WHAT UP WITH DAT? QUE PASO?

Whas up wi dat? Que ta loco? Why is it that our president can REFUSE an invitation to appear on Black Entertainment Television, (BET) but SEEK out an appearance, on the popular Spanish network show, Sabado Gigante? Both Bush and Kerry plan an appearance on the Hispanic network and show before the election. Both can speak the Spanish language fluently. Did bush reject BET because he cannot speak ebonics?

What does this say about the interest of the Republican party? What does this say about those blacks who think that the Republicans value the black opinion and vote? What does it say about the direction of our country and blacks no longer being the largest minority group?

Black Introspection Salutes the Genius of Ray Charles.

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If you have not then you should get out and see the movie RAY. This movie is more than just a film that entertains the audience, it is a history lesson and everyone that see it will walk away having learned something about the genius and courage of Ray Charles.

Jamie Foxx should indeed get top honors for his portrayal of Ray Charles, he did with ease in this movie what most well known actors set out to do in every movie. Jamie Foxx made the audience forget that it was him on the screen and truly took on the life of Ray Charles.

I do not want to spoil it for those who have not seen it as of yet but it is truly a great movie and the stance that Ray Charles took in response to Jim Crow is legendary. His refusal to play in Georgia under Jim Crow got him banned from ever playing in Georgia. However, Georgia did something the U.S. have not and refuse to do. The state of Georgia acknowledged the wrongness of their actions and issued an apology to Ray and then made his song the state song. If Georgia can see the wrongness in banning Ray and issue an apology, why is it that the U.S. can not do the same in regards to the history of the Black man and woman in America.

Get out and see the movie it is grrreat!

THIS BEAUTIFUL SISTER IS MISSING FROM SOUTH CAROLINA. HAVE YOU SEEN HER?

This is by far the most important thing that I have posted. I saw the message on a Southern Forum. The first thing that I thought about was my little Empress and how devistating such a situation this must be for her and her family.

This is the link to her Bio...as well as others.

WHAT CAN LANGUAGE REVEAL IN REGARDS TO THE PROPENSITY FOR VIOLENCE IN A PEOPLE?

What can language tell us about the nature of black people? What can language tell us about the pre written history of black people? I believe that language or languages, offer a keen insight into the nature and culture of black people, relative to others. Here is how.

Lets us start from the base of what we know now and work backwards. What can we learn from the explanation of why English is such a widely spoken language around the world? How did that come about? Given the number of fluent English speakers in the world juxtaposed with the number of people whose roots are in England, the resultant ratio is likely the highest of any language.

A high ratio of language to native peoples is an indication of military dominance or of a recent war like people conquering militarily weaker nation for resources and power. The English Empire, or Great Britain, spread its language as a resultant of spreading its peoples and influence, to areas outside of England, by virtue of its maritime and army strength. Without the military, they could not have employed benevolence spread their dominance around the world and acquire control of resources, thus they employed military violence.

Before Britain expanded its language via violence and warring, the next best example is the Romans and the spread of the Indo-European language of Latin. Rome propagated its territory via its armies and being a war like conquering peoples. Thus, the territory that it encompassed and dominated over hundreds of years became speakers of the Latin language. Again, this represents a high ratio between the number of Latin speakers and the number of native Romans (Italians).

Now, how does this relate to black people, I am sure you ask? Well, we have to be able to recognize patterns. The pattern is that war like and violent people are characterized by a high ratio between the number of people who speak a language that originated amongst a given group of people and the number of native people to the land of the language origin. That ratio in Africa is extremely small, compared with that of Europeans. Hence, it can be argued that black people were naturally or culturally less war like or violent than Europeans.

There are nearly a thousand different languages spoken in Black Africa (in the Niger-Congo language family) and of those there are thousands of different dialects resulting from them. To understand the importance of this, it must be noted that languages form from isolation. If people have the same language roots, isolation eventually changes accents, then dialects and over time, it becomes a distinct and different language. Thus, the fact that there exist so many languages in black Africa means that there were not many conquering war like peoples and empires that would acquire territory and consolidate people under one language of the empire.

It is said that necessity is the mother of invention. Thus, the only way that peoples become good at warring is through lots of warring and threats. We know this from growing up in the hood. The baldest cats were the ones who fought a lot. The only way you get to be a good fighter is by fighting a lot, as a general rule. Practice makes perfect. Hence, in Europe, the people were very aggressive and war like and from fighting amongst each other they became very good at it, relative to say….the Africans. Therefore, when the Europeans were able to expand beyond their borders, they were such advanced fighters and had such advanced weapons of war; they were able to conquer less violent people with far less man power. This is how they acquired so much wealth, spreading there language in the process.

Now, this is important because there are many people who think that black people have an abnormal violent nature. There are many of these people who believe that it is simply genetic and that is why there is so much warring in Africa and so much violent crime among blacks in the Western Hemisphere. In truth, the tracers of language reveal that the most violent people historically have been whites and not blacks. Blacks have only become violent at our current levels, due to a reaction to or learning from whites. I do not believe that the evidence is there to support our history of behavior that of violence of the degree demonstrated in Europe. White have always like to see us as savages, but let’s remember that the barbarians origin is in Europe and runs through the blood of many Western white folks.

I do think that violence is a capacity of humans. However, if there is a genetic link to violence, it is far overshadowed by the cultural or learned behavior link. I believe that Europeans lived in an area where violence and conquest became the norm, thus, they emulated the behavior to protect themselves. For them it became an issue of conquer or be conquered, thus they learned to be a violent war like peoples. I simply do not think that the evidence is there to support that such was the case in degree in black Africa. I think, therefore, that we need to return to our previous states of relative tranquility with one and other as black people and stop all this white learned behaviorism.

THE PLACEBO EFFECT OF THE PENDULUM SWING OF TWO PARTY POLITICS IN AMERICA.

Politics in America comes down to the prime directives of life, which is survival or degree there of. In times of peace, people vote mainly in regards to issues of economics, because economics is the conduit to their standard of living and survival. War and insecurity of safety also triggers people’s survival instincts and compels them to vote in a way that addresses their emotion of fear..

Politics in America is more often a placebo than actual medication, though. I say this because economics and the economy is such a major part of people’s political choice determinate and how they vote. It is often lamented during elections that “it’s the economy stupid”. Thus, people usually vote to see positive economic change if the masses of people are not better off then they were 4 years earlier. However, in truth, neither political party can better stimulate the economy than the other, hence there is no real medicine given to the economy.

Economics is not an exact science, but rather, a behavioral science. The reason being is that consumer consumption habits represents 2/3 of our GDP and the behavior of consumer’s consumption are predicated upon their psychological confidence in the future. Therefore, much of our economic performance and oscillation is born from the self fulfilling prophecy of consumer psychology and confidence, given that we are all interdependent and codependent parts of the economic system.

Now, given that consumers and citizens have more power over the economy than do politicians, via their psychological degree of confidence, the politics of changing whose in office simply works to alter people’s confidence levels. It’s kind of like when a guy is trying to attract the attention of a females, we may make some superficial changes that makes us feel more confident. In turn, when we get the attention we desire the think it was due to the superficial change…but in truth the gained attraction was due to the display of confidence and not the superficial change itself. Having the ability to make a change and that change thus inspiring confidence, has a way of turning things for the better.

