slave - Blogs - TheBlackList Pub2024-03-28T21:02:41Zhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/slavePERTINENT AND VALID REASONS WHY DESCENDANTS OF SLAVES ARE DUE REPARATIONS AND RESETTLEMENThttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/pertinent-and-valid-reasons-why-descendants-of-slaves-are-due2016-12-03T19:57:37.000Z2016-12-03T19:57:37.000ZTziona Yisraelhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/TzionaYisrael<div><p align="center"><span class="font-size-5"><b>PERTINENT AND VALID REASONS WHY</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-5"><b>DESCENDANTS OF SLAVES</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-5"><b>ARE DUE</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-5"><b>REPARATIONS AND RESETTLEMENT</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">November 23, 2016</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">It is important for all concerned with justice for descendants of Slaves to fully understand that restitution for this heinous crime against Black humanity would not be an issue if Blacks had not been forcibly migrated from the shores of Africa for lucrative ventures that were productive across the globe. This human enterprise enabled Slave owners to grow wealthy off the backs of Slaves stolen from the continent of Africa, and unless we are satisfied with this state of the Black Plight, we have no choice but to work towards ending this miserable and perilous life replete with mayhem and despair in place for descendants of Slaves and especially for our children at every turn.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">SLAVERS and Slave Masters were not aware that numbered among the tens of millions of Blacks forcibly migrated from the continent of Africa were GOD’s Chosen/Covenant People, the Children of Israel whom HE cursed and scattered from HIS Land (Lev.26<sup>th</sup> and Deut.28<sup>th</sup> Chapter) to serve their enemies for forsaking HIM and HIS acclaimed Book of the Law and for worshipping false gods. And it is very important to realize that “Cursed be Canaan” has nothing whatsoever to do with the Slave Trade.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">“But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. <b><u>They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods</u>,</b> with abominations provoked they him to anger.” Deuteronomy 32:15,16</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">“Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come? <b><u>Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law. Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger</u>,</b> and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.” Isaiah 42:23 - 25</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">SLAVERS also did not know that the same GOD that scattered the Israelites promised to gather them, as well to save them out of this captivity and <b><u>punish their oppressors in the process</u>.</b> The CREATOR GOD has shown us exactly what we need to do for our DELIVERANCE, and it entails <b><u>obedience to HIS VOICE and HIS WORD</u></b>. Who would have thought that this is the <b><i>TRUTH</i></b> that shall set us FREE!</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><b>“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, And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; 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.</b> 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: <b>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, and multiply thee above thy fathers.”</b> Deuteronomy 30:1 - 5</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">“Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law. Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein: <b>I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.” </b> Isaiah 42:1 – 7</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><b>“I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase. And I will set up shepherds over them, which shall feed them:</b> and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD. 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. In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. <b>Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.”</b> Jeremiah 23:3 – 8</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">“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 I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and <b>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 3:18 – 20</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><b>THE GOD OF ISRAEL MAKES A STRONG POINT FOR WORSHIPPING HIM: IF PEOPLE HAVE TO CARRY THEIR DEITY, THEN IT ISN’T A TRUE GOD!</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><b> </b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">“…their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: <b>your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast. They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.”</b> Isaiah 46:1,2</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><b>“Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:</b> And even to your old age <b>I AM HE; AND EVEN TO HOAR HAIRS WILL I CARRY YOU:</b> I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you. To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?” Isaiah 46:3,4</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><b>“TO WHOM WILL YE LIKEN ME, AND MAKE ME EQUAL, AND COMPARE ME, THAT WE MAY BE LIKE? They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.</b> <b>They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and</b> <b>he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble. Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors.”</b> Isaiah 46:5 - 8</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">“Remember the former things of old: for <b><u>I AM GOD, AND THERE IS NONE ELSE; I AM GOD, AND THERE IS NONE LIKE ME</u>,</b> Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, <b>MY COUNSEL SHALL STAND, AND I WILL DO ALL MY PLEASURE:</b> Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.” Isaiah 46:9 - 11 </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">To many descendants of Slaves, the JC man-god is of this so-called “Trinity”, and after reading this Message, they will still make him their god of choice. However, if Christians will consider why a “Trinity” was invented perhaps the truth might come to light. As we all know, the First Commandment informs us to have no other god before the CREATOR GOD of Moses. And given all the passages stating the CREATOR GOD told the Israelites that HE is their ONLY SAVIOR, HELPER, DELIVERER, REDEEMER, and FORGIVER of SINS, raises questions about JC. If the CREATOR GOD does all these things for us, then for what do we need JC? Thus, Christian believers invented an unfounded “Trinity” that falsely makes JC comparable to the Most HIGH GOD of Heaven and Earth. The wise understand fully that if the Most HIGH CREATOR GOD said there is NONE LIKE HIM, then that would completely make JC and this so-called “Trinity” a fraud. </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><a href="http://loveforlife.com.au/content/08/02/23/forged-origins-new-testament-tony-bushby">http://loveforlife.com.au/content/08/02/23/forged-origins-new-testament-tony-bushby</a></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">The CREATOR GOD will not give HIS GLORY to another and much less will tolerate the worship of any other god. </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><b>“For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off. Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I WILL NOT GIVE MY GLORY UNTO ANOTHER. Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.” </b> Isaiah 48:9 - 12</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><b>“Thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day. And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.</b> As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God.” Deuteronomy 8:18 - 20</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">The Slave Trade and this captivity is a direct result of our disobedience and our worship of false gods, which will haunt us until we turn back to the “Old Testament” GOD of this CREATION - OUR MAKER. Therefore, if HE Created us, it makes sense we should obey HIS Voice to live according to HIS WAYS of Righteousness – HIS BOOK of the Law (Genesis – Deuteronomy). </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><b>“I have made the earth, and created man upon it:</b> I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded. I have raised him up in righteousness, and <b>I will direct all his ways:</b> he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.” Isaiah 45:12,13</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><b>NOT ALL BLACKS KNOW ABOUT THE SLAVE TRADE, AND NOT ALL BLACKS UNDERSTAND WHY WE ARE DUE REPARATIONS AND RESETTLEMENT.</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><b> </b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">When I learned that there were books on Slavery, I read every documented book I could get my hands on and that included historical fiction. Below is information in brief on the Slave Trade and on the heartless manner our forebears were treated, as well as how we, their descendants, yet suffer unto this day: </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/12/27/1049058/-"><b>WALL STREET WAS ONCE A SLAVE MARKET</b></a></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">“The first slave market in the state of New York was on Wall Street. Yes the place that now holds the majority of Americans in debt slavery has been in the business for quite some time…So trading on the lives and well being of humans is nothing new to Wall Street. Be it buying and selling humans as a way to gain profit. To buying and selling the labor and fruits of their labor of the 99% is seen as acceptable. All in the name of profit.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><a href="http://www.theawfultruth.com/nyc/">Who says there are no African-Americans on Wall Street?</a> You can check in on the former home of the Royal African Trading Company, NYC's once bustling slave market, at the corner of Wall and Walter Streets. In the late 1700's, NYC was second only to Charleston, SC for the busiest slave market and could boast that more than 20% of it's population were slaves. We've progressed a lot since then - today, only about 10% of welfare recipients have been used as slaves in demeaning Workfare programs. Afterward, you can stroll down to the touristy South Street Seaport and have an overpriced dinner at the port where many of NYC's slaves arrived.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">One block east of Broadway between Duane and Elk (take the 2 or 3 train to Wall St.) you'll find the African Burial Ground. The bodies of an estimated 20,000 African slaves were buried here until the 1790's. The lot began to be used as a cemetary for Africans when Trinity Church, which had been the cemetary for many of the city's poor, issued a decree forbidding Africans from being buried in their churchyard. Other NYC laws during this time restricted the number of persons who could attend African funerals, and at what times they could be held. The small plot of land left untouched as a historic memorial is but a tiny fraction of the graveyard's size. Many of the buildings currently surrounding the memorial either destroyed or were built on top of the remains of African slaves.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">The fact that this travesty to humanity was begun on Wall Street speaks volumes about what is acceptable to those praying to the altar of greed. Anything goes and values like dignity and humanity are to be excluded.”</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/user/Horace%20Boothroyd%20III">By Horace Boothroyd III</a></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/12/27/1049058/-">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/12/27/1049058/-</a></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>OVERVIEW ESSAY:</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>THE SLAVE TRADE</b></span></p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="475"><tbody><tr><td><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">“From the 17th century until the 19th century, almost twelve million Africans were broug<a href="http://scholar.library.miami.edu/slaves/slave_trade/(Empty%20Reference!)"></a><a href="http://scholar.library.miami.edu/slaves/slave_trade/(Empty%20Reference!)"></a><a href="http://scholar.library.miami.edu/slaves/slave_trade/(Empty%20Reference!)"></a>ht to the New World against their will to perform back-breaking labor under terrible conditions. The British slave trade was eventually abolished in 1807 (although illegal slave trading would continue for decades after that) after years of debate, in which supporters of the trade claimed that it was not inhumane, that they were acting in the slaves’ benefit, etc. The rationalizations and defenses given for slavery and the slave trade were absurd and self-serving. Slavery was a truly barbaric, and those who think that they can control what another group of people eat, where they sleep, whether they are to live or die, or even whether they are to be bought or sold, are acting on a totally inhumane level. But just as important as the critique of the slave trade is that need to discover how the enslaved themselves reacted: through submission; or through resistance? From the African coast to the West Indies, and up to the abolition of the slave trade, we can discover many forms of resistance.</span><br /> <br /> <span class="font-size-4"><a href="http://scholar.library.miami.edu/slaves/slave_trade/(Empty%20Reference!)"></a><a href="http://scholar.library.miami.edu/slaves/slave_trade/(Empty%20Reference!)"></a><a href="http://scholar.library.miami.edu/slaves/slave_trade/(Empty%20Reference!)"></a>The country of Portugal was one of the first countries to start selling slaves. Portugal found out about selling slaves for profit by sheer luck. The first slave purchase is said to have taken place in 1441 when the Portuguese caught two African males while they were along the coast. The Africans in the nearby village paid them in gold for their return.</span></p><p><br /> <span class="font-size-4">Slave traders used many slave forts to protect themselves and their shipments. This was a way of guarding themselves against any attackers. It was also a way of holding slaves until they could be sold and shipped to the New World.</span></p><p><br /> <span class="font-size-4">The Africans were sold in many ways. They were sold to traders by other Africans, and eventually forced into slavery by men with guns. From here, slaves were placed aboard ships to be taken across the Atlantic on a voyage that was eventually coined "the middle passage."</span></p><p><br /> <span class="font-size-4">The middle passage of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade consisted of immeasurable brutality. Africans were chained and packed into quarters unfit for movement or proper breathing. The only hope of escape rested in suicide by jumping overboard. With the British Parliament's outlaw of the slave trade in 1808, the naval superpower set sail to enforce total European abolition. The Society of Friends, along with other such concerned parties, published accounts of the horrific middle passage to distribute amongst still practicing nations. These accounts, supported by memoirs such as Oladuah Equiano's, who survived the journey, informed the masses and catalyzed the destruction of slavery. The atrocities continued once the Africans arrived in the West Indies, but resistance began to grow once on the plantation.</span></p><p><br /> <span class="font-size-4"><a href="http://scholar.library.miami.edu/slaves/slave_trade/(Empty%20Reference!)"></a><a href="http://scholar.library.miami.edu/slaves/slave_trade/(Empty%20Reference!)"></a><a href="http://scholar.library.miami.edu/slaves/slave_trade/(Empty%20Reference!)"></a>In the West Indies, slaves searched for an outlet to vent their frustrations. To be successful in alleviating their frustrations and resisting in some way, slaves had to unite. One of the more popular ways slaves accomplished this was through the Christian religion. When it was allowed by the planters, Christianized slaves could resist the institution of slavery by looking to God. The ideals that Christianity held were easy for Africans to understand and adapt. Doing so meant that the slaves would lose some of their African heritage, but the plusses far outweighed the minuses. Slaves "Africanized" Christianity in the West Indies and thus created a new culture among them. Those who chose, or who were allowed, to be baptized were successful at resisting slavery and uniting together with a common interest in God. However, the road to Christianity was often bumpy and dangerous. The missionaries from Europe regularly faced opposition by whites and indifference by blacks. In the end, the effort proved to be worth the time and energy invested. The Christianization of slaves was a major factor in bringing an end to the oppression that was the slave trade.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><br /> <span class="font-size-4"><a href="http://scholar.library.miami.edu/slaves/slave_trade/(Empty%20Reference!)"></a><a href="http://scholar.library.miami.edu/slaves/slave_trade/(Empty%20Reference!)"></a><a href="http://scholar.library.miami.edu/slaves/slave_trade/(Empty%20Reference!)"