACY9w/a9AvNgS0qdAY_y46U_ijOQpjtQqy79Rvg/s320/tumblr_n6e2q8Xfzf1ram4lgo1_500.jpg?width=150" width="150" class="align-left" alt="tumblr_n6e2q8Xfzf1ram4lgo1_500.jpg?width=150" /></a><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D5ab3I7brvI/VwgAZNpqH8I/AAAAAAACY9c/TcMLGry3s1om8AOJ-XPzt4NGFDx8HVa1Q/s1600/Black-Frederick-quote-about-Slaves-Narrative-life.jpg" style="clear:right;float:right;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:1em;"></a>I remember thinking to myself, back in 1990; "I wonder what has happened to Black Folks as a result of Slavery?" It was like an epiphany, as I can actually remember where I was sitting when it occurred to me.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">I had just entered the field of mental health having started off in Sociology. Somehow, life lead me to the field of Mental Health and particularly as a result of wanting to use Cultural Enrichment as a way for healing and benefiting Black folks who have so many odds stacked against them as it were.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">I couldn't help but notice the parallels, from denial to over achievement to resilience to secrecy and a host of other conditions, outcomes and variables that plague our community as well as offer some real life stories of survival even in the most hostile of environments. We still managed to work, have families, raise our children, get an education, despite the trauma we received.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><div class="separator" style="clear:both;text-align:center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear:both;text-align:center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D5ab3I7brvI/VwgAZNpqH8I/AAAAAAACY9g/kExIhAXaLCwJvnOUVE2ZqHbIxql48IB7Q/s1600/Black-Frederick-quote-about-Slaves-Narrative-life.jpg" style="clear:left;float:left;margin-bottom:1em;margin-right:1em;"><img border="0" height="216" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D5ab3I7brvI/VwgAZNpqH8I/AAAAAAACY9g/kExIhAXaLCwJvnOUVE2ZqHbIxql48IB7Q/s320/Black-Frederick-quote-about-Slaves-Narrative-life.jpg" width="320" alt="Black-Frederick-quote-about-Slaves-Narrative-life.jpg" /></a></div>However, it seemed that talking about PTSD in the clinical sense was didactic, linear and devoid of inference beyond the obvious. That is, a person caught in a war zone, a person who experienced a car accident, physical/emotional abuse or the death of a loved one. We knew that it would affect them in so many ways and we often called in "Adjustment Disorder". Then we moved on to figure out strategies for healing and getting these "individuals" to a healthier mindset and that feeling of "safety" again.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">As these thoughts swirled around in my mind and I began to seriously wonder if we may be suffering from trauma that was inflicted upon our foreparents and if in fact, the genetic memory has been imprinted on our DNA. It has been discovered that various events can be imprinted on our DNA so how about some shock?</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">I remember attending seminars where it was presented that our bodies remember our trauma long after the traumatic event had passed. Being a dreamer and one who interpreted dreams, I knew that our subconscious, or that place where dreams lie, would also bring up disturbing and/or traumatic events in various dream images.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">It all began to make sense to me that surely, African people in the Americas, and perhaps the entire Diaspora; who were captured and imprisoned on slaved ships and brought to a foreign land, most certainly have suffered serious trauma along with transmitting that trauma to generations that followed. And as Dr. DeGruy Leary explains the trauma didn't stop after they were brought here, nor did it stop after they were released from chattel slavery, it continued, and continues to this day. Much of it is insidious and below the surface but it continues in the form of police brutality, poverty, poor educational systems, dilapidated neighborhoods, erroneous depiction of our youth in the media, etc., etc., etc.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><div class="separator" style="clear:both;text-align:center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DYRrdPiGl0w/VwgCEoFHHjI/AAAAAAACY9o/SxNlJp6mu7Y2n5r3Nyksh_snzd88lVCPg/s1600/DrJoyDeGruyLeary.jpg" style="clear:left;float:left;margin-bottom:1em;margin-right:1em;"><img border="0" height="183" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DYRrdPiGl0w/VwgCEoFHHjI/AAAAAAACY9o/SxNlJp6mu7Y2n5r3Nyksh_snzd88lVCPg/s320/DrJoyDeGruyLeary.jpg" width="320" alt="DrJoyDeGruyLeary.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-size:14pt;">I always wanted to research it, or see what others have done in that line of research. I am so grateful to Dr. DeGruy Leary who has done the grunt work on this topic. I am sure it can be developed even beyond the book she wrote, and perhaps others will look into it. She also has a lot of courage to even broach this subject. In my ignorance it seemed to only make sense that the impact of our past would affect our future, but the cognitive dissonance will not allow many on both sides of the aisle to see it, accept it or do anything about it. So I must commend her bravery to even take the time, resources and brain work to put this thought together so eloquently.</span></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">She, along with Dr. Frances Kress-Welsing, in my estimation, have capture two of the most profound aspects of our history post Trans-Atlantic slave trade. When you couple White Supremacy with Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome you can pretty much sum up the African experience in the Americas and throughout the Diaspora where racism is an integral part of the society where its impact can be seen in politics, education, religion, entertainment, historical analysis, health care, economics and the general welfare.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Below you will find a video playlist of some of Dr. DeGruy Leary's talks on Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="560" height="315" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLRwF36V2kd5zOMaODd08vPNucW1ibd0dW&wmode=opaque"></iframe></div><div style="text-align:center;"></div><div style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BsK6FcPgBS4/VwgCj_LvGLI/AAAAAAACY9s/u8-PccST-lMBXMSpO7Y0xHTekZ3yLCsrw/s200/post%2Btraumatic%2Bslave%2Bsyndrome-joy%2Bdegruy.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BsK6FcPgBS4/VwgCj_LvGLI/AAAAAAACY9s/u8-PccST-lMBXMSpO7Y0xHTekZ3yLCsrw/s200/post%2Btraumatic%2Bslave%2Bsyndrome-joy%2Bdegruy.jpg?width=134" width="134" class="align-left" alt="post%2Btraumatic%2Bslave%2Bsyndrome-joy%2Bdegruy.jpg?width=134" /></a></div></div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;"><div style="color:#333333;font-size:12pt;text-align:center;"></div><a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/Post_Traumatic_Slave_Syndrome.html?id=dyHWMwEACAAJ&source=kp_cover&hl=en" style="font-family:Cambria;"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:x-small;">https://books.google.com/books/about/Post_Traumatic_Slave_Syndrome.html?id=dyHWMwEACAAJ&source=kp_cover&hl=en</span></a><br /><div style="font-size:12pt;"></div><div style="font-size:12pt;">Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome</div></div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:12pt;margin:0in;">Pasted from <<a href="http://joydegruy.com/resources-2/post-traumatic-slave-syndrome/">http://joydegruy.com/resources-2/post-traumatic-slave-syndrome/</a>></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:12pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;margin:0in;">Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;">Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing (PTSS)</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;"> is a 2005 book resulting from years of historical and psychological research by Joy DeGruy (formerly Leary)</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_Traumatic_Slave_Syndrome#cite_note-DeGruy-1"><span style="font-size:8.4pt;">[1]</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-style:italic;">PTSS</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;"> describes a set of behaviors, beliefs and actions associated with or, related to multi-generational </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_trauma"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;">trauma</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;">experienced by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;">African Americans</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;"> that include but are not limited to undiagnosed and untreated </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_Traumatic_Stress_Disorder"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;">Post Traumatic Stress Disorder</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;"> (PTSD) in enslaved Africans and their descendants.</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_Traumatic_Slave_Syndrome#cite_note-DeGruy-1"><span style="font-size:8.4pt;">[1]</span></a></div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:10.5pt;margin:0in;"><span style="font-style:italic;">PTSS</span> posits that centuries of slavery in the United States, followed by systemic and structural racism and oppression, including lynching, Jim Crow laws, and unwarranted mass incarceration, have resulted in multigenerational maladaptive behaviors, which originated as survival strategies. The syndrome continues because children whose parents suffer from PTSS are often indoctrinated into the same behaviors, long after the behaviors have lost their contextual effectiveness.</div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:10.5pt;margin:0in;">DeGruy states that PTSS is not a disorder that can simply be treated and remedied clinically but rather also requires profound social change in individuals, as well as in institutions that continue to reify inequality and injustice toward the descendants of enslaved Africans.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:10.5pt;margin:0in;"><span style="color:#252525;">DeGruy holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Communication, a Master's Degree in Social Work, a Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology, and a Ph.D. in Social Work Research. She teaches social work at </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_State_University">Portland State University</a><span style="color:#252525;"> and gives lectures on PTSS nationally and internationally.</span></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:12pt;margin:0in;">Pasted from <<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_Traumatic_Slave_Syndrome">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_Traumatic_Slave_Syndrome</a>></div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:12pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;">Do You Have Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome?</div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:12pt;margin:0in;">Pasted from <<a href="http://www.ebony.com/wellness-empowerment/do-you-have-post-traumatic-slave-syndrome#axzz45G8KwTBb">http://www.ebony.com/wellness-empowerment/do-you-have-post-traumatic-slave-syndrome#axzz45G8KwTBb</a>></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:12pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:12pt;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;">Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome</div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:12pt;margin:0in;">Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary talks about her provocative new book</div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:12pt;margin:0in;">Pasted from <<a href="http://inthesetimes.com/article/2523">http://inthesetimes.com/article/2523</a>></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:12pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;">Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary- Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (1/19)</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:12pt;margin:0in;"><a href="https://youtu.be/8rQjVZX6jzc?list=PL753C887F42399DEC"><span style="color:#000000;">https://youtu.be/8rQjVZX6jzc?list=PL753C887F42399DEC</span></a></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:12pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;">Watch: Dr. Joy DeGruy Gives Stunning Lecture on "Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome"</div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:12pt;margin:0in;">Pasted from <<a href="http://shine.forharriet.com/2014/04/watch-dr-joyce-degruy-gives-stunning.html#axzz45GEsdPyg">http://shine.forharriet.com/2014/04/watch-dr-joyce-degruy-gives-stunning.html#axzz45GEsdPyg</a>></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:12pt;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;margin:0in;"><span style="color:#434343;">Thread: </span><a href="http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/afrikan-reflections/7620-post-traumatic-slave-syndrome-theory.html">Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome Theory</a></div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:12pt;margin:0in;">Pasted from <<a href="http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/afrikan-reflections/7620-post-traumatic-slave-syndrome-theory.html">http://www.assatashakur.org/forum/afrikan-reflections/7620-post-traumatic-slave-syndrome-theory.html</a>></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:12pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;">Post-traumatic slavery syndrome</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:12pt;margin:0in;">African-Americans are killing themselves at an unprecedented rate. In "Lay My Burden Down" Alvin Poussaint and Amy Alexander try to explain why.</div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:12pt;margin:0in;">Pasted from <<a href="http://www.salon.com/2000/10/24/suicide_9/">http://www.salon.com/2000/10/24/suicide_9/</a>></div></div></div>
Why Black African Americans Should Care About Fracking?
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2013-07-22T20:41:45.000Z
2013-07-22T20:41:45.000Z
Charles E. Campbell
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<div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-4"> Why Black African Americas Should Care About Fracking?</span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-4">by</span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-4">C. Earl Campbell DA 3rd, MSW</span></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p>The answer is clear. We too value clean air and water. Black African Americans have all too often been the victims of environmental racism caused by Corporate greed. Hydraulic fracturing is a process used in nine out of 10 natural gas wells in the United States, where millions of gallons of water, sand and toxic chemicals (poisons) are pumped underground to break apart Shale Rock in order to release the gas trapped there. Scientists are worried that the poisonous chemicals used in fracturing may pose a threat either underground or when waste fluids are handled and sometimes spilled onto the surface. This process is leaking millions of gallon into the nation’s underground fresh water reservoirs, which are linked to every state in the country. The immoral practices exhibited by both politicians and gas companies across the country are placing America at great risk while the Obama Administration stands idly by and does nothing to stop or regulate it.</p><p>Gas Companies lease the right to search for and extract natural gas from mostly White Land Owners and pay them lump-sum payments and a small percentage of the revenue from natural gas extracted from gas wells on their property. Large numbers of employment opportunities in rural jurisdictions are being created that allow politicians to claim credit for job creation. These land owners have few complaints, until their children or other family member suddenly fall ill; perhaps from the water supply and/or the methane leaked into the air. See the following link for a graphic illustration by Al Grandberg <a href="http://www.propublica.org/special/hydraulic-fracturing-national" target="_blank">http://www.propublica.org/special/hydraulic-fracturing-national</a></p><p>The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is charged with protecting the nation’s air and waterways. Lisa Jackson served as its Secretary under President Obama. She recently retired, rather than continue to fight against those in her party, including the President who are allowing the gas industry to continue a process that’s pumping millions of gallons of poison into gas shales that are spewing into the nation’s fresh water reserves. I believe that my renewable energy company has a solution that can meet the world’s energy demands. <a href="http://www.ahecEnergy.com" target="_blank">http://www.ahecEnergy.com</a></p><p>The world’s total fresh water supply is estimated to be 2.5%; and 70% of that water is in the form of groundwater. What happens when we don’t have clean water and droughts reduce the amount of foodstuffs? Fracking is a National Civil Rights issues. When these poisons seep into urban areas where a majority of Black African Americans live, it will be too late to join the fight against Fracking. If we cannot afford to buy large quantities of bottled water, we will die from contaminated tap water. Black African American Leaders are always a day late and ten dollars short when it comes to providing true leadership for their people. When our children and seniors become sick from breathing and drinking poisons only then will the matter appear on the radar of many Blacks in positions of leadership. By that time the matter may be so grave that we will be helpless to ameliorate the problem.</p><p>I encourage all Americans, but especially Black African Americans to watch the HBO Documentary entitled <a href="http://www.gaslandthemovie.com" target="_blank">Gasland</a> by Josh Fox to gain a better understanding about Fracking and demand that President Obama stop the Fracking Gas Industry from poisoning us all. If he continues to do nothing, his legacy will reflect that he failed to prevent the poisoning of an entire nation.</p><p></p></div>
The Social engineered ill-perceptions of Black people
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/the-social-engineered-ill-perceptions-of-black-people
2011-09-01T18:39:40.000Z
2011-09-01T18:39:40.000Z
Franklin Jones aka thanubian
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<div><p><b> Mass Hypnosis</b></p><p><br />This is how we (the white elites) will win the game<br />Let just a few live the dream<br />Marches, sit-ins all in vain<br />Make 'em think they overcame<br /><br /></p><p>Show 'em an empty Jim Crowe grave<br />Apologize for making 'em slaves<br />Rising tempers, we must tame<br />Make 'em think they overcame.<br /><br />Let a few experience success<br />Toms come aboard and control the rest<br />Millions will be left in pain<br />But they'll think they overcame.<br /><br /> ("Mass Hypnosis" - All rights reserved by Mary Neal 11/13/10)</p><p> </p><p>The preceded poem precisely describes the modern state of Black America and the current racist system that is now being used against them.</p><p>Today Black people are unknowingly victims of a very sophisticated mass manipulating/perception management program. The perceptions of black people are being covertly negatively shaped by White elites as a means of ensuring the continuance of white dominance and control. This modern racist system is much less public and obvious than the overt methods used in the past. It is a very sophisticated program that includes both the ability to adversely manipulate and shape the collective consciousness of African Americans (thus making them more compliant of white dominance) and create a national climate that is insensitive to their plight. (Thus creates consensual settings for the mistreatment of its Black populous). To the detriment of many African Americans this program has been extremely successful.</p><p> </p><p>With a strong prevailing history of slavery in the United States, racism has always been an issue. This engrained societal problem of racism has always necessitated that America's white elites develop and reinvent racist systems to defend their positions of white dominance. As seen where of which after the abolition of slavery different forms of segregation were implemented from the reconstruction period through the 1960's including Jim Crow laws which invited extreme brutal mistreatments of African Americans.</p><p>When these overt methods, used for ensuring the continuance of White dominance, became morally and socially unacceptable this required that America's White elites develop a much stealthier method. One better suited for changing times; that would provide the U.S. government with a more socially acceptable means of protecting its White racial hierarchy.</p><p> </p><p>The U.S. media's racially devaluing depictions and distorted portrayal of Black America that amplifies the negative to the point that it distorts reality is a very carefully and deliberately designed racist ideological subversion program. Its constant relentless deplorably negative depictions of African Americans, that subjects them to seeing only the fraudulent worst in themselves (comprised totally from white controlled sources) is deliberately designed to adversely manipulate and shape the minds and collective consciousness of America's Black population.</p><p> </p><p>Today what are often deemed as being credible news sources are often totally made up stories made to push or meet a governmental agenda or objective. This present system uses the national media's proven mass manipulating and social engineering capabilities to meet the governmental agenda of assuring the continuance of white dominance. This subversion program disseminates false deplorably racially devaluing statistics and propaganda about America's Black population. It’s constant unrelenting assault upon the Black mind and psyche is designed to corrupts their sense of racial black unity and cohesion, mold the character of self-hatred, engender self-doubt, self-loathing, and distrust among their group. It insinuates that Blacks should admire, respect, and trust only Whites and totally detaches them from their sense of power and reality.</p><p>Moreover, it also drills the message that Blacks are of lesser morals, and intelligence and that they need whites to govern over their lives.</p><p> This method of racism affects the unconscious mind by using deceptive psychological manipulation. It is neither magical nor mystical, but a process of manipulation that uses deceitful mortifying propaganda to adversely affect the recipient group in terms of their behavior.</p><p> </p><p>Its fraudulent derogatory stories about African Americans is disseminated everywhere. It is spread through news releases in magazine articles, radio, television, press releases, documentaries, etc... However, the weapon is not in how the message is carried, but is instead within the messages that it carries and how these messages perpetuate and frame the myth of Whites' racial, moral, and ethical superiority over its Black population.</p><p> </p><p>Moreover, this program intentionally creates a shift of victimization that changes the root problem of racism in America to be due to Black’s behavior rather than White’s proclivity for racism. Therefore insinuates that America would be a better society as a whole if African Americans were gone. This creates increasingly prejudiced distorted perceptions and acrimonious beliefs about African Americans that are designed to makes the nation and the entire world insensitive to their plight, tranquilizes efforts on their behalf, lessens pressure for social change on their behalf, and makes any serious criticism of White racism almost impossible today.</p><p> </p><p>This fosters a national consensual setting of where in which America’s Black population is more easily exploited and mistreated. It creates a false justification for the legal system’s mistreatment of African Americans wherein they are disproportionately incarcerated, given stiffer sentences, and are more likely than other racial groups to be treated brutally, beaten, and fired upon by police officers while they are unarmed. These injustices now goes ignored because the perception has subconsciously become that it’s all now justified. This is what mass manipulation experts refer to as “engineering consent”. When contempt of Blacks is made to appear to be justifiable, it is the fiercest and most effective type of racism because its witnesses, bystanders, and even world audiences will sit by idly allowing African Americans to be brutally mistreated under the belief that it is justified. </p><p> </p><p>This ideological subversion program assures that African Americans remain the most racially devalued, most economical exploited and suppressed group in America. The implementation of this social engineering program was the logical choice. It was perfect for the changing times. Because unlike the blatant racist systems used in the past, which Blacks were able to identify easily and therefore unify and form counter strategies, this modern method of racism covertly works-- thus providing the U.S. government a more socially acceptable means of protecting its White racial hierarchy given that it is not as easily recognized. This method of racism is hidden in the fabric of society. Yet all African Americans have experienced the burden of this psychological conditioning. It is experienced every time that an African American read a newspaper, watch the evening news, listen to a radio report, enter a classroom and read its racially biased textbooks. Most Black people are unaware that they are the systematic victims of it however is at the root of both the profound feelings of internalized self-contempt now afflicting so many Black Americans and is at the heart of internalized feelings of superiority that many whites possess.</p><table border="0"><tbody><tr><td width="6" valign="top"><p> </p></td><td width="618" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0"><tbody><tr><td width="100%"></td><td valign="top"></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><p> The main architect of this of the mass media and governmental psychological manipulation program was the late Dr. Edward Bernays. He was a mass manipulation expert that permanently impressed America’s governmental elites with the potential of large-scale propaganda to control public opinion. Dr.Bernays invented the public relations profession in the 1920s and advised US presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Eisenhower. He was the nephew of Sigmund Freud and the first person to take Freud's ideas to manipulate the masses. <br />He said in his 1928 book Propaganda, that; “If we understand the mechanism and motives of a group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it"</p><p>He further said, that; "The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. One of Bernays biggest fans was Hitler's propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels, a fact about which Bernays bragged proudly. Goebbels used similar demeaning propaganda against the European Jews to socially engineer societal consent for their attempted mass genocide.</p><p> </p><p>Dr. Bernays is revered as being the father of the mass media and governmental psychological manipulation programs which has come to covertly dominate today's world. He coined the terms "group mind" and "engineering consent", important concepts in practical propaganda work.</p><p> </p><p>The current public relations industry is a direct outgrowth of Bernays' work and his method of mass psychological manipulation is also still currently used by the United States government. </p><p> </p><p>Dr. Edward Bernay’s was also a prominent member of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. Although it had existed for decades earlier, the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations was formally established as an independent not-for-profit charity organization in September 1947. The Institute’s prophet was Bernay’s uncle Dr. Sigmund Freud, whom settled in Maresfield Gardens when he moved to England. Tavistock's pioneer work in science along Freudian lines of "controlling" humans established it as the world center of foundation ideology.</p><p> </p><p>Headquartered in London, the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations is a leading organization in the use of new and experimental behavioral science programs. The Tavistock Institute is an independent organization that conducts research in the social and behavioral sciences, applied in the field of health, education and community development. Among the Tavistock Institute's specialties is a study group that predicts the timing and the direction of a thermonuclear war, plus working out the many scenarios based upon its findings. Its research orientation places it between, but not in, the worlds of academia and consultancy; and its range of disciplines include anthropology, economics, organizational behavior, political science, psychoanalysis, psychology and sociology. However BRAINWASHING remains the primary function of the Tavistock Institute of Human behavior. The Tavistock Institute has developed pioneering breakthroughs in the field of mass manipulation and brain-washing techniques. Its experiments in crowd control methods have been widely used on the American public, a surreptitious but nevertheless outrageous assault on human freedom by modifying individual behavior through topical psychology.</p><p> </p><p>The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations has had a profound effect on the moral, spiritual, cultural, political and economic policies of the United States of America and Great Britain. No group did more to propagandize the U.S. to participate in WWI at a time when the majority of the American people were opposed to it.</p><p>Much of the same tactics were used by the Social Science scientists at Tavistock to get the United States into WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Serbia and both wars against Iraq.</p><p>Tavistock began as a propaganda creating and disseminating organization at Wellington House in London in the run-up to WWI, what Toynbee called “that black hole of disinformation, a lie factory.” In 1821, operations that were to shape the destinies of Germany, Russia, Britain and the United States were transferred to the Tavistock Institute. The people of these nations were unaware that they were being “brainwashed.” Tavistock's “mind control,” “inner directional conditioning” and mass “brainwashing” methods, still very much in use today. The fall of dynasties, the Bolshevik Revolution, WWI and WWII saw the destruction of old alliances and boundaries, the convulsions in religion, morals, family life, economic and political conduct and the decadence in music and art that can all be traced back to mass indoctrination (mass brainwashing) practiced by the Tavistock Institute Social Science scientists.</p><p> Without Tavistock, there would have been no Bolshevik Revolution and no WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Serbia and Iraq wars. But for Tavistock, the United States would not be rushing down the road to dissolution and collapse.</p><p>To learn more do your own research and confirm this information for yourself or please visit <a href="http://www.divineblacktruth.org/">www.DivineBlacktruth.org</a> .</p><p>Thank you</p></div>
