I will
scatter them, and then I will gather them: Deuteronomy 4:27; 28:64; 32:26;
Isaiah 11:12;
Jeremiah 23:8 / Read about the African Slave Trade in Deuteronomy 28th Chapter.
REPARATIONS
NOW IN OUR LIFETIME
N E W S L E T T
E R!
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JUNE 2002
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WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS, AND WE
OWE IT TO OUR CHILDREN TO ESTABLISH AND DEMAND BETTER LIVES FOR THEM AND FOR
OURSELVES!
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GIVE POWER AND MEANING TO
THE REPARATIONS MASS
MOVEMENT - GIVE OF YOURSELF!
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“Take
direct action against the U.S. government!”
Dr.
Robert Brock
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Note
from the REPNOW Newsletter Editor:
I would first like to commend all my Brothers and Sisters who are remaining strong in this our thrust for REPARATIONS NOW IN OUR LIFETIME! Our Captors would want nothing more than for us to give up and become complacent and tire of our plight for justice. All we need do is get even more people involved in this fight for THE DEBT, i.e., Reparations for Descendants of Slaves.
I
beg your pardon if your article is not posted in this edition of the RepNow
Newsletter. After collecting a
great number of articles onto a diskette, I was unable to open the file. My only
alternative was to go back into all my old E-mails that remained and collect
what I could. Serves me right for
using generic diskettes!!! However, that doesn’t mean that this
edition falls short, because it doesn’t…
Since September 11, we’ve heard a lot about freedom, patriotism, and “God Bless America.” We’ve also heard about “terrorism and evil,” and a whole lot of propaganda. Unfortunately, we have heard absolutely NOTHING positive regarding the needs of Black Peoples in the United States, in other parts of the world, or in Africa. It’s as if we and our predicament disappeared into oblivion.
The
constant focus is on White America and the needs of Israelis. And we wonder why foreigners hate
Americans and White Jews. With
their rhetoric and arrogance, Americans make other Europeans feel inferior as
they boast about being the greatest country in the world, ad nauseam and how
America must be protected. Uh…what
about the other Nations on this planet, Mr. Uncle Sam H. America? And why should Nations protect Americans
and Israelis when these people couldn’t care less about others? Let the blame for injustice and race hatred
fall on the right peoples.
GOD BLESS AMERICA, WHITE JEWS, AND ALL NATIONS WITH JUSTICE…for its participation in the TransAtlantic Slave Trade, for forced migration of defenseless peoples, for ethnic cleansing, for racism and discrimination, and for gross human rights violations unto this day. May GOD bless America and White Jews for deceiving the whole world about the TRUTH of the matter!
When
White Folks make the news, in their desperation they call on GOD. But they forget the meaning of
compassion for human beings who are of a different hue. Their child is lost, and the
entire nation gets involved in a recovery effort. Their child is deathly ill, and they
want to know, “Why is this happening to me?” Well, I’ll tell you why!!!
OPEN LETTER TO THE DESCENDANTS OF THE SLAVE MASTERS
YOU, WHITE PEOPLE for far too long controlled, abused, and repressed Slaves and their Descendants without mercy. And you have the audacity to believe that the so-called god that you created is real and able to save and keep you from all evil. Your blond and blue-eyed god hasn’t helped you and much less Black Folks. And what seems more real than not is that (for you) the handwriting is on the wall. The terrorist attack of September 11, raised many an eyebrow. In addition to that, your forests are burning down to the ground with hundreds of your homes in the process. Your land and waters are polluted. Your people are dying from all manner of diseases, destruction, storms, earthquakes, etc., etc. Your government is not stable; there is ruler against ruler. Your government lacks morals and compassion, and your economical, political, and social systems are replete with corruption, fraud, and scandal. And let’s not fool ourselves. There is no “UNDER GOD WE TRUST” or “JUSTICE FOR ALL” no matter where you etch, engrave, or write these words.
These days, due to your manipulating the affairs of foreign countries, you’re hated of all nations, and you have Third World nations wishing for your demise. All of which you have brought upon yourself, and if you can find one honest bone in you, you will admit it. You should have extended your hand and OUR tax dollars in absolute sincerity rather than for manipulative means. And now you are wondering why all this is happening to you.
Well,
take one good look around your country and see what you have done to the Native
Americans and to the Descendants of Slaves. Pay to go see how they live on
Reservations and in Ghettoes like you paid to go see “Ground Zero.” And you had and still have the audacity
to think that the god you created during the Roman Empire was real and put you
on TOP OF THE WORLD with carte blanche to treat Slaves out of Africa with utmost
hatred and oppression. Let the TRUTH all hang out! And let the True and the Living GOD
reveal HIMSELF to you until Reparations are paid and until justice is
served.
My
suggestion is that you pay The DEBT and make amends. Although no amount of money can correct
the wrongs YOU have done to these defenseless peoples, you can give us our
FREEDOM and Reparations to establish better lives for ourselves, be it in
friendly countries or wherever. Give us the opportunity to pursue a
happiness of our choosing. Or,
continue to let the All-Mighty GOD let justice be served for these barbaric
crimes against humanity.
REPARATIONS NOW IN OUR LIFETIME is the
right thing to do. And to
ignore the atrocities Blacks endure and to continue to deny us Reparations would
not be advisable given the present state of America. YOU WHITE FOLKS are paying
for what you’ve done, and you don’t yet know it.
And this brings to mind the current article in the Time Magazine (July 1, 2002: THE BIBLE & THE APOCALYPSE - Why more Americans are reading and talking about THE END OF THE WORLD) O’ it’s the end of the world (so to speak) all right. But more accurately, it’s the beginning of the end of this present world system. And by the way, the events of the Book of Revelation are as fabricated as your story about the so-called Virgin Birth. If you want to know about the end of time, then find out from a genuine descendant of the Children of Israel (and not a Jewish Convert), the people to whom the ONE True and Living GOD reveals information. In the interim consider what thus saith the LORD: “I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once” (Isaiah 42:14). Then again, maybe you can call it “The End of the World” - your cruel, cruel world!
THIS IS NOT ABOUT HATE!!! THIS IS ABOUT ENDING OUR SORROWS! THIS IS ABOUT REPARATIONS, MY PEOPLE’S FREEDOM, OUR RIGHT TO SELF DETERMINATION, OUR RIGHT TO WORSHIP FREELY, OUR RIGHT TO HUMAN RIGHTS, AND OUR RIGHT TO LEAVE THE LANDS OF OUR CAPTIVITY IF THIS IS OUR DESIRE. THIS IS ABOUT OUR HOPES AND DREAMS TO MAKE BETTER LIVES FOR OURSELVES AND FOR OUR PROGENY.
We’re
hurting, we despair, and we suffer untold depravity, impoverishment, and
heartache and your hands because of the way we are compelled to live. We are constantly reminded that we are
Black. We know this, and we know
our history. We are who we are, and
we cannot change it nor do we wish to do so. Therefore, we take pride in our
Blackness and difference and only desire to enjoy better lives and prosper in
integrity and fairness, and live in GOD’s Peace. Let the FBI, the CIA, and whatsoever
organizations know that although we are Black, we are HUMAN
BEINGS.
Better for you to do a little soul
searching than to condemn the GOD’s Truth!
LET MY PEOPLE GO!
Respectfully,
Tziona Yisrael, Editor
REPARATIONS NOW IN OUR LIFETIME Newsletter
www.thelawkeepers.org
(Click on “Repnow”)
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REPARATIONS REVOLVES AROUND
RESTORATION
Reparations revolves around Restoration. This concept goes far beyond monetary compensation.
We the Afro-Descendants throughout the Western Hemisphere were robbed of everything precious to a people: our original language and culture, our land, our family structure and our ability to govern ourselves. Since 1998 the Honorable Silis Muhammad has repeatedly testified before diverse U.N. bodies, including the Human Rights Commission, concerning the U.S. government's practices against our people: ethnocide, forced assimilation and institutionalized racism. By oppressing us in diverse ways the USA is violating specific U.N. covenants.
The goal of the international legal battle for Reparations is to obtain all forms of restitution which are due to ourselves, including money, gold, real estate and more importantly the freedom to return to our Original Homeland and establish our own Government and Economy on some of this Earth that we can call our own.
Peace
Be Unto You,
Minister Malik Al-Arkam
www.afre-ngo.org
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INTERNATIONAL BLACK UNITED
FRONT
June 1, 2002
Here's
a proposal to all of the "Pan-African" big guns out there (some of whom I know
are on some of the lists I'm sending this to).
An "International Black United Front"
(IBUF) organization much like the National Black United Front of the states only
the IBUF organization would be an international organization composed of NBUFs
formed around the globe. If this organization already exists, and I simply
haven't heard of it, someone please inform me of it.
Post
the link to the website for all of us. If it doesn't exist, I propose that those
with the heart, knowledge, and experience, consider bringing it into being. Whether we're supporting reparations
or laying down plans to lift ourselves up, an IBUF is needed for organizing our
present and future international efforts.
Djehuti
Sundaka
AHuguley@ix.netcom.com
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INTERNATIONAL BLACK UNITED
FRONT
June 2,
2002
Djehuti,
I think that the big international
conference coming up in Barbados in October is about creating an international
Black united front. This
conference is the outgrowth of several years worth of meetings and dialogs
between Africans from the continent and the Diaspora. These encounters were focused on
creating a united front for the 2001 UN
World Conference Against Racism that was held in Durban, South African this
past August and September.
History
was made there: this was the largest united gathering of African peoples from
thruout the world since the Garvey Movement (i.e. the United Negro Improvement
Association- UNIA of the 1930's).
The forcefulness of this united group did
not go unnoticed by the Imperialist powers and their colored underlings:
they are working around the clock at this very moment trying to undermine our
powerful Reparations dynamic. But, like a loaded giant truck speeding downhill
without brakes... there ain't no stoppin' us now? as long as we reamin building the
united front that has already begun!
Hope to see you in Barbados in
October!
In
Struggle,
S. E.
Anderson
ebontek@earthlink.net
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INTERNATIONAL BLACK UNITED FRONT
Friend,
Since
1900 there have been a number of UNITED FRONTS in various names and formations
that led to the civil rights, anti-apartheid coalitions and a number of
antiona-state National Liberation Movements but we still have to consolidate
them under the Pan-African Internationalist Non-racialist and Socialist Black
United Front!
We,
Azania Heritage International (AHI) would be part of that.
Mongezi
azaniaheritageintl@yahoo.com
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ORDER YOUR REPARATIONS RIBBON-PINS TODAY!
The Reparations
Ribbon is now Available!
From: Reparations Mobilization Coalition
The ribbon-pin has been a very popular
item! It is a small plastic lapel pin shaped in the form of a red, black and
green ribbon. The Reparations
Ribbon is appropriate for any style of clothing that a Sister or Brother would
wear.
If organizations and individuals need 100 or more pins, please allow 3-5 weeks delivery time due to the fact that we have to re-order an even larger quantity. Now, that's a great "problem" to have!
They
go for a donation of at least $1.00. Include 75 cents for every 10 ribbons
ordered for shipping and handling.
All
organizations and individuals interested in bulk quantities as well as any
correspondence, please email the Reparations Mobilization Coalition at: <reparationsnow@tbwt.com>
Please make checks payable to: "Brecht Forum/Reparations" and send to:
Reparations Mobilization
Coalition
122 W. 27 Street 10th Floor
New York, New York 10001
All proceeds go towards the Coalition's Reparations Update! Newsletter and its grassroots educational/mobilization work.
Thank you to all who have responded so positively
Reparations
Mobilization Coalition
<reparationsnow@tbwt.com>
Visit:
www.murchisoncenter.org/joshua/reparations
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N’COBRA KEEPS REPARATIONS IN THE FOREFRONT
June 22,
2002
The Philadelphia Chapter of the National
Coalition of Blacks For Reparations In America and A Year of Black Presence
Community Forum held the third in a series of town meetings last Tuesday evening
at historic Berean Institute in North Philadelphia to talk about a topic near
and dear to their hearts Reparations.
The jammed gymnasium audience listened attentively to a lecture by Dr. Clarence J. Munford Professor Emeritus of Black Studies and History at the University of Guelph in Ontario Canada to speak about the horrors of slavery and the psycho-pathology of the European slavers as well as the trauma of post slavery American apartheid.
Dr. Munford the author of Race and Reparations and Race and Civilization laid out the basis for the claims for restitution, indemnification and reparations. 'This backdrop called slavery is not something remote and neutral. It was a whole tissue of atrocities" Explained Munford. "Reparations is not an end, it is a means to an end. We have to have a vision of a transformation, a transformed status for ourselves in that society." Munford shared how he traveled to Nigeria after earning his Ph.D. to gain an understanding of the motherland and get a feeling of the traumas incurred during the African holocaust. From there he traveled to Europe, the West Indies and throughout the US conducting an extensive archival study over twenty years to see for himself what our ancestors underwent and experienced. The lecture was a part of an ongoing series to promote the passage of HR 40 the Congressional resolution calling for a federally sanctioned commission to study reparations.
Milton McGriff the AYBP Coordinator
explained the focus and thrust of the program. "The mission we established for A
Year of Black Presence is to get HR 40 out of committee and into a hearing and
get it passed. AS Dr. Clarence
Munford said earlier it is not a Reparations bill it's a study bill. But we
feel if there is no discussion there is no restitution so that is the start.
