human - Blogs - TheBlackList Pub2024-03-29T06:15:42Zhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/humanThe ZYG 808 Presents Keynote Address At Cape Cod Human Rights Academy Conferencehttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/the-zyg-808-presents-keynote-address-at-cape-cod-human-rights2019-05-13T12:00:00.000Z2019-05-13T12:00:00.000ZMwalim *7) DaPhunkeeProfessorhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/Mwalim7DaPhunkeeProfessor<div><p>The Cape Cod Human Rights Commission recently hosted their Human Rights Academy for high school <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}3828613012,original{{/staticFileLink}}" target="_blank"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828613012,original{{/staticFileLink}}" width="409" class="align-right" height="310" alt="3828613012?profile=original" /></a>students, hosted at Cape Cod Academy. Students from 11 of the fourteen public and private high schools on Cape Cod participated. This year the keynote speaker was Hip-Hop Jazz artist, ZYG 808 who performed his song "Insanity" and delivered a rousing keynote speech on the importance of leveling the social playing field to achieve effective human rights work by recognizing and eradicating the socially engrained elements of white supremacy in our society.</p><p>ZYG 808 (Morgan J Peters, II) is completing his sophomore year at Mashpee Middle High School where he is an honor student. Along with his work in Hip-Hop Jazz, the 2-time Grammy nominee has been engaged in several initiatives around social justice and human rights.He is the chair of the Youth Committee for the Cape Cod NAACP as well as an active member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Youth Council.</p><p>This summer, ZYG 808 will be co-starring in the musical "The Sou Session" which is running every Saturday night through the summer in Provincetown. He is also currently working on his debut solo album for his own Soul Poets Records label.</p></div>NOT A POT TO PISS IN...https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/not-a-pot-to-piss-in2017-08-22T18:17:58.000Z2017-08-22T18:17:58.000ZTziona Yisraelhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/TzionaYisrael<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>Let's Take A Look at a Legend, Muammar Qaddafihttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/let-s-take-a-look-at-a-legend-muammar-qaddafi2016-06-25T19:54:55.000Z2016-06-25T19:54:55.000ZNana Baakan Agyiriwahhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/NanaBaakanAgyiriwah<div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;"><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><span style="font-weight:bold;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}3828586010,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="320" src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828586010,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-left" alt="3828586010?profile=original" /></a>NB COMMENTARY</span>: I am not sure why this thing about Qaddafi is coming up for me now. But when I opened my email I found an article about him and so I think I may have been called to it.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:cambria;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;"><blockquote class="tr_bq">Libya: Ten Things About Gaddafi They Don’t Want You To Know<br /> Posted by <a href="http://www.caribbeanfevercommunity.com/profile/ElBull">El-Bull</a> on April 24, 2016</blockquote></div><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue';font-size:10pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">So I used this article as a sign that I should go ahead and write the rant, I have been thinking about writing ever since the take down of Connel Qaddafi. I made a video playlist on YouTube and also a slideshow which was something else I wanted to do for some time now. I really liked the African Outfits he wore and the statement he was making by wearing them. He was eccentric, but being born on June 7, just like Prince Rogers Nelson and my very own son Mustafa Rashed, well, that seems to put it together, you have to be a bit eccentric to be a Gemini and particularly if you are born on June 7.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><a href="http://nanas-rants.blogspot.com/2016/06/lets-take-look-at-legend-muammar-qaddafi.html" target="_blank">SOURCE</a><br /> <br /><div style="text-align:center;"></div><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="560" height="315" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/f1r3fKCDeWo?wmode=opaque"></iframe></div></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:16pt;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;"><div style="text-align:center;">Gaddafi The Truth About Libya- Documentary</div></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><div style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv4NZxGD1RSwjM5EOKVJr4Q">xBLACKxOPSxSECRETSx2</a></div></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><div style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkTUDw0mjMA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkTUDw0mjMA</a></div></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><div style="text-align:center;"></div><div style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="560" height="315" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLRwF36V2kd5y6keFCLlK1PnVsMCGlB1sO&wmode=opaque"></iframe></div></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><span style="color:#404040;font-weight:bold;"><br /></span><span style="color:#404040;font-weight:bold;"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:18.6667px;font-weight:normal;">Below is a short discussion between myself and a YouTuber who said they were from Libya. It is their response to this video that was posted on YouTube. This video is part of the playlist that I created to be added to this blog.</span></span><br /> <span style="color:#404040;font-weight:bold;"><br /></span> <span style="color:#404040;font-weight:bold;">YOUTUBER RESPONSE</span><span style="color:#404040;">:</span> I'm Libyan and thanks for uploading such an amazing documentary about Libya. I agree about all the material in this video except two things which are: 1) when Qaddafi said all his people loved him '' in fact many people didn't like him especially in the east part of Libya (Benghazi City) as Qaddafi didn't like and ignored Benghazi. moreover, some people didn't like his regime, as he made Libya centrally controlled by the Capital (Tripoli), while the capital didn't manage to provide the basic stuff for the other cities and villages, consequently if you want to be happy in Libya you have to live in the capital . 2) Qaddafi never spent Libyan's money to build and develop Libya's infrastructure.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#404040;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">NB COMMENTARY:</span> I don't think this video is put up for the purpose of making folks believe that everybody loved Qaddafi, however, no country has the right to go into another country, infiltrate it with dissenters, arm them and then juice them up to kill t heir leaders. If that was done in any European country that would be the cause of world war III, and that's all we are saying. No country has all its people loving its leadership. </div><div style="color:#404040;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Leadership by its' very nature can be, has been and continues to be corrupt. But that doesn't give one country the right to overthrow another country and then put their puppets in power. History shows over and over again that this does not work. Perhaps that is the agenda to keep the area destabilized forever and ever and ever.</div><div style="color:#404040;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">But I can guarantee you, the European countries and the US would not stand for it, no way, would they let that happen. Imagine that at the end of Bush's presidency, folks really were not too happy with him at all.. Folks wanted to impeach him, but did you see foreign fighters coming into this country and fomenting a revolution? No, and you will never see that.</div><div style="color:#404040;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">They only do that to little small countries that can't fight back. And the beef with Qaddafi, been going on for decades. And they do that to keep their bank accounts full, and I think that is what this is about. Yet he tried to find some common ground with them, shaking hands and meeting with them to ease some of the tension, depositing funds and holding in western banks, which they seized.</div><div style="color:#404040;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">The people don't agree with this kind of tyranny, but our leaders do what they want. So yeah, no one is saying that everybody loved Gaddafi, but I tell you one thing,, as rich as these so call Western countries are, you ain't gonna find free electricity and the other stuff you all had there.</div><div style="color:#404040;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">And my last comment is, how are things now?????</div><div style="color:#404040;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Anybody who thinks that the Western powers care anything about the brown and black people of this world, are seriously delusional. They barely care about their own people. Anyone that would side with them against their own people are like folks wearing clothes drenched in gasoline and running into a fire. The West has shown over and over again, that it has hidden agenda. People need to stop being so mesmerized by the Western world and its lifestyle and hold on to their own cultures and traditions.