myth - Blogs - TheBlackList Pub2024-03-29T15:22:30Zhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/mythMALCOLM A SEASON TO REMEMBERhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/malcolm-a-season-to-remember2010-04-30T21:00:00.000Z2010-04-30T21:00:00.000ZMilagrosV. Garcia Villamilhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/MilagrosVGarciaVillamil<div><p><strong>As a young lady during the sixties, while barely able to speak english (my choice to use a small e) LOL ,i overstood (my choice to use the small letter i) that the color of my skin had the AUDACITY" to crush my HOPE" and cause them to disintegrate, and crash into oblivion.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>However that was not to be. Why one may ask?</strong></p><p><strong>Because of Al Hajj Malik Al Shabazz. Whom i listened to weekly and sometimes more while living with my family in Harlem during the sixties. You see (most know) Malcolm, was no stranger to Cuba and Cubans, and as a matter of fact many Cubans, like my own Grandfather and others family were also Garveyites, and so were very aware of Malcolms approach to race issues, and also supported him.</strong></p><p><a href="http://www.brothermalcolm.net/">http://www.brothermalcolm.net/</a></p><p></p><p>As an activist i do know that Malcolm nor Marcus Garvey were racist. <strong>Why u may ask..because i listened, bought thier tapes and heard them speak to the people.</strong></p><p>I know neither ever taught racism to thier followers, but rather African self determination and love for one another (unity)..As well as Back to Africa</p><p></p><p><strong>However, i was asked by an s African student recently, i an effort to make himself look good to his peers and to challenge my right to teach law.? if i believed that Malcolm would still hate white people?</strong></p><p><strong>No! was my answer and when queried further..My answer left the student at loss for further discussion..(when the student is ready the teacher will appear)</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>These were my words and my belief.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Number one..Malcolm never hated anyone..he hated thier behaviour</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Malcolm, was far too interested in uplifting our people to focus on the colour of any mans skin especially when he already overstood that what needed to change, was not so much the skin hue, but the heart.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Malcolm was wise, attentive and quiet for the most part, and often he would look out at the sea of Africans standing, waiting to hear him talk and smile as if to say..Its gonna be alright..once we learn how to stop begging?</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Malcolm had a plan, he overstood that to teach hate/racism as the GOV claimed he did (but never heard it) would be to defeat the purpose.</strong></p><p><strong>Malcolm knew that he had the power to do good and lead his people back to sanity, or act in total disregard for the true teachings of Islam and Muslim tenets and cause amerikka to burn be burned to the ground.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Malcolm, loved us so much that he went to his own mountaintop for a discussion with Allah to learn that his power and fate would be at the hands of his people. And in my belief obedience is better than sacrifice.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Malcolm, knew that UNITY was our only way out of the man made cross in the middle of the road.</strong></p><p><strong>Malcolm, overstood that as a people we needed the ballot then!</strong></p><p><strong>Malcolm, overstood that we needed dollars, and our own businesses and means of self sufficiency.</strong></p><p><strong>Malcolm, overstood that we could not, and would not and MUST not depend on any man for our breafast lunch or dinner, our childrens school /school books, teachers, medical doctors, hosp, financial institutions clothing OR OUR RELIGION.</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Malcolm,</strong> <strong>overstood that some of our leaders were weak and hepeless and simple uncles with jobs.</strong></p><p><strong>Malcolm also overstood that those some of those same leaders could be transformed as he had, to become activists and leaders prepped to do that LEAD..vs follow</strong></p><p><strong>Malcolm knew that he was here on eath for a reason, and in his season he overstood all he had endured in his path to Islam and the service to our people.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>No! Malcolm was not a racist, he was a visionary who overstood that what was needed were not pleas to humanity to act as humans , new laws made to be broken, people elected who did nothing but cash a paycheck, another Bill Clinton, who hoodwinked and bamboozled his way out of being impeached, while selling African men to the IPC..and last an African desc pres...OR!! an African President who stood by while the people who needed the most help are being ignored.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Malcolm instead aligned himself with those who he hoped would follow through with his message? He, aligned himself with Islam from its root and moved in the direction of the 5 tenets, with his head held high and his light at 200 watt..Always facing East.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_of_Afro-American_Unity">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_of_Afro-American_Unity</a></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Today, if Malcolm were here, I know what he would be sharing with his people.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>PEOPLE, AFRICA FOR AFRICA AT HOME AND ABROAD</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>I BELIEVE HE WOULD TRAVEL TO CUBA AND FIND A WAY TO WORK WITH THE CUBAN GOV(OR OTHERS) TO GET ON A SHIP! AND IF NOT CUBA..SOMEWHERE, WHERE OUR PEOPLE CAN HAVE THE CHOICE OF DYING A LIVING DEATH IN AMERIKKKA OR LIVING LIFE WITHOUT FEAR OF LIVING IN AFRICA!