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Dr. Phil, Black Girl Thinks She Is White
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2018-11-10T16:00:00.000Z
2018-11-10T16:00:00.000Z
Nana Baakan Agyiriwah
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<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}3828608066,original{{/staticFileLink}}" target="_blank"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828608066,original{{/staticFileLink}}" width="320" class="align-left" alt="3828608066?profile=original" /></a></p><p>The Title of this video is, "Dr. Phil, Black Girl Thinks She Is White"</p><p>When I first saw this video of Treasure Richardson, I knew from the start it had to be a set up, a hoax, a scam or some such thing as that. In the ensuing days after the airing of this segment, with a little ground work and exposure by Treasure's Sister, Nina, it has come to light, that it is simply a scam for ratings and notoriety, perpetrated by a young woman and her mother who come from a very painful home life experience. While that is no excuse, it does help to fan the flame of the outrageousness of their behavior that subsequently landed them on the Dr. Phil Show.</p><p>From my experience with African Americans who identified as "white" it would only take a moment or two before the "black-ish" would come out. The illusion of race is really to perpetrate the fraud of the difference in color, when in fact it is the difference in ethnicity, culture, social orientation, lifestyle, etc. along with genetics that cause people of a certain ethnicity to manifest physically in a certain general form causing a general grouping of individuals. </p><p>To my thinking, White Supremacy is just as toxic as Black Supremacy. The two paradigms are pitched against one another to keep the separation active, but from a high station above the clouds, looking down on this planet, you see people, different people, but people nonetheless.</p><p>To me it shows how Creative the All Encompassing Divine Force can be in expressing itself through our physical reality. A garden filled with one type of flower holds a certain beauty but a garden of many flowers has a certain exquisite beauty that leans towards being quite breathtaking.</p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BbIeOUQPA4Y?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p><p> </p><p>In this video, I will be citing a commentary on this Dr. Phil segment, submitted to me, from an email buddy, named Chaz White. With all the commentary on this segment, I have found Mr. White's commentary to be the most profound so with his permission I will share it here.</p><p> <b>On</b> Monday, October 29, 2018, Mr. White wrote:</p><p><strong> "Such as a man thinketh... Such as he is."</strong></p><p> Blind Ridiculous Conformity ensures success in the "out-sane asylum" controlled by con artists. In wrestling,and you control the head of your opponent to direct the body of your opponent.</p><p>This show, like many others could be well scripted performance art. The programming is directed by mischief makers, i.e. authors of confusion, to condition mentalities for continued slavery of the populace.</p><p>We should first ask: What is the purpose of this story? Why is she being featured and promoted?? How does it serve system lords?</p><p>Confusion that confuses to more confusion is understandable in western cultures based upon confusion, while making that confusion seem like normal behavior.</p><p> She is only telling the same lie as so called "white people" tell.</p><p> If others can tell the same lie, why should not she?</p><p> Pay attention to Dr. Phil's comments and assertions. They are misguidedly misinformed and shows his ignorance based on the inconsistencies in his description of race being biologically definable.</p><p> He is after all DR. PHIL. Which means that his thoughts and research should be responsibly connected to the information he dispenses to the public such that it educates, rather than sensationalize the mind.</p><p> The so called, "well educated," therapist was not any better. Neither she nor Dr. Phil chose to address Race, Racism, or Whiteness, with the fact based approach which she so eloquently referred.</p><p> It's all a sham, scam, and ham, G-d Damn!</p><p> The system encourages scientific ignorance and moral stupidity, then preys upon it.</p><p> Snow is white. The albumen of a cooked egg is white. Clouds are white.</p><p> Humans are not White</p><p> The concept of whiteness is the source of racism. Every other definition of race is based on this flawed make-believe of "whiteness."</p><p> The invention of "whiteness" is rooted in pretension and presumption of the mentally/emotionally unstable mind. It is "Royalism," that is beyond reproach, inquiry or inspection. It's great to be the a royal or associate one's validity with royals.</p><p> Royalty does what it wants to do, without question It is always the victor with the spoils. It is the way of spoiled, overindulged children. They get their way at the expense of others deemed by them as inferiors, no matter what.</p><p> The designation of so called "white people" is even scientifically inconsistent with the definition of white itself. If white is the mixture of all colors (i.e. wavelengths of light), then that would mean that so called "white folks" are the most colored folks of all folks. </p><p> The inconsistency is heard when someone uses the oxy-morron that describes a person as a so called "black albino!"</p><p> Incidentally, the largest contingent of Albinos is in East Africa. </p><p> The attachment to "Whiteness" used to define any Humans, as superior, is a pathological dis-ease designed to soothe mental and emotional instability, while cloaking inadequacies and validating oppression upon any arbitrarily group designated as "not so called white".</p><p> The quality of the content of ones character has nothing to do with physical attributes of Humans. It has more to do with behavior and beliefs upon which that behavior is based.</p><p> All Humans without exception are related. That is to say they are family. A dysfunctional family, but they are family nonetheless. The con artist profit from the dysfunction and keeping the Human dysfunctional. Read Stephen J. Gould's, <i>"The Misrepresentation of Man,"</i> to understand the history of the propaganda against scientific facts.</p><p> Here is an experiment for you: Ask a "so called white person" to prove without a doubt that he/she is white.</p><p>Their explanations will be no better than this young lady on Dr. Phil. You will see it is a matter of Blind Ridiculous Conformity or simply put "make believe."</p><p> It is time to "raid the game," by going to the falsehoods of the matter and challenging the facts to arrive at the truth.</p><p> This concludes, Mr. White commentary on the Dr. Phil Show, featuring a "Black Girl who thinks She Is White."</p><p>Thanks for listening, thanks for watching, peace and blessing to you, your family and loved ones.</p><p><strong>LINKS OF INTEREST</strong></p><p>Dr Phil accused of ‘exploitation’ after black teen tells show ‘I’m white’ <a href="https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/dr-phil-accused-of-exploitation-after-black-teen-tells-show-im-white/news-story/bcce7b68fbb8b99b4f15ba002b71dcf3">https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/dr-phil-accused-of-exploitation-after-black-teen-tells-show-im-white/news-story/bcce7b68fbb8b99b4f15ba002b71dcf3</a></p><p>Black Teenager Tells Dr. Phil She Hates Black People, Claims She is White <a href="https://www.wbls.com/news/news-0/black-teenager-tells-dr-phil-she-hates-black-people-claims-she-white">https://www.wbls.com/news/news-0/black-teenager-tells-dr-phil-she-hates-black-people-claims-she-white</a></p><p></p><p><iframe width="690" height="413" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2TPFBI2sYik?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p><p></p><p><iframe width="690" height="413" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zZHy5UXSmrI?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p><p></p><p>Black Teen Tells Dr. Phil She’s White And Hates Black People <a href="https://blackamericaweb.com/2018/10/24/black-teen-tells-dr-phil-shes-white-and-hates-black-people/">https://blackamericaweb.com/2018/10/24/black-teen-tells-dr-phil-shes-white-and-hates-black-people/</a></p><p>How ‘white people’ were invented by a playwright in 1613 <a href="https://aeon.co/ideas/how-white-people-were-invented-by-a-playwright-in-1613">https://aeon.co/ideas/how-white-people-were-invented-by-a-playwright-in-1613</a></p><p>Why Do We Not List Black and White as Colors in Physics? <a href="https://education.seattlepi.com/not-list-black-white-colors-physics-3426.html">https://education.seattlepi.com/not-list-black-white-colors-physics-3426.html</a></p></div>
They Came before Columbus - Dr Ivan Van Sertima (Video)
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2016-09-27T04:10:52.000Z
2016-09-27T04:10:52.000Z
Nana Baakan Agyiriwah
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<div><div style="color:#2a2e2e;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><div style="font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5rb_v4ZPs0s/V84dLWSXN6I/AAAAAAACeTg/5e-0Q53w-0k2eYQMzi9qA3oBGap-TqcEwCLcB/s400/Iv%2BVan%2BSertima-They%2BCame%2BBefore%2BColumbus.PNG" target="_blank" style="font-size:18.6667px;"><img src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5rb_v4ZPs0s/V84dLWSXN6I/AAAAAAACeTg/5e-0Q53w-0k2eYQMzi9qA3oBGap-TqcEwCLcB/s400/Iv%2BVan%2BSertima-They%2BCame%2BBefore%2BColumbus.PNG?width=320" width="320" class="align-left" alt="Iv%2BVan%2BSertima-They%2BCame%2BBefore%2BColumbus.PNG?width=320" /></a></div><div style="font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">NB Commentary:</span> Searching for the origin of man on this crazy planet. I once saw a vide<span style="font-size:14pt;">o where a man was being interviewed and he said the original African was "green". So in searching, I found this article written in 1994. The author really tries to sound like he ain't being racist but it is clear that he is merely parroting what he was taught. It made me look up Ivan Van Sertima. <a href="http://nanas-rants.blogspot.com/2016/09/they-came-before-columbus-dr-ivan-van.html" target="_blank">SOURCE</a></span></div><div style="font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">One thing I want to add, is that folks tend to make it seem like Africans migrated <span style="font-size:14pt;">on foot all across the globe. I find that very interesting. It would seem logical to me, that with all the wood around them, somebody would have thought of making a boat, in fact, Ivan Van Sertima wrote in his book, "They Came Before Columbus" that there were seafarers.</span></div><div style="font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Just saying, people tend to forget about the libraries burned in Timbuktu, the Great buildings and structures, the riches man in the world was from Mali, the</div><div style="font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Songhai Empire, etc. That's why I am grateful to our African historians who <span style="font-size:14pt;">took the risk to expose our real history. And many of them, got their research </span><span style="font-size:14pt;">from whites who also took the risk of telling the truth about African history.</span></div><br /><div style="font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">But yeah, 1994 was an interesting year.</div><div style="font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div></div><div style="color:#333333;font-family:cambria;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;"><blockquote class="tr_bq">How Africa Became Black</blockquote></div><div style="color:#333333;font-family:cambria;margin:0in;"><blockquote class="tr_bq">Africa's racial history was not necessarily its racial destiny. To unravel the story of<br /> Africa's past, you must not only look at its faces but listen to its languages and harvest its crops.<br /> <span style="color:#666666;">By </span><a href="http://discovermagazine.com/authors/jared-diamond">Jared Diamond</a><span style="color:#666666;">|Tuesday, February 01, 1994 </span><span style="color:#666666;">RELATED TAGS: </span><a href="http://discovermagazine.com/tags/archaeology">ARCHAEOLOGY</a> <a href="http://discovermagazine.com/1994/feb/howafricabecameb331">http://discovermagazine.com/1994/feb/howafricabecameb331</a></blockquote></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:cambria;margin:0in;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family:georgia, 'times new roman', serif;line-height:21px;">Excerpt: "Most Americans think of native Africans as black and of white Africans as recent intruders; and when they think of Africa's racial history they think of European colonialism and slave trading. But very different types of peoples occupied much of Africa until as recently as a few thousand years ago. Even before the arrival of white colonialists, the continent harbored five of what many consider to be the world's six major divisions of humanity, the so-called human races, three of which are native to Africa. To this day nearly 30 percent of the world's languages are spoken only in Africa. No other continent even approaches this human diversity, and no other continent can rival Africa in the complexity of its human past." To Read more <a href="http://discovermagazine.com/1994/feb/howafricabecameb331" target="_blank">click here</a></span><span style="font-family:georgia, 'times new roman', serif;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;"><a href="http://discovermagazine.com/1994/feb/howafricabecameb331" target="_blank"> </a></span></blockquote></div><p></p><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="459" height="344" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/x1ZeK4ecHKU?wmode=opaque"></iframe></div></div>
What Really Happened to Dr. Sebi - Why Didn't His Family Tell Us He was Incarcerated
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2016-08-14T04:30:00.000Z
2016-08-14T04:30:00.000Z
Nana Baakan Agyiriwah
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<div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;"><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GlfNq0yVdxQ/V6-LhKLoi-I/AAAAAAACeGg/Yi7DnQoUG8cO7maU5zSVsSn3hT31iovOACLcB/s400/What%2BHappened%2Bto%2BDr.png" target="_blank"><img src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GlfNq0yVdxQ/V6-LhKLoi-I/AAAAAAACeGg/Yi7DnQoUG8cO7maU5zSVsSn3hT31iovOACLcB/s400/What%2BHappened%2Bto%2BDr.png?width=320" width="320" class="align-left" alt="What%2BHappened%2Bto%2BDr.png?width=320" /></a><b>NB Commentary:</b> By now folks all over the world have heard about Dr. Sebi making his transition to the astral plane. There has certainly been a lot of speculation around his transition. What I like to do, especially after viewing the articles, videos and comments on certain subjects; is to consult the I Ching Oracle to see if I can get a clear picture of what "really" took place.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Below you will find my comments, an article about his incarceration and subsequent transition and a video playlist that includes the video I uploaded with the readings I received. <a href="http://nanas-rants.blogspot.com/2016/08/video-what-really-happened-to-dr-sebi.html" target="_blank">SOURCE</a></div><br /><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Please feel free to leave your comments below.<br /> <br /><div style="text-align:center;"></div></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:center;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Here are some points that came to mind for me, before I consulted the oracles. These points seem to make sense as to why his family did not make an announcement about his arrest and subsequent incarceration.</span></div><br /><br /><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.3527in;margin-top:0in;"><ol style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.3527in;margin-top:0in;"><li style="margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;vertical-align:middle;" value="1"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Protect him from the shit storm that would be thrown at him if they let the word out that he was arrested for the second time for money laundering.</span></li></ol></div><div style="font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.3527in;margin-top:0in;"><ol style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.3527in;margin-top:0in;"><li style="margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;vertical-align:middle;" value="2"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Since we as black folks tend to raise our leaders to the status of God, imagine the devastation that would reverberate thru the so'called conscious community.</span></li></ol></div><div style="font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.3527in;margin-top:0in;"><ol style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.3527in;margin-top:0in;"><li style="margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;vertical-align:middle;" value="3"><span style="font-size:14pt;">How many of us are legally savvy with Honduran laws that we could do anything?</span></li></ol></div><div style="font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.3527in;margin-top:0in;"><ol style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.3527in;margin-top:0in;"><li style="margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;vertical-align:middle;" value="4"><span style="font-size:14pt;">I am certain there would have been a wide spectrum of responses from those who admire him, but what if he asked his family not to say anything.</span></li></ol></div><div style="font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.3527in;margin-top:0in;"><ol style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.3527in;margin-top:0in;"><li style="margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;vertical-align:middle;" value="5"><span style="font-size:14pt;">What about the fact that he got ill? What type of shit storm would that have created especially since he is the one healing people?</span></li></ol></div><div style="font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.3527in;margin-top:0in;"><ol style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.3527in;margin-top:0in;"><li style="margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;vertical-align:middle;" value="6"><span style="font-size:14pt;">There's a lot of haters out there ready to tear him down. They gave him something when he got ill. What does that tell everyone who follows his teachings?</span></li></ol></div><div style="font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.3527in;margin-top:0in;"><ol style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.3527in;margin-top:0in;"><li style="margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;vertical-align:middle;" value="7"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Since it was his Second time. Maybe he felt he would get out like he did before.</span></li></ol></div><div style="font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.3527in;margin-top:0in;"><ol style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.3527in;margin-top:0in;"><li style="margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;vertical-align:middle;" value="8"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Maybe they were too embarrassed about the jail part.</span></li></ol></div><div style="font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><ol style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.3527in;margin-top:0in;"><li style="margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;vertical-align:middle;" value="9"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Maybe they were too weirded out that he died.</span></li></ol><br /><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="560" height="315" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLRwF36V2kd5wszAEejHmvEpKljZExVM2U&wmode=opaque"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear:both;text-align:center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7DDZWag7t_4/V69uf93m1hI/AAAAAAACeGQ/76fWiuwB2U4X7Dld0wkB0fHHjHUjzwIzQCLcB/s1600/Dr.%2BSebi%2BLegacy%2BFB.PNG" style="margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7DDZWag7t_4/V69uf93m1hI/AAAAAAACeGQ/76fWiuwB2U4X7Dld0wkB0fHHjHUjzwIzQCLcB/s320/Dr.%2BSebi%2BLegacy%2BFB.PNG" width="393" alt="Dr.%2BSebi%2BLegacy%2BFB.PNG" /></a></div><div style="text-align:center;"></div><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="font-family:cambria;margin:0in;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheLegacyofDrSebi/?fref=nf"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Dr. Sebi</span></a></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="font-family:cambria;margin:0in;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheLegacyofDrSebi/photos/a.1290235500988065.1073741828.1290182180993397/1328943183783963/?type=3">August 7 at 6:29pm</a> ·</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">STORY THAT LATIN AMERICAN NEW SOURCES ARE SPREADING. CAN IT BE TRUSTED?</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Alfredo Darrington Bowman also known as the world famous Dr. Sebi the man who cures cancer and aids along with many other diseases was detained after a flight from California that landed at the Juan Manuel Galvez de Roatan Airport on May 28, 2016 under charges of money laundering. Dr. Sebi and his associate Pablo Medina Gamboa were apprehended carrying a total of $50,000 in cash. $20,000 on Dr. Sebi and $30,000 on Gamboa. They were attempting to board a private plane headed to another location in Honduras. He was detained and then released for a pending court appearance that would later take place on June 3, 2016.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">After his court hearing on June 3, 2016 Dr. Sebi was detained under the charges of money laundering by the Public Ministerio. On an unconfirmed date and time between June 3rd and the August 6th Dr. Sebi reported severe health conditions during incarceration related to pneumonia. In critical health condition he was rushed to the Vicente D’antoni Hospital but died in transit. Before this event his brother Garden Bowman reported that Dr. Sebi had experienced health complications from pneumonia and was prescribed medication by the hospital. His exact conditions of death and any evidence of foul play is still unknown and under investigation. He was received at the hospital by Dr. Edwin Interiano.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Dr. Sebi died at 82 and is survived by 17 children, he was a inspiration to many and will be intensely missed by people all over the world impacted by his holistic approach to wellness.</blockquote></blockquote><div style="margin:0in;"><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:12pt;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;"><span class="font-size-3">Links:</span></div><div style="color:#333333;font-family:cambria;font-size:12pt;margin:0in;"><span class="font-size-3">Dr. Sebi's Transition 2016-08-06</span></div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:12pt;margin:0in;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRwF36V2kd5wszAEejHmvEpKljZExVM2U">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRwF36V2kd5wszAEejHmvEpKljZExVM2U</a></span></div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:12pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#1a1a1a;font-family:cambria;font-size:12pt;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;"><span class="font-size-3">“I LIVE THROUGH YOU”</span></div><div style="color:#1a1a1a;font-family:cambria;font-size:12pt;margin:0in;"><span class="font-size-3">Dr. Sebi - (1933-2016)</span><br /> <span class="font-size-3"><a href="https://drsebiscellfood.com/" style="font-size:12pt;">https://drsebiscellfood.com/</a></span></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:12pt;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;"><span class="font-size-3">29 Holistic Doctors/Practitioners Found Poisoned, Some Nearly Dead. Another Attack on Alternative Medicine?<span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></span></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:cambria;font-size:12pt;margin:0in;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.davidwolfe.com/breaking-29-holistic-doctorspractitioners-found-poisoned-some-nearly-dead-another-attack-on-alternative-medicine/">http://www.davidwolfe.com/breaking-29-holistic-doctorspractitioners-found-poisoned-some-nearly-dead-another-attack-on-alternative-medicine/</a></span></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;"><span class="font-size-3">Famed healer Dr. Sebi dies after suspicious arrest and hospitalization<span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></span></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:cambria;font-size:12pt;margin:0in;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://rollingout.com/2016/08/07/famed-healer-dr-sebi-dies-suspicious-arrest-hospitalization/">http://rollingout.com/2016/08/07/famed-healer-dr-sebi-dies-suspicious-arrest-hospitalization/</a></span></div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:12pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#333333;font-family:cambria;font-size:12pt;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;"><span class="font-size-3">Dr. Sebi Died On August 6 2016 After Being Arrested<span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></span></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:cambria;font-size:12pt;margin:0in;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.naturallifeenergy.com/dr-sebi-died-august-6-2016-from-complications-after-being-arrested/">http://www.naturallifeenergy.com/dr-sebi-died-august-6-2016-from-complications-after-being-arrested/</a></span></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;"><span class="font-size-3">They Finally Killed Dr. Sebi – It Was Only A Matter Of Time<span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></span></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:cambria;font-size:12pt;margin:0in;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://nubianplanet.com/galaxy/blogs/entry/They-Finally-Killed-Dr-Sebi-It-Was-Only-A-Matter-Of-Time">http://nubianplanet.com/galaxy/blogs/entry/They-Finally-Killed-Dr-Sebi-It-Was-Only-A-Matter-Of-Time</a></span></div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:12pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#333333;font-family:cambria;font-size:12pt;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;"><span class="font-size-3">Renowned Holistic Healer Who Treated Left Eye Dies In Custody<span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></span></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:cambria;font-size:12pt;margin:0in;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.vibe.com/2016/08/honduras-dr-sebi-dies-in-custody/">http://www.vibe.com/2016/08/honduras-dr-sebi-dies-in-custody/</a></span></div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:12pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#222222;font-family:cambria;font-size:12pt;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;"><span class="font-size-3">Holistic Doctor Death Series: Over 50 Dead on 1 Year Anniversary of Father’s Day</span></div><div style="margin:0in;"><span style="color:#666666;font-family:cambria;" class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.healthnutnews.com/recap-on-my-unintended-series-the-holistic-doctor-deaths/">http://www.healthnutnews.com/recap-on-my-unintended-series-the-holistic-doctor-deaths/</a></span><br /><div style="color:#666666;font-family:cambria;font-size:12pt;"></div></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:12pt;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;"><span class="font-size-3">Honduras Man Dr. Sebi Found the Cure To All Diseases: AIDS, HIV, Diabetes, Cancer + More [VIDEO]<span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></span></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:cambria;font-size:12pt;margin:0in;"><span class="font-size-3">;<a href="http://www.foodworldnews.com/articles/49395/20151102/dr-sebi-cure-to-all-diseases-honduras.htm">http://www.foodworldnews.com/articles/49395/20151102/dr-sebi-cure-to-all-diseases-honduras.htm</a></span></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;"><span class="font-size-3">THE OFFICIAL STORY OF DR. SEBI’S DEATH<span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></span></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:cambria;font-size:12pt;margin:0in;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://secretenergy.com/news/the-official-story-of-dr-sebis-death/">http://secretenergy.com/news/the-official-story-of-dr-sebis-death/</a></span></div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-size:12pt;margin:0in;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Defeated the FDA, American Medical Association and Judicial System in 1988 Proving that He Cures AIDS and Other Diseases.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span><a href="http://advocatesfordrsebi.org/" style="font-size:12pt;">http://advocatesfordrsebi.org/</a></span></div></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div></div></div>
Dr Boyce & Zaza Ali: Was Obama weak on police shootings of black men?
