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Abolish the "N" Word.....Humm???
(A possible "N" word in action?)
I am going to be on the late freight on this one. As the battle rages on to abolish the “N” word I have thought about it. I have tested my own mentality, and in fact I have reduced how much I use this word and whom I use it with. And, just as many want the “B” word gone as well. “B’s” do exist, and its my estimation about 75 percent of all “B’s” are men, but I digress. I came to the conclusion that I should at least lessen my use of the “N” word as I am not unaware of the origins of the word. Yet, deeper still I am fully aware of the very deep seated roots of the word that did not originate with the European, dehumanizing the Hue-man beings they bought as chattel property from other Hue-mans in Africa. I decided to lessen my use of the word on the following basis. I believe Christians are using the title of Christian, which was a name given them by their enemies in Antioch. I then reasoned that if I would not call myself a Christian on this basis, I then should not call myself or any other Hue-man the “N” word as it is a name that was put on us to dehumanize all people of color. Then.
However, I have also come to realize that the “N” word can be used to depict ALL peoples that take actions that are in fact uncivilized or inhumane. The “N” word fits on to those that debase any human being for their own uplift or their group’s specific benefit, therefore it belongs to naacp, yes the naacp meaning N*ggas Ain’t Always Colored People. So I have compiled a list of n*ggas that are not what Tupac coined; Never Ignorant Getting Goals Accomplished but those of a wicked actions;
A N*gga is the man that shoots his friend in the face on a hunting trip, rather than accompany his friend to the hospital he goes back to work in D.C. That’s a N*gga!
A N*gga has a child knows who the daddy is, but convinces another man he is the daddy. They move to The Bahamas in a nice lovely house then she dies never naming the daddy, that’s a N*gga!
A N*gga walks up to my nephew and his best friend shoots and kills them, then goes to jail and says through tears “it wasn’t me” and says he wants to commit suicide. But, he bragged to his friends how he put in work for the hood when he was out. That’s a N*gga!
A N*gga gets a falsified search warrant, breaks into a 92 year old woman’s house shoots her to death then plants marijuana and rolling papers in her house as she lay on the bed bleeding to death. That’s a N*gga!
A N*gga lies about weapons of mass destruction being in Iraq knowing full well there are none there and when he is found out he then says “…Well Saddam tried to kill my daddy” and proceeds to send people off to die for their personal and business benefit. Now that’s a REAL N*gga there!!!
A N*gga gets drafted into the NFL then in one year has so many police contacts that the league suspends him. He comes home to the Atlanta and on June 17th gets into a argument with another patron of the strip club, has a rolling shoot out on a busy boulevard. That’s a STUPID N*gga!
A N*gga knows a judge in Georgia issued orders to release Genarlow Wilson on trumped up child molestation charges and the only Black State Attorney General in the U.S. immediately appeals the release. That’s a punk a$$ N*gga!
Well I think you get the picture. Maybe if we didn’t have any N*ggas then maybe we could get rid of the “N” word.
Sometimes we have to just stop and breath!
I think the lyrics to one of my favorite songs says it all.
What is life? What does this life mean to you? Check it from a RastaMan point of view. And you will see that life is sweet and what you make it.
To some it is a burden, to I man its a journey or a trod if you're not careful.
You'll gain di world and lose the soul you have. This is knowledge!
Let those in di world partake hereof, you neva know what you got til you lose what you got its not a burden.
Tell dem its a journey or a trod if you're not careful you'll gain di world and lose the soul you have. Let those in di world partake hereof you neva know what you got til you lose what you got.
I feel as if there is no chance for me no balance no gravity. How can I save myself from this calamity? Open my eyes around me pure friend or enemy people of different motives and quality, some weilding for power while I pull for sanity to conquer fear and carnal anxiety.
I see my people suffa everyday all around many me fell victims where they are they are lonely. I sing this for my homies the ones dem who know me, who grow me who show me, Buju Banton surely.
I learned my mathimatics from di skillfull Tony who hustle wid bones street smart and show me. English grammar I owe to Miss Romie, Selassie I call me, me declare di glory. There is hope for everyman surely there is hope for everyman surely.
Its not a burden go and tell the world it is a trod if you're not careful you'll gain this world and lose the soul you have, there is knowledge let those in the world partake hereof you neva know what you got til you lose what you got.
As sure as the sun shines I'm taking whats mine, the times the signs children having babies, demoralizing the ladies. The rise of pagan churches shares and psychic, black and white magic all disguised in clever logic, shall be tragic upon false prophets who rise and lie and Mother Theresa cry, as Peace Maker dies, Clinton testifies. And resevoirs run dry, the ozone layer die and we don't know why, oooh.
Life is not a burden, tell dem its a journey or a trod if you're careful you'll gain this world and lose the soul you have. There is knowledge let those in di world partake hereof you never know what you got til you lose what you got.
Wars cannot help us to better ourselves inside every man there is a hidden wealth. Every man wants to be comfortable no man wants to be disabled. Some too greedy, too craven and all dem get dat still nuh sufficient. Some love war and dat nuh mek sense, envy bring hatred, crime and violence. Listen Buju di Banton ah open up you sense I hope you really don't tek offense.
Its not a burden I know its a journey or a trod if you're not careful you'll gain dis world and lose the soul you have there is knowledge let those in di world partake hereof you neva know what you got til you lose what you got. No no no, its not a burden its a trod if you're not careful you'll gain this world and lose the soul you have. There is knowledge let those in di world partake hereof. You neva know what you got til you lose what you got, hey.
Feel as if there is no chance for me
No balance, no gravity
How can I save myself from this calamity
Open my eyes around me, pure friend and enemy
People of different motives and quality
Pulling for power while I pull for sanity
To conquer myself and calm all anxiety
Every minute, every hour
I ask the Father over me
Ask Buju Banton fe guide dem surely
Listen to the music and ask him the glory
Selassie I call me, me tell dem the story
And listen Buju Banton pon the riddim surely
Hey, hey, hey
Hear me say my bredren!!!
---Mark Myrie Aka Buju Banton
Debate or Slogan Fest?
I saw the Tavis Smiley forum last night and was deeply disappointed. This was the third “debate” (I use that term loosely), yet this was the first I was able to see. Got my popcorn ready, some juice and was ready to go. Finally, after about 15 minutes the candidates come out onto the stage. They answered a preliminary question by a “regular” person from the audience, then came the questions from the journalist. Dwayne Wickham , columnist for USA Today and The Gannett News Service posed this question: “Unemployment for Black high school GRADUATES is 33% higher than white high school DROPOUTS. How do you explain this disparity?” Joe Biden proceeded to speak about how disadvantaged Black mothers should begin to talk to their children. He stated, by talking to your children at a young age they would have a vocabulary of 300 words more than the child that was not talked to by the parent which would lead to a higher high school graduation rate. Congressman Dennis Kucinich, said he would do away with No Child Left Behind, because it only test the children and doesn’t ensure learning. Senator Obama chimed in on the same rhetoric about our disadvantaged children not graduating. I will grant the fact that he did emphasize “our children”. Yet, the question was about Black children that DID graduate, and why they had an unemployment rate 33% higher than white dropouts.
