of - Blogs - TheBlackList Pub2024-03-29T10:18:44Zhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/ofKAMALA HARRIS, SENATOR RUNNING FOR PRESIDENThttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/kamala-harris-senator-running-for-president2019-02-27T23:00:00.000Z2019-02-27T23:00:00.000ZTziona Yisraelhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/TzionaYisrael<div><p style="text-align:center;"> <span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>THE SLAVE TRADE</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>IS A MOST PAINFUL AND POIGNANT PART OF WORLD HISTORY,</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>YET THE PEOPLE WHO SUFFERED AND DIED</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>HAVE NO REMEDY TO END THE CAPTIVITY OF THEIR PROGENY!</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">CNN spotlighted Kamala Harris, Senator of California regarding feelings about Reparations. <strong>In the interview she said, she would not give Black people money.</strong> Does this former prosecutor understand that Reparations is for the CRIME against Blacks who were kidnapped from the shores of Africa and forced to leave out of the Elmina Castle – out of <strong>the “Door of no Return”</strong> to board ships that took them into the “Four Corners of the Earth” into a Slave Trade? This enslavement was specifically in place to make Europeans wealthy and prosperous off the backs, blood, sweat, and tears of Slaves and their descendants from one generation to another for hundreds of years. To date, this matter has not been resolved in the governments that promoted this crime against human beings.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Kamala Harris, like Clarence Thomas, and Barack Obama are the worst to represent descendants of Slaves in government, in court, or in life. Harris’ own words prove her to be joined with White Supremacists who sustain suppression of descendants of Slaves. Obama did not say that he would not give Blacks money. He said, <strong>“I’m not the president of Black America”.</strong> For good reason he never came close to using these words while campaigning for the presidency of the United States.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Harris said she won’t give Black People money, but as a prosecutor she knew how and when to secure money for herself and with whom to be lenient. And it wasn’t Blacks, for she came to fame being hard-nosed on Blacks to please the powers-that-be. Unfortunately for descendants of Slaves this is how Blacks stay in government, term-after-term doing absolutely nothing to make us FREE or to bring us out of the Ghetto, impoverishment, and inferior schools.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">We have never suffered sufficiently in this American society. The FBI put drugs in Black neighborhoods to ensure a Ghetto of brain-dead descendants of Slaves. Police left an unlocked boxcar full of guns in our neighborhood to ensure that the Blacks would commit a crime, get incarcerated, and kill other Blacks. Thus, descendants of Slaves are using and dealing in drugs, killing each other, and attending inferior schools only to dropout in the teenage years when an education is most dire for their young lives. Neither do descendants of Slaves have a chance in Big Business. Those who do have degrees face a glass ceiling that is a prohibition for Blacks moving up the ladder in this White Supremacist nation. For this injustice Reparations must be paid to descendants of Slaves.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Native Americans received Reparations, Japanese received Reparations, and the US government assisted the White Jews in obtaining Reparations from Germany. So why is Kamala Harris so dead set against giving Reparations to descendants of Slaves when the Holocaust of the Slave Trade lasted for hundreds of years even unto this present captivity. Do not descendants of Slaves deserve restitution for all that we have lost during these horrific years in another man’s land: liberty, our identity, language, and country of origin. And lest we forget, our forebears were denied an education but were ironically forced to believe in the JC, man-god, of the ENSLAVERS, which is the most ridiculous thing ever heard of.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Our forefathers were never paid for this injustice and persecution and never paid for their back-breaking grueling labor forced upon them in the Plantation Mansion and for clearing wooded areas and brush for farming and harvesting cotton, cane, and other produce to sustain healthy Enslavers and their families. How can White America disregard the Slave labor that was for their prosperity – Slave labor that enabled their country to rise into a wealthy United States of America at the expense of a long and hard Slave Trade in human beings?</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Kamala Harris is experienced in prosecution and justice being served for all manner of crimes, but it would appear that this cruel Slave Trade is not slated for justice to be served. Of all people in government Harris should be the one leading the way in the attainment of Reparations. But she is like the Whites who do not see color but yet are aware of the injustices that prevail against descendants of Slaves but do nothing to end the oppression of this group that has always suffered the most.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Those who serve in Congress speak the same rhetoric about injustice, the poor, medical insurance and free education for all, every campaign - even higher wages and upgrading the infrastructure. But unfortunately descendants of Slaves naively eat this stuff up. And they keep voting for these candidates every single election, be it for president or for Congress and nothing changes one iota. Impoverishment, inequality, racism, discrimination, and great oppression continue to hurt descendants of Slaves, but who cares - certainly not Kamala Harris. She, like others, no doubt acts for the White Privileged who fall on hard times to work in their favor, for I know nothing she has done for descendants of Slaves. She talks a good game, but her actions, like most campaigners, are void.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">In that our forebears were forcibly brought to these shores, Descendants of Slaves need a voice and a representative to speak in our favor. We need Kamala Harris to pursue charges and litigation for the criminal acts against Slaves and their descendants. We need Reparations for the deaths of the Slaves at the hands of Enslavers, for maiming, beatings, for the free labor, and lawful restraining of millions of Black Slaves who were kept in animal-like conditions in summer and in winter without proper clothing, without shoes, and without proper nutritious foods for sustenance given the day-to-day hard labor forced upon them.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">How is it that Harris cannot understand that the Slaves who went through the Elmina Castle doors of no return endured Hell on the “Middle Passage” where they had to live in the hold of ships in their own vomit and excrement. Upon getting to the shores of America they had to sport yokes and chains on their ankles. Then, those who survived the voyage of Hell were forced to walk for thousands of miles to their unwanted livelihoods and oftentimes from that location to other places many miles away.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">On the plantations the Slaves were made to breed in order that these babies would grow up and also be Slaves for the Enslavers, their Masters. The children born of Slaves, as well as husbands and wives were mercilessly sold off to other Enslavers, never to be seen again. Yet, Kamala Harris cannot see that there must be justice served for this heinous Slave Trade. Years ago a White lady who was burned by her McDonald’s coffee sued and won $500,000. To say that descendants of Slaves do not deserve Reparations for this kidnapping, enslavement, free labor, death, and misery from watching their children suffer and knowing that they will never be FREE is evil and unfair.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Harris is on record saying, <strong>“I believe that a child going without an education is a crime”.</strong> That is just another reason why Reparations is due, for Slaves were denied an education. And as a result, for hundreds of years they grew old knowing nothing about themselves, the academics, or the world, as they and their children were left in gross darkness. Hence, this is indeed a crime for which Reparations is due.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Let me be clear; descendants of Slaves are owed the HUMAN RIGHT to be FREE of this Slave State that inhibits self-determination and keeps us in a limbo that prevents economic growth, social justice, and prosperity for descendants of Slaves. We want for our children the opportunity to pursue happiness and to govern themselves. We want to leave behind this White Supremacy that has been the very force that has kept us subjugated and second-class citizens.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Our <strong>“Code” is our “Priority”,</strong> which is to establish better lives for our progeny in order that they become the privileged in the world to end Third-World suffering. Furthermore, we want to rise above being labeled bywords such as Blacks, African Americans and descendants of Slaves. We are all from many great nations of Peoples and some of us, like myself, are proved to be descended from the Biblical Israelites, <strong>as per</strong> <strong>“Thus Saith the LORD GOD” of Israel.</strong> It was HE that cast us into this vicious Slave Trade for our forefathers forsaking HIM for false gods.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>“</strong><strong>Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people,</strong> and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and <strong>there shall be no might in thine hand.</strong></span></p><p><br /> <span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>“And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">“Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.</span></p><p><br /> <span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>“The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>“And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods,</strong> <strong>which neither thou nor thy fathers have known,</strong> even wood and stone. <strong>And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart,</strong> and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:” Deuteronomy 28:32,37,41,49,64,6 </span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>Nevertheless, HE has also PROMISED to Deliver us</strong> out of the hands of those who hold us captive:</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>“</strong><strong>The LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.</strong><strong>”</strong> Deuteronomy 30:3</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>“</strong><strong>Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.</strong> For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.” Jeremiah 31:10,11</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">“For thus saith the LORD; <strong>Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.</strong><strong>”</strong> Jeremiah 32:42</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">“…the earth shall yield her increase, and <strong>they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them. And</strong> <strong>they shall no more be a prey to the heathen,</strong> neither shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid.” Ezekiel 34:27,28</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>“</strong><strong>Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee:</strong> and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame. <strong>At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the LORD.</strong><strong>”</strong> Zephaniah 3:19,20</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>“</strong><strong>For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee,</strong> yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure,” Jeremiah 30:11</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>THANK GOD ALMIGHTY</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>FOR THEN WE WILL AT LAST BE FREE!</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">It is painful even to think that our children will forever be subjects in this racist country, hence, without further delay, this government that promoted the Slave Trade must pay Reparations to descendants of Slaves. Whites grew to be the wealthiest nations to rule this Earth off the free labor of Slaves. Now, we want our FREEDOM and liberty to grow and fulfill our own dreams of becoming our own rulers, governors, and leaders, and more importantly to worship Our Own GOD – <strong>the CREATOR GOD of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Ex.3:15).</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Not all descendants of Slaves choose to leave out of this US captivity. They are satisfied with the status quo. However, those who have the great desire to Exodus must have Reparations for our resettlement, and we require the government to expedite our emigration, as it was the United States that ended our freedom and that brought us to these shores, albeit, against our will.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">If people and candidates were serious about serving justice for the Slave Trade and not just as a means to gain votes, they would have worked towards discussing Reparations and our FREEDOM before starting their campaigns. And H.R. 40 would not be lying dormant somewhere in the archives.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">It may not be realistic, as Harris said, <strong>“to change (the US) criminal justice policy”,</strong> but descendants of Slaves have waited far too long for equal rights that will never manifest in this country of White Privilege. This American Dream, Pursuit of Happiness, and Values that the powers-that-be tout in these United States sound good and look good on paper, but in reality, these entities have never existed in this country for descendants of Slaves.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">The truth of the matter is that the US government does nothing to change the racist attitudes of bigots and instill honesty and integrity in the minds and hearts of the powers-that-be and in the people who control government, institutions, and industries. The real concern in America is to keep this country a White Privileged Nation and forbid inclusion and equity for non-Whites. President Trump did not stutter when he said that he wants to see people coming to America from Norway – not “shithole countries”, and his words spoke volumes for his base.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">The government responsible for bringing Black Slaves to America must now give descendants of Slaves our HUMAN RIGHT to be FREE of this captivity. Descendants of Slaves want to take control of our own lives, which has not happened since the start of the Slave Trade. Racism and White Supremacy have extinguished our ability to prosper and secure a Voice or a Representative for our plight in this country that deems itself a “Sweet Land of Liberty”.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">The White members of Congress would rather be dead than walk in the shoes of descendants of Slaves. They can watch our suffering and despair but to use their offices and work towards ending our affliction none take the initiative to do.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Kamala Harris should not waste her time campaigning for President of the United States, as her own words are what have caused her to lose the race even before it has gotten started.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">Tziona Yisrael</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14pt;">February 27, 2019</span></p></div>Experience Ghana 2019 - The Year of the Returnhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/experience-ghana-2019-the-year-of-the-return2018-11-11T00:55:43.000Z2018-11-11T00:55:43.000ZSun in Leo Globalhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/SuninLeoGlobal<div><p><span><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}3828608091,original{{/staticFileLink}}" target="_blank"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828608091,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-full" alt="3828608091?profile=original" /></a></span></p><p><span>Black Love Travel Group presents another 10 day curated travel experience in Ghana, the Black Star Nation, February 14-24, 2019. Next year commemorates The Year of Return which will mark 400 years of since the first enslaved Africans were brought to America in 1619.</span><br /><br /><span>It is a time when the global African family are being encouraged to return to home to Ghana and Africa to invest and help develop their roots. There will be programs and events throughout the year to celebrate The Year of Return.</span></p><p>Trip Fee is $2999. What's Included:</p><ul><li>Roundtrip Airfare from Departure City Washington DC or NYC to Accra</li><li>Hotel and Accommodations - International Quality</li><li>*Shared room unless you chose Single option ($500 additional fee for single room)</li><li>Group Ground Transportation</li><li>Daily Breakfast</li><li>Local Tours</li><li>Cultural Exchanges</li><li>Business Networking</li><li>Welcome Dinner</li><li>Live Music</li><li>Shopping</li><li>Yoga & Wellness Activities</li><li>Nightlife and Social Events</li><li>Historical Tours</li><li>Beginner Language Lessons</li><li>Volunteering</li><li>Travel Insurance</li></ul><p></p><p>FOR INFO/BOOK TRAVEL: <a href="https://www.wetravel.com/trips/experience-ghana-accra-loves-accra-69602775">https://www.wetravel.com/trips/experience-ghana-accra-loves-accra-69602775</a></p><p>Facebook: Black Love Lives</p><p>Twitter @blacklovelives</p><p>IG @accraloveparty</p></div>T.Dae Releases New Mixtape, ''Point Of No Return'' & Presents New Single, ''Bad Habits''https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/t-dae-releases-new-mixtape-point-of-no-return-amp-presents-new2018-11-07T21:03:16.000Z2018-11-07T21:03:16.000ZBlackList Mediahttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/BlackListMedia<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}3828607734,original{{/staticFileLink}}" target="_blank"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828607734,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="3828607734?profile=original" /></a></p><p>After a good run on his debut project Lord I Try, T.Dae (JetWay Dae) has released yet another classic titled Point Of No Return (PONR). This 12 song ep features brain picking metaphors over super slapping beats produced my KC DaBeatMonster and many more. This project is thought to be another teaser for what’s to come in the near future. PONR is out now on all mixtape platforms including spinrilla. A visual for His first single on the ep “Bad Habits” is also out now on youtube and soon to be worldstar. If you are looking for something different, you should definitely give it a thorough listen. <br />Check out ''Bad Habits'' by T.Dae:<br /> <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9SSYS1aGqcQ?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe> <br />Listen To ''Point Of No Return'' by T.Dae on Spinrilla:<br /><a href="https://spinrilla.com/mixtapes/roadband-t-dae-ponr-point-of-no-return">https://spinrilla.com/mixtapes/roadband-t-dae-ponr-point-of-no-return</a></p></div>H.R.1242 – 400 Years of African-American History Commission Acthttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/h-r-1242-400-years-of-african-american-history-commission-act2018-02-01T10:30:00.000Z2018-02-01T10:30:00.000ZTziona Yisraelhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/TzionaYisrael<div><p></p><p></p><p>Let me begin by thanking my Sister Vivian for telling me about this Bill that President Trump has already signed and the Commission for it that is already in play.</p><p> </p><p>When I read the Commission Act, I could not believe what I was reading. Since being taken in yokes and chains to the Slave Castles, suffering the worst Slave Trade and enslavement known in the annals of history, and being plagued with this captivity, over <strong><u>100 million Blacks have died</u> at the hands of ENSLAVERS, government officials, imprisonment, police, KKK, and Whites who have lynched Blacks, etc.</strong> Is this Commission Act the best thing this United States government can design to appease the horrific Slave Trade of Blacks forced to Colonial America? The United States assisted White Jews in their efforts to obtain Reparations for what Hitler did to them. What about the Black Holocaust and captivity that the US government brought upon our forefathers and their descendants?</p><p> </p><p>This H.R. 1242 - <span><strong>400 Years of African-American History Commission Act</strong></span> document is poorly written, vague, and without substance. And worse, this Commission Act insults our intelligence. Are we so illiterate that we cannot recognize when Congress is trying to pull the wool over our eyes and make us look like fools? <strong>Is this Commission Act supposed to take the place of JUSTICE SERVED, REPARATIONS, and Our EXODUS out of this CAPTIVITY? What the Hell were they thinking?</strong></p><p> </p><p>White People do not usually take Black History in college, so why should just anyone sit on this Commission who has not taken classes in Black History and The Slave Trade. I guess since this Commission Act is not directed to serve justice for kidnapping Blacks out of Africa, for enslavement of Blacks, and for holding us in this CAPTIVITY, they ignorantly thought that people didn’t need to be so educated in this discipline. Clearly, President Trump’s Bill had no intention of addressing the REASONS BLACKS are in this Western Hemisphere, and wanted this Commission only to feign justice for the heinous Slave Trade and enslavement of Blacks forcibly taken from the shores of Africa. Hence, this Commission Act is as useless to descendants of Slaves as is this Christian religion that Enslavers used to deceive and brainwash their Slaves into worshipping their god, a mere man, rather than worshipping the CREATOR Our MAKER (Mal.2:10).</p><p> </p><p>Herewith, I have only highlighted parts of this Commission Act in blue, and the link above can be used to read the entire Commission Act. My comments are in all caps. for Facebook readers and in caps. and in red for those who are not reading this Sabbath Message on Facebook. Descendants of Slaves should be aware of just what President Trump, the Congress, and the people on this Commission are thinking. These people are trying to make amends for the violent and vicious acts of the Slave Trade and enslavement of Blacks with the use of a Band-Aid. Our captivity in this country is what made this nation the wealthiest and the most powerful on Earth. <strong>President Trump and the US Congress should be ashamed at this Commission Act that they have made public thinking that it is supposed to serve justice and pacify Black Humanity that they have decimated for 400 years.</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Read the H.R.1242 Commission Act for yourself and see that descendants of Slaves have no voice, and that it is to our detriment. What else might this government devise for us that will have nothing to do for our progress, development, and self-determination?</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>***</strong></p><p> </p><p><span><strong><em>The purpose of H.R. 1242 is</em></strong></span> <span><strong><em>to establish the 400 Years of African-American History Commission.</em></strong></span><span><em> </em></span><span><em>BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION</em></span><span><em> </em></span><span><strong>WHY DO DESCENDANTS</strong></span> <span><strong>OF SLAVES NEED THIS LEGISLATION?</strong></span> <span><strong>THIS COMMISSION APPEARS TO BE A MEANS TO REMOVE THE GUILT FOR THE CRUEL AND BARBARIC SLAVE TRADE THAT SHAMES THIS NATION THAT IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE “VALUES”.</strong></span> <span><em> </em></span><span><em>The first documented arrival of Africans to the English colonies occurred in August 1619, when a group of approximately 20 individuals disembarked from a ship at Point Comfort, Virginia.</em></span> <span><strong><em>Since slavery was not institutionalized at that point,</em></strong></span> <span><strong><em>the individuals were sold</em></strong></span> <span><em>as involuntary labor or indentured servants, and told they would work under contract for a certain period of time before being granted freedom and the rights of other settlers.\1\</em></span> <span><em>This moment marked a painful, but significant, time in colonial America, when Africans were taken against their will, transplanted, and committed to lives of slavery.</em></span> <span><strong> </strong></span><span><strong>WHETHER SLAVERY HAD BEGAN OR NOT, BLACKS WERE “SOLD”</strong></span> <span><strong>AGAINST THEIR WILL</strong></span> <span><strong>MAKING THIS ACT OF FORCED LABOR A CRIME.</strong></span><span> </span><span><strong>BECAUSE THIS SLAVERY INSTITUTED BY COLONIAL AMERICA WAS A LONG AND PAINFULLY AGONIZING “MOMENT” IN THE LIVES OF BLACK SLAVES, THEN THIS COMMISSION ACT SHOULD REFLECT SAID AND SPEAK TO THE HARM DONE FROM THEN UNTO NOW. THIS COMMISSION ACT SUGGESTS HAVING MERE ACTIVITIES, WHICH THEY HOPE WILL CERTAINLY MINIMIZE AND REPLACE THE REAL HEINOUS NATURE OF THE CRIMES COMMITTED AGAINST THE SLAVES AND THEIR DESCENDANTS. WE CANNOT LET THAT HAPPEN.</strong></span></p><p><span><em> </em></span><span><em>---------------------------------------------------------------------------</em></span><span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><em>\1\John Thornton, The African Experience of the</em></span> <span><em>``20 and Odd Negroes'' Arriving in Virginia in 1619,</em></span> <span><em>William and Mary Quarterly (July 1998), available at <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/">www.jstor.org/stable/</a> 2674531?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents.</em></span></p><p><span><em> </em></span><span><em>---------------------------------------------------------------------------</em></span><span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><em>August 2019 will mark 400 years since that initial entrance to the colonies.</em></span> <span><em>H.R. 1242 establishes the ``400 Years of African-American History Commission'' to develop and carry out activities throughout the United States to commemorate the arrival of Africans.</em></span> <span><em>The Commission will also celebrate the contributions African-Americans have made since 1619, despite the debilitating effects of slavery and racial discrimination. </em></span> <span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><strong>THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS SHOULD KNOW THAT MOST SCHOOLS, ESPECIALLY PREDOMINANTLY BLACK SCHOOLS, ALWAYS</strong></span> <span><strong>PLAN</strong></span> <span><strong>ACTIVITIES</strong></span> <span><strong>FOR</strong></span> <span><strong>BLACK HISTORY</strong></span> <span><strong>DURING BLACK HISTORY MONTH.</strong></span><span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><strong>…</strong></span> <span><strong>TO COMMEMORATE THE</strong></span> <span><strong>ARRIVAL OF AFRICANS</strong></span><span><strong>, REALLY? THIS COMMISSION DOES NOT SEEM TO REALIZE THAT THE ONLY THING MEMORABLE ABOUT THIS ARRIVAL OF SLAVES IS THE FREE LABOR IMPOSED UPON BLACKS. AND THAT WHICH WAS IMPRESSIVE IS THE FACT THAT DESCENDANTS OF SLAVES SURVIVED THIS CRUEL AND INHUMANE ENSLAVEMENT. </strong></span></p><p><span><em>LEGISLATIVE HISTORY</em></span><span><em> </em></span><span><em>On February 28, 2017, Representative Bobby Scott (D-VA) introduced H.R. 1242, the 400 Years of African-American History Commission Act. H.R. 1242 was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.</em></span> <span><em>The Committee considered H.R. 1242 at a business meeting on March 28, 2017, and ordered the bill reported favorably, without amendment, by voice vote. In the 114th Congress, Representative Scott introduced H.R. 4539, the 400 Years of African-American History Commission Act on February 11, 2016. H.R. 4539 was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. On July 5, 2016, the bill, as amended, passed the House under suspension by voice vote.</em></span><span><em> </em></span> <span> </span></p><p><span><strong>HOW CAN</strong></span> <span><strong>THE HOUSE</strong></span> <span><strong>DISRESPECTFULLY</strong></span> <span><strong>PASS A BILL ABOUT SLAVES AND DESCENDANTS OF SLAVES WITHOUT OUR</strong></span> <span><strong>REPRESENTATIVES’ FEEDBACK</strong></span><span><strong>?</strong></span><span> </span><span><strong>JULY 5, 2016 (?)</strong></span> <span><strong>THIS IS CONFUSING.</strong></span> <span><strong>DOES THIS DATE MEAN THAT THE FORMER PRE</strong></span><span><strong>SIDENT OBAMA HAD A HAND IN THIS?</strong></span> <span> </span></p><p><span><em>SECTION-BY-SECTION</em></span><span><em> </em></span><span><em>Section 1. Short title </em></span> <span><em> </em></span><span><em>The short title of the bill is the ``400 Years of African- American History Commission Act.''</em></span> <span><em> </em></span><span><em>Section 2. Definitions </em></span> <span><em> </em></span><span><em>Section 2 defines</em></span> <span><em>``commemoration'' as the commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Africans in the English colonies, at Point Comfort, Virginia, in 1619</em></span><span><em>.</em></span> <span><em> </em></span><span><strong><em>Section 2 defines</em></strong></span> <span><strong><em>``commission''</em></strong></span> <span><em>as the 400 Years of African-American History Commission</em></span> <span><em>established by section 3(a). Section 2 also defines ``Secretary'' as the Secretary of the Interior.</em></span> <span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><strong>THIS COMMISSION M</strong></span><span><strong>A</strong></span><span><strong>Y BE DEFINED, BUT IT DOES NOT AT ALL REFLECT</strong></span> <span><strong>AND DETAIL THE FACTS REGARDING</strong></span> <span><strong>400 YEARS OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN ENSLAVEMENT AND SUBJUGATION IN THE UNITED STATES.</strong></span><span><strong> </strong></span><span><strong>WHERE IS ANY MENTION OF JUSTICE FOR ALL THE CRUEL AND HEARTLESS ACTS COMMITTED AGAINST THE SLAVES AND DESCENDANTS OF SLAVES? DOES THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS UNDERSTAND THAT THE MID-ATLANTIC VOYAGE TO HELL, THE SLAVE TRADE, THE ENSLAVEMENT, AND THIS CAPTIVITY ARE ATROCITIES THAT THIS COUNTRY AND GOVERNMENT WILL NOT LET US FORGET? THE STATUS QUO BRINGS TO MIND ALL THAT SLAVES AND DESCENDANTS OF SLAVES HAVE ENDURED AND OF ALL OF THE ATROCITIES, RACE HATRED IS THE WORST. IT’S THIS RACE HATRED THAT ENABLED AND YET ENABLES ACTS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST DESCENDANTS OF SLAVES. RESTITUTION MUST BE PAID FOR ALL THE BRUTALITIES COMMITTED AGAINST BLACKS WHOSE FORBEARS WERE STOLEN FROM AFRICA:</strong></span><span><strong> </strong></span><span><strong>-KIDNAPPING OF BLACKS OUT OF AFRICA</strong></span><span><strong>-HOLDING UP CAPTIVES IN SLAVE CASTLES FOR WEEKS AT A TIME AWAITING SLAVE SHIPS</strong></span><span><strong>-THE HORRIFIC TRANS-ATLANTIC VOYAGE SITTING IN DUNG AND VOMIT</strong></span><span><strong>-ENSLAVEMENT</strong></span><span><strong>-MURDER</strong></span><span><strong>-RAPE OF WOMEN AND FORCED BREEDING</strong></span><span><strong>-EDUCATION DENIED</strong></span><span><strong>-LYNCHING</strong></span><span><strong>-HAVE NO VOICE</strong></span><span><strong>-JIM CROW LAWS</strong></span><span><strong>-BLACK CODES</strong></span><span><strong>-THE LACK OF CIVIL RIGHTS</strong></span><span><strong>-SEGREGATION AND ISOLATION</strong></span><span><strong>-COLOREDS NEED NOT APPLY</strong></span><span><strong>-OPPRESSION AND AFFLICTION</strong></span><span><strong>-LAST HIRED / FIRST FIRED</strong></span><span><strong>-</strong></span> <span><strong>DISCRIMINATION</strong></span><span><strong>-UNFAIR JUSTICE SYSTEM</strong></span><span><strong>-DISPROPORTIONATE NUMBER OF BLACK MALES IN PRISON</strong></span><span><strong>-POLICE BRUTALITY AND MURDER</strong></span><span><strong>-RACE HATRED</strong></span><span><strong>-DOUBLE STANDARDS</strong></span><span><strong>-DELAPIDATED GHETTO COMMUNITIES</strong></span><span><strong>-INFERIOR SCHOOLS</strong></span><span><strong>-DISRESPECT</strong></span><span><strong> </strong></span><span><strong>THE US GOVERNMENT HAS A DEBT TO PAY FOR THE KIDNAPPING OF BLACKS, THEIR ENSLAVEMENT, FREE LABOR, AND AFFLICTION OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. AND THAT IS THE BOTTOM LINE!</strong></span><span> </span></p><p><span><em>Section 3. Establishment </em></span> <span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><em>Subsection (a) establishes the Commission. </em></span> <span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><em>Subsection (b) establishes the membership of the commission, and paragraph (1) of subsection (b) sets out the composition of the Commission. </em></span> <span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><em>Subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1) directs the</em></span> <span><em>Secretary of the Interior to appoint three members to the Commission</em></span> <span><em>after considering recommendations of Governors, including the Governor of Virginia. </em></span> <span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><em>Subparagraph (B) directs the Secretary to</em></span> <span><em>appoint six members to the Commission after considering recommendations of civil rights organizations and historical organizations. </em></span> <span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><em>Subparagraph (C) directs the Secretary to</em></span> <span><em>appoint one member to the Commission that is an employee of the National Park Service having experience relative to the historical and cultural resources related to the commemoration.</em></span><span><em> </em></span> <span><em> </em></span><span><em>Subparagraph (D) directs the Secretary to appoint two members to the Commission after</em></span> <span><em>considering the recommendations of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.</em></span><span><em> </em></span> <span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><strong>SO, THE SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE MADE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THIS COMMISSION ACT, REALLY</strong></span><span><strong>?</strong></span> <span><strong>IT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO KNOW WHAT THEY WERE.</strong></span><span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><em>Subparagraph (E) directs the Secretary to appoint</em></span> <span><em>three members to the Commission who have an interest in, support for, and expertise appropriate to the commemoration</em></span> <span><em>after considering the recommendations of Members of Congress. </em></span> <span><em> </em></span><span><strong>I</strong></span></p><p><span><strong>S THIS SUPPOSED TO</strong></span> <span><strong>SEEM WORTHWHILE</strong></span> <span><strong>FOR THE COMMISSION ACT? WELL IT DOESN’T!</strong></span><span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><em>Paragraph (2) of subsection (b) requires that the Secretary</em></span> <span><em>make all appointments within 120 days of enactment of the bill. </em></span> <span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><strong>HOW MANY PEOPLE ON THIS COMMISSION ARE CERTIFIED IN THE HISTORY OF THE SLAVE TRADE AND THE WEALTH ACQUIRED FROM THE</strong></span> <span><strong>INHUMANE</strong></span> <span><strong>ENSLAVEMENT</strong></span> <span><strong>AND FREE LABOR</strong></span> <span><strong>OF MILLIONS OF BLACK HUMAN BEINGS FORCIBLY MIGRATED FROM THE COAST OF AFRICA</strong></span><span><strong>,</strong></span> <span><strong>OR DID PRESIDENT TRUMP AND CONGRESS DEEM THIS IMPORTANT?</strong></span><span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><em>Paragraph (3) sets the terms of the Commissioners and</em></span> <span><em>establishes the process for vacancies. </em></span> <span><em> </em></span><span><em>Subparagraph (A) of paragraph (3) notes that</em></span> <span><em>a member of the Commission shall be appointed for the life of the Commission. </em></span> <span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><em>Subparagraph (C) sets out that if a member of the Commission was appointed to the Commission as an</em></span> <span><em>employee of the National Park Service,</em></span> <span><em>and then leaves the National Park Service, that member can only continue on the Commission for 30 days</em></span> <span><em>after when they left the National Park Service.</em></span><span><em> </em></span> <span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><strong>EMPLOYEE OF THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE?</strong></span> <span><strong>WHY AN EMPLOYEE OF THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AND NOT AN EDUCATOR IN BLACK STUDIES AND THE SLAVE TRADE?</strong></span><span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><em>Subsection (c) of section 3 describes the activities of the Commission. </em></span> <span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><em>Paragraph (1) of subsection (c) tasks the Commission with planning, developing, and carrying out</em></span> <span><em>programs and activities</em></span> <span><em>throughout the United States that</em></span> <span><em>it deems appropriate for the commemoration to recognize and highlight the</em></span> <span><em>resilience and contributions of African-Americans since 1619.</em></span><span><em> </em></span> <span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><strong>THIS</strong></span> <span><strong>TACKY</strong></span> <span><strong>COMMISSION ACT IS NOT IN A POSITION TO DEEM WHAT’S APPROPRIATE FOR DESCENDANTS OF SLAVES.</strong></span><span><strong> </strong></span><span><strong>THIS COMMISSION ACT DOES NOTHING TO ADDRESS THE CENTURIES OF ENSLAVEMENT, CONFINEMENT, MISERY, AND SUFFERING, AND WORSE IT DOES NOT EVEN SUGGEST REPARATIONS FOR THE BRAINWASHING OF BLACK LIVES THAT WERE COMPLETELY DESTROYED, THE FREE LABOR, AND THIS ONGOING LONG-TERM CAPTIVITY.</strong></span><span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><em>Subparagraph (C) of paragraph (1) notes that the Commission is to</em></span> <span><em>acknowledge the impact that slavery and laws that enforced racial discrimination had on the United States.</em></span> <span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><strong>REALLY? HAS THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS FORGOTTEN THAT <u>DESCENDANTS OF ENSLAVERS</u></strong></span> <span><strong>ARE</strong></span> <span><strong>THE RICH AND FAMOUS</strong></span> <span><strong>TODAY</strong></span> <span><strong>DUE TO THE MARRED BACKS FROM BEATINGS, MARRED NECKS FROM BEARING YOKES, AND MARRED ANKLES FROM WEARING TIGHT CHAINS IN THE FIELDS WHILE WORKING FROM SUN UP TO SUNDOWN. THAT’S THE IMPACT SLAVERY HAD ON THE UNITED STATES THAT LEFT OUR FOREFATHERS’ BLOOD, BLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEARS ON MANY A PLANTATION AND SPREAD ACROSS MANY A COTTON AND SUGAR CANE FIELD.</strong></span> <span><strong><em> </em></strong></span><span> </span></p><p><span><em>Subparagraph (D)</em></span> <span><em>tasks the Commission with educating the public about the arrival of Africans in the United States and the contributions of African-Americans to the United States.</em></span><span><em> </em></span> <span> </span></p><p><span><strong>THE ARRIVAL OF AFRICANS TO THE UNITED STATES?</strong></span> <span><strong>THEY CAME</strong></span> <span><strong>IN YOKES AND CHAINS ON SLAVE SHIPS.</strong></span> <span><strong>THEY ARE THE</strong></span> <span><strong>CON</strong></span><span><strong>TRIBUTIONS TO THE UNITED STATES.</strong></span> <span><strong>SLAVES CLEARED FIELDS, GREW AND PICKED COTTON AND</strong></span> <span><strong>SUGAR CANE,</strong></span> <span><strong>PROVIDED</strong></span> <span><strong>FREE LABOR, AND</strong></span> <span><strong>MADE</strong></span> <span><strong>ENSLAVERS AND THE UNITED STATES WEALTHY.</strong></span><span> </span></p><p><span>THE MEMBERS OF THIS COMMISSION ACT SHOULD KNOW THAT</span> <span> </span></p><p><span><em>Paragraph (2) of subsection (c) notes that</em></span> <span><em>the Commission is to encourage civic, patriotic, historical, educational, artistic, religious, economic, and other organizations throughout the United States to organize and participate in anniversary activities to expand understanding and appreciation of the significance of the arrival of Africans in the United States and the contributions of African-Americans to the United States. </em></span> <span><em> </em></span><span><strong>PARTICIPATE IN ANNIVERSARY ACTIVITIES? YOU THINK THE PRESIDENT WANTS BLACKS TO DRESS LIKE SLAVES AND BEAR YOKES AND CHAINS</strong></span> <span><strong>DURING BLACK HISTORY MONTH</strong></span><span><strong>?