The OWL

Monday, December 9, 2013

COLOR DISCRIMINATION : First "RIGHT" of the Americas??

Our "Birthright" from our "Founders'??

In the part of the Americas known as "The United States", all babies are born with a "right" to practice color discrimination; courtesy of our Founders. In the beginning, you had to be born White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, and Male to have that "birthright". That meant no Catholics, Jews, Non-Whites, or Women, could be expected to have the right to "discriminate" against WASP males; but everyone else was "fair game". (One Founder, Benjamin Franklin, was doubtful that Germans were 'white enough" to be allowed to emigrate to this country!) Makes you wonder which Europeans were "in the buggy" in the beginning, insofar as being allowed to become a citizen of the United States.

The first "equal-rights" struggle was to permit non-WASP males entry into the "club" of those allowed, by birth, to practice color discrimination, . Jews were still not includeded, but Catholics and lesser Protestant males were. That struggle was led by President Andrew Jackson (the Great Exterminator of Native-Americans); and ended with the Civil War; a war that was really fought to protect the rights of free labor over slave labor. Immigrants, during that period, were predominantly white, poor males, who spoke little or no English.

After the Civil War, the lesser-whites (North and South) earned their birthright, along with WASP males to practice color discrimination against persons with even one drop of African or Native blood.

Fast-forward to the middle of the 20th Century and all immigrants joined in the national pastime of "discriminating" on the basis of color. Those from Latin countries had earlier adopted their mestizage

characterizations. pdf http://mestizaleadership.com/articles-publications/pdf/latino-hispanic-chicano-article. It was known that in Mexico and the United States color discrimination took place within families; singling out children (favorably and unfavorably) according to color of eyes, hair, and skin. Over a period of 500 years, both Hispanic and Non-Hispanic European influences in the Americas flowed along color lines.

Today, in the 21st Century, we have one of our two major political parties hopelessly mired in the "mess" of color discrimination. That party has damaged our countries ability to govern itself, because a person of color was elected to the Presidency in 2008.

Has our "birthright" become our "death-wish"?? Lets Hope Not! When the White-Right protests losing their "rights" -- we can all hope they're RIGHT??

Stay Vigilant!

Sunday, December 8, 2013

MANDELA: "LESSONS" to be "LEARNED"?? ...

... For "All" God's 'Chillun' ??

For much of last week, and, I expect for most of next week, we have, and can expect to see, "leaders" who are prominent on the public stage, "reset", "adjust their image", or, "otherwise posture" in the wake of the announcement of the death of Nelson Mandela.

The likes of Newt and Ted Cruz, both champions of the White-Supremacist Right, are struggling to "get right" with what is unfolding politically; not only here in the U.S., but around the world. White Politicians; most of whom can count on the fingers of one hand the "non-whites" they are truly close to; are scrambling for face time in the Media to keep their "charges" properly reassured regarding their racial stances.

What can we expect ahead? As a citizen of this country with the misfortune to be born "Colored" in Apartheid North Central Missouri in 1939; I, like Nelson Mandela, was born into Methodist Christianity. As the President of the Richard Allen Club at the Historically Black College where I began my advanced education in 1957, I knew full well the hypocrisies and poisonous "teachings" that persons of color received from white Christian religions. My maternal Grandmother also reinforced the requirements of firmness of mind and intellect to withstand their corrosive effects.

To this day, the message from the line in Phillis Wheatley's poem from the 1700's: "Remember Christians, Negro's black as Cain, May be refin'd and join th' angelic train." is believed and firmly held by blacks and whites alike. The Religion is the root of the Evil. http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-being-brought-from-africa-to-america/

Black South Africans, to include Mandela, were successful in adapting their religious teachings into what is effectively a different religion. Blacks and other non-whites in this nation have failed to do so, and suffer untold pain, sufferings, and tragedies as a result. The fundamental lesson we need to learn here and throughout the Americas, is how to "Overcome" the crippling effects of that variant of Christianity to widely practiced in this country in the Eleventh Hour on Sunday Mornings. "Forgiveness" to Mandela, did not have the meaning taught here by white Christians: a "pass"; freedom from guilt for their deeds.

