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2024-03-29T14:20:39Z
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The Quick Scan by Mike Ramey
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/the-quick-scan-by-mike-ramey-809
2024-02-14T16:21:44.000Z
2024-02-14T16:21:44.000Z
Mike Ramey
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<div><p> </p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>MARGINALIZED AGAIN: DEMOCRATS DITCHING THE BLACK VOTE</u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> Surprise! Black folk around the country have gotten their official ‘walking papers’ from the Democratic party in the form of having illegal aliens ‘preferred’ by the liberal power structure OVER Black people. In heavily Democratic cities such as Boston, Chicago, New York City, Denver, Oakland and many others, funds that have been set aside for Black causes such as Business Development, youth programs, prison reform, housing, food, and education have been ‘quietly’ (or loudly in some cases) shifted over to feed, clothe, shelter, and indoctrinate illegals that have been ‘swarming into’ sanctuary cities.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> Why has this happened? To put it simply, the wizards of ‘smart’ in the liberal ranks have decided that paying lip service to Black causes—but not DOING the things necessary to bring those causes into reality (i.e. D.E.I. vs. economic empowerment) is tiring. In short? The Democrat power structure has—once again—chosen to marginalize Black people. </span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> Thus—at breakneck pace, with each passing week, the Black vote is being disregarded and marginalized. Thus, after roughly 60 years since the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Black voters are no longer viewed as being important to Democrat victories. Illegal aliens are quite comfortable in becoming the ‘new’ loyal voting bloc, and are being bribed—again, with money earmarked for Black citizens—to take their places as the ‘new servants’ at the liberal altar in the Temple of Immorality. BTW—this was the plan all along—recruiting illegals as a voting population.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> Believe it or not, this is good news for Black folk. It puts us in the column of thinking for ourselves and putting our votes behind candidates that are truly going to represent our views. Those of us who have long ago seen God’s handwriting on the wall concerning modern liberals who have compromised some Black churches and turned some Black preachers and pastors into ‘shills’ for items and causes which clearly go against the KJV Bible, Jesus Christ, and the Lord our God—not to mention many of our ancestors.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> Put another way, with every illegal alien that crosses into the U.S. means one more Black voter can be free to think for themselves, work for themselves, build their marriage and families, and worship, serve and follow Jesus Christ the way we USED to. This is NOT the first time that Black folk have been marginalized by liberals. Want to get some REAL Black History? Read the written works of Tony Brown, Reggie White, Thomas Sowell, Walter E. Williams, and Tony Dungy. Study what the liberals did to Blacks during slavery, reconstruction, Jim Crow, and segregation. MANY of those hands can be tracked to the Democratic ranks—and are demonstrating that history is cyclical. Only the foolish side with the oppressor—even IF they are ‘imported’! Congratulations, my brothers and sisters…welcome to the ‘free thinking’ ranks.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> <em>Mike Ramey is a Retired Minister, KJV Bible Teacher, syndicated columnist and Bible Prophecy Specialist who lives in Indianapolis, Indiana. “The Quick Scan” is one of a variety of his columns appearing and abounding in print and cyberspace, written from a biblical, business, and common-sense perspective since 1996. To drop him a line—or a whine—the address is still the same: </em><a href="mailto:mgmikeramey@yahoo.com"><em>mgmikeramey@yahoo.com</em></a><em>. ©2024 Barnstorm Communications International.</em></span></p></div>
THE LACK OF EQUALITY AND ISOLATION PROMISES DISCRIMINATION, BIAS, AND RACE HATRED
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/the-lack-of-equality-and-isolation-promises-discrimination-bias
2019-10-30T21:30:00.000Z
2019-10-30T21:30:00.000Z
Tziona Yisrael
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<div><p></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>White Supremacy and its control over us have always been our ruin.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Perhaps someone else can reiterate our experiences better, but of a truth, no one can articulate this repressive subjugation better than descendants of Slaves.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">I am ashamed that by now our educated Brothers, Sisters, attorneys, and Congressional Servants who are fully aware of the history of the Slave Trade and Black History in these United States have done nothing to raise consciousness to our long-standing torment and decline. Many descendants of Slaves believe that because some of us have decent jobs, homes, and cars that we are so-called “well off”. Economically a lot of us are doing well, but the great majority of us are horribly impoverished, homeless, and eating out of the garbage – not to mention this generation of our youth is suffering a devastating failure. They are involved in drug and alcohol abuse, are incarcerated, and are in gangs killing our own people. We are indeed at the bottom of the Totem Pole and living in a cesspool of Hell in every urban city in the United States.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">What’s worse is that we have a significant number of our people in Congress, but they have no real authority or power to act in our behalf. Barack Obama, the 44<sup>th</sup> President of the United States, incessantly touted “Change” during his campaign only to use that platform to get into office, make himself rich, and deliberately cut programs for the poor (as did Bill Clinton). Plain and simple Obama belied “Change” and left needy descendants of Slaves in the same shape they were in when he entered office. By no means are Blacks in government willing to make waves and address all the suffering we bear: <strong>injustice, police brutality, racial profiling, racial bias, discrimination, mass incarceration that plague Black People in country.</strong> Unfortunately there are no Congressional Bills endorsed to end injustice and/or improve our livelihoods and Ghetto communities in “America the Beautiful” – the “Greatest Country on Earth,” said Michelle Obama while campaigning for Hillary Clinton for president in 2016. My, how we have been duped!</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>“H.R. 40-116</strong> <strong>Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans”</strong> lies dormant with White Supremacists hoping that descendants of Slaves will forget about this Bill and will amuse themselves with TV, sports, music, and/or movies – anything but our FREEDOM, REPARATIONS, and JUSTICE for the atrocious and cruel Slave Trade.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">We know this, and White Supremacists know this, as they decisively and resolutely sustain division and White Privilege for their dominance, leverage, and recognition over us. Unbeknownst to descendants of Slaves, Blacks will never, ever be associated with <strong>Privilege in America and much less White Privilege</strong>. Hence, we will never rise above White Rule and control over our people in <strong>America, the so-called “Land of the Free”.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">We are all aware of our plight, but we do nothing, and we are no doubt the only people on Earth content and accustomed to oppression regardless of how much we have been harmed by it. I’m not at all satisfied with the status quo of our lives in these United States. Moreover, this is not a place for raising our children who desperately need to be re-educated in Black History and taught, in conjunction with the academics, how to build bridges of good will and charity, live in harmony with other people and nations, and first and foremost above all, learn to love our own.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Therefore, I appeal to Brothers and Sisters to meet to determine a remedy that will make a difference in all our lives. I know this is a most difficult task at the start, but there will never be a fair resolution for us in these United States if we don’t at least try to improve our own dilemma. There is no remedy for racism and race hatred, and sadly both these acts are killing us. I have said it before, and I will say it again: <strong>a Black Wall Street outside of these United States is our only chance to create a better life for descendants of Slaves.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">A famous African proverb states, <strong>“It takes a village to raise a child.”</strong> And this is where <em>we</em> have to start. <strong>We have to start determining what’s best for <em>our children</em>,</strong> if we are ever to re-educate our youth to transcend this dreadful life in which we live. We have to start a New Movement NOW, as it is imperative that they first learn to love themselves, desire to become model adults, and people with integrity and dignity in their hearts to teach the next generation.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Remember, many of our children and grandchildren are already adults and many are in serious jeopardy and living under abhorrent circumstances. And as far as our children in elementary school and high school are concerned, we know the statistics concerning high school dropouts and all the other bad news that follows. There is no prosperity for these kids, as White Supremacy designs and ensures a way for them to fail – inferior schools – in order that our children have no place in these economical, social, and educational systems. And what’s worse, we have no representatives <strong>for descendants of Slaves in this government to whom we can air our concerns.</strong> It should not come as any surprise that no one represents descendants of Slaves, and no one even claims to represent descendants of Slaves, either!</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">If we have no voice in government, <strong>we have to establish one</strong> for our children, grandchildren, and for ourselves. It is ridiculous for us to give up and leave our people to go to the grave in this racist country without fighting for the best change available to us. We must come together and determine the necessary actions to take that will end our captivity and subjugation in these United States.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">The US Constitution and government were established for White Supremacists. I know some Blacks think they are as privileged as are Whites, but truth be told, they delude themselves.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong><em>THE TRUTH ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY</em></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong><em>“I hold that a Negro is not and never ought to be a citizen of the United States.</em></strong> <em>I hold that this government was made on the white basis; made by the white men, for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever, and should be administered by white men and none others.”</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><em><u>Democratic U.S. Senator Stephen A. Douglas</u></em> <em>of Illinois, 1858, and future Presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, 1860.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Blacks must live by the <strong>White Man’s “Laws of the land”</strong> – constitutional, governmental, educational, societal, and cultural. Descendants of Slaves have no authority to determine anything worthwhile for ourselves and for our communities, and worse we lack power and even any form of self-determination in this country. Are we so indifferent to our state of affairs that we are satisfied with this life of White Supremacy that is in control of our livelihoods and resources? There is nothing about these United States that we should condone and/or emulate. Though we live in this country of untold wealth, given our degrading status there is neither future nor hope here for us.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Blacks ignorantly feel that the ballot can change our afflictions and hardships. Well, we’ve been voting since 1870, but nothing has changed the race hatred and our oppressive state of affairs in this land of White Privilege. If we don’t gather to plan for the betterment of our own people, given our present impotent state, no one else will, and then our dismal fate will never come to an end.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">No matter our religious beliefs, we must ban together. It is incumbent upon us to make a difference in the lives of descendants of Slaves in this country and in every Slave Nation. If we will not do for ourselves, our enemies certainly won’t. It is our human right to seek FREEDOM and demand JUSTICE for our forebears who were kidnapped from Africa and brought to these shores. It is our human right to be resettled in order that White Supremacy does not rule our lives. It is our human right to leave out of this captivity if we so desire to do so.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">What will our children say about us if we will never choose to be our own nation(s) and prefer to stay <strong>so-called “African Americans”?</strong> Think about it! <strong>Descendants of Slaves are the only people who are not of their own nativity and real estate.</strong> This is outrageous. Have we not been the tail and our enemies the head and without our own voice and convictions for long enough (Deut.28:32,44)?</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">We’re the only people who do nothing about the oppressive state in which we live not just in the United States but in all <strong>SLAVE STATES</strong> across the globe. There is strength in numbers; consider the people who ban together to end corruption in their governments, who demonstrate against higher costs of living, and who protest for higher paying jobs. We can demonstrate and DEMAND FREEDOM and JUSTICE for the kidnapping of our people to this land and for the centuries of ENSLAVEMENT forced upon our forebears that has left us captives of a most heartless and merciless government, police force, and society in these United States. Our fight for our lives will most certainly be seen around the world, and certainly other descendants of Slaves will chime in on our fight for FREEDOM and JUSTICE.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">If we stand and ban together, we will make ourselves heard, and those who choose to Exodus will be free of this racism and Hell! GOD would not have exposed all these cruel, White oppressive rulers and their affliction upon us, if HE did not want us making efforts to leave out of this captivity that sustains our suppression.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Let’s end this complacency and fight peaceably and intelligently to prepare a new life for descendants of Slaves, i.e., start our own <strong>“Group of Seven (G7) - an international intergovernmental economic organization”</strong> that seeks prosperity for Black Peoples.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>CNN’s DECEITFUL AND MISLEADING “FREEDOM PROJECT”</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">No one can speak effectively about our suffering and pain better than we can even though our subjugation and misery is an open book. CNN runs an annual <strong>“Freedom Project”</strong> that exploits the true meaning of SLAVERY and FREEDOM. In one of their advertisements is <strong>a little girl comparing Slavery with being “pushed around”.</strong> This CNN Project minimizes the barbaric Slave Trade that reached across the <strong>“Four Corners of the Earth”</strong> and does nothing to detail the atrocities of White ENSLAVERS who raped the Slaves, killed millions of Black Slaves, maimed, beat, and bred Slaves like animals, worked them from dusk to dawn, and lynched and burned Slaves alive without consequence. These CNN promotions do nothing to address FREEDOM for the descendants of Slaves or an end to our present heinous captivity that resulted from the Slave Trade. </span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">It would appear that CNN News is attempting to erase the real truth concerning Slavery. However, when I hear this CNN advertisement, I consider the Ghetto set up for descendants of Slaves, the inferior Black schools, the inequities, unjust incarcerations, unjust US Supreme Court, unjust police departments, and unjust government that have no compassion for descendants of Slaves. There is no American Dream to speak of for us but rather despair and gloom at every turn. This is depressing, as there is no one or any organization serious about our circumstances and our petitions. Nevertheless, there is a better life that awaits us. It’s just not in these United States.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>WE NEED ACTIVISTS IN EVERY URBAN CITY</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Easily we can hold weekly meetings on <strong>Paltalk.com</strong> to discuss this matter and choose officers or have them volunteer to work towards our accomplishing these endeavors, even going before Congress to demand our petition for FREEDOM, REPARATIONS, and RESETTLEMENT. We need dedicated Brothers and Sisters who have it in their hearts to be activists who will make a difference for our people. Let me be clear; everyone should have a chance to speak and be heard, and every suggestion should be respected.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Please do not let this opportunity to discuss our FREEDOM and self-determination fall by the wayside. Indeed there have been many conferences on this topic, but unfortunately they have gotten nowhere. For the sake of our progeny, we have to make this one work.</span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong><><><><><><><> </strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>WORTH THE WATCH:</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">KIDS dressed as Slaves rapping about going to Washington for their REPARATION'S CHECKS:</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31edWiGvSRo&feature=youtu.be&t=4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31edWiGvSRo&feature=youtu.be&t=4</a></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Reparations – The Real Young Prodigys @youngprodigys</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Believe it or not, but yesterday (Oct.28,2019) I had thoughts about millions of us going to D.C. dressed as Slaves to demonstrate for REPARATIONS. <strong>GOD WORKS IN STRANGE WAYS!!!</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:14pt;">[I already know what I will wear!]</span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong><><><><><><><> </strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">With the CREATOR GOD that Created ALL THINGS, EVEN ALL THIS IS POSSIBLE!</span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>*****</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>VISIT OUR WEB GROUP FOR PAST MESSAGES</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>ON THUS SAITH THE LORD AND THE WORD OF GOD:</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><a href="http://theblacklistpub.ning.com/group/the-lawkeepers-of-god-yhwh"><strong>http://theblacklistpub.ning.com/group/the-lawkeepers-of-god-yhwh</strong></a></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong>The LawKeepers of GOD</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong>Communities/Groups</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong><a href="https://www.theblacklist.net/">TheBlackList Pub</a></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong>For All Points-Of-The-View</strong></span></p><p> </p></div>
DaPhunkeeProfessor.com - Black History Month Is Supposed to be a Launch Pad, Not a Destination
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2018-02-01T23:36:55.000Z
2018-02-01T23:36:55.000Z
Mwalim *7) DaPhunkeeProfessor
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<div><p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sctC7NexEds?wmode=opaque" width="560"></iframe> <br /> <br /> <span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;">Originating from the efforts of Carter G. Woodson, whose landmark dissertation ' The Mis-Education of the Negro' challenged the social structure of American education. <br /></span><br /> <span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;">However, the white supremacist orientation of the United States makes it impossible for Black History Month to have any significant impact in the education of the masses.</span><br /> <span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align:center;"><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#111111;font-family:Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-size:large;">To Follow DaPhunkeeProfessor.com, Subscribe Here:</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#111111;font-family:Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span></div><div style="display:inline-block;font-family:Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;text-align:center;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size:large;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/daphunkeeprofessor-com">https://tinyurl.com/daphunkeeprofessor-com</a></span></div></div>
NOT A POT TO PISS IN...
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/not-a-pot-to-piss-in
2017-08-22T18:17:58.000Z
2017-08-22T18:17:58.000Z
Tziona Yisrael
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<div><p align="center"><span class="font-size-5"><b>NOT A POT TO PISS IN</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-5"><b>NOR A THICKET TO THROW IT IN</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-5"><b>AND LOOK AT WHAT DESCENDANTS OF SLAVES WANT</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Blacks sleep in the streets, eat out of garbage, attend the worst of the most inferior schools in the country, live in the Ghettoes of urban cities, endure racial profiling, are denied justice, have no genuine representation in Congress, and vote every four years and get absolutely nothing out of it. And what do Blacks want these days?</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Descendants of Slaves who are yet captives in another man’s land have got to be the most ignorant people on Earth. When we should be demonstrating for our human right to FREEDOM out of this captivity, Reparations for kidnapping our forebears out of Africa, and FREE LABOR during the cruel Slave Trade, we spend time demonstrating to knock down statutes of dead, racist confederates. What in Hell is wrong with Black People? </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Demolishing statues of racist men like Jefferson Davis and Gens. Robert E. Lee and even George Washington and Thomas Jefferson who owned Slaves is not the answer. Actually, this is as bad as publishers deleting the facts about the heinous Slave Trade from history books. These founding fathers of the United States and so many, many others symbolize the shame and merciless barbarism that this country stands for and eliminating their statutes will not resolve the race issue in these United States or end our captivity in this land. And let us not forget, if we eliminate the Slave Trade from this country’s history books, and other Slave Nations do the same, we will not be able to prove our identity. </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">We have GOD’s WORD on causing our enslavement in the lands of our enemies (Deuteronomy 28:15 - 68), as well as HIS WORD to DELIVER us out of this captivity (Isaiah 11:11,12). Hence, we should be demonstrating for FREEDOM, REPARATIONS, and an EXODUS for there is no good thing in this country for descendants of Slaves, and given GOD’s WORD on this captivity at the hands of these CAPTORS, we have only to expect more affliction and oppression. And perish the thought of equality and equity in this Hell because it ain’t gonna happen. </span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:left;"><span class="font-size-4">Tziona Yisrael</span></p><p align="center" style="text-align:left;"><span class="font-size-4"><a href="http://www.thelawkeepers.org">www.thelawkeepers.org</a></span></p></div>
AN OPEN LETTER TO MODERN-DAY PHARAOHS - YOUR ASSIGNMENT IS TERMINATED!
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/an-open-letter-to-modern-day-pharaohs
2016-06-15T14:00:00.000Z
2016-06-15T14:00:00.000Z
Tziona Yisrael
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<div><p></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>AN OPEN LETTER:</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>TO MODERN-DAY PHARAOHS</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b><u>YOUR ASSIGNMENT IS TERMINATED!</u></b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b><u>THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL HAVE RESIGNED THEMSELVES</u></b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b><u>TO RETURN TO THEIR GOD AND TO SERVE AND OBEY HIM</u></b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b><u>ACCORDING TO HIS BOOK OF THE LAW!</u></b></span></p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>“…the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.<br /> And <u>he gave them into the hand of the heathen</u>;</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b><u>and they that hated them ruled over them.<br /> Their enemies also oppressed them,</u></b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b><u>and they were brought into subjection under their hand</u></b><b>.</b><b>”</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">Psalm 106:40 - 42</span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>“…they did eat, and were filled, and became fat,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.<br /> Nevertheless they were disobedient,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>and they wrought great provocations.<br /> Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>who vexed them:</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>thou heardest them from heaven…”</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">Nehemiah 9:25 – 27</span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>“And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies:</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>so fell they all by the sword.<br /> According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.<br /> Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>and will be jealous for my holy name;</b><b>”</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">Ezekiel 39:23 – 25</span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>THE CREATOR GOD IS JUST AND RIGHTEOUS</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>AND IT IS HE THAT EXECUTES HIS JUDGMENT UPON THE WICKED!</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>“The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth:</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b><u>The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God</u></b><b>.</b><b>”</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">Psalm 9:16,17</span><span class="font-size-3"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>June 13, 2016</b></span></p><p align="center"> </p><p><span class="font-size-3">When people are killed and loved ones are wrecked with sorrow it is difficult to watch the grief without our eyes welling up. These attacks of violence and bloodshed, be they homegrown or international even drones killing innocent men, women, and children or people of different nationalities attacking White nations, are all too poignant to bear.</span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3">Nonetheless, people need to stop and consider why these acts of violence are happening and are destroying the White World – America and European nations that indulged and grew wealthy via the Slave Trade and via Third-World defenseless nations that have been exploited and slated for demise.</span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>White</b> <b>CONTROL</b> has been cruel, inhumane, and brutal and this barbarity has spanned over many countries over thousands of years. And as a result of this cruelty, people have lost their true identity and would be Strangers in their own lands should they seek to return. This is especially evident in the case of descendants of Slaves, i.e., the SEED of the Children of Israel.</span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b><i>“I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and <u>given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy</u>; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.”</i></b> Isaiah 47:6 </span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3">Among these subjugated people under White Control, are descendants of Slaves of the SEED of the Biblical Israelites who now want to Exodus out of the countries that forcibly migrated them (us) from the shores of “Africa”.</span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3">It is easily recognized that GOD is the ALMIGHTY CREATOR, but few people accept the fact that when terror strikes or any catastrophe that it is with the consent of Our MAKER, even when churches burn, when the Earth Quakes, when tragedies from tornadoes and hurricanes strike cities, when wars prevail and kill thousands, and when people are enslaved and are yet captives. All these ACTS are the WORKS of the CREATOR GOD. A leaf does not fall from the tree without HIS Consent, or rather because HE is the ALMGHTY GOD, HE can prevent things from happening, as well as cause things to occur. And no matter what HE chooses to do, the CREATOR GOD is a JUST and RIGHTEOUS GOD, especially when HE sends messages of Judgment to the wicked for their evils and for their merciless and cruel ways! </span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3">This GOD of Israel will not leave HIS Chosen People and the oppressed in the hands of the powers-that-be forever. </span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><i>“Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins. My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart. <b>God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.”</b> Psalm 7:9 – 11</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b><i>“…man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.”</i></b><i> Psalm 58:11</i></span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><i><br /> “See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: <b>neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.</b><b>”</b> Deuteronomy 32:39</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b><i>“Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for <u>thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly</u>:”</i></b><i> Nehemiah 9:33</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b><i>“Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.”</i></b><i> Malachi 3:18</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3">When the powers sin against the CREATOR, when they commit evil against others, and when they sustain yokes and control over people who want their FREEDOM and cannot attain it, there will be consequences. These acts of violence against the powers-that-be are messages from GOD ALMIGHTY to America and to other White-dominated countries that hold fast HIS Covenant People, the SEED of Jacob - <b><u>messages to let us go, so that we may “Serve” Our GOD</u></b>. We are the People HE has Chosen to serve HIM and to show forth HIS PRAISE, that which HE has not relished for millennia.</span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b><i>“This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.”</i></b><i> Isaiah 43:21</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3">When Pharaoh would not let the Children of Israel Exodus out of Egypt to serve the CREATOR GOD of Israel, this King of Egypt witnessed <b><u>the fall of Egypt one day at a time</u></b>. GOD plagued the Land of Egypt and the Egyptians until they assented to let HIS People Go.</span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><i>“And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God<b>: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?</b><b>”</b> Exodus 10:7</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3">Once again GOD’s Covenant People – the Children of Israel – are in captivity but one that stems from the Slave Trade and a captivity of well over 400 years. Thus, it will take the Most HIGH GOD of Israel to plague the nations throughout the world that hold HIS Chosen People in captivity and under their inhumane control. And of these nations the United States is chief in this severity.