tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11338917220877049832024-03-05T05:54:33.904-08:00LIBERATORWilliam Pleasant & Malik Sekou Osei (1958-2015): Post-post-modern revolutionary Marxist THEORY and PRACTICELIBERATORhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13962103370208944780noreply@blogger.comBlogger131125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1133891722087704983.post-69388427528870686862018-02-17T11:58:00.004-08:002018-02-17T12:05:16.684-08:00Phuk Blk Panther: SHAFT lives!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">HMMM. Well, I hate to snatch away your koofis and the traditional African earings you bought at Macy's,but Black Panther is a piss-poor box-office draw for investors, so far. For the Presidents' Day, 4-day weekend, Black Panther is expected to make $213 million. It cost $200 million to make, so say Brother Imhotep Disney's boys at Marvel. That is $13 million over cost.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="8i3qp-0-0" style="background-color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: white;">But let us go back to July 2, 1971 and the release of the Black cult classic SHAFT. That movie cost $1.125 million to make. It earned $10.996 million over cost by December 31, 1971--5 months.That means its investors made about $8.00 back on each dollar they put into the movie. For SHAFT, a $100,000 investor made $999,592 ($6.176 million in current currency). A $100,000 investor in Panther, over the weekend, will get about $760.00 or $128.00 (adjusted for inflation by the US Labor Dept. for buying power in Dec. 1971).</span></span></div>
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LIBERATORhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13962103370208944780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1133891722087704983.post-24825153048551211012018-01-16T11:27:00.000-08:002018-01-16T11:46:50.186-08:00Have you seen the BLACK COMMUNITY lately?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span data-offset-key="b3u46-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Firstly, there is no such thing as a "Black Community." There are Black neighborhoods (usually urban slums), Black churches, a few Black civil society formations, etc., but<b> NO</b> Black community. </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="dh3cv-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The term presupposes a coherent and widely held political analysis and consequent strategy among Black people in the US. That does not exist anymore. Prior to the social reforms of the 1960s and 70s, a Black Community (civil society formations and institutions) did exist as those folks who formulated and executed <i>What Needed To Be Done</i> to overthrow <i>de jure</i> Jim Crow apartheid across the US. Once Jim Crow's harhest and most apparent facets were erased, that Black Community withered away as a singular, Black-for-Black social formation. It had no further historical raison d'etre.</span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="1fk4q-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Black Community is not even a BLACK term. It is a modern German term (Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft) that eventually evolved into the Frankfurt School's critical race theory, which took root among social and cultural activists-scholars who emerged from the civil rights and New Left philosophical trends of the 1960s. At that time, the Black Community was perceived as the social seed from which The Black Revolution would spring.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="civeb-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">No revolution came, so no Black "community" was necessary, and none emerged. But the term had some lucrative non-Black applications, especially in terms of ethnic micro-marketing of goods and services. The term "Black Community" evolved into a euphemisim for an urban target population for retailing "Black" stuff. Ironically, history shows that the "Black Community" finds its most ardent proponents among white corporate America and hack Democratic Party politicians (Black Empowerment), drooling to gnaw the last dollars and votes from Black urban populations. They are, unfortunately, the ultimate beneficiaries of buying and voting "Black." in the mythical "Black Community."</span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="ef0l-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">In the current epoch, "Black Community" has come to mean a shared socio-cultural experience among American Negroes. On the face, this is an absurdity, given that the experience of being Black in the US varies by geographical location, social class status and even skin complexion. There is no such thing as culturally "Black" because there are many, many cultures among the Black folks who inhabit the US. Today's "Black Community" is a romantic formulation that manifests itself as, among other things, Kwanzaa, African-inspired fashion fetishes and Rootsism. But even this notion of "Black Community" is embraced among a very small sliver of the Black population in the US. </span></span></div>
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LIBERATORhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13962103370208944780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1133891722087704983.post-12924432191438934002016-12-16T13:44:00.002-08:002016-12-22T08:17:59.003-08:00Afrocentrism 2016: If your hairdo won’t liberate you, then try twerking!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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and its most fanatical apologists would have unconscious Negroes believe the
hype that anything with even the whiff of Africa—usually associated with vulgar
exotica—ranks as authentically African and hence an emblem of Black political
resistance. They are instructed that even concocted hybrid names like Kafereekah,
Fabuleesha, Donvontontre…gleaned from an endless diet of hood rat videos rate
as at least conscious political posturing. Never mind that posturing at its
most genuine is the leading social symptom of political impotence.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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of how-to-make-up-your-own-Afrocentric-wannabe-isms are really only noteworthy
for their comical desperation for social attention at any price, including
simple self-respect.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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of these current trends are natural afro hairstyles so grotesquely caricatures
of National Geographic stereotypes that actual native men and women are
provoked to loud and derisive laughter. The once golden crown of the big puff
natural afro hairdos of the 60s has degenerated so much so that folks are just
not combing their hair. Simple. The unkempt has been designated the official Afrocentric
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Angela Davis shaking her iconic coiffed ‘fro back and forth in disbelief. But
then again, I dunno. She flips flops on so much political content these days that
maybe she might just make an appearance afro-less, bald, scaring the shit outta
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other Afrocentric rage, to quote an old Ohio Players song, are “those skin
tight britches” which seem to be chasing the flabbiest thighs on this side of
the Milky Way. I am not just talking about bulging thighs but abounding
malformed, lopsided asses and hips. Talk
about an Afrocentric anatomical landscape!!! An Afrocentric friend once told me
she wears tight elastic stretch pants to show men “what she’s working with.”</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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pants come in all colors and patterns. There are even kente cloth varieties,
manufactured in the sweatshops of Bangladesh and South Korea! (How Afrocentric
is that fo’ yo’ UJAMAA ass!). Stretch
pants conform and detail the crevices of almost any and every female form.
Younger, unconscious would-be Afrocentrics love ‘em for “showcase” utility.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Michelle Obama with a puffed-out, insane afro, straining the seams of some
sequined Beyonce’ stretch pants, rolling out of the White House for the Trump
inauguration. In tow is her hubby Barack, familiar strident swag, rockin’ some
sagging designer jeans with neon yellow, kente-paterned boxer shorts flashing around
his waist. Many devotees of the Afro and the centric would cheer themselves into
convulsions and declare Obama and his First Shorty revolutionary icons! Yes. And among the leaders of the hysterical
multitudes would be many folks with degrees who occupy choice jobs in Africana
Studies departments at several of this country’s leading universities!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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there a time when men and women held a modicum of dignity about appearance,
head to toe?</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">Back in the day there was
something called shame. Shame came from disgraceful acts against a collective
culture already downtrodden, abused and shackled by white supremacy. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> In
fact, s</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">hame
could come from a parental tongue lashing more severe than a slave master’s
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was also a time of pride. There was pride in appearance which had nothing to do
with bourgeois attitudes or class distinction. Pride was derived from self-
determination and the <b>practice</b> of
Black Liberation. For example, pride often looked like a Black mother shielding
her daughters from vile slave rapists—Black or white. There is simply no pride
to be had in today’s narcissistic debauchery, even when it is wrapped in a red-black
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twerking? Does the dance step probably originate in Africa? Probably. Does it
bestow ethnic authenticity upon one who twerks? The Afrocentrists would either
hold their tongues or find some hustle to be hatched around marketing truly
conscious twerking. But there is really is no material revolutionary political
content, Afrocentric or otherwise, in twerking. If that was the case, then the
captive, neo-colonized nations of Africa today would have twerked their way to
freedom 50 years ago! After all, logic would dictate that they must know how to
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A. Emenari is a “Black Boy”, “The Invisible Man Who Cried I Am,” fed by John
and Alice Coltrane’s “Fire Next Time” and Nkrumah’s Pan African scientific
socialism - a “Message To The Grassroots”. </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc;">"On Tuesday, Bernie Sanders called for the U.S. to approach the Israel-Palestine conflict to be a 'level playing field.' Speaking after his surprising victory in the Michigan Democratic primary, Sanders asserted that there are people of goodwill in both 'Israel and the Arab communities' whom he would seek to bring together as president.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc;">“ 'All I can tell you is I will make every single effort to bring rational people on both sides together, so that hopefully we can have a level playing field, the United States treating everybody in that region equally,' Sanders said."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc;">This is, of course, some sly bullshit from Bernie Sanders. Muslims and Arabs in Michigan gave Sanders a fistful of votes that enabled him to top the openly Likudnik Hillary Clinton. He has now tossed them a dry bone in gratitude.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc;">What can Sanders' "level playing field" mean in the absence of a US policy of removing $3+ billion per year in US taxpayer funding to the squatter colony in Palestine? What could it mean in the absence of a PUBLIC policy of politically and financially sanctioning the zionist regime for its ongoing violations of international law and UN Security Council Resolutions? Can de-possessed Palestinians, scattered and impoverished around the world by the zionists, count on Bernie Sanders to enforce their legal rights to return to their homes and reclaim their stolen properties? Certainly, Sanders cannot believe that we are stupid enough to consider the colonized Palestinians and the US-financed and armed zionists colonizers as two peas in the same pod, equally-endowed teams on a game court. Sanders' playing field can only be equilibrated by ending US support for Israel. Is Sanders suggesting this as his answer to resolving the "Israel-Palestine" conflict? Let's see. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i style="background-color: black;">This is the current US-financed and politically defended "PLAYING FIELD" <br />for Palestinians that Bernie Sanders seeks to level, he says.</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc;">But Sanders gives a stunning clue to his real intentions, maybe inadvertently, when he says that there are people of goodwill in "both Israel and the Arab communities" that he will bring into negotiations. Sanders lets his zionist cat out of the bag at that point. You see, even liberal zionists like Bernie, for racist ideological reasons, cannot admit that there is a Palestine or that there are Palestinians who live there. He could have more accurately reached out to Israelis and Palestinians after the defeat of Hillary Clinton. But Sanders actually can't even utter the words Palestine or Palestinians. For in the psychotic zionist cosmology, Non-Jewish (Europeans and wannabe Europeans) residents of occupied Palestine can only be "Arabs"--a hostile racial group--in short, Wild Indians, varmints, etc., in the wild west lexicon.This denial syndrome, common to ALL zionists, precludes any peaceful resolution of the anti-colonial struggle for Palestine because there is no Palestine and there are no Palestinians to lawfully lay claim to any national or human rights. To accept their existence negates the entire zionist nation-building myth and renders Israelis as existential non-entities. This is a cruel version of the Pauli exclusion principle, i.e., two electrons in an atom cannot occupy the same space at the same time. As such, one particle has to vacate the premises. Is Bernie Sanders willing to countenance the "Jew" supremacist State of Israel withering away to be replaced by a non-racial, secular, democratic social entity (to be properly named later) on the Palestinian landmass where all ethnic and religious/cultural sectors can live and thrive in peace? Naw,,,Sanders is afflicted with the liberal zionist psychosis. But let's see if he can be cured. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fce5cd; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">This is not an epitaph for Malik Sekou Osei, my dear friend who left this world on November 9, 2015, but the preface to a publication of his writings that he and I composed and published in our on-line journal known as </span><b style="line-height: 17.12px;">LIBERATOR. </b><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">I will produce and publish a book version in his honor</span><b style="line-height: 17.12px;"> </b><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">in 2016.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #fce5cd;">My first
assessment of Sekou at learning of his death was spread around the world. It
was very terse, and it read:</span><i style="color: #fce5cd;"> </i><b><i><span style="color: white;">COMRADE
MALIK SEKOU OSEI SUCCUMBED TO THE RAVAGES OF DIABETES IN HIS BROOKLYN, NY HOME.
SEKOU WAS A PASSIONATE SCHOLAR OF REVOLUTIONARY MARXIST PRACTICE AND THEORY.
LIKEWISE, HE SPENT HIS CAREER SEEKING NEW WAYS TO COMMUNICATE HIS ACCUMULATED
KNOWLEDGE TO POOR AND WORKING PEOPLE IN THE US, AFRICA, ASIA AND EUROPE. A
POET, MUSICIAN AND TIRELESS ACTIVIST, MALIK SEKOU OSEI WAS MY FRIEND AND
LITERARY COLLEAGUE...PRESENTE! COMRADE
SEKOU!</span><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I never knew
that Sekou was chronically ill. He never gave me any indication that he was
anything other than filled with vigor and hope. On November 8, 2015, the last
of our daily conversations, I called him from a hackneyed ribbon-cutting
ceremony in Baltimore. After glad-handing with the locally elected Black
Democratic Party hacks and their epigone and frightening all the local TV news
reporters, I called Sekou and had a big laugh. For more than an hour I
explained how the best thing that the Democratic Party and its Black camp
followers could answer the mayhem that gripped Baltimore after the
police-gangland rubout of Freddy Gray was a politically neutral mural exactly
at GROUND ZERO (Pennsylvania @ North Avenues a.k.a. zip code 21217, one of the
most devastated urban regions in the USA), the point where young and de-classed
Black people engaged in a <i>battle royal</i>
with the Baltimore City Police Department, Maryland State Police and the
Maryland National Guard. When the world heard “RIOT,” “BLACKS,” “BALTIMORE” the
mass media was talking about the corner of North and Pennsylvania Avenues.
After the bloodshed, mass arrests and destruction, the only thing that the
authorized negroes of Baltimore could come up with was a “Black, culturally
positive” mural against a wall facing exactly where hundreds of Black youths were
tear gassed, beaten and arrested by the armed forces of Maryland.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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8, 2015. Sekou and I spoke by phone and plotted the next installment of <b>LIBERATOR</b> that would address this
absurd historical/cultural/political failure. Anxiously, I awaited our next
conversation. The next day, I did receive a phone call from Sekou’s number, but
it was not from my colleague but from his wife Ama Tanks. She was distraught.
She found our dear Comrade Sekou asleep forever.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What was our
history together? Sekou and I spoke on a daily basis by telephone. We created <b>LIBERATOR</b> together from the substance
of those conversations. Where did I first meet Sekou? It was in 2010 at some
un-remarkable and impotent street demonstration in Lincoln Square (14<sup>th</sup>
St @ Broadway in Manhattan). I did not know him, but he knew of me from my work
at the <b>DAILY CHALLENGE</b> (NYC’s only
sort-of-Black daily journal) as the deputy editor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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me and I admired him immediately. Nonetheless, our social histories were
extremely different. I came from the US South, from a rather culturally
conservative but severely radical political family dating back to the ante
bellum era. Sekou came from the culturally florid Caribbean milieu, but his
family sang the obligatory, politically conservative immigrant song, so he
said. Sekou politically evolved from his teenage encounters with the Nation of
Islam and the legacy of Malcolm X. I politically evolved from the radicalism of
my family, the University of Chicago and the literal street fights that led to
the election of Harold Washington to the mayor seat in 1983. It is true that we
were both relatively well-trained musicians—he played bass, I played
Euro-concert trumpet—but that was about it in terms of commonality. We really
came from different social planets. But through dialogue, we discovered that we
politically and philosophically agreed upon everything. We simply came to the
same conclusions through different social paths. That is how our collaboration
on the on-line <b>LIBERATOR</b> was born.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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agree upon? What were the philosophical and practical foundations of our UNITED
FRONT?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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were both Marxists and Lenin-inspired political economists on the question of
party organization and revolutionary practice.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="background-color: black; color: #fce5cd; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">We
agreed that nothing could be done to reform the system of monopoly capitalism
and the dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: black; color: #fce5cd; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">We
both concluded that the leading edge of class oppression, especially in the
Western Hemisphere, resided in the 500-year history of white supremacy,
socially characterized by genocide against the Indigenous Peoples, the chattel
enslavement of Africans and the outright theft of Latin American lands and
natural resources.</span></span></li>
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</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">We
saw Africa as a continent of great social and material resources continuously
laid waste by neo-colonial regimes and other compradorial bourgeois political
formations that aided the US and its European junior partners in looting the
labor, agricultural and mineral wealth of the land for the benefit and only for
the benefit of imperialism.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: black; color: #fce5cd; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">We
recognized that the violence of white supremacy could only be answered with
extreme counter-violence from the oppressed strata of society, and the poor desperately
required the appropriate social and theoretical training to bring grief to
their tormentors around the world.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: black; color: #fce5cd; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">We
dismissed much of what was left of the Black Liberation Movement as hopelessly
theoretically under-developed and mired in cultural nationalistic
mysticism/romance, giving rise to a herd of so-called Black leaders who stroked
the backwardness of the de-classed and working class strata of Black America as
stooges for the Democratic Party, as petty sideshow brokers of Black discontent.</span></span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Brokers of Black discontent</b></span></td></tr>
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<li><span style="background-color: black; color: #fce5cd; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Sekou
and I were unrelenting in our denunciation of the erstwhile “Black” Pres.