Those with Catholic upbringings face even stiffer challenges. Throughout the Americas, Catholics, John Kennedy is the best known exception, have held more firmly to the racist and fascist strains that survive today within that religion. Thank God(?) the Fascist Pope resigned! Maybe Pope-Too can make significant changes.

After the myriad and ugly "truths" revealed, to all who will see, in the Trayvon Martin tragedies (events before, during, and after the murder and "trial"); it is especially incumbent on Mothers of Non-White Children to understand the implications of race across this country today and what they must do to keep the babies they bring forth healthy and alive while they grow up here. They must also instill in them the resolve of Mandela; to fiercely, intelligently, and always resist white-supremacist teachings and practices wherever they are encountered in their daily lives.

Stay Vigilant! Free Your Mind(s)! Begin by reading Willie Lynch, and stop thinking the white baby is "pretty" and your baby is "ugly". Hollywood and our Media will work against your success!

Saturday, December 7, 2013

"REVERSE-REVERSE" - DISCRIMINATION??

a CABAL ? ; LARGER than the TEA PARTY?

What if; following the break-through legislation and court rulings against racial discrimination in the 1960s and '70s; a rich CABAL formed to feed off the anger spilling into the streets and Media from the poor-whites as they "Back-lashed" ?? What if this CABAL was formed of very rich, right-wing factions, world-wide? What if they realized that Big Money, combined with tremendous computing power, would be sufficient as tools to "feed" off of the white anger, and take control of the economies of the United States and the World? First, they would have to seize "politics" domestically, and "rule" from that base? They knew, as Ray Stannard Baker discovered in "Following the Color Line" http://www.gutenberg.org/files/34847/34847-h/34847-h.htm, that white supremacy and color discrimination; especially against persons of any amount of African descent, was the "mudsill" of Western Culture and its wealth.

As the collapse of the Soviet Union approached, (the "smart Money" knew it was coming in the mid-70's) they made their move, through "Daddy Bush", to make sure there would be no more Thurgood Marshall's on our Supreme Court.! Freeing Blacks would lead to "freeing" everyone else held in various forms of bondage in our nation (Women, Hispanics, Gays, etc.). Clarence Thomas was their "fix". Blacks were stupid, and racist enough to embrace "any" "Black-First". Clarence was their answer, and it worked! "W" and his handlers used Condi as their second plank in their reverse-reverse discrimination game. They varied their methods by driving a wedge between those Hispanics who refused to acknowledge their Native and/or African roots, and the rest. Cubans; (the white and lighter-skin variety, that made it to the United States, by whatever means), were their "tool" to get a record percentage of Hispanic votes for "W" in his elections. Reverse-reverse discrimination worked very well for Atwater, and Rove (among Hispanics). Hispanics became more anti-Republican after anti- immigration "backlash" surfaced).

Fast-forward to 2013, and we see this method foiled by a politician, without "handlers", black, and very smart; who over-turned their game. Politicians of all colors and both genders have been scrambling since, to find a "fix" to their "fix". Failing in the general election of 2012, and in the Supreme Court, the CABAL has taken to a fall-back strategy; to dis-unite the country state-by-state.

The NationalJournal reported November 21, 2013, http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/the-man-who-discovered-susana-martinez-could-also-be-her-downfall-20131121 how a young, white, male "controls" Governor Martinez of New Mexico. He pays himself almost a Million Dollars a year in the process. He is reported to be a "Karl Rove" of New Mexico, who is upsetting the state's leading Republicans. Read the article, and you might get a hint as to why "Susana" was silent after the national media went viral with video of "Jackboot" tactics of state police beating up on a lone black mother and her five children on a remote mountain road near Taos.

Stay Vigilant! To rid this country of the threat they pose to our freedoms and way of life, VOTE

in 2014; and, unfortunately, even Republicans will have to vote against "their own" to rid the "host" of its fatal Tea Party, and White-Right Infection!! Chris Christy was recently "posed" in PR photo-Ops with Susana. Could it be that Cortez and Malinche have returned?; after 500 years?? Can U Spot the "race card" in white hands?? No Republicans in2014???

Friday, December 6, 2013

"LOVE" MANDELA: "HATE" OBAMA ??

Should We Pity the Poor, Southern, and White "Mind"??

