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Sunday, July 21, 2013

Does "WHITE" plus MALE equal "GOD" ??

Time to "End" this MYTH??

An enduring MYTH, created in the ashes of the Roman Empire, reared its ugly head again in the Trayvon Martin Trial. That myth holds that white males are "Gods". A Chinese friend once told me what he learned as a child about the "process" used by Roman Christians to fashion a "white" Jesus from remnants of earlier gods and religions.

That religion later appeared on the shores of what is now the Americas in military paraphernalia sufficient to convince Montezuma and the natives of the day that they were "Gods". After the Cortes invasion of Mexico, when the natives proved to not be sturdy enough to produce the precious metals at the desired rate, a Catholic Bishop petitioned the Pope to establish the African Slave Trade. Europe "flourished" as a result.

From Cortes and Las Casas, to Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, to "royal" babies; the superiority of the white male has become a religion of its own. The diaries of Lewis and Clark, and the stories of African tribesmen, reveal how The Bible was used to soften up the natives for the Holocausts that followed. We know how our African slave ancestors were convinced to endure life-long torture for "rewards" after they "crossed over Jordan". When will we learn that our children will not be safe, or we will never be "free", until we end this madness. The cure is in our own minds. Stop buying the crap -- it clearly does not work for non-whites, or for most women.

How is all of this different from other religions promising "virgins" in the after-life?, or letting "priests" cut out your heart while it is still beating? Come on!! Its the 21st century, by God! (oops). We have to learn to counter the continuing uses of the Bible to pursue murder, theft, imprisonment, and all manner of discrimination against persons of color; and women! Martyrdom is no longer an option!

In the face of declining numbers (non-white babies will out-number white babies in the United States within this decade)," near-whites" from Latin America (Zimmerman) or Eastern Europe (Tsarnaevs) are making bids to enter the "white and male club".

We simply have to say "NO!!" -- at the ballot box, in the church, and in every aspect of life that requires you to genuflect to white males (O'mara asserted that Trayvon should have "Obeyed").

Stay Vigilant! 100% voter turn-out for women and non-whites in 2014!!

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Saturday, July 20, 2013

BEYOND THE "MORAL" ARGUMENT??

Time to Break The "Cycle" ??

President Obama's "Conversation" with the nation yesterday could mark the start of a very important and historic change; in the way people with any amount of African heritage are perceived in this nation, and in the world. It makes it unmistakably clear that there is something, that, up to now, has been permanent; but has to change. It has to do with our mass social view of race in this country; but, precisely what that is, he did not say.

Let's take a trip back to the 1760(s); before the Constitution and before the Declaration of Independence, to read a very famous (for my generation of African-Americans) poem. It was written by a 12-year-old black girl, named Phyllis Wheatley:

ON BEING BROUGHT FROM AFRICA TO AMERICA

T'was mercy brought me from my Pagan Land,

Taught my benighted soul to understand

That there's a God, that there's a savior too:

Once I redemption neither sought nor knew,

Some view our sable race with scornful eye,

"Their colour is a diabolic die."

Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain,

May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train.

For more than 250 years, these ideas and beliefs, instituted and perpetuated by Christians against Africans, and, subsequently, all persons who have dark skins, lie at the root of the wealth accumulated by persons who are white; and perpetual economic disadvantages for persons of color.

This yoke must be broken in the minds of all persons! Christianity has shrewdly found ways to keep these teachings alive. The teachings lie at the root of European wealth and Culture. In the wake of the economic impacts, lie a permanent designation of persons of color as "the other" in law, education, religion, and virtually all aspects of social interaction. They imprison everyone!

Either all persons are "born free", or none are! No religion has the authority to claim otherwise. The Founders, and their European mentors were absolutely wrong in these beliefs and their insistence that persons of color were less than human. The blood and pain from this still flows. We must break the grip of religion and its role in driving our racial beliefs.

Stay Vigilant! If what happened to Trayvon can bring us to this realization, we all will "get free"!

Friday, July 19, 2013

"KISS IT UP" TO GOD??

"Race" runs back to "Church"??