</span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3">The CREATOR GOD of Israel is now calling back HIS Children of Israel whom HE scattered into the <b>“Four Corners of the Earth”</b> to serve their enemies for their great sins and abominations they committed against HIM when they inhabited HIS Land of Israel.</span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3">GOD had warned our forefathers to take heed to HIS Commandments and to abandon false gods and false worship if we wanted to stay in the Land. When our forebears defied HIM and rebelled against HIS Laws, Statutes, and Judgments, HE did exactly what HE said HE would do, which was to cast them from the Land of Milk and Honey and via the Slave Trade would cause their (our) identity to be completely forgotten.</span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>ONLY BLACKS FULFILLED THE PROPHECIES OF THE SLAVE TRADE WRITTEN IN DEUTERONOMY 28<sup>TH</sup> CHAPTER:</b></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><i>“But it shall come to pass, <b>if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:</b></i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b><i>“The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies:</i></b> <i>thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><i>“And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: <b>and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.</b></i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b><i>“Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.</i></b> <i>The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b><i>“The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone. And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.</i></b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><i> </i></span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b><i>“<u>Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity</u>.</i></b></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><i>“The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low. <b>He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.</b> <b>Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed;</b> because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><i>“<b>Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things; Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee</b>, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and <b><u>he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee</u></b>. The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b><i>“<u>If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law</u> that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD; Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.</i></b></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b><i>“And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God.</i></b> <i>And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it. And <b><u>the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known</u>, even wood and stone.</b> And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind: And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:</i><i>” </i></span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><i>Deuteronomy 28:15,25,29,32,33,36,37,41,43,44,45,47,48,49,50,58,59,62 – 66</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b><i>“<u>I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men</u>:”</i></b><i> Deuteronomy 32:26</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3">Of a sad and harrowing Truth, these curses and captivity upon descendants of Slaves have been deadly and mournful every single day. But some of us who are of the SEED of the Children of Israel have returned to Our GOD of Israel to obey HIS WORD and to follow ONLY HIS Book of the Law (HIS Laws, Statutes, and Judgments that we are Commanded to live “forever”), and we are ready now to serve Our GOD of Israel and of great import, we are ready now to Exodus out of this bondage.</span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>THE PROBLEM IS THAT THE POWERS-THAT-BE ARE NOT GIVNG US A VOICE AND WILL NOT ALLOW US TO GO BEFORE CONGRESS OR THE UNITED NATIONS WITH OUR PROPOSAL FOR LEAVING OUT OF THIS BONDAGE.</b></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3">Therefore, our only alternative is to disseminate this Open Letter to let the world know that we have returned to Our GOD of Israel to obey HIM, and that HE has heard our prayers to SAVE us out of this affliction and miserable captivity. Yes, HE is mercifully hearing us just as HE heard our forebears when they suffered Egyptian captivity.</span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b><i>“And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.</i></b> <i>And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.</i><i>” Exodus 2:24,25</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b><i>“And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;”</i></b><i> Exodus 3:7</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3">Because the WHITE POWERS that GOD put over us refuse to give us our FREEDOM to let us go out of their lands, we now beseech Our GOD for HELP. And HE is hearing our prayers and cries to leave out and to return to HIM with our whole heart and soul. And HIS WORD is that it will come to pass but not before many have succumbed to violence and horrific death, just as is happening now and just as it happened in Ancient Egypt. Nevertheless, our Exodus is imminent.</span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><i>“And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again <b><u>the second time to recover the remnant of his people</u>,</b> which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.” Isaiah 11:11,12</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><i>“Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, <b>The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;</b> <b>But, <u>The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them</u>: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.</b><b>” </b> Jeremiah 16:14,15</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><i>“Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, <b><u>I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity</u></b>; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.” Jeremiah 30:10</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><i>“Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine hand, <b>Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.</b> <b>But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; <u>for they are at hand to come</u>.</b><b>” </b> Ezekiel 36:7,8</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><i>“The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing. I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden. Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and <b>I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame. At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the LORD</b>.” Zephaniah 3:17 - 20</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3">Thus, know the reason Our GOD is plaguing the CAPTORS of HIS People with death and trembling, and do know of a certainty that, that which we witness these days in respect to seriously troubled times is but the tip of the iceberg. Therefore, before GOD’s WRATH reaches your doorsteps, it would be wise to let us go; to give us our FREEDOM, and to negotiate our emigration, Reparations, and Resettlement elsewhere. America and all the Countries that grew wealthy off the backs of Slaves are great places but just not for the descendants of Slaves who desire to follow the WAYS of the CREATOR GOD of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.</span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b><i>“And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: <u>this is my name forever, and this is my memorial unto all generations</u>.”</i></b><i> Exodus 3:15</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b><i>“I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.” Isaiah 42:8</i></b></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b><i>“<u>Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else</u>. I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That <u>unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear</u>.”</i></b><i> Isaiah 45:22,23</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b><i>“The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.”</i></b><i> Isaiah 42:21</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><i>“And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, <b>The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel.</b><b>”</b> Malachi 1:5</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>“Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: <u>it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD's anger</u>.</b></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3">Know that this CREATOR GOD is taking back HIS Universe, HIS Holy Land, HIS Holy City Jerusalem, and HIS Covenant People, and I advise you to be forewarned, and the reason is GOD is NOT a man that HE should lie! Now, you are the wiser, but will you take heed and let GOD’s People GO, in order that we may serve HIM?</span></p><p> </p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">Sincerely in GOD’s TRUTH,</span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">Descendants of Slaves,</span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">The “Dry Bones”</span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">The accursed who fulfilled GOD’s WORD written in Deuteronomy 28<sup>th</sup> Chapter</span></p><p> </p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>***</b></span></p><p> </p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><a title="http://www.thelawkeepers.org/DEUTERONOMY 28TH CHAPTERandPICTURES.Adoc.htm" href="http://www.thelawkeepers.org/DEUTERONOMY%2028TH%20CHAPTERandPICTURES.Adoc.htm" target="_blank"><b>http://www.thelawkeepers.org/DEUTERONOMY%2028TH%20CHAPTERandPICTURES.Adoc.htm</b></a></span></p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>***</b></span><span class="font-size-3"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Thus-Saith-The-LORD-Book/dp/1494928035"><b>http://www.amazon.com/Thus-Saith-The-LORD-Book/dp/1494928035</b></a></span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b> </b></span></p></div>
A Discussion with Elder Mukasa Ricks on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/a-discussion-with-elder-mukasa-ricks-on-the-student-nonviol
2016-03-11T15:30:00.000Z
2016-03-11T15:30:00.000Z
Dr. Kinaya C. Sokoya
https://www.theblacklist.net/members/DrKinayaCSokoya
<div><p align="center" style="text-align:left;">In April 1960, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, then led by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., established the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Ella Baker, at the suggestion of Dr. King, was the primary organizer (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 2013). This student movement was one of a few Black Power organizations that changed its philosophy from being a civil rights organization, embracing the strategy of non-violence, to a Black Power organization that embraced the strategy of self-defense. The change in philosophy resulted from the violence student activists experienced during voter registration drives in the South. From 1960-1966, the group was a civil rights organization. From 1966-1971, it was a Black power organization.</p><p>Also in April 1960, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference held a conference at Shaw University to organize students (SNCC, 2013). One hundred and twenty six students who were activists at sit-in counters in 12 southern states and student activists from 19 northern colleges attended the conference. The establishment of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was an outcome of the conference. The late Marion Barry (“Mayor for Life” in the District of Columbia) was elected its first chair. From 1960 to 1966, members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee were active in the civil rights movement. It participated in sit-ins, freedom rides, voter registration drives, the 1963 March on Washington, and formed the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to challenge the then all White state Democratic Party.</p><p> In 1965, a crisis in philosophy (civil rights v. Black power) caused the organization to split into two factions and White members were expelled from the organization (SNCC, 2013). The transformation of SNCC from civil rights to Black power was reflected in its leadership:</p><p> <i>Civil Rights era:</i></p><div style="margin-left:2em;"><ul><li>Marion Barry, first Chairman, 1960-1961</li></ul></div><div style="margin-left:2em;"><ul><li>Charles McDrew, second Chairman, 1961-1963</li></ul></div><div style="margin-left:2em;"><ul><li>John Lewis, third Chairman, 1963-1966</li></ul></div><p><i> </i><i>Black Power era:</i></p><div style="margin-left:2em;"><ul><li>Stokely Carmichael, fourth Chairman, 1966-1967</li></ul></div><div style="margin-left:2em;"><ul><li>H. Rap Brown, fifth Chairman, 1967-1969.</li></ul></div><p>The cry for “Black Power” with a raised fist originated from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1966 in Greenwood, Mississippi. Although Carmichael popularized the term, it was actually Mukasa (aka Willie Ricks), another member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, who cried “Black Power” while SNCC was completing a march from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi. Previously, James Meredith had organized the march to encourage voter registration. During the march, Meredith was shot by a sniper and hospitalized. Black activists showed up the next day to complete the march. During the march, Mukasa cried “Black Power.” When queried about the meaning of Black Power, Carmichael responded,</p><p> “We have to do what every group in the country did – we’ve got to take over the community where we outnumber people so we can have decent jobs” (History Learning Site, 2013, p. 2).</p><p>The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was instrumental in establishing the Black Panther Party. In 1964, the organization helped form the Lowndes County (Alabama) Freedom Organization, which was the original Black Panther Party. In 1967, Stokely Carmichael left SNCC to join the Black Panther Party in California. H. Rap Brown, who, in 1969, changed the name of the organization to the Student National Coordinating Committee, succeeded him (SNCC, 2013). In 1969, Brown also resigned and joined the Black Panther Party as its Minister of Justice. When the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee changed its philosophy from civil rights to Black power, the government placed it under surveillance as part of its COINTELPRO initiative. In 1967, the Department of Defense stated:</p><p> “SNCC can no longer be considered a civil rights group. It has become a racist organization with Black supremacy ideals and an expressed hatred for Whites. It employs violent and militant measures that may be defined as extreme when compared to those of more moderate groups” (SNCC, 2013, p. 6).</p><p>Because of a loss of funding and COINTELPRO, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee closed its doors in 1971.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><b> </b><b>Interview with Mukasa Ricks, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Pioneer</b></p><p><i>1. What are your memories of the Black Power Movement during this period?</i></p><p>In Detroit and Newark, where those cities were burned, the cry was “Black Power” and with Black Power, we integrated “Black is Beautiful” in the texture of our hair, our noses, our lips, and our skin. And, it pointed us towards our history in Africa and to a philosophy of nationalism. We began to be guided by theories of Malcolm X, Garvey, Nkrumah, and Seku Toure. We then began to look to revolutionaries throughout the world including Fidel Castro, Ho Chi Minh, Mao Tse-tung, and others.</p><p>We had to defeat the civil rights leaders on the question of Black Power. We had to fight them. They condemned us - SNCC. They joined with the government against us. We stuck with Black Power and the masses of people endorsed Black Power through the rebellions that took place, the new movement, and the rise of the Nationalist Movement. SNCC was endorsed by other groups in the world - African groups - that were seeking independence, fighting against some form of colonialism and imperialism worldwide. Different groups inside Africa and in the Caribbean endorsed Black Power. So, Black Power became a theory that the masses could relate to and we were able to relate it to all aspects of our struggle and our liberation.</p><p><i>2. Please share any information you have on the goals and plans emanating from</i> <i>Black Power Conference of 1967 that took place in Newark, New Jersey.</i></p><p>I was in a car going to that conference – me, Ralph Silverstone, and some other SNCC people. When the car got halfway, we stopped and I got out of the car and told them I'd see them later. I took another path.</p><p><i>3</i>. <i>Were you active with any organizations and, if so, what organization(s), in what capacity, and for what period of time?</i></p><p>I joined SNCC in 1961 or 1962, from the founding of SNCC to the very end of SNCC. I was just one of the soldiers but I was a key organizer for SNCC and was a spokesman for SNCC in the field. I had the title of “Reverend Rick” and I was on the podium with Dr. King and all the rest of those so-called leaders. Anyway, I was the one that challenged them. I was a motivator and agitator for SNCC as well as an organizer. I was probably the strongest youth organizer that SNCC had.</p><p><i>4. What global events influenced the formation and activities of your organization?</i></p><p>We merged our activities with different international struggles that were happening. In the early 60s, we supported the Mau Mau movement in Kenya, the revolution that took place in Kenya. We met with Kenya’s Oginga Odinga when he came to Atlanta and we realized that our movements were linked. Early on we sent people to Africa, to Guinea, and to other places. We always had a link with them and we also had different relationships and support from networks like Cuba.</p><p><i>5. What were the strengths and challenges of the organization?</i></p><p>The strength of SNCC was it was an organization rooted in the people and it was an organization that organized the people. It was organizing organizations that gave us strength. The other organizations - civil rights organizations - mobilized and we organized. We helped create all kinds of organizations and groups that were grassroots and we maintained good relationships with the people. SNCC was an organizing organization while Dr. King was a mobilizer. We created local leadership. We saw ourselves as organizers not leaders.</p><p>We had many challenges. As a matter of fact, challenging the system, being in the forefront of the movement, taking the leadership from all the other civil rights groups, and being a youthful organization; that was, I guess, a great challenge. They would say that the things that we did, we were the youth of the movement, were too dangerous. We took the struggle into Mississippi and into other areas. We went on the freedom rides and participated in the sit-ins. We took more of a militant position. SNCC became a vanguard of the civil rights movement where we found ourselves being the leaders and being the ones that forced or motivated the other civil rights organizations to come our way. SNCC was the organization that went into Mississippi. We went alone and then others came, but we were the ones that organized the state of Mississippi. SNCC led King and the so-called Civil Rights Movement.</p><p>I was not part of RAM (Revolutionary Action Movement), but I knew the people in the organization. I don't know what RAM had but SNCC had the organization, the territory, and the people. RAM tried to relate to SNCC in different ways but SNCC was the vanguard organization out there that most groups tried to identify with.</p><p><i>6. What were the accomplishments of the organization?</i></p><p>We took our people to another level. We fought many, many battles. We struggled throughout the South and brought organizations to another level of consciousness. We were able to link our movement with movements throughout the world and we challenged America and its system of oppression, Apartheid, and segregation. We broke their back and we broke the back of the Democratic and Republican parties that were oppressing us and keeping us from voting and participating. We challenged the American government in Mississippi on the general oppression we found, the rebellions in the South, and the rebellions in the 60s. We shook the foundation of this country and made them change all of their policies toward African people. I think the rebellion shook this country to its foundation forcing them to pass laws that would open doors, like ending segregation and things that were closed to us, that we couldn't get in. We forced them to open those doors. By forcing them to open their doors, they couldn't discriminate against us on the job and in other areas. They were so frustrated that the government was forced to pass laws saying they could not discriminate. Anybody who got federal money had to have a certain percentage of people of African descent on those jobs and wherever the federal money was, there had been some Black representatives. We forced them to appoint Black officials and elect Black people. SNCC opened those doors. SNCC was the one that started registering people to vote and open the doors. SNCC ran the first Blacks for offices, helped form the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and those kinds of things. SNCC was able to open the doors to a lot of things and we don't even know the effect of our activities because SNCC was influenced by and linked up with Africa. The African independence movement began to identify with SNCC and the different governments in Africa began to say to America as we exposed them, "How can you call yourselves our friend and treat Black people in America the way you do?” We embarrassed America on the international level and at different points we began to reach out to African governments. At some point, we joined our movement with the liberation movements in Africa and began to fight imperialism on the international level. It was SNCC that really took on South Africa. SNCC people demonstrated in 1963. In 1965, SNCC went to the UN, broke in, and beat up the South African staff. We beat up the ambassadors. I went to jail over that in New York and in DC for fighting against Apartheid. SNCC opened the gates to begin to educate people and link the African movement with our SNCC movement and let people know what was going on in South Africa.</p><p><i>7. What do you know about COINTELPRO?</i></p><p>We all had problems in Mississippi with COINTELPRO because they were attacking us and doing all kinds of things to undermine our movement and our organizations. They attacked different members of our families. I know my family was attacked. They attempted to assassinate different members of my family. We lived through that so COINTELPRO was nothing but despised. It tried to undermine our movement. I've always been under the gaze of COINTELPRO and other elements of the FBI and CIA from my inception inside the movement.</p><p><i>8. What is the current status of the organization?</i></p><p>SNCC closed in 1969. We come together every now and then. We just had a big gathering in North Carolina for the 50th anniversary of the movement. We come together mostly, a few of us, White and Black SNCC people, who were involved in thousands of different movements and different phases that moved us forward toward humanity. SNCC people were involved in all kinds of things. Some people were involved in being revolutionary and linking with revolutionary movements around the world from North Korea to all the liberation movements in Africa, to Kwame Nkrumah, Seku Toure, Maoism, and Marxism. So the movement continued and different SNCC people took different paths.</p><p><i>9. How did the activities of your organization affect colleges and universities on campuses and in the community?</i></p><p>Well, during and after the Black Power Movement, after SNCC had organized the first Black Panther Party and after we began to talk about Black Power, it linked our people to countries all over the world. It also linked our people to students. We had a student brigade that organized students throughout the country. SNCC was made up of students so we always had a relationship with students. 1966 was when we made the cry for Black Power. In 1967, we had a conference on Black Power. This conference on Black Power was after the Detroit rebellions, where the cry for Black Power spread. Every household was divided on the question of Black Power. Where some people were against Black Power, you had somebody in that household that supported Black Power. So, Black Power became a very intense debate in the African community. In 1967, Fisk University had what was called the Black Power Conference. Fisk was the first school to go up in rebellion - Fisk and Tennessee State - they were the first schools to have rebellions. There were shootings and all that. They were blamed SNCC and Carmichael. One of the things we did was organize students on campuses and encourage them to organize organizations like Black student unions. SNCC went out to the White schools and began to encourage them (students) to organize Black student unions.</p><p><i>10. Did your organization’s activities affect the development of Black student organizations (BSUs) and, if so, how?</i></p><p>We influenced BSUs (Black student unions). We encouraged students to get organized on White campuses. We encouraged them to demand Black books and include Blackness in the schools, which became Black Studies. So when they (students) were on White campuses, they could relate to the Movement. That was one of our purposes for doing that.</p><p>Regarding Fisk University: The students had endorsed Black Power. They were one of the first groups to endorse Black Power. They had a Black Power conference. While we were having the conference, the police shot a Black man in the neighborhood. When they shot the man in the back of the head right down the street from the school, the students got involved in it in some kind of way and we took the students to the streets. Then, we began to challenge the police by throwing bricks, bottles, firebombs and other things. And, before you know it, the city was in rebellion and it was coming from the campus at Fisk University. So now you had a rebellion on your hands at Fisk and Tennessee State. They blamed SNCC for that rebellion. They began to terrorize and shoot students and stuff like that. On many campuses; including Black ones like Texas Southern, Orangeburg (the Orangeburg massacre), and other Black schools; we began to demand Blackness and set up Black Power chapters at all the Black schools; and, we asked the kids at the White schools to do the same thing. In doing so, they began to demand more from the schools and put together Black Studies programs and all those things.</p><p><i>11. Did your organization’s activities affect the development of Black studies departments at higher education institutions and, if so, how?</i></p><p> The Black Studies program came out of the Black Power Movement. We began to encourage students to demand Black Studies programs. In some cases, like Cornell, students took up guns and took over administration buildings. All across the country, our children began to threaten to take over administration buildings and when they did that, most of the schools were so frightened. A couple of administration buildings were burned down. In fact, some members of the administration were kidnapped and held (hostage) and the students demanded different kinds of things like Black Studies and African Studies. We wanted the White schools to build a school where they taught something that related to us. So, all of that became the Black Studies program.</p><p><i>12. Are you aware of any activities, programs, or benefits to higher education</i> <i>resulting from the efforts of your organization or other organizations in the Black Power Movement during the period from 1960 – 1980? Do they still exist today?</i></p><p>Most of the students did not have any Black books, Black films, weren’t able to attend Black lectures, or any of that. As a matter of fact, most schools taught history and left Africa completely out. I met a man at the University of Georgia one time. I was talking about Africa and he said, “I'm getting ready to write my dissertation for my PhD in history and I have never studied one word about Africa.” Most schools, White schools and what have you, studied history and sociology and left Africa completely out. So, we affected the whole system by making them add Africa, see us as human beings, and see Africa as something that had made some kind of contribution to the world. That's why we forced them to put millions and millions of dollars into Black Studies programs all over the country. So, all of these Black Studies degrees and Black Studies departments were established. Because they had Black faculty and Black Studies, they began to add us into other studies, like psychology and sociology. As a matter of fact, we brought civilization to this country where White people could sit in the same room with us and we could sit in the same room with them on an equal level.</p><p>On the response of HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities), they were scared to death of it - the administrators were. But, the students overtook the administrations and forced the issue. They tried to keep us out. As a matter of fact, Black administrators at colleges and Black high schools did everything in their power to keep us off their campuses. But, the students took over and forced them to let us on campuses. It went through the students. They were mostly college students. Anytime we went to a high school it was still mostly high school students. It wasn't the administration. It was the students. Every now and then, you had a professor that would invite us and be on our side. But, the administration as a whole, most of them were under the tutoring of the State and those kinds of people. Once we got African Studies departments in there, the FBI went to them and told them who to give jobs to. They gave people jobs who didn't relate to us. One of the things they were supposed to do was keep Ralph, Stokely, SNCC, me and Black Power people off of the campuses. The Black Studies departments did everything they could to keep us off campuses. They began to work with the system to keep us off. Now they talk about Black Power and SNCC and all that and they don't invite me. I don't get invited anywhere.</p><p>Black Nationalism grew out of the rebellions and it linked us with Africa. We began to point toward Africa and began to have relationships with Africa, Kwame Nkrumah, Seku Toure, and Lumumba - all kinds of worldviews. We created all kinds of world studies. When you look at it from the point of view of SNCC, all these groups attached their shit to us - women’s organizations, women's rights - they began to attach their shit. And now, gay rights; they attached their shit to us. So a whole lot of people benefited from SNCC and what our movement was doing. As a matter of fact, they began to put international studies and all that kind of stuff on the campuses. That was a benefit from us because we created the opportunities by demanding Black studies on campuses. Women studies - there were no women studies on campuses until we picked up guns and demanded Black studies, African studies. Now you got women studies, gay studies and all those other studies.</p><p><i>13. Are there other persons you feel would provide helpful information on this topic?</i></p><p>I have to think about it.</p><p><i>14. I am collecting information on the sequence of events leading to the development of the first Black student union and the first Black studies department at San Francisco State University. Are there experiences at other college or universities that you feel would be informative?</i></p><p>Look up the Orangeburg massacre and Texas Southern University for the rebellion at Texas Southern in 1967. Look up Jackson State University on the rebellion in 1966 or 1967. There were a lot of schools. We had Black school rebellions, fights, and killings all over. We also had street rebellions like in Detroit and Newark and other places.</p><p> Epilogue: Baba Mukasa is still active and lives in the Atlanta metropolitan area. He describes himself as an African, a soldier, and a revolutionary. He is available for speaking engagements.</p><p></p><p>© Sokoya Enterprises</p><p> </p><p> </p><p></p></div>
Whatever Happened to the Chad School: An Independent Black School Known for its Educational Excellence?