<span style="font-size:14pt;"> </span></div><div style="color:#404040;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#404040;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">YOUTUBER RESPONSE</span>: you are right, the western countries penetrate our world to make us more miserable and poorer. About the situation in Libya now,,,, it is extremely horrible but I don't lie to you to say we were living in paradise with Qaddafi he was making his won glory and greatness by Libyan's money and no one was able to ask, I used to live with only 100$ a month whereas the cost of live in Libya needs at least 600$. Believe me Qaddafi destroyed Libya from 1969 after he kicked the King Edris out and collapsed the Libyan Kingdom.</div><div style="color:#404040;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">NB RESPONSE:</span> <span style="color:#404040;">And that's the point too. He didn't become a bad guy until he wouldn't do what the west wanted him to do. I feel your pain, my dear. We have a lot of poverty in this so called Greatest Country in the World too, you would be surprised how much. When we had the Hurricane Katrina to hit New Orleans, Cubans came over here to help us. They were like we know how it is and we can help you. </span></div><div style="color:#404040;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">We think we are better off than the rest of the world but we are not able to survive without our creature comforts however minimal.</div><div style="color:#404040;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Priorities are all messed up and folks are oblivious to the whole game that is being played.</div><div style="color:#404040;font-family:cambria;margin:0in;"><div style="font-size:14pt;">All in all, it saddened me to see what happened to Qaddafi and his family. That should not happen to anyone. Thanks for your response, much appreciated.</div><div style="font-size:14pt;"></div><div style="font-size:14pt;"></div><span style="color:#000000;font-family:cambria;font-size:small;font-weight:bold;" class="font-size-4">Libya: Ten Things About Gaddafi They Don’t Want You To Know</span><br style="color:#000000;font-family:cambria;font-size:medium;font-weight:bold;" /><span style="color:#000000;font-family:cambria;font-size:small;font-weight:bold;">Posted by </span><a href="http://www.caribbeanfevercommunity.com/profile/ElBull" style="font-family:cambria;font-size:medium;font-weight:bold;">El-Bull</a><span style="color:#000000;font-family:cambria;font-size:small;font-weight:bold;"> on April 24, 2016</span><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:14pt;">What do you think of when you hear the name Colonel Gaddafi? Tyrant? Dictator? Terrorist? Well, a national citizen of Libya may disagree but we want you to decide.</span></div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">For 41 years until his demise in October 2011, Muammar Gaddafi did some truly amazing things for his country and repeatedly tried to unite and empower the whole of Africa.</div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">So despite what you’ve heard on the radio, seen in the media or on the TV, Gaddafi did some powerful things that are not characteristic of a “vicious dictator” as portrayed by the western media.</div><div style="font-family:Calibri;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.302in;margin-top:0in;"><ol style="font-family:Calibri;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.302in;margin-top:0in;"><li style="color:#000000;font-size:14pt;list-style-type:disc;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;vertical-align:middle;"><span style="font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;">Here are ten things Gaddafi did for Libya that you may not know about…</span></li></ol></div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;">1. In Libya a home is considered a natural human right<span style="font-size:14pt;"> </span></div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear:both;text-align:center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-c9Z58uAZM1Y/V2y3GmgM_zI/AAAAAAACcvA/wjZL6MfqPGg_nx3RfhYPzuapbwxQHEVbwCLcB/s1600/1.jpg" style="clear:right;float:right;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:1em;"><img border="0" height="220" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-c9Z58uAZM1Y/V2y3GmgM_zI/AAAAAAACcvA/wjZL6MfqPGg_nx3RfhYPzuapbwxQHEVbwCLcB/s320/1.jpg" width="320" alt="1.jpg" /></a></div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><span style="font-size:14pt;">In Gaddafi’s Green Book it states: ”The house is a basic need of both the individual and the family, therefore it should not be owned by others”. Gaddafi’s Green Book is the formal leader’s political philosophy, it was first published in 1975 and was intended reading for all Libyans even being included in the national curriculum.</span></div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;">2. Education and medical treatment were all free</div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Under Gaddafi, Libya could boast one of the best healthcare services in the Middle East and Africa. Also if a Libyan citizen could not access the desired educational course or correct medical treatment in Libya they were funded to go abroad.</div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;">3. Gaddafi carried out the world’s largest irrigation project</div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-be90V16kMUE/V2y3vSyCzvI/AAAAAAACcvI/igU_1FEy5F8uEQR31gmhdVFae9DGTWBTACLcB/s1600/libya%2Bmap.gif" style="clear:right;float:right;font-family:Calibri;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:1em;text-align:center;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-be90V16kMUE/V2y3vSyCzvI/AAAAAAACcvI/igU_1FEy5F8uEQR31gmhdVFae9DGTWBTACLcB/s320/libya%2Bmap.gif" width="308" alt="libya%2Bmap.gif" /></a>The largest irrigation system in the world also known as the great manmade river was designed to make water readily available to all Libyan’s across the entire country. It was funded by the Gaddafi government and it said that Gaddafi himself called it ”the eighth wonder of the world”..<span style="font-size:14pt;"> </span></div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;">4. It was free to start a farming business</div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">If any Libyan wanted to start a farm they were given a house, farm land and live stock and seeds all free of charge.</div><div style="font-family:Calibri;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.302in;margin-top:0in;"><ol style="font-family:Calibri;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.302in;margin-top:0in;"><li style="color:#000000;font-size:14pt;list-style-type:disc;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;vertical-align:middle;"><span style="font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;font-weight:bold;">5. A bursary was given to mothers with newborn babies</span></li></ol></div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">When a Libyan woman gave birth she was given 5000 (US dollars) for herself and the child.</div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;">6. Electricity was free</div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Electricity was free in Libya meaning absolutely no electric bills!</div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;">7. Cheap petrol</div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">During Gaddafi’s reign the price of petrol in Libya was as low as 0.14 (US dollars) per litre.</div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;">8. Gaddafi raised the level of education</div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Before Gaddafi only 25% of Libyans were literate. This figure was brought up to 87% with 25% earning university degrees.</div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;">9. Libya had It’s own state bank</div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Libya had its own State bank, which provided loans to citizens at zero percent interest by law and they had no external debt.</div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;">10. The gold dinar</div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">Before the fall of Tripoli and his untimely demise, Gaddafi was trying to introduce a single African currency linked to gold. Following in the foot steps of the late great pioneer Marcus Garvey who first coined the term ”United States of Africa”. Gaddafi wanted to introduce and only trade in the African gold Dinar – a move which would have thrown the world economy into chaos.</div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;">The Dinar was widely opposed by the ‘elite’ of today’s society and who could blame them. African nations would have finally had the power to bring itself out of debt and poverty and only trade in this precious commodity. They would have been able to finally say ‘no’ to external exploitation and charge whatever they felt suitable for precious resources. It has been said that the gold Dinar was the real reason for the NATO led rebellion, in a bid to oust the outspoken leader.