The night continued along the path of slogan slinging, pandering to the crowd. Not one spoke about what plan they had for the country. None spoke about what is really important to Black people which is the direction Tavis wanted to take the debate. None spoke about predatory lending that’s haunting Black Americans. None touched on the collapse of sub prime lending institutions. None spoke on why the American oil refining stations are not on line, which helps to drive up oil prices. None said a word about the war. Oh that’s right Tavis Smiley said he wanted to lead the “debate” into issues that concerned Black people. So is he implying the war is not an issue for Black people? Is Tavis implying that Black people are not homeowners? Is there an implication that we are not concerned with the price of oil? Is Tavis giving the world the notion that we are not concerned with the economics of the country and the world? Somehow, the talk always circled back around to people not getting a good education, not getting good health care, to Black people being disadvantaged, and that racism is alive and well in the United States.
By the end of the night, I felt battered, and disappointed. Disappointed in Tavis Smiley leading the discussion into issues that concern Black people, but somehow all these issues were concerning poverty and ill treatment due to race, as if Black people are the poster children for the poor. To the contrary, in fact in 2006 Black homeownership reached an all time high, according to the Urban League’s essay “Black Homeownership: A Dream No Longer Deferred” In 2003 Black spending power was rated somewhere between 631 billion to 688 billion dollars annually. So where does this poor thing come from? Tavis, thanks for making the world see us as po’ lil ol thangs! Thanks Obama for not deflecting this poor syndrome, since most of the people in the audience were far from poor.
1 Reference Government for who?
There you have it. The Democrats fronted, told you they were going to make Dubya bring “our boys” home from Iraq, then boom, they caved in and signed on to a bill without time limits on the soldiers fighting the Bush War. There seems to be a concerted effort on the part of the Democrats in Congress/Senate to deceive you into thinking they are working on your behalf. They brought forth a bill to cut funding if the troops would not be withdrawn in certain time period, that bill passed but was vetoed by Dubya. Then came all the yapping from Nancy Pelosi and crew that Dubya was President Dubya and not King Dubya. Wolf, wolf, wolf. The next bill came up without time limits and what do you know, Dubya signs. Oh yeah, lest I forget, there was a rider on the War Funding bill to increase the federal minimum wage, so when Dubya signed, he approved an increase in the federal minimum wage. Hooray, the Dems came through for the working poor!! Correction, Greg Miller, Democrat from California says “this is a great day for the middle class”, speaking about the minimum wage increase. Did I miss something here? Has there been an adjustment in the classes in the U.S.? People that make $5.15 per hour are now the middle class?
This government, this congress, this Senate in the United States is not working for its citizens. Seventy four percent of the population in the U.S. wants the military to get out of Iraq. Yet the president and congress will not act on the will of the people they were sent to congress to represent, however Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barak Obama both voted against the War Funding bill. Fifty percent of the population is ready for a change in the immigration policy in this country, yet not one person that has announced their run for the presidency and is a member of the Senate went and voted, either for or against the bill. This is an outright, and blatant disregard for the will of the people of the United States and you are being duped. These congress persons and senators are not in touch with the average citizen in this country. And the average citizen has played a part in their own demise. The average Joe will sit and rely on the “news”, the newspaper and not think for themselves. The average Joetta will say “well they have information we are not privy to.” This is utter nonsense and this MIND set has brought the people YOU run to vote for, to put into office to represent YOU has put YOU in a situation where they can have utter disregard for your will.
Elections in the Bahamas May 2, 2007-Rt Honorable Hubert Ingraham and the FNM Elected!
What will occur in Bahamas? Will there be a change to serve the people? The current PM is Mr. Perry Christie of the Progressive Liberal Party-PLP his opponent is Mr. Hubert Ingrham of the Free National Movement-FNM Party. Lets see how they do Black people in their country. It always seems to me that during elections the major parties in a country seem to be able to turn the heads of the electorate to issues that are really not important to the daily lives of the common citizen. For instance, the PLP is using a slogan "No turning back....Continue the progress". I often tune in to Real Talk with Jeff Lloyd a radio talk program on More 94 FM, based in Nassau Bahamas. Many of the constituants in the Bahamas are seeing this as a way the PLP is pulling the "race card". Apparently the "no turning back..." is an inference to a time when the 90 percent Black population was ruled by a 10 percent white minority. Of course the PLP are denying this as a racial ploy, and saying it only means they are wanting to be the party that will continue the "good" work they have done over the last five years. Many Bahamaians are complaining that the race card is a low blow. However, this seems to me that in a country where the population is 90 percent Black anyone should be able to see this cannot be a race issue, hey but what do I know? As with most elections these days what is important is down played and the absurd is the talk of the day. What should be the talk of the people and the candidates is the proposed change in the monetary and banking system of the Bahamas. But no, its illegal immigration of Haitians, abortion, same sex marriage and cronyism. One thing is clear, both candidates, the incumbent Perry Christie and the challenger Hubert Ingraham are millionares and most of the people voting are not! We will see just what happens and what really changes for the common citizen.
Obama's life threatend-Hip Hop Lesson on Ensayn Radio!
HomeLand Security and the Secret Service have confirmed threats to Senator Barak Obama's life...Details later.
Check out the Ensayn Asylum tonight for my spin on the change from intellectual consious lyrics to nonsense messages from 7-10pm Eastern Time!
The Original Americans are Black
Sechem Metacomet
…Old Mexican traditions say that the name of the city is Teotihuacan. That name probably refers back to the most ancient era of Egypt. It was at Heliopolis that an Egyptian deity called Tehuti, was believed to maintain the records of the kings and the history of the nation. According to the Egyptian hieroglyphics, tehuti also judges the souls of the dead at the burial city of Heliopolis. The Mexican name, Teoti-huacan remembers that this was Tehuti’s city…
Horace Butler author of When Rocks Cry Out
When the Ancient people of Kemet (Egypt) reached the shores of Amexem (America) they saw a mirror reflecting themselves. Unfortunately too many Black people living in what is called the Diaspora cannot conceive of Black people living in the Americas before Columbus. When this science is dropped the mind goes numb, they often respond with “Black folk wanna be er’thang but Black.” The fact is that Black people covered the Earth from North to South from East to West. It is white supremacy (this is a misnomer as well but we shall deal with it at another time) speaking via the Black mouth and the black brain moving the Black mouth believes unconsciously that white supremacy is truly all supreme. What I hear when the “slave” minded Black person says these things is “massa is powerful strong, he carried us way cross de ocean in his powerful strong ships and dats how we made it to ‘merica.” I refer to them as the “slave” mind Black person because this person has not come to the real-Eye-zation that the Black woman is Goddes, and gave birth wherever she went. The “slave” doesn’t know that Black people did not just sit in Africa (a word to deal with later) waiting for the European to come and buy him to transport him to the Americas. The “slave” cannot comprehend that she has been coming to the Americas, the South Pacific, Europe, Asia and raising up civilization for HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS!!!! One that remains in the mind that a white man brought him or her to the rest of the world will remain in a state of slavery and cannot progress until she can change her mind.
When you believe you were a slave brought to the Americas, then one will remain in the state of slavery. Overstand that a slave is one who has no history other than the one the slave master has given them. Ninety five percent of the Black people making up the Americas are the aboriginals of these lands and thus we were “subjugated” and forced into slavery. Know then that one who is subjugated was reigning in their land and were overtaken in war, subjugated. This leaves you with a since of history, one you created and not one handed down to you. To believe you were brought to the Americas on a slave ship is a history your slave master continues to tell you, and you keep buying it. Even to the point that you become insulting when rebutting your true herstory.