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Dr. Kinaya C. Sokoya
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<div><p>This blog is part of a series of articles to recognize unsung heroes who were active in the Black Power Movement. The Chad School was an independent Black educational institution in Newark, New Jersey that was established and supported by the Black Youth Organization. Following is a summary of the founding organization and an interview with former administrator, Babatu Y. Olubayo.</p><p><strong>Summary</strong> <b>of the Black Youth Organization (BYO) </b></p><p>The Black Youth Organization was established by college students in 1967 as an outcome of a summer tutoring and mentoring project in Newark, New Jersey. College students provided tutorial services for high school students in reading and mathematics. The students who provided the services found their mentees in great need academically. This experience was the impetus for establishing an organization called the Black Youth Organization with a primary mission of developing and operating an independent Black school. In the fall of 1968, the group opened the school with an initial enrollment of 70 children. They named the school after Chad, a country in Africa, because Chad is physically located in the heart of Africa.</p><p>Representatives from the Black Youth Organization attended a Black Power Conference held in Newark, New Jersey in 1967. After listening to the discussion at the meeting, they determined that the activities planned would lead to the death, injury, and/or imprisonment of a number of activists. Based on this assessment, they decided to work underground as an organization and focus their time and energy strictly on education. The Black Youth Organization had two divisions: the Chad School and a shadow group called the House of August. The Black Youth Organization was a coed group; however, the House of August was an all-male group. The purposes of the House of August were to protect the faculty and students of the Chad School, and develop and implement economic projects to provide funding for the school. Because the House of August division functioned primarily underground, there is little information on this group in the literature. Consequently, most of the information provided in this summary is based on the experience of the researcher, who was a teacher and parent at the school, and the testimony from a former leader of the Black Youth Organization.</p><p>The Black Youth Organization had a president, secretary, and board of directors. Leon Moore was president of the Black Youth Organization and the administrator of Chad School. Economic projects that were developed and operated by the House of August included a music store located in Liberia, Africa; an African art store in the United States; a printing press called Pyramid Press; and, a construction company called the August Construction Company. The printing press produced African-centered curriculum materials for the school and provided printing services for the public. The construction company renovated houses.</p><p>The Chad School was an African-centered tuition-based school that offered classes for African American children from three to 12 years of age. To teach at the Chad School, applicants had to successfully complete a high school equivalency examination and attend rigorous teacher training classes conducted by Mr. Moore, who was considered the sage of the organization. Throughout its existence, the school was recognized for its educational excellence. Students that graduated from Chad went on to be top performers at area high schools and most attended and received degrees from higher education institutions. Because of Chad’s reputation, over the years, annual enrollment grew to 400 students.</p><p>The Chad School, as an institution, embraced and reflected the philosophy of Black Power. All of its students, teachers, and board members were African American. To ensure non-interference from the government, the Black Youth Organization refused to pursue or accept government grants for the school. In the early 2000s, the organization decided to allow White people to join its board of directors. The new board of directors attempted to change the cultural nationalist focus of the school and its policy on accepting grants. Staff and volunteers who had worked at the school since its formation objected to the changes. They organized another board of directors that was comprised of African Americans who had a history of being active and supportive of the school. A power struggle ensued between the two boards. This struggle exacerbated operation and funding problems. The school closed in 2005.</p><p><b>Interview with Babatu Y. Olubayo, Former Assistant Principal of the Chad School</b></p><p><i>1. What are your memories of the Black Power Movement during 1960 to 1980? </i></p><p>My memories, went roughly back from 1960 to 1980, I thought it was a period for advancement, for a segment of our population, of our group of people. There were opportunities created in housing, education, employment opportunities, and , to a certain extent, there was minor upward mobility for people in terms of the job marketing opening up, the housing situation expanding to allow people more access, and educational opportunities to further skills in order to remain competitive in this American environment. </p><p><i>KCS: What role did the Black Power Movement play in this era of advancement that you describe? </i></p><p>Well, if you take the Black Panthers as an example. They were able to bring together two different segments of the Black community. The Panthers themselves, who were viewed basically as roughians, tough people, or ex-felons if not felons, were able to initiate a breakfast program centered around our kids that was basically administered and handled through churches and other pillars of the Black community. I think Reagan recognized that, and subsequently the free breakfast program was established. I think that the militancy also allowed for employment opportunities. The union movements were beginning to pick up a little steam around the country, particularly in terms of Black participation. There was a bit of Black involvement in the union leadership, which had not happened since the thirties, and that allowed people to, again, to have greater access to certain economic opportunities that didn't exist prior to the Black Power Movement. </p><p>It (the Black Power Movement) certainly impacted schools. There was an increase in terms of people's consciousness. They were more willing to stick together over issues and things. I also think it fundamentally assisted the general Civil Rights Movement itself because it drew attention, stark attention, to the conditions of Black people in this country. </p><p><i>2. Do you know about the Black Power Conference in 1967 that took place in Newark? </i></p><p>Yes.</p><p><i>KCS: Do you know any or could you share any information you have on what came out of that conference in terms of the goals and plans?</i></p><p>Well, generally, the goals and plans of the meeting were to participate on a grander scale in American life, politically, socially, certainly financially. Different factions or groups had their own ideas and methodologies for achieving those ends. </p><p><i>KCS: So, there wasn't one set of goals or plans that came out of the meeting itself?</i></p><p>There were certain goals. As a participant, the organization that I represented and was aligned with at that point in time, decided to take a different path because the forces to be and the factions that were involved in meeting those objectives. We decided not participate in the general political, specifically the political, effort. Instead, we chose to concentrate on an area that we thought that we could be successful in, which was education. </p><p><i>3. Could you tell me a little bit about your membership in the Black Youth Organization? What capacity or role you played, and for what period of time? If there were any other groups that you belonged to, please share that information too.</i></p><p>During that period, I was involved in several different types of organizations. I was very supportive, active, and became a minor member of the Newark Black Panther Party primarily because they had aligned themselves with creating employment and economic opportunities for Black folks through a project we had with the Ford Motor Company in Mahwah New Jersey. We also were affiliated with the Dodge Revolutionary Unit Movement out of Detroit, because, at that point in time, the Black auto workers were attempting to not only get jobs, but also to be eligible or able to participate and or be involved in managerial positions. At that time, I was an active member of a group at Western Electric. We formed what was known as the Western Electric Revolutionary Union Movement (WER), which we aligned with the Ford Motor Company and others.</p><p><i>KCS: The union movement. Can I ask, before you go into details, did this group have anything to do with the Revolutionary Action Movement Group? Or was it a different organization? </i></p><p>The Revolutionary Action Movement? No, it was a different organization. I guess you could say it was part of the Ford and Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement. There were union movements where Black people just began to have a say, and if not a say, they formed their own unions to advocate for clearer positions or demands than what the conventional unions offered at that time. For example, with the auto workers (United Auto workers Union) were under serving their Black membership. Western Electric was represented by two mainstream unions, which was the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and CWA, the Workers of America. I can't think of what the C stands for right now, but anyway they certainly didn't represent Black people's interest, so we formed our own union.</p><p><i>KCS: What about the Black Youth Organization?</i></p><p>The Black Youth Organization was a response to social conditions in this country, which was quite simply that Black youth were being misguided, misdirected in a general sense and specific senses, based upon the resources that they had available to them in their neighborhoods and communities. They were certainly underserved by the school systems. The Black Youth Organization was a spontaneous reaction to fill a void. We came together initially as a recreational athletic organization that primarily taught self-defense to young Black people at the YMCA. At that time, there were widespread discussions taking place on Black anything because of the Black Power Movement. There was a lot of Black rhetoric, a lot of Black information, being circulated. What we discovered was that our kids, the students or children who were involved in our program, just simply couldn't read and write. So, we did some testing, devised programs, created a curriculum, and began an experimental program.</p><p><i>KCS: You call it an experimental program?</i></p><p>That was how we initially started. Once the experiment was over, which was six to eight weeks, we decided the results warranted us forming an organization and providing a school. In order to do that, we needed to have an organizational structure. And because we didn’t have the proper structure, we decided to pursue forming a 501c(3) under the name known as the Black Youth Organization. It was designed to promote educational, religious, social and civic efforts within the federal 501c(3) regulations. </p><p><i>4. What global events influenced the formation and activities of the Black Youth Organization?</i></p><p>At that point in time, there was a series of things going on, both nationally and internationally or globally. In the United States, we, Black people were engaged in what was known as the Civil Rights struggle, where people were looking to the government to ensure that they had basic rights as citizens in this country, whether they were voting rights, housing rights, employment rights, access to whatever the country is supposed to provide, education, health, etc. There were health movements going on at that same time. We were active on a lot of different fronts. </p><p>At the same time, our brothers in Africa and throughout the Caribbean were involved in a certain level of liberation. Between the 1960s and the early '70s, 30 - 40 countries in Africa became free from colonial rule. That certainly impacted the Civil Rights struggles of Black people in the United States. Those global influences, particularly the emergence of independent African states, influenced us to feel that we needed to acquire skills that would allow us to assist in building nations both here and abroad. </p><p><i>5. What were the strengths of the Black Youth Organization, and what were its challenges? </i></p><p>The strength of the Black Youth Organization was that it became a self-motivating entity. There was a period of time when there was a lot of enthusiasm and hope for Black people in general, and we were working with young people. Young people were the target of a lot of the social and civil rights activities that took place during the sixties. It was certainly the student movement that was in the forefront of the civil rights organizations, and it was also young people who were involved in the early expressions of many Black Power organizations. All of these grew out of student movements. It was students that had the intellectual capacity to analyze their situations and choose particular solutions for solving what they thought were pressing problems. The Black Youth Organization felt the same way, because of the various levels of control in this society. One of the most effective ways that we could impact our people would be to attempt to create structures that would impact the mind, impact how we thought, what we were taught, impact our thinking, and allow us to embrace an ideology. Simply put, our ideology was a very simple one. <i>We are an African people.</i> As an African people, we felt that it was our obligation to acquire the skills necessary to have an attitude and skills that would allow us to, again, develop African nations, no matter where they were, and our general Black communities. </p><p><i>KCS: When the Black Youth Organization was developing, where were the students? You all were students, right? </i></p><p>Yes.</p><p><i>KCS: Where did they come from?</i></p><p>They came from all over.</p><p><i>KCS: I mean, how did you come together?</i></p><p>The initial group was a small group at the YMCA in Newark, New Jersey. Once we put together that first group, and they were all local students, we began to interact with other Black youth groups around the country, because at that time there were a number of Black student organizations that were emerging on various college campuses. Specifically, there were actually two tracks. There was Black student organizations that existed on traditional American college campuses, basically White college campuses, and then there was the movement that expanded from Black organizations to Black student organizations, particularly in communities that were involved in historically Black colleges. For example, all of the local people (students) came from Howard University. They also came from Orangeburg State University and traditional Black colleges. Students joined these organizations to assist with civil rights and voting legislation.</p><p><i>6. What were the accomplishments of the Black Youth Organization?</i></p><p>Primarily our main effort was to establish and operate a school. We felt that we could effectively develop the minds of our young by having our own school, with minimal interaction with the larger society or the greater White educational institutions. We felt, using critical systems analysis, that they didn't serve our needs. We looked at models from the past. We went back in history as far as we could and examined all great schools of learning. We examined the attitudes of people who were enlisted and converted into supporting causes. At one point in time, for example, in the United States, there might have been almost a hundred medical schools that served Black people, particularly after reconstruction. But, there was an assault on Black education, just like what occurred with the Black codes during the reconstruction period. The greater population just chose to oppress people. Everyone knows the story of Virginia. I think it was Prince Edwards County that, rather than integrate its schools back in the fifties; chose just to shut down the public school system. We decided that one of the best and most effective ways for us to improve the condition of our people and children in general was to run our own schools. By that, we designed our own curriculum. We did not use White models. We just used information, and we chose four disciplines - mathematics, science, history, and language arts - to be the avenues for us to essentially excel. </p><p><i>7. What do you know about COINTELPRO relative to the Black Youth Organization?</i></p><p>Many organizations during the sixties were under the scrutiny of COINTELPRO. COINTEL was primarily the people who persecuted George Jackson, the Panthers, and the US Organization in California. There was not a single organization that COINTEL did not at least attempt to infiltrate or monitor. The Black Youth Organization was certainly one of them during those days and times, because we had relationships with other schools. There was a high period for what we liked to call African-centered educational institutions during the sixties, and they were scattered around the country. Quite naturally, we came under the investigative eye of COINTELPRO. COINTELPRO was an effort of the government that primarily attempted to destroy Black unity and Black movement towards whatever their purpose may have been, whether it was healthcare, education, etc. Their objective was to simply disintegrate, to destroy, any Black organization, and they certainly attempted to destroy the Black Youth Organization. We had instances of people who were what we used to call provocateurs back in the day. We had provocateurs just about on every level of community engagement. </p><p>As a member of the Black Youth Organization, for example, not only were my personal efforts centered on education, but at the same time, I was also concerned about urban renewal in the city of Newark. If I wasn't involved with the Black Youth Organization, I might have been involved in housing efforts. The same disruptive patterns would occur, no matter what effort the community was engaged in. It was the FBI, COINTELPRO.</p><p><i>KCS: Let’s deal with this in separate streams.</i></p><p>Okay.</p><p><i>8. I know the school is closed now. What is the current status of the Black Youth Organization?</i></p><p>In 2013?</p><p><i>KCS: Yes.</i></p><p>In 2013, the original Black Youth Organization had dissolved. The Black Youth Organization dissolved years ago. I think there is an offshoot, because the Black Youth Organization started the school, which was known as the Chad School, which was really one of the most successful divisions (of the organization). With the demise of the Chad School, a foundation was formed. Its sole purpose is to, I guess, offer scholarship opportunities to Black youth or assistance in some sort of way. Maybe they do mentoring. I'm not sure of that. I know that the original organization died some time ago. </p><p><i>KCS: The organization died before the school?</i></p><p>Absolutely.</p><p><i>KCS: When did the organization die?</i></p><p>I couldn't tell you when the organization died. The organization itself had a series of rules and regulations. One of them was a posture that it would not allow the government or any foundations to have anything to do with Chad School’s operation. So, they did not receive funding from them. It was the premise that no one could tell the organization what to do with its resources, with its funding. I think that once the organization decided to accept funding from government sources, they lost their identity. They lost their direction, and subsequently the demise began.</p><p><i>KCS: That was the Chad School?</i></p><p>That was the Chad School, the School being a division of the Black Youth Organization. I don't know the legality of that. I know that the Black Youth Organization probably exists on paper as an entity, but as a functioning organization, as far as being involved in the community, I don't think so. </p><p><i>KCS: Do you think that BYO’s demise was tied to some event, like Leon Moore moving South because of illness? </i></p><p>No, I think primarily what occurred was the Black Youth Organization chose certain directions when we were involved in Africa. We saw Africa as being a critical point for the organization. We felt that we needed to develop businesses and have a presence in Africa. We needed to migrate back home. </p><p>Several events took place on the continent. Our base was in Liberia. I think that the assassination of Steve Talbot had a lot to do with us. The organization left Liberia and I left the organization at that point in time. I left prior to that, maybe not too long before that, but right about the time that Liberia began to disintegrate because of Sergeant …coming into power, I think that set the organization itself into disarray. A lot of the people who were members of the original Black Youth Organization decided to move on and it just disintegrated. It never replaced itself.</p><p><i>9. How did the activities of the Black Youth Organization affect colleges and universities? On campuses and in the community?</i></p><p> Because of our successes locally, we got a lot of exposure, particularly in academic circles. We were on many, many radio programs and television programs. In fact, I remember one time we did a program in New York for one of the local Black programs and we received letters and phone calls from people all around the country that wanted to come and work with the Chad School. People from traditional Black universities, or people just out in the community felt that they wanted to make a contribution. </p><p><i>KCS: Did this include students and professors?</i></p><p>Absolutely.</p><p><i>KCS: From colleges and universities?</i></p><p>Yes, we had people who were highly skilled. We started our own teacher-training program of course. We took both people who had attitude and skills. The primary thing with us was attitude. If you had the proper attitude, you could be taught the skills. You could be given a body of information and taught to pass that on to your students. That's what we did. We also had people there who had degrees in the sciences, in math, or whatever. At one point, it was about fifty-fifty. We had people who had a tremendous number of skills that were easily transferable. </p><p><i>10. Did your organization's activities affect the development of the Black student organizations on campuses, and if so how?</i></p><p>We went on the lecture circuit. We interacted with Black student organizations and we spoke about our cause. We spoke about our methodology and our goals and objectives. That to a degree may have impacted students. Because we were part of a larger organization, which was the Federation of Pan African Educational Institutions, and they in turn had some impact on Black students in their local communities. To a degree, which I can't measure, but I can say that we were influential with people who really wanted to use the tools of education as a weapon. There were two organizations. There was also the Council of Independent Black Institutions, CIBI. CIBI was the second one and the Federation of Pan African Educational Institutions was the first group of alternative educational systems across the country. We went from California to Florida to Boston. There were various degrees of success and independence within the member institutions.</p><p><i>KCS: Was this only for people who were going to be teachers in the independent Black schools, or could anyone attend?</i></p><p>These organizations promoted developing strategies for the survival of the independent educational institutions and students were encouraged to participate, to volunteer, to do whatever, to make whatever contribution they felt would assist with their longevity, with their existence. </p><p><i>11. Did the organization's activities affect the development of any Black studies departments at higher education institutions? If they did, how?</i></p><p>I can't quantitatively or qualitatively answer that question. We chose to be an organization that tended to build a structure from within, and part of that was because of COINTELPRO. Because we knew that destructive forces were attempting to alter whatever successes we could manufacture ourselves, we tended to build internally. We recruited students from wherever they chose to come, whether it was Cornell or other schools. We had students come from Cornell. In fact, they were the guys that took over Cornell University. It was an armed takeover.</p><p><i>KCS: Was that Cornell West and his group?</i></p><p>Yes, a couple of them became members of the Black Youth Organization, at least the school and did quite well for a while. </p><p><i>12. Are you aware of any activities, programs, or benefits that higher education institutions experienced on campuses resulting from the efforts of either the Black Youth Organization or other organizations in the Black Power Movement during that period, 1960 to 1980?</i></p><p>I would say that the Black Youth Organization's role was miniscule compared to the role of organizations like SNCC and the Panthers. They had a tremendous impact on Black student organizations, particularly Black student organizations that were in White institutions. Blacks were beginning to have access to the Rutgers of the world, the Ohio States, and the UCLA's. So these organizations were able to take advantage of the degree of intellectual curiosity and inquisitiveness at that time. A lot of young people became actively involved in other aspects of the struggle and they used their thirst for knowledge and information. They used the energy that grew out of the Civil Rights Movement to press for Black demands, not only on the campus, but in their respective communities.</p><p><i>KCS: Do any of these organizations exist today?</i></p><p>No, because I think that the organizations became co-opted. </p><p><i>KCS: All of them?</i></p><p>I wouldn't say all of them. I would say a great deal of them, because they tended to, at least in my opinion, to have lost their direction. For example, during that same sixties period, there was tremendous community unity expressed in various ways, particularly in urban centers and rural areas in this country. In addition to COINTELPRO, there were other ways that Black efforts were undermined. For example, for people who were in the forefront of community involvement or Black liberation, organizations were formed to co-op Black efforts, like the Black Affairs Council from Philadelphia, which became a funding conduit or organization that selected people in the Black community who would receive funding for whatever purposes. If you had a project centered on community health, then that particular group was the group that decided who would get the money. It took the leadership out of the community and put the leadership on those boards. Subsequently, those boards then decided who they would empower in the Black communities. The Episcopal Church did the same thing. It became a question of the steam actually being taken out of the sails of the Black community, and low and behold the next thing you know, you had some serious integration.</p><p><i>13. Are there any people that you feel would provide some really helpful information to me on this topic? Anybody you'd recommend?</i></p><p>Right here in this town (Washington, DC), I would suggest Tom Porter. I also suggest Tony Rather. Dr. Jared is at Morgan State University and he has a program called Dixon Bell. They mix music that I like. They can be contacted either at Morgan State or WPFW. They can give you insights into tremendous resources and identify people who are still active. </p><p><i>14. I'm collecting information on the sequence of events leading to the development of the first Black student union and the first Black studies department at San Francisco State University. Are there experiences that you know of at other colleges and universities that you feel would also be informative?</i></p><p>When you talk about San Francisco State, the first person that I think of is Danny Glover, who was instrumental in things like that. He has been consistent throughout his whole life. I think other people who came out of that experience are people like Sonya Sanchez and Nikki Giovanni because they were all part of Rutgers in New Jersey. </p><p>I wouldn't know where to begin to find these folks. For example, at Rutgers, there was a guy named Sam Sanderson if I'm not mistaken. He was more involved with the students, the Black student movement there. There are just so many people because that was a very rich period, but I can't remember because of my own posture at that point in time. </p><p><i>Epilogue</i>: I had the honor of working at the Chad School for one year as a teacher of three year old children. My daughter attended the school for two years. It was an exhilarating experience. Staff there was truly a family. It was a safe zone and an enriching experience for the students. Knowledge was power. The only reason I left was recruitment to work at the New Ark School. The closing of the school is truly a significant loss for the children and families of northern New Jersey. </p><p>© Sokoya Enterprises</p><p> </p></div>
Interview with Dr. Ahmad Rahman on the Original Black Panther Party
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2015-11-14T14:25:26.000Z
Dr. Kinaya C. Sokoya
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<div><p align="center" style="text-align:left;">I recently saw a documentary of the Black Panther Party that aired at the E Street Cinema in Washington, DC. It was the most compelling and <u>accurate</u> portrayal of the organization that I have seen. Many have sought to demonize the young Black activists and their efforts have gone largely unrecognized. The documentary is a collection of news clips and interviews with authentic voices. It puts to rest the contention that the Black Panther Party was a terrorist organization and/or a hate group. It was part of a greater movement which reflected the conditions of the times. Following is a summary of the organization and an interview with one of its activists: Dr. Ahmad Rahman. This article is part two of a series of articles on African American organizations which were part of the Black Power Movement.</p><p><b>Summary of the Organization</b></p><p>The Black Panther Party for Self Defense (BPP) was not one organization but a coalition of organizations that grew out of local circumstances (Williams, 1998). The Lowndes County Freedom Organization, which was an Alabama-based group that used violence to retaliate against the barbarity perpetrated against Black people by the Ku Klux Klan, was the original Black Panther Party. It was organized by members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and local residents following a freedom ride for a voter registration campaign. In 1966, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the national office of the Panther Party in Oakland, California. Between 1966 and 1982, there were more than 32 chapters and 100 affiliates across the United States and abroad (Austin, 2006). The chapters differed based on cultural and regional influences. These differences were reflected in their ideology, methodology, and activities; however, the network of organizations (chapters, affiliates) ideologically embraced Marxism and advocated for the needs of the “lumpen proletariat” (the masses of people) (Williams, 1998, p. 65).</p><p>The Black Panthers recruited many of its members from colleges and universities. To expand their membership, leaders of the Black Panther Party gave presentations on college and university campuses. In Illinois, for example, the Chicago Police Department files listed the following higher education institutions as campuses where there was Panther Party activity: Chicago State University, Crane Junior College (now Malcolm X College), Illinois Institute of Technology, Northeastern Illinois University, Northwestern University, Roosevelt University, Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Wilbert Wright Junior College, and Woodrow Wilson Junior College (now Kennedy-King College). In 1968, African American college students in Chicago organized students at college campuses across Illinois and formed the Congress of Black College Students (Williams, 1998).</p><p>In some states, activist groups were formed at higher education institutions and the activism of students flowed from the colleges to high schools. In Illinois, however, student activism began in the high schools and expanded to college and university campuses. The primary focus of college students was changing the curriculum while the advocacy efforts of high school students focused on community control of public schools. Support flowed both ways. University students helped high school students advocate for community control and high school students helped college students advocate for curriculum change.</p><p>The national office of the Black Panther Party network was located in Oakland, California. A majority of the chapters across the country replicated the operational structure of the national office. A collective called the Central Committee led the organization. The Committee was comprised of six people called ministers, three field lieutenants, and a chair. In some chapters, ministers were called deputy ministers; however, the responsibilities of their positions were the same. There was a Minister of Information, Minister of Communication, Minister of Defense, Minister of Culture, Minister of Labor, and Minister of Finance. Each minister was in charge of a cadre. Huey P. Newton was the National Chairman.</p><p>The overall mission of the Black Panther Party was to defend the Black community from police oppression and brutality. In 1971, after an initial focus on self-defense and arms, the organization decided to de-emphasize the military aspects of the Party and focus on the development and implementation of survival programs, community organizing, coalition-building, and electoral politics. The survival programs included a free breakfast program for public school children, medical research health clinics, a public awareness campaign on sickle cell anemia, free food for low-income families, free busing to prisons, free childcare centers, free clothing, a free ambulance service, and an emergency heating program. </p><p>The Party networked with diverse groups to combat racism. Some of the groups had White members and/or White leadership. The names of some of the organizations were Students for a Democratic Society, the Weathermen, the American Indian Movement, and the Puerto Rican Young Lords (Austin, 2006). The governments of North Viet Nam, China, Palestine, and Algeria also supported the Black Panther Party. Relative to electoral politics, a number of Panther Party members ran for elected office, several successfully (e.g. Bobby Rush, Bobby Seale). Some of the former members of the Party continue to serve as elected officials.</p><p>In 1968, then Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), J. Edgar Hoover, proclaimed that the Black Panther Party was the most dangerous group in America and began a public and covert campaign to destroy the organization. This initiative, which was established to destroy dissident groups, was called the “Counter Intelligence Program” (COINTELPRO) (Williams, 1998, p. 173). The activities of the Black Panther Party were monitored by law enforcement agencies across the country. In Chicago, the Red Squad (the intelligence arm of the Chicago Police Department), the FBI, and local media joined forces to discredit the Illinois Black Panther Party. During its existence, the Black Panther Party was the target of 223 out of 295 Black nationalist COINTELPRO activities (Stanford, 1986, p. 189). According to Williams (1998),</p><p> “The FBI’s secret war against the Panthers exhausted all of COINTELPRO’s methods, including a media offensive, silencing the Panther newspaper, attacking the free breakfast for children program, preventing coalitions, neutralizing Panther supporters, exacerbating intergroup/intraparty tensions, infiltrating the organization, sponsoring raids and pretext arrests, encouraging malicious prosecutions, and even assassinating Panthers” (p. 173). </p><p>The word “assassinating” referred to the case of the late Fred Hampton, who was Chair of the Illinois Black Panther Party. In 1969, police killed Hampton during a raid of his apartment. The Hampton family subsequently filed a wrongful death suit against law officials and, in 1978, the court found the FBI, Cook County government, and the city of Chicago guilty of abuse of power and misconduct (Williams, 1998, pp. 215-216). In 1983, the Hampton family was awarded a $1.85 million settlement.</p><p> The Black Panther Party officially closed in 1982. The legacy of the Black Panther Party can be summarized into three areas – survival programs, formation of the original Rainbow Coalition, and the martyrdom of Fred Hampton. The most popular of the survival programs was the free breakfast program for schoolchildren. This program, which was adopted and institutionalized by public school systems across the country, continues today. Government also replicated the Panther Party’s community health centers. The Panther Party established the original Rainbow Coalition predating Jesse Jackson’s organization. The coalition is recognized as being responsible for the election of the first Black mayor (Harold Washington) in Chicago. The name, Fred Hampton, continues to be a catalyst for community organizing and development in Illinois.</p><p><b>Interview</b></p><p><i>1. What are your memories of the Black Power Movement during the 1960s and 1970s?