</div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><span style="color:#000000;">Read more: </span><a href="http://www.caribbeanfevercommunity.com/profiles/blogs/libya-ten-things-about-gaddafi-they-don-t-want-you-to-know#ixzz4CKtfxyHj">http://www.caribbeanfevercommunity.com/profiles/blogs/libya-ten-things-about-gaddafi-they-don-t-want-you-to-know#ixzz4CKtfxyHj</a></div></div><div style="margin:0in;"><div style="color:#666666;font-family:cambria;font-size:14pt;"></div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;">FURTHER READING:</div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;">Smoking Gun: Gaddafi Was To Receive U.N. Human Rights Award</div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear:both;color:#666666;font-family:cambria;text-align:center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-V5mFunPmhWQ/V2y4U_n-VTI/AAAAAAACcvU/6y4vnu7RNosbGXZxc-lFWDygRkFPWr69ACLcB/s1600/muammar-gaddafi-3.jpg" style="clear:right;float:right;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:1em;"><img border="0" height="184" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-V5mFunPmhWQ/V2y4U_n-VTI/AAAAAAACcvU/6y4vnu7RNosbGXZxc-lFWDygRkFPWr69ACLcB/s200/muammar-gaddafi-3.jpg" width="200" alt="muammar-gaddafi-3.jpg" /></a></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><span style="color:#333333;">Before NATO and the U.S. started bombing Libya, the United Nations was preparing to bestow an award on Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, and the Libyan Jamahiriya, for its achievements in the area of human rights. That’s right–the same man, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, that NATO and the United States have been telling us for months is a “brutal dictator,” was set to be given an award for his human rights record in Libya. How strange it is that the United Nations was set to bestow a human rights award on a “brutal dictator,” at the end of March.</span></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="https://libyanfreepress.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/smoking-gun-gaddafi-was-to-receive-u-n-human-rights-award/">https://libyanfreepress.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/smoking-gun-gaddafi-was-to-receive-u-n-human-rights-award/</a></div><div style="color:#362f2d;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;">Gaddafi’s mother was born Jewish, his protocol chief says At 18 she married a Muslim man and converted, according to reports. <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/gadhafis-mother-was-jewish-his-protocol-chief-says/">http://www.timesofisrael.com/gadhafis-mother-was-jewish-his-protocol-chief-says/</a></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-12688033">http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-12688033</a></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#362f2d;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;">Libya: Ten Things About Gaddafi They Don’t Want You to Know</div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/libya-ten-things-about-gaddafi-they-dont-want-you-to-know/5414289">http://www.globalresearch.ca/libya-ten-things-about-gaddafi-they-dont-want-you-to-know/5414289</a></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;">Top 10 Interesting Facts About Muammar Gaddafi</div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="http://listdose.com/top-10-interesting-facts-about-muammar-gaddafi/">http://listdose.com/top-10-interesting-facts-about-muammar-gaddafi/</a> </div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;"><span style="color:#121312;">*</span><a href="http://alexandravaliente.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/f-william-engdahl-nato-not-gaddafi-should-be-prosecuted-for-crimes-against-humanity-at-the-icc/">F. WILLIAM ENGDAHL: NATO, NOT GADDAFI SHOULD BE PROSECUTED FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY AT THE ICC </a></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/07/libya-news-backup-libyasos-01-july-30.html">http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/07/libya-news-backup-libyasos-01-july-30.html</a></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="http://libyasos.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Libya S.O.S. - war diary 2011/12</span></a></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/07/libya-news-backup-libyasos-01-july-30.html">http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/07/libya-news-backup-libyasos-01-july-30.html</a></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#333333;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><b>African Union names Gaddafi as head</b></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2009/02/200922113838580502.html">http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2009/02/200922113838580502.html</a></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;">We and Our `Leaders` I Am Referring to Africa - African Leaders </div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="http://www.biyokulule.com/view_content.php?articleid=3849">http://www.biyokulule.com/view_content.php?articleid=3849</a></div><div style="color:#FF0000;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;"></div><div style="font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;">Will Gaddafi be missed in Africa?</div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><blockquote class="tr_bq">Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is dead, a controversial leader who believed in revolution and to united Africa to a single government. Moreover, He funded and armed Black South African to fight against apartheid in South Africa. In 2008 Gaddafi was declared the King of Kings by the African traditional leaders, and one of those traditional leader after eard that Gaddafi was dead that what Philip Winyi said" Col Gaddafi was a <span style="color:#0000FF;">"visionary" and would be missed</span>. We saw the human side of him and not Gaddafi the colonel or the proverbial terrorist as the Americans and Europeans described him." "In spite of what many see as his weaknesses, he has done quite a lot for Africa, contributing to the building of infrastructure."<a href="http://mycontinent.co/Gaddafi.php">http://mycontinent.co/Gaddafi.php</a></blockquote></blockquote><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#464646;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;">Gaddafi: Africa's 'king of kings'</div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color:#464646;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><blockquote class="tr_bq">A meeting of more than 200 African kings and traditional rulers has bestowed the title "king of kings" on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.The rulers, wearing gold crowns, sequined capes and colourful robes met in the Libyan town of Benghazi in what was billed as a first of its kind.Col Gaddafi urged the royals to join his campaign for African unity.Africa's political leaders are lukewarm about his vision of merging their powers to create a single government."We want an African military to defend Africa, we want a single African currency, we want one African passport to travel within Africa," Col Gaddafi told the assembled dignitaries, who come from countries such as Mozambique, South Africa, Ivory Coast and the Democratic Republic of Congo.The BBC's Rana Jawad in the Mediterranean town of Benghazi says Libya's leader wants them to create a grass-roots movement to press Africa's political leaders to sign up to his vision. Sheikh Abdilmajid from Tanzania told the BBC that the traditional rulers could play an important role."The people believe in the chiefs and kings more than they believe in their governments," he said. <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7588033.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7588033.stm</a></blockquote></blockquote><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><b>Gaddafi's female bodyguards</b> (Uggg read this article with a grain of salt, look at what they ain't saying.) <a href="http://www.ndtv.com/photos/news/gaddafis-female-bodyguards-11603#photo-149562">http://www.ndtv.com/photos/news/gaddafis-female-bodyguards-11603#photo-149562</a></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;">Gaddafi's Greatest Outfits</div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="http://blackheadband.blogspot.com/2011/09/gaddafis-greatest-outfits.html">http://blackheadband.blogspot.com/2011/09/gaddafis-greatest-outfits.html</a></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#303030;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;">Gaddafi’s Awesome Fashion Decisions Throughout The Ages</div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;">Pasted from <<a href="http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/66113/gaddafis-awesome-fashion-decisions-throughout-the-ages/">http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/66113/gaddafis-awesome-fashion-decisions-throughout-the-ages/</a>></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#3399ff;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;">We and Our `Leaders` I Am Referring to Africa - African Leaders</div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;">by Alhaji Abdul-Rahman Harruna Attah August 31, 2011</div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="http://www.biyokulule.com/view_content.php?articleid=3849">http://www.biyokulule.com/view_content.php?articleid=3849</a></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;"></div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="color:#333333;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><blockquote class="tr_bq">Just two years ago, a coterie of longtime Arab leaders posed for what seemed a routine photograph.</blockquote><blockquote>But today, the snapshot from the 2010 Arab-African summit is a relic from a different time. The former leaders of Tunisia, Yemen, Libya and Egypt, all deposed and one of them dead, appear untouchable as they smile for the camera.<br /> The photo showcases just how much the Middle East has changed since the Arab Spring revolutions began sweeping through the Middle East last year and ousting its embattled leaders.