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WHAT SHOULD THE CREATOR GOD HAVE SAID TO MAKE US KNOW THAT WE SHOULD LIVE BY HIS LAW
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2019-10-01T01:36:58.000Z
2019-10-01T01:36:58.000Z
Tziona Yisrael
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<div><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>WHAT SHOULD THE CREATOR GOD HAVE SAID</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>TO MAKE US KNOW THAT WE MUST</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><strong>LIVE BY <em>HIS</em> BOOK OF THE LAW</strong></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>“</strong><strong>The LORD said unto Moses,</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Come up to me into the mount,</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>and be there:</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>and I will give thee tables of stone,</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>and a law, and commandments</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>which I have written;</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>that thou mayest teach them.</strong><strong>”</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;">Exodus 24:2</p><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>“</strong><strong>Only be thou strong and very courageous,</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law,</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>which Moses my servant commanded thee:</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>turn not from it to the right hand or to the left,</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth;</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>but thou shalt meditate therein day and night,</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>that thou mayest observe to do</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>according to all that is written therein:</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous,</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>and then thou shalt have good success.</strong><strong>”</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;">Joshua 1:7,8</p><p>I find the above passages to be the epitome of GOD’s TRUTH. HE formed us and gave us a WALK of Life to embrace and enjoy forever. Not only that, though it is not mentioned, per se, but WORSHIP of the CREATOR GOD and NONE ELSE is embedded throughout HIS Book of the Law. Hence, how can we just ignore the WORD of Our CREATOR GOD?</p><p><strong>“</strong><strong>GOD SPAKE ALL THESE WORDS, SAYING, I AM THE LORD THY GOD, WHICH HAVE BROUGHT THEE OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT, OUT OF THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE. THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME.</strong> Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: <strong>THOU SHALT NOT BOW DOWN THYSELF TO THEM, NOR SERVE THEM: FOR I THE LORD THY GOD AM A JEALOUS GOD,</strong> visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.” Exodus 20:1 - 6</p><p><strong>READ CAREFULLY FOR UNDERSTANDING BECAUSE THE FOLLOWING PASSAGES TELL THE WHOLE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IN A NUTSHELL</strong></p><p>The CREATOR GOD of Israel said that the Children of Israel are HIS Witnesses, and the reason is that HE is the GOD that appeared before them, led them, and proved HIMSELF via HIS MAGNIFICENT MIRACLES and spectacular WONDERS that HE is indeed their GOD, and even GOD of all who turn to HIM.</p><p><strong>“</strong><strong>YE ARE MY WITNESSES, SAITH THE LORD, AND MY SERVANT WHOM I HAVE CHOSEN:</strong> <strong>that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I AM HE: BEFORE ME THERE WAS NO GOD FORMED, NEITHER SHALL THERE BE AFTER ME.</strong><strong>”</strong> Isaiah 43:10</p><p>WOW! That just about clarifies the whole Truth of the matter more than anything I could offer in the way of evidence that there is but ONE GOD, and that HE is Our JEALOUS CREATOR – the GOD we must obey and worship FOREVER!</p><p>“The LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; <strong>ONLY YE HEARD A VOICE.</strong> And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone. And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it. Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; <strong>FOR YE SAW NO MANNER OF SIMILITUDE ON THE DAY THAT THE LORD SPAKE UNTO YOU IN HOREB</strong> out of the midst of the fire: Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,” Deuteronomy 4:12 – 16</p><p>“Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him. Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire. And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt; To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day. Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else. Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.” Deuteronomy 4:35 - 40</p><p><strong>“</strong><strong>TAKE HEED TO YOURSELVES, THAT YOUR HEART BE NOT DECEIVED,</strong> and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; And <strong>then the LORD's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.</strong> Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates: That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth. For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him; Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves. Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be. There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you. <strong>Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day: And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, <u>to go after other gods, which ye have not known</u>.</strong><strong>”</strong> Deuteronomy 11:16 – 28</p><p>“The LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers: If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. <strong>See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: AND THE LORD THY GOD SHALL BLESS THEE IN THE LAND WHITHER THOU GOEST TO POSSESS IT. BUT IF THINE HEART TURN AWAY, SO THAT THOU WILT NOT HEAR, BUT SHALT BE DRAWN AWAY, AND WORSHIP OTHER gods, AND SERVE THEM; I DENOUNCE UNTO YOU THIS DAY, THAT YE SHALL SURELY PERISH,</strong> and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. <strong>I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: THAT THOU MAYEST LOVE THE LORD THY GOD, AND THAT THOU MAYEST OBEY HIS VOICE, AND THAT THOU MAYEST CLEAVE UNTO HIM: FOR HE IS THY LIFE, AND THE LENGTH OF THY DAYS:</strong> that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.” Deuteronomy 30:9 – 20</p><p>There we have “Thus Saith the LORD”, the WORD of GOD, that should forever be <strong>Our GUIDING LIGHT</strong> for Hebrew Israelites and all peoples to follow. But descendants of Slaves question our ethnicity and have doubts about the Biblical Israelites being Black and our being these Chosen People of GOD. Of a Truth, not all Blacks are of the SEED of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Nevertheless, it is common knowledge and a proven fact that the Israelites always fled into Africa (“the land of Ham”) when experiencing famine, pestilence, and GOD’s WRATH. Therefore, without question, there are Israelites throughout Africa even now (<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2889798-hebrewisms..."><strong>Hebrewisms</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>West</strong> <strong>Africa</strong> by Joseph J. Williams</a>). However, those of us who are GOD’s Covenant People learn quickly of our true identity when we SEEK and PRAY to the CREATOR GOD of Israel to learn about HIM and HIS Book of the Law.</p><p><strong>THERE IS A SAYING: “The PROOF is in the PUDDING”, BUT IN THIS CASE IT IS IN THE WORD OF GOD</strong></p><p>Consider what the GOD of Israel said would happen to the Children of Israel if they rejected HIM for other gods and disobeyed HIS LAW!</p><p>“And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.</p><p><strong>“Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people</strong>, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and <strong>there shall be no might in thine hand.</strong><strong>” </strong> Deuteronomy 28:29,32</p><p><strong>“</strong><strong>I SAID, I WOULD SCATTER THEM INTO CORNERS, I WOULD MAKE THE REMEMBRANCE OF THEM TO CEASE FROM AMONG MEN:</strong><strong>”</strong> Deuteronomy 32:26</p><p><strong>WERE WE NOT STOLEN FROM THE SHORES OF AFRICA AND FORCED ONTO SLAVE SHIPS, JUST AS GOD SAID</strong></p><p>“The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and <strong>thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:</strong> So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. <strong>The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head. The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and <u>THERE SHALT THOU SERVE OTHER gods, WOOD AND STONE</u>.</strong><strong>”</strong> Deuteronomy 28:33 – 36</p><p>Is not this JC, man-god, the other god the MOST HIGH said we would worship in the lands of the heathen where we have been scattered for worshipping other gods? The JEALOUS GOD never once said that JC is HIS Son. And Truth be told, the MOST HIGH never even mentioned him, period. And for that reason, Christians must come to terms with “Thus Saith the LORD” – the real Everlasting TRUTH!</p><p><strong>“</strong><strong>Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for THEY SHALL GO INTO CAPTIVITY.</strong></p><p><strong>“The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.</strong> <strong>HE SHALL LEND TO THEE, AND THOU SHALT NOT LEND TO HIM: HE SHALL BE THE HEAD, AND THOU SHALT BE THE TAIL.</strong> <strong>MOREOVER ALL THESE CURSES SHALL COME UPON THEE, AND SHALL PURSUE THEE, AND OVERTAKE THEE, TILL THOU BE DESTROYED;</strong> <strong>BECAUSE THOU HEARKENEDST NOT UNTO THE VOICE OF THE LORD THY GOD, TO KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS AND HIS STATUTES WHICH HE COMMANDED THEE:</strong><strong>”</strong> Deuteronomy 28:41,43 - 45</p><p><strong>“</strong><strong>THEREFORE SHALT THOU SERVE THINE ENEMIES which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.</strong> <strong>THE LORD SHALL BRING A NATION AGAINST THEE FROM FAR,</strong> 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:” Deuteronomy 28:48 - 50</p><p><strong>“</strong><strong>Behold, I set before you this day a BLESSING AND A CURSE; A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God,</strong> which I command you this day: <strong>And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, WHICH YE HAVE NOT KNOWN.</strong><strong>”</strong> Deuteronomy 11:26 – 28</p><p><strong>“</strong><strong>THE LORD SHALL SCATTER THEE AMONG ALL PEOPLE, FROM THE ONE END OF THE EARTH EVEN UNTO THE OTHER;</strong> and <strong>THERE THOU SHALT SERVE OTHER GODS,</strong> which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.” Deuteronomy 28:64</p><p>Given these passages, surely we are wise enough to know that the CREATOR GOD of Israel wants us (and all Peoples-Deut.31:11,12) to live and do HIS Laws, Statutes, and Judgments “ALWAYS”. And of great import it should be obvious that because our forefathers rejected Our GOD of Israel and worshipped other gods, we have been duped to fulfill HIS WORD to worship the god of Enslavers.</p><p><strong>“</strong><strong>BECAUSE YOUR FATHERS HAVE FORSAKEN ME, SAITH THE LORD, AND HAVE WALKED AFTER OTHER GODS, AND HAVE SERVED THEM, AND HAVE WORSHIPPED THEM, AND HAVE FORSAKEN ME, AND HAVE NOT KEPT MY LAW;</strong> And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me: <strong>THEREFORE WILL I CAST YOU OUT OF THIS LAND INTO A LAND THAT YE KNOW NOT, NEITHER YE NOR YOUR FATHERS; AND THERE SHALL YE SERVE OTHER GODS</strong> day and night; where I will not shew you favour.” Jeremiah 16:11 - 13</p><p>Have not all these horrendous curses befallen us? Were not our forefathers taken as Slaves to serve White Supremacists? Are we not totally under their control to serve them just as the GOD of Israel had said would happen to us if we turned to other gods?</p><p><strong>“</strong><strong>I WILL SCATTER YOU AMONG THE HEATHEN, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.</strong> Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.</p><p><br /> <strong>“AND YE SHALL PERISH AMONG THE HEATHEN, AND THE LAND OF YOUR ENEMIES SHALL EAT YOU UP.</strong><strong>”</strong> Leviticus 26:33,34,38</p><p>We have served the heathen and even worshipped their god, and believe me, we have suffered untold tribulations, afflictions, oppressions, and much agony, and our pain and heartache cannot be compared to any other people. We have lost our nativity, our land, our GOD’s Righteous WAY of Life (Lam. 2:9), and of great import, as a Nation, we have lost Our Beloved GOD all because our forefathers transgressed against HIM. Even after being cast into the hands of the worst and most cruel people ever, we still don’t stop to think of the reasons as to why this heinous Slave Trade happened to us. It is certainly not because White Supremacists are more intelligent than descendants of Slaves.</p><p>The worst curses that have taken place on this Earth were the FLOOD and the SLAVE TRADE. And this captivity still haunts us unto this day even though Our MERCIFUL GOD has opened our eyes to knowledge of HIM, knowledge of our true identity, and knowledge as to how to get out of this Hell. So, yes, Our GOD of Israel did scatter us, but HE, at HIS WORD, PROMISED not to forsake us if we will be obedient unto HIS VOICE.</p><p><strong>“</strong><strong>THE LORD SHALL SCATTER YOU AMONG THE NATIONS, AND YE SHALL BE LEFT FEW IN NUMBER AMONG THE HEATHEN, WHITHER THE LORD SHALL LEAD YOU.</strong> And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. <strong>BUT IF FROM THENCE THOU SHALT SEEK THE LORD THY GOD, THOU SHALT FIND HIM, IF THOU SEEK HIM WITH ALL THY HEART AND WITH ALL THY SOUL.</strong> When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, <strong>IF THOU TURN TO THE LORD THY GOD, AND SHALT BE OBEDIENT UNTO HIS VOICE; (FOR THE LORD THY GOD IS A MERCIFUL GOD;) HE WILL NOT FORSAKE THEE,</strong> neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.” Deuteronomy 4:27 – 31</p><p><strong>“</strong><strong>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.</strong> <strong>IF ANY OF THINE BE DRIVEN OUT UNTO THE OUTMOST PARTS OF HEAVEN, FROM THENCE WILL THE LORD THY GOD GATHER THEE, AND FROM THENCE WILL HE FETCH THEE: AND THE LORD THY GOD WILL BRING THEE INTO THE LAND WHICH THY FATHERS POSSESSED, AND THOU SHALT POSSESS IT;</strong> and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers. <strong>AND THE LORD THY GOD WILL CIRCUMCISE THINE HEART, AND THE HEART OF THY SEED, TO LOVE THE LORD THY GOD WITH ALL THINE HEART, AND WITH ALL THY SOUL, THAT THOU MAYEST LIVE.</strong><strong>”</strong> Deuteronomy 30:1 – 6</p><p>The CREATOR GOD of Israel has ALWAYS wanted us to LOVE HIM and KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS!</p><p>This world will only recognize us as GOD’s Chosen People when we come together and speak intelligently as ONE before Congress and before the United Nations about the CREATOR GOD being Our GOD, about our being HIS Covenant People, and about our desiring our FREEDOM out of this Nation that took us as Slaves and that now hold us captive. When we demand to be resettled elsewhere and out of this country that has kept us in gross darkness and away from Our GOD of Israel and HIS Book of the Law, then Our ONLY SAVIOR GOD of Israel will DELIVER us a SECOND TIME out of bondage.</p><p><strong>“</strong><strong>IT SHALL COME TO PASS IN THAT DAY, THAT THE LORD SHALL SET HIS HAND AGAIN THE SECOND TIME TO RECOVER THE REMNANT OF HIS PEOPLE,</strong> 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. <strong>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.</strong><strong>”</strong> Isaiah 11:11,12</p><p>Now, let’s deal with GOD’s WORD and HIS TRUTH. If HE said we would be cursed for serving, worshipping, and bowing down to other gods, then we should understand that we cannot under any circumstances give credence to the god of White Supremacists, for this blue-eyed JC, man-god (like all other gods) is the root of all our curses here in these United Stands, as well as in the lands of all White Supremacist Nations that hold Hebrew Israelites captive.</p><p>Therefore, we have to stop worshipping the god of ENSLAVERS, and above all stop looking for this so-called “Second Coming of JC”. The reason is that at the end of the day, those who put JC before the CREATOR GOD or even mention his name will be horribly disappointed. The only person that the CREATOR GOD speaks of sending to us is HIS Prophet Elijah. </p><p>“In all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and <strong>make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.</strong><strong>”</strong> Exodus 23:13</p><p><strong>“</strong><strong>Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:</strong><strong>”</strong> Malachi 4:5</p><p>Think about it. If JC’s return is anything like his “First Coming”, you have to admit, it’s nothing anyone on Earth can brag about. This Earth is in one sorry and disappointing state of affairs, even replete with daily incidents of death and destruction of Christians and even Israelites, as violence and great affliction permeate this wicked World Order. And all these 40,000+ diverse Christian denominations formed by man can do nothing about.</p><p>We should all read I Kings 18<sup>th</sup> Chapter for real understanding concerning the ONE True and Living GOD. It was GOD’s Prophet Elijah who challenged believers to a chance to prove their false god. The outcome was most wondrous and unforgettable.</p><p>So, what should the CREATOR GOD have said that would cause us to worship ONLY HIM and live and do HIS Book of the Law, as HE has Commanded that we do for as long as we live on HIS Earth???</p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>“</strong><strong>The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever,</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>the thoughts of his heart to all generations.<br /> Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD:</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.</strong><strong>”</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;">Psalm 33:11,12</p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>“</strong><strong>Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him,</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>upon them that hope in his mercy;</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>To deliver their soul from death,</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>and to keep them alive in famine.</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Our soul waiteth for the LORD:</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>he is our help and our shield.</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>For our heart shall rejoice in him,</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>because we have trusted in his holy name.</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Let thy mercy, O LORD,</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>be upon us, according as we hope in thee.</strong><strong>”</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;">Psalm 33:18 - 22</p><p style="text-align:center;">*****</p><p style="text-align:center;">THE LAWKEEPERS OF GOD,</p><p style="text-align:center;">The Blacklist Pub Community/Group</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p></div>
[Mixtape] Behind The Frames 'Misinterpreted'
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/mixtape-behind-the-frames-misinterpreted
2019-02-05T17:22:31.000Z
2019-02-05T17:22:31.000Z
Amanda MzOnPoint Goldben
https://www.theblacklist.net/members/AmandaMzOnPointGoldben
<div><div style="text-align:center;"><hr /><p>BTF aka BEHINDTHEFRAMES was born in New York and raised in Florida.</p><p>During his earlier years, he fell in love with Rap. With a strong sense of self and pride, his presence gives a statement that you don't have to pretend to be something you're not to be a Rapper. Giving full respect and appreciation to all legends, for his storytelling flow is influenced from a wide range of Rap/HipHop classics; BTF strives to honor the genre by maintaining the genuine essence of it. In hopes of earning the respect from not only the game, but the artists of generations before. Being a private school student, he was surrounded by doubt; even within himself he began to question "How can I make this happen?". He was well aware of the obvious factors that were going to be against him. Studying the art form, he began to gain the drive to prove himself. Throughout high school he released tracks that started getting attention as he paved his own way. Looking up to other</p><p>Rappers, BTF saw what being a transcending</p></div><div style="text-align:center;">artist required. Keeping it honest while inspiring others to chase their dreams no matter the odds, he began to work. After recording at UBP Studios in Plantation, FL and releasing two mixtapes (BTF & BTF2), he started working under Ramont Green of Royalty & Respect management. In December of 2016, BTF earned Indie Artist Of The Week on HipHopzilla.com for his song "Gettin To It".</div><div> </div><div><img class="aligncenter wp-image-17518" src="https://streetsonpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/BTF-_Misinterpreted_-Album-Artwork_1024x1024.jpg" alt="[Mixtape] Behind The Frames 'Misinterpreted'" width="550" height="550" /></div><center><iframe width="300" height="380" frameborder="0"></iframe></center><div> </div><div style="text-align:center;">BTF Misinterpreted Spotify Link</div><div style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/6Cj0DzwSvPOdr115KaeJBk?si=aaYl65pgTDSEVDkTBvQ7KQ" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/album/6Cj0DzwSvPOdr115KaeJBk?si=aaYl65pgTDSEVDkTBvQ7KQ</a></div><div style="text-align:center;"></div><div style="text-align:center;">BTF "Trina" Vevo Link</div><div style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/xkw56ENFa98" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/xkw56ENFa98</a></div><div style="text-align:center;"></div><div style="text-align:center;">Instagram:</div><div style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/behindtheframes/" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/behindtheframes/</a></div></div>
New Mixtape: Ed Blair - The Understudy
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/new-mixtape-ed-blair-the-understudy
2018-07-02T02:30:00.000Z
2018-07-02T02:30:00.000Z
Edward Blair II
https://www.theblacklist.net/members/EdwardBlairII
<div><p><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}3828606684,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828606684,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-full" alt="3828606684?profile=original" /></a><strong>Early Life:</strong><br /> Blair grew up in a middle-class neighborhood on Kalamazoo's West Side. In his Junior year at Kalamazoo Central High School, Ed formed the hip-hop group Da Heartthrob with friends. Many of Ed's earliest performances took place at The Strutt in Kalamazoo. At Maple Street Magnet School, some of his teachers ridiculed his aspirations to become a musician but a teacher by the name of Rasaan Hawkins encouraged Ed to make music his focus in a class he taught called hip-hop hits in which Blair learned how to write his own music. After taking a break from college, Ed recorded his first full-length project, an album titled The Understudy. In 2017 he released two singles "What We Do" and "Come My Way" and publicly announced the album. In 2017, Blair made his television debut performing and interviewing on The Lori Moore Show on the CW7. Blair says he spent "about eight months recording, writing and making connections off of the hunger to put out something. Blair released the mixtape on April 6, 2017 and it has since been featured all over social media. The album was well received locally and helped Blair make connections with producers such as Jay Jackson, Brandon Mccall.<br /> Artistry<br /> Ed has stated on numerous occasions that Kanye West, Jay Z, A Tribe Called Quest, J. Cole, Lupe Fiasco, Common, J Dilla, 9th Wonder, Eminem, Cyhi The Prynce and Big K.R.I.T. have all influenced him. When asked about the producer influences in his music, he also has stated that Prince is one of his favorite artists, and his favorite composer.</p><p><strong>Purchase/Stream Here:</strong><br /> <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-understudy/1224418737">https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-understudy/1224418737</a></p><p>Connect With Ed Blair On Social Media:<br /> Instagram: <a href="http://www.instagram.com/EdwardBlairTV">www.instagram.com/EdwardBlairTV</a><br /> Twitter: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/EdwardBlairTV">www.twitter.com/EdwardBlairTV</a><br /> Facebook: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/EdwardBlairTV">www.facebook.com/EdwardBlairTV</a></p></div>
Pima Presents Brand New Single,''Back To The Trap House''
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/pima-presents-brand-new-single-back-to-the-trap-house
2018-04-24T20:36:47.000Z
2018-04-24T20:36:47.000Z
BlackList Media
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<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}3828605127,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828605127,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="3828605127?profile=original" /></a></p><p>Half Mex half native, All pride on the entertainment scene from Maryvale. Local artist is making his presence known working with high quality producers, an exclusives from ATL's Jaynasty and Mexmanny, Bay area Legionbeats and chicago ForeginMadeit/Metroboomin collabs. Mixing conscious, trap , alternative , rnb ,nothing is safe from PIMA. From the ashes of Phoenix somebody you wouldn't want to judge a book by its cover.<br />Check out ''Back To The Trap House'' by Pima:</p><p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hW32saFWnFY?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p></div>
All That Jazz... The ZYG 808 and a Family Musical Legacy
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/all-that-jazz-the-zyg-808-and-a-family-musical-legacy
2018-04-04T11:30:00.000Z
2018-04-04T11:30:00.000Z
Mwalim *7) DaPhunkeeProfessor
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<div><p><b>Rising percussionist and MC discusses how studying jazz has influenced his work as a hip-hop <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}3828604608,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="425" src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828604608,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-right" height="279" alt="3828604608?profile=original" /></a>artist.</b></p><p><span>Since the introduction of the Walkman, to see a teenager with a pair of headphones or earbuds on is a common sight. We now have decades of parents complaining about the mind numbing effect of having music pumped into your ears all of the time as well as the isolating effect of personal listening devices. For musicians this activity is a form of studying as opposed to escapism. Such is the case with The ZYG 808.</span><br /> <br /> <span>Sitting at the drums in the school band room, The ZYG 808 listens to a trap house beat for a few bars, pauses it and recreates the beat on the kit for about 48 bars before slipping into a Max Roach style jazz groove. From there he flows into an Afro-Latin groove for a few bars before slipping back into the trap beat, never losing the pocket. "Studying jazz definitely changes the way that you hear music," explains The ZYG 808, "it opens you up to possibilities. It's like almost all hip-hop is in a 4/4 beat, but I can hear where a 6/8 or even a 5/4 can fit into the pocket."</span><br /> <br /> <span>"When he was about eleven I heard my Art Blakey CD blasting from the player in his room," explained his father, GroovaLottos keyboardist, Mwalim DaPhunkee Professor."I then knew that the habit of raiding your parents record collection was now a family tradition. I used to borrow my mother's jazz and soul albums regularly. Horace Silver, Aretha Franklin, Jimmy Smith, Nina Simone, Ray Charles, Ahmad Jamal, Wilson Pickett..."</span></p><p><span><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4n0XG66x44c?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></span></p><p><span>Currently in the studio making his debut album, "The Intro" The ZYG 808 is also i the planning stages for a jazz album, flexing his compositional muscle with original pieces in Afro-Cuban, Bebop, and Groove styles.<br /> <br /> The ZYG 808 will be the featured artist at AILI @ Haley House in Boston on May 17th.<br /> <br /> For More Info, visit:<br /> <a href="http://thezyg808.com/" target="_blank">http://thezyg808.com</a></span></p></div>
The Grynd Report gets in tune with Highboy to find out what life is like in his City
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/grynd-report-
2017-12-12T17:30:00.000Z
2017-12-12T17:30:00.000Z
Amanda MzOnPoint Goldben
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<div><div style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:18pt;">Out Now The Grynd Report Issue 30 "HighBoy Edition" @highboy_lloyd</span><div> </div></div><div style="text-align:center;"></div><div style="text-align:center;"><div><div style="text-align:center;">The Grynd Report gets in tune with Highboy to find out what life is like in his City and how he has had to overcome various obstacles to live his dream. Also featuring various indy artist through out the industry.</div><div style="text-align:center;"></div><div style="text-align:center;">@soloyal910 @duttyzaya @therealkingjaden @ace_rle @15checkmate @fasscoupe @dj_fly_guy @chacebucks @ceo_od @dre_powe @kiddmajorr</div><div style="text-align:center;"></div><div style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://http//:www.thegryndreport.com/highboyedition" target="_blank">CLICK HERE TO VIEW MAGAZINE</a></div><div style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://bookshow.blurb.com/bookshow/cache/P13367958/md/cover_2.jpeg" target="_blank"><img src="http://bookshow.blurb.com/bookshow/cache/P13367958/md/cover_2.jpeg" class="align-full" alt="cover_2.jpeg" /></a></div><div style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.blurb.com/b/8377193-the-grynd-report-issue-30" target="_blank">CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE DIGITAL OR HARD COPY</a></div><div style="text-align:center;"></div><div style="text-align:center;"></div><div style="text-align:center;"><b>Get Featured in the next Issue of The Grynd Report Dropping in January. Contact<span> </span></b> <a href="mailto:Mysticsent@gmail.com" target="_blank">Mysticsent@gmail.com</a> <b>for Info</b></div><div style="text-align:center;"></div><div style="text-align:left;"><h5 class="section-heading" id="about_book">About the Book</h5><div class="book-description clearfix">The Grynd Report gets in tune with Highboy to Find out what life is like in his City and how he has had to overcome various obstacles to live his dream. Also featuring various indy artist through out the industry.</div></div><div style="text-align:center;"></div><div style="text-align:center;"></div></div></div></div>
Sexual Harassment: Who is the Villain?