</i></p><p>I have very strong memories of the Black Power Movement in that in 1963, three or four girls were bound and killed in Birmingham, Alabama. I remember very clearly that Martin Luther King said that, “No matter what they do, we’re going to keep on loving them.” I remember my friends and I, I was about 12 years old at the time, had just witnessed something disgusting. We said, “You know, keep on loving them?” They killed those four little girls that very Sunday I had been in my family’s Baptist Church. I was the same age as those girls that’d been killed and I identified with them. I just thought Dr. King’s response was so weak. So, when my mother’s friend said that she saw a man named Malcolm X speak at the Nation of Islam Temple in Chicago and heard him said that Black people should get their own army and should go down South and protect our churches and people from being abused by the Klan and these racists... when I heard my mother’s friend say that she had heard this man Malcolm X say that we should get our own army, I said right then that whenever that army started, I want to be in their army. I didn’t care if they just let me stir grits or carry water, I want to be in that army. They’re protecting Black people from the Klan and having our little kids blown up. So that was the first time I realized that there was a different way of thinking than Martin Luther King’s way. Because the whole media focused on Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech and nobody else got any play. Every magazine rejected Malcolm X and the other way of thinking never got any respect from them. So we didn’t think there was anything else. Really, there was but one Civil Rights Movement. We didn’t know there was another way. So when Stokely Carmichael in 1966 shouted “Black Power,” it resonated with those of us who were young in Chicago, and, I believe, in the North in general. When I was in the Panther Party, I got a chance to go to the West Coast, New York, Detroit, and Chicago. Young African-Americans, for the most part in the North, were knocked down with the Dr. King stuff. We respected him, but letting White people spit on you and kick you and you just keep singing and talking about you going to keep loving them and all that; most of the young people and teenagers in the North, we just were disgusted by that. We didn’t support him. So, when Stokely Carmichael said, “Black Power,” and we heard about Malcolm X as 15 and 16-year olds, that is what we identified with. That was my first encounter with the Black Power Movement.</p><p><i>2. Please share any information you have on the goals and the plans emanating from the Black Power Conference in 1967 that took place in North New Jersey. Were you aware of that one?</i></p><p>Yes, I’m aware of it. There was also one in New York.</p><p><i>KCS: Did you attend?</i></p><p>No, I didn’t but I know people who did attend it. My understanding of the goals of Black Power, in general, were for us to have community control, first of all, of our economics, of our education, and of self-defense. Those three things to me were keys - economics, controlling education, and self-defense - because those were the three things that we actually lost when we were enslaved and never really regained. Others control our economics. Others control our education systems. Others control our defending ourselves. What is called “Second Amendment manhood” by Whites - that they had the right to own guns to protect themselves from being lynched and killed - we didn’t have those rights. If we asserted those rights, then we were called Black hate mongers and ex-extremists. If I got a gun to protect myself from you, I’m an extremist, right? But if you have guns, you're a man. You’re a Minute Man. You’re carrying on the traditions of the Patriots. You see? The Black Power Movement overcame that paradigm, where we felt guilty to assert ourselves. They were the key things - to assert our own economics, to assert our own history, to assert our own defense of our own community, and to assert control of ourselves; not others. We overcame that guilt. I’ll never forget when we pressed for Black education in schools and the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) denounced the effort as separatist. Almost all the pressure of the movement on college campuses that happened at that time, in ’68 to ’69 with Cornell, Columbia, and Northwestern, to get Black professors to teach Black history was denounced by the non-violent Civil Rights Movement as separatist. You know, that connected us with Black extremism. Never-mind they have a Judaic Studies Department. You know, what I’m saying? They have a Department of Russian History, a Department of Chinese Languages, and all that. We asked for African-American studies and we were separatists and hate-mongers. You see? The Black Power Movement overcame that. I really appreciated that whole spirit. They came out of 1967. In ’67, there was a number of of Black Power conferences. That was the big one. But there were Black Power conferences taking place all over the country. Brothers and sisters getting together saying, “Hold on. We’re done with this.” In Detroit, you had the Republic of New Africa and the Black Panther Party. We had the Revolutionary Action Movement and other groups coming together, and saying, “This is a new day.”</p><p><i>3. Were you active with any organizations, and if so, what organizations, in what capacity and for what period of time? </i></p><p>I started out as a teenager in 1967 and ’68 with an organization in Chicago called the Malcolm X Black Hands Society. I was just a teenager then. This was around ’67. And then the Republic of New Africa came. That was around ’68. But one of the things about the Republic of New Africa is their philosophy was five states in the south that Black people had built as slaves should be ours. We should have an independent state - an independent country; and, that Blacks, we, should go back down south. I used to go down south and visit my family every summer and I know my family, who migrated up north, wasn’t moving back down there. I knew that the only way we were going to get that land from those rednecks in Mississippi was by revolution. Just because you got justice on your side doesn’t mean they’d give you anything. So when the Black Panther Party started talking about a revolution - a socialist revolution - overcoming, overthrowing capitalism and imperialism, I also identified with that. That was in ’69. I was in the Panther Party in ’69, roughly to around ’72.</p><p><i>KCS: Three years?</i></p><p>Yes, three years.</p><p><i>KCS: Was it the one in Michigan?</i></p><p>It was. It started in Chicago. In Detroit, the Detroit Panther Party. Everybody knows about Fred Hampton in Chicago. The leader who founded the Panther Party in Detroit, Michael Baynham, was found shot in the head before Fred Hampton was killed. What happened was he was in a building and there were Panthers in the building. They heard the gunshot and ran downstairs. He was dead, a bullet in his head, and the door was open. Somebody heard footsteps. Somebody was getting away. The office in Oakland didn’t say who killed him. They felt there was an infiltrator in the party. There was and I found out later who it was. But, they didn’t know who the infiltrator was. So they (the police) said, “We’re going to place you all under the authority of Chicago.” It was in that capacity that some people in Jackson, Michigan started a chapter, the Black Panther Party of Jackson, Michigan. I got commissioned in Chicago to go to Jackson, Michigan to help set up the chapter of the Black Panther Party. We didn’t know about the FBI’s infiltration and the program called COINTELPRO. We didn’t know any of that stuff then.</p><p><i>KCS: We’re going to discuss COINTELPRO in more detail.</i></p><p>Okay. All right. Well, I’ll tell you how I got from Jackson to Detroit.</p><p>Jackson, Michigan already had an organization called the Black Messengers who wanted to become members of the Black Panther Party. We trained them, then they became members of the Black Panther Party. One of them, who was the leader of that organization, had given orders for guys to rob the Western Union; and as soon as they committed the robberies, they went to jail. The police were waiting for them at home. Now, when I got there, this stuff was already happening, and I didn’t know what was going on. I didn’t know who was who. All I knew was these guys went to jail and nobody’s telling who gave them the order to rob the place because that’s like snitching. You don’t tell anybody that. I couldn’t put this together, that this guy gave these people these orders, that they committed this crime, and they immediately got locked up with the police waiting at their homes. The same guy, a member of a big Black Baptist church, the biggest Black Baptist church in Jackson, Michigan, gave them (members) an order to go paint “Fuck Jesus” on the wall in big, bold letters - so big and bright that when they tried to paint over them, you could still see them. That totally alienated the community against us - totally alienated the community. We tried to organize the community with breakfast programs. There was a Catholic priest, who wanted to work with us. After that, we couldn't get anybody to work with us. I said, “We've got to go to Detroit, and we’ll let this calm down here. We’ll go to Detroit and we’ll all work in Detroit.” I said, “This is ruined.” I don’t know if this guy is the same one who gave the orders - if he is the same one who was an FBI infiltrator. That was the kind of stuff that the FBI was doing to destroy the (Panther) Party. That was a successful distraction, a successful counter-operation. People don’t know the kind of stuff that the FBI did. That’s what they did.</p><p><i>4. What global events influenced the formation and activities of the Black Panther Party?</i></p><p>At that time, there were liberation movements going on. The main one was the anti-Vietnam War Movement. We all opposed America’s involvement in the Vietnam War. Our leaders went to Vietnam. Eldridge Cleaver went to North Vietnam with Jane Fonda and broadcasted to the troops to let them know we have solidarity with the so-called Viet Cong. And, Eldridge, I remember, repeated to them what Mohammed Ali said. Mohammed Ali was the most outstanding example of Black manhood that we had. Mohammad Ali stepped up and refused to go into the military and said, “No Viet Cong has ever called me nigger.” He was speaking for all of us.</p><p><i>KCS: Was that when Eldridge went to Viet Nam with Jane Fonda?</i></p><p>Yes, that was when the Jane Fonda thing blew up in the media. She was put on a Black list. While Vietnam was going on, there were liberation movements going on in Africa - Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau. There had been a liberation movement that was successful in Algeria. Che Guevara was in Bolivia trying to get them to liberate themselves. There were movements in Brazil and socialist national revolutionary movements all over the world. We were aligned with the Revolutionary Communist Movement at that time.</p><p><i>KCS: Was that different from what Nyerere promoted or are you talking just about </i><i>communism?</i></p><p>Well, we wanted it (the Party) to be like the Communist Party of the United States that Angela Davis was a member of. Their basic philosophy was that the working class would have to overthrow the bourgeoisie, the upper class, and there would be a socialist revolution. But, we did not believe that the White workers were going to unite with Black workers or they would do anything because they gained so much from capitalism and racism that they identified with the bourgeoisie. They didn’t identify with Black workers. So we did not think that the Communist Party’s philosophy would work for us. We believed that, with community control, for the purpose of us controlling our own community and fighting back against police brutality and racism, we had to organize what was called the Lumpen - the brothers on the street, the brothers in the hood. So that was a different philosophy, but we all believed that socialism was a better system than capitalism. That’s what linked Mao Tse-tung, Ho Chi Minh, Che Guevara and Emil Cabral. What linked us all was the common belief in a socialist transformation.</p><p><i>5. What do you consider the strengths and the challenges of the Panther Party?</i></p><p>The strength of the Panther Party was we were young, energetic, dedicated, and somewhat fearless. The challenges and weaknesses were our leadership did not foresee the opposition that we had and, they did not know how to counter it. J. Edgar Hoover said in 1970 or ’69, “The Black Panther Party is the number one internal threat to the security of United States.” We’re all 17 and 18 years old. I said, "You guys, I don’t know about that. Us?" It was unbelievable. But he was serious. Now, White radicals had blown up the capital and had planted bombs in the US Capital. White radicals had blown up and started killing people. There were 500,000 soldiers in Vietnam. A 100,000 soldiers had come back to America crazy as loons, shooting dope and killing people, but we were the number one threat to the security of United States. When J. Edgar Hoover said that, he put a tag on all of us. At that point, Huey, who embodied the leaders of the movement, should have said, "Step back." We needed some kind of counter-espionage, counter-intelligence program. Because in any liberation movement, you are going to be infiltrated. We should have infiltrated other liberation movements too. We were all using a book called the <i>Mini-manual of the Urban Guerilla</i> written by Carlos Marighella. You can read the whole thing online. Look it up - The <i>Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerilla</i>. The police tried to infiltrate the Irish Republican Army (IRA). The IRA had their members join the police. Their members also infiltrated the FBI. We should have been on that level. We should have had our members become prison guards, police officers, and the FBI because the battle for the destruction of the Panther Party was on a physical level, was on a counter-intelligence versus intelligence level. It was a spy game. They had played this game for 50 years and had destroyed so many organizations.</p><p>I went to the FBI headquarters, the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C., and read the COINTELPRO files in the reading room of the FBI. All the techniques used against the Panther Party were used against Marcus Garvey’s Movement (UNIA). The first Black person ever hired by the FBI was hired to infiltrate the UNIA. The letter is in the files. He wrote to Hoover and said, “We can’t get anything on this guy.” Hoover replied, “Keep on, we’ll get something.” That exchange in the FBI’s file, that Garvey was the first Black person ever spied on by the FBI. The federal government pressed charges against him. They infiltrated Garvey’s organization. All that stuff about White fraud, Garvey didn’t even deal with paperwork. His underlings dealt with that, but because he was in-charge, the federal government was able to prosecute him (Garvey) for that. You can see it in the FBI files. J. Edgar Hoover plotted that stuff from the very beginning. So Hoover did the same thing to the Panther Party. Huey and Bobby didn’t have the smarts to recognize the battle so that we could win and counter that stuff. And that was one of the real shortcomings because people got killed. People I know got caught and a number were killed. I’m lucky to be alive myself. Oh, you don’t know. I spent 21 years in prison. I’m a former inmate. I have a PhD. I’m a professor and was director of all of kinds of studies. I spent 21 years in prison because Huey and the Panthers could not counter the FBI’s program to destroy it.</p><p><i>6. What were the accomplishments of the organization?</i></p><p>I think the accomplishments of the Black Power Movement in general, and the Panther Party being just part of it, was pride. To be Black was so shameful when we were kids. So, you blow off the Black thing. I remember, we would go to parties and everybody wanted to dance with the light-skinned girls. The Black-skinned girls couldn’t get a dance. Just the fact that we now have pride in ourselves... Franz Fanon said, “Sometimes people must fight back even if they can’t win. They must fight back just for their own self-respect.” The fact was we fought back. And I think that time (the 60s) affected our development as human beings. The fact that we made the police reform themselves. At a certain time, I remember in Chicago, they talked to my dad, calling him “boy.” They called my mother “girl.” Some brother named Spurgeon Jake Winters, who I went to high school with, was in the Panther Party. Now 10 days before Fred Hampton was killed, nobody knows it, Spurgeon Jake Winter transported Black Panther Party guns from one building to another. The police came and attacked the Black Panthers with guns. They wanted to kill us anyway so we might as well fight because they were going to kill us. He knew he was dead so he shot it out. He killed three of them and wounded seven before they withered him with bullets. After that, the police started dealing differently in Chicago. It was "sir" and "ma’am". It wasn't “boy” and “girl” once they saw that we would fight them. The Panther Party led that movement. It wasn’t just us. The brothers in the hood said, “Wait a minute. We ain’t taking this ass kicking no more,” and they started fighting back with their fists or whatever. Once they saw that we would fight back, they changed their behavior. Huey Newton said, “Nobody knew we could make them back down.” They had the image of power and strength. In Chicago, they would ride around on big horses. They had tough looking leather jackets with big old guns and they were burley, big, old bullies really...Polish and Irish guys. They treated like us punks. I remember they’d just beat us and treat us like punks. Everybody was full of fear of them. Now we are full of fear of each other because we are in gangs. We're even shooting each other with no problem. But then, when we saw the police we would run like rabbits. We didn’t know we could make them back down because of our history of slavery. Their image was one of total power and we were powerless. Somebody had to risk his life first to show us that we could make them back down and that was Huey P. Newton. He had some serious problems later. I and my other brothers who dealt with the guns in the Panther party always respected Huey because he was the first one to show us that we could make them back down. Now the thing about it is, we got a little reckless. Then I, I don’t know if I told you about the incident. You saw the picture of me and Huey right?</p><p><i>KCS: Yes.</i></p><p>Huey was speaking at an urban mission. Every cop in the world was lined up in front of this theatre and there were four of us who were Huey’s bodyguards. We had to scout the situation to make sure there were no bombs and there were no snipers. Before Huey came, all of these cops were there because they thought we were going to riot because Huey was speaking. There were mainly White students from the University of Michigan at the mission. But, I had two guns. I had a 9 millimeter gun and a 38. One of the other brothers had a shotgun, a sawed off shotgun, which is illegal. He had it strapped to his arm under a big coat and a pistol. Others had different guns. There were four of us. This brother named Larry, he said, “Cover me.” And I said, “What do you mean cover you?” He said, “Just cover me.” I say, “Okay.” I didn’t know what he was going to do. All these cops were lined up. He walked up to them, opened up his coat, and put his hand on his shotgun as if he was going to draw. He didn’t draw. I. thought, “Oh my God. Negro, what?” So I put my hands on my guns. I had two guns. I was ready to come out and the thing is none of them (the police) would budge. They wouldn’t even flinch. They didn’t want us to think they were moving because the first one who moved was going to die. Now they didn’t kill us. They had more guns than us but not one of them wanted to be the first one to die. They didn’t touch their guns. Having that shotgun was a federal crime. You couldn’t have a sawed off shotgun. He had a double barrel shotgun and they were scared. They turned all kinds of colors of red and green. That was because of Huey Newton and the Black Panther Party. The slave master would back down. We didn’t know that. And the fact is, it was after the Black Panther Party and the Black Power Movement they began to integrate police departments around the country. When brothers started shooting them in Detroit, the White cops did not want to drive in the Black community without a Black cop in their car. The same White cops who didn’t want to integrate before, now they wanted to integrate the police department. So it was not marching and singing or whistle blowing that integrated these police departments in the Northern cities. It was the fact that Black people were shooting these cops. They just killed that boy in Brooklyn. You see that the other day?</p><p><i>KCS: Yes.</i></p><p>Yes. That’s stuff is big news now. That stuff happened everyday back then. And nobody did anything about it. Now it happens like once a year and it’s a big blow up. Back then it was every day and nobody paid any attention to it. It was justifiable homicide. If you look at the Black Panther Party platform on the issue of education, it said that we must control our own people’s education...that those who do not treat you right will not treat you right. The fact is the movement taught Blacks to educate ourselves and the community, and to control our education.</p><p>Our free breakfast program for children shamed the US government. There were no free breakfast and no free lunch programs in any public schools. It shamed the US government into doing what they do now so that my little boy can go to school and have a free lunch if he wants it. He doesn’t want to eat that stuff. He wants us to fix his lunch. But for the kids whose families don’t have the money to fix their lunch, they get free lunch and free breakfast in these schools now. And I think that was one of the great things that have benefited our children because you know a hungry child can’t run, right?</p><p><i>7. What do you know about COINTELPRO?</i></p><p>I know a lot about COINTELPRO. As a matter of fact I’m going to send you an essay that I wrote that was published about Detroit. It’s called <i>The Rise and Fall of the Black Panther Party in Detroit</i>. It deals essentially with COINTELPRO and some of the stuff, for example, in Detroit. The main thing that the FBI wanted to stop was our newspaper, the Black Panther newspaper. I understood later that it was not our guns that were the number one threat. It was our ideas. And, one of the main problems, particularly why they killed Fred Hampton, is that he was trying to make the gangs stop killing each other and turn their aggression and attention against the government. The FBI saw that as one of the most dangerous things to the security in the United States. Think if the Cripps and Bloods with all those guns became revolutionary and start free breakfast for children programs, started acting like Panthers, started fighting back against the police, and started trying to change the government. This is the vision that the Panther Party had but J Edgar Hoover was seeing ahead of us. And he said, “That must never, ever happen.” And that was the most dangerous thing, the real danger that the ideas would spread. The Black Panther newspaper was the vehicle for spreading these ideas. Hoover made sure that Sam Napier, who started the Black Panther newspaper, was shot, killed, and set on fire in New York. I worked with that brother in San Francisco. Beautiful brother. Always smiling. He was shot, killed, and set on fire in New York. I’ve got the FBI files where J Edgar Hoover gave an order to do two things: stop the free breakfast program and stop the newspaper. The agents in Detroit came up with an idea for our newspapers that arrived at the Detroit airport. They said, “We have this foul smelling spray that smells like the worst smelling species. We’re going to spray it on them.” I remember going to the airport to pick our newspapers, like 10,000 newspapers, and they all smell like that urine just like the whole plane had peed on the newspapers. I said, “How can they smell like pee?” Evidently, for the airport, the foul smelling stuff was too potent so they wanted them to spray them with stuff that smelled like urine. They (the papers) were ruined. This was the kind of stuff that the FBI did. In addition to painting those words on the church. Just undermining us in every way they could including misdirecting us saying, “Okay. We need to rob a bank for the revolution.” You go rob the bank and as soon as you come to the bank the police are waiting on you. You’ll be in prison for the next 10 to15 years. That was the kind of stuff that they did to through infiltration.</p><p><i>8. What is the status of the organization today? Is it gone altogether?</i></p><p>Oh, it’s gone. Now, there’s like a loose association and we have a reunion every five years. But, it has no any affiliation with the organization called the New Black Panther Party because they frankly do not have an ideology similar to the Black Panther Party. There’s a conflict between the New Black Panthers and the brothers in the original Black Panther Party. Some brothers in the Party tried to sue them or stop them using our name because of some of their bizarre behavior. It’s bizarre. Let me give you an example. The leader was a guy name Khalid Muhammad, who passed away. He died. After Bush’s first election when he stole the election in Florida, he had his inauguration in D.C. I lived in D.C. at the time. I was going to the Capitol to a demonstration where he was going to take the oath for office and drive down the street to the White House. I went down to demonstrate against him. There were hundreds of thousands of people from all over. People come from as far as Hawaii. They were so pissed off that he stole this election. And we were all there - White, Black, thin, thick, everybody. There were actually more people around opposing Bush than were applauding him. All of us formed this chain then here comes the so-called New Black Panthers. And the White boys said, “Oh, right on. Here comes the Black Panthers.” So we were all facing the street and Bush’s motorcade was coming our way. The New Black Panthers got in front of us with a bullhorn and one of them said, “Just because that White racist Jew was standing next to you doesn’t mean he’s your brother or your friend,” and started attacking Jews. And, I experienced contradiction for a moment. Do you understand what I’m saying? Every race was there. What did the Jews have to do with this stuff? You see? That was just the most bizarre behavior and inappropriate really. What did Jews have to do with this? We were all together against Bush. But those are the kind of divisive tactics that the FBI used. I never trusted that method. One of the guys there from the New Black Panther Party recognized me, “Oh, we’ve got a real Black Panther here…blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.” They asked me to come to a meeting. They were having a meeting the next day. Khalid Muhammad was going to speak at their meeting. I went to the meeting, me and this other brother. He said, “Let’s go to the meeting.” Okay, we’re going to the meeting. It must about a hundred or so people in the meeting. Khalid Muhammad got up and said, “I want you to go in that White man’s house and. …I never trusted any of them after that - none of them. That’s the new Black Panther Party</p><p><i>KCS: Where are they based?</i></p><p>They’re in a number of different places. In DC. There’s a guy named Malik Shabazz. There’s another man in Detroit named Malik Zulu Shabazz. I don’t know where they’re based. I just don’t trust any of them.</p><p><i>9. How did the activities of your organization, of the Panther Party affect colleges and universities on campuses and in the community?</i></p><p>I think, at the time, it helped influence the movement for Blacks toward Black Studies. Not just the Black Panther Party, but look at the Black Panther Party as part of the Black Power Movement and this movement for Black Studies on campus. If you look at the movement that took place on Howard University’s campus, where you got E. Franklin Frazier and all of them arguing against Black Studies. “You see, you got to assimilate. You don’t need Black Studies.” You got Amiri Baraka and all of them running around on campus. I remember, Amiri Baraka got so tired of Blacks were putting on airs at Howard University. One day, he and his partners got big watermelons and just sat right down and ate their watermelon with no forks. It sounds amazonic, but that was the movement. And there were students like Huey. Huey was a college student as well as Bobby Seale. Stokely Carmichael was a graduate of Howard University. There was this whole movement on these campuses for Black Studies, for Black identity, for Black pride, for hiring Black Professors on White college campuses, for establishing Black Studies Departments, and African Studies Departments, All of that was part of the Black Power Movement on campus. They had Black Power in the community and the Black Power Movement was in the military. One Black soldier said when Dr. King was in Vietnam, he asked the captain if they could have the Blacks attend so they can see Dr. King. The captain told him, “Hell, no.” The captain and his other good old boys that night strung up confetti with a flag and had a party to celebrate the assassination of Dr. King. Somebody threw a hand grenade in there, killed the captain, and blew up some others. The guy who had asked for a memorial was arrested him for the killing. Since hand grenades don’t leave any fingerprints, they couldn’t prove it. But, they locked him up for nine months and he didn’t get an honorary discharge from the military. That was the Black Power Movement in the military. There was a strong Black Power Movement in the military, particularly in Vietnam, among brothers who opposed that war.</p><p><i>10. You mentioned Black students. How else did the Panther Party and the Black Power Movement affect campuses? What about the development of Black student unions?</i></p><p>I think the development of Black Student Unions was influenced by the Black Power Movement. It was the students who organized other Black organizations, for example, the National Council of Black Lawyers. Now there is the Black Bar Association, the official one, but the National Council for Black Lawyers were the legal wing of the Black Power Movement. They became the main lawyers defending Angela Davis, H. Rap Brown, and members of the Black Panther Party. They still exist as a matter of fact. They are strong, still a strong organization. The Black student unions were the Black college and high school wings of the Black Power Movement. So, we don’t, we see organizations in the Black Power Movement quite often as the Black Panther Party. We don’t see that members of the Black Panther Party were college students and in high schools and were organizing and helping to organize Black student unions, or were influencing young people who are there to do it.</p><p><i>11. Did the Panther Party affect the development of the Black Studies Departments at higher education institutions? And if so, how?</i></p><p>I just think that the Black Panther Party was part of the Black Power Movement in general. Even if there wasn’t a chapter of the Black Panther Party on campus, quite often the people would identify as being a Black Panther. I’ve met many people who said, “I identified myself as a Panther.” By being a college student and identifying yourself as a Black Panther, what did you do? College campuses did not have a chapter of the Black Panther Party. But Black students identified with the Panthers anyway. So what did they do? Well, they started a Black student union. They demanded establishment of a Black Studies department. They demanded in your high school that students get books that are relevant to the Black experience. When I went to K-12, I never had a Black book except for one in the fourth grade and that was “Little Black Sambo.” There was a White teacher from North Carolina who used to call us “Darkies,” and she made us read “Little Black Sambo.” So, there was a movement in high schools. We needed education that was relevant to us. Young people who felt like they were Panthers in spirit began to effect these changes on college campuses and in high schools. </p><p><i>12. Are you aware of any activities, programs, or benefits to higher education resulting from the activities of your organizations or other organizations in the Black Power Movement?</i></p><p>I think that the ongoing benefit is the fact that we successfully got Black Studies departments established. The fact is the non-violent Civil Rights Movement opposed the movement for advocating for Black/African Studies departments because they said it was Black separatism. Roy Wilkins gave a speech against it. I remember Roy wrote about it saying, “I have a red, black, and green thing. The flag that represents me is the red, white, and blue.” This is what I witnessed at the NAACP. So, there was a clear dichotomy in the Civil Rights Movement where those who were fighting for racial integration felt that they could not at the same time fight for racial integration and fight for Black Studies Departments. They felt that we should integrate our history into American history. They did not see that if we did that, then it’s going to always be at the back of the bus of American history. It was the Black Power Movement that pushed that. And, unfortunately, on most of these campuses where you have Black Studies Departments, they have selected leadership who don’t appreciate that their jobs were created by the Black Power Movement. I was on a campus that dealt with the history of Black Studies. The chair of the department got up and gave a speech thanking the Civil Rights Movement and Dr. King for the fact that they had a Black Studies department. I remember when the battle was started for an African American and African Studies Department at that university, it was students with the big Afros and all that who were protesting and sitting there. They had never crossed paths with Dr. King. But, they have assigned people to those positions, who don’t have the philosophy of those who fought to get those studies there.</p><p><i>KCS: Do they have the knowledge?</i></p><p>Like I said, this person who spoke didn’t have the knowledge about things like the history of Black Studies and, in this particular situation, African Studies. Quite often the professors hired don’t come to college campuses with a historical knowledge. They don’t know our history. </p><p><i>13. Are there other persons you feel would be helpful and will provide information on this topic that I need to talk with?</i></p><p>Are you talking about the Black Panther Party or the Black Power Movement?</p><p><i>KCS: The Black Power Movement.</i></p><p>Black Power. Yes, well, I know one sister was at that meeting in ’67. As a matter of fact, Stokely and Rap, elected her to represent SNCC. Her name is Gloria House. You know her? Gloria House. She’s a professor at my university now. And there’s this book about women and SNCC. I think it’s <i>Hands on the Fleet of Flowers,</i> something like that. She has a chapter in that book. She would be a good person to interview. She was at the Black Panther conference and was elected by Stokely and Rap to represent SNCC at the Black Panther Party.</p><p><i>14. I’m collecting information on the sequence of the events leading to the development of the first Black Student Union and the first Black Studies Department at San Francisco State University. Are there experiences at other colleges that you feel would be informative as well?</i></p><p>Yes, Northwestern. What’s that brother’s name? Bracey? I think it’s John Bracey. He’s in Massachusetts now. He was part of that at Northwestern. There’s a great book out now called, the <i>Revolution on Campus</i> by Martha Biondi, B-I-O-N-D-I. You can go to her website, see the bibliography and see the people she interviewed. Look up her name, Martha Biondi. She’s a professor at Northwestern. That’s a great book.</p><p><i>Comparison of Black Student Union and Black Panther Party Platforms</i></p><table border="1" cellspacing="0" width="630"><tbody><tr><td width="306" valign="top"><p align="center"><b>Black student union (February1969)</b></p></td><td width="324" valign="top"><p align="center"><b>Black panther party (October1966)</b></p></td></tr><tr><td width="306" valign="top" style="text-align:left;">1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our school.</td><td width="324" valign="top" style="text-align:left;"><p>1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black community.</p></td></tr><tr><td width="306" valign="top">2. We want full enrollment in the schools for our people.</td><td width="324" valign="top"><p>2. We want full employment for our people. </p></td></tr><tr><td width="306" valign="top">3. We want an end to the robbery of the White man of our Black community.</td><td width="324" valign="top"><p>3. We want an end to the robbery of the White man of our Black Community.</p></td></tr><tr><td width="306" valign="top">4. We want decent educational facilities, fit for the use of students.</td><td width="324" valign="top"><p>4. We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings.</p></td></tr><tr><td width="306" valign="top">5. We want an education for our people that teach us how to survive in the present day society.</td><td width="324" valign="top"><p>5. We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society. </p></td></tr><tr><td width="306" valign="top">6. We want racist teachers to be excluded and restricted from all public schools.</td><td width="324" valign="top"><p>6. We want all black men to be exempt from military service.</p></td></tr><tr><td width="306" valign="top">7. We want an immediate end to police brutality and murder of black people. We want all police and special agents to be excluded and restricted from school premises.</td><td width="324" valign="top"><p>7. We want an immediate end to <b>police brutality</b> and <b>murder</b> of black people.</p></td></tr><tr><td width="306" valign="top">8. We want all students that have been exempt, expelled, or suspended from school to be reinstated.</td><td width="324" valign="top"><p>8. We want freedom for all Black men held in federal, state, county, and city prisons, and jails.</p></td></tr><tr><td width="306" valign="top">9. We want all students when brought to trial to be tried in student court by a jury of their peer group or students of their school.</td><td width="324" valign="top"><p>9. We want all black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their black communities as defined by the Constitution of the United States.</p></td></tr><tr><td width="306" valign="top">10. We want power, enrollment, equipment, education, teachers, justice, and peace.</td><td width="324" valign="top"><p>10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice, and peace. And, as our major political objective, a United Nations supervised plebiscite to be held throughout the Black colony in which only Black colonial subjects will be allowed to participate for the purpose of determining the will of Black people as to their national destiny. </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align:left;">Note: From <i>Up against the wall: Violence in the making and unmaking of the Black panther party</i> (p. 353), by C. J. Austin, , 2006, Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press and <i>Mutiny does happen lightly: The literature of the American resistance to the Vietnam war</i>(pp. 1-3),by G. L. Heath, 1976, Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press.</p><p>© Sokoya Enterprises</p><p></p></div>
Long time activist Baba Bob Shipman needs help replacing precious lifeline equipment.