<br /> In the photo, Libya's Moammar Gadhafi wears black sunglasses and distinctive robes, with his arms draped around Yemen's Ali Abdullah Saleh and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, both of them grinning.<br /> To one side is Tunisia's Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, standing with his hands clasped, smiling and relaxed.<br /> Today, Saleh is out of power, Ben Ali is in exile, Mubarak is on trial and Gadhafi is dead, killed by rebel fighters. Their countries are enduring often-painful transitions. <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/arab-leaders-2010-photo-highlights-power-shakeup-1.1156487">http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/arab-leaders-2010-photo-highlights-power-shakeup-1.1156487</a></blockquote></blockquote><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><span style="color:#1a1a1a;font-weight:bold;">Obama: Aftermath of Gaddafi overthrow, 'worst mistake as president'</span></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;margin:0in;"><a href="http://www.africanews.com/2016/04/11/obama-aftermath-of-gaddafi-overthrow-worst-mistake-as-president/">http://www.africanews.com/2016/04/11/obama-aftermath-of-gaddafi-overthrow-worst-mistake-as-president/</a></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold;margin:0in;"></div><div style="color:#666666;margin:0in;"><span style="font-family:georgia, 'times new roman', serif;"><span style="color:#333333;"><b>Gaddafi: the man who would be king of Africa</b> by</span> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/profile/adekeye-adebajo">Adekeye Adebajo</a></span></div><div style="color:#666666;margin:0in;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/aug/26/gaddafi-legacy-meddling-africa"><span style="font-family:georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/aug/26/gaddafi-legacy-meddling-africa</span></a></div><div style="color:#666666;font-family:Cambria;font-size:14pt;margin:0in;"></div></div></div></div>Only with demonstrations and protests do we have a voice!https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/only-with-protests-and-demonstrations-do-we-have-a-voice2014-12-09T20:00:00.000Z2014-12-09T20:00:00.000ZTziona Yisraelhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/TzionaYisrael<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 NAACP and Gay Marriagehttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/the-naacp-and-gay-marriage2012-06-08T05:30:00.000Z2012-06-08T05:30:00.000ZRaynard Jacksonhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/RaynardJackson<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}3828537044,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828537044,original{{/staticFileLink}}" width="280" alt="3828537044?profile=original" /></a>Raynard Jackson ~</p><p> Those who have followed my writings over the years know that I am not very fond of the modern day NAACP. They have strayed very far from their original mission and have become a patsy for the Democratic Party. They are more concerned with having a photo taken at the White House than being the picture of equality and fairness for those with no voice.</p><p>The group was founded in 1909 as a civil rights organization. Its charter stated their mission as: “To promote equality of rights and to eradicate caste or race prejudice among the citizens of the United States; to advance the interest of colored [Black] citizens; to secure for them impartial suffrage; and to increase their opportunities for securing justice in the courts, education for the children, employment according to their ability and complete equality before law.”</p><p>A charter or mission statement guides an organization to ensure that it stays true to its mission; it helps an organization to stay focused on its raison d’etre—its reason for being. So, I ask the NAACP, what is the basis for its focus on gay entitlements or citizenship for those in the country illegally?</p><p>Notice that I used the term “gay entitlements” not gay rights! A right has to be derived from some source document—the U.S. Constitution, a law, the Bible, etc. But, an entitlement is not derivative—it’s based on a “belief” that one deservers a benefit; that belief is totally subjective.</p><p>Based on their charter, the NAACP has no business being involved in all these issues that are outside of their core mission—equality for Black citizens. Has the Human Rights Campaign (a gay entitlements group) or the pro-amnesty forces come out with a statement about Trayvon Martin, or all the child killings in Chicago, or discrimination against Blacks? We all know the answer is no!</p><p>So, you have the NAACP fighting for entitlements that are outside the scope of their charter; but, yet the groups they are fighting for gives no reciprocity when it comes to issues of particular interest to the Black community.</p><p>It should not surprise the public that the NAACP has publically declared their support for “gay marriage.” Notice that I did not say “marriage equality.” When gays use the word marriage equality, they are saying that they want gay marriage to be “equal” to heterosexual marriage. By definition that cannot happen since marriage is between a man and a woman. Their goal is not equality, because that is an impossibility; they want acceptance. They want to redefine marriage, thereby forcing society to accept their lifestyle choices.</p><p>When the NAACP issued their statement of support for gay entitlements they said, “The NAACP Constitution affirmatively states our objective to ensure the “political, educational, social and economic equality” of all people. Therefore, the NAACP has opposed and will continue to oppose any national, state, local policy or legislative initiative that seeks to codify discrimination or hatred into the law or to remove the Constitutional rights of LGBT citizens. We support marriage equality consistent with equal protection under the law provided under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. Further, we strongly affirm the religious freedoms of all people as protected by the First Amendment.”</p><p>Using the 14th amendment as the basis for asserting the right for gays to marry is a bit of a stretch. In Hernandez v. Texas (1954) the U.S. Supreme Court held that the 14th amendment protects those beyond the racial classes of white or “Negro” and extends to other racial, ethnic and other historically disadvantaged groups, i.e. women.</p><p>So, please tell me which of the above groups would gay marriage come under? The 14th Amendment does not apply to them. They are asking the courts to create a special class of rights for them based on sexual preference, which is their ultimate goal.</p><p>Gays do not deserve special protection based on their sexual preferences, but they do deserve equal protection based on their humanity.</p><p>In a 2005 speech, the NAACP’s former chairman, Julian Bond said, “…Sexual disposition parallels race. I [a gay person] was born this way. I have no choice. I wouldn’t change it if I could. Sexuality is unchangeable. I guess Bond never heard of anyone having their sex changed surgically?</p><p>So, let me make sure I understand this. If I choose to exercise my right to oppose gay marriage, I am hateful and believe in discrimination? So, while the Black community is sinking in alarming pathologies with Black on Black crime, runaway teenage pregnancy, high unemployment, the NAACP is taking up the cause that has absolutely no legal basis and is outside the mandate of their own charter. Are you kidding me?</p><p>Weak people (and groups), take strong positions on weak issues. The modern day Civil Rights movement has done more harm to Blacks than any man in a white hood!</p><p>Raynard Jackson is president & CEO of Raynard Jackson & Associates, LLC., a D.C.-public relations/government affairs firm. His website is: <a href="http://www.raynardjackson.com">www.raynardjackson.com</a>.</p></div>The Riddle of Blacks and Obamahttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/the-riddle-of-blacks-and-obama2012-04-20T07:59:32.000Z2012-04-20T07:59:32.000ZRaynard Jacksonhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/RaynardJackson<div><p><b>April 20, 2012</b><b> </b></p><p><b>Raynard Jackson</b></p><p></p><p>During a BBC radio address titled, “The Russian Enigma,” on October 1, 1939, former British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill said, “I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.”</p><p> </p><p>The simple meaning behind Churchill’s statement is--something that is a puzzle or something difficult to solve. Churchill’s statement sums up quite concisely, the relationship that Blacks have with Obama—an enigma.</p><p> </p><p>In the 2008 presidential election, Blacks were the largest voting block for Obama (as a percentage)—96%. But, yet, the first Black president has fewer Blacks serving in his administration than former President, George W. Bush. The first Black president thinks so little of Black women that he refused to even interview any Black female lawyers or judges for the 2 Supreme Court picks he has put on the bench. Even if he knew he would not choose them, at least interview them for the optics! Last year, in a speech to the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), the first Black president said, “Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We’ve got work to do, CBC.”</p><p> </p><p>A week earlier, Obama spoke at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. He highlighted two specific pieces of legislation that he was actively trying to pass that would overwhelmingly be to the primary benefit of the Hispanic community—the DREAM Act and comprehensive immigration reform. Not one time did he tell them to stop complaining? </p><p> </p><p>A month later Obama spoke before The Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights group. Again, Obama talked about how he repealed, “don’t ask, don’t tell,” and mandated hospital visitation rights for same sex couples. Again, not one time did he tell them to stop complaining?