</strong></span> <span><strong>BEEN THERE AND DONE THAT!</strong></span> <span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><em>Paragraph (3) directs the Commission to provide</em></span> <span><em>technical assistance to States, localities, and nonprofit organizations to further the commemoration.</em></span> <span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><strong>MANY DESCENDANTS OF SLAVES HATE TO REMEMBER THE PAIN AND SUFFERING OF OUR FOREFATHERS, BECAUSE IT’S NEVER ANYTHING TO CELEBRATE.</strong></span><span><strong><em> </em></strong></span> <span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><em>Paragraph (4) directs the Commission to</em></span> <span><em>coordinate and facilitate for the public scholarly research on, publication about, and interpretation of the arrival of Africans in the United States and the contributions of African-Americans to the United States. </em></span> <span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><em>Paragraph (5) ensures that the Commission's commemoration provides a lasting legacy and long-term public benefit by assisting in the development of</em></span> <span><em>appropriate programs.</em></span><span><em> </em></span> <span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><strong>THE PRESIDENT AND THE COMMISSION SHOULD HAVE DONE SCHOLARLY RESEARCH THEMSELVES BEFORE IMAGINING THAT THIS WORK WOULD SUFFICE FOR THE SLAVE TRADE AND MURDER OF BLACKS (WITHOUT DUE PROCCESS OF LAW) IN THE UNITED STATES.</strong></span><span><em> </em></span><span><strong>BLACKS AND WHITES ALIKE KNOW WELL THAT BLACKS WERE BROUGHT TO THE AMERICAS AS SLAVES, AND WHITES ARE WELL AWARE OF THE RACISM AND RACE HATRED THAT ENSUED. THEY PROMOTED IT DURING THE DAYS OF ENSLAVEMENT, AND THEY ARE STILL PROMOTING IT.</strong></span><span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><em>Paragraph (6) requires that the Commission help ensure that the</em></span> <span><em>observances</em></span> <span><em>of the commemoration are inclusive and appropriately</em></span> <span><em>recognize the experiences and heritage of all individuals present at the arrival of Africans in the United States.</em></span> <span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><strong>WHAT?!</strong></span> <span><strong>RECOGNIZE THE EXPERIENCES AND HERITAGE OF INDIVIDUALS PRESENT AT THE ARRIVAL OF THE AFRICANS IN THE UNITED STATES?</strong></span> <span><strong>WHAT UNITED STATES??? THE COMMISSION PUT ANYTHING DOWN ON PAPER AND COULD NOT HAVE CARED LESS THAT IT DOESN’T MAKE ANY SENSE AT ALL.</strong></span> <span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><em>Subsection (i) clarifies that nothing in section 6 supersedes the authority of the</em></span> <span><em>National Park Service</em></span> <span><em>with respect to the commemoration. Section 7. Plans; Reports </em></span> <span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><em>Section 8 establishes the</em></span> <span><em>termination date for the Commission as July 1, 2020.</em></span> <span><em>Section 8 also requires that all documents and materials of the Commission must be retained and turned over to the National Archives or another appropriate federal entity prior to termination of the Commission. </em></span> <span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><strong>GIVEN THE CHARGE FOR THIS COMMISSION, AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED, CONGRESS DOES NOT HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL JULY 1, 2020. THIS COMMISSION IS ALREADY TERMINATED.</strong></span><span><strong><em> </em></strong></span> <span> </span></p><p><span><em>COMMITTEE CONSIDERATION</em></span><span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><em>On</em></span> <span><em>March 28, 2017, the Committee met in open session</em></span> <span><em>and, with a quorum being present, ordered the bill favorably reported by voice vote. </em></span> <span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><em>APPLICATION OF LAW TO THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH</em></span><span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><em>Section 102(b)(3) of Public Law 104-1 requires a description of the application of this bill to the legislative branch where the bill relates to the terms and conditions of employment or access to public services and accommodations.</em></span> <span><em>This bill establishes the 400 Years of African-American History Commission.</em></span> <span><em>As such, this bill does not relate to employment or access to public services and accommodations. </em></span> <span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><strong>MR. PRESIDENT, YOU SIGNED THIS ACT, BUT DID YOU EVEN READ IT, AND IF YOU DID, THEN EXPLAIN IT TO DESCENDANTS OF SLAVES FOR WHOM IT WAS WRITTEN.</strong></span> <span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><em>STATEMENT OF OVERSIGHT FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS</em></span><span><em>OF THE COMMITTEE</em></span><span><em> </em></span><span><em>In compliance with clause 3(c)(1) of rule XIII and clause (2)(b)(1) of rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives, the Committee's oversight findings and recommendations are reflected in the descriptive portions of this report. </em></span> <span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><em>STATEMENT OF GENERAL PERFORMANCE</em></span> <span><strong><em>GOALS AND OBJECTIVES</em></strong></span><span><em> </em></span></p><p><span><em>In accordance with clause 3(c)(4) of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives, the Committee's performance goal or</em></span> <span><em>objective of this bill is to establish the 400 Years of African-American History Commission.</em></span><span><em> </em></span> <span><em> </em></span></p><p><strong>WHAT IS THIS SAYING, AND WHAT HAS IT GOT TO DO WITH THE SLAVE TRADE? WHAT IS THIS COMMISSION’S CONNECTION WITH THE ENSLAVEMENT OF BLACKS TAKEN OUT OF AFRICA AGAINST THEIR WILL?</strong></p><p><strong>WOULD WHITE JEWS HAVE BEEN PLEASED WITH SUCH AN ERRONEOUS COMMISSION ACT FOR THEIR JEWISH HOLOCAUST? MOREOVER, THEY WOULD HAVE INSISTED UPON WRITING THEIR OWN COMMISSION ACT AND WITH THE PRESIDENT’S AND CONGRESS’ BLESSINGS AND WITHOUT ANY PUSHBACK.</strong></p><p><strong>WHY SHOULD WE ALLOW THIS COMMISSION ACT, WRITTEN BY THE GOVERNMENT THAT ENSLAVED US AND SIGNED BY THE PRESIDENT, TO TELL DESCENDANTS OF WHAT THEY SHOULD BE DOING ABOUT 400 YEARS OF SLAVERY AND CAPTIVITY.</strong></p><p><strong>IT IS UNCONSCIONABLE THAT THIS COMMISSION ACT WOULD EVEN PROPOSES THAT DESCENDANTS OF SLAVES OBSERVE ACTIVITIES ON THE SLAVE TRADE THAT COMPLETELY ELIMINATED OUR ETHNICITY AND LEFT US WITHOUT SELF-DETERMINATION? AND WHY SHOULD WE ENDORSE THIS COMMISSION ACT THAT DOES NOT PROVIDE DESCENDANTS OF SLAVES WITH OUR OWN REPRESENTATIVES AND OUR HUMAN RIGHT TO GO FREE?</strong></p><p><strong>IF PRESIDENT TRUMP PLANS TO USE THIS UNACCEPTABLE AND SUBSTANDARD COMMISSION ACT FOR HIS LEGACY, HE MIGHT WANT TO KNOW THAT IT WILL NOT SERVE HIM WELL BUT RATHER WILL OPEN A CAN OF WORMS AND STIR UP A HORNET’S NEST!</strong></p><p><strong>MOREOVER, ANY COMMISSION ACT CONCERNING DESCENDANTS OF SLAVES SHOULD ENTAIL REPRESENTATIVES FOR DESCENDANTS OF SLAVES! AND TO DATE, THERE HAS NEVER BEEN REPRESENTATIVES SPECIFICALLY APPOINTED FOR DESCENDANTS OF SLAVES.</strong></p><p>When I first read this Commission Act, I was so disturbed that I couldn’t think straight. I had to pray to Our GOD of Israel to help me to feel better. I am so troubled at the happenings in this Hell on Earth during these “Latter Days” that I find myself praying that the GOD of Israel will not prolong the days to end the wickedness and abominations on HIS once Perfect Earth. I pray that HE will make haste to execute HIS JUDGMENTS and fulfill HIS WORD to GATHER the Children of Israel a “Second Time”. </p><p>Therefore, Israelites who follow the GOD of Israel with their whole hearts and want better lives than this captivity has to offer must gather together under the umbrella of GOD’s Book of the Law and work towards our EXODUS. We have our own Nationality, our own Land, and our own GOD that awaits us. Yes, HE was indeed angry with us for rejecting HIM, but nevertheless, HE has PROMISED to GATHER us. And all we have to do is RETURN back to HIM and to HIS LAW and live and do it, as it is written by HIS Prophet Moses. But how many of us have it in our hearts to return and serve Our GOD of Israel, as HE has required of us? </p><p>Because there will only be a Remnant SAVED, let’s pray that only those who will obey GOD’s LAW and HIS WORD to HIS Prophets will be among the Israelites so fortunate to be returned back to our heritage. We can’t afford to be joined with people who will jeopardize our chances to enjoy GOD’s Peace and HIS Happiness on HIS Earth. We need an Earth that is void of all evil and wickedness. More importantly, we need to be a Nation of Righteousness, so that we may GLORY and PRAISE the Most HIGH GOD of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and worship HIM in HIS Holy Temple.</p><p>O’ Israel, it is time for our DELIVERANCE, and we have troubled times and Deuteronomy to prove it.</p><p><strong>“Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I WILL SAVE THEE FROM AFAR, AND THY SEED FROM THE LAND OF THEIR CAPTIVITY;</strong> and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.<br /> [<strong>11</strong>] For <strong>I AM WITH THEE, SAITH THE LORD, TO SAVE THEE:</strong> though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.” Jeremiah 30:10,11</p><p><strong>“THUS SAITH THE LORD; BEHOLD, I WILL BRING AGAIN THE CAPTIVITY OF JACOB'S TENTS, AND HAVE MERCY ON HIS DWELLING PLACES;</strong> and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof. And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; <strong>I WILL ALSO GLORIFY THEM,</strong> and they shall not be small.” Jeremiah 30:18,19</p><p><strong>“Their children also shall be as aforetime, and THEIR CONGREGATION SHALL BE ESTABLISHED BEFORE ME,</strong> and I will punish all that oppress them. And <strong>THEIR NOBLES SHALL BE OF THEMSELVES, AND THEIR GOVERNOR SHALL PROCEED FROM THE MIDST OF THEM;</strong> and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the LORD. And <strong>YE SHALL BE MY PEOPLE, AND I WILL BE YOUR GOD.</strong> Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked. The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: <strong>IN THE LATTER DAYS YE SHALL CONSIDER IT.” </strong>Jeremiah 30:20 – 24</p><p><strong>OUR GOD OF ISRAEL HAS NOT MADE OUR TRUE IDENTITY KNOWN FOR NAUGHT. HE HAS AWAKENED THE “DRY BONES” IN ORDER THAT WE MAY RETURN BACK TO HIM, OBEY HIS LAW, RETURN BACK TO OUR OWN HERITAGE, AND WORSHIP ONLY HIM</strong> (Eze. 37<sup>th</sup> Chapter). <strong>IT IS TIME TO WAKE UP, YE “DRY BONES” FOR WE ARE, WITHOUT QUESTION, IN THE LATTER DAYS OF WHICH GOD SPEAKS!</strong></p><p>“Behold, at that time <strong>I WILL UNDO ALL THAT AFFLICT THEE:</strong> and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame. <strong>AT THAT TIME WILL I BRING YOU AGAIN,</strong> even in the time that I gather you: for <strong>I WILL MAKE YOU A NAME AND A PRAISE AMONG ALL PEOPLE OF THE EARTH, WHEN I TURN BACK YOUR CAPTIVITY</strong> before your eyes, saith the LORD.” Zephaniah 3:19,20</p><p>“It shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee, <strong>AND SHALT RETURN UNTO THE LORD THY GOD, AND SHALT OBEY HIS VOICE</strong> according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; <strong>That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee. IF ANY OF THINE BE DRIVEN OUT UNTO THE OUTMOST PARTS OF HEAVEN, FROM THENCE WILL THE LORD THY GOD GATHER THEE, AND FROM THENCE WILL HE FETCH THEE: AND THE LORD THY GOD WILL BRING THEE INTO THE LAND WHICH THY FATHERS POSSESSED, AND THOU SHALT POSSESS IT; AND HE WILL DO THEE GOOD,</strong> and multiply thee above thy fathers. And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.” Deuteronomy 30:1 – 6</p><p>“Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? <strong>ALAS! FOR THAT DAY IS GREAT, SO THAT NONE IS LIKE IT: IT IS EVEN THE TIME OF JACOB'S TROUBLE; BUT HE SHALL BE SAVED OUT OF IT.</strong><strong>”</strong> Jeremiah 30:6,7</p><p><strong>“FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD; BEHOLD, I, EVEN I, WILL BOTH SEARCH MY SHEEP,</strong> and seek them out. <strong>AS A SHEPHERD SEEKETH OUT HIS FLOCK IN THE DAY THAT HE IS AMONG HIS SHEEP THAT ARE SCATTERED; SO WILL I SEEK OUT MY SHEEP, AND WILL DELIVER THEM OUT OF ALL PLACES WHERE THEY HAVE BEEN SCATTERED IN THE CLOUDY AND DARK DAY.</strong> And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country. I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.” Ezekiel 34:11 – 14</p><p>“For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel. <strong><u>FLEE OUT OF THE MIDST OF BABYLON, AND DELIVER EVERY MAN HIS SOUL</u>:</strong> be not cut off in her iniquity; for <strong>THIS IS THE TIME OF THE LORD'S VENGEANCE; HE WILL RENDER UNTO HER A RECOMPENCE.</strong><strong>”</strong> Jeremiah 51:5,6</p><p>A word to the wise is sufficient!</p><p>Tziona Yisrael</p><p>Thelawkeepers.org</p><p><strong>FEBRUARY 1,</strong> <strong>2018</strong> </p><p><span><strong>H.R.1242 – 400 Years of African-American History Commission Act:</strong></span> </p><p><a href="https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/115th-congress/house-report/105/1">https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/115th-congress/house-report/105/1</a></p><p> </p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">2019 Commemoration, AMERICAN EVOLUTION™ Applauds New Federal Commission Commemorating 400 Years Of African-American History - Federal Commission Will Advance National Awareness of The 1619 African Arrival and The African-American Experience. <a href="https://t.co/jbHUB5qFMM">https://t.co/jbHUB5qFMM</a> <a href="https://t.co/QlMNltBd7g">pic.twitter.com/QlMNltBd7g</a></p>— Kwasi Akyeampong (@theblacklist) <a href="https://twitter.com/theblacklist/status/959142946682691585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 1, 2018</a></blockquote><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></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>China-Africa cooperation as seen by African youth *https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/china-africa-cooperation-seen-by-african-2017-04-25T13:30:00.000Z2017-04-25T13:30:00.000ZBasilio Muhatehttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/BasilioMuhate<div><p style="text-align:center;"><span lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}3828594707,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828594707,original{{/staticFileLink}}" width="480" alt="3828594707?profile=original" /></a></span></span></p><p><span id="result_box" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><span>* <strong>Edmundo Galiza Matos Junior</strong>, speaking on behalf of Africa at the opening of the First Asia-Africa Youth Festival, Beijing</span></span></p><p></p><p>Distinct leaders of the People's Republic of China, young Asians, Africans and our host China</p><p>Ladies and gentlemen</p><ol><li>We Fit it to honor to proceed with a speech in representation of all the young Africans, invited by our country friend and brother, China and we thank you, but above all hope to renew our laces of brotherhood here;</li><li>Let me start by making a historical, social and political framing of our wonderful continent, Africa;</li><li>The north of Africa is the oldest region of the world. The Egyptian civilization blossomed and was interrelated with most of the cultural areas of the Mediterranean world.</li><li>During the fifteen century, exploring Europeans of Portugal, Spain, France, England and the Netherlands had arrived in Africa and had initiated the trade of slaves.</li><li>Our ancestors were used to develop the occident as slaves. The first scientific trips to Africa accomplished by Charles-Jacques Poncet in the Abissínia; James Bruce, looking for the place where the Nile was born; Friedrich Konrad travelling in the Libyan desert on camel; Henry Morton Stanley and David Livingstone in the basin of Congo, had opened the doors for the division of a continent that destroyed and modified the social, economic structures, religious politics and of the majority of the territory of black Africa.</li><li>The colonies that had started its independence process after World War II and concluded in 1960 (nineteen sixty) up to 1975 (nineteen seventy five) had faced serious problems of national integration;</li><li>Africa registers poverty levels, however has a fast growth of the population better than the food levels that it must produce.</li><li>We are a continent of 54 countries that has gained its political independence , but we are not totally independent under the economical point of view because we have 21 of the 31 poorest countries of the world that face malnutrition, illiteracy and low quality of life.</li><li>However, we are rich and our wealth during many years, has served the colonialists and in some cases even racist regimes, as it was the case of Apartheid.</li><li>Africa is the continent that lives pursued by stigma of sub development. It is seen as the region of the world victim of wars, genocides, epidemics, that even with the help and partnerships of the Occident, we have not succeeded, persisting in the cycle of poverty and sub development. For Africa, China appears as an alternative to the relations with the traditional donors and the possibility to opt to another source of external aid.</li><li> Africa is rich in terms of ethnic, cultural, mineral, social diversity and politics. We have extensive fertile lands for agriculture, we house huge amounts of the most looked after minerals, we have huge amounts of potential young people that need to be capacitated, we have many rivers and lakes that can be used to mitigated the extensive power shortage that many African countries face in this case china is the right partner to continue developing electricity projects.</li><li>In Africa great thinkers and leaders of this world have emerged, from <strong>Samora Machel, Nelson Mandela, Agostinho Neto, Kwame Nkrumah, Jomo Kenyata, Ahmed Sekou, Haile Selassie, Eduardo Mondlane, Ahmed Bem Bena, Josiah Tongogara, Mwalimumu Julius Nyerere, Leopold Senghor</strong> and many more that this venue does not have time for us to mention.</li><li>To all those and the excessively anonimous ones that fought, and fight for our free Africa, to our Chinese brother that even far away from us contributed to the liberation of Africa namely ……….. we want to use this opportunity to say thank you.</li><li>Our hope, as African, is to see our continent prospering day-after day because we believe in a cooperation based on friendship and respect between the People, with mutual advantages;</li><li>We believe in the reinforcement of the relations between China and Africa because the capital that China has to invest and the technology it has, needs raw materials to support its industry, to feed its population, and to continue to increase its volumes of export to conquer the international markets.</li><li>Africa is in honest growth. We have raw materials and we need infrastructures and technology that China possesses for its exploration that implies the continuity and increase of investments.</li><li>In the context of my country, Mozambique, for example, president <strong>Xi Jinping</strong> and president <a href="http://www.presidencia.gov.mz" target="_blank">Filipe Nyusi</a> have signed an important agreement of global strategic partnership, thus joining efforts for the development of Perola do Indico, as we call #<strong>Mozambique</strong>.</li><li>Recently I passed through Luanda and saw the big city of Quilamba, result of efforts of the Chinese Goverment and 10 thousand Chinese workers who gave the Angolan people quality habitation. This is not only seen in this country we have many examples trough out Africa where we have seen and continue seeing the work that the Chinese constructs are doing in Africa just to mention a few</li><li>The commercial and enterprenual involvement of the Chinese people in the sectors of construction, agriculture, the extraction of natural resources helps our people to counterbalance the strong dependence on the traditional donors therefore reducing our debts, in offers of donations and concession of preferential loans, in technical empowerment and the supply of low cost construction. The volume of the aid that the expansion of trade with Chinese investments makes our economies grow and this result in the well-being of our people, particularly of the young people, US.</li><li>The aims contained in the new strategic partnership of China that are in the “Public Politics of China for Africa” and made public in the Beijing Forum for Cooperation China – Africa of 2006, discloses a different approach to that of the old colonies that explored mother Africa. Namely the acquisition of energy and raw material that will support the Chinese economy, cultivate the political support, consolidate the role of China in the international organizations.</li><li>As young africans, we understand that it is important to increase the economic and political interaction with the African continent and we request to our leaders a bigger dynamism in the relations that result in concrete politics and action plans for a better Chinese-African cooperation.</li><li>We young Africans believe the strategic partnership with China, will take us from being exporters of raw materials to exporters of finished products;</li><li>We young Africans believe in a model of commercial and enterprise partnerships that will promote private-private business relations, that we will not allways depend on endorsement of Governments and States;</li><li>We young Africans believe that the Chinese investment in Africa - whenever possible in partnerships with the locals -, in the production and transformation of natural resources, for export of product, half finished goods to the Chinese market and global market, that this will result in work for young Africans.<p></p><p></p></li><li>It is our understanding, that this is one of the forms that China will promote a sustainable development of young Africans.</li><li> As young, we manifest our satisfaction for the investment of China in public infrastructures and the direct establishment of the Chinese commercial banks in African countries;</li><li>This partnership promotes the desired competition in the financial sector, handspike the Chinese private investment in Africa and to commercial cooperation with China includes the facilitation of imports of Chinese technologies and goods.</li><li>We young Africans believe that cooperation in the field of the culture, arts and sport has a great impact in biggest approach between the people. The Chinese culture and art are object of great circular admiration in Africa. The increase of Martial Arts Schools, for example is a form to develop cooperation and friendship between our people;</li><li> When cooperating with Africa, we understand that China must bet in a transparent and inclusive model, where the chances created by this cooperation are divulged for all, without any type of discrimination no favors and all benefit to the young Africans above all.</li><li> To finish, allow me on behalf of all Africans, to leave a word of gratitude to Comrade President Xi Jiping, to the Communist Party of China, to the leaders of the Youth Party, to the teenagers of China in particular and to all our brothers and sisters of China.</li><li> Thank you very much and we hope this reunion does not end this year let us receive you next year in Africa</li></ol><p></p><p>Thank you</p><p>Edmundo Galiza Matos Junior</p><p>MP of Mozambique</p></div>Birth Of A Nation: Nat Turner's Mental and Military Motivationshttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/birth-of-a-nation-nat-turner-s-mental-and-military-motivations2016-10-27T11:35:54.000Z2016-10-27T11:35:54.000ZSendMeYourNewshttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/SendMeYourNews<div><p><a href="http://www.blackstarnews.com/sites/default/files/styles/news-detail-page/public/field/image/turnerrevolt-1.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.blackstarnews.com/sites/default/files/styles/news-detail-page/public/field/image/turnerrevolt-1.png" class="align-full" alt="turnerrevolt-1.png" /></a>By <span><span class="username">EZRAH AHARONE | </span></span> Nate Parker's movie The Birth of a Nation has revived the question: What caused Nat Turner's 1831 uprising?</p>
<p>Turner, first of all, was not a deranged misfit who acted outside of a historical context of previous African freedom fighters. Throughout slavery's duration, resistance was not only constant and fatal, but twofold-- Africans equally resisted both slavery and Americanization.</p>
<p>Contrary to popular "feel good" versions of history, the "fight against slavery" should not be presumed as a "fight to become American." For enslaved Africans like Turner, Americanization was the obstacle -- not the vehicle -- to the freedom they sought.</p>
<p>A largely overlooked factor that forged Africans into Americans was their inability to muster enough weapons to militarily free themselves from Americanization. Along with the 2nd Amendment which allowed Whites to bear arms, slavery was also backed by America's military, which is why 800 soldiers deployed against Turner. Within this context of warfare (which fomented at least 313 recorded armed uprisings), there is provable evidence that Africans became Americans -- not by virtue of winning the Civil War -- but by virtue of prior military defeats.</p>
<p>CNN Town Halls won't discuss this, but numerous captives were already soldiers in Africa beforehand, who like Turner, held deep monotheistic beliefs. Once in America these battle-tested troops launched guerilla forms of warfare whenever possible, using whatever weapons possible, with clear theological convictions that fused spirituality with revolution.</p>
<p>Naturally, after being forcibly uprooted 5,000 miles from long-lived kingdoms and cultures, they deemed Euro-Americans as new adversaries, and Americanization was certainly not their goal. This explains why tens of thousands of Africans militarily fought with the British against America during the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. Plus, another 100,000 fled or died fleeing to join British forces.</p>
<p>Conclusive stats are unknown, but from a sheer combat perspective, the Revolutionary War could be framed as the largest uprising of Africans who ever unified to militarily free themselves from Americanization-- including Africans reportedly owned by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.</p>
<p>Despite being defeated, it is still necessary to credit legitimacy to such Africans, beyond distorted narratives that label Turner an "African American" even though men like him sought America's military downfall. Olaudah Equiano (an Ibo, captured at age 11, who published the first surviving "slave account" in 1789: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano) wrote, "When you make men slaves, you compel them to live with you in a State of War." Once freed in 1792, he bolted like lightning to England.</p>
<p>Haiti's independence (1804) ignited further military motivations. On July 4th, 1804, instead of recognizing US independence, hundreds of Blacks in Philadelphia stormed Independence Hall to live Haitian independence vicariously.</p>
<p>Flanked in military formations, they carried swords and attacked Whites for two days, chanting "we will show them [Whites] St. Domingo [bloodshed like Haiti]."</p>
<p>So, by the dawn of his 1831 uprising, Turner was just one cog in a long continuum of such idealists. Other notable military operations involved: Fort Mose in Florida (1738-1763); the Stono Uprising in South Carolina (1739); the German Coast Uprising in Louisiana (1811); Negro Fort in Florida (1815); and David Walker's Appeal (1828) advocated revolution and religion (even though Walker was more an assimilationist than sovereignist).</p>
<p>Men like Turner also equated themselves to other hemispheric freedom fighters (in nations like Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Columbia) who gained independence-- including Euro-Americans. For example, before being hanged for their 1800 planned uprising, one of Gabriel Prosser's soldiers retorted, "I have nothing more to offer than what General [George] Washington would have had to offer, had he been taken by the British and put to trial. I have adventured my life in endeavouring to obtain the liberty of my countrymen, and am a willing sacrifice in their cause." Translation, he meant, "Bring It: I stand upon universal principles of freedom that -- just like you -- I will never compromise."</p>
<p>Interestingly, in a 60 Minutes interview, Nate Parker paralleled Nat Turner to George Washington in terms of their shared idealisms to "Birth a Nation." From this perspective, whether you agree or disagree with Turner's guerilla tactics, his comparative cause to end tyranny was no less honorable than America’s founders.</p>
<p>Tyranny however can be a very peculiar and subjective creature, since "one man's tyranny can be another man's liberty." Hence, George Washington, who enslaved and tyrannized over 300 Africans is deified on Mt. Rushmore as a hero, while conversely, Nat Turner who fought against slavery's tyranny is demonized as a savage.</p>
<p>To this contradiction, James Baldwin once quipped, "In the US, violence and heroism have been made synonymous . . . except when it comes to Blacks."</p>
<p>~~~~~~~~~~~<br />This article was culled in part from The Sovereign Psyche: Systems of Chattel Freedom vs. Self-Authentic Freedom by Ezrah Aharone who is an adjunct associate professor of political science at Delaware State University. He is also a political and business consultant on African affairs, as well as the author of Sovereign Evolution and Pawned Sovereignty. He can be reached at <a href="http://www.ezrahspeaks.com/">www.EzrahSpeaks.com</a></p>
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All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.” Ezekiel 18:21,22</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">We cannot follow and believe in customs and traditions established by every Tom, Dick, and Harry who make up religions for people to follow, such as the hundreds of different denominations of Christianity. And lest we forget, each denomination worships differently and none according to the WORD of GOD. The CREATOR GOD Commanded ONE WAY of worship for Israelites and for the Stranger who desired to follow HIS WAYS (Num.15:15) for good reason! When people invent umpteen other ways to worship a god, the wise know that this is a red flag for absolute confusion. Given all the following man-made religions and the resulting dreadful state of this world, we have to know that this HELL is a result of GOD’s Punishment for forsaking HIS WAYS of Righteousness.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">LINK TO HUNDREDS OF <u>CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS</u>:</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_denominations">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_denominations</a></span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">LINK TO <u>ALL TYPES OF RELIGIONS</u>:</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.watchman.org/index-of-cults-and-religions/">http://www.watchman.org/index-of-cults-and-religions/</a></span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">There are also other <u>branches of Christianity that fall into a different category, which are connected with familiar spirits and/or witchcraft.</u></span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.catholicbible101.com/sorceryandwitchcraft.htm">http://www.catholicbible101.com/sorceryandwitchcraft.htm</a></span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1334.cfm">http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1334.cfm</a></span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15674a.htm">http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15674a.htm</a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">Most people probably believe that the above religions involving sorcery are only found in Africa. Many of them might have spawned from Africa, but these beliefs with many names related to voodoo and Christianity are prevalent all over the world. And all Peoples and Nations Black and White indulge in these abominations, even GOD’s Chosen and Covenant People, the Children of Israel, but HE warned them against this practice.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? To the law and to the testimony: <u>IF THEY SPEAK NOT ACCORDING TO THIS WORD, IT IS BECAUSE THERE IS NO LIGHT IN THEM</u>.” Isaiah 8:19,20 </span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">***</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">The CREATOR GOD established a RIGHTEOUS WAY <u>in the BEGINNING</u> when HE Created mankind. And HE enhanced HIS RIGHTEOUS Book of the Law again with HIS Beloved People after HE brought them out of Egyptian bondage. But as it was after CREATION, so it was also after the CREATOR gave HIS People the Land of Canaan. The Children of Israel also did wickedly before the Most HIGH GOD of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, which is the Holy Name HE gave HIMSELF resulting from HIS Everlasting Covenant HE made with them. HE is GOD, and there is NONE ELSE!</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.” Exodus 22:20</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and <b><u>ASK FOR THE OLD PATHS, WHERE IS THE GOOD WAY, AND WALK THEREIN</u>,</b> and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.” Jeremiah 6:16</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“Because <b>MY PEOPLE HATH FORGOTTEN ME</b>, <b>they have burned incense to vanity, and <u>they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up</u>;</b><b>”</b> Jeremiah 18:15</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">I could, without question, produce a report on these atrocious abominations that could require volumes of books. The wicked ways of man are unconscionable! Unless one has a degree in the study of man-made religions, we cannot imagine all the evils associated with these despicable religions that have existed from the days of the Assyrian Empire unto this day and time.</span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">***</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">Last night I turned to the Internet to try and find out the start of the new “SURVIVOR” Series. And after getting side tracked, I went from one video to another that happened to catch my eye. And what did I do that for? I eventually came upon the religious abominations in Africa and in other parts of the world. I was shocked at seeing so much immorality and depravity that I could not believe that I could be so ignorant of the abominations that are taking place in this world. It’s one thing to suffer at the hands of our enemies who hold us in captivity, and it’s another to witness the evil practices of the many groups in Africa and also in many other parts of the world – all horrifying in nature. I was dumbfounded and am still stressed about all that I saw. I found myself constantly giving PRAISE to the GOD of Israel for making Divine Laws, Statutes, and Judgments for us to follow in order that we not be involved in the appalling witchcraft, sexual acts, and consumption of all manner of forbidden animals!</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">There is no question that we will need GOD’s HAND upon us to cleanse us from the filth that pervades this Earth. And there is no question that there will be another world-wide Judgment by the CREATOR that will wipe out the great majority of the people upon HIS Earth. </span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">THIS IS NOT A LIFE AND THIS WORLD MUST WAKE UP BEFORE ALL IS LOST! IT DOESN’T TAKE A GENIUS TO KNOW THAT GOD DOES NOT CONDONE THIS WORLD ORDER!</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">Under this present World Order Third-World Nations have no chance of becoming economic powers. Black Lives will never matter, as the so-called “Justice System” is in place to sustain the status quo of White authority and control over the subjugated. The lack of a level playing field will always promote and sustain impoverishment, Ghettoes, inferior schools, and low-level employment as the norm. The White ruling powers of the world will always be the dominant race leaving the powerless nations to deal with war and destruction and foreign intervention and exploitation. </span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">In Africa many are already dying in the millions every year from malaria, river blindness, Ebola, and the list goes on, and each disease kills as many as a million people each year. But one need not die in the millions just from disease. In the Middle East, people are dying from wars, disease, and hunger. In the United States and in other highly developed nations with unfair constitutions and governments that do not serve all the people, the list is endless for what kills people: pharmaceutical drugs, cancer, cigarettes, alcohol, illegal drugs, pesticides, pollution, diseases, fires, so-called “accidents”, murder, the so-called penal system, and racist cops to name a meager few. From these killers a million people die in the United States every single year, i.e., if the statistics are revealing the truth. Zika is plaguing the Caribbean and South America, and causing many ghastly birth defects for the babies who survive. Many mothers with Zika abort to keep from having these deformed babies. Also, Zika is rapidly spreading in the United States. We can never know how many people suffer from poverty, hunger, and malnutrition on each inhabited continent. And sadly, religions are not improving the state of people’s lives and in no way do they diminish the despair that plagues the believers. These churches and their denominations actually add to the greed, deceit, fraud, and double-dealing that increases wickedness rather than end it, and the flock becomes the needy while the pastors become the rich. Death prevails rather than GOD’s TRUTH and worship of HIM!</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">THE DAY OF THE LORD IS UPON US, AND, THUS, DEATH IN THE MILLIONS IS IMMINENT ACROSS THE GLOBE!</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. I will make a man more precious than fine gold..;” Isaiah 13:9 - 12</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">The point I want to get across is that these deaths are but the tip of the iceberg. <u>The Day of the LORD will punish and kill and rid the worst of Israelites, the Whites, and the worst of the heathens from HIS Earth</u>. I wish I could get people to understand just how serious this matter is because many, many people are about to die, and given what I saw last night, GOD has good reason to destroy the wicked <u>in the billions</u>!</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">Consider why the CREATOR scattered Israel from HIS Holy Land and why HE left HIS Holy City, Jerusalem to return to HIS Place. False worship, false gods, and wizardry were everywhere in GOD’s Land, even in HIS Holy Temple, and the people who embraced these false religions disseminated and perpetuated them, and they thrive unto this day. And even though these religions are false and the gods are man-made, people still worship them, however, to no avail. </span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: <b><u>FOR ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF THY CITIES ARE THY GODS, O JUDAH</u></b>.” Jeremiah 2:28</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>“</b><b>HOW SHALL I PARDON THEE FOR THIS? THY CHILDREN HAVE FORSAKEN ME, AND SWORN BY THEM THAT ARE NO GODS:</b> when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.” Jeremiah 5:7</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>“Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;”</b> Jeremiah 7:9</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>“Every man is brutish by his knowledge; <u>every founder is confounded by the graven image</u>: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. They are vanity, the work of errors: <u>in the time of their visitation they shall perish</u>.”</b> Jeremiah 51:17,18</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>“…Thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place <u>in every street</u>.”