></a>Great debate exists even today over just how and why the British Parliament voted to abolish the slave trade. By the late 1700's, the abolition movement had become strong enough to exert considerable pressure on Parliament, and an array of differing arguments were being made for abolition. Former slave Olaudah Equiano presented both a moral and an economic case for abolition, in the latter sounding a great deal like Adam Smith. Religious groups such as the Providence Society presented a fiery moral case based on their interpretation of the scripture. In Parliament, William Wilberforce became the leading abolitionist and, interestingly enough, would argue in a similar fashion as Equiano did, appealing to the people's conscience and using free trade ideas to convince Parliament that abolition would benefit the British Empire commercially. In the end, it might be best to assume that Parliament's vote to abolish slavery was a result of years of resistance on the part of slaves such as Equiano finally making an impact.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><a href="http://scholar.library.miami.edu/slaves/slave_trade/(Empty%20Reference!)"></a><a href="http://scholar.library.miami.edu/slaves/slave_trade/(Empty%20Reference!)"></a><a href="http://scholar.library.miami.edu/slaves/slave_trade/(Empty%20Reference!)"></a></span><br /> <span class="font-size-4">As the account of Equiano demonstrates, slavery as an institution was in trouble under the pressure of a general resistance by the slaves. These slaves were finally making breakthroughs by the late 18th century. Despite the brutal, repressive nature of slavery, the efforts of resistance by the slaves and the abolitionists proved strong enough to overcome this institution.”</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><a href="http://scholar.library.miami.edu/slaves/slave_trade/slave_trade.html">http://scholar.library.miami.edu/slaves/slave_trade/slave_trade.html</a></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">“The transatlantic slave trade is unique within the universal history of slavery for three main reasons:</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">- its duration - approximately four centuries</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">- those victimized: black African men, women and children</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">- the intellectual legitimization attempted on its behalf - the development of an anti- black ideology and its legal organization, the notorious <u>Code noir</u>…</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">The transatlantic slave trade, often known as the triangular trade, connected the economies of three continents. It is estimated that between 25 to 30 million people, men, women and children, were deported from their homes and sold as slaves in the different slave trading systems. In the transatlantic slave trade alone the estimate of those deported is believed to be approximately 17 million. These figures exclude those who died aboard the ships and in the course of wars and raids connected to the trade.”</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">(United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><a href="http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/slave-route/transatlantic-slave-trade/">http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/slave-route/transatlantic-slave-trade/</a></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><b>SLAVE CASTLES</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>SLAVERY’S CASTLES</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">“This web site provides information on <a href="http://www.douglashenderson.com/">Douglas Henderson</a> and Greg Merrell's project of photographically documenting the remains of historic sites relating to the trans-Atlantic slave trade in Africa.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">These sites include about 30 forts or castles, several slave camps, and at least one slave market spread out over much of West Africa. From the 1600's to the early 1800s, European traders built forts or castles along the coast of Africa to contain slaves until ships could transport the slaves to markets in the New World. Through these grim, utilitarian structures over 12 million people passed on their descent into slavery. While these sites have had enormous impact on the world, they have not been photographically documented to any extent. Henderson and Merrell are attempting to do just that. During the summer of 2010 they photographed about 25 of these sites, with hopes of returning to photograph the remainder in 2015.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><b>Doors of No Return</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">23 of the photographs have been assembled into an art exhibit; Doors of No Return.”</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><a href="http://www.slaveryscastles.com/">http://www.slaveryscastles.com/</a></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><b>MIDDLE PASSAGE</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>"THE MIDDLE PASSAGE"</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">“Two by two the men and women were forced beneath deck into the bowels of the slave ship.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">The "packing" was done as efficiently as possible. The captives lay down on unfinished planking with virtually no room to move or breathe. Elbows and wrists will be scraped to the bone by the motion of the rough seas.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Some will die of disease, some of starvation, and some simply of despair. This was the fate of millions of West Africans across three and a half centuries of the slave trade on the voyage known as the "middle passage."</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Two philosophies dominated the loading of a slave ship. "<b>LOOSE PACKING</b>" provided for fewer slaves per ship in the hopes that a greater percentage of the cargo would arrive alive. "<b>TIGHT PACKING</b>" captains believed that more slaves, despite higher casualties, would yield a greater profit at the trading block.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Doctors would inspect the slaves before purchase from the African trader to determine which individuals would most likely survive the voyage. In return, the traders would receive guns, gunpowder, rum or other sprits, textiles or trinkets.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">The "<b>MIDDLE PASSAGE</b>," which brought the slaves from West Africa to the West Indies, might take three weeks. Unfavorable weather conditions could make the trip much longer.</span></p><p><br /> <span class="font-size-4">The Transatlantic (Triangular) Trade involved many continents, a lot of money, some cargo and sugar, and millions of African slaves.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Slaves were fed twice daily and some captains made vain attempts to clean the hold at this time. Air holes were cut into the deck to allow the slaves breathing air, but these were closed in stormy conditions. The bodies of the dead were simply thrust overboard. And yes, there were uprisings.” </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><a href="http://www.ushistory.org/us/6b.asp">http://www.ushistory.org/us/6b.asp</a></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><b>THE SLAVE TRADE RESULTING IN THE DEATHS OF BLACKS IN THE TENS OF MILLIONS</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Slaves were called chattel and categorized with animals and furniture.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Slaves were bred, maimed, beaten, and forced to survive under inhumane conditions.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Slaves’ spouses and children were taken and sold to other Slave owners never to be seen again.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Women and girls were raped at the desires of the Slave owners.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><b>SLAVES WERE FORBIDDEN TO GET AN EDUCATION OR LEARN TO READ</b></span></p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="772"><tbody><tr><td><p></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="772"><tbody><tr><td><p></p></td><td><p></p></td><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="559"><tbody><tr><td><p><span class="font-size-4"><b>“ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS:</b></span></p></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p></p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><p></p></td><td><p></p></td><td valign="top"><p><br /> <span class="font-size-4">Fearing that black literacy would prove a threat to the slave system -- which relied on slaves'</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">dependence on masters – whites in many colonies instituted laws forbidding slaves to learn to</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">read or write and making it a crime for others to teach them.</span><br /> <br /> <br /> <span class="font-size-4">Excerpt from South Carolina Act of 1740</span><br /> <br /> <span class="font-size-4">Whereas, the having slaves taught to write, or suffering them to be employed in writing, may</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">be attended with great inconveniences; Be it enacted, that all and every person and persons</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">whatsoever, who shall hereafter teach or cause any slave or slaves to be taught to write, or</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">shall use or employ any slave as a scribe, in any manner of writing whatsoever, hereafter</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">taught to write, every such person or persons shall, for every such offense, forfeit the sum of</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">one hundred pounds, current money…” </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/experience/education/docs.html">http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/experience/education/docs.html</a></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><b>BLACK CODES VS JIM CROW LAWS</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">“Transcript of Black Codes vs. Jim Crow Laws</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Difference between the two Black Codes we put into place to regulate what slaves could and could not do, they were another way to reinstate slavery following the Civil War, dealing with social controls. While Jim Crow Laws deprived blacks of civic and political power, such as segregating schools and forbidding intermarriage between blacks and whites. Jim Crow laws were laws that were established to separate the whites and the black races in the South of America. </span></p><p><br /> <span class="font-size-4">Jim Crow Laws were to create "separate but equal" treatment.</span></p><p><br /> <span class="font-size-4">They condemned black citizens to inferior treatment and facilities. What are the Jim Crow Laws? Segregation Education was segregated</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Hotels</span><br /> <span class="font-size-4">Bathrooms</span><br /> <span class="font-size-4">Restaurants</span><br /> <span class="font-size-4">Drinking fountains</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Etc. Timeline 1875-1975” (<a href="https://prezi.com/wbijm95axslr/black-codes-vs-jim-crow-laws/">https://prezi.com/wbijm95axslr/black-codes-vs-jim-crow-laws/</a>)</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><b>LYNCHINGS</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><h1 align="center"><span class="font-size-4">EVEN MORE BLACK PEOPLE WERE LYNCHED IN THE U.S.</span></h1><h1 align="center"><span class="font-size-4">THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT, STUDY FINDS</span></h1><p><span class="font-size-4">“The number of African-Americans lynched in Southern states in the 19th and 20th centuries is significantly higher than previously detailed, according to a new report examining lynching in the United States.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">The report is the latest in a series of attempts to document the true number of lynching victims in this country, an effort that dates back more than a century. While it is known that thousands of black Americans were lynched, the practice of “targeted racial violence” still has not been fully addressed, according to the report released Tuesday by the Equal Justice Initiative, a non-profit based in Alabama.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">“Lynchings were violent and public acts of torture that traumatized black people throughout the country and were largely tolerated by state and federal officials,” the report’s summary states. “These lynchings were terrorism.”</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Researchers said they determined that 3,959 black people were killed in “racial terror lynchings” in a dozen Southern states between 1877 and 1950. The new number includes 700 people who were not named in previous works seeking to comprehensively document the toll, the authors wrote. Some of those previous studies were conducted at a time when lynching was still an ongoing phenomenon…” </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/02/10/even-more-black-people-were-lynched-in-the-u-s-than-previously-thought-study-finds/?utm_term=.8bc0ee2fe5af">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/02/10/even-more-black-people-were-lynched-in-the-u-s-than-previously-thought-study-finds/?utm_term=.8bc0ee2fe5af</a></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><b>INEQUALITY / DISCRIMINATION</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>INEQUALITY IN BLACK AND WHITE</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Mar 12, 2015</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><b> </b></span></p><p align="center"></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4">(Photo: David Goldman/AP/Corbis)</span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">“For the past few years, Americans have been engaged in two big public conversations about inequality. One is about economic insecurity (stagnant wages, wealth concentration, Occupy Wall Street). The other is about racial inequality (incarceration rates, police brutality, disenfranchisement). Often, these two discussions are kept separate, but they are closely intertwined.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">The economic trends that have battered Americans have been exceptionally hard on African Americans, making them perhaps the truest face of economic inequality. Much of the progress in the workplace and in schools that African Americans have made since the 1964 Civil Rights Act has now ground to a halt, or worse. Blacks are nearly three times as likely to be poor as whites and more than twice as likely to be unemployed. Compared to whites with the same qualifications, blacks remain less likely to be hired and more likely to earn lower wages, to be charged higher prices for consumer goods, to be excluded from housing in white neighborhoods, and to be denied mortgages or steered into the subprime mortgage market. Racial disparities in household wealth haven’t just persisted; they’ve increased. What’s more, the reasons for these divergences aren’t always outwardly apparent or easy to understand.”</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><a href="https://psmag.com/inequality-in-black-and-white-14361b6386f9#.c73llaj6c">https://psmag.com/inequality-in-black-and-white-14361b6386f9#.c73llaj6c</a></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><b>RACE HATRED</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>RACISM</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">“Although the United States has come a long way since the days of slavery, and huge steps were made towards granting equal rights on the basis of race in the 1960s, racism is still a very pressing problem in the US today. Sometimes it is blatant and open, but often it can be more subtle, or even built into the system, as seen by racial profiling by law enforcement officers and other government officials, and the near impossibility for some groups, especially African Americans, to break the cycle of poverty.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Discriminatory policies in schools lead to the so-called “school-to-prison pipeline.” Due to zero-tolerance policies in schools, disadvantaged black youths quickly end up being pushed out of school and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems, instead of being given a chance and receiving counseling within the school system.”</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><a href="https://www.internations.org/usa-expats/guide/16295-safety-security/racism-and-discrimination-in-the-us-16290">https://www.internations.org/usa-expats/guide/16295-safety-security/racism-and-discrimination-in-the-us-16290</a></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><b>DOUBLE STANDARDS AND WHITE PRIVILEGE</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Native Americans received Reparations</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Japanese received Reparations</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">European Jews with the help of the US government received Reparations</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">The above groups have been abused and suffered devastating hardships and have either received Reparations from the US government, or the US government was instrumental in acquiring it for them. However, after 400 years, the US government that promoted the worst Holocaust of all times has flatly refused Reparations for descendants of Slaves who are the real victims of forced migration, ethnic cleansing, enslavement, and heinous oppression and an atrocious Holocaust. Not to mention that free labor enabled Slave traders and Slave owners to establish the United States the wealthiest nation on Earth. Because of double standards, White privilege, and gross discrimination, descendants of Slaves yet suffer from high blood pressure and other diseases, death, control, second-class citizenship, impoverishment, and the most inferior schools in the United States.