</p><p> </p><p>Now, juxtapose that with what went on in Africa.</p><p> </p><p>By tradition, the head of the World Bank is always an American male and the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is always a European male (until last year when the French fought for a woman to be chosen—Christine Lagarde). But Africa challenged this arrangement very publically. </p><p> </p><p>Africa’s actions was a direct challenge to Obama’s choice of Dr. Jim Yong Kim and the brazenly unfair process the World Bank used to choose the successor of the former president of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick.</p><p> </p><p>Oddly enough, Kim’s strongest challenger was the Finance Minister of Nigeria, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a female from a developing country. She was universally considered the best candidate in the field, even by those who supported Kim.</p><p> </p><p>Russia, China and Mexico supported Kim. Ngozi was nominated by South Africa and was endorsed by all of the African members of the bank’s board, The African Union, Brazil, the Economist, Colombia, The New York Times, The Financial Times, and 39 former senior officials at the World Bank.</p><p> </p><p>This is the first time in the history of the bank that the U.S. has been challenged by developing and emerging countries. South African Finance Minister, Pravin Gordhan, went so far as to say, “the bank’s selection process falls short and is not transparent or merit-based.</p><p> </p><p>Wow! The first Black president, with African roots is being criticized by another African for not supporting the best qualified candidate for the job. Obama promised to make his administration the most ethical, transparent administration in history. But, like in many of his actions, when he had the chance to turn his rhetoric into action, he became like sounding brass or the tingling cymbal; full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.</p><p> </p><p>As a result of Jesse Jackson’s unsuccessful presidential bids in 1984 and 1988, he made it possible to believe that a Black could one day become president of the U.S; so has Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s bid to become president of the World Bank. She did not win, but now other countries can envision a time in the not too distant future, that the head of the World Bank will be a non-American.</p><p> </p><p>You had an African woman to challenge Obama’s choice to lead the bank; she being universally considered the best qualified for the job. But, yet Black Democrats in America refuse to challenge the first Black president when he has gone out of his way to ignore them when it comes to legislation of particular interest to them. They continue to make excuses for his lack of action—he needs more time, the President can’t undo in 4 years what took Bush 8 years to create or he will pay attention to us in his second term.</p><p> </p><p>The Black community’s behavior is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.</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>Human Resource Management Degree through Distance Educationhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/human-resource-management-degree-through-distance-education2012-03-06T12:21:56.000Z2012-03-06T12:21:56.000ZKumar Mannuhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/KumarMannu<div><p align="justify">Human resource management is a very significant field nowadays. It is a very intense program and is as demanding as a finance or marketing degree. Many companies could not run properly without a human resource manager and it is responsible for overall development of the organization. There are many universities and colleges providing programs and degree on human resource and even if you are working or already practicing in some other field, you can enroll in human resource programs through distance education. Such additional degree will definitely help you to advance in your industry or to branch in any industry after the completion of the course.</p><p align="justify">Being able to learn in your own pace is a greatest benefit for working adults through distance education. Working students can use such opportunity to earn a management degree as it has become an essential and is treated as minimum qualification in today’s competitive market. If the degree is human resource then he will be able to switch in any field or sector without any hesitation. Today distance education is a way to study a course through internet making it hugely accepted by the students.</p><p align="justify">Study of human resource as management subject will give students an opportunity to understand and learn the art of handling, organizing and to look after the profit and other goals which are coordinated to fulfill the organizational mission and vision. It will be easy for working adults through distance program to understand the theories and concept of human resource as they will be able to relate this with their present company and its working. The concept of human resource is to maintain highest degree of standard of the organization by ensuring quality functioning of the employees as a team. Those who handle these responsibilities are known as human resource manager. HR manager is also responsible for recruitment, training and to provide remuneration to employees by assessing the quality of work rendered by the staff. HR managers keep industrial relations healthy and strategically attain the company’s goals and targets.</p><p align="justify">As distance education has transformed in itself and is considered as online education system it will be comfortable for students to translate their theoretical knowledge into intellectuality by following millions of data available for human resource studies. Elderly working students with their experience on corporate field and culture will adapt faster than a simple regular college going student. But it is essential to select a good university for distance education. There are myriads of online business schools providing degree on management science and human resource but what is required to check before enrollment is the accreditation of such institute by national and regional accreditation agencies. Regional accreditation is considered more authentic and reliable than the national. These agencies look after and monitor the working of the online universities. Thus to pursue online distance education it is suggested to check all the variables of online university because a little negligence will cost you heavy and the time one will devote will go wasted.</p><p align="justify">The purpose of <a href="http://uiu.edu/factsheets/human-resources-management.html">human resource management</a> is to allocate right person on right pace and to understand this fundamental of management it will be convenient to take a practical approach through <a href="http://uiu.edu/distance/index.html">distance learning</a> as it will give the authority and chance to experienced working students to grasp knowledge of human resource as they can infuse the knowledge in their working to attain the targets and aim of the organization.</p></div>Juvenile Justice Reform: Cyntoia Brown, LIFE student at local prison, is subject of film shown at HumanDocshttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/juvenile-justice-reform-cyntoia-brown-life-student-at-local2011-11-11T02:00:22.000Z2011-11-11T02:00:22.000ZDarcy Delaproserhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/DarcyDelaproser<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>The Image of Racism in Libyan Uprisinghttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/the-image-of-racism-in-libyan2011-03-08T17:46:42.000Z2011-03-08T17:46:42.000ZMalcolmXavierhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/MalcolmXavier<div>March 8, 2011The Image of Racism in Libyan UprisingBy Kwasi Seitu, Institute for Tsunamic Justice<a href="http://www.itj-pdn.yolasite.com">www.itj-pdn.yolasite.com</a>Wash, D.C. - The image of the handsome young boy being in the clutches of a bunch of armed racist, with a gun up against the back of his head, while an apparent Alpha racist questions and threatens him, you can see it in the child’s eye, in his stare. I am not talking about some little black boy caught in the clutches of the Ku Klux Klan, but a little black boy in the hands of murderous racist “rebels” in Libya, as photographed by a Reuters’ photographer and appeared in the New York Times. (3/4/11 “Pictures of the Day,” to view: <a href="http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/pictures-of-the-day-libya-and-elsewhere-7/?emc=eta1">http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/pictures-of-the-day-libya-and-elsewhere-7/?emc=eta1</a>)The caption describing the moment captured in the photo was that the little boy was “suspected of being a Gaddafi supporter, “what it did not say was that the boy was “suspect” simply because he was black or an “African,” as has been made clear by the “rebels” forces is grounds enough for death. Although I have yet to see the great “slaughter” that supposedly Qaddafi is committing, I clearly heard the “rebels” declare Afrikans as their enemy and the enemy of their “struggle for freedom.” This means that their “revolution” is not an Afrikan revolution, it is opposed to Afrikan liberation and unification, that it is just as much anti-Afrikan as much as it is anti-Qaddafi, and murderously so as they have slaughtered untold numbers of people just because they were