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/dr-boyce-zaza-ali-was-obama-weak-on-police-shootings-of-black-men
2016-07-21T02:01:18.000Z
2016-07-21T02:01:18.000Z
Nana Baakan Agyiriwah
https://www.theblacklist.net/members/NanaBaakanAgyiriwah
<div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;"><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><b><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}3828586698,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="320" src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828586698,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-left" alt="3828586698?profile=original" /></a>NB Commentary:</b> Dr. Boyce Watkins & Zaza Ali discuss some things around black folks having their own business and what it means, more so than the title of the video suggests. My commentary addresses that part of the video. See my comments below.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;text-align:center;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;text-align:center;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;text-align:center;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;text-align:center;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;text-align:center;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;text-align:center;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;text-align:center;">Dr Boyce & Zaza Ali:<br /> Was Obama weak on police shootings of black men?<span style="font-size:14pt;"> </span></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="560" height="315" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/c8TNdWe_3xU?wmode=opaque"></iframe> <br /><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;"><br /> Before I comment I tend to read a lot of the comments to see what folks are talking about and to learn something new as well.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;">Watching the interaction between Dr. Boyce and ZaZa, I wondered if anyone else picked up the pixie dust. LOL</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;">On the real though, I have been independently employed for most of my adult likf, and that's about 40 years. At this point the idea of working 9-5 is terrifying to say the least. But folks who do work 9-5 for even half that long are just as terrified to step away, and that ain't got nothing to do with color. This culture does not teach us to be anything else but workers. Get and education so you can get a job. Not get an education so you can provide jobs.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;"></div><div style="text-align:left;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;">I think that we have to be careful not to be disingenuous. There is no multi-level pyramid scheme out there that will have you living high off the hog, basking in the sun on the beach all day, while your business grows and grows without you having to do something.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear:both;text-align:center;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;"> <span style="font-size:14pt;">Having your own business is hard work. I don't know about them two, but I put in more hours than I would ever have to working 9-5 and I am more responsible for what goes out because it's mine.</span></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;">I think there are many prongs that can be used for African Americans to become more self reliant. Some are employers others are employees. It's how we play the game. I really am not too cool with doing it the capitalistic way, however, if you are going to build a business in this paradigm you are gonna have to cross the capitalistic Rubicon on some level. There are so many stipulations that are required for you to even become incorporated. And this system is set up to only let a few fish swim upstream.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;">I haven't reviewed Dr. Boyce's business work and teachings, I been too busy keeping my business afloat, but I hope that he is being real with everyone about the "paperwork" involved, and as the saying goes, "Black folks is scared of paperwork."</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;">Folks should take a few classes before you step out there. Others should have a trade. We need so many skilled workers, cause even though you have your own business you will fare much better if you have helpers. Everybody can't be a chief, but a good solid business plan, with good solid workers who share your vision.. can work wonders.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;">We as a people have a lot of "Soul Work" to do on the level of having our own business and working with or for other Black folks.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;">So, yeah, get all the information you can get about starting your own business, and if it scares you too much, then see if you can work for an already established black business owner, and if that's not an option, support Black businesses. I have seen so many come and go due to lack of support as well..</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;">There's nothing like having your own, but you gotta put in the grunt work and the sweat equity to make it happen and keep it happening. Real Talk!</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;"></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8TNdWe_3xU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8TNdWe_3xU</a></div></div></div></div>
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/post-traumatic-slave-syndrome-dr-joy-degruy-leary
2016-04-08T23:30:00.000Z
2016-04-08T23:30:00.000Z
Nana Baakan Agyiriwah
https://www.theblacklist.net/members/NanaBaakanAgyiriwah
<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>
Shocking Documentary: The Creation Of HIV/Aids. [FULL]
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/shocking-documentary-the-creation-of-hiv-aids-full
2015-12-16T06:30:00.000Z
2015-12-16T06:30:00.000Z
Nana Baakan Agyiriwah
https://www.theblacklist.net/members/NanaBaakanAgyiriwah
<div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;"><div style="color:#222222;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><h2 style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:large;"> </span></h2><div><span style="font-size:large;"> </span></div></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><div style="text-align:center;"><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NT3B2NF9cDk?wmode=opaque"></iframe></div><div style="text-align:center;"></div><div style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT3B2NF9cDk" style="font-size:18.6667px;text-align:left;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT3B2NF9cDk</a></div></div><span style="color:#666666;font-size:14pt;"><b><br /></b></span> <span style="color:#666666;font-size:14pt;"><b>NB Commentary: </b></span><span style="font-size:14pt;">But they do know how it came about. they know who created it and why. It was bio-warfare, created in the laboratory. It has killed many in its wake and has filled the coffers of the pharmaceutical companies.</span><br /> <span style="font-size:14pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">It was first experimented on white gay males who had Hepatitis and was believed to cure them of that disease. It did not and instead spread. Once they saw the impact of it spreading they decided to take it to Africa and blame it on the "Green Monkey". It moved out of the realm of being a disease that only gay males would come down with as straight females, prostitutes, drug users, wives of preachers, political figures and entertainers became infected and died.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">It became a death sentence for anyone who could not afford the expensive drugs to cure it. Thus many people in impoverished areas of Africa, China, India became infected and lost their lives.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">HIV is the actual problem. So when folks decided to explore cures for it, and came up with viable immune strengthening programs, they were ostracized, called stupid, and black balled, pardon the pun. I personally know a woman who was curing folks in a hospice with green foods, juicing, fasting, etc. and she even wrote a pamphlet and she was pushed out of her job.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">There was a Dr. Boyd Graves who went to the UN with his documentation on this infection and he received a horrendous response from the Powers that be who did not want his research to become public.<br /> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear:both;text-align:center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fFxT2jcyx1g/VnDpcaaRbeI/AAAAAAACUIU/dpCDZF-Wmoo/s1600/Dr.%2BBoyd%2BGraves.PNG" style="margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;"><img border="0" height="267" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fFxT2jcyx1g/VnDpcaaRbeI/AAAAAAACUIU/dpCDZF-Wmoo/s400/Dr.%2BBoyd%2BGraves.PNG" width="400" alt="Dr.%2BBoyd%2BGraves.PNG" /></a></div><div style="text-align:center;"></div><br /><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XS_CQuBJtPY?wmode=opaque"></iframe></div></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">There have been African doctors from the continent who have been silence when they discovered cures. And there has been huge amounts of money made off the suppression of the true information and viable cures of this infection.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">HIV-AIDS was a geopolitical economic ploy of subjugation, manipulation and assassination.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">I want to watch this video, but after hearing that statement two minutes in, I had to stop it and write my comment. I will continue and I hope that it will redeem itself with more pertinent and factual information.<br /> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear:both;text-align:center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8wbZGjMckHw/U1DGC-hE4aI/AAAAAAABo1k/XVC0urawS5E/s1600/banner%2Bcopy.jpg" style="margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;"><img border="0" height="38" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8wbZGjMckHw/U1DGC-hE4aI/AAAAAAABo1k/XVC0urawS5E/s320/banner%2Bcopy.jpg" width="320" alt="banner%2Bcopy.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear:both;text-align:center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear:both;text-align:center;"></div><div style="text-align:center;"></div></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:11pt;margin:0in;"><div style="text-align:center;"><div style="font-size:11pt;text-align:left;"></div><div style="font-size:11pt;text-align:left;"></div><div style="font-size:11pt;text-align:left;"><b style="background-color:#FFFFFF;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><u><span style="font-family:helvetica;"><span style="color:#000000;">The Smoking Gun of AIDS: a 1971 Flowchart</span></span></u></b></div><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;font-family:helvetica;"><span style="color:#000000;">by <a href="mailto:boyded2003@yahoo.com?subject=Flow%20Chart" style="color:#FF0000;">Boyd E. Graves, J.D.</a><br /> December 6, 2000</span></span></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;text-align:left;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">I</span>n 1977, a secret federal virus program produced 15,000 gallons of AIDS. The record reveals the United States was represented by Dr. Robert Gallo and the USSR was represented by Dr. Novakhatsky of the diabolical Ivanosky Institute. On August 21, 1999, the world first saw the flowchart of the plot to thin the Black Population.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;text-align:left;">The 1971 AIDS flowchart coordinates over 20,000 scientific papers and fifteen years of progress reports of a secret federal virus development program. The epidemiology of AIDS is an identical match to the "research logic" identified in the five section foldout. The flowchart is page 61 of Progress Report #8 (1971) of the Special Virus program of the United States of America. We today, challenge world scientists to discussion of this document find.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;text-align:left;">We believe there is a daily, growing number of world experts who are all coming to the same conclusion regarding the significance of the flowchart. Dr. Garth Nicolson has examined the flowchart as well as other top experts from around the world. It is time for Dr. Michael Morrissey of Germany to examine the flowchart and report to the world. In addition, we have now examined the <a href="http://www.boydgraves.com/order/order.html">1978 report</a>. It is heresy to continue to further argue the program ended in 1977. <b><i>Read more</i></b>:<span style="color:#666666;"> </span><a href="http://www.boydgraves.com/flowchart/" style="text-align:center;">http://www.boydgraves.com/flowchart/</a></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;text-align:left;"><br /> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear:both;text-align:center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dxIP1vdIff8/VnD6cEP7fwI/AAAAAAACUIk/gtTSHPd2_k4/s1600/BEGRAVES%2BQuote.PNG" style="clear:right;float:right;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:1em;"><img border="0" height="194" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dxIP1vdIff8/VnD6cEP7fwI/AAAAAAACUIk/gtTSHPd2_k4/s320/BEGRAVES%2BQuote.PNG" width="320" alt="BEGRAVES%2BQuote.PNG" /></a></div><div style="text-align:center;"></div><a href="http://boydgraves.blogspot.com/2009/06/dr-boyd-ed-graves-7752-61809.html" style="font-size:11pt;"><b>Dr. Boyd Ed Graves 7.7.52 - 6.18.09</b></a></div><div style="color:#333333;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;text-align:left;">Dr. Boyd Ed Graves International AIDS activist lawyer dies age 57</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;text-align:left;"></div><div style="color:#333333;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;text-align:left;">(San Diego, CA) – Human Rights activist and HIV/AIDS advocate American lawyer Dr. Boyd Ed Graves died Thursday at the University of California San Diego Medical Center. Dr. Graves was 57.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;text-align:left;"></div><div style="color:#333333;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;text-align:left;">Dr. Graves' two decades of human rights' work, judicial activism and research on behalf of people living with HIV/AIDS, catapulted him into the world spotlight earning him both international acclaim for his bravery and dedication as well as criticisms for his controversial conclusions about the man-made origins and purpose of the HIV/AIDS virus. </div><div style="color:#333333;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;text-align:left;">, U</div><div style="color:#333333;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;text-align:left;">Known by “Ed” to his friends and family, Dr. Graves was a dynamic and patriotic individual who dedicated his professional and personal life to the disabled, disenfranchised and the fair daily existence of men and women worldwide. <b><i>Read More here:</i></b> <a href="http://boydgraves.blogspot.com/">http://boydgraves.blogspot.com/</a></div><div style="color:#333333;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;text-align:left;"></div><div style="color:#333333;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;text-align:center;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;text-align:left;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;text-align:left;"></div></div><div style="text-align:center;"><div style="font-size:11pt;"><iframe width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wg-52mHIjhs?wmode=opaque"></iframe></div><div style="font-size:11pt;"></div><div style="font-size:11pt;"></div><div style="font-size:11pt;"></div><div style="color:#710f4b;font-family:Cambria;font-style:italic;margin:0in;text-align:left;"></div><div style="color:#710f4b;font-family:Cambria;font-style:italic;margin:0in;text-align:left;"><b>Proof The Unites State </b><b style="font-size:11pt;"><span style="font-style:italic;">Created The HIV/AIDS Virus</span> </b></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;text-align:left;"><b> </b></div><div style="color:#710f4b;font-family:Cambria;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;text-align:left;"><b>EXPOSED !</b></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;text-align:left;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;text-align:left;">In 1969 the US government developed a biological agent [ AIDS ] that would have a devastating effect on the human immune system and for which there would be no effective treatment at the time. </div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;text-align:left;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;text-align:left;">Military biological warfare research became officially connected to VCP research on October 18, 1971, when President Richard Nixon permanently joined the Army's biowarfare research laboratory at Fort Detrick, Maryland, with the National Cancer Institute. The army lab was renamed the Frederick Cancer Re-search Center. </div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;text-align:left;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;text-align:left;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6Q_qQaBpGVg/VnD84mslrvI/AAAAAAACUIw/IOKYGAiEGko/s1600/World%2BWar%2BAIDS.PNG" style="clear:left;float:left;margin-bottom:1em;margin-right:1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6Q_qQaBpGVg/VnD84mslrvI/AAAAAAACUIw/IOKYGAiEGko/s320/World%2BWar%2BAIDS.PNG" width="230" alt="World%2BWar%2BAIDS.PNG" /></a>Scientists in the VCP wanted to learn how to use animal viruses to make cancer - and how to force "normal" human cells to become cancerous by subjecting them to various animal viruses one of which would be HIV/AIDS. A primary task was the large scale production of cancer-causing viruses and suspected cancer viruses to meet research VCP needs on a continuing basis. Special attention was given to primate viruses (the alleged African source of HIV and the KS virus). Another goal was the production of "human candidate viruses." Candidate viruses were defined as animal or human viruses that might cause AIDS and KS cancer in humans. </div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;text-align:left;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;text-align:left;">Biowarfare scientists had a keen interest in animal herpes "helper viruses" / AIDS (1978 VCP Re-port;p 54). Chimps (who purportedly carry the ancestor virus of HIV) were extensively used by the VCP because there would be no official testing of cancer viruses on humans. </div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;text-align:left;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;text-align:left;">A 1972 VCP Report (p. 262) emphatically states: "Since man will not be used as an experimental recipient, it is necessary to gain proof of oncogenicity by other means." How that "proof" would be obtained was never made clear. </div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;text-align:left;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;text-align:left;">With its close ties to military biowarfare research it is conceivable that the VCP undertook covert human testing of suspected cancer-causing viruses. </div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;text-align:left;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;text-align:left;">The U.S. military has a long history of secret human experimentation on unsuspecting citizens. (Google: secret human experimentation + military). It's a proven fact that Gay men were used as guinea pigs to test the effects of these viruses? <b style="font-size:11pt;"><i>Read More here:<span style="color:#666666;"> </span></i></b><a href="http://www.silentcures.com/USA-Created-AIDS.html" style="font-size:11pt;">http://www.silentcures.com/USA-Created-AIDS.html</a></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;text-align:left;"></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;text-align:left;"></div><div align="left" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';"><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><b>Colloidal silver destroys all types <span style="text-align:center;">of virus including the AIDS virus</span></b></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;">Newspaper Article written by Marvin Robey</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;">The Herald of Provo Utah, February 2, 1992, ran an article on page 1, D1, in which a member of the administrative staff of Brigham Young University by the name of Daryl Tichy has been successfully experimenting with colloidal silver in the treatment of AIDS, along with warts and parvo virus in a dog. "Tichy said he had the material [colloidal silver] tested at two different labs; results showed the solution killed a variety of pathogens, including the HIV virus." Tichy then states, "I don't have a doubt in my mind." He says he has not been able to obtain funds to continue his research.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;">This should not be a surprise, considering what other researchers have been telling us. There is much more evidence to support Tichy's conclusion. Extensive evidence points to the fact that colloidal silver destroys all types of virus including the AIDS virus and greatly enhances the immune system in general. Colloidal Silver supports the T-cells in their fight against foreign organisms in the blood. It virtually forms a second immune system, actually protecting and defending the T-cells, as well as doing their work for them. It is strongly suggested by research scientists such as Dr. Gary Smith and others that silver ions are essential to the immune system.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;">In "Use of Colloids in Health and Disease", author Dr. Henry Crooks says colloidal silver is highly anti-viral. In laboratory tests he found that "all fungus, virus, bacterium, streptococcus, staphylococcus, and other pathogenic organisms are killed in three or four minutes. In fact, there is no microbe known that is not killed by colloidal silver in six minutes or less in a dilution as little as five parts per million." Dr. Crooks tells us there are no serious side effects whatsoever from high concentrations. Research scientist Dr. Gary Smith reports that he has noticed a correlation between low silver levels, sickness and immune deficiency. He found people who have low silver levels tend to be frequently sick and to have innumerable colds, flu's, fevers, and other illnesses. The research of Dr. Gary Smith would seem to support the belief that colloidal silver is an entirely natural healing agent. <span style="color:#666666;font-size:11pt;text-align:center;"><b><i>Read More Here:</i></b> </span><a href="http://www.silentcures.com/USA-Created-AIDS.html" style="font-size:11pt;text-align:center;">http://www.silentcures.com/USA-Created-AIDS.html</a></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;text-align:center;"><iframe width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GFkoRlZYTRA?wmode=opaque"></iframe></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><div id="watch-uploader-info" style="background-color:#FFFFFF;border:0px;color:#333333;font-family:Roboto, arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:17px;margin:0px;padding:0px;"><span class="watch-time-text" style="background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:middle;"> </span></div><div style="background-color:#FFFFFF;border:0px;color:#333333;font-family:Roboto, arial, sans-serif;line-height:17px;margin:0px;padding:0px;"><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:x-small;">Uploaded on Nov 30, 2008</span></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><a href="http://www.boydgraves.com/">http://www.boydgraves.com</a> </span><span style="font-size:x-small;text-align:center;"> </span></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:x-small;">"World War AIDS: The Third World War," is Dr. Graves' second book on the issue of the true origins of HIV/AIDS and the patented cure, Tetrasil. The book begins with a compelling review of the 2002 U.S. General Accounting Office review into the formerly secret U.S. Special Virus Cancer Program (1962-1978), follows Dr. Graves' experience with the U.S. Patented Cure for AIDS, Tetrasil; documents his 2007 journeys of hope in to AIDS ravaged African countries, and ends with Dr. Graves' 2008 lawsuit appeal for "full AIDS disclosure' now his second appearance before the United States Supreme Court. "World War AIDS" is a must read for any victim or survivor of the U.S. Special Virus Program, and all medical and policy professional working to treat the same. Dr. Graves says, "At long last, we have within our reach a world once again without HIV/AIDS!" </span><span style="color:#666666;font-size:x-small;text-align:center;"><b><i>Source</i></b>: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFkoRlZYTRA" style="font-size:small;text-align:center;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFkoRlZYTRA</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
Hands off Boys and Girls High: Threats Loom to Shut Down Boys and Girls High In Brooklyn, NY - Where are the Illustrious Alumni???
