ezra - Blogs - TheBlackList Pub2024-03-28T13:04:31Zhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/ezraCapitalism Coming Home to Roosthttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/capitalism-coming-home-to-roost2011-10-25T04:55:05.000Z2011-10-25T04:55:05.000ZTheBlackListhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/TheBlackList<div><p></p>
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<div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1319517161902158"><strong id="yui_3_2_0_1_1319517161902141"><span id="yui_3_2_0_1_1319517161902138"><strong><span>By </span></strong><strong><span>E</span></strong><strong id="yui_3_2_0_1_1319517161902164"><span id="yui_3_2_0_1_1319517161902161">ZRAH </span></strong><strong><span>A</span></strong><strong id="yui_3_2_0_1_1319517161902155"><span id="yui_3_2_0_1_1319517161902152">HARONE ~</span></strong> </span></strong></div>
<div><span>While capitalism is upheld by Western-European nations as the paradigm for economic fairness and efficiency, it conversely has a 400-year history of profiteering that traces to shameless enslavement and colonizing of non-European people by the same nations. Today, capitalism's tentacles of debauchery reach beyond the so-called "third world" to now roost among citizens within these very European nations, including</span> <span>America</span><span>. Once fiscally robust,</span> <span>America</span> <span>is debt-addicted and job-starved, with near-bankrupt states and crippled infrastructures of roads, bridges, schools and airports.</span></div>
<div><span>In fed-up response, protesters of the <a title="Occupy Wall Street Movement" target="_blank" href="http://occupywallst.org/"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1319517152_2">Occupy Wall Street Movement</span></a> (OWSM) are rightly ranting over capitalism's recent malfeasance. Yet, in broad-spectrum, it must be reckoned that the descendants of those who were once enslaved or colonized, comprise a majority of people who now live in poverty. The sum of Westernize capitalism – from its extirpations of yesterday to free-market enterprise</span> <span>today – has left trails of billions of impoverished non-European people all around the world wherever labor is performed, services are provided, and resources are located.</span></div>
<div><span>With</span> <span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1319517152_3">Africa</span></span> <span>particularly, it is not coincidental that its currencies and economies are among the weakest in the world, while the currencies and economies of Western colonial nations are among the strongest, even though most lack comparable natural resources of the African states they colonized. Capitalist hegemony over</span> <span>Africa</span> <span>siphoned unknown trillions in labor and resources, upon which Western economies unfairly stand.</span></div>
<div><span>True, the OWSM cannot undo capitalism's ugly past. But the point is to stitch threads of commonality and continuity, given that capitalism did not</span> <em><span>suddenly</span></em> <span>get derailed by Bush or Obama; or by halos of immunity and tax havens for the rich; or by the cost of war adventurism in</span> <span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1319517152_4">Afghanistan</span></span><span>,</span> <span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1319517152_5">Iraq</span></span><span>, and</span> <span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1319517152_6">Libya</span></span><span>. The middleclass is certainly feeling capitalism's pitchfork more of late, but capitalism is no more depraved lately than at its inception. A main difference is that – yesterday, its parasitic forces usurped non-Europeans of sovereignty, territories, resources and freedom, while today, extensions of the same parasitic forces are coming home to roost by cannibalizing Americans of all ethnicities of jobs, savings, stocks, pensions, social programs, healthcare and homes.</span></div>
<div><span>Like African Americans, growing numbers of Euro-Americans have discovered that capitalism</span><span>has nothing to do with "equality" nor is it "democratic." You don't vote on the overly-priced gas and oil</span> <span>for your car and home. You don't vote for who owns or commercializes natural resources. You don't vote on mortgage or bank interest rates or the elasticity of money supply regulated by the Federal Reserve . . . There's no such thing as equality or democracy in the Western format of capitalism.</span></div>
<div><span>As such, the current 16.7% unemployment rate for Blacks more than doubles the 8% for Whites, and Blacks lag in every major index of economics. It’s interesting that 8% would be long-awaited relief to African Americans. Conversely, 8% is so insufferable to Euro-Americans that it has sparked the OWSM to condemn "certain aspects" of capitalism. But at core,</span> <span>US</span> <span>capitalism is fueled by consumption, which is fueled by credit, which is fueled by the very financial institutions that lie at the heart of the protests. Besides, be it Bush or Obama, both parties are corporate manifestations.</span> <span>America</span> <span>operates a de-facto plutocratic style of governance, where insiders make "contributions" with known intents for <em>favoritism</em> to</span> <span>influence policymaking and party platforms.</span></div>