Then the work begins for us to influence the commission so they can only come
out with one answer and
that requires us doing our homework now, thrashing
out the questions between ourselves now and being ready when we get that bill
passed. Our mission is to get that bill
passed so we can begin the dialogue."
McGriff was ecstatic at the turn out,
enthusiasm and participation for the lecture and the question and answer
period." I was really pleased
to see a crowd this size tonight. We stole this idea from our DC Chapter of
having community forums because what we do are two things: we're building abase the letters (to the US
Congress Judiciary Committee) are more important to us than they are to the
judiciary committee, we want them to know but we don't expect them to
respond to that. But we're trying to build a base, and we're trying to find people who are
informed who can get people to thinking, working, talking and studying.
This is going to continue until we get HR 40 passed. People look at the year of Black Presence Coalition but its not about being a year. We took the term from Randal Robinson's book, in fact it's a tactical strategy that we may end up changing. A Year of Black Presence will take as long as it takes and I know it's going to take more than a year. We're in this for the long haul."
A Year of Black Presence is part of N'COBRA’s community based grassroots initiative to galvanize, educate and mobilize people to support HR 40. The regular monthly N'COBRA meetings are held the first Tuesday of every month at the UNIA building 16th and Cecil B. Moore Avenue at 6:30 PM.
For more information about N'COBRA or A Year of Black Presence, please call
(215) 604-3658 or visit
http://www.aybp.org
By Junious Ricardo Stanton <jrswriter@comcast.net>
The Digital Underground airs Sundays from
12 Noon to 2 PM
Eastern time on
http://www.NewBlackCity.com. You'll logon, won't you?
Submitted
by The Black List
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REPARATIONS: AS AMERICAN AS APPLE PIE!!!
June 14,
2002
I have a new argument for Reparations!! I
thought we could get families involved by getting children to write letters to
the president and their Congress people. What do you think? My niece and I
are writing president Bush now. Here is what I wrote about the new argument:
Reparations: As American As Apple
Pie!!
For
anyone who has a true vision of what America should really be about, Reparations
are as American as apple pie. The vision
of what America should be must include an America free of racism, free of
intolerance, free of hatred, free of injustice, free of inequality and free of
people who promote such things, especially in high office. If America is to
live up to being a place where all men are created equal and where people can
truly go after life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, then reparations
Must be part of the equation.
Reparations for African Americans must be
part of the equation because Reparations are about healing what was damaged.
Three hundred years of slavery, the African American Holocaust, the hanging of
African Americans, the rapes, beatings, burnings, discrimination, murder and
other mistreatment. Should these things
be part of America and shouldn't a true, free and just America par restitution
for its past wrongs?
Native
Americans now have land and gambling casinos to bring in revenue, Japanese
Americans were given payment after many of them were interred in prison camps
during W.W.II. It is only right that
America, which benefited greatly and continues to benefit from the African
American Holocaust, also pay restitution for that.
This restitution, in my opinion, should and
could take the form of building foundations for African Americans run by
progressive Black people; educational grants, especially to attend historically
Black colleges and Universities; monuments to commemorate the Black struggle
especially the African American holocaust; full employment and employment
training; and systemic changes in the system to alleviate all vestiges of racism
and discrimination.
There should also be goals of forgiving the debt to African countries and making U.S. foreign policy less hegemonic and more humane. There should be goals of ending world poverty because U.S. policy is largely what has caused such poverty. It should be a National goal to bring Black wealth up from its present rate of 1 and a half % of U.S. wealth to about 12 to 15 percent of the wealth. This would be equal to the percentage of Blacks in the U.S. Whites can no longer control 87% of the nation's wealth. There are many other aspects that I have not mentioned that must be included.
I have
sent this e mail to many friends and family.
Submitted by Kokayi!!
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OPTIONAL REPARATIONS
May 28, 2002
I've just
tossed away another losing lottery ticket. This one would have fetched the tidy
pretax annuitized sum of $80 million. When the jackpot builds up once more, I'll
probably try it again.
I'm trying to make it clear, before I start
to talk about reparations for slavery, that I'm not above developing an interest
in money I didn't earn. If the group headed by Charles Ogletree, the Harvard law
professor, can get me a few mil as compensation for the fact that my
great-grandparents (and many generations of their ancestors) made unrequited
contributions to the development of the country, I'll take it.
So why have I hesitated to become a
full-fledged advocate of reparations? In part, I suppose, because I have no
way of figuring out -- even of thinking about -- what the American people owe me
for my grandparents' unpaid labor. Or my parents' undercompensated labor. Or the
jobs I couldn't get, or the income I was denied based in large measure on
race.
The whole
reparations idea starts to sound like an appeal to national guilt, but an appeal
that requires me to assume the victim's role. That's one hand. Here's the other:
There are problems that black Americans
suffer that have their deep roots in slavery and racism. It doesn't seem
reasonable that the thing to do about this legacy is . . . nothing.
Which is
why I'm glad I ran into James P.
Comer the other day. The Yale
University professor of psychiatry and extraordinarily successful public
school reformer was at North Carolina State University, where the two of us were
among the school's commencement honorees, when I broached the subject of
reparations.
It's something he's thought
about.
"My feeling is that we need an approach
that is fair to everybody -- that allows the larger society to get off its
unproductive guilt-and-defense response and that allows African Americans not to
feel victimized, while at the same time making it possible to address the
problem that was created by the conditions of slavery.
"The
problem manifests itself in underachievement and underpreparation in all the
things that require high levels of development, and overrepresentation in such
things as criminal activity and dependency. This is largely the aftermath of slavery,
the failure of African Americans to have access to the same political and
economic situation as everybody else when everybody else had
it."
And what
would he do about it now? He would enact legislation to allow black taxpayers to
direct up to 95 percent of their federal income taxes directly to a series of
foundations set up specifically to help those blacks who have been most hurt by slavery and its
legacy. These black-run foundations would have two main focuses: educating
young people for work, family life and citizenship, and promoting economic
development and economic access for the rest of us.
Here, as
they used to say, is the beauty part. The proposal wouldn't take any money out
of the economy, but merely redirect it. And, says Comer, "It would be in the interest of all of
America. It's important to the health of the entire society not to have
another generation of non-mainstream and nonproductive -- even counterproductive
– African Americans. It simply costs too much, economically, socially and
civically."
One problem with his proposal would involve
choosing which foundations and which leaders would become custodians of black
America's redirected taxes. Comer says it is the sort of problem private
foundations deal with all the time. "We'd have to have the same sort of process
-- very careful selection of directors and officers, a careful development of a
set of criteria based on the understanding that the purpose is to bring our
people into the mainstream of society. It would be important to pick people who
have a track record for solid work in this area -- perhaps people who head
similar organizations right now."
There
might also be the logistical problem of determining which taxpayers would
qualify to have their income taxes diverted. Perhaps the way around that would
be to make the matter voluntary and nonracial. That is, any taxpayer could designate up
to 95 percent of his or her taxes for the foundations. Presumably almost all
African Americans would so designate, but a great many others might as well.
Comer may not have a perfect proposal, but
I'd love to hear it discussed.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14661-2002May26.html
By William Raspberry
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Professor
James Comer's approach to Reparations recommends legislation which would allow
Blacks to channel 95% of their federal tax dollars into Black-run foundations
designed to elevate Blacks. However, we
the Afro-Descendants, should be exempt from all taxes and should acquire the
power, through international legal means, of building our own Government and our
own Economy on some of this Earth that we can call our own.
As-Salaam-Alaikum,
Minister
Malik Al-Arkam
www.afre-ngo.org
[“He (Comer) would enact legislation to allow black taxpayers to direct up to 95 percent of their federal income taxes directly to a series of foundations set up specifically to help those blacks who have been most hurt by slavery and its legacy.” Let us not forget that Blacks all over the world have been hurt and in multiple ways from the TransAtlantic Slave Trade. We suffer with a societal, incurable malady directly related to the pigmentation of our skin. Regardless of how economically well off a Black person might be, he/she is an outcast. Ask Secretary of State Colin Powell if you don’t understand what I’m talking about. But don’t ask Justice Clarence Thomas because he’s, to no avail, trying to pass and is perpetuating the suffering of Blacks rather than working to eliminate the racism and gross injustices Blacks endure in this so-called “America the Beautiful” and “Land of the Free.” T.Y., Editor]
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MORE ON OPTIONAL REPARATIONS…
May 29, 2002
First let me say my brothers and sisters,
the Descendants of our Enslaved Ancestors are in a pitiful and sad state of
mind. This post is not an attempt to win support nor is it an attempt to get
your approval or disapproval. These are the facts that surround Reparation and
regardless of those Black americans, who are intent to confuse, divert and
misdirect away from the truth and just purpose for Reparation. The truth about
Reparation will stand firm by those among us who will not compromise the truth
of its intent.
A Liar about Reparation will never prosper in the avocation for it. Make all of the noise you so desire but if your call for Reparation is ill intent, you will not succeed. If your call for Reparation is presented necked before the world, you will become the clowns of the world made to look like the Selfish Black capitalist americans that you desire to become. Reparation when introduced before the world must be fully and well dressed in order for it to be respected. Reparation must be dressed in the same cloths as Repatriation and Nation State Status Back in Afrika and if an attempt to dress it in any other way, make you to look like a hustler without self - respect and such behavior bring tears to our Enslaved Ancestors because of the insult such a behavior expresses toward our Enslaved Ancestors.
Reparation is not an option but is a debt
owed our Enslaved Ancestors and must be paid and its Time has come.
Reparation and the lottery should not be mentioned in the same breath, either Mr. Raspberry is being a clown about
Reparation / Repatriation or he is showing his ignorance about its Just Cause
and True meaning.
Mr.
Raspberry implied that because he does not know what america owes in Reparation,
prevents him from becoming a full fledge advocate for Reparation / Repatriation,
well Mr. Raspberry it is simple and
I will tell you what it is america owes, it is money, now how much is the
question, and I do not view that as being an unsolveable problem.
What
a foolish statement for Mr. Raspberry to make, in view of it coming from an
intelligent man. The call for Reparation
/ Repatriation has nothing to do with guilt.
Reparation / Repatriation is not about
being fair with anybody but is about being Just in honoring a debt owed.
Reparation / Repatriation is not about our feelings but is about the acts
portrayed against our Enslaved Ancestors.
Reparation / Repatriation is not about the
result from Slavery but is about CHATTEL SLAVERY Only. Reparation / Repatriation is not about
our present condition that come from the prejudice Racism and Discrimination
supported by unjust Laws but is about Chattel Slavery of which there was no Law
of condemnation. Reparation - Repatriation must not be made to seem like the
victims off-springs must bear the burden of paying Reparation in no form. All Blacks who are descendants of our
Enslaved Ancestors have been hurt equally by Chattel Slavery and to suggest
other wise, make proof of my claim. The true advocates of Reparation -
Repatriation is not concerned about what is in the interest of all americans but
what is Just and in the best interest of the descendants of those who were
Enslaved and that which will best serve the interest of Afrika and the Afrikan
Nation.
It
never fails. It seems like there
are always those among us who seem compelled to take on the responsibility and
obligation of white america, even when it will serve to our detriment and
disrespect of self.
Not is the sentiment of the Sankofa Reclamation Movement and those of you who share our sentiment is being asked to come join us in Detroit on July 19,20,21, at a serious strategy and planning conference, where the entire condition of the Afrikan will be addressed both physical and Spiritual.
You
may contact brother Kofimensah @prodigy.net for more Information.
It
Is The Black Fool Who Say I Have Lost Nothing In Afrika!!!
A
Fool Is Verified By The Action Taken After Which It Become A Statement Of Fact
!
Please,
Respect Is Due To The Honorable Marcus
Garvey.
Complete
Love To The Afrikan Nation.
Hoteph
Osiris
Chief
Elder
The Sankofa Reclamation Movement
The Pan - Afrikan Inter'National Movement
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A
REPARATIONS – YES
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NOW IS THE
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OUR
MINDS..OUR HEARTS
&
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ORGANIZATION
by ORGANIZATION
CITY by
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AND
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GENDER UNIFICATION and TO PRODUCE AN UNWAVERING
MOBILIZED
LINK OF HUMAN
CONCERN,
ACTION, POWER and RECOURSE
To Disable
the MANY Social, Economic, Moral and Political,
confrontational
adversities effecting our entire earthly existence.
Therefore:
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CALENDAR TODAY!
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To register
to receive your
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Reparations” Membership Card
This card is
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in our
struggle for reparations because it shall also represent our collective
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issues,
that we face
as a race of people!
Please
Note:
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people!
Submitted by
MzWayMaker@AOL.COM
*********
The Reparations Movement’s
goals are as follows:
- Obtain Reparations from all countries
that prospered from Black Slave Labor
-
Schedule Conferences, Marches, and Protests until the White Society
apologizes and
compensates Descendants of the
Slave Trade
-
Speak at the United Nations on Reparations for Survivors of the Slave
Trade in order
to gain International Support from
all or most countries
- Demonstrate in front of the UN in Geneva
for World Attention
- Establish an International Fund for
Descendants of Slaves
-
Target Companies that existed during the days of Slavery for Reparations,
and if they
do not comply, then list them as
“Unworthy” for Black patronage
- Seek support for Reparations from
Companies that prosper off of Black Clients
- Seek Celebrity support for
Reparations
- Involve the Media
- Make “Reparations” the buzz word for
this new century
- Etc., etc., and by “any means necessary”
within the Law
*********
REPARATIONS YES - MOVEMENT
Announces Historical Nation-Wide Petition Campaign
The
Reparations - Yes International Petition
Drive Web
Site is Up and Running!