</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Now i welcome all who have thier thoughts and opinions. i am just a woman who never forgets when the teacher appeared</strong></p><p></p><p style="text-align:left;"><img alt="" src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828516636,original{{/staticFileLink}}" /></p><p style="text-align:right;"><img alt="" src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828516576,original{{/staticFileLink}}" /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><img alt="" src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828516645,original{{/staticFileLink}}" /></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>THIS WAS A PART OF THR ORIG BLACK STAR LINE</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>USS <i>Peoria</i>, a 1430-ton <i>Tacoma</i> class frigate, was built at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. She was accepted by the Navy in July 1944 and briefly placed in service to be ferried to another port for further outfitting. The ship was delivered in October 1944, and on the 15th of that month placed in commission, probably for the purpose of moving her from the Great Lakes area to the Gulf of Mexico. On 2 January 1945, in ceremonies held at Houston, Texas, <i>Tacoma</i> entered full commissioned status, with a crew furnished by the U.S. Coast Guard. After conducting her shakedown in the vicinity of Bermuda, in March she made her only wartime operational voyage, escorting a convoy to Gibraltar and returning to the U.S. with another convoy from Algeria. She was then sent to New England for anti-submarine training service. In May and June 1945 <i>Peoria</i> was modified for duty as a weather station ship, and served in the north Atlantic in that role for the rest of the year and into the next. Decommissioned in May 1946, <i>Peoria</i> was stricken from the Navy Register in June and turned over to the State Department for disposition. She was transferred to Cuba in mid-June 1947. Renamed <i><a href="http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-fornv/cuba/cuba-al/an-maceo.htm">Antonio Maceo</a></i>, she was a unit of Cuba's navy until 1975.</strong></p><p></p></div>The MYTH ->Thanksgiving: A National Day of Mourning for Indianshttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/the-myth-gtthanksgiving-a2008-11-27T05:00:00.000Z2008-11-27T05:00:00.000ZRE Ausetkmthttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/REAusetkmt<div><img src="http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t291/LehmanBrightman/Lostwhiteman.jpg" alt="Stop the Lie - Understand the Truth about Thanksgiving" width="379" height="586" /><blockquote><strong>WE Don't Do Thanksgiving - because until the situation is equalized across the board, in our humble opinion; There Ain't Nothin to Celebrate.</strong><strong>Today We Honor and Join with our Native Peoples in their statement for the Truth and Rights about the North American Peoples' Holocaust.</strong> <br /><br /><object width="425" height="344" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/6RwCPaZujZM&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never" ></param><param name="allowNetworking" value="internal" ></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="false" ></param><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6RwCPaZujZM&hl=en&fs=1" ></param></object> <br /><br /><strong>Now Hol Dis !</strong></blockquote><img src="http://badgals-radio.com/re-sig.jpg" alt="" /><br /><br /><h2><a href="http://www.uaine.org/">Thanksgiving: A National Day of Mourning for Indians</a></h2><h3>by Moonanum James and Mahtowin Munro</h3><img src="http://www.iacboston.org/uaine/images/uaine4.jpg" alt="" width="449" height="282" />Every year since 1970, United American Indians of New England have organized the National Day of Mourning observance in Plymouth at noon on Thanksgiving Day. Every year, hundreds of Native people and our supporters from all four directions join us. Every year, including this year, Native people from throughout the Americas will speak the truth about our history and about current issues and struggles we are involved in.<strong>Why do hundreds of people stand out in the cold rather than sit home eating turkey and watching football? Do we have something against a harvest festival?</strong><strong>Of course not. But Thanksgiving in this country -- and in particular in Plymouth --is much more than a harvest home festival. It is a celebration of the pilgrim mythology.</strong><img src="http://www.iacboston.org/uaine/images/1_upeD220.jpg" alt="" /><object width="425" height="344" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/gLyBkH4Q2d0&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never" ></param><param name="allowNetworking" value="internal" ></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="false" ></param><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gLyBkH4Q2d0&hl=en&fs=1" ></param></object><strong>Native Americans - The Genocide of the Genuine Americans</strong>According to this mythology, the pilgrims arrived, the Native people fed them and welcomed them, the Indians promptly faded into the background, and everyone lived happily ever after.<strong>The truth is a sharp contrast to that mythology.</strong><strong>The pilgrims are glorified and mythologized because the circumstances of the first English-speaking colony in Jamestown were frankly too ugly (for example, they turned to <span style="color:#ff0000;">cannibalism</span> to survive) to hold up as an effective national myth.</strong> <strong>The pilgrims <span style="color:#ff0000;">did not find an empty land</span> any more than Columbus "discovered" anything. <span style="color:#ff0000;">Every inch of this land is Indian land.</span></strong><strong>The pilgrims (who did not even call themselves pilgrims) did not come here seeking religious freedom; they already had that in Holland. They came here as part of a commercial venture. They introduced <span style="color:#ff0000;">sexism, racism, anti-lesbian and gay bigotry, jails, and the class system</span> to these shores.</strong><strong>One of the very first things they did when they arrived on Cape Cod -- before they even made it to Plymouth -- <span style="color:#ff0000;">was to rob Wampanoag graves</span> at Corn Hill and steal as much of the Indians' winter provisions of corn and beans as they were able to carry. They were no better than any other group of Europeans when it came to their treatment of the Indigenous peoples here. And no, they did not even land at that sacred shrine called Plymouth Rock, a monument to racism and oppression which we are proud to say we buried in 1995.