<div><span>With the 2012 election approaching and Obama empathizing with occupiers, the media is setting a stage for Tea Party vs. OWSM showdowns. Beyond partisan bickering however that blames the "other party" for <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1319517152_7">America's</span> woes, a definitive matter is that, America's economy is linked to centuries of international graft and gluttony from when Europeans ruled by overt brute force. But with fewer "banana republics," new Balances of Power are reshaping today's decolonized world and diminishing the once-sturdiness of <a title="Pax Americana" target="_blank" href="http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/Pax-Americana"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1319517152_8">Pax Americana</span></a> (<em>US political, economic, and military advantages</em>).</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1319517161902170"><span>The fluffy wording of the</span> <span>US</span> <span>constitution is one thing, but</span> <span>America</span><span>’s capitalistic wealth wasn't acquired by playing by the "democratic" rules it now wants to export to</span> <span>Africa</span> <span id="yui_3_2_0_1_1319517161902167">and the</span> <span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1319517152_9">Middle East</span></span><span>. So as predatory capitalism is coming home to roost while Americans simultaneously cheer the downfall of "select" governments, Black America should be circumspect that we aren't in effect, cheering the latest mutation of the selfsame predatory forces of which we are historically among the greatest casualties.</span></div>
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<div id="yui_3_2_0_1_1319517161902182"><span id="yui_3_2_0_1_1319517161902179">Ezrah Aharone is the author of two acclaimed political books: <em id="yui_3_2_0_1_1319517161902176"><a id="yui_3_2_0_1_1319517161902173" target="_blank" href="http://www.filedby.com/author/ezrah_aharone/1715703/" name="yui_3_2_0_1_1319517161902173"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1319517152_10">Sovereign Evolution: Manifest Destiny from Civil Rights to Sovereign Rights</span></a></em> (2009) and <em id="yui_3_2_0_1_1319517161902191"><a id="yui_3_2_0_1_1319517161902188" target="_blank" href="http://www.authorhouse.com/Bookstore/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=18126" name="yui_3_2_0_1_1319517161902188"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1319517152_11">Pawned Sovereignty: Sharpened Black Perspectives on Americanization, Africa, War and Reparations</span></a></em></span> <span>(2003). He is</span> <span>a founding member of the <em>Center for Sovereignty Advancement</em>. He can be reached at <a target="_blank" href="mailto:Ezrah@EzrahSpeaks.com"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1319517152_12">Ezrah@EzrahSpeaks.com</span></a>. </span></div>
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<p><strong><span><a href="http://saharareporters.com/article/capitalism-coming-home-roost" target="_blank"><span id="lw_1319517152_0" class="yshortcuts">http://saharareporters.com/article/capitalism-coming-home-roost</span></a></span></strong></p>
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<p> </p></div>The Un-Abolishable N-Wordhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/the-unabolishable-nword2010-08-05T01:38:02.000Z2010-08-05T01:38:02.000ZTheBlackListhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/TheBlackList<div><p style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:150%;font-family:'Bookman Old Style';font-size:12pt;">By EZRAH AHARONE 8/10 --</span></b></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="line-height:150%;font-size:18pt;">T</span></b><span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;">o pacify society, “Media Band-Aids” are constantly placed on open wounds of unhealed racism as the <a><font color="#0000FF">Shirley Sherrod</font></a> incident demonstrated. Although the</span> <i><span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;">William</span></i> <i><span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;">Morris</span></i> <i><span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;">Agency</span></i> <span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;">dropped <span><a><font color="#0000FF">Mel Gibson</font></a></span> for spewing the N-Word among other rants, <a><span><font color="#0000FF">Leonard Rowe’s</font></span></a> <span>new Michael Jackson book shows <i>Morris</i> executives using the N-Word 232 times in emails he uncovered during a racial lawsuit. And <a><font color="#0000FF">Omar Thornton</font></a> tragically killed 8 co-workers and himself after allegedly being fired for stealing at a job where employers called him the N-Word.