The
International Reparations Petition
located
online at:
>>>unity4theworld.com<<<
has
reopened!
Please
pass the word
&
Remember
the goal is
No Less
Than
150
Thousand signatures per state!
Please
visit www.unity4theworld.com and sign the petition Today!
Remember
we are trying to secure 50 Thousand signatures from each state and foreign
country, every signature counts, including yours!
CONTACT:
Ms. Clara Peoples
503-287-7532
Ms. Lisa Clay
503-284-6152
www.unity4theworld.com
www.nabvets.com
JoeWynn.Nabvets@verizon.net
Dr. Saharra Bledsoe
202 783-3705
MzWayMaker@aol.com
*********
IN SUPPORT OF REPARATIONS!
WAKE
UP!
STAND
UP!
STEP UP!
and DO SOMETHING IN SUPPORT OF REPARATIONS!
OR
THERE CAN BE NO REAL - PEACE!
Ahna Tafari
*********
EXAMPLE
OF THE BROADENING
OF THE
REPARATIONS MOVEMENT
The Reparations Movement in the US and thruout the African Diaspora is growing exponentially. This is a good thing... that can get out of the control of the true and principled Reparationists if let alone to evolve uncoordinated.
That's why a Reparations Manifesto that groups and individual activists sign on to is key at this moment.
Check out this example of the positive broadening of the Reparations Struggle:
http://www.savannahnow.com/stories/032202/LOCReparations.shtml
In Struggle,
Sam Anderson
Submitted by BRC-REP
*********
GET ON
THE BUS
Brooklyn organizing for Reparations Rally
June 23, 2002
Represent Brooklyn on
August 17th
Millions Demand Reparations National Rally, Washington DC
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
Frederick Douglas
If you can help in Brooklyn let me hear from you! If you can help in another Boro let me hear from you twice!!
1. This Thursday, June 27th at House of the Lord Church, 415 Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn come out to a city wide meeting.
2. Don't forget City Council hearing Queen Mother Moore Bill on reparations Wed. June 19th @ 12 Noon. Start off with a press conference
3. Anyone who needs flyers to help them spread the word please let us know
4. Anyone who needs bus tickets, T-shirts, buttons, key chains, posters please let us know
5. Anyone who knows of any events coming up please let us know so we can set up a table, hand out flyers, spread the word
6. Any Suggestions on Outreach Please Let
us Know
7. Any contacts in Coney Island, Brownsville/East New York, Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, please let us know
8. Want to host a "RAP" (Reparations Awareness Presentation) RAP sessions are designed to educate your organization, religion institution, or Family/friends about the Reparations Movement by discussing some of the basic Issues surrounding the demand. Topics include:
· Reparations
defined
· Recipients of
Reparations
· Forms of
Reparations
· Wrongs committed against
people of African descent
· What you can do to build the National Rally in Washington D.C. August 17th
Millions For Reparations New York City Organizers
Phone: 718 398-1766
Brooklyn: Lateefah, Omowale or Greg
Queens: Erica or Amadi
Manhattan: Roger
Email Info@MillionsForReparations.com
Website HTTP://WWW.MillionsForReparations.com
PASS THE WORD: "THEY OWE US" REPARATIONS NOW”
D12M@aol.com
TheBlackList eNews <kwasi@theblacklist.net>
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*****MARK YOUR CALENDAR OF
EVENTS*****
HERITAGE
POWER SUNDAYS
Reclaiming Our Sacred
Heritage Every (Sun)Day Preparation for Reparations
Place:
176-03 Jamaica Ave.
Directions: Take the F. to 179 or E. train to Parson
Salvation Service Begins: 1:00 P.M. -3:00 P.M.
Directions: Take the F. to 179 or E. train to Parson
CONTACT: John W. Branch, Director / Call: (718) 523-3312/ Jwatusi@aol.com
Submitted by heritagesunday@hotmail.com (mene harris)
Muhammad Mosque of Islam in Boston, Massachusetts invites you to attend weekly meetings each Sunday at the Dillaway located at:
183 Roxbury
Street
Roxbury, Massachusetts
(Next to the Timilty School, in Roxbury)
Meetings start at 2:00 P.M., but on the last Sunday of the month we start at 1:00 PM.
For
more information and to schedule free
lectures on Reparations at your church, school, business or organization,
feel welcome to telephone Minister Malik Al-Arkam at (617) 770-2017.
*********
June 27, 2002, Thursday
CITY WIDE
MEETING
PLACE: House of the Lord
Church
415 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, New York
Want to host a "RAP?" RAP (Reparations Awareness Presentation) sessions are designed to educate your organization, religion institution, or Family/friends about the Reparations Movement by discussing some of the basic Issues surrounding the demand.
· Reparations
defined
· Recipients of
Reparations
· Forms of
Reparations
· Wrongs committed against
people of African descent
· What you can do to build
the National Rally in Washington D.C. August 17th
Want to host a "RAP?" RAP (Reparations Awareness
Presentation) sessions are designed to educate your organization, religion
institution, or Family/friends about the Reparations Movement by discussing some
of the basic Issues surrounding the
demand.
If you can help in Brooklyn let me hear from you! If you can help in another Boro let me hear from you twice!!
Millions For Reparations New York City Organizers
Phone: 718 398-1766
Brooklyn: Lateefah, Omowale or Greg
Queens: Erica or Amadi
Manhattan: Roger
Email Info@MillionsForReparations.com
Website
HTTP://WWW.MillionsForReparations.com
*********
July 19 - 21, 2002
Please be advised that the dates for the Sankofa Reclamation Conference, which is to be held in Detroit, have been changed to July 19,20,21.
SANKOFA
RECLAMATION GATHERING OF BLACK AFRIKANS
Those whose Soul And Spirit is coming alive again with the uncompromising love for Self and Afrika, You it is that is invited to the Sankofa Reclamation Gathering of Black Afrikans with redeemed Soul and a determine Spirit to see, work and make Afrika and Black Afrikans proud and godly again. The gathering will take place on July 5,6,7, in Detroit, those of you who desire more information about this Black Nationalist Pan – Afrikan Soulful - Spiritual gathering.
Place:
First Holy
Temple Church Of God In Christ
15100 Plymouth Rd.
Detroit,
Michigan
Accommodations:
St Regis
Hotel
30701 W.Grand Blvd.
313-873-3000
Econo Lodge
17729
Telegraph Rd.
Days Inn
Livonia Michigan
36655 Plymouth
Rd.
Marriot Hotel
Air Port
734-941-9400
Conference Registration Fee:
$
20.00
Work Shops And Vendors
Vendor Entrance Fee:
$ 3.
00
Conference Key Note
Address:
Speaker
Chief Elder Osiris Akkebala
Subject:
What must the
Black Afrikan Nation Do To Be Saved,
From The Evil Of The World!
Conference Program Schedule
Activities: To be announced
CONTACT:
Kofamensah@prodigy.net
*********
July 25, 2002
Thursday
12:00 – 4 P.M.
REPARATIONS HEARING IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
We are hosting our fourth reparations Hearing on the west side of the Capital building in Washington D.C. at 12 to 4:00 P.M. on July 25, 2002.
Come and learn the truth about who you are and what we need to do together as a people. This is a process that will take some time!
Let us demonstrate, and we will also be at the 8/17/02 Reparations March, too!!!
Grand Sheik Jerome Graham-Bey
CONTACT: ponticon@aol.com
Submitted by Error! Bookmark not defined.
Please see article for additional information.
*********
AFRICAN AND
AFRICAN DESCENDANT FOLLOW-UP TO
THE U.N.
WORLD CONFERENCE AGAINST RACISM
A CALL TO
THE BARBADOS CONFERENCE 9th – 13th AUGUST
2002
CONGRESS AGAINST RACISM
(BARBADOS) INC.
The
Caribbean caucus, which includes Barbados accepted the proposal for an immediate
follow-up to Durban. It is with
this understanding of our duty therefore that the Congress Against Racism
(Barbados) Inc., (formerly the Barbados N.G.O Committee For The U.N. World
Conference Against Racism) on behalf of the Caribbean Caucus hereby sends out a call to all member organizations of the
"African And African descendants Caucus" and to all other African and African
Descendant N.G.O’s that share our commitment to the Durban Declaration And
Programme Of Action, to attend an "African And African Descendant N.G.O.
Follow-up Conference" in the Island of Barbados between Friday 9th and Wednesday
13th August 2002.
The conference will be held
at:
The "Sherbourne Conference Centre"
Two Mile Hill
St. Michael, Barbados
Conference
participants would be expected to finance their airline passages to Barbados,
and their accommodation in Barbados.
However, our Conference Organizing Committee will be arranging special
discounted airline and hotel rates.
There will also be a modest
conference registration fee.
The
relevant contact information for the conference secretariat is as
follows:
Congress
Against Racism (Barbados) Inc.
Pan-African
Conference Secretariat
Thomas
Daniel Building, 2nd Floor
Hincks
Street
Bridgetown,
Barbados
Tel:
(246) 228-8757/8/9 / Fax: (246)
228-8817
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The Millions
for Reparations March, Protest, and Demonstration demanding reparations from the
United States Government will be held in its Capital City, Washington, D.C. on
August 17, 2002. This date,
August 17th, is significant because it marks the 115th anniversary of the birth of one
of our great ancestors and leaders, the Honorable Marcus
Garvey.
The call for this march by the Durban 400
is picking up steam in the African Community throughout America. Thousands
of African people in America are beginning to get prepared to participate in the
march and are actively mobilizing to encourage our people to be present and accounted for in Washington,
D.C. on August 17, 2002.
Dr. Worrill is the National Chairman of the
National Black United Front / NBUF located at:
12817 S. Ashland Ave.
Fl. 1, Calumet Park, Ill. 60827
Telephone #708-389-9929
Fax 708-389-9819
E-Mail: nbufchi @allways.net, Web site: nbufront.org)
Please see full details in The REPNOW Newsletter #24.
*********
REPARATIONS YES - MOVEMENT
Announces Historical Nation-Wide Petition Campaign
The
Reparations - Yes International Petition
Drive Web
Site is Up and Running!
Please
visit www.unity4theworld.com and sign the petition Today!
Remember
we are trying to secure 50 Thousand signatures from each state and foreign
country, every signature counts, including yours!
CONTACT:
Ms. Clara Peoples
503-287-7532
Ms. Lisa Clay
503-284-6152
www.unity4theworld.com
www.nabvets.com
JoeWynn.Nabvets@verizon.net
Dr. Saharra Bledsoe
202 783-3705
MzWayMaker@AOL.COM
*********
FREE THE MIND... FREE THE
PEOPLE... FREE THE LAND
THE NATIONAL COALITION OF
BLACKS
FOR
REPARATIONS IN AMERICA (N’COBRA)
*********
THE MISDIRECTED BLACK AFRICAN
June 3, 2002
I have given much thought through
meditation about the ills of the Black Afrikan Nation and about us as
individuals. And what I saw in my
state of meditation was not too encouraging, my brothers and sisters.
My dear beloved, we the Afrikan is in a very pitiful and confusing state of mind and from such confusion prevent us from viewing ourselves in a picture of reality and truth. We have been so abused to the point that collectivism, group dynamics, family structure, Nationalism, Oneness as a Race and unity as a Black Afrikan Nation, have no meaning to us. Those dynamics have not our respect, and we operate on the realm of a people who have lost their way in this world, and in being lost and misdirected, prevents us from knowing with understanding the true meaning of Life, God, and Universe.
Being with the lack of those intellectual Spiritual Jewels, the Afrikan and Afrika suffer to an unholy end. Let us look at what has caused and is causing our misdirection as I speak. The Black Afrikan refuse to accept the fact that there are forces that have totally rejected the Black Nation as having a right to be part of this modern civilization and we refuse to accept the fact that there are some Nations who totally despise us because we are Black and all of the love and compassion we send their way will not change their behavior toward us.
We forget that Evil is beyond conversion, and that it is a part of the fabric of this world. It is that Evil that has inferred with the thought process of the Black Afrikan Nation, and it is that interference that has us acting as we do today. That action we express is of self hatred - an embracing dislike for our Black self. Now many of us will attempt to waste Time in trying to refute that which is evident about us and the evidence of my accuracy about what I am telling you. The present state of our mental condition is to cause us to try and get that which is Evil toward us to love us. We pretend to think that the way to do so is to pretend that there is no meaningful significance in the Difference of the Races that makes up this world. Again such is a sign of our misdirection of thought, caused by the Evil that we allow to haunt us.
Any Black Woman or Man who set out to make a statement that the pigment of the Black skin that cover us in this world is insignificance, is a liar and can not be trusted by that Blackness which is being denied and yet we spend billions of dollars in trying to deny that which we are and it is that action which shine up our misdirection about ourselves.