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/sexual-harassment-who-is-the-villain
2017-11-26T20:19:16.000Z
2017-11-26T20:19:16.000Z
Dr. Kinaya C. Sokoya
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<div><p>Women must stop portraying themselves as perpetual victims. As an African American woman, I have been more oppressed by women than men. So, women, stop the sanctimonious attitude!</p><p>This essay is commentary on the recent revelations and accusations of sexual harassment, rape, and pedophilia committed by powerful men. It attempts to put this problem into context. First, with exception of the second woman who accused Congressman Al Franklen of improper behavior, I believe the women who have come forward and shared their stories. They are survivors who are brave and credible, and should be believed. Second, there is no excuse for the improper behavior committed by men that they described. The men accused are weak, giving in to their base instincts and socialization. Having said that, women are not innocent of this development. They must also be held accountable.</p><p>Historically, women have been oppressed. They were considered the property of their husbands. Men believed that they were entitled to control the country and the world. They went to work; and, women stayed home, cleaned the house, cooked and raised their children. Women’s virtue was sacred. Her body belonged to her husband. Social messages told males that they were smarter and superior to females in every way. They could even legally beat their wives if they chose. With women’s suffrage, feminism, and the Civil Rights Movement, women have made significant progress.</p><p>However, women as a group has not risen to the challenge of ensuring a continued trajectory of their emancipation from oppression. They have instead partnered with men to ensure they continue to be viewed as meat, judged by the shape of their bodies. The beauty industry is a billion-dollar industry. While it is probably controlled by men, women drive it. That is just the tip of the iceberg. Other culprits are Ms. America pageants, Ms. Universe pageants, commercials (like underwear commercials) that portray women as sexual objects, the clothing industry that produces and sells skimpy revealing clothing, exercise clothing that looks like underwear, the magazine industry with sexually explicit images of women, music videos where women are called bitches and hoes, etc. etc. etc. I could go on and on.</p><p>I have highlighted these industries as examples, but women have made personal choices that have negatively impacted other women. This is not a racial phenomenon. Women of all colors have perpetuated this problem. Remember when Jennifer Lopez made headlines when she wore a revealing gown that showed most of her body, with the exception of her vagina? Remember when Rihanna wore a transparent gown that revealed her naked body? What about women who wear bikinis that show their buttocks? They were not forced to do these things. They made an intentional choice.</p><p>The popular argument against this narrative is women should be able to walk down the street naked and not be attacked or touched. That’s true but, as we see, that does not reflect reality. It is well documented that males think about sex every few minutes. It is also well documented that males are visual animals. They are sexually stimulated by what they see. That’s why pornographic magazines and movies are popular. Knowing this why would women wave this red flag in front of them?</p><p>I have been amazed at the number of girls and women who publicly wear outfits that reveal all their body parts, including vaginas. While their vaginas may not be visible, its shape is clearly outlined through the clothing. Micro mini dresses and skirts are worn so short that the slightest wrong move could reveal the women’s vaginas. Bras that boost up breasts and show as much cleavage as possible are also problematic. These images are paraded in front of men and boys daily. They see it all around them. If you do not want men to view females as a piece of meat, this practice must stop.</p><p>Western men and women criticize eastern countries where women are covered up while at they peel as much clothing as possible from their women. I’m not saying that all women must be fully covered from head to toe, but there must be an acceptable compromise. Glamorous does not have to be sexy. Beauty should be internal based on character.</p><p>The practices of the industries cited above and the bad choices of women have negatively affected other women who are just trying to live their lives. While women can do what they wish with their bodies, they must understand how their choices are affecting other women. Women, you do have a choice. You can pursue career paths other than using your body to make money. If women collectively decided to make other choices, the industries will eventually dry up; and, the images and messages will change. In addition, I believe that if these things are done, fewer women would be sexually victimized. Women, we cannot solely rely on men to do this. We must take affirmative steps to stop this dynamic. Stop supporting and combat industries that promote and/or reinforce the sexualization of women and girls. Make different personal and professional choices. Teach children to respect females. These are just some things you can do. There are many more. Feminists and womanists rise up and fulfill your mission. Empower women and girls and educate men and boys.</p><p> </p></div>
Clean the Healthy Way With Erica Ahmed, Founder Of The Green Laundress
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/clean-the-healthy-way-with-erica-ahmed-founder-of-the-green
2017-10-30T20:34:49.000Z
2017-10-30T20:34:49.000Z
LeShelle, host of MinorityReport
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<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}3828599483,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828599483,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-full" alt="3828599483?profile=original" /></a> As a business owner and mother, Erica struggled to find safe and environmentally responsible products. And when something is broke and needs fixing, in strong Black woman form and fashion… our sista Erica decided to create a line of non-toxic, earth-friendly cleaning products. The Green Laundress offers a Multi-Purpose Spray, Laundry Soap and Tub Scrub.</p><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}3828599599,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828599599,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-full" alt="3828599599?profile=original" /></a> Read more at <a href="https://www.minorityreporttvshow.com/single-post/2017/10/20/Clean-the-Healthy-Way-With-Erica-Ahmed-Founder-Of-The-Green-Laundress" target="_blank">MinorityReportTVShow.com</a></p></div>
Fashion Power House, Joi-Louise The Label for Millennial Women
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/fashion-power-house-joi-louise-the-label-for-millennial-women
2017-09-12T15:30:00.000Z
2017-09-12T15:30:00.000Z
LeShelle, host of MinorityReport
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<div><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}3828597966,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828597966,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-full" alt="3828597966?profile=original" /></a><p></p><p>Joi-Louise The Label (JLTL) specializes in Distinctly Printed Designs made of comfortable stretch fabrics, catering to women of all sizes. Cool, edgy, yet sophisticated, JLTL houses mini collections that speak to a deeper meaning behind the names they are given.</p><p>I asked Joi-Louise to talk to me about her mention in Essence magazine, her contribution to feminism as a millennial and the future of her brand. <a href="https://www.minorityreporttvshow.com/single-post/2017/09/04/Fashion-Power-House-Joi-Louise-The-Label-for-Millennial-Women" target="_blank">Read more....</a> <br /></p></div>
[MIXTAPE] YungMain - Fresh On The Scene
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/mixtape-yungmain-fresh-on-the-scene
2017-07-02T19:30:00.000Z
2017-07-02T19:30:00.000Z
MixtapeDistribution.com
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<div><p><strong> </strong></p><p><img src="http://i1079.photobucket.com/albums/w512/rbetts81/YungMainFreshOnTheSceneCover2_zpshxwe9cht.jpg" alt="." /></p><p><img src="http://i1079.photobucket.com/albums/w512/rbetts81/YungMainFreshOnTheSceneCoverREAR_zpsgix0kis7.jpg" alt="." /></p><p><iframe width="540" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/?wmode=opaque" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p><strong>Description:</strong></p><p>20-year old Stefan Kim, aka Yungmain, is no rookie to the game of hustle and flow. Hailing from Honolulu’s Lanakila area, his world is one of survival, and celebrating the simplest freedoms with those in his circle. YungMain is a charismatic personality, immediately liked by those he comes into contact with, and respected by even more for truly being 100, regardless of a person’s stature, bank account, or title. An eager student of the music business, YungMain continues to show growth, and is quickly becoming a seasoned live performer, as well as a creative and innovative studio artist.</p><p><strong>Tracklist:</strong></p><p><br /> <a href="http://i1079.photobucket.com/albums/w512/rbetts81/YungMainFreshOnTheSceneCoverREAR_zpsgix0kis7.jpg" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:180%;"><span style="font-family:'arial black';">[DOWNLOAD NOW!]</span></span></a><br /> Posted by <a href="http://www.MixtapeDistribution.com" target="_blank">http://www.MixtapeDistribution.com</a></p></div>
Transformers: The Last Knight storms cinemas nationwide
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/transformers-the-last-knight-storms-cinemas-nationwide
2017-06-24T22:00:00.000Z
2017-06-24T22:00:00.000Z
Nwaorgu Faustinus
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<div><p>Transformers: The Last Knight storms cinemas nationwide</p><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}3828596009,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="350" src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828596009,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-left" height="374" alt="3828596009?profile=original" /></a>There comes a moment in everyone’s life when we are called upon to make a difference, the difference that will create change and the change that will save the world. <br /> <br /> The key to saving the future lies buried in the secrets of the past and the hidden history of Transformers on Earth. Now, it's up to the unlikely alliance of inventor Cade Yeager, Bumblebee, an English lord and an Oxford professor to save the world.<br /> <br />"Transformers: The Last Knight," a science fiction movie relates a story of how the hunted will become heroes. Heroes will become villains. Only one world will survive: theirs, or ours.<br /> <br /> Screenwriters:Art Marcum, Matt Hollo<br /> Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Jerrod Carmichael, Isabela Moner, Josh Duhamel, Anthony Hopkins, Laura Haddock, Santiago Cabrera, Liam Garrigan...</p><p>Transformer: The Last Knight, a movie of 2 hour 29 minutes, produced by Don Murphy, Tom Desanto, Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Lan Bryce was premiered at Odeon Leicester Square in London on June 18, 2017 and released on June 21, 2017 in the United States has continued to be a significant box office hit overseas.</p><p>Transformers: The Last Knight now showing in cinemas nationwide, distributed by Silverbird Film Distribution. <br /> <br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}3828596048,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="250" src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828596048,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-left" alt="3828596048?profile=original" /></a>The distributor of Isoken, a block buster movie which tells the story of self discovery that explores cultural expectations, racial stereotypes and the bonds that unite families, in touching, dramatic and sometimes funny ways.<br /> <br /> It stars studded movie stars - the talented Tina Mba in conjunction with Dakore Akande, Funke Akindele, Joseph Benjamin, Damilola Attoh, Lydia Forson, Patrick Doyle among others.</p><p>Find trailer youtube link</p><p>Credit: Youtube</p><p><cite><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgnO5fO46pE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgnO5fO46pE</a></cite></p><p><cite><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS4s6QH_RHI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS4s6QH_RHI</a></cite></p></div>
Stevie Sarado Releases The Highly Anticipated Mixtape "A Reclusive's Exclusives"
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/stevie-sarado-releases-the-highly-anticipated-mixtape-a-reclusive
2017-04-16T20:03:48.000Z
2017-04-16T20:03:48.000Z
BlackList Media
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<div><div class="tb"></div><div class="xg_module_body"><div class="postbody"><div class="xg_user_generated"><div class="xg_module_body"><div class="postbody"><div class="xg_user_generated"><div class="xg_module_body"><div class="postbody"><div class="xg_user_generated"><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}3828593990,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828593990,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="3828593990?profile=original" /></a></p><p>Up-and-coming Ohio emcee, Stevie Sarado, releases his fourth official project: A Reclusive's Exclusives. The mixtape includes 14 tracks with features from the legendary Termanology, Chris Rivers, Sincere, and more as well as production from Park Boys' own Jodi Gladstone and Chico Star. Songs vary in content from straight bars, personal stories, and unique concepts displaying Sarado's range as not just a hungry rapper, but as an artist. All 14 tracks are available for free streaming and downloading on multiple forums, (Datpiff, Spinrilla, Soundcloud, etc.), so go and check out the project! Also, follow Stevie Sarado on all social media platforms.</p><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}3828594117,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828594117,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="3828594117?profile=original" /></a></p><p>Twitter: @StevieSarado</p><p>Facebook and YouTube: Stevie Sarado</p><p>Instagram: @steviesarado</p><p>Check out ''A Reclusive's Exclusives'' on Datpiff:<br /><a href="http://www.datpiff.com/Stevie-Sarado-A-Reclusives-Exclusives-mixtape.838198.html">http://www.datpiff.com/Stevie-Sarado-A-Reclusives-Exclusives-mixtap...</a></p><p>Check out ''A Reclusive's Exclusives'' on SpinRilla:<br /><a href="https://www.spinrilla.com/mixtapes/stevie-sarado-a-reclusive-s-exclusives">https://www.spinrilla.com/mixtapes/stevie-sarado-a-reclusive-s-excl...</a></p><p>Check out the single off of the mixtape,''Sunshine'' ft. Termanology on MyMixtapez:<br /><a href="https://mxtpz.me/a/121669">https://mxtpz.me/a/12166</a></p><p>Check out ''A Reclusive's Exclusives'' on Soundcloud:<iframe width="100%" height="450" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/playlists/313789993&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true"></iframe></p></div></div><div class="left-panel"><p class="small dy-clear view-count-container"></p></div></div></div></div><div class="left-panel"><p class="small dy-clear view-count-container"></p></div></div></div></div><div class="left-panel"><p class="small dy-clear view-count-container"></p></div></div></div>
Stevie Sarado Presents New Promotional Video,''Next In The Game''
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/stevie-sarado-presents-new-promotional-video-next-in-the-game
2017-03-19T19:31:32.000Z
2017-03-19T19:31:32.000Z
BlackList Media
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<div><div class="tb"></div><div class="xg_module_body"><div class="postbody"><div class="xg_user_generated"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ewQ5JmHRfTg?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe> The Park Boys present visuals for Stevie Sarado's freestyles over Kanye West's "Black Skinhead" and Kendrick Lamar's "Rigamortis" to promote his upcoming mixtape: A Reclusive's Exclusives. The project features artists such as Termanology, Chris Rivers, Sincere and production from Chico Star. It will be available for a free download on Datpiff, Spinrilla, Soundcloud, and Reverbnation. Follow Sarado on social media and check out his previous works.<p>Twitter: @StevieSarado</p><p>Instagram: @steviesarado</p><p>Facebook and YouTube: Stevie Sarado</p><p>Soundcloud/ Datpiff/ Reverbnation/ Spinrilla: Stevie Sarado</p></div></div></div></div>
Download Smokin Len Frazier #mixtape "The Rebirth of Cool" #hiphop hosted by Topshelf Airlines
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/smokin-len-frazier-the-rebirth-
2016-10-19T00:30:00.000Z
2016-10-19T00:30:00.000Z
MixtapeDistribution.com
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<div><p><strong> </strong></p><p><img src="http://assets.audiomack.com/lenfrazier/aa1aca373e905a8ba0c5275744c8ed76.jpeg" alt="." /></p><p></p><p><iframe width="540" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3uVBcF76Mxs?wmode=opaque" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p><strong>Description:</strong></p><p>You and I can both agree the rap game is over saturated with dumb down lyrics, talks of violence,<br />Popping pills, doing coke, and sipping lean over trap beats.<br />This a Project with non of that redefining the world "Cool"<br />changing your perspective on it. Smokin Len Frazier pours<br />his heart out over cool, soulful, funky beats about Losing hope,<br />Black Lives matter, Relationships, Friendships, Trying to remain<br />Focused while this nonsense is taking place. Not all conscious<br />Songs, got weed smoking songs, and songs you can play<br />when your trying to have a good time. It's a tribute to the 90's era but also<br />Have today's sound too.<br /></p><p><strong>Tracklist:</strong></p><p><br /> <a href="http://m.audiomack.com/album/lenfrazier/the-rebirthof-cool" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:180%;"><span style="font-family:'arial black';">[DOWNLOAD NOW!]</span></span></a><br />Posted by <a href="http://www.MixtapeDistribution.com" target="_blank">http://www.MixtapeDistribution.com</a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p></div>
New York Recording Artist, Jonny presents Music Video To New Single,''Through The City''
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/new-york-recording-artist-jonny-presents-music-video-to-ne
2016-10-15T20:00:00.000Z
2016-10-15T20:00:00.000Z
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<div><div class="tb"></div><div class="xg_module_body"><div class="postbody"><div class="xg_user_generated"><div class="tb"></div><div class="xg_module_body"><div class="postbody"><div class="xg_user_generated"><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}3828588613,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828588613,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="3828588613?profile=original" /></a><br /> A hybrid of energy, attitude, intellect, creativity, realism, joy and pain, this artist is rightfully known, as Jonny has emerged harder, faster, and more complex than ever before. Jonny debuts in grand fashion. Today, the New York Sensation made his formal introduction with his latest visual for “Through The City”. Jonny is currently working on his upcoming EP, titled “Who_thought”, due late this December. With singles such as ''Through The City'', Jonny is sure to make an impact on the music industry.<br />Follow Jonny on Social media:</p><p>Instagram<br /> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/who_thought/?hl=en">https://www.instagram.com/who_thought/?hl=en</a></p><p>Watch Music Video For ''Through The City'' by Jonny:<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6s9gS3kLWdw?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p></div></div><div class="left-panel"><p class="small dy-clear view-count-container"></p></div></div></div></div><div class="left-panel"></div></div></div>
MIXTAPE: Steven Darnell - The Steven Darnell Project, Hip Hop Downloads
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2016-08-30T03:30:00.000Z
2016-08-30T03:30:00.000Z
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THE BLACK VOTE: BLACKS JUST DON’T GET IT!
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2016-02-23T05:18:05.000Z
2016-02-23T05:18:05.000Z
Tziona Yisrael
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<div><p><span class="font-size-4">February 22, 2016</span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>BLACKS JUST DON’T GET IT!</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>THIS EMPTY RHETHORIC OF PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNERS</b></span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>IS DECEIVING BLACKS <i>AGAIN!</i></b></span></p><p align="center"> </p><p><span class="font-size-3">Here we are again voting in a presidential election and looking to the descendants of our SLAVERS, nonetheless, to improve the lifestyle of descendants of Slaves with their ubiquitous promises of greater opportunities to equality and an end to racism. How the heck can these candidates program the racist minds and hearts of our enemies to end race hatred when they are just as guilty? Our GOD has even made mention of the excessive cruelty of our captors:</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.” Isaiah 47:6</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">Those of us who are the wiser know for a fact that for sure, this election like all others will at the least provide Blacks with a handout of a few crumbs that fall from the benefits of Whites, and at best will be nothing more than a voice denouncing racism and admitting to the truth of the Black Plight. The “Black Messiah, Obama,” did even less, so how can Blacks be so naïve to perpetuate hope in a ballot fraught with corruption, when we know for a fact that it will only manifest greater suppression, oppression, inhumane acts of cruelty, and continued impoverishment? When the US Justice System and the US Supreme Court should act in our behalf to be a voice for us and to command our rights, these entities are silent or are “investigating” matters of prejudice that have been swept under the rug. This, too, is clearly the cycle of racial injustice Blacks have to contend with in this country of so-called “Freedom”. Not only should the racist culprits be held accountable but so also should the systems in place that are retained to end oppression and injustice but fail to do so. </span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">Blacks and other people of color who have no recourse for ending our Hell in this country should learn the truth of the matter. We are not in another man’s land serving him for naught. The curses upon Blacks throughout the world are really for good reason. Yes, I kid you not. </span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">I was talking to a Sister a couple of months ago, and she was telling me how she had prayed to God and asked him what had the Blacks done for HIM to cause us to suffer as we do. That was a good question, and shortly after that the CREATOR GOD led her to the answer.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">Blacks are the most gullible peoples on this globe. When under the power of your enemies they will lead you to think and believe exactly what <i>they</i> deem necessary in order to keep you in a state of ignorance and under their control. And because we are not in positions of control and are not the wealthy with the power, we have no authority. Though Blacks are in office, they know not to make waves, or their seat will go to another Black who will play the game. Otherwise, Black Congressmen and Congresswomen would be more vocal about racial injustices and Reparations for descendants of Slaves. This dilemma is just another reason to look unto the CREATOR for answers that would end Black-on-Black crimes, White-on-Black crimes, Black servitude, Black suppression, and Black impoverishment and brainwashing that has enabled our CAPTORS to do horrendous harm to Black humanity.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">SLAVERS told us any and everything that would keep us in the dark. They would not allow Slaves to retain their names, customs, or culture. And at the end of two generations, these Slaves would know nothing about their heritage or their nationality. Moreover, Slaves would be too focused on wanting to be just like their captors. Thus, it was easy for the SLAVERS to convert their Slaves to Christianity and have them worship a beautiful, blue-eyed White man with straight hair called JC – the one invented by the Romans. </span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">SLAVERS did not want Blacks to know that the “Old Testament” was all about GOD’s love of HIS Chosen People, Hebrew Israelites - who were Black with wooly hair. SLAVERS did not want their Slaves to know that GOD cursed HIS Black but Beloved and Covenant People for their sins and abominations. SLAVERS did not want their Slaves to know that the GOD of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is the True and Living GOD, and that HE is the SAVIOR of the Black Hebrew Israelites. SLAVERS did not want the Slaves to find out that the CREATOR GOD designed a Righteous Way of Life at the time of CREATION (HIS Book of the Law), that HE Commanded of HIS Chosen People. SLAVERS did not want their Slaves to know that this GOD cursed HIS Beloved People because they would not live according to HIS Laws, Statutes, and Judgments that HE Commanded should not be altered but rather lived for as long as they live on HIS Earth (Deuteronomy 12:1). But most of all, SLAVERS did not want their Slaves to find out that this GOD of Israel hated the worship of any other god (The First Commandment), and that HE had told HIS Beloved People that if they did not OBEY HIS Book of the Law and forsook HIM for other gods that HE would scatter them from the Land of Israel to serve their enemies. The GOD of Israel did not lie. HE fulfilled HIS every WORD to bring HIS Chosen to nothing (Leviticus 26<sup>th</sup> and Deuteronomy 28<sup>th</sup> Chapters) in the lands of the heathen who have surely unmercifully punished us for our great sins against Our GOD that gave us a Land of Milk, Honey, gold and silver in abundance.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">”…and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies. And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.” Leviticus 26:33,37,38</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them. But it shall come to pass, 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:” Deuteronomy 28:14,15</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me. The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: 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..” Deuteronomy 28:20,21,25</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.” Deuteronomy 28:29</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.” Deuteronomy 28:64</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:” Deuteronomy 32:26</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">It is important to read both chapters to get the full impact of GOD’s curses upon HIS People. The good thing is that once reading these passages, people admit that they are prophesies about Black so-called “Negroes”.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">Although Our GOD cursed us into the hands of our enemies, HE has promised to SAVE us out of this captivity. Therefore, we need not vote for anything in the lands of our enemies but rather simply turn to Our GOD that Delivered our forefathers out of Ancient Egyptian captivity. The reason is that HE has PLANS to do so AGAIN!</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, 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</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.” Isaiah 49:25</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:” Jeremiah 30:6 - 8</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid. or I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.” Jeremiah 30:10,11</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy. And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border.” Jeremiah 31:10,13,16,17</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">JC has not turned our mourning into joy and nobody else’s, either. </span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror; And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey; And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them:” Jeremiah 32:21 - 23</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me?” Jeremiah 32:27</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me. Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul. For thus saith the LORD; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.” Jeremiah 32 40 - 42</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid. Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.” Jeremiah 46:27,28</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“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 I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame.” Zephaniah 3:19</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.” Jeremiah 29:11 - 14</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">Since Blacks were able to vote (1965) the Black Vote has helped no one but the dominant race. These are facts that cannot be disputed, and Blacks who want to end this subjugation have no choice but to turn to the same GOD that caused our enslavement and captivity, for HE is our ONLY HELP! </span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>“And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.</b> The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.” Isaiah 10:20,21</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.” Isaiah 25:9</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.” Jeremiah 3:23</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.” Jeremiah 24:7</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.” Jeremiah 35:15</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me.” Hosea 13:4</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“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: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.” Exodus 3:15</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.” Hosea 14:1</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?” Malachi 3:7</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">Our GOD ALONE Created the Heavens and the Earth, and HIS HAND is not shortened that it cannot SAVE! All that is required is that we OBEY HIS Book of the Law and love Our GOD with all our heart, soul, and might (Deut.6:5). And then HE will hear our cries to be Delivered out of this Hell that we endure in the land of our enemies, and that without question, entails the USA and all Slave Nations.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: <b>in their affliction they will seek me early.</b><b>” </b> Hosea 5:15</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">The JC Fraud has worked exceptionally well for our enemies whose absolute desire is to keep their shackles around our ankles <i>and</i> our brains – all for one reason: As soon as we return back to Our GOD of Israel, the sooner HE will SAVE us out of this captivity and end this wicked world order. Therefore, vote for that which makes sense. VOTE for the GOD of our SALVATION.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>“Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.”</b> Jeremiah 3:23</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">Surely you’ve heard that White folks declare that Blacks don’t read. I am inclined to agree with them. Nevertheless, take the time to read the Hebrew Scriptures (“Thus Saith the LORD” in the “Old Testament”) because therein is favorable prophecy for the Black Hebrew Israelites just waiting to be fulfilled by Our GOD and ONLY SAVIOR.</span></p><p><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></div>
Black Conservatives Critical of Obama's State of the Union Address
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2016-01-15T14:30:00.000Z
2016-01-15T14:30:00.000Z
SendMeYourNews
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<div><div><strong><span><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}3828578763,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828578763,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-full" alt="3828578763?profile=original" /></a>Puffy, Partisan Speech Further Mires President's Lamentable Legacy<br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">"You Can't Put Enough Lipstick on This Pig of His to Make It Look Pretty"</span></span><span><br /></span></strong></div>
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<p><span><font color="#404040">Members of the Project 21 black leadership network are commenting on - and available for interviews about - President Barack Obama's final State of the Union Address.<br /><br /> While starting out talking about alleged areas for potential bipartisan accomplishment, the agenda President Obama quickly pivoted to and championed throughout the rest of his speech to Congress encompassed a big-government agenda he has always sought to enact with or without the support of elected lawmakers - such as relaxing immigration rules, increasing the minimum wage and new energy regulation.<br /></font></span></p>
<p><span><font color="#404040"><br /> "Although I didn't support President Obama's candidacy either time that he ran, I thought he would be good for race relations. Instead of uniting Americans under the mantle of Dr. Martin Luther King, the president has engaged in a sustained attack on the foundational values that once bound Americans together: family, faith and work. Tonight, the President ignored the persecution of Christians in the Arab world while castigating us all for perceived injustices to Muslims. He further demonized millions of Americans who don't believe in man-made anthropological climate change. And he pandered to a tiny partisan crowd by promising more free programs on the backs of taxpayers. It's hardly a speech to be proud of," said Project 21 member <a href="http://trk.cp20.com/click?9jgcr-16dtds-sbsv988" target="_blank">Stacy Washington</a> , host of the "Stacy on the Right" talk radio program on FM News Talk 97.1 in St. Louis. "We can only hope that the next 12 months will be less eventful, less taxing and have fewer transformations. Obama's campaign slogan was 'hope and change.' We've been changed for the worse. We can only hope for the remaining term to pass by quickly."<br /><br /> Black conservatives with Project 21 have offered comments on each and every State of the Union Address during the Obama presidency.<br /><br /> "Since this was his last State of the Union Address, I was looking for President Obama to say something monumental. I was looking for him to finally stop playing politics and show some true leadership. It was all too clear, however, that Obama plans to leave office with the same sound and fury with which he arrived - but now he's leaving a terrible mess in his wake," said Project 21 member <a href="http://trk.cp20.com/click?9jgcr-16dtdt-sbsv989" target="_blank">Council Nedd II</a>, a bishop for the Episcopal Missionary Church of South Africa and an <a href="http://trk.cp20.com/click?9jgcr-16dtdu-sbsv980" target="_blank">elected constable</a> in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. "Hauntingly, President Obama's legacy is turning back the clock on race relation and seeing repeated attacks on legal gun owners while exhibiting an apparent ignorance to rampant violence that grips places such as his political hometown of Chicago. Obama has helped foster and foment an environment that brands law enforcement as the enemy and exalts criminals as martyrs. He has coddled ISIS and ignored the persecution of faith abroad to the point where several 2,000-year-old Christian communities have literally been eradicated. What are we to actually make of all this?"<br /><br /> Project 21 member <a href="http://trk.cp20.com/click?9jgcr-16dtdv-sbsv981" target="_blank">Christopher Arps</a> , a small businessman and political consultant in St. Louis who is now helping with a major presidential campaign in Iowa, said: "President Obama's final State of the Union Address was supposed to be an effort to help seal his legacy. Unfortunately for him, you can't put enough lipstick on this pig of his to make it look pretty. His true legacy will be remembered in his $1 trillion dollar failed 'stimulus,' the hobbling of the greatest health care system in the world, Islamic terrorism run amok, a feckless foreign policy with a dangerous nuclear deal with the rogue state of Iran, and - last, but not least - an economy growing at a tepid pace that has a record 90 million people out of work. It's not a legacy he should be very proud of."<br /><br /> "Tonight's speech was one that shot for the Moon, but Americans' hopes remain stuck on the ground due to the partisan bitterness this president has fostered to ram through an often unpopular agenda," said Project 21 member <a href="http://trk.cp20.com/click?9jgcr-16dtdw-sbsv982" target="_blank">Kevin Martin</a> , a Navy veteran and small businessman in the Washington, D.C. area. "President Obama opened with the statement that Americans should not live in fear of the future, but too many Americans do fear the future because of the threat of terrorism at home and aboard. And that's just one thing. In poll after poll, a majority of Americans feel our nation is on the wrong track under President Obama's leadership. While he stood in the well of the Congress trying to give an optimistic report, the reality is that Americans just aren't feeling it in their wallets or their lives."<br /><br /> Project 21 members have logged tens of thousands of interview and media citations. Media that recently sought out Project 21 insight includes on TVOne, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, the Orlando Sentinel, Westwood One, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, SiriusXM satellite radio and 50,000-watt talk radio stations such as WHO-Des Moines, KOA-Denver, WGN-Chicago, WBZ-Boston and KDKA-Pittsburgh. Topics included civil rights, entitlement programs, the economy, voter ID, race preferences, education, illegal immigration and corporate social responsibility. Project 21 members provided substantial commentary regarding the Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Freddie Gray incidents. Project 21 has also defended voter ID laws at the United Nations.<br /><br /><em><strong>Project 21, a leading voice of black conservatives for over two decades, is sponsored by the National Center for Public Policy Research (<a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org">http://www.nationalcenter.org</a>). Its volunteer members come from all walks of life and are not salaried political professionals.</strong></em><br /><br /><a href="http://trk.cp20.com/click?9jgcr-16dtdx-sbsv983" name="Contributions" target="_blank">Contributions</a> to the National Center are tax-deductible and greatly appreciated</font></span></p></div>
Letter To President Obama: You are as much of an oppressor as those who have led this country before you.