</span></span></font></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">While abolishment is preferable, the N-Word won’t just fizzle-away as an isolated expression, devoid of context. In a peculiar historical sense, it is emblematic of a mutating “relationship deformity” between Black and White America, that society has been conditioned to not stare at too long.</font></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;">The N-Word has festered as a derivative outgrowth from an abusive past that still stains</span> <span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;">America</span><span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;">’s fabric of government and society. It manifests today in disproportionate and dysfunctional Black conditions that require remedies beyond jobs, education, and voting. But there’s mainstream avoidance to delve into the nitty-gritty’s beneath the N-Word’s surface</span><span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;">, knowing its core will unveil human flaws and systemic failures that</span> <span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;">America</span> <span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;">has yet to racially reconcile. </span></font></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;">To begin unraveling the N-Word conflict</span><span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;">, you must understand that distinct terminologies just don’t pop in-and-out of a nation’s vocabulary by happenstance. Language is a central element of nationhood. Phrases of both honor and dishonor circulate the political and cultural blood of every nation. </span></font></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;">When some world leaders visit the White House, they’ll flex their sovereign muscles by using translators to interpret their native language, even though they may speak English fluently. Whosoever wields sovereign powers over a territory also has subsequent access to regulate words and concepts, as well as make or reshape history, doctrines, and ideologies. </span><span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;">Man has probably warred over words and ideals just as much as territory and resources. </span></font></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">Understanding the power of defining and controlling language, it becomes clear why we weren’t permitted to read or write during slavery, nor speak any language other than English. We couldn’t even tap or hum to ourselves. Enslavers would panic, not knowing “the <span>words”</span> behind the tap and hum . . . Herein marks initial concerns to disarm and re-channel the influences of our words and music. Now, under the pretext of “Free Speech,” the N-Word is commercially linked to a billion dollar music-genre that flaunts sex, violence, and prison culture to our children, while we’re powerless to prevent it.</font></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;">It’s no mishap that we were collectively labeled with derogative terms. Remember in the movie <i>Roots</i>, when Kunta Kinte</span> <span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;">was barbarically lashed (<i><a><font color="#0000FF">see video</font></a></i>) until he renounced his African identity and surrendered to calling himself “Toby</span><span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;">”?</span> <span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;">Since we were considered “less than human,” logic might suggest that Euro-Americans wouldn’t care what we called ourselves . . . No, No, No. </span></font></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;">For submission purposes, captors cannot allow captives to communicate in unfamiliar languages or have unfamiliar names. As such, a<span>ll</span> “Kunta</span> <span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;">Identities” had to be deconstructed entirely. “Toby vs. Kunta” represented an epoch identity/ideological struggle where – “winner takes all” – there was/is no second prize. </span></font></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;">African names traditionally convey aspects of heritage, history, and virtues. Enslavers didn’t know the meanings, but they knew that African names encompassed more than European names. So “Toby” denoted far more than a typical European name alone. The “act of renaming” was part of a larger process to psychologically transfigure all “Kunta</span> <span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;">Identities” into domesticated natures that could ultimately be trusted to be “Toby-minded” – even when no one was looking. </span></font></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;">Although “Toby” and the N-Word differ in perception, they</span> <span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;">are similar in function. Yes, the name “Toby” may sting less</span><span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;">,</span> <span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;">but