The modern method used for controlling Black People
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2011-01-15T22:02:47.000Z
2011-01-15T22:02:47.000Z
Franklin Jones aka thanubian
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<div><p><b>“Instead of Waiting On The World To Change just open your eyes and see the truth"</b><br /> Educate yourselves about what is really going on, and avoid the trap that so many have fallen so deeply into.</p><p>During the 1960’s Black revolutionaries such as Malcolm X and Stokley Carmichael were most often revered as heroes of the black community. Today we often find that such like minded Blacks that are culturally conscious (Afro-centric/ Black Revolutionary types) are often misunderstood or underappreciated by the Black Masses. They are now often accused of being unconstructive militants that subscribe to an outdated rhetoric appropriate only for past conditions that have since been overcome by Blacks.</p><p>These culturally conscious Blacks are also often mocked and reviled for not accepting the popular premise that it is they themselves (Blacks) that are now their own worst enemy. Such sentiments have become so popular that it may even be found within the speeches of America’s first Black President. This popular black self deprecating consensus and common ill perceptions towards the more afro centric types among their groups are more than just some unknown phenomenon. They are in fact both the result of a well orchestrated massive insidious social engineering program. It is a deliberately deplored psychosocial program used to assault the Black psyche as a means of maintaining white dominance and control. It is being implemented through totally white control media outlets that subjects Black people to seeing only the fraudulent worst within them. Its negative misinformation, imageries and partial truths are deliberately designed to imply white superiority and to break down Black unity. </p><p>Many journalists working for public relations firms are now hired by a U.S. government department to produce fake news reports. These false reports are being presented as factual news by journalists, and are rebroadcast by news stations. It is never revealed that segments are from a PR firm hired by the government, thus giving it the appearance of genuine news. Today what are often deemed as being credible news sources are often totally made up stories made to push an agenda or meet a governmental objective. As a means of meeting its unrelenting objective of maintaining its white racial dominance and control, the U.S. government now secretly disseminates racially devaluing fake news reports and fraudulent misinformation through the national and local media regarding its Black population. This propaganda is being used to shape the mind and collective perceptions of Blacks to accept the belief of white superiority and white dominance over their lives.</p><p>Whether it is in the field of politics, religion, history, archeology, science, and all given statistics- as long as the white elites remain as the authorities over such fields they will always give to blacks only those information implying their white superiority. Because when they own the information they shape it to say what they want it to say. Therefore, as long as Black people continue to accept information about themselves that is totally compiled by white people as fact, they will always deal with self deprecating thoughts of themselves.</p><p>Many Black people can attest to the fact that they are being deplorable inaccurately depicted through the white control media. However, most Black people do not recognize the detrimental consequences of such negative portrayals. These negative portrayals of African Americans are a deliberate modern system of psychological warfare. Moreover, it works very much like any other massive public relations marketing campaign used for shaping and manipulating public opinion. </p><p>Fake news reports about African Americans are deliberately disseminated unrelentingly everywhere through news releases in magazine articles, radio, television, press releases, documentaries, and false census reports perpetuating and framing the myth of the White racial, moral, and ethical superiority over its Black population. It is an insidious yet very sophisticated system of control designed to engender self hatred and division among Black people and detach them from their sense of power. It conditions blacks to not only accept white dominance over their lives, but to also prefer it by convincing them that they are their own worst enemy. </p><p> </p><p>One example of this mass manipulation program can be seen in the all too common news video footages showing the brave white physicians giving medical aid to Africans. These imageries are deliberately over perpetuated continuously around the world. They are actually propaganda programs designed to make whites appear as saviors of the world thus engendering feeling indebtedness towards whites among the Black masses. It also leaves the Black masses totally oblivious of the fact that Africa is often the testing ground for many untested drugs made by these western countries. Drugs not yet approved by the FDA to be used in the United States [and other European countries] on humans are however being used on Africans. Most Blacks are also unaware of the CIA economic hit men strategies and unfair trade practices designed by European and American governmental policy makers that directly attributes not only to Africa remaining a third world country but also to the deaths of millions of Africans every year. In fact the policies and actions of Western governments have contributed to more African deaths than it has to African lives saved. Despite this fact, the Black masses are instead made to feel forever indebted to whites. This is due to the success of these well orchestrated PR marketing campaign favoring whites.</p><p>The media’s immense ability to manipulate the masses should never be under estimated nor can it ever be overstated. News reports about a fake swine flu out break can convince millions of people not to attend work and to even pull their children out of school. The media is often manipulated through professional public relations (PR) firms, and covert and overt government agencies which disseminate propaganda as news. These media reports are used to promote certain political policies, ideologies and governmental objectives. They are also often used as smear tactics to discredit, and /or destroy the reputation of someone or to defame or marginalize a particular targeted ethnic group. It can either involve outright lies, or a distortion of the truth that are then disseminated nationally as well as internationally reaching millions. This is precisely what is being done to African Americans to ensure that America’s white racial dominance and control be maintained.</p><p>The U.S. government now secretly uses its proven method of social engineering by way of mass media manipulation -through fake news reports- against its Black population. It is an insidious yet very sophisticated system of control that creates deplorable false misinformation and media reports about its Black population. The weapon of this psychological warfare is within the messages that it carries and how these messages adversely affect its targeted Black recipient group.</p><p>Its constant relentless bombardment of deplorably negative imageries of African Americans is a very carefully and deliberately designed psychological conditioning program. It is designed to adversely manipulate and shape the minds and collective consciousness of America’s Black population by subjecting them to seeing only the fraudulent worst in themselves. Its unrelenting daily assault on the Black psyche drills the message perpetuating the myth of Whites’ racial, moral, and ethical superiority over its Black population. It also impresses upon the Blacks psyche that they are powerless, of lesser moral, and intelligence and that they need Whites to govern over their lives. It totally detaches African Americans from their sense of power and reality. Moreover, it corrupts African Americans’ sense of racial unity and cohesion, mold the character of self-hatred, engender self-doubt, self-loathing, and distrust among their group while insinuating that Blacks admire, respect, and trust only Whites. Additionally it conditions America’s Black population to accept the dominance of Whites and white institutions over their lives by misleading them to believe that they are, themselves, their own worst enemies, therefore engendering an aberration of internalized self contempt that pulverizes Black unity and halts Black upward mobility. Its propaganda and manipulations practices divides to conquer and misinforms to exploit and suppress it Black population and it is being deployed in all sectors - government, media, health and welfare, entertainment, and education, etc- nationally and internationally.</p><p> </p><p class="ie6">This above example of the U.S. government using the media to form public opinion to meet its governmental objectives is not new at all. In an interview with John Stauber from prwatch.org he notes that issues such as “fake news” have been around for years: “There is a widespread use of fake news, we’re talking thousands of stories a year. This billion dollar sub-industry of the P.R. industry has been going on for several decades, and the mainstream media hardly ever exposes them in any length and depth.”</p><p>It is surmised that this manipulation program directed against African Americans was implemented in 1968 in the face of widespread violence that ensued after the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King’s brutal assassination led to many demonstrations of unrest and rioting disturbances; that of which were reported in more than 100 cities across the nation. This violence resulted in the loss of lives and property that cost the nation and taxpayers millions of dollars and increasingly placed the peace and stability of the nation in dire jeopardy. America’s brutal racial mistreatment of African Americans had appeared to have reached its boiling point creating much unrest and discord. These factors, combined with the rapidly tarnishing American global image, led to the then president, Lyndon B Johnson, ordering that a commission be formed, later known as the Kerner Commission, to investigate and prescribe a cure or recommendations for the problem. The Commission concluded that blatant White racism was the single aggravating factor for the collective problems. This finding required the U.S. Government’s agents of White supremacy to reform their techniques of institutionalized racism.</p><p> </p><p>The Kerner report’s findings required that the U.S. Government abandon it’s condoning of open, blatant forms of racism to control and maintain White dominance. This abandoning of dated tactics led to the need for developing an improved method of controlling and suppressing its Black population. Changing times made it necessary for the U.S. government to change its methods to a much more subtle and socially acceptable means of continuing its racial suppression of Blacks and to maintain its White dominance. Clearly, the sophisticated method of psychological warfare met such a need. It was the logical choice, perfect for the changing times. Unlike the blatantly brutal forms of racism used in the past, which Blacks were able to identify easily and therefore unify and form counter strategies, this modern method of racism works from a psychological perspective. This provided the U.S. government a more socially acceptable method of continuing the White racial hierarchy for dominance and control given that it is not as easily recognized. This new method exists in the space between overt racism and racial respect. Its methods include the ability to both influence the national climate and engender personal psychological feelings among Americans that meet the U.S government objective. </p><p> </p><p class="style28"> The basis of this concept of mind manipulation is that the human being's most critical aspect is the mind and it works by affecting the unconscious mind through deception. Its weapon is the message that it carries and the way that it adversely affects the targeted recipient group in terms of their behavior. Here is a simplified example of how this is being implemented against African Americans. Let us, for example, imagine that a crew of people was aboard their own massive ship and that this ship was being shadowed by another neighboring ship that was constantly broadcasting derogatory messages to the first group. Such messages as that their ship was lesser, smaller, not seaworthy, perhaps slowly sinking or that their crew was incompetent and was planning a mutiny. With time, the group receiving the negative messages, being unable to refute or to confirm these derogatory messages and deficiencies will grow weary and paranoid of the negative messages and will eventually comes to accept these negative assessments of themselves. The perception created by the taunting now unconsciously influences how the taunted group perceives themselves, subsequently causing them to become distrustful of themselves, doubting themselves, hating themselves and, eventually, fighting among themselves. The taunted group may even become so besieged by deep feelings of inadequacy that they may even jump into the sea and attempt to swim towards the taunting ship now believing it to be superior to their own boat even if their own ship was in fact better.</p><p class="style28"> </p><p>Within a real life setting this mortifying psychological manipulation is precisely what is being done to African Americans through an immense campaign of false derogatory misinformation and false negative media reports, fake news, and statistics that are created by U.S. governmental agencies and then leaked to its collaborators in the news media, which either knowingly or unknowingly carry the stories as their own. These false information about African Americans is then disseminated unrelentingly everywhere; it is deliberately perpetuated through news releases in magazine articles, radio, television, press releases, documentaries, and false census reports perpetuating and framing the myth of Whites’ racial, moral, and ethical superiority over its Black population. However, the weapon is not in how the message is carried, but is instead within the messages that it carries and how these messages affect the targeted recipients.</p><p>The constant relentless bombardment with deplorably negative images of themselves that of which African Americans are so inundated with throughout the media is a very carefully and deliberately designed psychological conditioning program. It is designed to subject African Americans to seeing, through a controlled national media, only the worst in themselves-- while insinuating that they admire, respect, and trust only Whites. This unrelenting daily assault on the Black psyche is designed to corrupt African Americans’ sense of racial unity and cohesion, mold the character of self-hatred, and engender self-doubt, self-loathing, and distrust among their group. Many Blacks may even begin to feel that there is something not quite right about their Black humanity. To the detriment of Blacks, this system of applied psychological conditioning has been an extremely effective. It has successfully conditioned many African Americans to accept the dominance of Whites and white institutions over their lives by misleading them to believe that they are, themselves, their own worst enemies, therefore engendering an aberration of internalized self contempt that pulverizes Black unity and halts Black upward mobility.</p><p>Moreover, all African Americans have experienced the burden of this psychological warfare, some more severely than others have. It is experienced every time we [Blacks] read a newspaper, watch the evening news, enter a classroom, and read its racially biased textbooks. And while many Black Americans have successfully navigated through the psychology mortifying mine field and have gone on to lead successful, productive lives, but for far too many African Americans this immense devaluation can seem inescapable and tragically, over time, many begin to accept subconsciously and painfully the negative portrayals of themselves. Many also become discouraged by the acceptance that their society is also preconditioned to see the worst in them and that, therefore, if they were ever to gain acceptance, if it is to be won at all, that success would be hard won and likely to manifest negative internalized psychological pain and distress within many African Americans that can take many forms. In fact, this governmental mortifying psychological warfare against African Americans may be the most aggravating, if not core, factor of the national phenomenon of self hatred; loss of educational aspirations; loss of unity, cohesion and racial pride; and fragile psyches of many African Americans today. Moreover, this type of psychological manipulation program has been proven very effective in rapidly destroying a group’s ethical and moral values and cultural norms with regard to violence, brutality, and even murder. All people are products of cultural conditions and their worldviews operate outside of their level of consciousness. Therefore, no group can be preconditioned to see only the worst in themselves and not exhibit some degree of negative psychological impact. This mass manipulation program is In fact, so proficient at damaging the Black self-perception that tragically it has become easier for many Blacks to accept derogatory premises of themselves rather than recognizing this program.</p><p> </p><p>This mass psychological conditioning program also significantly influences society as a whole. Its ultimate goal is to foster a consensual national setting of where in which Blacks are more easily divided, exploited and ultimately suppressed. The media’s constant negative imagery of Black Americans is not only fraudulently inaccurate but is actually being done to engender a shift of victimization that changes the root problem of racism in America to be due to Black’s behavior rather than White’s proclivity for racism. Therefore insinuates that America would be a better society as a whole if African Americans were gone, thus engendering increasingly prejudiced distorted perceptions and acrimonious beliefs about African Americans that are designed to makes the nation and the entire world insensitive to their plight, tranquilizes efforts on their behalf, lessens pressure for social change on their behalf and makes any serious criticism of White racism almost impossible today and attempts discourage miscegenation between Blacks and whites. It also creates a false justification for the legal system’s mistreatment of African Americans. Wherein they are disproportionately incarcerated, given stiffer sentences, and are more likely than other racial groups to be treated brutally, beaten, and fired upon by police officers while they are unarmed. These injustices now goes ignored because the perception has become that it’s all now justified.</p><p>When contempt of Blacks is made to appear to be justifiable, it is the most fiercest and effective type of racism because its witnesses, bystanders, and even world audiences will sit by idly allowing African Americans to be brutally mistreated disproportionately incarcerated under the belief that it is justified.] It also affects attitudes that when enacted through governmental policies, laws, and other legislation actions, serve to ensure that African Americans will not advance. Its effects are manifested in ideas, education, governmental policies, economic stratification, social segregation, housing markets, hiring and promotion practices, psychological issues, and minority access to a variety of social services and opportunity. This campaign successfully stripped African Americans of the national and international support that was acquired during the 1960's civil rights struggles. This anti Black governmental campaign of psychological warfare also creates a false justification for the legal system’s mistreatment of African Americans wherein they are disproportionately incarcerated, given stiffer sentences, and are more likely than other racial groups to be treated brutally, beaten, and fired upon by police officers while they are unarmed. Moreover, some studies have shown that this shift of victimization now reflects increasingly acrimonious beliefs and prejudiced perceptions about and against African Americans that are arguably stronger today than they were after emancipation. </p><p>The objective of the United States government has always been to maintain its White dominance over its Black population, and clearly, psychological warfare meets this need—because it covertly creates a national climate that allows the government to suppress consensually the advancement of its African American population and to maintain its White dominance and national stability. These words are not the declaration of an anti white racist, but are instead the indisputable truth affirmed by thousands of years of history. Through out western history when people in power wanted to conquer a people or maintain their dominance over a people they have done so by manipulating that targeted group of people. Therefore the perception of the suppressed group is not their own but is instead impressed upon them without their knowing it.</p><p>The insidious propaganda and public opinion manipulations (including mind control agendas) is covered at greater length in the book The Black Matrix by Franklin Jones at <a href="http://www.DivineBlacktruth.org">www.DivineBlacktruth.org</a></p><p> </p><p> </p></div>
How Black people are being fooled to accept white dominance over their lives
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2010-10-13T02:51:56.000Z
2010-10-13T02:51:56.000Z
Franklin Jones aka thanubian
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<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#f6f6f6;margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;text-align:center;" align="center"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:150%;font-family:'Gill Sans Ultra Bold';">HOW THE MASS MEDIA IS BEING USED AGAINST BLACK PEOPLE IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN WHITE DOMINANCE</span></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;"><font color="#000000">Many African Americans now holds the opinion that in the face of greater gained opportunities that many within their race became their own worst enemies. It is not uncommon to hear these negative sentiments about their own race now echoed by many African Americans themselves—they that consider themselves as being exceptions to this norm. This perception often engenders profound feelings of immense humiliation, racial self contempt, and disunity among many African Americans in the 21st-century. But are these self contemptuous views among so many African Americans correct?</font></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;"><font color="#000000">And if so how have African Americans, the racial group that demonstrated an unprecedented degree of Black racial pride and unity during the 1960's civil rights movement now become living contradictions of their former selves? The common response, when presented with this daunting question is to take the position that the core problem lies with something to do with Black people themselves. Although tragically many Blacks themselves have also come to accept this viewpoint, the emerging evidence does not support this premise. Such assertions are racist and totally not consistent with the history of African Americans.</font></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;"><font color="#000000">While perhaps difficult to believe today, Black unity (Umoja) was historically, the cornerstone of the African American community and a crucial factor in their survival for more than four-hundred years of White racial oppression. Black unity was the most significant factor in the success of the 1960's civil right movement. The remarkable degree of unity among African Americans then was made evident by the brilliant organization and mobilizations of mass bus boycotts, marches, freedom riders, and sit ins that were peacefully conducted through the unified protest of civil disobedience. The degree of unity and organization demonstrated among African Americans then was extraordinary and arguably remains unrivaled by any other group in the history of America. So what then is the reason for the unprecedented racial self contempt and disunity among many African Americans today?</font></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:150%;"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;">The present unprecedented feelings of racial self contempt among so many African Americans are neither a baffling phenomenon, nor the result of some innate racial deficiency. It is instead the result of a deliberate governmentally deployed mass manipulating social engineering program. White America’s methods of institutionalized racism has been secretly modified into a more sophisticated and stealthy design. Today to control and produce conformity among the masses, the U.S. government commonly disseminates propaganda domestically among its own citizens. To domestically defend its position of white dominance that was lessened by civil rights gains made by the civil rights strategies and efforts of African Americans, the U.S. Government secretly deployed these same mass propaganda programs against its entire Black population. Through the usage of psychological manipulation programs Black people in the United States are seeing themselves through lenses that have been secretly and deliberately assigned to them by white mass manipulation experts.</span> <span lang="en" style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;" xml:lang="en">This psychological manipulation program uses negative propaganda to adversely manipulate and shape the minds and collective perceptions of America’s Black population.</span> <span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;">Through totally white controlled outlets it</span> <span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;">conditions African Americans to admire whites and despise themselves by subjecting them to seeing only the fraudulent worst in themselves.</span></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:150%;"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;">The <em><span style="font-style:normal;font-family:Arial;">mass media is the most powerful tool used by the ruling class to manipulate the masses. It shapes and molds opinions and attitudes of its recipients.</span></em> Most African Americans that frustratingly and shamefully complain about the national disparities among their group are, for the most part, responding to negative statistics and depictions given about their race totally comprised by white controlled sources and media outlets. African Americans own negative personal interactions among their group merely then act as a confirmation of what is being implied through these white sources.</span></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;"><font color="#000000">Because the previous blatant methods used in the past for ensuring that white dominance be maintained in the U.S. had become morally and socially unacceptable, the U.S. government secretly implemented this more sophisticated and stealthy system. For several decades covert agencies within the U.S. Government have secretly disseminated false deplorably racially devaluing statistics and propaganda about its Black population. It uses the psychology of deceit to adversely affect African Americans in terms of their perceptions and behavior. Its constant deplorable depiction of African Americans is a very carefully and deliberately designed massive media manipulation program that subjects African Americans to seeing only the fraudulent worst in themselves. Its fraudulent information is designed to adversely manipulate and shape the minds and collective consciousness of its African American population. The motto of this method of psychological manipulation is to divide and conquer and it works by affecting the unconscious mind through deception. It is designed to corrupt African Americans’ sense of racial unity and cohesion, mold the character of self-hatred, engender self-doubt, self-loathing, and distrust among their group while insinuating that Blacks admire, respect, and trust only Whites. Thus fostering a massive setting for where of which African Americans are more easily divided, exploited and ultimately suppressed. This present system uses the national media's proven ability to mass manipulate the perceptions of the public by the usage of propaganda. This process merges the often harsh individual realities of many black people with what is misleadingly deplorably depicted of them, therefore solidifying the thoughts within their psyche that it is they that are now their own worst enemies. Its unrelenting daily assault on the Black psyche also drills the message that Blacks are powerless, of lesser moral, and intelligence and that they need whites to govern over their lives. It totally detaches African Americans from their sense of power and reality.