The Black Afrikan claim that we want to live a respectful, healthy, decent, honest and holy life but yet we do not desire to do what is required of us to live such a harmonious life. Those principles will not be achieve by the Black Afrikan until we are ready to:
1. Accept our Blackness and the value thereof.
2. Accept the fact that our mind has been
tampered with by Evil forces.
3. Accept the fact that the Black
Afrikan Divisiveness along tribal and boundary lines is not natural.
4. Accept
the fact that there is one Afrikan Nation that has been dissected by Evil forces
to the point that it serve to the detriment of the Nation itself.
5. Accept the fact that the Black Afrikan
operate on a profane level of life as it is dictated by those Evil forces of
whom we take delight in trying to imitate.
6. Accept the fact that regardless of how
we try and justify our behavior which fall within the paradigm of our
oppressors, which we feel will one day elevate us to a level of respectability
from them to us, will not happen.
7. Accept
the fact that the energy we exert in the name of the various organizations we
affix ourselves to is really not in the
interest of Afrika Emancipation but is much about our own selfish impulsion
for notoriety superficial power, control and influence and not to further the
cause for Afrika independence but for token advancement so we can call it
progress, which fan the flame of our misdirection.
8. Accept the fact that freedom and respect
is not given but is won by those
who honestly desire it.
9. Accept the fact that the mentality we
have about each other and our little click groups, one against the other only
serve the ego of that group to the detriment of all the groups that operate in
such a posture.
10. Accept the fact that unless we reclaim
our own mentality and assert ourselves into our own Soulful - Spirituality we
live our life only at the pleasure of those Evil forces under whose control we
now live.
12. Accept the fact that america holds no
promise of Racial value that benefit the Black Afrikan in america and that
Reparation / Repatriation square with the universal Law of opposites and that
one is meaningless without the other.
13.
Accept the fact to make no distinction of our ethnic identify, removes its
value, which leave to mean that anybody or anything is allowed to make claim to
our Afrakaninity, which is why I proudly draw a distinction, for there is only
one Afrikan, the Black Afrikan, which is the badge that separate us from all
other ethnicity's, there must have been
a reason for such clear distinction.
In order to change our course of direction
we must learn to define ourselves correctly, become self aware and begin to move
as One Black Afrikan Nation in pursuit of our Soul identity, our true
relationship to God, Universe and Being and a One United States Of Afrika, with
a desire to do what ever is necessary to make it so.
Therefore I
submit to you, those of you who are willing to rise above our little petty
differences and is wise enough to see the relevancy in engaging in a unified
effort to bring freedom, Justice and independence to a misdirected Black Afrikan
Nation, we the Sankofa Reclamation Black
People Movement invite you to come join us in Detroit on July 19, 20, 21, so
that we can begin to change our direction from the way we have been moving since
the Evil that bind us first laid their eyes upon our Black selves.
You May Contact Brother
Kofimensah@prodigy.net as we will be posting information about the Sankofa
Conference periodically, until conference time.
It Is The
Black Fool Who Say I Have Lost Nothing In Afrika!!!
A Fool Is
Verified By The Action Taken After Which It Become A Statement
Of
Fact!!
Peace Be Upon The Soul Of The Honorable Marcus Garvey.
Complete
Love ToThe Afrikan Nation
Hoteph
Osiris
Chief
Elder
The Sankofa Reclamation Movement
The Pan - Afrikan Inter'National Movement
***
In response to Chief Elder, Olawole writes:
Elder,
It
is not by age as we believe that many people are, but by wisdom, the power to
see beyond and the ability to think deeply on every matter. If that is the criteria then I think I
fu\it perfectly into that helm. But meanwhile I will sit down and look.
At times
when we talk to most Africans, talking to deaf, dumb could yield faster results.
While trying to appreciate the fact that this could be as a result of systematic
dehumanization meted on the race and its people, one should think that by now
gradually we should be awakening. But
reverse is the case, the more we try to enlighten, the more confused the minds
become. And there is this
feeling of I can do it so why is he in charge which is one of the reasons for
many crisis we have at home, abroad and among us as individual.
What am I saying, it gets to the annoyance
point at times when you see the problems the continent is facing, the people is
facing in all walks of life, then laughing as all is well, know no evil, talk no
evil, see no evil but laugh, gyrate, celebrate, take enemies home, open the
door, waiting for marauders to heal the wounds they created.
I am getting tired not of
idea but of people that are not ready to see that they are suffering.
Dele
Olawole
www.africaservice.com
***
Need I tell you that I feel the same tiredness as well my brother? But even so we must endure, knowing that change for the better will come to our brothers and sisters, in spite of our ignorance and lack of desire to reclaim our Soul.
A transformation is in the making my brother, just remain focused and strong and keep doing what you are doing. You are a wise and inspired brother who loves our people and such power of compassion will not go unheeded.
Much Love To You My
Brother
Osiris
Chief Elder
*********
BOOK LISTINGS
The book listing on Reparations and Black History can be found in REPNOW Newsletters 1 - 5.
Check this
out:
BLACK REPARATIONS: American Slavery & Its
Vestiges
Published by DC Metro Chapter of N'COBRA
THE NEW REPARATION BOOK IS AVAIABLE FOR YOU AND YOURS!!!
This is an N'COBRA Fundraising
Project.
We have received many requests for this book over the Internet and by phone. We are thankful for the great interest it has created. Most importantly, we are thankful for all the praise we have received from those who have read it! Independent Africans School children and university students have purchased copies to write papers! Several professors have asked to use the "Black Reparations: American Slavery & Its Vestiges" in their classes!
…this publication is, "Black voices of reparations from the community" or "street reparations 101." Scholars, politicians and news commentators have their voice and venues to state their perspective, and we need ours. This text is written by Black People for Black People primarily.
You have heard about it, now you can get it! Print the order form and mail in your order today!
Read this complete email to see the many subjects this work address. You will find the complete table of content and preface!
***
Help us build the Reparations Movement by
ordering copies of this book for family and friends.
_____Yes, I want one copy of Black Reparations for $15.00, plus $3.00 shipping and handling - total $18.00
_____Yes, I want three copies of Black Reparations for $39.00
($13.00 per copy), plus $4.25 shipping and handling - total $43.25
Payments must accompany orders. Allow 3-4 weeks for delivery.
My check or money order for $_______ is enclosed.
Name____________________________________________
Organization______________________________________
Address__________________________________________
City/State/Zip_____________________________________
Phone___________________ E-mail __________________
Call (202) 466-1622 or e-mail DcNcobra@ aol.com
Make your check payable and return
to:
DC N'COBRA
P.O. Box 716
Washington, DC 20044-0716
Discount and Wholesale prices are available upon request.
[I haven’t read BLACK REPARATIONS: American Slavery & Its Vestiges, YET, but I shall. However, I urge “Newcomers” in the fight for Reparations to go out and purchase THE BLACK HOLOCAUST FOR BEGINNERS by S.E. Anderson, as well. If you have never read a book about the TransAtlantic Slave Trade, then this is the book for you. It’s very informative and very well written. And I highly recommend it for everyone desirous of knowing the facts about the Blacks who were stolen out of Africa. T.Y., Editor]
***
ANCESTOR
MAY BE LISTED & A MASTER SOLD BY A SLAVE
June 25, 2002
Although it is
loosely used by many, including myself, the following should actually be
credited to Jomo Kenyatta, according
to Chifu, it can be found in his book, Facing Mt. Kenya:
"When the missionaries came to Africa
they had the Bible and we had the land.
They said ‘Let us pray.’ We
closed our eyes.
When we opened them we had the Bible
AND
they had the land.”
Bishop Desmond
Tutu
Forward Ever (by any means necessary); Backward Never!
Karen-Yaa (YGA)
kcamm23063@aol.com
Search TheBlackList
Archive:-
http://www.topica.com/lists/TheBlackList/read
or
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***
KHALIFAH'S BOOKSELLERS & ASSOCIATES
Producers & Disseminators of the Literature that is Finally Freeing Afrikan People:
"Those at Home and those abroad!"
www.KBAbooks.com
*********
WE SHALL WIN THIS
WAR!
Imari A. Obadele
*********
“Without Sanctuary”
The web address for Without Sanctuary” is listed in the REPNOW Newsletter #13.
Please pass this information on to others for it is out of…
AMERICA'S SHAME: CONTEMPT & THE LYNCHINGS
James Allen’s photos on the
lynchings of Blacks in America
http://www.journale.com/withoutsanctuary
*********
FOTO
DOCUMENTATION OF US LYNCHINGS –
“WITHOUT SANCTUARY”
Sistas & Brothas,
This
newly reconstructed site (more
interactive...more info than last year) was passed on thru Sista Deadria Farmer-Paellmann
<paellmann@rcn.com>, one of our top Reparations lawyers investigating the
corporate crimes against African humanity within the enslavement process (and
its post-emancipation economic terrorism).
Pass it on to teachers, relatives, friends in denial, young folks....
In Struggle,
Sam Anderson
***
Greetings,
I thought the following might interest you.
Be well,
Deadria
Searching through America's past for the last 25 years, collector James Allen uncovered an extraordinary visual legacy: photographs and postcards taken as souvenirs at lynchings throughout America. With essays by Hilton Als, Leon Litwack, Congressman John Lewis and James Allen, these photographs have been published as a book, "Without Sanctuary" by Twin Palms Publishers. Please be aware before entering the site that much of the material is very disturbing.
We welcome your comments and input through the forum section.
http://www.journale.com/withoutsanctuary
Submitted by
brc-reparations@yahoogroups.com
*********
See a wide range of E-mail Addresses & WebSites on REPARATIONS in the REPNOW Issue #13.
*********
BROAD
RANGE OF TACTICS
Minister Malik Al-Arkam
Boston Representative of the
Honorable Silis Muhammad
www.afre-ngo.org
*********
JOIN THE
BLACK REPARATIONS MOVEMENT TODAY !
IT IS A
WIN, WIN CASE FOR US!
Oscar L.
Beard
*********
Dejoser
**********
Hotep,
I am Gregory Carey, Founder and President of Reparations Central, an online reparations searchable database. We would like for you to view our website that is in the development stage at http://www.reparationscentral.com
We are also attempting to
unify and centralize the reparations movement. We are looking for other
organizations that are doing reparations work to put on our website. Also, we
are asking every organization to consider putting an audio/video presentation on
our website. This website is the hub of the reparations movement worldwide. We need your support and help to make this
reparations clearinghouse a successful venture.
In Struggle,
Aluta Continua Asante Sana
*********
HOW CAN I SUPPORT THE REPARATIONS MASS MOVEMENT?
1.) I suggest that you approach the city in which you reside for reparations, support for reparations, or information as to how to obtain reparations. Your strategy may be a model we all may benefit from at the local level.
2.) Next, demonstrate your willingness to join others in the struggle for reparations.
3.) I would hope that you join or start an N’COBRA chapter in your locale area (if there is none) and become an active and energetic member/reparations information resource, for your Afrikan brothers and sisters.
Submitted by R. Hazard, N’COBRA
*********
"Together
We shall Win REPARATIONS NOW!!!"
Free Your Mind - Join N’COBRA.... Free The People.... Free The Land...
Robert Hazard
S.E. Regional Rep.
N’COBRA
*********
NEW NIC
RELATED ADDRESS:
N’COBRA_INT_COMM@HOTMAIL.COM
January 27,
2002
ALL
ELECTRONIC N’COBRA INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION RELATED BUSINESS WILL BE CONDUCTED
THROUGH THIS NEW EMAIL ADDRESS AS OF
JANUARY 27, 2002.
ncobra_int_comm@hotmail.com
ALL PERSONAL
MATTERS FOR ONAJE MUID WILL REMAIN ON
onajemuid@hotmail.com
PLEASE
ADJUST ALL YOUR EMAIL RECORDS
ACCORDINGLY.
THANK
YOU,
ONAJE MU'ID,
N’COBRA
*********
JOIN
N’COBRA AND THE MILLIONS FOR
THE
AUGUST 17, 2002
REPARATIONS
MARCH
On the way
to participate in the historic Millions for Reparations March on August 17,
2002, join N`COBRA immediately. By joining N`COBRA, our collective
organizational power will intensify our demand for
reparations.
THEY
OWE US!
By Dr.
Conrad W. Worrill
Dr. Worrill
is the National Chairman of the National Black United Front National Chairman of
the National Black United Front
12817 S.
Ashland Ave., Fl. 1
Calumet
Park, Ill. 60827
708-389-9929, Fax 708-389-9819, E-Mail: nbufchi@allways.net,
Submitted by [BRC-REP]
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"If you are thinking one year ahead, sow a seed.
if you thinking ten years ahead, plant a tree.
If you thinking one hundred years ahead ...
educate the people."
Compliments of Shakira A. Ali
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Up You
Mighty Race; We Can Accomplish What We Will!!!!
I Remain to Serve,
Senghor Baye
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INTERESTING INFORMATION OF SIGNIFICANCE AND FYI:
SADA agrees and says "Africa is for those at home and those abroad". SADA also says that all animals when released after capture, fly back where they came from. If all animals including human beings understand "SANKOFA," why is it that some of us, the descendants of Africa who were brought here by force cannot go home now that Africa is free? The last slave colony SOUTH AFRICA was freed in 1994 and we the descendants of Africa have been freed since 1863. Why can't we go home?
Willie Lynch? What is willie lynch? What the master has done will keep us in
bondage for foreseeable years to come.