Having determined in Court that, in Florida, "Equality Before The Law" does NOT extend across their "color line"; their Governor, Rick Scott has decided that he will NOT honor the call for a Special Legislative Session to review Florida's "Stand Your Ground" Law. He WILL support a Day of Prayer in Florida, instead. Anybody who knows the history of this country should not be surprised. This is, perhaps, the oldest trick in the book, used by "Slavers" to get the slaves back under control. He expects it to work in the 21st century, the way it worked centuries back under the Black Codes. http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/florida-stand-your-ground-special-session-94459.html

Last night, Piers Morgan hosted a panel of three black citizens, two Christian "Reverends"; one female, one male, and a young black male wrongfully accused, found guilty, and sent to jail for a crime he did not commit (later exonerated). The black male "Reverend" was Jesse Lee Peterson.

If you would like a "litmus test" for your racial leanings, this guy has to be it! Regardless of your race, nationality, or religion, you have to decide where you stand relative to this Christian "Minister". He harks all the way back, past the plantation, to the days of the slave trade, when Phyllis Wheatley, a teen-age black poet brought here, a slave, in 1761, wrote about blacks being "refin'd". We're becoming a "laughing stock"! http://womenshistory.about.com/od/aframerwriters/a/wheatley_poems.htm

Zimmerman is reported to have said the shooting of Trayvon Martin was "God's Plan". Taking the issue to "church", I guess, is also??

Stay Vigilant! Choose your God carefully!

Thursday, July 18, 2013

"SUBLIMINAL RACIALISM"

21st Century Media & Race

To better understand the "miscarriage"(?) of Justice that occurred in the Trayvon Martin case, we all must recognize the emergence of a new "tool" to keep racism alive in a way that will continue to benefit those citizens who consider themselves to be "white". It was deftly employed by the "Defense" in the murder case. The exploitation of media for months before the trial, and in numerous instances during the trial, is what we all saw. What, exactly? Racially-coded language, racially inequitable juxtapositions of imaginary events, racial inferences relating to language .. ; if you were paying attention to the trial, you can add many examples from your own experiences.

Both Talk, and Televised Media have played prominent roles in spreading this new phenomenon. We were childish and naïve to expect hundreds of years of vile racial language and practices to suddenly "disappear". We must not persist in our naivety, after we are confronted by such blatant application of this technique during the recent trial. The entire world witnessed it! The female jury has been so traumatized by their role in this "process", they require "counseling".

In this age when Media dominates every aspect of our lives, we have to be more vigilant and protest against the almost complete use of this technique for "content" programming by the entertainment industry: from Hollywood to writers for Television programs. Every time we see a "token" non-white stuck in a social situation in a sitcom, in ways that have nothing to do with the plot, we see the technique being employed. The impact on the continuation of racialized thought in our society is immense! This technique is masked by the on-going mass "ban" on racial epithets.

PR; public relations techniques have been placed on steroids through applications of technological advances in communication. It underpins everything from advertising to, now, murder trials! Can "Justice" survive?

Stay Vigilant! Look for uses of visual cues for purposes of psychological manipulation.

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

WHITE "RETREAT" ??

Why No One is "Safe" Now ?

As we "digest" the outcomes of the Trayvon Trial, many new pictures emerge (all of them "ugly").

No one in the trial played fair, it seems; from the slippery female judge; to the "Pontius Pilate" Prosecution; the sleazy Defense; and the all-female and non-non-white jury, whose hands were "tied" by the judge -- they all took turns TRYIN' an already dead, defenseless, (maybe, not-so-much), unarmed black teenager! Such a spectacle! Whipped to a frenzy by a complicit MEDIA.

Bottom line: anybody can shoot and kill anybody, now, and claim their own "fear" as their defense! It will definitely work for you IF: you're white and male, can afford or have access to very high-priced lawyering, and you do it in the South, or someplace where people live, who think like the folk down there. Is this the real aftermath of 9/11?

Welcome to the new American Frontier. Replace John Wayne with slick lawyers; his firearm with the Media, and LAWS that work one way for the Rich and White, and the opposite way for all others.

"Integration" was also on trial in this case. From the "gated community" to the segregated minds of the whites who participated in this fiasco, the absurdity of pursuing "integration" (black mind-set); or "race-mixing" (white mind-set), in the manner it has been pursued since the 1930s, becomes clear. The Roberts Court, apparently sees it this way, as it beats a hasty retreat back to the Taney Court and the beginnings of JIM CROW. The Trayvon jury also shows why "white women" were inserted into 1960s Civil Rights Legislation as a "minority" (Southern math?).