</font></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;"><font color="#000000">When most people hear the term of psychological manipulation they usually think in terms of the classic "conspiracy theory" that refers to overt mind control such as mind altering drugs with carefully hypnotic programming. However, the real and true danger is this well proven method of affecting the unconscious mind by using deception, and psychological manipulation. It is neither magical nor mystical, but a process that uses the psychology of deceit to adversely affect targeted groups in terms of their perceptions and behavior. This massive manipulation program is being done to African Americans through an immense campaign of false derogatory media reports and statistics. These fraudulent data are created by U.S. governmental agencies and then leaked to its collaborators in the news media, which either knowingly or unknowingly carry the stories as their own. These false information about African Americans are then disseminated unrelentingly everywhere; it is deliberately perpetuated through news releases in magazine articles, radio, television, press releases, documentaries, and false census reports. However, the weapon is not in how the message is carried, but is instead within the messages that it carries and how these messages perpetuate and frame the myth of Whites’ racial, moral, and ethical superiority over its Black population. The ultimate goal of this psychosocial treatment of African Americans is to destroy the Black unity and cohesion that was a crucial factor of the survival of African Americans through more than four hundred years of white racial oppression. Logic dictates that given that unity and cohesion among African Americans was responsible for the demise of White America’s past blatant system of institutionalized racism, then destroying this unity would be an essential objective of this psychological manipulation program. This modern method of deploying white racism is far more sophisticated and stealthier than those blatant methods used in the past. Moreover, it is directly attributed to the intensification of internalized self hatred, and profound disunity presently among many African Americans. All African Americans have experienced the burden of this applied psychological conditioning, some more severely than others have. To the detriment of many African Americans it has been extremely effective. It has successfully conditioned many African Americans to not only accept the white dominance over their lives but to also prefer it. It also engenders an aberration of internalized self contempt among many African Americans that pulverizes Black unity and halts Black upward mobility. This psychosocial program is in fact so fundamentally detrimental to the Black human condition and psyche that it may even affect the extent to which many African Americans realize their full human potential. No group can be preconditioned to see only the worst in themselves and not exhibit some degree of negative psychological impact.</font></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;"><font color="#000000">This massive psychosocial program is at the root of both the profound division and self hatred now afflicting so many Black Americans and is at the heart of internalized feelings of superiority that many whites possess. And while many African Americans have successfully navigated through this psychologically mortifying mine field and have gone on to lead successful, productive lives, for far too many this immense devaluation can seem inescapable and tragically, over time, many begin to subconsciously accept the negative portrayals of themselves.</font></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:150%;"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;"><font color="#000000">IT IS ALSO GARNERS SOCIAL CONSENT FOR THE MISTREATMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICANS</font></span></b></p><p style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;"><font color="#000000">Not only does this psycho-social program negatively impacts Blacks self perceptions, but it also conveniently provides a more socially acceptable means of ensuring that the masses of African Americans remains the most racially devalued and most economically exploited group in America. Its deplorable depictions of African Americans are also used to engender national consent that justifies their mistreatment. Its deplorable depictions of Africans Americans are also designed to create a shift of victimization in behalf of whites while lessoning pressures for social changes in behalf of Blacks. Thus creating a consensual national setting that facilitates the easier exploitation and suppression of African Americans. This is in fact a common practice used throughout modern western history. When groups in power want to suppress or to exploit its minority group they do so by portraying that group as a fearsome enemy or a major problem of the society through lies and manufactured news items. This same type of propaganda technique was also used by Adolph Hitler to facilitate a national consensual setting that allowed his heinous mistreatment of the Jews. Hitler's propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels portrayed them as a fearsome enemy of German society through lies and manufactured news items. These negative imageries were used to justify their annihilation. This tradition continues today in the case of African Americans. The U.S. media’s constant deplorable depictions of Black Americans is deliberately designed to produce prejudice distorted and acrimonious beliefs about African Americans that makes the others insensitive to their plight, tranquilizes efforts on their behalf, and makes any serious criticism of White racism in the U.S. almost impossible today. This also creates false justifications for the legal system’s mistreatment of African Americans wherein they are disproportionately incarcerated, given stiffer sentences, and are more likely than other racial groups to be treated brutally, beaten, and fired upon by police officers while they are unarmed. These injustices now goes ignored because the perception has subconsciously become that it’s more often justified. When contempt of Blacks is made to appear to be justifiable, it is the fiercest and most effective type of racism because its witnesses, bystanders, and even world audiences will sit by idly allowing African Americans to be brutally mistreated under the belief that it is justified. This is what America’s renowned propaganda expert Dr. Edward Bernays referred to as “socially engineered consent”. <br />The effects of this social program are also manifested in ideas, education, governmental policies, economic stratification, social segregation, housing markets, hiring and promotion practices, psychological issues, and minority access to a variety of social services and opportunity. It also affects attitudes that when enacted through governmental policies, laws, and other legislation actions, serve to ensure that African Americans will not advance. Some studies have shown that this social program has engendered increasingly acrimonious beliefs and prejudiced perceptions about and against African Americans that are arguably now stronger today than they were after emancipation. It was this psychological conditioning program that ended the Black revolutionary movement of the nineteen sixties and that stripped African Americans of the national and global support that was acquired during that era’s civil rights struggles. This article is an excerpt from the book the Black Matrix ©2006, 2008 By F. Jones. Please forward this article everywhere and to everyone. To learn more visit</font> <a href="http://www.divineblacktruth.org/">www.divineblacktruth.org</a></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:150%;"></p><p style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:150%;"></p><p style="text-align:center;" align="center"></p></div>
Not every conspiracy is a theory; Black people are being mass manipulated !
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/not-every-conspiracy-is-a
2010-08-12T22:26:51.000Z
2010-08-12T22:26:51.000Z
Franklin Jones aka thanubian
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<div><h1 style="margin:auto 0in;"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Not every conspiracy is a theory; Black people are being mass manipulated.</font></h1><h2 style="margin:auto 0in;line-height:150%;"><i><span lang="en" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;" xml:lang="en"> </span></i></h2><h2 style="margin:auto 0in;line-height:150%;"><font color="#000000"><i><span lang="en" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;" xml:lang="en">"Just because truth has been omitted, does not mean that truth is not true. Just because reality has not been perceived, does not mean that it is not real”. </span></i></font></h2><p style="line-height:150%;"><i><span lang="en" style="font-family:Arial;" xml:lang="en"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"> Stan Moore,</font></font></span></i></p><h2 style="margin:auto 0in;line-height:150%;"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;">Since 2007 I have been unrelentingly engaged in the dissemination of information asserting that as a means of maintaining its white dominance and control,</span> <span lang="en" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;" xml:lang="en">the US government has been using perception management techniques against its Black population. It is a media driven program that</span> <span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;">manipulates Black people to accept white dominance over their lives by</span> <span lang="en" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;" xml:lang="en">subjecting them</span> <span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;">to seeing only the fraudulent worst within themselves-- while implying that they trust and admire only whites. A massive psychosocial program I refer to as the Black Matrix: a modern covert method of defending the white statuesque against its emerging Black Populous. While most Black readers intuitively already felt this was happening and therefore fully agreed with my articles, some, however, responded that my articles</span> <span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;">require authentication or verification by an expert to be quantified.</span></font></h2><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#FFFFFF;margin:9pt 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial;">The following information is presented to meet such a need. It quantifies that mass manipulating perception management programs are</span> <span style="font-family:Arial;">very real and <span>routinely used by the U.S. Government to promote its governmental objectives.</span></span> </font></font></p><h2 style="margin:auto 0in;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;"><font color="#000000">There are in fact many quantifying examples supporting the contention that the U.S. government pursues secret agenda’s; and that these agenda’s are often met by using mass manipulating perception management programs. Former CIA official Philip Giraldi in his article, “</font><a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/03/10/the-rogue-nation/"><span style="text-decoration:none;">The Rogue Nation</span></a><font color="#000000">,” makes it clear that the U.S. government has a hegemonic agenda that it is pursuing without congressional or public awareness. The agenda’s big picture is not understood by the public or by most in Congress. Giraldi asserts that the agenda is illegal under both U.S. and international law, but that the illegality of the agenda does not serve as a barrier.</font></span></h2><h2 style="margin:auto 0in;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;"><font color="#000000">In the February issue of the American Behavioral Scientist, a scholarly journal, Professor Lance DeHaven-Smith writes that</font> <a href="http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/2010/03/02/state-crimes-against-democracy/"><span style="text-decoration:none;">state crimes against democracy</span></a> <font color="#000000">(SCAD) involve government officials, often in combination with private interests that engage in covert activities in order to implement an agenda. Examples include McCarthyism or the fabrication of evidence of communist infiltration, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution based on false claims of President Johnson and Pentagon chief McNamara that North Vietnam attacked a U.S. naval vessel.</font></span> <font color="#000000"><span lang="en" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;" xml:lang="en">And during the Cold War when the Pentagon sent undercover US journalists to Russia and Eastern Europe to write pro-American articles for local media outlets.</span> <span lang="en" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;" xml:lang="en">More recently, the US government has used perception management techniques to promote the belief</span> <span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;">that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction in order to justify the U.S. invasion of Iraq. This misperception that Hussein was responsible for the Twin Tower terrorist attacks was very persistent, despite all the evidence suggesting that no link existed.</span> <span lang="en" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;" xml:lang="en">Perception management programs are important in gaining public support of a military operation against an enemy.</span></font></h2><p style="line-height:150%;"><font color="#000000"><font size="3"><span lang="en" style="font-family:Arial;" xml:lang="en">[According to the article "The Man Who Sold The War" by James Bamford, a recent edition of <i>Rolling Stone</i> magazine, John Rendon and his Rendon Group, the leader in strategic field of perception management, was awarded 16 million contract from the Pentagon "to target Iraq and other adversaries with propaganda.</span> </font><span lang="en" style="font-family:Arial;" xml:lang="en"><font size="3">The Rendon firm has been very influential in creating the conditions necessary to justify the war in Iraq. And it has had close ties with the US government ever since 1991, when the</font> <a title="CIA" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA"><span><font size="3">CIA</font></span></a> <font size="3">hired the firm to help "create the conditions for the removal of Hussein from power."]</font></span></font></p><p style="line-height:150%;"><span lang="en" style="font-family:Arial;" xml:lang="en"><font color="#000000" size="3">Perception management includes all actions used to influence the attitudes and objective reasoning of foreign audiences and consists of Public Diplomacy, Psychological Operations (</font><a title="PSYOPS" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSYOPS"><span><font size="3">PSYOPS</font></span></a><font size="3"><font color="#000000">), Public Information, Deception and Covert Action.<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perception_management#cite_note-6%23cite_note-6"><span>[7]</span></a></sup> The Department of Defense describes "perception management" as a type of psychological operation intended to provoke the behavior you want out of a given individual or targeted group collectively<b>.</b> It is supposed to be directed at foreign audiences, and involves providing or discarding information to influence their emotions, motives, and objective reasoning in a way that is favorable to the originator of the information. The main goal is to influence friends and enemies, provoking them to engage in the behavior that you want.</font></font></span></p><p style="line-height:150%;"><span lang="en" style="font-family:Arial;" xml:lang="en"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">Perception management can be used as a propaganda strategy for controlling how people view political events. This practice was refined by US intelligence services as they tried to manipulate foreign populations, but it eventually made its way into domestic US politics as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Beginning in the 1950s, more than 800 news and public information organizations and individuals carried out assignments to manage the public's perception of the CIA, according to the <i>New York Times</i>. By the mid-80s, CIA Director</font></font> <a title="William Casey" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Casey"><span><font size="3">William Casey</font></span></a> <font color="#000000" size="3">had taken the practice to the next level: an organized, covert "public diplomacy" apparatus designed to sell a governmental objective. Sometimes it involved so-called "</font><a title="White propaganda" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_propaganda"><span><font size="3">white propaganda</font></span></a><font color="#000000" size="3">", stories and op-eds secretly financed by the government. But they also went "black", pushing false story lines, such as how the</font> <a title="Sandinistas" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandinistas"><span><font size="3">Sandinistas</font></span></a> <font size="3"><font color="#000000">were actually anti-Semitic drug dealers. That campaign included altered photos and blatant disinformation dispersed by public officials as high as the “then” president himself.<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perception_management#cite_note-Greg_Guma_2008-7%23cite_note-Greg_Guma_2008-7"><span>[8]</span></a></sup> The term "perception management" is not new to the lexicon of government language. The US military has demonstrated using perception management multiple times in modern warfare. It has continued to pursue actively a course of perception management about the Iraq War. During the ongoing Iraq war the US military covertly paid Iraqi newspapers to print stories written by US soldiers; these stories were geared towards enhancing the appearance of the US mission in Iraq.</font></font></span></p><p style="line-height:150%;"><span lang="en" style="font-family:Arial;" xml:lang="en"><font color="#000000" size="3">The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) sums it up: “Perception management through propaganda is the deliberate, systematic attempt to shape perceptions, and direct behavior of a population to achieve responses that furthers the desired intent of the Government.” <span>Perception Management programs uses propaganda</span> as a form of communication, to further a</font> <a title="Politics" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics"><span><font size="3">political</font></span></a> <font color="#000000" size="3">agenda, aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position. It is used to</font> <a title="Enlarge" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Edith_Cavell_propaganda.jpg"></a><font size="3"><font color="#000000">purposeful persuade and/or influence the emotions, attitudes, opinions, and actions of a community, population, or specified target audiences for ideological, and or political purposes through the controlled transmission of one-sided messages (which may or may not be factual) via mass and direct media channels. It combines truth projection, operations security, cover and deception, and psychological operations. Although perception management programs are specifically defined as being limited to foreign audiences, critics of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) charge that it also engages in domestic perception management.</font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#FFFFFF;margin:9pt 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">Only the very ill-informed or very naive could believe that the U.S. government would not employ these same proven covert perception management programs to meet its unrelenting objective of maintaining its white dominance and control.</font></font></span></p><p style="line-height:150%;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Presently, as a means of ensuring that white dominance and control is maintained, Black people are being made to see themselves through lens secretly assigned to them by government sponsored p</span><span lang="en" style="font-family:Arial;" xml:lang="en">erception management</span> <span style="font-family:Arial;">propaganda programs. The United States media’s distorted portrayal of Black America that amplifies the negative to the point that it distorts reality is more than just biased media reports. They function as a <span class="yshortcuts">media manipulation</span> psychosocial propaganda program. It is deployed through massive propaganda campaigns that devalue African Americans. The “Mainstreaming” of negative images of Black people within the United States has been an on-going phenomenon for the past 40 years. The concept of mainstreaming is important to U.S. Government, because it creates conditioned responses in a population for eventualities to unfold without opposition or resentment:</span></font></font></p><p style="line-height:150%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">Nightly newscasts reinforce seemingly pre-conditioned response of resentment and prejudicial images of Black people in the majority population, thereby creating a false impression of wanton Black criminality and violence.</font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#FFFFFF;margin:9pt 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">This method provides a more contemporary and stealthy design that provides a more socially acceptable means of controlling and suppressing the Black population. <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">Its features include the ability to both influence the national climate and engender</span> personal psychological feelings among <span class="yshortcuts">African Americans</span> that ensures the continuance of white dominance. This psychosocial program adversely manipulates and shapes the minds and collective perceptions of African Americans by subjecting them to seeing propaganda depicting only the fraudulent worst in themselves. Its unrelenting daily assault on the Black psyche <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">is</span> designed <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">to break down</span> African Americans’ sense of racial unity and allegiance, <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">mold the character of self-hatred,</span> and engender self-doubt, self-loathing, and division among their group <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">that</span> weakens their ranks. It also conditions Black people to accept white dominance over their lives by convincing them that it is now they that are their own worst enemies.</font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-indent:.45in;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">Furthermore, it also heightens mass insensitivity throughout the nation and world regarding the <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">plight</span> of African Americans therefore facilitating a consensual nationally setting for Black mistreatment. It fosters false justifications for America’s <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">legal system’s mistreatment</span> of African Americans; wherein they are <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">disproportionately incarcerated, given stiffer sentences, and unfairly treated.</span> The effects of this massive psychosocial program are also manifested in ideas, education, governmental policies, <span class="yshortcuts">economic stratification</span>, social segregation, housing markets, hiring and promotion practices, psychological issues, and minority access to a variety of social services and opportunity. I<span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">t also</span> affects attitudes that, when enacted through governmental policies, laws, and other legislation actions, serve to ensure that African Americans will not advance.[ A study published in the most recent issue of the journal <em><span style="font-family:Arial;">Sociological Inquiry</span></em>, <span class="date"><span><em>ScienceDaily (Aug. 23, 2009)</em></span></span> —sociologists from four major research institutions supports the hypothesis that large populations can be manipulated in this way.]</font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">This psychosocial program is at the core of the feeling of self hatred that many African Americans now experience as well as the feelings of superiority that many whites possess. The objective of the <span class="yshortcuts">United States</span> <span class="yshortcuts">government</span> has always been to maintain its White dominance over its Black population, and clearly mass psychological manipulation meets this need--because it covertly creates a national climate that allows the government to suppress consensually the advancement of its <span class="yshortcuts">African American population</span> and to maintain its White dominance. Furthermore, history overwhelmingly demonstrates that the <span class="yshortcuts">White race</span>’s innate proclivity for racism, control, and dominance is much too deeply engrained for them to just merely give up their practices of implementing suppressive methods over its <span class="yshortcuts">African American population</span>. Clearly, the method of <span class="yshortcuts">psychological warfare</span> provides the United States Governmental elites with a method for meeting this need but doing so with the added benefit of not appearing racist. It was perfectly suited for the changing times. Unlike the extremely cruel and public racism used in the past, which <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">Blacks were able to easily identify and thus unify to form counter strategies against, racism through psychological warfare is much harder to detect.</span> Armed with this method, the U.S. government could maintain dominance and control with less social fallout because racism is not as easily recognized.</font></font></span></p><p><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman">.</font></font></font></span></p><h3 style="margin:12pt 0in 3pt;"><font color="#000000"><span lang="en" style="font-weight:normal;font-size:12pt;" xml:lang="en">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</span> </font></h3><p><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span lang="en" style="font-family:Arial;" xml:lang="en">Perception management</span> <span lang="en" style="font-family:Arial;" xml:lang="en">is a term originated by the US military. The <a title="United States Department of Defense" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense"><span>US Department of Defense</span></a> (DOD) gives this definition:</span></font></font></p><p><span lang="en" style="font-family:Arial;" xml:lang="en"><font color="#000000" size="3">Actions to convey and/or deny selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, and objective reasoning as well as to intelligence systems and leaders at all levels to influence official estimates, ultimately resulting in foreign behaviors and official actions favorable to the originator's objectives. In various ways, perception management combines truth projection,</font> <a title="Operations security" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_security"><span><font size="3">operations security</font></span></a><font color="#000000"><font size="3">, cover and deception, and psychological operations.<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perception_management#cite_note-0%23cite_note-0"><span>[1]</span></a></sup></font></font></span></p><p></p><p><span lang="en" style="font-family:Arial;" xml:lang="en"><font color="#000000" size="3">The phrase "perception management" has often functioned as a "euphemism" for "an aspect of</font> <a title="Information warfare" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_warfare"><span><font size="3">information warfare</font></span></a><font color="#000000" size="3">". A scholar in the field notes a distinction between "perception management" and</font> <a title="Public diplomacy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_diplomacy"><span><font size="3">public diplomacy</font></span></a><font size="3"><font color="#000000">, which "does not, as a rule, involve falsehood and deception, whereas these are important ingredients of perception management; the purpose is to get the other side to believe what one wishes it to believe, <i>whatever</i> the truth may be."<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perception_management#cite_note-1%23cite_note-1"><span>[2]</span></a></sup></font></font></span></p><p><span lang="en" style="font-family:Arial;" xml:lang="en"><font color="#000000" size="3">Perception management was also known as</font> <a title="Public diplomacy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_diplomacy"><span><font size="3">public diplomacy</font></span></a> <font color="#000000" size="3">in the</font> <a title="Ronald Reagan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan"><span><font size="3">Ronald Reagan</font></span></a> <font size="3"><font color="#000000">era; however, some people also argue perception management is now an accepted part of international strategic influence.</font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="en" style="font-family:Arial;" xml:lang="en"><font color="#000000" size="3">The phrase "perception management" is filtering into common use as a synonym for "persuasion".</font> <a title="Public relations" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_relations"><span><font size="3">Public relations</font></span></a> <font color="#000000" size="3">firms now offer "perception management" as one of their services. Similarly, public officials who are being accused of shading the truth are now frequently charged with engaging in "perception management" when disseminating information to media or to the general public.</font></span></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:center;" align="center"><hr align="center" width="100%" size="0" /></div></div>
The Covert War on Black America !