Our major problem is that we have not started to learn from our
captors. We are so busy seeking
reparation from him that we do not even realize that thousands of some of us are
now gradually trickling "SANKOFA" back to Africa, because we cannot start to
pull our minds together to build a social organization to help our youth
understand the plight of the African people world wide. We are in fact selfish.
We think we have got it made here in the
USA.
Why is it that we do not read anything
about Africans in America organizing themselves into a social force. I am
yet to hear any of the so-called intellectuals pontificating about Africans
forming an organization.
All the millions of books that are
exploiting us by appealing to our blackness and our history and are selling tons
of books, none suggest what to do. Don't you think money is the primary
consideration for such eminent books coming out of brains that can be used to
form social organizations to make us feel like we are one. It is a shame in fact
to read about these books that were started from the "Life and Times of
Frederick Douglass", an African who no other African can excel in terms of the
usages of the master's language and his ability to think on his feet, just like
Ali. Yes we have men and women who can
organize us but rather they choose to write books:
The
following are few books for your pontification and consideration in matters of
urgency for the survival of our history and race.
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CONTROVERSIAL SLAVERY
MONUMENT CLEARS HURDLE
May 29, 2002
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - Black leaders cleared
an important hurdle in their long-running effort to put up a slavery monument
that has been at the center of a heated dispute because of a graphic quote by
writer Maya Angelou.
The Savannah City Council on Thursday
unanimously approved an amended inscription for the monument, a bronze
statue of a black family with broken chains at their feet that will stand near
the site where the first slaves came to Georgia.
Though city officials
approved the statue last year, Mayor Floyd Adams and others cringed at black
leaders' insistence on using the Angelou quote.
It
reads:
``We were stolen, sold and
bought together from the African continent. We got on the slave ships
together. We lay back to belly in
the holds of the slave ships in each others' excrement and urine together,
sometimes died together, and our lifeless bodies thrown overboard together.''
In a
January letter to the monument's planning committee, Angelou proposed an upbeat coda: ``Today,
we are standing up together, with faith and even some joy . . . "
Some city officials had worried that the
original quote standing by itself might be too graphic for public display on
Savannah's cobblestone riverfront, one of the most popular tourist spots in
Savannah. Black leaders say the stalemate over the quotation slowed their
ability to raise money for the monument, which will cost up to $750,000.
``It's
extremely important because now those who have not been contributing money and
were worried the city might renege on the location know these hurdles have been
removed,'' said the Rev. Thurmond N. Tillman, one of the monument's boosters.
Angelou, author of ``I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings,''
said last year she understood why city officials were hesitant to approve her
quotation.
``The
picture of it, it's so horrible. And yet if we can see how horrible it is, then
we might treat each other a little nicer,'' she told The Associated Press in
February 2001.
City Alderman David Jones, who had previously asked for
an uplifting sentence to end the quote, praised Angelou ``for taking her time out.... to make the
changes we asked for.''
Angelou's letter offered the monument's
organizers permission to use the revised quote ``under the condition that neither the
quote nor my name be used for any purpose other than to appear on the
monument.''
The
passage has never appeared in published form, but Angelou has said that she's
used it often in lectures.
Black leaders plan to unveil the monument
July 27.
By Russ Bynum
The Associated
Press
***
NOTE: There should be no compromises on the Historical realities of the unimaginable horrors of the African Holocaust in slavery and capitalist development.
S. E.
Anderson
Submitted by BRC-REP
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DISCERNING THE TIMES
Positively Black
May 26, 2002
"You wear a watch but you
don't know the time." - Modern African axiom
These are indeed interesting and
fascinating times. Understanding what is going on in our lives, our communities
and the world requires we be observant, vigilant and diligent and that we think
for ourselves.
We cannot depend upon the corporate owned
mass media for the truth or to provide the real deal about what is going on
around us. The mass media is nothing but a propaganda tool for the ruling
elites who cunningly conduct their mischief behind the veneer of a democratic
free and open society. As Africans in AmeriKKKa we, of all people, should know
the media lies, they out and out
lie! We also know the government
lies. Uncle Sam has condoned, sanctioned and initiated some of the most
egregious human rights violations the world has ever seen, much of which has
been aimed at us for three hundred eighty-three years, even before there was a
United States of America.
As a result we have had to rely on our ingenuity, resourcefulness and guile to glean information and figure ways to survive amidst psychopaths who in their madness are actively conspiring to enslave the whole world; while disingenuously voicing words such as freedom and democracy.
The events of September 11th have literally
altered the world. Immediately following the so called "terrorist attacks",
President Bush negated all calls for
deliberation and dissent by framing the options as "you are either with us or you are
against us" as he bum rushed his war agenda through Congress. Now we
discover Bush had foreknowledge of the impending attacks. What does this mean
for us and what are the implications for the Bush presidency? His PR people, his spin doctors and
administration aids like wild woman Condoleeza Rice are furiously attempting to
conduct damage control to minimize the revelations and cut off any serious
investigations by the Congress.
Once the
story broke Bush was briefed by the FBI, the administration employed reverse
psychology and stated predicting wholesale unspecified future terrorist attacks
by un-named terrorists. Current and former Intelligence experts were wheeled out
to say in effect, "we knew something was up but we didn't have the capacity or
co-operation to 'connect the dots'." Okay maybe some of the AmeriKKKan public
will go for that okey-doke, but not everyone. Some will continue to ask the
hard questions like, why is the FBI being made the lone scapegoat in this by the
media? The FBI theoretically is an investigative and surveillance law
enforcement agency, not an intelligence organization. Notwithstanding the fact
black folks know full well the FBI has been used to squash dissent, terrorize,
frame and otherwise neutralize our people beginning with Marcus Garvey and his
UNIA movement, for the most part it's overall role and responsibility is "law
enforcement". Where was the National Security Agency, the largest of all the
intelligence gathering agencies, the high tech super-secret spy
organization
which has the capabilities to globally tap telephones, monitor E-mail, fax
machines, radio and television transmissions using their super sophisticated
Echelon spy system, in this fiasco. How did they drop the ball on something like
this? How and why have they avoided mentioned by the media in any of this? Will
they be investigated about what, when and how much they knew? If not, why not?
What about military intelligence, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) or the
Immigration and Nationalization Service?
How and
why are they being let off the hook when facts are already available as early as
1995 certain foreign terrorists were indeed planning to hijack planes filled
with fuel or explosives and crash them into specific targets like the Pentagon.
All of these questions are valid, but
what about the government's main responsibility, defending its citizens?
Even if they didn't know the
specifics, once the attacks began, why didn't the FAA, civilian authorities or
the military react or respond appropriately? Why were long standing defense protocols
ignored or called off? What did the FAA do to alert the military four airliners
were off course? Why weren't Air Force fighters dispatched to intercept the
jetliners and get a visual read on the situation to help determine the next
course of action? Why isn't anyone in
the media asking these types of questions?
Either
Bush didn't know because the whole US intelligence community was asleep on the
job or there is something fishy going on. Either way, shouldn't more politicians other than
Cynthia McKinney be calling for bipartisan wide scale investigations? Since
they aren't, doesn't that make you wonder, what the hell is going on?
By Junious Ricardo Stanton -
jrswriter@comcast.net
Submitted
by jrswriter@comcast.net
[The real questions are what does America have in store for Descendants of Slaves? And why isn’t there an investigation into the US walking out of WCAR in efforts to cover up the Truth about RACISM in America and REPARATIONS due Descendants of Slaves for THE DEBT? We already know that the United States is built on corruption and sustains itself on the pain and suffering of others. So, the revelations regarding the 9/11 tragedy shouldn’t come as any surprise - and any way you choose to look at it. T.Y., Editor]
*********
COINTEL
MEASURES ARE BACK ON THE FRONT BURNER!
May 30, 2002
If you were wondering whether or not J.
Edgar Hoover's COINTELPRO
fascist-racist operations was allegdely dead, check
out these two news pieces below.
Because
the Ashcroft-Mueller "Bushwackers" are bumrushing "US democracy" doesn't mean
that we cannot fight back and be successful in countering their evil (but
logical under capitalism's efforts to not only survive but rule).
All the more reason why progressive Black
groups need to come together to help form an active and defiant Black United
Front Against US style fascism: (the "Bushwackers").
If you
are a member of a progressive Black organization and reside anywhere between
Pittsburgh, Wilmington, Del., Buffalo and Boston. The NY Metro chapter of the Black Radical
Congress is holding a Northeast regional Unity-In-Struggle meeting Saturday
June 15 from 1pm to 4pm.
The
meeting will take place at the CUNY Graduate Center located at Fifth Ave. &
34th Street.
Meanwhile, please read and discuss this dangerous precedent
being set.
In Struggle,
Sam
Anderson
ebontek@earthlink.net
***
GOVERNMENT WILL EASE LIMITS
ON DOMESTIC SPYING BY F.B.I.
May 29, 2002
WASHINGTON,
May 29 - As part of a sweeping effort to transform the F.B.I. into a domestic
terrorism prevention agency, Attorney
General John Ashcroft has decided to relax restrictions on the bureau's ability
to conduct domestic spying in counter-terrorism operations, senior government
officials said today.
Mr.
Ashcroft and Robert S. Mueller III, the director of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, plan to announce on Thursday a broad loosening of the guidelines
that restrict the surveillance of
religious and political organizations, the officials said. The guidelines
were adopted after disclosures of domestic F.B.I. spying under the old
Cointelpro program, and for 25 years they have been among the most fundamental
limits on the bureau's conduct.
The revision will shift the power to
initiate counter-terrorism inquiries from headquarters to the special agents in
charge of the 56 field offices, the officials said.
"We
are turning the ship 180 degrees from prosecution of crimes as our main focus to
the prevention of terrorist acts," a senior Justice Department official said
tonight. "We want to make sure that we do everything possible to stop the
terrorists before they can kill innocent Americans, everything within the bounds
of the Constitution and federal law."
Officials at the American Civil Liberties
Union criticized the new guidelines, saying they represent another step by the
Bush administration to roll back civil-liberties protections in the name of
improving counter-terrorism measures.
"These new guidelines say to the American
people that you no longer have to be doing something wrong in order to get that
F.B.I. knock at your door," Laura W. Murphy, director of the national office of
the A.C.L.U., said. "The government is rewarding failure. It seems when the
F.B.I. fails, the response by the Bush administration is to give the bureau new powers, as opposed
to seriously look at why the intelligence and law enforcement failures
occurred."
Under
the old guidelines, agents needed to show that they had probable cause or
information from an informer that crimes were being committed to begin
counter-terrorism investigations. Under
the new guidelines, agents will be free to search for leads or clues to
terrorist activities in public databases or on the Internet.
Under
the old guidelines, surfing the Internet for the sole purpose of developing
leads was prohibited.
Among other changes, the new guidelines let agents search Web sites and online chat rooms for evidence of terrorists' planning or other criminal activities, the officials said.
The
bureau will also use commercial "data-mining services" from companies that
collect, organize and analyze marketing and demographic information from the
Internet to help develop leads on potential crimes like threats to the security
of computer networks. Businesses routinely use the information, but the bureau
has been constrained from using those services.
The guidelines were imposed in the 1970's
after the disclosures about Cointelpro, a widespread domestic surveillance
program that monitored antiwar militants, the Ku Klux Klan and the Rev. Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr., among others, while J. Edgar Hoover was bureau
director.
Beyond the reports of the spying, a
political firestorm arose over what many critics regarded as the abuse of
power. The surveillance guidelines have since then defined the operational
conduct of the bureau in inquiries of domestic and overseas groups that operate
in the United States.
Since
Sept. 11, the guidelines have been criticized by many law enforcement officials
as an outmoded counter-terrorism tool that hampered efforts.
A
senior agent in the Minneapolis office, Coleen Rowley, complained on May 21, in
a letter to Mr. Mueller that officials at headquarters had repeatedly held back
agents in the field office who sought to investigate Zacarias Moussaoui
aggressively in the four weeks before Sept. 11.
Senior
officials said today that Mr. Ashcroft's new guidelines addressed some of Ms.
Rowley's complaints. Ms. Rowley, general counsel in the Minneapolis office, also
complained that agents there had no idea that an agent in Phoenix wrote in a
memorandum to headquarters in July that Arab men, possibly connected to Osama
bin Laden, had trained at a flight school in Arizona.
Under the new guidelines, field offices
will no longer have to await approval for intelligence investigations from
headquarters. Headquarters
would often take weeks or even months before deciding whether an inquiry was
warranted.
Instead,
the field offices could begin counter-terrorism inquiries themselves. Inquiries
can last from 180 days to one year before being reviewed by senior
officials.
"Agent Rowley's concerns are thoroughly addressed in the
F.B.I. reorganization and the attorney general's guidelines," a senior official
said tonight. "We are devolving power to
begin and conduct investigations to the field offices and freeing their hands to
do everything possible within the bounds of the Constitution and federal law to
protect us from terrorists."
Under the current guidelines, the bureau
cannot send undercover agents to investigate groups that gather at places like
mosques or churches unless investigators first find probable cause or evidence
that leads them to believe that someone in the group may have broken the law.
Such full investigations cannot proceed without the attorney general's
consent.