The above photo is an Anglicized depiction of Sechem Metacomet made to appear to look like a light skinned Black man with European features. In fact Sechem Metacomet was an Amexem Moor, an aboriginal of the Americas formally called Amexem. The word Sechem is the basis for the word senator. One who rules purely by the will of the people. Metacomet represented the Wampanoag people and fought against the Pilgrims beginning in 1675. He was finally killed by the English in August 1676, his wife and son were captured and sold into slavery (subjugated) to the Caribbean island of Burmuda.
The other continued lie the former slave master teaches and you most often accept it and repeat is that the "Indian was not as strong as the African, so they died." This is also a falsehood. When you examine your herstory closely you will find the so called indian is the Black person next to you and around you including yourself. We were not exterminated, most of us were shipped first to Spain, then the Canary Islands and then to West Africa. Later the offspring of these very same people were brought back to the Americas. Eventually, the expense and insurance for traveling back and forth to Africa was too great and most slave trading was done between the American mainland and the Caribbean islands.
Find your true Herstory and stop repeating His-story!
Read; The Only Land They Knew, (Chapt 11)
They Came Before Columbus
Black Indians
Africans and Native Americans
Find on the Internet;
Hunting Native Americans in Barbados
The Binay Tribe
Stewart Synopsis.com
Diane Abbott celebrates 20 years as the first elected Black female MP in Britain!
Diane Abbott MP since June 11, 1987
Diane Abbott was the first Black female Member of Parliament ever elected in Britain on June 11th, 1987. As MP Abbott celebrates her 20 years in Parliament she is still one of only two Black women in the British Parliament out of 646 members. While making a guest appearance on Reverend Jesse Jackson’s radio program Keep Hope Alive, heard on Sunday mornings in the U.S., MP, Abbott said “Black people make up ten percent of the British population and could be a considerable force if only Black people in Britain understood their power at the ballot.”
Tai Chi-Moving like water...The Supreme Ultimate
Yang Chengfu playing Single Whip.
Let us satisfy the mind to please the body. The body follows the mind. I was checking The Freeslave writing on The Inside Out and what kind of internal work we need to do. I am a serious practioner of Tai Chi as it perscribes that we work internally on ourselves, spiraling in on ourselves. In this we will be able to learn the method of overcoming hurdles that may hinder us. How can the ill heal the ill? Often we jump at attempting to heal our people, then the world. Will we not be back in the same condition if we do not take steps to heal ourselves? Does not healing begin with proper eating? Proper drinking? Proper thought? Please read Voices of Our Ancestors by Dyani Ywahoo.
Stop BET'S Hot Ghetto Mess, Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Black Bloggers and Civil Rights Groups Unite to Topple BET’s “Hot Ghetto Mess”
Austin, TX -July 19, 2007 - If Viacom’s Black Entertainment Television goes through with it’s plans to air ” Hot Ghetto Mess” next week, many people will be watching, but not for the reason BET wants. Realizing that mere online advocacy was not going to be enough to topple “Hot Ghetto Mess” after she’d gotten advertisers to flee the show, Gina McCauley, creator of the blog What About Our Daughters? turned to a coalition of religious and women’s groups including the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the National Coalition for Black Civic Participation, National Organization for Women, Rainbow PUSH, and the National Congress of Black Women.
The result is what may very well be the largest intergenerational collaboration between young online activists and their older offline counterparts in United States history. Their focus; to convince advertisers that buying ad time on BET’s “Hot Ghetto Mess” just isn’t worth it, despite the high ratings that the show is likely to bring if it airs.
On July 25, 2007, “Hot Ghetto Mess” watch parties are being scheduled in Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York, Austin, the District of Columbia and the list of locations keeps growing. Those attending the watch parties will be recording which companies purchase advertisements during the show. The coalition then plans to target those businesses with possible boycotts or demonstrations.
” The message we want to send to advertisers is that “Hot Ghetto Mess” is radioactive. They don’t want to come within one mile of it.” McCauley said.
Transitioning from being a one-woman blog to working with long-established organizations has not been easy. “There’s a reason why the only organization I belong to is AAA( the roadside assistance company).” In fact McCauley’s dialogue with these groups began after she wrote a post on her blog criticizing their methods.
“I’m not going to lie and say I haven’t been impatient with the pace of their response,” said McCauley. “As a blogger I move at warp speed. I can respond instantaneously with one click. I don’t have to have a committee debate what I am going to release to the world.” While initially disappointed with the pace of the response to her request for assistance, her patience is finally beginning to pay off.
“Yes, to me, they move at glacial speed.” McCauley says of the organizations she’s been working with “BUT, when they move- THEY MOVE!”. Currently that glacier is aimed straight at Black Entertainment Television and Viacom.
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Contact: Gina McCauley, creator of the blog, What About Our Daughters
http://whataboutourdaughters.blogspo...gspot.com/
e-mail:WAODmedia@gmail.com (interview requests)
e-mail:WhatAboutOurDaughters@gmail.com
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Gina
What About Our Daughters
“Combating negative portrayals of African American women in popular culture.”
whataboutourdaughters.blogspot.com
I'm Feeling: Pretty Good!
Posted on Friday, July 20, 2007 at 08:52AM by 
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Mychal Bell may be released!!!
Rev. Al Sharpton just reported from Jena, LA that the Judge in the Mychal Bell case has set bond at $45,000. Rev. Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III are in Jena, LA at this time awaiting word to post the bail for Mr. Bell. This comes on the heels of a 1PM Est press conference by Jena, LA District Attorney Reed Walters, stating that if bond were to be set it be up to the judge, who happens to be the same judge J.P. Mauffray, that sentenced Mychal Bell to 22 years later dropping the sentence to 15 years once the sentence was lowered to a juvenile offense. Walters addressed the press shortly after Governor Kathleen Blanco met with the district attorney.
Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2007 at 03:28PM by [Victor Amenta] | 
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TAGGED!!
I have been tagged by the Beautiful one Aulelia of the Charcoal Link blog and my man Asabagna of the Second Book of Asabagna to tell you eight things about myself.
1) I am a food fanatic for real. I watch food shows, create recipes and hit every nations restaurant in my area be it New Orleans, Liberian, Jamaican, Haitian, Greek, Memphis Style Bar-b-que, Nigerian, Soul food, Lebanese, Trinidadian, Indian, Mexican, Armenian, Dominican, Sushi.....I better stop here..LOL
2) I have a great desire to live in Puerto Rico...I can't explain why.
3) I am an original Southern Californian (Sureño), now living in the Greater Atlanta Metro area. My 10th year this month!
4) I am a bookstore fan.
5) Some of my favorite books; Revolutionary Suicide, The Autobiograpy of Malcolm X, The Great Cosmic Mother, The Unseen Hand and I am Third by Gale Sayers
6) I must visit Egypt and the Ancient Egyptian monuments at Luxor.
7) Reggae music is my all time favorite music, but I believe Blues is the mother of all modern music today including Reggae and I love them all. "Life without music, I can't go oh no...." from Steel Pulse's Roller Skates.
8) Some favorite films; Life and Debt in Jamaica, Apacalypse Now, The God Father parts I & II, Saving Private Ryan, Malcolm X, Enter the Dragon, Sankofa, Maria Full of Grace...
Now I understand I must tag eight others...But it appears most have been tagged by now....I'm out!
Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 at 04:01PM by [Victor Amenta] | 4 Comments
Mind storm; The misunderstanding of fear
Photo courtesy of NASA
Elo; Fear is the major impediment for Black people in the world. It is the power of the mind that will change the living conditions of our people. We battle conditions that surround us, many of which emanate from our own minds. We are no longer being killed by outside destructive forces that have haunted us in the past, but the destructive thoughts rooted in fear. Fear is tie that is binding the minds of Black people.
Elo; Fear is a hurdle in the mind that retards growth in our lives. Most often fear manifests itself in the forms of jealousy, envy hate and down right procrastination. I have had a couple experiences lately that have motivated me to write on this point. There is a brotha that I commute to work with on the rapid transit here in the ATL, and we often get into conversation. During our daily movement I have learned that he has a talent he shares in church for people that are hard of hearing. On one occasion he was invited to present a workshop to the 100 Black Men of Atlanta on the skill he has honed. He was advised he would need to write a proposal to be presented by the person that was the contact for the organization. I asked if he had ever written a proposal and he acknowledged he had not. I told him of several websites that would assist him and a couple books as well. Right then, I mean right at that point he began to use words of doubt in the conversation…”I don’t know if I can do this”, “maybe I am not ready yet.” The workshop he was to put on never happened, yet he says in his parting words daily “have a blessed day.” He allowed fear to deter his blessing he prays for daily. I never used to be able to comprehend the fear of success until recently.
Elo; The fear of not having enough, (let me say at this juncture that white supremacy has perpetuated this fear to a frenzied level), has driven into the hearts and minds of our youth that “getting money” will solve all their problems in life. The fear of not having enough, a negative fire fanned by white supremacy has created a youth society of over sexualized, inferiorized children. So you see young boys as young as age 13 are kicking in doors committing home invasions with the intent of getting money with the intent of filling a void however temporary the “getting money” tranquilizer will numb them until they commit the next crime until they are in jail, prison or dead.
Elo; These fears, rarely appear in a form of fear but in the forms or anger, malice and self destructive behavior. But, it is the mind that needs to be clarified. We are facing a time that is dissolving the course of individuated mind. We are facing a time of homogenous processing of mind. As we move forward into this time we have to make a commitment to study of the great works of our Ancestors. We have to create ways to gain overstanding that it is our minds that will create our next realm of living. Most of us know right from wrong. Choose to exercise your rights, Right Understanding, Right Thought, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right MINDFULNESS, Right Concentration.
This is the Eight Fold Path.
Elo
Posted on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 04:37PM by [Victor Amenta] | Post a Comment
Cecile Fatiman-Ezili Danto
August 14, 1791. On a hilltop in Bwa Kaiymon our people gathered for service and to take an oath until death. The most powerful person presiding over the ceremony was Cecile Fatiman. A Beautiful Black woman with long flowing Black hair and green eyes sets the tone and conducts the tempo of the service, music and the spirit. Many have called her a mulatto, some she she is the daughter of a Corsican Prince and an African woman. Others believe this powerful Mambo was of Arabic descent based the fact her last name is Fatima. The spirit of Mambo Fatima's head is Erzulie Dantor or Ezili Danto! Ezili Danto is a loa/lwa of the firey Petwo rite. Rev. Radine Amen Ra teaches us that Green eyes are in fact a Navtive American trait common in the Black people of Mississippi. The Petwo rite is based strongly on the Black Native Americans and was not practiced in Africa, but founded on the island of Ayiti under the pressure of slavery!
Let us not forget out Great black woman. Check Frances L. Holland for the story of Makeda with Solomon!
What we must remember!
This part of a speech given by Boukman, on Black August 22, 1791. The gathering was presided over by Haitian Priestess Mama Sesil Fatima who crowned Boukman with the powerful Petwo scepter....
"The god who created the sun which gives us light, who rouses the waves and rules the storm, though hidden in the clouds, he watches us. He sees all that the white man does. The god of the white man inspires him with crime, but our god calls upon us to do good works. Our god who is good to us orders us to revenge our wrongs. He will direct our arms and aid us. Throw away the symbol of the god of the whites who has so often caused us to weep, and listen to the voice of liberty, which speaks in the hearts of us all."
Kanga Mundele!
Posted on Friday, April 27, 2007 at 04:18PM by [Victor Amenta] | Post a Comment
Ayiti
The Orphanage and School at Grison-Garde, Haiti
These are the simple statistics of the Haitian children:
About 70% of the Haitian people are children (3)
23% of the children under five are suffering malnutrition (5)
10% children will die before the age of 4 (6)
70% of the population lives below poverty level (7)
50% of the Haitian population is illiterate (8)
Only 54% of children are in school(9)
300,000 children in Haiti are abandoned or enslaved (10)
10% of children is a restavk (house-slave) (11)
200,000 children are orphaned by AIDS each year (12)
1.2 million children are infected with HIV or dying of AIDS right now(13)
These figures are horrifying but very real. The poverty-stricken country has been desolate; high population and political instability leads to underinvestment and poor quality of the expenditures of time, money and consideration. The children get the brunt.
Slavery
Many parents cannot take of care their children or the children are living out on the street already street children. They are sent to be a restavk (house servant) in a more comfortable house. In principle, life should be much easier: a clean place to live, schooling, food and health care in exchange
for domestic services.
In actuality, most restavks are little more than slaves.
The correct fight!
Public Enemy in concert 2006
Change the *hit right now!! Please believe there is enough good hip hop on market today to make the change. How many of you really listen to hip hop? Do you really? Did you buy the latest Public Enemy cd? Did you buy the latest Krs One cd? How about the latest Lord Jamar disc? Is Talib Kweli in your collection? Is Amen Ra in your cd pile? If not, why not? Why don’t we take this to the correct level? Yes Imus and his ilk MUST be attacked! We are fools to argue over who & how the attack comes against racist. We are at war, and wars take on several fronts and the correct weaponry must be brought to the forefront for that particular battle front. I am not a lover of any of the Revs, however I know they have a place in the battle and should not be brushed aside. The battle front of marching, chanting and tel-lie-vision spin is their arena, not mine or many of us. Each of us has a duty in this war for the minds of our people.
At this juncture, let those of us that are hip hop lovers begin, first of all by BUYING, yes spending money, for the cd’s of rappers like Hi Tek, Ras Kass and Rags. Next we will begin to write the Black own radio outlets like Radio One to petition them to play Krs One and Public Enemy, Lord Jamar and the like. I am certain that once this rap is played constantly in the rotation Black/brown kids will begin to request this music and it will be purchased at a higher rate, thus creating a market for the music. I am not without mind to know that about 80% of rap is purchased by whites, however, with better lyrics being played in constant radio rotation more Black and brown parents will purchase this music.
Next, we have to re-educate the rappers. Today’s superstar rappers are not making music for Black people. As I said before about 80% of rap is purchased by whites who believe the stereotype of the big strong buck or the magical negro. These rappers that are on heavy rotation today are feeding this stereotype via the lyrics in the songs, the white record execs see the monetary success and push these nonsense messages. This is why we Black people are appalled at the lyrics because we are NOT these songs and lyrics. And many of us know that they are feeding white mind.
In essence we need to support the conscious MC’s, buying their product, petitioning radio stations to play their music rather than beating down the nonsense rappers. These nonsense rappers are "children of production" as George Clinton of Parliament/Funkadelic coined it. They are responding to a call from the market for the garbage, once the garbage makes no money the switch will made on the on the record company level.