That is what happens when we vote for a different party or a different candidate looking for positive change. When we make the change, it gives us more confidence and a sense of control. It is that confidence and sense of control that then transforms our consumer behavior and stimulates the economy via our purchasing and investments. Hence, things get better economically because of the confidence inspired by change, but not necessarily the policies of the people or party that we changed it to. This is why the nation oscillates back and forth between the two parties. When things are not going well under one party or politician, we change the party or politician in office and the confidence that such gives us makes things better economically.

Things will be radically different going forward for the nation. The reason being is that the war on terrorism and structural changes in the global economy that is creating a reduction in comparative advantage for us production of goods and services. Thus, people will vote for change and the placebo affect of the past, when things were structurally sound, will lose its ability to turn things around. Politics will then become uglier as they scapegoat and seek the tried and true method of playing class and race against one and other, to the degree that it used to be done in the past.

Black Faces in High Places but few anywhere else..

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One of the Bush administration and his administration apoligist biggest talking points is his appointment of Black faces to high places. Howevever a new study has been released that states clearly "Bush has only Half as many Top Level Blacks as Clinton". Out of the 2800 administration jobs under Bush seven percent (7%) are Black while under Clinton sixteen percent (16%) were Black.

The GAO report, ordered early last year by several members of the Congressional Black Caucus, including Norton and U. S. Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.), showed that the senior executive level of the United States Government was more than 91 percent White, with little hope for change.

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Bush awarded more than half of his political appointments (54 percent) to White men, while Clinton awarded 57 percent of those appointments to women and people of color.

Don't let the numbers above fool you, Clinton still gave 43% of all appointments to white men. Which again confirms much of what has been stated previously about both parties being havens for white privilege.

So now that the record reflects that Bush has appointed and hired far fewer Black folk than Clinton, will the dirty Republicans and the Negro-Cons continue to talk about Black faces in High places after the truth behind those Black faces have been exposed. Time will tell.

From the Mind of Ann Coulter

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One thing I admit enjoying about the whole Liberal versus Conservative phenomena is that the white folk within these two groups accuse the others of being racist but Black Introspection know that white folk from both groups are racist and to understand the racism that exist within each group we must critique what one is saying about the other. With that said lets critique some of what the toothpick Ann Coulter writes in her latest op-ed.

Ann “the toothpick” Coulter Boldly states that “Republicans don’t need Black voters”. Ann is correct and where she goes wrong is adding at the end of this statement “but they want them”. Republicans do not want the Black Vote; they would rather us not vote for the Democrats so their win over Democrats could be by a larger margin. Republicans would be just as happy with us voting for an independent candidate or any other candidate beside the Democratic candidate. The toothpick goes on to say that “Democrats don’t want the Black vote but needs it”. This is partially true. The Democrats wish they could appeal to poor racist whites the way Republicans do but they know doing so would definitely cost them the Black vote. The not so funny things about this is; while Ann Coulter admits that Republicans do not need the Black Vote, she states that as if they do not get the Black vote because they do not need it, however the truth is in order for them to not need the Black vote they must do what is necessary to not need the Black vote and that means they must appeal to racist whites and have a platform that is hostile towards Black upward mobility that will attract votes that makes it possible for them to not need the Black vote. Black folk know the Democrats platform for the most part is not our platform, but we know which of these two parties platform is more conducive with what we want. I always say, Republicans talk inclusiveness but what we need is conduciveness.

Ann Coulter then allows us a peek into her mind by stating what she think the 11th hour message of the democratic party is; The toothpick writes that the Democrats say to black folk;

“Here are your crumbs, your scraps, your measly handouts. Too bad you're so childish, incompetent and dependent, huh? Now run along and cast your vote for the guy with the "D" next to his name and we'll see you in four years, 'K? Buh-bye, now.”

This is a great example of a white person who honestly believe she knows what is best for Black men and women and have the audacity to suggest that we vote for the Democrats because we are “childish” meaning child like and unable to think for ourselves, “incompetent and dependent” One of the interesting things about such language being used to refer to Black folk is that poor whites that vote Republican for no other reason than their racist and evangelical platform are never called “childish, incompetent and dependent” though many of them live in condition similar to ours if not worse but yet they vote for the folk that support the rich while they are more likely to benefit from programs rooted in the Democrats platform.

The tooth pick goes on to use the whole “Black faces in high places” argument as if Black folk should be impressed by that, Personally I would not give a damn if Kerry did not appoint one Black person to his cabinet, as long as he does not appoint these racist ideologues to any of the various courts and work with Black organizations to better the Black condition, get rid of that not so patriotic Patriot Act, fully fund NCLB, stop patronizing us with vouchers, who gives a damn about “Black faces in high places” especially those who do not represent or speak to issues important to Black men and women.

The Toothpick goes on to speak about abortion and its racist use by the founder of Plan Parent hood. All of which I agree with but then she says:

“Even today, talk to any white liberal about abortion and within 60 seconds he will raise the black "overpopulation" problem”

This is the mantra of white liberal and white conservatives. This belief is not unique to Liberals and this is why I say when white folk are accusing one another of being racist, don’t take sides, listen to what both of them have to say because in the midst of their arguments they will point out a truth that Black Introspection and Black folk in general are already aware of, THEY BOTH ARE RACIST.

I will end by quoting the toothpick one more time, she writes:

“On the bright side, the Democrats offer black voters loads and loads of meaningless abstractions that will have absolutely no effect on their lives.”

And Democrats say the same about Republicans; are both parties lying or are both parties telling the truth? I believe there is a degree of truth in what both of them are saying and this is why believing that either party is truly in support of us is like living in a dream world and I say to Black folk that do believe it, WAKE UP!!

BLACK INTROSPECTION IS A DISTINCTION WITH A DIFFERENCE.

Black thought and Introspection is rather unique, at least when juxtaposed against black Conservative, coined “Negro-Cons”, Web logs (blogs). We are unique from the standpoint that we are apolitical in our positions and that we do not align ourselves with political parties and hence preach a party platform. However, we do recognize that the two major parties have different effect upon black people, thus triggering our condemnation or praise.

Another striking difference is that most of our thoughts and essays are born from our own dissemination of raw facts and data, with links only to back them up. I often visit blogs of the “The conservative brotherhood”, the most popular of that grouping being the Laswan Barbers Blog. What you will find on these blogs is simply the linking to the thought of other conservatives’ voices, with a little thinking and commentary, of their own creation, to back it up.

The effort that goes into the creation of their blog content comes not from thinking and doing research, but rather, from googling the web for certain types of prefabricated opinions and news. Hence, they are not creators of opinions and beliefs, rather, they simply regurgitate what they consume from others (mostly white conservatives). If you trace their rhetoric to its ultimate source, it is rooted in the white conservative platform.

They will argue that the concept of conservatism is not a white/black phenomenon. That may be true, in a vacuous context; however, I am not aware of any conservative plan or position, which was originated by a black person. What you essentially have is that white conservatives are sitting up high in the pulpit preaching conservative scripture ,while the black conservatives simply sit in the pew, down below, shouting “Amen preacher”. Then these black folks get filled with the conservative Holy Ghost and sprite and then try to go out and preach to convert the black masses away from the sins of liberalism. In this conservative religion, blacks do not interpret scripture and hence lay out a blue print, it only seems white conservatives do this and blacks simply follow suit.