</b> Ezekiel 16:24</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">For very good reason the CREATOR will destroy the wicked, the depraved, the immoral, the vile, and the corrupt of this world. HE must; for this is not a place for a RIGHTEOUS GOD to dwell. And before HE returns back to HIS Holy Place, you can be sure that Earth will be void of the mindsets that made it a place of false worship, misery, oppression, and endless stress. We should know that if the wicked are not eliminated, then people will continue to perpetuate the crimes that sustain GOD’s Earth in a state of extreme HELL! </span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">The CREATOR of this Earth is very FAIR and JUST to destroy the wicked. The only problem is HE is not doing it fast enough. The longer these people stay on this Earth, the more they will commit evil and entice others to do the same. GOD’s once PERFECT EARTH has been turned into a world of lust, corruption, despicable acts, and vice made permanent by the works of mad men. Their insane transgressions have caused the suffering of many and for thousands of years.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">If GOD’s own Chosen People who know HIM and who will not choose HIS Righteousness are punished, then we can just imagine the punishments for the abominations of Gentiles who reject GOD and worship another, not to mention their strong efforts to deceive and dupe others into believing and accepting this false worship. There should be no place on GOD’s Earth for people who reject living HIS Laws, Statutes, and Judgments, for this is the only way we can ever hope of being a Righteous People. </span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">There were times when the Children of Israel committed unforgiveable sins, and Moses entreated GOD for Mercy when HE wanted to utterly destroy them.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>“And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people: Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.</b> <b>And Moses besought the LORD his God,</b> and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand? Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? <b><u>Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people</u>.</b> Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever. And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.<b>” </b> Exodus 32:9 – 14</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp. <b>And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the LORD, the fire was quenched.</b><b>”</b> Numbers 11:1,2</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>“AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES, HOW LONG WILL THIS PEOPLE PROVOKE ME? AND HOW LONG WILL IT BE ERE THEY BELIEVE ME, FOR ALL THE SIGNS WHICH I HAVE SHEWED AMONG THEM? <u>I WILL SMITE THEM WITH THE PESTILENCE, AND DISINHERIT THEM, AND WILL MAKE OF THEE A GREATER NATION AND MIGHTIER THAN THEY</u>.</b> And <b>Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;) And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou LORD art among this people, that thou LORD art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night. Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying, Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness. And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying, The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation. Pardon, I beseech thee,</b> the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now. <b><u>AND THE LORD SAID, I HAVE PARDONED ACCORDING TO THY WORD</u>:</b><b>”</b> Numbers 14:11 - 20</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">Well, today we have no Moses! It’s all about being OBEDIENT and adhering to the WORD of GOD, or about preparing to suffer the consequences. We know well that the GOD of Israel will destroy all countries that took us into captivity. Thus, we should also realize that it is incumbent upon us to FLEE these lands.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid. For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: <u>THOUGH I MAKE A FULL END OF ALL NATIONS WHITHER I HAVE SCATTERED THEE, YET WILL I NOT MAKE A FULL END OF THEE</u>: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.” Jeremiah 30:10,11</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and <u>DELIVER YE EVERY MAN HIS SOUL FROM THE FIERCE ANGER OF THE LORD</u>. And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.” Jeremiah 51:45,46</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">THE CREATOR WILL DESTROY ALL THE WICKED AND THE EVIL, AND HE WILL DESTROY ASTOUNDINGLY!</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>“</b>The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. <b>There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.</b><b>”</b> Isaiah 57:21</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>“Seek ye the LORD,</b> all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; <b><u>seek righteousness, seek meekness</u>:</b> <b><u>IT MAY BE YE SHALL BE HID IN THE DAY OF THE LORD'S ANGER</u></b>.” Zephaniah 2:3</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">People have been so brainwashed and are so far removed from what “Thus Saith the LORD” that few know the meaning of Righteousness, and few know that Righteousness is acquired by living the “REQUIRED” Book of GOD’s Law. Hence the reason we must “SEEK THE LORD”, “SEEK RIGHTEOUSNESS”, and SEEK GOD’s Book of the Law! People who worship false idols, follow the teachings of heathens, and those who worship JC are walking backwards and follow after foolishness.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me. Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know. Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail. Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. <u>LET NOW THE ASTROLOGERS, THE STARGAZERS, THE MONTHLY PROGNOSTICATORS, STAND UP, AND SAVE THEE FROM THESE THINGS THAT SHALL COME UPON THEE</u>.” Isaiah 47:10 – 13</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets, Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for <b>THEY HAVE TURNED THEIR BACK UNTO ME</b>, and not their face: <b>BUT <u>IN THE TIME OF THEIR TROUBLE THEY WILL SAY, ARISE, AND SAVE US</u>.</b> But <b>where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble:</b> for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.” Jeremiah 2:26 – 28</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">THE CREATOR GOD NEVER CHANGED FROM COMMANDING US TO WORSHIP HIM AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS!</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“The LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day. AND IT SHALL BE OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS, IF WE OBSERVE TO DO ALL THESE COMMANDMENTS BEFORE THE LORD OUR GOD, <u>AS HE HATH COMMANDED US</u>.” Deuteronomy 6:24,25</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest. This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.” Joshua 1:7,8</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">In forsaking the CREATOR GOD that established the Universe, designed a Righteous Walk of Life, formed the Children of Israel, and established the Land of Israel, all Peoples, Black and White, Slave or Captor have grieved and have been victims (in one way or another) of the worst of all sufferings. </span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, <u>Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house? And they shall answer, BECAUSE THEY FORSOOK THE LORD THEIR GOD</u>, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, <u>and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil</u>.” I Kings 9:8,9</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">When the GOD of Israel said HE would scatter the Children of Israel among the heathen, no one could have guessed that the customs of the heathen were so heinous and without morals. No one could have guessed that even GOD’s Beloved People would become numbered among these heathens and become just like them. GOD caused HIS Hebrew Israelites to lose their identity and had them assimilate with their enemies, as well as worship their god – to be clear, the god of those who hold them captives. It doesn’t get worse than that. With all their hearts the Israelites who became “bywords and proverbs” believe in the god that not only looks like their oppressive and cruel SLAVERS, but he is one that is just as racist as they are. This god does nothing for them, exactly as the GOD of Israel had said. Moreover, one does not worship a god other than the CREATOR and not be punished for this abomination.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; BECAUSE OF THE WICKEDNESS OF THY DOINGS, WHEREBY THOU HAST FORSAKEN ME.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed. The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart: And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and <u>NO MAN SHALL SAVE THEE</u>.” Deuteronomy 28:20,27 - 29</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head. The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and <u>there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone</u>.” Deuteronomy 28:32,35,36</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">Look at the hypocrisy, the corruption, the adultery, the greed, and the sin in the churches of this god, not to mention that one cannot find the Divine teachings that the CREATOR GOD gave to Moses anywhere in the religion of this White Man’s god! It is common sense that if GOD wanted HIS Chosen People to live and do HIS Laws, Statutes, and Judgments, then for sure HE would want all Peoples, Nations, and Tongues doing the same. But no, the “New Testament” writers wanted a so-called “loving god”, one with long hair and blue eyes and one who looked just like the rulers of that day and time. And did they ever get one – one bloody poor excuse of a savior who couldn’t save himself, much less the “Lost Sheep of the House of Israel”. They knew that the CREATOR GOD did not appear in the form of any similitude (Deu.4:12), so they thought they could invent a man-god looking like a sweet pea and entice people to worship him. Well, they succeeded, but they disregarded the verse that is clear on corrupting oneself by making the “similitude of the likeness of a male or female”. These writers messed up all around, as they even wrote a religion one very much unlike what GOD REQUIRES – actually one that is of the imaginations of their evil hearts – a “New Gospel” that was never endorsed by the CREATOR GOD!</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>“Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: <u>Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female</u>,” </b> Deuteronomy 4:15,16</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">It goes without saying that the CREATOR GOD did not appear in any form before the Children of Israel all because HE knew that whatever the Children of Israel would see, they would reproduce into the form of an image and worship it. That’s what Israelites were accustomed to doing in Egypt - making false gods, and LORD knows there were hundreds of them there. </span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>THE WORSHIP OF FALSE GODS BROUGHT ONLY SUFFERING AND NOTHING MORE!</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">The hundreds of religions, false worship, witchcraft, and the incessant desires to reject Our MAKER and defy HIS Everlasting LAWS of Righteousness have turned Earth into <b>a living NIGHTMARE of death, destruction, mass suffering, and the worst evils imaginable.</b> And thus, it is no wonder GOD left HIS Earth to return to HIS Place in the Heavens. </span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>“I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: <u>in their affliction they will seek me early</u>.”</b> Hosea 5:15 </span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">However, the CREATOR will not leave HIS Earth in the hands of the wicked forever. Our JEALOUS GOD will not rest until HE establishes a world of Righteousness – HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS – where the People HE Created will look to HIM as the ONE and ONLY True and Living GOD and will worship HIM in Truth and in Righteousness. <b>These will be the Blessed ones, Israelites and Gentiles, who were hid and spared from the horrific Judgment and Wrath GOD brought upon HIS Earth to end all wickedness. Know of a surety that GOD’s RIGHTEOUSNESS will prevail AFTER the wicked are removed from HIS Earth!</b></span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>“</b><b>AND THERE SHALL COME FORTH A ROD OUT OF THE STEM OF JESSE, AND A BRANCH SHALL GROW OUT OF HIS ROOTS: AND THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD SHALL REST UPON HIM,</b> the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: <b>AND HE SHALL NOT JUDGE AFTER THE SIGHT OF HIS EYES, NEITHER REPROVE AFTER THE HEARING OF HIS EARS: BUT WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL HE JUDGE THE POOR, AND REPROVE WITH EQUITY FOR THE MEEK OF THE EARTH: AND HE SHALL SMITE THE EARTH WITH THE ROD OF HIS MOUTH, AND WITH THE BREATH OF HIS LIPS SHALL HE SLAY THE WICKED. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.</b><b>”</b> Isaiah 11:1 – 5</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>“</b><b>Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.”</b> Jeremiah 23:5</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that <b>I WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, AND WITH THE HOUSE OF JUDAH:</b> Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; <b>AFTER THOSE DAYS, SAITH THE LORD, I WILL PUT MY LAW IN THEIR INWARD PARTS, AND WRITE IT IN THEIR HEARTS; AND WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE.</b> <b>And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me,</b> from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.” Jeremiah 31:31 – 34</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth. And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first. And <b>I WILL CLEANSE THEM FROM ALL THEIR INIQUITY, WHEREBY THEY HAVE SINNED AGAINST ME; AND I WILL PARDON ALL THEIR INIQUITIES, WHEREBY THEY HAVE SINNED, AND WHEREBY THEY HAVE TRANSGRESSED AGAINST ME. And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it. Thus saith the LORD;</b> Again there shall be heard in this place, which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast, The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD.” Jeremiah 33:6 – 11</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO END ALL THIS IMMORALITY, WICKEDNESS, AND HELL UPON THIS EARTH!</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">Given the vastness of this Earth and the transgressions that continue to multiply throughout all the occupied continents in every generation, I know it would appear that there is no hope for a better life, and that the CREATOR GOD will never return. But if this is our thinking, then we would be thoroughly incorrect! The Righteous GOD would NOT Create a Wondrous Earth for the habitation of the rebellious. <b>The CREATOR’s conclusive plans would be to establish SALVATION for the RIGHTEOUS, and that they triumph over HIS Earth significantly instead of the wicked.</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>“</b><b>BLESSED IS THE MAN WHOM THOU CHASTENEST, O LORD, AND TEACHEST HIM OUT OF THY LAW;</b> <b><u>That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity</u>, until the pit be digged for the wicked. For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance</b>.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>“Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.”</b> Psalm 94:12 – 14,15</span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>“</b><b>HEARKEN UNTO ME, MY PEOPLE; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.</b> My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust. Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for <b><u>THE HEAVENS SHALL VANISH AWAY LIKE SMOKE, AND THE EARTH SHALL WAX OLD LIKE A GARMENT, AND THEY THAT DWELL THEREIN SHALL DIE IN LIKE MANNER</u>: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished. Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law;</b> fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings. For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>“</b><b>For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.”</b> Isaiah 65:17</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>“Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over? Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“And I have put my words in thy mouth, and <b>I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, THOU ART MY PEOPLE.</b><b>”</b> Isaiah 51:4 – 8,10,11,16</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>THERE IS HOPE FOR ALL WHO SEEK THE TRUE AND LIVING GOD TO RETURN TO HIM <u>ACCORDING TO HIS WAYS!</u></b></span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Then shall ye <b><u>CALL UPON ME, AND YE SHALL GO AND PRAY UNTO ME, AND I WILL HEARKEN UNTO YOU. AND YE SHALL SEEK ME, AND FIND ME, WHEN YE SHALL SEARCH FOR ME WITH ALL YOUR HEART. AND I WILL BE FOUND OF YOU, SAITH THE LORD</u>:</b> and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.” Jeremiah 29:11 – 14</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">Let the CREATOR GOD end this present world system and the people who inhibit knowledge of HIS WAYS and HIS TRUTH. Let the True and Living GOD RETURN and be EXALTED for all HIS WONDROUS GOODNESS, and let all who remain after HE executes HIS WRATH and HIS JUDGMENTS upon the wicked delight in HIM for transforming HIS Earth back to the prestige and Glory, due to HIS HOLINESS, GREATNESS, and MAJESTY as it was in the BEGINNING. Let HIS SALVATION be our desires, so that we will be able to live in HIS Divine Utopian Peace and Happiness. And let us rejoice over knowledge of the CREATOR GOD, HIS TRUTH, and HIS POWER to destroy the wicked, to end sin, and to replenish HIS Earth as it was in the BEGINNING. </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>For your Peace Sake, your Righteousness Sake,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>and for your Holy Name’s Sake,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>MAKE HASTE, FATHER of Abraham</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>To destroy the wicked and establish the RIGHTEOUS</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>That YOU be GLORIFIED by everything that breathes!</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>“</b><b>THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH;</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.”</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">Psalm 37:11</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>“</b><b>The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.<br /> The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>and his tongue talketh of judgment. </b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.<br /> The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.<br /> The LORD will not leave him in his hand,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>nor condemn him when he is judged.<br /> Wait on the LORD, and keep his way,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land:</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>WHEN THE WICKED ARE CUT OFF, THOU SHALT SEE IT.”</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">Psalm 37:29 - 34</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b> </b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>“Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion:</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>for, lo, <u>I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD</u>.</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto thee.<br /> And the LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>and shall choose Jerusalem again.<br /> Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD:</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.”</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">Zechariah 2:10 - 13</span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>“Seek ye the LORD while he may be found,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>call ye upon him while he is near:”</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">Isaiah 55:6</span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">***</span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">Tziona Yisrael</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>August 11, 2016</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b><a href="http://www.thelawkeepers.org/DEUTERONOMY%2028TH%20CHAPTERandPICTURES.Adoc.htm">http://www.thelawkeepers.org/DEUTERONOMY%2028TH%20CHAPTERandPICTURES.Adoc.htm</a></b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b> </b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>***</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.thelawkeepers.org/"><b>http://www.thelawkeepers.org</b></a></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b> </b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>***</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b> </b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="mailto:THELAWKEEPERS@yahoogroups.com" title="mailto:THELAWKEEPERS@yahoogroups.com"><b>THELAWKEEPERS@yahoogroups.com</b></a></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b> </b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>***</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Thus-Saith-The-LORD-Book/dp/1494928035"><b>http://www.amazon.com/Thus-Saith-The-LORD-Book/dp/1494928035</b></a></span></p><p align="center"> </p><p> </p></div>AN OPEN LETTER TO MODERN-DAY PHARAOHS - YOUR ASSIGNMENT IS TERMINATED!https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/an-open-letter-to-modern-day-pharaohs2016-06-15T14:00:00.000Z2016-06-15T14:00:00.000ZTziona Yisraelhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/TzionaYisrael<div><p></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>AN OPEN LETTER:</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>TO MODERN-DAY PHARAOHS</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b><u>YOUR ASSIGNMENT IS TERMINATED!</u></b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b><u>THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL HAVE RESIGNED THEMSELVES</u></b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b><u>TO RETURN TO THEIR GOD AND TO SERVE AND OBEY HIM</u></b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b><u>ACCORDING TO HIS BOOK OF THE LAW!</u></b></span></p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>“…the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.<br /> And <u>he gave them into the hand of the heathen</u>;</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b><u>and they that hated them ruled over them.<br /> Their enemies also oppressed them,</u></b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b><u>and they were brought into subjection under their hand</u></b><b>.</b><b>”</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">Psalm 106:40 - 42</span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>“…they did eat, and were filled, and became fat,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.<br /> Nevertheless they were disobedient,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>and they wrought great provocations.<br /> Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>who vexed them:</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>thou heardest them from heaven…”</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">Nehemiah 9:25 – 27</span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>“And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies:</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>so fell they all by the sword.<br /> According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.<br /> Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD;</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>and will be jealous for my holy name;</b><b>”</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">Ezekiel 39:23 – 25</span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>THE CREATOR GOD IS JUST AND RIGHTEOUS</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>AND IT IS HE THAT EXECUTES HIS JUDGMENT UPON THE WICKED!</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>“The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth:</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b><u>The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God</u></b><b>.</b><b>”</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">Psalm 9:16,17</span><span class="font-size-3"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>June 13, 2016</b></span></p><p align="center"> </p><p><span class="font-size-3">When people are killed and loved ones are wrecked with sorrow it is difficult to watch the grief without our eyes welling up. These attacks of violence and bloodshed, be they homegrown or international even drones killing innocent men, women, and children or people of different nationalities attacking White nations, are all too poignant to bear.</span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3">Nonetheless, people need to stop and consider why these acts of violence are happening and are destroying the White World – America and European nations that indulged and grew wealthy via the Slave Trade and via Third-World defenseless nations that have been exploited and slated for demise.</span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>White</b> <b>CONTROL</b> has been cruel, inhumane, and brutal and this barbarity has spanned over many countries over thousands of years. And as a result of this cruelty, people have lost their true identity and would be Strangers in their own lands should they seek to return. This is especially evident in the case of descendants of Slaves, i.e., the SEED of the Children of Israel.</span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b><i>“I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and <u>given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy</u>; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.”</i></b> Isaiah 47:6 </span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3">Among these subjugated people under White Control, are descendants of Slaves of the SEED of the Biblical Israelites who now want to Exodus out of the countries that forcibly migrated them (us) from the shores of “Africa”.</span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3">It is easily recognized that GOD is the ALMIGHTY CREATOR, but few people accept the fact that when terror strikes or any catastrophe that it is with the consent of Our MAKER, even when churches burn, when the Earth Quakes, when tragedies from tornadoes and hurricanes strike cities, when wars prevail and kill thousands, and when people are enslaved and are yet captives. All these ACTS are the WORKS of the CREATOR GOD. A leaf does not fall from the tree without HIS Consent, or rather because HE is the ALMGHTY GOD, HE can prevent things from happening, as well as cause things to occur. And no matter what HE chooses to do, the CREATOR GOD is a JUST and RIGHTEOUS GOD, especially when HE sends messages of Judgment to the wicked for their evils and for their merciless and cruel ways! </span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3">This GOD of Israel will not leave HIS Chosen People and the oppressed in the hands of the powers-that-be forever. </span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><i>“Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins. My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart. <b>God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.”</b> Psalm 7:9 – 11</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b><i>“…man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.”</i></b><i> Psalm 58:11</i></span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><i><br /> “See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: <b>neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.</b><b>”</b> Deuteronomy 32:39</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b><i>“Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for <u>thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly</u>:”</i></b><i> Nehemiah 9:33</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b><i>“Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.”</i></b><i> Malachi 3:18</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3">When the powers sin against the CREATOR, when they commit evil against others, and when they sustain yokes and control over people who want their FREEDOM and cannot attain it, there will be consequences. These acts of violence against the powers-that-be are messages from GOD ALMIGHTY to America and to other White-dominated countries that hold fast HIS Covenant People, the SEED of Jacob - <b><u>messages to let us go, so that we may “Serve” Our GOD</u></b>. We are the People HE has Chosen to serve HIM and to show forth HIS PRAISE, that which HE has not relished for millennia.</span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b><i>“This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.”</i></b><i> Isaiah 43:21</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3">When Pharaoh would not let the Children of Israel Exodus out of Egypt to serve the CREATOR GOD of Israel, this King of Egypt witnessed <b><u>the fall of Egypt one day at a time</u></b>. GOD plagued the Land of Egypt and the Egyptians until they assented to let HIS People Go.</span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><i>“And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God<b>: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?</b><b>”</b> Exodus 10:7</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3">Once again GOD’s Covenant People – the Children of Israel – are in captivity but one that stems from the Slave Trade and a captivity of well over 400 years. Thus, it will take the Most HIGH GOD of Israel to plague the nations throughout the world that hold HIS Chosen People in captivity and under their inhumane control. And of these nations the United States is chief in this severity.</span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3">The CREATOR GOD of Israel is now calling back HIS Children of Israel whom HE scattered into the <b>“Four Corners of the Earth”</b> to serve their enemies for their great sins and abominations they committed against HIM when they inhabited HIS Land of Israel.</span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3">GOD had warned our forefathers to take heed to HIS Commandments and to abandon false gods and false worship if we wanted to stay in the Land. When our forebears defied HIM and rebelled against HIS Laws, Statutes, and Judgments, HE did exactly what HE said HE would do, which was to cast them from the Land of Milk and Honey and via the Slave Trade would cause their (our) identity to be completely forgotten.</span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>ONLY BLACKS FULFILLED THE PROPHECIES OF THE SLAVE TRADE WRITTEN IN DEUTERONOMY 28<sup>TH</sup> CHAPTER:</b></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><i>“But it shall come to pass, <b>if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:</b></i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b><i>“The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies:</i></b> <i>thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><i>“And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: <b>and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.</b></i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b><i>“Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.</i></b> <i>The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b><i>“The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone. And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.</i></b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><i> </i></span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b><i>“<u>Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity</u>.</i></b></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><i>“The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low. <b>He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.</b> <b>Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed;</b> because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><i>“<b>Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things; Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee</b>, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and <b><u>he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee</u></b>. The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b><i>“<u>If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law</u> that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD; Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.</i></b></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b><i>“And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God.</i></b> <i>And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it. And <b><u>the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known</u>, even wood and stone.</b> And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind: And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:</i><i>” </i></span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><i>Deuteronomy 28:15,25,29,32,33,36,37,41,43,44,45,47,48,49,50,58,59,62 – 66</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b><i>“<u>I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men</u>:”</i></b><i> Deuteronomy 32:26</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3">Of a sad and harrowing Truth, these curses and captivity upon descendants of Slaves have been deadly and mournful every single day. But some of us who are of the SEED of the Children of Israel have returned to Our GOD of Israel to obey HIS WORD and to follow ONLY HIS Book of the Law (HIS Laws, Statutes, and Judgments that we are Commanded to live “forever”), and we are ready now to serve Our GOD of Israel and of great import, we are ready now to Exodus out of this bondage.</span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>THE PROBLEM IS THAT THE POWERS-THAT-BE ARE NOT GIVNG US A VOICE AND WILL NOT ALLOW US TO GO BEFORE CONGRESS OR THE UNITED NATIONS WITH OUR PROPOSAL FOR LEAVING OUT OF THIS BONDAGE.</b></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3">Therefore, our only alternative is to disseminate this Open Letter to let the world know that we have returned to Our GOD of Israel to obey HIM, and that HE has heard our prayers to SAVE us out of this affliction and miserable captivity. Yes, HE is mercifully hearing us just as HE heard our forebears when they suffered Egyptian captivity.</span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b><i>“And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.</i></b> <i>And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.</i><i>” Exodus 2:24,25</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b><i>“And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;”</i></b><i> Exodus 3:7</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3">Because the WHITE POWERS that GOD put over us refuse to give us our FREEDOM to let us go out of their lands, we now beseech Our GOD for HELP. And HE is hearing our prayers and cries to leave out and to return to HIM with our whole heart and soul. And HIS WORD is that it will come to pass but not before many have succumbed to violence and horrific death, just as is happening now and just as it happened in Ancient Egypt. Nevertheless, our Exodus is imminent.</span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><i>“And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again <b><u>the second time to recover the remnant of his people</u>,</b> which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.” Isaiah 11:11,12</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><i>“Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, <b>The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;</b> <b>But, <u>The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them</u>: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.</b><b>” </b> Jeremiah 16:14,15</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><i>“Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, <b><u>I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity</u></b>; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.” Jeremiah 30:10</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><i>“Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine hand, <b>Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.</b> <b>But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; <u>for they are at hand to come</u>.</b><b>” </b> Ezekiel 36:7,8</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><i>“The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing. I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden. Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and <b>I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame. At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the LORD</b>.” Zephaniah 3:17 - 20</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3">Thus, know the reason Our GOD is plaguing the CAPTORS of HIS People with death and trembling, and do know of a certainty that, that which we witness these days in respect to seriously troubled times is but the tip of the iceberg. Therefore, before GOD’s WRATH reaches your doorsteps, it would be wise to let us go; to give us our FREEDOM, and to negotiate our emigration, Reparations, and Resettlement elsewhere. America and all the Countries that grew wealthy off the backs of Slaves are great places but just not for the descendants of Slaves who desire to follow the WAYS of the CREATOR GOD of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.</span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b><i>“And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: <u>this is my name forever, and this is my memorial unto all generations</u>.”</i></b><i> Exodus 3:15</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b><i>“I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.” Isaiah 42:8</i></b></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b><i>“<u>Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else</u>. I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That <u>unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear</u>.”</i></b><i> Isaiah 45:22,23</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b><i>“The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.”</i></b><i> Isaiah 42:21</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><i>“And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, <b>The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel.</b><b>”</b> Malachi 1:5</i></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>“Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: <u>it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD's anger</u>.</b></span></p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-3">Know that this CREATOR GOD is taking back HIS Universe, HIS Holy Land, HIS Holy City Jerusalem, and HIS Covenant People, and I advise you to be forewarned, and the reason is GOD is NOT a man that HE should lie! Now, you are the wiser, but will you take heed and let GOD’s People GO, in order that we may serve HIM?</span></p><p> </p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">Sincerely in GOD’s TRUTH,</span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">Descendants of Slaves,</span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">The “Dry Bones”</span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3">The accursed who fulfilled GOD’s WORD written in Deuteronomy 28<sup>th</sup> Chapter</span></p><p> </p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>***</b></span></p><p> </p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><a title="http://www.thelawkeepers.org/DEUTERONOMY 28TH CHAPTERandPICTURES.Adoc.htm" href="http://www.thelawkeepers.org/DEUTERONOMY%2028TH%20CHAPTERandPICTURES.Adoc.htm" target="_blank"><b>http://www.thelawkeepers.org/DEUTERONOMY%2028TH%20CHAPTERandPICTURES.Adoc.htm</b></a></span></p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><b>***</b></span><span class="font-size-3"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Thus-Saith-The-LORD-Book/dp/1494928035"><b>http://www.amazon.com/Thus-Saith-The-LORD-Book/dp/1494928035</b></a></span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b> </b></span></p></div>Black Conservatives Critical of Obama's State of the Union Addresshttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/black-conservatives-critical-of-obama-s-state-of-the-union-addres2016-01-15T14:30:00.000Z2016-01-15T14:30:00.000ZSendMeYourNewshttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/SendMeYourNews<div><div><strong><span><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}3828578763,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828578763,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-full" alt="3828578763?profile=original" /></a>Puffy, Partisan Speech Further Mires President's Lamentable Legacy<br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">"You Can't Put Enough Lipstick on This Pig of His to Make It Look Pretty"</span></span><span><br /></span></strong></div>