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4">***</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>TO BE WHITE AND FRUSTRATED WITH THIS COUNTRY</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>IS SOMEHOW PATRIOTIC,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>BUT IF YOU’RE BLACK AND FRUSTRATED</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>THEN YOU’RE A TRAITOR</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">“To be black in America and be frustrated with it, though, is to suffer serious wrath. Colin Kaepernick is now the most hated player in the NFL. It’s not even close. He may actually be the most hated player of all time.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Why? Because he took a silent knee during the national anthem to protest injustice in America. He dared to be frustrated with America. Other players have lost endorsements for doing so.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Young black students all over the country are receiving death threats for following their lead. One 8 -year-old boy in Texas was just sent home from school for taking a knee during the Pledge of Allegiance and officers from a Louisiana police department are saying it is refusing to provide security for a high school football team whose players took a knee last week.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">It’s not just a double standard — it’s evidence of how this nation is devolving into a black hole of bigotry, racism and white supremacy. It’s evidence that to be black and in pain is, in and of itself, politically incorrect. It’s evidence that white folk have somehow fixed their mind on the idea this country is their home and black folk are guests who should be gracious they are here.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Kaepernick, and the now hundreds of athletes who have followed in his footsteps, are told daily that “if they don’t like America, they should just leave.” This is white supremacy in action. It’s white privilege personified. To be white and frustrated with this country is somehow patriotic, but to be black and frustrated is something akin to being a traitor.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">It’s all such a damn mess.”</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-racist-double-standard-criticisms-america-article-1.2811988">http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-racist-double-standard-criticisms-america-article-1.2811988</a></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><b>OUR PROGENY HAVE NO CHANCE TO RISE ABOVE THIS SUBJUGATION. THEREFORE, REPARATIONS AND RESETTLEMENT ARE THE ONLY JUST RESOLUTIONS FOR THIS CRIME AGAINST BLACK HUMANITY.</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>UNITED NATIONS DECLARES UNITED STATES</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>OWES BLACKS REPARATIONS</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">“94. The Working Group encourages Congress to pass H.R. 40 — the Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act — which would establish a commission to examine enslavement and racial discrimination in the colonies and the United States from 1619 to the present and to recommend appropriate remedies. The Working Group urges the United States to consider seriously applying analogous elements contained in the Caribbean Community’s Ten-Point Action Plan on Reparations, which includes a formal apology, health initiatives, educational opportunities, an African knowledge programme, psychological rehabilitation, technology transfer and financial support, and debt cancellation.”</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><a href="https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G16/183/30/PDF/G1618330.pdf?OpenElement">https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G16/183/30/PDF/G1618330.pdf?OpenElement</a></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4">***</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><b> </b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>U.S. OWES BLACK PEOPLE REPARATIONS</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>FOR A HISTORY OF ‘RACIAL TERRORISM,’</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>SAYS U.N. PANEL</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">By <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/people/ishaan-tharoor">Ishaan Tharoor</a> September 27</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p align="center"><br /> <span class="font-size-4">Slave shackles on display at the new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">“The history of slavery in the United States justifies reparations for African Americans, argues a recent report by a U.N.-affiliated group based in Geneva.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">This conclusion was part of a study by the <a href="http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Racism/WGAfricanDescent/Pages/WGEPADIndex.aspx">United Nations' Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent</a>, a body that reports to the international organization's High Commissioner on Human Rights. The group of experts, which includes leading human rights lawyers from around the world, presented its findings to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday, pointing to the continuing link between present injustices and the dark chapters of American history.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">"In particular, the legacy of colonial history, enslavement, racial subordination and segregation, racial terrorism and racial inequality in the United States remains a serious challenge, as there has been no real commitment to reparations and to truth and reconciliation for people of African descent," the report stated. "Contemporary police killings and the trauma that they create are reminiscent of the past racial terror of lynching."</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Citing the past year's spate of police officers killing unarmed African American men, the panel warned against "impunity for state violence," which has created, in its words, a "human rights crisis" that "must be addressed as a matter of urgency."</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">The panel drew its recommendations, which are nonbinding and unlikely to influence Washington, after a fact-finding mission in the United States in January. At the time, it hailed the strides taken to make the American criminal justice system more equitable but pointed to the corrosive legacy of the past.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">"Despite substantial changes since the end of the enforcement of Jim Crow and the fight for civil rights, ideology ensuring the domination of one group over another, continues to negatively impact the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of African Americans today," it said in <a href="http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=17000&LangID=E#sthash.ELhcCe7s.dpuf">a statement</a>. "The dangerous ideology of white supremacy inhibits social cohesion amongst the US population."</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/09/27/u-s-owes-black-people-reparations-for-a-history-of-racial-terrorism-says-u-n-panel/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/09/27/u-s-owes-black-people-reparations-for-a-history-of-racial-terrorism-says-u-n-panel/</a></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><b> </b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><b>BLACKS TAKEN INTO SLAVERY ARE STILL CAPTIVES, AND THEIR HUMAN RIGHT TO JUSTICE SERVED IS FREEDOM AND RESETTLEMENT.</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><b>SINCE THE ELECTION OF PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD J. TRUMP, RACISM AND DIVERSITY ARE MORE WIDESPREAD AND BOLDER THAN EVER BEFORE.</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">In an effort to obtain justice for police killings of Blacks, a Black Lives Matter Movement has surfaced, and racist Whites now tout “Black Lives Do Not Matter”. This attitude and rampant racist behavior has deepened the divide between Whites and Blacks determining that Blacks for generations to come will never have an opportunity to rise above this well-established racist society.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><b>LACK OF GENUINE CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATION FOR DESCENDANTS OF SLAVES HAS BEEN OUR DOWNFALL.</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">The fact that the US Congress refuses to address the cruel Slave Trade is testament to the racism and double standards that permeate the economic, social, and educational systems in the country.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>A BRIEF HISTORY OF RACISM</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>AGAINST BLACKS</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>IN THE UNITED STATES</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">“Racism is the belief that one’s race, skin color, or more generally, one’s group, be it of religious, national or ethnic identity, is superior to others in humanity.8 It has been part of the American landscape primarily since the European colonization of North America beginning in the 17th century. Various groups have bore the brunt of it, manifested in discriminatory laws, social practices, and criminal behavior directed toward a target group. The following are a list of just a few and their experiences.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><strong>Racism against African-Americans</strong>: many of the Africans brought to America starting in the 17th century arrived as slaves, kidnapped from their homelands in various parts of Africa. A number of them were known to be royalty and literate. A4frican men, women, and children were stripped of their names and identities, forced to “Christianize”, whipped, beaten, tortured, and in many cases, lynched or hanged at the whims of their white masters, for whom slavery was key to maintaining their vast properties and land. Families were separated through the process of buying and selling slaves. While not all Africans in America were slaves, a large number were, particularly in the southern states. For those Africans in America who were free, discriminatory laws that barred them from owning property and voting, for example, as well as the belief in the intrinsic inferiority of dark-skinned peoples by the dominant white majority, held them back from full equality in the United States.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Although slavery was ultimately outlawed and laws prohibiting discrimination against African-Americans passed, <b>racism against this community remains and is manifested in more subtle ways today.</b> For example, the Washington, DC, Fair Employment Practices Commission <a href="http://www2.asanet.org/media/jobdiscrimin.html">has found</a> that blacks face discrimination in one out of every five job interviews. The American Sociological Association notes that, “today employers use different phases of the hiring process to discriminate against minorities (e.g., recruiting from primarily white schools instead of through job training programs) and offer higher status jobs and pay to white employees. Reports of job discrimination against African Americans are correlated with darker complexion, higher education, immigrant status, and young age.”</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><a href="http://www.soundvision.com/article/a-brief-history-of-racism-in-the-united-states">http://www.soundvision.com/article/a-brief-history-of-racism-in-the-united-states</a></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><b>BLACKS HAVE NO RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION.</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> In a nation with a belief in ethnocentricity, descendants of Slaves will never enjoy a right to self-determination.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4">***</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><h1 align="center"><span class="font-size-4">BLACK SELF-DETERMINATION</span></h1><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><strong>By Danny Haiphong</strong></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">“…Malcolm X’s call for Black self-determination remains widely misunderstood in the United States, including among Black activists. Some even hold that Barack Obama’s election was an expression of Black self-determination. But self-determination is about people’s power, not voter turnout in an electoral system controlled by rich white rulers. It's about taking power “by any means necessary…”</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><a href="http://www.blackagendareport.com/category/african-america/black-self-determination">http://www.blackagendareport.com/category/african-america/black-self-determination</a></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4">***</span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>DESCENDANTS OF SLAVES</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>LIVING AMONG THE DOMINANT GROUP</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>HAVE NO CHANCE TO ASSIMILATE</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><b>JUSTICE, FREEDOM, and SELF-DETERMINATION</b> should be the bedrock of human rights, however, descendants of Slaves enjoy neither of these entities. But rather descendants of Slaves are the underclass in the United States who sustain a status quo of White Privilege and survival of the fittest, while the poor are relegated to Ghettoes to suffer the tribulations and despair of the oppressed. In these Ghettoes Blacks are left illiterate, poor, and without proper medication for adults and children. To the demise of Black youth, teen gangs were formed causing Black-on-black crime, and the CIA established drugs in Black communities. (<a href="https://www.rt.com/usa/usa-cia-drugs-poor-americas/">https://www.rt.com/usa/usa-cia-drugs-poor-americas/</a>) The US government must be held accountable not just for the atrocities of the Slave Trade, but also for destroying the lives of innocent men, women, and children who lived in environments designed to prompt failure.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Not all descendants of Slaves choose to Exodus out of this captivity, but there are many who cannot find any reason to stay in a land wherein Blacks will never be accepted as equals though its constitution is alleged to maintain this claim. After experiencing the epitome of cruelty under Slave Masters and living the lives of have-nots for centuries, Blacks must be re-established in safe environments where our children will be properly nourished and will obtain a quality academic education, as well as one for learning the GOD’s TRUTH at HIS WORD and at the Mouth of HIS Prophets. </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Observe the happenings throughout the world; nowhere is White rule and control a life for us – nowhere - and do we really want to be apart of the dominant races who deplorably watch Third-World countries suffer endlessly! And worse, do we want the blood of the helpless on our hands, just as it spills from America and its allies? If we are to rise above this supremacy and injustice, it is imperative that we become empowered and given the opportunity to prosperity to ensure this domination never happens again. Hence, GOD WITH US, Reparations and Resettlement are the only viable means to accomplish these dreams.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Adults and children alike must inhabit a community or village that will enable all to learn to love themselves and to love their own, for then we will finally represent ourselves and take pride in being our own nobles. </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><b>“Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured;</b> and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey. For <b>I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD;</b> because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after. <b>Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwelling places;</b> 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; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small. <b><u>Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them. And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them</u>;</b> 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 <b>YE SHALL BE MY PEOPLE, AND I WILL BE YOUR GOD.</b><b>”</b> Jeremiah 30:16 - 22</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">Moreover, if we choose the CREATOR GOD that brought the Slave Trade upon us including all the Hell that has accompanied it and will obey HIM and follow HIS WAYS of Righteousness, then HE will SAVE and DELIVER us out of the hands of those who hold us captives. These are our priorities if we will only buy into them. </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">With GOD’s Blessings and with our allotted Reparations paid for the Slave Trade, we will be able to purchase land, establish housing, schools, farmland, and personal businesses for our livelihoods. We will be the ones to leave out of this captivity and start a new beginning that invests in a good healthy lifestyle for us, whereby, we will finally know the true meaning of FREEDOM and know what it means to fulfill <i>our</i> dreams - meaningful dreams enabling us to represent the CREATOR and become an unbiased nation - one of integrity, dignity, honor, and Divine values before the world. And with the HELP of Our SAVIOR GOD of Israel (the “Old Testament” GOD), we can accomplish this endeavor and fulfill prophecy for HIS GLORY and for HIS Holy Name’s Sake.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>“Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called;</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.<br /> Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>and my right hand hath spanned the heavens:</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>when I call unto them, they stand up together.<br /> “Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>the Holy One of Israel;</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.”