Get these artist;
Talib Kweli
Lord Jamar
Rags
Public Enemy
Krs One
Ras Kass
The Suns of Light
Mos Def
Rahzel
On the dancehall level
Sizzla
Chuck Fenda
Richie Spice
Capleton
Alaine
Natural Black
Fanton Mojah
Buju Banton
I Wayne
Police Killings continue in the Atlanta Metro Area
Outside the Frozen Palace night club.
Ron Pettaway III was killed by police on the early morning of April 15, 2007. His brother Roy Pettaway, was shot in the stomach by officers on the same morning.
From witnesses that were at the club, this is what occured. Ron Pettaway remarked to another club goer that he looked like Lil Wayne of the Cash Money rap team. In response the man said he was not Lil Wayne and that he was from Brooklyn and didn't like the comment. Mr. Pettaway responded that he meant no insult and was just expressing a thought but no insult was intended. Shortly after, a fight ensued with the man that says he was from Brooklyn and some of his friends and the two Pettaway brothers. The police were called and Ron Pettaway was escorted outside by the police. During, the escort Ron Pettaway told the policeman that arrived first on the scene that he would cooperate, however requested the policman take his hands off him. Roy Pettaway stayed inside to pay the tab and once he was outside he saw an altercation with his brother and the first policeman on the scene. By this time a female officer had arrived on the scene and was attempting to handcuff Roy Pettaway. The female officer was having a hard time handcuffing Roy Pettaway, so the male officer sprayed pepper spray in order to assist the female officer. The pepper spray caught the wind and blew into the eyes of the female officer, she fell on the ground. Ron Pettaway, while handcuffed, broke away from the male officer the officer then fired one shot to the stomach of Ron Pettaway, who then doubled over from the impact of the bullet and a second shot by the same officer hit Ron in the head. When the female officer that was on the ground, eyes shut, blinded by the pepper spray assumed her partner was being fired upon FIRED HER WEAPON WITH HER EYES CLOSED hitting Roy Pettaway in the back....
I am just taken aback by the simple fact that Black people have to fight each other over the most miniscule, insignificant things. I do not know if these officers are Black or white, however we are living in an era that people, police, and criminal find it so easy to take human life. Why? Why? Why?
Disclaimer; Much of the information is unconfirmed, as the police REFUSED to take eye witness reports after the shooting.
Race......
St. Maurice patron saint of GermanyRace. There was a time when race was not an important issue. Your nation of origin was the determining factor as to whether people accepted you or you were discriminated against to any degree. By the late 1880’s there was a concerted effort put on by the European to belittle Black people simply because he KNEW how of the great works of the Black people of the Nile Valley, in Kemet, Meroe, Axum , Punt and Azania. The European had studied the plagiarized works of Pythagoras, Aristotle, Anaximander, Plato and the rest. In fact Herodotus tells us where their base of knowledge comes from. Here in the United States race is primarily a color issue and not African vs European as it appears at first look. We Black people know of instances of Blacks “passing”, yes passing themselves off as white in this society. I have often asked myself how could this be, if it were a matter of race and not color. However, there is no excuse for the outright downpression of one group over another, and the destruction continues. In our minds and bodies is where the revolution must begin. It is a matter of belief and knowing that will create a ground swell of change. We first must dispel the notions that all white people were free during the era of slavery and that all black people were slaves. This is the first thing that must be dealt with. Ask yourself how a Black man (John Hanson) could be the President of the United States under the Articles of Confederation, just prior to George Washington. Next we need to know that the basis for the constitution was created by Black people. The Constitution is based on the Haudenosaunee (The Caucus of Peace and Power) which was given to our people in month Black August 31, 1142. And Gayanashagowa ( The Great Law of Peace) which the whites call a “constitution.” Thus the fetters of slavery will begin to loosen and fall….We have to begin and know we are the people of the Earth and not of a continent. We cover and span the whole creation, thus we need to drop the misnomer African (a word created by and for the European). America is a word created by the European and the word itself is speaking of Black people, yet again we deminish our overall expanse limiting ourselves to one continent. Lets really learn who we are. We have created Great Great works from the lessons on the pyramids to the civiliaztions in the South Pacific.The Meaning of the Five Percent
Mama Cassiopia
The poor have been made into slave by those who teach lies, they don’t teach the law of cause and effect. They make the people believe when they see it rain that a spook is producing it. But, the rain is real. How then can the cause be unreal? We are witnessing conditions in the world that are caused by real men, yet you don’t see the real cause of the effect of your own suffering. Because, the bloodsuckers of the poor make you think God is some mystery God. Well the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said to us there is 5 percent who are the Poor Righteous Teachers, who don’t believe the teaching of lies of the 10 percent. But, this 5 percent are all wise and know who the true and living God is and they teach that the true and living God is the Supreme Being, The Son of Man; The Black man of Asia. They’re also known as Muslims and Muslim’s sons. Here is a small percentage of people who know God and when they know God they have a duty. And the duty is to teach what you know to those who do not know. And then, those of us who are in pursuit of that duty have the 10 percent, the rich, the bloodsuckers of the poor, the slave makers of the poor, they hate the 5 percent they have control over the minds of the masses and they turn the 85 percent against the 5 percent by teaching lies about a righteous teacher. So they can persecute the 5 percent, not helped by the 85 percent……
President Obama?
Senator Barak Obama
Now we reach a new day, Barak Obama for president. Senator Obama has shown himself to be a viable candidate, contending with the front runner Senator Hillary Clinton. $25 million dollars have been raised by the Barak campaign, and as we know it is not always what you say but what you have in your "war chest" that will make what you say stick and become something real in the minds of the electorate.
Many Black people and people of every race see Senator Obama as a candidate that is not of the Washington "establishment" as Senator Clinton is being viewed. In fact, Senator Obama is projecting himself as not being part of the "old guard." Yet, I have yet to see anyone accept the rights of the Office of the President and not be transformed into the faction of the old standard of Washington. I contend it is not possible at this point in United States history to be outside of the circle of the establishment and get ANYTHING accomplished. To believe that a new day will dawn because a mouth says it is not one of the Washington establishment is to believe in Santa Claus. There are forces at work that have nothing to do with who votes, or how many vote, but, how the country will move in an economic way to their financial advantage.
We Black people that live in the United States, have got to consider what the Office of the President represents to the world. We have to consider that we have had, since the 1960's Black Mayors, Black Congresspersons, Black Govenors (from time to time), Black Senators (from time to time), and yet we are still singing the same ole song! The few elected individuals that have stood up for the common citizen has been thurst out of office and in some cases mysteriously died (remember Harold Washington, mayor of Chicago?) Sure we need a comprehensive health care plan that will benefit all persons residing in the U.S., sure we need grass roots efforts to help the plight of Black people in this country. But, we have politicians in office RIGHT NOW, that can do something about this. AND YET WE SING THE SAME SONG! Can Mr. Obama really change this??
The Orphanage and School at Grison-Garde, Haiti
These are the simple statistics of the Haitian children:
About 70% of the Haitian people are children (3)
23% of the children under five are suffering malnutrition (5)
10% children will die before the age of 4 (6)
70% of the population lives below poverty level (7)
50% of the Haitian population is illiterate (8)
Only 54% of children are in school(9)
300,000 children in Haiti are abandoned or enslaved (10)
10% of children is a restavk (house-slave) (11)
200,000 children are orphaned by AIDS each year (12)
1.2 million children are infected with HIV or dying of AIDS right now(13)
These figures are horrifying but very real. The poverty-stricken country has been desolate; high population and political instability leads to underinvestment and poor quality of the expenditures of time, money and consideration. The children get the brunt.