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/the-covert-war-on-black
2010-08-12T22:22:29.000Z
2010-08-12T22:22:29.000Z
Franklin Jones aka thanubian
https://www.theblacklist.net/members/FranklinJonesakathanubian
<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;"><font color="#000000">The US government’s intelligence divisions have developed advances in the studies of behavioral psychology that have given them much more control over its population. It initially used these advancements to develop psychological warfare programs used to manipulate foreign populations, but it was eventually decided that this same method of psychological warfare could be used domestically as a tool to manipulate public opinion. <br />Today to control and produce uniformity among the masses, the U.S. government disseminates propaganda domestically among its own citizens. The main sources that it uses to spread its propaganda are the Press, the Cinema, Education and the Radio. These four sources abilities to manipulate and control the masses are over-whelming. The great majority of people derive their ideas and perceptions, from these sources. Most of the things that we believe we do so because we have heard them affirm through these sources; We do not remember how or why they were affirmed, and are therefore unable to be critical even when the affirmation was not backed by any evidence whatsoever. This situation gives those who control the media, the inherent ability to define, manipulate and control targeted groups as they see fit.</font></span> <span lang="en" style="font-size:14pt;color:#000000;line-height:150%;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';" xml:lang="en">This psychosocial program uses propaganda to adversely manipulate and shapes the minds and collective perceptions of America’s Black population by subjecting them to seeing only the fraudulent worst in themselves.</span> <span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;"><br /><font color="#000000">The U.S. Government has an extensive history of conducting planned campaigns of extensive strategic psychological operations through the national media to domestically direct the perceptions and climate of the nation towards its governmental objectives. Information given through the media can greatly influence every facet of our lives. When these propaganda programs are directed at particular targeted groups they can be effectively used as psychological manipulation tools.</font></span> <span lang="en" style="font-size:14pt;color:#000000;line-height:150%;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';" xml:lang="en">Through the noted media sources propaganda may be used to adversely manipulate and shapes the minds and collective perceptions of targeted groups. By inundating targeted groups with deliberately</span> <span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;"><font color="#000000">misinformation about themselves these programs can produces, within the targeted group, the sort of character and beliefs that the controllers of the program wants them to believe. Upon their so formed personalities, docility will be imposed on the targeted group. Strategies against their oppressors will be discouraged in these groups of people, and insubordination will be psychologically purged out of them. This system can even make any serious criticism of the powers that be psychologically impossible. Even if all within the targeted groups are miserable, all will believe themselves at fault for their miseries, because these systems will be used to tell them that they are so.<br />To domestically defend its position of white dominance that was lessened by civil rights gains made by the unprecedented civil rights strategies of African Americans, the U.S. Government secretly employed this well proven mass manipulation programs against its entire Black population. <br />Although the U.S. Government publicly professes equality for all of its citizens, it secretly holds an unyielding commitment towards the preservation of its White dominance and control. Given that the nineteen sixties were a period of massive black rebellion that increasingly challenged its position of white dominance, this quite logically necessitated that the U.S. Government employ this same proven method of mass manipulation programs to domestically defend its position of white dominance against its Black population. <br />The present despairing state of Black America, as depicted through out America’s national media outlets, is neither a baffling phenomenon, nor the result of some innate racial deficiency among Blacks, but rather instead the result of a governmentally deplored mass manipulation program. <br />The United States media’s distorted portrayal of Black America that amplifies the negative to the point that it distorts reality is more than just biased media reports. They function as media manipulation/ psychosocial programs. Its unrelenting daily assault on the Black psyche is deliberately designed to adversely manipulate and shape the minds, and collective perceptions of African Americans. <br />From their established positions of power, prominent white governmental elites monopolizes all given information deliberately disseminating only those that implies their white superiority over its Black population. Its constant deplorable depiction of African Americans is being done to perpetuate and frames the myth of Whites’ racial, moral, intellectual and ethical superiority. This psychosocial program subjects African Americans to seeing only the fraudulent worst in themselves-- while implying that they admire, respect, and trust only Whites. It is designed to break down African Americans’ sense of racial unity and allegiance, mold the character of self-hatred, self-doubt, self-loath, and distrust among their group. This program conditions Black people to accept white dominance over their lives by misleading them to believe that they are now themselves their own worst enemies. Through totally white controlled media outlets African Americans are seeing themselves through lenses that have been deliberately assigned to them by white mass media manipulation experts. It is a covert and sophisticated method of control that ensures the continuance of America’s White racial hierarchy by manipulating and shaping the minds and collective perceptions of its Black population. This insidious, yet very sophisticated mass manipulation program works by using the science of psychology. It prevails by affecting the unconscious mind through deception. Its weapon is the message that it carries and the way that it adversely affects the targeted recipient group in terms of their behavior. To the detriment of many African Americans this applied psychological conditioning program has been extremely effective. It has engendered within the psyche of many African Americans profound feelings of internalized self contempt that pulverizes Black unity and halts Black upward mobility. It also totally detaches African Americans’ from their sense of power and reality. <br />And while many African Americans have successfully navigated through this psychologically mortifying mine field and have gone on to lead successful, productive lives, for far too many this immense devaluation can seem inescapable and tragically, over time, many begin to accept subconsciously and painfully the negative portrayals of themselves. Many also become discouraged by the acceptance that their society is also preconditioned to see the worst in them and that, therefore, if they were ever to gain acceptance, if it is to be won at all, that success would be hard won. This in turn manifests negative internalized psychological pain and distress within many African Americans that can take many forms. In fact, this mortifying psychosocial program is so fundamentally detrimental to the Black human condition and psyche that it may even affect the extent to which many African Americans realize their full human potential. <br />All African Americans have experienced the burden of this system of applied psychological conditioning, some more severely than others have. This mass manipulation program is at the root of both the profound division and self hatred now afflicting so many Black Americans and is at the heart of internalized feelings of superiority that many whites possess. </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;"><font color="#000000">WHEN AND HOW THIS BLACK MATRIX WAS IMPLEMENTED</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;"><br /><font color="#000000">It is surmised that this massive manipulation program was implemented in 1968, in the face of widespread violence that ensued after the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King’s brutal assassination amplified Black angry demonstrations and riots within the United States. Such incidents were reported in more than 100 cities across the nation immediately following the assassination. America’s racially motivated brutality toward African Americans appeared to have reached its boiling point, creating much unrest and discord; and it increasingly challenged the stability of America’s white statuesque. These factors led U.S. Government agents to quickly reform their techniques of institutionalized racism. <br />The noted problems resulted in President Lyndon B Johnson ordering the formation of the Kerner Commission. Its mission was to investigate and prescribe a cure or recommendations for the problem. The Commission concluded that blatant White racism was the single aggravating factor for the collective problems. The Kerner report’s findings required that the U.S. Government abandon its open, blatant forms of racist systems used to defend its position of White dominance. This abandonment of outdated tactics necessitated an implementation of an improved method for ensuring the continuance of white dominance and control. Clearly its proven method of mass media psychological manipulation through media propaganda meets this need.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;"><font color="#000000">This new covert method of maintaining white dominance was a logical progressive choice because it provides America’s white elites with a more socially acceptable means of ensuring the continuance of its White racial hierarchy. Unlike the blatantly brutal forms of racism used in the past, which Blacks were able to identify easily and therefore unify and form counter strategies, this modern system is more covertly deplored. <br />Not only does this psychosocial program manipulates the self perceptions of African Americans, it also creates a national climate that is insensitive to their plight —thus fostering a consensual national setting of where in which Blacks are more easily mistreated and suppressed.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;"><font color="#000000">This psychosocial program meets this additional objective by changing the root problem of racism in America to be due to Black’s behavior rather than White’s proclivity for racism. This deliberately done to create a shift of victimization—in favor of whites-- that makes the nation and the entire world insensitive to the plight of African Americans, tranquilizes efforts on their behalf, lessens pressure for social change on their behalf and makes any serious criticism of White racism almost impossible today. <br />This program also produces false justifications for the legal system’s mistreatment of African Americans. Wherein they are disproportionately incarcerated, given stiffer sentences, and are more likely than other racial groups to be treated brutally, beaten, and fired upon by police officers while they are unarmed. These injustices now goes ignored because the perception has become that it’s all now justified. <br />When contempt of Blacks is made to appear to be justifiable, it is the most fiercest and effective type of racism because its witnesses, bystanders, and even world audiences will sit by idly allowing African Americans to be brutally mistreated disproportionately incarcerated under the belief that it is justified.] It also affects attitudes that when enacted through governmental policies, laws, and other legislation actions, serve to ensure that African Americans will not advance. Its effects are manifested in ideas, education, governmental policies, economic stratification, social segregation, housing markets, hiring and promotion practices, psychological issues, and minority access to a variety of social services and opportunity. <br />The objective of the United States government has always been to maintain its White dominance over its Black population, and clearly, this mass media psychological manipulation campaign meets this need—because it covertly manipulates the self perceptions of African Americans and creates a national climate that allows the government to consensually suppress the advancement of its African American population-thus maintaining its White racial dominance and control. In order for those who have been misled to begin to see “correctly”, they must have a clear, analytical understanding of the origin, strategies, mechanics, purpose and methods of the device that has blinded them in the first place. Therefore it is imperative that this email is forwarded –Please do! <br />“When the truth comes along and you know in your bones that it’s the truth yet you still refuse to accept and defend it you then really begin to die.” By Franklin Jones<br /> "I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action." -- Malcolm X Learn more at <a href="http://www.divineblacktruth.org">www.divineblacktruth.org</a></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Courier New';"><font size="3">"The necessary re-education of Blacks and a possible solution of racial crisis can begin, strangely enough, only when Blacks fully realize this central fact in their lives: The White Man is their Bitter Enemy. For this is not the ranting of wild-eyed militancy, but the calm and unmistakable verdict of several thousand years of documented history.<br /><br />Facing this reality does not call for increasing hatred or screaming and utterly futile denunciations. Far from it. For all these shouting emotional outburst by Blacks are in themselves indications of weakness, because they becloud the mind and prevent the calm and clear thinking that is absolutely required for planning if the Race is to be saved from final destruction."<br /><br /> From the book "The Destruction of Black Civilization" <br /> By <span class="yshortcuts">Chancellor Williams</span></font></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;"><br /></span></p></div>
Why CDC reports tell lies about Black people---please spread this truth
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2010-04-28T22:17:05.000Z
2010-04-28T22:17:05.000Z
Franklin Jones aka thanubian
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<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0in;"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman">The March 2010 CDC report stated that nearly half of black women in the U.S. carried the Herpes virus. Here's why those statistics and others like them may be misleading. </font></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0in;line-height:150%;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0in;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">The March 2010 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sited startling high levels of the genital herpes virus among African American woman. The report found that 48 percent of African-American women have been exposed to the virus that causes genital herpes. The report gave many African Americans the all-too-familiar overwhelming feeling of fatigue in the face of yet another racially humiliating CDC report<span><b>.</b></span></font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0in;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">African-Americans often seem to be under siege when it comes to the ongoing flood of negative statistics and higher rates of disparities of nearly everything. No doubt, disparities exist, but the case regarding African American is so severe that it has become a phenomenon. For this reason alone it's more than reasonable to take a closer look at these ongoing negative statistics and find out what is really going on.</font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0in;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">Is it plausible to conceive that these negative reports are in fact societal psychosocial programs that are deliberately intended to imply white superiority over Blacks-as a means of ensuring the continuance of white dominance in the U.S.?</font></font></span></p><p style="line-height:150%;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial;letter-spacing:-.1pt;">Today’s method of deploring white racism</span> <span style="font-family:Arial;letter-spacing:.1pt;">has sophisticatedly evolved far beyond the previous blatant, now morally unacceptable, methods used in the past.</span> <span style="font-family:Arial;letter-spacing:-.1pt;">Although today most African Americans do not experience racism the way their parents experienced it, they do, however, still experience White racism. America's white elites practices of economically exploiting and suppressing its Black population was never truly abandoned; it was instead secretly modified into a more contemporary and stealthy design.</span> </font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-indent:.55in;line-height:150%;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial;letter-spacing:.1pt;">America</span><span style="font-family:Arial;letter-spacing:.1pt;">’s white controlling societal elites have developed a more covert and socially acceptable method of ensuring that white dominance and control be continued even throughout and beyond the term of its first Black president. This is because al</span><span style="font-family:Arial;">though the U.S. government publicly professes equality for all of its citizens, it secretly holds an unyielding commitment towards the preservation of its White dominance and control. Therefore, if the U.S. government treated its minority groups in a manner which did not promote maintaining its White dominance and control; it would be diametrically opposed to itself. This scenario necessitates that the U.S. government secretly implement systems to domestically defend its position of White dominance against its minority groups. <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">This racist objective is now met through the dissemination of specified misinformation and propaganda that is designed to socially engineer the American society towards meeting this objective.</span></span></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">The national media’s distorted portrayal of Black America that amplifies the negative to the point that it distorts reality is more than just biased media reports. They covertly function as psychosocial programs <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">which uses the media’s proven ability to manipulate and influence the masses to now control its Black population.</span> It uses misinformation as a tool to spread false beliefs about and among the masses of the Black population that attributes to <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">ensuring the continuance of white dominance and control.</span></font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial;letter-spacing:-.1pt;">T</span><span style="font-family:Arial;">he constant relentless bombardment with deplorably negative images of themselves that of which African Americans are so inundated with—through a white controlled media-- is a very carefully and deliberately designed mass media social manipulation program. <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">It is a proven system that works by</span> psychologically affecting the unconscious mind through deceptive misinformation. Its negative portrayals of African Americans are deliberately designed to adversely manipulate and shape their minds and collective consciousness. It covertly controls and divides African Americans by subjecting them to seeing only the fraudulent worst in themselves-- while insinuating that they <span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt;">admire, respect, and trust only Whites.</span> Moreover, it totally detaches African Americans from their sense of power and reality. It drills the message that Blacks are powerless, of lesser moral, character, and intelligence. <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">It</span> conditions Black people to believe that they require whites to govern over their lives. Its unrelenting daily assault on the Black psyche is designed to break down African Americans’ sense of racial unity and allegiance, mold the character of self-hatred, engender self-doubt, self-loathing, and distrust among their group<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt;">.</span>To the detriment of many African Americans, it has been an extremely effective. It has successfully conditioned many African Americans to accept white dominance over their lives-- by misleading them to believe that they are themselves, their own worst enemies. This engenders an aberration of internalized self contempt that pulverizes Black unity and halts Black upward mobility.</span></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial;letter-spacing:.1pt;">Information management, social engineering, and traffic shaping through the national media are the evil crafts of this modern system of institutionalized racism. This modern</span> <span style="font-family:Arial;">racist system provides the U.S. government with a more socially acceptable means of continuing its White racial dominance and control. Unlike the blatantly overt system of racism used in the past that resulted in African Americans unifying themselves against it, <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">this modern</span> stealthy designed system <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">is covertly deplored</span> therefore it is not as easily recognized or detected by many of its Black victims. It is so well disguised that although many of its Black victims may instinctively feel that there is something wrong, they are however unable to sufficiently conceptualize it so that they can unify and defend themselves against it. Even the very brightest of African Americans may have little, if any hope of extricating themselves from the detrimental effects of this psychosocial program. It is so subtle, pervasive, well-organized, complete, and proficient that most African Americans remain unaware and totally taken in by this method of emitting white racism. This psychosocial program is directly intertwined with the extensive challenges negatively impacting Black America today. <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">It</span> is at the root of both the profound feelings of self hatred now afflicting so many Black Americans and <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">is also</span> responsible for the false sense of superiority that many whites now possess. <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">It was this psychosocial program that made the white race the litmus test and standard for all humanity despite their brutally racist and inhumane history to the contrary.</span></span></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;letter-spacing:.1pt;"><font color="#000000">A Consensual national setting for Black annihilation</font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">This psychosocial program not only negatively impacts Blacks self perceptions, it also socially engineers a consensual national setting for the mistreatment of its Black population. It does so by creating a shift of victimization that changes the root problem of racism in America to be due to Black’s behavior rather than White’s proclivity for racism. Therefore <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt;">engendering</span> increasingly prejudiced distorted perceptions and acrimonious beliefs about African Americans <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt;">that are designed</span> <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">to</span> makes the nation and the entire world insensitive to their <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">plight--, tranquilizes efforts on their behalf,</span> less<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt;">ens pressure for social change o</span>n their behalf, and makes any serious criticism of White racism almost impossible today. Therefore fostering a national setting of where in which Blacks are more easily exploited and ultimately consensually suppressed. <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt;">It also</span> <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">creates a false justification for the legal system’s mistreatment</span> of African Americans wherein they are <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">disproportionately incarcerated, given stiffer sentences, and are more likely</span> than other racial groups to be treated brutally, beaten, and fired upon by police officers while they are unarmed. These injustices now goes ignored because the perception has subconsciously become that it’s all now justified. When contempt of Blacks is made to appear to be justifiable, it is the fiercest <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">and most effective type of racism because its witnesses, bystanders, and even world audiences will sit by idly allowing African Americans to be brutally mistreated under the belief that it is</span> justified. This method of control and suppression <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">is based upon</span> the propaganda techniques of <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">renowned</span> psychologist <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">and United States</span> mass <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">propaganda specialist Dr.</span> Edward Bernays. He referred to this as “socially engineered consent” to mistreat the targeted group.</font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">The effects</span> of this social program are also manifested in ideas, education, governmental policies, economic stratification, social segregation, housing markets, hiring and promotion practices, psychological issues, and minority access to a variety of social services and opportunity. It ensures that the masses of African Americans remain the most racially devalued and most economical exploited and suppressed group in America. It also affects attitudes that when enacted through governmental policies, laws, and other legislation actions, serve to ensure that African Americans will not advance. Unfortunately to the detriment of many African Americans this modern racist system has been very proficient. Some studies have shown that this social program has engendered increasingly acrimonious beliefs and prejudiced perceptions about and against African Americans that are arguably stronger today than they were after emancipation.</font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">Although all minority groups are being targeted by this psychosocial program, however African Americans are most particular targeted. The reason for this is because no group has presented a greater threat against the U.S. continued white dominance than African Americans. While all ethnic groups possess the ability to bring about real change within the United States, only African Americans have produced such change. During the 1960’s African Americans confronted white racism on every front through militant means, non violent civil disobedience strategies, and legal arguments within America’s highest courts. These strategies resulted in the enactment of many civil right laws that improved the lives of all minorities. African Americans unified strategies against white racism remains unraveled by any other ethnic group. These facts subsequently mean that African Americans represent the greatest threat against the U.S. government’s unyielding commitment towards the preservation of its White dominance. This quite logically necessitated that -to domestically defend its position of White dominance-- a system be secretly implemented particularly targeting the entire African American population. A system that will ensure that African Americans remain the largest, most racially devalued, most exploited and suppressed group in America-- even throughout and beyond the presidency of its first Black president.