black.What happened to that little Afrikan child at the hands of those who claim to be operating from a higher moral ground? The so-called “rebels” have killed many, and there is reason to believe that many of those killed have been darker than a paper bag, and for no other reason. Where were the boys parents? Did the “rebels” kill the boy’s parents? The boy looked to be no more than ten or eleven years old, yet the Times described him as a “young man,” which is the same as when the white reporter called a pair of black folk “looters” and white people doing the same thing “hurricane survivors.” Here was grown man was holding a gun to the back of this little boys head, while another was forcefully in his face, it looked like the scene where the South Vietnamese officer assassinated a purported “Viet-Cong” right in front of the camera.Black folk in the U.S. and the entire Afrikan Diaspora must say no to any country arming, or lending any support to the “opposition,” the “rebels,” or the “rebellion” in Libya. In particular, we must engage in discussions so that black people as a whole in the U.S. will oppose the Obama regimes efforts to build up to some sort of “intervention” invasion, or at least to backing the “rebels” to violently overthrow the government. We need to help our people and the general public to look beyond the rhetoric, lies, and half-truths of the mainstream press. The mainstream press has failed to report on the plight of dark complexioned Afrikans in Libya, and due to its own racist nature, does not see any significance in the anti-Afrikan tone of the supposed rebellion for “freedom.” Even the so-called “leftist” or progressive alternative news media has utterly failed to identify, report on, and speak to the anti-black nature of the rebellionThe “rebels” have acknowledged and openly that they are the descendants of foreigners to Afrika, they are not Afikan, they are not black. They are the descendants of those who invaded and took land in Afrika by force, a fact shown by numerous scholars and historians such as Chancellor Williams, John Henry Clark, Ayi Kwei Armah, Walter Rodney, just to name a few. Fact is that many of the blacks accused of being foreigners and mercenaries, were Libyan citizens in Afrika, and looking very much Afrikan. The boy, I did not see the picture of a person that should not be in Libya, but a person in the hands of a bunch of bastard descendants of foreign invasion, domination, and occupation.The uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt have given no indication that they are even aware of, more less committed to Afrikan liberation, at least we have evidence that Qaddafi was, and now we hear the anti-Afrikan tenor of the rebels.Afrikan unity will never be possible as long as these people are allowed to remain in Afrika without being Afrikan themselves. Sub-Saharan Afrika must not only be on guard against the “destroyers,” but the “predators” who arrived in Afrika across the desert through invasion, conquest, and occupation. Four centuries Afrika has given these people the opportunity to become Afrikan, by which they have been able to maintain their claims of legitimacy as an Afrikan state. The battle in the Sudan now spans across northern Afrika, it may be by coincidence that this domino- effect of grassroots uprising to topple old-line tyrannies across northern Afrika, accept in Sudan. It is most unfortunate that the Afrikan Liberation struggle has yet to produce anything more than bright revolutionary moments. It appears that Thomas Sankara, who Mu’ammar al-Qaddafi supported and help to bring to power in Burkina Faso, was the last in a very short line of true Afrikan revolutionary leaders such as Amilicar Cabral and Samora Machel. There seems to be none now, I would say that Afrikans on the continent are in the same position as Afrikans around the world, leaderless and caught up in the machinations of the white or “West” world.I have no doubt that the CIA has had some involvement with promoting the uprising in Libya, that the U.S. has special forces in the country at this moment training and arming the so-called “rebels.” This is Libya and the overthrow of Mu’ammar al-Gaddafi, who is a bigger and older target than Saddam Hussein ever was. For the U.S., Libya has been Cuba on the Mediterranean, and Qaddafi the Fidel Castro of Africa. Note the lack of U.S. concern for the killing of peaceful protesters in Bahrain and the brutal repression of them in Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and even in Iraq. Yet, every day Obama and Clinton are beating the war drums and fanning unsubstantiated claims to villanize Qaddafi and buoy the so-called “rebels.” And we are hearing the same tone that came from the Bush regime in their build up to launching “endless war” on a tactic of which the U.S. is the greatest perpetrator and practitioner.Black folk in Amerikkka should and need to make their voices heard on this global development with critical implications for Afrika and the whole of the global Afrikan liberation struggle. And we must come out uncompromisingly on our side in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Chad, Sudan, and Somalia. However, we cannot affect that change with coming to address the Afrikan liberation struggle in our own communities and houses. Some would argue that Robert Mugabe continues to represent the principles of the Afrikan liberation movement, however, this still does not necessarily make him qualified to continue serve as a leader or even as a symbol.Clearly, the Afrikan liberation struggle continues, but always toward unity. I cannot see my way to supporting a racist mob as “rebels,” even less as revolutionaries. I have my doubts that what is going on in Libya, Egypt, and Tunisia have anything to do with Afrikan liberation, if anything, they appear more prone to identifying with, and serving Western interest and essentially helping to return the whole of Afrika firmly back into the hands of the former colonial powers.It all comes down to that picture of that little black boy that the NY Times labeled as a “young man,” with a gun to his head and a clearly angry racist man in his face asking questions and making accusations, and we are not supposed to ask “What happened to that little boy?” because he is “Afrikan,” black in a land of light-skinned descendants of foreign invaders and occupiers who have made it clear that they are not part of the continent of Afrika. Even worse, they see all Afrikans as enemies. I conclude with this question to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, "What happened to that little black boy?"To contact Kwasi Seitu, visit <a href="http://www.itj-pdn.yolasite.com">www.itj-pdn.yolasite.com</a></div>My Contribution to the struggle for Self-determinationhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/my-contribution-to-the2009-11-05T05:55:13.000Z2009-11-05T05:55:13.000ZMustafa Ansarihttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/MustafaAnsari<div>As a International Human Rights Attorney and Political Science Professor what I have to offer is my knowledge of Politics, Nationalism, and Human Rights. So, I am offering my time and a course that is valued at $2800.00 per student for free. The only cost is a 55.00 registration fee because it is an online class.This is the Syllabus that will give us the knowledge to obtain autonomyAmerican Institute of International Law & DiplomacyOn line Course-Election Commission Training 101Tuesday 5:00-7:00PMSpring Quarter, 2010Instructor: Dr. Mustafa Ansari, B.A Political Science, J.D Office: (510) 545-7184On line <a href="http://www.africanation.org/moodle/">www.africanation.org/moodle/</a> E-mail: dr.mustafaansari@gmail.comOffice Hours: By appointmentThe Power of Self is to Be, to Know, and to ServeREADINGS• UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples available at <a href="http://www.iwgia.org/sw248.asp">http://www.iwgia.org/sw248.asp</a> Working Group on Indigenous People• International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (21 December 1965; Entry into force 4 January 1969)• UN Human Rights Resolution 60/147 Basic Principles for Victims, Reparations(Available on <a href="http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/humanrights.html">http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/humanrights.html</a>)SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (16 December 1966; Entry into force 23 March 1976), Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (16 December 1966; Entry into force 23 March 1976), and Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (16 December 1966; Entry into force 3 January 1976), Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (10 December 2008; not yet entered into force)INTRODUCTION to Self-determinationThe American Institute of International Law & Diplomacy is an online Law School that trains lawyers, Human Rights Defenders, Election Commissioners and Human Rights Activist throughout the United States man. These content areas ensure that Human Rights advocates obtain the required knowledge, skills, and values needed to perform as competent Human Rights professional .Core CompetenciesIn accordance with the Declaration on Human rights Defenders, the American Institute of International Law & Diplomacy has 10 core competencies that all of its students must demonstrate mastery in across the micro-mezzo-macro continuum. Competency-based education is an outcome performance approach to curriculum design. Competencies are measurable practice behaviors that are comprised of knowledge, values, and skills. The goal of the outcome approach is to demonstrate the integration and application of the competencies in practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and the