If you believe "God Helps Those Who Help Themselves", put down your Bible and pick up DE Tocqueville's Democracy In America. Every non-white citizen must know in detail, how this web of "laws" were crafted to bring us our present sorry state of affairs; so, along-side DE Tocqueville, place

Ira Katznelson's Fear Itself. Read especially President Taft's rationale for enabling the South to construct the web of laws used to put JIM CROW into effect. The Republican Party (Ohio variety; note Ohio is our only state that connects the deep South to Canada) has a great deal of blood on its hands in creating our current twisted view of "justice" and Race. The 15th Amendment appears, only to be gutted, then, and again, now?

Black readers who are parents should pay close attention to Taft's arguments about "education"; and then review our rationale for letting persons with dangerous mind-sets control what our children learn. Protection of our children begins with what they are taught at home, and then patrolled in the "community".

Stay Vigilant! Arm your mind, protect your children!

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

NATIONAL "IDENTITY" CRISIS ??

The "Boxes"

Most of us are familiar by now with Nixon's OMB "Boxes". They marked a re-visit (in the 1970's) to this nation's interminable obsession with "defining" who we are by Race. From Plessy's "one-drop" ruling more than 100 years ago, to Zimmerman and O'Mara's "production" that played out on T.V., posing as a "Defense" in a murder trial; we haven't firmly decided this question. Whites, of course, insist on being the "deciders".

Appearing in the Sunday, (7/14/13), New York Times is Margaret Sullivan's editorial: "Making Sense of a Sensational Case".

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/14/public-editor/making-sense-of-a-sensational-case.html?_r=0

The NYTimes edition I read probably went to press before the verdict in the Trayvon Murder Trial was rendered. The demonstrations the verdict sparked, nationwide, are building in intensity. I think this might be different from the legion of "racial crimes" that have traipsed through our "legal" system throughout our history. This one gets at the heart of the question: "who are we?"

The Editorial chronicles the many conflicting versions of Zimmerman's ethnicity that appeared in The Times' coverage of these events. Young white demonstrators carried signs stating: "We are all Trayvon".

Are we? Draw two Boxes. Divide each into quadrants. Across the first (top) write: White/Black. Down the side: Wannabe/Don't Wannabe. With the second box (top): Rich/Poor. Down the side: Wannabe/Don't Wannabe. These boxes will describe for all of us, the identity crises we face in 2013. If you thought the first black (or; black/white; or; white/black) President would settle this issue in any serious way; Trayvon may get the last word??

Try it! Put yourself in the boxes. Realize that most of these "identities" are shaped by birth circumstances. See if you can determine which ones are not, and what "factions" in our society drive these issues. Where would Trayvon place? Zimmerman? Is the racial "divide" clear? What difference would generational considerations make? Regional variations?

Stay Vigilant! These are "our" genes!

Monday, July 15, 2013

THE "WHITE DIVIDE"

Still Searchin' .. will Whites "Decide"?

Over the weekend, demonstrations against the jury decision in Sanford, Florida, have taken place across the length and breadth of this nation. The remarkable thing we see is the rising percentage of whites taking part in protests of this kind. Most of them are young, but that is consistent with voting results in 2012. It may be that Trayvon Martin may have provided us the best measure of racial "progress" this country has made over the past centuries.

Whether or not they have demonstrated, spoken out, or even reached a definitive conclusion on the matter; no white, anywhere, can think they are not impacted by it. Newt Gengrich, and others of similar character, have been quick to seize the political opportunity these events present, but wiser, more honest, whites have to know better. The attorneys for the Defense have shown clearly in post-trial interviews that they harbor racial sentiments that are not "professional". The press utterances by and on the behalf of the Prosecution seem to be more political than "professional".

Perhaps we will know in the next national election whether enough white citizens have "had enough" of this Old-South "Justice". Nothing will change until the politico's who have been riding these sentiments to wealth and power "get the message"!!

Stay Vigilant! Untangle this Gordian Knot of God, Law, and Guns!