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2012-05-24T07:30:00.000Z
2012-05-24T07:30:00.000Z
Gloria Dulan-Wilson
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<div><p> </p><div><div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong><ins style="width:728px;min-height:90px;display:inline-table;border:0pt none;"><ins style="width:728px;min-height:90px;display:block;border:0pt none;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10697937958373924179"><img alt="My Photo" class="profile-img" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9HiRqRhD2pk/S5rhtBSaC9I/AAAAAAAAAC8/AUlXfdUVyGo/S220/Gloria+Dulan-Wilson" height="60" width="80" /><br /></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10697937958373924179" target="_blank">by Gloria Dulan-Wilson</a> ~</ins></ins></strong></span></div><div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10697937958373924179" target="_blank"><br /><br /></a></div><div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong><span style="color:#000000;"><strong> HELLO ALL: THE FOLLOWING IS MY COMMENTARY IN RESPONSE TO AN ARTICLE THAT RECENTLY APPEARED IN CITILIMITS MAGAZINE. PLEASE READ IT AND THE ARTICLE THAT FOLLOWS BELOW. IT APPEARS THAT BOYS AND GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL IS BEING TARGETED FOR CLOSING AGAIN. IT'S TIME TO SOUND THE ALL ALERT SIGNAL - SO THE PREDATORS DON'T DESTROY THE SCHOOL UNDER THE GUISE OF TRANSFORMATION.</strong></span></strong></span></div><div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#000000;"><br /></span></div><div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#000000;"><br /></span></div><div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#000000;"><br /></span></div><div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#000000;">I've met Dr. Gassaway and am impressed with his dedication to the Boys and Girls High school students. Given the detached demeanor of so many of our current administrators, his hands on, can do and will be done attitude is a pleasant and necessary change. As a parent, a guidance counselor, and former director of student activities at City College's SEEK program, I also have seen a decided difference in where our youth are today as compared to where they were a few decades ago, when we were students.</span></div><div style="display:inline-block;"></div><div style="display:inline-block;"></div><div style="display:inline-block;"><br /> <span style="color:#000000;">Those of us from another generation had parents who taught us that "education was the key;" there were no excuses for bad grades or poor deportment. There was no such thing as being culturally deprived, coming from a single parent home, living in a "bad" neighborhood, poverty, wellfare, or anything else. Your job, your responsibility was to go to school, get the best education possible, and make something of yourself. With the further expectation that you would then help your family and your community.</span></div><div style="display:inline-block;"></div><div style="display:inline-block;"></div><div style="display:inline-block;"></div><div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#000000;">The parents of today are products of poorly functioning families and equally poorly functioning schools, and a society that has largely written them off; they are marginalized. They were not taught the value of a good education; instead, they were more or less taught that education was not relevant, or, worse yet: that it was "white." Now these same parents, who are either stuck in mediocre jobs, or on public assistance, have communicated those same negative values to their children. Some of whom are at Boys & Girls; others are in schools throughout the 5 boroughs. </span></div><div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#000000;"><br /></span></div><div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#000000;">The legendary reputation and tradition of Boys High (a/k/a Boys and Girls High) is both national and international in scope. My former husband and his 4 brothers all graduated from there. There are other entertainers, artists, legislators, doctors, lawyers, sports figures, trailblazers, who have gotten their start at Boys High. They speak fondly of their days there, and what it has done for them as adults. Where are they, now that their alma mater is facing the ax?</span></div><div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#000000;"><br /></span></div><div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#000000;"><br /> The set up of the current public school system in New York City (in most of the US, as well) does not adequately or appropriately serve the needs of our youth, and hasn't for some time. The dumbing down of the curricula began in the mid-70's, right under the noses of most Black parents, in the guise of "progressive", "modern" techniques. The result of the new methodology is methodically dis-educating and mis-educating our youth. Most can't read above a 6th grade level. Can't simple words, or make a coherent, and grammatically correct sentence. Now, instead of the tri-level program - academic, vocational and commercial -- students are forced into one major modality. And it's not working. </span></div><div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#000000;"><br /></span></div><div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#000000;"><br /></span></div><div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#000000;"><br /></span></div><div style="display:inline-block;text-align:left;"><span style="color:#000000;">Boys & Girls would do well to consider the return -either fully or partially - to such a modality. Not every kid who graduates is going to college; not every child is going to be a computer wiz. There are people from other countries coming to New York to fill trade jobs we used to be able to fill from the population right here - they are from other countries - where they still understand the value of having a skill. Many of the entrepreneurs we have among us learned via a commercial - or business - curriculum.</span></div><div style="display:inline-block;text-align:left;"><span style="color:#000000;">Instead of closing Boys & Girls High, it needs to be retooled and refocused not closed and decimated.</span><span style="color:#000000;"><strong> Like President Obama stated, the jobs have to be brought back to America - well, so do the skills. The concept of New York's major "industries" being FIRE - FINANCE, INSURANCE, REAL ESTATE, is due in large part to the closing of our manufacturing plants and shipping lines. It was a deliberate move as these jobs were exported over seas for cheaper labor. When they come back, there should be high school grads with the skills and abilities to fill those jobs, just as there should be college bound students pursuing other career goals.</strong></span></div><div style="display:inline-block;text-align:left;"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong><br /> I urge/insist that our Black elected officials get involved on an integral level in the development of ongoing resources to expand Dr. Gassaway's and the faculty and staff's capacities to transform the students so they break that chain of poverty mentality and hostility.</strong></span></div><div style="display:inline-block;text-align:left;"><ins style="width:728px;min-height:90px;display:inline-table;border:0pt none;"><br /><div><ins style="width:728px;min-height:90px;display:inline-table;border:0pt none;"><ins style="width:728px;min-height:90px;display:inline-table;border:0pt none;"><ins style="width:728px;min-height:90px;display:inline-table;border:0pt none;"><ins style="width:728px;min-height:90px;display:inline-table;border:0pt none;"><ul><li style="margin-left:0px;"><ins style="width:728px;min-height:90px;display:inline-table;border:0pt none;"><br /><ins style="width:728px;min-height:90px;display:inline-table;border:0pt none;"><ins style="width:728px;min-height:90px;display:inline-table;border:0pt none;"><ins style="width:728px;min-height:90px;display:inline-table;border:0pt none;"><div><ins style="width:728px;min-height:90px;display:inline-table;border:0pt none;"><ins style="width:728px;min-height:90px;display:inline-table;border:0pt none;"><ins style="width:728px;min-height:90px;display:inline-table;border:0pt none;"><ins style="width:728px;min-height:90px;display:inline-table;border:0pt none;"><div><ins style="width:728px;min-height:90px;display:inline-table;border:0pt none;"><ins style="width:728px;min-height:90px;display:inline-table;border:0pt none;"><ins style="width:728px;min-height:90px;display:inline-table;border:0pt none;"><ins style="width:728px;min-height:90px;display:inline-table;border:0pt none;"><div><ins style="width:728px;min-height:90px;display:inline-table;border:0pt none;"><br /><ins style="width:728px;min-height:90px;display:inline-table;border:0pt none;"><ins style="width:728px;min-height:90px;display:inline-table;border:0pt none;"><ins style="width:728px;min-height:90px;display:inline-table;border:0pt none;"><p><ins style="width:728px;min-height:90px;display:inline-table;border:0pt none;"><ins style="width:728px;min-height:90px;display:inline-table;border:0pt none;"><ins style="width:728px;min-height:90px;display:inline-table;border:0pt none;"><ins style="width:728px;min-height:90px;display:inline-table;border:0pt none;"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>I also recommend that those who have graduated from "The High" come back and spend some time mentoring a guiding the present day student to success. If anyone should adopt a school - it's them, the doctors, lawyers, sports figures, entertainers, and parents - who got their values from a school that would not quit or give up on them.</strong></span></ins></ins></ins></ins></p><p><br /><ins style="width:728px;min-height:90px;display:inline-table;border:0pt none;"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Just so you know, however - the Bed-Stuy Brooklyn Community will do every thing in our power to make sure that BOYS & GIRLS HIGH is not closed- by any means necessary. The mis-education division of the City of New York needs to find some other target to do their hatchet job on. Hands off The High!</strong></span><br /><br /></ins></p><p></p></ins></ins></ins></ins></div><br /></ins></ins></ins></ins></div><br /></ins></ins></ins></ins></div><br /></ins></ins></ins></ins></li><li style="list-style:none;"><ins style="width:728px;min-height:90px;display:inline-table;border:0pt none;"></ins></li></ul><br /></ins></ins></ins></ins></div><br /></ins></div></div><ul style="float:right;"><li><div><div><table cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="vertical-align:bottom;white-space:nowrap;" nowrap="nowrap"></td><td style="vertical-align:bottom;white-space:nowrap;" nowrap="nowrap"><div><table cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><div title=""><table cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><img src="http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/i/shareBar/button/buttonLeftImgUp.png" alt="buttonLeftImgUp.png" /></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td><td><div style="width:38px;min-height:20px;"><table style="width:100%;min-height:100%;" cellspacing="0" width="1"><tbody><tr><td></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td><td style="vertical-align:middle;white-space:nowrap;" nowrap="nowrap"><div><table cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><div title=""><table cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td></td><td style="vertical-align:middle;text-align:left;background-repeat:repeat-x;"></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td><td><div style="width:38px;min-height:20px;"><table style="width:100%;min-height:100%;" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td><td style="vertical-align:middle;white-space:nowrap;" nowrap="nowrap"><div><table cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><div title=""><table cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td></td><td style="vertical-align:middle;text-align:left;background-repeat:repeat-x;"></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td><td><div style="width:38px;min-height:20px;"><table style="width:100%;min-height:100%;" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><span><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td><td style="vertical-align:bottom;white-space:nowrap;" nowrap="nowrap"><div><div title=""><table cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></li></ul><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;">Stay Blessed &</span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">ECLECTICALY BLACK</span><br /> <span style="color:#000000;">Gloria Dulan-Wilson</span></p><div><span style="color:#993300;"><strong>The Aricle from CitiLimits follows:</strong></span></div><div><span><span style="color:#000000;"><strong><br /></strong></span></span></div><div><span><span><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Fear of School Closure Is Personal for This Principal (from CitiLimits MagazineBrooklyn Bureau) Thursday, May 10, 2012<span><a href="http://www.bkbureau.org/print/fear-school-closure-personal-principal?page=2&utm_source=May%2010%2C%202012%20Weekly%20Update&utm_campaign=Weekly%20Update%205-2&utm_medium=email" title="Display a printer-friendly version of this page." target="_blank"><img src="http://www.bkbureau.org/modules/print/icons/print_icon.gif" alt="Printer-friendly version" title="Printer-friendly version" height="16" width="16" /></a></span></strong></span></span></span></div><div><span><span><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Story By <a href="http://www.citylimits.org/news/author-articles.cfm?author_id=440" target="_blank">Darren Sands</a>.<br /></strong></span></span></span></div><div><span><span style="color:#000000;"><strong><br /></strong></span></span></div><div><img src="http://www.bkbureau.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/main-image/gassaway.jpg" alt="" title="" height="422" width="578" /></div><div> <span>Photo By Adi Talwar.</span></div><div><span style="color:#800000;"><em>Bernard Gassaway is in his third year as principal at Boys and Girls. He was a teacher there from 1988 to 1991.</em></span></div><div><span style="color:#800000;"><em>Whether Bed-Stuy's Boys and Girls High School—with its declining enrollment and F ratings—survives is not just a professional concern for Principal Bernard Gassaway. His classroom roots, his former marriage, his career ambitions are all tied to the building on Fulton Street.</em></span></div><p><span style="color:#800000;"><em>On a recent weekday morning, Bernard Gassaway, principal of Boys and Girls High School, bounced casually down the stairs while giving a tour of the building to a new guidance counselor. As the tour was coming to a close, the atmosphere along the path he took back toward his office was suddenly ripe for a fight: In a busy stairwell, an agitated guard had tried to stop an angry student for some offense. Gassaway watched the boy jerk his backpack away from the guard and retreat up the stairs, his face full of rage.</em></span></p><p><span style="color:#800000;"><em>Gassaway casually made his way toward the student, grabbed him and put him in a playful headlock, an ironic demur of the aggressive manner in which the guard seemed to be handling the situation.</em></span></p><p><span style="color:#800000;"><em>"Did you grab him like this?"</em></span></p><p><span style="color:#800000;"><em>Unable to maneuver, the kid just smiled.</em></span></p><p><span style="color:#800000;"><em>"I didn't do nothing to him," barked the guard, who, for his part, was still irritated. As if to stick up for his friend, another student then stepped to Gassaway.</em></span></p><p><span style="color:#800000;"><em>"What, I grab him and you show up? I got people, too." He winked at his new hire.</em></span></p><p><span style="color:#800000;"><em>He disguised it with playful banter, but Gassaway was in a solemn mood. Earlier that morning, rising before the sun, he stopped by the Jamaica, Queens home he once lived in with his ex-wife, Traci, and daughter, Atiya. There are still pieces of his life there, loose ends that need tying. The home is in contract to be sold. "I'm not going to fool myself," he replied when asked how he was doing personally. "I think I'm OK. I know that you've got to take care of yourself before you take care of others. And I haven't always done that."</em></span></p><p><span style="color:#800000;"><em>It was during the first school days of September of 2009 that Gassaway and his ex-wife began their difficult separation. The freshman class that arrived then will be seniors when the 2012-2013 school year begins in September. And yet, while his tenure reaches what he says is an emotional milestone, there's a growing weight to the long-held fear that the Department of Education could elect to phase-out or close the school. This worry has tempered Gassaway's anticipation of his personal landmark and even cast a pall over efforts to save the school.</em></span></p><p><span style="color:#800000;"><em>In a city where DOE brass have made a practice of closing large high schools and replacing them with smaller ones, the pressure to avoid a fate similar to, say, nearby Paul Robeson, is intense. In a system where principals have been given increased authority and accountability, Gassaway will get much of the the credit or the blame if Bed-Stuy's Boys and Girls survives—or fails.</em></span></p><p><span style="color:#800000;"><em>"The weight of it [possibly] closing is tremendous," Gassaway said, alluding to the rich history of noted physicians, attorneys, politicians and athletes that the school has produced. "You're not closing down a new school. Boys and Girls High is more than just an institution. But the more imminent weight I feel is when it comes to dealing with the children day-to-day: Dealing with their concerns, their issues, their aspirations … and asking ourselves how we help create the future doctors and lawyers, and [figuring out] what role we play in that."</em></span></p><p><span style="color:#800000;"><em><strong>Despite history, challenges abound</strong></em></span></p><p><span style="color:#800000;"><em>That Gassaway would use a headlock, of all devices, to defuse a potentially volatile situation illustrates his deep ties to two generations of students: Gassaway taught that angry boy's father as a young English teacher at Boys and Girls from 1988 to 1991 under his late mentor, the legendary principal Frank Mickens. In fact, Gassaway's 2009 return modeled his mentor's legacy; Mickens, too, left Boys and Girls in 1982, only to return as principal in 1986. Both sons of Brooklyn, each also received their bachelor's degree upstate.</em></span></p><p><span style="color:#800000;"><em>Boys and Girls' condition is viewed by many as critical. One out of every four Boys and Girls students receives special education services. The school's graduation rate is about 45 percent, and school-wide attendance stands 71.2 percent as of May 7. It also received an ‘F' in every major category on its most recent Dept. of Education Progress Report. Once brimming with as many as 5,000 students, the school now has just over 1,500 students. School spirit is in short supply, but not for lack of trying on the part of its boys Kangaroos boys basketball team. Led by coach Ruth Lovelace (the first female coach to win a boys state title), the team won both the PSAL and New York State Federation titles in March. The headline of an article in the New York Daily News read, ‘ROOS RULE'. It hangs in Gassaway's office.</em></span></p><p><span style="color:#800000;"><em>"The culture of the kids is different," said staff member Katrina Brown, a 2008 graduate of Boys and Girls and aspiring principal who arrived at Boys and Girls the year after Mickens retired. An assistant to assistant principal Bridget Carrington, Brown was a part of an incoming class of 1,500. But the number of students isn't the only thing that's changed, she says. "When I was a student, the kids wanted to do better. They wanted to graduate. A lot of these kids don't care. Their makeup is different. They don't want to be involved in school sports or activities. Now? They hardly want even come in the morning. I used to dread going home – and not because I had a bad home life. I was just so involved in what was going on here."</em></span></p><p><span style="color:#800000;"><em><strong>A family grows in Brooklyn</strong></em></span></p><p><span style="color:#800000;"><em>Many students are not as fortunate as Brown. Gassaway believes he could solve most of the school's problem's if he could strengthen the family. That would seem an impossible duty, or at least one not a fit for a principal. But while Gassaway has not been able to repair each of his students' home lives, the school itself—as it has gotten smaller—has actually become a family.</em></span></p><p><span style="color:#800000;"><em>There's Constancia Simpson-Hayes, whose room on the second floor has a lounge area where students can read or chat quietly. A product of and staunch believer in the public school system who for years worked in college administration, Simpson-Hayes arrived last November as the school's new director of college and career services, and casually refers to her appointment as coming "back home." The lab had five working computers when she got there; it now has 16.</em></span></p><p><span style="color:#800000;"><em>"We have a new family member," was how Gassaway introduced Aja Brown, the new guidance counselor whom he was showing around the building the morning the fight almost broke out. Staff in the Hub, the office that serves as a central processing unit for everything from incoming calls to faxes and guests, fawned over her as if she had walked through a church office.</em></span></p><p><span style="color:#800000;"><em>Since then, in just a couple of weeks on the job, she's already begun the arduous task of placing students with little chance of earning a high school diploma from Boys and Girls in alternative schools. Others she will prepare for job training or other essential services. No matter their path, her bosses' mandate is to monitor their progress as far as she can.</em></span></p><p><span style="color:#800000;"><em>"I feel like this is where I'm supposed to be," Brown said.</em></span></p><p><span style="color:#800000;"><em>That sense of belonging permeates the school's culture, now. As a pillar in the community, Boys and Girls—a zoned school which serves numerous area housing projects—prides itself on not giving up on any of its students, especially the most needy. "We believe students achieve success and embrace learning when they feel safe and are supported by competent and caring adults," reads the school's vision statement.</em></span></p><p><span style="color:#800000;"><em>Coming up with resources hasn't been easy, but expanded offerings give the most vulnerable students access to services for which there is dire need. As many as 250 boys participate in an empowerment program titled Boys II Men. At night once a quarter, Gassaway opens the school for the boys to play sports and participate in workshops and character building. Many of his staff members volunteer.</em></span></p><p><span style="color:#800000;"><em>Students now have access to health services, intervention specialists and counselors on-site.</em></span></p><p><span style="color:#800000;"><em><strong>Facing expectations</strong></em></span></p><p><span style="color:#800000;"><em>Perhaps Gassaway's most public battles over the course of the past three years played out when he began to suspend athletes from contests if they didn't pass their first period class because of poor attendance. The policy kept star players out of key games, especially in basketball, and there was little if any budging on the principal's behalf. This year, athletes are to maintain a 70 average and are also required to do 30 hours of community service. The PSAL recently adopted a similar policy for student athletes.</em></span></p><p><span style="color:#800000;"><em>Outlined in a memo made available to Brooklyn Bureau, Boys and Girls' Comprehensive Education Plan for the 2011-12 school year underline high expectations for students:</em></span></p><p><span style="color:#800000;"><em>--70 percent of students will have at least 11 credits by June 2012 (Just 40 percent had at least 5.5 credits as of last February</em></span></p><p><span style="color:#800000;"><em>--70 percent of students who sit for any Regents exam will pass with at least a 65 by the end of the school year (28.6 percent of students who sat last year passed with at least a 65)</em></span></p><p><span style="color:#800000;"><em>-Boys and Girls will achieve a graduation rate of 65 percent by August 2012 (Just 30 percent of the junior class are on track to graduate).</em></span></p><p><span style="color:#800000;"><em>Measured against the performance of the school to date, the goals are ambitious. But Gassaway thinks changes in the school's atmosphere make them attainable.</em></span></p><p><span style="color:#800000;"><em>"Two years ago, I was putting out the fires," Gassaway starts. "So they'd say, ‘Mr. Gassaway, the building's rocking.' And you can feel it, anyway. ‘Mr. Gassaway, there's was a fight on the third, fight on the second, fight on the first.' And I'm, like, ‘Shit.' So I'd say, ‘O.K., time to put on the Superman cape.' So I'd have to go out and make the hard decisions, getting students out of the building."</em></span></p><p><span style="color:#800000;"><em><strong>A personal stake</strong></em></span></p><p><span style="color:#800000;"><em>It's tough to determine how, in the next 18 months, the school will perform, how Gassaway and his staff will frame that record and how the DOE will interpret it. What is clear is that the results, and Tweed's reaction to them, will affect students, teachers, the institution and its principal.</em></span></p><p><span style="color:#800000;"><em>At just 51, Gassaway is a man conscientious, if not obsessed, with legacy. He wrote a memoir, Reflections of an Urban High School Principal, in his mid-forties. This concern is part of the reason why the uncertain future of Boys and Girls unsettles him so.</em></span></p><p><span style="color:#800000;"><em>Ironically, this is not because he knows he wants to spend the rest of his career in urban high schools. Gassaway has other aspirations. He has talked openly about one day soon finishing his coursework for his Ph.D. at Columbia Teacher's College and becoming a professor. But if he makes that move, the manner of making it matters. Will he walk out the door, run—or get chased?</em></span></p><p><span style="color:#800000;"><em>"My field is education," he said. "If I'm going to be a tenured professor at some college, what am I going to profess? That I was in an urban high school [that] failed, so I can talk to you about failing, but I can't talk to you about success?" ###</em></span></p><p><strong><span style="color:#993300;">As I mentioned earlier, Boys High, and Boys and Girls High have a list of illustrious graduates a mile long. If they are as fond of the school as they say they are, they'll pull together their considerable influence and be the support it needs now and in the future. And send a clear signal to the youth who currently attend that they can be as great, if not greater than their predecessors. That they are not alone or abandoned. They will likewise join with so many Brooklynites who have stood together in the face of previous attempts to close the legendary school and say: "HANDS OFF THE HIGH!!"</span></strong></p><p>Former New Yorker, and activist/entrepreneur <strong><span style="color:#993300;">Dorothy Pitman-Hughes</span></strong> just penned a book entitled: <em><strong>"I'm Just Saying, It Looks Like Ethnic Cleansing - the Gentrification of Harlem</strong></em>," which will be featured at the African American Pavillion at the BookExpo America exhibit at Jacob Javits Center, June 5 - 7th (private signing at the Cotton Club in Harlem, on June 4).<br /><br /> <em><strong>Make no mistake about it, the dumbing down of our educational centers, the staffing with mediocre teachers, and the supplanting of ernest, competent administrators, as in the case of Medgar Evers College; or the demolishing of schools, hospitals, community based centers as in the case of Paul Robeson High school, and other facilities; along with massive foreclosures - all look like ETHNIC CLEANSING to me! And it has to be halted in its tracks, by any means necessary. Those of you who think that the sale of Inner City Broadcasting, the discontinuation of Like It Is on ABC-TV; the sudden sale of WRKS (KISS) FM, the cancellation of Michael Baisden (who is no longer heard in New York) is merely a business transaction, have been drinking way too much of the wrong flavored Kool-Aid. Wake up and smell the new sulphurated stench of psycho-sociological, educational, economic and environmental genocide, big city style.</strong></em><br /><br /> <em><strong>Draw a line in the concrete now, of the next to go will be you. HANDS OFF THE HIGH!! And all of our other Black institutions.</strong></em>###GDW<br /> Stay Blessed &<br /> ECLECTICALLY BLACK<br /> Gloria Dulan-Wilson</p></div>