Barack Obama, who we castigated as a Trojan Horse designed by the ruling strata
to mystify and pacify the historically restive Black, Latino and Native
populations, as well as much of the US
Left. We readily referred to him as BUCKWHEAT, that affable little colored boy
who tailed OUR GANG but was never actually granted membership in the white mob.</span></span></li>
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</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">We
realized that subjective circumstances of oppression do not necessarily lead to
objective social circumstances of revolt. Overwhelmingly, the collective
suffering of the people simply de-evolves into crass survivalism and escapist
routines that promote social atomization and further political disorganization.</span></span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><b>Why do we call Pres. Obama BUCKWHEAT?</b></span></span></td></tr>
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</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Lastly,
Sekou and I observed the deterioration of Black culture and art into a
de-historicized corporate commodity, aesthetically driven by the illusions of
sexual gratification (sado-masochism) and the quest for the trinkets of
conspicuous consumption. In short, Black art and culture lay dead amongst the
political and intellectual ruins of the Black Liberation Movement. There can be
no humanistic or revolutionary art and culture without the theory and practice
of revolutionary social development.</span></span></li>
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Osei was foremost my friend and political co-conspirator. He kept me going when
I was disheartened. I returned the favor. He inspired my writing and
re-affirmed for me that the quest for human fulfilment lived on among people
like him who would never bend a knee to superstition, opportunism or even the
threat of terror. In presenting Sekou’s writings through book form in the
coming months, I hope to inspire a larger audience and a new generation to
recognize that </span><b><span style="color: white;">THE REBELLION OF THE SLAVES WILL BE THE WAR OF THE LANDSCAPES</span></b><span style="color: #fce5cd;">
and, as Sekou always signed off in his writing: </span><b><span style="color: white;">HISTORY IS ON OUR SIDE BUT NOT TIME.</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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LIBERATORhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13962103370208944780noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1133891722087704983.post-85038553518197673822015-10-29T20:30:00.001-07:002015-10-29T20:50:27.162-07:00Understanding the forms of capital<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Here we all must begin in a not so easy discussion and that can be rather
complex that everyone may need to examine more than once. To the reader it’s
important to pick volumes I, II, III of Capital by the thinker Karl Marx to
approach a level of rigor beyond the American phenomenon of intellectual
sloganeering. Also what will be needed is two other books, the first one is by
Rudolf Hilferding and called <i>Finance Capital</i> (1910), the second book is by Geoffrey Kay <i>Development
and Underdevelopment, A Marxist Analysis</i> (1975).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Capital as a social relation is an energetic
occurrence following a circuit of capital in which it takes on different forms
at different points of the circuit and its development within history. If we
can start with capital in the form of money (M), it is transformed into
commodities (meaning of the production and labor power) to become then
productive capital (P). The result of this process of production is commodity
capital (C) which has to be actualized through sales and thus re-transformed
into money capital. In that sense, capital assumes different forms, but M and C
by themselves are lifeless; it makes more sense to talk of capital having
specialized occupations and meanings within each stage of the circuit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <i>Productive
capital</i>, (P) is a process. It is the factory or farm at work. In the case
of a hypothetical and theoretic, simple capital system the enterprise that runs
the factory may also have full control over dealing in commodities and money,
but in reality these processes have been specialized functions and are distinct
forms of capital. <i>Merchant capital</i> has the specialize function of
dealing in commodities. It is typified by the great trading houses that make
profits by buying and selling the raw materials for industry or by the many
multiple stores that trade in finished commodities (the C in the
circuit), but there are a variety of intermediary forms. To the degree that
banks simply deal in money (the M in the circuit) by exchanging it, they, too,
are operating a type of merchant capital. However, the development of the
monetary system in relation to these processes gives rises to CREDIT and the
development of a different, specialized form of <i>interests-bearing
capital</i>. Interests bearing capital is involved in the practice of lending
money capital to industrial capital so that the initial M in the circuit of
industrial capital is increased and expanded from that source.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> We
have to go back to parts IV and V of Capital III. were involved with the
specialized forms of capital. They are a significant component in
authenticating and confirming Marx’s claim to be able to explain the
complexities of the world from principles uncovered by examining highly
abstract, general categories, for Marx reaches these chapters after having
examined the nature of capital in its undifferentiated forms. In Capital I and
II and the early parts of Capital III, Marx presented the laws of capital in
general, and of much industrial capital in competition, and Marx believed that
the specialized forms of capital could only be understood on the basis of these
laws. In particular, the earlier analysis uncovers the way in which SURPLUS
VALUE is produced and distributed between industrial capitals, whereas in parts
IV, V and the VII of Capital III the question is how this surplus value is
distributed in various types of revenue between different specialized form
being industrial capital alone, to industrial capital plus merchant capital
plus interest-bearing capital. And whereas in the earlier analysis surplus
value takes the forms of PROFIT. Industrial capital receives only
profit-of-enterprise while interest-bearing capital receives a portion of
surplus value as interest and merchant capital also receives profits,
commercial profit, which is a deduction from the total surplus value. The
revenues received by merchant capital and interest-bearing capital and their
separation from other forms of surplus value, merit further analysis. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
Merchant capital, operating in the realm of circulation does not directly
generate surplus value, but it does appropriate as profit some of the surplus
value that is generated in the only place possible, the sphere of production in
capitalist industry and agriculture. Merchant do more than simply buy
commodities for resale; order to accomplish their role they also expend capital
upon the labor power of shop-workers, clerks and so on. However, this labor is
unproductive according to objective laws; it does not directly produce surplus
value, although by reducing the cost of circulation below what they would have
been if non-specialist industrial capitalist had undertaken it, it may
indirectly contribute to it. Given that merchant capital does not generate
surplus value in a process of production controlled by it, its profit is
obtained from its dealing with industrial (and agriculture) capital. Merchants
buy commodities from industry below their value and sell them at their value.
The difference, which they appropriate, has a tendency to equal the general
rate of profit; competition ensures that the rate of profit accruing to
merchants on the capital they advance equals that accruing to industrialists on
their capital, and each equals the total surplus value divided by the total of
the (merchant and industrial) capital.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> That
consideration of commercial profit ignores the deduction of interest; and the
nature of interest-bearing capital, too, is considered by concentrating on its
relation to industrial capital alone. Interest is paid by industrial capitalize
out of their profits, and what remains is profits-of-enterprise, a proportion
of the total. Marx considered that the proportions which result from this
division are a matter of “accidental” forces of demand and supply, so that no
general principles determining the rate of interest (or rate of
profit-of-enterprise) could be postulated except as the general limits to the
range of values it could take. .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The
final type of revenue which derives from surplus value is RENT, but this return
to land ownership is not the same as a return on a specialized form of capital.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The
specialized forms of capital are more than simply the basis for the division of
surplus value into different types of revenue, for the development of each has
an important historical impact. Although merchant capital depends on industrial
capital for the source of its profits, it arose in an early form before
industrial capital. Indeed, the role of trade and plunder in the rise of
capitalism, the process of PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATION, means the merchant capital
was crucial for amassing the resources and stimulating the growth of social
relations that were necessary for capitalism. The early monopolists trading
companies were its typical representatives in this respect. However, although
merchant capital laid the origins of capitalism in Europe, it has been argued
that its predominance in Europe’s relation to the so-called third world blocked
the ability of the countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America to undertake
capitalist development. In the work of Geoffrey Kay, in his book Development
and Underdevelopment (1975) he argues that merchant capital within Europe lost
its independence as industrial capitalism developed, and therefore did not
hinder the development of the latter, the rise of a class making profits
through organizing production. In many countries of the Third World however,
merchant capital has continued to predominate, at least until recently, and to
exercise a rather deal of independence in pursuing profits through trading
rather than developing capitalist production. Geoffrey Kay argues this
independence has had a paradoxical character at least since the mid-nineteenth
century when it gained and lost its independence. Independence was retained in
the sense that it was the only form of capital in the underdeveloped countries,
but since, in the world as a whole, it coexisted with industrial capital it had
to modify its actions to act partially as an agent. It had to trade in the
later in the Third World. As an agent it had to trade in the manner required by
industrial capitalism (shipping raw materials and food to the capitalist
countries and selling their manufactured goods in captive 3<sup>rd</sup> World
Markets), and only influenced local production in the minimal manner necessary
to serve Europe’s need for raw materials and food.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">European imperialism and the suppression of 3rd World economic <br />development laid the political foundation for contemporary capitalism.</span></td></tr>
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Interest-bearing capital’s role in history was recognized and acknowledged by
Karl Marx in terms of the effect of the credit system on the centralization of
capital and mainly on the founding and quick development of JOINT-STOCK
COMPANIES. These developments were seen as exhibiting a new step and as having
an important and noteworthy consequence. This is to give rise to the
responding and thwarting tendencies to the FALLING RATE OF PROFIT, since those
who advance capital to the joint-stock companies are believed to accept a lower
return as a result of the control of interests as a form of surplus value. And
they give rise to a change in class configuration as the actually operational
capitalist is distinguished from owners of the capital which the industry uses.
Interests-bearing capital, however, does not lie in repose unchanged once it
arises; it develops more complex characteristic and Hilferding back in 1910
laid out in his book called <i>Finance Capital</i> the other
factor that he identified as the transformation into FINANCE CAPITAL as
especially complex, but through it all there is a needed rigor of understanding
beyond protest slogans.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This
discussion has never been easy and too many approach this river without the
ability to swim and they drown by their lack of training and rigor. I have
suggested the review of three important works that lay foundations for study.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Right now it is important to understand, living in the imperialistic
epoch, the different forms of capital and their functions and the maintenance
and power of an economic system that thrives on the spread of material
underdevelopment and human suffering and which fosters a culture of urban degeneracy,
of urban rugged individualism and information ignorance as the norm. Our
intelligentsia, meanwhile, postures in performance only to entertain everyone
to death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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History is on our side, but, not time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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LIBERATORhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13962103370208944780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1133891722087704983.post-24651046698676770922015-10-22T17:17:00.002-07:002015-10-22T23:39:23.625-07:00Let "Bernie" feel our BURN: The People's Agenda for 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Bernie Sanders must support the agendas of People of Color, <br />the working class and progressives before he can count our votes.</span></td></tr>
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socialist candidate Bernie is something other than a pantomime leftist shill
for Hilary Clinton in the upcoming 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries.
Let us take on faith that he pursues a radical reorganization of US society
that will truly benefit working and poor people, a new political awakening that
will promote international peace and human rights, a revolutionary social dawn that
will bring the current racist legal and extra-legal onslaught against Blacks,
Latinos, Asians and Indigenous Peoples to an end. If these assumptions are
correct, then Sanders is worthy of the support of all progressive people,
particularly people of color.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sanders’ stated program and public performance do not support the above assumptions.
We are treated with his <a href="https://berniesanders.com/issues/" target="_blank">eat-the-rich, populist platform</a> that fails to even
remotely address the concerns and aspirations of the very people who are
critical to his success at the polls. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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People of Color, feminists, anti-imperialists, civil libertarians, environmentalists
and SOCIALISTS to cast their votes for Bernie Sanders, except as an impotent
gesture of revulsion against Hillary Clinton. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">As long as we fail to make Democrats accountable to our demands, <br />they laugh their way to elected office on our backs.</span></td></tr>
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progressive and non-white communities were seduced by Barack Obama to support the
slogan “HOPE and CHANGE.” They stampeded to the polls for the first “Black”
president with the assumption that Obama would revolutionize US political
culture. Obama actually made no promises to anybody and, in two terms, he has
delivered nothing to his most passionate core constituencies. The charge that
Obama “sold out” is utterly false. The fact of the matter is that he was never “bought
in” to a pro-working class, pro-Black or progressive agenda. Bernie Sanders declares that he is committed to an anti-racist and socialism-driven society. We have an obligation to hold him accountable to his erstwhile radical sophistry .</span></span></div>
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offerings address a progressive or pro-People of Color agenda? No!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Frederick Douglass</span></td></tr>
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disarmed by the US Left’s inability to forge a mass party with anything
approaching ideological and practical clarity, America’s needy are doomed to
exchange their electoral support for the Democratic Party for social crumbs or
less. As it stands now, there is no power in supporting Bernie Sanders for the
sake of supporting a dubious anti-Hillary Clinton or Sanders’ milky notion of
“democratic socialism.” We must support our agenda and give our funds and votes
to candidates who pledge to support our agenda, nothing less is acceptable at
this historical juncture. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Douglass remarked, </span><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did
and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you
have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed
upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or
blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those
whom</span></i><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> they oppress.”</span></i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As such, Bernie Sanders’ program must be amended to include
our Political Demands. He may choose to ignore our demands or obscure them in
his campaign, but we must be willing to equally ignore his plea for our support
at the polls. The age of <i>feel-good</i>
politics is over. It died in the neo-liberal, imperialistic disaster of the Obama regime.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So that there is no confusion over what we aim to attain by
supporting Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic Party primary election
process, our fundamental policy demands are stated below.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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jobs program for African Americans</span> and other deprived adults and youths
of color.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hyde Amendment. Free or low-cost abortion on demand. Federal prosecution for anyone
attempting to interfere with a patient’s access to ANY clinic and medical
procedure. Mandatory public School contraceptive and parenting training.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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unions--overturn laws that ban workers' right to strike. Make it easier for
workers to organize via a card check system.</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Single payer national health insurance. Promote Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities (NORCs) in urban areas as alternatives to nursing home confinement. Keep the elderly and the infirmed in their homes! End psychiatric patient de-institutionalization schemes. Replace drug-driven behavior control regimens with actual, holistic psychiatric therapy. Decriminalize narcotic use. Provide a national system of federal drug rehab centers.</span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">End homelessness by converting fallow commercial spaces into temporary dormitory facilities. Provide permanent housing through the rehabilitation of abandoned houses. Give homeless veterans first priority.</span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Workers need a living wage but they also require political power. <br />That means they must have an alternative to the white, <br />male-dominated twin parties of monopoly capitalism.</span></td></tr>
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voting rights. Automatic voter registration at the age of 18. No felony
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the Equal Rights Amendment<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for
states’ ratification.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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federal minimum wage to $20 per hour and index it to inflation</span>. Introduce
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robust federal enforcement of the Civil Rights Acts (1866, 1871, 1875, 1960,
1964, 1968, 1987) and the re-introduction of the anti-job discrimination Kennedy-Hawkins
1990 Civil Rights Act, with the extension of protections to Lesbian, Gay, Queer
and transgender populations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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sanction state governments that incarcerate non-white peoples in excess of 5.0%
more than their representation in the overall state population.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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investigation and prosecution of all charges of police brutality and corruption.
Establish a federal prosecutor and standing grand jury in each congressional
district dedicated to pursuing charges of official misconduct under the color
of law. Provide federal funding incentives to municipalities and counties that
establish civilian-only law enforcement oversight commissions.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Free all political
prisoners, especially those incarcerated during the liberation struggles of the
1960s, 1970s and 1980s—FREE MUMIA ABDUL JAMAL and LEONARD PELTIER!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">like 100s of other activists and radical intellectuals.</span></td></tr>
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persecution of whistleblowers. Free Chelsea Manning and all imprisoned whistleblowers.
Drop all charges against Edward Snowden.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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Resident status for any undocumented migrant who has paid federal wage tax for
12 consecutive months. Place a moratorium on ALL deportations where parents may
be separated from minor children. Cease incarceration of all non-criminal
undocumented migrants, especially minors, facing the deportation process.