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Baba Bob Shipman
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<div><p></p><p>Habri gani all...</p><p>I'm Baba Bob Shipman, out of Philly...struggling until death do me part! as many of you!<br /> <a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/indiegogo-media-prod-cld/image/upload/c_fill,h_440,w_704/v1418834198/rbmp1snwqunz1aamijfa.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/indiegogo-media-prod-cld/image/upload/c_fill,h_440,w_704/v1418834198/rbmp1snwqunz1aamijfa.jpg" class="align-full" alt="rbmp1snwqunz1aamijfa.jpg" /></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}3828571102,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><br /></a> For over 45 years starting at age 16 and 61 now i have dedicated my life to the struggle of of all people of color and the iunder class regardless of clolor or rank in this society.<br /> <br /> Send donations here <a href="https://life.indiegogo.com/fundraisers/former-activists-needs-help-replacing-equipment" target="_blank">https://life.indiegogo.com/fundraisers/former-activists-needs-help-replacing-equipment</a> Past 8 years i have been struggling with a vocal cord issue called Spasmodic dysphonia. I have hearing aids as well but through technology i still manage to stay involved on many levels, marches, protests demonstrations and youth programs.<br /> I record history now a days.</p><p>While filming a youth high school game, coming down from the press box on the roof no less my precious lifeline fell two stories and the lens is broken and i tried taping to keepworking but can not adjust the focus wheel .</p><p>I'm asking folks in the diaspora for help, their is a link below.<br /> Google Bob Shipman or <span class="font-size-3"><a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/110084451614094765101/+BabaBobShipman/posts" target="_blank">G+</a></span> and <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/rmship?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=fb&utm_campaign=rmship&utm_content=552874722870820865" target="_blank">@rmship</a></strong> and one would see millions of articles and works highlighting the good deeds of many and the tragedy as well.</p><p>Send donations here <a href="https://life.indiegogo.com/fundraisers/former-activists-needs-help-replacing-equipment" target="_blank">https://life.indiegogo.com/fundraisers/former-activists-needs-help-replacing-equipment</a></p><p><strong>Prayers would be enough, also request the family to repost this reqest. I'm a long term Independent journalist, visit <a href="http://www.philly1.com">www.philly1.com</a> .</strong><br /> <br /> Yours in Struggle,<br /> <br /> Baba Bob Shipman (Philly, PA)<br /> trust@indiegogo.com </p><p><a href="http://ctt.ec/VE4e5"><img src="http://clicktotweet.com/img/tweet-graphic-3.png" alt="Tweet: Long time activist Baba Bob Shipman @rmship requests help replacing precious lifeline equipment. http://ctt.ec/VE4e5+ via @TheBlackList" /></a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p></div>
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Tziona Yisrael
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<div><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-4">Some people would call the demonstrators and those in support of them radical and trouble makers, but that would not at all be the truth. Blacks have been a restrained and a controlled people in these lands and in all the lands that took Slaves to build their empires. And since the end of Slavery, descendants of Slaves have endured pain and suffering, cruelty and endless racist acts that have been covered up or rendered nonexistent, and have been left out of the equal distribution of wealth. As a result, the needs and welfare of Blacks and other minorities are not met. We have been unfairly treated and are powerless to make changes in the status quo, and consequently impoverished children attend inferior and over-crowded schools and are not afforded first-class educations. The demographics prove that Blacks live in controlled environments exactly where substandard housing, schools, and work are the wretched mainstay. In these areas poor Blacks have become the White Man’s nightmare – a nightmare that he created and that he abuses. And when any White Man again wants to grow rich off the Black man, he finds one in the Ghetto who can act, one who can sing and dance, one who can play sports, and one who will not make waves and talk about the White Man’s oppression upon Blacks. If we cannot make the White Man wealthy, then he is satisfied with the have-nots subsisting by any means necessary, and this has been the pattern since the end of the Slave Trade. </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Demonstrations and protests from coast to coast are our only voice for our people, and these outcries must continue until there is <u>a <b>permanent panel</b> in place for descendants of Slaves</u> in order for the members to hear, attend to, and end ALL the injustices against Blacks, as well as obtain JUSTICE served and REPARATIONS for the heinous Slave Trade. This is a most important matter that deserves our undivided attention.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">It is human nature to desire everything decent, safe, and wholesome for our children and for our people. It is also our human right to be empowered for our own self-determinations. Therefore, no matter what it takes, we must engage and employ a means over our lives for our betterment and not leave it to the dominant race as has been the case. And if we don’t, then atrocities against Blacks will continue and not just by ruthless cops but by the racist US Supreme Court (that is oblivious to injustices against Blacks) and all the other institutions established for “justice” that has done nothing to end the race hatred and the discrimination against Blacks and other minorities in this country. </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Since Slavery the dominant race has set up its government that directly effects and controls our lives regardless of our opinions, and we have no real representation or recourse. Hence, there is nothing radical about taking the initiative to end injustice and seek liberty for those of us who want out of this captivity. There is nothing radical about wanting to pursue clean and safe environments, substantial lifestyles, peace, happiness, and to be able to walk down the street without being harassed and/or murdered by police. There is nothing radical about fighting for a cause that enables Blacks to enjoy lives free from worrying whether their parents or children will come home safely for dinner. There is nothing wrong with making the US government accountable for the race hatred that destroys Blacks that has been allowed to fester for centuries. There is nothing wrong with being radical about causes that make change for the betterment of oppressed peoples.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">The protests and demonstrations are our only vehicle for making this US government hear and understand our message, which is that we have had enough of its racism, police brutality, discrimination, and neglect against Black peoples that it forcibly migrated to this country to slave under inhumane conditions in order that the White race would be dominant and wealthy. And for this crime against Black humanity, the United States and all countries that grew wealthy off the backs of Slaves must now remedy their heartless and cruel offences they have committed and even continue to commit against a helpless people. </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><b>OUR NEW MOVEMENT AND PROPOSAL TO ESTABLISH A VOICE FOR BLACKS</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Desperately we need a Chair and a Panel in place for our New Movement, and we must choose wisely and quickly. I have my personal choice but am staying reserved for the moment (and no, it’s not me). </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">The focus of the Chair and <b>New Movement</b> is to end not only police brutality and murder of Blacks but end our lack of not having a voice. <b><u>Please consider the proposal</u></b> herewith that certainly has the potential to resolve many of the problems descendants of Slaves face in the United States and in other countries that are plagued with racial crises if employed. We have to make this White Man know that we are not going to take any more injustice and murder of our children or brutal attacks on Black men and women, or these demonstrations will continue until governmental procedures take place to make life better for Blacks. And we have to mean this and set up stations in urban cities that can carry out demonstrations in a moment’s notice. We have the powers-that-be listening, and hence, we must now act without fail to make sweeping changes for Blacks who wish to stay in the States and those who wish to Exodus out of this misery.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><b>I am heartened by the support of the rising number of Whites and Hispanics who have joined with Blacks to demonstrate against the police brutality and police murders of Blacks across the United States.</b> Ferguson demonstrations are not just about police brutality and murder of Blacks in Ferguson. This is a <b>New Movement</b> and one that has the potential to be greater than the Civil Rights Movement of the 60’s, and with these demonstrations Blacks have an opportunity to be a much needed voice for ourselves because presently, even with a Black President and his US Justice Department, we have none. </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Most Blacks do not believe that racial issues will ever change in the United States, and <b>I am one of them, and I am also one who chooses to live elsewhere.</b> Not all Blacks choose to reside in the United States, as this country does not live up to its mantra: “Justice for All” and “All Men are Created Equal”. Blacks have always been second-class human beings in the United States and have never been treated fairly. Actually, we have had to fight for all that is freely given to Whites, and even then, we must accept the crumbs that fall from the White folks’ table.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Our focus should not only involve police brutality and their murder of Blacks. But we must also highlight <b>Civil Rights, LIBERTY, FREEDOM and JUSTICE</b> served for the Slave Trade, the pain and suffering, and the heinous race hatred and discrimination we have endured in these United States. Of all the peoples involved in any captivity, Blacks stolen from the shores of Africa are the real victims of ethnic cleansing. Therefore, it is our <b>HUMAN RIGHT</b> to be heard and to leave out of this captivity with <b>REPARATIONS for our RESETTLEMENT</b> elsewhere, if it is our so desire. </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Reparations was paid to the Native Americans for the US slaughter of these peoples and extinction of some and for confiscation of their lands. Reparations was also paid to Japanese Americans for the US imprisonment in internment camps. It was President Reagan who gave the apology for the internment of Japanese in behalf of the US government. The US was also instrument in helping the European “Jews” obtain Reparations from Germany. We cannot get Congress to discuss the Slave Trade and much less pay REPARATIONS. Why are DOUBLE STANDARDS always the mainstay and rule in this country and a thorn in the sides of descendants of Slaves? The horrific Slave Trade Holocaust was the worst of all heinous crimes committed against a people - Black nations and it lasted for centuries, and the Jewish Holocaust covered at the most thirteen years. For centuries Blacks who were forcibly migrated from Africa lost their nationalities, their languages, cultures, identities, their religions, and their freedom and were programmed to love everything White including the White Man’s religion that has failed to serve Blacks except to keep us in darkness about the Most High CREATOR GOD – the “Old Testament” GOD, the ONE GOD ALONE that has proved over and over to be the True SAVIOR. But no, the SLAVERS wanted the Slaves to worship their White-blue-eyed man-god. </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">That which descendants of Slaves must remember is that our forebears who suffered the unbearable Slave Trade believed that the White Man’s Christian man-god would save them out of enslavement, but he didn’t. And neither has this man-god saved us out of this on-going captivity that is proving to be as deadly for descendants of Slaves as it was for the Slaves. In case it has not been realized, descendants of Slaves the world over are in the same predicament as were the Children of Israel who were in bondage for 430 years. Like them, (and some of us are of their SEED) we are also in bondage regardless of the fact that it is the end of Slavery, because we are still in the land of our captors and still under their control. Nevertheless, it is of import to note that when the Israelites called upon their GOD, HE heard them and Delivered them out of their captivity. Now, that goes above and beyond speaking volumes.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Consider what SLAVERS dropped in the laps of our forefathers. Christianity was forced upon the Slaves taken out of Africa to prevent rebellions and uprisings. This religion was to make them accept their fate, wait for a White man-god “saviour”, be resigned to go to heaven after death, and above all make them docile. </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">There is no question that the SLAVERS were evil, wicked, and heartlessly cruel. But is it possible that these callous SLAVERS who were dead-set on keeping Slaves in captivity did something good and upright when they converted their Slaves to Christianity? Or was their religion and converting the Slaves to it nothing more than a scam? </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Can any goodness really come out of such evil people who treated our fathers like animals, and shouldn’t we wonder about this scheme that turned them into Christians – believers in a “man”? This Christian religion has been in our families for centuries and has kept us focused, as was the plan, and also kept us subjugated under White rule and control. But more than that, their White-blue-eyed man-god would appear to be just as racist as were the SLAVERS, as this man-god has turned the deaf ear to the Slaves and likewise to descendants of Slaves. And Blacks are still in captivity <b><u>under the descendants of SLAVERS and their religion</u></b> still waiting for the White Man’s blue-eyed man-god. </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">WHAT IS THE REAL DEFINITION OF FREEDOM? </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Only a meager few congressmen have thought to apologize for the Slave Trade, but that is as far as it went. With this New Movement and PANEL in place, Blacks will be exercising our Human Right to a FREEDOM that descendants of Slaves have never enjoyed or had the human right to experience. </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">WHAT IS FREEDOM?</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><u>REAL FREEDOM is the ability to attain the following</u>:</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">1.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Secure liberty from one’s captors</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">2.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Reside in and Control one’s own land</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">3.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Self-Determination</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">4.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Worship of one’s own GOD</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">5.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Live one’s own culture and customs</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">6.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Educate one’s own people</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">7.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Acquire and sustain FREEDOM, self-rule, and prosperity for one’s progeny</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Since taking office, President Obama, has sustained White cruelty towards Blacks rather than make efforts to end it. Only since Ferguson has he, for the first time after six years in office, stepped up to the plate to address racism in America. And when he does, he is ever so cautious not to insult or harm the feelings of White Folks. It’s like when he goes on television to discuss the Israeli/Palestinian crisis; he makes sure to be clear that the Palestinians are the real problem so as not to offend Israelis and “Jewish” politicians, when everyone knows that it’s the Israelis who are dead wrong. Why should Obama worry about offending “Jews”? This tiny group of Israelis and Jewish Americans only wield the most power in congress, and there is nothing he can say that would put an end to the US’s biggest welfare recipient. There are no words to politely express what I feel about Barack Obama except that I am deeply disappointed in him.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><b>BLACKS MUST START TAKING CHARGE OF OUR OWN WELFARE AND BE A VOICE IN ALL MATTERS THAT INVOLVE BLACKS IF WE WANT TO END THE MASSACRE OF BLACKS AND GET JUSTICE SERVED FOR THE WHITE MAN MIGRATING BLACKS TO THESE SHORES.</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">The Missouri Governor chose a sixteen–person panel to find long-term solutions. How helpful can a White governor and a White Mayor be who know of racist acts committed against Blacks on a daily basis in Missouri and have done nothing? </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><b><u>The panel</u></b> should consist of four top-level Attorneys (at least two should be Black), three members from the Human Rights Organization, three Civil Rights Activists, three Black History Professors, Attorney General Holder, three members of the US Supreme Court, and three members from the United Nations versed in Civil Rights for an oppressed and suppressed people. And the panel must meet and discuss <b>HUMAN RIGHTS, JUSTICE, the SLAVE TRADE and REPARATIONS and FREEDOM</b> in a large facility and in an open forum, whereby, the grassroots may also attend. <b>Our goal can be “The Black Pursuit of Peace and Happiness”.</b> And it behooves the powers-that-be to hear us and respond accordingly because we want a change that works and one under our tutelage and on our terms. </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Money spent on these head cameras will not work; police can turn them off and say they forgot to turn them on or say that they thought they had them on, and even say they got broke in trying to handcuff the suspect before they shot him. Given the videos on criminal cops in existence that prove their guilt still does not render indictments and jail terms for corrupt police officers…obviously given the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. The money would be better spent on obtaining these attorneys and expediting reliable plans rather than what this Missouri governor has brought to the table.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">The panel should schedule at least one meeting each month until there are plans and strategies to satisfy descendants of Slaves who choose to reside in the United States, as well as descendants of Slaves who are not happy in the States and want to establish better lives for our progeny.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Descendants of Slaves who desire to leave out of this country, want Reparations and resettlement money (for housing, schools, farm) and US support to seal the deal with the countries of choice. No real justice can be determined without consideration for an Exodus of descendants of Slaves whose forebears were forced to Colonial America and to other Slave Nations.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Another most important matter that must be met and discussed is that these same procedures should be open to other descendants of Slaves in other countries that took Slaves out of Africa (the UK, France, the Netherlands, Portual to name a few) – not just the United States. And a <b>Slave Trade and REPARATIONS Foundation</b> must be established to meet the needs of all descendants of Slaves in every country we/they were taken captives. And there can be no exceptions. All countries that grew rich off the backs of Slaves must be required to participate and contribute funds towards this foundation.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">SENSITIVITY TRAINING HAS BECOME A LAUGHING STOCK FOR RACISTS</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">A three-day sensitivity training for police is a joke! Three years wouldn’t make a dent in how racist folks feel about Blacks. It should not come as any surprise, but it is not just the police who commit racist acts against Blacks. The CIA and FBI and government servants have gotten by for decades and nothing has been done to end their control and manipulation of Black lives. The powers-that-be think we are naïve enough to fall for this sensitivity scam! The powers-that-be have a mindset to be superior to Blacks, and it requires that we be second-class citizens. Thus, racism and discrimination run rampant in every facet of life in Slave nations, especially in the political, economic, and social systems. So let’s not delude ourselves. <b>Any agreement to remedy the harm done to Blacks must be feasible or there will be business as usual.</b> However, do realize that we can never expect to be totally empowered to serve our people in the United States. We are up against way too many stumbling blocks put in place even by the very ones who are supposed to be of help.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">This is our opportunity to bring about a real change that could possibly generate some consolation to the families who have lost loved ones. And if we do nothing, then whose parent or child will be next to fall at the hands of a trigger-happy cop or by some other crime for which there will be no indictment or incarceration.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Tziona Yisrael<br /><span style="font-size:14pt;">December 9, 2014</span></span></p><p></p></div>
THE FERGUSON RIOTS
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/the-ferguson-riots
2014-08-18T20:55:43.000Z
2014-08-18T20:55:43.000Z
Tziona Yisrael
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<div><p></p><p><b>August 18, 2014</b></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-4"><b>THE FERGUSON RIOTS, ETC.</b></span></p><p><b>I guess everyone knows by now that I am very disappointed with President Obama for his lack of effort to be a voice for the human rights of African Americans, as he has been for Israelis and Gay Rights advocates. In truth Blacks have been persecuted in this country under his watch, and it has taken – not the deaths of Black men at the hands of White police officers and the recent barbaric beating of a Black woman, but rather it has taken (after six years) a riot in Ferguson, Missouri to get a noteworthy rise out of this man who has said he is president of all the people in the United States. My guess is that he has acted now because this riot has caused further damage to his legacy. The city of Ferguson has 55 White policemen and only 3 of them are Black. And I am not impressed that the police chief put up Capt. Ron Johnson, a Black man, to speak before the people of Ferguson. I hate it when White people think Blacks are so naïve not to see through their scheme. And then they have the audacity to have a White clergyman pray at a press conference. PUHLEEESE! Nice ploy, but it did not work. These racist people could not be farther removed from the True and Living GOD, and there is nothing they can say or do at this juncture except to give descendants of Slaves the right to FREEDOM and LIBERTY.</b></p><p><b>I wonder if President Obama realizes that the acronym, “ISIS”, is the new police brutality that executes control over Blacks with military weaponry.</b></p><p><b>That being true, it is my hope that now he will step up to the plate and endorse a Bill that will serve justly for the descendants of the Black Peoples forcibly taken from the shores of Africa and who toiled without pay under cruel and inhumane conditions in order that Whites would be privileged and made wealthy off the backs of Slaves for many generations. </b></p><p><b>If people really want to show sincere benevolence, then let there be an Ice Bucket Challenge to END RACISM and injustice, to discuss EQUITY, the SLAVE TRADE, REPARATIONS, and RESETTLEMENT for descendants of Slaves who desire to leave out of this land of captivity.</b></p><p><b>We must not delude ourselves into believing that remaining in these United States will one day end this White Superiority and race hatred that keeps us suppressed and an inferior peoples. Black Peoples need to be their own governors, CEO’s, and educators and need to establish their own social and economic systems for the benefit and prosperity of Blacks, so that our progeny will be able to get off the streets, get out of penitentiary, get off of drugs, be educated, and pursue genuine “happiness”. As I have said before, we need another “Black Wall Street” but one that is outside of the United States and far away from the White influence that has Blacks walking backwards in gross darkness. Shame on the oppressed and the persecuted who foolishly believe that we need the White Man and his resources. “Black Wall Street” proves otherwise. And the misery of destitution and Ghetto life, illiteracy, injustice, and police brutality are all that we know for sure are our destiny in these United States and in all countries that once harbored and abused Slaves out of Africa.</b></p><p><b>We need the same CREATOR GOD that brought this curse upon us, so that we can appeal to HIM for Deliverance out of this Hellish bondage, just as did the Children of Israel.</b></p><p>“<b>The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing. </b> <sup> </sup><b>I will gather them that are sorrowful</b> for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden. <sup> </sup>Behold, at that time <b>I will undo all that afflict thee</b>: and <b>I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame.</b><b> </b> <sup> </sup>At that time will <b>I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the Lord.</b><b>”</b> Zephaniah 3:17 - 20</p><p><b>“But now I will not be unto the residue of this people as in the former days, saith the Lord of hosts.</b> <sup> </sup>For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things. <sup> </sup><b>And it shall come to pass, that as ye were a curse among the heathen, O house of Judah, and house of Israel; so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing: fear not, but let your hands be strong. </b> <sup> </sup>For thus saith the Lord of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the Lord of hosts, and I repented not: So again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not.” Zechariah 8:11 – 15</p><p><b>PLEASE KNOW THAT THE CURSE UPON BLACKS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH NOAH, AS WHITES WOULD HAVE BLACKS BELIEVE.</b> READ THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IN LEVITICUS 26<sup>TH</sup> AND DEUTERONOMY 28<sup>TH</sup> CHAPTERS. WHITES KNOW THE TRUE FACTS, AND THEY KNOW THAT BLACKS ARE BRAINWASHED TO THEIR WAYS AND CUSTOMS AND THUS KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THEIR TRUE HERITAGE.</p><p>Blacks can either continue on this course of servitude and suppression under the hardships of brutal oppressors or seek the True GOD and strive to rise above and out of this captivity for the sakes of our generations to follow and for our own peace of mind. ONLY GOD is the true JUSTICE that deals with the evils that plague us. Therefore, let us CALL UPON HIM!!!</p><p>Otherwise, which one of our Black babies will be next?</p></div>
White Sex On A Black Child is Deadly! Will you help save her?
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/white-sex-on-a-black-child-is-deadly-will-you-help-save-her
2013-08-31T04:00:00.000Z
2013-08-31T04:00:00.000Z
Maurice Muhammad
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<div><p dir="ltr"><span><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}3828549422,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="508" class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828549422,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="3828549422?profile=original" /></a>I am working the Ariana-Leilani case:</span> <span>Ariana-Leilani has been suffering for five years from</span> <span>untreated</span> <span>Severe Chronic Neutropenia (SCN). SCN is a rare potentially fatal low immunity condition (like AIDS) that can lead to her death in as little as 18 hours from a common infection. The experts believe that, based on the tests done to date, her severe chronic neutropenia is caused by drugs. However, she has yet to receive any testing for drugs in her system in the five years she has suffered from SCN, nor even given a urinalysis. In 2010, the German Government requested the District’s aid in getting her life saving GCSF medicine and an independent medical and psychological evaluation; but, that request also remains unsatisfied. Instead, the various agencies of Mayor Gray’s administration cower in fear claiming that they do not have authority to protect – let alone investigate -- this DCPS student, 10 year old African American Ariana-Leilani.</span></p><p>Mayor Gray’s administration’s systematic inaction protects powerful and influential (mostly white) adults in Washington DC who are engaged in the abuse and neglect. It is no coincidence that DC’s Attorney General and his stable of attorneys have been leading the charge to run interference for these individuals, claiming the administration is a toothless tiger in protecting a child who is regularly present at her school with concerning physical symptoms.</p><p dir="ltr"><span>The evidence that drugs are causing Ariana-Leilani’s condition is supported by: 1) the recent DCPS Key School school photos that clearly show she has extremely dilated eyes (indicating drug in her systems) and 2) DCPS’s own IEP reports that show behavior that point to the same. The DCPS’s own IEP reports – which are written by DCPS personnel – tell the story of how Ariana-Leilani stares into space, she only speaks about the past outside of school, she has accidents while in school, and she went from a high performance learner five years ago to a child with a “learning disability” who struggles to keep up to her peers. The 2011 DCPS IEP for Ariana-Leilani disclosed that:</span></p><p>The student demonstrates behaviors that are atypical for her age (wetting herself, significantly overreacting to events). Several behaviors are distracting and prevent her from focusing and learning (singing to self, talking about unrelated topics during a lesson, gazing at the ceiling). The student talks readily about things that happened years ago, but is secretive about much that goes on in her life currently. She also struggles to handle her emotions and interact with peers.</p><p dir="ltr"><span>A ten-year-old child being seriously ill, without relief for five years and showing aberrant behavior “</span><span>atypical for her age”</span> <span>strongly suggests abuse and neglect, particularly involving drugs (such as those used to facilitate and cover up abuse, like Benzodiazepine which also has a side effect of Severe Chronic Neutropenia). A child with Severe Chronic Neutropenia of undetermined cause (due to lack of testing for the most likely cause) and a parent drugging a child is not a “custody matter” -- no matter who is perpetrating it. But that is the cop-out that your administration uses to avoid fulfilling its responsibility to Ariana-Leilani.</span></p><p>Ariana-Leilani King-Pfeiffer is a dual German and US citizen with only a German Passport, and is currently sleeping in a queen sized bed in a 500 square foot one bedroom walk up apartment with her father, who is a German citizen making over $160,00 per year. The German Government made a formal request to the US State Department in 2010. The German Government asked for assistance in getting Ariana-Leilani life saving medicine and an independent medical and psychological evaluation. That request was forwarded to the District of Columbia. The District of Columbia has thus far failed to provide any of the assistance that the German government requested.</p><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-0018b8f6-d285-4bfa-84e8-ccc9a5c266de"><span>Why is it okay for a white man to drug his black daughter? Why is it okay for a white man to sexually abuse her? Why is it okay to share her with other men? Why is it okay for the DC Government to turn a blind eye to her suffering? What are you prepared to do to help her?</span></span></p><p><span><span>Truth has come to you!</span></span></p><p><span style="color:#ff0000;">*<span class="font-size-1">>Picture inserted by the editor, TheBackList<</span></span></p><p></p></div>
Our Assignment (the resurrection of the mentally dead Black Man and Woman) will require the Nature, Skills and Mentality of a Warrior.
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/our-assignment-the-resurrection-of-the-mentally-dead-black-man
2012-07-09T18:00:35.000Z
2012-07-09T18:00:35.000Z
Maurice Muhammad
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<div><p>Our assignment will move us from one battle to another. Adversity is inevitable our enemy observes all progress. God will mentor us in warfare. The scriptures says “He trains my hands for battle; he strengthens my arm to draw a bronze bow.” Psalm 18; 34 “Praise the Lord, who is my rock. He trains my hands for war and gives my fingers skill for battle.” Psalm 144:1.</p><p>A warrior only uses the weapons that never failed him. David rejects the weapons of other while fighting Goliath.</p><p>A warrior refuses to use the armor and weaponry of others who had failed before him. The tactics of the civil rights are old and out dated can’t use at all.</p><p>A warrior knows he has something his enemy fears. Our unity puts fear in the enemy, when we are organizing with the love of the Brotherhood and sisterhood.</p><p>A warrior knows the true source of his competence and confidence. The True God has brought us this far and he refuses to leave us now the spirit of our ancestors are following us, we have a Rendezvous with Destiny! </p><p>A warrior knows that the power of God is greater than the enemy’s weapon. In the scriptures it states “Thou comest to me with a sword and a spear and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of host the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou have defied” One learned believer can put to flight 10 men! Holy Qur’an & Samuel 17; 40</p><p>A warrior often uses, in his greatest battles, the skills developed in his daily routine. What we do daily to survive will come in handy</p><p>A warrior expects to be an instrument in the hands of God to destroy his enemy. David said “This day the Lord will give you into my hands. I will knock you down and cut off your head. This day I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the earth. Then all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.” 1Samuel 17:46 Allah said in the “It was not you who destroy them it was I who destroyed them by your hands” God will use us to destroy this wicked enemy! The world will know that the Black Man and Women in America are directly from the God and he walks with us!</p><p>A warrior expects his enemies to fall and he publicly predicts his victory. “This day the Lord will give you into my hands. I will knock you down and cut off your head.” 1Samuel 17; 46 “When those who hate me turn away, they fall and are lost from you. For you have stood by my right actions you sit on your throne, and are right in how you judge. You have spoken sharp words to the nations and have destroyed the sinful. You have thrown out their name forever and ever. Those who fight against you are finished forever. You have destroyed their cities. They will be remembered no more. But the Lord lives forever. He has set up His throne to say who is guilty or not. He will punish the world by what is right. He will be fair as He rules the people. Psalm 9;3-5,7 We must speak that hard core truth to power and to our people spare NONE! We were taught the Fall of America!</p><p>A Warrior stays on the offensive running toward his enemy. Then the Philistine rose up and came to meet David. And David rushed to the center of the valley to meet the Philistine. 1 Samuel 17;48 Brother Fred Hampton said ” When these mother fuckers go we go” We must never take a step backwards we continue to attack call out the wicked and these dump Negros none will be spared!</p><p>A warrior expects the spectators of the battle to observe and experience the power of God. When our people see us and hear us battle this enemy they will be in awe of the things they will hear us say and the things they see us do. It will empower them to do the same, remember you first heard the truth of Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and Minister Farrakhan people said he must be God talking about the enemy like that bring that raw truth.</p><p>A warrior keeps vibrant memories of the past victories. David said to Saul, “Your servant was taking care of his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and took a lamb from the flock, I went after him and fought him and saved it from his mouth. When he came against me, I took hold of him by the hair of his head and hit him and killed him. Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear. And this Philistine who has not gone through our religious act will be like one of them, for he has made fun of the armies of the living God.” 1Samuel 17; 34-36 we don’t forget the victories tell them and let our people experience the victories through our stories it will empower them to do the same.</p><p>A warrior ignores the opinion of the obvious losers and failure around him. We can’t let the fears of cowards stop us from our righteous mission. We must challenge the forces of evil and we must learn from the failures of the past and not repeat the same thing. Cowards can never be an advisor to the warrior; it will lead to your death. “Patience has its limits take it too far and its cowardice” G. Jackson</p><p>A warrior pursues saviors and celebrates the rewards of every victory. The men of Israel said, “Have you seen the man who has come out? He has come out to stand against Israel. The king will make the man who kills him rich. And he will give him his daughter, and make his father’s family free from paying taxes in Israel.” Then David said to the men standing by him, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine, and takes away Israel’s shame? For who is this Philistine who has not gone through the religious act of the Jews? Who is he, that he should make fun of the armies of the living God?” And the people answered him in the same way, “This is what will be done for the man who kills him.”</p><p>A warrior keeps his promise to destroy his enemy’s. Then David ran and stood over the Philistine. He took his sword out of its holder and killed him, and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their strong soldier was dead, they ran away. We must destroy all the enemies of the Black Nation, we must never forget them and serve them with Justice, and they have earned it!</p><p>A warrior unashamedly displays the spoils of the past victories as trophies of thanksgiving. So when David returned from killing the Philistine, Abner brought him to Saul with the Philistine’s head in his hand. 1samuel 17:54 we will have earned our freedom and damn it, we shall be proud of it!</p><p>A warrior creates his own museum of memories to celebrate his victories. David took the Philistine’s head and brought it to Jerusalem. But he put his battle-clothes in his tent. We must show our victories so other may learn the price we have paid to. </p><p>A warrior knows that the defeat of his strongest adversary will cause his other enemies to flee. Then David ran and stood over the Philistine. He took his sword out of its holder and killed him, and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their strong soldier was dead, they ran away. There is only one man that can rule at any time when we take this bastard out then our other enemies will straighten up but there will be no safe haven for them we will find them and destroy them, to the Glory of our God and our ancestors!</p><p>A warrior knows that when he is Victorious, the discouraged around becomes encouraged and energized. The men of Israel and Judah rose up and called out and went after the Philistines as far as Gath and the gates of Ekron. The dead Philistines lay on the way from Shaaraim as far as Gath and Ekron. We get bolder by seeing boldness. We get stronger by seeing strength. I hear you talking strong then I can talk just as strong I see you living strong then I can live strong!</p><p>Somebody else needs to see you win! Preparation is the key to successful warfare<b>. Our assignment (to raise the mentality dead Black Man and Woman in America) will require the nature, skills and mentality of a Warrior! Truth has come to you!</b></p><p><b> </b></p><p align="center"><b>For those who teach from the bible, better start teaching the people right!</b></p></div>
God permits Pain in our lives to call us to the straight path!