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<p><span><font color="#404040">Members of the Project 21 black leadership network are commenting on - and available for interviews about - President Barack Obama's final State of the Union Address.<br /><br /> While starting out talking about alleged areas for potential bipartisan accomplishment, the agenda President Obama quickly pivoted to and championed throughout the rest of his speech to Congress encompassed a big-government agenda he has always sought to enact with or without the support of elected lawmakers - such as relaxing immigration rules, increasing the minimum wage and new energy regulation.<br /></font></span></p>
<p><span><font color="#404040"><br /> "Although I didn't support President Obama's candidacy either time that he ran, I thought he would be good for race relations. Instead of uniting Americans under the mantle of Dr. Martin Luther King, the president has engaged in a sustained attack on the foundational values that once bound Americans together: family, faith and work. Tonight, the President ignored the persecution of Christians in the Arab world while castigating us all for perceived injustices to Muslims. He further demonized millions of Americans who don't believe in man-made anthropological climate change. And he pandered to a tiny partisan crowd by promising more free programs on the backs of taxpayers. It's hardly a speech to be proud of," said Project 21 member <a href="http://trk.cp20.com/click?9jgcr-16dtds-sbsv988" target="_blank">Stacy Washington</a> , host of the "Stacy on the Right" talk radio program on FM News Talk 97.1 in St. Louis. "We can only hope that the next 12 months will be less eventful, less taxing and have fewer transformations. Obama's campaign slogan was 'hope and change.' We've been changed for the worse. We can only hope for the remaining term to pass by quickly."<br /><br /> Black conservatives with Project 21 have offered comments on each and every State of the Union Address during the Obama presidency.<br /><br /> "Since this was his last State of the Union Address, I was looking for President Obama to say something monumental. I was looking for him to finally stop playing politics and show some true leadership. It was all too clear, however, that Obama plans to leave office with the same sound and fury with which he arrived - but now he's leaving a terrible mess in his wake," said Project 21 member <a href="http://trk.cp20.com/click?9jgcr-16dtdt-sbsv989" target="_blank">Council Nedd II</a>, a bishop for the Episcopal Missionary Church of South Africa and an <a href="http://trk.cp20.com/click?9jgcr-16dtdu-sbsv980" target="_blank">elected constable</a> in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. "Hauntingly, President Obama's legacy is turning back the clock on race relation and seeing repeated attacks on legal gun owners while exhibiting an apparent ignorance to rampant violence that grips places such as his political hometown of Chicago. Obama has helped foster and foment an environment that brands law enforcement as the enemy and exalts criminals as martyrs. He has coddled ISIS and ignored the persecution of faith abroad to the point where several 2,000-year-old Christian communities have literally been eradicated. What are we to actually make of all this?"<br /><br /> Project 21 member <a href="http://trk.cp20.com/click?9jgcr-16dtdv-sbsv981" target="_blank">Christopher Arps</a> , a small businessman and political consultant in St. Louis who is now helping with a major presidential campaign in Iowa, said: "President Obama's final State of the Union Address was supposed to be an effort to help seal his legacy. Unfortunately for him, you can't put enough lipstick on this pig of his to make it look pretty. His true legacy will be remembered in his $1 trillion dollar failed 'stimulus,' the hobbling of the greatest health care system in the world, Islamic terrorism run amok, a feckless foreign policy with a dangerous nuclear deal with the rogue state of Iran, and - last, but not least - an economy growing at a tepid pace that has a record 90 million people out of work. It's not a legacy he should be very proud of."<br /><br /> "Tonight's speech was one that shot for the Moon, but Americans' hopes remain stuck on the ground due to the partisan bitterness this president has fostered to ram through an often unpopular agenda," said Project 21 member <a href="http://trk.cp20.com/click?9jgcr-16dtdw-sbsv982" target="_blank">Kevin Martin</a> , a Navy veteran and small businessman in the Washington, D.C. area. "President Obama opened with the statement that Americans should not live in fear of the future, but too many Americans do fear the future because of the threat of terrorism at home and aboard. And that's just one thing. In poll after poll, a majority of Americans feel our nation is on the wrong track under President Obama's leadership. While he stood in the well of the Congress trying to give an optimistic report, the reality is that Americans just aren't feeling it in their wallets or their lives."<br /><br /> Project 21 members have logged tens of thousands of interview and media citations. Media that recently sought out Project 21 insight includes on TVOne, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, the Orlando Sentinel, Westwood One, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, SiriusXM satellite radio and 50,000-watt talk radio stations such as WHO-Des Moines, KOA-Denver, WGN-Chicago, WBZ-Boston and KDKA-Pittsburgh. Topics included civil rights, entitlement programs, the economy, voter ID, race preferences, education, illegal immigration and corporate social responsibility. Project 21 members provided substantial commentary regarding the Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Freddie Gray incidents. Project 21 has also defended voter ID laws at the United Nations.<br /><br /><em><strong>Project 21, a leading voice of black conservatives for over two decades, is sponsored by the National Center for Public Policy Research (<a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org">http://www.nationalcenter.org</a>). Its volunteer members come from all walks of life and are not salaried political professionals.</strong></em><br /><br /><a href="http://trk.cp20.com/click?9jgcr-16dtdx-sbsv983" name="Contributions" target="_blank">Contributions</a> to the National Center are tax-deductible and greatly appreciated</font></span></p></div>PETITION FOR THE H.R.40: BEGIN THE STUDY FOR REPARATIONS FOR AFRICAN AMERICANShttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/petition-for-the-h-r-40-begin-the-study-for-reparations-for2015-12-23T19:59:22.000Z2015-12-23T19:59:22.000ZTziona Yisraelhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/TzionaYisrael<div><p>The following is an online petition to the United States Congress (the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives) for a “study” on reparations. </p><p>The online address to sign the petition is as follows:</p><p><a href="https://www.change.org/p/u-s-senate-u-s-house-of-representatives-pass-h-r-40-begin-the-study-of-reparations-for-african-americans?recruiter=165126964&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=autopublish&utm_term=mob-xs-share_petition-reason_msg&fb_ref=Default" target="_blank">https://www.change.org/p/u-s-senate-u-s-house-of-representatives-pass-h-r-40-begin-the-study-of-reparations-for-african-americans?recruiter=165126964&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=autopublish&utm_term=mob-xs-share_petition-reason_msg&fb_ref=Default</a></p><p>Please go online and sign the petition. Thank You.</p><p align="center"><b>Pass H.R.40: Begin The Study of Reparations for African Americans</b></p><p><b>Sources:</b> <a href="http://conyers.house.gov/index.cfm/reparations" target="_blank"><b>John Conyers Jr</b></a><b>, U.S. Congress, </b><a href="http://atlantablackstar.com/2013/08/26/17-major-companies-never-knew-benefited-slavery/" target="_blank"><b>Atlanta Black Star</b></a> <b>(2013), The</b> <a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2006/10/27/beneath-the-ivy-a-legacy-of/" target="_blank"><b>Harvard Crimson</b></a><b> (2006),</b> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/13/nyregion/slave-traders-in-yale-s-past-fuel-debate-on-restitution.html" target="_blank"><b>New York Times </b></a><b>(2001).</b></p><p>In January 1989, United States Congressman <a href="http://conyers.house.gov/index.cfm/reparations" target="_blank">John Conyers Jr</a> introduced the <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c101:hr3745:" target="_blank">bill H.R. 40 (Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act)</a> to Congress. The bill is a request for the federal government to conduct an official study of the impact slavery has had on the social, political and economic life of the United States. <b>The purpose of H.R.40 is not compensation for slavery. It is to determine the effects slavery has had, and continue to have on African-Americans from the time of emancipation until now.</b></p><p> H.R. 40 does four things:</p><ol start="1"><li>It acknowledges the fundamental injustice and inhumanity of slavery</li><li>It establishes a commission to study slavery, along with its subsequent racial and economic discrimination against freed slaves</li><li>It studies the impact of those forces on today's living African Americans</li><li>The commission would then make recommendations on appropriate reparations and remedies to begin healing the harm inflicted on living African Americans</li></ol><p>In April of 1968, Congressman Conyers introduced the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday bill. It took 15 years but it was finally passed in 1983, not only because of Congressman Conyer’s persistence, but also because of the people who supported him and his idea of a federal holiday honoring Dr. King. <b>It has now been 26 years since Congressman Conyers first introduced H.R.40 to Congress.</b> We are long overdue to begin taking a stand on this matter.</p><p>We are requesting for the United States Congress to accept H.R.40 and immediately establish a committee to study the impact slavery and racial discrimination has had on African Americans from emancipation until now. Failure to comply will result in a nationwide boycott of every company and it’s affiliates that has benefited from slavery which includes, but is not limited to:</p><p> </p><p><b>AIG </b>– bought American General Financial, which owns US Life Insurance Company that used to insure the lives of Slaves</p><p><b>Aetna</b> – insured the lives of Slaves</p><p><b>Bank of America </b>– began in part as the Bank of Metropolis that accepted Slaves as collateral.</p><p><b>Brooks Brothers</b> – profited making clothing for Slaves</p><p><b>Brown Brothers Harriman </b>– owned hundreds of Slaves and loaned millions to southern planters, merchants and cotton traders.</p><p><b>Brown University </b>– named for the Brown brothers who gave money to the university. Two brothers were Slave traders; another ran a factory that used Slave-grown cotton and Brown’s University Hall was built in part by Slave labor</p><p><b>CSX</b> – rented Slaves to build rail lines</p><p><b>Fleet Boston </b>– grew from Providence Bank, founded by one of the Brown brothers - a Slave trader who owned Slave ships</p><p><b>Harvard Law School</b> – was endowed with money from Isaac Royall, an Antiguan Slave owner and sugar grower</p><p><b>JP Morgan Chase</b> – grew from Citizens Bank and Canal Bank in Louisiana. Both accepted Slaves as collateral, and repossessed 1,250 Slaves from owners who defaulted on loans</p><p><b>New York Life </b>– insured Slaves</p><p><b>Norfolk Southern</b> –merged with the Mobile & Girard that rented Slaves to work on the railroad. They also merged with Central of Georgia that owned Slaves.</p><p>The following Universities raised money and recruited students from rich, Slave-owning families. These Universities not only sought and accepted money from slave owners and traders, they also helped create scientific racism:</p><ul><li><b>Princeton</b></li><li><b>Yale</b></li><li><b>Penn</b></li><li><b>Columbia</b></li><li><b>Rutgers</b></li><li><b>Brown</b></li><li><b>Dartmouth</b></li><li><b>University of Delaware</b></li></ul><p><b>Tiffany’s</b> – founded with profits from a cotton mill in Connecticut that processed Slave-grown cotton</p><p><b>USA Today</b> – grew from Gannett, which had links to Slavery</p><p><b>Wells Fargo</b> – merged with Georgia Railroad & Banking Company and the Bank of Charleston, both of which owned or accepted Slaves as collateral. (In the 2000s Wells Fargo targeted African Americans for predatory lending)</p><p>If Congress does not accept H.R.40 within it’s next three assemblies after this request has been received, our nationwide boycott will begin. Please do not underestimate the well over 1 trillion dollars in buying power of African Americans alone. We will break this nation one dollar at a time if we must in order to accomplish our goal.</p></div>APC condemns PDP’s declaration of war against the Nigerian judiciaryhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/apc-condemns-pdp-s-declaration-of-war-against-the-nigerian2015-10-26T11:38:41.000Z2015-10-26T11:38:41.000ZNwaorgu Faustinushttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/NwaorguFaustinus<div><p class="yiv3646586831msonormal"><b>APC condemns PDP’s declaration of war against the Nigerian judiciary</b></p><p class="yiv3646586831msonormal"> </p><p class="yiv3646586831msonormal">The Rivers State chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, has expressed shock over how the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] has launched out on large-scale smear campaign on the Nigerian judiciary following the recent court pronouncements that appear not to favour the PDP and their candidates at the various election petition tribunals especially the Akwa Ibom State and Rivers State governorship election petition tribunals.</p><p class="yiv3646586831msonormal"> </p><p class="yiv3646586831msonormal">“In what is unfolding as an all out war, the PDP National Working Committee [NWC], National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh and the various chapters of the PDP in Rivers and Akwa Ibom States, have already thrown every caution in the rule book to the wind in the way they are casting aspersions on the integrity of respected members of the bench whose only offence is that their meticulous and balanced judgments have exposed PDP’s fraudulent and violent escapades during the 2015 general elections”, Mr Chris Finebone, the Rivers State APC spokesman said in a press statement today.</p><p class="yiv3646586831msonormal"> </p><p class="yiv3646586831msonormal">The APC said it is worried that a particular media outlet, the African Independent Television [AIT], owned and operated by a PDP Chieftain, has offered itself as the foremost platform for the PDP to execute its insidious smear campaign against the Nigerian judiciary.</p><p class="yiv3646586831msonormal"> </p><p class="yiv3646586831msonormal">The APC recalled that prior to last week, the APC have had a number of rulings go against the party and its candidates at the various national assembly election petition tribunals especially for Rivers State where over 90 percent of the rulings favoured the PDP and its candidates. Neither the APC National Working Committee [NWC] nor the various affected state chapters of the party came out to impugn the integrity of our judiciary. The APC took those outcomes with equanimity and proceeded on appeal in most cases without declaring and levying war on the judiciary the way the PDP is doing now.</p><p class="yiv3646586831msonormal"> </p><p class="yiv3646586831msonormal">Continuing the party said: “Particularly, the PDP and their members in Rivers State, including even lawyers, have since Saturday launched various bitter tirades against the character and integrity of the Rivers State Election Petition Tribunal members. Some have openly tried to establish family and marital relationship between the tribunal chairman and some top government officials, knowing same to be false, mendacious and malicious. The APC is still stunned that the Spokesman of the Rivers State Governor, Mr. Opunabo Inko-Tariah would state that, “The tribunal has delivered the ruling it was asked to deliver.” The APC condemns this kind of unguarded vituperation by a government official against a tribunal of eminent judges.”</p><p class="yiv3646586831msonormal"> </p><p class="yiv3646586831msonormal">“In summary, the APC understands that by turning to destroy the Nigerian judiciary, the PDP is only employing its usual tactics of intimidation and blackmail whenever their members find themselves at the wrong end of the law, whether over corruption cases or electoral matters as is the present case. This motive common with bandits and buccaneers have proven to fail the PDP in the past and will surely fail them this time around” the statement concluded.</p><p class="yiv3646586831msonormal"> </p><p> </p></div>[MIXTAPE] Rashad Banks - Confessions Of An O.G.https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/mixtape-rashad-banks-confessions-of-an-o-g2014-10-17T11:08:30.000Z2014-10-17T11:08:30.000ZMixtapeDistribution.comhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/MixtapeDistributioncom<div><p><strong>[MIXTAPE] Rashad Banks Confessions Of An O.G.</strong></p><p><strong>Hosted By: Mainline Music Group</strong></p><p><img src="http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f145/MAINLINECAPO88/CDInsertFront_zps9b13b216.jpg" alt="." /></p><p><img src="http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f145/MAINLINECAPO88/CDInsertBack_zps331f78d3.jpg" alt="." /></p><p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3uVBcF76Mxs?wmode=opaque" width="540" frameborder="0" height="480"></iframe></p><p><strong>Description:</strong></p><p>Banks release his highly anticipated EP 'Confessions Of An O.G. featuring Kevin Gates and production from Zaytoven and others.</p><p><strong>Tracklist:</strong></p><br /> <a href="http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f145/MAINLINECAPO88/CDInsertBack_zps331f78d3.jpg" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:180%;"><span style="font-family:'arial black';">[DOWNLOAD NOW!]</span></span></a><br />Posted by <a href="http://www.MixtapeDistribution.com" target="_blank">http://www.MixtapeDistribution.com</a></div>What To Do If You’re Stopped By The Police - NYCLUhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/what-to-do-if-you-re-stopped-by-the-police-nyclu2014-08-21T20:00:00.000Z2014-08-21T20:00:00.000ZKWASI Akyeamponghttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/KWASIAkyeampong<div><p style="margin:5px 0px 0px;padding:0px;"> </p>
<p style="margin:5px 0px 0px;padding:0px;"><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.nyclu.org/node/3249" target="_blank">WHAT TO DO IF YOU’RE STOPPED BY THE POLICE</a> </span></p>
<ul style="text-transform:none;background-color:#eeeeff;text-indent:0px;margin:10px 25px 10px 30px;font:12px/20px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;white-space:normal;letter-spacing:normal;color:#494949;word-spacing:0px;padding:0px;"><li style="margin:5px 0px 0px;padding:0px;"><strong>Stay calm and in control</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of your words, body language and emotions.</li>
<li style="margin:5px 0px 0px;padding:0px;"><strong>Don’t get into an argument</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>with the police.</li>
<li style="margin:5px 0px 0px;padding:0px;">Never bad-mouth a police officer.</li>
<li style="margin:5px 0px 0px;padding:0px;">Remember,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>anything you say or do</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>can be used against you.</li>
<li style="margin:5px 0px 0px;padding:0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Keep your hands</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>where the police can see them.</li>
<li style="margin:5px 0px 0px;padding:0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Don’t run.</strong></li>
<li style="margin:5px 0px 0px;padding:0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Don’t touch</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>any police officer.</li>
<li style="margin:5px 0px 0px;padding:0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Don’t resist</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>even if you believe you are innocent.</li>
<li style="margin:5px 0px 0px;padding:0px;">If you complain at the scene, or tell the police they’re wrong, do so in a non-confrontational way that will not intensify the scene.</li>
<li style="margin:5px 0px 0px;padding:0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Do not make any statements</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>regarding the incident.</li>
<li style="margin:5px 0px 0px;padding:0px;">If you are arrested,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>ask for a lawyer immediately.</strong></li>
<li style="margin:5px 0px 0px;padding:0px;">Remember<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>officers’ badge numbers, patrol car numbers and physical descriptions.</strong></li>
<li style="margin:5px 0px 0px;padding:0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Write down everything</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>you remember ASAP.</li>
<li style="margin:5px 0px 0px;padding:0px;">Try to find<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>witnesses</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and their names and phone numbers.</li>
<li style="margin:5px 0px 0px;padding:0px;">If you are injured,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>take photos of the injuries</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>as soon as possible, but make sure<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>you get medical attention first</strong>. Ask for copies of your medical treatment files.<br /><br /> SOURCE:<br /><span class="font-size-6">NYCLU</span><br /><span class="font-size-4">FOR THE COOMPLETE FILE GOTO:</span> <a href="http://www.nyclu.org/node/3249">http://www.nyclu.org/node/3249</a></li>
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<p> </p></div>New Book: 'Thus Saith the LORD, Book Two' by Tziona Yisraelhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/new-book-thus-saith-the-lord-book-two2014-07-07T03:00:00.000Z2014-07-07T03:00:00.000ZTziona Yisraelhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/TzionaYisrael<div><p> </p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-5"><b><i>Thus Saith the LORD, Book Two</i></b> </span></p><p style="text-align:left;">I am more that delighted to announce the publication of my second book: <b><i>Thus Saith the LORD, Book Two. </i></b></p><p style="text-align:left;">This book goes into greater detail focusing even more on the Righteous Laws, Statutes, and Judgments of the CREATOR GOD, HIS WORD regarding these “Latter Days”, HIS WRATH upon the evil and wicked of this world, the gathering and recovery of HIS Covenant People, the SEED of Jacob, and the re-establishment of HIS Holy Temple that will again be founded in HIS Holy City Jerusalem in order that every knee will bow to HIM. </p><p style="text-align:left;">As you may know, nothing gives me greater pleasure than writing about our CREATOR, the GOD of Israel, the ONE GOD of the Hebrew Israelites, that chose Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And writing about HIS TRUTH keeps me in prayer and in hopes and thoughts about Israel’s RETURN. No matter how much I write about this AWESOME CREATOR GOD of Moses, I never feel like I have done HIM justice. And no matter how much I write, I feel I cannot write enough to prove HIS OMNIPOTENCE for HIS WONDERS, AUTHORITY, and JUDGMENTS that HE exhibits and executes. Nevertheless, I continue to try. Reason being HIS WORKS are impressive and terrifying and are destined to cause trembling in the hearts of all peoples – Gentiles and Israelites alike who Fear HIM to do HIS WILL.</p><p style="text-align:left;">I tried my best to keep the price as low as possible. There are two copies: “Black and White” and “Color”:</p><p>Kindle: $ 20.00</p><p>“Black and White”: $ 30.00</p><p>“Color”: $100.00</p><h3><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Thus-Saith-The-LORD-Book/dp/1494928035/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1401424099&sr=8-1&keywords=Thus+Saith+the+LORD%2C+Book+Two">Thus Saith The LORD, Book Two: Religion, WORD of GOD, The Old Testament GOD, GOD of Abraham</a> by <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tziona-Yisrael/e/B00JEWNBG0/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1401424099&sr=8-1">Tziona Yisrael</a> (Feb 4, 2014)</h3><ul><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Thus-Saith-The-LORD-Book/dp/1494928035/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1401424099&sr=8-1&keywords=Thus+Saith+the+LORD%2C+Book+Two"><del>$30.00</del> $24.94 Paperback</a></li><li>Get it by Monday, Jun 2</li></ul><p><b>IF YOU ARE INTERESTED, BE SURE TO SPECIFY <i>THUS SAITH THE LORD, <u>BOOK TWO</u></i>!</b></p><p align="center"><b>***</b></p><p align="center"><b>“The Lord hath made known his salvation:</b></p><p align="center"><b>his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.</b><b>” </b></p><p align="center">Psalm 98:2</p><p align="center"><b>*****</b></p><p align="center"><b>“Seek ye the LORD while he may be found,</b></p><p align="center"><b>call ye upon him while he is near:</b></p><p align="center"><b>Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts:</b></p><p align="center"><b>and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him;</b></p><p align="center"><b>and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.”</b></p><p align="center">Isaiah 55:6,7</p><p align="center"><b>“Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God,</b></p><p align="center"><b>which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him</b></p><p align="center"><b>and keep his commandments to a thousand generations; ”</b></p><p align="center">Deuteronomy 7:9</p><p align="center"><b>“Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:</b></p><p align="center"><b>“And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:”</b></p><p align="center">Nehemiah 9:13,14 </p><p align="center"><b>“Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse,</b></p><p align="center"><b>that there may be meat in mine house,</b></p><p align="center"><b>and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts,</b></p><p align="center"><b>if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing,</b></p><p align="center"><b>that there shall not be room enough to receive it.”</b></p><p align="center">Malachi 3:10</p><p align="center"><b>“<u>Wisdom is the principal thing</u>; therefore get wisdom:</b></p><p align="center"><b>and <u>with all thy getting get understanding</u>.</b><b>”</b></p><p align="center">Proverbs 4:7 </p><p align="center"><b>“Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer;</b></p><p align="center"><b>thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am.</b></p><p align="center"><b>If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke,</b></p><p align="center"><b>the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;</b></p><p align="center"><b><sup> </sup></b><b>And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul;</b></p><p align="center"><b>then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day:</b></p><p align="center"><b><sup> </sup></b><b>And the</b> <b>Lord</b> <b>shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought,</b></p><p align="center"><b>and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden,</b></p><p align="center"><b>and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.</b></p><p align="center"><b><sup> </sup></b><b>And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places:</b></p><p align="center"><b>thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations;</b></p><p align="center"><b>and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach,</b></p><p align="center"><b>The restorer of paths to dwell in.</b><b>”</b></p><p align="center">Isaiah 58:9 - 12</p><p align="center"><b>“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge,</b></p><p align="center"><b>I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me:</b></p><p align="center"><b>seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.</b><b>”</b></p><p align="center">Hosea 4:6</p><p align="center"><b>“And it shall be our righteousness,</b></p><p align="center"><b>if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God,</b></p><p align="center"><b>as he hath commanded us.”</b></p><p align="center">Deuteronomy 6:25 </p><p align="center"><b>“The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light:</b></p><p align="center"><b>they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death,</b></p><p align="center"><b>upon them hath the light shined.”</b></p><p align="center">Isaiah 9:2 </p><p align="center"><b>“I will praise <i>thee</i>, O LORD, with my whole heart;</b></p><p align="center"><b>I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.”</b></p><p align="center">Psalm 9:1</p><p align="center"><b>“…the Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy?”</b></p><p align="center">Amos 3:8</p><p align="center"><b>************</b></p><p align="center"><a title="http://www.thelawkeepers.org/DEUTERONOMY 28TH CHAPTERandPICTURES.Adoc.htm" href="http://www.thelawkeepers.org/DEUTERONOMY%2028TH%20CHAPTERandPICTURES.Adoc.htm" target="_blank"><b>http://www.thelawkeepers.org/DEUTERONOMY%2028TH%20CHAPTERandPICTURES.Adoc.htm</b></a></p><p align="center"><b>(Also read Leviticus 23<sup>rd</sup> Chapter for evidence on The Slave Trade!)</b></p><p align="center"><a href="http://www.thelawkeepers.org/"><b>http://www.thelawkeepers.org</b></a></p><p align="center"><b>thelawkeepers@yahoogroups.com</b></p><p> </p></div>Celebrating the holidays of our captorshttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/celebrating-the-holidays-of-our-captors2014-07-04T20:00:00.000Z2014-07-04T20:00:00.000ZTziona Yisraelhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/TzionaYisrael<div><p align="center"><b><span class="font-size-4">CELEBRATING THE HOLIDAYS OF OUR CAPTORS</span></b></p><p>Today is July 4<sup>th</sup> and people are celebrating the Independence of the United States, and that would also include descendants of Slaves. Ironically, just as Blacks were converted to worship the man-god, JC, the god of the Slavers, they are also encouraged to observe the celebrations such as the Independence Day of the very people who have wreaked havoc and misery in their lives. Some Blacks are doing very well financially in the US and in other Slave Nations, but the great majority aren’t. Nevertheless, should descendants of Slaves throughout the world celebrate the holidays that identify the countries, the governments, and the flags that will forever be renowned as ensigns of the most cruel, barbaric, and heinous nations in the annals of history? </p><p>The following articles are presented to spark interest and to question whether it is a wise decision to follow the holidays, customs, religions, and practices of the very people who enslaved our forebears, who rule this country unjustly, and who influence our lives to follow their ways in order that they are sustained the dominant and superior force in this country and throughout the world. Tziona Yisrael</p><p> </p><p align="center"><b>*****</b></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>What to Black People is the 4th of July?</b></span></p><p>Submitted by math2112 on June 30, 2006 - 3:36pm. Race & Resistance<br /> <br /> What to Black People is the 4th of July?<br /> Brother Salim Adofo</p><p>On July 5, 1852, in a meeting sponsored by the anti-lynching society, Frederick Douglass gave the speech "What to the slave is the 4th of July?" In his speech, he illustrated the terrible conditions that Black people face living in America. He showed the contradiction of white America celebrating freedom, but at the same time denying it to Black people.</p><p><br /> During the time of Frederick Douglass, white America was enjoying the "good life," and Black people were working from can't see to can't see in order to make white people rich. Black people were victims of lynching, bad health care and lack of education.</p><p><br /> White supremacist gangs would terrorize Black people and take their land. Black people were not allowed to engage in politics or own businesses, which would have helped Blacks gain control of their communities and become self sufficient. Also, according to the Supreme Court of the United States, in what became known as the Dred Scott Decision, Black people did not have any rights that a white person was bound to respect.</p><p><br /> Now, over 150 years later, we must ask the question, "What to Black People is the 4th of July?" Do Black people have a reason to celebrate the freedom and independence of America?<br /> In 2006, Blacks may no longer face "Jim Crow"; however, Blacks are confronted with "James Crow II." Overt acts of white supremacy have been replaced, in some cases, with INSTITUTIONAL WHITE SUPREMACY.</p><p><br /> For example, Black people are disproportionately denied home loans which are essential to building wealth. Gentrification is a tool that is used to lower the property value in Black neighborhoods. The land is then purchased by white-owned corporations who raise the cost so that Blacks can no longer buy property or live in the area, because the price and or the taxes are too high.</p><p><br /> In the area of politics, 150 years ago Black people were not allowed to vote. Today Blacks are allowed to vote; however, based on the last presidential election, the votes of Black women and men are not even counted. Many Black communities have been gerrymandered to reduce the voting power of the Black community.</p><p><br /> In the arena of law enforcement, Blacks still have no rights that white people are bound to respect. An example of this can be seen in the case of Amadou Diallo. An unarmed, innocent Black man, shot at 41 times by four white cops who were found not guilty of any crime.</p><p><br /> Law enforcement officials in the state of New Jersey have admitted to racial profiling, which is a violation of one’s civil and human rights. Police officers are caught on video beating Black men, in some cases to death, with sticks, flashlights and plungers.</p><p><br /> Black people in America have no reason to celebrate the 4th of July. Black people are less than 20 percent of the U.S. population but over 40 percent of the prison population.</p><p>Black people still have yet to receive full and complete reparations for slavery and the vestiges of it. Blacks cannot even go into restaurants such as Denny's and Cracker Barrel and expect to get service.<br /> Blacks are still people suffering political oppression, economic exploitation and social degradation because of the white supremacist polices of the United States government and its economic institutions. The only difference between then and now is Black people knew then who their enemy was.<br /> <br /> Akoben Enterprises<br /> P.O. Box 860133 Wahiawa HI 96786<br /> <a href="mailto:gyenyame@thetalkingdrum.com">gyenyame@thetalkingdrum.com</a><br /> <a href="http://www.nbufront.org/" target="_blank">http://www.nbufront.org</a><br /> 808 621 0707<br /> <a href="http://www.myspace.com/brothersalim" target="_blank">http://www.myspace.com/brothersalim</a></p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><b>*****</b></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>Black people were denied vanilla ice cream</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>in the Jim Crow south – except on Independence Day</b></span></p><p>One result of legalized racism in America was this strange limit, which helped teach kids the rules of a segregated society </p><div style="margin-left:2em;"><ul><li><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/profile/michael-w-twitty">Michael W Twitty</a></li><li> </li><li><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/">theguardian.com</a>, Friday 4 July 2014 06.45 EDT</li></ul></div><p> </p><ul><li>It was only 60 years ago that this would have been an unheard of sight in the south. Photograph: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/mymundanelife/">My Mundane Life</a> / <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/mymundanelife/6276733439/in/photolist-9X9S5N-ayDUb4-9TWsQ6">Flickr</a></li><li>By custom rather than by law, black folks were best off if they weren't caught eating vanilla ice cream in public in the Jim Crow South, except – the narrative always stipulates – on the Fourth of July. I heard it from my father growing up myself, and the memory of that all-but-unspoken rule seems to be unique to the generation born between World War I and World War II.</li><li>But if Maya Angelou hadn't said it in her classic autobiography <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780345514400">I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings</a>, I doubt anybody would believe it today.</li><li>People in Stamps used to say that the whites in our town were so prejudiced that a Negro couldn't buy vanilla ice cream. Except on July Fourth. Other days he had to be satisfied with chocolate.</li><li>Vanilla ice cream – flavored with <a href="https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Vanilla.html">a Nahuatl spice indigenous to Mexico</a>, the cultivation of which <a href="http://afrolegends.com/2013/11/14/edmond-albius-the-slave-who-launched-the-vanilla-industry/">was improved by an enslaved black man named Edmund Albius</a> on the colonized Réunion island in the Indian Ocean, now predominately grown on the largest island of the African continent, Madagascar, and served wrapped in <a href="http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/young.readers.world/who.invented.the.ice.cream.cone/">the conical invention of a Middle Eastern immigrant</a> – was the symbol of the American dream. That its pure, white sweetness was then routinely denied to the grandchildren of the enslaved was a dream deferred indeed.</li><li>What makes the vanilla ice cream story less folk memory and more truth is that the terror and shame of living in the purgatory between the Civil War and civil rights movement was often communicated in ways that reinforced to children what the rules of that life were, and what was in store for them if they broke them.</li><li>My father, for instance, first learned the rules when he first visited South Carolina with my grandfather in the 1940s. In our family's home county of Lancaster, Daddy asked the general store owner if he could buy some candy and ice cream, referring to the white man as "Sir". The store owner promptly grabbed my father by the collar, and yelled at him in the presence of my grandfather. Then he informed the elder man, "You'd better teach this little nigger to say 'Yassuh', boy! '<i>Sir</i>' ain't good enough!" My grandfather grabbed his son and sped off.</li><li>The late poet Audre Lorde had a similar narrative to Angelou's in her own autobiography, <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780895941220">Zami: A New Spelling of My Name</a>. She visited Washington DC with her family as a child, around Independence Day, and her parents wanted to treat her to vanilla ice cream at a soda shop. They were rebuffed by the waitress and refused service. She expressed disappointment at her family and sisters for not decrying the act as anything but "anti-American". She summed up the event:</li><li>The waitress was white, the counter was white, and the ice cream I never ate in Washington DC that summer I left childhood was white, and the white heat and white pavement and white pavement and white stone monuments of my first Washington summer made me sick to my stomach for the rest of the trip.</li><li>Why were black people allowed vanilla ice cream, but on the Fourth of July? Why <i>then</i>? After all, in 1852 Frederick Douglass railed against the idea of celebrating Americans' independence when blacks did not have their full, God-given freedom. "What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?", <a href="http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/">asked Douglass</a> of his audience <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2927.html">when invited to speak in commemoration of the day</a>.</li><li>I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.</li><li>Was that somehow the purpose of allowing the denied ice cream cone? Was it a pacifier? Was it a message to us that, as long as we obeyed the rules, we could still be occasionally rewarded with just enough to keep us patriotic and loyal?</li><li>But perhaps it is pointless to ask for more than context.</li><li>The period during which African Americans were not allowed to eat vanilla ice cream tells us a lot about where this memory is located in time: a period of great progress driven by black Americans themselves. It was a time when our forefathers fought for this country and when our foremothers organized marches to protest lynching; when the mass migration from south to north took place; and when labor organizations became vehicles for early pressure for civil rights. The nadir of black life in America – the period from the born at end of Reconstruction through the full entrenchment of Jim Crow – was firmly on its way out.