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2015-11-24T13:30:00.000Z
2015-11-24T13:30:00.000Z
Tziona Yisrael
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<div><p></p><p>11/24/15</p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-5"><b>OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA ON FACEBOOK:</b></span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">Mr. Obama, you took the office of President of the United States with hopes of grandeur and glory for being the first black in history to reside in the White House. However, given all that you promised in your campaign speeches, you could not have been more fruitless. Yes, you became the first Black President, but that ended your hopes for renown and prosperity. Your books are cooked, Mr. President. You never came close to improving the economy, unemployment, education, poverty, homelessness, hunger, medical care for the veterans, the infrastructure, human rights, the deadly race relations between Blacks and Whites, or peace by any means, and the list goes on. You haven’t come close to ending the animosity that exits between the Congressmen and the lack of trust people have in this democracy. And in regard to being a voice for the Blacks who have none and who put you in office, you have failed miserably. And worse, you are as much of an oppressor as those who have led this country before you.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">You know nothing about the CREATOR GOD or HIS Chosen People that HE scattered from HIS Land into the hands of White nations. You know nothing about the Slave Trade that consumed HIS Chosen or the prophecy of it that is written in Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28<sup>th</sup> Chapters. There is a profound reason for the Slave Trade, and <i>“Cursed be Canaan”</i> has nothing whatsoever to do with it. </span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">If you take the time to seek to learn GOD’s WORD regarding the enslavement of these Black Hebrew Israelites and the reasons for this bondage, you will realize that the CREATOR GOD was enraged and furious at HIS people for forsaking HIM and HIS Book of the Law and for turning to false gods. Yes, HE was so full of Wrath that HE cast our forefathers into the hands of our enemies - the <i>“worst of the heathen”</i> (Eze. 7:24) - to be their Slaves, to serve them, and to make them wealthy off the backs of a most miserable people. Nevertheless, it is for these reasons that the US and many other White Nations are so rich, but like you, this is the last thing they want to discuss. Neither do they care to discuss the effects of the Slave Trade in Blacks who have always suffered at the hands of Whites who, incidentally, still hold us in captivity.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">This is not conjecture, Mr. President, or some wild fairy tale. The plight of Blacks is very real and we are in great distress. In that we are the SEED of the Biblical Israelites, surely you can surmise that eventually Our GOD will see our tears and hear our prayers to take us out of this Hell just as HE did for the Children of Israel who left out of Ancient Egypt. </span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“And it shall come to pass in that day, that <b>the Lord shall set his hand again <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. <b>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.</b><b>”</b> Isaiah 11:11,12</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">Whether you believe me or not, the CREATOR GOD that I serve and worship won’t let our oppressors forget their horrific acts against us. Neither will HE let descendants of Slavers forget just how they duped the Slaves into believing in a White, blue-eyed so-called “Saviour”. For your information, Mr. President, the CREATOR GOD is a Most JEALOUS GOD and detests belief and worship of another god. Read the Scriptures and see that this is the main reason HE scattered HIS Chosen People from HIS Holy Land. These are the realities that the Church and White Supremacists have tried to keep hidden from downtrodden descendants of Slaves who have been under White rule and control since the Grecian Empire and unto this day. The truth of the matter is that the writers of the “New Testament” knew what they were doing to invent another god. White World Leaders knew that for as long as GOD’s Chosen believed in and called upon another god that the True and Living GOD would not hear their cries. For a long time this scam worked, but now the CREATOR is waking up the <i>“Dry Bones”</i> to HIS TRUTH, and HE is also removing the yoke from our brains that sustains this brainwashing. In case you never took Black History, Mr. President, Blacks have endured the worst cases of ethnic cleansing and captivity written in the annals of history, and this curse upon us and our suffering must come to an end. People should find it strange that these so-called “Gospel” writers can magnify this man-god, JC, when the CREATOR GOD, Our MAKER, has said that HE does not know of another god. And of great import, HE has said that we should know no god but HIM!</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>“I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me</b>: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:” Isaiah 45:5</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; <b>I know not any.</b><b>”</b> Isaiah 44:8</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>“Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me.”</b> Hosea 13:4</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">Let’s be clear on GOD’s WORD and not the deceptive religion of men who have hidden GOD’s WORD and HIS WAYS of Righteousness.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">You should also know that the same Hebrew Scriptures that prophesies of the fall of the Children of Israel also prophesies of GOD’s revenge upon our Captors for their merciless and heinous Slave Trade that barbarically carried HIS Chosen into the <i>“Four Corners of the Earth”. </i> The White Man’s Church does not teach this either, Mr. President.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>“I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.”</b> Isaiah 47:6 </span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though <b>I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee,</b> yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.” Jeremiah 30:11</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">In case you are wondering about the perils facing this world, please know that the wicked Gentile Rule of this World Order is coming to an end. Only then can we expect a “Change” for the better because right now too many groups are suffering due to the White Man’s greed, double standards, and corruption that fosters hunger, sickness, and destitution throughout the world. There are some of us who do want better lives for everyone and our voices and our actions prove it. I wish I could say the same for you, but all that the world has heard from you is empty charismatic rhetoric.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>“And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.<br /> <br /> “Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.” </b> Isaiah 13:11,13</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers. He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, <b>he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted,</b> and none hindereth.” Isaiah 14:5,6</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">There’s so much more regarding these days of GOD’s WRATH upon the fall of the Presiding Powers, but let this suffice.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">GOD’s WORDS and HIS WORKS are in play! HE is wreaking havoc across the globe and especially on the White Ruling nations that grant free money to other evil and wicked oppressive nations so that they have the arms and the power and the hegemony amid defenseless nations. Your own cruel words, Mr. President, indict you:</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>President Obama: </b> “<i>We occasionally have to twist the arms of countries that wouldn't do what we need them to do</i>…”</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">Countries that know the cruel and brutal past of the United States and its merciless domination of Peoples want nothing to do with your malicious practices against others. These are obviously the countries of which you speak. </span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">Nevertheless, know what’s happening as you watch one nation after another slip out of US control and watch as US leaders observe groups rise up to war with weapons made by the US and by Israelis - the notoriously vicious ones of an apartheid government who so cruelly control GOD’s Land and who endeavor to rule the Middle East. The US makes no secrets about fueling the fires of conflict and death in order that European tyrants who have taken the name of GOD’s Covenant People can control and confiscate homes and farms of Palestinians who have been in the Land of Israel since the Children of Israel made their Exodus out of Egyptian bondage. Yet, Israelis violate every UN resolution against them, and the reason is that you and Congress turn a blind eye to their terroristic acts and brutality against the defenseless Palestinians. You should be the wiser to know that these European Israelis (Askenazim, by their own admission) have no connection to the Biblical Israelites, the Land of Israel, or to the Hebrew Scriptures. GOD called Abram out of Ur (Ancient Babylon) - not out of any country in Europe, and HE promised Abram’s SEED that HE would be their GOD forever (Genesis 17:7). </span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">Just know that GOD’s WORD to HIS Prophets will stand and come to pass. And HIS WORD that is yet to be fulfilled entails GOD taking back HIS Universe, HIS Land, and HIS Covenant People. We have a GOD, and by HIS WONDROUS WORKS, HE will be MAGNIFIED Magnificently when HE gathers the SEED of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob from all lands to where HE has scattered us.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. <b>And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD:</b> and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.” Isaiah 62:11,12</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>“Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return,</b> and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.” Jeremiah 30:10</span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>“Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen,</b> then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.” Ezekiel 28:25</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>“<u>For I will take you from among the heathen</u>, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.”</b> Ezekiel 36:24</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">“Behold, at that time <b>I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame.</b><b>”</b> Zephaniah 3:19</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">And in the process, Mr. President, watch and know that it is HIS HAND causing the destruction of the wicked. At the end of the day, HE will replenish HIS Earth with people who will FEAR HIM to live in HIS WAYS of Righteousness and all for HIS Holy Name’s Sake (Ex. 3:15), so that all peoples, nations, and tongues that will remain after <b><i>“The Day of the LORD”</i></b> will worship HIM and live in HIS Peace and Happiness. </span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">Yes, Mr. President, there is hope for the poor and impoverished people you have swept under the rug, you know, those Blacks you would not mention your first term in office. Did you think that we would succumb to our oppressors and love the country that terrorizes and intimidates us and that treats us like second-class citizens? Did you really believe that Blacks would simply be ecstatic about having a Black President and would forget about the need for justice served for forced migration, for the Slave Trade, for Reparations for the free labor of our forebears, and for restitution for the hundreds of years of bondage and atrocities committed against our people? Or did you think that after you would be president that Blacks would somehow be proud to be American? And did you think like Whites that Blacks would eventually put more faith in this unfounded JC that never did anything for us while the Massas beat our forebears into “seasoned” Slaves? Why didn’t it ever occur to you to step in and speak and act in our behalf since you were elected to the highest post in the land to serve all the people even with a Justice Department to boot? </span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">The CREATOR GOD is working for us now and in ways no man can. In this process HE is calling attention to HIMSELF, and HE will be Magnified and receive the GLORY – ALL THE GLORY for HIS GOODNESS and for HIS Merciful KINDNESS that HE will bring to HIS Earth for all who will CALL upon HIM, FEAR HIM, and OBEY HIS LAW that the White Man’s religion has revoked (Romans 10:4)! </span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">Just one more thing, Mr. President. Please understand that if the Most High GOD of Israel punished HIS Covenant People with the Slave Trade for rejecting HIM and HIS Book of the Law and for committing all manner of sins and abominations, don’t you know that the wicked Powers-that-be who have condoned Christianity and shrouded GOD’s TRUTH with a religion that promotes worship of an imaginary man-god (JC) will also receive of HIS WRATH?!</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>“The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.”</b> Psalm 9:17</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>“Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more.</b> Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the LORD.” Psalm 104:35</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><b>“The LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation</b>.” Jeremiah 10:10</span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">By the way, Mr. President, to the CREATOR GOD, Our MAKER, goes the GLORY, and to HIS Covenant People and the Righteous who SEEK HIM in TRUTH to worship HIM is the privilege to show forth HIS PRAISE.</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">Glory YAH</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">FACEBOOK.com</span></p><p><span class="font-size-3">Read my book - GOD’s WORD at the Mouth of HIS Prophets and learn HIS TRUTH:</span></p><p><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 style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><span class="font-size-1"><em>~(Note: Title edited by TheBlackList)~</em></span></strong></span></p><p></p></div>
[MIXTAPE] Break out debut mixtape by Independent North Bay Area artist KIDDY NITE - The Process (RG Recordings)
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2015-10-28T07:00:00.000Z
2015-10-28T07:00:00.000Z
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<div><p><strong>[MIXTAPE] Kiddy Nite The Process</strong></p><p><strong>Hosted By:</strong></p><p><img src="http://assets.audiomack.com/rgrecordings/e5b2f6119e38c292d9decabc3aa4b1be.jpeg" alt="." /></p><p><img src="" alt="." /></p><p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3uVBcF76Mxs?wmode=opaque" width="540" frameborder="0" height="480"></iframe></p><p><strong>Description:</strong></p><p>Break out debut mixtape by Independent North Bay Area artist KIDDY NITE (RG Recordings). The Process showcases the capacity KIDDY has as an artist from singing, rapping, songwriting, and his overall musicality. RG Recordings brings you this special gem as a taste in what is to come from their collaboration in the future. Enjoy! <br /></p><p><strong>Tracklist:</strong></p><br /><a href="http://www.audiomack.com/album/rgrecordings/the-process?key=theprocess" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:180%;"><span style="font-family:'arial black';">[DOWNLOAD NOW!]</span></span></a><br />Posted by <a href="http://www.MixtapeDistribution.com" target="_blank">http://www.MixtapeDistribution.com</a></div>
APC condemns PDP’s declaration of war against the Nigerian judiciary
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2015-10-26T11:38:41.000Z
2015-10-26T11:38:41.000Z
Nwaorgu Faustinus
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<div><p class="yiv3646586831msonormal"><b>APC condemns PDP’s declaration of war against the Nigerian judiciary</b></p><p class="yiv3646586831msonormal"> </p><p class="yiv3646586831msonormal">The Rivers State chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, has expressed shock over how the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] has launched out on large-scale smear campaign on the Nigerian judiciary following the recent court pronouncements that appear not to favour the PDP and their candidates at the various election petition tribunals especially the Akwa Ibom State and Rivers State governorship election petition tribunals.</p><p class="yiv3646586831msonormal"> </p><p class="yiv3646586831msonormal">“In what is unfolding as an all out war, the PDP National Working Committee [NWC], National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh and the various chapters of the PDP in Rivers and Akwa Ibom States, have already thrown every caution in the rule book to the wind in the way they are casting aspersions on the integrity of respected members of the bench whose only offence is that their meticulous and balanced judgments have exposed PDP’s fraudulent and violent escapades during the 2015 general elections”, Mr Chris Finebone, the Rivers State APC spokesman said in a press statement today.</p><p class="yiv3646586831msonormal"> </p><p class="yiv3646586831msonormal">The APC said it is worried that a particular media outlet, the African Independent Television [AIT], owned and operated by a PDP Chieftain, has offered itself as the foremost platform for the PDP to execute its insidious smear campaign against the Nigerian judiciary.</p><p class="yiv3646586831msonormal"> </p><p class="yiv3646586831msonormal">The APC recalled that prior to last week, the APC have had a number of rulings go against the party and its candidates at the various national assembly election petition tribunals especially for Rivers State where over 90 percent of the rulings favoured the PDP and its candidates. Neither the APC National Working Committee [NWC] nor the various affected state chapters of the party came out to impugn the integrity of our judiciary. The APC took those outcomes with equanimity and proceeded on appeal in most cases without declaring and levying war on the judiciary the way the PDP is doing now.</p><p class="yiv3646586831msonormal"> </p><p class="yiv3646586831msonormal">Continuing the party said: “Particularly, the PDP and their members in Rivers State, including even lawyers, have since Saturday launched various bitter tirades against the character and integrity of the Rivers State Election Petition Tribunal members. Some have openly tried to establish family and marital relationship between the tribunal chairman and some top government officials, knowing same to be false, mendacious and malicious. The APC is still stunned that the Spokesman of the Rivers State Governor, Mr. Opunabo Inko-Tariah would state that, “The tribunal has delivered the ruling it was asked to deliver.” The APC condemns this kind of unguarded vituperation by a government official against a tribunal of eminent judges.”</p><p class="yiv3646586831msonormal"> </p><p class="yiv3646586831msonormal">“In summary, the APC understands that by turning to destroy the Nigerian judiciary, the PDP is only employing its usual tactics of intimidation and blackmail whenever their members find themselves at the wrong end of the law, whether over corruption cases or electoral matters as is the present case. This motive common with bandits and buccaneers have proven to fail the PDP in the past and will surely fail them this time around” the statement concluded.</p><p class="yiv3646586831msonormal"> </p><p> </p></div>
VOTE FOR THE CREATOR GOD OF THIS UNIVERSE!