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/god-permits-pain-in-our-lives-to-call-us-to-the-straight-path
2012-03-29T18:19:33.000Z
2012-03-29T18:19:33.000Z
Maurice Muhammad
https://www.theblacklist.net/members/MauriceMuhammad
<div><p>If You Rebel Against Your Assignment (the Resurrection of the Mentally Dead Black Man and Woman), God May Permit Painful Experiences To Correct You!</p><p>Every Tragedy Can Be Traced To An Ignored Instruction By God!</p><p style="text-align:center;">God Will Not Be Ignored!</p><p>God can create painful experiences, unforgettable experiences. Jonah is a perfect example. He rebelled against God’s instructions to” arise, go to Nineveh, that great city and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me”, instead he rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord and went down to Joppa; and found a ship going to Tarshish. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the LORD. Then the LORD sent a great wind on the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship was about to break up. And they threw Jonah out of the boat and then Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights before he came to his senses and accepted his Assignment. Never misjudge God! Never think that he will ignore tiny acts of defiance. Discipline comes, reaction comes.</p><p>Look at the life of Joshua. When Achan rebelled and kept some of the spoils of war, they lost the first battle of Ai. In a single day, their reputation was stained, and Joshua’s men lost total confidence. Achan had ignored the command of God. Consequently, the entire nation suffered defeat until obedience became their priority again.</p><p>Look at Saul: Samuel said to Saul, “I am the one the LORD sent to anoint you king over his people Israel; so listen now to the message from the LORD. This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they ambushed them as they came up from Egypt. Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’” Saul captured Agag alive. Saul let Agag live, but he killed all the men in Agag’s army. Saul and the Israelite soldiers felt bad about destroying everything. So they let Agag live. They also kept the fat cattle, the best sheep, and the lambs. They kept everything that was worth keeping. They didn’t want to destroy those things. They destroyed only what was not worth keeping. Then Samuel received this message from the LORD: “Saul has stopped following me, so I am sorry that I made him king. He is not doing what I tell him.” When Samuel came near to Saul, Saul greeted him and said, “The LORD bless you! I have obeyed the LORD’S commands.” But Samuel said, “Then what is that sound I hear? Why do I hear sheep and cattle?” Saul said, “The soldiers took them from the Amalekites. They saved the best sheep and cattle to burn as sacrifices to the LORD your God. But we destroyed everything else.” Samuel said to Saul, “Stop! Let me tell you what the LORD told me last night.” Saul answered, “Tell me what he said.” Samuel said, “In the past you didn’t think that you were important, but the LORD chose you to be the king. So you became the leader of the tribes of Israel. The LORD sent you on a special mission. He said, ‘Go and destroy all the Amalekites. They are evil people. Destroy them all! Fight them until they are completely finished.’ So why didn’t you listen to the LORD? You did what the LORD said is wrong because you wanted to keep what you took in battle.” Saul said, “But I did obey the LORD! I went where the LORD sent me. I destroyed all the Amalekites. I brought back only one—their king Agag. And the soldiers took the best sheep and cattle to sacrifice to the LORD your God at Gilgal.” But Samuel answered, “Which pleases the LORD more: burnt offerings and sacrifices or obeying his commands? It is better to obey the LORD than to offer sacrifices to him. It is better to listen to him than to offer the fat from rams. Refusing to obey is as bad as the sin of sorcery. Being stubborn and doing what you want is like the sin of worshiping idols. You refused to obey the LORD’S command, so he now he refuses to accept you as king.” Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned. I did not obey the LORD’S commands, and I did not do what you told me. I was afraid of the people, and I did what they said. Now I beg you, forgive me for doing this sin. Come back with me, so I may worship the LORD.” But Samuel said to Saul, “I won’t go back with you. You rejected the LORD’S command, and now the LORD rejects you as king of Israel.” When Samuel turned to leave, Saul caught Samuel’s robe. The robe tore. Samuel said to Saul, “In this same way the LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today.</p><p>When one person is out of the will of God, everyone around that person must pay the price for it. They learned that with Jonah in the ship and they threw him over board so they may live.<br />When we get the wrong people out of our lives, then the wrong things will stop happening. Remember the waves of yesterday’s disobedience will splash on the shores of today for a season. If we are walking in contradiction to God’s laws, expect painful experiences on the road ahead. Pain is corrective in Psalm 65 – 72 LORD; you did good things for me, your servant. You did what you promised to do. Give me the knowledge to make wise decisions. I trust your commands. Before I suffered, I did many wrong things. But now I carefully obey everything you say. You are good, and you do good things. Teach me your laws. People full of pride made up lies about me. But I keep obeying your instructions with all my heart. Those people are so stupid that they care for nothing, but I enjoy studying your teachings. Suffering was good for me; I learned your laws. Your teachings are worth more to me than a thousand pieces of silver and gold.</p><p>Pain will force you to look to the word of God for answers. Pain will force you to learn where you went astray. Pain will birth you into a new reality. The pain of the death of Brother Trayvon Martin is because we are instructed to Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues, for her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she said in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judged her.<br />We better wake up and understand that these people are not our friends and that White Supremacy must die and Black inferiority must die! Every White person is under the death sentence and that can be your mother regardless of the color of your skin if you have the mind of Satan your color is of no value!</p><p>Do not misunderstand the hurting seasons. They birth the healing process remember if you rebel against your assignment, God may permit painful experiences to correct you.</p><p><span style="text-align:center;"> Truth has come to you!</span></p></div>
The Way Forward: mobilizing the best, the brightest and the willing for the total development of our people.
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/the-way-forward-mobilizing-the
2012-01-05T23:30:00.000Z
2012-01-05T23:30:00.000Z
Maurice Muhammad
https://www.theblacklist.net/members/MauriceMuhammad
<div><p>"We are at war! Our survival as a people is at stake. We all are going to be tested in this autumn. America is living on borrowed time. Time for talk is over! To be free sacrifice must be made! Blood must flow if we are to be free." Minister Louis Farrakhan</p><p>The masses of our people are on a Death March into the oven of social deterioration, broken homes, broken marriages, broken minds, broken spirit, evolving from a string of broken promises by government and leadership that has failed to help our people turn around the misery and wretchedness of our condition. The knowledge to correct the horror of our condition is among us.</p><p>The potential force and power to cause us to rise as a people is among us. The finance to fuel our rise is also among us. The challenge facing all of us is to rise above the things that have kept us divided in the past, by focusing us on the agenda of creating a better future for our people to see how all of us, with all of our varied differences, can come together and direct our energy, not at each other, but at the condition of the reality of the suffering of our people, that we might use all of our skills, gifts and talents to create a better world for ourselves, our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.</p><p>It is time for us to stop thinking and acting solely on behalf of our churches, mosques, temples, synagogues and organizations. It is time for us as leaders to come together and begin to think, plan, and act on behalf of the whole of our people. Each of us has gradually come to the conclusion that no one organization or leader can solve the many problems we face.</p><p>All of our leaders and organizations have done the best it could working on its agenda and programs – yet, our people are slipping further behind. I have come painfully to the conclusion that we need each other desperately. Allah (God) has given us gifts, skills and talents that must be gathered, harnessed, organized and structured in a way that will enable us to lift our people from where we are to where Allah (God) wants us to be. This is the challenge of the time. Within us is the will to do this, however, our will must be fed by the insatiable desire to see our people, free, justified and equal with the best in civilized society. Therefore, it is proper that we seize this moment in time, recapture the spirit of the million man, women, youth and family marches, and make the necessary sacrifice to save ourselves and our people. All of our leaders, teachers and guides who have paid the ultimate price have led us to this moment; all of our people who have died hoping for a better day have led us to this moment; all of those whose hope is lost, who are dying in the streets of America, the homeless, the sick and diseased, those imprisoned, our political prisoners, our veterans, our youth locked in a culture of death, the jobless, the destitute, the forlorn, the abandoned, have led us to this moment in time.</p><p style="text-align:center;">The future of our people depends upon our ability to mobilize.</p><p style="text-align:center;">VISION</p><p>There is no better time to mobilize and organize our people locally, and, put systems in place that will permit a successful programmatic thrust to bring to fruition what we envision for ourselves and our people.</p><p style="text-align:center;">MISSION</p><p> Toward this end, we must gather the best, brightest and most willing minds to mobilize and organize our people, and to develop short and long range plans and programs for: 1. Spiritual and moral development 2. Educational development 3. Economic development 4. Political development 6. Social development 7. Cultural development 8. Health development. To develop the systems necessary to bring these plans and program initiatives to fruition. We must develop strategic alliances to further our aims. We must never form an alliance from a position of weakness, but, rather from a position of strength. We must forge unity with the struggle of the African Union to develop Africa, with the Caribbean, Central and South America, with the Isles of the Pacific, and with our Native American Brothers and Sisters. We must develop a skills bank, the talent of which should be used in the development of our people in the United States and World Wide.</p><p style="text-align:center;">"We are here to put our foot so DEEP in the behind of the WEAK and the WICKED!"MLF</p><p style="text-align:center;">DEMANDS</p><p>We must demand an end to police brutality and mob attacks.</p><p>We must demand an end to the lack of adequate health care and substandard education.</p><p>We must demand an end to racial profiling, the herding of our young men and women into prisons and the biological and chemical warfare being perpetrated against our people.</p><p>We must demand reparations.</p><p>We must demand that America take the appropriate steps to help in the repair of the damage done to the descendants of slaves for 300 years of slavery, 100 years of segregation, and 50 years of the misuse and abuse of governmental power to destroy Black organizations and leaders that have over the years been working to heal the condition of nearly 40 million of our people in America. To this end, Christians, Muslims, Hebrews, Jews, agnostics, nationalists, socialists, men, women and youth are coming together in agreement that the time is now for us to articulate our demands, and to accept our responsibility to change the condition and reality of our lives. Even though we petition the government, our covenant must first be with our Creator and with each other.</p><p>We were taught that our word must be our bond. When we break our word we destroy the life of the covenant or the agreement that we have made. It is absolutely necessary that as leaders we must build trust among ourselves. We can only build trust when we strive to keep our word, particularly a solemn agreement or covenant that we make with each other and with our people. Ever since our fathers set the soles of their feet in the western hemisphere, particularly since the ending of chattel slavery, many promises have been made to us as well as to others by the Government of the United States of America that have been broken because those who have given their word to us and the Native Americans had no intentions of fulfilling what they put on paper as a treaty or what they wrote as a law where we are concerned. Every gain that our leaders and their followers fought bled, and even died to give us, while we celebrated the success of the agreement or the law, the process began to erode and destroy the life of that agreement.</p><p>Therefore, it is wise and prudent that we make a covenant among ourselves as leaders and make a covenant or solemn agreement with our people that we sign, and, in signing declare in our hearts and publicly that our word shall be our bond. In so doing, we as leaders can create the spirit of unity in our people. Then, we need not make a demand. Our unity will command our presence at whatever table, in whatever forum we decide to be a part of and gain for us whatever we desire for our people.</p><p>Our presence here is to bury the attitude of those who founded America in their short-sighted vision. What will we leave our children if not a nation and land to build upon? We're not here to march. We're here to unite for the purpose to build a future. A new nation is coming in. MLF</p><p style="text-align:center;">COVENANT</p><p>This is the written covenant with God that is found in the Word of God in the Bible, "If my people which are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways then will I hear from heaven forgive their sins and heal their land." II Chronicles Chapter 7 verse 14. The burden is on us to fulfill our part. The Qur’an teaches this truth similarly in these words, "Allah will never change the condition of a people until they change within themselves. Family the burden is on us to change our behavior; to build love, trust and confidence in each other and in our people for us, then, 95% of our problems shall have been solved. We, as leaders must declare that we will never sell out the aspirations of our people for personal wealth, position and advancement in the society of our former slave masters and their children. We must make a covenant with our people to work and sacrifice and be willing to be the good shepherd (leaders) who will lay down our lives for our people. Let us accept our responsibility and change our behavior to that, which will make us more than comrades and brothers, but a behavior that will make us friends and companions in the struggle for the total liberation of our people here and wherever we are found on this earth.</p><p style="text-align:center;">"Freedom means we have to go to work... Sitting around begging others is not the answer. "It our Genesis... It must start with land and farming." MLF</p><p>The Nine Ministries to Build a Nation: 1. Health & Human Services, 2. Agriculture, 3. Education, 4. Defense, 5. Art & Culture, 6. Trade & Commerce, 7. Justice, 8. Information and 9. Science & Technology. Through these 9 Ministries will solve all our problems that we face as a community and we must duplicate this in all cities for the total liberation of our people.</p><p style="text-align:center;">The Ministry of Science and Technology</p><p>Mission is to serve as the source of scientific and technological analysis and judgment for the organization with respect to major policies, plans, and programs of Black Unity. The Minister of Science and Technology will advise the Leadership Board on the impacts of science and technology on domestic and international affairs; Lead an inter-agency effort to develop and implement sound science and technology policies and budgets; Work with the private sector to ensure organizational investments in science and technology contribute to economic prosperity, environmental quality, and organizational security; Build strong partnerships among other organizations, other countries, and the scientific community; Evaluate the scale, quality, and effectiveness of the organization's effort in science and technology.</p><p style="text-align:center;">The Ministry of Education</p><p>Mission is: To provide a system which secures quality education and training for all persons in Black Unity and achieves effective integration of educational and cultural resources in order to optimize individual and national development. Its seven strategic objectives are: To devise and support initiatives to gain literacy for all in order to extend personal opportunities and contribute to the up liftment of our people and a nation of our own for development; To secure teaching and learning opportunities that will optimize access, equity and relevance throughout the education system; To support student achievement and improve institutional performance in order to ensure that organizational targets are met; To maximize opportunities throughout the Ministry’s purview that promote cultural development, awareness and self-esteem for individuals, communities and the organization as a whole; To devise and implement systems of accountability and performance management in order to improve performance and win public confidence and trust; To optimize the effectiveness and efficiency of staff in all aspects of the service in order to ensure continuous improvement in performance; To enhance student learning by the greater use of information and communication technology as preparation for life in the national and global communities.</p><p style="text-align:center;">The Ministry on Information</p><p>Has the role of lead communicator for Black Unity, it has to develop a coherent outreach strategy for urgent implementation. Ministry of Information is mandated to: Create awareness of Black Unity's policies, programs and activities. Promote Black Unity's international marketing agenda. Provide Public Relations support to organizational Ministries, departments, agencies and Black Unity's missions abroad. Get feedback from the public and membership for policy reinforcement or redirection. Internal and External Information Services. Press and Information Services to Ministries and Departments, locally and externally. Preparation of printed publicity and information materials for use locally and externally. Black Unity's Information Services has the following divisions: Research and Archives, Press and Public affairs, Photographic Unit.</p><p style="text-align:center;">The Ministry of Defense</p><p>Is to provide the military forces needed to deter war and to protect the security of our organization by providing official, timely and accurate information about defense policies, organizations, functions and operations. Also, provide responsive, forward-thinking, and insightful battle plans, in alignment with organizational security objectives.</p><p style="text-align:center;">The Ministry of Justice work</p><p>Spans criminal, civil and family justice, human rights. The Ministry of Justice works to protect the public and reduce reoffending, and to provide a more effective, transparent and responsive criminal justice system for victims and the public. We also provide fair and simple routes to civil and family justice. The Ministry of Justice has responsibility for different parts of the justice system– the courts, prisons, probation services and attendance canters. We work in partnership with the other organizations departments and agencies to reform the criminal justice system, to serve the public and support the victims of crime. We are also responsible for making new laws, strengthening democracy, and safeguarding human rights. The justice system is an important public service. We are all likely to come into contact with it at some point in our lives, because we have been a witness or victim of crime, to protect and enforce our rights or to settle disputes. We manage offenders from the point at which they are charged to the end of their sentence, providing supervision and support as they are reintegrated into our society.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Ministry of Agriculture</p><p>Is responsible for developing and executing policy on farming, agriculture, and food. It aims to meet the needs of farmers and ranchers, promote agricultural trade and production, work to assure food safety, protect natural resources, foster rural communities and end hunger. The Ministry of Agriculture provide leadership on food, agriculture, natural resources, and related issues based on sound public policy, the best available science, and efficient management. Expanding markets for agricultural products and support international economic development, further developing alternative markets for agricultural products and activities, providing financing needed to help expand job opportunities and improve housing, utilities and infrastructure in our communities, enhancing food safety by taking steps to reduce the prevalence of foodborne hazards from farm to table, improving nutrition and health by providing food assistance and nutrition education and promotion, and managing and protecting our public and private lands working cooperatively with other organizations and the private sector.</p><p style="text-align:center;">The Ministry of Arts & Culture</p><p>The international ambassador of a new way of artistic expression and cultural refinement. The mission of the Ministry of Arts and Culture is the promotion of aesthetic, artistic and cultural expressions, also music, dance, drama, poetry, visual arts and sports. This includes the promotion of theater companies, music ensembles, choirs, creative writing, poetry recitations, talent shows, film production, video and audio recordings, presentations, competitions, and compilations along with an annual Festival of the Arts. And a wholesome sports culture for athletic achievement.</p><p style="text-align:center;">The Ministry of Trade & Commerce</p><p>Promotes job creation, economic growth, and sustainable development and improved standards of living for all our people by working in partnership with businesses, universities, communities and our nation’s workers. The department touches the daily lives of our people in many ways, with a wide range of responsibilities in the areas of trade, economic development, technology, entrepreneurship and business development, environmental stewardship, and statistical research and analysis. To be competitive in the global marketplace, the Commerce Department works to strengthen the international economic position of the Black Nation and facilitates global trade by opening up new markets for our goods and services. Here at home, the Commerce Department promotes progressive business policies that help our businesses and entrepreneurs and their communities grow and succeed. Cutting-edge science and technology at the department fosters innovation, and a focus on research and development that moves quickly from the lab to the marketplace generates progress and new 21st century opportunities. No matter where businesses are in their lifecycle, whether just getting off the ground or looking to expand into overseas markets, the Commerce Department is singularly focused on making our companies more innovative at home and more competitive abroad, so they can create jobs. The Commerce Department also provides effective management and monitoring of our people's resources and assets to support both environmental and economic health.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Ministry of Health and Human Services</p><p>Mission is to enhance the health and well-being of our people by providing for effective health and human services and by fostering strong, sustained advances in the sciences, underlying medicine, public health, and social services. Our number one priority will always be to protect the health of our people and provide essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves.</p><p>As we push forward in Black Unity with our agenda listed above we encourage other groups to follow our lead to true freedom Justice and Equality. So we can hook up and make this vision come true this is our way to Liberty. It took 3 years for the Mormons to establish a city and 53 years to establish a fully working state! How long will it take us to produce our city then a state in this modern time? There is a China Town or Greek Town in different cities in America this is our model to have our Black Town in cities across America we must link up and hook up and do for self!</p></div>
Satan Does Not React To You Alone, But To Our Assignment!
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/satan-does-not-react-to-you-alone-but-to-our-assignment
2012-01-05T02:53:06.000Z
2012-01-05T02:53:06.000Z
Maurice Muhammad
https://www.theblacklist.net/members/MauriceMuhammad
<div><p><b>This is the Resurrection of the Mentally Dead Black Man and Woman in North America and Throughout the World.</b></p><p>Our Assignment is more apparent to Satan than you may realize. We must understand that our assignment is a threat to his world and what he has plans for in his world. Don’t you ever think that Satan has selected only you to be destroyed he desires to destroy all whose obedience is creating special attention from God! We must remember Job God asked Satan “Have you considered my servant Job there is none like him in the earth, a perfect upright man one that fears God and eschew evil”. Satan will start a war with you because of the influence of your assignment! Satan inspired Pharaoh to destroy thousands of the Hebrew children just to stop the entry of Moses into his generation.</p><p>Let us not forget this from the FBI<i>: Prevent the COALITION of militant Black Nationalist groups. In unity there is strength; a truism that is no less valid for all its triteness. An effective coalition of Black Nationalist groups might be the first step toward a real "Mau Mau" [Black revolutionary army] in America, the beginning of a true black revolution. Prevent the RISE OF A "MESSIAH" who could unify, and electrify, the militant Black Nationalist movement. Malcolm X might have been such a "messiah;" he is the martyr of the movement today. Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael and Elijah Muhammad all aspire to this position. Elijah Muhammad is less of a threat because of his age. King could be a very real contender for this position should he abandon his supposed "obedience" to "white, liberal doctrines" (nonviolence) and embrace Black Nationalism. Carmichael has the necessary charisma to be a real threat in this way.</i> <i>TARGETS Primary targets of the Counterintelligence Program, Black Nationalist-Hate Groups, should be the most violent and radical groups and their leaders. We should emphasize those leaders and organizations that are nationwide in scope and are most capable of disrupting this country. These targets, members, and followers of the:</i></p><p><i>Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) NATION OF ISLAM (NOI) Offices handling these cases and those of Stokely Carmichael of SNCC, H. Rap Brown of SNCC, Martin Luther King of SCLC, Maxwell Stanford of RAM, and Elijah Muhammad of NOI, should be alert for counterintelligence suggestions.</i></p><p>They wanted to prevent the rise of a Black Messiah, what is the role of a Messiah; “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God. To comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve in Zion to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the LORD for the display of his splendor. They will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations”.</p><p>Have you forgotten Herod he had all the children younger than 2years in Bethlehem killed because he was looking for Jesus. Abortion is a satanic strategy to stop our babies from being born because they fear the birth of the Messiah. Here are a few words from that beast Margaret Sanger On blacks, immigrants and indigents: “human weeds,' 'reckless breeders,' 'spawning... human beings who never should have been born.” Pivot of Civilization, referring to immigrants and poor people. There is more; on the extermination of blacks: "We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population," she said, "if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members." Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America, by Linda Gordon.</p><p>Think about the reason that Satan and his devils don’t want black people to be healed by the Messiah. Next Blog I will go into the work of the Messiah and show you why Satan fears our assignment. The mere fact that Satan desires to attack you for destruction proves that our assignment is Achievable. Satan does not react to you alone but to Our Assignment! This is the Resurrection of the Mentally Dead Black Man and Woman of America and throughout the world.</p><p><b>God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, love and of a sound mind. </b> </p></div>
Cowardice is a Sin in anytime!