Slavery
Many parents cannot take of care their children or the children are living out on the street already street children. They are sent to be a restavk (house servant) in a more comfortable house. In principle, life should be much easier: a clean place to live, schooling, food and health care in exchange
for domestic services.
In actuality, most restavks are little more than slaves.
Public Enemy in concert 2006
Change the *hit right now!! Please believe there is enough good hip hop on market today to make the change. How many of you really listen to hip hop? Do you really? Did you buy the latest Public Enemy cd? Did you buy the latest Krs One cd? How about the latest Lord Jamar disc? Is Talib Kweli in your collection? Is Amen Ra in your cd pile? If not, why not? Why don’t we take this to the correct level? Yes Imus and his ilk MUST be attacked! We are fools to argue over who & how the attack comes against racist. We are at war, and wars take on several fronts and the correct weaponry must be brought to the forefront for that particular battle front. I am not a lover of any of the Revs, however I know they have a place in the battle and should not be brushed aside. The battle front of marching, chanting and tel-lie-vision spin is their arena, not mine or many of us. Each of us has a duty in this war for the minds of our people.
At this juncture, let those of us that are hip hop lovers begin, first of all by BUYING, yes spending money, for the cd’s of rappers like Hi Tek, Ras Kass and Rags. Next we will begin to write the Black own radio outlets like Radio One to petition them to play Krs One and Public Enemy, Lord Jamar and the like. I am certain that once this rap is played constantly in the rotation Black/brown kids will begin to request this music and it will be purchased at a higher rate, thus creating a market for the music. I am not without mind to know that about 80% of rap is purchased by whites, however, with better lyrics being played in constant radio rotation more Black and brown parents will purchase this music.
Next, we have to re-educate the rappers. Today’s superstar rappers are not making music for Black people. As I said before about 80% of rap is purchased by whites who believe the stereotype of the big strong buck or the magical negro. These rappers that are on heavy rotation today are feeding this stereotype via the lyrics in the songs, the white record execs see the monetary success and push these nonsense messages. This is why we Black people are appalled at the lyrics because we are NOT these songs and lyrics. And many of us know that they are feeding white mind.
In essence we need to support the conscious MC’s, buying their product, petitioning radio stations to play their music rather than beating down the nonsense rappers. These nonsense rappers are "children of production" as George Clinton of Parliament/Funkadelic coined it. They are responding to a call from the market for the garbage, once the garbage makes no money the switch will made on the on the record company level.
Get these artist;
Talib Kweli
Lord Jamar
Rags
Public Enemy
Krs One
Ras Kass
The Suns of Light
Mos Def
Rahzel
On the dancehall level
Sizzla
Chuck Fenda
Richie Spice
Capleton
Alaine
Natural Black
Fanton Mojah
Buju Banton
I Wayne
Outside the Frozen Palace night club.
Ron Pettaway III was killed by police on the early morning of April 15, 2007. His brother Roy Pettaway, was shot in the stomach by officers on the same morning.
From witnesses that were at the club, this is what occured. Ron Pettaway remarked to another club goer that he looked like Lil Wayne of the Cash Money rap team. In response the man said he was not Lil Wayne and that he was from Brooklyn and didn't like the comment. Mr. Pettaway responded that he meant no insult and was just expressing a thought but no insult was intended. Shortly after, a fight ensued with the man that says he was from Brooklyn and some of his friends and the two Pettaway brothers. The police were called and Ron Pettaway was escorted outside by the police. During, the escort Ron Pettaway told the policeman that arrived first on the scene that he would cooperate, however requested the policman take his hands off him. Roy Pettaway stayed inside to pay the tab and once he was outside he saw an altercation with his brother and the first policeman on the scene. By this time a female officer had arrived on the scene and was attempting to handcuff Roy Pettaway. The female officer was having a hard time handcuffing Roy Pettaway, so the male officer sprayed pepper spray in order to assist the female officer. The pepper spray caught the wind and blew into the eyes of the female officer, she fell on the ground. Ron Pettaway, while handcuffed, broke away from the male officer the officer then fired one shot to the stomach of Ron Pettaway, who then doubled over from the impact of the bullet and a second shot by the same officer hit Ron in the head. When the female officer that was on the ground, eyes shut, blinded by the pepper spray assumed her partner was being fired upon FIRED HER WEAPON WITH HER EYES CLOSED hitting Roy Pettaway in the back....
I am just taken aback by the simple fact that Black people have to fight each other over the most miniscule, insignificant things. I do not know if these officers are Black or white, however we are living in an era that people, police, and criminal find it so easy to take human life. Why? Why? Why?
Disclaimer; Much of the information is unconfirmed, as the police REFUSED to take eye witness reports after the shooting.
Mama Cassiopia
The poor have been made into slave by those who teach lies, they don’t teach the law of cause and effect. They make the people believe when they see it rain that a spook is producing it. But, the rain is real. How then can the cause be unreal? We are witnessing conditions in the world that are caused by real men, yet you don’t see the real cause of the effect of your own suffering. Because, the bloodsuckers of the poor make you think God is some mystery God. Well the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said to us there is 5 percent who are the Poor Righteous Teachers, who don’t believe the teaching of lies of the 10 percent. But, this 5 percent are all wise and know who the true and living God is and they teach that the true and living God is the Supreme Being, The Son of Man; The Black man of Asia. They’re also known as Muslims and Muslim’s sons. Here is a small percentage of people who know God and when they know God they have a duty. And the duty is to teach what you know to those who do not know. And then, those of us who are in pursuit of that duty have the 10 percent, the rich, the bloodsuckers of the poor, the slave makers of the poor, they hate the 5 percent they have control over the minds of the masses and they turn the 85 percent against the 5 percent by teaching lies about a righteous teacher. So they can persecute the 5 percent, not helped by the 85 percent……
Senator Barak Obama
Now we reach a new day, Barak Obama for president. Senator Obama has shown himself to be a viable candidate, contending with the front runner Senator Hillary Clinton. $25 million dollars have been raised by the Barak campaign, and as we know it is not always what you say but what you have in your "war chest" that will make what you say stick and become something real in the minds of the electorate.
Many Black people and people of every race see Senator Obama as a candidate that is not of the Washington "establishment" as Senator Clinton is being viewed. In fact, Senator Obama is projecting himself as not being part of the "old guard." Yet, I have yet to see anyone accept the rights of the Office of the President and not be transformed into the faction of the old standard of Washington. I contend it is not possible at this point in United States history to be outside of the circle of the establishment and get ANYTHING accomplished. To believe that a new day will dawn because a mouth says it is not one of the Washington establishment is to believe in Santa Claus. There are forces at work that have nothing to do with who votes, or how many vote, but, how the country will move in an economic way to their financial advantage.
We Black people that live in the United States, have got to consider what the Office of the President represents to the world. We have to consider that we have had, since the 1960's Black Mayors, Black Congresspersons, Black Govenors (from time to time), Black Senators (from time to time), and yet we are still singing the same ole song! The few elected individuals that have stood up for the common citizen has been thurst out of office and in some cases mysteriously died (remember Harold Washington, mayor of Chicago?) Sure we need a comprehensive health care plan that will benefit all persons residing in the U.S., sure we need grass roots efforts to help the plight of Black people in this country. But, we have politicians in office RIGHT NOW, that can do something about this. AND YET WE SING THE SAME SONG! Can Mr. Obama really change this??