While the Outpouring of "Observances", world-wide, for the passing of Nelson Mandela (Madiba) continue; I challenge you to find the genuine South-African white faces in the crowds shown on your T.V. Mandela was a genius in waging a quiet PR campaign among the world's literati, celebrities, and entertainers to raise money for destitute black South Africans; he never compromised his dignity, or that of his people.

In the United States, the White-Right (Republican Tea Party folk) can't stand any non-white they can't break, (by getting them to compromise their self-respect). Ergo, their hatred for President Obama verges on mania in the "Land o' Cotton". Blacks like Clarence Thomas are more to their liking and much more useful for their agenda(s). It has ever been thus, and will remain; because the poisons of centuries of operations in our nation's bowels have polluted the place in ways that neither time nor ecological cleansing can erase. Only that, can explain why a states like Mississippi, Louisiana, South Carolina (both "governed" by immigrants from India), and, sadly, North Carolina; are firmly under the grasp of the Southern White "Mind-set" regarding skin color and its relationship to all aspects of human life. That mind-set is spreading North and West. The United States Air Force is responding to efforts to "turn" young, vulnerable Officer Candidates at their Academy into "followers". http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/23/politics/23academy.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

President Obama, descendent from lineages not subject to the White Southern Mind-F**k for centuries, unlike the rest of us, appears better equipped to resist the crap those folk throw at him constantly; in the Congress, in our "Think" (stink) Tanks, and in the Media.

The situation will not improve in this country, until persons of color acquire the ability of both Mandela and Obama to not "break" under malignant white pressure. Those without the "stuff" to resist, will simply have to die-out along with the older and white Southerners who keep the crap alive into the 21st Century. Their consistent abilities to weaken the nation financially, depriving even poor whites of the ability to feed themselves, is the only strategy they seem to have left; except for their ability to infect succeeding generations of non-whites with their malignant version of "Christianity". I hoped that the Jim Jones, Jonestown in Guyana http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones event would wake up more non-whites to the "Kool-Aid" they were voluntarily consuming.

Some of us were gifted with the teaching of those slaves who, like Mandela, believe in their own versions of "Heaven" and "Forgiveness". We learned that our ancestor did not separate from us in death. We understood why whites insisted that we not be buried among them.

Stay Vigilant! Hope Spring Eternal; maybe the younger generations will "get it"!

Thursday, December 5, 2013

"JESUS was a JEW" ... and a "PALESTINIAN", Too

A True "Christmas" Story

Fifty-One years ago, as we approached the Christmas Season in 1962, I taught a Sunday School class for Protestant children of primary-grade-level on Fort Meade, in Maryland. We had narrowly escaped, a few months before, what was widely expected to be a "nuclear holocaust"; and we, on the Fort, expected to be "ground zero".

As a 2nd Lieutenant in the Air Force, half-way through my first year of assignment to the NSA, aka, "The Agency", or, "The Puzzle Palace", I was grateful to still be alive, along with my wife and 3-month-old first born, a son. The Kennedys were celebrating, what turned out to be their last year in the White House. Their young son, "John-John" was just past 2 years old.

The lesson was, of course, about the "Baby in Bethlehem". The class was mixed-race, composed of mostly white boys and girls from the deep South. A young white girl shot up her hand and inquired: : "Is President Kennedy a Catholic?" I replied "yes he is", but added, "in our country we do not consider their religion to be important for choosing our leaders". I added, we are mostly a Christian country, where we worship Jesus, who was a Jew from Palestine".

A little white boy erupted: "O-o-oh; I'm goin-ta' tell my Momma! You said Jesus was a Jew". Other children in the class chimed in; including some of the few black children. I was shocked at their response. I thought everybody knew that Jesus was a Jew from Palestine. How on Earth could you tell the Christian "Christmas Story" and claim otherwise?

As this nation has struggled through the decades of unspeakable horrors that erupted in the wake of the assassination, less than a year later, of President Kennedy; I now understand, fully, how "Christians" in this country don't hold the same beliefs; not even about Jesus! Regional, racial, economic, and political differences all "trade" among the differences that exist among "Christians" in the United States.