Not surprisingly, you will find a large percentage of their visiting and supporting readers are white conservatives. The white conservatives patronize and support these blogs because it helps them psychologically deal with the question of their own racism. To hear certain types of attacks, such as the attack and claim of irresponsibility, aimed at blacks by other blacks, helps whites who think this not feel racist about doing so. It must be noted and understood that being seen as a racist is now a scarlet letter among whites, thus, black conservatives removes those tension and doubts about their inner motivations.

In light of this, these conservative points of view get promoted via white acceptance. White demand in the free market capitalistic system will always promote a greater promotion and reward than black demand. The reason being is that there are far more whites and the typical white has much more income and wealth than the average black. Thus, on some of these blogs, the volume of traffic creates advertisement opportunities and hence income. This promotion and reward then gets tied to ones economic status, making it a conflict of interest have an epiphany in regards to ideology. You don’t bit the hand that feeds you, if you will.

Another thing to note about blogs that have a large white conservative base, whether black or not, the deleting of critical commentary is pervasive. The reason being is that white conservatives generally like isolation. They like to have “their own” place were they can simply talk among themselves, unchallenged. This is because they feel that there are too many liberal outlets and their voices are drowned out, thus they need a forum of their own. If a conservative blogger, whether white or black, allows to many dissenting voices to be heard, it will chase off the conservatives who just want a place of their own, thus threatening the viability or business of the blog. Lashawn Barber is notorious for deleting dissenting voices…usually predicated upon some fallacious reasoning.

Here on the Black Introspection Blog, we welcome and seek a good intellectual logical challenge to what we expose or promote. All we ask is that you not do it anonymously. We believe that the only way that we can be confident in our position is to have them placed under logical scrutiny by dissenters. However, do not confuse logical scrutiny with emotional scrutiny. Saying one simply disagrees or attacking the messenger is not logical scrutiny. When a person knows what truth is, then they can say with confidence that which is false. To say that something is false, but then fail to present the truth, means that you cannot prove that it is false.

If you seek true BLACK INTROSPECTION and thinking, from a few brothers, this is the place. However, if you simply want to know what white conservatives think and believe, parroted through the mouths of blacks, then please visit the Black conservative brotherhood.

MINNEAPOLIS NEWS STATION MAY HAVE PROOF THAT MISSING EXPLOSIVES IN IRAQ WERE LOOTED POST SADDAM FALL

In regards to the controversy over tons of missing explosives in Iraq, a local TV news station in Minneapolis has footage from embedded reporters during the invasion that may shed light. The footage shows reporters filming Al-Qaqaa weapons installation and the tons of explosive material on April 18 2003, which was a date post the fall of Baghdad and the toppling of Saddam regime.

Of course the Bush Administration does not want to conclude that the weapons were looted under US control of Iraq before the upcoming elections. It would be one more example of poor planning and or incompetence on behalf of the commander and chief. No doubt that some of these explosives have been or will be used to kill American Soldiers and other lives in Iraq. How often was such ammunition depots looted under Saddam? Occupying nations assume the responsibility for the security and stability of occupied nations. Thus, the Buck stops and Bush desk.

Despite all the incompetent acts by this administration, the administration will be voted back into office on November 2nd. What this shows is either the incompetence of the plurality of American voters or either there emotional fears. When the US says that it is better to fight the war against terrorism on some other nation’s turf, than to battle them here at home, that is essentially saying that it is better to kill innocent people in other countries, than innocent Americans. The majority of people being killed in this war on terrorist are innocent civilians. Thus, the truth is that we do not place equal value on the lives of people who are not American as we do those who are. Under such double standards, the enemies of the US will always find willing recruits.

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THE ROLE OF GOODNESS AND EVIL IN THE COMPETITION AND RANKING OF THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST.

Deductive reasoning involves starting from a base of given facts, which are then used to logically infer conclusions about the unknown from what is known. Mathematically, this could be represented by Giving that A = B and B = C as fact. Then infering deductively and logically that A = C. In life, in order to deduce out what is truth, in regards to human proclivities and behavior, we have to start with the most common denominators which are life’s prime directives.

In life, the main thrust of our biological directives involves maximizing resources to secure our survival and maximizing our rank in order to compete for the alpha mating choices. Much of the proactive competition that results in the shaping of the world and its conditions is born from the male’s competition with other males for rank.

Men will never alter the course of their behavior as long as it continues to be rewarded with resources and alpha mating. Indeed, securing control of ample resources is also synonymous with securing rank in the competition for the best females. The reason being is that women covet provisions or the ability to provide in a man. Thus a man with many provisions, relatively speaking, has rank and hence powers all things that attract the female and her instincts that such a man can pass those traits of strength to the offspring. It is an example of natural selection; as such a man is only going to couple with females with the strongest survival biological traits, which manifest in women via looks and external symmetry and characteristics (beauty).

In this male human competition for resources and mating, we have a characteristic that separates us from all other animals in the natural selection process. That characteristic is one of evil. In the competition of the survival and reward to the fittest, the propensity for evil can tilt the competition in ones favor. Maybe evil is not the term, but rather, ruthlessness and lack of compassion for fellow human life is more appropriate. One simply has to look at the empirical evidence to realize that empires and riches have been created and accumulated from the traits of ruthlessness and non compassion for other human life, while benevolence and compassion has never built such on this earth.

It is not hard to see why many women are attracted to the “bad boy” nature is many men, because historically this trait has lead to males who have the ability to acquire resources and rank. There exist the bad boy characteristics within the frame work of the system and outside the framework. Those within the system follow a script and are sought as corporate executives who can un-compassionately squeeze the workers for corporate profit margins and huge executive salaries (note how most corporate leaders are republicans and how the republicans reward corporations in a quid pro quo fashion). Such people then become the darlings of Wall Street. On the other hand, those bad boy traits outside the system leads to drug kingpins and Gang leaders, each controlling territory and resources and receiving the favor of the alpha women in their strata.

When one looks at the world order, is it the product of the survival and ranking of the fittest, or is it the product of the ranking of the ruthless and uncompassionate (evil) or a combination there of?

Fidel makes a move in the Geopolitical game of Chess

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Cuba responds to America’s continued Genocidal attacks on its populace by way of sanctions and embargo’s by putting a ten percent surcharge on the U.S. dollar starting Nov 8, 2004. What this means is starting on the eight of November, dollars used in Cuba must be converted over to the Cuban Peso and there will be a ten percent tax on the dollar. Cubans have until that date to convert their dollars over without the tax but after the eight the tax on the dollar will become law. This tax will only apply to the dollar and Castro has released a statement saying to those who live abroad if they want their relatives to get more bang for their buck, they should send their relatives money in Euros or the Canadian dollar that will not be taxed ten percent on the dollar. An interesting statistic that should be pondered, Seventy percent (70%) of Cuba’s 11.2 million citizens were born after the U.S. imposed trade sanctions in the early 1960’s. One thing the Cubans have to their advantage is their proximity to the U.S. but could you imagine if this was a nation far from the U.S. wherein the vast majority of its population has grown up under America’s embargo and sanctions. This would be a breeding ground for would be terrorist.