Many
investigators have complained since Sept. 11, that Islamic militants have
sometimes met at mosques, apparently knowing that religious institutions are
usually off limits to F.B.I. surveillance squads.
A
lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union, Gregory T. Nojeim, predicted that
the new guidelines would cause a flood of new information that the bureau will
have trouble analyzing.
"The problem with the 9/11 investigation was a
failure to analyze and act on relevant information," Mr. Nojeim said. "And their
solution is to gather exponentially more information that they have no possible
way to properly analyze."
A
senior official at the Justice Department dismissed that criticism. "Under the new rules," the official said,
"we allow the field to conduct the investigations and we will give headquarters
the ability to analyze the information. No longer will there be disparate
pieces of information floating around in isolation in different parts of the
country. Now you will have a much
greater ability to connect those dots."
By Don Van Natta, Jr.
washingtonpost.com
***
FBI GIVEN MORE
LATITUDE: NEW SURVEILLANCE RULES
REMOVE EVIDENCE HURDLE
May 30, 2002
New Justice Department guidelines to be
unveiled today will give FBI agents latitude to monitor Internet sites,
libraries and religious institutions without first having to offer evidence of
potential criminal activity, officials said yesterday.
The changes, part of the Justice
Department's effort to mount a proactive war on terror, will mark a significant
change for the FBI. While agents have been permitted in the past to conduct
such surveillance if they had specific information, they have been loath to do
so because of confusion about what was actually permitted, law enforcement
officials said.
Justice
Department and FBI officials said the guidelines will remove serious barriers to
the prevention of terrorism. "The
concern is when we're confronted with people like [Zacarias] Moussaoui, or even
some of the hijackers, who are known to spend
substantial periods of time in
mosques or other similar situations, it is very difficult to find out what
they're up to," said one senior law enforcement official.
Terrorist
organizations operating in this country have sometimes used mosques as
recruiting grounds and gathering places. Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind
Egyptian cleric now imprisoned for his role in the 1993 attack on the World
Trade Center, built a radical following with links to al Qaeda while preaching
at mosques in Brooklyn and Jersey City, for example.
But as word of the new guidelines
circulated yesterday, some civil liberties groups expressed fears of a Big
Brother government monitoring its citizens.
"The FBI is now telling the American
people, 'You no longer have to do anything unlawful in order to get that knock
on the door,'" said Laura Murphy, director of the American Civil Liberties
Union's Washington office. "You can be doing a perfectly legal
activity like
worshipping or talking in a chat room, they can spy on you
anyway."
The new guidelines
state simply that FBI agents may enter public places and forums, including
publicly accessible Internet sites, to observe, develop leads and
investigate. The guidelines do not specifically mention religious
institutions, but a senior Justice Department official said last night that the
impact of the changes will be dramatic in allowing the FBI to open a window on
extremist activity in mosques.
"These
are open places," he said. Now, "just because they are FBI agents, they don't
have to turn a blind eye to activities visible to other people."
Under
guidelines that have been in place for several decades, the FBI has not been
permitted to send investigators into religious settings unless the agents can
establish they are following a lead, or conducting an investigation or
preliminary inquiry. As a practical
matter, the Justice Department official said, "agents mistakenly think they have
to stop at the church door."
In a written description of the guideline
changes made available yesterday, Attorney General John D. Ashcroft stated that
the department needs to be able to "proactively draw on available sources of
information to identify terrorist threats and activities." In the past, he said, the FBI has been a
reactive body, and the guidelines "generally barred the FBI from taking the
initiative unless leads as to possible criminal activity or even more
substantial evidence of crimes happened to come to the FBI from external
sources."
The
new rules will allow agents to surf the Internet for Web sites that might give
hints to terrorist activity, according to the description. The new guidelines will allow investigators
to seek out and "identify sites and forums in which bomb-making instructions,
preparations for cyberterrorism, child pornography, and stolen credit card
information are openly traded and disseminated."
Under
the existing policy, agents could pursue online searches only when they could
characterize them as checking leads or otherwise furthering an ongoing
investigation.
"Pure surfing or searching for the purpose of initially
developing leads was not allowed, even in relation to publicly available
information that anyone else is free to access and observe," according to the
new policy statement.
Agents
will also be permitted to do topical research not directly related to a specific
crime under the new guidelines, such as research on a biological agent.
The ACLU's Murphy said, however, that the
new guidelines could open the door to the same kind of problems evident in the
FBI's aggressive surveillance and harassment of the Rev. Martin Luther King
Jr.
Several
other aspects of the new guidelines, disclosed earlier this week, will move some
decision-making authority from FBI headquarters to field offices around the
country. FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III acknowledged yesterday that changes
must
be made to counter bureaucratic inertia at headquarters that led to
missed clues in the Sept. 11 attacks.
Under the new guidelines, field office
directors will be allowed to launch terrorism investigations and undercover
probes without clearance from headquarters.
The
guidelines are an outgrowth of privacy laws that prohibit the government from
collecting information except for law enforcement purposes. In the past, the
government developed information on specific cases but now needs broader
intelligence to prevent
terrorist acts.
By
Susan Schmidt and Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writers Page A01
The
Washington Post Company
Submitted by TheBlackList Information eMails
[These “new guidelines” only bring “New” meaning to RACIAL PROFILING, and Blacks - NOT Arabs will be the main targets. It doesn’t take a genius to see that. The US government has waited for this opportunity for a long time, and now they have it in writing from the President’s Cabinet. T.Y., Editor]
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CONGRESSMAN MCKINNEY AND
HILLIARD
TARGETED BY ZIONISM
June 7, 2002
The following Washington Post article was sent out by Congresswoman McKinney's office. As many of you know zionist (racist) organizations such as AIPAC have decided to push representatives of the African community who do not support every zionist action and scheme out of the house of reps. This is yet another example of the zionist war against African people in this country and is a reflection of its hostility to Africa generally; and to much of the world.
Roy Walker
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MIDEAST
FUELS 2 DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES
LONGTIME
HOUSE INCUMBENTS FACE
FIERCE
OPPOSITION
BECAUSE OF THEIR VIEWS
June 6, 2002
Two House Democrats are struggling to win renomination this year, dogged in part by their controversial remarks on Middle East policy.
Reps. Earl F. Hilliard (Ala.) and Cynthia McKinney (Ga.) face surprisingly stiff challenges from fellow Democrats, even though both are entrenched, five-term incumbents. They represent heavily Democratic districts, so the primary winner in each case will be favored to win the November general election.
While
Hilliard and McKinney have come under attack for several reasons, both of their
opponents have seized on their foreign policy positions to question the
lawmakers' judgment and to tap campaign contributions from Jewish donors. McKinney, facing an Aug. 20 primary, has
not endured a serious intra-party contest since 1996. But she generated
headlines after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks by offering to accept for black
charities the donation offered for the victims by a Saudi prince who at the same
time said the United States should reexamine its strongly pro-Israel Middle East policy.
Several months later she suggested Congress investigate whether the
administration ignored warnings about the Sept. 11 attacks because President
Bush's supporters stood to profit from the resulting war against terrorism. For Todd Zeldin, a marketing and real
estate consultant who lives just outside McKinney's district, the
congresswoman's unsuccessful overture to Prince Alwaleed bin Talal for the
donation rebuffed by New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani pushed him into action.
Zeldin has invited McKinney's Democratic
opponent, former state court judge Denise Majette, to address Jewish and black
business executives next week. McKinney and Majette are black, as are Hilliard
and his Democratic challenger, Artur Davis.
"The Jewish
community is basically rallying behind [Majette] because we don't understand the
behavior of Cynthia McKinney at times," said Zeldin, who has given money to
Majette's campaign. "There has been an
overall exasperation with Cynthia McKinney's insensitivity to issues that are
important to the Jewish community."
Majette still trails McKinney in fundraising. But her campaign has enlisted the support of several prominent Jewish business executives, and she is holding two fundraisers with Jewish donors next week. Last week Bernard Marcus, former chief executive officer of Home Depot, was joined by Majette as they worked the crowd at an event to raise money for Israeli organizations. Charles Ackerman, who runs a real estate and home security business in Atlanta, raised nearly $15,000 for Majette at a May breakfast.
According to Majette, the district's Jewish voters "feel as if they're not being represented. That community is excited about having someone who will listen to them and take a more balanced approach to issues that concern them." Majette released a privately commissioned poll showing her beating McKinney among likely primary voters 41 percent to 37 percent, despite the fact that only 28 percent of those polled recognized the challenger's name. "It's a referendum on Cynthia McKinney," said Merle Black, a politics professor at Emory University in Atlanta. "She'll have to work to win reelection."
McKinney has time to make up ground before the August primary, however, and she has proved her electability in the past. A statement by her campaign emphasized that Majette's poll was taken in early May, before a string of stories appeared suggesting the Bush administration mishandled advance warnings of possible terrorist attacks last year.
"Denise Majette's candidacy is a Trojan Horse for the good old boys from the bad old days, and our campaign has confidence that the people of the 4th District, black and white, will continue to support Cynthia McKinney's principled and courageous representation," the statement said. In Alabama, Hilliard faces a more immediate threat: a June 25 runoff with Davis, a lawyer. Davis, who attended the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's annual conference in Washington this spring and held a series of fundraisers in New York, outraised Hilliard by more than $20,000 and managed to win 44 percent of the vote in Tuesday's primary. Hilliard received 45 percent. Two years ago, Hilliard beat Davis by 24 percentage points, despite controversy concerning the congressman's trip to Libya in 1997 and a House ethics committee probe of his campaign finances. This year, Davis launched an extensive television ad campaign publicizing those matters. "We managed to get that message out this time," Davis said in an interview yesterday. "Obviously, being on television was a major advantage."
The source of Davis's financial support
became a campaign issue a few weeks ago when an anonymous flier titled "Davis
and the Jews" began circulating in the district. Each side has accused the
other of producing the inflammatory missive. While the Middle East issue has provided
Davis and Majette with a potent fundraising tool, both challengers say their opponents
deserve to lose primarily because of poor constituent
service.
"When it comes to challenging an incumbent, that person's record is the issue," said Davis, who accused Hilliard of "10 years of failure" in Congress.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2382-2002Jun5.html
Page A02
By A
Washington Post Staff Writer
[Just what
we need, more Blacks (Majette and Davis) in office to represent White Jews while
the needs of and assistance for Blacks are perpetually obscured. T.Y., Editor]
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BIG BROTHER IS ABOUT TO GET BIGGER
Positively Black
May 31, 2002
Attorney General John Ashcroft recently
announced sweeping changes in the FBI, effectively transforming the surveillance
and investigation crime solving agency into what the Bush administration calls a
"proactive organization"; whatever that means. The FBI has been under fire
in the media lately and the operative phrase here is "under fire in the
media". Unfortunately the corporate
owned media is the primary source of most people's view of reality. The masses
don't own, control or have real access to the media. The media is perceived by
the people as this omniscient entity that mirrors our world in an "objective and
unbiased" way. Nothing could be further from the truth. The media is anything
but objective or unbiased. For the most part it reflects the values and views of
the super rich and ruling elites, not so much their values; but the ideas,
opinions and values they want the masses to hold. The ruling elites promote
white supremacy and their notion they have an absolute right to rule the world
are the main values disseminated by/in the mass media. Recently CBS (a network
long infiltrated and extremely cozy with the CIA) broke the story President Bush
was briefed about possible terrorist attacks on key US buildings prior to
September 11th. Now the Bush administration is scurrying around attempting to do
damage control and the FBI is being scapegoated by the media as the agency that
dropped the ball on 9-11.
Why is
the FBI the only agency taking the heat? Because Joe and Jane Sixpack are
generally uninformed or deliberately misinformed about what really goes on under
the aegises of the government. Because of television and movies, we think the
FBI is this great crime fighting catch-all agency.
Not so.
The FBI has a very precise role and function; investigating international
terrorists especially those created, cultivated or aided by the CIA is not one
of them! We are in a major transition in
AmeriKKKa. AmeriKKKa has steadily moved from a nominal
republican form of government to an oligarchal dictatorship.
For a dictatorship to survive it must control the masses with a secret police, death squads or terrorists arms of the military and by brainwashing. This move to beef up and transform the FBI could be the first steps in the creation of an official AmeriKKKan secret police. Granted, the FBI has performed some of the functions of a terrorist/fascist police organization under J. Edgar Hoover and those that ollowed him for years but the abuses weren't designed to be applied to the whole US population. Now we must stop and take a serious look at what is going on and why the FBI is being overhauled. According to the media party line, the FBI is being taken to the proverbial woodshed because of lapses leading to the 9-11 debacle. September 11th according to the government and the media was an attack on AmeriKKKa by international terrorists?!
While the FBI does a lot of things, some
good, others not so good, like COINTELPRO and Operation CHAOS this move by Bush
and Co. should send up immediate warning flags, especially in our
communities. The current media disinformation campaign is designed to make
us think the FBI dropped the ball on 9-11 but we need to realize the FBI is not
an intelligence gathering agency, especially when it comes to international
terrorists. So what is the deal here?
Like the so called PATRIOT Anti-Terrorism
Act, Ashcroft's actions will open the door for more domestic abuses of power by
the US government. This move by
Bush and Co. is alarming because at worst they are admitting we aren't safe, and
fear is a very potent weapon to manipulate a population to do things or approve
measures they normally wouldn't think of doing.