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2014-11-06T13:30:00.000Z
2014-11-06T13:30:00.000Z
Tziona Yisrael
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<div><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b>VOTE FOR THE CREATOR GOD OF THIS UNIVERSE!</b> </span></p><p>The United States is all caught up in another one of its Midterm Elections – its so called “democratic process” - to elect members of the House, Senators, and Governors. How wonderful it is for the people in a country as “great” as the US to be able to put confidence in candidates to have them represent them, right? Of course, but where is the candidate who will represent the Black vote, or rather, the descendants of Slaves? Where is anyone in whom Blacks can have confidence to represent them in this election or in any election? </p><p><b>THIS ELECTION PROCESS HAS PROVEN TO BE A STAGE FOR HIRE FOR KICK BACKS AND SCHEMES TO MAKE WHITE FOLKS RICH AND KEEP BLACKS POOR, AS THEY TAKE TURNS, ONE TERM AT A TIME, TAKING OFFICE TO SERVE THEMSELVES. NOT THAT IT IS IMPORTANT TO SOME, BUT THE CREATOR GOD SPOKE ABOUT A RIGHTEOUS KING FOR THE RULER OF THE LAND.</b></p><p>I remember well all the hype for the candidate Barak Obama. Remember him? He promised something for everyone, and said that he would be a president for all the people. Therefore, he ran his campaign on “change”. Well, “change” never happened, and today, six years later, he regrets that slogan all because there was no change to speak of. And of all his promises only “Obama Care” (Affordable Care Act) came to fruition. I personally had thought that this medical program would embrace the extreme poor. Well, I was wrong. People have to pay for this program, and the extreme poor cannot afford it. Nevertheless, Blacks also had thought that the infrastructure in the Ghettoes would be refurbished, that the inferior schools in the Black communities would be a thing of the past, that there would be tons of jobs available with a raise in the minimum wage, and that the poor would move up to the Middle-class. When Obama first campaigned for president of the United States, Blacks and Whites alike listened attentively to him, and they hoped and trusted in this man that he would really fulfill his promises. Well, it never happened. And without a doubt, no group is more upset than Blacks – descendants of Slaves - who are the ones who are most in need of a “change”- one that would bring us out of this infliction, suffering, and despair, and for me, out of captivity. President Obama went from “The Messiah” to a “Lame Duck President” in his first term and to date, nothing has changed. The Glory he thought he would bring to the “First Black President” never happened either and doesn’t look like it ever will. </p><p>Actually, Blacks have tried everything to get assimilated and move ahead economically in life: college, the ballot, and for sure calling on JC. But as a group none of these have worked for us. Yet, we still without fail vote in elections hoping that one of these times Whites Folks are going to come together and make a better US and world for Blacks. Really?! <b>It won’t happen! And if JC hasn’t been a “saviour” yet, then that won’t happen either.</b></p><p>As long as we believe in this White Man’s world order and seek to be a part of it, we will forever be subjugated peoples of our captors. No matter what we do, we are still pretty much third-class citizens. No matter our endeavors, achievements, and no matter our wealth, we still are not respected or accepted as the White Man’s equal or even more improved. And we at some point must come to this reality that we will never experience our own self-determination and genuine prosperity in this White Man’s society that keeps us under his control. Voting has not helped our plight, has not given Blacks a quality life, and nor has belief in the White Man’s man-god brought us out of this dilemma, either. We must stop deluding ourselves and admit the truth. Blacks are a people dependent on the White Man. Descendants of Slave have nothing, and if we want something, we have to go to the White Man. </p><p><b>“The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and <u>thou shalt come down very low. He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail</u>.</b> Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; <b><u>because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee</u></b>:” Deuteronomy 28:43 - 45</p><p><b>IF YOU HAVE NEVER CONSIDERED THE CURSES UPON BLACK PEOPLES, THEN CONSIDER THEM NOW. THE SLAVE TRADE RAISES CONSCIOUSNESS TO <u>ONE GOD</u> <u>RESPONSIBLE FOR IT</u>, AND THAT WOULD BE THE ONLY GOD THAT CAN BRING US OUT OF THIS CAPTIVITY AND THAT CAN ENABLE US TO PROSPER AND ACHIEVE IN THIS WORLD.</b></p><p><b>“For <u>thus saith the LORD</u>; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.”</b> Jeremiah 32:42</p><p><b>This is what we have to believe instead of false hope, for there are no other answers! HENCE, WE MUST GIVE THIS GOD <u>OUR VOTE</u>!</b></p><p>You see, Whites in authority know the true identity of the SEED of the Biblical Israelites. They know why the Children of Israel are no longer Black and are now White. And they do not want to change the status quo. Whites know more about this Bible than we do, after all, though they did not write the Hebrew Scriptures (for therein is “Thus Saith the LORD” at the mouth of HIS Prophets), they compiled and published them. But they <i>are</i> responsible for the “New Testament”, as it was written with the encouragement of Roman rulers – not GOD, as therein are no visions from the CREATOR GOD. At the time of the “New Testament” writings, there were no Prophets with whom Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John could consult. Reason being GOD had removed HIMSELF when HE scattered the Israelites from the Land for their sins. </p><p><b>“I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: <u>in their affliction they will seek me early</u>.”</b> Hosea 5:15</p><p>And this is a fact! Do the research. The last Prophet of GOD lived around 420 BCE. That would be about 400 years before the so-called “Coming of JC”. So, if there were no prophets, you have to believe that the same people making up these adverse Christian religions today are about as credible as those who wrote the “New Testament”. Neither of these people reiterates GOD’s WORD and what’s required of us. Folks, we have to wake up and accept the facts. They are not hidden. The CREATOR GOD that wants us to know HIM would not do that. </p><p><b>“Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.”</b> Lamentations 2:9</p><p>The Book of Lamentations is consistent with the curses GOD cast upon the Children of Israel for forsaking HIM. And in Truth, GOD’s LAW <i>is no more</i> all because the heathens that GOD set in place to punish us ordered their Christian religion to supplant GOD’s TRUTH alongside their wicked world order. <b>These are the real facts that had to happen in order that GOD’s WORD would be fulfilled so that the idol worshipping Israelites would be scattered into the hands of the heathen to not only serve their enemies but serve and worship their gods, as well.</b></p><p>But who’s asking questions? Who’s asking their preachers to explain the contradictions herein that make the “New Testament” out to be a fraud? And who’s out there seeking GOD’s WORD for HIS TRUTH?</p><p><b>“The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.”</b> Deuteronomy 29:29</p><p><b>“<u>What man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose</u>. His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth. The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.”</b> Psalm 25:12 – 14</p><p><b>“And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?”</b> Deuteronomy 10:12,13</p><p><b>THE JUST GOD WOULD NOT CHANGE HIS WAYS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AS THE “NEW TESTAMENT” HAS CHRISTIANS BELIEVE (Roman 10:4)!</b></p><p>After the days of Malachi, the Children of Israel lost their Land and went into captivity under White Rule starting with the Greeks. Remember them? These are the first people whom the White Man said started “civilization”, if you want to believe that nonsense. Perhaps I am jumping too far ahead. Let me back up.</p><p>There is no argument that the Children of Israel were cursed to go into Slavery. That is very well documented and was prophesied in Leviticus 26<sup>th</sup> and in Deuteronomy 28<sup>th</sup> Chapters even <b><u>before the Israelites inhabited the Land of Canaan</u></b> that GOD promised to Abraham and to his SEED. The “Old Testament” (Hebrew Scriptures) supports this claim and takes the reader step-by-step if we will only read it. </p><p>After the Children of Israel took Canaan and named it the Land of Israel, it was then that the CREATOR GOD made them “phat” with all their hearts’ desires and wealth to boot. But they got fat heads and decided that they had it all and no longer needed the CREATOR that was responsible for their power and riches. But they forgot something. <b>The Land was given to them on condition that they serve and worship the GOD of Israel and live according to HIS Righteous Way of Life.</b> These rebellious Israelites not only turned their backs on their GOD, but they did all they could to forget HIM and all they could to make their own gods. But you see, GOD had already told them that if they turn from HIM and reject HIS Book of the Law, which they did, that they would be scattered from their Land <b>into the hands of heathens to serve them and their gods.</b> Are you getting the scenario here as to where I am taking you?</p><p>This isn’t about hope in a ballot but rather hope in wisdom, knowledge, and in the GOD’s TRUTH. The curses that GOD cast upon the Children of Israel for turning to other gods only fell upon Blacks who were taken from the shores of Africa. By the way, the Children of Israel fled into what is now called Africa many, many times fleeing from famine, pestilence, and violence. And they migrated South and West until meeting up with the Slavers. You know the rest.</p><p>Do the math and examine the facts, and let’s stop trying to get blood out of a turnip with a ballot. We have a GOD – ONE that is most capable of saving us and Delivering us out of these heathen lands.</p><p>“Wherfore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? <b>Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver?</b> behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst. I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.” Isaiah 50:2,3</p><p><b>“Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: <u>But your iniquities have separated between you and your God</u>, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.”</b> Isaiah 59:1,2</p><p><b>PROPHECY:</b></p><p><b>“Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; But, 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: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.”</b> Jeremiah 16:14,15</p><p><b>AND HERE BELOW ARE THE REASONS FOR THE SLAVE TRADE AND OUR DILEMMA:</b></p><p><b>“<u>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</u>.</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 8:19,20</p><p>Let the world know that because of the sins of Israel, the GOD of Israel has given HIS Earth <b><u>into the hands of heathens</u></b> for just a little while for two main reasons – <b>to punish HIS Covenant People (which HE has done) for committing the worst of all abominations that the CREATOR GOD hates, which are the worship of false gods and disobedience to GOD’s LAW.</b> Is this not exactly what the Children of Israel did against the GOD of Israel? And did HE not tell them (countless times) that the worship of false gods would be their destruction, and that <b><u>they would be scattered into the lands of the heathens to worship their false gods</u></b>? <b>THINK! Is this not what has happened to us?</b></p><p><b><u>“…ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart,</u></b> <u><b>that they may not hearken unto me</b>:</u> Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and <b><u>there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour</u></b><b>.</b><b>” </b> Jeremiah 16:12,13</p><p><b>Are not Blacks scattered into the “Four Corners of this Earth” as a result of the heinous Slave Trade? </b> </p><p><b>“They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.</b> <b>For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. I will heap mischiefs upon them;</b> I will spend mine arrows upon them. They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs. I said, I would scatter them into corners, <b>I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:” </b> Deuteronomy 32:21 – 26</p><p><b>And did HE ever</b><b>!</b> The world does not know that the Biblical Israelites were Black. And the Blacks today don’t know it either. That’s why folks call descendants of Slaves “Blacks” or “you people” – the people without a land, without a culture, without a name, without a heritage, and without the True and Living GOD.</p><p><b>“<u>And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations</u>, and ye shall be left few in number <u>among the heathen</u>, whither the LORD shall lead you. And <u>there ye shall serve gods</u>, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.”</b> Deuteronomy 4:27,28</p><p><b>The heathen do not serve the CREATOR GOD. Isn’t that the reason they are called heathens? </b> Has it registered, yet? <b>Our GOD of Israel cast us into the hands of the heathen, and the heathen has us worshipping his god. Unreal, right?</b> </p><p>Accept the GOD’s TRUTH. Slaves and their descendants were indoctrinated and enticed to worship the gods of the heathen!!! And in the end, the heathen will also suffer for their wickedness, as well.</p><p>Thus, disobedience to the CREATOR GOD of Israel and the scattering of the rebellious Israelites resulted in the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade. The Rulers of this world have done nothing to establish GOD’s TRUTH on this Earth, and by right, they are also just as abominable as are all peoples who do not follow GOD’s Walk of Righteousness. The CREATOR is taking back HIS Universe and is preparing to once again destroy the wicked.</p><p>Not only that, but the White Rulers of this world do not want us to know the true identity of the Children of Israel. The reason is that the day we return back to Our CREATOR GOD, Call upon HIM, and embrace HIS Laws, Statutes, and Judgments is the day of our SALVATION and the end of the White Man’s world order. The powers-that-be know this, and they, therefore, keep this knowledge hidden from us via indoctrinating us with their pagan religions and their pagan holidays that have children believing in a fat White Man with a beard in a red suit, a rabbit bearing eggs, and a man who rose from the dead to save people from their sins. WOW! Have we ever been duped!!!</p><p>And in that the White Jews are in on this scam, they, too, will have Hell to pay. They are guilty of not only usurping GOD’s Holy Land but of also falsifying the Ways of the Most High CREATOR GOD with a religion they invented and called “Judaism”. You see, these Europeans had to also feign the GOD’s TRUTH in order to deceive GOD’s Elect, and they will pay dearly for it. The curses upon the Children of Israel will pale in comparison with what the Most High GOD of Israel has planned for those who have taken control of HIS Earth and brought it to heights of wickedness that are worse than the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah.</p><p>“For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: <b>though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee:</b> but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.” Jeremiah 30:11</p><p><b>“And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.”</b> Zechariah 14:12</p><p>I hope that readers will understand that this is what it is. My posts are not about hatred of White Peoples but about what they have done to defenseless nations and peoples on this Earth and to GOD’s Chosen People. Just as the Children of Israel paid for their sins, so also will the present-day powers-that-be and all the wicked who forget the Most High CREATOR GOD. The CREATOR’s Judgments are severe and sure, and HIS SIGNS and WONDERS are now with us in order that we will all know that the LORD GOD of Israel is GOD, and that there is none else. </p><p>HE Created this Earth for mankind to live in HIS Peace and in HIS Happiness. Now, since HIS People, the “Dry Bones” are awakening, HE is taking back HIS Universe, HIS Holy Land, HIS Holy City Jerusalem, and HIS Covenant People, the Children of Israel. And all this written herein being the GOD’s TRUTH, wisdom would be to <b>VOTE FOR THE GOD THAT FORMED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH AND ALL THINGS THEREIN AND CALL UPON HIM FOR HE IS OUR ONLY HELP! </b></p><p>The CREATOR is not racist and nor am I (Isaiah 56:6-8). I believe in telling it like it is, and this has been the Truth. The greatest prayer I have ever encountered is King Solomon’s prayer to the GOD of Israel at the dedication of the Temple he built to GOD’s Holy Name (I Kings 8:15 – 53) and GOD’s response to HIM (I Kings 9:1 – 9). <b>AMAZING, absolutely AMAZING.</b> In this prayer, King Solomon prayed for the Children of Israel, as well as for the Stranger who sought to know and worship the CREATOR GOD of Israel.</p><p><b>VOTE FOR THE CREATOR GOD OF THIS UNIVERSE, FOR HE IS OUR MAKER!</b></p><p><b>11/10/2014</b></p></div>
With its Decision on Affirmative Action the United States Supreme Court raises its racist head
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/the-u-s-supreme-court-and-its-decision-on-affirmative-action
2014-04-29T18:30:00.000Z
2014-04-29T18:30:00.000Z
Tziona Yisrael
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<div><p> </p><p align="center"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-4"><b>THE U.S. SUPREME COURT AND ITS DECISION ON AFFIRMATIVE ACTION</b> </span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">Once again the United States Supreme Court raises its racist head making clear its convictions and principles for White supremacy and White superiority over Blacks. We even have a Justice Thomas and his ilk in place to prove it. This decision on Affirmative Action to uphold a ban on Affirmative Action for any reason rings true that Blacks have no voice in this so-called system of justice and much less representation in the White House to speak for the oppressed and repressed in in this country.</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">Justice Kagan, President Obama’s appointment, “sat out of the case due to conflicts of interest”. So, how do you like that!!! (<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/apr/22/us-supreme-court-michigan-affirmative-action">http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/apr/22/us-supreme-court-michigan-affirmative-action</a>)</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">Justice Kagan can’t understand that in matters of equity and discrimination that fairness and ending racism against an oppressed people should take precedence and, therefore, must be addressed immediately and not left to chance. If she cannot understand that it is paramount for the US Supreme Court to act swiftly and to deal with such matters objectively, then she is in the wrong appointment.</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">We can thank President Obama for his appointments to the US Supreme Court. Among other things, he, too, shows a lack of foresight with his decisions. He may think he has a worthy legacy given that 7.1 million people (out of 300 mil.) enrolled in Obamacare (Affordable Health Care Act), but it is obvious that this low registration for AHCA is too little to factor in as an impressive legacy. And his decisions on military warfare in other countries (e.g., ammunition to Israelis for their apartheid state) overshadow anything he’s done that can be determined admirable. Not even his own Justice Department under Holder is a voice for the oppressed under his watch, and that would render President Obama’s eight-year legacy a real disappointment. This Black man is one for the books of major disappointments. I had no idea his work in office would be so diminished for the impoverished and the repressed who have no voice in this “Good Ol’ U.S. of A. called “America the Beautiful”.</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">What would it take for Black folks to rise up against the White Man’s hatred of descendants of Slaves other than the HAND of GOD upon them? How much more needs to be done against Blacks before we come together in mass to demand FREEDOM, REPARATIONS, and an EXODUS out of this Hell? </span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">It’s been a long time coming, but another Black Wall Street has to be established for Black independence and for our self-determination because it will never happen in these United States. We know this because time and time again the racist US Supreme Court is in place to inhibit our prosperity and to foster our demise. Has this court ended racial profiling and police brutality, the death of innocent minorities, inferior and over-crowded schools in the Ghettoes, or unfair employment practices? Let’s not forget that the US Supreme Court supports the same Constitution that promoted Blacks being 3/5 a person. Yes, this clause was amended, but the fact that it was in place rings true of the reality that the United States, this US Constitution, and the US Supreme Court still operate to sustain the subjugation of Blacks and other minorities.</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">By the way, forget using the ballot for your endeavors, as the election of a Black President was a waste of time, and Black public servants know that if they make waves, then their election will be short lived. If we must vote, vote for the CREATOR GOD – not this White Man’s blue-eyed man-god, because he, too, is just as useless as is this racist US Supreme Court! </span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">Since when has the White Man given the Black man anything that would manifest our prosperity? Even giving Blacks welfare (pocket change), instead of decent employment was for a reason, which is to sustain Ghetto life and impoverishment. Likewise for the White Man’s Christianity; it keeps Blacks in darkness about the CREATOR GOD. If White Rulers in countries that enjoyed the wealth of the Slave Trade had truly wanted to advance Black intellect, enterprise, education, and inclusion in political and economic affairs, then they would have done so rather than keep us a repressed people and make racist comments against Blacks. In that regard Donald Sterling, Clippers owner, who has the mindset of Slavers, is a perfect example of Whites who put themselves above Blacks and who sustain the negative status quo of bywords and evil thoughts about Blacks – no matter how much money Blacks make for them. </span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">When we finally realize that it was and still is people like Sterling who wish Blacks to believe they are good and honest people by sending their Christian Missionaries across the country and throughout the world to promote a god that does not profit anyone, not them and certainly not Blacks, then we certainly can understand that Whites have ulterior motives – least of all that we find the Most High GOD. There motives are to deceive, keep Blacks ignorant to GOD’s Spiritual Truths, and to sustain White superiority. </span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">The White Man has completely changed the Walk of Life that the CREATOR GOD designed for living in peace, harmony, and happiness on HIS Earth. The White Man’s world order is self-serving and imposes his philosophy and culture upon the masses, especially the have-nots, that they believe the religion of his choosing. One cannot reach the CREATOR until he/she calls upon HIM, and our captors have us calling on the wrong god. Hence, we are still under the White Man’s control. One good example proving that Slavers and descendants of Slavers have tampered with GOD’s Ways is that the White Man’s religion has changed GOD’s Holy anniversary of CREATION, which HE “hallowed” as the Seventh Day that must be observed as the day of HIS REST after HE Created the Heavens and the Earth and all things therein. It was the CREATOR GOD that Commanded this day be kept “for a perpetual covenant” (Exodus 31:16), and nowhere can it be found that Thus Saith the LORD changed HIS Fourth Commandment: </span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. <sup> </sup>Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: <sup> </sup>But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: <sup> </sup>For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.” Exodus 20:8 - 11</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">An even more serious tampering with GOD’s WORD involves belief and worship of a blue-eyed man-god enabling fulfillment of the White Man’s scheme to deceive the “Elect”. We’ve been lied to, and the White Man’s Christianity keeps us out of the “Old Testament” wherein is written “Thus Saith the LORD” for a reason – so that we, descendants of Slaves, will not learn GOD’s EVERLASTING TRUTH!</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">“God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?” Numbers 23:19</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3"><b>“Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and <u>maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord</u>.</b></span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3"><b>“Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is</b>.” Jeremiah 17:5,7</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3"><b>“<u>Look unto me, and be ye saved</u>, all the ends of the earth: for I <i>am</i> God, and <i>there is</i> none else.”</b> Isaiah 45:22</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3"><b>“<u>Then shall ye call upon me</u>, and <u>ye shall go and pray unto me</u>, and <u>I will hearken unto you</u>.” </b> Jeremiah 29:12</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. <b>Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.</b> <b>And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. And I will be found of you, saith the Lord: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the Lord; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.” </b> Jeremiah 29:11 - 14</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3"><b>“<u>Call unto me, and I will answer thee</u>, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not</b>.” Jeremiah 33:3</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">Nevertheless, Blacks continue to believe in and worship the god of the Slavers, the very people who mercilessly treated and still treat us like animals and who have no concern for our wellbeing or the state of our plight in the Ghettoes they control for our demise. That being a given, why on Earth do we choose to have faith in anything they establish for descendants of Slaves? Looking for their sincere and honest help is like looking for and hoping in JC’s suffering so that those who believe in him won’t have to. Wake up, “Dry Bones” before it is too late and seek for the ONE TRUE and LIVING CREATOR GOD! HE ALONE is our HELP in the time of trouble!</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3"><b>“But the salvation of the righteous <i>is</i> of the LORD: <i>he is</i> their strength in the time of trouble. </b></span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3"><b>“</b><b>And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: <u>he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him</u>.”</b> Psalm 37:34,37,39,40</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">“<b>But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.<sup> </sup>But the salvation of the righteous is of the</b> <b>Lord</b><b>: he is their strength in the time of trouble.<sup> </sup>And the</b> <b>Lord</b> <b>shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.</b>” Psalm 37:38 – 40</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">How long are Blacks going to be gluttons for punishment under White Rule? When will Blacks stand up and take charge of their own lives to ensure that descendants of Blacks will cease to be third-class citizens in White societies? When will there be “Black Wall Streets” across the globe setting standards of <i>admirable</i> ideals of true justice and honest prosperity that will surpass the evil works of those who discriminate against us?</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">A few months ago I was in Ghana, and I cannot tell you how wonderful it was to see Black people in charge of their industries: television, radio, the markets, construction, etc., etc. Ghana has come a long way and still has a long way to go, but the wheels are in motion for Black prosperity and Black wealth on the continent of Africa that would enable Black peoples in the lands of Slavers to rise up and out of captivity. I can also see how Ghana will lead the way and set examples for other countries in Africa to follow. Blacks stolen from the continent of Africa were of many nationalities, and those who are directly descended from “Africans” can be proud and return to their mother lands to take part in the development of their homeland so that Blacks can be established and compete with the best brains in the world in the fields of science, math, and in all disciplines of engineering, as well as in education from elementary to secondary and higher educations of learning. We can do this, and we will be successful if we will only stop being the instruments of White People and following their corrupt ways that harm us and keep us in darkness.</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">Read Leviticus 26<sup>th</sup> and Deuteronomy 28<sup>th</sup> Chapters to learn GOD’s WORD on exactly why there was a Slave Trade and why Blacks are in this dilemma and do not prosper in the United States or in any countries that grew wealthy off the Slave Trade. </span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">(<a href="http://www.thelawkeepers.org">http://www.thelawkeepers.org</a>)</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3"><b><a title="http://www.thelawkeepers.org/DEUTERONOMY 28TH CHAPTERandPICTURES.Adoc.htm" href="http://www.thelawkeepers.org/DEUTERONOMY%2028TH%20CHAPTERandPICTURES.Adoc.htm" target="_blank">http://www.thelawkeepers.org/DEUTERONOMY%2028TH%20CHAPTERandPICTURES.Adoc.htm</a></b></span></p></div>
GIVE GOD A CHANCE, WE NEED HIM! O' DRY BONES, IT IS TIME TO WAKE UP!