Personally I think this is a good move by Castro and while some will argue it will not affect the U.S. in anyway, it does affect those who send money to Cuba and it draws attention to America’s embargo on a Nation where the vast majority of it citizens were not alive during past conflicts. Thus the new generation of Cubans suffer because every white man that have ascended to the Presidency in the U.S. has carried on their life long white supremacist born hatred of Castro for his refusal to bow down to their idea of how he should run his nation.

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There can never be net gain in a closed system. The earth is a closed system, thus, there can never be net gain on earth, minus breaches into the system by meteors or matter we project outside the system via rocket technology. These minor breaches are rare exceptions to the rule, given the total mass of our system and what manages to come in or out. Some erroneously argue that the earth is not a closed system because the suns energy radiates upon the earth. However, a closed system is defined by the flow of matter and not the flow of energy. Moreover, the suns rays and energy input never results in a net gain to the system due to the fact that the earth radiates the energy back out beyond the boundaries of the system. If this were not the case then the earth would become to hot from the net gain of heat energy from the sun (global warming occurs when gases prevent trap the infrared radiation from dispersing back out, thus causing the earth to have a net gain in temperature).

The wisdom born from these natural laws reveal that there can never be a gain without a proportional loss. Every action produces a reaction and the reaction has an equal and opposite offset. Thus, when examining issues and phenomenon that involves human actions and energy, there is always an offset or proportional trade off. There is no “win-win” scenario in the nature of closed systems. There is no win-win scenario in politics or economics, because all is governed by the laws of closed systems. In short, it’s a zero sum game under a closed system.

People often involve themselves in the ranking game between various sub systems of our closed system. They argue that capitalism or Marxism is superior to the other. They argue that democracy or communism is superior to the other. They argue conservatism or liberalism is superior to the other. However, in truth, all of these systems produce negating offsets to their benefits, the distinction and difference being the product of when the offsets takes place temporally (in time). Some offsets are real time (immediate) and some offsets are conserved into the future.

Such debates over systems and approaches are akin to a debate which attempts to determine what running strategy is superior between that of a sprinter and the marathon runner. All comparisons generally amount to measuring performance at a given point in time or between given points in time. Thus, if a sprinter is matched up against a marathon runner, with both doing what they are best at, a point in time measurement means nothing. What matters is the point in time in context with the start anf finish line. Obviously the sprinters massive expenditure of energy will put it ahead at a given point in time nearest to the start due to the moderate use of energy by the marathon runner. A point in time in the future is likely to produce burnout for the sprinter at which point the marathon runner eventualy surpases. Indeed it is the child hood story of the tortois and hare.


It goes without saying that if the finish line is nearer the finish line to the start, the sprinter advantage increases, while the farther from the start it decreases, while the opposite is true of the marathon runner. Each have equal store of energy that propels them forward but each uses a different amount of energy in a given unit of time. When one applies this theory to capitalism vs. Marxism or communism, it is obvious which system is most productive at given point in time. However, no one knows were the finish line is and the offset of capitalism being less real time portends a coming calamitous offset for future generations. Communism, in comparison, offsets are more real time and the people’s lives and standard of living in juxtaposition are meager in comparison. But the question is one of sustainability, ultimately.

In all our debates we fail to look at points in time relative to the finish line, thus most peoples contrast and comparisons are faulty. The truth is that if capitalism had its way and propagated itself ubiquitously around the globe, with each nation emulating the success and consumption of the West, the earth’s resources would be depleted and there would be an ecological calamity as well. No matter how capitalist proponents say the capitalism is good for the world, it is not, assuming that it produces the success that they claim. The reason being is that it is not sustainable in the long term, given the resourced needed to fuel those massive energy expenditures. Thus, humanity would simply be trading increased status and pleasure in the short run, for deprivation and pain in the long run for subsequent generations.

Contrary to what some will say, I am not condemning capitalism, but rather, simply pointing out the reality of it. Thus, I am not condemning capitalism, but the fallacies that are preached concerning it.

HOW THE EMMIT TILL INJUSTICE REPRESENTS THE PERFECT METAPHOR FOR THE BLACK COLLECTIVE IN AMERICA

After watching a recent episode of “60 Minutes” regarding the murder of Emmit Til, I have come to realize that the injustice represents a metaphor for the summation of injustice against African Americans during our time in this land. Emmit Till was the young 14 year old black Chicago native who was murdered while visiting his Grand father in Mississippi in 1955 , for the egregious and unforgivable act of whistling at a white women.

The defendants in the case and trial, despite witnesses and evidence implicating them, were acquitted by an all white jury back in the 50's. The US Justice Department, who should have then steped in, also failed in its duty to uphold justice for its citizens, for nearly 50 years. Now, due to a black young Louisiana film maker who has done extensive research on the topic and brought it to congress attention, the case has been reopened by the Justice department.

How is this event a metaphor for blacks in America, you might ask? The answer is due to the pattern of the US government and citizens to wait until victims and perpetrators of crimes against our humanity are dead before they attempt to seek justice. Nearly all of the perpetrators of this heinous crime, even by Mississippi standards, are now dead. The ones alleged to be involved and still alive are too old for any real justice/punishment as the prime of their life has long been gone and enjoyed.

There is a striking pattern in this nation to wait until perpetrators and victims, in this nations terrorism against black people, have died before they pretend to take justice seriously. White America hardly ever seems able to be contemporary with seeking reconciliation for the injustices of their time and that occur under their watch, in this government of the people, for the people and buy the people. When they do manage take note and responsibility, it is usually a half assed effort done simply to placate the black population and to not upset the white population who want to preserve white privilege and supremacy. All efforts to help blacks are first filtered and diluted to not upset the white masses.

Former slaves were never given their 40 Acres and a Mule, which would have given blacks, theoretically, a good chance to build wealth as well as income and a living, instead of the peonage of share cropping. Not only that, the Jim Crow era of the South was a clear example of government laws facilitating separate and unequal socioeconomics between blacks and whites, which kept opportunities for education and wealth from black people. There are millions of victims of this crime against our humanity still living today, but whites ignore them and their losses.

Whites always like to look at slavery and talk about how terrible it was (as well as how long ago it was), only because all the enslaved and the enslavers are now dead. That gives them the comfort of not having any responsibility, hence the freedom to openly admit that restitution and compensation should have happened….but unfortunately there is nothing that can be done now because their all dead. Due to the fact that many Jim Crow era victims and perpetrators (governments) are still around today, whites can’t bring themselves to admit the horror of the injustice of that period, simply because they do not want to have to assume responsibility for it.

Whites simply act in a way to prevent a massive helping of black people rise up from the effects of white supremacy. If blacks rise to equality in America, then white supremacy, which is a relative concept, will be no more. Thus, in effect, white actions, whether by coincidence or conspiracy, fit’s the pattern of preserving white supremacy of conditions. If this nation could win the cold war, it certainly could have ended black inequality in this nation if it had the same will.

It seems that the rational of the white masses always seem to change superficially, however, the end effect always seem to be a resistance to black uplift or seeking of justice and damages. The consequence of such resistance produces the same old 400 year running pattern of creating or preserving white supremacy.