</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4">Isaiah 48:12,13,17</span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b> </b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>“Thus saith the Lord GOD,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.<br /> …they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.<br /> “But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered:</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>and I will save thy children.<br /> “… all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.”</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4">Isaiah 49:22,23,25,26</span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>“THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD;</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>I have lifted up mine hand,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.<br /> But ye, O mountains of Israel,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>ye shall shoot forth your branches,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>and yield your fruit to my people of Israel;</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>for they are at hand to come.<br /> For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>and ye shall be tilled and sown:<br /> And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>and the wastes shall be builded:”</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4">Ezekiel 36:7 – 10</span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>“Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:<br /> I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>and my salvation shall not tarry:</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.”</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4">Isaiah 46:12,13</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4">The LawKeepers,</span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><a href="http://www.thelawkeepers.org">http://www.thelawkeepers.org</a></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b> “</b><b>Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>ye that are escaped of the nations:</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>and pray unto a god that cannot save.</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together:</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>who hath declared this from ancient time?</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD?</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour;</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>there is none beside me.</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth:</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>for I am God, and there is none else.</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>I HAVE SWORN BY MYSELF,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>THE WORD IS GONE OUT OF MY MOUTH</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>IN RIGHTEOUSNESS,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>AND SHALL NOT RETURN,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>THAT UNTO ME EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>EVERY TONGUE SHALL SWEAR.</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>Surely, shall one say,</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>in the LORD have I righteousness and strength:</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>even to him shall men come;</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.”</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4">Isaiah 45:20 – 24</span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"> </span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><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-4"><b> </b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>***</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><a href="http://www.thelawkeepers.org/"><b>http://www.thelawkeepers.org</b></a></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b> </b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>***</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b> </b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><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-4"><b> </b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>***</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><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"><span class="font-size-4"><b> </b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>***</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><a href="http://www.thelawkeepers.org/wehavebeenduped.html"><b>http://www.thelawkeepers.org/wehavebeenduped.html</b></a></span></p><p><span class="font-size-4"><u> </u></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b><u>*****</u></b></span></p></div>AN OPEN LETTER TO MODERN-DAY PHARAOHS - YOUR ASSIGNMENT IS TERMINATED!https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/an-open-letter-to-modern-day-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>We've Been Duped: When we speak truth, by all means necessary, we must present all the facts.https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/we-ve-been-dupe2015-02-17T19:00:00.000Z2015-02-17T19:00:00.000ZTziona Yisraelhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/TzionaYisrael<div><p> </p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069">WE HAVE BEEN DUPED!</a></b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">February 17, 2015 </span></p><p><span style="color:#888888;" class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"><span style="color:#888888;"><span style="color:#000000;">When we speak truth, by all means necessary, we must present all the facts. Sometimes in doing so, we, Black folks, sound radical and appear to be hate moguls, but in most instances, this is not at all the case. I am sure Rep. John Lewis of Georgia has no animosity against Whites when he speaks about the Civil Rights Movement and his skull fractured at the evil hands of White policemen. And like the “Jews” who say “Never Again” about their Holocaust, descendants of Slaves must trump their efforts and say, “Black Lives Matter”, and we want Justice for the forced migration that caused our captivity and enslavement. Not under any circumstances can we allow our past to be forgotten nor the horrific abuses Black Peoples endured and still endure be forgotten. The Slave Trade, whether believed or not, is directly related to Biblical Scripture, and the peoples of the world must learn the TRUTH of the matter. Let me be clear; the Slave Trade of which I speak has nothing whatsoever to do with “Noah Cursing Canaan”. We have been duped in more ways than one, but mainly due to belief in the White Man’s god who has done nothing for Blacks or for the perils in this world.</span></span></a></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;" class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"><span style="color:#000000;">When Blacks come forward to speak about their past, invariably the topics will be about the Slave Trade, heinous and cruel suffering, Jim Crow Laws, segregation, Whites burning Blacks Alive, lynching, impoverishment, Ghetto life, police brutality, etc., etc., and in all instances, the core reasons for all these woes stem from White Rule and Control over descendants of Slaves and other minorities and other nations. And from all these occurrences, what have the perpetually oppressed and suppressed learned? <b>NOTHING, except to feed that ubiquitous burning desire to be just like our captors!</b></span></a></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;" class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"><span style="color:#000000;">At most we should be aware of our history, and at least, we should know to identify and reject the brainwashing that has especially plagued Blacks and Hispanics and kept us molds and puppets of those who rule over us. The worst experiences are to have brainwashed and ignorant Blacks giving us directives. They can either make your life miserable, or like Clarence Thomas, the US Supreme Court Justice, the US President Barack Obama, and the Black Caucus, they can serve no purpose for the oppressed and for those discriminated against.</span></a></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;" class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"><span style="color:#000000;">Blacks have got to wake up to the fact that the White Man’s system of democracy and constitution are in no way in place to improve the lives of minorities and provide a “Pursuit of Happiness” for descendants of Slaves. It hasn’t happened, and given the curse upon us (Deuteronomy 28<sup>th</sup> Chapter) it won’t happen. Actually, the White Man’s <b>POWER, SUPREMACY and RELIGION</b> are his worst destructive means ever used to control the peoples and nations he has taken captive and exploited. Indeed his governance has been the Black Man’s downfall and demise, exactly as he has planned. But what the White Man does not take to heart is that, he, too, will be served GOD’s Judgment for his evil and wicked ways. </span></a></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;" class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"><span style="color:#000000;">While the White Man purports to have the religion of the Universe and a “Saviour of the World” – a White, blue-eyed man-god, this deity has not stepped up to the plate for minorities. It doesn’t take a genius to know that this JC, man-god isn’t even a friend to minorities, and much less a god. Of a truth, it would appear that he is aligned with the powers-that-be to sustain the White Man’s repression of minorities. Look at history, as it speaks for itself and in volumes. </span></a></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;" class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"><span style="color:#000000;">From the times the European so-called “Jews” entered into Israel, from when Khazars converted to “Judaism” and claimed the Land of Israel, and from the Christian Era unto this day, this present World Order has been about the triumphs and achievements of White Power Moguls. That which depresses me to no end is that too many Whites (not all) feel that they are the only people on this Earth that matter and deserve consoling in view of tragedies and catastrophes. Millions die every year in Africa from hunger and disease, but which one of the White Nations gives a hoot. George W. couldn’t have cared less about the Katrina victims, as his compassion for them and their families was absolutely nil. And the money that was poured into the country to help those who were left homeless from this hurricane went to goodness alone knows where. Too many of the people who suffered after this hurricane never saw a dime of these donations. Condaleezza Rice, Bush’s Secretary of State might have made a mistake in letting it out, but she said at least some of the donations went to universities. I heard this with my own ears. And what about the US Congress that stands for “Justice for All” but will not discuss the worst human rights crime against a people known to man? This Slave Trade took freedom from human beings and completely ethnically cleansed millions of Blacks, and the Whites of this wealthy nation do not feel they owe Blacks anything after they Slaved for centuries under inhumane conditions. But let one of them burn his or her mouth on coffee at a fast-food restaurant, and he or she can sue for a million dollars and get it. </span></a></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;" class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"><span style="color:#000000;">The White Man’s Slave Trade in Blacks demonstrated more influence and power over the world than this JC, “Saviour”, and the reason is that he has done nothing to prove himself a “Saviour” of the oppressed, the suffering, or anyone else. And there is no reason to believe that this man-god has any connection with people other than what’s written in the “New Testament”. Neither does the pope, clergymen, or the powers who espouse to this religion and who spend their Sundays singing and worshipping this man-god, seem to know how to end this Hell on Earth but rather, they perpetuate it by oppressing the poor and defenseless. It should not come as any surprise that those who suffer and believe in JC find no peace - only endless grief and misery.</span></a></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;" class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"><span style="color:#000000;">Thus, I have written another Message replete with GOD’s WORD hoping that people will realize their fate and the fate of this world and read it and learn the GOD’s TRUTH regarding why the CREATOR of this Universe has allowed HIS Earth to transform into a Sodom and Gomorrah and a place of terror, violence, war, and mourning.</span></a></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;" class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"><span style="color:#000000;">People have given every man-made religion that exists a change to identify and prove Divine SALVATION, and it hasn’t happened. Now, give what <b>“Thus Saith the LORD”</b> a chance to prove that HE is the ONLY CREATOR and SAVIOR that can end this mayhem and establish HIS Peace and HIS Happiness on HIS Earth. Of a TRUTH, there are no other alternatives.</span></a></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;" class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"><span style="color:#000000;">And by all means share this link with others and discuss it and weigh GOD’s WORDS. Do note, <b>there is no “Thus Saith the LORD” in the “New Testament”,</b> and that alone should raise red flags and pose problems straightaway. </span></a></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;" class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"><span style="color:#000000;">By the way, the Greatest Prayer Ever is not the Christian’s “Lord’s Prayer”, and after one reads King Solomon’s Prayer, it will be clear as to why. King Solomon’s Prayer, unbeknownst to many, is pertinent to these days in which we now live, as well as the past. </span></a></span></p><p align="center"><span style="color:#000000;" class="font-size-3"><b><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"><span style="color:#000000;">King Solomon’s Prayer: I Kings 8:23 – 53</span></a></b></span></p><p align="center"><span style="color:#000000;" class="font-size-3"><b><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"><span style="color:#000000;">AND</span></a></b></span></p><p align="center"><span style="color:#000000;" class="font-size-3"><b><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"><span style="color:#000000;">GOD’s RESPONSE that is a real eye-opener: I Kings 9:1 - 9</span></a></b></span></p><p align="center"><span><span style="color:#000000;" class="font-size-3"><b><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"><span style="color:#000000;">***</span></a></b></span></span></p><p align="center"><span style="color:#000000;" class="font-size-3"><b><u><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"><span style="color:#000000;">WE’VE BEEN DUPED!</span></a></u></b></span></p><p align="center"><span style="color:#000000;" class="font-size-3"><b><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"><span style="color:#000000;">NEVER UNDERSTOOD THE BIBLE?</span></a></b></span></p><p align="center"><span style="color:#000000;" class="font-size-3"><b><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"><span style="color:#000000;">THEN</span></a></b></span></p><p align="center"><span style="color:#000000;" class="font-size-3"><b><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"><span style="color:#000000;">FROM THIS LINK BELOW LEARN THE GOD’S TRUTH</span></a></b></span></p><p align="center"><span style="color:#000000;" class="font-size-3"><b><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"><span style="color:#000000;">AND</span></a></b></span></p><p align="center"><span style="color:#000000;" class="font-size-3"><b><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"><span style="color:#000000;">COME OUT OF DARKNESS</span></a></b></span></p><p align="center"><span style="color:#000000;" class="font-size-3"><b><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"><span style="color:#000000;">AND STOP WALKING BACKWARDS!</span></a></b></span></p><p align="center"><span style="color:#000000;" class="font-size-3"><b><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"><span style="color:#000000;">THE WORST THING PEOPLE CAN DO TO THEMSELVES</span></a></b></span></p><p align="center"><span style="color:#000000;" class="font-size-3"><b><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"><span style="color:#000000;">IS TO ALLOW THEMSELVES TO BE DUPED!</span></a></b></span></p><p align="center"><span style="color:#000000;" class="font-size-3"><b><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"><span style="color:#000000;">NOW, READ GOD’s WORD IN A <i>NEW</i> LIGHT!</span></a></b></span></p><p align="center"><span style="color:#000000;" class="font-size-3"><b><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"><span style="color:#000000;">REVISED 2/11/15</span></a></b></span></p><p align="center"><span style="color:#000000;" class="font-size-3"><b><u><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"><span style="color:#000000;">WE’VE BEEN DUPED!</span></a></u></b></span></p><p align="center"><span style="color:#000000;" class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"><span style="color:#000000;">PEOPLE SEEK <b><i>TRUTH</i></b> IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES</span></a></span></p><p align="center"><span style="color:#000000;" class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"><span style="color:#000000;">AND DON’T KNOW THAT IT CAN ONLY BE FOUND</span></a></span></p><p align="center"><span style="color:#000000;" class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"><span style="color:#000000;">IN <b><i>GOD’s WORD</i></b>!