Lincoln University Class of 67 Celebrates Our 45th Graduation Anniversary
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2012-05-03T03:06:54.000Z
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The name was changed to Lincoln University in honor of Abraham Lincoln after he was assassinated. The school was placed just north of the Pennsylvania/Maryland State Border, away from the slave monsters who had made it illegal to educate Blacks, during slavery.</strong></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title"><strong>I love bragging about being a Lincoln grad – the Alma Mater of such greats as Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, Langston Hughes,Roscoe Lee Browne, actor, Rev. Dr. James H. Robinson, founder of Crossroads Africa, among so many others.</strong></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title"><strong>We are the only Black college to have given Africa two dynamic presidents: Kwame Nkrumah, first President of Ghana and Nnamde Azikewe, first President of Nigeria. We conferred dual doctorates on President Jerry John Rawlings, former President of Ghana, and his wife, first lady Nana Rawlings.</strong></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title"><strong>But now I'm really going to kick it up a notch or two, because we, the Class of '67 are celebrating our 45th Anniversary of graduating from the hallowed halls of Lincoln University!! It's such a momentous, ausicious occasion, of such magnitude, that I'm now in the “who woulda thunk that we had come so far and done so much, and are still standing?? mode.</strong></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title"><strong>As I talk with my classmates, I can't help but go back in my mind's eye to what we were up to and what we were involved in during those heady times. We were the agents of change that jump started what the current generation now considers common every day occurrences.</strong></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title"><strong>And believe me, when we started college in 1963, there was no such thing as integration. In fact, there were many who did not believe that we would achieve it in our lifetime. There was definitely no such thing as the right to vote in the south. Poll taxes ruled the day.</strong></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title"><strong>By the time 1963 had come along, many of us, including yours truly, had been participating in sit-ins by that time since we were 10 years old, that was 8 years of being on the front line of civil rights. In 1965, Lincoln University sent a busload of students down to Selma, AL to march across the Edmund Pettis Bridge</strong>.</h3><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-5685187195223027924">By the time I was 18, though, I was no longer disposed to be “civil” and neither were many of my peers. In 1966 Stokely Carmichael enunciated the tenets of BLACK POWER at Mary Dodd Brown Chapel, and it was “on!!” It was at Lincoln University that we first heard the phrase BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL. What a thrill. As Stokely stood before us, with that smooth, almost whispery voice of his, I can still see the look on the faces of my fellow classmates. A new day, a new ethos, a new consciousness – a whole paradigm shift - was born on the campus of Lincoln University, and spread throughout the Black college campuses of the US. Freedom, liberation, autonomy, Afrocentricity was in the air. We were reclaiming our African heritage, getting in touch with our African roots, and making no apologies about it. <br /> <br /> Of course, for the most of us at Lincoln, being the iconoclasts that we were, the closest we came to in terms of a church was Mary Dodd Brown Chapel, which served as our theatre and auditorium. It's where we went for talent shows, roasting our professors, Black Power meetings, panel discussions, movies, etc. Our other favorite gathering place was The Grill, where we solved all the problems of the world. It also housed the cafeteria, with some of the worst food on the planet. Everything was managed (dictated) by Ma Renwick, who walked around with a cigarette hanging out of the side of her mouth, and an ash at least an inch and a half long before it finally dropped to the floor. She kept the guys in line, but we all loved her. However, when it came to real food, we would just as soon sneak over the fence and make midnight runs to Sissie's home of the best cheesesteak hoagie on the planet. It was also where we could hang out after long hours of fighting material. <br /> <br /> We were one of the few Black colleges to have an official center for African students from Non-independent African countries: Angola, Mozambique, the Congo, South Africa, Southwest Africa (Namibia), Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), Besutoland (Lesotho) Swaziland, Rwanda, Burundi, etc. African refugees would come and attend on a full scholarship and (hopefully) take what they had learned back home to teach their people. I was peer counselor to those students and made lifelong friends as a result. Many of them have returned home and are working in behalf of their own governments. Sadly, many also returned home to fight for liberation and have since joined the ancestors. <br /> <br /> Lincoln University was one of the few, if not the only, Black school to have a Pan-African Student Union, where African and African American, African Caribbean students came together to plot, plan and discuss liberation issues - especially as it pertained to South Africa. For the most part, however were very much about the reunification of African nations, now that Africa was slowly being released from their colonial monsters. Sometimes there was total congruency at those meetings; other times our brothers, a/k/a “Homeboys” argued about such insipid issues as the correct pronunciation of a word, or the proper manners (which by the way were remnants of colonial brainwashing). Many of our brothers came to the US knowing more about country and western music than they did about Soul Music. By the time we got through with them, they knew James Brown, the Temptations and Four Tops, chapter and verse.<br /> <br /> Black in the day Lincoln University had a varsity soccer team, instead of a football team, because the campus had a large African and Caribbean population – nearly 1/3 the student body. Our team actually participated in the national soccer tournament, and missed being champion by a hair, coming in second in the nation. At one match, on campus, our center forward, Paul Moonyane from Lesotho, broke the leg of a rival white South African player after he had the audacity to call him a “dirty kefir” – a break that was heard throughout the campus as they carried him off the field on a stretcher. The rest of the demoralized team lost to Lincoln by a huge margin. Needless to say, future white soccer teams who went up against Lincoln were very careful to mind their manners.<br /> <br /> Lincoln had some of the greatest international parties comprised of a mix of soul music, calypso, African, and other intra-African music. I personally never lacked for a dance partner – at least during the first two years of being among the first co-eds on the campus (personally, my idea of heaven). We actually had our own live steel band, with Gene Harvey, Tony Roberts from Bermuda and other parts of the Caribbean, who would rehearse on a regular basis. <br /> <br /> It was in 1965, when I transferred to Lincoln University it had been an all male college known as the Black Princeton. You had to be super smart to attend there. When they began to actively recruit females to live on campus, they had the same stiff criteria they exacted for the male students. At the time there were only 600 hundred students – All Male! I was one of the first 16 female co-eds to reside on the campus. The guys had to give up their dorms, and their caveman ways. Having had things pretty much their way, they were very happy about our invasion. <br /> <br /> The additional lights on the campus they felt was a violation of their ability to tough it out under rigorous circumstances and still be able to “fight material”. Being required to wear ties on Sunday, and being urged to watch their language was an invasion of their sanctity (they would always challenge the rule, and we co-eds, would give them our scarves as pretend ties to keep them from having to go back to the barracks to re-dress.<br /> <br /> Lincoln was also the place we learned to tell the difference between mere males (players) and real men - and we had a representative number of each, across cultural lines. (Some of the older alumns, such as actor Roscoe Lee Browne never, ever acknowledged us co-eds as Lincoln grads, and was pretty testy when I introduced myself as one years later, when I met him on location in Hollywood).<br /> <br /> Lincoln University was the first Black college to have an all Black Natural fashion show with natural hairstyles and afrocentric fashions – 1966 – the Grandassa Models, founded by Elombe Brath and Kwame Brathwaite. Thanks to Sam Anderson and Paul Moore, who were seeking to bring unity between African and African American students. There was a rift borne of colonialism on their part, and post-traumatic slave syndrome on ours. Thank goodness, it worked, and Lincoln students began to understand that, as Malcolm X had said on several occasions, no matter where that boat landed, we were all ONE PEOPLE. <br /> <br /> Lincoln was first Black college to have its own African Museum, and receive regular contributions from President Nkrumah, Azikewe, and other African leaders and former students – including Kente Cloth, Ashanti Goldweights, and 14 karat gold jewelry, masques, and as well as artifacts from all over Africa. It was curated by H.D. Gunn, a refuge from Dachau; and co-curated by yours truly, as part of my college work study program. <br /> <br /> Lincoln University was also the first Black college to offer a full complement of African studies, as well as Swahili language classes; African cosmology classes, and movies originating from Africa written and produced by Africans. We read Franz Fanon, Cheik Anta Diop, Chinua Achebe, Leopold Sedor Senghor, Kwame Nkrumah's principles; along with WEB DuBois, Carter G. Woodson, Lerone Bennett, E. Franklin Frazier. You name it we had it at the Vail Memorial Library. If it was Black we had read it, were reading it, discussing it, throwing in our own theories to boot. You could actually get a degree in African studies long before it was popular in the rest of the Black schools. Even Albert Einstein loved Lincoln University, and left a legacy to our campus (that was long before we arrived, of course).<br /> <br /> Lincoln University's Sociology Department, headed by Lawrence“Shabby” Foster, was the only Black college that relied primarily on texts written by Black sociologists Goode and Hat. It was the mainstay of our department. From it we learned the socio-psychological effects of racism, and how it impacted our child rearing practices. <br /> <br /> In 1966, Lincoln University was the first Black college to have a Homecoming Queen with natural hair: Maxine Stewart LU'69.<br /> <br /> In 1966, we were the students who fought off the KKK with real guns when they burned a cross across from our campus. We posted guards at every entry, and made it known that they could come at their own risk. They threatened but never crossed onto Lincoln Soil. In the 150+ years of our existence, they have not yet laid set foot on our campus. <br /> <br /> We were the students who had none other than <span class="font-size-3"><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">the great Charles V. Hamilton</span></strong></span>, head of our Political Science Department, as our mentor. He was legal counsel for SNCC (the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee). Students would cut classes and sit in on his class to learn of their latest status and exploits. We were the campus where Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown and other Black leaders would come to formulate strategies for liberation. Dr. Hamilton co-authored “Black Power” along with Stokely Carmichael, on our campus.<br /> <br /> We were the students who dared to take a bus to the UN on a cold November day, along with the classmates from the Class of 1966, to protest Rhodesia's unilateral declaration of independence (UDI) formulated by despot Ian Smith, when they fought for liberation and independence. It was freezing cold, and we were the only students who showed up for the protest – but we stayed and made our symbolic point. <br /> <br /> We were privileged to have had Langston Hughes visit as Poet in Residence for 6 weeks, and his protege, playwright Ron Milner as writers in residence. We had the honor of having had the great, powerful, dynamic Adam Clayton Powell Jr. come to our campus after he had been “sanctioned by Congress for being too powerful.” He had just recorded his famous album “Keep the Faith, Baby!” I remember how candid and self assured he was. He kept a cigar on him at all times. <br /> <br /> It was at Lincoln University that I started wearing my hair natural, and have done so ever since – thanks to my upper class brothers, Sam Anderson, and my classmates Paul Moore and Tony Montiero. I remember coming up with all the usual negrified excuses of the day: I had Indian in my family so my hair wouldn't get kinky; I had Irish in my family, so my hair wouldn't get kinky; I had German in my family, so my hair wouldn't get kinky – stop me when you've heard enough bogus excuses. I had a million of them!!<br /> <br /> Sam would tell me that what I called a “permanent” was really temporary, since I had to complete process over and over. He dared me to wear my natural for my senior class picture. After having seen how beautiful the Grandassa Models looked with their natural hair, I took him up on it, and that photo in the yearbook was the day after I got it done. However, my entire family in Oklahoma were in a state of shock when I came home with “nappy” hair! Now, not so much.<br /> <br /> Lincoln used to operate on a tri-mester basis, and allowed students to drop in and drop out at will. We had many students who returned to complete their classes after having served in Viet Nam; or who had “washed out” because of poor grades. It was at Lincoln that our classmate, John Huggins, who had returned after having spent four years fighting in Viet Nam, decided that he needed to deal with America's racism; and so joined the Panthers in San Francisco. He lost his life as a result, and set off a fire storm of consequences.<br /> <br /> At Lincoln we were such iconoclasts, even our grading system was different: our grades were A through E – E being a a flunking grade; A being superior; there was no F grade. At Lincoln, “1” meant being tops, and a passing grade; while “5” or a nickel, meant flunking, and all of the worse possible things. By the way, if you were “ugly” by Lincoln male standards, they would throw nickels at you. If you picked them up, you were double ugly.<br /> <br /> We were also known for our “Rabble” names, and Rabble phrases. Everyone coming onto the campus was tagged with a nickname that stuck with them for life. In many instances, to this day, you have to know the person's rabble name in order to identify them, and many of us are still not familiar with their given names.<br /> <br /> At Lincoln, we were taught to challenge everything, and not take it as true just because they said it was (“they” being whites, and the Uncle Toms who loved them). At Lincoln you went around quoting the likes of Kwame Nkrumah, Frederick Douglass, Frantz Fanon, Chinua Achbe, Jomo Kenyatta, Nelson Mandela (while he was still in prison); Stephen Biko, African proverbs, Stokely Carmichael, and any and all Black heroes, s/heroes past, present and future. <br /> <br /> It was to Lincoln that the famous Mitchell family of Baltimore sent Mike to follow in the footsteps of dynamic family members, Clarence and Parren, who had already made lifetime contributions to the Black community.<br /> <br /> <strong><span style="color:#ff9900;">We, the Class of 67 are the “Change Agents.”</span></strong> We launched new programs to educate and empower our people. We precipitated and participated in the liberation of our people via action and education, challenging the status quo, standing for our rights, regardless of the consequences. We have contributed through our writing, speaking out; our professional development and leadership; through the advancement of the lessons learned vis a vis a devoted and loyal faculty who nurtured our minds, making sure that when we moved forward into the world, that we were always Black and proud of it. <br /> <br /> If, by the time you had graduated from Lincoln in 1967, you didn't get that one understanding – that you are Black and Proud and have a contribution to make to the world - you had completely missed the point of the whole reason for being at Lincoln. While academics were, of course, an important component of being a Lincoln Lion and Lioness, it was even more of a paramount importance that we emerge, in all our glory, as Black men and women ready to take our place in a world where our ancestors had sacrificed so much to make it possible for us to go forward; and be the change we wanted to see. We the Class of '67, have done that and then some - with more yet to be. Our contributions are still being made. <span class="font-size-3"><strong><span style="color:#ff6600;">We are the paradigm shift!</span></strong></span> <br /> <br /> <span class="font-size-3"><strong><span style="color:#ff6600;">Hail! Hail! Lincoln!!!</span></strong></span> <br /> <span class="font-size-3"><strong><span style="color:#333399;">Hail The Class of 1967!!!</span></strong></span><br /> <br /> Stay Blessed &<br /> ECLECTICALLY BLACK<br /> Gloria Dulan-Wilson</div><div class="post-body entry-content"></div><div class="post-body entry-content">Want to read more? 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Are you coming to the National Day of Justice rally & March
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/are-you-coming-to-the-national-day-of-justice-rally-amp-march
2011-12-09T03:57:53.000Z
2011-12-09T03:57:53.000Z
Brotha Lukata
https://www.theblacklist.net/members/BrothaLukata
<div><p><font id="yui_3_2_0_1_1323361150079902" face="Calibri"></font> </p><p><span class="font-size-4"><font face="Calibri">Commemoration Ceremony of the assassination of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., (April 4, 1968)</font></span></p><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1323361150079907" class="msg-body inner undoreset"><div id="yiv226066673"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1323361150079906"><div style="background-color:#fff;font-family:tahoma, 'new york', times, serif;color:#000;font-size:12pt;" id="yui_3_2_0_1_1323361150079905"><div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1323361150079904"><div><span class="font-size-4">April 4, 2012 - Kickoff Celebration - Jackson, ms</span></div><div>by Asinia Lukata Chikuyu -7 November 2011</div><div>On April 4, 2012, the Full Pardon for the Scott Sisters Campaign Committee will begin the process of rejuvenating the revolutionary spirit of the people to bring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s idea of justice everywhere to fruition. Dr. King said "A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies...". That day is here!</div><div>It is time to question how 50% of the prison population could be made up from 10% of the nations population. The day is here for us the question how innocence men could be executed when a strong shadow of doubt existed, where "a reasonable doubt" should have exonerated his in the first base. Yes, is it time to question how the usa justice system can claim to have a mission "to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all..." and still justify outrageous mandatory sentencing for non-violent crimes by impoverished people while corporate executives receive extremely lenient sentences for embezzling billions and starting the current economic recession/depression.</div><div>April 4, 1968 is the date Dr. King was assassinated and should be the anniversary date we commemorate his work by speaking truth to power about how "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." The National Day of Justice will do that by gathering at Farish Street Park to open the Truth to Power Ceremonies. With national and international New Afrikan Celebrities mingling with grassroots folks, we’ll open with Photo Ops & Networking prior to our National Day of Justice Rally & March.</div><div>Opening Statements from some of those New Afrikan Celebrities and a Inspirational Moment from an acclaimed artist will be the official start of our National Day of Justice Rally & March. The Rally will be a Call for National Justice via a Moment of Cultural Collective Inspiration at 10am/cst by letting "Freedom Ring". The ringing of freedom bells will be followed by a reading to the Mission Statement of the National Day of Justice.</div><div>From there we will proceed to the governor's Mansion to speak truth to power of our demand for equal justice for all. Human Rights advocate from across the nation will inspire the marchers to become tireless advocates for justice working collectively for a change of americans in values toward life versus materialism. Revolutionary messages will be spit by elders, adults and students.</div><div>After admonishing the governor, we will proceed to state capitol with inspirational messages and cultural expressions that speak to the need for the nation to honor Dr. King’s message to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, look over and see the promise land. The National Day of Justice will culminate with Expressions of Appreciation from Jamie & Gladys Scott (The Scott Sisters), Revolutionary Messages from Celebrity Justice Advocates and a Kazi Na Usoni Ujumbe (Message of the Work That Lies Ahead) by Attorney Chokwe Lumumba.</div><div>While advocating for "just punishment" for lawbreakers and the "fair and impartial administration of justice", the National Justice Conference will culminate with the National Day of Justice on April 4, 2012 with a commemoration ceremony acknowledging the tremendous loss to the nation of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., (April 4, 1968). At the same time, we will rededicate people power to his dream of "A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies..." as Dr. King once said. April 2-4, 2012 the place to be is Jackson, mississippi for the National Justice Conference and National Day of Justice. For more details, call 601.353.4455 or email afrikan_tbt@ yahoo.com or pardonthescottsisters@aol.com. Most importantly, mark your calendar and make plans to be a part of this history making Commemoration and Movement for Justice for All.</div><div>Asinia Lukata Chikyu</div><div>National Outreach Director</div><div>National Justice Conference & National Day of Justice</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
Dr. Berlean Burris "Just Stand" Book Signing, Tour and Photo Ops With Former Senator Roland Burris, Sunday December 4
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/dr-belean-burris-just-stand-book-signing-tour-and-photo-ops-with
2011-11-26T19:00:00.000Z
2011-11-26T19:00:00.000Z
Mark S. Allen
https://www.theblacklist.net/members/MarkSAllen
<div><h2 class="post-title">Dr. Berlean Burris "Just Stand" Book Signing, Tour and Photo Ops With Former Senator Roland Burris, Sunday December 4</h2><div class="post-meta"><div class="share-utils"><div class="social-buttons"><div class="tweet-button"></div><div class="fb-like-button"></div></div></div><div class="from">By <span class="author-name">Marksallen</span>, today at 1:11 pm</div></div><div class="post-content"><p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</p><p>Contact: Adrienne Rogers<br /> Burrisenterprise@yahoo.com<br />773-259-8376 Burrisent.com</p><p>BURRIS – “I STOOD ON THE PROMISES OF GOD”</p><p>What: Josephine’s Hardtime Cooking Restaurant welcomes Dr. Berlean M. Burris for a Sunday Brunch book signing of her new book “Just Stand.”</p><p>Breaking her silence, Dr. Burris shares with readers the ordeal she and her family were forced to endure prior to, during and even after Attorney Burris was appointed Senator by then Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.</p><p>Finding that she and her family were unable to fight against a political storm of false accusations, Dr. Burris found strength by journaling her feelings, thoughts and experiences of what was happening to her family in her first book, “Just Stand, God’s Faithfulness Never Fails.”</p><p>She became inspired to share her story, realizing there are many others who have been victims of devastating circumstances. She believes others can benefit from her experience and the book.</p><p>Why: The book signing kicks off her Winter Book Tour throughout the Midwest region.</p><p>How: Attendees will be able to personally meet Dr. Burris and have their copies signed. Photo ops will also be available with Dr. Burris and former Senator Attorney Roland Burris.</p><p>When: Sunday, December 4th, 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.</p><p>Where: Josephine’s Hardtimes Cooking Restaurant, 436 E. 79th Street, Chicago, IL</p><p>FYI: “Just Stand, God’s Faithfulness Never Fails,” serves as Dr. Burris’ testimony of God’s faithfulness in good and bad times.</p><p>The book is available at Burrisent.com or by calling 773-259-8376. Proceeds will benefit charity.</p><p>For interviews and questions please contact Adrienne Rogers, 773-259-8376.</p><div class="taxonomies"><p> </p><br /><a href="http://www.chicagonow.com/and-the-ordinary-people-said/tag/roland-burris/"></a></div></div></div>
National Black Wall Street USA Joins Campaign To Stop The Unfair Execution Of Innocent Troy Davis in Georgia
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/national-black-wall-street-usa-joins-campaign-to-stop-the-unfair
2011-09-11T11:13:24.000Z
2011-09-11T11:13:24.000Z
Mark S. Allen
https://www.theblacklist.net/members/MarkSAllen