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Thirty nine years ago today a messiah was taken from the world. I remember our telephone ringing and I heard my mother say "hey daddy" and I felt elated, cause it was grand daddy calling from Memphis. Then the expression on my mother's face changed, changed to shock and sorrow. She dropped the phone, turned to my father and said "Mac turn on the news, they just assinated Dr. King." All the while I was sitting there stunned not fully understanding the gravity of what was coming from my mother's mouth. My father promptly turned on the television, but no news as yet. We were in San Diego, CA and there was no CNN at that time. My mother began to cry, feeling hurt as if she had lost a family member. I guess she felt this way was since she had worked for the NAACP branch in Memphis and had the honor of meeting Dr. King on occasion. Of course, I as a child could feel her sorrow and thought I should feel pain as well. Finally, after about an hour the news carried the story of the assination of the King! My grandparents, called back and told the family that Memphis was now going up in flames downtown was being burned.
So here we are today, Black, proud and strong! Unfortunately, we are dealing with many of the same issues that Dr. King fought so vigorously against. And yet racism has flourished, has become a pestilance of the mind. We have allowed ourselves to be manipulated into believing that freedom comes via the possesion of "things" that currency (what many of you call money) will give you liberation. We have allowed ourselves to buy into the idea that college education alone will set you free, and yet many of us have attained these things and our people fall deeper into the quagmire of selfish ignorance. There are lights of hope all around us and I believe the AfroSpear will be a powerful force to recon with as blogging gains more importance, as blogging is gaining more influence via this medium, the internet. We are our own hope. The last light of the leaders of the "old" procession is flickering out as we begin to emerge as the "new" procession of fire that will light the way to self resurrection.
CHECK THIS OUT!!! Shaquanda Cotton Released 3/30/07
I Just saw this on the Field Negro blog...EVERYONE PLEASE CHECK THIS STORY AND SCREAM!!! YELL!!! Please Link to Field Negro blog and link to Shaquaneda's Blog!!! You can link to her blog from here as well!!!
You can link to the full story in the Chicago Tribune...See SITES MAY BE INTERESTED IN.
Ms. Cotton was released on March 30, 2007 after one year in prison. See full story ON BlPosted on Saturday, March 31, 2007 at 11:52AM by [Victor Amenta] | 1 Comment ack America Web under SITES YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN!
Shackles on your mind.
Enslaved Blacks to be sold.
The chains have been removed for many many years now. But, as the old cliche has it, your mind is now chained. Here are some things that keep you in the mind of a slave. They may be offensive to many of you, however you need to be slapped sometimes to take you out of your mental stupor. Many of us are the "walking dead." Many of us are the "resurrectors" of the dead.
Children! Stop telling your peers that if they speak the language properly, if they use words that you don't know they are acting "white." This is bondage. Whites do not have a monopoly on the proper usage of language. Never have and never will.
Women, stop only reading romance novels. Men, stop reading only the sports page. These are fine once in a while. However, we are in such a state that we need to build. We need information on right investing, right saving, right budgeting, right understanding of past events (history), right understanding of the world today, right understanding of the music being played to our childern, right understanding of yourself. Read books by Kamau Atem, Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, George G. M. James, Assata Shakur just to name a few. READ THE DICTIONARY! Yes I said read the dictionary, we must expand our vacabulary! Read Robert Wilson's Unlocking Wealth, Women's Dictionary of Symbols. Expand your mind and your world.
We must stop destroying our health. I hear you saying you eat pork "cuz masta ate da good parts and lef us da chittlins" or "pork is a survival food left over from slavery." This is utter non-sense! The plantation owners rarely gave their slave anything!! They had to raise their own food. But let me ask you; Are you a slave? Are you surviving? If you answer no, you should stop acting on the false stories you carry. Learn to eat properly, and most of all EXERCISE!!!
Rapper, MC's, Singers, radio Program Directors, you DO have a responsibility to your listners. Today's youngsters do not listen to music just to feel good, just to get a confirmation of certain beliefs or concerns that may be happening in the world today as people did 30 to forty years ago. The Funk musical group Parliament/Funkadelic dressed in such a way while on stage that it could only be worn on stage as a costume and there were no videos to ehnance the song. Today, not only is the dress replicated by the youth, but the life style is attempted. The youth today listen to music beliving that what they hear is real. You should not sing about the glory of the "trap/drug dealer" lifestyle without rapping/singing about the consequences for those actions. However, if you do rap about that lifestyle, you should at least rap about the consequences of the person that bought your poison. In fact many of you NEVER lived that life, but you glorify it. You lie and say you are only rapping/singing about the things you saw in your neighborhood. You never saw anyone going to work everyday? You never saw anyone in your neighborhood doing anything but drug dealing, prostituting and drug using? The world is watching us! If you are not a thug, gangster, drug dealer, stripper, prostitute, then stop dressing like one. The world is watching us. The world is watching us.
Posted on Friday, March 30, 2007 at 08:55AM by [Victor Amenta] | 2 Comments
Are the Caribbean Islands truely independent?
In March 2004 Operation Kingfish invaded the Island nation of Jamaica. This is discribed as an "intelligence" gathering operation utilizing resources from the United States (Drug Enforcements Agents), the United Kingdom (Mi6) and the Jamaican police and military to root out drugs being exported from the little island. Somehow with all this "intelligence" cocaine is getting more and more common in Jamaica...Hummm!!!
December 2006, 20 Bahamian citizens were detained by the United States government in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. At this time there are 5 Bahamian citizens arrested for conspiring and trafficking drugs into the United States. The Honorable Cynthia Pratt, Deputy Prime Minister of National Security for the Bahamas has not issued a statement to date, suggesting the government has no knowledge of the investigation. So let me get an understanding. The United States sets up a program for the training of baggage handlers employed by Nassau Flight Services to take place outside of their nation and the government doesn't know anything about this?? To this date the Bahamian government says it has no knowledge of the operation (yeah right) and for some reason the people that are allegedly conspiring to send drugs to the U.S. all happen to be assigned to take this training class in Florida. They were promptly arrested at the gate and are being held in a Florida jail.
So you tell me, that this independent nation of the Bahamas doesn't know about an operation being conducted by another nation is going on? Then the suspects are coerced into coming to the nation investigating them, arrest them and their goverment doesn't know about this? Okay, maybe I'm too skeptical to fall for this. But, the way the world is today, it seems to me the Bahamian government may have been told to shut the **ck up and play dumb while this is going on if they "know whats good for them" see Iraq!!! Thats what it seems to me.
Well I say don't delude yourselves and scream independent and you have to bow down and play blind. If you were truley independent you would be screaming bloody murder to the United Nations and to the World Court, The Hague or somewhere. Yet instead you hush up and pretend you don't know whats going on. I guess when the bully barks you better jump! You should truely overstand your surroundings and how things are working. I am a U.S. citizen and I can see the United States running with a hanky when mama Britain sneezes! I can see all the British people coming and appearing on U.S. television shows. I mean top rated shows. For instance, American Idol and House. Of course American Idol is a revamped version of the British program Pop Idol. I can see who the U.S. loves and bows down to. So, all my Caribbean family needs to see who they have to run and get a hanky for when the Bush sneezes!!!
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Are the Caribbean Islands truely independent?