</span></a></span></p><p align="center"><span style="color:#000000;" class="font-size-3"><b><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"><span style="color:#000000;">“To the law and to the testimony:</span></a></b></span></p><p align="center"><span style="color:#000000;" class="font-size-3"><b><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"><span style="color:#000000;">if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.” </span></a></b></span></p><p align="center"><span style="color:#000000;" class="font-size-3"><b><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"><span style="color:#000000;">Isaiah 8:20</span></a></b></span></p><p align="center"><span style="color:#000000;" class="font-size-3"><b><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"><span style="color:#000000;">SEEK THE CREATOR GOD AND FOLLOW HIS WAYS IN TRUTH</span></a></b></span></p><p align="center"><span style="color:#000000;" class="font-size-3"><b><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"><span style="color:#000000;">AND BE AMAZED</span></a></b></span></p><p align="center"><span style="color:#000000;" class="font-size-3"><b><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"><span style="color:#000000;">WHEN HE REVEALS HIMSELF TO YOU!!!</span></a></b></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;" class="font-size-3"><b><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"><span style="color:#000000;">LINK:</span></a></b></span></p><p><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=1069"> <span style="color:#000000;" class="font-size-3"><u>http://thelawkeepers.org/wehavebeenduped.html</u></span></a></p></div>FOOD IS POLITICALhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/food-is-political2012-05-04T16:09:14.000Z2012-05-04T16:09:14.000ZRas Jahazielhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/RasJahaziel<div><p align="center"><span style="font-size:large;"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Food is the first link in the centuries-old chain that binds Black people to servitude, economic bondage,</strong></span></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:large;"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>AND SLAVE THINKING.</strong></span></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:large;"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>On careful examination it will be seen that the foods that Blacks are accustomed to eating are foods that the slave-masters prescribed, with evil intent, for the specific purpose of</strong></span></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:large;"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>DUMBING DOWN THE AFRICAN MIND</strong></span></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:large;"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>AND PREVENTING BLACK GOD FROM ARISING.</strong></span></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:large;"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>SEE FULL ARTICLE</strong></span></span></p><p align="center"><span style="font-size:large;"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong><a href="http://rastafarivisions.com/features/foodispolitical">http://rastafarivisions.com/features/foodispolitical</a></strong></span></span></p></div>Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome Presentation, We are our children's future!https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/post-traumatic-slave-syndrome2011-01-21T21:39:21.000Z2011-01-21T21:39:21.000ZBaba Bob Shipmanhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/BabaBobShipman<div><p>This Black History Month Presentation</p><p>Dr. Joy DeGruy's PTSS Presentation and Book Signing is coming to Philadelphia on Sunday, February 20, 2011.<br /><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}3828522555,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" width="750" src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828522555,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="3828522555?profile=original" /></a><br />We will host her at the Walter D. Palmer Leadership Learning Partners Charter School, 910 North 6Th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123.<br /><br />This Black History Month Presentation and Book Signing is sponsored by The Frator Heru Institute and The Philadelphia Chapter of N'COBRA (National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America).<br /><br />Please let your networks know. Tickets will be:<br />Adult - $10<br />Youth- $5 (under12 free)<br />Adult with 3 youth: $5ea.<br /><br />Dr. Raymond (Takari) Winbush will be doing the introduction for Dr. Joy DeGruy.<br /><br />This will be a treat indeed. It is our objective to have standing room only, with people waiting outside to get in. The event will have a family focus with outreach to high school and university youth. Please bring young people along to be engaged in this truly necessary dialogue.<br /><a href="http://www.thefratorheruinstitute.org/">http://www.thefratorheruinstitute.org/</a><br />Any Questions Contact The Frator Heru Institute:<br />215-235-1604<br />merretazon@verizon.net<br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/TheFratorHeruInstitute">http://www.facebook.com/TheFratorHeruInstitute</a></p></div>Jews called white in Slave Trade,https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/jews-called-white-in-slave2009-09-12T15:54:00.000Z2009-09-12T15:54:00.000Zjo wescotthttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/jowescott<div>Jews refuse to accept negro into their schoolPetach Tikvah, Israel - On the eve of the Israeli school year's start on Tuesday, recent Ethiopian immigrant Ayenew Belay didn't know whether his 7-year-old son Avi would be starting first grade."I bought my son a backpack. He's seen the school," said Belay at a demonstration Monday outside of the Petach Tikvah municipality building. "But they won't accept the boy.... It's because he's black.""There are people who are ignorant. They lack knowledge. They know about us from a colonial aspect," says Daniel Admasso, director of the Israel Association for Ethiopian Jews. "They think that blacks are pitiful, and they live somewhere else.... The white Jewish culture has lots of stereotypes, and they have trouble with people who are different."Why Jews see racism in Israel | csmonitor.comThis is what JEWS really think of blacks.sa08-23-2009, 06:06 pmDISCUSS MEDIAThere were MANY Jew slave owners mistook in that time frame by whites for white, they were Jews... back then no one was awake to the fact they were NOT white.--------The Jewish Monsanto Family of Louisiana included Benjamin, Isaac, Manuel, Eleanora, Gracia and Jacob. They made frequent purchases of Blacks including twelve in 1785, thirteen and then thirty-one in 1787, and eighty in 1768. In 1794, Benjamin sold "Babet," a Black woman, to Franco Cardel. Manuel sold two Blacks from Guinea named "Polidor" and "Lucy" to James Saunders for $850 in silver. As individuals they were owners of Africans whom they named "Quetelle," "Valentin," "Baptiste," "Prince," "Princess," "Ceasar," "Dolly," "Jen," "Fanchonet," "Rozetta," "Mamy," "Sofia," and many others. Isaac repeatedly mortgaged four of these when in financial trouble. Benjamin Monsanto of Natchez, Mississippi entered into at least 6 contracts for the sale of his slaves which would take place after his death. Gracia bequeathed nine Africans to her relatives in her 1790 will, and Eleanora also held Blacks as slaves. ------According to the U.S. Census of 1830 a majority of Southern Jews owned Black Slaves. Ira Rosenwaike, a respected Jewish authority who has published Jewish population studies, has revealed that as many as 75% of the 322 Southern Jewish households held Black men, women and children as slaves. Rosenwaike is quoted on page 180 of the book, The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews. " In Charleston, Richmond, and Savannah," he continues, "the overwhelming proportion (over four fifths) of the Jewish households contained one or more slaves; in New Orleans over three-fifths were slaveholders; in Baltimore, less than one-fifth." Nationwide, "probably close to two-fifths of the Jewish families of 1820 owned slaves…"Even more striking, in 1890 when slavery was abolished, two-thirds of all the Jewish families in the United States had at least one servant. Until the release of the Nation of Islam study, Jewish leaders had always denied that Jews owned slaves and had fed the popular belief that Jews had only arrived in the United States as poor immigrants in 1870.-------------For decades, the White people of America have been subjected to a continual barrage from Blacks and others that you and I are somehow "responsible" for the African slave trade and that we need to "atone" for our "guilt." Their are a number of flaws with the idea that we are somehow "responsible" for the African slave trade. First of all, very few White people even owned slaves-slavery was a rich man's pursuit and slavery did not exist amongst the middle and working classes of White people. Second of all, even if every one of us had an ancestor who owned slaves (which is an extremely unlikely proposition), it makes little sense to blame the children for the supposed sins of their fathers. Third of all, it is a fact that Blacks sold their own kind into slavery. As this is the case, Blacks are every bit as much to blame for slavery as are Whites. Fourth, European Whites did not bring the slaves to America. On the contrary, it was the Asiatic Jews who brought them here (as Louis Fahrakkan has also pointed out). Below is a listing of the Jewish slave ships and the Jewish owners of them.Name of shipOwnersReal ethnicityAbigailCrownNassauFour SistersAnne & ElizaPrudent BettyHesterElizabethAntiguaBetsyPollyWhite HorseExpeditionCharlotteCaracoaAaron Lopez, Moses Levy, Jacob FranksIssac Levy and Nathan SimpsonMoses LevyJustus Bosch and John AbramsHenry Cruger and Jacob PhoenixMordecai and David GomezMordecai and David GomezNathan Marston and Abram LyellWm. De WoolfJames De WoolfJan de SweevtsJohn and Jacob RooseveltMoses and Sam Levy and Jacob FranksMoses and Sam LevySource: Elizabeth Donnan, 4 Volumes, 'Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to America' Washington, D.C. 1930, 1935 Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa.So, my fellow White American, there is nothing whatsoever to feel guilty about concerning slavery and it is time to quit apologizing for something others are responsible for. Besides, approximately six hundred thousand White soldiers died in the American Civil War. Have you ever heard of Blacks paying homage to or thanking these men?---------- Post added at 07:06 pm ---------- Previous post was at 06:16 pm ----------ADL book praises Jewish slave owners/dealers Calls notorious slaving firm "kindlyA 1976 ADL pamphlet entitled, American Jews: Their Story, lists 13 pioneers of the American Jewish community - 10 of whom have been definitively linked to the Black slave trade. "These well-to-do men were highly respected by their neighbors and proud of their religious heritage," states the pamphlet (p. 15). Prominent American Jews such as Aaron Lopez, Moses Lindo and the Franks family are heralded in the pamphlet as the pioneers of trade (p. 14) and all have been exposed in The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Volume One, as slave dealers. Aaron Lopez, a Newport merchant, owned at least 26 ships and recorded at least 13 voyages to Africa to purchase Black slaves. Moses Lindo of South Carolina imported 49 slaves from Barbados and owned a slave ship named Lindo Packett. He was largely responsible for the growth of the indigo industry and according to Dr. Jacob Rader Marcus (who is cited as a source by the ADL), he lived to see the industry "employ 10,000 slaves." Philadelphia's Franks family were merchants in the "Indian trade" and major suppliers of weapons to the colonists in the destruction of Indians. It is believed that Levy Andrew Levy was an agent of Franks when he participated in giving small-pox infected blankets to the Indians. The ADL pamphlet, published under the leadership of National Director Benjamin R. Epstein, also takes the extraordinary step of referring to the major slave dealing (and Jewish majority owned) Dutch West India Company as "kindly." ADL officials would not comment on the hate literature, and calls for repudiation of the Jewish slave dealing colonists were ignored. The question is no longer whether Jews were involved in slavery, but rather "which American Jewish colonists WERE NOT slaveowners or dealers?"The firm of Mordecai & Levy operated in the Carolinas and placed this advertisement in the Gazette of the State of South-Carolina on August 12, 1778:RUN AWAY the 4th of August, inst. a negro wench named Clarinda, of a yellow complexion, had on when she went away a cross-bar check coat, a coarse white linen shift, and a blue handkercher on her head, and formerly belonged to Mrs. Gordon. Whoever will deliver the said wench to the warden of the work-house in Charlestown, or to the subscribers in King-street, shall receive a reward of fifty pounds currency and all reasonable charges and whoever harbours or entertains her, may depend upon being prosecuted to the utmost rigour of the law. Mordecai & LevySolomon Woolf of No. 9, Broad Street in Charleston advertised in the Gazette Extraordinary of the State of South Carolina on July 15, 1784:RAN AWAY From the subscriber, the 8th instant, a Negro Wench named SUSANNA, 28 or 30 years of age, about 5 feet 2 inches high, thick lips, is coal black, speaks tolerable good English. Had on when she went away, a blue and white calico wrapper, red flannel and Huckaback coat. Whoever apprehends the above negro, and will deliver her to her master, or secure her in any [jail] or work house, so that he may get her again, shall receive Five Guineas Reward. All masters of vessels and others, are forbid to harbour or take her off on their peril. N.B. The said wench formerly belonged to Mrs. Russell, of Savannah, and has perhaps gone that way.Alexander Lindo (1753-1812) was a "major importer of slaves" in the late eighteenth century. He admitted to being responsible for the deaths of over 150 African slaves in the Middle Passage and 20 more upon their arrival in Jamaica, though he was never punished. Moses Lindo (1712-1774) of South Carolina was a wealthy planter and enslaver of Africans, according to the Jewish Encyclopaedia. He ran an advertisement stating that: "If any person is willing to part with a plantation of 500 acres with 60 or 70 Negroes, I am ready to purchase it for ready money." Lindo imported 49 slaves from Barbados in the 1750s and in 1756, he bought 2 African male children from John Gordon, according to a bill of sale. One of his slave ships was named Lindo Packett. Lindo was reputed to be one of the best judges of indigo in America or Europe. He was largely responsible for the growth of that industry from 300,000 pounds yearly to over 1,200,000 pounds. "Lindo himself handled millions of pounds of it. He lived to see the indigo industry employ 10,000 slaves," according to Jacob Rader Marcus.Abigail Minis (1701-1794); In 1740, many Jews left Savannah, Georgia because of the restriction against slavery. Ms. Minis and family stayed, waited for the law to change, and then forced at least 17 Blacks to work her 2,500 acre farm. Her son Philip was president of Savannah's Congregation Mikveh Israel. Minis named three of the Africans, "Sue," "Lizzy," and "Sandy." He advertised in the Savannah Georgia Gazette, on June 28, 1775: RUN AWAY, A CREOLE NEGROE FELLOW, named Charles, well known in Savannah. Ten shillings reward will be given on delivery of him to Philip Minis.Emma Mordecai was a Jewish relative of the Gratz and Hays families who enslaved several Black Africans. She described in her journal how the Jews participated in the lynching of Nat Turner's rebel forces by burning off the foot of an innocent Black man and cutting off the ear of another. They then rubbed sand into their wounds and horse-dragged them to their death. The slaves of Emma Mordecai included "George," "Cyrus," "Massie," "Mary," "Georgiana" and possibly "Phil," "Lizzy" and "Elick." She said of the freed Blacks: "They are as ill-bred as old Lincoln himself....They will now begin to find out how easy their life as slaves had been, and to feel the slavery of their freedom."Levy Jacobs was a New Orleans and Mobile liquor and slave dealer who advertised to "buy and sell Negroes" in 1819. In September of 1828, he notified the public that he was expecting about 100 "prime, Virginia slaves, selected expressly for this market - among which are Ostlers, Carriage Drivers, Mechanics, Field Hands and Cooks, House Servants, seamstresses and washer women." As proprietor of one of the leading auctioneer houses of New Orleans, Levy was reported to have "paraded blacks on the slave block that was operated by Levy Jacobs and his Christian partner, George Asbridge." When he was accused of selling Kentucky slaves and not the advertised Virginia slaves he posted this notice:Notice - A report being circulated that I have for sale no other than Kentucky slaves, I beg leave to state to the public that all the Negroes which I have on hand, and shall hereafter keep for sale are and will be Virginia born Negroes, of good character; that the person who has stated to the contrary, with the view of injuring me, I call upon in this public manner to come forward and support this charge if he can, or hereafter hold his peace. All Negroes sold and bought by me from traders (excepting at my own house) will be free of commission. L. JacobsBenjamin Mordecai of Charleston, dealt in huge sales of Blacks and penned them up like livestock next to his warehouses. At least one of his captives was named "Abram" or "Abraham." Of his participation in the Civil War the Boston Transcript reported that Mordecai "has presented to his belligerent state and