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/cowardice-is-a-sin-in-anytime
2011-12-16T01:48:07.000Z
2011-12-16T01:48:07.000Z
Maurice Muhammad
https://www.theblacklist.net/members/MauriceMuhammad
<div><p>This top half is from a Brother Muslim who lives in America he is from Pakistan but he's is a American Citizen now and he wrote this blog on the People of Color Organize! So I will post his part and then respond to his statement! The title of his Blog is</p><p style="text-align:center;">"Why I am not Protesting at Occupy"</p><p>One morning about 9:30am, approximately seven to ten days after 9/11, I received a phone call on my mobile phone. I was a part time college student at the University of Massachusetts Boston and was having a slow morning at home catching up with my reading for class. It was an FBI agent. He asked me if I was at home because he was driving in a car on his way to talk to me. Quite naturally, my insides melted. I had absolutely no idea what this meant, nor why he wanted to speak to me of all people. I told him I was at home studying and that he could stop by. He told me to expect him in about 15 minutes. I was at home alone and wished at that moment my parents had mobile phones so that I could call them home to be present when the FBI showed up to question me.</p><p>I got up from my desk and tried to make myself look as presentable and friendly as possible. I even put a kettle of water on the stove so that I could offer him a cup of tea or coffee then got out a plate of biscuits and put it on the living room table.</p><p>The knock on my front door was not a minute too late or too soon. There were four agents gathered. All four walked into my house and up the stairs. I brought them into the living room where I sat them down like guests and offered them coffee. They all agreed. While I went into the kitchen, two of them began to walk around my house searching for something, up and down my walls, around corners, in the bathroom, behind the shower curtains. To this day, I’m not exactly sure what they were looking for or expected to find.</p><p>I brought coffee for four on a large tray and proceeded to ask around how much sugar each agent would like in their coffee. Once each had their coffee, the questioning began. First they took out a series of photos and asked me if I was able to identify a series of Arab and Muslim looking men. It was all quite bizarre. Why on earth would I know these people, and what on earth would connect me to them? So I asked questions back. “Who were these men?” and “Were these men suspecting of carrying further attacks against the United States?” 9/11 was a very fresh memory for us all.</p><p>Then came the question that still shocks me to this day: “Do you know Mohammad Atta?” I am pretty sure I screwed my face and gave the FBI agents my “lolwut?!” response.</p><p>I had a question of my own: why on earth did these FBI agents show up at my house? Weren’t they supposed to be finding the terrorists that had attacked us? To which I was told that the FBI had been receiving daily leads from various individuals and organisations. By that point, I was told that the leads database had reached in the 10s of thousands and that as protocol, agents were following up on each lead. So, it appears, someone had snitched on me. And for what? To this day, I have no idea.</p><p>What I do know is that as the events on 9/11 were happening, I sat in a university classroom when multiple students got up and began to hysterically address the class that Arabs and Muslims were an uncontrollable cancer on this earth and that they finally needed to be put in their place. One student stared me down as she ranted in a panicked state. Two days later, at work I was singled out when one of my colleagues asked me in front of 20-30 people what my background was. When I told him that I was born and raised in America, he was dismissive and told me not to be evasive. So I told him that my parents were Pakistani. To which his follow up question was “And they are Muslim in Pakistan, right?” to which I nodded my head, to which he sounded out an assured “Mmhmmm.” One month later, I was called into my supervisors office and blamed for an incident that I was not present at work the day of the incident in question. Nevertheless, I was subsequently fired anyway.</p><p>The 9/11 Muslim narratives like mine are not novel. If anything, these stories have gone on to make it into the mainstream consciousness in the United States. However, the reason it is extremely critical to recall these stories at this particular point in time into the American consciousness, is so that Occupy protesters, previously part of the American mainstream who have only recently joined the rank and file of the criminalised Americans, fully grasp the fact that millions of Americans not only distrust the police forces, but are frightened of them and for good reason – even mouthy activists like myself<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44621976/ns/us_news-security/t/ny-police-eyed-us-citizens-secret-intelligence-effort/#.Tt6AdWMUqso">. One only has to look as far as the recently leaked “Moroccan Initiative”</a> to know that the police are no friends of minority communities.</p><p>For more than a decade, American Muslims have been well aware their communities have been infiltrated with FBI spies looking to entrap people. Multiple members of my family have encountered a mysterious never before seen loud mouthed persons at Muslim community centres, mosques, and events using unusually politicised and extreme language that, I can surely attest, one would not normally find at an average Muslim gathering.</p><p>Over the past decade, the very system that has been used to stir up fear and suspicion against Muslims, Muslims, on the other side of the coin, have had their fears and suspicions stirred up against that same system.</p><p>I don’t protest at Occupy because I know that my name has long existed on some intelligence database and I do not know what on earth it will be used for and how I will be targeted because of it – especially if I begin to show my face more regularly protesting at my local encampment.</p><p>Police target minorities in a disproportionately heavy handed manner than they do our white counterparts, be us all part of the 99% or not.</p><p>Just this past August, <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/new-york/muslims-police-scuffle-rye-playland-over-amusement-park-123309825.html">an Eid-ul-Fitr celebration at an amusement park in upstate New York ended when police beat up 3 and arrested 15</a> during a scuffle over whether or not a woman’s headscarf was a health and safety risk on an amusement park ride.</p><p><em>Kareem Meawad, 17, went to try to protect the woman and was beaten by cops and also arrested, she added. Her brother, Issam Meawad, 20, was pushed to the ground and taken into custody when he tried to help his cousin, she said.</em></p><p><em>“She just wanted to get on a ride. That was it,” Dena Meawad said of the initial confrontation. “It’s clear, this all happened because we’re Muslim.”</em></p><p>It is also pretty clear to me that the heavy handed nature of this incident was due to the fact that police forces are trained to view American Muslims as a potential security threat – sadly, even when they’re at an amusement park amusing themselves with hotdogs and popcorn.</p><p>This is precisely why <a href="http://www.thepoliticalnotebook.com/post/13111449788/the-following-is-a-guest-post-by-hannah-who-was">when Hannah, a headscarf wearing Muslim woman, attended the October OWS march in which 800 protesters were kettled and arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge</a>, she found herself in a distinctive position during the mass arrest:</p><p><em>Before the handcuffs were put on me a man came up to me, clamped his hand down on my shoulder, and led me away from everyone else. He was wearing a long black trench coat. This detail sounds comically villainous, but I specifically recall it because it worried me that he was not wearing a police uniform. The first thing he said to me was that he was “not a cop”. I knew immediately that these were not reassuring words to hear, and later my suspicions were confirmed when my lawyers told me that this likely meant he was an FBI agent. This man isolated me from my friends to interrogate me, threaten me, and attempt to intimidate me into answering his questions, which were all along the lines of, “Who are you and what are you doing on the Bridge?” His manner made it clear he assumed that I was on the Bridge for a reason other than participating in a peaceful protest. I told him several times that I was exercising my right to remain silent, and he became more aggressive. He finally shouted to the other cops, “This one’s a keeper!”</em></p><p><a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/12/01/congress_endorsing_military_detention_a_new_aumf/singleton/">Now with the passing of the National Defense Authorisation Act</a>, Muslim Americans are more afraid than ever. Just this past Friday, mosques all throughout the city of Boston made announcements at their Jumma prayer services about the passing of this bill that extends indefinite military detention to include US citizens. <a href="http://www.rense.com/general61/pipes.htm">American Muslims have been threatened to be thrown into concentration camps since the early days of the War on Terror</a> should there be another terrorist attack on US soil. It is no exaggeration to say that American Muslims currently feel like the US has just declared war on US soil in which they know they will be targeted first.</p><p>If Occupy protesters are wondering why they are not attracting enough minorities to their causes, this may help to explain things a little bit. Some of you may be reading this and might be tempted to call me chicken shit – and that’s fair. At least on the sidelines, while I warn people about the police, I feel a little bit like I am doing something rather than nothing at all.</p><p>In the meantime, one way to make an impact on American minority communities <a href="http://www.philipbrennan.net/2011/12/02/the-international-civil-rights-restart-has-been-convened/">is for movements to engage with minority concerns by taking them out of fringe politics and universalising their concerns as Philip Brennan did in his recent piece suggesting Occupy create a civil rights angle as one of its central components</a>.</p><p>As tempted as many white Occupy protesters are to proclaim “we are all one and the same!”, you cannot expect minorities, whose communities have been subjected to intimidation and abuse, to suddenly throw away the race card and jump on the bandwagon. These are critical times, and as such, it is important for Occupy to get it right. We are all part of the 99% – and the concerns of some should fast transform into the concern for all.</p><p>- <em>Ayesha Kazmi, <a href="http://americanpaki.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/why-i-am-not-protesting-at-occupy/" target="_blank">AmericanPaki</a></em></p><p><em><br /></em></p><p><em>I'm sorry this is so long but please continue to here is my response:</em></p><p><em><br /></em></p><p>As Salaam Aliakum Brother as a black Man I can understand your thinking but during the civil rights movement days they use to sing a song called this maybe the last time that we see each other.<br />Because they knew they were walking into hell with a gasoline jacket and they didn't know who would come back alive or not! That's real but they believed in a principal more than the life they had. Dr. King said he wanted to live a long life like the next man but he wasn't concerned about that now he just wanted to do God's will and if that means his death so be it! Listen to his speech called the Knock at Midnight every body will get that knock dear brother and we must find Allah (GOD) for ourselves and know our life is for his glory! So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand Isaiah (41-10). I must say as a Muslim you have just made the police a god other than Allah we must never fear the enemy as you should fear Allah. That's the enemy's job to make you afraid they must make a punk out of you so they can rule you through fear! We must seek refuge with Allah from Satan. O you who believe, be maintainers of justice, bearers of witness for Allah, even though it<br />be against your own selves or (your) parents or near relatives — whether he be rich or poor, Allah has a better right over them both. So follow not (your) low desires, lest you deviate. And if you distort or turn away from (truth), surely Allah is ever Aware of what you do. We must say and do right because Allah is ever aware of what we do and he hates cowards!. Muslims are required to fight in the way of Allah, but we can fight only against those who waged war on us. Exactly the same limitation is placed on what was in all probability the first revelation permitting fighting: “Permission (to fight) is given to those on whom war is made because they are oppressed”. It is clear that us. Muslims are allowed to take up the sword only as a measure of self-defence. The enemies of Islam, being unable to suppress Islam by persecution, and seeing that Islam was now safe at Madinah and gaining strength, took up the sword to annihilate it. They knew that we Muslims were very few in number and they thought they could extirpate Islam, by resorting to the sword. Their war against Islam was a war for the annihilation of Islam, as stated further on: “They will not cease fighting you until they turn you back from your religion, if they can” (v. 217). No course was left for the Muslims but either to be swept off the face of the earth or take up the sword in defence against an enemy which was a thousand times stronger.</p><p>So Brother that is why Allah says in the Quran "And fight in the way of Allah against those who fight against you but be not aggressive. Surely Allah loves not the aggressors. And kill them wherever you find them,and drive them out from where they drove you out,and persecution is worse than slaughter. And fight not with them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight with you in it;so if they fight you (in it),slay them. Such is the recompense of the disbelievers.</p><p>But if they desist, then surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. And fight them until there is no persecution, and religion is only for Allah.But if they desist, then there should be no hostility except against the oppressors. The sacred month for the sacred month, and retaliation (is allowed) in sacred things. Whoever then acts aggressively against you, inflict injury on him according to the injury he has inflicted on you and keep your duty to Allah, and know that Allah is with those who keep their duty. And spend in the way of Allah and cast not yourselves to perdition with your own hands and do good (to others). Surely Allah loves the doers of good.</p><p>So if your not going to be in the occupy movement then make that stand based on disagreement with the movement. And not because your afraid of the enemy Allah hates cowards! I shall close with this "Hast thou not seen those to whom it was said: Withhold your hands, and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate. But when fighting is prescribed for them, lo! a party of them fear men as they ought to fear Allah, or with a greater fear, and say: Our Lord, why hast Thou ordained fighting for us? Wouldst Thou not grant us respite to a near term? Say: The enjoyment of this world is short, and the Hereafter is better for him who keeps his duty. And you shall not be wronged a whit." And this means The injunction to fight was distasteful, and more particularly so to those who were weak in faith. Had there been any hope of plunder to animate the ranks of Muslims, those who loved this world most (who are here called the hypocrites) would have been foremost in fighting; but as they knew that they were fighting against odds, they considered the execution of this order as equivalent to courting death, and requested to be granted a respite until they died a natural death.</p><p>Don't punk out be a Muslim not just in Name but in deed! As Salaam Aliakum! Enjoy the video!</p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4PPJi3yNvc&list=FLV8EziLQW6li08NoIAMICIg&index=27&feature=plpp_video">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4PPJi3yNvc&list=FLV8EziLQW6li08NoIAMICIg&index=27&feature=plpp_video</a></p><p><em><br /></em></p><p> </p></div>
Join the Wall of Support for Leonard Peltier
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/join-the-wall-of-support-for-leonard-peltier
2011-11-20T18:32:11.000Z
2011-11-20T18:32:11.000Z
Darcy Delaproser
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<div><p align="center"><strong><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="6">President Obama:</font></strong></p><p align="center"><font size="6"><strong><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Clemency for Leonard Peltier Now!</font></strong></font></p><p align="center"><strong><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="5">JOIN THE WALL OF SUPPORT:</font></strong></p><p align="center"><img src="http://www.jerichony.org/images21/WallofSolidarity.jpg" border="1" height="272" width="432" alt="WallofSolidarity.jpg" /></p><p align="center"><strong><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="5">STAND UP / STAND OUT<br />FOR<br />LEONARD PELTIER</font></strong></p><p align="center"><strong><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="5">December 2, 2011</font></strong></p><p align="center"><strong><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="5">Sunrise to Sunset</font></strong></p><p align="center"><strong><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="5">Bolivar Park, 1849 C Street, NW<br />Across from the U.S. Dept. of the Interior</font></strong></p><p align="left"><strong><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4">The Third White House Tribal Conference will be held at the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) in Washington, D.C. on December 2nd. Join us in Bolivar Park at 1849 C Street, NW, across the street from the DOI. From sunrise to sunset, we'll gather for a vigil and peaceful demonstration. Show the Obama Administration and tribal leaders that you stand with and support freedom for Leonard Peltier!</font></strong></p><p align="center"><strong><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4">Sponsored by the Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee<br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/">www.whoisleonardpeltier.info</a></font></strong></p><p align="center"><strong><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4">To download a flyer, click on the image below:</font></strong></p><p align="center"><strong><a target="_blank" href="http://www.jerichony.org/images21/12-2-11LPDOC.pdf"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><img src="http://www.jerichony.org/images21/12-2-11LPDOC.jpg" border="1" height="386" width="250" alt="12-2-11LPDOC.jpg" /></font></a></strong></p><p><br clear="all" /><br />-- <br /><font size="4"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/jerichocointelpro"><span>SIGN THE JERICHO COINTELPRO PETITION!</span></a><br /><br /><span>Free All Political Prisoners!</span><br /><a target="_blank" href="mailto:nycjericho@gmail.com">nycjericho@gmail.com</a><span> • </span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.jerichony.org/">www.jerichony.org</a></font></p><p> </p></div>
Juvenile Justice Reform: Cyntoia Brown, LIFE student at local prison, is subject of film shown at HumanDocs
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/juvenile-justice-reform-cyntoia-brown-life-student-at-local
2011-11-11T02:00:22.000Z
2011-11-11T02:00:22.000Z
Darcy Delaproser
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<div><p></p><div><img height="212" src="http://funphotobox.com/results/1014/funphotobox101404s3bbslff.jpg?r=28657" width="320" alt="funphotobox101404s3bbslff.jpg?r=28657" />Cyntoia Brown was just 16 years old when she was picked up by a 43-year-old man who ended up dead by her hand. In 2006, she was convicted for murder – as an adult – and sentenced to life in prison.</div><div>Today Cyntoia’s story is being told across the nation through the film <a href="http://www.itvs.org/films/me-facing-life"><strong><i>Me Facing Life: Cyntoia’s Story</i></strong></a>, a documentary for Independent Television Services (ITVS) by Daniel Birman. Lipscomb University’s <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/lipscomb.edu/humandocs/home"><strong>HumanDocs Film Series</strong></a> and ITVS Community Cinema are partnering to bring the film to audiences free of charge on <strong>Wednesday, Oct. 20</strong>, at <strong>8 p.m. </strong>in <strong>Shamblin Theatre</strong>, on the Lipscomb campus.</div><div>Six years after the murder, Brown is studying as a Lipscomb University undergraduate student – despite serving a life sentence in the prison at the Tennessee Prison for Women (TPFW) – as part of Lipscomb’s <a href="http://life.lipscomb.edu/"><strong>LIFE (Lipscomb Initiative For Education) program</strong></a>. Thirty students from campus spend one night a week studying side-by-side with the inmates for credit.</div><div>In addition to the screening of the film, Lipscomb will present a panel including the filmmaker; Brown’s adoptive mother Ellenette Brown (who is featured in the film); Randy Spivey, a local lawyer who has taught Brown in the Lipscomb program; and Preston Shipp, a former appellate prosecutor who worked on her case and who also happened to teach her through the LIFE program.</div><div>While Shipp was teaching Brown at TPFW, the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals that affirmed her conviction and sentence, leading to a life-changing decision for Shipp.</div><div>“I never thought I would befriend a defendant from one of my cases. In the judicial process class I taught at the prison, we studied various approaches to criminal justice: retributive, rehabilitative, and restorative. Between my friendship with Cyntoia and the curriculum I was teaching, I felt compelled to make a change in my career. It became impossible for me to be a cog in the wheel of a strictly punitive system,” said Shipp, who has left the Attorney General’s Office to work at the Board of Professional Responsibility.</div><p></p><table align="center" border="0" cellspacing="4"><tbody><tr><td><img src="http://news.lipscomb.edu/media.asp?SID=14&UKEY=34985" alt="media.asp?SID=14&UKEY=34985" /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div><b><u>About <i>Me Facing Life: Cyntoia’s Story</i></u></b></div><div>In <i>Me Facing Life,</i> Birman’s camera first sights Brown the week of her arrest at age 16 and follows her for nearly six years. Along the way, nationally renowned juvenile forensic psychiatrist, Dr. William Bernet from Vanderbilt University, assesses her situation. Ellenette Brown, Cyntoia’s adoptive mother talks about the young girl’s early years. And Georgina Mitchell, Cyntoia’s biological mother, meets her for the first time since she gave her up for adoption 14 years earlier.</div><div>What mystified filmmaker Birman was just how common violence among youth is and just how rarely assumptions about it are questioned. <i>Me Facing Life</i> uncovers three generations of violence in Brown’s maternal line that play into her psychological complexity. The viewer watches her grow to become a woman in five years and hears about the insights she gains along the way.</div><div><i>Cyntoia’s Story</i> was produced by The Independent Television Service (ITVS), which is the co-producing partner with PBS of the Emmy-winning <i>Independent Lens</i> television series. It is scheduled to air on PBS stations nationwide in May 2011. A rough cut of the film was screened at the Nashville Film Festival earlier this year.</div><div><b><u>Juvenile Justice in Nashville and the USA</u></b></div><div>The Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands and Waller Lansden is sponsoring a workshop, featuring <i>Me Facing Life</i> and filmmaker Dan Birman, to provide continuing legal education credits for attorneys at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 20, at the Nashville City Center. Cost is $100. To register for the workshop contact Cindy Durham at cdurham@las.org.</div><div><b><u>About the LIFE Program</u></b></div><p></p><table align="right" border="0" cellspacing="4"><tbody><tr><td><img src="http://news.lipscomb.edu/media.asp?SID=14&UKEY=34991" alt="media.asp?SID=14&UKEY=34991" /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div>The LIFE (Lipscomb Initiative for Education) Program, coordinated by Dr. Richard Goode (615-966-5748), provides Lipscomb University students an academic and service-learning experience like few others. Up to 30 students each semester enroll in a liberal arts course held on-site at the Tennessee Prison for Women (TPFW) and study alongside 30 inmates of the prison. The mix of students and specifically designed coursework provides academic and character-building benefits for both students at the prison and students from campus.</div><div>The LIFE Program is unique in that every student in the classroom is a Lipscomb student. ”Outside” students are working on bachelor’s degrees, while “inside” students are working toward 18 hours of liberal arts credit that could be transferred to most universities. Through a higher education designed to introduce students to great thinkers, diverse cultures, critical thinking and effective communication, the LIFE students at TPFW are empowered intellectually, psychologically, socially and spiritually.</div><div><b><u>About the HumanDocs Film Series</u></b></div><div>The Lipscomb University School of Humanities in the College of Arts & Sciences presents the HumanDocs Film Series, free monthly screenings of award-winning documentaries exploring social justice issues. The fall series began in September with<i>Crude</i>. <i>God in America</i>, <i>Sin by Silence</i> and <i>Me Facing Life: Cyntoia’s Story</i> are scheduled for October, and <i>Deep Down</i> will be shown in November. Each film will be followed by a panel discussion, often including the filmmaker. These events are all free and open to the public.</div><div>For more information on the HumanDocs Film Series, e-mail<a href="mailto:humandocs@lipscomb.edu" target="_blank"><strong>humandocs@lipscomb.edu</strong></a> or log on to the <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/lipscomb.edu/humandocs/home"><strong>HumanDocs</strong></a> website.</div><p></p></div>
It's Hamer Time
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/it-s-hamer-time
2011-10-21T05:11:41.000Z
2011-10-21T05:11:41.000Z
Raynard Jackson
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<div><p><b>October 20, 2011</b></p><p><b> </b></p><p><b>Raynard Jackson</b></p><p><b> </b></p><p>Fannie Lou Hamer (pronounced hay-mer) was one of the unsung pillars of the civil rights movement in the U.S. She was a phenomenal woman—a woman of great determination and great purpose. She was not one to hold back her feelings, especially when fighting for equality.</p><p> </p><p>In 1964 she was elected Vice-Chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP). Their stated purpose was to challenge Mississippi’s all-white delegation to the Democratic National Convention (DNC) which was held in Atlantic City, New Jersey.</p><p> </p><p>Democratic President, Lyndon Johnson was furious that a group of Blacks would challenge the Democratic Party and interfere with his reelections plans. Johnson often referred to Hamer as “that illiterate woman.”</p><p> </p><p>Out of desperation, Johnson sent top Democratic Party officials to negotiate with the MFDP, most notably, Senator Hubert Humphrey from Minnesota (he was lobbying very hard for Johnson to choose him as his running mate for Vice President). </p><p> </p><p>Johnson offered to give the MFDP two non-voting seats at the upcoming convention in exchange for their silence and had secured the endorsement of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).</p><p> </p><p>Humphrey had indicated to the group that if the group didn’t agree to this deal, Johnson would not choose him as his running mate. Hamer was always considered the moral conscious of the group and here is her response to Humphrey: “<i>Do you mean to tell me that your position is more important than four hundred thousand black people's lives? Senator Humphrey, I know lots of people in Mississippi who have lost their jobs trying to register to vote. I had to leave the plantation where I worked in Sunflower County, Mississippi. Now if you lose this job of Vice-President because you do what is right, because you help the MFDP, everything will be all right. God will take care of you. But if you take [the nomination] this way, why, you will never be able to do any good for civil rights, for poor people, for peace, or any of those things you talk about. Senator Humphrey, I'm going to pray to Jesus for you."</i></p><p><i> </i></p><p>As a result of her principled stand, Hamer was excluded from future negotiations. Johnson was so afraid of Hamer that he pressured the MFDP to agree to allow the DNC to select the two delegates to be seated in order to prevent Hamer from being chosen. The MFDP ultimately rejected the proposed deal.</p><p> </p><p>But what does that say about the rest of the leadership of the MFDP—that they would allow their “moral conscious” from attending future meetings? </p><p> </p><p>Black leadership, those sanctioned by whites, have always been easy to silence because they have no conscious. They want to be liked. They want to seen in photographs.</p><p> </p><p>Of all of her many accomplishments, she was best known for what would eventually be the epitaph that would be written on the tombstone on her grave: “I am sick and tired of being sick and tired."</p><p> </p><p>Where are the Fannie Lou Hamers of today? I cannot imagine Hamer allowing Obama, Pelosi and Reid to get away with their total disregard of issues of concern to the Black community. I can’t imagine her “cutting a deal” just to get an invitation to the White House are to be seen standing next to someone in power. She never lost sight of the goal.</p><p> </p><p>Hamer had very little leverage, other than moral suasion, to use against Johnson and the Democrats; but yet forced the DNC to change their platform for the 1968 election. Today, Blacks have money, votes, and media; but lack the will to use moral suasion or any other means to affect change.</p><p> </p><p>The supposed Black leaders of today seem only to be concerned about being invited to the White House for a photo opportunity. Black Elected officials are too afraid of criticizing Obama. But what are they afraid of? Obama hasn’t given them anything that he could take away from them! Yet, in my private conversations with many of these people, they constantly complain about how Obama is ignoring them and their issues. </p><p> </p><p>Are they not “sick and tired of being sick and tired?”</p><p> </p><p>California representative Maxine Waters is one of the few elected officials to publically criticize Obama, but she also apologizes to him in the same sentence.</p><p> </p><p>So, to all my Black Democratic friends, I challenge you to get on the phone to your Black leaders and all the Democratic Party officials and let them know in no uncertain terms that “it’s Hamer time!”</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>), Freedom’s Journal Magazine (</i><a href="http://www.freedomsjournal.net/"><i>www.freedomsjournal.net</i></a><i>), and U.S. Africa Magazine (</i><a href="http://www.usafricaonline.com/"><i>www.usafricaonline.com</i></a><i>).</i></p></div>
Middle Passage Reversal Project: "COMPLETING THE CYCLE OF FREEDOM" - Caribbean cruise
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2011-07-11T13:30:00.000Z
2011-07-11T13:30:00.000Z
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<div><table id="yiv1543434066bodyDrftID" class="yiv1543434066" border="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;" id="yiv1543434066drftMsgContent"><div id="yiv1543434066"><table class="yiv1543434066" border="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;"><div><table class="yiv1543434066" border="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;"><div><table class="yiv1543434066" border="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;"><div><table class="yiv1543434066" border="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;"><div><table class="yiv1543434066" border="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;"><div><table class="yiv1543434066" border="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;"><div><table style="background-color:#e6e6e6;width:100%;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;" class="yiv1543434066SOLID" border="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;"><h1 style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;" align="left"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:8pt;"><font face="Wide Latin"><font size="4"><font color="#C00000">HERITAGE REVIVAL</font></font></font></span></h1><h1 style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;" align="left"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:8pt;"><font face="Wide Latin"><font size="4"><font color="#C00000">PROJECTS, INC.</font></font></font></span></h1><h1 style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;" align="left"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:8pt;"><font size="4" color="#C00000" face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><em>Middle Passage Reversal Project</em></font></span></h1><h1 style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;" align="left"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:8pt;"> </span></h1><h1 style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;" align="left"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:8pt;"><font size="4" color="#0000BF" face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">"COMPLETING THE CYCLE OF FREEDOM"</font></span></h1><h1 style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;" align="left"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:8pt;"><img src="http://www.juneteenth.com/mp2.jpg" width="406" border="0" height="286" alt="mp2.jpg" /><img alt="Royal Caribbean Freedom of the Seas" src="http://www.artofrealestateinvesting.com/images/Freedom_Exterior.jpg" width="435" height="250" /></span></h1><h1 style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;" align="left"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:8pt;"><font size="3" face="lucida console, sans-serif">INVITES YOU TO JOIN THE</font></span></h1><h1 style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;" align="left"><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:8pt;"> </span><font face="Wide Latin"><font size="3"><span><font color="#007F40">HERITAGE REVIVAL</font></span> <span style="font-weight:normal;"><font color="#007F40">CARIBBEAN CRUISE</font></span></font></font></h1><p style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv1543434066MsoNormal" align="left"><b><span style="font-family:serif;font-size:16pt;">On the</span></b> <b><span style="font-family:serif;font-size:16pt;">Royal Caribbean - Freedom of the Seas</span></b></p><h1 style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;" align="left"><span style="font-family:serif;"><font size="4">November 27th , 2011 to December 04th , 2011</font></span></h1><h1 style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;" align="left"><span><font size="3" color="#C00000"><em>ITINERARY</em></font></span></h1><h1 style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;" align="left"><span><font size="3" color="#0000BF">Pt Canaveral, Orlando – Labadee, Haiti – Falmouth, Jamaica – Georgetown, Grand Cayman – Cozumel, Mexico – Pt Canaveral</font></span></h1><h1 style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;" align="left"><span><font size="3" color="#C00000">Oceanview $879 Balcony 1 $995 Balcony 2 $ 1059</font></span></h1><h1 style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;" align="left"><span style="font-family:serif;"> </span><span style="font-family:'sans-serif';font-size:9pt;"><font size="3">The Heritage Revival Caribbean Cruise 2011 is organized under the single trade mark logo of “The Middle Passage Reversal Projects, by the Heritage Revival Projects (HRP) Inc. and the Afro-Pilgrimage Travel and Tours (APT), Corp., to both celebrate 2011 as the International Year for People of African Descent, as was proclaimed by the United Nations; and be a platform to launch the framework for a global dialogue among all peoples of African descent.</font></span></h1><h1 style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;" align="left"><span style="font-family:'sans-serif';font-size:9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family:'sans-serif';font-size:9pt;"><font size="3">Entitled “Rejuvenation of the Broken African Family: healing the wounds from slavery through dialogue”, its goals are to promote greater understanding among peoples of African descent; foster the appreciation of the bonds of common heritage that bind them, and advance a buy-in on the potential value of the wholesomeness of the global Africana community. As outcomes based structured conversation, it will be led by eminent scholars, experts, community leaders, cultural specialists, Pan African thinkers and leaders from the global Africana community. The proceedings will be video recorded and uploaded on the www and social media networks to spark an ongoing global dialogue among peoples of African heritage with a view towards developing a global agenda for their communal development.</font></span></h1><h1 style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;" align="left"><span style="font-family:'sans-serif';font-size:9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family:'sans-serif';font-size:9pt;"><font size="3">The cruise will also provide the backdrop for the unveiling of plans for the launching of the first of a series of Middle Passage Reversal Journey ( MPJ). 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The Moral Limits of Freedom