TRYING TO SUPRESS THE WHITE SUPREMACY SUBCONSCIOUS IN AMERICA

It has been said that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. In conversations with seemingly well meaning whites, it becomes obvious that they are “trying” not to be racist. Such represents a conscious effort either to be or to appear void of this traditional American infection upon our nation.

Trying not to be racist is not the same as not being racist. It is like trying to be anything. If you have to try, it means that you are not there yet. However, trying does deserve praise. If the effort of trying is not rewarded, in spite of its lack of complete success, going forward the act of offering an effort will seem fruitless.

Whites seem to fool themselves into believing the effort, in and off itself, exonerates them from being guilty of racism. As long as they remain cognizant and seek to act in such a way that is deemed fair or neutral, they like to assume success from that effort. This also involves introspection of their intentions. Thus, if they have no intentions to be racist and are cognizant, they feel pretty good about themselves.

The fallacy in white thinking is that they are using the wrong metrics to gauge the success of their efforts. Whites do not use the metrics of effect or black response to gauge whether or not they are being racist. There like a person stepping on your feet and then not saying excuse me because they had no intentions of doing it. Then they insult you further by suggesting that it should not or does not hurt in the way that you say it does.

Implicit in much of whites effort to try and not be racist is the racist act of disrespecting or discrediting black thoughts or reactions. Racism cannot be defined by the oppressor. Whites cannot use their working definitions of racism to determine if they are racist or not. That would be like having the police department review and police itself for wrong doing. There is an egregious conflict of interest in such an act as few human entities will self incriminate itself.

In order for whites to truly measure their racism, they have to be able to see into their sub conscious, which is not easy to do. The subconscious contains the TRUTH of what you really believe. The conscious represents what you WANT to believe. If a person does not want to see the truth, if the truth is damaging to the psyche of self image, then the conscious sometime distorts reality in order that the mind can feel good about itself.

This society has been successful in making racism a taboo among whites. Thus today, one of the worst things that you can call a white person is a racist. There are few terms that will incite the emotions that this term does. Consequently, whites are making an effort to “try” and not appear racist, to avoid the label and stigma. Surprisingly, whites are less concerned with trying to convince blacks that they are not racist than they are trying to convince themselves and other whites that they are not racist. This is because whites simply have less respect for black thought than they do white thought or their own.

Whites realize that evidence of continued racism only works against their desire to see programs such as Affirmative Action come to an end. If more whites were openly racist or did not try to convince themselves and other whites that they are not, then Affirmative Action would and should never end under such a racist white power structure in America. Consequently, trying not to be racist could in part be a strategy that is driven by racism, because it wants to preserve white privilege by eroding programs like affirmative action.

In conclusion, the people to be wary of are the one who must “try” to be nice to you. Such shows a person who is saying that there natural inclination is to dislike you and be mean to you. These are the type of people who will jump on the opportunity to “be themselves” as soon as you provide them with the excuse or opening.

America is full of white folks “trying” to be nice and “trying” not to be racist.

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Police kills 21 year old white woman and take full responsibility before and investigation is done. Police accepting blame before an investigation is done is unheard of. There is no tape of this woman being shot, this woman was part of a mob the police was trying to quail but yet before there was an investigation the Police had accepted full blame. White folk still question if there is a bias in policing in America, but Black folks are convinced of this bias. All the Black men that have been beaten and killed by the police and not one police department have taken blame for it, even after killing Amadu with forty one shots for having a wallet in his hand the NYPD did not accept blame.

"The Boston Police Department is devastated by this tragedy.
Kathleen O'toole Boston Police Comminsoner

Oh Really.....

UNLOCKING THE TRUTH BEHIND THE DISPROPORTIONATE KILLING OF BLACK MEN BY WHITE POLICE

Study shows Whites More Likely To Misidentify Tools As Guns When Linked To Black Faces:

...they hope it begins to shed light on how subtle racial biases may help lead to situations in which police accidentally shoot unarmed minorities.

Uhhhhh...just listen to what black folks have been saying for years and save money on all these studies! Free Tip of the day.

People don’t have to be bigots to be under the influence of racial bias.....

Yep...we have been trying to tell white folks that for years...but they think that racism = hate and bigotry.

Payne and his colleagues conducted two related experiments in which white and Asian Americans viewed on a computer screen a picture of a man, quickly followed by a picture of a either a tool or a gun. Both pictures were visible for only about a fifth of a second each.

When asked to identify – within less than one second -- whether the second picture was a tool or a gun, participants were much more likely to misidentify a tool as a gun when the preceding picture was that of an African American.

They were more likely to misidentify a gun as a tool when the preceding picture was that of a white man.

Uhhhh...no slit..what an epipheny!

The results show how unconscious bias against blacks may affect decision-making in cases of extreme time pressure, Payne said. The reason, at least in these experiments, has to do with failures to control bias under time pressure, not distorted perceptions of what’s being seen.

This displays what I have theorized, which is that most whites are subconsciously racist but consciously aware that racism is viewed as morally reprehensible, thus the conscious works to correct or control the subconscious beliefs. The subconscious is at the instinctive level because it needs to promote survival by processing external stimuli to sensory inputs rapidly. However, the conscious processes information much slower. Thus, the way to reveal the level of white racism is by not allowing the conscious to try to compensate or hide what exist in the subconscious. The subconscious is what you really believe and feel because it is the stored resultant of all sensory inputs and lessons of life in order that one can make quick life saving instinctive decisions.

As I and we on this blog have been saying all along….most whites are racist due to their subconscious beliefs, but most whites feel they are not racist do to their conscious efforts to see themselves as bad people…its called DENIAL.

See the full article/study

REASON WHY SO MANY AREAS OF THE NATION ARE SEGREGATED IS...

To understand why Detroit area is the most segregated Metropolitan area in the nation and to understand why there are so many others like it, this is a good example. Blacks in the city of Detroit have always been reluctant to move to certain cities and counties because they feared white racism and being harassed by suburban police departments. Acts such is this home break in or other acts of racial intimidation of black homeowners in the Detroit area usually are reported about 5 or more times a year in the area (let me qualify that by saying that such is based upon only the estimated average of the number of times that I heard it on the news while being a resident there...could have been much more).

In a Metropolitan area of over 5 million people, as Metro Detroit is, 5 incidences of such makes it an extremely rare phenomenon. However, it being on the evening news does distort the scope and thus it seems larger than life. In any case, that is the nature of the information age and modernity. The result is that such incidences do work to dissuade black homeowners from moving to predominantly white suburbs. There is likely some black prospective home buyers whose real estate agent has some homes listed in this particular Suburb, who will rebuke the option because they do not want to deal with the white racism.

As a consequence of these acts, no matter how much deplored by other whites, in rhetoric, works to preserve an areas “whiteness” and thus helps keep white demand for the area strong, thus keeping property values appreciating faster than what would happen from an influx of blacks. Thus, even though only a few white idiots engage in such acts, far more whites receive the benefits of such acts and blacks of course the detriment. Simple phenomenon of cause and effect that is plan to see. However, some will not the racism as a cause with no apparent effect upon blacks (see NegroCons and most white folk).

As the economy struggles in coming years…one can expect to see more and more of this…since the root of racism and black oppression has always been rooted in economics and whites attempts to profit from the exploitation of blacks or their attempts to eliminate blacks from the pool of competition for resources and opportunities. Its all about resources.