</font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial;letter-spacing:.1pt;">The usage of information is rarely considered when discussing method of emitting white racism; however this progression was a logical choice because i</span><span style="font-family:Arial;letter-spacing:-.1pt;">t</span> <span style="font-family:Arial;">conveniently provides a more socially acceptable and covert means of maintaining white dominance. Furthermore, <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">information management is a powerful tool. It is the single most important thing that moves the world economy, influences political regimes, defines meaningful thoughts and constructs human behavior.</span></span></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-indent:.55in;line-height:150%;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial;letter-spacing:.1pt;">Although most</span> <span style="font-family:Arial;">African Americans <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">are totally unaware of this modern system of white racism, however, it</span> has been extremely effective at conditioning millions of Blacks to not only accept white dominance over their lives, but to even prefer it. It is by far <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">the most detrimentally proficient racist system ever to confront Black people</span>. </span></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0in;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">This is not a feeble attempt at blaming all of the negative statistics on white racism while ignoring true disparities within many Black communities. Nor is this an attempt to peddle victim-hood to absolve or shirk America’s Black population of their own personal responsibilities. This is a truth that must be recognized and addressed if Black people are to survive and be apart of the future. Recognizing this stealthy racist system is often very difficult for many of its Black victims. Because Black people have been so bombarded with so much deplorably negative images of themselves, it has therefore become easier for many to accept the negative lies about them, rather than believing that it’s a modern system of white racism. Therefore, recognizing this truth will require that many of its Black recipients overcome their psychologically engrained negative perceptions of themselves and favorable perceptions of whites. These perceptions have been deliberately unrelentingly indoctrinated upon the Black psyche through this very same manipulation process that this article exposes.</font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0in;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><br /><font size="3"><font color="#000000">The Government practice of producing false news reports to influence the nation favorably towards its objective is not an uncommon practice. During the Bush administration alone as many as 20 government departments produced fake news which stations broadcast as though they had produced the segments themselves, according to The New York Times. The Bush Administration produced look-alike news propaganda clips and then persuaded television stations across the country to air them uncritically and, often, uncut.</font></font></span></p><p style="line-height:150%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">The Bush administration went as far as to use video clips that were intentionally deceptive, and scripted introductory misleading lines for the news anchor to read out. It is a program known to its detractors as "covert propaganda".</font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-indent:.55in;line-height:150%;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial;letter-spacing:-.1pt;">This deceptive practice continues even now. Although the United States has now elected its first African American president, its predominately white g</span><span style="font-family:Arial;">overnment officials and powerfully affluent white societal elites <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt;">—they that truly runs America and maintains their positions of power and prestige regardless of who is actually president--, will more than likely merely use this monumental election to restore America’s eroded global image and standing in the world, rather than to improve the lives of African Americans. This is because these white elites</span> are still resolute in their commitment towards maintaining their white dominance and control in the United States. <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt;">Therefore this psychosocial program will not be discontinued because of the historic presidency of Barrack Obama.</span> </span></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial;letter-spacing:.1pt;">Research indicates that this program was originally contrived at London’s Tavistock Institute and that it is being implemented within many white ruled countries. However, in the United States it was implemented against African Americans in response to the uprising of the Black power and civil rights movements of the 1960’s.</span> <span style="font-family:Arial;letter-spacing:-.1pt;">Unless the masses of Black people are made aware of this modern racist system and unify themselves against it, the white elites will continue to use it against us --even with one Black president.</span></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial;">The many problems now facing Black America will not be corrected by implementing outdated strategies of foot marches, speeches, or the commemoration of fallen Black martyrs. We can also no longer survive as a race <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt;">addressing this modern system of racism using nineteen century strategies.</span> It is only <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt;">by exposing and eradicating this modern covert system will real change be possible for African Americans.</span></span></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font color="#000000" size="3">Black people throughout the world must educate themselves about what is really going on. This understanding is in fact extremely imperative if Black people are to survive and be a part of the future. Please copy and forward this article to all of your contacts. To learn more visit</font> <a href="http://www.divineblacktruth.org/"><font size="3">www.divineblacktruth.org</font></a> <font size="3"><font color="#000000">and order your copy of the book The Black Matrix: The modern mental and social suppression of African Americans Under national interest. 2006, revised 2008.</font></font></span></p></div>
Hindering Black unity as a means of maintaining white dominance---A real Black Matrix
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/hindering-black-unity-as-a
2010-03-09T20:38:26.000Z
2010-03-09T20:38:26.000Z
Franklin Jones aka thanubian
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<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#f6f6f6;margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;text-align:center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:#3f3f3f;line-height:150%;font-family:Impact;">HOW BLACK UNITY IS DELIBERATELY HINDERED TO MAINTAIN WHITE DOMINANCE</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:150%;"><font size="3"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;">Many African Americans now holds the opinion that in the face of greater gained opportunities that many within their race became their own worst enemies. It is a perception that often engenders profound feelings of immense humiliation, racial self contempt, and disunity among many African Americans in the 21st-century. But are these depictions and self perception of African Americans correct?<br /> Scores of African Americans now share the belief that in the face of increased opportunities and an apparent lessening of racial discrimination that the unrivaled racial pride, unity and cohesion, and ambitious perseverance that were once so undeniably a part of early Black American identity merely all disintegrated- -when integration and other subsequent opportunities became available. Furthermore, that in the face of increased upward mobility, that many within their race merely then lowered their pants lines bellow their waists, started exploiting the welfare system, begin favorably using the term nigger to describe themselves, and then took the lead in committing most crimes in America. It is not uncommon to hear these negative sentiments about their own race now echoed by many African Americans themselves—they that consider themselves as being exceptions to the norm. But are these derogatory perceptions correct? And if so how have African Americans, the racial group that demonstrated an unprecedented degree of Black racial pride and unity during the 1960's civil rights movement and fought so diligently against America’s previous system of blatant institutional racism, now become living contradictions of their former selves?</span></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:150%;"><font size="3"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;"><br />When presented with this daunting question the common response is to take the easy and convenient position that the core problem lies totally with Blacks themselves. But is this analogy correct? Although tragically many Blacks themselves have come to accept this perspective, the emerging evidence does not support the view that the persistent disparities among African American are the result of any purportedly unequal, innate human capacities of the Black race. Such assertions are racist and totally inaccurate because the problems are contemporary ones that appeared only after integration and the abolishment of Jim Crow legalized racism and are not consistent with the history of African Americans. The premise that there exists an innate proclivity for divisiveness among African Americans is totally inaccurate and inconsistent with the history of African Americans. While perhaps difficult to believe today, Black unity (Umoja) was historically, the cornerstone of the African American community and a crucial factor in their survival for more than four-hundred years of White racial oppression. It has contributed to the survival of millions of African Americans not only during slavery, but also during the aftermath of brutal Jim-Crow era lynching and through the financially crippling years of the United States’ great depression era. Black unity was the most significant factor in the success of the 1960's civil right movement. The remarkable degree of unity among African Americans then was made evident by the brilliant organization and mobilizations of mass bus boycotts, marches, freedom riders, and sit ins that were peacefully conducted through the unified protest of civil disobedience. These methods engendered images that touched the hearts and consciences of the world. This gained national and global support to the cause of African Americans that eventually led to America abandoning its blatant and legalized forms of Jim Crow racist systems.—used for ensuring the continuance of its white dominance. The degree of unity and organization demonstrated among African Americans then was extraordinary and arguably remains unrivaled by any other group in the history of America. So what then is the reason for the unprecedented racial self contempt and disunity among African Americans today? The intent here is to concisely demonstrate that the problem is the result</span> <span style="font-family:Arial;"><font color="#000000">of a very carefully and deliberately designed media disseminated mass manipulating psychosocial program that subjects African Americans--through totally white controlled media outlets --to seeing only the fraudulent worst in themselves. It is being secretly done to America’s Black population as a means of</font> <span style="color:#000000;">assuring the continuance of America’s white dominance and control.</span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">Black people in the United States are seeing through lenses that have been deliberately assigned to them by white mass manipulation experts. <span style="color:#000000;">Most African Americans that frustratingly and shamefully complain about the national disparities among their group are, for the most part, responding to negative statistics and depictions about their race totally comprised and given to them by white controlled media outlets--their (blacks) own negative personal experiences and interactions with their fellow blacks then merely act as a confirmation of what is being deplorably depicted about them. This mass manipulation process merges the often harsh individual realities of many black people with what is misleadingly deplorably depicted of them, therefore solidifying the thoughts within their psyche that it is they that are now their own worst enemies. It is deliberate</span>ly designed covert media driven <span style="color:#000000;">massive psychosocial social program that</span> conditions Blacks to admire only whites and to hate themselves. It was secretly</font> <span style="color:#000000;">designed by white social engineering mass manipulation experts to engender self doubt and disunity among America’s Black population as a means of ensuring that white dominance is maintained in the United States.</span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"></p><p style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">The decline of the blatant, overt racism used in the United States to ensure the continuance of its white dominance from the reconstruction period through the 1960's coincided with the introduction of a more proficient, sophisticated, and covert method of White racism better suited for the times. This modern covert system is directly attributed to the intensification of internalized self hatred, profound disunity, and present confused outlook now prevalent in Black America. White America’s methods of institutionalized racism has been secretly modified into a more sophisticated and stealthy design. Because the past, blatant methods of ensuring White dominance had become morally and socially unacceptable, the U.S. government secretly implemented a more sophisticated and stealthy system that uses misinformation as a tool for ensuring that white dominance is continued in the U.S. Although the formal covert Counterintelligence Program [COINTELPRO] deployed by the FBI directed against African Americans during the period of 1956-1971 was discontinued. However, in truth today there is a far more sophisticated and massive governmental scheme being implemented against the entire African American population as a means of ensuring that white dominance and control is maintained. This present system uses the national media's proven ability to mass manipulate and socially engineer by way of using propaganda techniques. <br />The U.S. Government now secretly deliberately disseminates false deplorably racially devaluing statistics and propaganda about its Black population that are deliberately designed to adversely manipulate and shape the minds and collective consciousness of its African American population-- corrupting African Americans sense of unity, cohesion, and reason -- and facilitates a consensual national environment of where in which its Black population is more easily divided, exploited and ultimately suppressed. When most people hear the term of psychological manipulation they usually think in terms of the classic "conspiracy theory" that refers to overt mind control such as mind altering drugs with carefully hypnotic programming. However, the real and true dangers are the well proven methods of affecting the unconscious mind by using deception, and psychological manipulation. It is neither magical nor mystical, but a process that involves a set of basic social psychological principles.</font></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">The constant relentless bombardment with deplorably negative images of themselves that of which African Americans</font></span> <span style="font-family:Arial;"><font color="#000000" size="3">are so inundated with is a very carefully and deliberately designed mass media social manipulation program that subjects African Americans to seeing only the fraudulent worst in themselves</font><span style="color:#000000;"><font size="3">. Its unrelenting daily assault on the Black psyche drills the message that Blacks are powerless, of lesser moral, and intelligence and that they need whites to govern over their lives. It totally detaches African Americans from their sense of power and reality. Moreover, it corrupts African Americans’ sense of racial unity and cohesion, mold the character of self-hatred, engender self-doubt, self-loathing, and distrust among their group while insinuating that Blacks admire, respect, and trust only Whites. <br />The motto of this method of psychological manipulation is to divide and conquer and it works by affecting the unconscious mind through deception. It uses the psychology of deceit to adversely affect the recipient group in terms of their behavior.</font></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="color:#000000;"><font size="3">Here is a simplified example of how this is being implemented against African Americans. Let us, for example, imagine that a crew of people was aboard their own massive ship and that this ship was being shadowed by another neighboring ship that was constantly broadcasting derogatory messages to the first group. Such messages as that their ship was lesser, smaller, not seaworthy, perhaps slowly sinking or that their crew was incompetent and was planning a mutiny. With time, the group receiving the negative messages, being unable to refute or to confirm these derogatory messages and deficiencies will grow weary and paranoid of the negative messages and will eventually comes to accept these negative assessments of themselves. The perception created by the taunting now unconsciously influences how the taunted group perceives themselves, subsequently causing them to become distrustful of themselves, doubting themselves, hating themselves and, eventually, fighting among themselves. The taunted group may even become so besieged by deep feelings of inadequacy that they may even jump into the sea and attempt to swim towards the taunting ship now believing it to be superior to their own ship even if their own ship was in fact better.</font></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="color:#000000;"><font size="3">The basis of this concept of mind manipulation is that the human being's most critical aspect is the mind and it works by affecting the mind through deception. It uses the psychology of deceit to adversely affect the recipient group in terms of their behavior. Within a real life setting this mortifying psychosocial treatment is precisely what is being deliberately done to African Americans. Where of which they are constantly bombarded and inundated by deplorably negative imageries of themselves through a totally white controlled media outlets that intentionally subjected them to seeing only the fraudulently worst in themselves. This is done through an immense campaign of false derogatory misinformation and false negative media reports and statistics that are created by U.S. governmental agencies and then leaked to its collaborators in the news media, which either knowingly or unknowingly carry the stories as their own. These false information about African Americans are then disseminated unrelentingly everywhere; it is deliberately perpetuated through news releases in magazine articles, radio, television, press releases, documentaries, and false census reports. However, the weapon is not in how the message is carried, but is instead within the messages that it carries and how these messages perpetuate and frame the myth of Whites’ racial, moral, and ethical superiority over its Black population. This falsehood detrimentally affects the Black population at large.</font></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="color:#000000;"><font size="3">The ultimate goal of this governmental psychosocial treatment of African Americans is to destroy the Black unity and cohesion that was historically the cornerstone of civil rights gains and that was a crucial factor of the survival of African Americans through more than four hundred years of white racial oppression. Logic dictates that given that unity and cohesion among African Americans was responsible for the demise of White America’s past system of blatant, institutionalized racism, then destroying this unity would be an essential objective of this psychological manipulation program. All African Americans have experienced the burden of this system of applied psychological conditioning, some more severely than others have. It is experienced every time that an African American read a newspaper, watch the evening news, listen to a radio report, enter a classroom and read its racially biased textbooks.</font></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">No group can be preconditioned to see only the worst in themselves and not exhibit some degree of negative psychological impact. To the detriment of many African Americans, this psychosocial program has been an extremely effective. It has successfully conditioned many African Americans to accept the dominance of Whites and white institutions over their lives by misleading them to believe that they are, themselves, their own worst enemies, therefore engendering an aberration of internalized self contempt that pulverizes Black unity and halts Black upward mobility. <br />And while many African Americans have successfully navigated through this psychologically mortifying mine field and have gone on to lead successful, productive lives, for far too many this immense devaluation can seem inescapable and tragically, over time, many begin to accept subconsciously and painfully the negative portrayals of themselves. Many also become discouraged by the acceptance that their society is also preconditioned to see the worst in them and that, therefore, if they were ever to gain acceptance, if it is to be won at all, that success would be hard won. This in turn manifests negative internalized psychological pain and distress within many African Americans that can take many forms. In fact, this governmental mortifying psychosocial treatment of African Americans may be the most aggravating, if not core, factor of the national phenomenon of self hatred; loss of unity, cohesion and racial pride; and fragile psyches of many African Americans today. It is in fact so fundamentally detrimental to the Black human condition and psyche that it may even affect the extent to which many African Americans realize their full human potential. This massive psychosocial program is at the root of both the profound division and self hatred now afflicting so many Black Americans and is at the heart of internalized feelings of superiority that many whites possess. <br />This concept of the U.S government using psychological warfare through the national media as a weapon to influence and control its Black population is not at all ridiculous. The U.S. Government has an extensive history of using the national media to psychologically manipulate and influence public opinion. It is indeed a very common governmental practice. Moreover, through out western history cultures that create and maintain empires have done so by manipulating the people that they are trying to conquer. They go out of their way to make sure that the people that they’re attempting to conquer is perpetually misled and manipulated. Therefore the conquered group’s perception of reality is not their own. It is shrewdly imposed upon them without them even knowing it. It is time that more African Americans wake up to this reality and ongoing tradition. The psychological manipulation of African Americans has been so successfully accomplished that it is very difficult to reverse. You see, part of the conditioning is almost like Stockholm syndrome. The victimized group begins to love their enemy and to feel that the enemy is justified in its mistreatment of their race. The victims begin to feel that they deserve their endured mistreatment, and they will actually oppose anyone who suggests what is being disclosed here.</font></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:150%;"><font size="3"><b><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;">IT</span></b> <span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;"><b>SOCIALLY ENGINEERED CONSENT OF BLACK MISTREATMENT</b></span></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;"><font size="3">Not only does this psycho-social program negatively impacts Blacks self perceptions, but it also conveniently provides a more socially acceptable and covert means of ensuring that the masses of African Americans remains the most racially devalued and most economically exploited group in America. Its deplorable depictions of African Americans are also used to engender national consent that justifies their mistreatment. The media’s deplorably depicted imageries of Black America deliberately create a shift of victimization in behalf of whites while lessons pressures for social changes in behalf of Blacks. Thus creating a national consensual setting that facilitates the easier exploitation and suppression of African Americans. This is in fact a common practice used throughout modern western history. When groups in power want to suppress or to exploit its minority group they do so by portraying that group as a fearsome enemy or a major problem of the society through lies and manufactured news items. This same type of propaganda technique was also used by Adolph Hitler to facilitate a national consensual setting that allowed his heinous mistreatment of the Jews. Hitler's propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels portrayed them as a fearsome enemy of German society through lies and manufactured news items. These negative imageries were used to justify their annihilation. This unspoken legacy of racism still continues today in the case of African Americans. The media’s constantly depicted deplorable imagery of Black Americans insinuates that America would be a better society as a whole if African Americans were gone by changing the root problem of racism in America to be due to Black’s behavior rather than White’s proclivity for racism. This perception engenders increasingly prejudiced distorted and acrimonious beliefs about African Americans that are designed to makes the nation and the entire world insensitive to their plight, tranquilizes efforts on their behalf, and makes any serious criticism of White racism almost impossible today. Therefore fostering a national setting of where in which Blacks are more easily exploited and ultimately consensually suppressed. It also creates a false justification for the legal system’s mistreatment of African Americans wherein they are disproportionately incarcerated, given stiffer sentences, and are more likely than other racial groups to be treated brutally, beaten, and fired upon by police officers while they are unarmed. These injustices now goes ignored because the perception has subconsciously become that it’s all now justified. When contempt of Blacks is made to appear to be justifiable, it is the fiercest and most effective type of racism because its witnesses, bystanders, and even world audiences will sit by idly allowing African Americans to be brutally mistreated under the belief that it is justified. This is what America’s renowned propaganda expert Dr. Edward Bernays referred to as “socially engineered consent”. <br />The effects of this social program are also manifested in ideas, education, governmental policies, economic stratification, social segregation, housing markets, hiring and promotion practices, psychological issues, and minority access to a variety of social services and opportunity. It also affects attitudes that when enacted through governmental policies, laws, and other legislation actions, serve to ensure that African Americans will not advance. Through the usage of mass psychological manipulation White America’s methods of institutionalized racism has been secretly modified into a more sophisticated and stealthy design. Unfortunately to the detriment of many African Americans this modern system of deploying white racism has been very proficient. Some studies have shown that this social program has engendered increasingly acrimonious beliefs and prejudiced perceptions about and against African Americans that are arguably now stronger today than they were after emancipation. It was this governmental psychological conditioning program that ended the Black revolutionary movement of the nineteen sixties and that stripped African Americans of the national and international support that was acquired during that era’s civil rights struggles.</font></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;"><br /><font size="3">The notion that the U.S government has reincarnated its method of suppressing its Black population is patently very plausible and historically accurate. Because the practices of reinventing methods of suppressing sub-groups is not at all uncommon. The records of history show that the reincarnating of suppressive methods into forms more acceptable to the changing times is a common practice. In examining the record of history, we often find that, among those mighty empires which were ruthless, greedy, and racist, those behaviors did not decay quickly even after the fall of the empire. These patterns of racism were often reincarnated into forms more acceptable to the changing times. History acknowledges that this has been a common practice of the United States government. As seen after the abolishment of slavery wherein its methods of using racist, oppressive treatment of its Black population was reincarnated into Jim Crow inequalities maintained by regional authorities and condoned by the U.S. Government. A Governmental condoning that facilitated a national environment of where in which African Americans were brutally mistreated, lynched and made victims of many devious strategies and methods that prevented them from becoming registered voters. And let us not forget the horrific Tuskegee experiments or of the CIA’s involvement in flooding the Black communities of Los Angeles with drugs and high powered weaponry. A quick review of history easily affirms the reality that white America does have a tradition of resistant against the advancement of its Black population. It also reminds us that the White race’s innate proclivity for racism, control, and dominance is much too deeply ingrained for them to just merely give up their practices of implementing suppressive methods over its African American population. The contention that the U.S government is using a mass manipulation program to influence and control its Black population is totally consistent with White America’s past tradition of resistant against Black advancement. What is more, it was the next logical choice because this method covertly provides the U.S. government a stealthier, socially acceptable method of meeting this objective. This article is an excerpt from the book the Black Matrix ©2006, 2008 By F. Jones. Please forward this article everywhere and to everyone. To learn more visit <a href="http://www.divineblacktruth.org">www.divineblacktruth.org</a></font></span></p></div>