Strict and robust enforcement of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act. Cease immigration
discrimination against Chinese females and others based upon country of origin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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sanction states that deny IN-STATE post-secondary education tuitions to
resident undocumented migrants.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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program to modernize, rebuild, and strengthen the nation's infrastructure, paid
for through a federal stocks and bonds transaction fee and taxes on commercial
banking transactions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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federal WPA-style fine arts and performance program in each congressional
district to provide stable employment to cultural workers and enhance the
cultural sophistication of the residents.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the Top, high stakes testing educational policies. Allocate federal educational
funding based on the needs of the students in public school districts. Establish
a minimum federal school subsidy based on the average national cost per student
per school district statistics. End federal support for charter schools and
vouchers that undermine public schools. Federally mandate fine arts training in
all public schools.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Robust enforcement of the CLEAN
AIR and CLEAN WATER Acts. End fracking. Provide income tax incentives to
private and commercial property owners who utilize renewable energy sources. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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highway system that links Chicago, Illinois to Santiago, Chile.</span></span></div>
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military budget by 50% in the next five years.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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applications of mercenaries and other armed proxies in neo-conservative schemes
of “regime change.”<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">ISIS, al-Nusra, al-Queda, Free Syrian Army and other assorted barbarians </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">are really trained and paid mercenary tools of US imperialism.</span></td></tr>
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non-intervention in the domestic conflicts of any nation unless endorsed by the
United Nations Security Council.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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to the United Nations Charter and the Geneva Conventions with special emphasis
on the (1949) 4th Geneva Convention statutes pertaining to the treatment of civilians
during armed conflict.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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robust enforcement of the Neutrality Acts (1794, 1935, 1937), prohibiting the
participation of US citizens in foreign armed conflicts as political partisans
or mercenaries, and likewise outlawing arms sales and bank loans to foreign belligerent parties. End the practice of granting dual citizenships, except
through an explicit act of Congress and on a case-by-case basis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Israeli soldiers and squatter lynch mobs indulge in </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">atrocities against the </span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Palestinian people with impunity solely thanks to </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">US political corruption and $10 million-plus per day in direct US funding.</span></td></tr>
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robust enforcement of the </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 107%;">Leahy Amendment to the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 107%;">Foreign Assistance Act</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>which prohibits the U.S.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>from providing military assistance to
foreign military units that violate human rights with impunity--including the repression of girls and women.</span> The
Leahy Amendment must be expanded to cut military assistance to ALL military
programs of human rights offending regimes. Moreover, non-signatory nations to
the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) must be likewise barred from
receiving any US financial aid, as currently demanded by existing US law. This calls for the immediate removal of all US military
and police force financial aid to:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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recognition of Palestinian statehood.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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political sanctions against Israel until the illegal siege of Gaza is lifted. </span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Declare the </span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">American Israel Public Affairs Committee</span></span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;"> (AIPAC) an agent of a foreign nation (Israel) and rescind its tax-exempt status.</span><br />
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the International Criminal Court system. Ratify the Treaty of Rome.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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reparations to the peoples of Iraq and Afghanistan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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prosecution of Bush regime operatives who engaged in war crimes, including
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LIBERATORhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13962103370208944780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1133891722087704983.post-73508672085426245922015-10-15T13:26:00.002-07:002015-10-22T16:06:41.454-07:00Banned on FB: Lynching, zionist-style<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">while another settler shouting at the dying Palestinian kid: “Die, son of a bitch, die!”<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />The settler shouts: “Die, son of a bitch, die,”and then asking the soldier, </span></strong><br />
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<strong style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc;">(in Affula colony near Nazareth) lying their usual lie that she attacked the soldiers. .. She was holding her sunglasses and begging them not to shot !! </span></span></strong><strong style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Israa A’abed, a mother of a little girl and an M.S student of Genetic Engineering From Nazareth, was attacked by both zionist soldiers and armed zionist “civilians” be<span class="text_exposed_show" style="box-sizing: inherit;">fore she was shot six bullets without posing any threat to the public or the soldiers.</span></span></strong></div>
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LIBERATORhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13962103370208944780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1133891722087704983.post-37067922282242347622015-10-13T11:16:00.000-07:002015-10-13T12:19:13.384-07:00TO INTIFADA OR NOT TO INTIFADA, that is not the question.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the Past year or more, there was a lot that has been written analyzing, anticipating, urging or denying the possibility of a Palestinian Third intifada. Most of the writing about the Third Intifada were naive or superficial without analyzing in depth the causes and results, without naming the names of who is with and who is against the Third Intifada and why, without analyzing what kind of Intifada we want and how. Most of the articles about the Intifada were wishful thinking and hypocritical, <b>ESPECIALLY</b> those who are against the eruption of the inevitably current, spontaneous mass uprising of the oppressed.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Firstly, The Third Intifada (or any intifada in the world) doesn't need to wait for anybody to issue a majestic decision to start, nor is there a political power that can stop a people yearning for a long awaited freedom. You can never expect a people who are under a racist brutal occupation like the zionist one to stay silent forever, ESPECIALLY given that they have been long-deceived by slogans proclaiming “peace” and economic prosperity.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1994, one of our PLO relatives (who works in the Palestine Authority--PA-- intelligence apparatus) visited our tiny village. At that time the PA ruled only Gaza and Jericho First (and last of course) and the PA agents used to visit their relatives in the Palestinian towns and villages with a zionist permission. I was a kid then and as there were over 40 men sitting and discussing, I told him: “And do you trust the zionists to give you a state? You don't know how the zionists think, they will give you nothing.” He got very angry and threatened: “Don't worry, we will come to rule here and get you.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another story was when I was in my last year of college. My roommate was visited by one of his relatives ( a Major in the PA police apparatus) and we sat to chat. I told him: “You got to change your way of dealing with the people. The West Bank is not Lebanon nor Iraq, we are a rebellious people who are looking for freedom and can't be ruled as it is the case in the Arab states.” Then he said: “The Palestinian people are insurgent and can't be ruled, except by stepping on them.” I was thunderstruck at the way he thought and didn't utter a word afterward. The PA was brought (or actually was gradually turned) to rule and suppress the Palestinian people but not to fight the occupation, and hence they were to suppress (even with force, if they could) any coming Intifada. The PA was given the role of molding a new submissive Palestinian generation who were ready to cooperate with the enemy against his own people. This is not a secret and it has been clear all the time. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And far from bringing peace closer, the Dayton Agreement's ‘capacity-building’ initiatives are facilitating the creation of an autocratic and totalitarian ‘state’ led by Mahmoud Abbas and Salam Fayyad. Political debate is almost nonexistent, criticism not allowed, and the extent of collusion between the Abu Mazen/Salam Fayyad government and their security forces with Israel is so extensive that both the Palestinian public and members of the security forces themselves are beginning to question and criticize what they see as the PNA’s attempt to increase repression and curtail freedoms “We have security forces serving the United States Security Coordinator and Israel. Where is our executive authority? Who decided to bring in the United States Security Coordinator?,” a resident of Nablus asked. “It is known to everybody”, said another, “that we have the occupation at night and the Palestinian forces during the day.” Another commented, “Now we start to live under the same conditions as our brothers in other Arab countries: oppression, unlimited power and fear.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">THE FIRST is against any Intifada. It supports only peaceful Palestinian demonstrations. It pleads for liberal international supporters and zionist “peace” activists. These demos usually end with orgies of sex and drugs, and are very pleasing for both the PA and the zionists. It is not a secret that these people say openly that they are against any kind of Intifada, and they work on preventing it. They are obsessed with their “sacred” security cooperation with the zionists to suppress the rebelling Palestinians. They hope to set the “rule of law under occupation” or the rule of occupation, actually. These are the PA agents and those who have business with the zionist occupiers.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">THE SECOND political tendency, which is the revolutionary party, demands any kind of rebellion against the zionist occupation. They are socially diverse from the suppressed people of the street to the leftist parties and also the Islamist ones, and in addition lots of the Fateh cadre and "peaceful" formations that have discovered the duplicity of both the PA and the zionist regime.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the first Intifada, the people revolted spontaneously and innocently against the zionist occupation for months before the“United National Commandment of the Intifada” (as it was called then) emerged to lead the scene. People needed to be organized and set an aim for their struggle with specific program that organizes their struggle and give the broad lines for the local fighters to struggle.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The General Command of the First intifada appeared suddenly after month of leadership vacuum in which people struggled aimlessly. The zionist occupation tried all it could to locate the members of the General Command and arrest them, but it was just like the mushroom plant, once you cut one another emerges. In the first Intifada, I met in jail one of those leaders, and I innocently asked him, as a kid, “Are you really one of the General Commandment leaders?” Then he laughed and said, “Are you really serious in your question? I have been interrogated for months specifically about this question.” In other words, he didn't answer my question, and i got it that I should just shut up and keep that “secret.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What the mushroom-like General Command of the first Intifada did was to issue manifestos. It is very important for the rebelling people to not only feel that they have a rebellious leadership that stands with them and among them, but also a program to follow, a program that allows the people to revolt at the time they are doing their daily work, a leadership that creates a sustainable rebellious culture. The Manifestos were actually programs for the coming week, two weeks or a month. For example (in the next two weeks there are several national, religious and cultural days) the General Commandment’s “program” assigned the activities in these days (for example, Next Thursday is the Day of Israa-and Miraj “the ethereal visit of Muhammed PBUH to Al-Aqsa) which might be assigned for massive visits to Al-Aqsa Mosque during which people might and can break through the zionist Apartheid wall. Another example, at Christmas time, the General Commandment might ask people to go and visit the families of the martyrs instead of partying and drinking alcohol… etc.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The current General Command of the Third Intifada is not clear yet, nor it would appear “on the surface” that its members will be immediately arrested by both the PA security police and the zionists, these two parties together don't want any Intifada, only the “rule of law under occupation.” The current leadership includes ALL the political parties, including Fateh, Hamas, The leftist parties and even national rebellious personages who have been struggling for freedom for ages. no Palestinian ever fought and died to be rewarded with the zionist-serving Oslo Accord, nor to support the “rule of law” under the zionist occupation.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fateh is not completely composed of PA agents, nor totally corrupt. There are great nationalistic leaders from Fateh who oppose the Oslo Accord, and these are definitely in support of the Third Intifada. The General Command of the Third Intifada, might be composed of those (in the second or third line ) of the political parties, and mostly from the former prisoner who have both the experience and wisdom to draw the Palestinian national future.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">People have long ago stopped to believing in the zionist peace and the PA political program, which could only lead to nothing more than our enslavement. All they produced were more illegal settlement and fanatical zionist squatters. We were treated with more political and economic suppression. Thankfully, the new, younger leadership might point the Palestinian future away from the zionist deception and overthrow the zionist occupation.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What Intifada?</span><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What Intifada do we want? Why is the PA against any kind of Intifada?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Almost no one up to now has specified what kind of Intifada we want as a people. And I bet it is not what “we want” that is the decisive factor, but it is what is the most effective kind of resistance that should be sustained. That means we most develop a program that goes far beyond a few weeks or months of skirmishes with the occupiers. That means that we must have organization that prevents corrupt leaders from exploiting the blood spilled by our people from becoming the currency in vulgar business transactions between traitors to our cause and the occupiers.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Remember, there are two main political tendencies in the Palestinian society.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The PA team who openly and violently oppose any kind of violence against their zionist peace partners and call for a very very peaceful resistance that will not endanger their compradorial status under our colonization. They encourage and even fund the peaceful resistance kind that of Bil’in, Ni’lin, Nabi Salen and other places. This kind of resistance amount to weekly demos that are restricted in both time and place. They are easily controlled with a few zionist soldiers who come to throw tear gas for an hour or so then go back to their girlfriends. These demos are shared and organized by Palestinian youths, jewish and zionist “pro peace” activists and international supporters of Palestine. One hundred people or less usually show up for this weekly political theatre.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have participated in some of these events. It is just fun to go there and hike with the European and Jewish girls then end up at a restaurant to dine and drink. This is not resistance, it is just hiking and taunting the zionists. The most ironic part is that the stones we throw rarely reach half the distance to the soldiers, but we always get teargassed. This is somehow supposed to make us feel like we were liberating Palestine. Moreover, the “israeli” Jewish activists are MOSTLY zionist intelligence agents (Shabak or Mossad) who come to study the Palestinians, practice and improve their Arabic skills and gather information preparing for future attacks against the Palestinians, either as an undercover zionist fighter or as an interrogator who studied the Palestinian language and mentality. I don't believe in “israeli” supporters of Palestine. How can he/she live in privilege as an occupier and claim to support my cause, in direct political opposition to the "Jewish State" that provides he or she privilege? Jews who claim to support Palestinian Liberation must be willing to commit class suicide in the process. Otherwise, they are just liberals surfing for an adventure or the police.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This kind of European-zionist-PA funded resistance is not innocent at all. It aims at spoiling the Palestinian youths and neutralizing them to follow a very passive approach that won't bother Palestinian collaboration with the zionist for a “common future” of humanity. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is this the Intifada the suppressed Palestinians want? For the masses of Palestinian people, these demonstrations are dismissed as irrelevant..</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">THE SECOND tendency is composed of extremist leftist and some Islamist factions who call for a militarized Intifada. Can their strategy work?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No fool would believe that a Palestinian military confrontation with the US-armed and financed, fanatically white racist zionist society would lead to a victory for the Palestinians, at least under current political conditions. Thoroughly militarizing the Intifada would more likely lead to further lynchings and massacres and infrastructural destruction.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The normal relation between the occupied and the occupier can't be friendship, “peace” making, business deals and security cooperation (as it is the case with the PA), it is antagonistic. The current style of the Intifada is pretty good to be continued; it is targeting the zionist occupiers whenever it can, and allow fighters to live their daily lives as much normal as they can. Communication between all the political-social sectors is very important for a sustainable Intifada. Militarizing the Intifada would isolate the armed militants and prevent the public from engaging in wide range of resistance activities which are necessary to any successful revolution. Individual military heroics will not alone produce success.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What the General Command should do is to organize general Intifada acts with a weekly or monthly program that assigns certain days for massive demos and other days for curing pain and rest. Individual heroic acts against the zionist occupiers can and should be organized distinctly, in which every Palestinian should be feared as a potential knife attacker or suicide hero. We must instill insecurity within the occupier society.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Twenty five years of the zionist peace process have spoiled the Palestinian people (and especially the Palestinian leadership of Ramallah) to the core. It created a self-induced, illusion of “peace” with the zionist through which the opportunist not only lived well, but were enthusiastically empowered by the American-zionist axis to repress their own people This pseudo-reality has reached its final limit and can't go further. What we need is to create the sustainable resistance culture through which the zionist occupiers should pay in their blood and economy for their occupation, a culture that considers every single zionist on Palestine- All of historic Palestine- as an occupier who should be opposed with ALL the available and possible means.We must end the age of zionist impunity.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This resistance culture should be established and be sustained by the General Command of the Third Intifada.</span><br />
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<i><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The current General Commandment of the Third Intifada is not clear yet, nor it would appear “on the surface” that its members will be immediately arrested by both the PA security police and the zionists, these two parties together don't want any intifada, but the “rule of law under occupation.”</span></i></span><br />
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<i><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The current leadership includes ALL the political parties, including Fateh, Hamas, the Leftist parties and even national rebellious personages who have been struggling for freedom for ages, no one fought to get the zionist peaces process of Oslo accord, nor to set the “rule of law” under the Zionist occupation.</span></i></span><br />
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<i><span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We present below the currently standing political memorandum for the on the ongoing Palestinian Resistance in the West Bank of zionist-Occupied Palestine</span><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">--</span><span style="color: white;"><b>Sami the Bedouin</b></span></span></i><br />
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LIBERATORhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13962103370208944780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1133891722087704983.post-33315719963309109732015-10-12T11:46:00.000-07:002016-12-16T12:40:29.294-08:00The Farrakhan Follies: Act II (2015)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As I saw and heard the second self-coronation of Minster Louis Farrakhan as
PRINCE OF THE NEGROES, I thought I was listening to a remake of an old Jerry
Lewis movie, with the same tin jokes. I was to witness the same social and
intellectual constipation as the first Million Man March back in 1995. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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seeking actual power in the “real world,” they seek symbolism and metaphor as
their vehicles of expression under the guise of mass mobilization.</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">After
hearing about the Million Man March part two; I thought I was listening to
Vernon Reid lead guitar on the “Cult of Personality” playing too fast on a 78
speed vinyl. Once again the Black constituencies have been treated to a replay of empty symbolism. I must begin that this isn’t my first piece of writing
that is critical of Mr. Louis Farrakhan and ,actually on a deeper level, this
piece is not a polemic against the Nation of Islam (per se), but on a more
profound level. I point the finger at inane, self-declared Black revolutionary
nationalist activists and their fetishization of stylized, empty militancy that
relies on the symbolism of an united front with Black face political
reaction. We are addressing here the coon show minstrel troop of the Democratic
Party whose sole approach to </span><i style="font-size: 10pt;">all</i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
political phenomenon within the struggle of the Black population and the Black
working class, specifically, </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">is to create
a United Front of Blacks </span><i style="font-size: 10pt;">for</i><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> the
Democratic Party. This operatively translates into a united front for Black
opportunism and Black face capitalist reaction—the junior partners of the
Democratic Party.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Million Man March <i>numero deux</i> was just the theatrical
manifestation of this threadbare strategy for Black petit-bourgeois careerism. Once
again African American got punked-out by ostentatious and empty symbolism that
was never meant to go anywhere. Its only purpose is to quench the thirst of the
old hacks for their long gone glory in an imaginary political/historical
relevancy. Likewise, it also strives to mine the enraged Black youth population for
a new legion of suckers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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dissect what the Honorable Louis Farrakhan uttered on Mr. Charlie’s front lawn
on October 10, 2015, his most "militant" statement. He declared, “We must rise up and stalk and kill people
who are killing us.” Welcome to the Theatre of the Reckless and Absurd. Black
people experience police terrorism across the US and around the clock. Black
people are cast into dungeons called prisons on the slightest pretext. What
does “rise up” mean? What does “stalk and kill” mean? Certainly the esteemed minister
did not advocate organized, armed resistance against the state in Washington,
DC, the bowels of the oppressive beast. That would be not only needlessly politically
provocative but would be illegal. Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam cult are fanatically
law abiding, remember? So we can only surmise that Farrakhan was simply playing, acting
the theatrical role of revolutionary leader for the enjoyment of the crowd. He
certainly has now nor ever had an operative revolutionary agenda. Or maybe the
great leader of the Black masses has had a sort Che’ Guevara epiphany. Things
happen, you know? But then I ask, what role would the Nation of Islam play in
stalking white, Black, Latino and even Asians people (cops) “who are killing us?”