</li><li>That period of time also represented a closing of the gates of immigration from Europe, the slow rise of the United States as a world power, and the increasing unification of the idea and principles of "whiteness". In 1910, for instance, "white" did not mean Italian, Jewish, Greek, Polish or any of a variety of other ethnicities we now unequivocally associate with privilege. It was, instead, still a term largely reserved for the "old Americans" – those of northwestern European stock. But that changed – at least for some of the Europeans who wound up on America's shores.</li><li>In the south in particular, new ethnic whites quickly did all they could to assimilate and then affirm their whiteness – to not do so was death, as demonstrated by the <a href="http://www.knowla.org/entry/1064/">lynchings of Sicilians in Louisiana</a> and <a href="http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/leo-frank-case">the lynching of Leo Frank, who was Jewish, in Georgia</a> in the pre-war decades. Little things took on outsized meanings, and each was another way to differentiate between those who "belonged", and those who were barely tolerated.</li><li>Perhaps the memory of being denied vanilla ice cream is not a literal memory for most: maybe it is just commentary. There is fantastic power in this fascinating memory of Jim Crow life because it calls our attention to the deeper psychological consequences of legalized racism in American life. The racism of the time period was not just about dignity and self-esteem – it was embodied and mythologized in physical terms.</li><li>So in a way, the denial of vanilla (and all its symbolic promise) was not so bad after all: indeed satisfaction, with "chocolate" is now emblematic of people of color being supported by and being self sufficient in their own communities. Without this exact satisfaction in our sense of beauty, worth, mind and purpose – without having learned to live without vanilla – we never would have fought to change the world.</li></ul><p><b><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/04/black-people-vanilla-ice-cream-jim-crow-independence-day">http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/04/black-people-vanilla-ice-cream-jim-crow-independence-day</a></b></p><p align="center"><b>*****</b></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>Should African-Americans Celebrate July 4th?</b></span></p><p>African-Americans were slaves during the signing of The Declaration of Independence. So, should people of African descent in this country celebrate the Fourth of July?</p><p>Posted by <a href="http://cascade.patch.com/users/janita-poe-2">Janita Poe</a> , February 06, 2012 at 10:12 AM</p><p>While many Americans, no matter their racial or ethnic background, see July 4th as a patriotic time of fireworks and barbecues, some in the African-American community do not believe in celebrating the holiday.</p><p>This is because the Fourth of July commemorates the signing of the Declaration of Independence—on July 4, 1776—and many people of African descent were slaves during that time.</p><p>On <a href="https://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=51507957866&topic=16197#topic_top">one Facebook page of The Black Report,</a> a conversation has continued for more than a year on the question of black Americans celebrating the 4th.</p><p>"As long as you claim to be an american citizen, african or otherwise you should celebrate the nation's independence," a man named Eardley wrote. "Also not all black people in our country now are decendents of american slaves."</p><p>A woman named India had a different view. She said she does not celebrate July 4th or Thanksgiving because of the wars between Native Americans and Europeans which eventually resulted in the creation of the United State of America.</p><p>"...what does July 4th fourth mean to you?" she wrote. "It means nothing to me, I'll celebrate Juneteenth along with many other African Americans here and around the world."</p><p>The debate over this holiday doesn't end here. Popular WAOK-1380 AM Radio personality <a href="http://patch.com/A-jmq7">Derrick Boazman</a> discussed the topic and read passages from Frederick Douglass' <a href="http://www.juneteenth.us/douglass/index.html">"What, to the American Slave, is Your 4th of July?</a>" (See <a href="http://www.juneteenth.us/douglass/index.html">www.juneteenth.us</a> to read the entire speech and learn more about The National Juneteenth Network).</p><p>And, on Twitter, tweeps retweeted <a href="http://www.thegrio.com/black-history/why-the-4th-of-july-belongs-to-all-of-us.php">"Why the 4th of July belongs to all of us,"</a> by Atlanta writer Ronda Racha Penrice for <a href="http://www.thegrio.com/">The Grio website</a>.</p><p>So, once again, we have another July 4th. Should African-Americans celebrate this holiday? What do you think? Share your views today on Cascade Patch.</p><p><a href="http://cascade.patch.com/groups/opinion/p/should-african-americans-celebrate-july-4th">http://cascade.patch.com/groups/opinion/p/should-african-americans-celebrate-july-4th</a></p></div>With its Decision on Affirmative Action the United States Supreme Court raises its racist headhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/the-u-s-supreme-court-and-its-decision-on-affirmative-action2014-04-29T18:30:00.000Z2014-04-29T18:30:00.000ZTziona Yisraelhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/TzionaYisrael<div><p> </p><p align="center"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-4"><b>THE U.S. SUPREME COURT AND ITS DECISION ON AFFIRMATIVE ACTION</b> </span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">Once again the United States Supreme Court raises its racist head making clear its convictions and principles for White supremacy and White superiority over Blacks. We even have a Justice Thomas and his ilk in place to prove it. This decision on Affirmative Action to uphold a ban on Affirmative Action for any reason rings true that Blacks have no voice in this so-called system of justice and much less representation in the White House to speak for the oppressed and repressed in in this country.</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">Justice Kagan, President Obama’s appointment, “sat out of the case due to conflicts of interest”. So, how do you like that!!! (<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/apr/22/us-supreme-court-michigan-affirmative-action">http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/apr/22/us-supreme-court-michigan-affirmative-action</a>)</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">Justice Kagan can’t understand that in matters of equity and discrimination that fairness and ending racism against an oppressed people should take precedence and, therefore, must be addressed immediately and not left to chance. If she cannot understand that it is paramount for the US Supreme Court to act swiftly and to deal with such matters objectively, then she is in the wrong appointment.</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">We can thank President Obama for his appointments to the US Supreme Court. Among other things, he, too, shows a lack of foresight with his decisions. He may think he has a worthy legacy given that 7.1 million people (out of 300 mil.) enrolled in Obamacare (Affordable Health Care Act), but it is obvious that this low registration for AHCA is too little to factor in as an impressive legacy. And his decisions on military warfare in other countries (e.g., ammunition to Israelis for their apartheid state) overshadow anything he’s done that can be determined admirable. Not even his own Justice Department under Holder is a voice for the oppressed under his watch, and that would render President Obama’s eight-year legacy a real disappointment. This Black man is one for the books of major disappointments. I had no idea his work in office would be so diminished for the impoverished and the repressed who have no voice in this “Good Ol’ U.S. of A. called “America the Beautiful”.</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">What would it take for Black folks to rise up against the White Man’s hatred of descendants of Slaves other than the HAND of GOD upon them? How much more needs to be done against Blacks before we come together in mass to demand FREEDOM, REPARATIONS, and an EXODUS out of this Hell? </span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">It’s been a long time coming, but another Black Wall Street has to be established for Black independence and for our self-determination because it will never happen in these United States. We know this because time and time again the racist US Supreme Court is in place to inhibit our prosperity and to foster our demise. Has this court ended racial profiling and police brutality, the death of innocent minorities, inferior and over-crowded schools in the Ghettoes, or unfair employment practices? Let’s not forget that the US Supreme Court supports the same Constitution that promoted Blacks being 3/5 a person. Yes, this clause was amended, but the fact that it was in place rings true of the reality that the United States, this US Constitution, and the US Supreme Court still operate to sustain the subjugation of Blacks and other minorities.</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">By the way, forget using the ballot for your endeavors, as the election of a Black President was a waste of time, and Black public servants know that if they make waves, then their election will be short lived. If we must vote, vote for the CREATOR GOD – not this White Man’s blue-eyed man-god, because he, too, is just as useless as is this racist US Supreme Court! </span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">Since when has the White Man given the Black man anything that would manifest our prosperity? Even giving Blacks welfare (pocket change), instead of decent employment was for a reason, which is to sustain Ghetto life and impoverishment. Likewise for the White Man’s Christianity; it keeps Blacks in darkness about the CREATOR GOD. If White Rulers in countries that enjoyed the wealth of the Slave Trade had truly wanted to advance Black intellect, enterprise, education, and inclusion in political and economic affairs, then they would have done so rather than keep us a repressed people and make racist comments against Blacks. In that regard Donald Sterling, Clippers owner, who has the mindset of Slavers, is a perfect example of Whites who put themselves above Blacks and who sustain the negative status quo of bywords and evil thoughts about Blacks – no matter how much money Blacks make for them. </span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">When we finally realize that it was and still is people like Sterling who wish Blacks to believe they are good and honest people by sending their Christian Missionaries across the country and throughout the world to promote a god that does not profit anyone, not them and certainly not Blacks, then we certainly can understand that Whites have ulterior motives – least of all that we find the Most High GOD. There motives are to deceive, keep Blacks ignorant to GOD’s Spiritual Truths, and to sustain White superiority. </span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">The White Man has completely changed the Walk of Life that the CREATOR GOD designed for living in peace, harmony, and happiness on HIS Earth. The White Man’s world order is self-serving and imposes his philosophy and culture upon the masses, especially the have-nots, that they believe the religion of his choosing. One cannot reach the CREATOR until he/she calls upon HIM, and our captors have us calling on the wrong god. Hence, we are still under the White Man’s control. One good example proving that Slavers and descendants of Slavers have tampered with GOD’s Ways is that the White Man’s religion has changed GOD’s Holy anniversary of CREATION, which HE “hallowed” as the Seventh Day that must be observed as the day of HIS REST after HE Created the Heavens and the Earth and all things therein. It was the CREATOR GOD that Commanded this day be kept “for a perpetual covenant” (Exodus 31:16), and nowhere can it be found that Thus Saith the LORD changed HIS Fourth Commandment: </span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. <sup> </sup>Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: <sup> </sup>But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: <sup> </sup>For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.” Exodus 20:8 - 11</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">An even more serious tampering with GOD’s WORD involves belief and worship of a blue-eyed man-god enabling fulfillment of the White Man’s scheme to deceive the “Elect”. We’ve been lied to, and the White Man’s Christianity keeps us out of the “Old Testament” wherein is written “Thus Saith the LORD” for a reason – so that we, descendants of Slaves, will not learn GOD’s EVERLASTING TRUTH!</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">“God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?” Numbers 23:19</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3"><b>“Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and <u>maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord</u>.</b></span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3"><b>“Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is</b>.” Jeremiah 17:5,7</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3"><b>“<u>Look unto me, and be ye saved</u>, all the ends of the earth: for I <i>am</i> God, and <i>there is</i> none else.”</b> Isaiah 45:22</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3"><b>“<u>Then shall ye call upon me</u>, and <u>ye shall go and pray unto me</u>, and <u>I will hearken unto you</u>.” </b> Jeremiah 29:12</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. <b>Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.</b> <b>And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. And I will be found of you, saith the Lord: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the Lord; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.” </b> Jeremiah 29:11 - 14</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3"><b>“<u>Call unto me, and I will answer thee</u>, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not</b>.” Jeremiah 33:3</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">Nevertheless, Blacks continue to believe in and worship the god of the Slavers, the very people who mercilessly treated and still treat us like animals and who have no concern for our wellbeing or the state of our plight in the Ghettoes they control for our demise. That being a given, why on Earth do we choose to have faith in anything they establish for descendants of Slaves? Looking for their sincere and honest help is like looking for and hoping in JC’s suffering so that those who believe in him won’t have to. Wake up, “Dry Bones” before it is too late and seek for the ONE TRUE and LIVING CREATOR GOD! HE ALONE is our HELP in the time of trouble!</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3"><b>“But the salvation of the righteous <i>is</i> of the LORD: <i>he is</i> their strength in the time of trouble. </b></span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3"><b>“</b><b>And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: <u>he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him</u>.”</b> Psalm 37:34,37,39,40</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">“<b>But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.<sup> </sup>But the salvation of the righteous is of the</b> <b>Lord</b><b>: he is their strength in the time of trouble.<sup> </sup>And the</b> <b>Lord</b> <b>shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.</b>” Psalm 37:38 – 40</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">How long are Blacks going to be gluttons for punishment under White Rule? When will Blacks stand up and take charge of their own lives to ensure that descendants of Blacks will cease to be third-class citizens in White societies? When will there be “Black Wall Streets” across the globe setting standards of <i>admirable</i> ideals of true justice and honest prosperity that will surpass the evil works of those who discriminate against us?</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">A few months ago I was in Ghana, and I cannot tell you how wonderful it was to see Black people in charge of their industries: television, radio, the markets, construction, etc., etc. Ghana has come a long way and still has a long way to go, but the wheels are in motion for Black prosperity and Black wealth on the continent of Africa that would enable Black peoples in the lands of Slavers to rise up and out of captivity. I can also see how Ghana will lead the way and set examples for other countries in Africa to follow. Blacks stolen from the continent of Africa were of many nationalities, and those who are directly descended from “Africans” can be proud and return to their mother lands to take part in the development of their homeland so that Blacks can be established and compete with the best brains in the world in the fields of science, math, and in all disciplines of engineering, as well as in education from elementary to secondary and higher educations of learning. We can do this, and we will be successful if we will only stop being the instruments of White People and following their corrupt ways that harm us and keep us in darkness.</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">Read Leviticus 26<sup>th</sup> and Deuteronomy 28<sup>th</sup> Chapters to learn GOD’s WORD on exactly why there was a Slave Trade and why Blacks are in this dilemma and do not prosper in the United States or in any countries that grew wealthy off the Slave Trade. </span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">(<a href="http://www.thelawkeepers.org">http://www.thelawkeepers.org</a>)</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3"><b><a title="http://www.thelawkeepers.org/DEUTERONOMY 28TH CHAPTERandPICTURES.Adoc.htm" href="http://www.thelawkeepers.org/DEUTERONOMY%2028TH%20CHAPTERandPICTURES.Adoc.htm" target="_blank">http://www.thelawkeepers.org/DEUTERONOMY%2028TH%20CHAPTERandPICTURES.Adoc.htm</a></b></span></p></div>Britain admits 1950 torture of Kenyanshttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/britain-admits-1950-torture-of-kenyans2012-07-20T01:00:00.000Z2012-07-20T01:00:00.000Zhakimhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/hakim<div><div class="inline-content photo full"><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-18/kenyan-torture-victims-outside-downing-street/4137492"><img src="http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/4137470-3x2-700x467.jpg" alt="(LtoR) Ndiku Mutua, Paulo Nzili, Jane Muthoni Mara, Gitu Was Kahengeri, Wambugy Nyingi" title="Kenyan torture victims outside Downing Street" height="467" width="700" /></a><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-18/kenyan-torture-victims-outside-downing-street/4137492"><strong>PHOTO:</strong> The claimants, now in their 70s and 80s, suffered acts of brutality including castration, rape and beatings during a ruthless crackdown by British forces and their Kenyan allies. <span class="source">(AFP: Shaun Curry)</span></a></div><div class="attached-content ready"><div class="inline-content story left"><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-19/britain-releases-secret-files-from-end-of-empire/3959272"><strong>RELATED STORY:</strong> Britain releases secret files from end of empire</a></div><div class="inline-content story left"><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2003-09-01/kenya-lifts-ban-on-mau-mau-movement/1472408"><strong>RELATED STORY:</strong> Kenya lifts ban on Mau Mau movement</a></div><div class="inline-content map left contracted"><a class="inline-caption" href="http://maps.google.com/?q=1,38(Kenya%20)&z=5"><strong>MAP: </strong>Kenya</a><a class="toggle"></a></div></div><p class="first">The British government has admitted that the colonial administration in Kenya tortured and abused of detainees during the Mau Mau uprising that led to the country's independence.</p><p>The admission in the High Court in London came as three elderly Kenyans, who were tortured in detention under British orders in the 1950s, took to the witness stand in poignant scenes that conjured up the darkest days of the end of empire.</p><p>They are seeking damages from the British government, which has been trying for three years to block their legal action for fear that it could encourage countless other former colonial subjects to come forward with similar claims.</p><p>Tens of thousands of rebels were killed during the British crackdown and about 150,000 Kenyans, many of them unconnected to the Mau Mau, were detained in brutal camps referred to as "Britain's Gulag" by Harvard historian Caroline Elkins.</p><p>The claimants, now in their 70s and 80s, suffered acts of brutality including castration, rape and beatings during a ruthless crackdown by British forces and their Kenyan allies on rebels from the Mau Mau movement fighting for land and freedom.</p><p>Speaking to the group of Mau Mau veterans, the lawyer representing the British government, Guy Mansfield, said, "I do not dispute that terrible things happened to you."</p><p>"[The government] does not dispute that each of the claimants suffered torture and other ill-treatment at the hands of the colonial administration."</p><p>He said that each of the detainees suffered torture and other forms of ill treatment at the hand of the colonial administration.</p><p>Lawyers for the veterans say this is the first time the government has accepted this.</p><p>Tuesday was the second day of a 10-day hearing. The court is not being asked to make a ruling on the substance of the Kenyans' allegations but to decide whether a fair trial can be held so long after the events.</p><p>The British government argues that too much time has passed for a fair trial to be conducted.</p><p>The claimants' lawyers argue that as there is a mass of documentary and other evidence on the period, a fair trial is possible.</p><p>The government has used legal arguments to try and stop their claim, a strategy denounced by South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who has accused Britain of hypocrisy for criticising the human rights record of other countries while refusing to face up to its own.</p><h2>'They castrated me'</h2><p>The first claimant to take the stand on Tuesday was Wambugu Wa Nyingi, 84, who was arrested in 1952 and spent almost a decade in detention at various camps run by the British and staffed jointly by British guards and Kenyan "loyalists".</p><p>In his statement, Mr Nyingi described severe beatings as a routine part of life in the camps. Tall and frail, he wore a suit and tie and a flat cap and used a walking stick. He was helped to the witness stand by his interpreter.</p><p>He answered questions from Mr Mansfield, who focused on two topics - the fact that some perpetrators of abuse were Kenyans, and that after independence successive Kenyan leaders were hostile to Mau Mau veterans.</p><p>Mr Nyingi became animated in discussing the issue of how Kenya's first two presidents, Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel Arap Moi, had oppressed veterans of the armed struggle for independence.</p><p>"We were not allowed to meet in public. We were still in prison ... because we were not allowed to talk freely," he said, jabbing his fingers on the stand for emphasis.</p><p>He said he and his fellow veterans had been "set free" by Kenya's president Mwai Kibaki, who took office in 2002 and removed the legal ban on the Mau Mau in 2003.</p><p>His evidence was a stark reminder of how divisive the Mau Mau movement remains in Kenyan society.</p><p>Next to take the stand was Paulo Nzili, 85.</p><p>In his 20-page witness statement, he gave excruciating details of how he was castrated at Embakasi detention camp by a white settler called Mr Dunman, nicknamed "Luvai", which in Mr Nzili's Kikamba language means "Merciless person".</p><p>"They tied both of my legs with chains and ... pinned down both my hands. Then Luvai approached me with a pair of pliers which were more than a foot long and castrated me," he said in the statement, which was based on his oral account.</p><p>Mr Nzili wore a leather jacket and flat cap and used a walking stick. He had difficulty hearing the questions translated by his interpreter.</p><p>He was not asked to revisit his abuse on the stand, but to confirm he had recounted his story to the people who drew up the statement, and to confirm he had signed it, which he did.</p><p>Jane Muthoni Mara, 73, confirmed the thumb print on her witness statement was her own. The document makes horrifying reading, with details of sexual abuse including rape using a bottle full of boiling water.</p><p><strong>BBC/AFP Posted <span class="timestamp">July 18, 2012 07:37:24</span><br /></strong></p><p class="topics"><strong>Topics:</strong> <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/topic/colonialism">colonialism</a>, <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/topic/government-and-politics">government-and-politics</a>, <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/topic/human">human</a>, <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/topic/law-crime-and-justice">law-crime-and-justice</a>, <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/topic/kenya">kenya</a>, <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/topic/united-kingdom">united-kingdom</a></p></div>Egypt Land of Blackshttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/egypt-land-of-blacks2012-07-16T15:00:00.000Z2012-07-16T15:00:00.000ZKemet Travelhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/KemetTravel<div><div class="description"><p>Kemet (Egypt) is the oldest country in the world as it has at least 6000 years of recorded history - Kemet (Egypt) is centrally located in relation to other concentrated population centers in Europe, Asia and Africa for that Kemet (Egypt) set in the middle of commercial, invasion and migration routes . When we look at the map of the world we can say that Kemet (Egypt) occupies the northeast corner of Africa or the land between the Red sea and The Mediterranean Sea. Its existence is bound up with our Nile Nation’s river, so because of Nile River Kemet (Egypt) is a vibrant country with 85 million inhabitants,in the words of the ancient Greek historian Herodotus *Egypt is the gift of the Nile* . The Geographic Of Egypt land can be divided into five regions: The Nile Valley, The Nile Delta, The Western Desert, The Eastern Desert and The Sinai Peninsula. In all Kemet Travel program either the study program or the adventure one, we will notes this geographic remarkable notes especially in adventure to let our clients combine or blend on the itinerary according to their holiday’s days. The Nile River enters Egypt from Sudan, to the south but its headwaters lie in the lakes of Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, and Tanzania and in the Ethiopian Highlands. It is the longest river in the World; it has long eased the transport of people and goods in Egypt and part of Sudan . The Nile Delta lies along Egypt `s northern coast , where the river empties into the Mediterranean sea. A widening flat area totaling some 8,500 square miles (22 thousand sq.km ) it has been built up over time as the Nile deposited sediment near the river `s mouth . The Western Desert constitutes more than two – thirds of Egypt `s total land area, the western desert is an extension of the Libyan Desert and hence the easternmost part of the Sahara.The population density of Egypt `s deserts is about 1 person per 2,5 Square miles (6 sq.km ) . The Eastern desert does not resemble its western counterpart .The western and the northern hills contain lower , limestone plateau . Its mountainous south is closely related to the Red sea hills.The southern Sinai is especially renowned for Jabal Katrina (Mount Saint Catherine, the side of the famous Greek orthodox monastery of that name) <strong>.</strong></p><p>So if It can be said that nature plays favorites, then EGYPT was her favorite Child. There are several geographical features which combine to make this a unique land.</p><p><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">1-An isolated land Ancient Egypt</span></strong> was isolated from the rest of the world by its Topography. To the west was a vast desert. To the north was the Mediterranean. To the east was the red sea. There were only two points of entry into Egypt aside from sea Routes. A. The south. The Nubians to the south of Egypt often proved to be troublesome, but they were rarely a match for the more advanced military of Egypt.</p><p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>B. The Northeast.</strong></span> Most of the invaders who came against Egypt Moved down through Palestine and then across the northern section of the Sinai Peninsula. To counter this threat, the Egyptians built a line of fortresses along the western edge of the Sinai. 2. The Nile River. The Nile is the longest river in the world. It flows from three Branches: The Blue Nile, The White Nile and the Atbara. They join far south of Egypt to become a single river a mile wide. Just as the surrounding deserts and oceans gave Egypt Security, so the Nile gave Egypt prosperity. The Nile was almost wholly responsible for Egypt economy.</p><p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>A - It made Egypt an agricultural nation.</strong></span></p><p>The Nile River flooded on a regular basis each year, depositing rich sediments on the plains. Crops were planted in the fertile soil as soon as the river had receded. The result was a full harvest.</p><p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>B - It determined all real estate values.</strong></span></p><p>The value of land was determined by how close to the Nile it was located and whether or not it was flooded annually.</p><p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>C. It provided transportation.</strong></span></p><p>Ancient Egypt was made up of a long narrow strip of land over 700 miles long and only a few miles wide. The Nile was the unifying factor of Egypt. It provided the best means of north-south transportation. This factor led to the political unity of Egypt very early in her history. The Nile might have also served as a path for invading forces from the south, had it not been for the many waterfalls to the south of Egypt.</p><p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>3. The climate of Egypt.</strong></span></p><p>Because of the warm climate and the rich, fertile soil, the Egyptians were able to take life rather leisurely .This gave them time to engage in philosophy, religion, and Developments in architecture, astronomy and mathematics. Egypt sees very little rainfall. Its water comes from the mountains of central Africa, many hundreds of miles to the South. This dry climate has brought the added benefit in the preservation of thousands of monuments and papyrus scrolls. Many archaeologists used to mistakenly believe that the People of Palestine were mostly illiterate. The truth is that, except for a few areas around the shores of the Dead Sea, papyrus has a very short life span in Palestine due to its high humidity. The absence of papyrus documents in Palestine is not a sign of illiteracy, but only the lack of longevity in the documents. Egypt did not suffer from this problem. The dry climate was perfect for the preservation of papyrus. It is for this reason that some of our oldest copies of the Bible were found in Egypt. We have already contrasted the geography of the Mesopotamian river valley with that of the Nile, but it would be well to repeat some of those points of contrast.</p></div></div>THE GENOCIDAL FRUITS OF U.S. AFRICA POLICYhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/the-genocidal-fruits-of-u-s-africa-policy2012-07-13T07:00:00.000Z2012-07-13T07:00:00.000Zhakimhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/hakim<div><div id="node-13142" class="node odd full-node node-type-ba_radio"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>A Black Agenda Radio commentary by <a href="http://BlackAgendaReport.com" target="_blank">Glen Ford</a> ~<br /></b></font></div><div class="node odd full-node node-type-ba_radio"><div class="content"><p><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"> </font></font></p><p><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"> Rwanda’s crimes against Congo are the subject of another United Nations report. The U.S., Rwanda’s ally and protector, “is also liable for the genocide in Congo.” Washington has placed its guns and money in the hands of an aggressive, minority regime – which is not surprising. “U.S. policy in Africa has almost always been to choose chaos in those places where it cannot rule directly.”</font></font></p><p> </p><p><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><b><font color="#280099">The Genocidal Fruits of U.S. Africa Policy</font></b></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford</b></font></p><p align="center"><font color="#2323DC">“<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Why does the United States place its strategic interests in the hands of the elite of a warlike minority in the heart of Central Africa?”</i></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">The United Nations has finally released </font></font><font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/07/u-n-report-links-rwanda-to-congolese-violence/"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">a report</font></font></a></u></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"> detailing Rwanda’s latest destabilization of the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo. As usual, the delay was caused by the United States, which routinely blocks criticism of its military and political client-state, Rwanda, which has since 1996 been deeply complicit in the death of 6 million Congolese. The United States is, therefore, also liable for the genocide in Congo – the largest mass killings since World War Two.</font></font></p><p><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Apologists for U.S. policy in Central Africa are fond of using the word “strategic.” The United States, they say, arms and protects Rwanda because America has “strategic” business and defense interests in the Congo’s vast mineral deposits. The infinitely corrupt Congolese strongman </font></font><font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobutu_Sese_Seko"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Mobutu Sese Seko</font></font></a></u></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"> used to be Washington’s attack dog in Africa. But, in the mid-90s, the Americans opted to back an invasion of eastern Congo by the Tutsi-minority regimes in Rwanda and Burundi, and the other U.S. client-state in the region, Uganda. Washington chose to put its strategic interests in the hands of a small but highly militarized people, the Tutsi, rather than help the Congolese government maintain control over its own territory.</font></font></p><p align="center"><font color="#2323DC">“<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>A formula for endless war.”</i></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Why would the United States choose such allies to protect its so-called “strategic interests.” On the face of it, this would seem like a formula for endless war in the region. Even before the mass killings of Tutsis in 1994, they never comprised more than 15 percent of the population in Rwanda or in Burundi, where Hutu people make up the vast majority. Having lorded it over the Hutus during and prior to the arrival of European colonialism, and having</font></font><font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burundi_genocide"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">massacred</font></font></a></u></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"> many Hutu in </font></font><font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">both nations</font></font></a></u></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"> after independence, the Tutsi are not loved by their fellow countrymen. They have since become a primary source of destabilization and genocide in Congo. So the question is: Why does the United States place its strategic interests in the hands of the elite of a warlike minority in the heart of Central Africa? Why would Washington invest millions in minority-ruled governments of tiny countries like Rwanda and Burundi, which can only be sources of permanent instability in the region? Don’t the Americans understand that support for tiny, aggressive elites guarantees continued chaos?</font></font></p><p><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">The answer is: Yes, they do understand. Since independence, U.S. policy in Africa has almost always been to choose chaos in those places where it cannot rule directly. And chaos brings genocide. The U.S. reasons that, at any given moment, chaos contains many options, an infinity of possibilities for superpower action – whereas stable regimes with broad popular support provide less room for the foreigner to maneuver, less possibilities for a quick change of policy or regime.</font></font></p><p><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Which is one reason that China looks good to Africa and to much of the rest of the formerly colonized world. The Chinese do not foment coups, or encourage whole regions to become saturated in arms. They just want to do business in a stable environment. That’s why China has surpassed the U.S. as Africa’s trading partner, and why U.S. imperialism will ultimately be defeated. Because nobody wants someone around who spreads chaos and mass death everywhere he goes.</font></font></p><p><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">For Black Agenda Radio, I’m Glen Ford. On the web, go to BlackAgendaReport.com.</font></font></p><p><font color="#280099"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><i>BAR executive editor Glen Ford can be contacted at</i></font></font></font><font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="mailto:Glen.Ford@BlackAgendaReport.com"><font color="#280099"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Glen.Ford@BlackAgendaReport.com</font></font></font></a></u></font><font color="#280099"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><i>.</i></font></font></font></p><div class="field field-type-text field-field-listen"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item odd"><span id="swftools-swftools-4fffbd1ae33c8" class="swftools swftools-wpaudio swftools-wpaudio-processed"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>The Cautionary Tale of Malt Liquorhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/the-cautionary-tale-of-malt-liquor2012-07-05T01:52:16.000Z2012-07-05T01:52:16.000Zhakimhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/hakim<div><p><br />A Story without Heroes:<br />The Cautionary Tale of Malt Liquor<br />April 30, 2005<br /><br />The family of American-born beers speaks proudly about two of its children. Ask about Steam Beer or the less gifted but very popular Light Beer, and the photos come out, the stories begin. But speak aloud the name of the other sibling, and the room grows quiet. Dad won't look up from his plate and Mom goes into the kitchen and cries into her apron. How could you mention Malt Liquor?<br /><br /><br />A Humble Birth, A Proper Upbringing<br /><br />Born in the late 1930's, Malt Liquor looked like a promising child. Brewing had returned with the Repeal of Prohibition in 1933, but the Depression was making things tough for brewers, and beer drinkers complained that their beer lacked the "kick" it had before. And then, in the 1940's, World War II came and America was rationing. Everything was tight at the nation's breweries. Not enough metal for bottle caps or cans, not enough gas for the delivery trucks or rubber for tires, not enough malt to make beer. Some brewers were even using sorghum and potatoes to fill out the mash.<br /><br />Two brewers in the Midwest had an idea. At the Grand Valley Brewing Company in Ionia, Michigan, some time around 1937, Clarence "Click" Koerber first brewed Clix Malt Liquor. At Gluek Brewing in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Alvin Gluek had a similar idea in 1942. The grandson of the brewery's founder, Alvin was happiest in the laboratory, tinkering. And one day, he found a way to brew a beer that would use less malt but have more of a kick. He named his malt liquor Sparkling Stite by Gluek, courting drinkers with champagne aspirations. Envisioned as an upscale product, Sparkling Stite was even promoted with score pads for bridge players.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Another Midwestern brewery, Goetz Brewing, created a competing version and called it Country Club Malt Liquor, going after the growing post-war middle class, people with nice homes, a new set of clubs and a little extra money. The "New Party Brew" was advertised in magazine ads with neatly dressed, smiling white people, enjoying themselves in a festive but polite manner, drinking out of frosty little glasses filled from 8-ounce cans.