United NationsTEACHING METHODSTeaching methods will be seminar/interactive in nature. This course will incorporate lectures, power point presentations, dialogue, group activities, the internet, media, quizzes and possibly office funding and a training field trip. Students are expected to read the assignments and come prepared to ask questions of the instructor, and to discuss the material in class. Additionally, group assignments/experiences will be offered in which full participation is required. Students may also participate in additional extra credit activities.COURSE ASSIGNMENTS1. Group Activity/Presentation: The class will be divided into groups of three to four to which group activities are assigned. Each group will select a Self-Determination Convention, related to reparations, Self-determination or both.Groups will “meet” outside of class, in person, by phone, by e-mail or other internet based communication tools to discuss the right to self-determination and Reparations embedded in United Nation Convention.Students will demonstrate learning by the following:A. Presenting an analysis of the United Nation Convention or UN General Assembly Resolution by leading a class discussion on the principles remedies, possible applications, issues or social policy controversies presented by the UN Resolution or Convention, and any suggested resolution or not, and;B. Providing a handout to the class that outlines and illustrates the above. The group must demonstrate the full participation of each student member (i.e., provide a print out of email exchanges, etc.). Presentations are due as noted on the schedule. The class presentation may include Power Point, video, DVD, CD, or audio clips , or any other creative and interesting appropriate elements to illustrate and explain findings and conclusions.2. Students will choose an International professional journal article, published after 2008, relevant to a National Election. Students will write a critical analysis of the chosen article (see rubric) that is to include and list references. Some suggested topics are (but not limited to):3. Students will research and analyze the right to a UN structured Victims Trust Fund, or Presidential Order 13107.COURSE SCHEDULESchedule is subject to change with advance notice if warranted by any unforeseen circumstances, necessity, or needs required to meet the purpose of the course and listed content.Date Topic and AssignmentsWeek 11/26 Introduction to Course• Class Introductions• Overview of International Conventions• Hierarchy of law______________________________________________________________________________Week 22/2 History of the Africans in America• Lecture/PP Presentation Class discussion & participation• Professional Journal/Article Critique Topic DueRequired Reading DUE FOR CLASS TODAY: Can an Indigenous Vote Save the African Americans – Chapters 1_____________________________________________________________________________________Week 32/9 Indigenous Rights• Lecture/PP Presentation• Group selection of program due• 3 unit project choice of Autobiography/memoir reading selection dueRequired Reading DUE FOR CLASS TODAYText: Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples _________________________________________________________________________________Week 42/16EXAM #1 (Chapters 1, Declaration on Indigenous Rights; lecture notes• Exam Review and/or Video______________________________________________________________________________Week 52/23 TBA_____________________________________________________________________________Week 62/10 How to set up an Election Precinct••Required Reading DUE FOR CLASS TODAYText: TBA____________________________________________________________________________Week 72/17 Reparation under International Law• Lecture/PP Presentation Chapters 20-21 pp. 494-531• Professional Journal/Article Critique Due• EXAM #2 HAND OUTRequired Reading DUE FOR CLASS TODAYText: UN General Assembly Resolution 60/147______________________________________________________________________________Week 82/24 EXAM #2 lecture notes & PP presentations) TURN IN.Election Issues and Perspectives• Democracy (Hand Outs)• Indigenous Elections (Hand Outs)• Onward to a National Assembly (Hand Outs)Text: TBA______________________________________________________________________________Week 9 Guest Lecturer To Be Announced3/3• Project papers due__________________________________________________________________________________Week 103/10 PRESENTATIONS• Group Presentations (Minimum 15 min / maximum 20 min per group ONLY)______________________________________________________________________________Finals Week FINAL EXAM COMPREHENSIVE EXAM- 6:30 pm3/17</div>The Homeless Creates Tent City in New Yorkhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/the-homeless-creates-tent-city2009-07-25T15:50:45.000Z2009-07-25T15:50:45.000Zcarlos s.https://www.theblacklist.net/members/carloss<div>Picture The Homeless and Allies Occupied a Vacant Lot and Builds a Tent City in East Harlem..As the foreclosure crisis festers, Bloomberg and the banks fail us. While the homeless population continues to escalate, landlords and the city continue to keep buildings empty. In fact, the total volume of potential apartments in vacant buildings and lots in Manhattan alone exceeds the number of homeless households in shelter and on the street citywide!<object width="450" height="353" data="http://www.videonewslive.com/movieplayer.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never" ></param><param name="allowNetworking" value="internal" ></param><param name="movie" value="http://www.videonewslive.com/movieplayer.swf" ></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent" ></param><embed wmode="opaque" src="http://www.videonewslive.com/movieplayer.swf" flashvars="vidpath=http://www.videonewslive.com/upload_videos/2217.flv" width="450" height="353" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="never" allownetworking="internal"></embed></object>h</div>Plantation Antics at “Community” Meeting in Police Killing of Trey Joyner: No Cut Cardhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/plantation-antics-at-community2009-07-16T06:30:00.000Z2009-07-16T06:30:00.000ZMalcolmXavierhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/MalcolmXavier<div>by Kwasi Seitu (6/25)<a href="http://seituatlarge.wordpress.com/">http://seituatlarge.wordpress.com/</a>Wash. D.C. - Tonight I attended what was billed as a “community” meeting in NE Washington regarding the police shooting of Trey Joyner, a 25-year old black man that was gunned down in the Trinidad neighborhood of the city on June 8th by six white Park Police and possibly FBI agents. They were claiming to have been in the hood in response to a report about a “man with a gun,” but they refuse to explain why would any one in the neighborhood dial the Park Police, the FBI, or their task force about “a man with a gun”? They are sort of backing off of that claim by now saying that the young man was a “person of interest,” basically because Troy had no gun. The police and the FBI claimed that they felt “threatened,” but have refused to explain why, not only was Troy unarmed, but he was clearly outnumbered and outgunned. Police do not deny that they did stop, question, and then released Troy. The police and others simply refuse to explain why the matter is not being treated as murder most foul. This case reminds me of an episode of the :Wire,” which was a big hit for HBO, were some gung-ho power drunk cops go into the projects and rough up a few people just to show the community who is boss. Only in that situation, the community immediately struck back, and the cops got their asses kicked. It is what happened after that is so striking to this real-life drama, the police started working on the lie, the cover-up and it worked.The city councilman for that ward, Harry Thomas, Jr. actually convened this purported community meeting and from the very outset the community was “graciously” admonished to just sit there and take the bullshit that was going to be poured on it and be happy. The event was held in a church, originally scheduled to be held in the 5th District police station, but the police were not comfortable with the idea and perhaps, wisely, for good or ill intent. There were about 200 or so community people in attendance along with the family of Troy Jordan, and there was much talk about the “community respecting the graciousness” of the family, most of which came from the various police and “officials” who had come apparently to help manage “this tragedy” as Salvatore Lauro, Chief of the six white park police who gunned down Troy referred to it. In addition to Lauro, there was Captain Greene of the 5th District, Joe Chaney of the FBI, Cham Phillips for the U.S. Attorneys of on Civil Rights, none whom even tried to answer any pertinent questions.The “meeting” opened with some grandiose, yet “gracious” speeches that were intended to set the tone for the community. It put me in mind of when back in the era of chattel-slavery the massa would get the house negroes, porch monkeys, lawn jockeys, and garden variety negroes to go out and round up all the field slaves and bring them up to the big house, so he can tell them something. And I am not talking the fact that this is exactly how those “public servants” and “officials” decided that this is the best way to “manage” the situation, but you had black folk in there applauding their every disrespect of us as a community and a people. One after another the massas came up and talked around the facts, they talked about “process,” which was essentially them telling us how they plan to bullshit the matter into oblivion, counting on us to lose resolve quick, by doing everything in their crafty power making