"I don’t know what to say now, but that this is something that exists in the
real world," she said. "This is pretty much what they have to look forward to."

See full story on WXYZ news 7 in Detroit.

THE COMING ECONOMIC CALAMITY IN THE USA

Here is a thought to ponder. Monetary and Fiscal policy measures are the primary, if not only, means for the government and the Federal Reserve, to control or steer the economy. The primary way that it stimulates growth and consumption is by the fiscal policy of cutting taxes and by the Federal Reserve policy of lowering interest rates to encourage borrowing for investment and spending. This monetary and fiscal policy are the wheels that are turned in opposite directions, depending on whether the economy needs to be stimulated or cooled down to prevent high rates of inflation.

With that as prologe....look closely at our current state of fiscal and monetary policy. The huge tax cut that Bush has phased in, plus, record low prime interest rates means that the wheels are being turned to their limits in an attempt to stimulate the economy….but the economy is not responding in proportion with the efforts. That fact, in and of itself, should be a major cause for concern for everyone. Why, because if things start to get worse, our nation will have no leverage or play (through fiscal or monetary policy) to help pull the economy back up. We will be SOL.

Not only that, but with the crisis in social security, the rising budget deficit and plus the nations 20 year running trade deficit, cutting taxes in the future will further sabotage the standard of living or our children and their children, while giving us a brief relief from the inevitable. This nation is ridding on borrowed time folks. Our nation is akin to tires that have lost much of its tread and thus have not the ability to control its direction in our next recessionary rains. We will hydroplane out of control and likely crash.

The war on terrorism and In Iraq will by coincidence or conspiracy distract attention away from the structural economic calamity that is coming to this nation. WAKE UP PEOPLE…regardless of party affiliation.

see the coming train wreck caused by our poor conducters/leaders.

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Should we have to work twice as hard as white folk for the same results?

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"Have you forgotten that once we were brought here, we were robbed of our names, robbed of our language, we lost our religion our culture our God and many of us by the way we act we even lost our mind"

These truthful and powerful words spoken by the late great Dr. Khalid Abdul Muhammad and used on the P.E. track “Night of the living basehead” came to mind when I sat down to write this.

It has become clear to me that some Negroes have given up, they have lost focused and are now participating in the intellectual destruction of Black unity. Recently Scott of the Negro-Con group Conservative brotherhood hood wrote on his Blog;

“We learned it from out fathers and mothers, works twice as hard because racism exist, keep your nose clean because the criminal justice system can't get justice for the black man, suck it up when you work harder and get less than your white co-workers, life is hard but you have everything you need to succeed inside you.”

What we have here is a Negro-Con admitting to the existence of racism in America, the problems it pose and a somewhat clear understanding of how it adversely affect Black men and women. His understanding of racism in America is negated by two things; His unwillingness to see the need to continue fighting against racism and his inability to see how reactions from racism contribute to the problems plaguing the Black community and Black family.

Negro-Cons are quick to say racism exists but they are as quick to say Black problems and issues are caused by us. Negro-Cons believe that Black men and women having to work twice as hard as white folk is ok, and a reality we have to live with and this phenomena should not be challenged. The ignorance involved in this belief is immeasurable. They expect us to sit back while white folk are structurally empowered to get ahead and our lack of structural support and in fact structural disempowerment means we should be ok with working twice as hard as others have to, while simultaneously measuring our success rate with the same means white success is measured. Does that make sense? How can anyone admit to historical and present day white structural empowerment and racism honestly compare our condition to theirs using the same measuring stick?

The worst part about the Negro-Con that admits that racism exists and that white folks are structurally empowered is they do not see the correlation between black poverty, crime and system dependency and the phenomena of white structural empowerment and racism. Why would anyone believe that the state of Black folks in America is due to some lack of personal responsibility and not a reaction from being disempowered structurally and reactions to white racism and white supremacy. This understanding is elementary; as brother Noah has stated, the see-saw effects of capitalism and white racism dictates that white rise is rooted in the fall and beating down of others.

We have millions of examples of the lack of personal responsibility demonstrated by white folks so any belief that black problems are rooted in the lack of personal responsibility would have to mean white success is rooted in their great sense of personal responsibility and this is not the case. The argument about the lack of Black personal responsibility is baseless and racist and ignores the fact that our present day condition is the result of our past experience up to this day in America and that structural empowerment for whites creates an illusion of personal responsibility by whites.

If one can admit to white structural empowerment and white racism in this day, then how can they ignore or miss the manifestation of its effects and reactions expressed in the life of those who are victims of it.

HOW THE ELECTRONIC MEDIA IS ERODING OUR CULTURE!

In the current modernity of America, culture is no longer the creation of the traditions and legacies of our family and communities. Today, culture is beamed and transmitted via satellite from studios in Hollywood that seeks to profit under our capitalistic system. Television, as well as the motion picture industry and soon the internet are all working to together to capture and shape the thoughts, beliefs, behavior and attitudes of America, the young and impressionable being the most vulnerable. The reason being is that socialization and acculturation is simply the product of emulation...with whats being emulated coming more and more from the big and small screen.

The benefit and the curse of television is that it exposes people to a wide variety of phenomenon, situations and events that people are not exposed to in their own real environments. Thus, they have little means of reconciling fact from fiction from the template that their environment sets. Consequently, reality can become easily distorted in degree and or kind….with people consciously or subconsciously accepting it as reality. If one simply looked at the Evening News, their perceptions of black males would simply be that of criminals and athletes, which is definately a display out of proportion with black male reality.

The failure of the medium to be able to show you the whole picture, which is impossibility, leads to a distortion of scope and proportion. When a TV show about “Desperate housewives” or “wife swoping “is advertised or seen, its sets subliminal attitudes that erodes the institution of marriage. Once something appears on TV, it is glorified simply from the fame and attention of being transmitted to millions of households. Once it becomes glorified, it becomes popularized and becomes larger than life and more acceptable to emulate. Thus, programming that reflects dysfunctional families or programming that lacks socially redeeming merits works make such behavior more acceptable which leads to more people behaving this way than would have otherwise. One can say that it simply art immitating life, which is true to a degree. The problem is that Art distorts scope thus making a reality larger than life than it really is...which normalizes the behavior and makes it more wide spread.

TV is simply a destructive and corruptive influence on the mind and unfortunately, black people spend more hours a day in front of the TV than any other racial group, studies have shown. Far too many black families feel that Cable TV is a necessity and not a luxury. We thus have 500 channels to shape and corrupt our culture and self image, as well as, stagnating our mental growth. Tangentially, all the videogames that we play through the Cathode Ray Tube of TV’s are only fanning the flames cultural erosion. We spend far too much time in pursuit of electronic fantasy, escape or entertainment…and it is hurting us.

This is what some folks would say is the absence of personal responsibility on black folks part and something that cannot be blamed on white racism. However, I disagree in part. The reason being is that until the inequities that resulted from past racial oppression are removed…the effects of social negativity from the dominate culture will have a disproportional racial impact. Any actions by this society that disproportionably impacts the poor is also in effect racist, because blacks are disproportionably poor as the consequence of years of racial oppression. Thus, the impact of TV upon the poor magnifies upon black people because so many of our people are poor.