<br /><br />Following suit, Gettleman Brewing of Milwaukee appealed to tweed-jacketed faculty members with its University Club, complete with a faux college crest on the can. The brewers of Gaybree Malt Liquor in Norfolk, Virginia, said it "tastes, looks, sparkles like champagne." Century Brewing's Sparkling Grenáy touted its "superb wine-like character" and sported a coat of arms with tiny winged lions and four medallions.<br /><br />Champetite Malt Liquor, from the Atlantic Brewing Company in Chicago, Illinois, advertised its product with an image of a laughing blonde and the slogan, "the bubbles tickle my nose." The Old Reading Brewery in Pennsylvania tried its luck with Sparkling Mardi Gras Malt Liquor, "fermented and aged to impart the character and flavor of real champagne." And in the same town, the Sunshine Brewing Company introduced Town & Country VVS Sparkling Malt Liquor.<br /><br />In Minnesota, the diminutive Peoples Brewing served up Olde English 600, A Malt Liquor, with a tiny but jaunty Englishman wearing a plumed hat atop a white wig. A slogan in Latin further ennobled the package: "Situr Duluth," the can announced, which translates into "It is being thirsted for in Duluth."<br /><br />In this manner, Malt Liquor, all dressed up and on its best behavior, tried to make its way in the marketplace for almost 20 years, but with little success. However, about the time Malt Liquor turned 21, something happened to change the brew's life, the first of its watershed moments.<br /><br /><br />Malt Liquor Goes Wild<br /><br />In 1963 at National Brewing in Baltimore, Maryland, a man named Dawson Farber was leading the marketing effort. He was very concerned about the growing competition from other "national" breweries -- Anheuser-Busch and Joseph Schlitz -- who were moving into his city with large budgets for promotion and advertising. Farber anticipated that his National Bohemian lager was not going to fare well against bullies like Budweiser and Schlitz. He had to find a niche where the brewery could compete.<br /><br />At the time, the only malt liquor with anything close to a national presence was Country Club. Farber had a different vision, one that focused less on upper middle class aspirations and more on the reality of more kick in the can. He came up with the name Colt 45 and told a designer he wanted a label emblazoned with a kicking horse and a horseshoe. Farber was not going to hide the potent brew's extra bang.<br /><br />This was a master stroke. But it was also a violation of federal law, if anyone was paying attention. The Code of Federal Regulations, Title 27, Part 7 "Prohibited Practices," Section 7.29 (g), states that a malt beverage's label "shall not contain any statements, designs, or devices, whether in the form of numerals, letters, characters, figures, or otherwise, which are likely to be considered as statements of alcoholic content."<br /><br />The future of malt liquor hung in the balance, but National Brewing needn't have worried. Apparently insensitive to metaphor, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) approved Colt 45, kicking horse, horseshoe and all.<br /><br />As the new brew with the kick of a colt enjoyed national success, the well-mannered malt liquor brands of the previous decade were trampled by a herd of animals. The BATF gave the green light to a zoo parade of mustangs and stallions, red lions, red bulls and pit bulls, big bears and big cats, jaguars and panthers, hawks and eagles, scorpions and cobras -- a Noah's Ark gone bad, a wild kingdom in the cooler. The allusions to potency were unleashed and unbridled.<br /><br />But how were brewers to advertise these wild new brews? Print ads in the early 1960's hinted that Colt 45 was "a completely unique experience." As a part of the "unique" campaign, Colt 45 television ads showed a man seated at a table on the edge of a waterfall. A white man, in a suit.<br /><br />The Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company, the owners of malt liquor's first raging bull, ran a print ad showing a giggling woman wearing a pearl necklace, seated next to a tray of stemmed glasses bearing the Schlitz Malt Liquor stylized "bull" logo. The ad read, "Mildred never used to be famous for her parties.Then she introduced Schlitz Malt Liquor."<br /><br />The makers of Bull Dog Malt Liquor ventured this slogan: "a pip of a nip in every sip." Indeed, the colts, the bulls and the dogs were ready to run, but the brewers still hesitated to turn them loose.<br /><br /><br />Malt Liquor Makes New Friends<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />For 20 years, brewers directed malt liquor advertising to white, middle class consumers. But the Civil Rights movement of the 1960's alerted many American businesses to the existence of a group that had been largely invisible to them: black Americans. Prompted partly by social conscience and partly by threatened boycotts, marketers awoke to the wisdom of appealing to black audiences -- hiring black-owned advertising agencies, advertising in media that black people read, watched and heard, and featuring black people in the advertisements. It was the right thing to do and it was the smart thing to do.<br /><br />Among the businessmen given a nudge were brewers. And smarter brewers asked themselves, "Which of our products are black people buying already?" Brewery presidents asked the V.P. Sales, who asked his sales force, who asked distributors, who asked the retailers who spoke with consumers every day. The word came back up the chain that people of color drank proportionally more malt liquor than their white counterparts. Nobody knew why; they just did.<br /><br />(To be precise, and move forward in time for a moment, while black Americans comprise 12-14% of the population, they consume 30-33% of the malt liquor brewed in the U.S. The statistic is important for two reasons. First, it shows why brewers of malt liquor advertise more heavily to black people: As a group, they buy more malt liquor. The second important fact is that if a third of all malt liquor is consumed by black Americans, two thirds are consumed by people who are not black. Hold on to that thought.)<br /><br />Tobacco companies manufacturing menthol cigarettes made the same discovery: Their customers were disproportionately black. They responded by directing more of their advertising to a black audience. A Praxis Project (Washington, D.C.) survey of Jet and Ebony magazines -- black-owned publications targeted to black people -- shows that from 1965 to 1975, print ads for menthol cigarettes and malt liquor appeared in these publications and increasingly featured people of color. Advertising on black radio paralleled this trend.<br /><br />In 1967, Maier Brewing in Los Angeles introduced Soul Stout Malt Liquor and Soul Mellow Yellow Beer for the black community. But the products, coming out just two years after the Watts riots, met with protests led by the NAACP. The brewery, on its own last legs, let the Soul brand die.<br /><br />In New Jersey, Trenton's Champale was one of the first malt liquor brewers to pay more attention to the black community. Long a champion of the "champagne on a beer budget" approach, Champale ran a 1966 print ad showing a handsome black couple in evening dress with the caption, "Ready, Set, Glow!" A 1971 Champale print ad showed a black hand holding two bottles, with the slogan, "Live a little on very little." In 1974, Champale ran an ad with a black couple in tennis garb, and the headline, "Get Set for Living." Also in 1974, they published a print ad with a young African American gospel composer, shown at his piano writing music, outdoors throwing a football, and indoors enjoying Champale in a champagne glass. In his spare time, the young man was campaigning for Maynard Jackson, the future Mayor of Atlanta. The ad signed off with "Some people just know how to live." In the same campaign, another ad featured a black couple in Harlem who owned their own greeting card company.<br /><br />Colt 45 did some tentative reaching out in 1974 with print ads featuring comedian and actor Redd Foxx. He had a highly rated TV show in Sanford and Son, he was black, and white people liked him. It must have felt like a safe way to dip a toe into the black market.<br /><br />Another early sign of awareness was an Anheuser-Busch sales film for Budweiser Malt Liquor. The 1973 production took distributors for a ride on the Budweiser Malt Liquor Limited, a train where every car was filled with people enjoying Bud Malt. Along with beautiful women and groovy guys, the train was also populated with college students who drank Bud Malt while "rapping," and a black man with a big hat who said, "Hey, man, maybe you don't drink a bunch, but I drink a ton of it. You may call it malt liquor, but it's my beer!" The host went on to describe the "new black market" for malt liquor, and interviewed a group of black men and women who talked about drinking malt liquor when "you want to get down to it." In stores, at least one display from this era showed smiling black people enjoying Budweiser Malt Liquor and characterized the newly introduced brew as "The Soul Grabber," possibly an allusion to the Willis "Gator" Jackson song of the same name.<br /><br />Looking back, an observer might see the malt liquor advertisements of the Sixties and Seventies as fairly tasteful, almost quaint. But that was going to change.<br /><br /><br />Malt Liquor Discovers Sex<br /><br />In 1986, Malt Liquor was 44 years old, and clearly a late bloomer. Then the middle-aged brew met actor Billy Dee Williams. When Billy Dee first said, "The Power of Colt 45 - It works every time," Malt Liquor's world changed forever. Billy Dee was black and he was sexy. And what a product promise: With the help of Colt 45, you could be as smooth as Billy Dee and beautiful ladies would yield gladly.<br /><br />The genie was out of the bottle. On Billie Dee's coattails, basketball's towering Wilt Chamberlain (who once estimated the number of his amorous conquests at more than 10,000) appeared in advertisements for Haffenreffer Private Stock Malt Liquor, holding a swooning beauty while the headlines read, "High performance pleasure" and "Nobody does it bigger." Suddenly, it seemed as if you could say anything about malt liquor.<br /><br />Of course, one cannot discuss sex and malt liquor without a bow to Don Vultaggio and John Ferolito. These two young men from Brooklyn came up the hard way. After high school, they scraped together $200 and bought a VW bus to deliver beer to places avoided by timid truckers, stores in neighborhoods like Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant. By 1982, the pair had 25 trucks and a decade of experience delivering refreshment in these less than pastoral settings. Vultaggio and Ferolito learned what their customers wanted because they were on the street with them every day.<br /><br />One day they asked themselves why they were delivering other people's beer when they could contract to brew their own and profit as both wholesalers and brewers. In 1986, they formed the Hornell Brewing Company and introduced Midnight Dragon Special Reserve Malt Liquor. What they lacked in marketing power, they made up for in audacity. Their first poster featured a woman sipping Midnight Dragon through a straw. The caption read, "I could suck this all night."<br /><br />You didn't need a gypsy to read those tea leaves. When women's groups protested, Ferolito told the Wall Street Journal, "Real men like sex and sex sells beer." In fact, 22 separate groups protested the poster. Propelled by its notoriety, Midnight Dragon sold like hotcakes with malt syrup. As a cultured touch, its cans and bottles were emblazoned with an elegant crest and Latin inscription, "Epulis Accumbere Divum" (line 79 from the first book of Vergil's Aeneid, "To recline at the feast of the gods"). For those eager to recline, Vultaggio and Ferolito delivered their new brew by the truckload -- three million cases of Midnight Dragon annually.<br /><br /><br />Malt Liquor Finds Its Voice<br /><br />Malt Liquor was living in a world of double meanings, metaphor and sly winks until it took up with a crowd of musicians. And not just any musicians; these young men played Hip Hop. One day they crossed paths with Minott Wessinger, a descendant of brewer Henry Weinhard. Wessinger had worked at the family brewery, Blitz-Weinhard, in Portland, until his family sold the business to G. Heileman Brewing Company. The deal included a "non-compete" clause in the general beer market, but Wessinger started the McKenzie River Corporation, created a new malt liquor and had Heileman brew it for him under contract, beginning in 1987.<br /><br />The leading malt liquor brand at the time was Olde English, which was kind of Olde School, and Wessinger sought a way to appeal to drinkers who wanted something other than their father's malt liquor. He created St. Ides. Tropical breezes blew the palm trees pictured on the St. Ides label and gave it a kind of St. Barts, St. Kitts, West Indies attitude. (In addition, the name held meaning for the devout; St. Ides was a fifth-century Irish nun who worked miracles and foretold the future, although probably not this one.)<br /><br />In the late 1980's, Wessinger heard Hip Hop artists singing about malt liquor in their songs. Singing about Olde English, "O E," now several owners away from its birthplace in Duluth, and about his own St. Ides, "the S.T. Crooked I." But Wessinger did not succumb to corporate thinking, which would have said, "Let's have our ad agency produce radio commercials that sound like this Hip Hop." Wessinger was smarter. He commissioned real Hip Hop stars to create the spots, from the sidewalk up.<br /><br />The resulting songs, recorded and played in the early 1990's, are the stuff of legend. As one writer noted, they "blew the funk up." Artists included King Tee, DJ Pooh, E-Swift and Snoop Doggy Dogg. The work increased St. Ides sales by 25%, and incidentally made St. Ides the malt liquor of choice among white college students. But black and white malt liquor drinkers were not the only listeners. Almost from the beginning, community leaders and public health advocates were outraged by the lyrics. O'Shea Jackson, rapping as Ice Cube, urged his listeners to, "Get your girl in the mood quicker, get your jimmy thicker, with St. Ides malt liquor."<br /><br />What a product promise! The community could only stand about four more years of that. At one point, public outcry led to the federal government's suspending all St. Ides advertising for three days. That showed 'em! The campaign ended after production of 30 radio spots. The use of sex to sell malt liquor would continue, but Ice Cube had planted the flag on a peak that might never be scaled again.<br /><br />(Lost in the hue and cry was the fact that Ice Cube's lyric was clearly a lettered homage to poet Ogden Nash, the 20th century American master of light verse, whose poem "Reflections on Ice-Breaking" reads in its entirety:<br /><br />Candy<br />Is dandy<br />But liquor<br />Is quicker.<br />For bringing a 1940's New Yorker magazine feel to the malt liquor milieu, we bid hail to thee, Ice Cube.)<br /><br />While some Hip Hop artists were getting paid to sell St. Ides, others were not amused. Carleton Ridenhour, rapping as Chuck D with the group Public Enemy, denounced malt liquor in his song ''One Million Bottlebags.'' His very public stand against malt liquor made the appearance of his voice in a 1992 St. Ides radio spot all the stranger. The producer of a St. Ides ad had sampled a snippet of Chuck D from ''Bring the Noise.'' Even though the spot was withdrawn from airplay as soon as the sampling was protested, Mr. Chuck filed a $5 million lawsuit against the McKenzie River Corporation. ''It's unconscionable,'' noted the rapper's attorney, Lisa Davis. ''He has taken a very strong position against malt liquor, and these ads make him look like a hypocrite.'' In the end, a seven-figure settlement smoothed Chuck's ruffled feathers.<br /><br /><br />Power Master: A Bridge Too Far<br /><br />G. Heileman's Power Master tore the envelope in 1991. The BATF approved the name for this new sub-brand of Colt 45, but a number of clergymen, including the Reverend Jesse Brown of the Philadelphia-based National Association of African-Americans for Positive Imagery, led a protest, and the U.S. Surgeon General Antonia Novella signed on as well, calling the new brand "socially irresponsible" and sounding the battle cry. "Tell the purveyors of alcohol and their hired-gun persuaders that we have had enough disease, disability and death. Tell them that we simply will not tolerate marketing that distorts and deceives the effects of products, or campaigns that are designed to keep our minorities enslaved by taking away their good health, freedom, and dignity."<br /><br />In a comment typical of the furor, David Grant of the Minneapolis-based Institute on Black Chemical Abuse said, "The same kind of racism is at work here that is at work in society as a whole. It sees black life and the lives of other people of color as intrinsically less valuable than the lives of European-Americans."<br /><br />At this point, the BATF experienced an awakening and noted, as if seeing the law for the first time, that the Federal Alcohol Administration Act of 1935 forbade the labeling or advertising of beer with words that could be construed as indicators of a product's alcoholic strength. Heileman was allowed to sell off its existing stock of Power Master over the next four months but had to stop advertising the product.<br /><br />Already in bankruptcy proceedings, Heileman lost $2 million on the failed product launch. Commenting on the Power Master controversy, a writer in Fortune magazine said, "Targeting black consumers with anything less wholesome than farina has become politically risky."<br /><br /><br />Malt Liquor Goes Crazy<br /><br />Less than a year later, Don Vultaggio and John Ferolito, of Midnight Dragon fame, found a way to offend a whole new minority. Inspired by the film Dances with Wolves and reprising the equine theme of Colt 45 and Mustang, they launched Crazy Horse Malt Liquor in March of 1992. As the Hornell Brewing Company, Ferolito and Vultaggio did well with Crazy Horse, selling more than one million cases in its first year in the market.<br /><br />However, Native Americans in general, and the descendants of Chief Crazy Horse in particular, were not flattered by this namesake brew, nor were they in a mood to say, "Hey, Dances with Wolves, great flick." Instead, this homage to the Old West coming from Long Island triggered bad press, a boycott, state and federal legislative initiatives to ban the brew, and a lawsuit that dragged on for 11 years.<br /><br />From the beginning, Native Americans spoke out about the long history of their battle with alcohol and their reverence for Crazy Horse himself. Others joined the chorus. In a letter to the Wall Street Journal, Rep. Pat Schroeder (D., Colo.) noted, "Crazy Horse was a spiritual and military leader of the Sioux Nation who witnessed the destructive force of alcohol among his people and adamantly opposed its consumption. Even today, substance abuse counselors use his teachings in their work with Native Americans. The Hornell Brewing Co. could not have picked a more inapt symbol for their product."<br /><br />In thoughtful letters, Native American leaders appealed to Vultaggio and Ferolito's better nature. But if the pair had one between them, no one could find it.<br /><br />"They're so callous about it; they don't see it," said Phyllis Tousey Frederick, national coordinator of the Crazy Horse Defense Project. "They say 'It's your opinion that you're offended.' "<br /><br />Perhaps it was their New York point of view. Had Vultaggio and Ferolito traveled to White Clay, Nebraska, they might have had an "ah ha" moment. An unincorporated town with a population of 22, White Clay sits just across the line from the Pine Ridge reservation of the Oglala Sioux Nation. Some 20,000 Native Americans live on the reservation, but Pine Ridge has no movie theater, no public library, no department store. There is not much to do, and little money to do it with, given a 75-80% unemployment rate. No alcohol is sold on the reservation, which brings us, in the company of many Native Americans, back to White Clay. Every day, three small convenience stores sell cans of beer and malt liquor to Native Americans from the reservation. Eleven thousand cans. 11,000. Every day. The revenue accrues to a few white residents of White Clay and to the Nebraska taxman. The consequences accrue to the Pine Ridge reservation. Looking at it from Pine Ridge and White Clay, one might see more clearly how the appearance of Crazy Horse Malt Liquor was not a day-maker for the Sioux nation.<br /><br />On the other hand, when the lawsuit began, Crazy Horse Malt Liquor was one of hundreds of Crazy Horse products and businesses in the marketplace, including a Liz Claiborne line of clothing and a chain of American strip clubs. So why go after Ferolito and Vultaggio? Someone with a cynical nature might say, "Deep pockets."<br /><br />In 1992, Ferolito and Vultaggio introduced Arizona Iced Tea. Since that time, their Arizona Beverages company -- propelled by creative packaging and steady new product introductions -- has become one of the largest independent beverage companies in the United States. In 2003, Arizona teas led the canned and bottled tea category with more than $116 million in sales, ahead of both Lipton Brisk and Snapple. It is common knowledge that people investing time and money in a lawsuit are wise to sue someone with money. To that point, Lawrence I. Fox, an attorney for Hornell Brewing Company, said, "They talk about the principle, but what they really want is the bucks."<br /><br />Fox was not entirely engaging in rhetoric when he talked about "the bucks." The family of Crazy Horse, in addition to demanding that Crazy Horse Malt Liquor be withdrawn from the market, also sought damages "related to what Hornell has made from using Crazy Horse's name on their product." In other words, while few would question the family's sincerity regarding their reverence for the name and memory of Crazy Horse, the family was on record as willing to profit, after the fact, from Hornell Brewing's use of their ancestor's name.<br /><br />After 11 years, they met with success. In 2004, according to Chief Harvey White Woman, a descendent of Crazy Horse and an executor of the estate, the family settled for a promise by Hornell Brewing to stop using the Crazy Horse name and a cash settlement of $150,000.<br /><br /><br />Next Stop, Paris! (a Brief Tangent)<br /><br />As the Crazy Horse saga ended for Hornell Brewing, it was just beginning for three cabaret owners in Paris, France. In 1951, their father, Alain Bernardin, opened a nightclub near the Champs Elysées. Fascinated by the Wild West culture of the United States, Bernardin named his club the Crazy Horse Saloon. It became famous for its glamorous nude showgirls, played a prominent part in the 1965 film "What's New, Pussycat?" and inspired a 50th anniversary revue in Las Vegas. For 50 years, no one complained, until Chief Harvey White Woman, at home on the Pine Ridge reservation, saw an HBO special.<br /><br />In a letter to the club owners, Chief White Woman wrote, "I saw on HBO a program showing your night club where women could be seen apparently wearing feather headdresses. My family is offended each time there is a lack of respect towards our culture and towards our venerable leaders. I want the young people of my tribe to remember Crazy Horse as a warrior and a strong chief, not as a Paris night club." Chief White Woman demanded that the club change its name.<br /><br />By chance, a family friend, Chief Red Cloud, was going to Paris to appear at a book signing, and he delivered the letter in person. Speaking with French reporters outside the club, Red Cloud said, "The name is a sacred name to our people. Nobody uses that name back home - even our own people." Overnight, White Woman's letter and Red Cloud's special delivery linked the name of Crazy Horse to the Paris strip club on more than 200 Web sites in France, the Netherlands, Italy, Scotland, Canada and Luxembourg, and most states of the USA. This is 758 sites fewer than the Crazy Horse Malt Liquor lawsuit inspired, but that suit had eleven years to work.<br /><br />White Woman and Red Cloud are now waiting to hear from Paris. Should the club refuse to change its name, Red Cloud has threatened the owners with a return visit by more chiefs, and legal action. Financed, a jaded observer might assume, by the Crazy Horse Malt Liquor settlement.<br /><br /><br />If at First You Don't Succeed...<br /><br />If two guys from Brooklyn could spark national and international controversies on a shoestring budget, what could we expect from the nation's largest brewery? Anheuser-Busch did not reach the top spot by shying away from challenges. But finding a way to market the #1 malt liquor has been a riddle the company has yet to solve. The 1971 introduction of Budweiser Malt Liquor, "the first Malt Liquor good enough to be called Budweiser," did not meet with success.<br /><br />In 1984, Anheuser-Busch tried again with its own entrant in the Wild Kingdom: King Cobra Malt Liquor. At up to 18 feet long, the King Cobra is the world's longest poisonous snake. It can stand tall enough to look you in the eye. One bite delivers enough cardiotoxic, hemorrhagic venom to kill an elephant, or one man 20 times over. But even with a wild name and the marketing muscle of Anheuser-Busch, King Cobra languished, trailing such industry standards as Olde English and Colt 45.<br /><br />In 1996, Anheuser-Busch tried again, borrowing the windblown palm tree motif from St. Ides and introducing Hurricane Malt Liquor. On the Beaufort Scale, a hurricane is a 12, characterized by "extreme destruction," the strongest force in nature. Comparing the new entrant to King Cobra, an Anheuser-Busch spokesperson was quoted as saying, "Hurricane has a more street-relevant imagery. We want it to be part of an attitude."<br /><br />Part of the attitude included "bikini posters" for Hurricane, competing for cooler space with similar posters from Schlitz Malt Liquor, Mickey's Malt Liquor, Colt 45 and Olde English, perhaps suggesting that malt liquor is the beverage of choice for those who swim.<br /><br />In 1997, critics accused Anheuser-Busch of deliberately targeting Latino drinkers, yet another minority, with Hurricane. Two years later, the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence spoke for 25 public health groups in condemning Hurricane and asking the BATF to take action. The Council waits.<br /><br /><br />The Entrepreneurial Spirit<br /><br />Anheuser-Busch's failure to dominate the category, and the financial successes of McKenzie River and Hornell Brewing were not lost on other entrepreneurs in the 1980's and 90's. A number of attempts were made to create hip, young brands that would appeal to Malt Liquor drinkers.<br /><br />Mandingo Malt Liquor was marketed as a tribute to the "The Great Mandingo Empire of Mali, 1240-1400" in a can bearing a map of Africa. But students of popular culture might also find it evocative of the 1975 film starring Ken Norton, about a well-muscled slave who is drawn into the thrall, and eventually the boudoir, of his white master's wife. The film gave its name to the phenomenon of white women being attracted to black men, especially if the men are as good looking as Ken Norton. This message-laden potion was brewed by Mandingo Beer Inc, in the state of Pennsylvania, a long way from the kingdom of Mali.<br /><br />Another Hall of Famer is Johnny 3 Legs, introduced in 1995 and contract-brewed briefly by Stroh. This fabulously blatant reference -- to a man whose penis is so large that it looks like a third leg -- was sent into the marketplace with a cover story regarding a three-legged rooster. Well, what can you say?<br /><br />In 1997, Phat Boy Malt Liquor, laced with ginseng, was introduced by United States Beverage, led by Joseph Fisch who noted, "It's very positive and it's very fun." However in November of that year, Phat Boy caught the attention of the Rev. Paul Scott of Durham, North Carolina, who held press conferences to complain that urban black youth were being targeted. Within a year, more than a hundred community activists, youth advocates and health organizations, including the Marin Institute, had demanded Phat Boy's recall. In October of 1998, a Web-posted comment by Leslie Cason Jr. (quoted here as it appeared) noted, "this shows you the sickness of the white man and his agenda to elimate Afrikan People. This no good cracker is trying to exploite Afrikan people we must not allow this go on anymore. If Afrikan people must go and physically stop this company it must be done by any means necessary." Not "very fun" after all, Phat Boy was also not very profitable and was discontinued.<br /><br /><br />Is It Malt Liquor, or Robbery?<br /><br />In the year 2000, the creators of St. Ides adroitly moved away from the flak surrounding malt liquor by selling the St. Ides brand and introducing another, Steel Reserve, that was not labeled as a malt liquor but rather as a "high gravity lager." To anyone with a knowledge of brewing, the similarities between a malt liquor and a high gravity lager are striking: lager style, higher alcohol content from a higher amount of fermentables, lighter body, and little in the way of malt or hops.<br /><br />Malt liquor drinkers figured it out fast, and they liked it. With its spanking new design courtesy of the Turner Duckworth design firm of San Francisco and London, the product sold "nearly 100 million bottles and cans" annually. Steel Reserve's brandmark was based on a medieval symbol for steel...<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />...which looked like the number 211. Conspiracy theorists quickly turned the number into something more useful. LeeRoy Jordan, Jr., a health professional and independent consultant, was one of many who noted that 211 was the California penal code for robbery, and he added that the alphanumeric gang code translation of 211, based on the 2nd and 11th letters of the alphabet, was "Blood Killer." And there you have it: another malt liquor brand promoting gangsterism and violence.<br /><br /><br />Liquid Crack<br /><br />For brewers of malt liquor, one of the costs of doing business is public outrage. Given the provocative nature of so much malt liquor advertising, it's a wonder there aren't more protests. For your reading pleasure, here is a sampling of bouquets strewn in malt liquor's path:<br /><br />"This 'Attack of the Killer 40' is part of an overall scheme to control segments of the American population that might have reason to undermine the current power status." -- The Conscious Rasta<br /><br />"The liquor industry has long targeted the Black community with its diabolical marketing schemes from the Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull bustin' through my TV after every video in the '90's to the infamous St. Ides commercials that had every wanna be playa (and aspiring rap star) runnin' to the corner store to see if the stuff really did make you a Mack Daddy. " -- The Rev. Paul Scott, Messianic Afrikan Nation, Durham, North Carolina<br /><br />"Not only are malt liquor products harmful themselves, but they're 'gateway' drugs that could pave the way to crack-cocaine and other illegal drugs." -- Dr. Walter Fagget, National Medical Association<br /><br />"This is what the 'Malt Liquor Marketing Madness' looks like. It is excessive, persuasive and pathological. If you can decode the messages you'll find that their translation is death and destruction." -- LeeRoy Jordan<br /><br />"We have to focus on the notion that we can and must control the sale and consumption of this liquid crack." -- State Rep. John Myers, D-Philadelphia<br /><br />One of malt liquor's most imaginative critics is lecturer and author Al "Coach" Powell. In his essay "40 Ounces of Genocide," Powell links the number of crowns on the Olde English Malt Liquor label -- 33 -- to the number of crowns, a unit of currency, paid as a duty on each slave by English slave traders to the Spanish government under a 1713 agreement known as the Asiento. Powell maintains that the symbolism is deliberate, an "in your face" move against the black community, and exhorts readers to keep fresh in their memories the misdeeds of "the olde English." Powell is one of many malt liquor critics who summons up images of the slave trade and portrays the sale and consumption of malt liquor as yet another enslavement.<br /><br /><br />Laying Blame<br /><br />It is easy to blame malt liquor. It is a tangible sign, a mute defendant left behind at the scene of the crime. Empty and broken containers, unconscious drinkers, dried spew, public urination and defecation, the aftermath of alcohol-fueled violence, fatal accidents, none of these deliver on the promises of the malt liquor label, the bikini posters, the upbeat radio spots. One can well imagine the frustration and rage of those who live with the consequences and seek a better life, a better place to live.<br /><br />Few would suggest that posters of lightly clad women and glowering lords of Hip Hop are ideal fare for children who have gone into a convenience store for a Popsicle, and brewers should not be high-fiving over the level to which their marketing has sunk.<br /><br />But before we cast malt liquor as a racist and calculated attempt to harm minorities, we should recall that two-thirds of the malt liquor brewed in the United States is consumed by people other than African-Americans. Nor are problems with alcohol strictly an urban phenomenon. Didra Brown Taylor's Knowledge, Attitudes, and Malt Liquor Beer Drinking Behavior Among African American Men in South Central Los Angeles presents a review of the literature to date and her own original research. Among the salient findings:<br /><br />"Contrary to popular beliefs, rural students had equal or higher rates of usage of the two licit substances, alcohol and tobacco, than did urban students. Binge drinking for both male and female rural students exceeded that of their urban peers... rural students are more at risk for the negative consequences of alcohol." (p.36)<br /><br />"Studies of adolescents consistently find that Black youth initiate drinking at a later age than their White counterparts and have a lower prevalence of alcohol use." (p.18)<br /><br />In Los Angeles, fortified wines were the drink of choice for 46% of problem drinkers, compared to 18% who preferred malt liquor. (p.2)<br /><br />Of those who drank malt liquor, 56% reported drinking other kinds of alcohol at the same time. (p.103)<br /><br />"Advertising and pop culture were reported to have little influence on whether they drank malt liquor beer while alcohol use by family and others in the community most influenced their decision to drink." (p. xviii)<br /><br />"Nearly 44 percent of the respondents had their first drink of malt liquor beer with a relative with nearly one quarter having their first malt liquor beer drink with their mother or father." (p.98)<br /><br />"Frequency of church attendance emerged as the strongest negative predictor of smoking and daily drinking." (p.24)<br /><br />"The strongest predictor of advancement to heavy drinking were friends' drinking and low parental monitoring." (p.33)<br /><br />If, in fact, malt liquor is not the main beverage of choice among alcohol abusers, or simply one among many, and if family influences are indeed the most powerful in determining the path one takes, then focusing the blame on malt liquor and malt liquor brewers may be a less than productive tactic for those who see the consumption of malt liquor as a threat to health, progress and the quality of life in their community.<br /><br /><br />Why Should You Care?<br /><br />"Government should: Set a maximum alcohol content for malt beverages of 5 percent by volume. This would lower the alcohol content of malt liquors." -- Michael Jacobson, et al; Marketing Booze to Blacks (p.42)<br /><br />In order to solve the "malt liquor problem," the Center for Science in the Public Interest has called for legislation that will restrict the alcoholic content of all malt beverages to 5% by volume. Should such legislation ever pass, beer styles such as barleywines, winter warmers, strong lagers, old ales, bock beers, imperial stouts and India Pale Ales would be banned and unavailable. This would affect every brewpub, every microbrewery, most importers, and millions of beer drinkers in the United States who would no longer be able to find the beers they enjoy. The legislation would create a windfall for the major brewers and take us back in time to 1972, when all that was available to beer drinkers was light American lager and a few light imports. And that is why you, as a beer drinker, should be paying attention to the debate over malt liquor.<br /><br /><br />A Glass in Parting<br /><br />The future is not bright for malt liquor. In 2002, beer market analyst and former business school professor Robert Weinberg noted, "Any economist knows the cheapest way to put alcohol in your system is fortified wine. Beer is a very expensive way to put alcohol in your system." Weinberg also noted that malt liquor consumption in the United States was in decline. In 1997, it accounted for 4.3 percent of malt beverage sales; in 2001 just 2.6 percent.<br /><br />Brewers, however, seem either unwilling or incapable of letting go of the profits that come from malt liquor, in spite of declining sales and consistently negative press.<br /><br />In the end, it's not nice to fool Mother Nature, and you don't do it without paying a price. Malt liquor is an artificial beer style, a style that requires human engineering to override limits placed by nature. It is unnatural for a fermented malt beverage to have this much alcohol, and the consequences should not be wholly surprising. In place of flavor, sociability and a cultural experience, you have a quick ride to intoxication that seems to bring out the worst in everyone, even in the people who object to it. Greed, despair and destruction on one side -- lies, bombast and posturing on the other.<br /><br />It's a story without heroes.<br /><br /><br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><br /><br />Bonus Features<br /><br /><br />What exactly is malt liquor?<br /><br /><br />What's the "letter of the law" on naming and advertising malt liquor?<br /><br /><br />Where did the 40-ounce bottle come from?<br /><br /><br />The first malt liquor: The Clix Riddle<br /><br /><br />Are malt liquor drinkers being targeted?<br /><br /><br />Follow the bouncing numbers: statistics on malt liquor consumption<br /><br /><br />Enroll in the School of Slanted Writing<br /><br /><br />View my favorite malt liquor song lyrics<br /><br /><br />Follow the real life saga of the Schlitz Malt Liquor bull<br /><br /><br />See who's making money on malt liquor empties<br /><br /><br />Review my sources and explore the subject further<br /><br /><br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><br /><br />What Is Malt Liquor?<br /><br />"I guess you could say that malt liquor is like a beer that makes you want to break stuff." -- Tim Teichgraeber, wine critic<br /><br />In some of states of the U.S., any beer with more than 5% alcohol must be labeled as "malt liquor," even if it's a lager imported from Germany. But we are not here to deal with legal language. For our purposes, malt liquor is an American beer style characterized by high alcohol content, thin body, light color, very little hop character, and a variety of sweetish flavors and off-flavors.<br /><br />Two things prevent normal lager beer from achieving higher levels of alcohol. First, yeast cannot break down "unfermentable" dextrins. Think of these as long chains that are simply too big for a little yeast cell to feed on. Because the dextrins cannot be devoured by the yeast and turned into alcohol, they remain behind in the beer to provide body and flavor. Second, yeast is a living organism, and it dies when the alcohol level rises above a certain level; the yeast is essentially killed by the alcohol it has produced. This ends the fermentation, again leaving behind a portion of unfermented sugars that add body and flavor to the beer.<br /><br />But with malt liquor, some things are done differently.<br /><br />One: The mash contains 10 to 20% dextrose, sugars that the yeast can go right to work on. (The mash is usually made up of 50-60% malt, 30-40% corn grits and 10-20% dextrose. This produces a mash with a higher original gravity, i.e., a solution with more fermentables, hence the use of the phrase "high gravity lager" by brewers who want to brew malt liquor without the taint of the name "malt liquor.")<br /><br />Two: Heartier strains of yeast, such as those used to ferment wine, are used. These yeasts can tolerate a higher level of alcohol and higher brewing temperatures. (In addition to producing more alcohol, these yeast can also produce some wine-like flavors, which provide a portion of the basis for claims of "tastes like champagne.")