https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/give-god-a-chance-we-need-him-o-dry-bones-it-is-time-to-wake-up
2013-10-15T05:55:50.000Z
2013-10-15T05:55:50.000Z
Tziona Yisrael
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<div><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4">GIVE GOD A CHANCE!</span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4">WE NEED HIM!!</span></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4">O’ DRY BONES, IT IS TIME TO WAKE UP</span></p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><b>“Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.</b></p><p align="center"><b>Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord</b> <b>God</b><b>;</b></p><p align="center"><b>Behold, O my people, I will open your graves,</b></p><p align="center"><b>and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.</b></p><p align="center"><b>And ye shall know that I am the</b> <b>Lord</b><b>, when I have opened your graves, O my people,</b></p><p align="center"><b>and brought you up out of your graves,</b></p><p align="center"><b>And shall put my</b> <b>spirit</b> <b>in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the</b> <b>Lord</b> <b>have spoken it, and performed it, saith the</b> <b>Lord</b><b>.</b><b>”</b></p><p align="center">Ezekiel 37:11 – 14</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><b>***</b></p><p align="center"><i> </i></p><p align="center"><span class="font-size-4"><b><i>OUR GRAVES ARE THE LANDS OF OUR SLAVERS</i></b></span></p><p align="center"><i> </i></p><p><i>The White Man took our forebears from the shores of Africa. </i></p><p><i>The White Man enslaved us for centuries without compassion.</i></p><p><i>The White Man will not discuss the injustices of the World-wide Slave Trade.</i></p><p><i>The White Man does not want to come to terms with the generations of cruel and heinous enslavement that rendered White Nations wealthy and powerful off the backs of Blacks and their slave labor.</i></p><p><i>The White Man gave Slaves his “loving god” to serve and to worship.</i></p><p><i>The White Man suppresses and represses descendants of Slaves unto this day.</i></p><p><i>The White Man leaves his inferior schools for descendants of Slaves.</i></p><p><i>The White Man sustains controlled environments called Ghettos for Blacks.</i></p><p><i>The White Man sustains squalor and impoverishment in Black neighborhoods.</i></p><p><i>The White Man has no intentions of working with Blacks in high-level positions.</i></p><p><i>Descendants of Slaves get to see the “glass ceiling” but not have an office on it.</i></p><p><i>Descendants of Slaves have no choice but to take what benefits that fall from the White Man’s Table.</i></p><p><i>Descendants of Slaves in the White Man’s Government are too intimidated to speak truth.</i></p><p><i> </i></p><p><i>The foolish believe in the White Man and choose to be just like him.</i></p><p><i>The foolish believe in his god and choose to worship it.</i></p><p><i>The foolish believe in the White Man’s Dreams and live a lifetime trying to fulfill them.</i></p><p><i>The foolish cannot see the TRUTH for rejecting it.</i></p><p align="center"><b>***</b></p><p>Around the very young age of five or six or even younger, I was intelligent enough to realize that something was wrong with the lifestyles of the peoples in the United States. For a decade and longer I was plagued with wondering why Blacks were poor and Whites were rich and why this was the case no matter where Blacks lived. And then came television, further exacerbating my confusion. I remember well wanting to be beautiful like the White People I saw and rich like them so I could buy the poor Black kids shoes, pants, and dresses. I shudder to think now about how I also thought that White People were angels because of their White Skin, their wealth, their rich clothes, and their roles on television and at the movies. At that time I knew nothing about Slavery, and even knowledge of it was not available in my school system. I hated the roles of Blacks on TV, and my way of dealing with the ubiquitous inferior characters and stereotypes was to laugh with the soundtrack. </p><p><i>But now, I don’t laugh any more. I try to be a voice for the GOD’s TRUTH to wake up my people and for JUSTICE for the heinous Slave Trade. Our people are more than descendants of Slaves if only we will just do the research required to learn that GOD’s Chosen People are really Black and not White, as we have all been led to believe.</i></p><p>Although my parents raised me Christian I was smart enough to know that if each of the Christian denominations held the belief that its church was the only one going to heaven, then they were all in err. I just did not know how to decipher what people were explaining to me because none of it made any sense. Believe in JC and we didn’t have to suffer because he would suffer for us. And yet, that’s all Blacks did was suffer and suffered endlessly. </p><p>Moreover, I was troubled because if JC was White, why couldn’t I be White? Although I wanted to be White like JC, it was the CREATOR GOD to whom I sent my prayers. Some might not understand it, but there was a difference in my thinking. I never made my GOD a man. That just did not seem right. A man couldn’t Create the Heavens and the Earth and human beings. How could someone who was Created by GOD be a GOD? </p><p>I knew the answers to my questions were in the Bible, but I just could not put my finger on them. You see, I had spent too much time in the “New Testament”, when I should have started reading from the Book of Genesis wherein begins the WORD of the CREATOR GOD and HIS DIRECTIVES for mankind. I was fifteen when someone ended my long depression that had troubled me for so many years. The CREATOR GOD in whom I believed had seen my tears and finally shown me HIS TRUTH. </p><p>When I learned the TRUTH, I talked to everyone who had an ear that could hear. But in many cases when I shared information about our being the descendants of the Biblical Israelites, they rejected it because they could not give up that White, Blue-eyed JC. Actually, I had believed that JC was but the “Son of God” until I had started reading the “Old Testament”. And when I read in the “OT” that GOD is “ONE LORD”, that HE is not a man, and that in HIS OWN WORDS HE said HE is the ONLY SAVIOR, well, that sealed the deal for me. And of course the First Commandment and GOD being a ”JEALOUS GOD” carried a lot of weight for my understanding of the CREATOR GOD of Israel and that we should “know no other god”. GOD’s WORDS just rang true and eliminated all my confusion and my longing to understand the reasons for the Black Plight.</p><p><b>BUT HAS THE SLAVE TRADE RENDERED BLACKS BRAIN DEAD?</b></p><p>Tell me; is our being GOD’s “Special People” too big an honor for us to perceive? Should we always settle on depending on descendants of Slavers? Just because they believe we are inferior, must we believe it also? And should we leave our posterity in this system of hatred and injustice to hope in vain that one day things will eventually get better? Really? Since the so-called “Emancipation Proclamation” Blacks are still fighting for Civil and Voting Rights (even with a Black President), and there has been no end to the race hatred and Ghetto life Blacks endure, without much of any complaint for the inequity and affliction that pervades every facet of our lives in the lands that forcibly migrated our people to these shores. At some point we have to stand up and DEMAND settlement for stealing Blacks out of Africa and for the gross injustices we yet suffer since our forebears were brought to these shores.</p><p><b><u>Have enslavement and the White Man’s culture, customs, and White Christian characters got us thinking so little of ourselves that it is impossible for us to believe that we can be descended from the Biblical Israelites</u></b>? </p><p>Isn’t <b><u>Deuteronomy 28<sup>th</sup> Chapter</u></b> enough indication of true Israelite identity? After coming out of Egyptian bondage, it was GOD’s Prophet Moses who told the Children of Israel that if they did not live according to HIS Ways of Righteousness in HIS (Holy) Land that HE would scatter them into other lands to serve their enemies/heathens. Moses also prophesied that GOD said HE would cause the name of Israel to be forgotten. It all happened exactly as GOD had said.</p><p><b>“I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:”</b> Deuteronomy 32:26</p><p>“Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. <sup> </sup>For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. <sup> </sup>They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. <sup> </sup><b>They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.</b><b>”</b> Psalm 83:1 - 4</p><p>What else did the GOD of Israel need to record in the Hebrew Scriptures in order for the Peoples of today to understand that HIS Chosen/Covenant People are Black? GOD needs the world and descendants of Slaves to understand that Blacks suffered the Slave Trade because our forebears ignored HIS First Commandment (Exodus 20:1-5) and forsook HIM, Our GOD of Israel, for other gods. </p><p><b>“And he gave them into the hand of the heathen</b>; and they that hated them ruled over them. Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.” Psalm 106:41,42</p><p>“And the Lord saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;</p><p>“Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. <sup> </sup><b>I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.</b><b>” </b> Jeremiah 9:13,15,16</p><p><b>“I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries; <sup> </sup>Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.”</b> Ezekiel 20:23,24</p><p>“Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman. <sup> </sup><b>Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it:</b><sup> </sup>And <b>I scattered them among the heathen,</b> and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them. <sup> </sup><b>And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name,</b> when they said to them, These are the people of the Lord, and are gone forth out of his land.” Ezekiel 36:17 - 20</p><p>Not too long ago, I read where a Brother had written that Blacks should return back to the gods of Africa. Well, that doesn’t make too much sense. You see, before the Christian Missionaries infiltrated Africa, the Black peoples on this vast continent invented gods of wood and stone, also. And just like the White Man’s god, they didn’t save the Africans from Colonization or the Slave Trade, either. GOD’s curses in Deuteronomy 28<sup>th</sup> Chapter were already fulfilling HIS WORD, and there was nothing anyone could do about it – absolutely nothing.</p><p>Be honest with yourself. Where is there any other god today or in the past that has DELIVERED a “Nation” out of the hands of their enemies, as did the CREATOR GOD of Israel that SAVED the Children of Israel out of Egyptian BONDAGE? HE did it once, and HE is at hand to do so again, i.e., DELIVER us out of <i>this</i> captivity, as well. And where is there any other god today or in the past that has fought for a “Nation” to secure a Land “flowing with milk and honey” and to have peace from their enemies? </p><p><b>THE BLACK TRACK RECORD</b></p><p>No matter the gangs, the drug addicts, and the drug dealers in the Ghettoes, and no matter the illiterate victims in poor Black neighborhoods, we do have among our group highly intelligent and talented people in every walk of life and in every academic discipline. However, we are relatively few in number for many reasons, which can be explained by our being descendants of Slaves. The facts are that our children learned to hate school and to hate themselves. And Church, too, was no consolation. Children opened their Bibles and again saw pictures of Whites portrayed by Adam, Eve, King David, Prophet Elijah, and of course JC leaving them without self-esteem and leaving parents without any desire for self-determination – only to accept their fate and not make waves. Blacks have got to step up and be responsible for our lives and for the lives of Black children because the White Man couldn’t care less. Our children must stop looking to people who mean them no good and who would rather see them in prisons rather than reformed and in decent lifestyles. <b>And in order for that to happen, Black adults and children must first try to understand the GOD’s TRUTH and understand why we continue to decline in the worst dilemma ever placed on a people.</b> You see, we have paid for our sins against Our GOD, and now HE is opening our eyes and bringing TRUTH front and center. All we have to do is be circumspect, weigh the facts, and comply with HIS Commandments. </p><p><b>IF WE ARE AMONG HEATHENS (Ezekiel 20:20:23), THEN SOONER OR LATER, WE WILL EMULATE THEM AND THEIR EVIL WAYS. UNFORTUNATELY, IN THAT THEY ARE OUR CAPTORS, WE HAVE MADE THEM OUR IDOLS, AS WELL, EVEN THEIR god.</b></p><p>The White Man beats us down, keeps us suppressed, labels us inferior, and then he gives us his White, blue-eyed man-god for us to worship. And we embrace this Trojan Horse wholeheartedly with deep love and devotion and without any gratification to glean in return. Something is very wrong with this picture. The White Man grows fat as the heifer, while the Black Man lingers in poverty. Under the circumstances, it would appear that this blue-eyed man-god is as racist as is the White Man. He neither raises Blacks out of this poverty nor saves Blacks out of the hands of our captors. Like one author said, “If GOD is White, I don’t want to go to Heaven”.</p><p><b>When people truly seek Truth, they are not satisfied until they can leave no stone unturned, and even then, they continue to search and discern the facts from fiction.</b> And if this is the case, they will consider how Men of GOD became Prophets. Christian clergy take pride in the White Man’s schools of theology for their understanding of the “New Testament”. However, the CREATOR GOD never sent even one of HIS Prophets to school to learn how to prophesy and speak the WORD of GOD, and when you think about it, you can understand how ridiculous it sounds to attend universities for a degree to represent the Most High CREATOR GOD. </p><p>With the CREATOR GOD, HE merely Commands HIS Prophets to prophesy and speak the WORD HE puts in their hearts. Moses, the greatest prophet that ever lived, never attended a school to learn about GOD’s Book of the Law. He was straight out of the Egyptian world order when the CREATOR gave HIM all the knowledge HE wanted him to know and understand to teach to HIS People, the Children of Israel. With Amos, the GOD of Israel took him from herding sheep to become HIS Prophet. It was not necessary for true Men of GOD to study for any kind of scholarship in order that they qualify to prophesy for the CREATOR. GOD, HIMSELF, sent visions directly to them. Thus, this means of communication gives credence to their Message when they declare what <b><i>“THUS SAITH THE LORD”</i>.</b> <b>And for sure this Message bears more weight than the “Good News” and “Gospel” born out of so-called “inspirations” written in the “New Testament” by Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Paul. </b></p><p>Just in case people don’t fully understand GOD’s jealousy of idols and images and HIS First Commandment to have no other gods before HIM, contemplate the following verses:</p><p><b>“<u>For thou shalt worship no other god</u>: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God: Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice</b>;” Exodus 34:14,15</p><p><b>“<u>Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him</u>. And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, <u>shall be put to death</u>; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, <u>to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in</u>.</b> So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee. If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, <b>saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; Thou shalt not consent unto him,</b> nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: But <b>thou shalt surely kill him;</b> thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.” Deuteronomy 13:4 – 9</p><p><b>Is this not what the “New Testament” writers have done?</b> Have they not invented another god (via the “Trinity”)? Have they not gotten two billion people singing the praises of this man-god, JC, every single Sunday, teaching belief and worship of him? Have they not written an entirely “New” religion based on “Good News” entitled “Christianity” that <b>thrusts people out of the way of GOD’s Laws, Statutes, and Judgments, Commandments, which HE expects all People to obey (Deuteronomy 31:11 - 13)?</b> And should not this religion and all false worship be consumed from off GOD’s Earth?</p><p><b>BOOKS OF INTEREST:</b></p><p><b>Joseph Atwill, author of “Caesar’s Messiah”</b></p><p><b>Kenneth Humphreys, author of “Jesus Never Existed”</b></p><p><b><a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/10/bible-scholar-christianity-invented-as-part-of-ancient-roman-psy-ops-campaign/" title="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/10/bible-scholar-christianity-invented-as-part-of-ancient-roman-psy-ops-campaign/">http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/10/bible-scholar-christianity-invented-as-part-of-ancient-roman-psy-ops-campaign/</a></b></p><p><b>In essence, GOD WANTS ALL THE GLORY! And in TRUTH, HE DESERVES EVERY SINGLE WHIT OF IT!</b></p><p><b>“I am the Lord: that is my name: and <u>my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images</u>.” </b> Isaiah 42:8</p><p><b>“Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and <u>thou shalt know no god but me</u>: for there is no saviour beside me. I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.”</b> Hosea 13:4,5</p><p><b>THERE IS HOPE IF WE WILL RETURN TO THE CREATOR GOD AND DO HIS WILL!</b></p><p><b>“Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwelling places; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof. <sup> </sup>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. <sup> </sup>Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them. <sup> </sup>And their nobles shall be of themselves,</b> and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; 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 ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.</p><p><b>“The fierce anger of the</b> <b>Lord</b> <b>shall not return, until he hath done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it.</b><b>”</b> Jeremiah 30:18 – 22,24</p><p><b>“Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, <u>yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come</u>.”</b> Ezekiel 11:16</p><p><b>“Thus saith the Lord God; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob. <sup> </sup>And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the Lord their God.”</b> Ezekiel 28:25,26</p><p><b>“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. <sup> </sup>Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. <sup> </sup>And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. <sup> </sup>And I will be found of you, saith the Lord: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the Lord; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.”</b> Jeremiah 29:11 – 14</p><p><b>“I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.”</b> Hosea 5:15</p><p>When we can finally see it, there is nothing to compare to learning the GOD’s TRUTH - NOTHING!</p><p><b>THERE IS NO OTHER OPTION – WE HAVE NO ALTERNATIVE BUT TO GIVE THE CREATOR GOD A CHANCE TO STEP IN FOR US AND SAVE US OUT OF THIS CAPTIVITY!</b></p><p>The only way GOD will hear those who seek HIM is for them to first abandon the worship of another god.</p><p>“If ye will fear the Lord, and serve him, and obey <i>his</i> voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the Lord your God: <sup> </sup><b>But if ye will not obey the voice of the</b> <b>Lord</b>, but rebel against the commandment of the Lord, <b>then shall the hand of the</b> <b>Lord</b> <b>be against you, as it was against your fathers.</b><b>”</b> I Samuel 12:14,15</p><p>GOD’s HAND has not only been against us, but it has been against our captors, as well. How can anyone believe that GOD is with the rulers of this world? Look at the mess they have made for themselves in exploiting nations and taking control of other people’s lands and their resources and being the most hated nation on Earth. However, do keep in mind that this Earth mourns BECAUSE of the great sins of our forefathers, the Children of Israel. Our forebears were supposed to be a “Light to the World” for GOD’s PRAISE, but instead they turned to other gods and, as punishment, we serve our captors in their lands. </p><p>“And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness: <b>yet turn not aside from following the</b> <b>Lord</b><b>, but serve the</b> <b>Lord</b> <b>with all your heart;<sup> </sup>And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.</b><b>”</b> I Samuel 12:20,21</p><p><b>OKAY, SO YOU STILL DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THE BIBLICAL ISRAELITES WERE BLACK</b></p><p>Believe that the JEALOUS CREATOR GOD that SAVED the Israelites out of Egyptian bondage can also save us out of this captivity and can save all Peoples out of their misery <b><i>IF</i></b> they will only turn to HIM in TRUTH and worship ONLY HIM according to HIS WAYS!</p><p>TRY HIM. I have already proved HIM. Hence, I know what I am talking about! Pray to HIM in sincerity, as King Solomon set it up for us to do (I Kings 8:15 - 53). That’s why his prayer is the greatest ever! </p><p>Under the White Slavers, we gave their god a chance throughout our enslavement and continued captivity. Now, let’s give the CREATOR GOD a chance because, of a Truth, HE is Our ONLY CHANCE to rise above the misery and despair we endure in the lands of descendants of Slavers. Just don’t play games with the Most High. HE reads our hearts and knows if we are truly seeking to know HIM and to know HIS TRUTH.</p><p>“And now, Israel, <b>what doth the</b> <b>Lord</b> <b>thy God require of thee, but to fear the</b> <b>Lord</b> <b>thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the</b> <b>Lord</b> <b>thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,</b> <b><sup> </sup>To keep the commandments of the Lord, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?</b> <sup> </sup><b>Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the</b> <b>Lord</b><b>'s thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.</b> <b><sup> </sup>Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.”</b> Deuteronomy 10:12 – 15</p><p><b>“Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:</b> <sup> </sup>Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord: <sup> </sup><b>But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the</b> <b>Lord</b><b>, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.</b> <sup> </sup>And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.” Jeremiah 31:31 - 34</p><p>The Most High CREATOR GOD will not compromise on HIS Righteous Way of Life that HE designed for the people that HE has Created. At the end of the day, HE WILL HAVE IT ALL HIS WAY, and some of us will comply – but sadly too many Blacks will be caught up in brainwashing and pipe dreams and worse caught up in GOD’s WRATH and elimination of the wicked.</p><p align="center"><b>THIS IS OUR LAST SHOT BEFORE THE CREATOR GOD RIDS HIS EARTH OF THE EVIL AND THE WICKED WHO NOW PLAGUE IT WITH ALL MANNER OF ABOMINATIONS.</b></p><p align="center"><b>“I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity;</b></p><p align="center"><b>and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease,</b></p><p align="center"><b>and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.</b><b>”</b></p><p align="center">Isaiah 13:11</p><p align="center"><b>“…ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart…”</b></p><p align="center">Jeremiah 29:11 - 14</p></div>
OFFICIAL LAUNCH of newly designed RPRAI!
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Ashley Treadwell
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<div><p><span class="font-size-5" style="font-family:'andale mono', times;color:#000000;">Finally the time has arrived! I’m proud to announce the OFFICIAL launch of RPRAI’s newly designed homepage <a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rprai.com%2F&h=MAQEFdQiO&s=1" target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000;">http://www.rprai.com/</span></a>. I’m inviting you and your friends to this special viewing and hope you will return again for the latest updates! I’m optimistic you will take as much from it that the effort and determination was put into making it possible. Artists wanting to showcase their work in the gallery contact <a href="mailto:SerenadasPen@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000;">SerenadasPen@gmail.com</span></a> #RPRAI #Share #Post #RT #Tumble #Stumble #Bookmark<br /> Many Blessings! <br /> SP♥</span></p></div>
Annapurna Circuit Trekking
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Shyam
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<div><p><a href="http://www.buddhanepaltrek.com/annapurna-circuit-trekking.php" target="_blank">Annapurna Circuit Trekking</a> is popular trekking trails in Annapurna region, lies to north of Pokhara valley. Annapurna Circuit Trekking is well known as also <a href="http://www.buddhanepaltrek.com/annapurna-circuit-trekking.php" target="_blank">Annapurna Round Trekking</a> which opened to foreign trekkers in 1977. Annapurna Circuit trekking trails offers to taste you vast different elevation you terrace field, rhododendron forest, diverse Himalayan culture, range of massif mountains and high pass of throung-la. Most spectacular mountain scenery, fascinating insight into the life of middle hill Nepalese culture of gurung, magar, manangi and thakali are the reward that a trekkers get from <a href="http://www.buddhanepaltrek.com/annapurna-circuit-trekking.php" target="_blank">Annapurna Circuit Trek.</a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}3828539121,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828539121,original{{/staticFileLink}}" style="padding:3px;" class="align-right" alt="3828539121?profile=original" /></a><br />This three weeks trekking starts from Besishahar and goes along the marshyangdi river, with spectacular and majestic view of the white himalayas of manashlu and himal chuli to the east. This magnificent trek leads you to the fine village inhabited by a wide diversity of people from different ethnic groups. As it continues to the north of the main himalayan range on to the high and dry tibetan plateau, the scenery is equally breathtaking. <br /><a href="http://www.buddhanepaltrek.com/annapurna-circuit-trekking.php" target="_blank">The highest pass is thorung la pass</a> above from 5416m sea level. Due to the difficulties of crossing the pass, the circuit is usually walked in a counter clockwise direction. Traveling clockwise the longer ascent and shorter descent from west to east is too much for many peoples to manage in one day. As we descend to the west at muktinath from manang, we continue to the the barren tibetan like village of the kali gandaki – the world’s deepest gorge passes between the giant Annapurna and Dhaulagiri mountains. After you cross the thorung La pass from manang to muktinath the final seven days of <a href="http://www.buddhanepaltrek.com/annapurna-circuit-trekking.php" target="_blank">the circuit trek</a> are the same as the Jomsom Trek from Pokhara, but in reverse.</p></div>
THE GENOCIDAL FRUITS OF U.S. AFRICA POLICY
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2012-07-13T07:00:00.000Z
2012-07-13T07:00:00.000Z