The killers have been around in full effect long before the founding of
Farrakhan’s religious cult, and they haven’t stopped “killing us” yet. When has
Farrakhan’s NOI prevented a killing or ever killed a killer? Nonetheless,
Farrakhan’s righteous, revolutionary histrionics in Washington elicited the
expected crowd reaction, a thunder of aaamens and applause.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At this point we all
know the problems that plague Black poor people in this country. From mass
incarceration to unemployment to shabby health care…Black people suffer all of
the afflictions that come with grinding poverty and political disorganization. Now
Farrakhan is asking people to take on the state, meaning the police and other military personnel, to wage war! But after the whooping, hollering and signifying
of the Washington crowd subsided, nobody bothered to ask Farrkahan and the NOI what
is their PLAN for armed insurrection. Does
it resemble the tactics and strategy for selling weekly newspapers and hawking bean
pies? Quite frankly, the Nation of Islam has no material nor theoretical infrastructure
to wage any form of confrontation with anybody other than Black people who may “insult
the messenger” by raising criticisms or political opposition to the cult. When
was the last time the NOI stalked and killed among the great herds of KKK negrophobes
and skinheads in the country? As a mere Broker-of-Discontent, Farrakhan knows
that he doesn’t need a plan, only a stage and an appropriately hysterical script.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Louis Farrakhan</span><span style="color: #fff2cc;"> </span></b></span><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The high point of
Farrakhan’s theatrical career was October 16, 1995, the Million Man March.
Farrakhan’s subsequent media coronation as the Prince of the Negroes began at
that point. Prior to that, the NOI was merely a Black bogeyman that the Jewish
Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and other zionist social formations paraded as the
epitome of Black anti-semitism. Needless to say, Farrakhan relished his role as
the Black ogre and garnered great bushel baskets of free nation-wide publicity.
Meanwhile, the ADL brandished Farrakhan as the reason why the organization was
still relevant as the Protectors of the Jews, and consequently rode fear and
loathing of Farrakhan to the bank in vastly increased donations. But to actually grasped the historical
development of the call for the first Million Man March and what put him within
center stage of African American protest leadership for a very short time, it must
be noted that the 1995 affair was the logical outcome of a very long train of
political developments that arose out of an evolution of a post-civil rights,
post-segregation social landscape. In short, Black political thinkers and
activists, stripped of their traditional political/social objectives of assimilation
and <i>de jure</i> civil equality had
nothing to fight for short of the overthrow of the bourgeois state. And they
were not about to touch that hot potato as long as there were faculty jobs and
electoral political prestige to be had from the class status quo. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since the 1970s, African
Americans have soothed this strategic political vacuum through “invented
traditions” such as Kwanzaa and the pseudo-discipline of Afrocentricity; the
first developed by Ron Karenga and the latter fathered by Molefi
Kete Asante. These trendy social palliatives helped to make the rise of
Farrakhan possible by creating a culture of “Black orthodoxy” or
“cultural politics” through the subtle dismantling of critical thought and
reflection and their replacement with conspiracy theories and pseudo-scientific
notions of Black (African) authenticity. For example, Kwanzaa has NO organic
relationship with Africa or African culture or history. Yet Kwanzaa is
unquestionably accepted and celebrated by many African Americans as an
authentic relic from Africa, the “Motherland.” Likewise, Afrocentrism, which
had the potential to become a rigorous intellectual discipline that could have
provided answers to Africa’s past, is now a window into a race fantasy in which
every Black man is a descendent of a once-noble king or warrior. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In this
tyranny of orthodoxy, any negative criticism or action against the so-called
militant Afrocentric leadership can and would be viewed through the prism of
Black authenticity, i.e., "Real brothas don’t kick against the king (uniformly
self-proclaimed) because Mr. Charlie might exploit our disunity." The same
thinking was employed by dashiki-clad Democratic Party operatives to herd millions
of Blacks behind Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, despite Obama’s overt
disinterest in Black suffering. Symbolism took precedent over political
substance. “Well, he’s the Black man in charge!” Of what? For whom? No answer
need be offered under regimen of Black orthodoxy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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like Black reparation or Afro-centric curricula are easier to address than
defective public schools, environmental racism and police terror. To understand
African American political culture today we see intellectual vulgarization and commercialization
elevated to social and cultural norms as tools of ambition at the peril of the
de-classed and lower strata of the Black population.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Unlike most of the
established Black political class, Farrakhan is not a part of the dominant
political structure, meaning subordinate to the white-led Democratic Party.
Farrakhan’s day in the sun was made possible by the Black political elite’s
increasing irrelevance. His rise as a Black spokesman signaled the demise of
the civil rights establishment and the de-authorization of Black leaders--political
and intellectual. The fact that Farrakhan called for a march, and arguably a
million or so men answered, underscores the political circumstances of African
American political leadership. They—the established politicians and academics/intellectuals—failed
in the late 1980s and early 90s to move beyond the already-colonized civil rights
agenda to direct conflict with reactionary policies of both the Democratic and
Republican parties. For example: The GOP’s “Contract with America” went
unchallenged by Black intellectuals and activists. Bill Clinton’s rape of the
social welfare system didn’t elicit a peep from the erstwhile protectors of the
Black poor. The list goes on to include the War on Iraq (1&2), the
imposition of a police state via the so-called Patriot ACT and more. The Black
intelligentsia and political elite have consistently shown that they owe allegiance to the Democratic Party and strive for vested caucus status in
that party as their strategic goal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Within this
context, Farrakhan can be understood as the “Premier showman who actually
performed leadership.” (By Claude A Clegg III “You’re Not Ready for
Farrakhan.” <i>Black Political Organization in the Post-Civil Rights Era</i>)
Farrakhan in the Post-Civil rights era was able to do something that establish
Black leadership could not, namely draw out large numbers of Black people for a
perverse version of Bread and Roses. The 1995 “Million Man March” was the logical
culmination of what he had been doing for years. Possibly, by 1995 Farrakhan
was the most influential Black entertainer in the theatrical role of race
leader in America. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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reprise of his most cherished and lucrative role on October 10, 2015. The delivery
of his sophistry was superb. But the content of his address was hackneyed.
Maybe the event was a sort of swan song for elderly cult leader, so he felt
compelled to engage in his usual historical revisionism, namely:</span><br />
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<li><span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">The NOI really had
nothing to do with the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X. Well, not a whole lot.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Elijah Muhammad, the
Messenger, was not really a pedophile. </span><i style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">(As Farrakhan tells the story now, Elijah Muhammad’s offspring from his under-aged servant girls
are the children of the prophet, after all, and middle class strivers who now
assist Farrakhan in building a new and improved Nation of Islam. Case closed!)</i></li>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Indeed, the October 2015
anniversary jamboree in Washington was not “A Day Of Atonement.” Likewise,
Blacks were not lectured about white social control employing the historically
dubious <i>Willie Lynch</i><i> Letter
</i>as the central textbook. The event was just a remake of Black militant
conservatism as the Theater of Black opportunism. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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Farrakhan’s spectators chanted on the Capitol lawn. Justice or else? What is the ELSE? I am waiting for an answer
from Farrakhan and the NOI. But I am not holding my breath.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For History is on our
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LIBERATORhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13962103370208944780noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1133891722087704983.post-25258213584325440942015-10-08T19:33:00.000-07:002015-10-08T19:51:33.873-07:00Same sex marriage: The triumph of neo-liberalism<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc;">By Dawn UWANGUE</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">The recent legalization of same sex marriage was a triumph of neo-liberalism in the Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender-Queer (LGBTQ) cultural/social stratum of the US because the genesis of the movement was top down, benefited a very small percentage of LGBTQ community members, and responded to none of the concerns of the working class and poor who comprise the vast majority of the LGBTQ community. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: small;"><i>And after the wedding ceremony, they will still be two "homos" in AmeriKKKa.</i></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc;"><br style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Neoliberalism is loosely defined as an ideology that advocates for the privatization of everything, the subjugation of everything to market forces, and the denial of the commonweal. Marriage--same-sex or otherwise--is about access to resources. Society has decreed that the condition of marriage should be subsidized and encouraged by the state, hence the 1000+ benefits marriage makes available. Sexual minorities used to provide an alternative, a living example of life outside the stultifying tedium of bourgeois marriage and child-rearing. Now that marriage is a dying institution for straight people, collapsing under the weight of abuse, abandonment, alienation and alcoholism, capitalist society vampirically looks to the LGBTQ community to make marriage seem relevant. The high divorce rates mean that people are living in different family formations that suit their needs--not the state's. The primacy of the nuclear family is long gone as is the idea that the family unit is the best way to have human needs met. Whereas sexual minorities once provided an example of different ways of organizing family life, the legality of same sex marriage now comes with the presumption that marriage is the best way to create families and take care of loved ones. Few people are challenging that presumption.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">The laudatory coverage in the mainstream media should be a red flag that we are being tricked. US corporate-controlled media is wholly committed to Neo-liberal ideology. If marital status is an acceptable means of distributing money, access to health insurance, housing, or immigration status, more people have been diverted from the idea that access to these things is a human right, not a privilege conferred by the state to manipulate people into conforming and organizing their personal lives in ways that that are socially acceptable. The freedom to marry becomes the compulsion to marry. What happens to those who do not wish to marry for whatever reason? </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Wrote William Pleasant of Barack Obama's cynical, pre-election 2012 epiphany of support for same sex marriage: 'T</span></span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-size: small;">he glitterati of the "lesbian/gay community (whatever that means, except as a luscious advertising market and donor base to the DP)" has soiled its panties in joy, according to the </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>NEW YORK TIMES</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="font-size: small;">. Obama said he has no problem with TWO LADIES or TWO GUYS getting married. So what?</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.48px;">"</span><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.48px;">That is not revolutionary, continued Pleasant, "Tactically speaking, it isn't even progressive. Same-sex marriage operatively means that more county registry offices will collect more marriage license fees. We can expect Men's Warehouse to add bridal gowns to its stock. And, likewise, divorce lawyers will reap a new market for their brand of court room mayhem. Right? Think about it."</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc;"><br style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">How does marriage address anti-gay discrimination in housing, employment, educational, and policing policy? Or the right to raise children? What protection does same sex marriage offer to a working class LGBTQ person who does not have a large estate to worry about?</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc;"><br style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">In the face of people like Kim Davis--who obviously has never heard of the concept of separation of church and state--it might be difficult to think same sex marriage advocates sharing the same world view as conservatives; however the promotion of marriage as a way to have access to resources and care is a profoundly conservative position that leaves out single people and people who have their personal relationships organized in different ways. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc;"><br style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">The Against Equality Collective critiques the same sex marriage issue from a radical queer perspective. They call into question the process by which same sex marriage--which only benefits wealthy LGBTQ people-- was imposed on a community reeling from a new level of precarity, which gay marriage does not solve. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">The assimilationist tendency craves respectability. The radical tendency can be summed up, according to </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">by the slogan "We don't want to marry. We just want to fuck smash the church/smash the state" Members of the Against Equality Collective represent a multiplicity of radical queer voices. Sycamore is a proud anti-lmperialist who finds it absurd that the mainstream gay movement has invested its money and political energy into gaining access to the two most conservative institutions in the world-the military and marriage. Sycamore also criticizes the mainstream LGBTQ for its identity politics, saying identity should be a beginning point, not an endpoint.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On late evening October 4, Facebook informed me that:</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Indeed, the image is provocative and a political stylization of female external genitalia ("nudity") but it pales before the millions of daily FB photo and video posts that are outright pornographic. FB definitely has no problem with them. It is not nudity that offended the FB censors but the political content of the nudity that enrages them. Who reported my visual comment? I will never know, but I suspect it is a paid zionist spy on PALESTINE LIVE, one of my groups.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But FB was not satisfied with erasing my little hairy fellow. They demanded that I remove two other posts directly from my timeline. Again, the content of my posts were political and directed at US Middle East policy and the zionist squatter regime in Palestine. I was informed that if I did not remove them, then my FB account would be cancelled.</span></b></div>
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<i style="color: #141823; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This posts comes from a series of "ISIS COMMUNIQUES" I have produced over the past six months. They are, well, tongue-in-cheek comments on the collusion between the Obama regime and the Prophet Sheldon (as in Sheldon Adelson and AIPAC) and lunatic faux Muslim mercenaries. Obviously, their mission is to destroy the infrastructure of Middle Eastern nations and render them balkanized cantons at the mercy of the US and its Israeli proxies.</span></i><br />
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<i style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maybe the equation of Bibi Netanyahu with the maniacal murderer<br />Bill Sykes from OLIVER TWIST was too hot for FB to handle. Or maybe,<br />in light of ongoing IOF-abetted settler lynch mob attacks on unarmed<br />Palestinians (especially children), the image of the helpless dog struck </span></i><br />
<i style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">too close to home. In any event, this image had to go, insisted the FB police!</span></i><br />
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LIBERATORhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13962103370208944780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1133891722087704983.post-16825945148809061612015-07-02T23:09:00.002-07:002015-07-03T12:39:42.356-07:00BDS: The "Israel" lobby meets the genie...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span data-reactid=".2qc.1:4:1:$comment954466167938294_954760874575490:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.0" style="line-height: 16.0799999237061px;"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 16.0799999237061px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Today, the Obama regime insisted that it would abide the clause in the Trade Protection Authority act that effectively shields the zionist regime in Palestine from European Union boycott/sanction measures. But Obama's State Department minions threw in a monkey wrench: They will only enforce the shield clause when European governments target businesses in the pre-1967 borders of Israel, meaning that zionist enterprises residing in the contested West Bank can be attacked without fear of any US retaliation.</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 25px;"><i>The </i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.0799999237061px;"><i>Trade Protection Authority (</i></span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 25px;">TPA) is primarily focused on international trade between the U.S. and Europe. The pro-zionist section of the legislation, the U.S.-Israel Trade and Commercial Enhancement Act, bans boycotts and other means of economic warfare against Israel or the “Israeli-controlled territories.” </i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 25px;">The amendment states that its objective is to:</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">".</span>..[D]iscourage politically motivated actions to boycott, divest from, or sanction Israel by states, non-member states of the United Nations, international organisations, or affiliated agencies of international organisations that are politically motivated and are intended to penalise or otherwise limit commercial relations specifically with Israel or persons doing business in Israel or in Israeli- controlled territories."</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 25px;">Introduced by Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Illinois) with bi-partisan co-sponsorship, the anti-boycott legislation was unanimously adopted into the PTA in April 2015. Obama said today that he will not give backdoor US recognition to the so-called Occupied Territories (</i><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 25px;">“Israeli-controlled territories”</i><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 25px;"> ) by providing diplomatic cover through the TPA. Obama essentially nullified the entire pro-Israel amendment. .</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".2qc.1:4:1:$comment954466167938294_954760874575490:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body" style="line-height: 16.0799999237061px;"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".2qc.1:4:1:$comment954466167938294_954760874575490:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".2qc.1:4:1:$comment954466167938294_954760874575490:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.$end:0:$text0:0" style="background-color: black;">In a way, the addition of the anti-BDS (BOYCOTT-DIVEST-SANCTION) clause to the Trade Protection Act (paid for and ramrodded through congress by AIPAC and its assorted camp followers last week) in and of itself was a sign of the success of the global grassroots movement to force the State of Israel to end its occupation of stolen Palestinian lands, end Jim Crow segregation and come to a mutually beneficial peace arrangement with the Indigenous Palestinian Peoples--the political anathemas of zionist settler colonialism in Palestine.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.0799999237061px;">It acknowledges that not only is BDS putting a boot to the zionist economy, but it threatens to do even greater terminal damage. The zionists know that except for the EU market, they have no significant buyers for their agricultural goods and non-military technologies and products. In a like manner, they understand that their US-sponsored arms industry is highly vulnerable to grassroots political attack in Europe and the US. Moreover, their Third World patrons really don't have the funds to even buy US-subsidized weapons at a level that can remotely sustain the "Israeli" death factories. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.0799999237061px;">Inclusion of the Anti-BDS clause was actually a desperation move ordered by the Israeli government through its US-deployed agents, designed to sooth the nerves of its hometown constituents in the face of mounting international rejection and isolation. Once again, the bribe-fed US federal legislature was commanded to bark and growl on behalf of the zionist settler state so "Israel" and its US amen corner could rest easy. But maybe the tried and true narcotizing powers of that script have lost their political relevance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.0799999237061px;">Fact of the matter is that the BDS movement has structurally changed the political landscape of US pro-zionist policies. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.0799999237061px;">Obama's apparent revolt against anti-BDS provisions represents a domestic political concession that BDS is unstoppable, just as the South African anti-apartheid divestment and sanction movement quickly became a social snowball.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.0799999237061px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">Obama has signalled his zionist sugar daddies, "Look, boss, you're on your own now..." </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.0799999237061px;"><span style="color: #fff2cc;">The zionists are absolutely correct in charging that BDS is a strategy for destroying the State of Israel, not just ending West Bank military dictatorship. BDS makes no operative distinction between the occupied territories (BTW: All of Palestine is zionist occupied territory.) and the UN-manufactured 1947 zionist colonial entity. BDS puts the lash to the occupiers and their state apparatus wherever they may reside. </span></span></div>