<div><div class="yiv821194734postbody"><div align="center"><div><font size="3"><em>The Rev. Al Sharpton calls Mark Allen "One of Chicago's legendary <span id="yiv821194734IL_AD7" class="yiv821194734IL_AD"><u><font color="#009900">political activists</font></u></span>"</em></font></div><div><p style="text-align:center;" class="yiv821194734MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family:'sans-serif';font-size:13.5pt;"><span class="yiv821194734messageBody"> </span></span></p></div></div></div><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:14pt;" align="center"><strong><font size="4"><em>MARK S. ALLEN, <span id="yiv821194734IL_AD3" class="yiv821194734IL_AD"><u><font color="#009900">Daily News</font></u></span> Blog/Commentary</em></font></strong></div><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:14pt;" align="center"><em>AND THE <span id="yiv821194734IL_AD12" class="yiv821194734IL_AD"><u><font color="#009900">ORDINARY PEOPLE</font></u></span> SAID</em></div><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:14pt;" align="center"><em><a title="http://www.chicagonow.com/" target="_blank" href="http://www.chicagonow.com/"><font color="#0000FF"><span id="yiv821194734lw_1310507602_0" class="yiv821194734yshortcuts">www.chicagonow.com</span></font></a></em></div><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:14pt;" align="center"><span id="yiv821194734lw_1309465154_0" class="yiv821194734yshortcuts"><span id="yiv821194734lw_1309903766_1" class="yiv821194734yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" id="yiv821194734lw_1310507602_1" class="yiv821194734yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" id="yiv821194734lw_1311342949_0" class="yiv821194734yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" id="yiv821194734lw_1311894645_0" class="yiv821194734yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" id="yiv821194734lw_1311927177_0" class="yiv821194734yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" id="yiv821194734lw_1311929052_0" class="yiv821194734yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" id="yiv821194734lw_1312139363_0" class="yiv821194734yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" id="yiv821194734lw_1312147525_0" class="yiv821194734yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" id="yiv821194734lw_1312404108_0" class="yiv821194734yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" id="yiv821194734lw_1313530144_0" class="yiv821194734yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" id="yiv821194734lw_1313979913_0" class="yiv821194734yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" id="yiv821194734lw_1314137728_0" class="yiv821194734yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" id="yiv821194734lw_1314490730_0" class="yiv821194734yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" id="yiv821194734lw_1314832818_0" class="yiv821194734yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" id="yiv821194734lw_1314863908_0" class="yiv821194734yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv821194734yshortcuts" id="yiv821194734lw_1315674105_0"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1315739328_0">773-392-0165</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><strong> </strong><font size="4"><strong style="font-weight:bold;"><a class="yiv821194734row-title" target="_blank" href="http://www.chicagonow.com/and-the-ordinary-people-said/wp-admin/post.php?post=912&action=edit" title="Edit “Veteran Activist Mark Allen, Rev. Michael Carter, Sr, National Black Wall Street USA Publicly Join NAACP, Dr. Boyce Watkins, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. Al Sharpton and Others On National Campaign To Stop Sept 21st Georgia Execution of Troy Davis”"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1315739328_1">Veteran Activist Mark Allen, Rev. Michael Carter, Sr, National Black Wall Street USA Publicly Join NAACP, Dr. Boyce Watkins, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. Al Sharpton and Others On National Campaign To Stop Sept 21st Georgia Execution of Troy Davis</span></a></strong></font></div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;">On behalf of Rev. Michael Carter, National Chairman/President of National Black Wall Street-USA and our chapters and members across the United States, I am pleased to announce that The National Black <span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1315739328_2">Wall Street</span> <span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1315739328_3">USA</span> have joined The NAACP, Dr. Boyce Watkins, Rev Al Sharpton, Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr and the national civil rights organizations and others on this national campaign to stop the unjust execution date in <span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1315739328_4">Georgia</span> of Troy Davis.</p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div style="text-align:center;"></div><p style="text-align:center;">Last week we received the terrible news that the <span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1315739328_5">State of Georgia</span> has set <span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1315739328_6">Troy</span> Davis’s execution date for midnight on September 21, just less than a week and a half away from today..</p><div style="text-align:center;"></div><p style="text-align:center;">This is our justice system at its very worst, and we are alive to witness it. There is just too much doubt.</p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div style="text-align:center;"></div><p style="text-align:center;">Consider the situation: Seven out of nine witnesses have recanted their statements; several more have come forward to identify one of the two remaining witnesses as the actual killer; and, earlier this summer, the judge in his final hearing labeled the case against troy as “not ironclad.” Nonetheless, the state of Georgia is set to execute Troy anyway.</p><div style="text-align:center;"></div><p style="text-align:center;">Time is running out, and this is truly Troy’s last chance for life.</p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div style="text-align:center;"></div><p style="text-align:center;">But through the frustration and the tears, there is one thing to remain focused on: We are now Troy Davis’ last hope. And I know we won’t let him down.</p><div style="text-align:center;"></div><p style="text-align:center;">There are three steps you can take to help Troy:</p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div style="text-align:center;"></div><p style="text-align:center;">1. Sign the petition to the Board of Pardons and pass this on to your friends and family. Each name means a more united front for justice:</p><div style="text-align:center;"></div><p style="text-align:center;"><a target="_blank" href="http://action.naacp.org/Name-Wall"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1315739328_7">http://action.naacp.org/Name-Wall</span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div style="text-align:center;"></div><p style="text-align:center;">2. Send a message of support to Troy as he fights for justice on what may be the final days of his life.</p><div style="text-align:center;"></div><p style="text-align:center;"><a target="_blank" href="http://action.naacp.org/LettersOfSupport"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1315739328_8">http://action.naacp.org/LettersOfSupport</span></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div style="text-align:center;"></div><p style="text-align:center;">3. Make sure everyone knows about this injustice. Spread the word on Facebook and Twitter (hashtag #TooMuchDoubt) so that Troy Davis’ story can be heard. We still have a chance to save his life, but only if people are willing to speak out against injustice.</p><div style="text-align:center;"></div><p style="text-align:center;">Today, the State of Georgia has declared their intention to execute a man even though the majority of the people who put him on the row now say he is innocent many implicate one of the other witnesses as the actual killer. Now that a date has been set, we cannot relent. We must redouble our efforts. Thank you for your help.</p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><div style="text-align:center;"></div><p style="text-align:center;">Humbly,</p><div style="text-align:center;"></div><p style="text-align:center;">Mark S. Allen</p><p style="text-align:center;">Veteran Political Activist<br /> Chief of Staff to Rev. Michael Carter and one of the national spokespersons for The National Black Wall Street USA.<br /> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.blackwallstreetdistrict.com/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1315739328_9">www.blackwallstreetdistrict.com</span></a></p></div>
Dr. King Memorial Full Of Symbolism And No Substance
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/dr-king-memorial-full-of-symbolism-and-no-substance
2011-08-28T00:25:06.000Z
2011-08-28T00:25:06.000Z
Mark S. Allen
https://www.theblacklist.net/members/MarkSAllen
<div><div class="yiv710924770postbody"><div align="center"><div><font size="3"><em>The Rev. Al Sharpton calls Mark Allen "One of Chicago's legendary <span id="yiv710924770IL_AD7" class="yiv710924770IL_AD"><u><font color="#009900">political activists</font></u></span>"</em></font></div><div><p style="text-align:center;" class="yiv710924770MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family:'sans-serif';font-size:13.5pt;"><span class="yiv710924770messageBody"> </span></span></p></div></div></div><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:10pt;"><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:14pt;" align="center"><strong><font size="4"><em>MARK S. ALLEN, <span id="yiv710924770IL_AD3" class="yiv710924770IL_AD"><u><font color="#009900">Daily News</font></u></span> Blog/Commentary</em></font></strong></div><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:14pt;" align="center"><em>AND THE <span id="yiv710924770IL_AD12" class="yiv710924770IL_AD"><u><font color="#009900">ORDINARY PEOPLE</font></u></span> SAID</em></div><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:14pt;" align="center"><em><a title="http://www.chicagonow.com/" target="_blank" href="http://www.chicagonow.com/"><font color="#0000FF"><span id="yiv710924770lw_1310507602_0" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts">www.chicagonow.com</span></font></a></em></div><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:14pt;" align="center"><span id="yiv710924770lw_1309465154_0" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span id="yiv710924770lw_1309903766_1" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" id="yiv710924770lw_1310507602_1" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" id="yiv710924770lw_1311342949_0" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" id="yiv710924770lw_1311894645_0" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" id="yiv710924770lw_1311927177_0" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" id="yiv710924770lw_1311929052_0" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" id="yiv710924770lw_1312139363_0" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" id="yiv710924770lw_1312147525_0" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" id="yiv710924770lw_1312404108_0" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" id="yiv710924770lw_1313530144_0" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" id="yiv710924770lw_1313979913_0" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" id="yiv710924770lw_1314137728_0" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1314490730_0">773-392-0165</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><span class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"> <font size="5"><br style="font-weight:bold;" /></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div style="text-align:center;"><span class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><font size="5"><span style="font-weight:bold;">DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING MEMORIAL FULL OF SYMBOLISM AND NO SUBSTANCE WHICH MAKES ME SAD AND MAD !!</span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align:center;" class="yiv710924770post-content"><p>At this point the Dr. King memorial is being positioned as the biggest symbol with no substance to the real legacy of Dr. King. Forty eight (48) years after this speech and the movement that followed was supposed to end with with poor communities even more poorer and more desperate than they were then. That movement then was not supposed to end up 48 years later with historic 20-40% unemployment in majority Black communities.</p><p> </p><p>Forty eight (48) years later our major civil rights and social service organizations no longer have full time political education staff and year round civic education programming to keep their poor constituencies connected to the electoral processes.</p><p> </p><p>And with the historic desperate economic conditions facing poor communities, I just knew that this Dr. King Memorial dedication weekend with the word watching would be the ideal weekend for our collective leaders to use this major media event to re-launch the very programs that Dr. King supported while he was alive that could actually turn around the poor economic conditions and historic lack of jobs in Black and poor communities. HAVENT HEARD A WORD!! So exactly what are we celebrating and dedicating ourselves to if the celebration of the symbolic monument is not connected to the actual substance of the last campaigns that Dr. King was working on while he was alive.?</p><p> </p><p>The speech was not even called the "I Have A Dream" speech, but the world have been made to know of the speech as the symbolism of a "dream" versus the "substance" of Dr. King's speech that Black and poor communities had been given a bad check - "a check that has come back marked insufficient funds." And to remedy that Dr. King was establishing a "Poor People's Campaign" designed with a national economic empowerment program called Operation Breadbasket designed to lift poor people up from their desperate economic conditions.</p><p> </p><p>Dr. King designed strategic direct action campaigns within poor communities and at corporate targets who would not make real community reinvestment and benefit agreements in the poor communities that they located.</p><p>Its absolutely makes me sad and mad that Dr. King's memorial activities being reported by national media full of the "I Have A Dream" symbolism, but absolutely no reporting on the very programs that if followed could bring real remedy to the very poor communities represented the organizations and officials gathered in <span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1314490730_1">DC</span> to celebrate the monument symbol.</p><p> </p><p>President Obama who symbolically says he is proud to be a beneficiary of the King legacy while at the same time being challenged by Black elected officials and other poor people's advocates for his administrations lack of a poor people's agenda. Who would argue with President Obama if he used this opportunity to challenge all of those who are paying symbolic tribute to commit themselves to the substance renewing Dr. King's Poor People's Campaign?</p></div><div style="text-align:center;"></div></div><div style="text-align:center;"><span class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yiv710924770yshortcuts"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align:center;"></div></div>
The State Of The Dream
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/the-state-of-the-dream
2011-08-26T16:40:42.000Z
2011-08-26T16:40:42.000Z
Raynard Jackson
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<div><p><b>August 25, 2011</b><b> </b></p><p><b> </b> </p><p><a href="http://www.google.com/imgres?q=photos+of+martin+luther+king&hl=en&sa=X&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7SKPB_en&biw=800&bih=399&tbm=isch&tbnid=i7utYVkhen0EhM:&imgrefurl=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?GRid=582&page=gr&docid=M4FdUKmKLoPo2M&w=250&h=276&ei=KKRXTrPzMsHC0AGsnu2eDA&zoom=1"></a></p><p><b>Raynard Jackson</b></p><p><b> </b></p><p>With all the attention being focused on the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. this week, I have been pondering what he would have to say about the state of his legacy. In the immortal words of Lionel Richie (former lead singer of the Commodores):</p><p> </p><p>“I may be just a foolish dreamer but I don’t care</p><p>Cause I know my happiness is waiting out there somewhere</p><p class="verse">I'm searching for that silver lining</p><p class="verse">Horizons that I've never seen</p><p class="verse">Oh I'd like to take just a moment and dream my dream</p><p>Oooh, dream my dream” (from the song Zoom1977).</p><p class="verse">I can imagine King looking down from on high and observing the state of his dream:</p><p class="verse">What the hell has become of my dream?</p><p class="verse">Nothing is what it really seems.</p><p class="verse">My people have been emancipated, but yet are not free,</p><p class="verse">Just look at the high rate of poverty.</p><p class="verse"> </p><p class="verse">My people have better education,</p><p class="verse">But they also exhibit less dedication.</p><p class="verse">Their thirst for material possessions,</p><p class="verse">Seems to be their only obsession.</p><p class="verse"> </p><p class="verse">The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project,</p><p class="verse">Let the record show I totally object.</p><p class="verse">To spend $ 120 million and to what end?</p><p class="verse">That’s not what the dream was about my friend.</p><p> </p><p>Lei Yixin, the sculptor that was chosen,</p><p>When I found out, my mouth was frozen.</p><p>A man from China where there are no human rights,</p><p>You can believe I would have put up a big fight!</p><p> </p><p>$ 800,000 to my family for the use of my name,</p><p>Yolanda, Marty, Dexter, and Bernice what a shame.</p><p>Yeah, I know there is money in intellectual property,</p><p>But, my dream was always more towards the heavenly.</p><p> </p><p>A German to build a memorial to the Holocaust?</p><p>The Jewish community would have been at a loss.</p><p>But my people gave the work to a non American,</p><p>This oddity I really can’t understand.</p><p> </p><p class="verse"> You couldn’t have chosen someone like the sculptor Ed Dwight?</p><p class="verse">Afterall, the U.S. Air Force trusted him to take planes into flight.</p><p class="verse">A Black man trained as a sculptor, aviator and an aeronautical engineer,</p><p class="verse">His choice should have been crystal clear.</p><p class="verse"> </p><p class="verse">Getting the raw materials from a foreign land,</p><p class="verse">To build the platform on which I stand.</p><p class="verse">From China of all places, a repressive regime,</p><p class="verse">This choice makes me want to scream!</p><p class="verse"> </p><p class="verse">Temporary workers from China you brought to this land,</p><p class="verse">What, there were no American workers skilled with their hands?</p><p class="verse">No doubt this was all about cheap wages,</p><p class="verse">This has been man’s downfall throughout the ages.</p><p class="verse"> </p><p class="verse">Oh, and what’s this I hear about the granite brought in from China?</p><p class="verse">You couldn’t find any in North Carolina?</p><p class="verse">Has my dream really come down to this?</p><p class="verse">I thought by now there would be a new twist.</p><p class="verse"> </p><p class="verse">When I left earth to take my rest,</p><p class="verse">I thought my people could pass the test.</p><p class="verse">Now, as I look down on this situation,</p><p class="verse">I wish I could have one more incarnation.</p><p class="verse"> </p><p class="verse">But, who am I to question what God has started?</p><p class="verse">Maybe that’s why I am a member of the dearly departed.</p><p class="verse">I now wish I could have one more run,</p><p class="verse">But my fate was tied to the barrel of a gun.</p><p class="verse"> </p><p class="verse">So, as I leave you with these final words,</p><p class="verse">I hope the true meaning of my vision is what you heard.</p><p class="verse">I am not allowed to come back and continue the fight,</p><p class="verse">So, please try to get my dream right.</p><p class="verse"> </p><p class="verse">I will pray that God will open your eyes,</p><p class="verse">Because what I see is a stunning surprise.</p><p class="verse">The dream was not about the money spent,</p><p class="verse">But helping those who could barely pay their rent.</p><p class="verse"> </p><p class="verse">Yes, it’s true that the dream was for all of mankind,</p><p class="verse">But, what I see you doing is not what I had in mind.</p><p class="verse">My dream was not about the color of the skin,</p><p class="verse">But, tell me where does the Black man fit in?</p><p class="verse"> </p><p class="verse">But, giving contracts to those from a foreign nation,</p><p class="verse">Was not part of my dream of emancipation?</p><p class="verse">Everything for this project could have come from within</p><p class="verse">Please understand what I am saying to you my friend.</p><p class="verse"> </p><p><i>Raynard Jackson is president & CEO of Raynard Jackson & Associates, LLC., a D.C.-public relations/government affairs firm. He is also a contributing editor for ExcellStyle Magazine (</i><a href="http://www.excellstyle.com/">www.excellstyle.com</a><i>) & USAfrica Magazine (<a href="http://www.USAfricaonline.com">www.USAfricaonline.com</a>). </i></p></div>
Paying Tribute To Dr. King's Legacy With $500,000 Small Business Loans
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2011-08-23T22:33:19.000Z
2011-08-23T22:33:19.000Z
Mark S. Allen
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<div><div align="center"><div><font size="3"><em>The Rev. Al Sharpton calls Mark Allen "One of Chicago's legendary political activists"</em></font></div><div><p style="text-align:center;" class="yiv1792460236MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family:'sans-serif';font-size:13.5pt;"><span class="yiv1792460236messageBody"> </span></span></p></div></div><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:10pt;"><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:14pt;" align="center"><strong><font size="4"><em>MARK S. ALLEN, Daily News Blog/Commentary</em></font></strong></div><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:14pt;" align="center"><em>AND THE ORDINARY PEOPLE SAID</em></div><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:14pt;" align="center"><em><a title="http://www.chicagonow.com/" target="_blank" href="http://www.chicagonow.com/"><font color="#0000FF"><span id="yiv1792460236lw_1310507602_0" class="yiv1792460236yshortcuts">www.chicagonow.com</span></font></a></em></div><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:14pt;" align="center"><span id="yiv1792460236lw_1309465154_0" class="yiv1792460236yshortcuts"><span id="yiv1792460236lw_1309903766_1" class="yiv1792460236yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;" id="yiv1792460236lw_1310507602_1" class="yiv1792460236yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;" id="yiv1792460236lw_1311342949_0" class="yiv1792460236yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" id="yiv1792460236lw_1311894645_0" class="yiv1792460236yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;" id="yiv1792460236lw_1311927177_0" class="yiv1792460236yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;" id="yiv1792460236lw_1311929052_0" class="yiv1792460236yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;" id="yiv1792460236lw_1312139363_0" class="yiv1792460236yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" id="yiv1792460236lw_1312147525_0" class="yiv1792460236yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;" id="yiv1792460236lw_1312404108_0" class="yiv1792460236yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;" id="yiv1792460236lw_1313530144_0" class="yiv1792460236yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;" id="yiv1792460236lw_1313979913_0" class="yiv1792460236yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1314137728_0">773-392-0165</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><span class="yiv1792460236yshortcuts"><span class="yiv1792460236yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;" class="yiv1792460236yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;" class="yiv1792460236yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" class="yiv1792460236yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;" class="yiv1792460236yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;" class="yiv1792460236yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;" class="yiv1792460236yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" class="yiv1792460236yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;" class="yiv1792460236yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;" class="yiv1792460236yshortcuts"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><span class="yiv1792460236yshortcuts"><span class="yiv1792460236yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;" class="yiv1792460236yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;" class="yiv1792460236yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" class="yiv1792460236yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;" class="yiv1792460236yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;" class="yiv1792460236yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;" class="yiv1792460236yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" class="yiv1792460236yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;" class="yiv1792460236yshortcuts"><span style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;" class="yiv1792460236yshortcuts"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></div></div></div><div><h2 class="yiv1792460236uiHeaderTitle">Seminar Friday August 26th On How To Apply For $5,000-$35,000 Small Business Loans From Southside Community Federal Credit Union</h2></div><div class="yiv1792460236clearfix"><div class="yiv1792460236mbs yiv1792460236uiHeaderSubTitle yiv1792460236lfloat yiv1792460236fsm yiv1792460236fwn yiv1792460236fcg"><span style="font-style:italic;">In the true spirit of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's last "Poor People's Campaign</span>" <span style="font-style:italic;">and "Operation Breadbasket" Community Economic Empowerment Campaign I am humbled and pleased to be a part of this key economic empowerment effort to use a grassroot community developed financial institution and provide $500,000 in small business development loans for small business development and local job creation</span> <span style="font-style:italic;">in poor neighborhoods</span>.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">This community economic empowerment campaign in poor neighborhoods was the last campaign of Dr. King's "Operation Breadbasket"</span> <span style="font-style:italic;">and I remember being a part of the youth consumer clubs that taught poor communities how to use their</span> <span style="font-style:italic;">economic power to build business and jobs and so this effort is a true reflection of how to celebrate Dr. King and the "substance" of his real work and not just the usual symbolism that comes with his annual tributes. <br /><br />"Keeping a slice" of the economic bread in poor communities to sustain and increase new Black business and local jobs is the best example to pay real tribute to the last campaign of Dr. King's as well as commemorating the 90th Year Anniversary of the 1921 Race Riots of the original Black <span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1314137728_1">Wall Street</span> District of <span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1314137728_2">Tulsa Oklahoma</span> and an example of what the substance of a Black Wall Street movement represents today, We want to use this local example as what poor communities can do like this across the country with the economic partnerships that Dr. King promoted in his Poor People's Campaign and The Black Wall Street Movement"</span><br style="font-style:italic;" /><span style="font-style:italic;"><br />Mark S. Allen</span>, <span style="font-style:italic;">Veteran Civil Rights Activist, member The <span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1314137728_3">Monroe</span> Foundation, community organizer for The Southside Community Federal Union, and a national spokesperson for the National Black Wall Street <span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1314137728_4">USA</span></span> (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.blackwallstreetdistrict.com/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1314137728_5">www.blackwallstreetdistrict.com</span></a>)<br style="font-weight:bold;" /></div></div><p> </p><p style="font-weight:bold;"><font size="5">Attention Small Business Owner/Entrepreneurs !!<br /></font></p><p> </p><p>The Monroe Foundation is pleased to collaborate with the Southside Community Federal Credit Union to present a Q & A seminar on how YOU can apply for a micro-loan between $5,000-$35,000 from the Southside Community Federal Credit Union Micro-Loan Program.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>When:</p><p style="font-weight:bold;"><font size="5">Friday, August 26, 2011</font></p><p style="font-weight:bold;"><font size="5">Where:</font></p><p>Southside Community Federal Credit Union</p><p>5401 South Wentworth Avenue, Suite 25 (In the Plaza-55th Off the Dan Ryan)</p><p> </p><p>Time:</p><p>6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.</p><p>RSVP</p><p>Name:</p><p>Name of Company:</p><p>Phone:</p><p>Email:</p><p>To: <span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1314137728_6">omonroe@themonroefoundation.org</span></p><p> </p><p>Questions? Gregg Brown, CEO, Southside Community Federal Credit Union</p><p><span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1314137728_7">(773) 548-5533</span></p><p>Email: <span style="border-bottom:2px dotted #366388;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1314137728_8">ssfcu@sbcglobal.net</span></p><p>The Small Business Bootcamp is generously supported by Citibank.</p></div>