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<div><div id="node-13142" class="node odd full-node node-type-ba_radio"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>A Black Agenda Radio commentary by <a href="http://BlackAgendaReport.com" target="_blank">Glen Ford</a> ~<br /></b></font></div><div class="node odd full-node node-type-ba_radio"><div class="content"><p><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"> </font></font></p><p><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"> Rwanda’s crimes against Congo are the subject of another United Nations report. The U.S., Rwanda’s ally and protector, “is also liable for the genocide in Congo.” Washington has placed its guns and money in the hands of an aggressive, minority regime – which is not surprising. “U.S. policy in Africa has almost always been to choose chaos in those places where it cannot rule directly.”</font></font></p><p> </p><p><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="4"><b><font color="#280099">The Genocidal Fruits of U.S. Africa Policy</font></b></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford</b></font></p><p align="center"><font color="#2323DC">“<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>Why does the United States place its strategic interests in the hands of the elite of a warlike minority in the heart of Central Africa?”</i></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">The United Nations has finally released </font></font><font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/07/u-n-report-links-rwanda-to-congolese-violence/"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">a report</font></font></a></u></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"> detailing Rwanda’s latest destabilization of the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo. As usual, the delay was caused by the United States, which routinely blocks criticism of its military and political client-state, Rwanda, which has since 1996 been deeply complicit in the death of 6 million Congolese. The United States is, therefore, also liable for the genocide in Congo – the largest mass killings since World War Two.</font></font></p><p><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Apologists for U.S. policy in Central Africa are fond of using the word “strategic.” The United States, they say, arms and protects Rwanda because America has “strategic” business and defense interests in the Congo’s vast mineral deposits. The infinitely corrupt Congolese strongman </font></font><font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobutu_Sese_Seko"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Mobutu Sese Seko</font></font></a></u></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"> used to be Washington’s attack dog in Africa. But, in the mid-90s, the Americans opted to back an invasion of eastern Congo by the Tutsi-minority regimes in Rwanda and Burundi, and the other U.S. client-state in the region, Uganda. Washington chose to put its strategic interests in the hands of a small but highly militarized people, the Tutsi, rather than help the Congolese government maintain control over its own territory.</font></font></p><p align="center"><font color="#2323DC">“<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><i>A formula for endless war.”</i></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Why would the United States choose such allies to protect its so-called “strategic interests.” On the face of it, this would seem like a formula for endless war in the region. Even before the mass killings of Tutsis in 1994, they never comprised more than 15 percent of the population in Rwanda or in Burundi, where Hutu people make up the vast majority. Having lorded it over the Hutus during and prior to the arrival of European colonialism, and having</font></font><font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burundi_genocide"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">massacred</font></font></a></u></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"> many Hutu in </font></font><font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">both nations</font></font></a></u></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"> after independence, the Tutsi are not loved by their fellow countrymen. They have since become a primary source of destabilization and genocide in Congo. So the question is: Why does the United States place its strategic interests in the hands of the elite of a warlike minority in the heart of Central Africa? Why would Washington invest millions in minority-ruled governments of tiny countries like Rwanda and Burundi, which can only be sources of permanent instability in the region? Don’t the Americans understand that support for tiny, aggressive elites guarantees continued chaos?</font></font></p><p><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">The answer is: Yes, they do understand. Since independence, U.S. policy in Africa has almost always been to choose chaos in those places where it cannot rule directly. And chaos brings genocide. The U.S. reasons that, at any given moment, chaos contains many options, an infinity of possibilities for superpower action – whereas stable regimes with broad popular support provide less room for the foreigner to maneuver, less possibilities for a quick change of policy or regime.</font></font></p><p><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Which is one reason that China looks good to Africa and to much of the rest of the formerly colonized world. The Chinese do not foment coups, or encourage whole regions to become saturated in arms. They just want to do business in a stable environment. That’s why China has surpassed the U.S. as Africa’s trading partner, and why U.S. imperialism will ultimately be defeated. Because nobody wants someone around who spreads chaos and mass death everywhere he goes.</font></font></p><p><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">For Black Agenda Radio, I’m Glen Ford. On the web, go to BlackAgendaReport.com.</font></font></p><p><font color="#280099"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><i>BAR executive editor Glen Ford can be contacted at</i></font></font></font><font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="mailto:Glen.Ford@BlackAgendaReport.com"><font color="#280099"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Glen.Ford@BlackAgendaReport.com</font></font></font></a></u></font><font color="#280099"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><i>.</i></font></font></font></p><div class="field field-type-text field-field-listen"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item odd"><span id="swftools-swftools-4fffbd1ae33c8" class="swftools swftools-wpaudio swftools-wpaudio-processed"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>
The Cautionary Tale of Malt Liquor
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2012-07-05T01:52:16.000Z
2012-07-05T01:52:16.000Z
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<div><p><br />A Story without Heroes:<br />The Cautionary Tale of Malt Liquor<br />April 30, 2005<br /><br />The family of American-born beers speaks proudly about two of its children. Ask about Steam Beer or the less gifted but very popular Light Beer, and the photos come out, the stories begin. But speak aloud the name of the other sibling, and the room grows quiet. Dad won't look up from his plate and Mom goes into the kitchen and cries into her apron. How could you mention Malt Liquor?<br /><br /><br />A Humble Birth, A Proper Upbringing<br /><br />Born in the late 1930's, Malt Liquor looked like a promising child. Brewing had returned with the Repeal of Prohibition in 1933, but the Depression was making things tough for brewers, and beer drinkers complained that their beer lacked the "kick" it had before. And then, in the 1940's, World War II came and America was rationing. Everything was tight at the nation's breweries. Not enough metal for bottle caps or cans, not enough gas for the delivery trucks or rubber for tires, not enough malt to make beer. Some brewers were even using sorghum and potatoes to fill out the mash.<br /><br />Two brewers in the Midwest had an idea. At the Grand Valley Brewing Company in Ionia, Michigan, some time around 1937, Clarence "Click" Koerber first brewed Clix Malt Liquor. At Gluek Brewing in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Alvin Gluek had a similar idea in 1942. The grandson of the brewery's founder, Alvin was happiest in the laboratory, tinkering. And one day, he found a way to brew a beer that would use less malt but have more of a kick. He named his malt liquor Sparkling Stite by Gluek, courting drinkers with champagne aspirations. Envisioned as an upscale product, Sparkling Stite was even promoted with score pads for bridge players.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Another Midwestern brewery, Goetz Brewing, created a competing version and called it Country Club Malt Liquor, going after the growing post-war middle class, people with nice homes, a new set of clubs and a little extra money. The "New Party Brew" was advertised in magazine ads with neatly dressed, smiling white people, enjoying themselves in a festive but polite manner, drinking out of frosty little glasses filled from 8-ounce cans.<br /><br />Following suit, Gettleman Brewing of Milwaukee appealed to tweed-jacketed faculty members with its University Club, complete with a faux college crest on the can. The brewers of Gaybree Malt Liquor in Norfolk, Virginia, said it "tastes, looks, sparkles like champagne." Century Brewing's Sparkling Grenáy touted its "superb wine-like character" and sported a coat of arms with tiny winged lions and four medallions.<br /><br />Champetite Malt Liquor, from the Atlantic Brewing Company in Chicago, Illinois, advertised its product with an image of a laughing blonde and the slogan, "the bubbles tickle my nose." The Old Reading Brewery in Pennsylvania tried its luck with Sparkling Mardi Gras Malt Liquor, "fermented and aged to impart the character and flavor of real champagne." And in the same town, the Sunshine Brewing Company introduced Town & Country VVS Sparkling Malt Liquor.<br /><br />In Minnesota, the diminutive Peoples Brewing served up Olde English 600, A Malt Liquor, with a tiny but jaunty Englishman wearing a plumed hat atop a white wig. A slogan in Latin further ennobled the package: "Situr Duluth," the can announced, which translates into "It is being thirsted for in Duluth."<br /><br />In this manner, Malt Liquor, all dressed up and on its best behavior, tried to make its way in the marketplace for almost 20 years, but with little success. However, about the time Malt Liquor turned 21, something happened to change the brew's life, the first of its watershed moments.<br /><br /><br />Malt Liquor Goes Wild<br /><br />In 1963 at National Brewing in Baltimore, Maryland, a man named Dawson Farber was leading the marketing effort. He was very concerned about the growing competition from other "national" breweries -- Anheuser-Busch and Joseph Schlitz -- who were moving into his city with large budgets for promotion and advertising. Farber anticipated that his National Bohemian lager was not going to fare well against bullies like Budweiser and Schlitz. He had to find a niche where the brewery could compete.<br /><br />At the time, the only malt liquor with anything close to a national presence was Country Club. Farber had a different vision, one that focused less on upper middle class aspirations and more on the reality of more kick in the can. He came up with the name Colt 45 and told a designer he wanted a label emblazoned with a kicking horse and a horseshoe. Farber was not going to hide the potent brew's extra bang.<br /><br />This was a master stroke. But it was also a violation of federal law, if anyone was paying attention. The Code of Federal Regulations, Title 27, Part 7 "Prohibited Practices," Section 7.29 (g), states that a malt beverage's label "shall not contain any statements, designs, or devices, whether in the form of numerals, letters, characters, figures, or otherwise, which are likely to be considered as statements of alcoholic content."<br /><br />The future of malt liquor hung in the balance, but National Brewing needn't have worried. Apparently insensitive to metaphor, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) approved Colt 45, kicking horse, horseshoe and all.<br /><br />As the new brew with the kick of a colt enjoyed national success, the well-mannered malt liquor brands of the previous decade were trampled by a herd of animals. The BATF gave the green light to a zoo parade of mustangs and stallions, red lions, red bulls and pit bulls, big bears and big cats, jaguars and panthers, hawks and eagles, scorpions and cobras -- a Noah's Ark gone bad, a wild kingdom in the cooler. The allusions to potency were unleashed and unbridled.<br /><br />But how were brewers to advertise these wild new brews? Print ads in the early 1960's hinted that Colt 45 was "a completely unique experience." As a part of the "unique" campaign, Colt 45 television ads showed a man seated at a table on the edge of a waterfall. A white man, in a suit.<br /><br />The Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company, the owners of malt liquor's first raging bull, ran a print ad showing a giggling woman wearing a pearl necklace, seated next to a tray of stemmed glasses bearing the Schlitz Malt Liquor stylized "bull" logo. The ad read, "Mildred never used to be famous for her parties.Then she introduced Schlitz Malt Liquor."<br /><br />The makers of Bull Dog Malt Liquor ventured this slogan: "a pip of a nip in every sip." Indeed, the colts, the bulls and the dogs were ready to run, but the brewers still hesitated to turn them loose.<br /><br /><br />Malt Liquor Makes New Friends<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />For 20 years, brewers directed malt liquor advertising to white, middle class consumers. But the Civil Rights movement of the 1960's alerted many American businesses to the existence of a group that had been largely invisible to them: black Americans. Prompted partly by social conscience and partly by threatened boycotts, marketers awoke to the wisdom of appealing to black audiences -- hiring black-owned advertising agencies, advertising in media that black people read, watched and heard, and featuring black people in the advertisements. It was the right thing to do and it was the smart thing to do.<br /><br />Among the businessmen given a nudge were brewers. And smarter brewers asked themselves, "Which of our products are black people buying already?" Brewery presidents asked the V.P. Sales, who asked his sales force, who asked distributors, who asked the retailers who spoke with consumers every day. The word came back up the chain that people of color drank proportionally more malt liquor than their white counterparts. Nobody knew why; they just did.<br /><br />(To be precise, and move forward in time for a moment, while black Americans comprise 12-14% of the population, they consume 30-33% of the malt liquor brewed in the U.S. The statistic is important for two reasons. First, it shows why brewers of malt liquor advertise more heavily to black people: As a group, they buy more malt liquor. The second important fact is that if a third of all malt liquor is consumed by black Americans, two thirds are consumed by people who are not black. Hold on to that thought.)<br /><br />Tobacco companies manufacturing menthol cigarettes made the same discovery: Their customers were disproportionately black. They responded by directing more of their advertising to a black audience. A Praxis Project (Washington, D.C.) survey of Jet and Ebony magazines -- black-owned publications targeted to black people -- shows that from 1965 to 1975, print ads for menthol cigarettes and malt liquor appeared in these publications and increasingly featured people of color. Advertising on black radio paralleled this trend.<br /><br />In 1967, Maier Brewing in Los Angeles introduced Soul Stout Malt Liquor and Soul Mellow Yellow Beer for the black community. But the products, coming out just two years after the Watts riots, met with protests led by the NAACP. The brewery, on its own last legs, let the Soul brand die.<br /><br />In New Jersey, Trenton's Champale was one of the first malt liquor brewers to pay more attention to the black community. Long a champion of the "champagne on a beer budget" approach, Champale ran a 1966 print ad showing a handsome black couple in evening dress with the caption, "Ready, Set, Glow!" A 1971 Champale print ad showed a black hand holding two bottles, with the slogan, "Live a little on very little." In 1974, Champale ran an ad with a black couple in tennis garb, and the headline, "Get Set for Living." Also in 1974, they published a print ad with a young African American gospel composer, shown at his piano writing music, outdoors throwing a football, and indoors enjoying Champale in a champagne glass. In his spare time, the young man was campaigning for Maynard Jackson, the future Mayor of Atlanta. The ad signed off with "Some people just know how to live." In the same campaign, another ad featured a black couple in Harlem who owned their own greeting card company.<br /><br />Colt 45 did some tentative reaching out in 1974 with print ads featuring comedian and actor Redd Foxx. He had a highly rated TV show in Sanford and Son, he was black, and white people liked him. It must have felt like a safe way to dip a toe into the black market.<br /><br />Another early sign of awareness was an Anheuser-Busch sales film for Budweiser Malt Liquor. The 1973 production took distributors for a ride on the Budweiser Malt Liquor Limited, a train where every car was filled with people enjoying Bud Malt. Along with beautiful women and groovy guys, the train was also populated with college students who drank Bud Malt while "rapping," and a black man with a big hat who said, "Hey, man, maybe you don't drink a bunch, but I drink a ton of it. You may call it malt liquor, but it's my beer!" The host went on to describe the "new black market" for malt liquor, and interviewed a group of black men and women who talked about drinking malt liquor when "you want to get down to it." In stores, at least one display from this era showed smiling black people enjoying Budweiser Malt Liquor and characterized the newly introduced brew as "The Soul Grabber," possibly an allusion to the Willis "Gator" Jackson song of the same name.<br /><br />Looking back, an observer might see the malt liquor advertisements of the Sixties and Seventies as fairly tasteful, almost quaint. But that was going to change.<br /><br /><br />Malt Liquor Discovers Sex<br /><br />In 1986, Malt Liquor was 44 years old, and clearly a late bloomer. Then the middle-aged brew met actor Billy Dee Williams. When Billy Dee first said, "The Power of Colt 45 - It works every time," Malt Liquor's world changed forever. Billy Dee was black and he was sexy. And what a product promise: With the help of Colt 45, you could be as smooth as Billy Dee and beautiful ladies would yield gladly.<br /><br />The genie was out of the bottle. On Billie Dee's coattails, basketball's towering Wilt Chamberlain (who once estimated the number of his amorous conquests at more than 10,000) appeared in advertisements for Haffenreffer Private Stock Malt Liquor, holding a swooning beauty while the headlines read, "High performance pleasure" and "Nobody does it bigger." Suddenly, it seemed as if you could say anything about malt liquor.<br /><br />Of course, one cannot discuss sex and malt liquor without a bow to Don Vultaggio and John Ferolito. These two young men from Brooklyn came up the hard way. After high school, they scraped together $200 and bought a VW bus to deliver beer to places avoided by timid truckers, stores in neighborhoods like Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant. By 1982, the pair had 25 trucks and a decade of experience delivering refreshment in these less than pastoral settings. Vultaggio and Ferolito learned what their customers wanted because they were on the street with them every day.<br /><br />One day they asked themselves why they were delivering other people's beer when they could contract to brew their own and profit as both wholesalers and brewers. In 1986, they formed the Hornell Brewing Company and introduced Midnight Dragon Special Reserve Malt Liquor. What they lacked in marketing power, they made up for in audacity. Their first poster featured a woman sipping Midnight Dragon through a straw. The caption read, "I could suck this all night."<br /><br />You didn't need a gypsy to read those tea leaves. When women's groups protested, Ferolito told the Wall Street Journal, "Real men like sex and sex sells beer." In fact, 22 separate groups protested the poster. Propelled by its notoriety, Midnight Dragon sold like hotcakes with malt syrup. As a cultured touch, its cans and bottles were emblazoned with an elegant crest and Latin inscription, "Epulis Accumbere Divum" (line 79 from the first book of Vergil's Aeneid, "To recline at the feast of the gods"). For those eager to recline, Vultaggio and Ferolito delivered their new brew by the truckload -- three million cases of Midnight Dragon annually.<br /><br /><br />Malt Liquor Finds Its Voice<br /><br />Malt Liquor was living in a world of double meanings, metaphor and sly winks until it took up with a crowd of musicians. And not just any musicians; these young men played Hip Hop. One day they crossed paths with Minott Wessinger, a descendant of brewer Henry Weinhard. Wessinger had worked at the family brewery, Blitz-Weinhard, in Portland, until his family sold the business to G. Heileman Brewing Company. The deal included a "non-compete" clause in the general beer market, but Wessinger started the McKenzie River Corporation, created a new malt liquor and had Heileman brew it for him under contract, beginning in 1987.<br /><br />The leading malt liquor brand at the time was Olde English, which was kind of Olde School, and Wessinger sought a way to appeal to drinkers who wanted something other than their father's malt liquor. He created St. Ides. Tropical breezes blew the palm trees pictured on the St. Ides label and gave it a kind of St. Barts, St. Kitts, West Indies attitude. (In addition, the name held meaning for the devout; St. Ides was a fifth-century Irish nun who worked miracles and foretold the future, although probably not this one.)<br /><br />In the late 1980's, Wessinger heard Hip Hop artists singing about malt liquor in their songs. Singing about Olde English, "O E," now several owners away from its birthplace in Duluth, and about his own St. Ides, "the S.T. Crooked I." But Wessinger did not succumb to corporate thinking, which would have said, "Let's have our ad agency produce radio commercials that sound like this Hip Hop." Wessinger was smarter. He commissioned real Hip Hop stars to create the spots, from the sidewalk up.<br /><br />The resulting songs, recorded and played in the early 1990's, are the stuff of legend. As one writer noted, they "blew the funk up." Artists included King Tee, DJ Pooh, E-Swift and Snoop Doggy Dogg. The work increased St. Ides sales by 25%, and incidentally made St. Ides the malt liquor of choice among white college students. But black and white malt liquor drinkers were not the only listeners. Almost from the beginning, community leaders and public health advocates were outraged by the lyrics. O'Shea Jackson, rapping as Ice Cube, urged his listeners to, "Get your girl in the mood quicker, get your jimmy thicker, with St. Ides malt liquor."<br /><br />What a product promise! The community could only stand about four more years of that. At one point, public outcry led to the federal government's suspending all St. Ides advertising for three days. That showed 'em! The campaign ended after production of 30 radio spots. The use of sex to sell malt liquor would continue, but Ice Cube had planted the flag on a peak that might never be scaled again.<br /><br />(Lost in the hue and cry was the fact that Ice Cube's lyric was clearly a lettered homage to poet Ogden Nash, the 20th century American master of light verse, whose poem "Reflections on Ice-Breaking" reads in its entirety:<br /><br />Candy<br />Is dandy<br />But liquor<br />Is quicker.<br />For bringing a 1940's New Yorker magazine feel to the malt liquor milieu, we bid hail to thee, Ice Cube.)<br /><br />While some Hip Hop artists were getting paid to sell St. Ides, others were not amused. Carleton Ridenhour, rapping as Chuck D with the group Public Enemy, denounced malt liquor in his song ''One Million Bottlebags.'' His very public stand against malt liquor made the appearance of his voice in a 1992 St. Ides radio spot all the stranger. The producer of a St. Ides ad had sampled a snippet of Chuck D from ''Bring the Noise.'' Even though the spot was withdrawn from airplay as soon as the sampling was protested, Mr. Chuck filed a $5 million lawsuit against the McKenzie River Corporation. ''It's unconscionable,'' noted the rapper's attorney, Lisa Davis. ''He has taken a very strong position against malt liquor, and these ads make him look like a hypocrite.'' In the end, a seven-figure settlement smoothed Chuck's ruffled feathers.<br /><br /><br />Power Master: A Bridge Too Far<br /><br />G. Heileman's Power Master tore the envelope in 1991. The BATF approved the name for this new sub-brand of Colt 45, but a number of clergymen, including the Reverend Jesse Brown of the Philadelphia-based National Association of African-Americans for Positive Imagery, led a protest, and the U.S. Surgeon General Antonia Novella signed on as well, calling the new brand "socially irresponsible" and sounding the battle cry. "Tell the purveyors of alcohol and their hired-gun persuaders that we have had enough disease, disability and death. Tell them that we simply will not tolerate marketing that distorts and deceives the effects of products, or campaigns that are designed to keep our minorities enslaved by taking away their good health, freedom, and dignity."<br /><br />In a comment typical of the furor, David Grant of the Minneapolis-based Institute on Black Chemical Abuse said, "The same kind of racism is at work here that is at work in society as a whole. It sees black life and the lives of other people of color as intrinsically less valuable than the lives of European-Americans."<br /><br />At this point, the BATF experienced an awakening and noted, as if seeing the law for the first time, that the Federal Alcohol Administration Act of 1935 forbade the labeling or advertising of beer with words that could be construed as indicators of a product's alcoholic strength. Heileman was allowed to sell off its existing stock of Power Master over the next four months but had to stop advertising the product.<br /><br />Already in bankruptcy proceedings, Heileman lost $2 million on the failed product launch. Commenting on the Power Master controversy, a writer in Fortune magazine said, "Targeting black consumers with anything less wholesome than farina has become politically risky."<br /><br /><br />Malt Liquor Goes Crazy<br /><br />Less than a year later, Don Vultaggio and John Ferolito, of Midnight Dragon fame, found a way to offend a whole new minority. Inspired by the film Dances with Wolves and reprising the equine theme of Colt 45 and Mustang, they launched Crazy Horse Malt Liquor in March of 1992. As the Hornell Brewing Company, Ferolito and Vultaggio did well with Crazy Horse, selling more than one million cases in its first year in the market.<br /><br />However, Native Americans in general, and the descendants of Chief Crazy Horse in particular, were not flattered by this namesake brew, nor were they in a mood to say, "Hey, Dances with Wolves, great flick." Instead, this homage to the Old West coming from Long Island triggered bad press, a boycott, state and federal legislative initiatives to ban the brew, and a lawsuit that dragged on for 11 years.<br /><br />From the beginning, Native Americans spoke out about the long history of their battle with alcohol and their reverence for Crazy Horse himself. Others joined the chorus. In a letter to the Wall Street Journal, Rep. Pat Schroeder (D., Colo.) noted, "Crazy Horse was a spiritual and military leader of the Sioux Nation who witnessed the destructive force of alcohol among his people and adamantly opposed its consumption. Even today, substance abuse counselors use his teachings in their work with Native Americans. The Hornell Brewing Co. could not have picked a more inapt symbol for their product."<br /><br />In thoughtful letters, Native American leaders appealed to Vultaggio and Ferolito's better nature. But if the pair had one between them, no one could find it.<br /><br />"They're so callous about it; they don't see it," said Phyllis Tousey Frederick, national coordinator of the Crazy Horse Defense Project. "They say 'It's your opinion that you're offended.' "<br /><br />Perhaps it was their New York point of view. Had Vultaggio and Ferolito traveled to White Clay, Nebraska, they might have had an "ah ha" moment. An unincorporated town with a population of 22, White Clay sits just across the line from the Pine Ridge reservation of the Oglala Sioux Nation. Some 20,000 Native Americans live on the reservation, but Pine Ridge has no movie theater, no public library, no department store. There is not much to do, and little money to do it with, given a 75-80% unemployment rate. No alcohol is sold on the reservation, which brings us, in the company of many Native Americans, back to White Clay. Every day, three small convenience stores sell cans of beer and malt liquor to Native Americans from the reservation. Eleven thousand cans. 11,000. Every day. The revenue accrues to a few white residents of White Clay and to the Nebraska taxman. The consequences accrue to the Pine Ridge reservation. Looking at it from Pine Ridge and White Clay, one might see more clearly how the appearance of Crazy Horse Malt Liquor was not a day-maker for the Sioux nation.<br /><br />On the other hand, when the lawsuit began, Crazy Horse Malt Liquor was one of hundreds of Crazy Horse products and businesses in the marketplace, including a Liz Claiborne line of clothing and a chain of American strip clubs. So why go after Ferolito and Vultaggio? Someone with a cynical nature might say, "Deep pockets."<br /><br />In 1992, Ferolito and Vultaggio introduced Arizona Iced Tea. Since that time, their Arizona Beverages company -- propelled by creative packaging and steady new product introductions -- has become one of the largest independent beverage companies in the United States. In 2003, Arizona teas led the canned and bottled tea category with more than $116 million in sales, ahead of both Lipton Brisk and Snapple. It is common knowledge that people investing time and money in a lawsuit are wise to sue someone with money. To that point, Lawrence I. Fox, an attorney for Hornell Brewing Company, said, "They talk about the principle, but what they really want is the bucks."<br /><br />Fox was not entirely engaging in rhetoric when he talked about "the bucks." The family of Crazy Horse, in addition to demanding that Crazy Horse Malt Liquor be withdrawn from the market, also sought damages "related to what Hornell has made from using Crazy Horse's name on their product." In other words, while few would question the family's sincerity regarding their reverence for the name and memory of Crazy Horse, the family was on record as willing to profit, after the fact, from Hornell Brewing's use of their ancestor's name.<br /><br />After 11 years, they met with success. In 2004, according to Chief Harvey White Woman, a descendent of Crazy Horse and an executor of the estate, the family settled for a promise by Hornell Brewing to stop using the Crazy Horse name and a cash settlement of $150,000.<br /><br /><br />Next Stop, Paris! (a Brief Tangent)<br /><br />As the Crazy Horse saga ended for Hornell Brewing, it was just beginning for three cabaret owners in Paris, France. In 1951, their father, Alain Bernardin, opened a nightclub near the Champs Elysées. Fascinated by the Wild West culture of the United States, Bernardin named his club the Crazy Horse Saloon. It became famous for its glamorous nude showgirls, played a prominent part in the 1965 film "What's New, Pussycat?" and inspired a 50th anniversary revue in Las Vegas. For 50 years, no one complained, until Chief Harvey White Woman, at home on the Pine Ridge reservation, saw an HBO special.<br /><br />In a letter to the club owners, Chief White Woman wrote, "I saw on HBO a program showing your night club where women could be seen apparently wearing feather headdresses. My family is offended each time there is a lack of respect towards our culture and towards our venerable leaders. I want the young people of my tribe to remember Crazy Horse as a warrior and a strong chief, not as a Paris night club." Chief White Woman demanded that the club change its name.