originally and ancestrally, we were/are no more a “Toby</span><span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;">” than we were/are a N-Word</span><span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;">. J</span><span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;">ust because we grew accustomed to being called “Tobies,” doesn’t make the “act of renaming” any less unprincipled than being called the N-Word . . . Both were dishonorable and each equally severed and misidentified who we were/are according to our God-given lineages. </span></font></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;">From slavery until recently, it was inconceivable that the N-Word</span> <span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;">would backfire to become publicly off-limits to Whites. Now, with its “redefined” use, young Blacks seize upon this irony by saying it without compunction, which elders regard as a Black-on-Black slap in the face of our own progress and self-dignity. </span></font></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;">True, nobody should say it. However, it’s not that simplistic, nor is it a “Black issue” alone. Riddance of the N-Word and its assorted mis-conditions, will require Euro-Americans to</span> <span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;">therapeutically examine and correct both themselves and Americanization in ways they have thus far been politically and psychologically unwilling, due to their egotism of “<a><font color="#0000FF">Exceptionalism</font></a>” which supposedly elevates America above other nations. </span></font></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">But the lofty liberties and moralities that Euro-Americans self-profess today, is not something portable that can be retroactively applied to cushion the wrecking-ball impact of “N-Word hardships” that they even codified into law during 3½ centuries of enslavement and segregation which ended less than 50 years ago. </font></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">Remember, the N-Word is symptomatic of our unedited historical experience with Americanization . . . Like fingernails raking a chalkboard, it screeches that: “All Has Never Been Well With American Democracy.” So, when you factor the totality of past relationship deformities, combined with all the present un-reconciled complexities that the N-Word figuratively embodies – advising young Blacks to simply “Don’t Say It” is like saying, “hide under the bed,” as a solution to escape a raging house fire. </font></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:150%;font-size:12pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">As with the N-Word and all negativities in its wake; you must not only fearlessly combat every facet and extinguish all embers of raging fires, you must furthermore confront the rudiment causes, and then enact preventive measures for future protection. Otherwise, as in prior centuries, the N-World and all its mutative outgrowths will continue to remain just as un-abolishable throughout this 21st century.</font></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Ezrah Aharone is the author of two political books:</span> <i><span style="font-size:11pt;"><a><font color="#0000FF">Sovereign Evolution: Manifest Destiny from Civil Rights to Sovereign Rights</font></a></span></i> <span style="font-size:11pt;">(2009)</span> <span style="font-size:12pt;">and <em><span><a><font color="#0000FF">Pawned Sovereignty: Sharpened Black Perspectives on Americanization, Africa, War and Reparations</font></a></span></em></span> <span style="font-size:12pt;">(2003). He is</span> <span style="font-size:12pt;">a founding member of the <i>Center for Sovereignty Advancement</i>. He can be reached at <a><font color="#0000FF">Ezrah@theCSA.org</font></a>. </span></font></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"></p></div>Happy Holidays America: Enjoy the Religious Warhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/happy-holidays-america-enjoy2009-12-25T15:30:00.000Z2009-12-25T15:30:00.000ZTheBlackListhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/TheBlackList<div><b>By Ezrah Aharone</b>
While President Obama revs-up the war machinery during this holiday season as he simultaneously holds the Nobel Peace Prize, it brings ponder to the possibility of lasting peace, considering that this conflict also embodies a borderless ideological “collision of religions.”
Although 9/11 makes the US feel justified in droning Afghanistan into submission, a few factors are worth noting since the groups known as Al Qaeda, Taliban, and Islamists are not all regional members of some Lodge-like fraternity who attend annual conventions to blow-up airplanes. Just as Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden weren’t “colleagues,” they don’t all know each other or have close bonds. I’d bet that 9/11 was just as surprising to Americans as it was to many of the very combatants that the US now targets in the mountains of Afghanistan.