The Man in the Mirror
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2011-06-16T04:00:12.000Z
2011-06-16T04:00:12.000Z
Raynard Jackson
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<div><p><b>June 16, 2011</b></p><p> </p><p><b>Raynard Jackson</b></p><p><b> </b></p><p>The church used to be the mirror that society looked into to see its reflection. But, now the church has become the reflection that mirrors society.</p><p> </p><p>Unfortunately, the church seems to have lost its way and can no longer be counted on to provide light in a dark world. </p><p> </p><p>Last month, embattled preacher Eddie Long made an out of court settlement of the sexual charges made against him by 4 teenage parishioners. The settlement is reported to have been for $ 15 million (to be split between the four accusers). The accusers were: Anthony Flagg, Maurice Robinson, Jamal Parris and Spencer LeGrande. </p><p> </p><p>The suit accused Long of using his position as pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church to coerce the men into having sexual relationships with him while they were teenage members of his congregation (they were said to have been 17 years old). The acts included massages, masturbation, and oral sex. The age of consent in the state of Georgia is 16. The accusers were all over the age of consent when the acts occurred, therefore law enforcement had no grounds for criminal charges.</p><p>New Birth is one of the largest churches in the Atlanta area, with a membership estimated to be around 25,000. </p><p> </p><p>As to be expected, members are leaving the church in droves, including one of their assistant pastors, Bernice King, youngest daughter of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. </p><p> </p><p class="adjusted1">To add salt to the wound, Creflo Dollar has shown his arrogance in his attempted defense of Long (a long time friend). According to Dollar’s sermon from last Sunday (seen on YouTube): "That preacher's still anointed to do what he was called to. He just had a wreck (the sexual coercion charge)…The blood (of Jesus) will take care of his issue just like it will take care of yours. And I just can't believe that people would leave their preacher because he had a wreck, instead of praying for him. So he had a wreck. You've had some wrecks. And I'm thinking, 'Man, the mercy of God showed on you, but you couldn't show it to the preacher?...He had a wreck, [but] here's the good news. He's got insurance. If you're from that church that you know I'm talking about, you trying to join here, I don't want you to join here. You need to go and join where you're supposed to be.”</p><p class="adjusted1"> </p><p class="adjusted1">Dollar is pastor of World Changers Church in Atlanta. They have an estimated membership of 30,000 people.</p><p class="adjusted1"> </p><p class="adjusted1">Long and Dollar are both advocates of the “prosperity gospel.” This is basically a belief in the modern church that God wants everyone to be millionaires. All you have to do is to obey preachers like Long and Dollar, give them your money, and God will give you a big house, an expensive car, and any other material possessions you want.</p><p class="adjusted1"> </p><p>They should know. Long drives a Bentley, has a 9 bedroom house, and has a $ 1 million salary. Dollar (what an ironic name) has a $ 3 million house in Atlanta, $ 2.4 million condo in NY, 2 Rolls-Royces, and a private jet.</p><p> </p><p>These preachers have basically made God into a personal ATM! According to their theology, if you don’t have material riches, you must be doing something wrong!</p><p> </p><p>These mega churches have become the “Wall Street” of religion (as in the movie) where “greed is good.” These preachers depend on “the cult of personality” to expand their empires. People tend to join these churches because of the preacher, not the message that is being preached.</p><p> </p><p>These preachers are nothing but celebrities with robes on. But, when you pull back the robes, most of them are naked---both literally and figuratively. Like in the movie, “The Wiz,” when you go behind the curtain, you find a big ole phony!</p><p> </p><p>I am a graduate of Oral Roberts University, one of the preeminent Christian schools in the country. I have worked around many of the biggest names in the “prosperity theology” movement.</p><p> </p><p>These preachers have absolutely no sense of the damage they are doing, not only to the church, but also to people’s lives. Proverbs 14:7 states: “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof the ways of death.”</p><p> </p><p>Dollar’s berating of those who left Long’s church is the epitome of arrogance. They have prostituted the church for their personal gain. The damage these types of preachers have done is incalculable. </p><p>For every ill we see in society, from politics, business, and entertainment, we now see reflected in the church.</p><p> </p><p>The church is no longer the mirror, but the reflection. Just look at the man in the mirror!</p><p> </p><p><i>Raynard Jackson is president & CEO of Raynard Jackson & Associates, LLC., a D.C.-public relations/government affairs firm. He is also a contributing editor for ExcellStyle Magazine (</i><a href="http://www.excellstyle.com/">www.excellstyle.com</a><i>) & USAfrica Magazine (<a href="http://www.USAfricaonline.com">www.USAfricaonline.com</a>). </i></p></div>
CUNY Chancellor& MEC President Mock the Memory and Legacy of Medgar Wiley Evers: Attack on Center for NU Leadership and the MEC Black Think Tank
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2011-03-07T13:31:07.000Z
2011-03-07T13:31:07.000Z
TheBlackList News
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<div><div><a target="_blank" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9HiRqRhD2pk/S5rhtBSaC9I/AAAAAAAAAC8/AUlXfdUVyGo/S220/Gloria%2BDulan-Wilson"><img class="align-full" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9HiRqRhD2pk/S5rhtBSaC9I/AAAAAAAAAC8/AUlXfdUVyGo/S220/Gloria%2BDulan-Wilson" alt="Gloria%2BDulan-Wilson" /></a>By <a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">Gloria Dulan-Wilson</a><br /><br />I’m going to start this off with a quote from Dr. Divine Pryor. It’s so heavy I didn’t want to leave it to the end of this article:<br /><br />“For the past seven years, The Center for NU Leadership on Urban Solutions has successfully created opportunities for people entangled in the law to access higher education as a way to transforming their lives. Our attempt to secure a multi-million dollar grant was only an effort to formalize what we have been doing informally over the past seven years. It’s unfortunate that President William Pollard and his administration could not appreciate the fact that members of the Center for NU Leadership are living, breathing examples of what is possible when an individual decides to transform their lives after making a mistake. <br /><br />It’s ironic that we can be proud of the fact that New York City has one of the most effective garbage recycling systems in the world, but somehow President Pollard doesn’t believe that a human being can be recycled.” Dr. Divine Pryor, March 6, 2011<br /><br />Now for those of you who have been following these issues, or who are embroiled in the task of saving the school, the Medgar Evers College situation continues “to get curioser and curioser” - to paraphrase Alice in Wonderland. Speaking of which, given the specious assertions and allegations on the part of CUNY’s legals, one has to wonder what they’re up to really. <br /><br />It kind of pivots between “here we go again,” and “oh no! Not that stupid stuff again!” You can decide after I outline the facts.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Fact</span>: Center for NU Leadership was founded by Dr. Divine Pryor some 7 years ago to help those who had run afoul of the law, lead better lives by providing them with a college education, so that they could make a positive contribution to society and their communities.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Fact</span>: Dr. Edison O. Jackson, then President of Medgar Evers College, in wanting to provide services to a broader range of the population in and around Brooklyn and the greater New York Area, invited Dr. Pryor to establish an office for the Center for NU Leadership, so that those previously incarcerated who were looking to change their lives could matriculate at Medgar Evers College. Additionally, they maintained an open door policy, so that applicants and participants could come in from the street and be assisted in obtaining the education needed to provide them with career strategies and goals.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Fact</span>: Over the past 7 years Center for NU Leadership has successfully assisted over 200 applicants graduate from Medgar Evers and enter into such arenas as legislative offices, corrections, the court systems, district attorney’s offices and non-profit organizations.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Fact</span>: For such a small staff that’s a major track record - particularly since they are still fully employed, and continuing to make positive contributions to the community, setting a positive example for the youth and peers with whom they interact.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Fact:</span> President William Pollard doesn’t get it. His allegation that the program exposed the campus to criminal elements, which, by the way, has not been a problem in the entire 7 years they have been affiliated with the campus, is a sad indictment on a person who looks like us, has a similar pigmentation, but it all stops there - scratch that surface, and there is something completely different lurking underneath. Howard Johnson, who serves as provost, is equally culpable, as evidenced by his hostile and aggressive actions against Center for NU Leadership, the Bunche DuBois Center, faculty, staff, and students. But, in addition to his not getting it - is the even sadder (read sicker) fact that he apparently doesn’t care. <br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Fact:</span> Chancellor Goldstein apparently really doesn’t care - about Pollard, about Medgar Evers College, about the Black students, about the Brooklyn Community. He is about the “my way or high way” approach. The only thing is that the strings are showing and the puppet and puppet master are both about to be caught up in them.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Fact:</span> The eviction of Center for NU Leadership on Urban Solutions from Medgar Evers College was heinous and unconscionable. It was based on racism and stereotypes. It was an affront to the men and women who have worked diligently to turn their lives around. And an even greater affront to Dr. Pryor who has dedicated his time, talent, intelligence and energy to developing what the prisons systems could or would not do, a viable program that spoke (speaks) to the needs of those in our community who have been disenfranchised by a system that would rather criminalize them than provide them with the education they deserved.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Fact:</span> The confiscation of the Center for New Leadership’s computers (which they owned outright), and the confiscation of their hard drive was not only egregious, but criminal on the part of CUNY and Medgar Evers College. It not only violates their rights as an organization, but there are certain intellectual property laws, copyright infringement, as well as other rights to privacy that have been trampled in this newest racist attempt to denigrate this organization.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Fact:</span> The allegation of a criminal investigation being their cause for seizing Center for NU Leadership‘s property, as alleged by the legals of CUNY, has no basis in fact. Not only were there no presentations of warrants, or any of the other protocols that would precede a search and seizure procedure, there has never been any necessity for an investigation of any type until the fabrication on the part of MEC’s new administration. <br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Fact</span>: There is so little regard for Black people on the part of the CUNY administration, that they apparently disrespected the Black elected officials who tried to meet with them to ameliorate the problem and bring, what they had hoped would be a positive solution to a problem that has now mushroomed out of proportion. One community leader stated very matter of factly: “White people having no regard for Black people is not new. We’ve lived with that all our lives. But to have a person who is supposed to be Black, participate in the dismantling of an institution that has been built by the efforts of a community dedicated to educating their youth, and providing them with a legacy, goes to very heart of self-hatred; and cannot be tolerated.”<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Fact:</span> State Supreme Court Judge Kramer, who presided over the hearing, Friday, March 4, 2011 in the Supreme Court in Brooklyn, could not believe that the legals of CUNY were refusing to return the hard drive from the Center for NU Leadership’s computers. (Judge Kramer had ordered Medgar Evers to return to NuLeadership computers that the administration had confiscated in<br />mid-December but that were purchased independently by the center).<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br /><br />Fact:</span> Subsequent hearing date set for April 8, 2011, during which time the CUNY legals will try to make those allegations hold water. While we put nothing past their trying to justify their actions, and prove their allegations (given the nature of the individuals involved), through manufactured evidence, the fact still remains that there is not now, nor has there ever been any reason to seize the materials, equipment, supplies owned and operated by the Center for NU Leadership.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Fact</span>: The Medgar Evers faculty issued a vote of no confidence in Pollard, stating he is betraying the mission of a college presumably dedicated to the academic needs of the urban poor and working class. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Fact</span>: On March 8, 2011, the New York City Council is holding hearings on academic excellence and the necessity of cultural programs to round out the educational millieu. The hearings will be held at 250 Broadway, 14th Floor hearing room at 2:00PM. We are holding a press conference on the steps of City Hall at 1:00pm. Would like to have as many people from the community present as possible.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Fact: MEC/CUNY’s stupidity Brooklyn's loss and SUNY’s gain.</span> SUNY has offered to house the Center for NU Leadership, blowing holes in the allegation that they presented a criminal element on the MEC campus. If there was so much danger, why would SUNY offer them a considerable increase in funding as well as space and support. What Goldstein, Pollard and Johnson have essentially done is deprived the Brooklyn community of an essential program that has provided services for the growing number of ex-offenders who are returning to the community. <br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">NB:</span> While SUNY will be housing the program on their campus, that should not obviate the <span style="font-weight:bold;">demand that a branch of the center be re-established at Medgar Evers with full staff and equipment, immediately, if not sooner. In fact, faculty, staff, programs that were in existence upon Pollard’s arrival, must be completely reinstated and MADE WHOLE, WITHOUT PREJU</span>DICE.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Fact:</span> Under the leadership of President Edison O. Jackson, Medgar Evers College had amassed some of the greatest minds in Black culture, politics, history and leadership, including former New York State Assemblyman Roger Green, Congressman Major Owens, Dr. Zulema Blair, Dr. Brenda M. Greene, Dr. Betty Shabazz (deceased), Ambassador Pursoo. It was a magnate for some of the greatest minds and leaders who frequented the campus affording the students an opportunity to be involved in leading edge issues and endeavors. The underhanded manner in which these and others have been treated has left a stain on the schools reputation as a center for higher learning and a magnate for genius.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Fact:</span> Under the tyranny of Goldstein, Pollard and Johnson, more damage has been done to revert the campus back to pre-Jackson days when the school was floundering for an identity and direction.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Fact:</span> If the Brooklyn Community, and the greater New York Community, the elected officials, and the students, parents, and faculty, don’t act immediately and take a stand for Medgar Evers College, the dream and goal of a COMMUNIVERSITY will have been destroyed, right along with so many other important programs and institutions we and our predecessors have fought long and hard to establish in the Black community. THAT MUST NOT HAPPEN.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Fact:</span> My father used to say, “there’s nothing worse than an educated fool, or the person who knows the cost of everything but the value of nothing.” There is also nothing worse than a people or a community who will sit idly by and allow the educational and cultural future (and present) of their children to be trampled on, with out taking a stand.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />QUESTION: NOW THAT YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?<span style="font-style:italic;"> </span></span><br /><br />Contact and support the <a href="mailto:MECCoalition@gmail.com" target="_blank">MECCoalition@gmail.com</a> <br /><br />Stay Blessed & <br />ECLECTICALLY BLACK<br />Gloria Dulan-Wilson<br /><br />PS: I could not close this article without quoting someone else that Ive admired for a long time, Dr. Robert Schuller of the Crystal Cathedral in California. He always spoke about <span style="font-weight:bold;">"Turning your scars into stars."<span style="font-style:italic;"> </span></span> And to me that is precisely what Dr. Divine Pryor has been doing with the Center for NU Leadership on Urban Solutions.</div><div><div><span>Posted by <span>Gloria Dulan-Wilson</span></span> <span>at <a title="permanent link" href="http://gloria-dulan-wilson.blogspot.com/2011/03/cuny-chancellor-mec-president-mock.html" target="_blank"><abbr title="2011-03-07T03:45:00-05:00">3:45 AM</abbr></a></span> <span> </span><span><span><a title="Email Post" href="http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=8661755859413500477&postID=5512873350437212738" target="_blank"><img src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" height="13" width="18" alt="icon18_email.gif" /></a></span> <span><a title="Edit Post" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=8661755859413500477&postID=5512873350437212738" target="_blank"><img src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" height="18" width="18" alt="icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" /></a></span></span></div><div><strong>Follow Gloria Dulan-Wilson's Blog at <a href="http://gloria-dulan-wilson.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://gloria-dulan-wilson.blogspot.com</a>/</strong></div><div><span><span><br /></span></span></div></div></div>
Medgar Evers Coalition for Academic Excellence Makes a Big Showing at the Black, Puerto Rican & Asian Caucus
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<div><div><div><a></a><div>By <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">Gloria Dulan-Wilson</a></span><br /><br />Well now that I've recouped from one of the busiest weekends of Black History Month, I have finally gathered up the strength and energy to write this article. <br /><br />The MEC Coalition took its concerns to Albany last weekend, during the 40th Annual Black and Puerto Rican and Asian Legislative Caucus and placed it squarely on the plates of the elected officials. <br /><br />Armed with petitions, flyers, parent, student and educator support, they spoke individually and collectively with the elected officials in regards to the egregious acts that have been lodged against New York's only predominantly Black college.<br /><br />The center of the controversy, William Pollard, newly selected president chosen to replace the outgoing Edison Jackson, who retired after 20 years of successfully leading and expanding the college from a near failure to one of immeasurable success; closely followed by his hand-picked provost Howard Johnson, appeared to have had the same idea. They sponsored a bus with students from Medgar Evers, in an effort to put on a dog and pony show, to persuade the officials that they were doing a positive job. <br /><br />However, their efforts fell far short of their mark, despite a well crafted speech delivered by State Senator Eric Adams. His support of academic excellence, is of course, laudable. Something all can agree to. However, his speech, eloquent though it was, does not assuage the fact that Pollard and Johnson have eviscerated several essential programs that were part and parcel of what made Medgar Evers such a great success: The Center for NU Leadership, started by Dr. Divine Pryor, and recruited on to the campus as an integral part of their outreach by Dr. Jackson; and the DuBois Bunche Institute, founded and fostered by former Assemblymember Roger Green, Congressman Major Owens, among others, were both ousted from the campus - for what purpose? And what did the termination of these programs have to do with academic excellence? Additionally, MEC had the only Black Think Tank on campus, comprised of historical figures, entrepreneurs, political leaders, formerly elected officials, all of whom were drawing cards for other programs and funding sources. (It should also be noted that the program ended abruptly after Senator Adams' speech, and members of the audience were not afforded the opportunity of asking questions or making comments).<br /><br />But back on the subject of academic excellence: One wonders what the rationale could have been for curtailing open enrollment for students who were aspiring to new career goals? Congressman Owens, who was part of the originating members who supported the establishment of Medgar Evers reminded us all that the premise of the school was based on the concept of <span style="font-weight:bold;">COMMUNIVERSITY<span style="font-style:italic;"> </span></span>. And that there were several contracts drawn between the community and the CUNY bigwigs have been thrown under the bus. <br /><br />It's clear that things are very much amiss at the college. In fact, anyone walking through the corridors, which were once alive with engaged students, will readily notice the ghost-town like appearance of the halls. Gone are the encouraging bulletin boards, the announcements of opportunities for student participation and achievements that used to populate the walls.<br /><br />Albany became the line drawn in the sand. At a meeting held Saturday, February 19, caucus members came to hear the concerns of the MEC Coalition, and left determined that there would be no additional funding or other concessions until things were rectified at the campus.<br /><br />Chancellor Goldstein, who backs Pollard and Johnson, has taken out full page ads in predominantly African American papers trying to thwart the growing discontent among the faculty, staff, and community. The Amsterdam News recently ran a headline stating the students at MEC were "clueless" about what was transpiring at the campus. The facts, however, are that the student organizations have been threatened with funding cuts if they participate in, or evidence any concern about the new regime. A regime that has largely targeted them for extinction, while simultaneously looking to replace them with students outside the boundaries of the Brooklyn community from which a large majority of the student body originates. <br /><br />Actually, the more telling problem is that they are actually looking to supplant the New York student body completely by giving priority to foreign students who are coming in from other countries, paying high prices to attend CUNY Schools while the neighborhood gets priced out of the market. As it is, prices have crept up for education at our city "owned" university over the past few decades, with students who would otherwise have the right to a free education, paying almost as much as they would to go to a private college or university. In spite of that factor, the CUNY system is constantly crying broke - wonder who is monitoring their budgets? <br /><br />Medgar Evers was, for all intents and purposes, not supposed to succeed. In fact the first four presidents, prior to the hiring of Edison Jackson, were major disasters. It was as if the CUNY higher ups were deliberately picking miscreants, who were clueless about the mission and intent of the college, which was named after slain Civil Rights leader, Medgar Wiley Evers. The appointment of the current president, is reminiscient of the earlier selections, who had no understanding or concern for the community; had little respect for or alliegience to the faculty and staff, and were largely there as place holders while the school slowly declined. <br /><br />Such a decline would open the door for the CUNY higher ups to step in conveniently and take over the school, reshaping it so that it no longer serves the purpose of providing a quality educational millieu for African/African American/Caribbean students who have found success in a school that has been the underpinning of their success over the past two decades. (Pollard is alleged to have made threats to curtail financial assistance for several Caribbean-American students, stating they were receiving the assistance illegally).<br /><br />When compared to other HBCUs, Medgar Evers existence is a drop in the bucket, having only been here a mere 26 years. But their progress has been meteoric. That is until the 2009. <br /><br />The upshot of the Caucus weekend, however, is that the efforts to make it appear as if all was well at MEC, may well have backfired. Several of the pols who attended the meeting with the coalition, most notably Senator Kevin Parker, and Assemblymember Inez Barron, have vowed not to provide any additional funds to CUNY in general and Medgar Evers in particular until the problems are rectified, the programs are reinstated, and person more in keeping with the mission of Medgar Evers is brought on board to lead the college. This time a full fledged search must be launched to make sure that the right one is appointed- no more hastily selected individuals of questionable backgrounds. <br /><br />Assemblymember Jeffries, and other elected officials are planning to hold hearings into the circumstances under which the current president was selected, as well as to the recent discontinuations of programs that had been beneficial to the campus, and the blocking of grants that would have enhanced several programs that had been in existence for quite some time. (Still don't understand why Carver Bank's ATMs were taken out and replaced by CitiBank. It may not be in the purview of the elected officials, but inquiring minds want to know.)