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LIBERATORhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13962103370208944780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1133891722087704983.post-11754323147726360872015-06-26T15:03:00.001-07:002015-07-12T20:32:46.007-07:00Farrakhan reprise: The Million Chiclets March 2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: black;">Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said Wednesday (June 24, 2015) he plans to hold a Millions for Justice march in the nation's capital this fall, 20 years after the Million Man March.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fce5cd; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During a speech at Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Washington, Farrakhan said he intends to hold the rally Oct. 10 on the National Mall, site of the October 15, 1995 rally.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The NOI leader was ostensibly coronated Prince of the Negroes <br />by the corporate media at the 1995 Million Man March.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fce5cd; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"This is the time our people must see our unity," Farrakhan said. "Let's make 10/10/15 a meeting place for those who want justice, for those who know what justice is." Hmmm. That is an interesting mobilizing target. Are those people who want justice and those who know what justice is mutually exclusive groups. If they are not, then why do they need to meet? Just askin, y'all...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fce5cd; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ousted NAACP executive director Benjamin Chavis, who helped organize the original Million Man March, said he is optimistic that this year's turnout will be "in excess of a million." He said the event's success would be measured more by the political and socio-economical impact it has on communities.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fce5cd; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1995, Louis Farrakhan and his followers managed to stage a monster gathering of Black men on the lawn of the US Capitol. The domestic and international media stood in awe as the religious cult leader urged Black men everywhere to atone for their moral and political failures, and dedicate themselves to an erstwhile revolutionary path to Black Liberation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fce5cd; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In fact, Farrakhan's four-hour sermon on Black sin and Black redemption (atonement) became such a media sensation that even then president Bill Clinton stepped in for a bite. Speaking at the University of Texas-Austin (October 16, 1995), the US president declared, <i>"</i><i>Well, today's march is also about pride and dignity and respect. But after a generation of deepening social problems that disproportionately impact black Americans, it is also about black men taking renewed responsibility for themselves, their families, and their communities. (Applause.) It's about saying no to crime and drugs and violence. It's about standing up for atonement and reconciliation. It's about insisting that others do the same, and offering to help them. It's about the frank admission that unless black men shoulder their load, no one else can help them or their brothers, their sisters, and their children escape the hard, bleak lives that too many of them still face..."</i> (THE WHITE HOUSE: Office of the Press Secretary, For Immediate Release October 16, 1995)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fce5cd; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Flushed with media fame and politically endorsed by no less than the leader of the free world, Farrakhan went on a global whirlwind tour as the world's most famous Black non-entertainer. Dictators and presidents from throughout Africa and the Arabs states lined up for a photo-op with the new and improved Shining Black Prince, most notably Nigeria's military strongman Sani Abacha who soon afterwards put the progressive indigenous opposition intellectual Ken Saro Wiwa to the sword. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fce5cd; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Likewise, Sudan's Black, arabophilic dictator Omar El-Bashir had only hugs and kisses for the Nation of Islam leader, as he merrily went about conducting genocidal military campaigns against the Nubian people and various non-Muslim tribes in South Sudan. Farrakhan had tea with the late Libyan leader Colonel Muhammar Khadafi, leading to a false rumor that the ruler of the oil-rich nation was ready, willing and able to lay a wad of cash (some said $1 billion) on Farrakhan and his revolutionary Black atonement movement. This, of course, provoked a stampede of Black businessmen, entertainers and outright grifters who had stood on the sidelines of the Million Man March to join in coronating the New Black Prince, in hope of being first in line when their new-found royal majesty began to dole out Khadafi's donation money. Needless to say, Khadafi's check for Farrakhan somehow got lost in the mail.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fce5cd; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Riding Farrakhan's media tidal wave, Bill Clinton at the University of Texas echoed Farrakhan's sad assessment of Black America.<i> "And blacks are right to think something is terribly wrong when African American men are many times more likely to be victims of homicide than any other group in this country," the president explained. "When there are more African American men in our corrections system than in our colleges; when almost one in three African American men in their 20s are either in jail, on parole or otherwise under the supervision of the criminal justice system -- nearly one in three. And that is a disproportionate percentage in comparison to the percentage of blacks who use drugs in our society."</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fce5cd; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Clinton went on,"<i>Now, I would like every white person here and in America to take a moment to think how he or she would feel if one in three white men were in similar circumstances. </i><i>And there is still unacceptable economic disparity between blacks and whites. It is so fashionable to talk today about African Americans as if they have been some sort of protected class. Many whites think blacks are getting more than their fair share in terms of jobs and promotions. That is not true. That is not true. (Applause.)The truth is that African Americans still make on average about 60 percent of what white people do; that more than half of African American children live in poverty. And at the very time our young Americans need access to college more than ever before, black college enrollment is dropping in America."</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fce5cd; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Was Bill Clinton a closet Fruit of Islam? Not likely. But he and Farrakhan share the same hokey Democratic Party political ideology, dripping with the moralistic and boot-strapping-as-social-progress harangue of the southern Baptist Church. And they both produced the same political/social outcomes for Black people in 2015. You see, Bill Clinton's 1995 description of the Black American horror show has either remained the same or worsened in depth and ferocity since 1995. And now, 20 years later, Louis Farrakhan wishes again to enlist, as Ben Chavis said this week, "in excess of a million" more Blacks behind a patently failed political movement. What is the utility of staging another Million Chiclets March?--Million Chiclets because the 1995 event amounted to little more than an assembly of atomized wads of gum to be politically chewed and spat out by Farrakhan and ultimately the Democratic Party.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fce5cd; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Farrakhan's reasons for staging an encore of his hit 1995 performance in Mr. Charlie's backyard are apparent. The sun is setting on Farrakhan (82) and the NOI cult. The cadre of Nation of Islam stalwarts, as well as its sympathizer base, are rapidly aging. The group is socially contracting. Moreover, the NOI has been consistently upstaged in theatrical militance by the New Black Panther Party and other secular formations over the past two decades. Ironically--ideologically speaking--the NOI reached its Promised Land with the 2008 election of Barack Obama, by magnitude the ultimate act of Black-for-Black "unity" and utter political capitulation to the Democratic Party in the history of the United States. Needless to say, a large fraction of Black people see the fruit of that "unity" and they are not very impressed today. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #fce5cd; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Therefore, the central question here is why would Black Americans, after 20 years of further social and political decline, waste one neuron of brain matter considering going down a dead end to but another dead end with Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam?</span></div>
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LIBERATORhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13962103370208944780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1133891722087704983.post-17038940577448444932015-06-25T11:22:00.002-07:002015-10-12T16:10:55.990-07:00Charleston, white terrorism and the Black Danse Macabre<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the major social afflictions in American social cultures is its abilities to always jump into the shitty eddy with both feet of a-historicism to explain everything and all truth away under the rubric of personal “Feel Good." </span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As usual, we are all treated to the sterile and vulgar flatulence of bloated toads of Black and white liberals attempting to explain white supremacy and its role in the genesis of racial domestic terrorism under the big tent of Kum-Ba-Ya moments. Blacks and whites exchange hugs around the Americana campfire. Meanwhile, we are expected to believe that last Wednesday's act in Charleston, SC was just the tantrum of a troubled individual and not the self-groomed ideologue of Americana. The fact of the matter is that Dylann Roof, the author of the Charleston Massacre, draped in his South African and Rhodesian apartheid regalia, really is as American and contemporary as mom, apple pie and Chevrolet.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After watching events in Ferguson, Staten Island, Baltimore, Los Angeles and a number of other places too numerous to mention, I had an unexpected impulse to speak to the more courageous and focused formations of “Black Lives Matter” and ask them to take their protests to the Black church where the families of the nine victims and their supporters felt compelled to publicly bestow forgiveness and solace to a militant ideologue of white supremacy, namely Dylann Roof. Either the "Black Lives Matter" mantra has yet to seep into the pews of America's Black congregations, or it has done so and the armies of toe-tapping church cultists simply reject it out of hand.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nine Black people--three men and six women--were gunned down in Charleston. The superficial reason is apparent: Of course, America is terminally socially diseased and more than currently dysfunctional!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While most whites seeks to explain away America's gunslinging, lynch-roping institutionalize racism as a function of individual crazed behavior, of ignorant prejudice that afflicts "unenlightened crackers,” the underlying white mass reflex is to treat white terrorism as a sort of social geek show, an opportunity to turn away in disgust, an occasion to smugly take satisfaction in the fact that it's some other clown and not them who must now dance beneath the moral stagelight.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But, in all of the humming and praying and singing and moaning in the wake of the killings, not once has the Charleston Massacre been portrayed in truth. Indeed, it was a murder that took place in the erstwhile sanctity of a church. Without a doubt, the nine victims were innocent. But the killings did not take place in any church, and the prime target was not just some poor bloak who happened to show up for a Wednesday prayer meeting rather than beam up on the latest TV-borne cultural smack.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The alleged lone gunman, Dylann Roof, not only stalked the church but he also chose his target well. You see, there is nothing psychotic about political assassins. And without question, the attack on Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church was nothing short of a political rubout for the political benefit of the South Carolina Republican Party and its racist riff-raff base.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reverend Clementa Pinckney, leader of Mother Emanuel AME Church, ate an assassin's bullet last Wednesday night because he was also a South Carolina State Senator. You see, there are great herds of blowhard Black preachers to cap in Charleston, no less across South Carolina. Dylann Roof could have had a turkey shoot. But no Black preacher in South Carolina wielded the political juice of Clementa Pinckney. He was the most outspoken progressive member of the South Carolina legislature where, despite the state's large Black population, Blacks occupy a handful of seats (22 State Assembly/ 10 State Senate, in atrociously gerrymandered districts). Pinckney served on the Banking and Insurance, Corrections and Penology, Education, Finance and Medical Affairs committees in the South Carolina State Senate. Needless to say, from these powerful positions, he was a dagger to the throat of the racist and reactionary Republican Party, bent on dismembering all social welfare in the state--education and medical affairs--and promoting the business agendas of the rich--banking and insurance and the prison-industrial complex.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Indeed, across the US, Black elected officials have been assassinated by white reactionaries since the end of the Civil War.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pinckney was the chief sponsor of legislation that created a state-financed child health care system.</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He attacked the wholesale tax seizure of farm lands, especially Black-owned property.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He led the effort to establish public financing of state electoral campaigns.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He demanded tighter gun control and background checks for buyers.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pinckney went after the lucrative real estate developer industry along the so-called "Gold Coast" (the Myrtle Beach-Charleston-Hilton Head Island axis) by demanding higher taxation for outrageously under-funded public schools.</span></li>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Make no mistake, Clementa Pinckney was no V. I. Lenin, but he was a consistent irritant to South Carolina's white supremacist gangster class and leading business interests. Within the backward politics of the ignoramus-ruled, impoverished and racially terrorized state, anybody approaching Pinckney's robust defense of Black people and the poor in general was destined to pay a price. He paid with his life. This carefully avoided perspective actually reduces the current exhibition of national mass grief and political handwringing to a vast circus of insane political denial by Black people and equally galling opportunism by the political/cultural elite.</span><br />
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twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce..." Marx, 18th Brumaire</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dylann Roof's killing rampage in Charleston was not a "Hate Crime." It was a calculated hit, designed to decapitate the South Carolina Democratic Party Left that overwhelmingly resides among the Black members of the state legislature. It was also intended to send a clear message that future "Pinckneys" can expect a similar fate.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Instead of confronting the bloodthirsty nature of US electoral politics in 2015, we are treated from head to toe with sociological and psychology-tinged excuses for why and how Black Americans, 150 years after the abolition of de jure slavery, find themselves as politically disarmed as the day they walked off the plantations. You see, the issue is not what to do with the trigger man Dylann Roof but how do we address his racist and reactionary political leadership and material enablers. And of course, that calls into question the legitimacy of every US institution, from the two-for-one political party system to the corporate whore mass media to the dog-n-pony show of American religious/ethical centers. The logical conclusion is that they are all ineffectual in providing Black people (and the poor) with even a modicum of political empowerment, i.e., the capacity to execute self-defense against the very material social sectors that thrive on their oppression.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the wake of the Clementa Pinckney assassination, the most popular excuse for this failure rests upon the sociological observation that Americans of all ethnicities and classes tend to be armed to the teeth. Democratic Party and Republican Party ideologues argue that either there are too many guns in the hands of the population or still too few.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the Republican side, Charles Cotton, a National Rifle Association board member, wrote the night after the Emanuel AME Church massacre, "Something else to consider: The pastor of this church, who was killed, is a State Legislator in S.C. And he voted against concealed-carry. Eight of his church members who might be alive if he had expressly allowed members to carry handguns in church are dead. Innocent people died because of his position on a political issue."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, it appears the assassination would have been prevented if the negroes had properly defended themselves. They ostensibly committed spontaneous and collective suicide through 1.) the inability/unwillingness to shoot back at Dylann Roof in their church and 2.) supporting and following the political leadership of State Senator Clementa Pinckney, who incidentally promoted gun control. For Cotton, the coloreds died for lack of good judgement. The NRA fanatic, of course, avoids the fact that the reason why Dylann Roof went to Mother Emanuel AME Church was because it was a church, a target of vulnerability. It was unarmed. For all of Roof's alleged seething negrophobia, his political mission to rid America of the Black people, he had ample opportunity to kill dozens more Black folks on the street corners of Charleston than at a mid-week Bible study session. There was only one hitch, "the brothas," equally strapped, would have no doubt answered him round for round. Would Cotton explain away the bullet-riddled, white corpse of Dylann Roof in the streets of Black Charleston as a case of death by poor judgement? Not likely.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The flip side to Charles Cotton's racist cretinism, delivered by no less than the President of the United States, was even more appalling. On the morning following the massacre, Barack Obama took to the airwaves to deliver his two cents. Said America's first "Black" president, "We don't have all the facts, but we do know that, once again, innocent people were killed in part because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun. ...And at some point it's going to be important for the American people to come to grips with it, and for us to be able to shift how we think about the issue of gun violence collectively." Obama used the massacre as a platform to reiterate his failed gun control policies, policies that he and everybody else knows have no chance of passing a federal legislature that is openly bribed and intimidated by the NRA. So, an alleged racist lunatic got his hands on some firearms (not unlike the case of most local police officers in the US today). By Obama's measure " innocent people were killed in part" by too ready access to guns. But what was the other part? Obama never said during his remarks to the nation on June 18th.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Could the other part be that one of his own party leaders was targeted for assassination by Obama's political opponents? Could it have been that Clementa Pinckney stood as a lightening rod of Black and progressive opposition to the boastfully reactionary and white supremacist South Carolina Republican Party? Could that microscopic shred of the other part be that the church killing was in the historical tradition of armed repression against Black elected officials in South Carolina? Or more importantly, could that atom-sized other part be Obama's unwillingness and/or inability to employ his authority as president to confront white supremacy in any of its manifestations, including its terroristic spasms? On June 18, President Obama was having none of that other part.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In fact, in his broadcast address, Obama used the term "Black" and "African America" only in describing the origins of Mother Emanuel AME Church, never in description of the victims. (Please refer to the transcript:<a href="http://www.wistv.com/story/29353444/transcript-of-president-obamas-remarks-on-charleston-shooting" target="_blank"> http://www.wistv.com/story/29353444/transcript-of-president-obamas-remarks-on-charleston-shooting</a>) Likewise, he never used the words white, racist, terrorist/terrorism, lawlessness or assassin at all. But he did make emotional use of Dr. Martin Luther King's remarks on Birmingham's September 1963, 18th Street Baptist Church klan bombing that left four Black teens dead--not because they were Black but because they were in a church, by the way, according to the "Black" president. Obama simply and opportunistically drew the "got-jacked-in-church" parallel. But what was chilling about the president's blatant exploitation of history--in service to his moribund gun control policies, never on behalf of defending Black folks--was that when compared to President John F. Kennedy's response to the 1963 Birmingham bombing, JFK comes off more pro-Black.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kennedy declared (September 16, 1963), "I KNOW I speak on behalf of all Americans in expressing a deep sense of outrage and grief over the killing of the children yesterday in Birmingham, Alabama. It is regrettable that public disparagement of law and order has encouraged violence which has fallen on the innocent. If these cruel and tragic events can only awaken that city and State--if they can only awaken this entire Nation--to a realization of the folly of racial injustice and hatred and violence, then it is not too late for all concerned to unite in steps toward peaceful progress before more lives are lost."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here JFK clearly identifies political incitement and racist terrorism as the cause of the killings. It is highly unlikely that he would have attempted to appease white sensibilities by claiming, like Obama, that anti-Black bombings in the US South had one microgram to do with too easy access to dynamite !!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After being subjected to the Dempublicrat political two-step dance around political and racial polarization in contemporary America--the sociological explanation--we are now witness to the shake 'n shimmy of the psychological canard. We are supposed to believe that Dylann Roof blasted the minister and several parishioners of Mother Emanuel AME Church because he was 1.) an ignorant redneck loser, 2.) jilted by his white girlfriend who chose a Black lover instead, 3.) overdosed on mis-prescribed psychotrophic drugs and/or 3.) just plain nuts.