city $10,000, to aid the purpose of secession, with the offer besides of a large number of negroes to work in the cause..." In 1857, he advertised in the Charleston Courier, "Prime Field Negros and House Servants" for sale. They included: Coachmen and House Servants Tom, 25 years of age John, 21 Lilburn, 24 Isaac, 22 Cooks, Seamstresses, Washers and Ironers Elvy, 18 Amelia, 22 Lydia, 40 Louisa, 40 Patsy, 19; Nurse Field Hands and Laborers Caroline,17 Betsy, 17 Catherine, 16 Octavia, 16 Mary, 28 Sarah, 30; w/ child Sarah, 18 Saunders, 22 Sampson, 30 Moses, 33; woodworker Henry, 20 Lawrence, 45 Dave, 25; laborer Henry, 22; tailor Lucy, 19 Margaret, 16 Milly, 17 Salina, 16 Nancy, 20; with 2 children Susan, 30 Caroline, 18 Benjamin, 25 Sam, 16; ploughboy Lindsay, 27 Isaac, 18 Byron, 22 Nat, 30; laborer and sailor Mordecai regularly shipped slaves to New Orleans between 1846 and 1860 and bought at least 102 slaves at Charleston district judicial sales of the 1850s.Samuel Maas of Charleston, according to Professor Jacob Rader Marcus, took "only four weeks to be convinced that blacks had to be watched, disciplined, and, if necessary, ruthlessly punished. Slavery he agreed, was a sound institution; the Southern economy was built on black labor. The black made an ideal workhand, for only he, stemming from the torrid African lands, could tolerate the humidity, intense heat, and backbreaking labor of the Carolina lowlands. Undoubtedly, Maas was influenced in his views by his uncle and by the luxury of the well-appointed home with its massive silver service and numerous, obsequious slaves ready to respond to his slightest nod all this impressed Maas mightily."Isaac Elizer (1720-1807) owned the slave ship Prince George with Samuel Moses. He outfitted slave ships with bondage hardware and rewarded the crews of his profitable ships with African citizens. "He was a merchant-shipper and, like many of his friends and associates, occasionally engaged in the slave traffic." He was called a "notable and respected businessman" and was active in his Newport, Rhode Island Jewish congregation.948 Elizer and Moses wrote to their Captain John Peck, to sail to Africa and sell the liquorfor the most possible [that] can be gotten, and invest the neat proceeds into as many good merchantable young slaves as you can....As soon as your business there is compleated, make the best of your way from thence to the island of New Providence [Bahamas] and there dispose of your slaves for cash, if the markets are not too dull....And also we allow you for your commission, four slaves upon the purchase of one hundred and four, and the privilege of bringing home three slaves, and your mate, one....But further observe, if you dispose of your slaves in Providence [Bahamas], lay out as much of your neat proceeds as will load your vessel in any commodity of that island, that will be for our best advantage, and the remainder of your effects bring home in money. Isaac Elizer,Samuel Moses In May of 1769, Elizer ran a newspaper advertisement: "Notice: Reward $5, return of runaway negro woman, Bina, threat of prosecution of harborer."Jewish Maurice Barnett of Baton Rouge, Louisiana "owned" at least eleven African citizens. He was such a prolific slave dealer and auctioneer that twentieth century picture postcards of the "Old Slave Block" depict his office at 40 St. Louis Street. He was one of the closest associates of the slave breeding and smuggling Jewish pirate, Jean Laffite. Below is an example of the Black/Jewish relationship of the time:SALES AT AUCTION By M. Barnett, Sen., Auctioneer Cornelius Hurst vs. His Creditors - Syndic Sale. On Monday, the 2d Dec, 1839, at 12 o'clock noon, at the City Exchange, St. Louis street between Chartres and Royal streets, by order of Alexander Grant, syndic of said estate, and by virtue of an order issued by the honorable the first judicial district court of the state of Louisiana, dated the 26th day of October, 1839, the following slave surrendered to his creditors by said insolent, viz: DICK, about 28 years of age, a well disposed man. OSBORN, about 26 years of age, mulatto; a good carriage driver and waiter, active and handy at anything he is put to. LUCINDA, about 22 years of age, Osborn's wife, very intelligent, good cook, washer and ironer. Lucinda's Children: COMMODORE, about 6 years of age, JOSEPHINE, about 4 years of age, HENRY, about 2 years of age, OSBORN, about 1 year of age. NED, about 19 years of age, accustomed to work in a brick yard. LOUIS, about 17 years of age, accustomed to work in a brick yard. MINGO, about 28 years of age, brick moulder, stout able bodied man. WINNEY, about 37 years of age, worked in a brick yard. PRISCILLA, about 24 years of age, stout able bodied woman. SERENA, about 21 years of age, a good off-bearer in a brick yard, and her child. MATILDA, about 25 years of age, cook, washer and ironer, and her three children, viz: THOMAS, about 10 years of age. TONEY, about 6 years of age. WILLIAM, an infant. SALLY, about 22 years of age, mild and well disposed woman; cook, washer and ironer. JULIANNA, about 21 years of age, and her child; accustomed to work in a brick yard. MARY, about 23 years of age, also accustomed to work in a brick yard. JACOB, about 25 years of age, stout man, accustomed to work in a brick yard.Terms Six months credit for all but Jacob, who will be sold at six and twelve months, for notes drawn and endorsed to the satisfaction of the syndic, who reserves to himself the privilege of refusing names as endorsers, until he is satisfied therewith, without assigning any cause therefor; the notes to bear an interest at the rate of ten per cent per annum (if not met at maturity) until paid without this however giving the parties thereto the right of prolonging the payment after due. The purchasers will be allowed forty-eight hours after a notification from the notary that the titles are completed, to arrange the settlements, and if not effected within the period, the slave or slaves to be resold at auction, for cash, on the account and risk of the said original purchasers, without delay or public notice; and said parties held responsible for said loss that may accrue thereon, with all expenses, costs, & c.. Acts of sale before Edward Barnett, notary public, at the expense of the purchasers. The slaves not to be delivered until the terms of sale are complied with.Aaron Lopez (1731-1782) was the most notorious of the slave dealing Jews. He was Newport's leading participant in the Black Holocaust, largest taxpayer and the epitome of the Newport slave dealing Jewish culture. His son-in-law, Abraham Pereira Mendes, carried on the murderous trade and built massive wealth in his own right. Born in Portugal Lopez moved to Newport, Rhode Island in 1752, renounced his Marrano past and built an extensive trans-Atlantic slave dealing empire. "What can be said about this most attractive figure," writes Dr. Marcus, "is that he lived on a baronial scale, maintained an entourage of over thirty persons, including the necessary slaves and hired servants, and had his own stable and two chaises." He was engaged extensively in smuggling and the owner of between 30 and 40 ships. By 1749, Lopez was generally considered to be one of the largest merchants in the country, shipping every marketable item including molasses, Blacks, rum, pork and bottled beer. He owned a wharf, arranged for building, chartering, and outfitting the vessels, hired captains and crews, and kept detailed accounts. Lopez reportedly launched his career as a slave merchant late in 1761 when he and Jacob Rodriguez Rivera began to outfit their jointly owned brigantine Grayhound for an African voyage. On January 7, 1763, William Pinnegar captained a Lopez ship which delivered 134 Africans to Lopez's Jewish agents in South Carolina, Da Costa and Farr. Four captains made thirteen of the voyages, two of whom died in Lopez's service.Below are the recorded slaving voyages of Aaron Lopez in the years 1764 through 1774:Sloop Spry, Capt. Willaim Pinneger, July 16, 1764 - May 22, 1766, stopping at Barbados, Jamaica, and New York on the return voyage. The cargo included iron hoops, iron chains and slave shackles. Slaves sold: 57.Brig Africa, Capt. Abraham All, May 3, 1765 - July 11, 1766. Slaves sold at Kingston: 45.Sloop Betsey, Capt. Nathaniel Briggs, July 22, 1765 - August 21, 1766. Slaves sold at Kingston: 40.Brig Sally (the Spry rerigged), Capt. Nathaniel Briggs, August, 1766 - July 1767. Slaves sold at St. Kitts: c. 33.Brig Africa, Capt. Abraham All, October 20, 1766 - January 9, 1768. Slaves sold at Kingston: 69.Brig Hannah, Capt. Nathaniel Briggs, May 3, 1768 - May 4, 1769. Slaves sold in South Carolina and Barbados: 63.Sloop Mary, Capt. William English, June 4, 1770 - spring 1771. Slaves sold in Barbados: c. 57.Ship Cleopatra, Capt. Nathaniel Briggs, July 1770 - 1771. Slaves sold in Barbados: 96.Ship Cleopatra, Capt. Nathaniel Briggs, June 16, 1771 - May 27, 1772. Slaves sold in Barbados: 230.Brig Ann, Capt. William English, November 27, 1772 - winter 1773-74 (arrived in Jamaica October 8, 1773). Slaves sold at Kingston: 104.Ship Africa, Capt. Nathaniel Briggs, April 22, 1773 - August 1774. Slaves sold in Jamaica: c. 49.Ship Cleopatra, Capt. James Bourk, June 30, 1773 - August 1774, Cargo consigned to Briggs. Slaves sold in Jamaica: c. 77.Brig Ann, Capt. William English, spring 1774 - March 1775. Slaves sold in Jamaica: 112.Mortality on these voyages was extremely high as this passage from the William and Mary Quarterly suggests: Captain Briggs had taken aboard twenty-one slaves at the Windward Coast south of Cape Verde, ten at Cape Mount on the Grain Coast, and sixty-seven along the Gold Coast - a total of ninety-eight. However, as Lopez informed his London correspondent, William Stead, there was severe loss of life at sea, and much sickness among the survivors forced a hurried sale at St. Kitts. Sally's log records the burial of six slaves at sea, dead "with the feaver and flox"; the loss was doubtless much heavier, as the log does not cover a four-month period of coasting southward and eastward from the Windward Coast to Cape Coast Castle....The figure, given above, of thirty-three slaves sold is calculated from the sum realized on the sale of the survivors, who may have been more numerous than this but of low value because of their debilitated condition. The Cleopatra was assumed to have experienced very heavy mortality, according to Lopez biographer Virginia Bever Platt, because the ship had carried a "much higher number of 230 blacks to Barbados on her next voyage." Using this reasoning and simple mathematics, one could conclude that as many as, or more than, 287 Black Africans may have lost their lives in these two voyages of the Cleopatra alone. In the last recorded voyage of the Ann, "[Captain] English reached Kingston on October 7, having lost five slaves on the voyage but with his people apparently healthy. By the time the sale could be made, two more had died and the prevalence of 'the Swelling' among the remainder caused a drastic reduction in their value..."Lopez's other commercial ventures were sometimes called into question. One Caribbean trader bitterly complained in a series of letters about the quality of the lumber, flour, and fish cargoes dispatched from Newport - consignments that often arrived out of season or in leaky vessels to which he had to give time and attention. Flour, too often was of low grade; staves and hoops for the making of molasses hogsheads were often worm-eaten and fish was putrid from being packed in insufficient brine. He found it difficult to dispose of such cargoes and implied that slave cargoes were easier to handle and more profitable.Dr. Marcus discusses the household and business of Lopez and his utter dependency on free Black labor: "Lopez always maintained a staff of Negro domestics and in addition often hired Negro slaves from their masters, though in his papers such laborers were always referred to as servants, never as slaves. At least half a dozen negroes were usually employed at one time at the Lopez shop, storehouse and wharf. For his living quarters, Lopez supplemented his Negro domestics by hiring an Indian woman to wash and scrub and a white seamstress to sew and make garments for the family and the Negro household servants." Lopez took 27 of these slaves to Leicester, Massachusetts when fleeing the British attack on Newport. It was also Lopez who was identified as the primary Newport merchant who ignored the non-importation protest of British tax policies organized by the Revolution-era colonists. The man who fingered Lopez was Ezra Stiles, a leading clergyman and President of Yale University. He referred to Lopez in his Diary as "a Merchant of the first Eminence; for Honor and Extent of Commerce probably surpassed by no Merchant in America." Journeying to Rhode Island with his wife and family on May 28, 1782, he passed Scott's Pond, near Providence and was thrown by his horse into quicksand where he drowned.Isaac Delyon, a prominent memeber of the Jewish community of Charleston, placed this advertisement in the South-Carolina and American General Gazette, on January 19, 1780:Five Hundred Dollars Reward RUN away some time past, from the subscriber, a negro boy, named Harry, about 17 years of age, about 5 feet 7 inches high, round visage, had on when he went away, a Bath coating close bodied coat, leather breeches, green cloth Jacket and breeches; he is a very likely country born fellow, and speaks good English. The above reward will be paid on his being delivered to the Warden of the Work house, or to me in Charlestown; and One Thousand Pounds on conviction of any white person harbouring him. The said fellow formerly belonged to Boone's estate on John's Island, and has been seen by negroes lurking about said plantation.Isaiah Isaacs (1747-1806); Born in Germany, he was the first Jew in Richmond, Virginia and a founder of the Congregation Beth Shalome, grantor of its cemetery land and slave driver. In 1788, he was elected to the Common Hall. He was in slave making alliance with Jacob I. Cohen and held Black Africans named "Lucy," "James," "Polly," "Henry" and "Rachel," and her children "Clement Washington" and "Mary." His business firm once took a Black captive as security for a debt. Isaacs placed this advertisement in the Virginia Gazette or American Advertiser on June 1, 1782:TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD RAN AWAY from the subscriber, living in the town of Richmond, a very likely Negro woman named MOLLY, lately the property of Mr. Edward Busbel, of Gloucester-town; she is much pitted with the small-pox, about twenty-two years old, and about five feet six inches high; had on when she went away, a Virginia cloth vest and petticoat, checked; she had with her a checked apron, a callico petticoat, and a pair of leather high-heeled country made shoes. I expect she will make towards Williamsburg or Gloucester-town, as she came from those parts a few days ago. She had four horse-locks fastened on her legs when she went away. Whoever apprehends and delivers the said Negro to me, shall receive the above reward and reasonable charges, paid by ISA[I]AH ISAACS."Referring to the words of Isaacs, the great Jewish scholar Jacob R. Marcus wrote thatthe following phrases [are] redolent of the spirit of the great Virginians of [Isaacs'] generation: Being of the opinion that all men are by nature equally free, and being possessed of some of those beings who are unfortunate[ly], doomed to slavery, as to them I must enjoin my executor a strict observance of the following clause in my will. My slaves...are hereby manumeted and made free, so that after [30 years] they shall enjoy all the privileges and immunities of freed people....Each one of my slaves is to receive the value of twenty dollars in clothing on the days of their manumission.The Monsanto chemical company has been developing a seed that produces one crop with impotent seeds so that farmers will have to return to Monsanto every year to buy seeds. The danger to surrounding crops through natural cross-breeding has the potential to destroy plant life. This is one of the 10 stories selected by PROJECT CENSORED targeted for suppression by the mass-media. Here is some MONSANTO history: The Jewish Monsanto Family of Louisiana included Benjamin, Isaac, Manuel, Eleanora, Gracia and Jacob. They made frequent purchases of Blacks including twelve in 1785, thirteen and then thirty-one in 1787, and eighty in 1768. In 1794, Benjamin sold "Babet," a Black woman, to Franco Cardel. Manuel sold two Blacks from Guinea named "Polidor" and "Lucy" to James Saunders for $850 in silver. As individuals they were owners of Africans whom they named "Quetelle," "Valentin," "Baptiste," "Prince," "Princess," "Ceasar," "Dolly," "Jen," "Fanchonet," "Rozetta," "Mamy," "Sofia," and many others. Isaac repeatedly mortgaged four of these when in financial trouble. Benjamin Monsanto of Natchez, Mississippi entered into at least 6 contracts for the sale of his slaves which would take place after his death. Gracia bequeathed nine Africans to her relatives in her 1790 will, and Eleanora also held Blacks as slaves.Manuel Jacob Monsanto entered into at least 12 contracts for sale of slaves between 1787 and 1789 in Natchez and New Orleans, Louisiana.1135 "His family consists of himself and seven Negroes."1136 Later, "Jacob Monsanto, son of Isaac Rodrigues Monsanto, one of the very first known Jews to settle in New Orleans, owner of a several-hundred-acre plantation at Manchac, fell in love with his slave, Mamy or Maimi William. Their daughter Sophia, grew up to be a lovely quadroon." An excerpt of one of Benjamin's many slave contracts follows:Be it known to all to whom these presents shall come, that I Benjamin Monsanto do really and effectually sell to Henry Manadu a negro wench named "Judy," aged Eighteen years, native of Guinea, for the sum of four hundred Dollars in all the month of January in the year one thousand Seven hundred and ninety one; and paying interest at the rate of ten per cent for the remaining two hundred and fifty Dollars