The mass manipulation of Black people as a means of maintaining white dominance and control
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2010-02-26T21:46:53.000Z
2010-02-26T21:46:53.000Z
Franklin Jones aka thanubian
https://www.theblacklist.net/members/FranklinJonesakathanubian
<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">Black people in the United States are seeing through lenses that have been deliberately assigned to them by white mass manipulation experts. They are being conditioned to admire only whites and to hate themselves through a deliberately designed psychosocial program. It is a covert media driven program designed for ensuring the continuance of white dominance and control. A<span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">ll</span> African Americans have experienced the burden of this applied psychological conditioning, some more severely than others have. It is experienced every time an African American read a newspaper, watches the evening news, or listens to a radio reports receiving and accepting their racially biased propaganda deliberately implying white superiority and Black inferiority. To the detriment of many African Americans, it has been an extremely effective at conditioning them to accept the dominance of Whites and white institutions over their lives.</font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">The American government has a secret element within it. This secret element equates to being a secret government concealed within an existing public government. While the face of the public government is one which professes equality for all of America’s citizens, however the unrelenting commitment of the secret government is to ensure the continuance of America’s white dominance and control–regardless of who is actually President. To meet this secret national interest and racist objective the secret government has been working for decades behind the scenes developing and implementing many classified programs defending its white statuesque against its minority population.</font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">History acknowledges that this secret government has been unrelentingly engaged in many unethical programs defending its position of white dominance against its Black population. As seen after the abolishment of slavery wherein its methods of using racist, oppressive treatment of its Black population was reincarnated into Jim Crow inequalities <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt;">maintained by regional authorities and condoned by the U.S. Government. A Governmental condoning</span> that facilitated a national environment of where in which African Americans were brutally mistreated, lynched and were made victims of many devious strategies and methods that prevented them from becoming registered voters. And let us not forget the horrific Tuskegee experiments or of the CIA’s involvement in flooding the Black communities of Los Angeles with drugs and high powered weaponry. Because these blatant racist methods used in the past to ensure and defend its white dominance are now morally and socially unacceptable, this secret government developed a more covert and sophisticated method of meeting this objective. It now uses the national media’s proven mass manipulating capabilities to condition its Black population to not only accept white dominance over their lives, but to also prefer it.</font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial;letter-spacing:-.05pt;">The</span> <span style="font-family:Arial;">constant bombardment of deplorably negative imageries of themselves that of which African American are so constantly inundated with--<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt;">through</span> totally white controlled media outlets— is a deliberately designed <span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt;">mortifying</span> psychosocial program. It is a psychosocial program that provides the secret government with a very sophisticated and covert method of controlling the perceptions of its Black population. Its treatment of African Americans is to intentionally subject them to seeing only the fraudulently worst in themselves while implying that they respect only whites. It uses the national media to disseminate propaganda that racially devalues its Black population while intentionally perpetuating white superiority.</span></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">This is done through an immense campaign of <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt;">false</span> <span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt;">derogatory misinformation</span> and false negative media reports and statistics <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt;">that are created by the secret government and then leaked</span> to its <span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt;">collaborators in the news</span> <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt;">media.</span>These false information about African Americans are then disseminated unrelentingly everywhere; it is deliberately perpetuated through news releases in magazine articles, radio, television, <span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt;">press releases, documentaries, and false</span> <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt;">census reports</span>. However, t<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt;">he weapon</span> is not in how the message is carried, but is instead within the messages that it carries and how these messages <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt;">perpetuate and frame the myth of</span> Whites’ racial, moral, and ethical superiority over its Black population.</font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">This concept of manipulation works by affecting the unconscious mind through deception. Its weapon is the message that it carries and the way that it adversely affects the targeted recipient group in terms of their behavior. To the detriment of many African Americans this system of applied psychological conditioning has been an extremely effective. Its unrelenting daily assault on the Black psyche engenders feelings of self-doubt, self-loathing, and distrust among their group. It also develops profound feelings of internalized self contempt that pulverizes Black unity and halts Black upward mobility. It totally detaches African Americans’ sense of racial unity and cohesion and also totally detaches them from their sense of power and reality while insinuating that they admire, respect, and trust only Whites.</font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">Government agents who specialize in psychiatry, mass manipulation through propaganda, and social engineering analyze surveillance information gathered about its Black population. Decisions are then made on which fraudulent stories to produce to best negatively define and garner certain psychological feelings among the targeted group that benefits the secret governments agenda of maintaining the U.S. white dominance and control. Its <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt;">overrepresentation of Black crimes and grossly exaggerated statistics of Black on Black violence within this</span> psychosocial <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt;">program are intentionally designed to create fear, hatred, and distrust thus</span> molding the character of disunity and <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">self-hatred</span> <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt;">among the Black community. [Black’s own personal negative experiences and interactions with their fellow Blacks merely then</span> confirm the program’s perpetuated message that it is they that are their own worst enemies]. </font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">The <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt;">ultimate</span> goal of t<span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">his</span> governmental psychosocial <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">treatment of African Americans is</span> to <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt;">destroy the Black unity and cohesion that was historically the cornerstone of civil rights gains and that was a crucial factor of the survival of African Americans through more than four hundred years of white racial oppression. Logic dictates that given that unity and cohesion among African Americans</span> was responsible for the demise of White America’s past system of blatant, institutionalized racism, then destroying this unity would be an essential objective of this psychological manipulation program. </font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">To the detriment of many African Americans, this massive applied psychosocial program has been an extremely effective. It has successfully conditioned many African Americans to accept the dominance of Whites and white institutions over their lives by misleading them to believe that they are, themselves, their own worst enemies, therefore engendering an aberration of internalized self contempt that pulverizes Black unity and halts Black upward mobility. Furthermore, it is the most detrimentally proficient racist system ever deplored against African Americans because most remain totally oblivious of its existence. It is at the root of both the profound division and self hatred now afflicting so many Black Americans and is at the heart of internalized feelings of superiority that many whites possess.</font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;"><font color="#000000">THIS PROGRAM ALSO JUSTIFIES BLACK MISTREATMENT</font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:9pt .1in 0pt .05in;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">The next stage of the government's operation against the black population is the attack stage. The secret government also uses the deplorable depictions of its Black population to justify their mistreatment or to make others insensitive to their plight. After several years of this negative psychosocial program about African Americans, the American public will have their opinions formed regarding its Black population. The American people will be convinced that the mistreatment of its Black population is not only justified, but is also absolutely necessary. The secret Government creates fear and hatred its Black population. Then it will use this fear and hatred the American people feel to deliberately foster a national consensual setting for the mistreatment and suppression of its Black population. This is what mass manipulation experts refer to as engineered consent. Hitler’s Propaganda experts implemented the same program against the Jews as a precursor to the gas chambers. This massive psychosocial program also creates a national climate <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">that is insensitive to the plight of African Americans —thus fostering a</span> consensual national setting of where in which Blacks are more easily mistreated and suppressed. This psychosocial program’s distorted deplorable depiction of African Americans changes the root problem of racism in America to be due to Black’s behavior rather than White’s proclivity for racism. This creates a shift of victimization—in favor of whites-- that engenders acrimonious beliefs about African Americans that makes the nation and the entire world insensitive to their <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">plight, tranquilizes efforts on their behalf,</span> lessens pressure for social change on their behalf and makes any serious criticism of White racism almost impossible today<span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">.</span> This produces <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">false justifications for the legal system’s mistreatment</span> of African Americans. Wherein they are <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">disproportionately incarcerated, given stiffer sentences, and are more likely</span> than other racial groups to be treated brutally, beaten, and fired upon by police officers while they are unarmed. These injustices now goes ignored because the perception has become that it’s all now justified.</font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">When contempt of Blacks is made to appear to be justifiable, it is the <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">most</span> fiercest <span style="letter-spacing:.1pt;">and effective type of racism because its witnesses, bystanders, and even world audiences will sit by idly allowing African Americans to be brutally mistreated disproportionately incarcerated under the belief that it is</span> justified.] It also affects attitudes that when enacted through governmental policies, laws, and other legislation actions, serve to ensure that African Americans will not advance. Its effects are manifested in ideas, education, governmental policies, economic stratification, social segregation, housing markets, hiring and promotion practices, psychological issues, and minority access to a variety of social services and opportunity. This psychosocial program <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt;">is the most sophisticated, proficient, and most detrimental system of racism ever to confront</span> Black America<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt;">. </span></font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-indent:.45in;line-height:150%;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">T<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt;">his concept that the U.S government has reincarnated its method of suppressing its Black population by using a mass psychosocial program through the national media to influence and control its Black population is not at all ridiculous.</span> T<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt;">he notion is</span> patently very plausible and historically accurate. The records of history show that the r<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt;">einventing</span> of suppressive methods into forms more acceptable to the changing times is a common practice. <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt;">In examining the record of history, we often find that, among those mighty empires which were ruthless, greedy, and racist, those behaviors did not decay quickly even after the fall of the empire. These patterns of racism were often reincarnated into forms more acceptable to the changing times.</span> A quick review of history easily affirms that the secret government does <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt;">have a tradition of resistant</span> against the advancement of its Black population. It also reminds us that the White race’s innate proclivity for racism, control, and dominance is much too deeply ingrained for them to just merely give up their practices of implementing methods of ensuring the continuance of their white statuesque.</font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">Although most of America’s Black population will never suspect that government agents are doing this to them, however this mass manipulation program is being aggressively deplored against them. This mass manipulation technology is a very sophisticated method of control. Furthermore it is the same classified technology used against foreign adversaries. The technology was developed to protect national interest and is now secretly being used domestically to defend the white race’s position of power and dominance against its growing minority population.</font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">The many problems now facing Black America will not be corrected by implementing outdated strategies of foot marches, speeches, or the commemoration of fallen Black martyrs. Nor will these problems be corrected by the preaching <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt;">of scriptures from any of our religious texts, be they Christian or Muslim, but instead by recognizing these previously unexplored covert psychosocial program that have secretly emplaced by the secret government to</span></font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Arial;letter-spacing:-.1pt;">secretly ensure the continuance of white dominance and control in</span> <span style="font-family:Arial;">America</span><span style="font-family:Arial;letter-spacing:-.1pt;">.</span> <span style="font-family:Arial;">The secret government's agents operate above the law. In the eyes of federal, state, and local law enforcement, this technology doesn't exist. Groups targeted by the secret government agents are on their own.</span></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;letter-spacing:-.1pt;"><font color="#000000" size="3">To learn more visit</font> <a href="http://www.divineblacktruth.org/"><span style="text-decoration:none;"><font size="3">www.divineblacktruth.org</font></span></a> <font size="3"><font color="#000000">and order your copy of the Black Matrix: the modern mental and social suppression of African Americans under National interest. © 2006, 2008 by Franklin Jones</font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:150%;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"></p></div>
The MYTH ->Thanksgiving: A National Day of Mourning for Indians
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2008-11-27T05:00:00.000Z
2008-11-27T05:00:00.000Z
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<div><img src="http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t291/LehmanBrightman/Lostwhiteman.jpg" alt="Stop the Lie - Understand the Truth about Thanksgiving" width="379" height="586" /><blockquote><strong>WE Don't Do Thanksgiving - because until the situation is equalized across the board, in our humble opinion; There Ain't Nothin to Celebrate.</strong><strong>Today We Honor and Join with our Native Peoples in their statement for the Truth and Rights about the North American Peoples' Holocaust.</strong> <br /><br /><object width="425" height="344" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/6RwCPaZujZM&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never" ></param><param name="allowNetworking" value="internal" ></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="false" ></param><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6RwCPaZujZM&hl=en&fs=1" ></param></object> <br /><br /><strong>Now Hol Dis !</strong></blockquote><img src="http://badgals-radio.com/re-sig.jpg" alt="" /><br /><br /><h2><a href="http://www.uaine.org/">Thanksgiving: A National Day of Mourning for Indians</a></h2><h3>by Moonanum James and Mahtowin Munro</h3><img src="http://www.iacboston.org/uaine/images/uaine4.jpg" alt="" width="449" height="282" />Every year since 1970, United American Indians of New England have organized the National Day of Mourning observance in Plymouth at noon on Thanksgiving Day. Every year, hundreds of Native people and our supporters from all four directions join us. Every year, including this year, Native people from throughout the Americas will speak the truth about our history and about current issues and struggles we are involved in.<strong>Why do hundreds of people stand out in the cold rather than sit home eating turkey and watching football? Do we have something against a harvest festival?</strong><strong>Of course not. But Thanksgiving in this country -- and in particular in Plymouth --is much more than a harvest home festival. It is a celebration of the pilgrim mythology.</strong><img src="http://www.iacboston.org/uaine/images/1_upeD220.jpg" alt="" /><object width="425" height="344" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/gLyBkH4Q2d0&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never" ></param><param name="allowNetworking" value="internal" ></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="false" ></param><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gLyBkH4Q2d0&hl=en&fs=1" ></param></object><strong>Native Americans - The Genocide of the Genuine Americans</strong>According to this mythology, the pilgrims arrived, the Native people fed them and welcomed them, the Indians promptly faded into the background, and everyone lived happily ever after.<strong>The truth is a sharp contrast to that mythology.</strong><strong>The pilgrims are glorified and mythologized because the circumstances of the first English-speaking colony in Jamestown were frankly too ugly (for example, they turned to <span style="color:#ff0000;">cannibalism</span> to survive) to hold up as an effective national myth.</strong> <strong>The pilgrims <span style="color:#ff0000;">did not find an empty land</span> any more than Columbus "discovered" anything. <span style="color:#ff0000;">Every inch of this land is Indian land.</span></strong><strong>The pilgrims (who did not even call themselves pilgrims) did not come here seeking religious freedom; they already had that in Holland. They came here as part of a commercial venture. They introduced <span style="color:#ff0000;">sexism, racism, anti-lesbian and gay bigotry, jails, and the class system</span> to these shores.</strong><strong>One of the very first things they did when they arrived on Cape Cod -- before they even made it to Plymouth -- <span style="color:#ff0000;">was to rob Wampanoag graves</span> at Corn Hill and steal as much of the Indians' winter provisions of corn and beans as they were able to carry. They were no better than any other group of Europeans when it came to their treatment of the Indigenous peoples here. And no, they did not even land at that sacred shrine called Plymouth Rock, a monument to racism and oppression which we are proud to say we buried in 1995.</strong><object width="425" height="344" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/jyGNNI8MAso&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never" ></param><param name="allowNetworking" value="internal" ></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="false" ></param><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jyGNNI8MAso&hl=en&fs=1" ></param></object><img src="http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/NWPPOD/EVNT2A-00239~Destruction-of-the-Pequot-Indians-by-Colonial-Forces-in-New-England-c-1637-Posters.jpg" alt="The Massacre of the Pequot People on Thanksgiving 1637" /><span style="color:#ff0000;">The first official "Day of Thanksgiving" was proclaimed in 1637 by Governor Winthrop. He did so to celebrate the safe return of men</span> from the Massachusetts Bay Colony <span style="color:#ff0000;">who had gone to Mystic, Connecticut</span> to <strong>participate in the <span style="color:#ff0000;">massacre of over 700 Pequot women, children, and men</span></strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">.</span><strong>About the only true thing in the whole mythology is that these pitiful European strangers would not have survived their first several years in "New England" were it not for the aid of Wampanoag people. What Native people got in return for this help was <span style="color:#ff0000;">genocide, theft of our lands, and never-ending repression</span>. We are treated either as quaint relics from the past, or are, to most people, virtually invisible.</strong><object width="425" height="344" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/DVKY6_Z2dtU&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never" ></param><param name="allowNetworking" value="internal" ></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="false" ></param><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DVKY6_Z2dtU&hl=en&fs=1" ></param></object><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">When we dare to stand up for our rights, we are considered unreasonable. When we speak the truth about the history of the European invasion, we are often told to "go back where we came from." Our roots are right here. They do not extend across any ocean.</span></strong>National Day of Mourning began in 1970 when a Wampanoag man, Wamsutta Frank James, was asked to speak at a state dinner celebrating the 350th anniversary of the pilgrim landing. He refused to speak false words in praise of the white man for bringing civilization to us poor heathens. <strong>Native people from throughout the Americas came to Plymouth, where they mourned their forebears who had been sold into slavery, burned alive, massacred, cheated, and mistreated <span style="color:#ff0000;">since the arrival of the Pilgrims in 1620</span>.</strong>But the commemoration of National Day of Mourning goes far beyond the circumstances of 1970.Can we give thanks as we remember Native political prisoner Leonard Peltier, who was framed up by the FBI and has been falsely imprisoned since 1976? Despite mountains of evidence exonerating Peltier and the proven misconduct of federal prosecutors and the FBI, Peltier has been denied a new trial. Bill Clinton apparently does not feel that particular pain and has refused to grant clemency to this innocent man.To Native people, the case of Peltier is one more ordeal in a litany of wrongdoings committed by the U.S. government against us. While the media in New England present images of the "Pequot miracle" in Connecticut, the vast majority of Native people continue to live in the most abysmal poverty.Can we give thanks for the fact that, on many reservations, unemployment rates surpass fifty percent? Our life expectancies are much lower, our infant mortality and teen suicide rates much higher, than those of white Americans. Racist stereotypes of Native people, such as those perpetuated by the Cleveland Indians, the Atlanta Braves, and countless local and national sports teams, persist. Every single one of the more than 350 treaties that Native nations signed has been broken by the U.S. government. The bipartisan budget cuts have severely reduced educational opportunities for Native youth and the development of new housing on reservations, and have caused cause deadly cutbacks in health-care and other necessary services.<strong>Are we to give thanks for being treated as unwelcome <span style="color:#ff0000;">in our own country?</span></strong>Or perhaps we are expected to give thanks for the war that is being waged by the Mexican government against Indigenous peoples there, with the military aid of the U.S. in the form of helicopters and other equipment? When the descendants of the Aztec, Maya, and Inca flee to the U.S., the descendants of the wash-ashore pilgrims term them 'illegal aliens" and hunt them down.<strong>We object to the "Pilgrim Progress" parade and to what goes on in Plymouth because they are making millions of tourist dollars every year from the false pilgrim mythology. That money is being made off the backs of our slaughtered indigenous ancestors.</strong>Increasing numbers of people are seeking alternatives to such holidays as Columbus Day and Thanksgiving. They are coming to the conclusion that, if we are ever to achieve some sense of community, we must first face the truth about the history of this country and the toll that history has taken on the lives of millions of Indigenous, Black, Latino, Asian, and poor and working class white people.<strong>The myth of Thanksgiving, served up with dollops of European superiority and manifest destiny, just does not work for many people in this country. As Malcolm X once said about the African-American experience in America, "We did not land on Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock landed on us." Exactly.</strong><object width="425" height="344" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/jyGNNI8MAso&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never" ></param><param name="allowNetworking" value="internal" ></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="false" ></param><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jyGNNI8MAso&hl=en&fs=1" ></param></object>[Mahtowin Munro (Lakota) and Moonanum James (Wampanoag)are co-leaders of United American Indians of New England.]</div>