<br /><br />The New York State Panhellenic Council (comprised of the major Black Fraternities and Sororities) have likewise agreed to look into what is happening with Medgar Evers' students, and the policies that appear to be aimed at undermining its status as the only Black college in New York. It should be remembered that prior to her untimely, tragic death, Dr. Betty Shabazz, Director of Institutional Advancement and Public Affairs, was a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. Former President, Edison Jackson, was an active member of Phi Beta Sigma, hosting many student orient programs and scholarship award ceremonies at the campus. Irregardless of whether there are active faternities or sororities at Medgar Evers, the Pan Hellenic Council deem it important to take an active interest in the preservation of Medgar Evers as a predominantly Black college. This is refreshing, since Pollard has claimed that he was not brought to Medgar Evers to head a Black college. <br /><br />Rev. Al Sharpton stated in his address to the Caucus church goers at the Wilborn Temple in Albany, we have far too many among us who have title without responsibility; who are in positions of power, but are not standing for those made it possible for them to be in that position. Who serve more as a blockage to progress, than a conduit.<br /><br />It appears that Pollard has been brought into this situation for that purpose; in a which he is not suited- at least not by our standards of quality (though he may well be serving the purposes of the chancellor). And since he was not brought here to be the president of a Black college; it may well have been a case of mistaken identity. He does look a lot like us. But there the similarity ends sharply: <span style="font-weight:bold;">MEDGAR EVERS IS A BLACK COLLEGE.</span> It was from the inception, and will continue to be so, despite his or Johnson's or Goldstein's efforts to the contrary. <br /><br />Academic excellence is not born of destroying programs; it comes from bringing in quality faculty; it comes from providing a millieu of growth, exploration, creativity, and progressive programs. It does not come via demoralization an0d intimidation, inuendos and reprisals. It comes through attracting the brightest and the best via those who are already a beacon for the school; not undermining that beacon, and engendering the ire of an entire community.<br /><br />A series of television broadcasts via Manhattan Neighborhood Network, (MNN), will further discuss these and other concerns roiling around Medgar Evers College. Check your satellite and cable listings for dates and times. (Of course I will post it as part of my even alert as soon as I have additional information.)<br /><br />But the main point is this -- to Brooklynites, and all residents of New York, whether or not you have or ever plan to attend Medgar Evers College - this is yet another attack on a Black institution. This is another incursion into our community, with the aim and goal of decimating us, demoralizing us, and depriving us of something that we have worked hard for and built with blood, sweat, tears, pride and respect. <br /><br />My question to you is this: <span style="font-weight:bold;">NOW THAT YOU KNOW, WHAT WILL YOU DO ABOUT IT?</span> <br /><br />To lend your support contact the <span style="font-weight:bold;"><a href="mailto:meccoalitation@gmail.com" target="_blank">meccoalitation@gmail.com</a>,</span> contact your churches, elected officials, community based organizations, and make yourselves a committee of one to demand the cessation of the dismantling of Medgar Evers and the reinstatement of programs that have been unfairly curtailed; and the reinstatement of open enrollment for students in the Brooklyn community. You are the people with the power; this is your community; Medgar Evers came about as the result of your efforts. Stand up, be seen, be heard, be counted, be respected. <br /><br />STAY BLESSED &<br />ECLECTICALLY BLACK<br />Gloria Dulan-Wilson</div>
<div><div><span>Posted by <span>Gloria Dulan-Wilson</span></span> <span>at <a title="permanent link" href="http://gloria-dulan-wilson.blogspot.com/2011/02/medgar-evers-coalitiion-for-academic.html" target="_blank"><abbr title="2011-02-28T20:13:00-05:00">8:13 PM</abbr></a></span> <span><span><a title="Email Post" href="http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=8661755859413500477&postID=7795356431109351128" target="_blank"><img src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" height="13" width="18" alt="icon18_email.gif" /></a></span> <span><a title="Edit Post" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=8661755859413500477&postID=7795356431109351128" target="_blank"><img src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" height="18" width="18" alt="icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" /></a></span></span></div>
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Only in Black America
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<div><p><b>February 17, 2011</b><b> </b></p><p><b> </b><b> </b></p><p><b> </b></p><p><b>Raynard Jackson</b><b> </b></p><p> </p><p>Last year I wrote a column about how President Obama totally disrespected Black America (during Black History Month of all times) and there was no outcry from within our community. You can read that column at: </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://theblacklistpub.ning.com/profiles/blog/Only%20in%20Black%20America.docx">http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/note.php?note_id=310879525974</a></p><p> </p><p>Now, you have the same thing happening again, of course during Black History Month. This time the offender is the illustrious Washington Post (WP) newspaper. They are supposed to be one of the top newspapers in the country, so this makes their offense even more egregious.</p><p> </p><p>Next Wednesday, the WP will be hosting a town hall meeting in Prince Georges County, Maryland. For those who live outside of this area, this is the wealthiest Black county in America. </p><p> </p><p>This is how the Washington Post is advertising the event: “Please join The Washington Post for an informative panel discussion, <b>"Behind the Headlines: A Discussion on Race and the Recession in Metro Washington."</b> The panel will cover the recession's impact on local black families and will look at how economic policies in Washington have affected African Americans. The forum will also look at the first of three groundbreaking public opinion polls on issues facing the black community, conducted by The Washington Post, the Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University.</p><p> </p><p>Washington Post nationally syndicated personal finance columnist <strong>Michelle Singletary</strong> will moderate the discussion, and panelists will include <strong>Julianne Malveaux</strong>, a noted economist and educator; <strong>Cecilia Rouse</strong>, a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers; <strong>Rep. Emanuel Cleaver</strong>, chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus; <strong>Michael A. Fletcher</strong>, a Washington Post national economics reporter; the <strong>Rev. Al Sharpton</strong>, president of the National Action Network; and <strong>Jeff Johnson</strong>, a political commentator on the nationally syndicated "Tom Joyner Morning Show."</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/special/behindtheheadlines.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/special/behindtheheadlines.html</a></p><p> </p><p>So, you might ask, what is the issue I have with the WP? Just as I questioned President Obama’s choice of people to meet with him in the white house last year about the high unemployment rate within the Black community, I have the same thoughts about the WP.</p><p> </p><p>The moderator of the panel is a journalist, followed by a radical leftist economist, another liberal economist, a preacher/politician, a journalist, another preacher/politician, and finally, a political commentator. You have got to be joking!</p><p> </p><p>Prince Georges County is home to some of the most successful Black businessmen in the U.S. and not one has been invited to participate. Five of the seven panelists are known Democrats (with Singletary and Fletcher having no known public political affiliation).</p><p> </p><p>Is there any particular reason why the WP conveniently decided not to have any Black Republicans on the panel? Of course it could not be because they are biased. The Post would never travel down that path, would they? Of course they would and they have!</p><p> </p><p>For all practical purposes, this will be an unpaid political commercial for the Obama reelection campaign. The panelists (with the exception of 2) all are in agreement with most of Obama’s approach to the economy. So, how can you have a serious discussion with people who already agree with each other? </p><p> </p><p>It should not be surprising that 5 of the 7 panelists have ties to the Obama administration (formal or informal). One of the constant criticisms of President Obama is that he has no one around him from the private sector. </p><p> </p><p>None of these panelists have ever created a job, so what is it that they have to say that is relevant? </p><p> </p><p>The last thing the Black community needs is another theoretical discussion. Even socialism works in a ‘theoretical’ world. I can tell you everything that will be said next week and I won’t even be there. </p><p> </p><p>At what point are Blacks going to rise up against this insulting pandering? With all the super successful people in this town, the WP couldn’t find any businessmen to talk about these issues? Why did they not invite any educators, like the dean of Howard University’s Business school, Dr. Barron Harvey?</p><p> </p><p>After this event, then what? Blacks will go there to hear all the usual arguments: racism, Republican budget cuts, Bush created the problems, etc. </p><p> </p><p>So, I challenge the Washington Post to underwrite a town hall meeting that I will put together to deal with these issues in a more serious manner. I will moderate the panel and assemble a group of panelist who will offer real world solutions to these problems. </p><p> </p><p>I don’t expect the Post to respond to my challenge; for to do so would be admitting they made a huge mistake.</p><p> </p><p>In the immortal words of the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, “like a dull knife—just ain’t cutting it; you just talking loud and saying nothing.”</p><p> </p><p><i>Raynard Jackson is president & CEO of Raynard Jackson & Associates, LLC., a D.C.-public relations/government affairs firm. He is also a contributing editor for ExcellStyle Magazine (</i><a href="http://www.excellstyle.com/"><i>www.excellstyle.com</i></a><i>) & U.S. Africa Magazine (<a href="http://www.usafricaonline.com">www.usafricaonline.com</a>). </i></p></div>
113th EarthLight Ilebration Dr. L. P. Howell June 2011
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<div><p>FiyahhhhIses to all.</p><p>Just this short update from the meeting this past Saturday February 5th, 2011.</p><p>The schedule is at follows: -Tuesday May 31st (tentatively) Press Conference-Sunday June 12th...Running African Program on L.P Howell...Irie FM</p><p>-Tuesday June 14th..Opening Ceremony: UWI Symposium...family and other presenters</p><p>-Wednesday June 15th....Continuation of the UWI Symposium...full day....Family and other presenters .....Binghi Celebrations begin at Pinnacle.</p><p>-Thursday June 16th....Tredegar Park Family Fun Day...Peace March through the Tredegar Park Community....Continuation of Binghi at Pinnacle</p><p>-Saturday June 18th....Concert at Sligoville Sports Complex Sligoville , Jamaica...Midnite Reggae Band Main ???which Marley Muta, Yasus Afari, Lyutan Fiyah, Richie Spice Tarrus Riley, and more</p><p>-Sunday June 19th...General tour of Pinnacle (journey would begin from St. Thomas<a href="{{#staticFileLink}}3828523268,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828523268,original{{/staticFileLink}}" width="640" alt="3828523268?profile=original" /></a></p></div>
Another Year That The Substance of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's Lifes Work And Legacy Weakened With Commercialism and Symbolism
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<div><h1 class="entry-title">Another Year That The Substance of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's Lifes Work And Legacy Weakened With Commercialism and Symbolism</h1><div class="entry-header pkg"><div class="entry-meta"><div class="userpic pkg"><a><img src="http://www.chicagonow.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-static/support/assets_c/userpics/userpic-23645-100x100.png" alt="user-pic" width="24" height="24" /></a></div><span class="vcard author"><a class="fn url" href="http://www.chicagonow.com/profiles/Marksallen">Marksallen</a></span> on <abbr class="published" title="2011-01-18T02:14:39-06:00">01.18.11 at 2:14 AM</abbr> | <a href="http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/and-the-ordinary-people-said/2011/01/another-year-that-the-substance-of-rev-dr-martin-luther-kings-lifes-work-and-legacy-weakened-with-celebrations-of-symbolism.html#comments" class="comment">no comments</a> |</div><div class="about-the-blogger pkg"><div class="userpic-large pkg"><div class="userpic pkg"><a href="http://www.chicagonow.com/profiles/Marksallen"><img src="http://www.chicagonow.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-static/support/assets_c/userpics/userpic-23645-100x100.png" alt="user-pic" width="62" height="62" /></a></div></div><div class="blogger-info"><span class="vcard author"><a class="fn url" href="http://www.chicagonow.com/profiles/Marksallen">Marksallen</a></span><p class="short-bio">One of the first community organizers to work with Barack Obama in Chicago for over 20 years. Now Associate Editor of The South Street Journal Newspaper and 37 year activist/journalist, recently selected as 2010 Who's Who In Black Chicago. 312-624-8351 or 773-392-0165</p><div class="follow-blogger"><span>Follow on:</span></div></div></div><div style="display:block;float:left;margin-left:0pt;" id="share-tools-wrapper" class="pkg horizontal-share"><h3 id="share-tools-title">Share</h3><div id="share-tools" class="clearfix pkg"><ul><li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chicagonow.com%2Fblogs%2Fand-the-ordinary-people-said%2F2011%2F01%2Fanother-year-that-the-substance-of-rev-dr-martin-luther-kings-lifes-work-and-legacy-weakened-with-celebrations-of-symbolism.html&t=Another%20Year%20That%20The%20Substance%20of%20Rev.%20Dr.%20Martin%20Luther%20King%27s%20Lifes%20Work%20And%20Legacy%20Weakened%20With%20Celebrations%20of%20Symbolism" title="Share on Facebook" class="smedia facebook"><img alt="Share on Facebook" src="http://www.chicagonow.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-static/addons/ChicagoNow.pack/images/facebook.png" /><span id="facebook-share"></span></a><div class="count">Facebook (0)</div></li><li><a title="Tweet this story" class="smedia twitter"><img alt="Tweet this story" src="http://www.chicagonow.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-static/addons/ChicagoNow.pack/images/twitter.png" /><span id="tweetmeme-share"></span></a><div class="count">Retweet (0)</div></li><li><a href="http://digg.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chicagonow.com%2Fblogs%2Fand-the-ordinary-people-said%2F2011%2F01%2Fanother-year-that-the-substance-of-rev-dr-martin-luther-kings-lifes-work-and-legacy-weakened-with-celebrations-of-symbolism.html&title=Another%20Year%20That%20The%20Substance%20of%20Rev.%20Dr.%20Martin%20Luther%20King%27s%20Lifes%20Work%20And%20Legacy%20Weakened%20With%20Celebrations%20of%20Symbolism" title="Digg this story" class="smedia digg"><img alt="Digg this story" src="http://www.chicagonow.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-static/addons/ChicagoNow.pack/images/digg.png" /><span id="digg-share"></span></a><div class="count">Digg (0)</div></li><li><a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chicagonow.com%2Fblogs%2Fand-the-ordinary-people-said%2F2011%2F01%2Fanother-year-that-the-substance-of-rev-dr-martin-luther-kings-lifes-work-and-legacy-weakened-with-celebrations-of-symbolism.html&title=Another%20Year%20That%20The%20Substance%20of%20Rev.%20Dr.%20Martin%20Luther%20King%27s%20Lifes%20Work%20And%20Legacy%20Weakened%20With%20Celebrations%20of%20Symbolism" title="Stumble this entry" class="smedia stumbleupon"><img alt="Stumble this entry" src="http://www.chicagonow.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-static/addons/ChicagoNow.pack/images/stumble.png" /><span id="stumbleupon-share"></span></a><div class="count">Stumble</div></li></ul></div></div></div><div class="entry-content">After watching this weekends activities and coverage of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday and national holiday, it was absolutely painful to watch all the coverage of commercial business sales, socials, parties, and the overriding theme that celebrating Rev. Dr. King were through symbolic public service projects versus a national day for voter registration or current direct action campaign on todays issues as Rev. Dr. King was best known for during his own lifes work. Rev. Dr. King's life was his non violent direct action to change social, public and political policies, versus community service projects. <br /><br />Many of our OWN Black leaders, public, elected and civic officials, progressive thinkers and writers are responsible for the wrong image, positioning and direction of Rev. Dr. King's legacy and we collectively watch mainstream media and others consistently re-write and weaken the substance of legacy of Rev. Dr. King.<br /><br />We have allowed Rev. Dr. King's annual birthday and national holiday legacy to be defined much weaker than what Dr. King's life work actually represented. The accomplishments in Rev. Dr. King's life were designated because of his community organizing around issues that were met with direct action political organizing and yet now we have come to celebrate his birthday and life with commercial business sales, parties, local community service projects and so many things other than his direct action political and economic empowerment organizing.<br /><br />As a former national staff member to the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr, he and other former staff and other key supporters of Rev. Dr. King taught me and other next generation civil rights leaders how Rev. Dr. King's last birthday on earth was spent organizing a direct action political campaign for jobs for poor people, and while it is fresh in your mind, how much coverage did you see this weekend of local events replicating his march for jobs for poor people? Chicago and Illinois witnessed the largest loss of poor people's jobs on Dr. Kings birthday and the mainstream media as well as many Black and progressive media paid almost NO ATTENTION to a "next generation" of civil rights leaders leading two days of poor people's marches and press conference on Illinois' Governor Pat Quinn to save the remaining thousands of poor people in Chicago and Illinois from this massive job layoff from The "Put Illinois To Work Program" on King's birthday!!<br /><br />Now lets also look at Rev. Dr. King's other final acts of his life that was also ignored on his birthday and national holiday. After achieving the political victories of the Voting Rights Act, Public Accommodations Bills and other political victories, Rev. Dr. King began to shift his focus to grassroots economic empowerment, starting with his new national headquarters in 1966 he started in Chicago called Operation Breadbasket designed to start a national campaign of consumer education to build Black businesses and keeping access to capital in Black and poor communities, and yet during this past week how many economic empowerment activities were highlighted to reflect todays commitment to Dr. King's last organizing projects of Operation Breadbasket??<br /><br />Once again in Chicago for example, the former Drexel and Independence Banks, two major financial institutions once owned by former SCLC staff and supporters of Dr. King were recently bought by Shorebank and then taken over by Urban Partnership Banks and then announced that they would be closing in the very core communities that Dr. King's organization worked while in Chicago and again, the local demonstrations to save those institutions were ignored by mainstream as well as most Black press and leaders as well.<br /><br />I heard some comments this weekend from DR. Vincent Harding, a former speechwriter and confidante for Rev. Dr. King say to the St. Sabina crowd that King must NOT be celebrated for his "dreams" but for the work of his direct ACTIONS, but while thousands of those in the audience cheered that statement, it is not what we witnessed during this weekends King commemorations. The direct action organizing events in honor of Rev. Dr. King we all but ignored or reported in favor of the direction of people to celebrate with a community service project.<br /><br />A lot of Black leaders and our Black and progressive thinkers and writers have to look within as to how we have allowed Rev. Dr. King's legacy to be re-defined and weakened each year right before our eyes, and apparently with our consent.</div><div class="entry-footer pkg"><p>Tagged <a href="http://www.chicagonow.com/tags/Dr.+King">Dr. King</a>, <a href="http://www.chicagonow.com/tags/Dr.+King+Commemorations">Dr. King Commemorations</a>, <a href="http://www.chicagonow.com/tags/Dr.+King+Legacy">Dr. King Legacy</a>, <a href="http://www.chicagonow.com/tags/Dr.+Vincent+Harding">Dr. Vincent Harding</a>, <a href="http://www.chicagonow.com/tags/Operation+Breabasket">Operation Breabasket</a>, <a href="http://www.chicagonow.com/tags/Rev.+Jesse+L.+Jackson">Rev. Jesse L. Jackson</a>, <a href="http://www.chicagonow.com/tags/SCLC+Chicago+Headquarters">SCLC Chicago Headquarters</a>, <a href="http://www.chicagonow.com/tags/Saint+Sabina">Saint Sabina</a></p></div><div style="overflow:hidden;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;border:medium none;"><br />Read more: <a style="color:#003399;" href="http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/and-the-ordinary-people-said/2011/01/another-year-that-the-substance-of-rev-dr-martin-luther-kings-lifes-work-and-legacy-weakened-with-celebrations-of-symbolism.html#ixzz1BNJPmxl2">http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/and-the-ordinary-people-said/2011/01/another-year-that-the-substance-of-rev-dr-martin-luther-kings-lifes-work-and-legacy-weakened-with-celebrations-of-symbolism.html#ixzz1BNJPmxl2</a></div></div>
Letter to Dr. King
Originally Published: Jan. 31, 2005
January 17, 2011
Raynard Jackson
You didn't know me when you were here,But through your words I feel you are near.I was too young for the demonst
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2011-01-17T06:11:37.000Z
2011-01-17T06:11:37.000Z
Raynard Jackson
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<div><h2>Letter to Dr. King</h2><h3>Originally Published: Jan. 31, 2005</h3><h3>January 17, 2011</h3><p><b>Raynard Jackson</b></p><p><br />You didn't know me when you were here,<br />But through your words I feel you are near.<br /><br />I was too young for the demonstration,<br />But I learned about you in my education.<br /><br />You said we all were created equal,<br />But maybe now we need a new sequel.<br /><br />Because I don't know what happened to the dream,<br />Nor the members of your team.<br /><br />Yeah, Andy's made a name,</p><p>Jesse got some fame.<br /><br />But what happened to the vision?<br />Seems it's been lost to indecision.<br /><br />Do we continue to blame whites for our plight,<br />'Cause it's easier than to stand and fight?<br /><br />Do we need integration to survive?<br />We did pretty good without it, to my surprise.<br /><br /><br /></p><p>Should we attend college at an HBCU,<br />Or go to Harvard, Princeton or even Purdue?<br /><br />You said we should not be judged by the color of our skin,<br />Does that apply to the political party I'm in?<br /><br />Some ask me, "How can you be Black and Republican?"<br />Because, like you Dr. King, I believe in the "I CAN"<br /><br />You were invited to the White House for conversation,<br />Because everyone saw your dedication.<br /><br />Now we call the president bad for blacks,<br />But look at how these leaders act.</p><p><br />They call him evil and a racist man,<br />Though his cabinet shows he understands.<br /><br />Did you ever dream of a Black secretary of state?<br />We've come a long way from that era of hate.<br /><br />Did you dream of a Black national security advisor?<br />Maybe white folks have gotten a little wiser.<br /><br />To put Blacks in a position where a lot fail,<br />Because most of the time we excel.<br /><br />Lenny Wilkens in the NBA,<br />DeWayne Wickam at USA Today.<br /><br />Barack Obama in the Senate;<br />Ran because he thought he could win it.<br /><br />Dr. Ben Carson with the knife,<br />Saves life after life.<br /><br />But how did we come to this place,<br />Where we now curse our own race?<br /><br />Rappers call our women bitches and ho's,<br />Where it will stop, God only knows.<br /><br />Our teenagers are committing crimes,<br />And getting locked up for a helluva long time.<br /><br /><br /></p><p>Who is there to show them the light,<br />'Cause their fathers are nowhere in sight<br /><br />So our women accept living with anger,</p><p>Which is only one letter short of danger.<br /><br />I have kept my nose clean and finished school,<br />But, I am becoming the exception to the rule.<br /><br />Marriage before kids is how I was raised;<br />Why are women so amazed?<br /><br />Having a family is a serious thing,<br />No kids without a wedding ring.</p><p><br />We have allowed drugs to devastate our lives,<br />Preachers, where are your righteous cries?<br /><br />We have cursed Bill Cosby’s name,<br />When he should be in our hall of fame.<br /><br />Dr. King, please explain your dream,<br />I am not sure if it's what it seems.<br /><br />Everyone is now invoking your name,<br />Just to get political gain.<br /><br />Some say you would be for gay rights,<br />Was that really part of the fight?<br /><br />Some say you would be Republican or Democrat,<br />But neither is born out by the facts.<br /><br />You just wanted the powers that be to be accountable,<br />Because back then, the mountain seemed so insurmountable.<br /><br />We have more education in our head,<br />But more of our people are ending up dead.<br /><br />We have more freedom to move around,<br />But our quality of life seems to be going down.<br /><br />Among our people are so many divisions;<br />Whatever happened to your heavenly vision?<br /><br /><br /></p><p>Dr. King, if you were here today,<br />I would be ashamed of what you would say.<br /><br />We have strayed so far from the path.<br />How much longer can this stuff last?<br /><br />We must get back to the dream,<br />But, please tell us what does it mean?<br /><br /><i>Raynard Jackson is president & CEO of Raynard Jackson & Associates, LLC., a D.C.-public relations/government affairs firm. He is also a contributing editor for ExcellStyle Magazine (</i><a href="http://www.excellstyle.com/"><i>www.excellstyle.com</i></a><i>) & U.S. Africa Magazine (<a href="http://www.usafricaonline.com">www.usafricaonline.com</a>). </i></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 !