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If only one of these psychiatric conditions was a cause for racist mayhem in the USA, then the streets would be littered with Black bodies everyday at the hands of white lunatics. Mental health diagnosis and treatment in this country is an utter joke. According to NAMI (National Association on Mental Illness), "One in four adults−approximately 61.5 million Americans−experiences mental illness in a given year. One in 17−about 13.6 million−live with a serious mental illness such as schizophrenia, major depression or bipolar disorder." (March 5, 2013, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health). In short, the number of potentially homicidal folks daily walking the streets of America exceeds the entire number of US military personnel by at least ten times, and they tend to have firearms or can easily obtain firearms. So, Dylann Roof was crazy when he murdered nine people in Charleston? He was crazy before the act, during the act and will remain out of his mind until the day he croaks. So what? He still, nonetheless, carried out a planned political assassination that requires a political retaliation, if but only for social prophylactic reasons. Roof's political leaders and enablers, nested in the Republican and Democratic parties, must be made to pay a price.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But as Obama demonstrated last week, there is no willingness within the DP leadership to even utter the "R" word (racism). As per the Republican Party, Dylann Roof was actually carrying out the implied and explicit marching orders of its leadership. Political terrorism (judicial and extra-judicial) is actually a platform tactic of the Republican Party today. Remember how the Florida State Police delivered the state's electoral votes to George W. Bush by literally chasing Blacks and Latinos from the polls in 2000? So, who will exact the political pound of flesh on behalf of the Charleston victims?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This question leads to the most bizarre dance of denial of all. Black Democrats, the civil rights establishment, the traditional preacher class and large portions of the Black Left would be the likely folks to make at least a partial political assessment of the Charleston massacre. To them logically falls the task of organizing the Black masses, in the face of the utter failure of Obama, the Democratic Party, the white liberal establishment and the corn-fed Black intelligentsia, to at least provide for political self-defense. They are supposed to appreciate that Dylann Roof is not a lone, deranged white kid who unfortunately got a gun for his birthday but a militant in a movement dedicated to maintaining white supremacy at any cost. Roof is not a creature of the white political fringe but a mainstream actor, especially within the Republican Party contours of South Carolina.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But logic nor sanity do not attain anymore in Black America. This is illustrated best by he crystallized demand of the Black political class in response to the Charleston Massacre. There has been no demand for political power, no demand that the instigators and enablers of assassins like Dylann Roof be at least banished from the political stage. Oh no! The NAACP, the Al Sharpton clique and the regular Black Democratic Party has launched a shrill demand that South Carolina government buildings change their outdoor decor.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since April 11, 1961, to commemorate the Civil War centennial, a so-called Confederate flag has flown over the South Carolina state capitol. Actually, there never was a Confederate flag that ever flew over any government building of the 14 secessionist states during the Civil War. What is generally described as the Confederate flag--the stars and bars-- is only the battle banner of Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Needless to say, Lee's army was trounced by Union forces and the South went down in total defeat, taking its tattered military banner to the grave with it. After decades in the social trash heap, this emblem re-emerged in the wake of the 1954 Brown vs. Topeka Supreme Court ruling outlawing public school segregation, as a symbol of white backlash against efforts to crush apartheid in southern commercial and cultural institutions. It became the American swastika only at that time. For example, the all-white Georgia state legislature explicitly incorporated the rebel battle banner into its state flag in 1956 as a show of white defiance to desegregation. In 2001, due to broad protests, Georgia removed the segregationist reference from its flag. Only the State of Mississippi has a flag that includes the stars and bars at this time.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hours after the Charleston Massacre, somebody somewhere got the notion that the South Carolina government's penchant for displaying the mid-20th century symbol of white supremacy was inappropriate, and a bitter reminder of the racial hostility that motivated Dylann Roof to kill nine people. The sentiment went viral through a social media campaign to #TakeItDown, even provoking our "Black" president Barack Obama to suddenly realize that maybe the "Confederate" flag might be offensive or even intimidating to most Black people. He had never mentioned the issue before.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now with Obama and white liberals in tow, a movement has been spawned where, rather than confronting the issue of political terror against Black people led and enabled by the Republican Party and its southern affiliates, removal of the Confederate flag has become the strategic objective. The AP quoted Lasheya Williams, a Charleston resident and relative of one of the murdered church members as saying, “South Carolina won’t get better overnight; people are set in their ways. It’s sad that it took a tragedy like what happened last week for her to call for it [Confederate flag] to come down. Regardless, this is a baby step.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Indeed, Dylann Roof may have sparked a new public fashion craze across the South. South Carolina's governor Niki Haley was the first to haul down what had previously been her colors, stating, "Today we are here in a moment of unity in our state, and without ill will, to say it’s time to move the flag from the Capitol grounds. One hundred and fifty years after the end of the Civil War, the time has come.” Rightist Republican Governors, like Haley, in Mississippi and Alabama were quick to follow suite, relegating the hated flag to truck stops and trailer parks. Why not? It cost them nothing because the Confederate flag means nothing when the "Confederates" (white neo-fascists) hold state power in the South. In fact, the Confederate flag has accomplished its mission, i.e., rallying downwardly mobile and ignorant southern whites around the Republican Party.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yet Black people, particularly the erstwhile leadership, actually share Lasheya William's notion that somehow political progress has been made, even a "baby step." Nothing has changed. Morris Dees, the founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and arch-jester of the civil rights establishment, correctly quipped, “She [Haley] could not have gotten elected, I’m sure, had she taken this position when she was running for office, because of the racism that honestly exists in South Carolina.” Dees hit the nail on the head; Haley was elected because she campaigned as a negrophobe. And Niki Haley, ironically a person of South Asian descent, will probably be ousted in the next election by the folks who will accuse her of race treason for betraying "their" flag.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>SC Gov. Niki Haley easily retired her white supremacist fetish flag with gusto.</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have a Black political leadership that insists that the Charleston Massacre was an act of racial terrorism that can only be politically addressed by removing a symbol. NAACP president Cornell Brooks demanded on June 19, "...[A]n inspiration of hate, as an inspiration for violence that symbol has to come down.” Does anybody really believe that if the Confederate flag is retired across the country, then nobody will be inspired to commit white political terror? The KKK and the skinheads will retire? Openly reactionary and racist Republican-dominated state legislatures will happily resign their seats? Will white killer cops take vows of peace and regret? Brooks and his crew are simply doomed to a danse macabre, since they cannot face the fact that their reliance on the Democratic Party as the engine of Black Liberation (political empowerment) has only produced two results: 1.) The often anti-Black "Black" presidency of Barack Obama and 2.) A tremendous white racist backlash organized within the Republican Party that effectively holds national political hegemony. Moreover, the traditional Democratic Party coalition (trade unionists, liberal-progressive whites and "minorities") has proven totally ineffective in providing even a crumb of political support to Blacks who now find themselves literally standing alone, facing the business-end of America's racists guns. As such, the Black Left has been reduced to demanding editorial privileges over US iconography. Only in this way, striking the Confederate flag from the state houses of the South can be deemed a "victory" or a racial political advance--even a baby step--by Black Leaders.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But let us be clear, the American powers would have us believe that endless war, belligerence, aggression and threats of new, more catastrophic wars, part of the drive for US global domination, have no consequences. Indiscriminate violence and killing on the part of the American military or intelligence apparatus are their daily<i> raison d'etre</i>. US officials and politicians, mafia-like, blandly discuss “killing” alleged terrorists or “eliminating threats” to “America’s national interests.” Murder, whether by drone or other modern means, has become routinized to a banality. The president, as we know, meets with his advisers every Tuesday, to go over a “kill lists.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dylann Roof, if he was the lone culprit in Charleston Massacre, simply brought America's ultra-violent, racist repression to the domestic stage. Like Barack Obama, he simply lashed out at targets of impunity, led and enabled by a political structure bent on racial domination at home and abroad. Let us not forget that only two months ago, in North Charleston, South Carolina, less than 10 miles from the scene of Wednesday night’s massacre, a local police officer murdered Walter Scott in cold blood with five bullets to the back. Like the worshipers at Mother Emanuel AME Church, Scott was also a target of impunity.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As the US structural TERMINAL CRISIS deepens, with its further descent into economic austerity and naked domestic military repression, the epigones of Dylann Roof will go on the march, not just in the South but across the nation. As lone assassins or as organized death squads they will carry out the bi-partisan program of silencing dissent for the glory of the American Way of Life. Observe! In 2015, a liberal Democrat like South Carolina State Senator Clementa Pinckney--a legally elected, by-the-rules government official--enjoyed the same fate as Mississippi's Medgar Evers or Chicago's Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. In other words, the US state in profound decline finds itself compelled to lash out at even the mildest opposition, especially when it emanates from it Black arch-foes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">History is on our side but not time.</span><br />
<span style="color: #fff2cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The rebellion of the slaves shall be the war of the landscapes!</span><br />
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LIBERATORhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13962103370208944780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1133891722087704983.post-18169057431024019282015-06-20T08:46:00.001-07:002015-06-20T08:46:26.130-07:00GOD BLESS AMERIKKKA behind the patriotic crack pipe<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Treated To A Happy Police Ride For Reckless Eye Balling. GOD BLESS AMERIKKKA behind the patriotic crack pipe...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"> By </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Malik Sekou <b>OSEI</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a song of struggle against the celebration of "betrayal" as ambition and </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Black faces in high places tell you</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "you're on your own." </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> While to </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> people </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> who are supposed to know can </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> only </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> produce an </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "Empire" </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> of </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> racial </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> insults against our </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> humanity </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> as we work our lives </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> into nonexistent dreams. </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Or into long awaited fantasies </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> of self-objectification </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> of misogynist bedpans </span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> of racist emasculation. </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Perhaps, Bob Hope was really serious dude </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> perhaps </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Gilligan's Island wasn't Guantanamo Bay. </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Perhaps all we need to do is </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> remind </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "Buckwheat" Obama </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> that </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Angola, Louisiana is not </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> the </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> figment of </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Richard Nixon's </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> imagination. </span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And we need to </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> demand </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> that the NAACP </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> better give, </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> better give, </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> better give, </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> better give </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Our, </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> our, </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> our, </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> our sometime</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> sister</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Rachel Dolezal </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> an image award </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> for being the </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> only Black </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> in a colored formation </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> of an </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> opportunist being </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> conveniently </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Black </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> when it's in tune with the comfort zone. </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> As we all celebrate </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> the dance of the </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> mentally/socially unstable </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> because they like "US." </span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> As our music videos show Black fathers </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> being choke to death under the Red, White and Blue swine </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> as the youth are </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> treated to a happy police ride for reckless eye balling. GOD BLESS AMERIKKKA behind the patriotic crack pipe... </span><br />
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LIBERATORhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13962103370208944780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1133891722087704983.post-36554418823777244102015-06-19T16:04:00.003-07:002015-06-19T16:39:57.487-07:00The Bloody Sea of Gaza<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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And I felt the earthquake under my butt. I jumped up like crazy and the sand
was sprayed on the food table that was laid between us!</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Unbelievable!
Even right now I don’t know how did that happen; a bloody evening, a bloody night,
a bloody Ramadan, a bloody life. The hell! I still live it as if I am looking
at it right now, right here and forever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">We
were sitting on the sandy terrace putting the Futra (Ramadan fast-breaking
food) on a long plastic blanket that my mom sowed especially for that terrace.
The whole extended family of over twenty people of children, adults, men and
women a few seconds before the evening call to prayer waiting to drink and eat
after 16 hours of fasting. Most of us were sitting on the sand around the long extended
carpet full of food in that breezy bloody evening.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">BOOOM!
I can still hear it right now, and my ears were deafened. I jumped like a fool
and the sand was sprayed out over the food bowls and plates. I rushed toward
the sound source without thinking, I heard my mom shouting: “Come back! Where
are you going?” My wife was shrieking and her voice mingled with the crying
children, my dad was mumbling loudly, but I wasn’t there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">I was
running like a bull and in a few seconds I was on the smoking rubble. It was
the bombing of the house of our neighbors less than two hundred meters away
from ours. When I arrived there was no trace, no sound, but the hot smoke of
the rocket coming out of the rubble. Oh Gosh! Take me now, oh earth split and
swallow me now! Like a lunatic, I stood with glaring eyes looking around,
no trace of the whole house; just eviscerated guts, scattered limbs, shattered skulls,
grey brain matter mixed with blood all around me, children cut off and
scattered body parts, beheaded women, hair, toes, thighs... </span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">I
saw death glaring at me!</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">I
stood there helplessly frozen with wide open eyes that stared out at nowhere.
In a few seconds the place was full of life; young guys running, shouting,
dragging bodies, holding heads, matching body parts, cursing some blasphemous
words while others were praying and praising God, I was still frozen with my
glaring eyes! I looked down my feet, Oh! Shit! I was barefooted standing on a
torn skin of a baby; it was Nidal’s, the youngest of our neighbors, whitish
brain matter mixed with the childish blood. I collapsed, I fell on the rubble
and my chest ribs hit the sharp edge of a broken brick. Flung on my back on the
scattered bricks I felt the piercing pain of my fractured rib, still glaring
wide open, staring at the starry skies. Oh! God, take me now!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">A
young guy dragged me a bit and my jallabeyya dress was full of blood, “Hey! He
is still alive!” and then another guy hurried in and both held me swiftly to
shove me into the awaiting ambulance. I was still glaring with a vacant look:
“Not me! I am OK but ….. a bit of pain in my chest.” I tried to shout feebly
but the paramedic calmed me. </span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">“Shshshsh! Don’t move, you will be OK.” Then the
ambulance rushed beeping to the hospital. I looked around in the cabin, all
guts, no bodies but eviscerated guts, bleeding tattered skin and distorted limbs.
How can I close my eyes?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Soon
I was held by two nurses and was rushed to the operation room, blood was all
over my jallabeyya, on my hands, on my bare feet and on my face! </span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">“Calm down,
inshallah salimeh, everything will be OK!” the doctor said, consoling me. </span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">“I am
not there, I am here, I’m alive, they are dead!” I hallucinated while the
doctor was checking my body gently and when he touched my chest I shrieked out
of the piercing pain in my fractured rib. </span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">“Take him there, he’s OK” the doctor
ordered, and two nurses held me to lay me on the ground near the wall in that
jammed and damned hospital. More urgent and dangerous cases were rushed in and
the doctors had no time even to breath. I was still glaring nowhere and it was
dark by now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Nobody
was looking at me and I was visioning the whole world into my glaring eyes. In
a few minutes I dragged myself and started stepping slowly out of the hospital
among the running people, the ambulances and the paramedics. Soon I was out in
the street alone, dragging myself home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">God,
Jews, zionists, shelling, babies, blood, guts, matter, butchers, I was covered
all over in blood, not my own, but the blood of others women, men, babies and
pets. I was about to reach home when I crossed through a short
road among the orange trees. I felt I wanted to pass wind. I squeezed my
belly feeling the pain in my belly but it was followed by brownish liquid. I
stood near an orange tree and squeezed again hard, the stinky liquid came down
my thighs and then down to my bare feet. </span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Oh Gosh! I am stinky! I cant go home
like this. What would my wife think? Oh Gosh!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">The
sea! Yes, the sea. The sea will wash everything! I stumbled toward the water edge that is a few minutes walk from our home. Embarrassed, I hugged the orange trees, hoping not to meet a familiar face. And then, I came upon the beach. </span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">The smell of the sea, oh shit! I stepped down the dune into
the water, it was early night and the water felt warm. Shit! I am all blood and
shit! I walked with my glaring eyes into the sea until the water reached my
chest, my neck and up to my chin and then the water slapped my face to fill my
glaring eyes. I was blinded by the salty water then I pushed up with my bare
feet and flung my body floating. Oh! The sea, my love and my eternal companion.