If I am trying to recover from pneumonia and I am in a rather warm room with other more healthy individuals, opening up the window will have a worse effect upon me than the healthy. Or if there is a virus being spread and my immune system is still in recovery from past sickness, the virus will have a greater success upon me than others simply because of my condition. Black people in America are still in recovery and thus we are less immune to the spread of social viruses that come through the electronic media. Whites are less affected by it and thus feel no need to control the medium, thus restricting profits and pleasures for white media and the consuming white masses.

It is not a plan or conspiracy to destroy black people via television, unlike that of the proliferation of drugs and guns into the black community. It is simply the nature and consequence of capitalism manifesting in the entertainment industry. There are more profits to be made by pushing the moral envelope and by being controversial than not. Once the moral envelope is pushed out, it then becomes acceptable and the new benchmark to supersede in regards to the next pushing out of the envelope. After a period of year and gradual pushes, the moral erosion is not that detectable from year to year. However, when one compare decades, the moral erosion becomes so egregious that it makes the change in attitudes and behavior of the new generation perfectly clear. However, this is the fundamental means to winning the rating competition and market share in the capitalist entertainment medium.

THE MOST POWERFUL JOURNEY OF A LIFE TIME FOR THIS AFRICAN IN AMERICA!

I would like to share with you all another personal introspection into the life of an African Slave descendant. I shared with you a brief family and personal history. Family is the most important and motivating factor in my life. When I say family, I do not simply mean immediate family, but my extended family of relatives and ancestors. The birth and life of my daughter has been the most profound and beautiful experience of my life. It is the only event in my life that has truly fulfilled and exceeded my expectations. Her birth, my first child, allowed me to complete the prime directive of life, besides survival, which the creation of progeny to continue the blood and species line.

Prior to the birth of my daughter, however, the most profound and gratifying experience of my life occurred in March of 2001. That is when this descendant of African slaves fulfilled the yearning of his captured ancestors by returning their DNA and progeny back to whence they/it had come….AFRICA.

I had made a promise to myself long ago that I would return to Africa that which was by design still African and that which is the vehicle of my ancestors, which is my flesh. I live because of them and they continue to live because of and through my existence. We are one and inseparable and I live to honor and respect their lives and struggles…as well as my own. Together we are strong.

So in March of 2001, my wife (then fiancé) arrived in Accra Ghana on a British Airways flight from London. I had saved up a long time for this as it was not cheap. When the plane landed on the tarmac and I stepped off the plane into the dark, hot and humid night, I was overcome emotionally. I could not believe I was there…actually back in the land of my ancestors. Tears broke the drought of my dry cry. At that moment, the promised journey had been fulfilled. I had returned my ancestors to their home land. I could have gotten back on the plane and returned back to the US…by choice and not force as my ancestors were taken away.

When we stepped out of the Airport after passing through customers, my wife and I were greeted by a parking lot full of African jittney men and baggage carriers looking to give us a ride to our destination and handle our bags for us. It was a sea of richly melanined dark brown faces all smiling and welcoming “back home” .

We did not go with a tour group or follow the tourist script. We got a hotel then a guest house and made friends quick with a brother name John, who was the concierge at the hotel we first stayed at. He told us that we were spending to much money their and that he could show us some cheaper places. He took us to meet his family in the village on his day off.

It was so strange because it made everything clear seeing the Africans. Looking at them I could see African Americans. The walks, the gestures, the dancing, the looks and features….there was no doubt that this is were we came from…it was like being home away from home…I felt like that is where I belonged…that was family…it was strange in a pleasant sense.

I thought that the people would look male nourished and weak, but to my pleasant surprise those were some of the healthiest and strong looking people that I had ever seen. I went to a fishing village and seen brothers who were just ripped and cut like they had been working out all their lives. However, forget the brother…the sisters…Good God almighty….talk about some grace and beauty…and not to mention that boo…well, you know. I seen some of the finest women that I had seen in my life…lawd help a brother do the right thing.

The Ghanaians were probable the friendliest people that I had ever meet, despite having the least of any people that I had met. Of course, once they knew you were American they befriended you to engage in commerce. However, I watched how they treated and spoke with one and other to gauge my opinion. It was beautiful and I could not help but to juxtapose it with the behavior and attitudes of African Americans. They are who we once were until we were corrupted by the influence of Western civilization and its crimes against ours peoples humanity.

I could go on with more but I will not. I just wanted to share a powerful and emotional experience of my life and recommend that somehow, if you can afford it, go visit the motherland. Make sure you do it the right way as not to have the American tourist experience, but one in which you connect with the locals on a more personal bases. Likely, if you are not a conscious black person in regards to being connected to your ancestors spiritually and to the struggles of your people, likely you should not go to Africa. The reason being is that you will only see what you want to see…which is a reason to be proud and lucky that you do not live there…in other words, you will be thanking that your ancestors were slaves so that you can now enjoy the material wealth of the West…even as a second class citizen. That is a shame, because we have become so blinded in the West by material wealth that we do not realize how poor we are, relative to Africans, in all other aspects of life and happiness.

I am currently making long term plans to buy property in Africa. I want to remain permanently connected and if feasible, have a dual citizenship in a chosen nation that offers such.

Do white folk want Affirmative Action back in Texas?

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Could it be true? Are white folk that once opposed affirmative Action in Texas now in favor of it? What would make a group of white folk change so drastically after fighting so hard to remove Affirmative Action? The history of Affirmative Action in Texas goes something like this; In 1996 Cheryl Hopwood, a white woman sued the University of Texas on the grounds that she was rejected solely on the basis of her race. As with most Affirmative Action cases, she did not sue the school for letting other white folk in with inferior test scores and so on, she went after those who got in because of Affirmative Action because she know damn well not one of those Black and Latino students deserve to be in the school more than her. The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in her favor thus ending Affirmative Action in Texas.

After the end of Affirmative Action in Texas the state legislature went to work to devise an alternative plan that would give Black and Latino students a better chance at getting into Texas Colleges and Universities. The state legislature came up with the Top Ten percent plan. This plan stated that the top ten percent of every graduating High School class was guaranteed admission into any public Texas College or University of their choice. In 1997 the Governor of the state of Texas, George Bush signed this plan into law. In the beginning there was much criticism of this law; various studies were done to prove the law was not doing what affirmative action had done and that Black and Latino student enrollment had failed in comparison to pre Hopwood days. The studies were correct, enrollment had failed in comparison to pre Hopwood, but as the years went by things changed and by 2001 Black and Latino student enrolment was not only back up to pre-Hopwood days, it had surpassed them, and here lies the problem.

The top ten percent plan is working so well now that white folks are now petitioning to have it reduced or capped and some are petitioning to have it out right revoked, even though more white students are benefiting from it than Black and Latino. Here is the burner; some of them are espousing using pre-Hopwood standards, meaning using Affirmative Action as it once was in order to get rid of the top ten percent plan. (We can not win for loosing with white folk in Texas.) The reason why these particular white folk want to get rid of the Top Ten Percent plan is they have spent all their money buying homes in affluent communities so that their children can go to the best schools but what they are finding out is their children while graduating with a 3.9 GPA, taking Advance Placement courses and scoring decent on the SAT are not in the top ten percent of their class, thus they do not get a guaranteed seat in any of the Public Colleges or Universities in Texas. However, down in the city where all the Black and Latino students attend School, students are graduating with a 3.4 GPA, no advance placement courses and low SAT scores but still graduate in the top ten percent of their class and get a guaranteed seat in any Public College or University.