Secondly if the best predictor of current
and future behavior is past behavior, then past abuses by the FBI should give
pause for all of us to say, hey wait a minute not so fast here! Lastly, what
about the other intelligence/espionage agencies whose job it is to supply
information about other foreign powers, our potential adversaries, terrorists
and those who wish us harm? Why haven't they been called on the carpet for their
failures leading up to 9-11?! Why have agencies like the Defense Intelligence
Agency and the National Security Agency a super secret high-tech, eavesdropping
agency been asked what they knew especially since they have global satellite and
electronic spying, eavesdropping and analysis capabilities? What are they doing
with all the untold billions of dollars of US taxpayer money and all that data
they collect, if they can't supply information when its needed the most?! If all
that money didn't help on 9-11 what makes us think revamping an already
discredited organization is going to improve the situation? Worst case scenario,
what if there was foreknowledge by these agencies (DIA, NSA, CIA , INS, FBI, FAA
etc.) why didn't they do anything to prevent it? Making Big Brother larger and more powerful
and taking away the security and the protections of the citizenry is certainly
not the solution.
Submitted by Junious Ricardo Stanton
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BIG
BROTHER IS ABOUT TO GET BIGGER
May 31,
2002
The
Scam and charade continues. Unsuspecting Joe and Jane Sixpack are being duped
into allowing Big Brother to get bigger under the guise of improving the FBI and
fighting terrorism. Nazi Germany is their role model.
The
struggle intensifies.
POSITIVELY BLACK
Junious Ricardo
Stanton
jrswriter@comcast.net
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EXECUTIVE ORDERS THAT WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
June 9, 2002
Listed below are some of the more
interesting executive orders (not subject to congressional review) granting
FEMA and presumably any new
"national security police" draconian police state powers in an emergency:
This
country has been in such an emergency since 9-11-01 as proclaimed by the current
occupant of the white house:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010914-4.html
DavidMcR@aol.com
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EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990 allows the
government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and
seaports.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995 allows the
government to seize and control the communication media.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997 allows the
government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and
minerals.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998 allows the
government to take over all food resources and farms.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000 allows the
government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government
supervision.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001 allows the
government to take over all health, education and welfare functions.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002 designates the
Postmaster General to operate a national registration of all persons.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003 allows the
government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial
aircraft.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11004 allows the
Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing with
public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for
populations.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11005 allows the
government to take over railroads, inland waterways and public storage
facilities.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11051 specifies the
responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to
put all Executive Orders in to effect in times of increased international
tensions and economic or financial crisis.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11310 grants authority
to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders,
to institute industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison,
to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to
advise and assist the President.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11049 assigns emergency
preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21
operative Executive Orders issued over a fifteen year period.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11921 allows the
Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over
the mechanisms of production and distribution, of energy sources, wages,
salaries, credit and the flow of money in U.S. financial institution in any
undefined national emergency. It also provides that when a state of emergency is
declared by the President ,Congress cannot review the action for six months.
DavidMcR@aol.com
[mailto:DavidMcR@aol.com]
Submitted by BRC-REPARATIONS: Black
Radical Congress - Reparations Caucus
Questions/Problems: send email to
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RACIAL DISCORD IN A MARYLAND TOWN
June 23,
2002
In the small town of Damascus, at the
northernmost edge of Montgomery County, a white youth drove through the streets
last week waving a red-and-blue Confederate flag. When police officers
confronted his mother, she said she saw nothing wrong with
it.
The incident -- waving what to many African
Americans is an incendiary symbol of subjugation -- occurred as three white
teenagers and one Asian youth from Damascus High School are facing juvenile
court charges in the beating of a black freshman earlier this year.
Prosecutors say the youths stomped the freshman as a mob of whites screamed
racial slurs.
Judge Dennis M. McHugh, in a dramatic court
speech Wednesday, called the teenagers cowards and said their behavior was
"animalistic." He ordered one who pleaded guilty to be held in juvenile
detention until his sentencing next month. Another youth, who was initially
charged with a hate crime that was
recently dropped, also has pleaded guilty to assault. Two additional trials are
set for this week. All four students, ages 15 to 17, have been
expelled.
"This is
all very troubling," said State's Attorney Douglas M. Gansler. "This isn't the Deep South in the '60s.
It's progressive Montgomery County in the 21st century."
The January
fight has deeply divided the once rural, once all-white community, causing long-simmering racial tensions
to erupt and forcing the town to
confront its reputation for being hostile to outsiders and
minorities.
"When people think of Damascus, they think
of cows, football and racism," Damascus student body president Kim McGuire,
who describes herself as half Hispanic, said matter-of-factly over a chocolate
and vanilla swirl at the town's summer teen hangout, Jimmie Cone. "This is a
really caring community where a small group has problems."
Still, McGuire acknowledged that many
students in the school, where 84 percent are white, are unaccustomed to
minorities. "When we put on a Black History Month program, the basic
reaction I heard was, 'What about white
history month?'"
The troubles began in the fall, when a group of
ninth-grade African American youths and a group of white 10th-graders fought a war
of racially charged slurs.
School counselors, peer mediators,
facilitators from the police department and private conflict resolution groups
tried and failed to get the two groups and their parents to ease tensions. Prosecutors held a racial tolerance
workshop in December. And students held a Racism SpeakOut, after a survey found
that 90 percent of African American and 70 percent of white students felt racial
hostility at the school.
"This year, nothing we did could create a
peace," said Principal Bob Bastress, who is leaving the school to work in the
school district's central office. "The parents blamed the other kids. They never
accepted responsibility for their own children's
behavior."
Facilitators
from the Justice Department, after meeting with 35 students in the spring,
issued a report in which students said that racial slurs were used frequently in
the halls and that minority students
felt unwelcome on sports teams and in honors classes.
This year, the
boys varsity basketball team is all white; Coach Pat Cook said two African
American youths wanted to join but did not show up for the first day of tryouts.
A glance through the yearbook, at
activity after activity, reveals only white faces. There is one club,
Development of Character and Careers, whose faces are mostly African American.
It's known as "The Black Club."
"The
cheerleaders hang with the cheerleaders, the jocks with the jocks, the bangers
with the bangers, the blacks with the blacks, and the Indians go to class," said
Tristen Bryant, an African American. "You stay with your race. That's where you
feel comfortable."
Indeed, some black students said that mixing with
other groups was what got Jonah Meredith, 15, into trouble in January after only
three weeks at the school. He had white friends. He sat with a mixed group in
the cafeteria. On the day of the attack, Jonah was walking in the Weis shopping
center parking lot across from school with his white friend Jacob Hiner.
Prosecutors say a white youth picked a fight with Jonah and then a group
attacked him. Jonah suffered cuts and bruises.
One boy
called Jacob a "nigger lover" the day after the fight and was slapped with the
hate crime charge. It was dropped after Jacob said he wasn't sure who said
it.
In the deeply divided
community, some see the January fight clearly as a racial assault.
"The point is, where have you learned to
hate that intensely?" said Jonah's mother, Adilah Meredith-Kirton. "My son could
have been killed."
Others
say it was a personal fight between two teenagers that got out of hand and that
prosecutors overreacted.
"I feel they've been on a witch hunt," said
one white mother, who spoke on condition of anonymity and whose son,
although not charged in the attack, has since dropped out of
school.
Prosecutor
Alex Foster said the parents' behavior in court last week indicated their
disdain.
"The parents of the boys
being charged were rolling their eyes, sighing and acting like we were lunatics
for treating this as a serious case," Foster said. "With juveniles, you expect
that. But to see parents encouraging the denial, no wonder there are problems up
there."
Until
recently, Damascus remained largely insulated from the racial integration that
swept through cities 30 years ago. The bucolic drive on rural Route 27 into the
small town of about 9,000 winds past corn and alfalfa fields, tractor dealers,
shuttered barns and green pastures where the occasional Holstein cow switches
her tail.
Twenty years ago, Future Farmers of America and 4H were popular
clubs. Just last year, seniors turned pigs loose in the high school hallways as
a prank. It is a town where everyone knows everyone, and where Friday night
football games are the social highlight of the week.
But the
pastoral scene is changing. Townhouses and boxy housing developments now line
the country roads. Bulldozers clearing land show more development on its
way.
With the growth has come
diversity. In 1989, there were only
37 black students at the high school. Now, as the crowded school bursts at the
seams, about 300 of the 1,900 students are members of minority
groups.
"This is a community that was predominantly
white for so long," said Phyllis Bryant, the NAACP parent representative for
Damascus High. "And they're having to deal with diversity at a fast, fast
rate."
To Bryant, the biggest problem is not
blatant racism but that many people simply don't know how to deal with
minorities. "I don't take everything people say to me as racist," she said.
"Some of it is they're just ignorant of me and my
culture."
Some
longtime community members say there are no racial problems -- only problems of
perception.
"I don't
see it," said Peg Stone, a white woman who heads the Damascus Alliance, a
community booster club.
Still,
the racial hostilities have forced some soul-searching and prompted some
changes. The school hired its first African American security guard, after black
students said they felt they were constantly under watch.
Students
formed an advisory council to discuss racial tension with administrators. Next
year, some teachers, such as Karyn Lacroix, are going to assign
seats.
"We as a staff have to take on the
responsibility of mixing students socially," Lacroix said, "because they're not
going to do it on their own."
Community
members, chastened by events, are forming study circles to come together and
talk.
"I was naive. I thought there was no
problem," said Renee Mullen, the Damascus PTA president. "The study circle has
really made us aware that there are. As sad as this year has been, we're doing
everything we can to increase tolerance."
Sitting
in the large country kitchen in his home off a winding country lane, Jonah
Meredith says he has no anger about the January attack. But it surprised
him.
"I expected to encounter this when I got
older, applying for jobs and stuff," he said. "But not
now."
Jonah,
whose parents don't allow him to go into Damascus or even to the mailbox, now
takes a long bus ride to a more diverse school. He says he's much happier. But
he has made no new white friends.
"If you bite an apple and find a worm, you
take a break from apples," he said quietly. When asked whether he'd ever be
friends with whites again, he paused.
"I don't know," he said, staring
out the window of the house he's forbidden to leave.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33211-2002Jun23.html
By Brigid
Schulte and Phuong Ly
Staff writer Annie Gowen contributed to this
report.
Submitted by alarkam@webtv.net
[There are “problems of perception” all right! White Folks cannot forget that today’s Blacks were yesterday’s Slaves. And yet they don’t want to resolve THE DEBT! Go figure. T.Y., Editor]
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…let's work together to heighten this righteous call for justice.
Peace and Power,
Ukali
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QUOTATION:
"If a
white man hates me, that's his problem.
If he has
the power to implement his hateful thinking,
that's my problem"
AHREF="http://members.aol.com/GhanaUnion/afrohero.html"Ancestor KwameToure (1941 - 1998)
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REPARATIONS NOW!
June 10, 2002
Dear Mr. Boyd Graves,
I/we overstand your frustration at the apathy which does exist in the African Community globally. Not only on the issue of Aids but many, many issues which confront and cause us pain, suffering, death and destruction. The European global community which is responsible for the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, who created the Eugenics movement, who engineered Global Capitalist oppression, who suppress the truth and miseducate all people, produce global terrorism all over the world, practice institutional racism and the violation of basic human rights, as well as civil rights, who disrespect to the the global environment, who use mind control and evil propaganda, continue the exploitation of cultures of the world, and yes creators of the Aids (HIV) virus and genocidal attack. Where are all the so called human rights advocate white folks and their support for your cause and efforts.
We Africans will deal with our own problems and we don't need those whom proclaim to follow the legacy of John Brown to speak for us nor our future. It is OK for you to speak truth and share facts, but don't tell us as your white oppressive white brothers and sisters have done for over 400 years how to conduct and re-awaken our people and community to it's traditional greatness. We Can, We will, We must, ourselves deal with genocide, oppression, and the white supremacy global elites onslaught on our people.
If you are truly sincere in your cause you must wake up your own people and not just ours about the truth on HIV Aids, before it is to late for you and them. We have survived and shall survive, regardless of how many of us die. In death for our African culture lies the ultimate POWER (last rite of passage) and this is a bit much for you to overstand. Our ancestors still live in another realm. I don't expect you too understand nor overstand for only our ancestors new harmonious life on earth while your ancestors lived in the dark ages and we ruled the planet. What comes around always goes around and we shall again rule the world in the 21st century despite the evil and destruction of the 400 year exploitation of planet mud by the european world and its system of white supremacy.
Lastly for your information there are many
cures and preventions for HIV Aids created by Africans all over the world, which
are hidden from the masses. Of
course if you have a cure get it to the people and stop complaining about our
African apathy, when european human apathy is the worst the world has ever
known.
While Africans in america are due justice for the millions of tax dollars spent, we shall also never forget the gold, diamonds, silver and other natural resources which were stolen, are still being stolen by the system of white supremacy capitalist thieves. You should inform white folk about their billions of tax dollars which go to Israel and have since 1948. Good luck to you and those whom are serious about exposing the injustice of the shit tem, and waking up the people about the AIDS/ HIV eugenics genocidal war on humanity.
Many of us in the global African community are not apathetic nor asleep to the real deal. Truth crushed to earth rose in our minds sometime ago and no matter how hard they try we can't be stopped with the Most High on our side.