'Meth and Rednecks' - a powerfully dangerous combination aimed at Americas' Change
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2008-11-16T21:54:12.000Z
2008-11-16T21:54:12.000Z
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<div><h2><a href="http://newsok.com/domestic-terrorism-activites-grow-after-vote-expert-says/article/3321561" target="_blank">Domestic terrorism activities grow after vote, expert says</a></h2>BY ROBERT MEDLEY- Published: November 13, 2008 (newsok.com)<strong>An uprising in white supremacist activities in the state appears to be inspired by the recent presidential election, an expert on domestic terrorism said Wednesday.</strong><div class="ad300" style="padding-top:0pt;"><h3 class="color bar"><img src="http://static.newsok.biz/sites/newsok7/images/video_icon.gif" alt="" />Featured Video</h3><div class="featuredVideocontainer"><div id="featuredVideo"><div class="title item0"><div class="titleHolder"><h2>Hate group propaganda on the Rise after the Election of Barack Obama -</h2><div class="imageHolder"><div class="thumb"><img src="http://brightcove.vo.llnwd.net/d6/unsecured/media/713285227/713285227_1917553090_asset-1226532048589.jpg?pubId=713285227" alt="" width="280" /></div></div><p class="desc"><span id="BCpubDate">Nov 13</span> An Oklahoma Highway Patrol official says yes.</p></div></div></div></div></div><a title="Gary Thornberry" href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Gary+Thornberry&CATEGORY=PERSON">Lt. Gary Thornberry</a>, an <a title="Oklahoma Highway Patrol" href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Oklahoma+Highway+Patrol&CATEGORY=ORGANIZATION">Oklahoma Highway Patrol</a> trooper and member of an <a title="Federal Bureau of Investigation" href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Federal+Bureau+of+Investigation&CATEGORY=ORGANIZATION">FBI</a> joint terrorism task force, said <a title="Barack Obama" href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Barack+Obama&CATEGORY=PERSON">President-elect Barack Obama</a>’s sweeping election victory has spawned a new round of hate in the state. Terrorism experts are monitoring groups such as the <a title="Ku Klux Klan" href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Ku+Klux+Klan&CATEGORY=ORGANIZATION">Ku Klux Klan</a> in response.Thornberry spoke on the <a title="Oklahoma City University" href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Oklahoma+City+University&CATEGORY=ORGANIZATION">Oklahoma City University</a> campus during a day-long conference on violent crime and terrorism sponsored by the <a title="OCU Department of Sociology and Justice Studies" href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=OCU+Department+of+Sociology+and+Justice+Studies&CATEGORY=ORGANIZATION">OCU Department of Sociology and Justice Studies</a> and the FBI. Thornberry told about 100 people who attended that there has been a recent increase in racist activity in Oklahoma. In a video interview with <em>The Oklahoman</em> after his presentation, Thornberry elaborated. "I would say we’re seeing an uprise in propaganda by right-wing, hate ... groups,” Thornberry said Wednesday. "We’ve seen more propaganda passed out by groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. We think that (Obama’s victory) is potentially part of the reason we’re seeing that type of propaganda.” Thornberry said law officers have taken note of fliers allegedly circulated by Klansmen in Pontotoc and Lincoln counties.<h3 class="subhead">Feeling threatened</h3>"I think some of these groups are threatened by the election results and they’re trying to build themselves back up,” Thornberry said. Police officers on the streets and sheriff’s deputies across the state, as well as residents, are the best source of information for preventing hate and terrorist activity, Thornberry said. "Oklahomans should continue to be vigilant,” he said. "Oklahomans are very good at calling and reporting information that is suspicious.” Thornberry said anyone with information about suspicious activities can contact local law enforcement agencies or the FBI. <em>Contributing: Staff writer <a title="Carrie Coppernoll" href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Carrie+Coppernoll&CATEGORY=PERSON">Carrie Coppernoll</a></em><em><a title="Carrie Coppernoll" href="http://newsok.com/keysearch/?er=1&CANONICAL=Carrie+Coppernoll&CATEGORY=PERSON"></a></em> <img src="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20081111/klan-slaying/images/1944bce7-5ff1-4be2-aac6-f99ef9e93b6a.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="264" align="left" /><strong><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/11/female-kkk-recruit-shot-a_n_143141.html" target="_blank"></a></strong> <strong><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/11/female-kkk-recruit-shot-a_n_143141.html" target="_blank"></a></strong><strong><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/11/female-kkk-recruit-shot-a_n_143141.html" target="_blank">This sickness is from the Huffington Post</a>;</strong> a blog we highly respect.It's apparent that <strong><em>'Palinism'</em></strong> is taking many forms these days.this however is the sickest. the death penalty was what she got without trial; so he should receive it in response, sans trial. Just stand him on the road, and pass out 1 gal of gas to her relatives; turn around and walk away.I guarantee you they will finish the job, cleanly and quickly. no need to spend more than $2.00 on a cheap trick like this.All White people don't deserve to have their reputations tarnished by some ignorance like this. this isn't 1920 boys.. grow up.<strong>"a black man in the White House. This makes some Americans feel they are losing their world – the sense that the country their forefathers built is slipping away from them."</strong><blockquote><strong>The number of racist hate groups tracked by the Southern Poverty Law Centre has grown by almost 50 per cent during the Bush administration years, from about 600 in 2000 to almost <span style="color:#ff0000;">900</span> now. In contrast to the 1990s, when the "angry white man" phenomenon fuelled the militia movement and led to the white-supremacist inspired Oklahoma City bombing, much of this new growth has been triggered by virulent hostility to immigrants pouring in from Mexico."</strong></blockquote><strong>Screw You Chucky Foster;</strong> <strong>and Your Ignorant <span style="color:#ff0000;">klansboys</span></strong>.<img src="http://badgals-radio.com/re-sig.jpg" alt="" />This photo provided by St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office shows Raymond Foster, the head of a Ku Klux Klan chapter from Bogalusa, La. Foster was booked into St. Tammany Parish jail in Covington, La., with second-degree murder charges in the death of a woman in rural St. Tammany Parish on Monday after she tried to back out of a KKK initiation ritual. (AP Photo/St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office) COVINGTON,La. — An Oklahoma woman invited to a rural Louisiana campsite for a Ku Klux Klan initiation ritual was shot and killed after she asked to be taken back to town, the sheriff of a New Orleans suburb said Tuesday. Eight people were arrested after authorities found the woman's body hidden under some brush, on the side of a road several miles from the remote campsite where the initiation was planned.Investigators found weapons, several flags and six Klan robes at the campsite, St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain said in a news release. Strain said the woman, whose identity was not released, was recruited over the Internet to participate in the ritual and then return to her home state to find other members for the white supremacist group. But Strain said the group's leader, Raymond "Chuck" Foster, 44, shot and killed the woman Sunday after a fight broke out when she tried to leave. Foster was charged with second-degree murder and is being held without bond. Capt. George Bonnett, a spokesman for the sheriff's department, said he didn't know what the initiation involved."We haven't completely sorted out if they finished the initiation," he said. "I assume that they had started it, but I don't know if they were finished." Bonnett said he doesn't know if Foster has an attorney. He also said that in three years with the department, this was the first time he had seen a case involving the KKK.<h2><a href="http://www.ktre.com/Global/story.asp?S=9307998" target="_blank">Child in Klan Costume Causes Controversy</a></h2>By: CJ Cassidy<img class="alignright" src="http://kfvs12.images.worldnow.com/images/9307998_BG1.jpg" alt="" />CAMPBELL, Mo. - <strong>Halloween's long gone, but the emotions one costume stirred up among folks in Campbell still linger. The mother of a two-year-old boy who took part in the Campbell, Missouri, Halloween parade wearing what appeared to be a Ku Klux Klan robe says its all a misunderstanding.</strong>Volunteer firefighters organized the parade which ran all the way down Campbell's Grand Avenue last Friday night.<strong>In that parade, a small child was dressed like what appeared to be a member of the Ku Klux Klan.</strong><strong>Sandra Arnold says she made the costume because they couldn't afford to buy one. She says she is sorry people were upset and think the costume gives Campbell a black eye.</strong><img class="alignright" src="http://exiledonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/ku_klux_klan_children.jpg" alt="" /><strong>Folks who attended the parade say the child didn't show up alone; an adult and a teenager also dressed Klan style came with the child. The teen's grandmother, Gene Frazier, says it was never meant to offend anyone. "We have all kinds of black friends, spanish friends. Her father's in prison, he was making calls telling people to vote for Obama," Frazier said.</strong>Still, parade organizers say they were shocked to see the ghostly looking clan make an appearance. "A lot of people say it's a free country. That's true it is. But there needs to be a guideline...I think it's foolish. I hate that it gave us a black eye," said Allen Edwards. The parade wound its way down Grand Avenue in front of the police department and city hall.<strong>Organizers say they couldn't figure out how to tell the trio to leave, and police say they couldn't arrest them because they weren't breaking any laws.</strong>"It was a Halloween parade. We had people dressed up as witches, devils, anything you can imagine you know," Chief Weldon Wallace said. All the same, Campbell Mayor Raymond Gunter says he's outraged, and apologizes to anyone offended by the costumes. In a statement, he says there have been many complaints and the city council will be looking at parade policies and implement guidelines for entries and participation.<strong>As for Gene Frazier, she still thinks it's just a costume. "I can see some of the blacks may take offendant to it. It offends any race. It was not put out to hurt anyone. It was just kids trying to join in the parade have fun like everyone else." Arnold, mother of four, says she's read some internet comments she calls harsh but is not afraid.</strong>She says her children will take part in the parade next year, but she's going to buy costumes and they won't be ghosts.<h2><a href="http://newsok.com/domestic-terrorism-activites-grow-after-vote-expert-says/article/3321561" target="_blank"></a><strong><a>Local Newspapers Cover Rising Number of Racist Anti-Obama Actions in Small Towns</a></strong></h2><span class="text">By Dexter Hill</span><img class="alignright" src="http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/photos/headshots/o/ObamaBarack_L.jpg" alt="" /><span class="text_sm">Published: November 14, 2008 5:30 PM ET updated Thursday</span><span class="text"><strong>NEW YORK</strong> Many conservative pundits and Republican officeholders on the national stage have reacted to the election of Barack Obama as a promising step forward in the history of race relations and democracy in the U.S. <strong>But gaining much less coverage from the national media are local reactions that are far less accepting and positive.</strong></span>Away from the spotlight, many local newspapers around the country have covered recent incidents of racially motivated reactions to last week's election, from flags hung upside-down to the dangling of nooses and cross burnings. As we noted last week, a couple in northern New Jersey who had an Obama sign on their front lawn woke up to find the charred remains of a cross. Local residents today announced a "unity march" to protest the still-unsolved incident.Now come these fresh reports. Also see our new update:<strong>In Midland, Mich., a man dressed in full Ku Klux Klan regalia walked around toting a handgun and waving an American flag. Initially denying it, the man eventually admitted to police that the display was a reaction to the Obama victory.</strong> “[The man] had a concealed weapon permit and was walking up and down the sidewalk in front of a vehicle dealership while some motorists shouted obscenities at him and others shouted accolades," police told The Saginaw News.Parents in <strong>Rexburg, Idaho, contacted school officials this week after they learned that 2nd and 3rd graders on a school bus were chanting, "Assasssinate Obama!"</strong>The Associated Press revealed on Wednesday, <strong>"Police on eastern Long Island are investigating reports that more than a dozen cars were spray painted with racist graffiti, reportedly including a message targeting President-elect Barack Obama.</strong> The graffiti included racist slurs and sexually graphic references. At least one resident in the quiet Mastic neighborhood told Newsday her son's car was scribbled with a message threatening to kill Obama."From the Staten Island Advance this week: <strong>"The NYPD yesterday confirmed they are treating the Election night beating of a black Stapleton teen by a group of whites as a hate crime.</strong> Ali Kamara, 17, a black Muslim and immigrant from Liberia, said he was beaten with a baseball bat Tuesday night by four white men who shouted 'Obama,' before beginning the attack."From The Republican in Springfield, Mass.: "Community leaders including area clergy gathered Wednesday to show support and offer help to congregation members whose new church on Tinkham Road was destroyed last week by arson....<strong>The predominantly black congregation's new church was under construction in the Sixteen Acres neighborhood when it was consumed in an early morning blaze on Nov. 5, a few hours after the election of Barack Obama as the nation's first black president.</strong> The timing prompted the church pastor, Bishop Bryant Robinson Jr., to question whether the fire was set and a hate crime."Employees at <strong>Hampel's Key and Lockshop in Traverse City, Michigan, flew an American flag upside down last Wednesday protesting of the new president-elect, the Traverse City Record-Eagle reported. One worker used a racial slur during an interview with the Record-Eagle: "(The inverted flag is) an international signal for distress and we feel our country is in distress because the n----- got in,</strong>" said Hampel’s employee Rod Nyland, who later apologized for the comment, according to the Record-Eagle.One North Carolina man who flew his flag upside-down claimed that voters were racist, electing Obama because of his skin color, according to the Winston-Salem Journal. “The flag is stretched upside-down between two poles in a field, with a black X running from end to end. The X is a reference to the Confederate flag, said flag-owner Tony Heath. It reflects his belief that the Confederate flag has been unfairly targeted for protest by people trying to be politically correct,” the Journal reported.<strong>In Pennsylvania, an interracial couple in Apolacon Township discovered the remains of a burned cross in their front yard. “The couple discovered the remnants of the cross about 8:15 a.m. Wednesday (Nov. 5) when a man knocked at their door.</strong> Johnson looked out the front window and noticed charring on the utility pole, then discovered two charred 1-by-3-inch planks, each about 4 feet in length, beneath it,” according to the Star-Gazette. The woman, who is Jewish, lives with her husband, who is black. "The Little Meadows area was the site of KKK rallies several decades ago, and a local woman who worked on Obama's campaign said Wednesday she heard tales of racist remarks directed at supporters," the story concludes.Just today, two men were arrested there: 19-year-old Forrest Ashcraft and 22-yearold Stephen Barret of Friendsville. They're charged with ethnic intimidation and trespassing.Authorities in Temecula, Calif., found spray-painted graffiti on a city sidewalk containing a swastika and anti-Obama slogan.From today's Los Angeles Times: "Vandals spray-painted swastikas and racial slurs on a house and several cars in Torrance that displayed campaign signs or bumper stickers for President-elect Barack Obama, authorities said Tuesday. The incidents occurred Saturday night in the Hollywood Riviera section of the city, said Sgt. Bernard Anderson. Four separate incidents were reported the next day, he said. No arrests have been made."At one house, the phrase 'Go Back to Africa' was spray-painted across the wall, in addition to a racial epithet on the garage door, Anderson said. Several parked vehicles on the streets were spray-painted with racial slurs, he said."<strong>Today, the NAACP called on North Carolina State University to expel four students who spray painted racist messages about Obama. Two of the messages said: "Let's shoot that (N-word) in the head" and "Hang Obama by a noose."</strong><strong>Students at Baylor University woke up on Election Day to a rope tied like a noose hanging from a tree outside of Morrison Hall,</strong> according to college newspaper The Lariat: “Later, verbal altercations occurred outside of Penland Residence Hall. A group of Obama supporters were walking around shouting 'Obama' and then passed a group of white men outside who made threatening and racist remarks, said Emmanuel Orupabo, Arlington senior,” according to the Lariat.<strong>Another post-election noose incident happened in Maine.</strong> “More than 75 people rallied Sunday against an incident last week in which black figures were hanged by nooses from trees on Mount Desert Island the day after Barack Obama won the presidential election,” according to the <strong>Bangor Daily News. At a high school in Gray, a student was suspended after standing up in class, making a racist comment, and saying Obama should not be president,</strong> the News reported. Later that day, graffiti making a similar statement was found in a boys’ restroom.In <strong>Allison Park, Pa., a student claimed that a teacher's aide went on a rant attacking the Obama victory</strong> on two occasions, one time in front of another teacher. According to the eleventh-grader's mother, the aide told the biracial student that <strong>Obama was going to be shot and killed, the U.S. flag would be changed to the KFC flag, and the national anthem would be changed to "Movin' On Up,</strong>" the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. The teacher's aide has been suspended while the school investigates.At the <strong>University of Alabama, The Tuscaloosa News reported</strong>, "a political candidate's poster" on a faculty member's office door was defaced Monday evening. A university spokeswoman interviewed by the News withheld which candidate was on the poster and what was written on it, but <strong>WVUA-TV -- a Tuscaloosa station owned by the university -- reported today that the poster featured a picture of President-elect Barack Obama. The TV station also reported that message said "He'll be shot..." followed by the "N" word.</strong> The university provost and vice president of student affairs wrote to students, faculty, and staff, calling the incident "totally unacceptable," according to the News.<h2><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/white-rage-the-rednecks-out-to-kill-obama-1017497.html" target="_blank">White rage: The rednecks out to kill Obama</a></h2>(independent.co.uk/)When millions watched Barack Obama give his history-making victory speech in Grant Park on election night, one thing stood out starkly – the bulletproof screen surrounding him. But just how serious is the threat of assassination to the President-elect?By Andrew Gumbel <em>Sunday, 16 November 2008</em><div class="photoCaption" style="width:300px;margin-left:10px;"><a><img src="http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00082/gartrell_ap_82581t.jpg" alt="Tharin Gartrell and his cousin Shawn Adolf were arrested after plotting to assassinate Obama in August" width="300" height="375" /></a> <strong>AP -</strong> Tharin Gartrell and his cousin Shawn Adolf were arrested after plotting to assassinate Obama in August<ul class="paging"><li class="label"><a><img title="Photos" src="http://www.independent.co.uk/independent.co.uk/images/i_photos.gif" alt="Photos" width="14" height="10" /> More pictures</a></li></ul></div><strong>Shawn Adolf and his cousin Tharin Gartrell fancied that 28 August, 2008 would be a good day for the next president of the United States to die. They had the guns – Gartrell was later caught with a Ruger Model M77 Mark II bolt-action rifle with an attached scope and bipod, and a Remington Model 721, also with a scope. They were believers in a radical white supremacist ideology that gave them the motivation they needed to risk their own lives, if necessary, to prevent a black man from entering the Oval Office. (Or, as a friend reported Adolf as saying: "No nigger should ever live in the White House.")</strong> And they had at least the outlines of a plan. They checked into the downtown Denver hotel where they believed Barack Obama was staying, and talked about the ways they could try to gun down the Democratic nominee on the day he was due to accept his party's nomination at an outdoor sports arena before an adoring crowd of more than 70,000 people. Like many assassins before them, both the successful ones and the idle fantasists, <strong>Adolf and Gartrell took their inspiration from popular culture.</strong><strong>They considered hiding a rifle inside a hollowed out television camera – an idea they borrowed from the Kevin Costner-Whitney Houston vehicle The Bodyguard.</strong> (It is also similar to the way al-Qa'eda operatives posing as a news crew assassinated Ahmad Shah Massoud, the leader of Afghanistan's Northern Alliance, on 9 September, 2001, but it is far from clear whether Adolf and Gartrell had any notion of this.)They toyed with the idea of hitting Obama from as far away as 750 yards, using one of their high-powered rifles; according to their friend Nathan Johnson, who may or may not have been part of the plot, <strong>they had in mind the conspiracy theory that President Kennedy was not shot by Lee Harvey Oswald from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository building, but rather by professional assassins stationed on the "grassy knoll" above Dallas's Dealey Plaza.</strong>None of these plans was ever remotely realistic, however. Adolf and Gartrell may have had some fearsome weaponry, and a vague affiliation with a white supremacist biker gang called the Sons of Silence, which disavowed them the moment they were arrested. <strong>But they were also rank amateurs living in a crystal methamphetamine-induced haze of paranoia and race hatred.</strong>(One can't help thinking Adolf's name went to his head, at least a little, as he fingered the swastika ring on his finger.) They had no clue how to circumvent the security surrounding Obama – prosecutors who examined their plans laughed them off as ludicrously naïve. And they couldn't even figure out what every half-interested member of the press corps knew, that Obama was not staying at the Hyatt Regency, the temporary HQ of the Democratic National Committee, but at a different hotel altogether.<strong>Four days before Obama's acceptance speech, Gartrell was pulled over for drunk-driving in the Denver suburb ' of Aurora after a patrol officer spotted his rented Dodge Ram truck swerving erratically, and the whole plot, such as it was, fell apart almost instantly. Certainly, the officer found plenty inside the truck to sound alarm bells – the two high-powered rifles, a silencer, a bulletproof vest, camouflage clothing, and three fake identification cards. But it was also clear that Gartrell was high on meth as well as drunk. The truck contained enough drug-making equipment to be considered a mobile meth lab.</strong>Gartrell ratted out Johnson and Adolf almost as soon as he was taken in and photographed for his singularly striking mugshot. (With his bleached blonde hair, heavy silver earrings and pierced lip, he looks like the neo-Nazi from central casting.) Johnson was in the room at the Hyatt Regency, and wasted no time in talking himself – insisting he had no idea about any assassination plot while almost simultaneously telling the world Adolf was planning to "go down in a blaze of glory" and take Obama with him.<strong>Adolf was a tougher proposition, the only one of the three with a serious criminal record, including burglary, forgery, drugs and weapons raps. At the time of his arrest he was wanted on eight outstanding charges and had recently skipped out on a $1 million bail payment. He was staying at a different hotel in the Denver suburbs. When the police arrived, he jumped out of his sixth-floor room on to the roof of the hotel kitchen four floors below, then jumped again to the ground, breaking his ankle as he landed. He didn't make it far. He, too, was found to be high on meth. When asked why he was wearing a bulletproof vest, he said he was convinced someone wanted to kill him.