If you read A History of God by Karen Armstrong, you’ll find that the autonomous tribes and clans throughout this region have been warring and exacting “rough-and-ready” justice on themselves and invaders for centuries. Afghanistan is not only called the “Graveyard of Empires” because of its war victories, it’s a land where loyalty can be “rented” to the highest bidder. In fact, Afghans have a term called “Turning Turbans” to signify the switching of sides and loyalties.
But in this case, the one uncompromising factor is their Islamic belief and obligation to rid-out Westerners whom they regard as foreign occupiers and infidels. Before resigning his State Department post, former Marine Captain, Matthew Hoh, aptly assessed that Afghans are fighting in some areas only because the US military “is there.” If American soldiers weren’t “there,” many Afghan fighters would have a pre-9/11 outlook when America was not a “declared enemy.”
Meantime, despite the public’s mounting war outcries and economic anxieties, Obama has done something that can potentially reserve him a seat among the pantheon of the greatest commander-in-chiefs – He has become a “wartime president.” Many of the most renowned American presidents have the “glorified” distinction of being war leaders.
America’s warped fascination with war is openly boasted in its national anthem, which puts a twist of splendor on the butchery during the War of 1812 – “the perilous fight,” “ramparts gallantly streaming,” “rocket’s red glare,” “bombs bursting in air.” If you want instant success, just make a blood-spattering war movie that depicts American bravery and greatness. Don’t make the mistake though of featuring Black heroes like Spike Lee’s Miracle at St. Anna because that lacks comparative box-office appeal.
This cancerous love affair with blood, circulates the veins of society and manifests in everything from the highest crime rate and gun homicides in the world; to belligerent television, movies, and video games for “entertainment” pleasures; to routine abortions and capital punishment; to random mass murders of schoolchildren; to over 90,000 annual rapes of women.
A nation’s true character is defined – not by fluffy words in its constitution – but by the moral and cumulative sum of its historical conduct. Yet America, with its enduring history of questionable wars and centuries of racialized misconduct, has a false self-perception of being a nation of peace. Dr. King called the US government “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world” . . . and said God hasn’t “appointed America as his messianic force, a kind of policeman of the whole world.”
America has a national holiday recognizing Dr. King and his nonviolent philosophy, but nonviolence is certainly not America’s philosophy. Nonviolence is something that Black America is conditioned to practice towards Euro-Americans, but nonviolence is considered a cardinal weakness by this establishment. Heck, America isn’t even fond of compromise, and it definitely doesn’t “love its enemies.” It practices an unrepentant “eye-for-eye” variety of Christianity that “lives by the sword.”
The religious notion that God endorses the US military is reinforced in the “Oath of Enlistment” that all soldiers must “swear,” which evokes “Faith” and eerily concludes with the words, “So Help Me God.” As Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia affirmed, “A religious-neutral government does not fit with an America that reflects belief in God in everything from its money to its military.”
If the reverse occurred whereby the Christian streets of America were stormed by Muslim soldiers with Blackwater-like mercenaries, ordinary Americans would fight no less fiercely than Afghans. Call them terrorists or whatever else, but based on their longstanding heritage and religious convictions they have no intentions to allow America, via the corrupted Hamid Kharzi government, to institute a Plymouth Rock-like presence in Afghanistan.
Consequently, the decade of 2010 launches with an outright, but undeclared, “Religious War” with Crusaders on one side, Jihadists on the other, with no negotiating table between these two Abrahamic faiths that originally share spiritual commonalities without today’s political complexities. So, as with Iraq, it’s near-certain that Afghanistan won’t become a vacation destination for Americans in your lifetime.
<b><i>Ezrah Aharone is the author of two political books: Sovereign Evolution and Pawned Sovereignty. He is also a founding member of the Center for Sovereignty Advancement. He can be reached at <a href="http://theCSA.org" target="_blank">Ezrah@theCSA.org</a></i></b>.</div>