Feeling the pain of my fractured rib I stretched my hands slowly behind
my head and floated peacefully looking at the dark serene sky.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Blood,
shit, matter, skin particles, hair and the sea, The bloody sea of Gaza.
Floating and looking up, my whole life came up to my mind as if I lived it all
now and here; when my dad used to hold me on his back, to walk into the sea and
swim. And slowly I became independent with the sea,
living together as I swam farther everyday. Who lives by the sea and in the sea
can never die by the sea or in the sea!! The hell! Why do I say this now?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">I
remembered as a child when we followed Othman who was herding the goats by the zionist border. </span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">“It is full of green grass there and good for the goats.” He
said repeatedly. He was a bit older than us and more daring. That damn day my
cousin and I followed him for nothing, just to play there. When we came close,
there was no trace of him but the goats grazing peacefully. When we came closed
we saw the tracks of the zionist jeep on the sand and grass. </span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">My cousin looked carefully at the tracks and asked me, “Can you tell where was the jeep
heading through the tracks of its wheels only?” </span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">“No, how can I tell?” I looked at
him bewildered. </span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">He pulled me down and said, “Look! Can you see the direction the grass has been bent?” </span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">“Yes, this way, it is still not straight.” I said, trying to make it easy on him. </span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">He continued,“Yes, exactly! The way the grass
is bent, It is the same way the jeep is headed, the wheels push the grass before
them.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">We
followed the tire tracks for a while.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">“OH, My God!” I
shrieked and it was the body of Othman distorted, crushed by the wheels of
the jeep. It was almost flattened.They must have run over him many, many times. Othman's head was flattened, the white marrow showed. </span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">We ran home as quick as we could shrieking. In an hour the men
came back to the village holding Othman on their heavy shoulders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">I
woke up to the roar of a boat in the far distance. It must be a zionist boat, I surmised, since the local fisherman are barred from the water at this time of night. it seemed that
the sea had dragged me a bit deeper tonight. I could see nothing, not even the glistening
high buildings of Gaza, but I could tell my way. I dived in and out, in
deep and out to wash my garment and soul. I took off my dirty undies and swam
back home, diving in and out every few yards and finally I got out in the cold
breeze, heading home shivering, but clean.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">When
I arrived home it was probably midnight and I found my dad sitting on the porch stairs awaiting: </span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">“Where have you been?” he angrily asked. </span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">“I was in the
hospital.” </span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">“Liar!” he replied abruptly “You were in the sea.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="color: yellow;">Damn!
Did I lie? I smiled a pale smile as I passed my dad and entered our house. I felt hot tears
dripping down my cheeks. I felt thirsty and hungry, but my stomach felt as if it
was hollowed out. I wanted to vomit, so I bent down shrieking and coughing
out of my throat but nothing came out, except the piercing pain of my fractured
rib. Then I headed to my bed out in the terrace and drifted to sleep, exhausted, hungry
and thirsty !!</span><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><i><span style="color: white;">PS:
This story is dedicated to the memory of the deliberately assassinated Kilani
family, one of thousands of devastated families of Gaza.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">http://www.beyondthenumber.org/ibrahim-al-kilani-family/<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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LIBERATORhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13962103370208944780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1133891722087704983.post-6081973607809106192015-06-02T13:42:00.000-07:002015-06-02T13:51:25.533-07:00Letter to an elected criminal<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: yellow;">We in the BOYCOTT, DIVEST & SANCTION Movement invite Maryland U.S. Senator Benjamin Cardin to support our human rights campaign. He has joined with Prof. Alan M. Dershowitz and others in declaring that any international efforts to change the policies of the State of Israel amount to "singling out Israel" for special scrutiny and punishment, especially when Israel is the target of boycotts, dives<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">tment and sanctions. As such, Senator Cardin, like many in the federal legislature, have denounced our movement as unfair, and they have taken steps to legally shield Israel from multinational criticism, particularly within the European Union. We wish to sooth Senator Cardin's concerns about Israel being singled out, so we won't mention Israel anymore. Fair is fair, correct? Thus we ask Senator Cardin to join us in applying the Boycott-Divestment-Sanction human rights strategy to any and all nations that:</span></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: yellow;">Engaged in a brutal program of ethnic cleansing against the indigenous residents that included a series of civilian massacres</span></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: yellow;">Has confiscated the lands and homes of those expelled and has refused any guilt or even any offer of reparation, and has refused to allow displaced residents to return solely because they were not members of a preferred ethnic/religious group, thus violating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: yellow;">Currently permits and seeks to expand laws that socially, politically and economically </span><span style="background-color: black; color: yellow;">discriminate against a significantly large minority population based upon religious/ethnic criteria</span></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: yellow;">Builds housing and military installation on illegally confiscated land in violation of the Geneva Convention (Article 4)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: yellow;">Holds several thousand political prisoners, including more than a dozen elected parliamentarians of the subjugated people, as well as hundreds of minor children under draconian conditions and without third-party humanitarian oversight</span></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: yellow;">Possesses a nuclear weapons program while refusing to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and regularly carries out unprovoked military strikes on its regional neighbors</span></span></li>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: yellow;">Now that singling out Israel or anybody else has been removed from the table, we are assured that Senator Cardin will enthusiastically embrace the BDS Movement as a logical, grassroots, moral and peaceful way of addressing such egregious violations of human rights and international law.</span></div>
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Sincerely, Wm <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=813404392" href="https://www.facebook.com/chaydha.pleasant" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Pleasant</a></span></span></div>
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LIBERATORhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13962103370208944780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1133891722087704983.post-44086370604844217392015-06-02T12:58:00.002-07:002015-06-02T13:03:27.143-07:00SLAVE TALK<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The Struggle of Language and Conception</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">By </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Malik Sekou <b>OSEI</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The struggle of language and conception has in struggle its approach of linguistic relativism and linguistic innatism whose general clouds denial the developmental social nature of language and language uses. Also too, this question also uses the “Base” as substructure question and the “Superstructure” as cultural rationality of actual “power” and power relations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> For the polemic here is: can the slave use the language of the slave master to his liberation and self-determination and when the slaves negates the existence of the slave master can the slave still uses the language of the slave master to conceptualize his social transition.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> For language has always played a role in transitioning or rationalizing non-transition. Within certain social tension always plays the role of subterfuge, for all things are political even words. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I will make this a very short and direct without long speculation as the usual academic subterfuge of de-contextualizes imprudence, meaning something only to be explained away. To deny the social nature of human social development is to speculate and to rationalize, irrational social relations. For no society creates institutions for the destruction of that society or at least undermined it in the realm of explanation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> As we are force to examine the question of language without being speculatively linguistic, meaning totally to abstract out of practical social relevance. The question of how do we get language? Is the question that has to be answered and this comes from the social nature of humanity, through labor to humanize their environment. For language is the necessary flower out of the social nature of humanity, through labor, the need for survival and the conception of actual development through cooperation. Language has a very important role in consolidating development, by giving clarity to reality by honing practice and cooperation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> However, in our contemporize time language is not used to provide clarity, but it is used to rationalize the social irrationalize and to rationalize social dysfunction of conspicuous consumption as a denial and escape from reality and illusion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This is why young people don’t master language skills, because American English is meaningless. And so-called “Black” English is just empty styling of a form of poetic words of subterfuge, because preciseness is not needed in quicken slang in social ontology. For without productive labor, language loses its power of social function and only becomes whimsical and entertaining. The thing that has to be added to the pre-linguistic internality to consolidate language …is labor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> For it is usually forgotten is there is a dialectical relation between “Thought” and “language” by social need and necessary.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> For the development of language gives us convention and syntax for meaning or the terms of meaning that comes from outside of subjective introspection and subjective sensibilities of need based on the objective social need, meaning development.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Intended for “meaning” comes from interrogating the world through cooperation or confrontation in struggle to humanize the reality of the world of production of being able to make a living to live.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Without actual “power” language only become the intention of “wishful thinking” a subjective remedy of never having to realistically confront reality in a materialist manner or mode. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> For linguistic is a branch of science that deals in the systematic accounts and explanations of the phenomena of a particular language and the explanations and elaborations of it conceptual systems and theories that give clarity of the use of language. It relates languages and their diversities, clarifies and elucidates the likenesses and distinctions among them, and tries to fashion theories that give formal and practical explanations of the characteristics of language. While it tries to answer a number of philosophical questions, like what is the origin of human language and what is it place within society, and its relation to thought and reality.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> One of the struggles of the questions that have to be addressed is relevant to linguistics or linguistic philosophy is what is the essence or nature of language. As “materialist” on this question of language must begin with the thesis of the unity of material-social activity and language. Accordingly, communication is not just one function of language. On the opposing nature of language and language use, language presumes, both logically and factually, the communication and engagement among people language like consciousness, only arises from “need,” the necessity of intercourse with other people. Henceforth a characteristic thesis is that a radical linguistic theory is that language is essentially, not just a discipline of chance, but is a social phenomenon. This supposition linked with the evidence concerning the joint estimation of consciousness and language, primarily supports the thesis of the social nature of consciousness. The issue here that what has to be fought is with bourgeoisie innatism meaning the theory stressing the innate—the biological determination of the aptitude and capacity of language. While in relation to innatism of language, as radicals we are also critical of the logical possibility of a “private language” of solely speaking to one’s self. However, the most insightful thesis is that language like consciousness originates from work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Another set of issues that has to be addressed in a linguistic materialist fashion is the problem of the interrelation of language, thought and reality. Rendering to these estimations, language and thought form an undividable unity with respect to their performance as well as their origins: for language is the mode of being thoughts. The actual conceptions and actual phrasing has its roots in post-Kantian and German idealist philosophy. This sets up a linguistic relativism that linguistic structures determine different ways of thinking the world outside looks. However most radical linguists are forced to reject linguistic relativism, since radical linguists generally take one form of another of reflective theory as their argument of undertaking and place emphasis on the universality of the forms of human thought, the contradictions thus occurring could be answered in a number of ways.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The universality of human thinking could be related to the universality linguistic structure described by language typology. This approaches universality from the point of view of language forms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Another approach could be the subsumption of speech under the category of activity as it appears in speech act theory, or tracing language back to labor as the universal condition of human life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Our last approach as radicals linguists is to relate linguistic theory to relation to social class and ideology and race and social class within race and ultimately to ideologies. Considering at this point it can be interpreted on the level of semantics. This is why people of the same category of race speak two entirely different languages, because of class and access to formal training. For ideas can never exist outside of language.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> What this shows is that linguistic usage always displays the imprint of class relation and ideologies and race impositions of violence and the power of the rulers that extends to the use of language itself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Now the question become slightly more difficult: does language have the character of the superstructure, as the ideology embedded in it does?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> But our approach does not presuppose any more than the society has taken in general, meaning the necessarily collective nature of human activity. While its interrelation with tangible social-ideological structures is communicated on the level of special sub-codes of linguistic practice and custom, the empirical aspects of that interrelation now belong to the area of sociolinguists.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The one area of intellectual confrontation is the liberal venue of explaining all contradiction away without negating contradiction through emotional sentimentalism. And this was only a very short introduction to this subject.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> For as we master the use of language skills and development, we can approach skills, technology and pedagogy on a must more qualitative basis with higher levels of rigor and results. While language and linguistic understanding has a role in social development but it must be materially based with real goals and objectives that must be wages against backward ideas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> For if understanding language is significant to our existence and growth. While we are stifled in understanding the geneses and repercussions of our words, thus we cannot communicate our thoughts effectively and coherently thus we are still would be stuck in a paper bag we cannot not break out of, because we lack the tools of imagination and rigor.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> For history is on our side, but not time… </span><br />
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<span class="yiv7600761068" style="line-height: 15.3333330154419px;"><span class="yiv7600761068" style="background-color: black; color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> Only to</span></span></div>
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<span class="yiv7600761068" style="line-height: 15.3333330154419px;"><span class="yiv7600761068" style="background-color: black; color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> Understand</span></span></div>
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<span class="yiv7600761068" style="line-height: 15.3333330154419px;"><span class="yiv7600761068" style="background-color: black; color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> The world is material</span></span></div>
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<span class="yiv7600761068" id="yiv7600761068yui_3_16_0_1_1431888155085_575441" style="line-height: 15.3333330154419px;"><span class="yiv7600761068" style="background-color: black; color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> And</span></span></div>
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<span class="yiv7600761068" style="line-height: 15.3333330154419px;"><span class="yiv7600761068" style="background-color: black; color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> Dialectical</span></span></div>
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<span class="yiv7600761068" id="yiv7600761068yui_3_16_0_1_1431888155085_575055" style="line-height: 15.3333330154419px;"><span class="yiv7600761068" style="background-color: black; color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> “Mutha-fuker.”</span></span></div>
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<span class="yiv7600761068" id="yiv7600761068yui_3_16_0_1_1431888155085_575434" style="line-height: 15.3333330154419px;"><span class="yiv7600761068" style="background-color: black; color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> And all confused</span></span></div>
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<span class="yiv7600761068" id="yiv7600761068yui_3_16_0_1_1431888155085_575436" style="line-height: 15.3333330154419px;"><span class="yiv7600761068" id="yiv7600761068yui_3_16_0_1_1431888155085_645055" style="background-color: black; color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> Social parasites,</span></span></div>
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<span class="yiv7600761068" id="yiv7600761068yui_3_16_0_1_1431888155085_579636" style="line-height: 15.3333330154419px;"><span class="yiv7600761068" style="background-color: black; color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> the deprave</span></span></div>
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<span class="yiv7600761068" style="line-height: 15.3333330154419px;"><span class="yiv7600761068" style="background-color: black; color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> the desolated</span></span></div>
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<span class="yiv7600761068" id="yiv7600761068yui_3_16_0_1_1431888155085_575438" style="line-height: 15.3333330154419px;"><span class="yiv7600761068" style="background-color: black; color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> the seduced</span></span></div>
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<span class="yiv7600761068" style="line-height: 15.3333330154419px;"><span class="yiv7600761068" style="background-color: black; color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> the negation of history,</span></span></div>
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<span class="yiv7600761068" style="line-height: 15.3333330154419px;"><span class="yiv7600761068" style="background-color: black; color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> As we listen</span></span></div>