</strong>We will no doubt learn more colourful details about the trio of would-be assassins when their trial begins this week.Intriguingly, though, <strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">they are being prosecuted on drugs and weapons charges only.</span></strong> Their prosecutor, Troy Eid, has said he is absolutely confident the "meth heads", as he calls them, never posed a risk to Obama or anyone else. Not everyone is happy with this decision. After all, marginal people have hatched assassination plots before, and sometimes succeeded – one thinks of John Hinckley hitting President Reagan in 1981. And Barack Obama was never just another presidential contender; as the first African American to come even close to the highest political office on the planet, in a country whose history is spattered with the blood of racial animus, he is, by common consent, a target several orders of magnitude more tempting than the average for an extremist fringe of kooks, crazies, anti-government militia types, Ku Klux Klan members and other white race warriors, all of whom tend to be unforgiving in their ideological fervour, not to mention armed to the teeth.He was granted 24-hour Secret Service protection just a few months into his campaign, in May 2007, after his friend and fellow Illinois senator, Dick Durbin, raised the alarm on his behalf. (Usually candidates receive that protection far later in the election cycle, after they have their party primaries sewn up.) We don't know exactly how hard the Secret Service has had to work on his behalf, although <strong>we do know that two men from the old confederate South – one from North Carolina, the other from Florida – were arrested and charged with making threatening statements against him in July.</strong> <strong>We know that effigies of Obama being lynched, or sliced through the head with a hatchet, have popped up periodically around the country – one on the campus of the University of Kentucky, another in Orange County, California in the run-up to Halloween.</strong>We also know that Obama's supporters have been almost maniacal in their desire to prevent him sharing the tragic fate of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King. On a couple of occasions during primary season, when security ' guards at Obama campaign events stopped searching people's bags because of the backlog of people trying to get in, sympathetic reporters, bloggers and ordinary members of the public complained as loudly as they knew how.Likewise, <strong>when someone at a Sarah Palin rally in Clearwater, Florida in early October reacted to a mention of Obama's name by shouting "kill him!", there was such a clamour on the internet that the Secret Service made a rare public announcement saying it was launching an official investigation.</strong><h2>How much of a risk of assassination does Obama face?</h2>The most immediate, comfortable answer to that is: not much. The Secret Service has vastly improved its procedures and protocols since the spate of political assassinations of the 1960s and early 1970s. No president would now be allowed to drive at a snail's pace in an open-top car through the centre of a major city, as John Kennedy did in Dallas on 22 November, 1963. The sheer numbers of Secret Service members assigned to presidential protection has increased dramatically since the attempt on Reagan's life – we don't have exact figures on how much, but we do know that when one unhinged man toyed with the idea of tossing a grenade at President Bush in Atlanta in 2005, he never got remotely close enough to give it a real try.The more worrying answer is that Obama will almost certainly inspire a large number of assassination plots because of the colour of his skin, and that it only takes one of them to be blessed with luck, proper organisation and a little official incompetence to pose a serious threat. When asked how much of a risk he faces, he has acknowledged that the color of his skin will be a problem for some people.And he knows that <strong>Colin Powell, the only other African American of significant stature in recent times to consider a run at the White House, decided not to pursue the presidency in part because his wife, Alma, feared for his safety.</strong>"There's not any question he's under more threat than most politicians," said Mark Potok, one of America's leading researchers into hate groups who edits a monthly Intelligence Report for the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center. "I think we are seeing a kind of perfect storm of conditions that might well help white supremacist movements grow, and grow rapidly. "We have changing demographics, and the Census Bureau projection that whites will lose their majority status in America by 2040. We have the tanking economy, and now...<strong>a black man in the White House. This makes some Americans feel they are losing their world – the sense that the country their forefathers built is slipping away from them."</strong><blockquote><strong>The number of racist hate groups tracked by the Southern Poverty Law Centre has grown by almost 50 per cent during the Bush administration years, from about 600 in 2000 to almost 900 now. In contrast to the 1990s, when the "angry white man" phenomenon fuelled the militia movement and led to the white-supremacist inspired Oklahoma City bombing, much of this new growth has been triggered by virulent hostility to immigrants pouring in from Mexico.</strong></blockquote>It is entirely possible, though, that the emphasis will change now that Obama is about to enter the White House. Certainly, the neo-Nazi movement senses an opportunity: to judge by the endless chatter on far-right websites, they see a President Obama as the best recruiting tool they've had in years. "Obama will be a signal, a clear signal for millions of our people," the former Louisiana Ku Klux Klan leader and erstwhile candidate for governor, David Duke, wrote earlier this year in an essay he called A Black Flag for White America."Obama is like that new big dark spot on your arm that finally sends you to the doctor for some real medicine. ... Obama is the pain that let's [sic] your body know that something is dreadfully wrong... Millions of European Americans will inevitably react with new awareness of their heritage and the need for them to defend and advance it." That logic suggests the far right is not, in fact, itching to pull the trigger on Obama. Except that we are hardly dealing with rational people.The neo-Nazi magazine National Socialist wrote a cover story in September purporting to debunk the "myth" that Obama might be assassinated. But the cover also showed a photograph of the candidate in the crosshairs of a rifle (altered to look like a swastika) under the headline: "Kill this NIGGER?" And the piece went on to suggest that Obama, backed by Communists and Jews, planned to commit genocide against working white people.Likewise, the "imperial wizard" of the Ku Klux Klan, an Indiana railway worker who calls himself Ray Larsen, denied any intent to attack Obama when interviewed on television a few months ago. But he added: "If that man is elected president, he'll be shot sure as hell." If that doesn't have the Secret Service worried, it should. Some security experts have already started drafting memos with ideas on how to keep Obama better protected using state-of-the-art technology – for example, hand-held TeraHertz scanners that would-be assassins could not spot. Martin Dudziak, a Virginia-based security specialist who has worked on counter-terrorism issues, pointed out glumly that it is unusually difficult to profile would-be attackers.As he put it in a memo drafted in October: "There are frankly and very unfortunately, a lot of people in the USA who have deep-rooted 'phobic' hatred of an African American... being president. We should not try to deny this sombre reality." If the inept Denver plot was not warning enough, news of another planned anti-Obama assault broke at the end of last month with the arrest of two White Power advocates in Tennessee. Daniel Cowart and Paul Schlesselman didn't appear to be any more competent than Adolf and Gartrell.They had grand schemes to kill more than 100 African Americans, and fantasised about killing Obama dressed in white dinner jackets and top hats, but they couldn't so much as rob a house – they gave up on their intended target after spotting a guard dog out back and got picked up after shooting out the windows in a church. Still, they had some serious weapons: a sawn-off shotgun, high-powered rifles and a couple of handguns. And Cowart appears to have been a founding member of a hate group called the Supreme White Alliance. While their dreams of killing Obama might have been fanciful, some of their other plans might not."They might well have shot up a black high school, or hurt a group of black children," Potok said. And it is entirely conceivable that other, more competent criminals will follow them. Obama may not have appeared remotely daunted when he delivered his victory speech in Chicago's Grant Park on election night, but it is worth remembering that he was also speaking behind a bulletproof glass shield. Such precautions, one suspects, will be the rule rather than the exception over the next four or eight years."There is a boiling rage just beneath the surface," Potok added. "We're talking about a minority, clearly, of whites. It's hard to say how large that group of people is. But I think this represents the beginning of a real white backlash in a certain quarter of the population."<a href="http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14789559" target="_blank"><strong>Ku Klux Klan warns race war if Obama wins</strong></a>Monday, 03 November , 2008, 16:15<strong>Arkansas:</strong> A Ku Klux Klan leader has warned of a “race war” in the United States if Barack Obama wins his White House bid.<blockquote><strong>Describing African-Americans as aliens who have “invaded” the United States to destroy “Christian culture”, Thomas Robb, 62, who styles himself as the Grand Knight of the Ku Klux Klan, warned: “We’re in the middle of a race war.”</strong></blockquote><a href="http://sify.com/news/specials/uspolls2008/">Sify Special: US polls 2008</a><img src="http://www.aztlan.net/ku_klux_klan.jpg" alt="null" width="443" height="415" /><strong>Robb who claims he is now recruiting as far away as Britain, went on to say: “I have people from England coming here for training. This war is between our people who I see as the rightful owners and leaders of this great country and their people, the blacks. People are angered by the invasion of their communities by those who belong somewhere other than our schools, churches and communities.</strong>“We’re being taken over by aliens and I certainly consider Obama an alien,” Robb was quoted as saying. <a href="http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14789200"></a><a class="bluetext" href="http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14789200">Obama is a hit in India as well!</a> Robb, however, criticized plots to kill Obama.<blockquote><strong>“Despite what many may believe, the last thing I want is for someone to kill Obama. My, oh my, that would be a disaster. That would turn him into a martyr, just like Martin Luther King. For sure I don’t want him in the White House but there are thousands of Obamas who would want to take his place.</strong></blockquote>“If someone does assassinate him, it’d give the authorities a reason to really hammer the white supremacist movement,” the New York Times quoted him, as saying.<h2><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/11/14/klan.slaying/" target="_blank">Murder suspect has long history with Klan</a></h2><ul><li><strong>NEW:</strong> Chuck Foster started Southern White Knights in 2001, group says</li><li>Foster shot Cynthia Lynch after she became homesick, police say</li><li>Louisiana Klan group called itself the Sons of Dixie</li><li>Foster, 44, charged with second-degree murder; seven others jailed</li><li style="list-style:none;"><strong>COVINGTON, Louisiana (CNN)</strong> -- The suspect in the shooting of a woman killed during a Ku Klux Klan initiation has at least a seven-year history of Klan activity, according to an organization that tracks hate groups nationwide.</li></ul><div id="imageChanger1"><div class="cnnStoryPhotoBox"><div id="cnnImgChngr" class="cnnImgChngr"><div id="cnnImgChngrNested"><img src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/CRIME/11/14/klan.slaying/art.lynch.jpg" alt="Relatives describe Cynthia Lynch as having a deep need to feel wanted and eager to join groups." hspace="0" vspace="0" width="292" height="219" /><div class="cnnStoryPhotoCaptionBox"><div class="cnn3pxTB9pxLRPad">Relatives describe Cynthia Lynch as having a deep need to feel wanted and eager to join groups.</div></div></div><div class="cnnStoryPhotoBoxNavigation"><div id="cnnImgChngrPrvsLbl"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/11/14/klan.slaying/#"><img id="cnnImgChngrPrvsBtn" title="Click to view previous image" src="http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/2.0/content/in_the_news/left_gray_btn.gif" border="0" alt="Click to view previous image" width="26" height="19" name="cnnImgChngrPrvsBtn" /></a></div><div id="cnnImgChngrLbl">1 of 3</div><div id="cnnImgChngrNxtLbl"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/11/14/klan.slaying/#"><img id="cnnImgChngrNxtBtn" title="Click to view next image" src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/2.0/global/pic_changer/next.gif" border="0" alt="Click to view next image" width="26" height="19" name="cnnImgChngrNxtBtn" /></a></div></div><div class="cnnWireBoxFooter"><img src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/2.0/mosaic/base_skins/baseplate/corner_wire_BL.gif" alt="" width="4" height="4" /></div></div></div></div>Raymond "Chuck" Foster, 44, was the founding Imperial Wizard, or national leader, of the Southern White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, a Klan faction formed January 1, 2001, in Watson, Louisiana, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center."During the next three years, the group developed chapters in three other states while maintaining a low profile," the Montgomery, Alabama-based center said on its Web site.By 2004, the Southern White Knights had chapters in Savannah, Georgia; Homosassa Springs, Florida; and Marion, Ohio. Its founding chapter relocated to Denham Springs, Louisiana. The group disbanded in early 2005, the center said.Foster faces second-degree murder charges in the death of Cynthia Lynch, 43, of Tulsa, Oklahoma. <span class="cnnEmbeddedMosLnk"><img src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/2.0/mosaic/tabs/video.gif" border="0" alt="Video" width="16" height="14" /><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/11/14/klan.slaying/#cnnSTCVideo">Watch how an initiation rite went wrong »</a></span><strong>Authorities said Lynch was recruited over the Internet and took a bus to Slidell, Louisiana, where she was met by two Klan members. The three went to a campsite in the woods near Sun, Louisiana, about 60 miles north of New Orleans, where they met other members of the group.</strong>Capt. George Bonnett of the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Department and Sheriff Jack Strain gave CNN this account of what happened:<strong>During the initiation rite, members of the Klan group, which calls itself the Sons of Dixie, shaved Lynch's head. After 24 hours of drills, including chanting and running with torches, she asked to be taken to town. An argument began, and the group's leader, Foster, allegedly pushed her to the ground and shot her to death without warning.</strong><div class="cnnStoryElementBox cnnFacts"><h4>FBI Seeking Leads</h4><p style="font-size:10pt;color:#000000;font-family:arial;" align="left">The FBI urges anyone with information on the death of Cynthia Lynch or the Sons of Dixie to call the bureau at at 504-816-3000.</p></div>Lynch wanted to leave the campsite because she was homesick, investigators concluded after talking to Lynch's family in Tulsa.<strong>After the shooting, "Foster, we believe, removed a knife from his pocket and rolled over the victim and began a process of trying to remove the bullet from her body ... because he was trying to destroy evidence where law enforcement would not be able to piece these things together," Strain said.</strong><strong>Other members of the Sons of Dixie helped cover up the slaying for Foster, their leader or "Grand Lordship," Strain added. The attempt to conceal the killing included burning the woman's personal items, Strain said.</strong>The Southern Poverty Law Center said it is unaware of any <a class="cnnInlineTopic" href="http://topics.cnn.com/topics/ku_klux_klan">Klan</a> group operating under the name Dixie Brotherhood or Sons of Dixie, names that have surfaced in media reports of Lynch's death.However, the organization said it is aware that last year, a new Klan group calling itself the Dixie Rangers Knights of the Ku Klux Klan formed in Walker, Louisiana, about 80 miles from where the slaying took place."It's unclear at this point if the Dixie Rangers and the Dixie Brotherhood/Sons of Dixie are one and the same," the center said.The FBI said Thursday that it is assisting local authorities in the case. The FBI's top agent in New Orleans said the agency usually doesn't monitor specific groups but will look into whether federal laws were violated."The <a class="cnnInlineTopic" href="http://topics.cnn.com/topics/federal_bureau_of_investigation">FBI</a> is working closely with local law enforcement authorities investigating this recent incident," Special Agent in Charge David W. Welker said. He added that the FBI would "aggressively investigate" any leads.<div class="cnnStoryElementBox"><h4>Don't Miss</h4><ul class="cnnRelated"><li><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/11/12/klan.slaying/index.html">Home of KKK leader searched</a></li><li><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/11/11/klan.slaying/index.html">Eight held in KKK initiation slaying</a></li><li><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/11/12/klan.sued/index.html">Teen's suit seeks to bankrupt Klan group</a></li></ul></div>Sheriff's investigators said they received the initial tip from a convenience store clerk. Two of the group members went into the store and asked the clerk whether he knew how to get bloodstains out of their clothes, Strain said. The clerk told them no and called the sheriff after they left.Officials tracked down the two members and arrested them. Authorities established telephone contact with other members of the group who were still at the campsite and let them know law enforcement officials were on their way. They surrendered without incident.Foster was elsewhere in the woods, but he also surrendered, the sheriff said.The woman's body was found under loose brush along a road several miles from the campsite. At the campsite, investigators found Confederate flags, KKK banners, five Klan robes and an Imperial Wizard robe.Foster was taken to the St. Tammany Parish jail, and no bail has been set, authorities said.Seven other suspects were jailed, charged with obstruction of justice. Bail for each was set at $500,000.On Wednesday, sheriff's investigators searched a house Foster had rented for the past five years in Bogalusa. They found Klan paraphernalia, documents and computer files. Among the seized documents were membership applications, titles and a chain of command for group members"We recovered various documents out of that home that are giving us an indication of the organizational structure and the organizational guidelines of the group," Bonnett said.Fred Oswold, chief of criminal investigations for the sheriff's office, said that the Sons of Dixie group is small and that those arrested make up most of its membership."So far, we have learned that they were a small group, but they were fairly organized," said Oswold, who said his agency is working with the FBI to learn more about the group.<h2 class="headline"><a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/11/13/america/NA-US-Klan-Sued.php" target="_blank">Civil trial for Ku Klux Klan group begins</a></h2><div class="byline"><div class="dots"><img src="http://img.iht.com/images/dot_h.gif" alt="" width="3" height="1" /></div><div id="author" style="float:left;">The Associated Press</div><div id="pubDate" style="float:right;">Published: November 13, 2008</div><strong><a id="articleLocation" title="Click to view map" href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/11/13/america/NA-US-Klan-Sued.php#" name="articleLocation">BRANDENBURG, Kentucky</a>:</strong> A civil rights attorney argued Wednesday that a Kentucky-based Ku Klux Klan chapter incited violence against minorities with racist speeches, a charge denied by the group's leader in later testimony during the group's civil trial.<img class="alignright" src="http://fairimmigration.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/0050_ku_klux_klan_03.jpg" alt="" />The Southern Poverty Law Center has sued the nation's second-largest Klan outfit on behalf of a Latino teen who was severely beaten in 2006 at a county fair by two Klan members. The Klansmen were convicted and served two years in prison. The center wants its lawsuit to bankrupt the group, Imperial Klans of America.<strong>"Speakers would stand up and say, 'Kill the Jews. But, before you kill them, torture them first,'" law center co-founder Morris Dees said in his opening statement.</strong><strong>The speeches and "hate metal" music were prevalent each spring at "Nordic Fest," an annual gathering of neo-Nazis, skinheads and Klansmen at Grand Wizard Ron Edwards' 28-acre (11-hectare) compound in southwest Kentucky, Dees said.</strong>Called to the stand later by Dees, Edwards countered that the group is not normally violent but would defend itself if provoked, like a caged animal.<strong>"We're no more dangerous than a rabbit or a dog," Edwards said. "Put your hand in their mouth and it might bite you."</strong>The lawsuit against the chapter, Edwards and Klansman Jarred Hensley seeks a "substantial judgment" for the beating of Jordan Gruver. Hensley and fellow Klansman Andrew Watkins were convicted in the beating, but Watkins and other members initially named in the civil lawsuit have reached undisclosed settlements with the law center.Edwards and Hensley told jurors in their opening statements that they were not violent and did not hurt anyone. Edwards said the people who beat the teenager were not part of his Klan and were not recruiting for him that night."I stay above the law," said Edwards, whose arms and neck are covered in tattoos of crosses and Nazi symbols.<strong>Hensley, wearing an Imperial Klans of America golf shirt and chewing gum, also denied setting out to injure Gruver that night and said he wasn't at the fair to recruit. "We were there to have a good time," Hensley said.</strong>Dees said Edwards used the Imperial Klans of America and its affiliation with other groups as a way to make money by charging for membership and through a record label, White Rider Records, that sells music filled with hate lyrics.During "Nordic Fest," Edwards doesn't partake in the speeches and music, Dees said. Instead, he stays at the front gate, collecting cash from people. "He operates in cash," Dees said.Edwards said there was nothing sinister about his entrepreneurial attempts, including the record company.<strong>"I'm going to prove I have the right to put out CDs like blacks put out rap," Edwards said in his opening statement.</strong>Later during more than 90 minutes of questioning, Dees talked about the group's shaky finances and repeated accusations it uses violence against minorities.<strong>Edwards repeated several times that the group isn't violent. But Dees played a clip from a National Geographic documentary filmed earlier this year in which Edwards expressed a different sentiment.</strong><strong>"We can be very violent ... and do what we have to do to survive," Edwards said on the video. Edwards testified that the comments were taken out of context.</strong>The trial drew about two dozen spectators, including several people wearing black jackets with swastikas and other Nazi symbols. A state trooper told one of the black-jacketed spectators not to stare at witnesses and jurors during a break in the testimony.<h2><a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_10908663">Richmond police officer resigns over Ku Klux Klan costume-party photos</a></h2>By Karl Fischer - West County Times11/05/2008 05:00:14 PM PST<p class="bodytext">A Richmond police officer resigned Wednesday after the department received photos of him posing at a Halloween costume party with someone dressed as a Ku Klux Klan member.</p><img class="alignright" src="http://www.ntnews.com.au/images/uploadedfiles/editorial/pictures/2007/08/05/2kkk.jpg" alt="" width="363" height="256" />A reader forwarded two photos to the Times in an e-mail Tuesday morning, both apparently depicting costume-clad people at a Halloween party. A man identified by multiple sources as Richmond police Officer Ben Murdoch appears in both photos, dressed as a rock star.Another, unidentified man also appears in the photos, dressed in the white sheet and conical white hat of the Ku Klux Klan. In both photos, those depicted are raising their hands in an apparent mock-Nazi salute.Police Chief Chris Magnus said he could not comment, other than to confirm that he placed Murdoch on paid leave Tuesday afternoon, when he learned of the pictures, and that Murdoch and the city parted ways Wednesday."If proven, that would be a punishable offense, up to and including termination," Magnus said. "It would show a complete lack of judgment, maturity and sensitivity. That is uncharacteristic of this department's personnel as a whole."Murdoch, 27, was sworn in to Richmond's police force in January. The city Web site shows that he was assigned to the patrol division, working in a beat east of Carlson Boulevard and south of Ohio Avenue, including the Laurel Park and Richmond Annex neighborhoods."He has the right (to free speech), but he understands that his exercise of that <span id="mn_Global"><span id="mn_Article">right creates an image of him, and of the police department," said attorney Michael Rains, who represents Murdoch. "He feels terrible. He told me, 'People don't know who I am, they don't know what I stand for.' He is sincerely sorry."Sorry enough, Rains added, that he resigned his job during an internal-affairs interview Wednesday morning. Rains said Murdoch and his roommates had a Halloween costume party Saturday night. His friend who wore the KKK costume, a Latino, evoked roars of laughter from the tight-knit group because he is an outspoken liberal and opponent of racism, Rains said.</span></span>Murdoch understands the perception problem the disclosure of the photos caused the department, Rains added.The Richmond Police Officers Association and the department already have weathered much negative attention this year for a political campaign flier released by the union before Tuesday's election; the flier was widely panned as a racist stereotyping of Richmond's Latino residents.Police administration and many Richmond officers, including the leadership of the department's minority associations, vocally condemned the flier after its release and bemoaned damage dealt to the budding relationship between city police and Richmond's growing population of Latino residents, merchants and political leaders.Racial tension and mistrust mark the length of the Richmond Police Department's modern history. City police received national attention during the 1980s for civil rights lawsuits over the police shootings of two black men that resulted in an epic financial settlement and mandated safeguards against racism and civil rights abuses, including the formation of the Richmond Police Commission.In 2006, several members of the department's command staff, all black, sued the city with accusations of racist treatment at the hands of Magnus and former Deputy Chief Lori Ritter. Both have denied the claims, and one of the plaintiffs dropped out of the suit this year. The case remains unresolved in Contra Costa Superior Court.<p class="tagline">Reach Karl Fischer at 510-262-2728 or <a href="mailto:kfischer@bayareanewsgroup.com">kfischer@bayareanewsgroup.com</a>.</p><p class="tagline"></p></div></div>