</strong><object width="425" height="344" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/jyGNNI8MAso&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never" ></param><param name="allowNetworking" value="internal" ></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="false" ></param><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jyGNNI8MAso&hl=en&fs=1" ></param></object><img src="http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/NWPPOD/EVNT2A-00239~Destruction-of-the-Pequot-Indians-by-Colonial-Forces-in-New-England-c-1637-Posters.jpg" alt="The Massacre of the Pequot People on Thanksgiving 1637" /><span style="color:#ff0000;">The first official "Day of Thanksgiving" was proclaimed in 1637 by Governor Winthrop. He did so to celebrate the safe return of men</span> from the Massachusetts Bay Colony <span style="color:#ff0000;">who had gone to Mystic, Connecticut</span> to <strong>participate in the <span style="color:#ff0000;">massacre of over 700 Pequot women, children, and men</span></strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">.</span><strong>About the only true thing in the whole mythology is that these pitiful European strangers would not have survived their first several years in "New England" were it not for the aid of Wampanoag people. What Native people got in return for this help was <span style="color:#ff0000;">genocide, theft of our lands, and never-ending repression</span>. We are treated either as quaint relics from the past, or are, to most people, virtually invisible.</strong><object width="425" height="344" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/DVKY6_Z2dtU&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never" ></param><param name="allowNetworking" value="internal" ></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="false" ></param><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DVKY6_Z2dtU&hl=en&fs=1" ></param></object><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">When we dare to stand up for our rights, we are considered unreasonable. When we speak the truth about the history of the European invasion, we are often told to "go back where we came from." Our roots are right here. They do not extend across any ocean.</span></strong>National Day of Mourning began in 1970 when a Wampanoag man, Wamsutta Frank James, was asked to speak at a state dinner celebrating the 350th anniversary of the pilgrim landing. He refused to speak false words in praise of the white man for bringing civilization to us poor heathens. <strong>Native people from throughout the Americas came to Plymouth, where they mourned their forebears who had been sold into slavery, burned alive, massacred, cheated, and mistreated <span style="color:#ff0000;">since the arrival of the Pilgrims in 1620</span>.</strong>But the commemoration of National Day of Mourning goes far beyond the circumstances of 1970.Can we give thanks as we remember Native political prisoner Leonard Peltier, who was framed up by the FBI and has been falsely imprisoned since 1976? Despite mountains of evidence exonerating Peltier and the proven misconduct of federal prosecutors and the FBI, Peltier has been denied a new trial. Bill Clinton apparently does not feel that particular pain and has refused to grant clemency to this innocent man.To Native people, the case of Peltier is one more ordeal in a litany of wrongdoings committed by the U.S. government against us. While the media in New England present images of the "Pequot miracle" in Connecticut, the vast majority of Native people continue to live in the most abysmal poverty.Can we give thanks for the fact that, on many reservations, unemployment rates surpass fifty percent? Our life expectancies are much lower, our infant mortality and teen suicide rates much higher, than those of white Americans. Racist stereotypes of Native people, such as those perpetuated by the Cleveland Indians, the Atlanta Braves, and countless local and national sports teams, persist. Every single one of the more than 350 treaties that Native nations signed has been broken by the U.S. government. The bipartisan budget cuts have severely reduced educational opportunities for Native youth and the development of new housing on reservations, and have caused cause deadly cutbacks in health-care and other necessary services.<strong>Are we to give thanks for being treated as unwelcome <span style="color:#ff0000;">in our own country?</span></strong>Or perhaps we are expected to give thanks for the war that is being waged by the Mexican government against Indigenous peoples there, with the military aid of the U.S. in the form of helicopters and other equipment? When the descendants of the Aztec, Maya, and Inca flee to the U.S., the descendants of the wash-ashore pilgrims term them 'illegal aliens" and hunt them down.<strong>We object to the "Pilgrim Progress" parade and to what goes on in Plymouth because they are making millions of tourist dollars every year from the false pilgrim mythology. That money is being made off the backs of our slaughtered indigenous ancestors.</strong>Increasing numbers of people are seeking alternatives to such holidays as Columbus Day and Thanksgiving. They are coming to the conclusion that, if we are ever to achieve some sense of community, we must first face the truth about the history of this country and the toll that history has taken on the lives of millions of Indigenous, Black, Latino, Asian, and poor and working class white people.<strong>The myth of Thanksgiving, served up with dollops of European superiority and manifest destiny, just does not work for many people in this country. As Malcolm X once said about the African-American experience in America, "We did not land on Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock landed on us." Exactly.</strong><object width="425" height="344" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/jyGNNI8MAso&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never" ></param><param name="allowNetworking" value="internal" ></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="false" ></param><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jyGNNI8MAso&hl=en&fs=1" ></param></object>[Mahtowin Munro (Lakota) and Moonanum James (Wampanoag)are co-leaders of United American Indians of New England.]</div>