<br /><br />Three: The "secret ingredient" that sets malt liquor apart from strong lagers -- an enzyme called alpha-amylase is added to the mash to break down the longer chains of dextrins, so virtually all of the sugars become fermentable. This means that the brew will have more alcohol and fewer residual dextrins, therefore less body and flavor.<br /><br />In summary: Stronger yeast have more sugars to work with and produce a beer with more alcohol, less body and some unusual flavor notes. Voila, malt liquor.<br /><br />The addition of enzymes to the mash is also key to the production of light beer and dry beer, although the focus with those two styles is on lighter body and not higher alcohol. The formulas of today's brewers are proprietary (i.e., They're not going to tell you), but these are the three main techniques used to brew malt liquor.<br /><br /><br />And what isn't malt liquor?<br /><br />Contrast the above explanation with that on page 14 of Didra Brown Taylor's Ph.D. dissertation, Knowledge, Attitudes, and Malt Liquor Beer Drinking Behavior Among African American Men in South Central Los Angeles:<br /><br />"Now, mainstream beers are made with ingredients such as corn sugar, yeast, malt extracts, and Irish moss (Papazian, 1997). The waste reside (malt) of mainstream beers, like Budweiser, is then mixed with chemicals such as methanol, formaldehyde, white sugar and bleach to make malt liquor beer (Afrika, 1999). The fact that malt liquor beer is made from the waste of other beers allows it to be sold in containers more than twice the size of regular beers for half the price (Brown, 1996)."<br /><br />Let us look at the claims for which she cites Charlie Papazian's book, Home Brewers' Gold: I shared these with Mr. Papazian who ran a search on the original manuscript and could find no content that would support any of her conclusions. Secondly, her citation of "Afrika" for some of the more outlandish claims leads us to her bibliography where "Afrika" is absent. And her final citation of "Brown" directs the reader to one of her own speeches, i.e., she is quoting herself.<br /><br />On page 138, without a footnote, she writes, "...malt liquor beers contain addictive ingredients (sugar, ethanol, and carbon dioxide to name a few)..." Fabulous. The addictive nature of sugar is familiar to anyone with a sweet tooth, and ethanol is a nasty chemical name for beverage alcohol which is indeed addictive to alcoholics, but carbon dioxide? This is news. The bubbles in ginger ale, addictive. Our every exhalation, addictive. One wonders how the California School of Professional Psychology dissertation committee -- Shelly P. Harrell, Ph.D.; Daryl M. Rowe, Ph.D.; Yolanda J. Nunn, Ph.D. -- could keep this revelation to themselves. And that casual use of "to name a few" suggests that there are more addictive substances in malt liquor that she is not going to name at this particular time.<br /><br />To give credit, Dr. Taylor is within hailing distance on one point. Malt liquor can be produced more cheaply than regular lager beer, but not because it is made from the waste products of brewing. Rather, unlike lager beer, it uses smaller amounts of the more expensive ingredients, malted barley and hops, and larger amounts of the less expensive ingredients, corn grits and sugar. Also, the "reside" of brewing, by which I assume Dr. Taylor meant "residue," is not malt, but rather spent grains, which are re-used as an ingredient in cattle feed, not to make malt liquor.<br /><br /><br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><br /><br />The Letter of the Law<br /><br /><br />(The Italics Are Mine)<br /><br />(f) Use of words "strong," "full strength," and similar words. Labels shall not contain the words "strong," "full strength," "extra strength," "high test," "high proof," "pre-war strength," "full oldtime alcoholic strength," or similar words or statements, likely to be considered as statements of alcoholic content, unless required by State law. This does not preclude use of the terms "low alcohol," "reduced alcohol," "non-alcoholic," and "alcohol-free," in accordance with Sec. 7.71 (d), (e), and (f), nor does it preclude labeling with the alcohol content in accordance with Sec. 7.71.<br /><br />(g) Use of numerals. Labels shall not contain any statements, designs, or devices, whether in the form of numerals, letters, characters, figures, or otherwise, which are likely to be considered as statements of alcoholic content, unless required by State law, or as permitted by Sec. 7.71.<br /><br /><br />-- The Code of Federal Regulations: Title 27, Section 7.29 - Prohibited Practices<br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><br /><br />Where Did the 40 Come From?<br /><br />In addition to prompting the "invention" of malt liquor, the rigors imposed by World War II had another effect. Bottles were returnable and reusable, which made them strategic to the war effort. The larger the bottle, the better. This is when pints, quarts and 40-ounce bottles came into use.<br /><br />In the 1950's, however, brewers packaged their stronger malt liquor in smaller 8-ounce cans because of malt liquor's added strength. Some of the first malt liquors to be packaged in these cans included Country Club, Schlitz Malt Liquor, Gluek's Sparkling Stite and Atlas Brewing's Bull Dog. Olde English 600 was packaged in 7-ounce green bottles. But eventually, informed by the successes of their competitors, brewers found that larger containers of malt liquor sold better than smaller containers.<br /><br />In American Demographics, writer Eugene Morris noted, "Blacks have a strong preference for larger sizes of nonalcoholic beverages, for example. After the Coca-Cola Company discovered this phenomenon in the early 1970s, it began featuring and promoting 16-ounce bottles instead of the standard 12-ounce size when advertising to the black community."<br /><br />And so it was with malt liquor. Several years ago, I spoke with a brewer in upstate New York who was visited by a beer distributor from Philadelphia, a gentleman of color, who pronounced the upstate brewery's malt liquor to be "Bad!" and said that if the brewer could put it in a 40-ounce bottle, they could make a fortune together. The small regional brewer did not have a bottling line that could handle 40-ounce bottles at the time; I do not know if the Philadelphia distributor ever got his wish.<br /><br />But one thing is clear: The size of the bottle is not a function of conspiracy, but rather history and consumer demand.<br /><br /><br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The Clix Riddle<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />In many quarters, including the present day Gluek Brewing Company, the origins of malt liquor are believed to lie with the Gluek Brewing Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota. But there is a significant lobby that holds the first malt liquor was Clix Malt Liquor, brewed at Grand Valley Brewing Company in Ionia, Michigan. Beer writer and breweriana guru "Beer Dave" Gausepohl writes, "The Grand Valley Brewing Co. of Ionia, Michigan, created this style, followed shortly thereafter by the Gluek Brewery of Minneapolis."<br /><br />Gary Bauer, proprietor of Michigan Breweriana On-Line, writes, "As far as I know, Clix was the first Malt Liquor." Gary provided this excerpt from an article about the brewery which pushes malt liquor's origins all the way back to 1937, well before the Gluek claim of 1942:<br /><br />"A six-page supplement in the Ionia Sentinel-Standard on July 5, 1934 announced the reopening of the brewery. Prohibition was a very dead issue and the brewery was now welcomed as a provider of jobs and suds. [Brewery owner] 'Click' Koerber became a local booster at a time when the country was deep in a depression and much needed to be done.<br /><br />"The brewery also produced Friars Porter, Friars Beer, a top fermented beer, and in 1937 introduced Clix Malt Liquor which was the first product ever to be labeled and sold as Malt Liquor.<br /><br />"Because of the need for added production facilities and the lack of area to expand the Ionia brewery, in 1943 the Grand Valley Brewing Company purchased the larger Kern Brewery in Port Huron, Michigan, and renamed it the Friars Ale Brewing Company. Both breweries were in operation until 1946 when the entire production was consolidated in the Port Huron Brewery."<br /><br />The Friars Ale Brewing Company of Port Huron, Michigan, closed in 1950. There are surviving Clix Malt Liquor labels which carry a copyright date of 1939, but it is not clear whether the date refers to a trademark on the "Clix" brand name alone or to the "Clix Malt Liquor" name in full. The U.S. Trademark registry lists the first use of Gluek's Stite, "a pale, light-bodied, malt liquor," on September 23, 1943. There is no registration listed for Clix.<br /><br />The Clix label suggests Clarence "Click" Koerber created his malt liquor with the addition of extra dextrose (sugar), and he was apparently the first brewer to call the stronger, thinner brew "Malt Liquor."<br /><br />The Stite page at Gluek.com talks about a patented process involving the fermentation and yeast:<br /><br />"By reinventing the fermentation process and adding yet more yeast, Alvin theorized the resulting brew would take on a distinctively pleasant dry taste. He lagered his new beer for several weeks, taking great pains to keep the temperature of the amber liquid just above freezing. Alvin had invented an entirely new category of beer. Alvin took his research and production techniques to Washington D.C. and applied for a patent. In a nearly unprecedented move, the United States Patent Office awarded Gluek Stite patent number 2,442,806 on June 8, 1948."<br /><br />In his patent application, Alvin Gluek, in fact, referred to his new brew as "a new malt liquor," to separate it from earlier "malt liquors" such as beer and ale. In his patent of June 8, 1948 (No. 2,442,806, which you can read in its entirety at the U.S. Patent Office's Web site: <a href="http://www.uspto.gov/">http://www.uspto.gov/</a>, he describes a process that involves an initial mash of malt, rich in "the various enzymes including maltase, diastase and the various proteinases," of which a small portion is set aside to be reintroduced several days into the fermentation process, with more yeast, to further break down and ferment "all possible sugar-producing substances," thus creating a brew with more alcohol and less body.<br /><br />I don't know if Alvin Gluek worked in ignorance of Clarence "Click" Koerber's product, or was aware of it. Gluek apparently did go after the same end result, but in a different way, and eventually referred to his Sparkling Stite by Gluek as "the original Malt Liquor," laying claim to the name. Which suggests either that he did not know Clix Malt Liquor ever existed, or felt his was a unique brew by virtue of the patented process and thus "the original," or that he was counting on the public's lack of awareness because the Grand Valley Brewing Company was small, obscure, and out of business by 1950.<br /><br />So was it Clix or Stite? At the present, it seems that Clarence "Click" Koerber created and named the first "Malt Liquor" made with the addition of added sugar in 1937; Alvin Gluek created the first "Malt Liquor" made by obtaining a more complete fermentation in 1942, selling it commercially in 1943 and obtaining a patent on the process in 1948.<br /><br />If I ever learn more, I'll share it with you here.<br /><br /><br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><br /><br />On Targeted Marketing<br /><br />A common charge against brewers of malt liquor is that they use targeted marketing on vulnerable black audiences. In fact, all marketing is targeted. You will never see an ad for denture adhesive on MTV, and you will never see an ad for the Apple iPod on an episode of "Golden Girls." No advertiser pays to send a message to consumers who are not likely to use their product or service.<br /><br />Advertising cannot sell you something you do not want. People commonly abstain from buying malt liquor, cigarettes, tampons and fishing line, in spite of seeing ads for these products all their lives.<br /><br />Advertising does influence brand selection. Businesses advertise so that when you do go shopping, you will choose Maytag instead of Whirlpool, Kohler instead of American Standard, Birdseye instead of Green Giant, and yes, Kool instead of Newport, Colt 45 instead of Olde English.<br /><br />Because black people "over index" on some products, that is to say, they buy more of them than other Americans do, the advertisers of these products spend proportionately more money on advertising targeted to black people. Products favored by black consumers, and thus drawing more advertising dollars to black media, include hot sauces, bottled and carton orange juice, baby foods, instant pre-sweetened tea, franks and weiners, corn and tortilla chips, and frozen vegetables.<br /><br />In American Demographics, writer Eugene Morris noted:<br /><br />"Although blacks drink less coffee than average, they are much more likely than other Americans to lace their coffee with large amounts of sugar, cream, or nondairy creamer. Recognizing this trend, Coffee-Mate began marketing its product to blacks. It advertised in national magazines like Ebony and Essence, broadcast its message on local black radio stations, and used outdoor advertising in black neighborhoods. When it created a sweepstakes promotion that ran in local black newspapers, it generated double-digit increases in volume and share of sales among blacks."<br /><br />"Kool-Aid is a heavy favorite among blacks of all ages... The typical black household spends 54 percent more than the average white household on sugar each year... A similar pattern prevails for alcoholic beverages. Sweet-tasting drinks, premixed cocktails, and wine coolers are very popular in the black community."<br /><br />In short, hundreds of advertisers target the black community because they have discovered that the black community, for whatever reason, buys and uses more of their products. One final example: Today, black people in America represent about 12% of the population and drink 50-70% of the Cognac sold in the U.S. Yet where is the hue and cry against the French?<br /><br /><br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><br /><br />Follow the Bouncing Numbers<br /><br />"Black consumption of all malt-liquor brands in this country is estimated at 28 percent..." -- "Malt Assault" by J. Douglas Allen-Taylor<br /><br />"Although African Americans are only 14% of the population, they are reported to consume 30% of malt liquor beers." -- Knowledge, Attitudes, and Malt Liquor Beer Drinking Behavior Among African American Men in South Central Los Angeles by Didra Brown Taylor, p. xvi and p.136<br /><br />"... while malt liquor accounted for only 3% of total beer sales in 1989, up to 32% of its sales are in African American communities (Alaniz & Wilkes, 1998)." -- Knowledge, Attitudes, and Malt Liquor Beer Drinking Behavior Among African American Men in South Central Los Angeles by Didra Brown Taylor, p. 27<br /><br />"Although malt liquor is only 3% of total beer sales, up to 32% of its sales are in the African American communities." -- Newsweek, 1989<br /><br />"According to the Institute on Black Chemical Abuse, African Americans consume one-third of all malt liquor although they constitute only 12% of the population." -- Knowledge, Attitudes, and Malt Liquor Beer Drinking Behavior Among African American Men in South Central Los Angeles by Didra Brown Taylor, p. 4<br /><br />"Given that African American men drink a third of all malt liquor beer..." -- Knowledge, Attitudes, and Malt Liquor Beer Drinking Behavior Among African American Men in South Central Los Angeles by Didra Brown Taylor, p. 158<br /><br />"Miller Brewing Co. has estimated that blacks buy 66% of the nation's malt liquor." -- "Marketing Malt Liquor in Beer's Clothing" by Bill Kurtz, August 2, 2001<br /><br />The italics are mine in the next, taken from the CSPI's Marketing Booze to Blacks, which cites an Ad Age article from November 19, 1984 as its source:<br /><br />"Of television ads directed to blacks, those for malt liquors are most notable for being directed almost exclusively to blacks, who account for most of their sales. A Heileman Brewing Co. regional marketing executive estimated that blacks purchased about 75 percent of Heileman's leading malt liquor, Colt-45, in his area."<br /><br />The Marin Institute conveniently removed all the qualifying phrases and smoothly morphed the claim into:<br /><br />"One marketing executive of G. Heileman Brewing Company estimated that African-Americans consumed 75 percent of Heileman's leading malt liquor, Colt 45." -- Fact Sheet, The Marin Institute<br /><br />Note how the quote went from regional to national with the convenient removal of a few words. And then note how this reference to Colt 45 only was then broadened to include all Malt Liquors:<br /><br />"Urban blacks, however, make up almost 75% of the malt liquor market." -- Indiana Prevention Resource Center at Indiana University, 1998<br /><br />And got repeated here:<br /><br />"According to industry statistics, young, urban, African Americans make up 74% of the malt liquor market." -- Rob Nelson, "Liquid Crack," about.com<br /><br /><br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The School of Slanted Writing<br /><br />How can you twist the truth like the pros? Study the work of Michael Jacobson, head of the Center for Science in the Public Interest. He didn't invent slanted writing, or "spin" as it's popularly known today, but he has elevated it to an art form and inspired a generation of crusaders.<br /><br />For example, if the actual number is 45%, and you want it to appear larger, say, "almost half." If you want it to appear smaller, say "less than half," or even better, "not even half." If the actual number is 75% and you want it to appear larger, you can say "most" or "an overwhelming majority." If the number is 18% and you want it to appear insignificant, you can say, "less than one in five." Or, if your Group B is at 18% and you want it to look bigger and Group A is at 45%, try, "second only to Group A."<br /><br />Suppose you can't say that something actually "is" true. Try saying "may be" or "is believed to be" or "can be seen as" or "is estimated" or "critics say" or "are accused of" or "few would doubt" instead. Most readers will take the bait, especially if they want to agree with you anyway.<br /><br />Let's consider the work of Talise D. Moorer writing in the Amsterdam News. The italics are mine:<br /><br />"Rocket scientists aren't needed to decipher why African-Americans are targeted as guinea pigs for testing products. Racism and the hunger for the almighty dollar are apparent motivational factors, critics say, and it's done with no regard for age or health concerns. Manufacturers of alcohol and tobacco products are accused of having no shame in how they fatten their purse, nor respect of how products are marketed."<br /><br />Moorer is able to call manufacturers of alcohol and tobacco products racist, greedy and shameless with no supporting evidence or fear of legal consequences. The use of "apparent" (rather than "proven"), "critics say" (rather than "I say") and "are accused of having no shame" (rather than "have no shame," or at least "are accused by X, Y and Z of having no shame"), allow Moorer to swing freely.<br /><br />In "40 Ounces of Genocide," author and speaker Al "Coach" Powell cites the number of Africans enslaved and sold to European slave traders as 150 million. Scholarly estimates generally range from 11 to 15 million, but what's one more zero in a good cause?<br /><br />For more training, I recommend the 1954 classic How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff (W.W. Norton & Co.) Huff shows how to use numbers, charts and other visuals to pull the wool over readers' eyes without lying outright. And also how to see through them. "Even if you can't find a source of demonstrable bias," he notes, "allow yourself some degree of skepticism about the results as long as there is a possibility of bias somewhere. There always is."<br /><br /><br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><br />My Favorite Malt Liquor Music<br /><br />Malt liquor has inspired plenty of prose but not much poetry. Two exceptions are the lovely, wistful "St. Ides Heaven" by Elliott Smith, a sort of American Nick Drake who died young in 2003 after a short life plagued by drugs, and Public Enemy's "One Million Bottlebags," a wild piece of Hip Hop with a scathing message from Chuck D for both brewers and drinkers of malt liquor. Both songs are available on iTunes; get thee hence and hit the 'Buy' button.<br /><br />Elliott Smith - St. Ides Heaven<br /><br />everything is exactly right<br />when i walk around here drunk every night<br />with an open container from 7-11<br />in St. Ides heaven<br />i've been out haunting the neighborhood<br />and everybody can see i'm no good<br />when i'm walking out between parked cars<br />with my head full of stars<br />high on amphetamines<br />the moon is a lightbulb breaking<br />it'll go around with anyone<br />but it won't come down for anyone<br />you think you know what brings me down<br />that i want those things you could never allow<br />you see me smiling; you think it's a frown<br />turned upside down<br />'cause everyone is a f*cking pro<br />and they all got answers for trouble they've known<br />and they all got to say what you should and shouldn't do<br />though they don't have a clue<br />high on amphetamines<br />the moon is a lightbulb breaking<br />it'll go around with anyone<br />but it won't come down for anyone<br />and i won't come down for anyone<br /><br />From Elliott Smith. Copyright 1995 Kill Rock Stars<br /><br /><br /><br />One Million Bottlebags - Public Enemy<br /><br />One million bottlebags count 'em<br />Think they can bounce the ounce<br />And it get 'em<br />Yo black spend 288 million<br />Sittin' there waitin' for the fizz<br />And don't know what the f*ck it is<br />An oh lemme tell you 'bout Shorty<br />He about 17 lookin' like 40<br />Treats his 40 dog better than his g<br />When he gets a big bottle<br />Oh he loves tha liquor<br />But look watch Shorty get sicker<br />Year after year<br />While he's thinkin' it's beer<br />But it's not but he got it in his gut<br />So what the f*ck<br />Yo niga what's up<br />Now he's hostile to a brother lookin' out<br />But I ain't mad I know what he about<br />He's just a slave to the bottle and the can<br />'Cause that's his man<br />The malt liquor man<br />One million bags count 'em all<br />Other man gets happy<br />Watch the killas drink 8 ball<br />Don't know a damn thing<br />But his breath stinkin'<br />Then I ask a question you brother<br />What the f*ck is you drinkin'<br />He don't know but it flow<br />Out the bottle in a cup<br />He call it gettin' f*cked up<br />Like we ain't f*cked up already<br />See the man they call Crazy Eddie<br />Liquor man with the bottle in his hand<br />He give the liquor man ten to begin<br />Wit' no change and he run<br />To get his brains rearranged<br />Serve it to the home they're able<br />To do without a table<br />Beside what's inside ain't on the label<br />They drink it thinkin' it's good<br />But they don't sell the sh*t in the white neighborhood<br />Exposin' the plan they get mad at me I understand<br />They're slaves to the liquor man<br />Back to my homeboy Shorty<br />He can drink it down<br />And think nuttin' about it<br />Pass it around and get tha 40 dog buzz<br />At the same time<br />Shorty can't remember what day it was<br />Say I'm yellin' is fact<br />Genocide kickin' in yo back<br />How many times have you seen<br />A black fight a black<br />After drinkin' down a bottle<br />Or a malt liquor six-pack<br />Malt liquor bull<br />What it is is bullsh*t<br />Colt 45 another gun to the brain<br />Who's sellin' us pain<br />In the 'hood another up to no good<br />Plan that's designed by the other man<br />But who drink it like water<br />On and on till the stores reorder it<br />Brothers cry broke but they still affordin' it<br />Sippin' it lick drink it down oh nooo<br />Drinkin' poison but they don't know<br />It used to be wine<br />A dollar and a dime<br />Same man, drink in another time<br />They could be hard as hell and don't give a damn<br />But still be a sucker to the liquor man.<br /><br />From Apocolypse '91: The Enemy Strikes Back. Copyright 1994 Def Jam/RAL Records<br /><br /><br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><br /><br />Name That Bull<br /><br />One brewer had an excuse for using animal imagery. The Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company launched Schlitz Malt Liquor in 1963 in 8-ounce cans bearing the stylized image of a bull. But they had been using pictures of a bull since the Repeal of Prohibition in 1933. The actual bull's name was Prince and he lived on the Uihlein family's Heaven Hill Farm at Lake Placid, New York. The bull later used in Schlitz Malt Liquor TV spots, shown bursting through walls, was a black longhorn Brahma from a farm outside of Los Angeles. He was named Zane, had been neutered in his youth and was said to be as gentle as a lamb.<br /><br /><br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><br />Who's Making $$ on the Empties?<br /><br /><br />Collectors. Who knew the empties were worth more? On eBay, I have seen the following malt liquor cans sold for:<br />Astro -- $137.50<br /><br />Buccaneer -- $637.00<br /><br />Carling -- $64.99<br /><br />Drewry's -- $400.00<br /><br />Fox Head -- $84.99<br /><br />French 76 -- $31.76 (After introducing Colt 45, National tried the "malt liquor as champagne" strategy one more time. And in keeping with Colt 45, the new brand also carried an allusion to a firearm, the famed French 75 field gun for which the French 75 cocktail -- champagne, gin, orange liqueur and lemon juice -- was named. Nobody got any of it, or bought any of it, hence the rarity of the can.)<br /><br />Grain Belt GBX -- $322.99 (test can)<br /><br />James Bond's 007 Special Blend -- $1,125.00 (Yes, a grand and change. In the 1960's, the National Brewing Company introduced this malt liquor/beer blend in a series of seven cans with sultry "birds" and London landmarks. In spite of the popularity of the James Bond books and films, the brand failed and was withdrawn.)<br /><br />Jet -- $43.75<br /><br />Oertel's Thoroughbred -- $149.99<br /><br />Patrick Henry Velvet Smooth -- $260.00<br /><br />Pike's Peak -- $789.00<br /><br />Playmate -- $735.00 (In 1963, the Sunshine Brewing's Playmate flirted with malt liquor drinkers, but was quickly halted by a lawsuit from Playboy magazine; the cans are thus highly desirable.)<br /><br />Soul -- $735.00 (Ushered out of business by the NAACP; again, highly desirable.)<br /><br />Winchester -- $57.59 (If Colt 45 and Magnum work...)<br /><br /><br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><br />Sources (in date order)<br /><br />The Beer Can Collector's Bible by Jack Martells; Matteson, IL, Greatlakes Living Press, 1976<br /><br />The International Book of Beer Can Collecting by Richard Dolphin; London, Hamlyn, 1977<br /><br />Marketing Booze to Blacks by George A. Hacker, Ronald Collins and Michael Jacobson; Washington, D.C., Center for Science in the Public Interest, 1987<br /><br />"America's Untapped $200 Billion Market" by J. Reisner, Food Business, May 7, 1990<br /><br />"Targeting the Black American Market" by Kristin Wright, NFM 433, February 25, 1991<br /><br />"Liquor Industry Must Stop Targeting Minorities with Alcohol Ads" by Dr. Antonia C. Novello, USA Today, July 1, 1991<br /><br />"The Return of PowerMaster" by Holley Knaus, Multinational Monitor, June 1992<br /><br />"The Real Murderer of Chief Crazy Horse" by Rep. Pat Schroeder; letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal, September 30, 1992<br /><br />"The Difference in Black and White" by Eugene Morris, American Demographics, January 1993<br /><br />"Coalition of clergy and community activists rally to eliminate marketing of harmful products to African-American youth" by Talise D. Moorer, Amsterdam News, no date (circa 1993) (<a href="http://www.naaapi.org">www.naaapi.org</a>)<br /><br />"It's the 40 Ounce, Stupid!" by Keidi Obi Awadu, the Conscious Rasta, January 6, 1995<br /><br />"Uptown, Dakota, and Powermaster" by N. Craig Smith, The McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, 1996<br /><br />"Pro-drinking Messages and Message Environments for Young Adults: The Case of Alcohol Industry Advertising in African American, Mexican American, and Native American Communities" by Maria Luisa Alaniz and Chris Wilkes, Prevention Research Center, Berkeley, California, 1996<br /><br />"Don Vultaggio and John Ferolito built Arizona Iced Tea into a major brand..." by Daniel Roth, Forbes, August 26, 1996<br /><br />"The Beer Enthusiast: Special to All About Beer, an Open Letter to Mr. Arch Stanton: The Dark Side of Light Beer" by Fred Eckhardt (including excerpts from a technical paper on the brewing of malt liquor by Clement Prechtl of the Wallerstein Laboratories), September 18, 1997<br /><br />"Malt Assault" by J. Douglas Allen-Taylor, Sonoma County Independent, Oct. 2-8, 1997<br /><br />"Is Target Marketing Unethical?" by N. Craig Smith, Georgetown Business, Fall/Winter 1997<br /><br />"Crossing Substances for Common Interest: An Examination of the Movement against Targeted Alcohol and Tobacco Marketing and its Implications for Public Health Coalitions" by Makani N. Themba and R. G. Robinson, The Praxis Project, Washington, D.C., 1997<br /><br />"North Carolina Reverend Frowns on Phat Boy" by Wendy Hower, World African Network Online, March 12, 1998<br /><br />"STOP PHAT BOY LIQUOR BY ANY MEANS NESSARY" posted on the Web by Leslie E Cason Jr., October 14, 1998<br /><br />"The 'Healthy' Malt Drink Stirs a Debate" by Ron Scherer, Christian Science Monitor, August 10, 1998<br /><br />SYMBOLS.com, the online version of Thought Signs: The Semiotics of Symbols---Western Non-pictorial Ideograms by Carl G Liungman, IOS Press, 1998.<br /><br />"Forty Ways to Lose Your Balance" by Reilly Brennan, Michigan Daily Online, March 25, 1999<br /><br />"The Rap on St. Ides: Reframing and Community-based Activism" by Makani Themba, in Making News, Changing Policy: Case Studies of Media Advocacy on Alcohol and Tobacco Issues; University Research Corporation and the Marin Institute. No date. Pages 115-132.<br /><br />Knowledge, Attitudes, and Malt Liquor Beer Drinking Behavior Among African American Men in South Central Los Angeles by Didra Brown Taylor, Dissertation.com, 2000<br /><br />"Malt Liquor is 'Liquid Crack,' Pa. House Panel Told" by Mensah M. Dean, Philadelphia Daily News, July 26, 2000<br /><br />"Suit Settled in Selling of Crazy Horse Malt Liquor," April 27, 2001 (<a href="http://crazyhorsedefense.org/">http://crazyhorsedefense.org/</a>)<br /><br />"Gangsta Rappers Get Paid and Get Fronted by "The Beast" by Keidi Obi Awadu, the Conscious Rasta, September 21, 2001<br /><br />"A Beer to Call Your Own: Tales from the Rise and Fall of National Brewing" by Brennen Jensen, Baltimore City Paper, January 16 - 22, 2002<br /><br />"Loaded Questions: Are King Cobra and Other Malt Liquors Targeted at Minorities, the Poor and the Homeless?" by Emi Kojima, Roanoke Times & World News, May 12, 2002<br /><br />"Drunken Masters" by Oliver Wang, San Francisco Bay Guardian, January 15, 2003<br /><br />"The March Of Ides: A Great Lost Age of Alcoholic Hip-Hop" by Hua Hsu, The Village Voice, April 9 - 15, 2003<br /><br />"Crazy Horse Case Finally Dismissed," Modern Brewery Age, January 19, 2004<br /><br />"2004 State of the Industry," Beverage Industry, (<a href="http://www.bevindustry.com">www.bevindustry.com</a>)<br /><br />"Sioux Struggle to Improve Life on Reservation" by Evelyn Nieves, Washington Post Service/Miami Herald, October 24, 2004<br /><br />"Crazy Horse Descendents Wait to Hear from Night Club" by Carson Walker, AP Wire, November 4, 2004<br /><br />"Malt Liquor Review" by Tim Teichgraeber, The Wave Magazine, no date<br /><br />"The Malt Liquor Marketing Madness" by LeeRoy Jordan, Jr., a foreword to Message NA Bottle: The Scandal Continues, Volume 2 by Alfred "Coach" Powell. No date.<br /><br />"Greatest Malt Liquor Hits: Hip Hop History Series, Vol. 1," compiled by DJ Drank (CD). No date.<br /><br /><br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><br />And thanks to:<br /><br />Charlie Papazian, Fred Eckhardt and Julie Bradford for a wealth of information and encouragement<br /><br />Dick Chapman for U.S. Patent information<br /><br />Gary Bauer, proprietor of Michigan Breweriana On-Line<br /><br />Google<br /><br />Jeff Katzer for the introduction to critical reading and How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff<br /><br />Laurie Winship for CSPI Nutrition Action newsletters<br /><br />Mike Meldahl at Gluek Brewing Company<br /><br />Michael Gilleland for tracing the Midnight Dragon inscription to Vergil's Aeneid<br /><br />For the history of the Crazy Horse Saloon in Paris: <a href="http://www.crazy-horse.fr/">www.crazy-horse.fr/</a><br /><br />My beloved eBay, for providing a daily forum for collectors of malt liquor cans and bottles, who obligingly list information about the brewers, time periods, et al.<br /><br />Modern Drunkard magazine's priceless review: <a href="http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issues/03_03/03-03_forty_fury.htm">www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issues/03_03/03-03_forty_fury.htm</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><br />Recommended reading:<br /><br />"Behold the Forty: A paean to the big bad bottle" by Mike Seely, The Riverfront Times (St. Louis, Missouri), June 8, 2005<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Faithful Readers</p></div>Rape of the Black Womanhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/rape-of-the-black-woman2012-06-11T01:23:24.000Z2012-06-11T01:23:24.000Zhakimhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/hakim<div><p><br /><b>Know Your Black History: Could a Black Woman Actually Be Considered a Rape Victim</b><br /><br />That black men, women, and children were routinely lynched by white men who had no fear of arrest, much less prosecution, well into the 1950s is well known. What is less well known because it is well documented is that black women were routinely raped by white men throughout most of American history. The really sad part of this contemptuous affair is that for much of American history, especially in the South, the rape of a black woman by a white man was not even considered a crime. A Governor of one of the most backward states in the union, South Carolina, named Coleman Blease famously issued these utterly unbelievable words: "I am of the opinion as I have always been, and have very serious doubts as to whether the crime of rape can be committed upon a negro." Were these words, so ignorant as to make one suspect Coleman Blease suffered some sort of brain disease, spoken in 1830? 1850? 1870? No, in fact, Coleman Blease was Governor of the backward state of South Carolina in 1913.<br />It is this uncommonly nonsensical approach to how racists viewed African-Americans that led to systematic denial of the criminal element at work in the violation of black woman by white men. The worst thing is that there is simply no way of knowing just how many black women were raped.<b>Estimates typically place the occurrence of rape anywhere from five to ten times as often as actual lynchings and even the number of lynchings that took place will never be fully known.</b>One thing is certain, of course. The rape of black women and the lynching of black men was about control and fear. Racists always know deep inside that they are inferior to everyone and it is exactly that acknowledgment of inferiority that leads them to pump up their feelings of superiority to a degree of delusion. It has been said often enough that rape is not about sex, but about power and that certainty is multiplied in the cases of inferior white racists pathetically acting out those delusions of being more powerful than they are by violating a defenseless black woman. Another thing is also known: the cases of gang rape by white men tended to take place at least as often as a lone rape. This should not be surprising, since members of the KKK and other white supremacists are notoriously too cowardly to approach a black person one on one.<br /><br /><b>Black men knew that rape was not considered a crime when it was white on black and there was in the South, as well as certain areas in the North, a built-in resistance to allowing a wife or daughter to ever be alone in the company of white men. This even extended to working as maids or cooks whenever men would be present in the house. </b>And if a black man happened to come upon a rape taking place and moved to protect the women, woe be to him.<b> It was hardly uncommon for a black man attempting to save a black woman to have suffered the ultimate penalty or at least to have his tongue cut out. </b>Apparently, racists are too stupid to realize that a man need not have a tongue to identify a cowardly assailant. Not that many of these sub-human racists really needed to fear being identified.<br /><br />The system was such that white men had no fear of raping black men because the idiotic contention of a brain dead bag of Carolina skin like Coleman Blease was not just the lunatic ravings of a single man. The law enforcement system throughout the South looked the other way and therefore the only recourse was for black men to come to the aid of their wives and daughters and sisters, but if they did then they would suffer the consequences. And killers of black men had just as little to fear as rapers of black women.</p></div>Adventure the Perky Land Of Nepalhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/adventure-the-perky-land-of-nepal2012-02-16T10:09:24.000Z2012-02-16T10:09:24.000ZHariom Aryahttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/HariomArya<div><p>Nepal is small country well known for its exotic destinations of adventure, culture, pilgrimage and wildlife attractions.</p><div class="separator" style="clear:both;text-align:center;"><br /><a href="http://www.nepaltourism.org.in/kathmandu-tourism.html" style="clear:left;float:left;margin-bottom:1em;margin-right:1em;"><img alt="Kathmandu Tourism" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-drO5t_npiLU/TzygHkI2LEI/AAAAAAAAAwg/cE1_Rqu28Ko/s320/kathmandu_3.jpg" border="0" height="320" width="216" /></a></div><p>It is one of the most amazing kingdom fully decorated with lofty mountains and picturesque valleys meant for nature relish amidst the diverse culture and traditional practices. Nepal tourism is exceptionally beautiful and attractive compose with several wonderments that will enthrall tourist, adventure seekers and vacationers.</p><p>Tourism in Nepal is the largest industry of this awesome country of Nepal. The incredible wealth of nature wonderments which offers immense of tourist excitement had made it one of the top fascinating tour destinations which cannot be resisted by nature lover and adventure seekers. The place gives delight to all its seekers whether for adventure sports, tour excitement, sightseeing entertainments. Thus the place has become a paradise estate for tourist ranging from the vacationers to the honeymoon escapers all rush to it for its relish.</p><p>Kathmandu</p><p>Kathmandu is the largest city of Nepal which is well popular to be the capital of amazing cultural and artistic heritage sites. The place is well sought to be an enchanting destination for historical exploration and spiritual center. Thamel is an attractive site where you can get a cozy home with good quality and at the best rate. Most of the tourist visitors settle for shelter in this place. The Thamel’s main market offers spectacular entertaining sites which your heart will linger in it forever.</p><p>Pokhara Valley</p><p>It is one of the most picturesque valleys of Nepal which offers magnificent views of Dhaulagiri, Manaslu, Machhapuchhre and five peaks of Annapurna. <a href="http://www.nepaltourism.org.in/"><b>Tourism in Nepal</b></a>in this lake of Tal which is found in this valley gives an opportunity to experience fun filled activities like fishing, boating and swimming.</p><p>Lumbini</p><p>It is the birth place of Lord Buddha apostolic of peace and non-violence. Thus there are many monasteries and ancient marvels for capturing images. It is just 3 to 8 hours travel from Kathmandu. The place is also well visited by many foreign tourists to study the greatness of the famous prophet Buddha the founder of Buddhism. Most of the inhabitance of this country also practices Buddha but is mix with many other cultures too which makes it alluring and colorful.