until paid; said negro wench being and remaining mortgaged until final payment shall have been made; wherewith I acknowledge to be fully satisfied and content, hereby renouncing the plea of non numerata pecunia, fraud, or others in the case Whatsoever; granting formal receipt for the same. For which said consideration I do hereby resign all right, title, possession and claim, in and to the said Slave, all of which I transfer and convey to the Said Purchaser and his assigns, to be, as his own, held and enjoyed, and when fully paid for, Sold, exchanged, or otherwise alienated at pleasure in virtue of these presents granted in his favor in token of real delivery, without other proof of property being required, from which he is hereby released, binding myself to maintain the validity of this present sale in full form and right in favor of the Purchaser aforesaid, and granting authority to the Justices of his Majesty to compel me to the performance of the same as if Judgment had already been given therein, renouncing all laws, rights, and privileges in my favor whatsoever. And I the said Henry Manadu being present, do hereby accept this Instrument in my favor, receiving said negro Wench as purchased in the form and for the consideration therein mentioned and contained, wherewith I am fully satisfied and content, hereby renouncing the plea of non numerato pecunia, fraud, or other considerations in the case Whatsoever; granting formal receipt for the same. Done and executed, in testimony thereof, at the post of Natchez, this nineteenth day of the month of February in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety...."Benjamin Monsanto, sold land and "a Dwelling House, Store, and two other buildings, for which I have received payment in a negro, named 'Nat;' to my full satisfaction." Another contract stipulated "that Don Louis Faure is bound to defend the said sale in case the negro shall be claimed by any other Person." In a 1792 contract, Benjamin mortgaged his Black slaves: "I do hereby specially mortgage three slaves to me belonging, namely Eugene and Louis, aged twenty four years each, the first named of the Senegal nation and the second of the Congo nation; and a Negro Woman named Adelaide, aged twenty eight years, also of the Congo nation; which said slaves I warrant free from mortgage or other incumbrance, as I have made appear by certificate from the Recorder of mortgages; and which said slaves I promise and engage shall not be sold nor otherwise alienated during the term of this obligation..."The following Jews were known dealers, owners, shippers or supporters of the slave trade and of the enslavement of Black African citizens in early New York history.Issack Asher Jacob Barsimson Joseph Bueno Solomon Myers Cohen Jacob Fonseca Aberham Franckfort Jacob Franks Daniel Gomez David Gomez Isaac Gomez Lewis Gomez Mordecai Gomez Rebekah Gomez Ephraim Hart Judah Hays Harmon Hendricks Uriah Hendricks Uriah Hyam Abraham Isaacs Joshua Isaacs Samuel Jacobs Benjamin S. Judah Cary Judah Elizabeth Judah Arthur Levy Eleazar Levy Hayman Levy Isaac H. Levy Jacob Levy Joseph Israel Levy Joshua Levy Moses Levy Uriah Phillips Levy Isaac R. Marques Moses Michaels (E)Manuel Myers Seixas Nathan Simon Nathan Rodrigo Pacheco David Pardo Isaac Pinheiro Rachel Pinto Morris Jacob Raphall Abraham Sarzedas Moses Seixas Solomon Simpson Nathan Simson Simja De Torres Benjamin Wolf Alexander Zuntznousername08-18-2009, 05:50 pmDISCUSS MEDIAwow so the jew came up with the idea that blacks are monkey chimps apes, etc... and then use their own media to get blacks to believe that whites said that they were monkeys... now what the fuck is really going on?! more and more is revealed i hope they continue to film themselves and explain to the world how they really feel. how many jews were in the confederacy and how many lived down south and were in the kkk? how many jews were in those movements to lynch blacks? think of how many fat bearded curly haired bastards flew the stars and bars and have had a whole lot to do with racism? the average hillbilly you see down south has no racial aesthetics they are usually dark haired bald on top bushy beard glasses and some curly hairs here and there... now does that match up to an aryan poster boy? i dont think so. so all the fat ugly "rednecks" you see with beards and the hood and white robe is not even white at all but appears caucasion white people will not notice it and think they are white. JEWS created racism and supported it all over the south! jews in the kkk hmmmm ive seen a photo of ALBERT KIKE i mean (Pike) and he looked like a pickle chomping bagel eating kabbala reading fuckhead and he was in the KKK and also said in this masonic book i got its all about lucifer and the kabbala and on and on... magic,freemasonry,kabbala, and most of all SECRECY! so still think ALBERT PIKE 33* is white still? or a masonic jew who ran the KKK civll war and on and on... they are found behind the scenes of just about anything.I don't like Jews but the idea that Jews are behind racism and racism would not naturally occur anyway is absurd.Oh the poor blacks, everyone would love them if it were not for the Jew, lol what a joke.Jews did not create racism, even if they invented the KKK.You give them a bit too mch credit.I guess you will say the Jews make blacks look bad on the media too,but that is the opposite of the truth.Prussea07-06-2009, 04:11 amDISCUSS MEDIAThanks for sharing. They are the masters of racism.redbaron0907-02-2009, 02:16 amDISCUSS MEDIA"All critics of Jews should not be tagged as anti-Semites. We are not a nation of Christs, Spinozas, and Einsteins; that the Nazis are brutes does not make us angels... Criticism is not the same as hatred, and critics are not our enemies. The greatest friends of a people are not those who praise but those who honestly find fault. A people without criticism is either a dictatorship or a community so deeply embedded in smug self-satisfaction as to be on the road to decadence.-William Zuckerman Jewish author [written before World War II, in Goldstein, D., p. 119]The far-reaching consequences of the [Jewish] martyr complex go beyond any effect of the individual Jew ... and do not leave unmarked even the most sympathetically inclined Gentiles. Since the Jew is hypersensitive on the subject of his Judaism, Gentiles fear to offer constructive criticism lest they be accused of prejudices. Thus the Jew is denied the benefit of honest evaluation of the very real differences and prejudices existing ... I believe we Jews will never be normal individuals so long as we foster our martyr complex, so long as we remain evasive of self-appraisal and self-improvement, and so long as it is easier to blame the other fellow for our own faults.-Maurice M. Feurlich Jewish author in Children of the Martyr Race, The Forum, NYC, September 1937; cited in Goldstein, D., p. 116By accusing western democracies of anti-Semitism, the Jews put them on the defensive. As long as guilt feelings can be profitably mined, advantages can be gained. But the lode is not likely to last forever.-Moshe Leshem former Israeli diplomat, p. 253-254]A popular government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own government must arm themselves with the power which knowledge brings.-James Madisonredbaron0907-01-2009, 09:28 pmDISCUSS MEDIAi have been reading books such as "CODEX MAGICA" and "MYSTERIOUS MONUMENTS" and some masonic books i have alot of them downloaded through the EUCULYPTUS app on iphone you can find albert pike's books written by his fat ass. so check it if you have euculyptus on your ipod touch or iphone i bought the app for ten dollars and i can d-load as many books as i want ive been d-loading books on jews and zionism and books they wrote about anti semitism and of course they have no arguement but they try anyways because they always have to be right about everything and thats why they argue about anything and are just downright fucking annoying.redbaron0907-01-2009, 09:23 pmDISCUSS MEDIAand also go here Masonic Jews Plot to Control World—Zionist Secret Society Conducts Luciferian Rituals Deep in Cave Under City of Jerusalemredbaron0907-01-2009, 09:22 pmDISCUSS MEDIAread what albert pike has to say about creating one world gov and war between jews and arabs. MORALS AND DOGMA speaks of zionism,secrecy,lying,freemasonry,magic,kabbala and etc... and all that other stuff they do like pedophilia and child sacrifice at certain degrees im sure? remember seeing those films on jewish ritual murder or jewish child sacrifice? that thing sort of happens within certain kabbalistic rites in freemasonry,magic, sorcery and so on... really check into masonry and the similar behaviour it has with the kabbala some rabbi said in the early 1900's he said The well known rabbi, Isaac Wise, was emphatic when he concluded: "Freemasonry is a Jewish establishment, whose history, grades, official appointments, passwords, and explanations are Jewish from beginning to end." Thus, The Jewish Tribune of New York, on October 28, 1927, stated; "Masonry is based on Judaism. Eliminate the teachings of Judaism from the Masonic Ritual and what is left?" so there you have it.hitch07-01-2009, 03:15 pmDISCUSS MEDIAYeah, and this vicious Rabbi has a whole bunch of vids on his JEW-tube channel. He also has to edit more than anybody I've ever seen, even for a 1 minute video...crazy like the rest of them!</div>Symmetrical Analysis in the Time of Myopia: Seeing the New Colonialism; Seeing Genealogies of the Triangle Slave Trade; Seeing Ghostshttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/symmetrical-analysis-in-the2009-03-30T02:00:00.000Z2009-03-30T02:00:00.000ZRayfield A. Wallerhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/RayfieldAWaller<div><p style="text-align:left;"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828507674,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="" width="468" height="368" /></p><i>“The truth is, in the country of the blind, The one-eyed man is considered to be crazy as hell.”</i><b>--Robin Palmer, Ex Officio, The Weather Underground</b><i>"The beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart."</i><b>-- Mary Shelley's Victor Frankenstein</b><i>"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. Men may not get all they pay for in this world; but they must pay for all they get. If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and, if needs be, by our lives, and the lives of others."</i><b>--Frederick Douglass, his address on West Indian Emancipation (1857)</b><b>1. Preface</b>What is this 'Symmetrical Analysis' I speak of? It is the will toward seeing social, political, economic, and historical issues and reality not in isolation from one another. Thus, it is the act of refusing to accept the popular, media moderated practice of judging our reality and our freedom as any single sort of EFFECT; rather, our reality and freedom are the result of a collection of ALL of these material components. What is economic is political, and what is political has social ramifications. What exists must have its roots in history. Nothing makes sense unless all of these components are considered.Yes, thinking requires effort. It is a form of labor. It is a form, in fact, of STRUGGLE. As Frederick Douglass warned us about struggle, it is a thing we must engage in, and must do so despite fear and pain and even death, for it is a necessary process if we are to preserve our freedom. Freedom, as has been lately observed with great alacrity, "Is a conversation by free men about being free."<b>2. Thugs Я Us: To Overturn the Nation State</b>The thugs (Rumsfeld, Cheney, Pentagon Advisor Richard Perle, Honorary Thug Bill Kristol, Gunga Din-Sambo Ahmed Chalabi, Honorary White Man Condoleeza Rice, John Ashcroft, Sad Sack Colin Powell, etc.) who had for eight years worked steadily at destroying our democracy, our Constitution, and our precious civil rights, have gone into eclipse following the election of President Obama.But mark me well: their eclipse, like the eclipse of the moon, parallels any other celestial eclipse in that the thing eclipsed has not truly departed; it is merely now invisible, out of range, lacking its former luminescence and influence. Things in eclipse by astronomical definition always return sooner or later.Let it not be forgoten that independent journalist, Doug Thompson, broke the story back in 2005 that Bush had openly expressed contempt for the Constitution in an oval office meeting attended by several congressional leaders, including conservative congressman Bob Barr, who, incidentally, veered far to the left of the Bush administration in 2005, becoming a vehement spokesman for civil liberties and a steadfast critic of Bush; could the events of that meeting as recounted by Thompson, have influenced Barr to recognize how the Republican adminstration was a chief enemy of human freedom and individual rights?(see <a href="http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml">http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml</a> to read Thompson's article in full).Thompson reported :<i>...Last month, Republican Congressional leaders filed into the Oval Office to meet with President George W. Bush and talk about renewing the controversial USA Patriot Act.Several provisions of the act, passed in the shell-shocked period immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, caused enough anger that liberal groups like the American Civil Liberties Union had joined forces with prominent conservatives like Phyllis Schlafly and Bob Barr to oppose renewal.GOP leaders told Bush that his hardcore push to renew the more onerous provisions of the act could further alienate conservatives still mad at the President from his botched attempt to nominate White House Counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court."I don't give a goddamn," Bush retorted. "I'm the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.""Mr. President," one aide in the meeting said. "There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution.""Stop throwing the Constitution in my face," Bush screamed back. "It's just a goddamned piece of paper!"I've talked to three people present for the meeting that day and they all confirm that the President of the United States called the Constitution "a goddamned piece of paper."</i>--Doug Thompson, "Bush on the Constitution"....The ever present danger of these beasts returning (in the case of Rumsfeld and Cheney, for instance, any future return will be their fourth time taking a run at destroying America: both men served in the Nixon, Reagan, and in the Bush I administrations in various positions and in various advisory capacities) means that our individual freedom, as guaranteed under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Constitution, Emancipation Proclamation, and extending all the way back into English Common Law and the Magna Carta itself (remember: Bush Jr. actually overturned the writ of Habeas Corpus not only in its expression in our Constitution but had, through the Patriot Act, attacked the very roots of discovery, evidentiary justice, and rights of the accused as set forth in the Magana Carta signed by English King John in 1215!) was and still is, in its weakned state, in danger of dying in our lifetimes.We had best keep Obama's feet to the flame.So what exactly ARE these rights expressed as 'individual freedom'? The evolution of the nation-state between 1200 and 1600 AD was undeniably a causal factor in the birth of individual freedom under the law, freedom being exactly what is being largely lost in present-day America after what can best be understood as a 911 provoked regime change that took place here in the United States.Individual freedom as a function of the rise of the nation-state is generally and almost universally understood as being comprised of most or all of these civil and human entitlements:1. Freedom to speak one's mind and conscience, in an orderly fashion in public, in written form, and in the presence of power witout fear of reprisal or censorship.2. Freedom to associate with whomever one chooses.3. Freedom to assemble in public, in orderly fashion, for the purposes of expression, recreation, celebration, protest, civil disobedience, or asociation.<b>below: 700 year old draft of the Magna Cartasold at auction by Southeby's in 2007, purchasedby a trustee of <i>The Carlyle Group</i></b><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828507704,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="" width="299" height="600" style="float:left;" />4. Freedom from wanton, random, or gratuitous coercion at the hands of The State, of economic powers, or of a ruling class.5. Freedom from taxation without legitimate representation and amedment.6. Freedom of religious belief. and of worship and ascription as well as orderly professment.7. Freedom from religion (protection from religious coercion, dogma, or organized powers)8. Freedom from prosecution without trial by jury.9. Freedom from indictment or prosecution without writ of habeas corpus.10. Freedom from group condemnation or persecution, coercion and condemnation by association.11. Equal protection under the law, and equal possession of each of the rights elaborated herein, regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, political persuasion, religious association, gender, sexual orientation, physical appearance, challenge, or empairment, or genomic or phenotypic genetic heritage or profile.12. Freedom to own property and to enjoy safety and protection from persecution or coercion based soley upon economic profile or economic viability and identity.13. Freedom from torture, from cruel and unusual punishment, and from physical threat by The State.14. Freedom from the penalty of death.15. Freedom from arbitrary or systemically entrenched poverty and want (the right to full employment at a living wage).16. Freedom to organize unions of common cause, employment, and professional advocacy.17. Freedom of artistic and intellectual expression, and freedom to invoke intellectual property rights.18. Freedom to control, direct, and manage the fate, processes, and development of ones body (freedom of choice, freedom from sexual coercion, abortion rights, the right to euthansia, and to consumption of all legal substances and mood altering or pharmecuetical agents).