<br /><br />By chance, a family friend, Chief Red Cloud, was going to Paris to appear at a book signing, and he delivered the letter in person. Speaking with French reporters outside the club, Red Cloud said, "The name is a sacred name to our people. Nobody uses that name back home - even our own people." Overnight, White Woman's letter and Red Cloud's special delivery linked the name of Crazy Horse to the Paris strip club on more than 200 Web sites in France, the Netherlands, Italy, Scotland, Canada and Luxembourg, and most states of the USA. This is 758 sites fewer than the Crazy Horse Malt Liquor lawsuit inspired, but that suit had eleven years to work.<br /><br />White Woman and Red Cloud are now waiting to hear from Paris. Should the club refuse to change its name, Red Cloud has threatened the owners with a return visit by more chiefs, and legal action. Financed, a jaded observer might assume, by the Crazy Horse Malt Liquor settlement.<br /><br /><br />If at First You Don't Succeed...<br /><br />If two guys from Brooklyn could spark national and international controversies on a shoestring budget, what could we expect from the nation's largest brewery? Anheuser-Busch did not reach the top spot by shying away from challenges. But finding a way to market the #1 malt liquor has been a riddle the company has yet to solve. The 1971 introduction of Budweiser Malt Liquor, "the first Malt Liquor good enough to be called Budweiser," did not meet with success.<br /><br />In 1984, Anheuser-Busch tried again with its own entrant in the Wild Kingdom: King Cobra Malt Liquor. At up to 18 feet long, the King Cobra is the world's longest poisonous snake. It can stand tall enough to look you in the eye. One bite delivers enough cardiotoxic, hemorrhagic venom to kill an elephant, or one man 20 times over. But even with a wild name and the marketing muscle of Anheuser-Busch, King Cobra languished, trailing such industry standards as Olde English and Colt 45.<br /><br />In 1996, Anheuser-Busch tried again, borrowing the windblown palm tree motif from St. Ides and introducing Hurricane Malt Liquor. On the Beaufort Scale, a hurricane is a 12, characterized by "extreme destruction," the strongest force in nature. Comparing the new entrant to King Cobra, an Anheuser-Busch spokesperson was quoted as saying, "Hurricane has a more street-relevant imagery. We want it to be part of an attitude."<br /><br />Part of the attitude included "bikini posters" for Hurricane, competing for cooler space with similar posters from Schlitz Malt Liquor, Mickey's Malt Liquor, Colt 45 and Olde English, perhaps suggesting that malt liquor is the beverage of choice for those who swim.<br /><br />In 1997, critics accused Anheuser-Busch of deliberately targeting Latino drinkers, yet another minority, with Hurricane. Two years later, the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence spoke for 25 public health groups in condemning Hurricane and asking the BATF to take action. The Council waits.<br /><br /><br />The Entrepreneurial Spirit<br /><br />Anheuser-Busch's failure to dominate the category, and the financial successes of McKenzie River and Hornell Brewing were not lost on other entrepreneurs in the 1980's and 90's. A number of attempts were made to create hip, young brands that would appeal to Malt Liquor drinkers.<br /><br />Mandingo Malt Liquor was marketed as a tribute to the "The Great Mandingo Empire of Mali, 1240-1400" in a can bearing a map of Africa. But students of popular culture might also find it evocative of the 1975 film starring Ken Norton, about a well-muscled slave who is drawn into the thrall, and eventually the boudoir, of his white master's wife. The film gave its name to the phenomenon of white women being attracted to black men, especially if the men are as good looking as Ken Norton. This message-laden potion was brewed by Mandingo Beer Inc, in the state of Pennsylvania, a long way from the kingdom of Mali.<br /><br />Another Hall of Famer is Johnny 3 Legs, introduced in 1995 and contract-brewed briefly by Stroh. This fabulously blatant reference -- to a man whose penis is so large that it looks like a third leg -- was sent into the marketplace with a cover story regarding a three-legged rooster. Well, what can you say?<br /><br />In 1997, Phat Boy Malt Liquor, laced with ginseng, was introduced by United States Beverage, led by Joseph Fisch who noted, "It's very positive and it's very fun." However in November of that year, Phat Boy caught the attention of the Rev. Paul Scott of Durham, North Carolina, who held press conferences to complain that urban black youth were being targeted. Within a year, more than a hundred community activists, youth advocates and health organizations, including the Marin Institute, had demanded Phat Boy's recall. In October of 1998, a Web-posted comment by Leslie Cason Jr. (quoted here as it appeared) noted, "this shows you the sickness of the white man and his agenda to elimate Afrikan People. This no good cracker is trying to exploite Afrikan people we must not allow this go on anymore. If Afrikan people must go and physically stop this company it must be done by any means necessary." Not "very fun" after all, Phat Boy was also not very profitable and was discontinued.<br /><br /><br />Is It Malt Liquor, or Robbery?<br /><br />In the year 2000, the creators of St. Ides adroitly moved away from the flak surrounding malt liquor by selling the St. Ides brand and introducing another, Steel Reserve, that was not labeled as a malt liquor but rather as a "high gravity lager." To anyone with a knowledge of brewing, the similarities between a malt liquor and a high gravity lager are striking: lager style, higher alcohol content from a higher amount of fermentables, lighter body, and little in the way of malt or hops.<br /><br />Malt liquor drinkers figured it out fast, and they liked it. With its spanking new design courtesy of the Turner Duckworth design firm of San Francisco and London, the product sold "nearly 100 million bottles and cans" annually. Steel Reserve's brandmark was based on a medieval symbol for steel...<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />...which looked like the number 211. Conspiracy theorists quickly turned the number into something more useful. LeeRoy Jordan, Jr., a health professional and independent consultant, was one of many who noted that 211 was the California penal code for robbery, and he added that the alphanumeric gang code translation of 211, based on the 2nd and 11th letters of the alphabet, was "Blood Killer." And there you have it: another malt liquor brand promoting gangsterism and violence.<br /><br /><br />Liquid Crack<br /><br />For brewers of malt liquor, one of the costs of doing business is public outrage. Given the provocative nature of so much malt liquor advertising, it's a wonder there aren't more protests. For your reading pleasure, here is a sampling of bouquets strewn in malt liquor's path:<br /><br />"This 'Attack of the Killer 40' is part of an overall scheme to control segments of the American population that might have reason to undermine the current power status." -- The Conscious Rasta<br /><br />"The liquor industry has long targeted the Black community with its diabolical marketing schemes from the Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull bustin' through my TV after every video in the '90's to the infamous St. Ides commercials that had every wanna be playa (and aspiring rap star) runnin' to the corner store to see if the stuff really did make you a Mack Daddy. " -- The Rev. Paul Scott, Messianic Afrikan Nation, Durham, North Carolina<br /><br />"Not only are malt liquor products harmful themselves, but they're 'gateway' drugs that could pave the way to crack-cocaine and other illegal drugs." -- Dr. Walter Fagget, National Medical Association<br /><br />"This is what the 'Malt Liquor Marketing Madness' looks like. It is excessive, persuasive and pathological. If you can decode the messages you'll find that their translation is death and destruction." -- LeeRoy Jordan<br /><br />"We have to focus on the notion that we can and must control the sale and consumption of this liquid crack." -- State Rep. John Myers, D-Philadelphia<br /><br />One of malt liquor's most imaginative critics is lecturer and author Al "Coach" Powell. In his essay "40 Ounces of Genocide," Powell links the number of crowns on the Olde English Malt Liquor label -- 33 -- to the number of crowns, a unit of currency, paid as a duty on each slave by English slave traders to the Spanish government under a 1713 agreement known as the Asiento. Powell maintains that the symbolism is deliberate, an "in your face" move against the black community, and exhorts readers to keep fresh in their memories the misdeeds of "the olde English." Powell is one of many malt liquor critics who summons up images of the slave trade and portrays the sale and consumption of malt liquor as yet another enslavement.<br /><br /><br />Laying Blame<br /><br />It is easy to blame malt liquor. It is a tangible sign, a mute defendant left behind at the scene of the crime. Empty and broken containers, unconscious drinkers, dried spew, public urination and defecation, the aftermath of alcohol-fueled violence, fatal accidents, none of these deliver on the promises of the malt liquor label, the bikini posters, the upbeat radio spots. One can well imagine the frustration and rage of those who live with the consequences and seek a better life, a better place to live.<br /><br />Few would suggest that posters of lightly clad women and glowering lords of Hip Hop are ideal fare for children who have gone into a convenience store for a Popsicle, and brewers should not be high-fiving over the level to which their marketing has sunk.<br /><br />But before we cast malt liquor as a racist and calculated attempt to harm minorities, we should recall that two-thirds of the malt liquor brewed in the United States is consumed by people other than African-Americans. Nor are problems with alcohol strictly an urban phenomenon. Didra Brown Taylor's Knowledge, Attitudes, and Malt Liquor Beer Drinking Behavior Among African American Men in South Central Los Angeles presents a review of the literature to date and her own original research. Among the salient findings:<br /><br />"Contrary to popular beliefs, rural students had equal or higher rates of usage of the two licit substances, alcohol and tobacco, than did urban students. Binge drinking for both male and female rural students exceeded that of their urban peers... rural students are more at risk for the negative consequences of alcohol." (p.36)<br /><br />"Studies of adolescents consistently find that Black youth initiate drinking at a later age than their White counterparts and have a lower prevalence of alcohol use." (p.18)<br /><br />In Los Angeles, fortified wines were the drink of choice for 46% of problem drinkers, compared to 18% who preferred malt liquor. (p.2)<br /><br />Of those who drank malt liquor, 56% reported drinking other kinds of alcohol at the same time. (p.103)<br /><br />"Advertising and pop culture were reported to have little influence on whether they drank malt liquor beer while alcohol use by family and others in the community most influenced their decision to drink." (p. xviii)<br /><br />"Nearly 44 percent of the respondents had their first drink of malt liquor beer with a relative with nearly one quarter having their first malt liquor beer drink with their mother or father." (p.98)<br /><br />"Frequency of church attendance emerged as the strongest negative predictor of smoking and daily drinking." (p.24)<br /><br />"The strongest predictor of advancement to heavy drinking were friends' drinking and low parental monitoring." (p.33)<br /><br />If, in fact, malt liquor is not the main beverage of choice among alcohol abusers, or simply one among many, and if family influences are indeed the most powerful in determining the path one takes, then focusing the blame on malt liquor and malt liquor brewers may be a less than productive tactic for those who see the consumption of malt liquor as a threat to health, progress and the quality of life in their community.<br /><br /><br />Why Should You Care?<br /><br />"Government should: Set a maximum alcohol content for malt beverages of 5 percent by volume. This would lower the alcohol content of malt liquors." -- Michael Jacobson, et al; Marketing Booze to Blacks (p.42)<br /><br />In order to solve the "malt liquor problem," the Center for Science in the Public Interest has called for legislation that will restrict the alcoholic content of all malt beverages to 5% by volume. Should such legislation ever pass, beer styles such as barleywines, winter warmers, strong lagers, old ales, bock beers, imperial stouts and India Pale Ales would be banned and unavailable. This would affect every brewpub, every microbrewery, most importers, and millions of beer drinkers in the United States who would no longer be able to find the beers they enjoy. The legislation would create a windfall for the major brewers and take us back in time to 1972, when all that was available to beer drinkers was light American lager and a few light imports. And that is why you, as a beer drinker, should be paying attention to the debate over malt liquor.<br /><br /><br />A Glass in Parting<br /><br />The future is not bright for malt liquor. In 2002, beer market analyst and former business school professor Robert Weinberg noted, "Any economist knows the cheapest way to put alcohol in your system is fortified wine. Beer is a very expensive way to put alcohol in your system." Weinberg also noted that malt liquor consumption in the United States was in decline. In 1997, it accounted for 4.3 percent of malt beverage sales; in 2001 just 2.6 percent.<br /><br />Brewers, however, seem either unwilling or incapable of letting go of the profits that come from malt liquor, in spite of declining sales and consistently negative press.<br /><br />In the end, it's not nice to fool Mother Nature, and you don't do it without paying a price. Malt liquor is an artificial beer style, a style that requires human engineering to override limits placed by nature. It is unnatural for a fermented malt beverage to have this much alcohol, and the consequences should not be wholly surprising. In place of flavor, sociability and a cultural experience, you have a quick ride to intoxication that seems to bring out the worst in everyone, even in the people who object to it. Greed, despair and destruction on one side -- lies, bombast and posturing on the other.<br /><br />It's a story without heroes.<br /><br /><br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><br /><br />Bonus Features<br /><br /><br />What exactly is malt liquor?<br /><br /><br />What's the "letter of the law" on naming and advertising malt liquor?<br /><br /><br />Where did the 40-ounce bottle come from?<br /><br /><br />The first malt liquor: The Clix Riddle<br /><br /><br />Are malt liquor drinkers being targeted?<br /><br /><br />Follow the bouncing numbers: statistics on malt liquor consumption<br /><br /><br />Enroll in the School of Slanted Writing<br /><br /><br />View my favorite malt liquor song lyrics<br /><br /><br />Follow the real life saga of the Schlitz Malt Liquor bull<br /><br /><br />See who's making money on malt liquor empties<br /><br /><br />Review my sources and explore the subject further<br /><br /><br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><br /><br />What Is Malt Liquor?<br /><br />"I guess you could say that malt liquor is like a beer that makes you want to break stuff." -- Tim Teichgraeber, wine critic<br /><br />In some of states of the U.S., any beer with more than 5% alcohol must be labeled as "malt liquor," even if it's a lager imported from Germany. But we are not here to deal with legal language. For our purposes, malt liquor is an American beer style characterized by high alcohol content, thin body, light color, very little hop character, and a variety of sweetish flavors and off-flavors.<br /><br />Two things prevent normal lager beer from achieving higher levels of alcohol. First, yeast cannot break down "unfermentable" dextrins. Think of these as long chains that are simply too big for a little yeast cell to feed on. Because the dextrins cannot be devoured by the yeast and turned into alcohol, they remain behind in the beer to provide body and flavor. Second, yeast is a living organism, and it dies when the alcohol level rises above a certain level; the yeast is essentially killed by the alcohol it has produced. This ends the fermentation, again leaving behind a portion of unfermented sugars that add body and flavor to the beer.<br /><br />But with malt liquor, some things are done differently.<br /><br />One: The mash contains 10 to 20% dextrose, sugars that the yeast can go right to work on. (The mash is usually made up of 50-60% malt, 30-40% corn grits and 10-20% dextrose. This produces a mash with a higher original gravity, i.e., a solution with more fermentables, hence the use of the phrase "high gravity lager" by brewers who want to brew malt liquor without the taint of the name "malt liquor.")<br /><br />Two: Heartier strains of yeast, such as those used to ferment wine, are used. These yeasts can tolerate a higher level of alcohol and higher brewing temperatures. (In addition to producing more alcohol, these yeast can also produce some wine-like flavors, which provide a portion of the basis for claims of "tastes like champagne.")<br /><br />Three: The "secret ingredient" that sets malt liquor apart from strong lagers -- an enzyme called alpha-amylase is added to the mash to break down the longer chains of dextrins, so virtually all of the sugars become fermentable. This means that the brew will have more alcohol and fewer residual dextrins, therefore less body and flavor.<br /><br />In summary: Stronger yeast have more sugars to work with and produce a beer with more alcohol, less body and some unusual flavor notes. Voila, malt liquor.<br /><br />The addition of enzymes to the mash is also key to the production of light beer and dry beer, although the focus with those two styles is on lighter body and not higher alcohol. The formulas of today's brewers are proprietary (i.e., They're not going to tell you), but these are the three main techniques used to brew malt liquor.<br /><br /><br />And what isn't malt liquor?<br /><br />Contrast the above explanation with that on page 14 of Didra Brown Taylor's Ph.D. dissertation, Knowledge, Attitudes, and Malt Liquor Beer Drinking Behavior Among African American Men in South Central Los Angeles:<br /><br />"Now, mainstream beers are made with ingredients such as corn sugar, yeast, malt extracts, and Irish moss (Papazian, 1997). The waste reside (malt) of mainstream beers, like Budweiser, is then mixed with chemicals such as methanol, formaldehyde, white sugar and bleach to make malt liquor beer (Afrika, 1999). The fact that malt liquor beer is made from the waste of other beers allows it to be sold in containers more than twice the size of regular beers for half the price (Brown, 1996)."<br /><br />Let us look at the claims for which she cites Charlie Papazian's book, Home Brewers' Gold: I shared these with Mr. Papazian who ran a search on the original manuscript and could find no content that would support any of her conclusions. Secondly, her citation of "Afrika" for some of the more outlandish claims leads us to her bibliography where "Afrika" is absent. And her final citation of "Brown" directs the reader to one of her own speeches, i.e., she is quoting herself.<br /><br />On page 138, without a footnote, she writes, "...malt liquor beers contain addictive ingredients (sugar, ethanol, and carbon dioxide to name a few)..." Fabulous. The addictive nature of sugar is familiar to anyone with a sweet tooth, and ethanol is a nasty chemical name for beverage alcohol which is indeed addictive to alcoholics, but carbon dioxide? This is news. The bubbles in ginger ale, addictive. Our every exhalation, addictive. One wonders how the California School of Professional Psychology dissertation committee -- Shelly P. Harrell, Ph.D.; Daryl M. Rowe, Ph.D.; Yolanda J. Nunn, Ph.D. -- could keep this revelation to themselves. And that casual use of "to name a few" suggests that there are more addictive substances in malt liquor that she is not going to name at this particular time.<br /><br />To give credit, Dr. Taylor is within hailing distance on one point. Malt liquor can be produced more cheaply than regular lager beer, but not because it is made from the waste products of brewing. Rather, unlike lager beer, it uses smaller amounts of the more expensive ingredients, malted barley and hops, and larger amounts of the less expensive ingredients, corn grits and sugar. Also, the "reside" of brewing, by which I assume Dr. Taylor meant "residue," is not malt, but rather spent grains, which are re-used as an ingredient in cattle feed, not to make malt liquor.<br /><br /><br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><br /><br />The Letter of the Law<br /><br /><br />(The Italics Are Mine)<br /><br />(f) Use of words "strong," "full strength," and similar words. Labels shall not contain the words "strong," "full strength," "extra strength," "high test," "high proof," "pre-war strength," "full oldtime alcoholic strength," or similar words or statements, likely to be considered as statements of alcoholic content, unless required by State law. This does not preclude use of the terms "low alcohol," "reduced alcohol," "non-alcoholic," and "alcohol-free," in accordance with Sec. 7.71 (d), (e), and (f), nor does it preclude labeling with the alcohol content in accordance with Sec. 7.71.<br /><br />(g) Use of numerals. Labels shall not contain any statements, designs, or devices, whether in the form of numerals, letters, characters, figures, or otherwise, which are likely to be considered as statements of alcoholic content, unless required by State law, or as permitted by Sec. 7.71.<br /><br /><br />-- The Code of Federal Regulations: Title 27, Section 7.29 - Prohibited Practices<br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><br /><br />Where Did the 40 Come From?<br /><br />In addition to prompting the "invention" of malt liquor, the rigors imposed by World War II had another effect. Bottles were returnable and reusable, which made them strategic to the war effort. The larger the bottle, the better. This is when pints, quarts and 40-ounce bottles came into use.<br /><br />In the 1950's, however, brewers packaged their stronger malt liquor in smaller 8-ounce cans because of malt liquor's added strength. Some of the first malt liquors to be packaged in these cans included Country Club, Schlitz Malt Liquor, Gluek's Sparkling Stite and Atlas Brewing's Bull Dog. Olde English 600 was packaged in 7-ounce green bottles. But eventually, informed by the successes of their competitors, brewers found that larger containers of malt liquor sold better than smaller containers.<br /><br />In American Demographics, writer Eugene Morris noted, "Blacks have a strong preference for larger sizes of nonalcoholic beverages, for example. After the Coca-Cola Company discovered this phenomenon in the early 1970s, it began featuring and promoting 16-ounce bottles instead of the standard 12-ounce size when advertising to the black community."<br /><br />And so it was with malt liquor. Several years ago, I spoke with a brewer in upstate New York who was visited by a beer distributor from Philadelphia, a gentleman of color, who pronounced the upstate brewery's malt liquor to be "Bad!" and said that if the brewer could put it in a 40-ounce bottle, they could make a fortune together. The small regional brewer did not have a bottling line that could handle 40-ounce bottles at the time; I do not know if the Philadelphia distributor ever got his wish.<br /><br />But one thing is clear: The size of the bottle is not a function of conspiracy, but rather history and consumer demand.<br /><br /><br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The Clix Riddle<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />In many quarters, including the present day Gluek Brewing Company, the origins of malt liquor are believed to lie with the Gluek Brewing Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota. But there is a significant lobby that holds the first malt liquor was Clix Malt Liquor, brewed at Grand Valley Brewing Company in Ionia, Michigan. Beer writer and breweriana guru "Beer Dave" Gausepohl writes, "The Grand Valley Brewing Co. of Ionia, Michigan, created this style, followed shortly thereafter by the Gluek Brewery of Minneapolis."<br /><br />Gary Bauer, proprietor of Michigan Breweriana On-Line, writes, "As far as I know, Clix was the first Malt Liquor." Gary provided this excerpt from an article about the brewery which pushes malt liquor's origins all the way back to 1937, well before the Gluek claim of 1942:<br /><br />"A six-page supplement in the Ionia Sentinel-Standard on July 5, 1934 announced the reopening of the brewery. Prohibition was a very dead issue and the brewery was now welcomed as a provider of jobs and suds. [Brewery owner] 'Click' Koerber became a local booster at a time when the country was deep in a depression and much needed to be done.<br /><br />"The brewery also produced Friars Porter, Friars Beer, a top fermented beer, and in 1937 introduced Clix Malt Liquor which was the first product ever to be labeled and sold as Malt Liquor.<br /><br />"Because of the need for added production facilities and the lack of area to expand the Ionia brewery, in 1943 the Grand Valley Brewing Company purchased the larger Kern Brewery in Port Huron, Michigan, and renamed it the Friars Ale Brewing Company. Both breweries were in operation until 1946 when the entire production was consolidated in the Port Huron Brewery."<br /><br />The Friars Ale Brewing Company of Port Huron, Michigan, closed in 1950. There are surviving Clix Malt Liquor labels which carry a copyright date of 1939, but it is not clear whether the date refers to a trademark on the "Clix" brand name alone or to the "Clix Malt Liquor" name in full. The U.S. Trademark registry lists the first use of Gluek's Stite, "a pale, light-bodied, malt liquor," on September 23, 1943. There is no registration listed for Clix.<br /><br />The Clix label suggests Clarence "Click" Koerber created his malt liquor with the addition of extra dextrose (sugar), and he was apparently the first brewer to call the stronger, thinner brew "Malt Liquor."<br /><br />The Stite page at Gluek.com talks about a patented process involving the fermentation and yeast:<br /><br />"By reinventing the fermentation process and adding yet more yeast, Alvin theorized the resulting brew would take on a distinctively pleasant dry taste. He lagered his new beer for several weeks, taking great pains to keep the temperature of the amber liquid just above freezing. Alvin had invented an entirely new category of beer. Alvin took his research and production techniques to Washington D.C. and applied for a patent. In a nearly unprecedented move, the United States Patent Office awarded Gluek Stite patent number 2,442,806 on June 8, 1948."<br /><br />In his patent application, Alvin Gluek, in fact, referred to his new brew as "a new malt liquor," to separate it from earlier "malt liquors" such as beer and ale. In his patent of June 8, 1948 (No. 2,442,806, which you can read in its entirety at the U.S. Patent Office's Web site: <a href="http://www.uspto.gov/">http://www.uspto.gov/</a>, he describes a process that involves an initial mash of malt, rich in "the various enzymes including maltase, diastase and the various proteinases," of which a small portion is set aside to be reintroduced several days into the fermentation process, with more yeast, to further break down and ferment "all possible sugar-producing substances," thus creating a brew with more alcohol and less body.<br /><br />I don't know if Alvin Gluek worked in ignorance of Clarence "Click" Koerber's product, or was aware of it. Gluek apparently did go after the same end result, but in a different way, and eventually referred to his Sparkling Stite by Gluek as "the original Malt Liquor," laying claim to the name. Which suggests either that he did not know Clix Malt Liquor ever existed, or felt his was a unique brew by virtue of the patented process and thus "the original," or that he was counting on the public's lack of awareness because the Grand Valley Brewing Company was small, obscure, and out of business by 1950.<br /><br />So was it Clix or Stite? At the present, it seems that Clarence "Click" Koerber created and named the first "Malt Liquor" made with the addition of added sugar in 1937; Alvin Gluek created the first "Malt Liquor" made by obtaining a more complete fermentation in 1942, selling it commercially in 1943 and obtaining a patent on the process in 1948.<br /><br />If I ever learn more, I'll share it with you here.<br /><br /><br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><br /><br />On Targeted Marketing<br /><br />A common charge against brewers of malt liquor is that they use targeted marketing on vulnerable black audiences. In fact, all marketing is targeted. You will never see an ad for denture adhesive on MTV, and you will never see an ad for the Apple iPod on an episode of "Golden Girls." No advertiser pays to send a message to consumers who are not likely to use their product or service.<br /><br />Advertising cannot sell you something you do not want. People commonly abstain from buying malt liquor, cigarettes, tampons and fishing line, in spite of seeing ads for these products all their lives.<br /><br />Advertising does influence brand selection. Businesses advertise so that when you do go shopping, you will choose Maytag instead of Whirlpool, Kohler instead of American Standard, Birdseye instead of Green Giant, and yes, Kool instead of Newport, Colt 45 instead of Olde English.<br /><br />Because black people "over index" on some products, that is to say, they buy more of them than other Americans do, the advertisers of these products spend proportionately more money on advertising targeted to black people. Products favored by black consumers, and thus drawing more advertising dollars to black media, include hot sauces, bottled and carton orange juice, baby foods, instant pre-sweetened tea, franks and weiners, corn and tortilla chips, and frozen vegetables.