sure that we never come to a resolve. And sure enough, as soon as some of who were not fooled began to ask the pertinent questions and in the manner that they needed to be asked, the white men stood back and let the knee-grows do the putting us in check.That nonsense did not work on me, I told them first of that this matter was not simply about that one family, as did a sister a little later who had her teen-age son with her, she said that Troy could have been her son or any other black person in the community. When asked exactly why the Park Police were patrolling in the community, the audience was told by no less than Eleanor Holmes Norton who arrived about half-way through the “meeting.” Of course with arrival of yet another knee-grow high up on the plantation, all of the porch monkeys, lawn jockeys, and garden variety knee-grows skinned and clamored with excitement, more reason the applaud. Norton told the audience that the Park Police have the power to “arrest” throughout this city, but that was in response to the persistent demand that they explain why were a gang of “plain clothes” Park Police purportedly “patrolling” in our community instead of some federal park. Of course, what Norton was implying is that the park police have the authority to patrol any where in the city, which they do not. But none of those knee-grows would question such a suggestion, it came straight out of the mouth of one of DCs oldest house knee-grows in charge. Now, I did not hold my peace on any of it and went on about my business of trying to talk with who could and hope to get to the point where we understand that we must organize separate, apart, and liberated from such plantation antics.I tell you, it was disgraceful, how for the sake of being “gracious,” our people sat there just sucked into the unending injustice and insult, and a number of them got warm with me and a couple of others who stood up and spoke truth to power with the righteous indignation the damn situation deserves. Not a one of those “officials” answered a single genuine question, they did not deny that Troy was shot as many as seven times, in the back, as he walked away after being confronted by the officers, nor would they admit to it. They initially mumbled something about “the officer involved,” it took my standing up and demanding he tell the assembly just how many officers were involved that they admitted that there were six officers involved, and then they made a point not to mention that all were white. I never got the chance to ask that question before the attack of the knee-grows, who gladly threw graciousness out the window to protect massa from us ungracious nigga’s. Graciousness is something reserved for southern balls and cotillions, not when there has been what appears to be yet another racist cop killing in DC and the standard subsequent cover-up and go away.When the massa would lie with some gibberish about how they “would collect all of the information,” they were very careful not to say “evidence” and when questioned or challenged on that gibberish, the knee-grows would scowl and yell “let him finish.” Even though speaker after speaker spun the same gibberish, the knee-grows not only wanted to hear more, but applauded every slap upside our heads. Again, I was not having it, with all due respect to Troy’s family, their pain is our pain, but this is bigger than their pain, bigger than this most recent killing, it about justice. No one mentioned the fact that the Metropolitan Police Department had shot and killed another man earlier in the day while he was at a funeral…we don’t even know his name because it was reported only in a “oh, by the way” manner by the police and press. Although there was a camera man in the room, I do not believe that he was from any station, he recorded the grand speeches and some of the questions then disappeared, and there seemed a to be a newspaper reporter there, but he did not talk to any of the field hands, he was head knee-grow hunting. When I found out about the meeting I called the local “community” radio station so that they could not only let the community know, but to let people who already knew but might be thinking that it was at the police station that it was moved to a church some eight blacks away. I don’t know why I did that, as if its so-called “news” department cared, they were to busy getting ready to give the AP report on the death of Michael Jackson.Councilman Thomas is holding another one of these “community” meetings on July 7th, the location to be announced. Between now and then it would be good if the community held a few meetings of their own, but unfortunately, that isn’t going to happen with many of the people who were in that room tonight, they are just too damn “gracious.” And the fact that it was held in a church did not help, if anything, it made it worse, “Lawd” you should have seen those knee-grows just a bowing and scraping, acting like they were in church meeting with JC and his disciples. No, I don’t seem doing anything but gladly being led down that primrose path to ultimately nothing being done like in every other police shooting that has occurred in this city, without exception every police shooting in DC ha been of a black person with the exception of the occasional shooting of a Latino, no white person has ever been shot by a DC cop. And finally, here is the kicker - the FBI is leading the investigation, even though the secretive FBI-Park Police Joint “Safe Streets” Task Force is behind the killing. Oh the knee-grows ate that up, they clapped so hard many of their hands began to swell. I kid you not.This matter concerns every black person and neighborhood in this city, if not the entire country, I did not know Troy Joyner nor any of his family members, but that does not matter, I have as much a right to answers as they do. Please do not tell me to leave yet another cop killing to “the process” and in the “hands of the Lord,” why do you think we are here? Both of those are tried and true no starters, doing them has never brought anything but the next killing. This is a perfect time to conduct a People’s Investigation by convening a People’s Grand Jury, especiall since we got massa so willing to meet with us. Now, what do yall say? Come on Black DC.</div>I AM SEAN BELL...Black Boys Speakhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/i-am-sean-bellblack-boys-speak2009-01-08T07:33:57.000Z2009-01-08T07:33:57.000ZARighteousSistahttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/ARighteousSista<div>Please check out Sis. Muhammad's fantastic work, it will be among themost moving 10 1/2 mins. you'll spend in 2009! Forward Ever!======<img src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828505601,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="" width="125" height="123" style="float:left;" />I AM SEAN BELL, Black Boys Speak!WATCH THE VIDEO HERE: <a href="%20http%3A//www.vimeo.com/2691617"></a><a href="http://www.vimeo.com/2691617">http://www.vimeo.com/2691617</a>WELCOME TO WILDSEED STUDIOSA Short Form Documentary from Wildseed FilmsDirected by Stacey MuhammadAsst. Directed by Shomari MasonEdited by: Stacey Muhammad & R.H. BlessPrincipal Photography: May 17, 2008Brooklyn, NYRunning Time 10:30On November 25, 2006, undercover NYPD officers fired at least 50rounds of bullets into a car carrying three UNARMED men of AfricanAmerican and Latino decent; killing one, SEAN BELL and seriouslywounding two others. Bell age 23 was scheduled to be married on thatfateful day.Three of the five detectives involved in the shooting went to trial oncharges ranging from manslaughter to reckless endangerment. All werefound not guilty.The incident has sparked fierce criticism of the NYPD as the cityfaces yet another murder of an unarmed African American man at thehands of those expected to protect and serve.“I AM SEAN BELL, black boys speak” is a short form documentary fromWildseed Films that highlights the voices of young black boys betweenthe ages of 11 and 13 years old growing up in New York City.They speak openly and honestly about their reaction to the Sean Belltragedy as well as their fears and hopes as they approach manhood in acity where the lives of young black men are often cut short, toooften, and too soon.About the filmmaker:Stacey Muhammad is an award winning independent filmmaker and activistcommitted to using the power of media to educate, enlighten andempower humanity.Her first film, “A Glimpse of Heaven, The Legacy of the Million ManMarch”, screened at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum in Baltimore, MD in2005 and received rave reviews.Since that time, the New Orleans, LA native has relocated to Brooklyn,NY and begun the work of documenting and preserving Hip Hop culturethrough film and digital media. Her projects include several shortform documentaries including, "I AM SEAN BELL, black boys speak" aswell as "Self Construction: Recording session in honor of a movement".Stacey is currently working with other artist, filmmakers and activistwhose mission it is to document our history, preserve our culture andtell our own stories.Her latest film, "Out of Our Right Minds, The Rise of Mental Illnessamongst Black Women", is slated to be released in April 2009<b>._/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_</b>The author/submitter alone is responsible foropinions expressed on TheBlackList.Privacy Statement: <a href="http://www.theblacklist.net/privacy.htm">http://www.theblacklist.net/privacy.htm</a></div>AFRIKA RISING: ORYhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/2055350-BlogPost-123032008-09-06T07:33:56.000Z2008-09-06T07:33:56.000ZMetroSistahhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/MetroSistah<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>