<b>below: Original Copy of the US Constitution<i>The National Archives</i>, Washington, DC</b><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828507691,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="" width="384" height="450" style="float:left;" />19. Freedom from forced conscription without legitimate representation and random lottery.20. Freedom to declare conscientious objection to conscription.Though these twenty points are not exhaustive, they are all mentioned, alluded to, or represented in various constitutions and declarations globally, throughtout the western democracies, and within the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the South Afrikan Constitution--two of the most recent and most humane examples of modernist expressions of civil and human rights.These points presuppose that civil rights are merely an extension of human rights, that human rights are rights by birth and without national or international limitation, and that consequently, these rights <i>are neither bestowed upon individuals by nation-states, nor can they be arbitrarily rescinded by nation-states</i>. The freedom of individual rights, however, are generally understood by historians, social analysts and critics, and by social activists, as being the result, in the west that is, of the rise of nation-states during the period of the waning of monarchy, in the 14th-16th centuries.This liberal, modernist conception of individual freedom is indeed in the process of being razed in the United States, as well as in many other of the Western democracies, which are poised to fall like dominoes to the designs of America’s current ruling cadre of corporate brigands and thugs (i.e., the Exxon/Haliburton/Carlyle-Group/Blackwater/Kellogg, Brown, and Root tribe). The ‘brigands’ who used 911 as a pretext to begin a process of reanimating feudalism, slavery, and essentialist notions of race, had also begun a process of erasing the very notion of social justice predicated upon principles of intrinsic human and individual rights. This particular brigandage began as a small but feral cabal of right wing ideologues and administrators who’ve done Ronald Reagan’s dream of eliminating the nation-state one better by launching a rhetorical coup to seize the means of ideological, social, political, and finally economic production in the U.S. I say that the timing of the Wall Street economic collapse was no coincidence: it corresponded with the growing certainty last Fall that Barak Obama was destined to become the next president.<img src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828507629,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="" width="533" height="800" style="float:right;" />This process of ideological, socio-political, and economic unraveling was obviously conceived by American corporate thugs, as always, to be carried out in those very stages (ideological, social, political, and economic) and is was being executed by the Bushistos in that prescribed order. Such was the order of operations for earlier authoritarian thugs, e.g., the German National Socialists in Deutschland; the right wing of the Peronist power bloc in Argentina; Tito in Yugoslavia; Radovan Karadžić in former Yugoslavia/Bosnia-Hercegovina/Republika Srpska; the Francoists in Spain; and the Batista regime in Cuba. All these regimes followed or employed to various effect the methods of anti-Statism in their climb to and maintenance of authoritarian power.Both Naomi Wolf’s “Ten Steps to Fascism” from her text, The End of America, and Professor Theodore M. Vestal’s writings on the characteristics of authoritarianism in several texts including his "Ethiopia: A Post-Cold War African State", discuss the various incremental changes in consciousness, in popular discourse, and in political institutions and social and public policy that inexorably shift modern populations away from social democracy (or even away from socialism in the case of Weimar Germany) and toward authoritarianism/fascism.Among these incremental paradigm shifts is the establishment of what Professor Vestal calls ‘pervasive bureaucracy staffed by the regime, and what he calls the ‘creation of allegiance through various means of socialization’. Bushistos had heavily stacked formerly democratic, public policy bureaucracies with Republican/corporate shills while arbitrarily funding and empowering a huge new authoritarian bureaucracy (known as the Office of Homeland Security). They meanwhile had established a bogus, propaganda apparatus known as ‘Fox News’ in order to re-socialize the American mind, while compromising public education via the privatizing of schools, the imposition an anti-pedagogical testing regime to replace liberal curricula. They had meanwhile blanketed the mass media with right wing ‘noise’ (see "The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy", by former Bushido turned critic of Bush, David Brock). For her part, Wolf, in her “ten steps” ominously warns against the establishment of ‘a thug class’ (step #3), which of course, had been fulfilled by the Bushisto/corporate palace guard known as Blackwater Corporation, a mercenary army and corporation CEO’d/commanded by Bush family lackey, Erik Prince, who founded Blackwater right here in Michigan, my home state.It bears mentioning, in fact, that Prince’s pedigree as candidate for Bush thugmeister reaches back to his little known tour as an intern in the Bush Sr. White House in 1992. His company, which he founded in 1997, is one of the chief war profiteering corporations to benefit from the U.S. Iraq occupation (as editorials and reportage in The Arab American News have pointed out, it is indeed an illegal occupation, not a ‘war’).The upshot was the determined, and to a startling degree successful creation, by authoritarians, of a society-wide form of cognitive dementia in conjunction with a systematic diminution of the effectiveness or of the very purpose of democratic institutions, democratic government apparatuses, and the compromising and even overturning of the very means by which democracy is achieved: that is, the destruction of popular elections and of the electoral process.Specifically, in order to eliminate the bases of civil society in its praxis of human and individual rights, to eliminate democracy, and to eliminate electoral values, it is first necessary to eliminate the collective expectation of these things in our minds. Having achieved this psychic excision, the next tactic was to eliminate its accoutrements. The coup was bloodless (if you don’t count the deaths during 911, in Najif, in Abu Ghraib, at Guantanamo, etc.)<b>3. New Colonialism: Race and the Slave Trade She Rode (back) In On</b>William Kristol, Newt Gingrich, Donald Rumsfeld, Gary Schmitt, Paul Wolfowitz, Dick Cheney, Richard Perle, Trent Lott, et al., as well as corporate funders (DeVos and Prince) and think tanks such as The Cato Institute, Heritage Foundation, the Scaife Foundation and The New Citizenship Project, have all waged this coup in order to recondition collective consciousness.Historians like Richard Bean typically understand ‘nation-states’ (i.e. Bean’s essay, "War and the Birth of the Nation-State", from Journal of Economic History, Vol. 33, #1, March, 1973) as entities that have organized the forces of western ‘civilization’. By his definition statism distinctly positions itself against, or after, feudalism and monarchism proper. It nurtured ‘civilization’ and its accoutrements: egalitarianism, humanism, early mercantilist energies, post-Athenian/Post-Periclesian democracy, collective administration, and individual/minority rights. Statism literally gave succor in Central Europe to the post-Romanesque notion of individual freedom and individual rights.This is so even while Statism admittedly was a force for repression of ethnic difference, local autonomy, and pluralism i.e., the 19th century Italian phenomenon of 'Il Risorgimento'. It must be admitted that the Risorgimento though it generally involved the birth of nationalist sentiments that drove out Austrian, Napoleonic, and Habsburgean foreign rule in Italy, particularly in the Italian-speaking northeast, nevertheless was a movement that contained and crushed dissent from annexed states and among defiant regionalist movements. Secessionists, particularly the Sicilians, protested and revolted against the centralized, authoritarian Italian state, and late 19th century resistance to Statism was particularly strong among the southern peasants who refused to accept the Risorgimento government. It goes without saying that certain Spanish, Arabic, and Greater Metropolitan African elements within the southern population continued to see areas such as Sicily, Messina, and Corsica as distinct, independent entities. The savage repression of regional autonomy and difference across the Italian peninsula was part and parcel of Italian evolution toward statism.Still, statism across Europe in toto, created a social milieu in which social cruelties and barbarisms (such as slavery) could no longer be transparent, but became opaque. Unlike the milieu of ancient Rome, of ancient Carthage, or ancient Persia and Egypt/Kemet, the new milieu and age that followed the 13th century forced signing by King John of the Magna Carta and that included the 18th century rationalism and empiricism of the enlightenment and Renaissance (both of African origin, say many historians such as Cheikh Anta Diop and Martin Bernal) was one in which slavery needed a new justification since it arose out of a new impetus.Certainly, even the archaic and antique periods of Europe, followed by the classical period and then the dark ages, all featured African influence, but the unique aspect of the African and Asian influences of the enlightenment itself was the drive toward democracy (first in Greece, then in Rome, and later in France and the Americas) that this particular period (from AD 1400-1800) entailed slavery was both a continued barbarism in Europe even after the enlightenment, a peculiarly altered practice because of the enlightenment and the statism that accompanied it (since slavery became a more mechanistic, corporate practice, as well as an aberrant practice whose days were necessarily numbered due to the very mercantilist and statist forces--under waning monarchism and feudalism--that drove the slave trade through those forces’ support of the slave trade).The classical period had been one in which slavery had three clear and widely acknowledged justifications:1. Slavery was a result of war—a form of pillage (a defeated enemy was understood to be subject to a portion of the defeated population being taken as slaves).2. Slavery was a result of fiat—the will of a king (those subject to the monarchist rule of a king, emperor, or a Caesar, were understood to be subject to the whim of that ruler, who could declare one to be enslaved, or remove one’s freedom to the point of virtual slavery).3. Slavery was the result of a debt—an indenture of indefinite length (a debtor might be subject to policy, procedure, or law, all of which might decree that his freedom be forfeited for a limited term of service, or for any term up life, in compensation for a debt).By contrast to these acknowledged justifications for enslavement, the advent of the Transatlantic, Triangular Slave Trade was a break with all known standards of behavior, and this paradigm shift required a justification. Race became that justification. The invention then, of the ideology of ‘Race’ (and of ‘white’ supremacy), is contemporaneous with the creation of corporations and the rise of a global slave trade organized not by kings, not by states, and not by generals, but by corporations.The global slave trade was unique in that it was highly systematized, mechanistic (in the sense that it established interlocking and complex patterns, policies and procedures commercial in nature that could create repetition of expenditure, storage, processing of ‘goods’, sales, and profits in a pattern meant to operate into perpetuity), and purely commercial in nature, with operations motivated and enabled through investment and strict profit margins. It was an immense, global, and nearly unprecedented mass relocation of millions of Africans, not after conquest in war, not through fiat, and not for repayment of a debt, but for no other reason than gross profit of the type that came into being after mercantilism and the birth of corporations.To justify such mass theft not only of human labor but also of natural resources (such theft eventually becoming the project of global colonialism through which Europe ravaged Africa and Asia) necessitated the invention of a mythology of the sub humanity of Africans.This was in direct contrast to the previous, classical conceptions of ethnicity and nationality (as opposed to ‘race’) which were the conceptions by which nations identified themselves and identified other nations. An Egyptian in ancient Rome was understood to be a resident of the nation of Egypt, while a Roman was understood to be a resident of Rome, or a descendant of a certain ethnic community native to Italy. Likewise, an Ossian, or German, or Greek, or Numidian, or Nubian would be understood as a member of those associated nations, tribes, or communities. The notion of ‘race’ per se, as we now understand it, did not exist, and so then neither did racism.Racism, like brigandage, rape, war, monarchist cruelty, unrestrained pillage, or order by the whim of warlords, was essentially mitigated by the rise of the nation-state, and thus, at the behest particularly of corporations, race became a justification for the establishment of an exception to the growing protection of individual and collective justice that nation states tended to exert.We habitually assert such claims about the beneficent potential of nation-states, notwithstanding legitimate anarchist critiques of statism. Nations, every bit as readily as monarchies, possess the strong potential, and even the tendency, to inflict war, oppression, plunder, and abuse upon other states, and even upon their own citizens. Yet, the undeniable history of the rise of the nation-state between 1200 and 1600 verifies the concordant, even resultant rise of the forces of egalitarianism, law, social constraints upon brigandage, and cultural freedom.There was, however, an inevitability to the history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, given the reality of the pure profit motive adopted by the nascent and the early corporations. The creation of the modern concept of ‘racism’ was rooted in the advent of the corporation. The formation and ‘chartering’ of the Stora Kopparbërg in Sweden (AD 1347), of the Dutch East India Corporation (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie ) in The Netherlands (AD 1602), the and the granting by the British Crown of a monopoly to the British East India Corporation (AD 1600) commenced the history of corporate profit motive that led to the spread of the corporate model, the invention of the trust company and of limited partnerships in the 19th century, corporate fascism in the 20th century, and the current 21st century model of the multinational hegemonic corporations, such as Blackwater, and without borders or national identity (the incorporeal corporation).<b>4. Seeing The New Colonialism</b>Donald Rumsfeld’s presumptive Jewish identity notwithstanding, he was, in 2003, the Bush administration’s herald of New Fascism and of New Colonialism. During a series of rambling, psychically dizzying press briefings throughout the latter nine months of 2003 (the invasion of Iraq had commenced on March 20th, 2003) Rumsfeld introduced to a pacified White House Press Corps the theory and battlefield practice of ‘The Rumsfeld Doctrine’; a post modern rejection of heavy, tank-style attacks in favor of lighter armor, more rapid, more effective, fast moving columns carrying scant numbers of troops deep into enemy territory for the purpose of surveilling enemy positions in order to call in massive air strikes and then move on, eschewing secure bivouacs or fortress-like entrenchment.Rumsfeld’s preening, neologistic, nonsense ridden diatribes in these press conferences (“There are known knowns…there are known unknowns…but there are also unknown unknowns: there are things we do not know we don’t know.”) marked a launch point for the only recently overturned (if we can actually trust that Obama's election overturned it), ongoing U.S. project of New Fascism.Step one in this process, a process we are currently living through, was the re-introduction of Old World Colonialism (post-post Colonialism, if you wish, or Neo-Colonialism, or, as I prefer to call it, ‘New Colonialism’, for it hardly matters by what name we call the rose; it would stink as much).Step two had proven itself to be the systematic desensitization of the U.S. population to the debasing of human rights, the founding of a pugnacious foreign policy based upon endless war, the founding of a torture state, and the destruction from within of democratic institutions.<img src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828507758,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="" width="470" height="368" style="float:right;" />Step three, it seems clear, would have been the imposition of massive social, economic, and political collapse, necessitating the impositio, presumably, of military rule, of a police state, and of society-wide surveillance and suspension of individual freedom.A question to haunt us: has step three been averted thanks to Obama? And if so, for how long? Eight years is the legal extent of his presence in the White House. Without vigorous and harsh prosecutions and punishment meted out to the war criminals and thugs who hyjacked our democracy for eight years, will those now in eclipse return to finish their work?Only time will tell.</div>