<br /><br />In American Demographics, writer Eugene Morris noted:<br /><br />"Although blacks drink less coffee than average, they are much more likely than other Americans to lace their coffee with large amounts of sugar, cream, or nondairy creamer. Recognizing this trend, Coffee-Mate began marketing its product to blacks. It advertised in national magazines like Ebony and Essence, broadcast its message on local black radio stations, and used outdoor advertising in black neighborhoods. When it created a sweepstakes promotion that ran in local black newspapers, it generated double-digit increases in volume and share of sales among blacks."<br /><br />"Kool-Aid is a heavy favorite among blacks of all ages... The typical black household spends 54 percent more than the average white household on sugar each year... A similar pattern prevails for alcoholic beverages. Sweet-tasting drinks, premixed cocktails, and wine coolers are very popular in the black community."<br /><br />In short, hundreds of advertisers target the black community because they have discovered that the black community, for whatever reason, buys and uses more of their products. One final example: Today, black people in America represent about 12% of the population and drink 50-70% of the Cognac sold in the U.S. Yet where is the hue and cry against the French?<br /><br /><br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><br /><br />Follow the Bouncing Numbers<br /><br />"Black consumption of all malt-liquor brands in this country is estimated at 28 percent..." -- "Malt Assault" by J. Douglas Allen-Taylor<br /><br />"Although African Americans are only 14% of the population, they are reported to consume 30% of malt liquor beers." -- Knowledge, Attitudes, and Malt Liquor Beer Drinking Behavior Among African American Men in South Central Los Angeles by Didra Brown Taylor, p. xvi and p.136<br /><br />"... while malt liquor accounted for only 3% of total beer sales in 1989, up to 32% of its sales are in African American communities (Alaniz & Wilkes, 1998)." -- Knowledge, Attitudes, and Malt Liquor Beer Drinking Behavior Among African American Men in South Central Los Angeles by Didra Brown Taylor, p. 27<br /><br />"Although malt liquor is only 3% of total beer sales, up to 32% of its sales are in the African American communities." -- Newsweek, 1989<br /><br />"According to the Institute on Black Chemical Abuse, African Americans consume one-third of all malt liquor although they constitute only 12% of the population." -- Knowledge, Attitudes, and Malt Liquor Beer Drinking Behavior Among African American Men in South Central Los Angeles by Didra Brown Taylor, p. 4<br /><br />"Given that African American men drink a third of all malt liquor beer..." -- Knowledge, Attitudes, and Malt Liquor Beer Drinking Behavior Among African American Men in South Central Los Angeles by Didra Brown Taylor, p. 158<br /><br />"Miller Brewing Co. has estimated that blacks buy 66% of the nation's malt liquor." -- "Marketing Malt Liquor in Beer's Clothing" by Bill Kurtz, August 2, 2001<br /><br />The italics are mine in the next, taken from the CSPI's Marketing Booze to Blacks, which cites an Ad Age article from November 19, 1984 as its source:<br /><br />"Of television ads directed to blacks, those for malt liquors are most notable for being directed almost exclusively to blacks, who account for most of their sales. A Heileman Brewing Co. regional marketing executive estimated that blacks purchased about 75 percent of Heileman's leading malt liquor, Colt-45, in his area."<br /><br />The Marin Institute conveniently removed all the qualifying phrases and smoothly morphed the claim into:<br /><br />"One marketing executive of G. Heileman Brewing Company estimated that African-Americans consumed 75 percent of Heileman's leading malt liquor, Colt 45." -- Fact Sheet, The Marin Institute<br /><br />Note how the quote went from regional to national with the convenient removal of a few words. And then note how this reference to Colt 45 only was then broadened to include all Malt Liquors:<br /><br />"Urban blacks, however, make up almost 75% of the malt liquor market." -- Indiana Prevention Resource Center at Indiana University, 1998<br /><br />And got repeated here:<br /><br />"According to industry statistics, young, urban, African Americans make up 74% of the malt liquor market." -- Rob Nelson, "Liquid Crack," about.com<br /><br /><br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The School of Slanted Writing<br /><br />How can you twist the truth like the pros? Study the work of Michael Jacobson, head of the Center for Science in the Public Interest. He didn't invent slanted writing, or "spin" as it's popularly known today, but he has elevated it to an art form and inspired a generation of crusaders.<br /><br />For example, if the actual number is 45%, and you want it to appear larger, say, "almost half." If you want it to appear smaller, say "less than half," or even better, "not even half." If the actual number is 75% and you want it to appear larger, you can say "most" or "an overwhelming majority." If the number is 18% and you want it to appear insignificant, you can say, "less than one in five." Or, if your Group B is at 18% and you want it to look bigger and Group A is at 45%, try, "second only to Group A."<br /><br />Suppose you can't say that something actually "is" true. Try saying "may be" or "is believed to be" or "can be seen as" or "is estimated" or "critics say" or "are accused of" or "few would doubt" instead. Most readers will take the bait, especially if they want to agree with you anyway.<br /><br />Let's consider the work of Talise D. Moorer writing in the Amsterdam News. The italics are mine:<br /><br />"Rocket scientists aren't needed to decipher why African-Americans are targeted as guinea pigs for testing products. Racism and the hunger for the almighty dollar are apparent motivational factors, critics say, and it's done with no regard for age or health concerns. Manufacturers of alcohol and tobacco products are accused of having no shame in how they fatten their purse, nor respect of how products are marketed."<br /><br />Moorer is able to call manufacturers of alcohol and tobacco products racist, greedy and shameless with no supporting evidence or fear of legal consequences. The use of "apparent" (rather than "proven"), "critics say" (rather than "I say") and "are accused of having no shame" (rather than "have no shame," or at least "are accused by X, Y and Z of having no shame"), allow Moorer to swing freely.<br /><br />In "40 Ounces of Genocide," author and speaker Al "Coach" Powell cites the number of Africans enslaved and sold to European slave traders as 150 million. Scholarly estimates generally range from 11 to 15 million, but what's one more zero in a good cause?<br /><br />For more training, I recommend the 1954 classic How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff (W.W. Norton & Co.) Huff shows how to use numbers, charts and other visuals to pull the wool over readers' eyes without lying outright. And also how to see through them. "Even if you can't find a source of demonstrable bias," he notes, "allow yourself some degree of skepticism about the results as long as there is a possibility of bias somewhere. There always is."<br /><br /><br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><br />My Favorite Malt Liquor Music<br /><br />Malt liquor has inspired plenty of prose but not much poetry. Two exceptions are the lovely, wistful "St. Ides Heaven" by Elliott Smith, a sort of American Nick Drake who died young in 2003 after a short life plagued by drugs, and Public Enemy's "One Million Bottlebags," a wild piece of Hip Hop with a scathing message from Chuck D for both brewers and drinkers of malt liquor. Both songs are available on iTunes; get thee hence and hit the 'Buy' button.<br /><br />Elliott Smith - St. Ides Heaven<br /><br />everything is exactly right<br />when i walk around here drunk every night<br />with an open container from 7-11<br />in St. Ides heaven<br />i've been out haunting the neighborhood<br />and everybody can see i'm no good<br />when i'm walking out between parked cars<br />with my head full of stars<br />high on amphetamines<br />the moon is a lightbulb breaking<br />it'll go around with anyone<br />but it won't come down for anyone<br />you think you know what brings me down<br />that i want those things you could never allow<br />you see me smiling; you think it's a frown<br />turned upside down<br />'cause everyone is a f*cking pro<br />and they all got answers for trouble they've known<br />and they all got to say what you should and shouldn't do<br />though they don't have a clue<br />high on amphetamines<br />the moon is a lightbulb breaking<br />it'll go around with anyone<br />but it won't come down for anyone<br />and i won't come down for anyone<br /><br />From Elliott Smith. Copyright 1995 Kill Rock Stars<br /><br /><br /><br />One Million Bottlebags - Public Enemy<br /><br />One million bottlebags count 'em<br />Think they can bounce the ounce<br />And it get 'em<br />Yo black spend 288 million<br />Sittin' there waitin' for the fizz<br />And don't know what the f*ck it is<br />An oh lemme tell you 'bout Shorty<br />He about 17 lookin' like 40<br />Treats his 40 dog better than his g<br />When he gets a big bottle<br />Oh he loves tha liquor<br />But look watch Shorty get sicker<br />Year after year<br />While he's thinkin' it's beer<br />But it's not but he got it in his gut<br />So what the f*ck<br />Yo niga what's up<br />Now he's hostile to a brother lookin' out<br />But I ain't mad I know what he about<br />He's just a slave to the bottle and the can<br />'Cause that's his man<br />The malt liquor man<br />One million bags count 'em all<br />Other man gets happy<br />Watch the killas drink 8 ball<br />Don't know a damn thing<br />But his breath stinkin'<br />Then I ask a question you brother<br />What the f*ck is you drinkin'<br />He don't know but it flow<br />Out the bottle in a cup<br />He call it gettin' f*cked up<br />Like we ain't f*cked up already<br />See the man they call Crazy Eddie<br />Liquor man with the bottle in his hand<br />He give the liquor man ten to begin<br />Wit' no change and he run<br />To get his brains rearranged<br />Serve it to the home they're able<br />To do without a table<br />Beside what's inside ain't on the label<br />They drink it thinkin' it's good<br />But they don't sell the sh*t in the white neighborhood<br />Exposin' the plan they get mad at me I understand<br />They're slaves to the liquor man<br />Back to my homeboy Shorty<br />He can drink it down<br />And think nuttin' about it<br />Pass it around and get tha 40 dog buzz<br />At the same time<br />Shorty can't remember what day it was<br />Say I'm yellin' is fact<br />Genocide kickin' in yo back<br />How many times have you seen<br />A black fight a black<br />After drinkin' down a bottle<br />Or a malt liquor six-pack<br />Malt liquor bull<br />What it is is bullsh*t<br />Colt 45 another gun to the brain<br />Who's sellin' us pain<br />In the 'hood another up to no good<br />Plan that's designed by the other man<br />But who drink it like water<br />On and on till the stores reorder it<br />Brothers cry broke but they still affordin' it<br />Sippin' it lick drink it down oh nooo<br />Drinkin' poison but they don't know<br />It used to be wine<br />A dollar and a dime<br />Same man, drink in another time<br />They could be hard as hell and don't give a damn<br />But still be a sucker to the liquor man.<br /><br />From Apocolypse '91: The Enemy Strikes Back. Copyright 1994 Def Jam/RAL Records<br /><br /><br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><br /><br />Name That Bull<br /><br />One brewer had an excuse for using animal imagery. The Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company launched Schlitz Malt Liquor in 1963 in 8-ounce cans bearing the stylized image of a bull. But they had been using pictures of a bull since the Repeal of Prohibition in 1933. The actual bull's name was Prince and he lived on the Uihlein family's Heaven Hill Farm at Lake Placid, New York. The bull later used in Schlitz Malt Liquor TV spots, shown bursting through walls, was a black longhorn Brahma from a farm outside of Los Angeles. He was named Zane, had been neutered in his youth and was said to be as gentle as a lamb.<br /><br /><br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><br />Who's Making $$ on the Empties?<br /><br /><br />Collectors. Who knew the empties were worth more? On eBay, I have seen the following malt liquor cans sold for:<br />Astro -- $137.50<br /><br />Buccaneer -- $637.00<br /><br />Carling -- $64.99<br /><br />Drewry's -- $400.00<br /><br />Fox Head -- $84.99<br /><br />French 76 -- $31.76 (After introducing Colt 45, National tried the "malt liquor as champagne" strategy one more time. And in keeping with Colt 45, the new brand also carried an allusion to a firearm, the famed French 75 field gun for which the French 75 cocktail -- champagne, gin, orange liqueur and lemon juice -- was named. Nobody got any of it, or bought any of it, hence the rarity of the can.)<br /><br />Grain Belt GBX -- $322.99 (test can)<br /><br />James Bond's 007 Special Blend -- $1,125.00 (Yes, a grand and change. In the 1960's, the National Brewing Company introduced this malt liquor/beer blend in a series of seven cans with sultry "birds" and London landmarks. In spite of the popularity of the James Bond books and films, the brand failed and was withdrawn.)<br /><br />Jet -- $43.75<br /><br />Oertel's Thoroughbred -- $149.99<br /><br />Patrick Henry Velvet Smooth -- $260.00<br /><br />Pike's Peak -- $789.00<br /><br />Playmate -- $735.00 (In 1963, the Sunshine Brewing's Playmate flirted with malt liquor drinkers, but was quickly halted by a lawsuit from Playboy magazine; the cans are thus highly desirable.)<br /><br />Soul -- $735.00 (Ushered out of business by the NAACP; again, highly desirable.)<br /><br />Winchester -- $57.59 (If Colt 45 and Magnum work...)<br /><br /><br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><br />Sources (in date order)<br /><br />The Beer Can Collector's Bible by Jack Martells; Matteson, IL, Greatlakes Living Press, 1976<br /><br />The International Book of Beer Can Collecting by Richard Dolphin; London, Hamlyn, 1977<br /><br />Marketing Booze to Blacks by George A. Hacker, Ronald Collins and Michael Jacobson; Washington, D.C., Center for Science in the Public Interest, 1987<br /><br />"America's Untapped $200 Billion Market" by J. Reisner, Food Business, May 7, 1990<br /><br />"Targeting the Black American Market" by Kristin Wright, NFM 433, February 25, 1991<br /><br />"Liquor Industry Must Stop Targeting Minorities with Alcohol Ads" by Dr. Antonia C. Novello, USA Today, July 1, 1991<br /><br />"The Return of PowerMaster" by Holley Knaus, Multinational Monitor, June 1992<br /><br />"The Real Murderer of Chief Crazy Horse" by Rep. Pat Schroeder; letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal, September 30, 1992<br /><br />"The Difference in Black and White" by Eugene Morris, American Demographics, January 1993<br /><br />"Coalition of clergy and community activists rally to eliminate marketing of harmful products to African-American youth" by Talise D. Moorer, Amsterdam News, no date (circa 1993) (<a href="http://www.naaapi.org">www.naaapi.org</a>)<br /><br />"It's the 40 Ounce, Stupid!" by Keidi Obi Awadu, the Conscious Rasta, January 6, 1995<br /><br />"Uptown, Dakota, and Powermaster" by N. Craig Smith, The McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, 1996<br /><br />"Pro-drinking Messages and Message Environments for Young Adults: The Case of Alcohol Industry Advertising in African American, Mexican American, and Native American Communities" by Maria Luisa Alaniz and Chris Wilkes, Prevention Research Center, Berkeley, California, 1996<br /><br />"Don Vultaggio and John Ferolito built Arizona Iced Tea into a major brand..." by Daniel Roth, Forbes, August 26, 1996<br /><br />"The Beer Enthusiast: Special to All About Beer, an Open Letter to Mr. Arch Stanton: The Dark Side of Light Beer" by Fred Eckhardt (including excerpts from a technical paper on the brewing of malt liquor by Clement Prechtl of the Wallerstein Laboratories), September 18, 1997<br /><br />"Malt Assault" by J. Douglas Allen-Taylor, Sonoma County Independent, Oct. 2-8, 1997<br /><br />"Is Target Marketing Unethical?" by N. Craig Smith, Georgetown Business, Fall/Winter 1997<br /><br />"Crossing Substances for Common Interest: An Examination of the Movement against Targeted Alcohol and Tobacco Marketing and its Implications for Public Health Coalitions" by Makani N. Themba and R. G. Robinson, The Praxis Project, Washington, D.C., 1997<br /><br />"North Carolina Reverend Frowns on Phat Boy" by Wendy Hower, World African Network Online, March 12, 1998<br /><br />"STOP PHAT BOY LIQUOR BY ANY MEANS NESSARY" posted on the Web by Leslie E Cason Jr., October 14, 1998<br /><br />"The 'Healthy' Malt Drink Stirs a Debate" by Ron Scherer, Christian Science Monitor, August 10, 1998<br /><br />SYMBOLS.com, the online version of Thought Signs: The Semiotics of Symbols---Western Non-pictorial Ideograms by Carl G Liungman, IOS Press, 1998.<br /><br />"Forty Ways to Lose Your Balance" by Reilly Brennan, Michigan Daily Online, March 25, 1999<br /><br />"The Rap on St. Ides: Reframing and Community-based Activism" by Makani Themba, in Making News, Changing Policy: Case Studies of Media Advocacy on Alcohol and Tobacco Issues; University Research Corporation and the Marin Institute. No date. Pages 115-132.<br /><br />Knowledge, Attitudes, and Malt Liquor Beer Drinking Behavior Among African American Men in South Central Los Angeles by Didra Brown Taylor, Dissertation.com, 2000<br /><br />"Malt Liquor is 'Liquid Crack,' Pa. House Panel Told" by Mensah M. Dean, Philadelphia Daily News, July 26, 2000<br /><br />"Suit Settled in Selling of Crazy Horse Malt Liquor," April 27, 2001 (<a href="http://crazyhorsedefense.org/">http://crazyhorsedefense.org/</a>)<br /><br />"Gangsta Rappers Get Paid and Get Fronted by "The Beast" by Keidi Obi Awadu, the Conscious Rasta, September 21, 2001<br /><br />"A Beer to Call Your Own: Tales from the Rise and Fall of National Brewing" by Brennen Jensen, Baltimore City Paper, January 16 - 22, 2002<br /><br />"Loaded Questions: Are King Cobra and Other Malt Liquors Targeted at Minorities, the Poor and the Homeless?" by Emi Kojima, Roanoke Times & World News, May 12, 2002<br /><br />"Drunken Masters" by Oliver Wang, San Francisco Bay Guardian, January 15, 2003<br /><br />"The March Of Ides: A Great Lost Age of Alcoholic Hip-Hop" by Hua Hsu, The Village Voice, April 9 - 15, 2003<br /><br />"Crazy Horse Case Finally Dismissed," Modern Brewery Age, January 19, 2004<br /><br />"2004 State of the Industry," Beverage Industry, (<a href="http://www.bevindustry.com">www.bevindustry.com</a>)<br /><br />"Sioux Struggle to Improve Life on Reservation" by Evelyn Nieves, Washington Post Service/Miami Herald, October 24, 2004<br /><br />"Crazy Horse Descendents Wait to Hear from Night Club" by Carson Walker, AP Wire, November 4, 2004<br /><br />"Malt Liquor Review" by Tim Teichgraeber, The Wave Magazine, no date<br /><br />"The Malt Liquor Marketing Madness" by LeeRoy Jordan, Jr., a foreword to Message NA Bottle: The Scandal Continues, Volume 2 by Alfred "Coach" Powell. No date.<br /><br />"Greatest Malt Liquor Hits: Hip Hop History Series, Vol. 1," compiled by DJ Drank (CD). No date.<br /><br /><br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><br />And thanks to:<br /><br />Charlie Papazian, Fred Eckhardt and Julie Bradford for a wealth of information and encouragement<br /><br />Dick Chapman for U.S. Patent information<br /><br />Gary Bauer, proprietor of Michigan Breweriana On-Line<br /><br />Google<br /><br />Jeff Katzer for the introduction to critical reading and How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff<br /><br />Laurie Winship for CSPI Nutrition Action newsletters<br /><br />Mike Meldahl at Gluek Brewing Company<br /><br />Michael Gilleland for tracing the Midnight Dragon inscription to Vergil's Aeneid<br /><br />For the history of the Crazy Horse Saloon in Paris: <a href="http://www.crazy-horse.fr/">www.crazy-horse.fr/</a><br /><br />My beloved eBay, for providing a daily forum for collectors of malt liquor cans and bottles, who obligingly list information about the brewers, time periods, et al.<br /><br />Modern Drunkard magazine's priceless review: <a href="http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issues/03_03/03-03_forty_fury.htm">www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issues/03_03/03-03_forty_fury.htm</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br /><br />Recommended reading:<br /><br />"Behold the Forty: A paean to the big bad bottle" by Mike Seely, The Riverfront Times (St. Louis, Missouri), June 8, 2005<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Faithful Readers</p></div>
Rape of the Black Woman
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2012-06-11T01:23:24.000Z
2012-06-11T01:23:24.000Z
hakim
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<div><p><br /><b>Know Your Black History: Could a Black Woman Actually Be Considered a Rape Victim</b><br /><br />That black men, women, and children were routinely lynched by white men who had no fear of arrest, much less prosecution, well into the 1950s is well known. What is less well known because it is well documented is that black women were routinely raped by white men throughout most of American history. The really sad part of this contemptuous affair is that for much of American history, especially in the South, the rape of a black woman by a white man was not even considered a crime. A Governor of one of the most backward states in the union, South Carolina, named Coleman Blease famously issued these utterly unbelievable words: "I am of the opinion as I have always been, and have very serious doubts as to whether the crime of rape can be committed upon a negro." Were these words, so ignorant as to make one suspect Coleman Blease suffered some sort of brain disease, spoken in 1830? 1850? 1870? No, in fact, Coleman Blease was Governor of the backward state of South Carolina in 1913.<br />It is this uncommonly nonsensical approach to how racists viewed African-Americans that led to systematic denial of the criminal element at work in the violation of black woman by white men. The worst thing is that there is simply no way of knowing just how many black women were raped.<b>Estimates typically place the occurrence of rape anywhere from five to ten times as often as actual lynchings and even the number of lynchings that took place will never be fully known.</b>One thing is certain, of course. The rape of black women and the lynching of black men was about control and fear. Racists always know deep inside that they are inferior to everyone and it is exactly that acknowledgment of inferiority that leads them to pump up their feelings of superiority to a degree of delusion. It has been said often enough that rape is not about sex, but about power and that certainty is multiplied in the cases of inferior white racists pathetically acting out those delusions of being more powerful than they are by violating a defenseless black woman. Another thing is also known: the cases of gang rape by white men tended to take place at least as often as a lone rape. This should not be surprising, since members of the KKK and other white supremacists are notoriously too cowardly to approach a black person one on one.<br /><br /><b>Black men knew that rape was not considered a crime when it was white on black and there was in the South, as well as certain areas in the North, a built-in resistance to allowing a wife or daughter to ever be alone in the company of white men. This even extended to working as maids or cooks whenever men would be present in the house. </b>And if a black man happened to come upon a rape taking place and moved to protect the women, woe be to him.<b> It was hardly uncommon for a black man attempting to save a black woman to have suffered the ultimate penalty or at least to have his tongue cut out. </b>Apparently, racists are too stupid to realize that a man need not have a tongue to identify a cowardly assailant. Not that many of these sub-human racists really needed to fear being identified.<br /><br />The system was such that white men had no fear of raping black men because the idiotic contention of a brain dead bag of Carolina skin like Coleman Blease was not just the lunatic ravings of a single man. The law enforcement system throughout the South looked the other way and therefore the only recourse was for black men to come to the aid of their wives and daughters and sisters, but if they did then they would suffer the consequences. And killers of black men had just as little to fear as rapers of black women.</p></div>
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GLORIA DULAN-WILSON - MARCH 21ST, 2012, CELEBRATE! CELEBRATE! CELEBRATE!
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2012-03-21T08:19:10.000Z
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Gloria Dulan-Wilson
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Yaaay!</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#993300;"><br />Aries in the house - oh yeah! Celebrate good times - come on!</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#993300;"><br />I am so stoked to be here on this crazy, mixed up ball of dirt we all call earth, and "I still standing"! (you should really listen to Israel Houghton and New Breed do that song, or the Lakewood Choir - they're fantastic). <br /><br />And I admit I really had a tough 2011 - glad I won't see that one again. <br /><br />I am definitely looking to a much better, brighter, happier, healthier, powerful, loving, successful, prosperous 2012, 2013 2014, 2014 through 2045. No more lack, loss, limitation. <br /><br />As a rule, I absolutely love birthdays - mine especially, but everybody else's as well. If we don't celebrate ourselves, why should anyone else want to? <br /><br />Gotta love you 'cause God didn't make no junk. So, I will be celebrating me during the rest of March, starting this very second, right on through and up to Taurus - April 22 (?). <br /><br />I've also come to the realization and understanding that I have the great good fortune to be blessed with some of the most beautiful friends in the world. I have had an opportunity to witness that over and over. I am saying right here and right now: Thanks for being my friends, and I truly hope I can reciprocate whenever you need me, as well.<br /><br />To my Oklahoma Homies - we've been friends from Kindergarten through today - that's truly special and most amazing. Wow!<br /><br />For my family, especially my Mom, Ruby Love Dulan, wow! I have to make sure that I'm keeping up with the gene pool, because my mother, now age 89, is one remarkable lady. And to my brothers Warner and Sylvester and sister Brenda - I love you each and all. <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">For the Love of my Life - thank you for being kool, crazy, wise, sentimental, fun, talented, spiritual, Tall, Dark & Chocolate, concerned, creative, smart, generous, music, knowledgeable and the consummate night owl. <br /></span><br /><br />Of course to my own little set of Africa/Jamaica-Baysha-manians, Kira, Rais & Adiya you are each precious, special and smart to me. Thanks for being my kids - and thanks for the beautiful grands Jahzara, Akili, Hugh 5, Jaden and Kijani, as well. <br /><br />Now I know the weather has changed the vernal equinox from March 21, to March 20; but we Aries who were born before a certain period, still recognize the original. So as far as I am concerned, my birthday is still on the First Day of Spring. <br /><br />Time to break out the bright colors and light shoes, and let the sun shine in.<br /><br />You keep me writing and trying to get it right for all of us. We are beautiful Black people on a major journey. We've got so many talents, skills, abilities that we are blessed with that we can pool and consolidate, and create our own fabulous planet. I am so glad I'm Black (and Indian). Nothing against the rest of the homo sapiens, we each have our own set of God's given gifts. But we seem to have the transformative power, when we really apply it, to make worlds, bring energy, heat, light and elegance to the scene. And I love that. <br /><br />I am open and receptive to all the good there is manifesting right here and right now. And play for all of you are a part of it. <br /><br />It's my birthday. I'm going to find a huge chunk of German Sweet Chocolate Cake and enjoy it.<br /><br />Luvya<br />Gloria<br /><br />Stay Blessed &<br />ECLECTICALLY BLACK<br />Gloria Dulan-Wilson</span></div><div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><span style="color:#993300;"><span class="post-author vcard">Posted by <span class="fn"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10697937958373924179" title="author profile"><span style="color:#993300;">Gloria Dulan-Wilson</span></a></span></span> <span class="post-timestamp">at <a class="timestamp-link" href="http://gloria-dulan-wilson.blogspot.com/2012/03/happy-birthday-gloria-dulan-wilson.html" title="permanent link"><span style="color:#993300;"><abbr class="published" title="2012-03-21T02:59:00-04:00">2:59 AM</abbr></span></a></span> <span class="post-icons"><span class="item-action"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=8661755859413500477&postID=7252781070013308256" title="Email Post"><span style="color:#993300;"><img alt="" class="icon-action" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" height="13" width="18" /></span></a></span> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-870342552"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=8661755859413500477&postID=7252781070013308256&from=pencil" title="Edit Post"><span style="color:#993300;"><img alt="" class="icon-action" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" height="18" width="18" /></span></a></span></span></span></div><div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1">PS: In lieu of gifts & cards, Money would be most appreciated. </div><div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1">MuyGracias, Arigato, Thanks! 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