This is my last email to you for your energy and mine can be much better used. Again good luck to you and your works.
S J Baye
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BLACK
LIKE ME
June 24, 2002
Why don't you want to be
black like me? I had to take a couple of days to regroup and respond
after reading an article last year in the Washington Post about young Jamaican girls wanting to be white.
As a black person and a parent, I was mortified that we are producing
offspring that want to look white. Where did we as a people fail? What happened to "Say it loud, I'm Black
and I'm proud"?
Let me say first, that we have failed to
instill in our youth their connection to being the original people on this
planet. By doing this we have opened the door for some other people to
establish what looks good and what looks bad. We tell our youth to get their
teeth straightened we tell them to perm their hair, and we tell them that they
are fat. We allow them white heroes and sheroes. We even teach them that white people are
going to save us. Our silence about our greatness is reducing us to a second
class status that we do not need to reinforce.
What we
are really telling our children, is that they are not acceptable the way they
are. By making wholesale changes to eyes, teeth, hair and skin etc., they think
that they fit the mold of beauty established by some new to the planet people.
The airwaves are full of white people living glamorously with straight teeth,
straight hair and skinny bodies. This is a deceptive way to influence our
perception of beauty. Our real beauty is
defined by our sisters that won't let European culture define their existence
here in amerika.
We
collectively need to start to teach our very young about real beauty not bought
beauty.
To want to be like anyone
other than who you are is a learned behavior. It is an abomination to the creative
process. This entire generation of youth is suffering from low self-esteem
taught to them by parents suffering from low or no self-esteem. When these
kids look in the mirror and don't love who they see, we as black people are in
trouble. It signifies that we have not been doing our jobs as parents. Usually when these same kids don't feel
good about themselves they start to exhibit self- destructive behavior like
trying to be someone else.
What could be worse than a child looking in
a mirror and not wanting to be themselves? It will certainly lead our youth
on the path to cosmetic changes and or alterations of the mind and body. An
attempt to change the outside is a sure sign that an attempt will be made to
change the inside. These negative feelings must be dealt with. This will most
likely take place with the use of some mind-altering drugs or alcohol. As you can see when our youth don't feel
good about themselves the
problems will follow. We must not allow for other
people’s thoughts and ideas about beauty and lifestyle to mislead us into
rearing a child that wants to be someone else. Our children’s uniqueness should
not be over looked for one minute as they are looking around trying to fit
in.
We must not teach our youth to hate white people, but instead, we must teach them to love their being Black. Children who are taught to love who they are will usually avoid the self destructive behavior mentioned here. How can our kids learn to love themselves for who they are? We can show them from birth how great we as Black people are. What example can we give them to follow? For the answer we all need to look in the mirror. Say it loud, we are Black and we are proud.
By Brother Dalani Aamon
Dalani
Aamon is an author,lecturer and activist.
His new book is available at http://www.dalaniaamon.com
Brother Dalani would love to visit you.
He can be contacted at author@dalaniaamon.com
Submitted by
The Black List
[When Blacks
realize that living in a White Racist Society enables the brainwashing of the
Black Psyche, maybe then we will form the necessary UNITED BLACK FRONT to re-establish
Black Folks on the continent of the Land of Ham/“Africa” to be reckoned
with. Until then, this White Racist
Society will produce little Black children wishing to be like the dominant White
Peoples who are instrumental in this indoctrination. And with miseducation, they will think
like they are molded to, as well.
There can be no Self Determination and FREEDOM from this affliction and
degradation without Reparations and without leaving these lands of
captivity. DON’T DELUDE
YOURSELF! T.Y.,
Editor]
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WHY THE-POWERS-THAT-BE OWE DESCENDANTS OF SLAVES…!
US GETS FAILING GRADE ON AMNESTY REPORT CARD
May 29,
2002
Whether willingly or unwittingly, Americans have begun to sacrifice many of the rights they took for granted prior to Sept. 11. Privacy. Due process. Dissent. Yet the annual Error! Bookmark not defined. released this week suggests the greatest casualty of Sept. 11 and the Bush Administration's subsequent war on terrorism may be credibility.
As a moral authority, the US can no longer rightfully wag a finger at human rights abusers around the world. "The year 2001 witnessed a direct challenge to long-accepted human rights standards by the very governments that campaigned for their establishment," the report notes. The most glaring "challenge" in the report involves the US military breaching the rules of war in Afghanistan. On December 29, a UN spokesperson said that relatives identified 52 bodies, including 25 children, killed in the US bombing of a village near the eastern town of Gardez.
The 300-page report, covering events of 2001, enumerates the executions, disappearances, torture, unlawful arrests and abuses, and lesser offenses committed by governments around the world. It also offers a brief summary of good news from 2001 including pardons, commutations, and the release of prisoners of conscience.
The report alleges that the US government overlooked international human rights violations for the sake of increased national security. In order to form a coalition against terror, the US refrained from criticizing repressive regimes, and silently consented to the abuses of its allies, including Singapore, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, India, and Malaysia.
"The horrific events of 11 September were a crime against humanity that shocked and changed the world. However, a number of governments jumped on the 'anti-terrorism' bandwagon and seized the moment to step up repression, undermine human rights protections and stifle political dissent," the report says.
According to an Agence France Presse review of the Amnesty report, coalition governments after Sept. 11 "rushed through repressive new laws, increased the role of the military and promoted a pernicious climate of racism in the name of security." The US and Britain created new legislation "defining new crimes, banning organizations and freezing their assets, curbing civil rights, and reducing safeguards against violations."
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notes the use of military tribunals and secret trials and the mistreatment and
indefinite detention of immigrants being investigated in connection with the
9/11 terrorist attacks. Among the
general "failings" unrelated to Sept. 11, the report charges the US with
offering safe haven to torturers, mistreating asylum seekers, and exporting
tools for torture to other nations. It goes on to say "the actions of the US
government provide a de facto green light for other nations to ignore
fundamental human rights standards."
"The US government needs to recognize that its own record cannot be compromised . . . if it intends to remain a global leader on human rights," Amnesty USA Executive Director William F. Shulz told the Washington Post. The London-based organization anticipates some backlash over the report in the US. "Amnesty is used to not being popular," he said.
While turning a blind eye to others, the US
may be covering for its own violations. The US State Department website
reports on prison conditions for each country. According to Sohail Mohammed, an
immigration attorney representing some of the INS detainees swept up in
connection with Sept. 11, "The sections on secret detention in the 2001 report
have been removed. Just compare 2000 and 2001," he said. "Take any country. Take
Egypt. Information that has not changed for years is now reflecting a change.
Conditions such as what we’re imposing on our detainees -- those are the
sections that have been modified. You
don’t want other countries to be saying, 'how come you don’t practice what you
preach?'"
Among other
key human rights developments globally, the report notes that there are more
refugees and less mercy for asylum seekers. Amnesty also spotlights the unlawful
killings and torture by the IDC and Palestinian resistance groups in Israel and
the Occupied Territories. More than 460 Palestinians were killed by Israeli
security forces and 187 Israelis were killed by armed Palestinians.
In one of the more alarming statistics, the report cites that 3048 persons were executed in 31 countries in 2001 and 2468 of that total were killed in China, including many for non-violent crimes such as "bribery, pimping, embezzlement, tax fraud, selling harmful foods, and drug offences."
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=13248
Gabrielle Banks is Activism Editor of AlterNet
Submitted by alarkam@webtv.net
http://www.alternet.org
There is no evidence that Amnesty International has adequately covered the numerous ways in which the U.S. government continues to violate the human rights of Afro-Descendants as a people, including the practices of ethnocide and forced assimilation. Nor has Amnesty International covered the international legal battle for Reparations for all Afro-Descendants.
Alarkam@webtv.net
[I
apologize for the “Error! Bookmark not defined.” Some WebSites and E-mail addresses tend
to be replaced by this notice, and for whatever reason, it is beyond my
control. T.Y.,
Editor]
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Free The
Mind... Free The People... Free The Land...
Robert Hazard
Board Member
S. E. Regional Representative
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LAST BUT NOT
LEAST:
The Evil Ghost Of Chattel Slavery Still Haunt And Influence Its Afrikan Descendants
June 15, 2002:
You know my sisters and brothers the Black
Afrikan nation is a very divided and confused nation and it is that division and
confusion that have us in the mental and physical condition we find ourselves in
today. It is very obvious that the
Blacks in america have lost our way in america and such a lost now prevents us
from clearly understanding our obligation to the Black Afrikan Nation. Yes, I
speak of those who are the great intellectuals down to the brothers and sisters
who are being given an inadequate education, on down to those sisters and
brothers on the street who no longer desire to make the best of their Black
lives anymore.
There is not one of us who is better off
than the other in america, the only difference is that some of us are very good
at covering up the effect the Evil Ghost of Slavery still holds on us, as we go
through our make shift and make believe lives in america. It is an established fact that when a
woman is with child she has to be very careful of how she conducts herself, by
being careful of what she eats, her hygiene, and most importantly, what she
thinks, which determine how she will behave. Now all of these factors have a direct
affect on the child she is caring and will determine in many ways how well
rounded both physical and mental the child will be. In other word, what I am saying is that
while the baby is still in the womb, it is being shaped into the type of child
it will be, both physically, soulfully and spiritually and the process continues
after the child is born, because then the outside environment takes over the
molding and conditioning of the child but the important thing here is the type
of foundation that was laid for the child before the birth of the child, which
now bring me to my point.
There are those Blacks in america,
descendants of our Enslaved Ancestors who have no desire to try and be anything
else but a Black White american, and they strongly dislike the fact that the
badge they carry will always be there to remind them of where they came
from. And that badge is their Black pigment
and many of us set out to attack it by trying to elude it by cross breeding as
we condition ourselves to the fallacy that Race does not matter. How foolish and pitiful have we
become.
The first thing the white man did after
bringing us into captivity was to separate and stratify us: some he took into the big house, some he
put into the field house, and some he had to keep chained and bound. And there my brothers and sister
was the beginning of the physical and mental conditioning that now haunts us to
this day and explains why it is the descendants who are so diverse in their
thinking toward the very people who have meant us nothing but pain, suffering
and death, both physical and Soulfully -Spiritually. Those of you who might have doubt about
what I am telling you, then I invite you to confer with Dr. Nathan Hare and / or
Mrs. Hare, because I know that which I speak is true and I know that which I
speak extend some time way beyond those who should know.
Yes my brothers and sisters, we to this day carry the dirty genetic residue of Chattel Slavery to this day and some is more pronounced than others, depending on out of whose loins we descended in according to our Enslaved Class and conditioning. So the question is, can the damage be reversed and my answer is not all, because many of us will opt to remain in a state of Enslaved denial and will refuse the care for debriefing. You see my dear ones, the only way to get a civilized being to submit to the harsh condition of Chattel Slavery you must be able to get inside of the mind and reorganize it to fit what you have in store for it and it become a continue mental conditioning process which construct an acceptable behavior that will harmonize with the environment now being exposed.
Therefore such a mental conditioning is
passed on to the next generation of those who are not Enslaved and they will
take on the persona of the parent and Environment they have been exposed to even
before birth. The BlackAfrikan
in america who are here by way of the Middle Passage must be willing to go
through a Soulfully -Spiritually debriefing before we can fully appreciate the
fact of who we are and where we actually came from and learn all over again that
things do not happen by chance or accident, for All Things Are Governed By A
Process of Laws be they Man or Universal. All things happen for a reason and we
must master the knowledge of the Enslaved Middle Passage Journey and accept the
fact that many members of the Black Afrikan Nation will not be able to find
their way back to themselves and are forever lost and you should know that tree
by the fruit it bears, which is, for the descendants of our Enslaved Ancestors,
Black Nationalism/ Pan - Afrikanism, True Black Afrikan Ancient Primeval
Theology, Reparation / Repatriation and The Reunification of the Black Afrikan
Nation.
The Time Is Now, whereby, we must finally shake the Evil Ghost Of Chattel Slavery Which Still Rides The Back Of The The Descendants Of Our Enslaved Ancestors, thus having a devastating affect upon the Black Afrikan Nation.
Let The Wise Among Us Bear Witness To That
Which Is True!!!
May I remind you of the upcoming Sankofa Reclamation Conference on July 19,20,21, in Detroit.
It Is
The Black Fool Who Say I Have Lost Nothing In Afrika!!! - osiris
A Fool
Is Verified By The Action Taken After Which It Become A Statement Of
Fact!-osiris
May Eternal Peace Be In The Company Of The Honorable Marcus Garvey.
Complete
Love ToThe Afrikan Nation
Hoteph
Osiris
Chief
Elder
The Sankofa Reclamation Movement
The Pan -Afrikan Inter'National Movement
[I don’t
know of any captured or enslaved Peoples who did not need to be de-programmed
before they could become a power and force in their own right. How far would we progress
promoting the ideals of this White Society whose motives are to sustain Blacks a
second-class people? T.Y.,
Editor]
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If you knew Who walked beside you, you would have no fear!!
Girlhome
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It Is The
Black Fool Who Say
I Have
Lost Nothing In Afrika!!
osiris
A fool is
verified by the action taken,
after
which it become a statement of fact.
osiris
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Hear the
Drum Beat of the
Diaspora
Afrikan
Diaspora Nation State
"Up You
Mighty Race"
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