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2011-03-31T19:20:28.000Z
2011-03-31T19:20:28.000Z
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<div><strong><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://Muohio.edu" target="_blank">Rodney D. Coates</a></span></strong>*~<br /><p>I start from the basic premise that freedom is not an absolute. That is to say, one is not absolutely free, that there are obvious limits to our freedom seem unassailable. Simply put, our freedoms are limited to the extent that they impinge upon the freedom on another. Having said that, exactly what are these limits and what is the nature of these limits. My mother would remind me often that “The fact that I can do something does not mean that I should do that thing.” The determination of what freedoms I might exercise versus those which I should not is more than a question of expedience. Rather, the determination should be a question of morality. </p><p>I understand that in this day and age, the idea of morality is rarely invoked. Morality, that strange idea that some things are not only wrong, but repulsively so. The fact that we are rarely repulsed suggests that our moral compass is either broken or way off course. And our lack of moral guides means that we fail to become or recognize those events or situations that allow us, in the words of Stéphane Hessel, “Indignez-vous” or to get indignant. At 91 Mr. Hessel, a former WWII French Resistance freedom fighter, argues that our inability or unwillingness to become indignant lies at the heart of many of our social problems, ills, and apathy. The fact that we have lost this capacity to get morally outraged means that we are so easy to dismiss, marginalize, or disregard problems such as child pornography and the international human trafficking, extreme poverty and pandemics, global warming and disasters, homophobic and other hate crimes, entrenched racial and sexual inequities, xenophobia and imperialism. I would go even further by argue that many of these morally indefensible problems often hide behind the veneer of freedom. And it is to these ill conceived notions of freedom that I would place limits on in the name of morality.</p><p>In the name of free markets, freedom of speech, and freedom ‘writ large’ many would excuse the wonton destruction of children’s lives in sweat shops in Bangladesh, India, or throughout the developing world. It is in the name of cultural freedom that female genital mutilation, honor killings (where Pakistani, Indian, or Kurdish teenage girls can murder if they dared to want to reject the husbands chosen for them). There are even those who argue that when homosexuals in this country, or around the globe, are singled out for viscous hate crimes –they essentially got what they deserved for daring “to choose to be gay”. Many argue that such things as blood diamonds, deforestation, off shore drilling, mining, and etc. are more easily and effectively handled by a free market. As a consequence –sustainable wages, genocide, environmental disasters, and global toxicity are all dismissed or assumed less important than virtually, unregulated free markets. It is the free markets, by the way which has produced or at least encouraged much of the African Debt crises, Middle Eastern Political Instability, and the current world recession. Freedom is more than just a word and freedom is more that a right. Freedom is also a responsibility which must be conditioned by moral proscriptions.</p><p>Moral proscriptions tied to freedom would impose categorical limits on just how free we are. Recognizing the non-universality of religion, I support deriving these categorical limits from social justice. At the very least, a social justice informed morality would limit freedom to categorical equals, categorical equity, and categorical imperatives. For brevities sake, let us examine a few examples. A social justice morality emphasizing equality would recognize that the only way a free market can operate is if both capital and labor are free to negotiate prices, wages, and profits. A market that only recognizes the right of corporations and not the rights of labor by definition would therefore be patently unjust. A social justice morality emphasizing equity would recognize that differing levels of inequality or origins (born into poverty, born with disabilities, etc.) cannot presume, by definition, equal treatment or opportunities. It would therefore recognize that equality might actually represent a liability, and a principle of equity is more advisable. Such a system recognizes that those starting off with obvious liabilities would need more resources –educationally, medical, etc. – then those with more. Thus , an equitable system would, while patently unequal, allow for the maximization of individual/group development and consequently freedom. Lastly, a social justice morality reflecting categorical imperatives –would prioritize humans over machines, societies over corporations, and environments over profits. </p><p>The fullest _expression_ of human potential can only be realized by recognizing and incorporating these moral proscriptions into the very fabric of our social contract. Doing so will increase the likelihood that we will ultimately develop sustainable societies, developments, and a world that values humanity.<br /> <br /></p><p>*Note: Rodney D. Coates is professor of social justice, sociology and gerontology at Miami University</p><p>He can be reached at <a href="http://muohio.edu" target="_blank">coatesrd@muohio.edu</a></p><p> </p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;" class="western"><font color="#993300"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><u><strong>Posted by TheBlackList</strong></u></font></font> <font face="Tahoma"><u><strong>– <br /></strong></u></font><a href="http://www.theblacklistpub.nin.comwhat/"><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-style:normal;"><u><strong title="http://www.theblacklistpub.nin.comwhat/ CTRL + Click to follow link">http://www.theblacklistpub.nin.com</strong></u></span></font></font></font></a><font color="#993300"><font face="Impact, sans-serif"><span style="background:#ffff99;"><br />Follow me on <a title="http://twitter.com/theblacklist CTRL + Click to follow link" href="http://twitter.com/theblacklist">Twitter</a> and on <a title="http://www.facebook.com/KwasiAkyeampong.theblacklist CTRL + Click to follow link" href="http://www.facebook.com/KwasiAkyeampong.theblacklist">Facebook<br /></a>PhoneMeYourNews @ 646-820-5210<br /></span></font></font></p></div>
Erected Noses Play :( my own symbolic drama)
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2011-03-09T15:20:36.000Z
2011-03-09T15:20:36.000Z
Morti Meni
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<div>There were chairs and a clock shaped in nose form including Secretary with long nose too in medical office in Tehran in June 22.Dokhi: I was waiting for 4 yrs. and it was nice to make an appointment finally Doctor skilled in nose removal and have him examined my nose to make decision.Chol Mokh(Half-witted brain) : O h . yes , he is skillful for healing , he puts a huge nose on the face and forces the man to fly like eagle .Vow! All the time blush and make up in the front of mirror and repeats emotionally his words , she is the nicest but dull because she always makes up herself and talk with her cell phone yes the New Year , New Nose , New Year & New Nose ….Doctor : The waiting room darkened but examine room lightened (First of all, I really never operate , I put my emotional statue on your face in order to make you nicer , more attractive and delightful encountering with you companions , it is evident that you seem nicer ) .Panduli(Pendulum) : Dear Doctor , what is the latest fashion ?Doctor: See, we concentrated on respectful organ, what a amaze that you ladies think materially!Panduli(Pendulum) : What model is up to date nowadays ?Doctor: Look surprisingly!Panduli(Pendulum) : Vow , I asked stupid question , everybody knows that the French model seems upright .Doctor: Stretches his hands toward him.Panduli(Pendulum) : Of course it is manipulated by your agile hands.Doctor: Dropped his hands and turned his face and continued that we are men as a result we are able to make decision; it is pity to see people are defeated easily by European models.Are ready Panduli ? Are you Nose modeler or culture maker?Doctor: I do cultural task.Panduli(Pendulum) : You have nothing for cultural woks because you are careless about other believes , you would better to find other job .Doctor : let me make my decision first then you shall abide by it .Panduli(Pendulum) : Ok , I am agree with you .I am always agree with , now it is better to do that too.Dr. : OK. At first we check out up to date the 3 D fashions popular among the youths and finally we print 2 top models , a copy set aside for yourself in order to show it to your friends and relatives the remaining copy retained by myself to check it with renown painters , statue makers and graphic designer to find out the best choice.Panduli(Pendulum) : What a beautiful fad !Dokhi: The waiting room gets bright (I have a friend who hated to meet her lovers ,therefore she have rhinoplasty and closed up by one 1st class lovers) .Imitator (Dahanbin, Whimsical): she was disclosed by herself with new nose in the New Year, new nose, the New Year, new nose….Secretary : She switches on the T.V. to start off training film (the logo training man , why you have yours nose healing patch ?the logo training woman , I have it truncated then I put a healing patch by doctor to suppress its re-growth ).The logo training man : You have rhinoplasty for me …. Whose permission granted to take such decision , it is pity I am going to break the marriage.The logo training woman : Are you permitted to make body building and fitted your chest and arm for showing muscles ? It is stupidity to take your permission for rhinoplasty .The logo training man : I spent a lot of time to make body building , what if I managed to reach the optimal fitted body by pills and ampoules within several months.the logo training woman : Is it impossible to take my own decision to have rhinoplasty ? you should be proud by such a body building so as to control my freedom easily.the logo training man : I am wisdom to take rightful decision but you are tender emotionally by encountering harsh reality , you seem like French who are seeking freedom , whether you ought to shape your nose similar those people by bleeding and struggles , you had better to have your mind surgery instead of nose then you proudly claim freedom on one hand and keep your nose upside position to show your nose like French.the logo training woman : Sarcastically (freedom breeze …!!!, talk , put down slogan , why you try to keep the freedom inside of your fashionable mind.the logo training man : Why are inflexible , I am not a wisdom man irrationally , I operate a few of fledging figures , puppets and models of stupid men every day, I am really oppose to those functions , I usually sleep with confusing senses , but everybody choose a job to make money ,the logo training woman : But you are nonsense about justice , you manipulate the strange women but your don't care about my nose ? It is hard to say that you are partner.the logo training man : I am your partner for life not for your nose, there is an area in delta form between your nose and mouth it is prohibited point otherwise it affects brain negatively.the logo training woman : Either negative or positive effect what is the consequences , you have a ruined brain , how long are you going to live more ,May be it gets 20 to 30 more years, at aging time it is impossible to do any more .the logo training man : Our body never to be body insure like a car, we maneuver it by ram and hammer ,because beforehand we got permission to do that and we collect our fee without caring about the result even it is possible to develop problem in breathing even the nose may get bad shape and to lose smell sense due to surgery made by surgeon , but if a unskillful specialty operated the nose then the Hiroshima disaster may reoccurred on the face of doll , I knew the woman who had her face rhinoplasty by a skilful specialty but her nose truncated badly it seems butt as a result she forced to have prosthesis nose.Chol Mokh(Half-witted brain) : Addressed the secretary , please turn off the set it is hard to see those showsImitator (Dahanbin, Whimsical): Please save us from negative energy .Secretary : We are bound to show those people who are going to get nose operated , I am oppose to rhinoplasty ,but I had to watch it many times , we ought to tolerate it like the smokers who afford the images of healthy & hurt lungs.Dokhi: speak politely madam , how you dare to compare us with addicted people, you should make pardon ,otherwise we say good bye and leave your office.Secretary : I never maintain this office but this office drives me to stay here , therefore you have problem with contradict ideas and democracy , hence you are free to have rhinoplasty so that nobody to annoy you for large nose .Imitator (Dahanbin, Whimsical): Angrily (shut off , shut down the set) .Dokhi: Don`t worry and let us to be relax , bring a paper to sign it and confess to watch that film a lot of times and we are aware of implications arisen by rhinoplasty .Imitator (Dahanbin, Whimsical): Speaks over the New Year , new nose following set shut down , everybody laughs ,meanwhile the hall door opened suddenly , there was an angry woman walking toward the medical office but the door was latched.Nahanjar(Abnormal) : Madam , talk to physician that I wanted to see him .Secretary : Why are you in hurry?..... Where are you rushing to?Nahanjar(Abnormal) : to any place better than this placeChol Mokh(Half-witted brain) : You want to shortcut the destination rout .Imitator (Dahanbin, Whimsical): We are not nonsense creature that everybody wants to enter immediately .Nahanjar(Abnormal) : I am not ordinary person , I am the wife of doctor .Secretary : Everybody seems alike against the rule of law, you are his wife at your house not here.Nahanjar(Abnormal) : Loudly and proudly (It is an ugly conduct to treat with wife of employer ) .Secretary : I didn`t know that Dr. Zi Zi is here.Nahanjar(Abnormal) : He turned you curt to say bad words , I force you to leave the office right away.Doctor : Called up (what is the magnitude of the earthquake over there?) .Secretary : It is magnitude free , it is your wife .Doctor : The door opened (what a beautiful , welcome )Chol Mokh(Half-witted brain) : She hasn't come here by force ,she joint you without an appointment .Imitator (Dahanbin, Whimsical): She came here by lip money .Nahanjar(Abnormal) : What is lip money , it is a struggle , I came here to shut down your shop and comeback home , we have collected enough money for daily expenses.Doctor: You turned crazy , I am sorry for bad news over nose of your friend .Nahanjar(Abnormal) : Accident ! Did you operate her in spite of recommendation .Doctor : It is routine , whenever I made surgery over recommended client …. I am sorry , I am ready to pay damages in spite of no commitment for nose deviation correction .Nahanjar(Abnormal) : Kicked garbage bin angrily (listen doctor :I came here of block the accident for ever).Doctor : He addressed the secretary (Call police ) .Secretary : Pardon , she is your wife !Doctor : It is my office , I secured obligation , therefore I don't care .Secretary : A woman came here and caused problem and interfere with business of a citizen .Police : HelloNahanjar(Abnormal) : You called police for me ? I am your wife.Doctor : The present moment is critical , you serve my competitors .Nahanjar(Abnormal) : Are you unable to tolerate my objections and called up police , are you a nobleman ?Doctor : See , I hate to hurt a woman physically , but if you resist and confuse my clients then I smash you .Secretary : The law supports us .Doctor : Which rule, the law which is changed by governing powers or it is confiscated by wealthy men, laws means we can do whatever want .Nahanjar(Abnormal) : Puts his two index fingers on his head as horn and mews like a cow… (you are stick man not a doctor).Doctor : Punch the nose of his wife .Nahanjar : Brings out a napkin to clean her nose (did you see that he hit me) .Police : He checked out your nose , if you defame me , we have to arrest you.Nahanjar(Abnormal) : Secretary (madam you always talks about rule , what is your opinion) .Secretary : I am unable to say beyond what the police say.Nahanjar(Abnormal) : Did you blind to see what was happened just one minute ago.Chol Mokh(Half-witted brain) : We looked the scene from a single angle , it is better to handle the issue carefully.Clients : clapping and whistlingImitator (Dahanbin, Whimsical): Stood up from his chair and talked with handset and exit the office (yes , my nose not enough large not understand what happened around myself) , Whispering and exits the office (oh, my nose it was an opportunity to save unhurt) . everybody surprised .Nahanjar(Abnormal) : I feel somebody depressDokhi: Rose up from his chair and communicate his dialogs with others and exit the office (keep my turn I shall turn back latter on).Chol Mokh(Half-witted brain) : Speaks nasally and exit the office too (the cutting blade shall never be sharpened by this money maker doctor) .Doctor : Addressed his secretary (I employed you by such a big nose in order to sooth my consciousness on one hand and hated to encourage the clients to have rhinoplasty. now it is your turn to get your nose operated with free costs after 30 years of work experience).Secretary : Rose up and talked to doctor and exits the office (The French are renown for their noses, while our villages in Ardebil afford more sophisticated facilities, it is unfair to let myself ) .Nahanjar(Abnormal) : Oh , Dr. (as status quo) , rubs bloody nose (it should undergo surgery in spite of my believes & trust) .Doctor : Says utterances without caring his wife and exits (I left you alone with your broken nose and believes) .Police : Discussed (we risk and cause pacific atmosphere, in the contrary the employees at oil refinery receive high salary under peaceful work area as a result they repel us ) ,Nahanjar(Abnormal) : They transgress rights of other people .Police : It is odds , you are educated woman , it is unusual to speak oddly at public areas.Nahanjar(Abnormal) : It is true either it seems ugly or real that our community sense those ideas , I am unable to tell lies and act like hypocritical people.Police : At least utter in low tune .Nahanjar(Abnormal) : I want to speak loudly in order to make sense for those who disguised they are deaf .Police : They talk to each other and left there (don't care , he speaks like this , he damaged and repelled by community , it is better leave him alone )Nahanjar(Abnormal) : The scene is dark, the profile of the woman projected by a rounded light (to feel the freedom it is not necessary to undergo rhinoplasty like French) , just it enough to speak proudly and keep our head upright .Panduli(Pendulum) : ( The visiting room is lightened ) a client waits for doctor and looks watch ,meanwhile puts his right leg on the ground then rose and groaning and left the room , he exits the room (when our community forget the people easily , who care about the nose) .</div>
scott sisters in need of our help
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2011-01-13T00:00:00.000Z
2011-01-13T00:00:00.000Z
moorbey
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<div><div class="mvm plm uiStreamAttachments clearfix uiAttachmentNoMedia"><div><div class="fsm fwn fcg"><div class="uiAttachmentTitle"><strong><span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=488995243379&id=100000288218071">Scott Sisters are in need of our help</a></span></strong></div><div class="mts uiAttachmentDesc">I honestly don’t know what to say. The unity we exhibited in the effort to free Jamie and Gladys Scott seems a mere fragment of imagination. They are FREE, but the war is far from won. The terms of their release are unethical and the financial burden they face is enormous. ...<div><div class="uiTextSubtitle">By: <span class="uiAttachmentDetails"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/moorbey">James Harris</a></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
Palestinian Chief Editor, Jared Malsin, American, detained by Israel.
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2010-01-13T20:14:04.000Z
2010-01-13T20:14:04.000Z
jo wescott
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<div>...The English Desk at Ma'an News Agency, the largest independent news network in the Palestinian territories, is deeply concerned that its chief editor, Jared Malsin, an American citizen [and graduate of Yale University], was detained on Tuesday afternoon upon arriving at Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv. He is slated for imminent deportation.In what can only be explained as a retaliatory measure for Malsin's reporting on Palestine, his long-term girlfriend, Faith Rowold, a two-year, registered volunteer with the Lutheran Church in Jerusalem, was also seized and placed in a holding cell pending deportation. Israeli security agents have prevented the couple from making calls, and lied to concerned American consular staff, denying that the two were even being held.While the US Embassy is protesting both incidents, and is in constant contact with our staff on the ground, diplomatic officials say that there is little they can do when Israel cites "security reasons" for the denial of entry. Meanwhile, Israeli security officials have quietly expressed concern to Ma’an over this latest abuse of power by authorities at the Interior Ministry, skeptical that the professional journalist they know could be deemed a threat.For its part, Israel has yet to specify any allegations against Malsin, who indicated - just before his phone was seized by airport guards - that during his hours of interrogation, security agents inexplicably questioned him over his supposed ties to international peace activists, with whom he has no relationship.Ma'an scrupulously maintains its editorial independence and aims to promote access to information, freedom of expression, press freedom, and media pluralism in Palestine. It has no other agenda. Israel's arbitrary detention of the head of its English Desk is an affront to professional journalists not only in Palestine, but also to journalists in Israel and abroad, who rely on Ma'an for its accuracy, impartiality, and independence... Full reportMa'an report:Order of EventsJared's phone was confiscated by El Al security officials when he boarded a flight in the Czech Republic on 12 January 2010. He was denied the opportunity to make any calls to his consulate, his family or a lawyer between 11am (upon boarding) and 11pm (when his mobile was briefly returned).In what can only be explained as a retaliatory measure for Malsin's reporting on Palestine, his long-term girlfriend, Faith Rowold, a two-year, registered volunteer with the Lutheran Church in Jerusalem, was also seized and placed in a holding cell pending deportation.At 4pm when the flight was disembarked in Tel Aviv, Faith used the phone of a fellow traveler, an Israeli national, in the restroom of the airport. She called her sister with a brief message saying she had landed but indicated that there were problems.At 6:30pm, the office of US Citizen Services was contacted in Jerusalem. Officials called Israeli airport authorities, who assured them that there were no American citizens being held there at that time. The names of Jared and his companion, also a US national, were reportedly not flagged. The official suggested the couple were out having a good time in Tel Aviv and had simply not gotten in touch.The official also said local police should be contacted if Jared were actually missing, but assured that his contacts at the airport were not holding him. Ma'an staff asked if the official could confirm whether or not Jared and his companion had in fact cleared immigration.Jared used the mobile of a French traveler admitted to the detention hall at 8:30pm to call his Faith's sister again and asked a colleague to immediately contact the US Embassy. He said he was being questioned and feared being denied entry into Israel; he provided passport numbers for himself and his fellow traveler.The US Consulate official was contacted again with the information that Jared was not out in Tel Aviv, but had in fact been in Israeli custody since 11am that morning. The official immediately expressed concern and said he would call his contacts again at the airport.The official called back at after 9pm and asked for more information on Jared and his fellow traveler: are they married, is she pregnant, is there a Palestinian connection, what newspaper does Jared write for, etc.The consulate official was informed that Jared worked with Ma'an. He was also informed that while the US, EU and UK fund programs and productions with the Ma'an Network, that staff at each of the consulates consult the English Desk site daily, even hourly, the State of Israel does not recognize Ma'an as a news organization, and therefore denies its journalists press accreditation.By 11pm, both Jared and Faith were informed that they had been denied entry. Their mobile phones were returned to them for two hours, and then confiscated just after midnight when they were transferred to holding cells.At 8am, the US consular official was contacted, called security at the airport and was informed that Jared and Faith were set to be deported at 6am on 14 January 2010, on the next direct flight to Prague, where they had been vacationing a week before.For further comment, please contact:George Hale (English)+972(0)52.785-4907Raed Othman (Arabic)+972(0)59.925-8704Hakim Abdul Salah (Hebrew)+972(0)59.895-1151Full story</div>
Religious Round Table Discussion
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2009-07-15T18:58:05.000Z
2009-07-15T18:58:05.000Z
Adisa Franklin
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<div>WTLZ Radio-The Liberation Zone invites you to check our Religious Round Table Discussion where you can get questions answered that you can’t even ask in Church. This weeks guest is Pastor Reginald Walter Howard Founder and Spiritual Director of Truth & Transformation Ministries in College Park, Ga & Minister Astere Asaka from Greater Baptist Church in Detroit Mi. Join us Wednesday @ 7pm-9pm est.Several weeks ago we began our dialogue on Religious Customs, Traditions and Beliefs. Last week we discussed Religion and Your Mental Health with Me’Shi Avery. Many of you expressed an interest and thought we had hit a vital subject that needs to be discussed publicly.We believe that we not only can but must question and challenge both Customs and Traditions and long accepted beliefs that have passed down to us by our well meaning family members. We must bring these questions into the public arena in order to shed light on them for the extended family. Could it be that the religion that you are clinging to is infested with superstition, pagan practices and beliefs? Could you be involved in idol worship and don’t know it? Is Christianity the Cult of Cults? Get your questions answered tonight on WTLZ Radio-The Liberation Zone.Let us together; “Try church doctrine, beliefs and practices and see if they be of God”.Click on my page to follow the link to the broadcast.In Service to the Family,Minister Adisa FranklinSpiritual AbolitionistFounder/CEOWTLZ Radio-The Liberation Zone</div>
Religious Independence
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2009-06-19T20:07:52.000Z
2009-06-19T20:07:52.000Z
Adisa Franklin
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<div>Greetings Family,Are we adult enough to question or even challenge the customs and traditions of our parents and grandparents? Is Chistianity a blessing or a curse? Bishop T.D. Jakes thinks it has been both. Do we need a Religious Independence Day (R.I.D.)?Tune in tonight June Tenth (June 19th) from 7-9:00pm EST as your host Minister Adisa Franklin author of The Liberation of the African Mind: The Key to Black Salvation and Repent: From Jesus Back To God and founder of R.I.D. as well as WTLZ Radio discusses the need for Religious Independence.Are we really free indeed? Have we become so heavenly bound that we are no earthly good? Why with a church on every corner are we not more empowered? Why all the emphasis on tithing and getting a blessing from God? Do I have to ttihe to be blessed of God? Do we need a new standard among Black Church Leaders? Do I have to believe everything that the preacher is saying? Lets talk about these and other important subjects tonight family!Go to <a href="http://www.blacksalvation.com/wtlz">http://www.blacksalvation.com/wtlz</a> right now and lock it in for this evenings talk show!In Service to the Family,Minister Adisa FranklinSpiritual Abolitionist</div>
Supreme Court Deneis A Hearing For Troy
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2008-11-29T21:30:00.000Z
2008-11-29T21:30:00.000Z
MetroSistah
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<div>In the Name of AllahThe case of Troy Anthony Davis, Brother Mumia, Javon Dawson, Sean Bell, Amadou Diallo, the so-called SF8 on and on and on and on proves beyond the shadow of a doubt. Meakes me ask the question: Why are we still celebrating every hollowday, especially Hollomas that our slave-master can come up with...we ain't pick'n cotton! Or are we?<b>Messenger Elijah Muhammad: "THERE IS NO JUSTICE IN AMERICA FOR THE SO-CALLED NEGROS WHO HAVE SHED OUR BLOOD SWEAT AND TEARS BUILDING THE COUNTRY ONLY TO RECEIVE THE WORST TREATMENT ANY NATION OF PEOPLES HAVE EVER HAD TO ENDURE!"</b><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828504502,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="" width="210" height="309" style="float:left;" /><b><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828504465,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="" width="150" height="150" style="float:left;" /><a href="https://secure.aclu.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&id=906&page=UserAction&s_src=blog%3C/b">PETITION: SAVE TROY</a>The New York TimesOctober 15, 2008<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/15/washington/15execute.html?hp">Justices Clear Way for Execution in Georgia</a>By ROBBIE BROWN</b></div>
FREE ANGOLA 3
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2008-09-15T07:30:00.000Z
2008-09-15T07:30:00.000Z
HTS
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<div><b>SUPPORT ANGOLA3 WEB-PAGE<a href="http://www.angola3.org/">http://www.angola3.org/</a></b><p style="text-align:left;"><b><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828504308,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="" width="120" height="93" /></b></p><b>-----------------------------------------------------COLOR OF CHANGE PETITION ANGOLA3<a href="http://www.angola3.org/">http://colorofchange.org/angola3/</a>---------------------------------------------------ANGOLA-3 YOU-TUBE<object width="425" height="344" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/RorvRbUWWTE&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never" ></param><param name="allowNetworking" value="internal" ></param><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RorvRbUWWTE&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&fs=1" ></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="false" ></param><embed wmode="opaque" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RorvRbUWWTE&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344" allowscriptaccess="never" allownetworking="internal"></embed></object></b></div>
AFRIKA RISING: ORY
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2008-09-06T07:33:56.000Z
2008-09-06T07:33:56.000Z
MetroSistah
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<div><b>ORY OKOLLOHMAKING OF AN AFRICAN ACTIVIST</b><a href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/ory_okolloh.html"></a><a href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/ory_okolloh.html">http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/ory_okolloh.html</a><object width="220" height="175" data="http://static.videoegg.com/ted2/flash/loader.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never" ></param><param name="allowNetworking" value="internal" ></param><param name="movie" value="http://static.videoegg.com/ted2/flash/loader.swf" ></param><param name="wmode" value="window" ></param><embed wmode="opaque" src="http://static.videoegg.com/ted2/flash/loader.swf" flashvars="bgColor=FFFFFF&file=http://static.videoegg.com/ted/movies/OryOkolloh_2007G-embed-Nokia_high.flv&autoPlay=false&fullscreenURL=http://static.videoegg.com/ted/flash/fullscreen.html&forcePlay=false&logo=&allowFullscreen=true" allowscriptaccess="never" width="320" height="285" name="VE_Player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allownetworking="internal"></embed></object></div>