In March 2004 Operation Kingfish invaded the Island nation of Jamaica. This is discribed as an "intelligence" gathering operation utilizing resources from the United States (Drug Enforcements Agents), the United Kingdom (Mi6) and the Jamaican police and military to root out drugs being exported from the little island. Somehow with all this "intelligence" cocaine is getting more and more common in Jamaica...Hummm!!!
December 2006, 20 Bahamian citizens were detained by the United States government in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. At this time there are 5 Bahamian citizens arrested for conspiring and trafficking drugs into the United States. The Honorable Cynthia Pratt, Deputy Prime Minister of National Security for the Bahamas has not issued a statement to date, suggesting the government has no knowledge of the investigation. So let me get an understanding. The United States sets up a program for the training of baggage handlers employed by Nassau Flight Services to take place outside of their nation and the government doesn't know anything about this?? To this date the Bahamian government says it has no knowledge of the operation (yeah right) and for some reason the people that are allegedly conspiring to send drugs to the U.S. all happen to be assigned to take this training class in Florida. They were promptly arrested at the gate and are being held in a Florida jail.
So you tell me, that this independent nation of the Bahamas doesn't know about an operation being conducted by another nation is going on? Then the suspects are coerced into coming to the nation investigating them, arrest them and their goverment doesn't know about this? Okay, maybe I'm too skeptical to fall for this. But, the way the world is today, it seems to me the Bahamian government may have been told to shut the **ck up and play dumb while this is going on if they "know whats good for them" see Iraq!!! Thats what it seems to me.
Well I say don't delude yourselves and scream independent and you have to bow down and play blind. If you were truley independent you would be screaming bloody murder to the United Nations and to the World Court, The Hague or somewhere. Yet instead you hush up and pretend you don't know whats going on. I guess when the bully barks you better jump! You should truely overstand your surroundings and how things are working. I am a U.S. citizen and I can see the United States running with a hanky when mama Britain sneezes! I can see all the British people coming and appearing on U.S. television shows. I mean top rated shows. For instance, American Idol and House. Of course American Idol is a revamped version of the British program Pop Idol. I can see who the U.S. loves and bows down to. So, all my Caribbean family needs to see who they have to run and get a hanky for when the Bush sneezes!!!
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Why did you kill me?
Brandon and Marcelles gunned down 12/06/06
Why can’t you just stop? My people in Southern California, my people world wide we are killing ourselves, we are doing their job for them. There is no longer a need for white men in hoods and torches to come and drag you from your home to lynch you. You are lynching yourselves. This week the lives of three young men were taken from them senselessly. But, not only did you kill them you killed their mothers, you killed their grandparents, you killed their fathers, you killed their siblings, you killed their children you killed their aunts and uncles, and the rest of their family and friends, yet when you committed this murder you killed a part of you.
So, on the day of the funeral, when we have to wipe tears, when we have to comfort the mothers, when we have to bury our dead, that day we will bury a part of ourselves and a part of you we will bury with our dead. It is a wicked cycle that you perpetuate! You are the ignorant and downpressed donkey being ridden by the system of police agencies, spurred on by the prison industrial complex that you choose to ignore. You are being exploited by the particular police agencies in your community.
The police are not interested in eradicating gangs, gang violence or drugs. They feed off of it. They need it for their own down trodden existence. You are their meal ticket, for without you claiming a set, selling drugs or killing yourselves they would soon lose their miniscule livelihood. As you are the downpressed donkey, these police agents are the tax burdened, debt ridden, mules of the system. Without the killing and rampaging your donkey mind leads you to do, these tax mules would soon be out of a job. From your donkey mind comes the babble that you hate the police, "*uck the police" yet you work tirelessly to keep them employed with their foot on your neck.
For my mothers: I know each day you cry for your young men and women. Though you smile, laugh, and force yourself to work everyday I know you cry inside. Every minute I know you send a prayer out to keep us safe even when you know we are not doing the best we can in life. I wish our people could feel your pain, I wish our young men would stop creating a killing field of young black bodies, and begin to learn how to kill the system that’s killing them.
On the day that we bury our dead a piece of me will be buried that day as one of the three young men that died this week was my nephew.
Posted on Friday, December 8, 2006 at 04:35PM by [Victor Amenta] | Post a Comment
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Reparations; For all????
I am curious about the reparations movement, actually I am trying to grasp who would receive reparations and why. I was recently told in a discussion with a friend that restitution is being sought in the form of reparations for people of African descent. I know we people of the darker hue in the Western Hemisphere, automatically assume that we are the descendents of African slaves brought to the Americas by the European. I know my family has always felt this and that many friends and family share in that feeling. During our discussion, some of the other brotha’s voiced fact that African Americans are owed reparations because the Jim Crow laws that went into effect from 1865-1968, during which time (and still continues) African Americans were subjected to deep racial oppression, segregation and discrimination.
I mainly listened to what the brethren were saying since I have little knowledge about the reparations movement other than the fact most black people think they should be compensated for the horrors of slavery. So, I had to think about what I had just digested. I marinated on the subject and I have to ask some questions.
Okay, so its been established that Mitochondrial DNA has traced every human being on the planet back to females in East Africa. Since this is true, how will the reparations groups exclude whites from participating in receiving restitution in whatever form it takes?
I am not clear if the movement evens intends to exclude whites, no one during the discussion was able to clarify this for me.
Next, I wondered how the movement is going to handle people that appear white and in any other situation would be perceived as white and wishes to collect on the restitution. I have seen some of Sally Hemmings and Thomas Jefferson’s descendents and you would pass them and say “oh I saw the white lady over there” never knowing they had a Black ancestor if not more than one.
Also, it is a proven fact that Black people were living here in the Americas long before Columbus. Black people have been living in the Americas for so long that they claimed no allegiance to Africa on a level of recent memory or in terms of culture. So, this being the case how are they going to compensate people that are Black, but do not ascribe to the belief that their ancestors are recent arrivals on European slaving ships? Are these people not to receive restitution? What about my Caribbean and South American family members? Will they not receive restitution? Aren’t reparations only being sought for people now living in the United States?
I need answers to these questions, please. It is not my tribe that’s the world, but the world is my tribe.
Posted on Saturday, March 3, 2007 at 10:42AM by [Victor Amenta] | Post a Comment
Venus; The return of the Goddess
This is for all the "thicker" women of the world. Serious big up for Jennifer Hudson!! Ms Hudson has given us a lesson in persistence, to never give in. I am glad to see a "real" woman on the cover of magazines, in films and most of all winning the biggest award in the motion picture industry. For all you people out there that don't think I understand the health hazards of being over weight shut the H*ll up!! I know and understand, no I OVERstand the ramifications of being over weight and I am not saying Ms Hudson is tipping the scale to her demise. But, what I am saying that its time for a woman with curves to grace the front of all the media outlets. Its time for what I call a "real" woman to be out in front of the our little girls eyes. Our girls have to know that they do not have to look like a little boy to gain whatever fame they may be seeking. I have wondered just who's idea it was to brainwash the men of this country into thinking a woman that has no hips, no rear, and skinny thighs is a beauty queen. Thank the Most High that Venus is on stage again!
Posted on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at 04:50PM by [Victor Amenta] | 1 Comment
Still Missing You Marcelles!!!
It is never the end but it feels so bad. You were here for just a short time it doesn't seem real. Play on "Salty" you will never really be gone from us!!! You will always exist in our hearts and minds for-Iver and Iver.
"Coming Forth By Day..."
Amen-Hotep
Posted on Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at 12:59PM by [Victor Amenta] | Post a Comment