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LIBERATORhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13962103370208944780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1133891722087704983.post-7923672070915935512015-04-29T13:16:00.003-07:002016-03-17T23:17:21.689-07:00Baltimore: America always loves a Mammy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">By William<b> PLEASANT</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On Monday (April 28, 2015), in the shadow of Mondawmin Mall, the last corporate-owned retail outlet in the northwest Baltimore 'hood, a Black mother, dressed in obvious working class chic attire, spotted her son among the throng of enraged youths hurling anything within reach at platoons of police guarding the stores. She jumped the boy, punching, shoving and cursing. She screamed: ”You thought I wouldn’t recognize you?!” She continued hitting the young man, who accepted her blows and verbal abuse without retaliation. He followed his mother to her car. The woman continued to scream:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Boy! Get your behind.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What is wrong with you huh?? What is wrong with you?</span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Take the fucking mask off. You wanna be brave? Take it off!</span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You wanna be out here doing this dumb stuff? This dumb shit? Get the fuck over here. Get over here now! You hear what I say?</span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Come over here. Get over here!!"</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The young teen winced in shame and sheepishly followed his mother out of the camera frame. Another Black child was flogged and publicly humiliated in the street. It is unlikely that the Mondawmin Mall incident was the first time the teenager had been whooped and cursed. But this time the episode was captured by Baltimore's WMAR, an ABC-affiliated television station. The video went viral, garnering thousands of instant views.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Indeed, the tweet world went wild with applause for the mother, much of it characterized as this: </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To the mom that smacked her kid for rioting in Baltimore, good on you. We need more parents like you. #momoftheyear— Chad Carman (@CharminCarman) April 28, 2015</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Not surprisingly, much of the social media chatter came from other Black people who praised the publicly abusive parent. America, especially Black America, had its Mother of the Year, its newest Mammy.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The mother's televised felonious assault on her son became so popular that Baltimore's now deposed Police Commissioner Anthony Batts felt compelled to quip, during a news conference, “And if you saw in one scene, you had a mother who grabbed their child who had a hood on his head and she started smacking him on the head because she was so embarrassed. I wish I had more parents who took charge of their kids tonight.” The police love Mammies, too.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Not to be outdone, the Black Preacher Class joined in praising the mother. Thumping their Bibles, they reminded their routinely financially-fleeced sheep that a verse in Proverbs 13:24 that says, “He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is careful to discipline him.” They conveniently failed to add that, in Hebrew--the accepted root language of the Judeo-Christian scriptures-- the word translated as “rod” is the same word used in Psalms 23:4, “thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.” The shepherd’s rod was used to guide the sheep, not to whip them.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Young Black people must be disciplined through corporal punishment and verbal abuse, so goes wisdom of the Negro Sages of the Ages. But the word “discipline” comes from the Latin “discipuli,” which means student or disciple, strongly suggesting a teacher-pupil relationship between a parent and child. Punishment comes from the Greek word “poine” and its Latin derivative “poena,” which mean revenge, and form the root words of pain, penalty and penitentiary. But semantics has little place in American social sympathy for tree limb-belt buckle-whip-bareknuckle-boot wielding Mammies.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The truth of the matter is that neither discipline nor punishment are the social motivations of Mammies. They are actually plantation functionaries charged with the task of keeping the pickaninnies politically subservient to the Master and the social manners required by the system of White Supremacy. Mammies are preferred dispensaries of Black child terror and torture. The woman at the Mondawmin Mall on Monday was merely carrying on time honored tradition of chattel slavery in America.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While 70 percent of Americans approve of corporal punishment, Blacks have a historically specific relationship to the practice of child abuse. Parental child torture has always been a central feature in the slave society. Black psychiatrists William H. Grier and Price M. Cobbs described it in their 1968 book “Black Rage.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They wrote:<i> “Beating in child-rearing actually has its psychological roots in slavery and even yet </i></span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[B]lack parents will feel that, just as they have suffered beatings as children, so it is right that their children be so treated.”</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> In short, corporal punishment is a sort of perverse Black </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FOLKWAY</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some historians believe that Black slave parents (Mammies) often showed manifest contempt for their children in order to simply appease the sadism of the white slave-owners. This was a way of demonstrating loyalty and worth to the master. The revolutionary psychiatrist Frantz Fanon pointed out a similar trait among the French lower stratum colonial functionaries in Algeria. </span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He wrote: <i>"By torturing, [the police agent] manifests an exemplary loyalty to the system. And indeed the French soldiers can hardly do otherwise without condemning French domination. Every Frenchman in Algeria must behave like a torturer." (Toward the African Revolution: Political Essays, trans. Haakon Chevalier (New York: Grove Press, 1967), 71.)</i> In a like manner, every slave afflicted with the slave mentality felt compelled to demonstrate thralldom to the master.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Keep in mind that the slave Mammies who brutalized their own children often suckled and fawned over their masters' white children. The beloved Black Mammy is actually an emblem of motherly charms, a staple character of American literature and film in 19th and 20th centuries. White supremacy needs and loves Mammies for their dual social roles as the nurturing mother (reserved for white kids) and the tormentor (reserved for Black kids).</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But there was another side of the coin. Terror in the cotton field at the hands of overseers (Black and white) often provoked parents to beat Black children in the slave shack, or at times in the presence of the slave owner in order to break a rebellious child’s spirit. Black parents beat their children to keep them from misbehaving in the eyes of whites who had the power to send Black youth to their deaths for the slightest offense. Today, many black parents fear that a loose tongue or flash of temper could get their child killed by a trigger-happy cop. They would rather beat their offspring than bury them.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Indeed, the snarling and punching parent at Mondawmin Mall on Monday is basking in her 15 minutes of fame. She is America's favorite Mammy of the moment. Her name is Toya Graham, and she boastfully explained the attack on her son to the adoring corporate media. Speaking to CNN (April 29), she declared, "I'm a no-tolerant mother. Everybody who knows me, knows I don't play that. He knew. He knew he was in trouble."</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Graham recounted that she and her son made eye contact and she didn't even think about the news cameras when she went after the teen. She was probably telling the truth. Her assault was the social reflex of a slave.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Graham continued, "That's my only son and at the end of the day I don't want him to be a Freddie Gray. I was angry. I was shocked, because you never want to see your child out there doing that."</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The logic of Graham's antics resides uniquely and solely in the psychosis of white supremacy and Black political emasculation. By her estimation, if Freddie Gray had been appropriately humiliated and beaten by his mother or father, then he would not be dead today. Sickness! Let's apply science. If Freddie Gray had managed to elude the Baltimore policemen, legally empowered to maim and/or murder Black youths with impunity, then Freddie Gray would be alive today. Let's marry science, not slave torture.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">by Malik Sekou OSEI</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let us be clear: On Monday, April 27, 2015, Baltimore's slave youths went on a rampage. There were running battles with the city's police throughout the southwestern sector of the city. A few stores were looted and burned. Police were pelted with bottles and bricks and their vehicles were smashed. Was the night's rampage the opening shot of the Black revolution? Was it emblematic of Black political outrage and social readiness to confront The State? </span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our answer is an emphatic NO. The Baltimore uprising actually exposed the utter political disarmament of the Black working class and lower stratum. West Baltimore ablaze last night was only a smoldering social dystopia on a landscape peppered by the RUINS OF LANGUAGE.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Freddie Gray, already injured by Baltimore police, would end up in a hospital with his neck nearly severed less than an hour after this photo was taken..</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Freddie Gray, age 25, is dead at the hands of the police. Accused of reckless eyeballing a cop, he was summarily and publicly executed. His murder was recorded by dozens of slumdweller on their telephone cameras. Somehow his neck was crushed in the back of a paddywagon. It took a week or so for him to die in a hospital from his injuries. Gray's murder ignited retaliatory, spontaneous street actions against the police and some businesses. Given the locus of the fighting, the injuries and mayhem could have been far more extreme. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: small;">(The initial looting sites were along West North Ave. at the Pennsylvania Ave. intersection. The riot moved west along North Ave. and north along Pennsylvania toward the Mondawmin Mall, the last remaining retail center in Baltimore proper. This CVS pharmacy was looted and burned. A tremendous amount of prescription narcotics were taken..)</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In lock step, the usual cast of Black elected officials and preachers answered the uprising with quick denunciation. They insisted that the burning and looting was the work of "outside agitators" (Read: communists) and "thugs" (Read: gangbangers) who did not respect the death of Freddie Gray. City council members Bernard C. Young and Brandon Scott went as far as to describe the street fighters as "cowards." But the issue at hand, understood in the slums of Baltimore, is that the police and their ostensible blackface political leaders never respected the "life" of Freddie Gray, nor lives of poor Black Baltimoreans.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As we write, 1000-plus people have re-assembled at the corner of Pennsylvania and North Avenue. They are attempting to march westward, but they are blocked by a line of riot police and national guard troops. Round Two has commenced. The National Guardsmen were recruited by the city's Black mayor, Stephanie Rawlings Blake and a phalanx of Black "civil rights" hucksters.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(MAP of the uprising's epicenter) <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@39.3097196,-76.6425277,17z">https://www.google.com/maps/@39.3097196,-76.6425277,17z</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Who are the people staring down the police today? West Baltimore, the site of the Freddie Gray execution (Zip Code 21217), in regards to population density and poverty, ranks among biggest slums in the United States.</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Estimated Zip Code 21217 population in 2013: 40,443 (Landmass: 2.3 miles)</em><br style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Median household income: $21,969 (Maryland: $73,971 / US: $53,657)</em><br style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Median house or condo value: $43,104 / Renters: 70% (Maryland: 34%)</em><br style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Median contract rent: $779</em><br style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Unemployment: 20% (Grotesque under-estimate)</em><br style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Residents below the poverty level: 37%</em><br style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Median resident age: 39.3 / (20.2% Currently Married / 57.5 Never Married)</em></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These are the people who have taken to the streets and who are battling police with their bare hands. They live in utter filth, surrounded by the torched hulks of abandoned buildings, ignored by the Black-run city government. Baltimore’s affluent city center, containing a world-class university and hospital system, is ringed by scenes of abject poverty; whole neighborhoods of decaying row houses, with tens of thousands living in poverty.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Moreover and specifically, the corner of Pennsylvania and North is an open-air drug market where high-powered prescription narcotics are dispensed to neighborhood junkies and white suburban patrons by unemployed Black men like M&Ms. (More details at <a href="http://www.city-data.com/zips/21217.html">http://www.city-data.com/zips/21217.html</a>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hardly a rampage of looters, the slumdwellers in the streets of Baltimore today are people who have been pushed to social desperation. They are indeed the Wretched of the Earth. The oafish Mayor Rawling-Blake recently chided the outraged street people, declaring, "It's idiotic to think by destroying your city, you're going to make life better for anybody." For the residents of Zip Code 21217, the City of Baltimore is already a fetid social scrap heap fit for demolition. </span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is within this context that police violence, revolving entrapment by the criminal courts system, poverty and the studied ineptitude of Black Democratic Party elected officials feed social rage like gasoline on a flame. The truth that is never spoken: Most of the social tormentors of the Black working class and lower stratum in Baltimore are themselves Black. </span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The young people who have taken to streets of Baltimore today have witnessed the murder of Trayvon Martin by an out-of-work security guard posing as a law enforcement official. They have seen Michael Brown gunned down in Missouri. They were appalled to see Eric Garner literally strangled in the street like a dog by NYC policemen. Then came the video-broadcast of Baltimore's Freddie Gray--just one of scores of younger Black men maimed and murdered by police in Baltimore every week. Baltimore has a long history of police brutality, which has resulted in $5.7 million in payouts to victims since 2011. The Baltimore Sun newspaper recounts that “Victims include a 15-year-old boy riding a dirt bike, a 26-year-old pregnant accountant who had witnessed a beating, a 50-year-old woman selling church raffle tickets, a 65-year-old church deacon rolling a cigarette and an 87-year-old grandmother aiding her wounded grandson.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The killing of Freddie Gray actually mirrored a 2005 police murder in the city, in which Dondi Johnson had his spine fractured after he was given an intentional “rough ride” in a police van that arrived at the station in half the time it would have taken if it were driving at the speed limit. His family received a $7.4 million judgment, which was consequently reduced to $200,000. In the Gray and Johnson cases, police were forced to admit that, contrary to protocol, they did not use seat belts to restrain the handcuffed prisoners. In fact, the city of Philadelphia has also been forced to pay over $2 million to settle lawsuits alleging that “rough rides” left two people paralyzed.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Consequently, these victims and their supporters have now made Zip Code 21217 ungovernable. It is a reflex of outrage. They have no political agenda, no revolutionary program, not even a coherent set of demands for reform. This reserve army of labor, these utterly de-classed youths only possess their bodies and fury.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The homicidal character of the police officers’ actions underscores a fundamental reality of American life: in Black working-class neighborhoods throughout the United States, the police function as de facto death squads, treating workers and young Black people as an occupied population, to be put down with arbitrary arrest, violence and even murder.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The antisocial views promoted among the increasingly militarized police were reflected in the revelation this week that the National Guard officers overseeing the crackdown in Ferguson, Missouri referred in official documents to peaceful protesters engaging in their constitutionally protected right to free speech as “enemy forces.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These conceptions, and the murderous actions that accompany them, are the expression of a society deeply corrupted by vast levels of poverty, social inequality and racism, in which the police increasingly see themselves as the “thin blue line” separating the impoverished masses and Black people from the financial oligarchy that has enriched itself fabulously at the expense of the 99 percent.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Baltimore is representative of the massive decay and deterioration of Black working-class living standards over the past several decades, leading its population to drop by nearly a third.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since 1970 the city has lost more than 84 percent of its manufacturing jobs, while the official general poverty rate has hit more than 25 percent. The beginning of this year saw the demolition of the towering Blast Furnace, once the heart of the Bethlehem Steel mill at Sparrows Point, which employed thousands of people over the course of a century.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Conditions of social misery are accompanied by extraordinarily brutal and repressive policies directed against the city’s Black population and the poor. Last year, Baltimore enacted a law fining the parents of children who violate the city’s 9:00 PM curfew up to $500. But the city has no coherent youth policy whatsoever. After a day in confinement in the city's dilapidated and poorly run schools, what are children to do? In Baltimore, nobody gives a damn! Likewise, advocates for the homeless denounced the curfew, which allows police to detain any young person caught outside after hours, saying it will push the city’s 2,400 homeless youth “farther into the shadows.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In perhaps the most draconian attack on the city’s population, the city administration last month announced that it would begin shutting off water to as many as 25,000 poor residents, triggering protests.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These egregious attacks on the social rights of the Black people takes place in a city where the mayor, police commissioner, and the majority of city council members are African American, and which has been run by the Democratic Party for decades, exploding the claim that electing minority candidates of this big-business party is a means to improve the lot of Black members of the 99 percent who, if lucky,are given the privilege to work at sub-survival wages at dead-end jobs.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The uprising in the wake of Freddie Gray’s murder is actually a social referendum on Baltimore's affluent Black elite which has lined its pockets for decades with federal and state funds in the name of improving the lot of the Black masses. These Democratic Party elected fakirs and assorted poverty pimps have delivered nothing but an army of occupation to the streets of impoverished Baltimore. </span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The brutality meted out against the Black population of Baltimore, both by the police and politicians, is a concentrated expression of the assault on the working poor that has taken place nationwide, resulting in an enormous collapse in living standards and the effective halving of wages for manufacturing jobs.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The growth of poverty and social inequality has been accompanied by the militarization of the police, which has been coordinated at the highest level of the state by the Obama administration. Even while categorically refusing to even track police killings on the national level, the Obama regime has transferred billions of dollars in military hardware to local police. The White House has repeatedly refused to bring federal charges against killer cops, including former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, the killer of unarmed teenager Michael Brown.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Earlier this week, the Washington Post reported that despite its claims of sympathy for the victims of police violence, “at the Supreme Court... [the Obama administration’s] Justice Department has supported police officers every time an excessive-force case has made its way to arguments.”While thousands of people have been killed at the hands of police over the past decade, only 54 officers have been charged for killing people in the line of duty, of whom only 11 were convicted, receiving mostly wrist-slap sentences.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">War, exploitation and racism are the inevitable by-products of the capitalist system. The defense of democratic rights, including freedom from police violence and poverty cannot be separated from the struggle to overthrow this corrupt and brutal system of race and class-driven terror, and actual social development of a genuinely egalitarian society—REVOLUTION. </span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For history is on our side, but not time…</span><br />
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LIBERATORhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13962103370208944780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1133891722087704983.post-78607170460702364722015-03-08T16:21:00.001-07:002017-03-08T05:46:53.785-08:00Selma, drool and the Stations of the Cross<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> As usual, I have heard folks rant and rave about the brilliant and inspirational oration given by President Barack Obama in Selma. That guy can sho flap his lips! </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Nonetheless, it is also imperative and central for Black people to look beyond words to see if those words are followed by certain and substantial action that has a real impact on their lives. Face it, Blacks continue to endure the kind of torture that has led observers to verify that America is arguably the most racist industrialized nation in the world. It has been cited time and time again that when it comes to rates of economic inequality, educational inequality and inequality in the criminal justice system, whites live one reality and African Americans are living another. In fact, I dare say that if white Americans were forced to endure the Black condition for just one month, they’d be marching in the streets and demanding that their leaders step down for blatant incompetence and severe social neglect.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: yellow;">The president spoke about the importance of protecting voting rights for African Americans, Drool. What good are voting rights when the ballot only offers candidate choices from only two parties, parties that are in word and deed perpetrators of Black suffering? At the same time, Democrats love to mesmerize Black people with the myth of political enfranchisement because, quite frankly, Black people uniformly vote to keep Democrats in office. This self-serving drool, and Obama served up a heaping helping in Alabama this weekend. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="yiv3376289225" style="font-size: 10pt;">But when it comes to dealing with issues that many Black people care about (devastating levels of Black unemployment, Black youth being murdered in the streets by law enforcement and historically outrageous levels of mass incarceration), do you really think that a voting registration card could have saved the lives of </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Sean Bell, Tamir Rice or the homeless young man in L.A. named Charlie "Africa" Robinet or Jessica Hernandez and others victims of the daily slaughter by police of people of color in America?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rather than applauding Obama's <i>Roman Sophistry</i>, Black people should appreciate that they have a number of objective social and political challenges that require the purgation of sentimentality. Face it, despite all the humble prayers and wishes for salvation-through-Obama, Barack Obama, the negro now in charge, is not our friend. In fact, he is unapologetically hostile to the aspirations of Black people. Those aspirations are led by the demand for popular democracy and social equality, both anathemas to the people and system that Obama so passionately serves, though disguised in minstrel black face. Like the New Testament Stations of the Cross, Obama and his fellow Democratic Party parasites--Black and white--did no more than lead an ecclesiastical procession over the blood-soaked ground of the Black liberation movement in Selma, Alabama, stopping here and there to mumble pious platitudes and shed stage tears for the cameras. </span></span></div>
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