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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
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<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
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/why-cdc-reports-tell-lies
2010-04-28T22:17:05.000Z
2010-04-28T22:17:05.000Z
Franklin Jones aka thanubian
https://www.theblacklist.net/members/FranklinJonesakathanubian
<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>
20 month (2 yr old) Cynia Cole's shooting in Chatham is the example of why Chicago police chief Jody Weis's new summer policing plan will NOT work
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/20-month-2-yr-old-cynia-coles
2010-04-25T04:08:24.000Z
2010-04-25T04:08:24.000Z
Mark S. Allen
https://www.theblacklist.net/members/MarkSAllen
<div><h1 class="entry-title" align="center"><strong><em>How does a simple deployment of new police officers address the state of mind, social conscioussness, lack of respect of law enforcement, and the ongoing street battles over desperate economic conditionns that drive the vionece, plan to stop it ? ?</em></strong></h1><h1 class="entry-title" align="center"><strong><em>Where are the plans to deal "hands-on" with the mindet of a people, OR the plans to find more innovative ways for people to make money this summer from something other that the illegal street environments?</em></strong></h1><p class="entry-content" align="center"><strong><em>*********************************************************************************************************</em></strong></p><p class="entry-content" align="center"><strong>I am proud to be promoting a new grassroots funding proposal for "Peace In The Hood," led by The Black Star Projects Phillip Jackson, an effort to not just proclaim "Stop The Violence," but once again incorporating the much needed "hands-on" efforts to reclaim the proper mindset of thoise who would at risk for commiting crimes that hurt and kill themselves and their communities at alarming rates.</strong></p><p class="entry-content" align="center"></p><p class="entry-content" align="center"><strong>When Chicago Police Chief Jody Weis, Mayor Daley, and other officials announce their various efforts at stopping the rise in Chicago violence, you seldom hear anything from those efforts that deal with addressing the state of mind of those who, DESPITE all these anti crime efforts dont stop the increase in violence, and thats because all of these efforts don't include funding of the programs and services based on <u>Dr. Carl Bell's Seven Principles for Changing At-Risk Behavior and Cultivating Resiliency Among Youth</u></strong></p><p class="entry-content" align="center"></p><p class="entry-content" align="center">Just the other day when watching Chicago Police Chief Jody Weis on an interview with FOX News Chicago's "Good Day Chicago" morning new program, he openly admitted that he had no idea of how to address the incidents where people in the streets have been opening fire on police officers and clearly sending signals that young offenders have no respect for the authority of police to the point that they were recently shooting directly next to police headquarters. If Weis cannot explain what is on the minds of people who don't seemed to be fazed at all by ther increases in police deployment, then does he just keep adding more police and readying them for more direct armed confrontations to come, OR call in somebody to support who has clear programming that if properly staffed could redirect the mindset of those "unconscious" people who continually seem to be driven by the lack of social skills, as well as the economic desperation that going to conitune drive them as participants in the gang, drug, and illegal street economies as their onlky vehicle to provide an income for themselves and their families.</p><p class="entry-content" align="center"></p><p class="entry-content" align="center">Peace In The Hood, brings back the foundation of the Dr. Bell Principles that is sorely missing from the many of the unsuccessful anti crime efforts being promoted by Mayor Daley, Jody Weis and others. This Peace In The Hood effort brings what is missing and neds to be adopted, and I invite all to read the attached principles and offer input as to what you think would happen if these principles were supported just as much as taxpayers paying for even more police deployment that that the recent killing of 2 year old Cynia Cole in Chatham could not prevent from happening. Successfully addressing the state of mind of one who chooses to ambush a car at the risk to childrens lives is the answer.</p><p class="entry-content" align="center"></p><p class="entry-content" align="center"><strong><u>Dr. Carl C. Bell's Seven Principles for Changing At-Risk Behavior and Cultivating Resiliency Among Youth<br /><br /><br /></u>1. Rebuilding the Village/Reweaving the social fabric/Recreating a sense of community</strong><br />Reestablishing a sense of community by bringing together churches, schools, and families to create networks, organize resources and establish programs that provide support, safety and security for our youth. A sense of community also reinforces <span style="border-bottom:#0066cc 1px dashed;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" id="lw_1272036645_0" class="yshortcuts">cultural identity</span>.<br /><br /><b>2. Providing access to ancient and modern technology to provide practical systems for the application of knowledge</b><br />Providing models, tools, skills and techniques to facilitate implementation of the concept or program (for example, mentoring, multi-family groups, how to cultivate resiliency and wellness, and manualized family interventions).<br /><br /><b>3. Providing a sense of connectedness</b><br />Creating situations, programs and relationships that foster a sense of connection, attachment, and belonging to a larger group or a common goal. This counters feelings of alienation, helps provide feelings of security, and increases self-esteem. Again, reestablishing the village reinforces cultural identity and can be a platform for the delivery of cultural education. Well thought out rites of passage (e.g. the belt system of progression in Japanese martial arts) programs have been very effective in actualizing this principle.<br /><br /><b>4. Providing opportunity to learn social & emotional skills</b><br />Providing social and emotional skills that people need to interact and communicate with each other. This not only increases self-esteem but effectiveness in relationships as well. These include parenting skills, <span style="border-bottom:#0066cc 1px dashed;" id="lw_1272036645_1" class="yshortcuts">refusal skills</span>, negotiating skills, the capacity to remain calm in a crisis, and more.<br /><br /><b>5. Providing opportunities to increasing self-esteem</b><br /><b>A.</b> Giving our children a sense of power (self-efficacy) by showing them they can do things for themselves and positively influence their own lives. For example, adopting healthy behaviors creates both a sense of wellness and an outcome of wellness.<br />B. Providing a sense of models to help our young make sense of the world and teaching them how things work. Mentoring is a very powerful model that can be used to achieve this. A strong <span id="lw_1272036645_2" class="yshortcuts">cultural value system</span> is another.<br /><b>C.</b> Creating a sense of specialness and uniqueness as an individual or group. Clearly, knowing and respecting your culture gives you a sense of power by virtue of being connected to something valuable and strong.<br /><b>D.</b> Creating a sense of connectedness - encouraging bonding and connection to a culture, group or an idea. Teaching them their history and cultural significance creates a sense of power from being associated with a rich and powerful legacy. <span id="lw_1272036645_3" class="yshortcuts">Spirituality</span> is another powerful influence in encouraging connectedness.<br /><br /><b>6. Providing an adult protective shield</b><br />Providing an adult protective shield and monitoring speaks to providing supervision, discipline, and a caring adult presence. These foster a sense of safety and security. The concept of the village with multiple adult figures taking responsibility for the nurture and well-being of the village children is a concept that connects us to our culture and our spirituality. Wellness is also important in this respect. A child can be severely stressed by the illness of a caretaking adult, so it is in the best interest of the adult to adopt behaviors that promote wellness, both personally, and as a model for children to emulate.<br /><br /><b>7. Minimizing trauma</b><br />Minimizing trauma - Developing an individual's spirituality, a person's sense of self-efficacy, helping create a sense of safety, and providing <span id="lw_1272036645_4" class="yshortcuts">stress management skills</span> as well as psychological first aid (see attached) to encourage a sense of self-mastery and turn helplessness into helpfulness are all examples of putting this principle into action.<br /><br />You may contact Dr. Bell at:<br /><br /><i><b>Carl C. Bell, M.D.<br />President/C.E.O. <span id="lw_1272036645_5" class="yshortcuts">Community Mental Health</span> Council<br /><span style="border-bottom:#0066cc 1px dashed;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" id="lw_1272036645_6" class="yshortcuts">8704 S. Constance<br />Chicago, IL 60617</span><br /><span style="border-bottom:#0066cc 1px dashed;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;" id="lw_1272036645_7" class="yshortcuts">(773) 734 - 4033 x 204</span> (office)</b></i><br /><a href="http://www.thecouncil-online.org/" target="_blank"><span id="lw_1272036645_8" class="yshortcuts">www.thecouncil-online.org</span></a></p></div>
Hindering Black unity as a means of maintaining white dominance---A real Black Matrix
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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 REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRIKA IN THE NEWS
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2010-01-22T22:00:33.000Z
2010-01-22T22:00:33.000Z
H. khalif Khalifah
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<div>THE REPUBLIC OFNEW AFRIKA IN THE NEWS[Excerpt from The Newport News, Volume 2 Number 4 June 1983] Republished in The Words Acts and Deeds of Khalifah: A Selection of Writings of Khalifah 1982 to 1992”No Rights Reserved: circulate freelyBy H. Khalif Khalifah……..- News Analysis….Part OneThe RNA, Republic of New Afrika, has been very much on the minds of the general U. S. population in recent months. This is mainly because of the aborted “Brinks robbery” in Nyack, NY in the fall of 1981. But the strains of thoughts about the “New Afrikans” who actually moved on to the territory they are claiming to establish a totally independent, sovereign “republic [in North America] have captured the imagination, pro or con, of Blacks and Whites since August of 1971, when an attempt by the state of Mississippi, with U. S. marshals, was made to “stamp them out,” resulted in the death of a state trooper and the wounding of several others.As NY police and the FBI turned up suspects in what is described by the suspects to have been an “expropriation” some turned out to be avowed, known citizens of “The Republic of New Afrika.” And no doubt, as such, the U. S. government as well as knowledgeable individuals, were sure that this “expropriation attempt” would be used by the U. S. to continue its efforts to destroy the RNA, which from indications in the Black nationalist communities in the U. S. is growing in influence and power.The growth is despite (some say because of) the fact that, as a consequence of the 1971 shoot out, 11 of it’s members were [unjustly] sentenced to life in prison; and its (RNA Provisional President, I. Obadele, also jailed for 5 years.At least four of the suspects [in the brinks expropriation], currently on trial for criminal conspiracy in federal court in NYC, have demanded to be treated as “political prisoners” who were captured as a result of actions they were carrying out in “armed resistance to the United States legal oppression of its Afrikan population.”The essence of the legality of the RNA claim for separation of Blacks who identify with their objectives (establishing a new nation), is that when Black chattel slaves were freed in the U. S., back in 1865, the right to decide their own destiny were denied hem: the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments were enacted by the U. S. Congress as legal attempt, under U. S. laws, to enfranchise the freed Black people who were brought to the continent against their free will over a period of 400 years.The RNA contends that “you can’t be free if someone lets you be free” [so said Brother Preston Wilcox, of Afram Associates). In other words, Blacks in America will not be free until they have the right to decide whether they want to be citizens here of elsewhere. They base these assertions on international law, as related to the occupation of a land by the resident majority of a particular people. The RNA has also sued in U. S. Counts for the entitlement of this right.[END PART ONE – PART TWO WILL BE PUBLISHED AFTER THE FUNERAL OF Dr. Obadele, who died on January 18, 1010. If you don’t want to wait, buy the book and turn to page 46] <a href="http://www.blackbooksaward.com">www.blackbooksaward.com</a>-------------------------------------------------------------------H. Khalif Khalifah lives on a farm in Southampton County, Virginia. He is a former 6-term member on The National Board of Director of N’COBRA, 1996 to 2002. Co-Chair of the Human Resources of N’COBRA, Contributor to ENCOBRA magazine and Liaison for N’COBRA to the Million Man March, October 16, 1995. Like Dr. Obadele he has written several books himself, one of which is called “A Brief History About N’COBRA & The Reparations Movement.” Another is “The Words, Acts & Deeds of Khalifah: Selected Writings 1982 to 1992;” He has also been the Publisher for more than 600 books that are written, by for or about Black people’ as well as hundreds of thousands of newspapers, magazines & etc. over the past four decades. <a href="http://www.natturnertrail.com">www.natturnertrail.com</a> khalifah23844@yahoo.com</div>
DR. IMARI ABUBARKI OBADELE TRANSITIONS
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2010-01-20T12:54:49.000Z
2010-01-20T12:54:49.000Z
H. khalif Khalifah
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<div>KHALIFAH ROLE MODEL AND MENTOR TRANSITIONSDR. IMARI OBADELE WAS CO-FOUNDER AND PRESIDENTOF THE REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRIKA & N’COBRA AS WELL ASAUTHOR OF SEVERAL DOZEN BOOKSBy H. Khalif KhalifahSOUTHAMPTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA – A legend in his own time, Dr. Imari Abubakari Obadele, a Co-Founding President of the Republic of New Afrika and N’COBRA, two of the signature Black organizations of the 20th Century, in North America has transitioned.The announcement was made on January 19, 2010 by the Chairman of the PCC (Peoples Citizen Council) of the Republic of New Afrika. Dr Obadele will be recorded in History Among the constellation of Freedom bound Black people who never gave in or gave up to recapture everything about Afrikan people that was Stolen, Lost of compromised by those who think the best avenue to Freedom, Justice and Equality is being comfortable enough with the confines of the White Supremacist based system that was founded on Black blood, sweat, tears and brains, to be equal within.It is fairly well known about the great formations Dr.Obadele founded: The Republic of New Afrika and N’COBRA (The National Coalition of Blacks For Reparations in America. No doubt, members of the two formation, that are still very actively struggling to hold firm to the principles and standards that were instilled into them in 1968 and 1987 respectively; BUT what is not so well known is the sheer, total impact his life and work had on Black individuals who were never members of both, or either of the organizations.As one of my Mentors told me that the Undaunted Carlos A. Cooks said about him, many whose lives Dr. Obadele positively impacted “do not carry the card, but they have the heart!”I will not venture to use anyone as an example save myself. I am yet to become a “card carrying” member of the RNA” but only because I was advised by someone in position to wisely advise me not to become one. For after reading a little out of print book called “Foundations of the Black Nation,” this book gave me practical use and application, not only for my faith and belief in the Teachings of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, but my budding skills as a journalist, would-be publisher. So with my Spirituality firmly intact via the NOI, I went to work. Dr. Imari A. Obadele was a Role Model that was destined to also become a Mentor in Independent Institutions for Nation Building.After a successful career as a Publisher, I was of a mind to do more than just cover the stories about Liberation Struggle of Black people. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad had transitioned several years prior, but the opportunity to work day to day, week to week, month to month, or year to year, or whatever the case may be necessary to get the job done, I joined N’COBRA primarily because Dr. Imari A. Obadele was there.Dr. Obadele had been in poor health in recent years: so after I assumed a different vantage point vs N’COBRA, early in this century, the closeness with him waned. He has been missed in my life over the prior few years; now no doubt his missing will be with the mixed emotion of pain of his passing; and unbridled appreciation for having the opportunity to work in formation with him for some ten years of my lifeH. Khalif Khalifah lives on a farm in Southampton County, Virginia. He is a former 6-term member on The National Board of Director of N’COBRA, 1996 to 2002. Co-Chair of the Human Resources of N’COBRA, Contributor to ENCOBRA magazine and Liaison for N’COBRA to the Million Man March, Ocbober 16, 1995. Like Dr. Obadele he has written several books himself, one of which is called “A Brief History About N’COBRA & The Reparations Movement.” He has also been the Publisher for more than 600 books that are written, by for or about Black people’ as well as hundreds of thousands of newspapers, magazines & etc. over the past four decades. <a href="http://www.natturnertrail.com">www.natturnertrail.com</a> khalifah23844@yahoo.com</div>