The White-Right poses their threat to the viability of our country under a Southern brand of Christianity. Having failed miserably in their attempts to defeat, defame, and undermine the first Black President, in the election of 2012, and in the Congress afterward, they have "seeped" into various states of this country attempting to establish their Tea Party-led political base. Many states struggle to deny them a stronger foothold.

Stay Vigilant! On this day of the Death of Mandela, don't let our country become a Theocratic Dictatorship!

Monday, December 2, 2013

When "FAITH" Trumps "TRUTH" and "TRUST" ...

... "CHAOS" Ensues ??

The entire world witnessed, in "9/11", what happens when "Faith", taken to extreme and malevolently directed, "strikes"! In response to 9/11; It can be argued that the white/Right regime in power in the United States at the time, resorted to its own "Faith"; in ways thought be "extreme" by many, when it "struck back"! The remaining years of that regime culminated in a massive destruction in "Trust", on many levels, in many places, and within key global institutions.

Since 2008, massive efforts have been undertaken to "set right" our financial institutions, international relations, and social order. There is a great deal left to be done.

Is the world left to proceed on "Faith" as practiced by the world's various religions? What has, and will happen to Truth, Reason, Confidence, and Trust? There is, according to many extremely religious people, a "Faith" version for each of these, that the "faithful" are eager to substitute. Science; advances in which have produced the wonders of our Modern world, is cast aside by many of these adherents.

"Faith" has proven over time to be the "womb" from which such evils as racism, classism, and social "supremacy" have sprung; and are spreading; to this day! What can we do? We need to examine closely everything we have been in the past, and are now, asked to "accept" on "Faith".

In economic matters, "Faith" really comes in very handy1 We are asked to have "faith" in certain brands, commercial propositions, and in their proponents. I think it was blind "faith" in certain financial institutions, and their leaders, thatled us to the stupendous financial collapse of 2008!

Those politicians who trade in "Faith", especially that part of the Republican Party in the United States known as the Tea Party, is now offering "Government-based-on Faith"! Are you a "believer"?? So far, the majority of voters in national elections have not been mislead; in spite of massive amounts of money, and international collusion to bring them success at the ballot box.

Stay Vigilant! The "Faith Healers" in our past created quite a bit of havoc. Their decendants have retained their historical affinity for "filthy Lucre", however!

Sunday, December 1, 2013

The "New" MISSIONARIES??

Non-"Profit"?? -- What's Up??

Is it just me?; or, have you noticed what appears to be an explosion of "Charitable Trusts"; NGO's; "Celebrity" Fund-Raising (Think Bono?); State-Sponsored Fund-Raising (Think Clinton and "W'' for Haiti). The list is long and growing longer. We know why "celebrities" do it: they can't let their "STAR" fade, or they're "done-for"! Politicians do, because the gold-mine in cash-raising comes after they leave office. Their Foundations are their personal "Churches" (repositories for the loot they skim), and their "Causes" come straight from the News Media. Its a new Gold Rush, stolen from the tricks of organized religions.

There is a penchant for starving, under-educated, disfigured children of Africa. Never-mind that the education, health-care, etc. doesn't matter a "fig" to them; when it comes to Black and Brown children at home. Every wonder why? FAITH. Brother; "Faith"!! Many of these Fund-Raising entities are Hard-Right Religious NUTS!!

Yes, like the private and religious snake-oil of old, you're asked to empty your pockets on blind faith. Has anyone seen an accounting of where the funds for Haiti went? Take a look at Haiti today and you'd be hard-pressed to convince yourself that the money went into anything except the pockets of the fund-raisers.

One such "cause" was to provide cheap electronic readers to young Africans. (Ever notice that it is always "Africa"; never a specific country, tribe, or village?) The teller of the tale said he visited a "school" looking for books the children had for reading, and found a "History of UTAH"!!! Guess who got to these people in Africa first!! They seem to be everywhere; except for exposing the tremendous wealth and businesses owned here in the United States; funded by their "Missionary" work.

Faith works wonders; chief among them is building personal wealth for political dynasties, aging entertainers, and a horde of budding entrepreneurs who have "sniffed out" this gold mine. If this trend continues, the established Churches, of our established Religions, may find their "competition" for easy money hard to combat.

Stay Vigilant! KNOW who gets your money?? Another argument FOR Bit-Coin??