</p><p>If you study on the <a href="http://www.nepaltourism.org.in/nepal-tourism-map.html"><b>Map of Nepal</b></a>you will find most of the land is covered with mountains and hills which give an awesome attraction to the tourist who are waiting to thrill adventurous places. Some of the highest mountain peaks are located in this particular tourist destination. Mt. Everest which is considered to be the highest mountain with the height of 8848 meters from the ground which is perfectly located in its mountain ranges attracts millions of tourist to experience its breathtaking beauty and marvels.</p><p>The country offers excellent mountain excitements such as trekking, hiking and jungle safari. Rafting and Kayaking is also a common activity of vacation escapers.</p><div class="separator" style="clear:both;text-align:center;"><br /><a href="http://www.nepaltourism.org.in/pokhara-tourism.html" style="clear:right;float:right;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:1em;"><img alt="Pokhara Tourism" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MSH3n5a3w2M/TzygXzAEqBI/AAAAAAAAAwo/k0P5rCKxBz8/s320/pokhara-kathmandu-nepal.jpg" border="0" height="223" width="320" /></a></div><p><a href="http://www.nepaltourism.org.in/trekking-nepal.html"><b>Nepal Trekking</b></a>is one of the most popular excitements rush by people from across the world. One can choice the fully organized trekking and independently trekking. Trekking in Rhododendron and Everest base is an unforgettable lifetime experience. Adventure them once in life time and thrill you vacation spare time.</p><p>Find more packages at <a href="http://www.nepaltourism.org.in/"><b>http://www.nepaltourism.org.in/</b></a></p></div>Visit To Nepal and Discover Its Unfathomable Attractionshttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/visit-to-nepal-and-discover-its-unfathomable-attractions2012-01-04T11:29:33.000Z2012-01-04T11:29:33.000ZHariom Aryahttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/HariomArya<div><p>Home to the world’s ten highest peaks including Mt.Everest, Nepal is one of the finest places to visit with reason.</p><div dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;"><div class="separator" style="clear:both;text-align:center;"><br /><a href="http://www.nepaltourism.org.in/tourist-places-in-nepal.html" style="clear:left;float:left;margin-bottom:1em;margin-right:1em;"><img alt="Places to Visit in Nepal" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4-U1_CLus7k/TwP4pMW48CI/AAAAAAAAAqE/3UG2HM1pOHM/s320/visit-tourism-nepal-blogspot_com-pashupatinath-temple.jpg" border="0" height="320" width="240" /></a></div></div><p>Nature has unleashed its all splendor to this place to make it one of the finest places in the world. Every year from every nook and corner of the world, people visit to Nepal in the hordes. If you are adventure-lover or wish to indulge in several adventure activities like mountaineering, trekking, white-water rafting or you are visiting with your family and dears and wish to relish your vacations in the lap of mother-nature, there wouldn’t be any better place than kingdom of Nepal.</p><p>Home to the unfathomable attractions and blissful ambiance, it is a landlocked country in southern Asia, between the Tibet Autonomous region of China and India. Refreshing hills, snow-covered peaks, dense green forests, exotic wildlife parks, meandering rivers and ranges of floras and faunas are the few attractions that make Nepal one of the finest places to visit. Apart from, it is equally popular with its rich culture, cultural people, mouth-watering cuisine and exotic hotels and accommodations. There are so many reason that why any one should choose Nepal as their holidaying destination. Being a small country there is no shortage of attractions and destinations.</p><p>Among numerous attraction places Kathmandu is the most visited destination by visitors. Kathmandu is the largest and the capital city of Nepal, located in the eastern half of the country at an altitude of 4266 ft. if we believe in its history, for several hundred years it was one of three major royal cities-the other two being Bhaktapur and Patan.</p><div dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;"><div class="separator" style="clear:both;text-align:center;"><br /><a href="http://www.nepaltourism.org.in/" style="clear:right;float:right;margin-bottom:1em;margin-left:1em;"><img alt="Tourism in Nepal" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kudVmRtxCKw/TwP49_YvJmI/AAAAAAAAAqQ/GDLsH1TnqH0/s320/100_2998.jpg" border="0" height="208" width="320" /></a></div></div><p>Kathmandu boasts of many historic buildings and is home to the largest of the ancient royal places as well as World Heritage Sites Swayambhunath, Boudha Nath Stupa, Pashupatinath temple, Bhaktapur Durbar Square and many.</p><p>The Kathmandu Valley, the capital, is the political, commercial and cultural hub of Nepal. Spread across an area of 360 squares kilometers and at an altitude of 1336 meter above the sea level, Kathmandu is an exotic and fascinating display case of a very rich culture, art and tradition. Apart from there are many other places to visit and explore in Nepal named as Bhaktapur, Patan, Pokhara and many more and if you wish to explore all of them without any taxing then you can bring <a href="http://www.nepaltourism.org.in/nepal-tourism-map.html"><b>Map of Nepal</b></a>with you.</p><p>There is no dearth of attractions and amazing places in Nepal but most of the tourists visit to this country to participate in several adventure activities such as trekking which is very popular in this country. <a href="http://www.nepaltourism.org.in/trekking-nepal.html"><b>Nepal Trekking</b></a>is one of the most popular tourism activities to explore the great Himalayas, its floras and faunas, people and culture and diverse natural landscape of Nepal. Nepal trekking tour is not only about just walking up to the mountains, but it is gradual way of experiencing its diverse religion, culture, language, ethnicity and geography.</p><p>Well if you have decided to visit and explore the attractions in Nepal within very short duration without taking any stressful by road then you can prefer <a href="http://www.nepaltourism.org.in/mountain-flights-nepal.html"><b>Mountain Flights in Nepal</b></a> give wonderful opportunity to see the majestic beauty of the Nepal.</p></div>The murder of James Andersonhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/the-murder-of-james-anderson2011-10-04T04:35:14.000Z2011-10-04T04:35:14.000ZToivo Asheekehttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/ToivoAsheeke<div><p>How far has the United States of America come from its violent, racist past? What evidence do we have today that minorities, especially black people, have a better chance of being treated equally by a society dominated by wealthy white elites? Why are there still so many deaths and disappearances due to the color of a person’s skin? Many people believe that the United States has moved on from slavery and Jim Crow segregation to an era where one is judged by the content of his/her character and not by the color of his/her skin. Today, we tend to view racial tensions or frictions as minor aftershocks to an earthquake which has long passed. According to research conducted by Professors Maria Krysan and Nakesha Faison, for the Institute of Government and Public affairs on racial attitudes in the US, “fewer whites… acknowledge that African Americans are adversely affected by past and persistent discrimination.” In other words, today, a number of whites tend to see racism as a personal problem that some people have and reject feeling personally responsible for what others do or how their ancestors acted; which, naturally, they do not agree with. According to the same article, many blacks tend to view the problem of race in America as very real and institutional which influences their daily movements and actions. In all this black-white discourse, Hispanics, Asians, homosexuals, women and the general poor of America tend to be forgotten and pushed to the background as a sideshow. But, the truth of the matter is that race is still something one can die for in this country and about three months ago, someone did.</p><p>On June 26th, 2011, seven white teenagers from Jackson, Mississippi, murdered a man simply because of the color of his skin. According to a CNN report their victim, a 49-year-old James Craig Anderson, was targeted because he was black. The same article also reports that these young teens were at a party when they decided they wanted to search for “a nigger to fuck with”. In two separate vehicles, they drove sixteen miles across Jackson to a predominately black, western area, where they found their victim, James Craig Anderson. The teenagers jumped out of their car and proceeded to beat Mr. Anderson, and, while beating him, they yelled out racially charged slogans, like “White power!” After some time had passed, a few of the teens left, and the teen that remained got into his car and ran over the beaten James Anderson, killing him instantly. After this murder, the elated teens met at a McDonalds and celebrated their victory. What the jubilant white teenagers did not know was that the beatings and murder were caught on a surveillance camera pointed at the parking lot. Currently, only one teenager, Deryl Dedmon Jr, is facing two life sentences in connection with the murder. The only other teenager to be charged in connection with the crime is John Aaron Rice, and he is facing a simple assault charge.</p><p>Is this the society that is so free and just? Can this possibly be the country whose Declaration of Independence states, “…We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness…”? Was James Craig Anderson given these rights? Was justice truly served when only one young man has been charged with murder when they ALL decided to go out and “fuck with a nigger”? There are many layers to this question, and one article will never do it any kind of justice, but I wish to share my own personal beliefs on who is responsible for this death. To begin with, every single one of the teens who left the party and participated in the beatings of James Craig Anderson must be charged. What they are charged for comes down to the particularities of the law, but they all must be charged with something. Secondly, society as a whole is responsible for the attitudes of these young men, and this is an important point because some might try to solely blame these misguided teens. Furthermore, others might say, because it happened in the “South,” this type of action is understandable, which, in effect, separates them from the emotions, feelings and intentions behind the crime. All these counts are false. The fact that it was okay for anybody to believe that it was fine to find a “nigger” and kill him and even celebrate it afterwards shows that we as a society and human race have a problem. This problem is not restricted to the “South” or the US, so arguments articulated in this manner need to be discarded, and we as human beings who care for one another, need to take responsibility for the crimes we commit against one another.</p><p>In conclusion, I confess that I have much anger in my heart due to this event. That could have been me out there being beaten up and killed. It was not, but it could have been…. And in order for me to keep hate out of my heart, I must use love as preached by Dr. King because, when you love someone, indeed you can still reprimand and punish them for their mistakes, but you will never hate them. I wish nothing but blessings on the young people who murdered James Anderson and hope that as time goes by they see the error of their ways and make a change in their lives. The real killers and enemies’ humanity faces are hate, ignorance, selfishness and uncontrolled anger. Once we convict those criminals, then, I believe, we as a society can build a truly better world that embodies some of the ideals expressed in the United States Declaration of Independence.</p></div>The Majestic Golden Triangle Tours Journeyhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/the-majestic-golden-triangle2011-03-15T10:59:11.000Z2011-03-15T10:59:11.000ZIndia Tourshttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/IndiaTours<div><p><b><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}3828524361,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828524361,original{{/staticFileLink}}" width="217" alt="3828524361?profile=original" /></a>Golden triangle tour</b> comprises a visit to the three main cities of north India; Delhi, Jaipur and Agra. It is a complete luxury tour and is a reflection of what India holds for its tourists.</p><p><b>Golden Triangle Tours</b> present a grand feast to all its visitors. The <b>golden triangle tour</b> package is a six day package that starts from Delhi, covers Agra, then Jaipur and finally ends the circuit at Delhi.</p><p>Delhi is a city where the past and the present live together in peace. The city is full of rich monuments and architecture that has glimpses of its various rulers including the British. Exploring the city along with its local chaat is a wonderful experience. The attractions include Rajghat, Jantar Mantar, India Gate, Dilli Haat, Jama Masjid, Redfort, local street ; Chandni chowk, etc.</p><p>The next destination of the <b>golden triangle tours</b> circuit is Agra. It is home to the beautiful monument of white marble; the Taj Mahal. It was built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in loving memory of his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal and took 20 years to fully construct. It is popularly known as the epitome of love and is one of the Seven Wonders of the World. It is has a four story marble minaret on each of its corners.</p><p>The splendour of Taj Mahal offers an exotic view to the visitor's eye. The Taj Mahal has inspired many poets, artists, lovers who have repeatedly admired its splendour.</p><p>Jaipur is the third city that is covered under the <b>golden triangle tour packages</b>. It is popularly known as the pink city and was the first planned city in India. The city is lined with various monuments, forts and palaces like Jal Mahal, Hawa Mahal, Jantar Matar, City Palace, etc. It is also famous for its cuisine, costumes, folkdances, cloth market and amazing variety of mouth fresheners.</p><p> </p><p><b>Author's Bio:</b></p><p>Author is an eminent analyst for <a href="http://www.annonline.com/golden-triangle-tours/index.html">Golden Triangle Tours</a>. Get all possible information about <a href="http://www.annonline.com/">India Tours</a>, <a href="http://www.annonline.com/golden-triangle-tours/index.html">Golden Triangle Tour Packages</a>, <a href="http://www.annonline.com/must-see-india/taj-mahal.html">Taj Mahal India</a> and <a href="http://www.delhiagrajaipur.annonline.com/" title="Golden Triangle of India">Golden Triangle of India</a> at here only.</p></div>PABJ: seeking prayers/support of fellow black journalist 1.26.11https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/pabj-seeking-prayerssupport-of2011-01-26T20:41:14.000Z2011-01-26T20:41:14.000ZBaba Bob Shipmanhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/BabaBobShipman<div><div class="xg_headline xg_headline-img xg_headline-2l"><div class="tb"><h1>PABJ: seeking prayers/support of fellow black journalist 1.26.11</h1></div></div><div class="xg_module_body"><div class="postbody">PABJ: seeking prayers/support of fellow black journalist<br />1.26.11<br /><br />Dear PABJ Family:<br /><br />Rarely if at ever have I asked you to reach into your own pocket. This is one of those times.<br /><br />You all know Philly freelance photographer Bill Foster. He's one of the big guys with a camera usually following or near the mayor and present at just about every city news event. <br /><br />Bill is going through an amazingly tragic time. Christopher Foster, 18, his only child, was murdered last Wednesday evening. Please keep Bill and his family in prayer. In lieu of flowers, the family is accepting donations to help with the funeral costs. PABJ will send a donation.<br /><br />Please join me and consider making a personal donation. It goes without saying that every amount makes a difference and is welcome. Students- it may only be $5, professionals- it may be $25 and up. Whatever you can give, it will not only make a difference, but show PABJ's support for Bill and his family.<br /><br />Donations may be sent to:<br /><br />Christopher W. Foster Memorial Fund<br />Citizens Bank<br />Acct: 6230776093<br />2001 Market Street<br />Philadelphia, Pa. 19103<br />*You may make a donation at any Citizens Bank branch, but provided the above address for your convenience.<br /><br />The crime is under investigation and presently unsolved. A story on the tragedy:<a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20110126_Roxborough_student_slain__but_cops_aren_t_sure_why.html" target="_blank">http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20110126_Roxborough_student_slain...</a><br /><br />The Funeral Service for Christopher Foster will be held on Thursday Feb 03, 2010. Viewing 9-11. Service starts at 11am at MT Zion Baptist Church, 41 West Rittenhouse St, Philadelphia, Pa 19144. 215-844-2756<br /><br />Thank you in advance for your open heart and donation. It's times like these when you know we're family, because we do what we can to help our fellow black journalists. <br /><br />Sincerely,<br /><br />Sarah Glover<br />PABJ President</div><p class="small" id="tagsList">Tags: <a href="http://philly1.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=1.26.11">1.26.11</a>, <a href="http://philly1.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=black">black</a>, <a href="http://philly1.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=fellow">fellow</a>, <a href="http://philly1.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=journalist">journalist</a>, <a href="http://philly1.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=of">of</a>, <a href="http://philly1.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=PABJ">PABJ</a>, <a href="http://philly1.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=prayers%2Fsupport">prayers/support</a>, <a href="http://philly1.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=seeking">seeking</a></p></div></div>THE STATUS OF PINNACLE AS A JAMAICA NATIONAL HERITAGE AND INTERNATIONAL HERITAGE SITE/NEXT COURThttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/the-status-of-pinnacle-as-a2010-09-04T04:28:58.000Z2010-09-04T04:28:58.000ZDawta Hodeshhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/DawtaHodesh<div><p style="text-align:left;"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828519654,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="" /></p><br />THE JAMAICAN NATIONAL HERITAGE TRUST RECENTLY PAID A VISIT TO PINNACLE AND OBSERVED THE BAKERY COMPLEX, WELL AND THE GRAVE OF MRS. TENNENT BENT HOWELL WHO PASSED IN 1942 APPARENTLY AFTER FALLING OFF THE STEEP HILLSIDE. HER SONS AND GRANDCHILDREN HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO FIND HER GRAVE DUE TO THE DEVELOPER BLASTING AWAY OF THE MOUNTAINSIDE.<br /> IT WAS A TEAR JERKER TO WATCH BILL HOWELL AND HIS WIFE VISIT WITH THE REMAINS OF MRS. TENNENT BENT HOWELL. OH WAT PUNISHMENT THEY STILL PUNISH THE HOWELL FAMILY!!!! SHAME ON JAMAICA.<br />MRS. TENNENT BENT HOWELL IS FAMILY TO BRUCE GOLDING SO THIS IS REALLY A SHAME.<br /><br />THE AREA OF THE GRAIN STORAGE UNIT IS CURRENTLY BEING DESTROYED BY THE DEVELOPER WHO IS BUILDING A 3 STORY HOTEL AT THE TOP OF THE PINNACLE ACROSS THE WAY FROM MR. HOWELL'S DRIVEWAY. <br />THERE NEEDS TO BE AN INJUNCTION TO STOP THIS UNJUST ACTION BY THIS DEVELOPER = BROTHERS RICHARD AND MICHAEL LAKE WHO ARE STILL SELLING PINNACLE TO RETURNING RESIDENTS FROM CANADA. ENGLAND AND THE USA. ALL BLACK CHRISTIANS WHO HATE RASTAFARIANS AND WANT THEM OFF THE PINNACLE WHICH IS THEIR GROUNDATION LAND SINCE 1938. FIVE THOUSAND RASTAFARIANS DRIVEN OFF OF 3,500 ACRES OF LAND. NOW 7 ACRES THEY SAY THEY WILL SAVE FOR JAMAICAN HERITAGE. THIS IS WHY JAMAICA IS DONE UNTIL THEY REPAIR THIS GRAVE UNJUST GENOCIDE AND DISPOSSESSION OF RASTAFARI GROUNDATION LANDS DONE BY THE COMMAND OF SO CALLED NATIONAL HERO ALEXANDER BUSTAMANTE<br /><br />WHEN ONE ENTERS THE GATE OF PINNACLE NOW CALLED ST JAGO HILLS THERE ARE VISIBLE MARKINGS OF THE GREEN GOLD RED RASTA COLORS, HOWEVER, THAT DID NOT STOP THESE GREEDY CHRISTIANS. A WHILE BACK THE NEW RESIDENTS WHO TOTAL LESS THAN 300, TOOK DOWN THE SIGN SAYING HOWELLITES.<br /><br />THIS IS DESTRUCTION OF BLACK PRIDE, AFRIKAN NATIONALISM AND A PUNCH IN THE GUT RIPPING OUT THE INTESTINES WHICH DISCOURAGES FURTHER ATTEMPTS OF SELF RULE WHILE STILL IN SLAVERY IN PLANTATION. JAMAICA.<br /><br />PLEASE CONTINUE TO WRITE THE PRIME MINISTER BRUCE GOLDING AND CULTURE MINISTER GRANGE TO DO THE RIGHT THING AND PRESERVE JAMAICA'S TRUE HERITAGE WHICH WAS DESTROYED BY ALEXANDER DA PENGUIN BUSTAMANTE OF THE JAMAICAN LABOUR PARTY.<br />AND THEY MADE BUSTAMANTE A NATIONAL HERO IN JAMAICA!!!!!!!!<br />THE CHRISTIANS NEED TO REALIZE THE LIES STICK NO MORE AS THE TRUTH IS BEING EXPOSED TO SUNLIGHT<br /><br />THEY DESTROYED THE PINNACLE WITH SLEDGE HAMMERS MY PEOPLE. SICK AND DISGUSTING. GONG HOWELL PAID THREE TIMES FOR THE PINNACLE BUT THEY STILL SEIZED IT FROM HIM. <br /><br />TELL LIESDAWITCH IN BUCKINGHAM TO LET JAMAICA AND AFRIKON BLOOD GO FREE OR FACE D FIYAHHHHHHHHHHHH<br />NEXT COURT DATE IS OCTOBER 5, 2010 AT 10 AM IN THE SPANISH TOWN MAGISTRATES COURT...AS USUAL THE JAMAICAN NEWSPAPERS, RADIO AND TV HAVE BLACKED OUT THIS CASE FROM THE JAMAICAN PEOPLE<br /><br />UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br /><br />WHERE IS CARICOM?????????????<br /><br />DARN HYPOCRITES <br /><br />DO NOT LET THE GOLDING LED JAMAICAN GOVERNMENT GET AWAY WITH THIS<br />PLEASE WRITE, FAX, CALL ...LET THE WORD SOUND POWA YHOD FORTH.<br /><br />THE BRIGHT NEWS THAT GIVE THE HOWELLITES HOPE IS THE REGISTRATION OF THE ETHIOPIAN WORLD WIDE SALVATION SOCIETY WHICH IS THE BRAINCHILD OF DR. LEONARD PERCIVAL HOWELL.<br /><br />PEOPLE, GONG HOWELL LIVED HIS LIFE AND SET HIS LEGACY. <br />OH WHAT A GREAT AFRIKON BLOOD KING!!!!!!!!<br /><br />FIKRE<br /></div>The Resilience of Haiti by A. Omar Muhammadhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/the-resilience-of-haiti-by-a2010-02-02T15:57:16.000Z2010-02-02T15:57:16.000ZAngelo Omarhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/AngeloOmar<div>The Resilience of Haiti by A. Omar MuhammadThe memory of smelling the stench of dead bodies while driving through Port-Au-Prince and other areas of Haiti will only be a small part of what I took back home with me. I also took a host of other thoughts, emotions and a continued desire to give to those less fortunate.When I heard the news of the earthquake it seems like something took over and I knew that I would soon be in Haiti helping those who lost some of their family members in the earthquake that registered 7.0. It didn't matter if anyone came with me because I realized that God would be looking after me. I scheduled the flight for Monday, January 18, 2010, which just so happened to be the day that many would be celebrating the life and legacy of the great humanitarian, Martin Luther King Jr. When my friend Julius Tajiddin found out I was headed there by myself he connected me Jim Kushner, who was also arriving the same day from New York. Julius felt that with my journalism skills and Jim's connections, that we could be mutually beneficial. We both flew into the Santo Domingo airport since the Port-Au-Prince airport was shut down to commercial flights. I had already made plans to take a tour bus into Haiti the next day but I decided, with much insistence from Julius, that I would go and meet Jim, who I later found out is a member of the Rotary Club and an armed services veteran. When I got to his hotel the next day he introduced me to other volunteers who had come to assist with the devastation in Haiti. Jim's group was called CDRS, the Comprehensive Disaster Response Service, which also included 89 year old Bill Delong, Soledad Kaplan, who met Jim at the airport and was a bilingual social worker having roots in Ecuador and Spain. Andrea Shiffman, an english/french translator was also with Jim. I was also introduced to a team of doctors representing IMANA, the Islamic Medical Association of North America which included doctors Kanwal Chaudhy, Nabile Safdar, Najeeb Rahman from Leeds, England, and Isha Mian. I would later meet Sameer Gafoor and Irvan Galaria a plastic surgeon who set up a medical camp in the Port Au Prince area near the U.S. Embassy with the help of Aimer Haiti, an organization that existed in Haiti prior to the earthquakes.We piled in to two vehicles that were equipped with sirens and started our approximately eight hour journey into Haiti, stopping first at the supermarket to purchase food including rice, beans and cereal. The highway leading us out of Santo Domingo was smooth and the scenic views were spectacular. This was temporary relief to the unsettling thoughts of what was happening to the people of Haiti based on what I had already seen on in depth reports by Anderson Cooper and others on CNN.Once in the Port-au-Prince area, even in the dark we immediately witnessed the devastation of collapsed buildings and smelled the stench of dead bodies but as we rode up the mountain I noticed that it was less destruction than that on the lower planes. On the top of one mountain was the beautiful estate of Attorney Jean Henry Ceant and his wife. The entrance had two large side by side doors and as they opened I immediately noticed the armed guards. This home was fabulous inside and out and had not visibly been affected by the earthquake. Once inside we were shown the location of our sleeping quarters and invited downstairs to eat.The following day was Wednesday, January 20, 2010 and at 6 o'clock in the morning I was up praying when I felt myself rock backwards. I was sharing the room with Bill, who asked immediately after the first movement, if any felt the room move. We both agreed that it was real. We later found out that it was the second earthquake which registered 6.1, but the difference between the two earthquakes was the length of time that they lasted. I was told by some of the people in Haiti, that the first earthquake lasted for about 30 seconds whereas the second one only lasted about 7 seconds. As you can imagine, emotions immediately following this second earthquake were running sky high. There were tears flowing from the eyes of Mrs. Ceant and Andrea as they comforted each other outside. Mrs. Ceant cried often and when I spoke to her she explained that she felt great pain for the people of Haiti and in particular for the children and youth who lost their lives. She said that during the time of the first earthquake there were two universities that were in session and both of those buildings came tumbling down. With more tears in her eyes, she said that those university students represented the future of Haiti.We loaded up in the vehicles and headed to Bojeux Park, which was the amusement park that was converted into a medical camp. This was accomplished by medical doctors like those belonging to organizations like IMANA, joining forces with Aimer Haiti, a grassroots organization run mostly by the Ceant’s family and friends.I rode with Olivier Kernizan, who is also part of the Ceant family. We detoured out to the airport and I had a chance to hear from some of the people of Haiti who were there trying to figure out what to do. Since I don't speak Creole or French I took along a few cue cards prompting the people to tell me their names, if they had family in the USA, and their contact information. I was fortunate to get assistance from Belizoire Pierre Amderson, who happened to be bilingual and was gracious enough to translate for me as we walked around the grounds to find people who wanted to communicate to others. One man explained that he had lost so many of his family members and that he is sometimes afraid. A young lady said that she didn't have anyone to turn to since both of her parents resided in other countries and that she could not get assistance at the U.S. Embassy. Others who stood outside the heavily guarded airport were trying to find work as translators.We left the airport and headed into the town of Port-au-Prince to find so many people in the streets, most looking like they were busy doing something. Some were cooking food, selling fruit or water or just walking in search of a better arrangement, sometimes carrying a chair, a suitcase or something else that may have been their only possessions in life. I pulled out my cue cards and laid them in the street and motioned to a group of men to read the cards printed in French. I thought about what I was told on the plane by Jacques Jean Louis, who was returning to Haiti with a group of about 70 people, including some doctors and nurses, from Toledo, Ohio representing the SCORE/ISOH Medical Mission. Jacques, who was traveling with the group to act as a translator, told me that in Port-au-Prince the people speak Creole not French as a form of resistance. He said that if they speak to you in Creole then they expect you to speak Creole back to them instead of French and if you don't, then they may get offended. I guess desperate times call for desperate measures and the men did not seem to mind one bit about the language on the cue cards but instead began appealing on camera to anyone who could help. I stood on the very grounds of the devastation due to the earthquake and saw the destruction first hand. I had never before witnessed anything even close to what I saw. We piled back in the vehicle and rode around looking at more destroyed buildings and in many areas the distinct and strange stench of death rose again and again reminding us of the people that remained inside of the buildings, some dead and some may have still been alive.We headed over to the Bojeux Park Medical Camp which acted as the central station for Aimer Haiti and also came equipped with armed guards at the front gate. On one side of the park Aimer Haiti had laptops set up with wireless internet available. On the other side of the park the doctors were giving care to individuals but had limited medical supplies to perform more advanced surgeries. I was able to capture on video some of the procedures being performed and it was still pretty early in the day so I had planned to upload some of the footage on to youtube and CNN iReport, that same day. I got set up with my laptop but the CDRS members kept asking me to come with them on a food pick up. I convinced myself that I could upload the footage at night when I returned to the Ceant's estate even though they had a wireless system that had not allowed me to upload the night before due to repeated disconnections. So I went outside the gate to find out we were traveling in moving van. It was an open back box truck similar to a large Uhaul vehicle. We drove past the airport, the UN and the US Embassy, with my behind bouncing off the floor of the truck where I sat down after realizing I could no longer bear standing due to my herniated disk. Dorfeville Jean Jacques, the Health Coordinator for the City of Carnefoul, did provide about 70 cases which could have actually fit in a mini van.The supplies he had were being housed in a stadium which also had armed guards at the gates and on the grounds. Many of the people in the stadium were only there for shelter and were not working to load the truck, but instead were just standing around watching the process. That seemed strange to me so I questioned Mr. Jean Jacques about it. He said that he did not have any money to pay the people and therefore they could not work. I suggested that they may work for food instead. His eye contact said he agreed with me but his shoulder shrug said it was out of his hands.I assisted with loading some of the cases and then went to talk to some of the people and take photographs. One of the youth began to talk to me about possible work that he could do. I asked if he had any contact information and like many others, to my surprise, he did. He went to write down his number after I gave him one of my business cards. This started a chain reaction and many others who were there began to do the same. Soon I had about eight telephone numbers.We headed back to the Ceant estate, where once again we were greeted with wonderful hospitality and a great meal. I calmed down after talking to Mrs. Ceant about the Haitian culture and politics.The next day we headed out to cover some more ground and this time I rode with Mr. and Mrs. Ceant who wanted us to see the other home and hospital building that they planned to purchase. Both suffered some minor damage from the earthquake. From there we went to the medical camp where more doctors had arrived and they had just finished a leg surgery. The doctors left to go to a larger hospital but one doctor remained behind. He was originally from Haiti but currently resides in Arkansas. He invited me to come along with him and Girovna E. Brice, who was a member of Aimer Haiti, to a camp set up for orphaned children. Girovna was also the Director or "Presidente" of Orchidee Camp which had a building that was desroyed and they had now set up tents in a park that is privately owned. This camp was one of the better looking camps that I saw as I traveled around and even had a huge tank of water that had just been delivered. When I asked if they were getting assistance from the government, the answer was a very hearty - "No". When the pastor who was over the church that oversees the camp arrived I asked if he was confident that the aid would reach the areas of Haiti that needed it and again the answer was no. After I asked if he had been to the radio stations to get more information out, he said that he would approach the radio stations to gain more attention from a wider audience in order to establish what supplies are needed and where they should go. Up to that point, he said, they were to busy caring for the children. On our way back to the medical camp I felt like I had a good day and accomplished much but I expressed to Girovna that I still wanted to see more, so she took me to see the seven story hospital and the two universities that were destroyed, which Mrs. Ceant had told me about.Once again back at the estate we were treated to another fine meal. All of the meals I had the pleasure of eating since I arrived were delicious and always consisted of rice and beans. The first two nights goat was also served and on this, my final night in Haiti, it was chicken. I was grateful either way because when I left Atlanta, Georgia, I took enough trail mix, sunflower seeds and dates to last the whole week. I really didn't expect to eat full meals in a country that was so devastated.The next morning I got a ride to the bus station to head back to Santo Domingo. I said a great prayer of thanks that I was on the bus because the station was so crowded and if I didn’t get a ticket I would have to wait until the following day to leave. For $1,500.00 pesos I checked in to Ivis Aparta Hotel located at Av.27 de Febrero No. 196 in Santo Domingo. It is very reasonably priced and comes equipped with wi-fi. I uploaded some video footage, showered and said a prayer for the people of Haiti asking that the aid coming from around the world gets into the hands of those who need it.The next morning I uploaded more footage until my driver came to take me to the airport. That cost me another $800.00 pesos. I was on the stand-by list for the flight but it was overbooked. I got to the airport more than two hours ahead of time. I went through the check-in and the baggage inspection and was off to the gate. Once they started boarding I approached the agent and to my pleasant surprise, I was given a seat assignment. Needless to say I was happy.Once in my seat I was reflective of my journey. I had seen first hand a country that was devastated by two earthquakes. I smelled the stench of death throughout the streets. I saw desperation in the eyes of many. I witnessed military maneuvers that appeared too radical and was not building goodwill amongst the people. I saw armed forces who, in my opinion, should have been passing out food and water but instead were riding through the streets making Haiti look like a war zone. I'd seen a malfunction in the process of distribution of goods and services. I had seen a lack of proper logistics in connecting the key agencies involved in the process. I had seen the lack of a team that would be responsible for the accountability of those receiving the aid.All hope is not lost however because I had also seen volunteers at work. I had seen doctors and nurses pouring into the country. I had seen great coverage of events from CNN and others including my own website at <a href="http://www.tamoca.com">www.tamoca.com</a> . I had seen unity of some organizations. I had seen hope and smiles on the faces of children. I had seen women cooking in a kettle and making enough beans and rice to feed families. Most of all, I had seen supreme resilience in a people. Yes, that's it... RESILIENCE!</div>THE REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRIKA IN THE NEWShttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/the-republic-of-new-afrika-in2010-01-22T22:00:33.000Z2010-01-22T22:00:33.000ZH. khalif Khalifahhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/HkhalifKhalifah262<div>THE REPUBLIC OFNEW AFRIKA IN THE NEWS[Excerpt from The Newport News, Volume 2 Number 4 June 1983] Republished in The Words Acts and Deeds of Khalifah: A Selection of Writings of Khalifah 1982 to 1992”No Rights Reserved: circulate freelyBy H. Khalif Khalifah……..- News Analysis….Part OneThe RNA, Republic of New Afrika, has been very much on the minds of the general U. S. population in recent months. This is mainly because of the aborted “Brinks robbery” in Nyack, NY in the fall of 1981. But the strains of thoughts about the “New Afrikans” who actually moved on to the territory they are claiming to establish a totally independent, sovereign “republic [in North America] have captured the imagination, pro or con, of Blacks and Whites since August of 1971, when an attempt by the state of Mississippi, with U. S. marshals, was made to “stamp them out,” resulted in the death of a state trooper and the wounding of several others.As NY police and the FBI turned up suspects in what is described by the suspects to have been an “expropriation” some turned out to be avowed, known citizens of “The Republic of New Afrika.” And no doubt, as such, the U. S. government as well as knowledgeable individuals, were sure that this “expropriation attempt” would be used by the U. S. to continue its efforts to destroy the RNA, which from indications in the Black nationalist communities in the U. S. is growing in influence and power.The growth is despite (some say because of) the fact that, as a consequence of the 1971 shoot out, 11 of it’s members were [unjustly] sentenced to life in prison; and its (RNA Provisional President, I. Obadele, also jailed for 5 years.At least four of the suspects [in the brinks expropriation], currently on trial for criminal conspiracy in federal court in NYC, have demanded to be treated as “political prisoners” who were captured as a result of actions they were carrying out in “armed resistance to the United States legal oppression of its Afrikan population.”The essence of the legality of the RNA claim for separation of Blacks who identify with their objectives (establishing a new nation), is that when Black chattel slaves were freed in the U. S., back in 1865, the right to decide their own destiny were denied hem: the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments were enacted by the U. S. Congress as legal attempt, under U. S. laws, to enfranchise the freed Black people who were brought to the continent against their free will over a period of 400 years.The RNA contends that “you can’t be free if someone lets you be free” [so said Brother Preston Wilcox, of Afram Associates). In other words, Blacks in America will not be free until they have the right to decide whether they want to be citizens here of elsewhere. They base these assertions on international law, as related to the occupation of a land by the resident majority of a particular people. The RNA has also sued in U. S. Counts for the entitlement of this right.[END PART ONE – PART TWO WILL BE PUBLISHED AFTER THE FUNERAL OF Dr. Obadele, who died on January 18, 1010. If you don’t want to wait, buy the book and turn to page 46] <a href="http://www.blackbooksaward.com">www.blackbooksaward.com</a>-------------------------------------------------------------------H. Khalif Khalifah lives on a farm in Southampton County, Virginia. He is a former 6-term member on The National Board of Director of N’COBRA, 1996 to 2002. Co-Chair of the Human Resources of N’COBRA, Contributor to ENCOBRA magazine and Liaison for N’COBRA to the Million Man March, October 16, 1995. Like Dr. Obadele he has written several books himself, one of which is called “A Brief History About N’COBRA & The Reparations Movement.” Another is “The Words, Acts & Deeds of Khalifah: Selected Writings 1982 to 1992;” He has also been the Publisher for more than 600 books that are written, by for or about Black people’ as well as hundreds of thousands of newspapers, magazines & etc. over the past four decades. <a href="http://www.natturnertrail.com">www.natturnertrail.com</a> khalifah23844@yahoo.com</div>