State Senator Jeff Wentworth is leading the fight to repeal the top ten percent plan. During his interview on 60 minutes he espoused many preconceived notions about Black and Latino students being accepted to state Colleges and University under plans like the one in Texas and Affirmative Action. Senator Wentworth stated without checking his facts that “some of the students who get into the state Flagship University are not prepared academically for the rigorous training they get at that higher educational institution and some of them don’t last, they wine up quitting very frustrated because they were not prepared.” However the statistics at the University of Texas contradict the Senator. Larry Faulkner the president of the University of Texas was confronted with the Senators statements and President Faulkner stated, “The students from the “minority” schools do well at the University of Texas” he then went on to say “if you reach the top ten percent of your H.S. class, you know how to work, you know how to organize your time and those two things count a lot in an institutions like the University of Texas”. Mr. Faulkner was then asked does the top ten percent law dumb down the University of Texas, he said “he do not believe it dumb downs the University of Texas, We have the highest graduation rate in the history of the University, we have the highest four year graduation rate in the history of the university, we have the highest freshman retention rate in the history of the University.” The white reporter then commented that none of that says anything about the quality of the students, (you see how evil these people are). President Faulkner said in response to her dismissal and degrading of the quality of students being admitted, that “We have the highest SAT scores in the history of the University, and we have the highest class rank in the history of the University”. The reporter said even with the top ten percentage plan and President Faulkner said even with it.

One of the most ironic things said in the interview by Senator Jeff Wentworth is that he receive letters from affluent white folk who children can not compete with the other affluent students thus these white folk are trying to transfer their students to “inferior” (his word, not mine) schools so that they can be in the top ten percentile and get a guaranteed seat. What we have here is a plan that was supported in lieu of Affirmative Action and now it appears to be working better than Affirmative Action thus white folk want things back to how they use to be, even with empirical evidence that white students benefit from the top ten Percent Plan more than Black and Latino. It all comes down to some white folk believing they are more deserving of an education that Black and Latino students.

WHITE WEALTH 14 TIMES THAT OF BLACKS LATEST STUDY SHOWS!

WASHINGTON -- The enormous wealth gap between white families and blacks and Hispanics grew larger after the most recent recession, a private analysis of government data finds.

White households had a median net worth of greater than $88,000 in 2002, 11 times more than Hispanics and more than 14 times that of blacks, the Pew Hispanic Center said in a study being released Monday.

Blacks were slowest to emerge from the economic downturn that started in 2000 and ended in late 2001, the report found.

See full Article

My commentary on this is that African American, given the structural economic changes taking place in America and the world, will regress back to rates of poverty we have not seen since the early 70’s. A few years back, blacks had recorded our lowest poverty level ever here in the United States. At the apex of the 90’s boom, the black poverty rate had dropped to 22%, which is the lowest rate ever recorded. However, extrapolating from trends, by 2010 the black poverty rate, I predict, will be up above 30% again and by 2020, up near or above 40%. In other words, I am suggesting that if trends continue, the black poverty rate in America will nearly double in the next 20 years.

The primary reason is due to the decline of an industry that brought income and middleclass status to millions of African Americans with little education, which was the Northern Manufacturing industry. Not surprising, Cleveland Ohio has the highest poverty rate for any big city, and other Northern cities like Detroit, Gary, Flint, Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, and Chicago that once lifted Southern fleeing blacks out of poverty and into the middle class, now no longer have those jobs to offer like it once did. Those Steal, Auto, Rubber, tool and die and other manufacturing jobs have gone oversees to cheaper sources of labor. Blacks were disproportionately employed in these smoke stack industries and hence will disproportionately be hurt by the industries decline.

Structurally, never in America has hard work not simply been a conduit out of poverty, all other things being equal, until recently. Today, a college degree (in practice) is needed to secure those types of jobs that can elevate a family out of the ranks of the poor. The catch is, however, only about a quarter of all jobs being demanded by the economy require such a college degree. The consequence of these events will be a shrinking of the middle class and an increase in the lower class. Blacks will experience the severest drop percentage wise from the ranks of the middle class and into poverty, due to the type of industries and jobs that blacks are employed in.

The Million Man March

Today is the ninth anniversary of one of the most spectacular events I ever witnessed and been a part of; The Million Man March. It was back in 1995 that Minister Farrakhan called for a million black men to meet him in Washington D.C. to bring attention to the crimes committed against us and the crimes we commit against one another. I and about six brothers of mine answered that call, driving from California to Washington D.C. I will never forget arriving on the mall that morning before the sun rose thinking we would be some of the first brothers out there, little did I know if we wanted to be in the top ten thousand we would have had to arrived several hours earlier. The spirit of that day is one that sticks with me to this day; there was no mean mugging, no disrespect, no nigga this or nigga that, it was all love for one another and kind.

Black men arrived on the mall in the thousands some say and believe in the millions. Black Muslims, Black Christians, Black Jews, Black Atheist, Black Nationalist, Black Homosexuals, Black Republicans, Black Democrats, Black men from the East Coast, Black men from the West Coast, Black men from the South, Black men from the Mid-West, Black Police, Black Fireman, Black Masons; we all came representing nearly every affiliation there is in our community. However, this march was not about any of those affiliations, it was about Black men coming together and atoning for our past transgressions and taking a pledge to do better after that day.

Here is the pledge Black men took on that day and it is as relevant today as it was on that great day.

“I pledge that from this day forward I will strive to love my brother as I love myself. I, from this day forward, will strive to improve myself spiritually, morally, mentally, socially, politically and economically for the benefit of myself, my family and my people. I pledge that I will strive to build business, build houses, build hospitals, build factories and enter into international trade for the good of myself, my family and my people.

I pledge that from this day forward I will never raise my hand with a knife or a gun to beat, cut, or shoot any member of my family or any human being except in self-defense. I pledge from this day forward I will never abuse my wife by striking her, disrespecting her, for she is the mother of my children and the producer of my future. I pledge that from this day forward I will never engage in the abuse of children, little boys or little girls for sexual gratification. For I will let them grow in peace to be strong men and women for the future of our people.

I will never again use the `B word' to describe any female. But particularly my own black sister. I pledge from this day forward that I will not poison my body with drugs or that which is destructive to my health and my well-being. I pledge from this day forward I will support black newspapers, black radio, black television. I will support black artists who clean up their acts to show respect for themselves and respect for their people and respect for the ears of the human family. I will do all of this so help me god.”

Minister Farrakhan also laid out Eight steps of atonement I have found these steps to be useful in every aspect of my life and I am sure they can work in yours as well.


Eight Steps of Atonement
1. Someone must point out the wrong
2. Acknowledgment of the wrong
3. Confess the fault; first to God, then to those offended
4. Repentance; a feeling of remorse or contrition or shame for the past conduct which was wrong and sinful
5. Atonement; meaning to make amends and reparations for the wrong
6. Forgiveness by the offended party; to cease to feel offense and resentment against another for the harm done
7. Reconciliation and restoration; meaning to become friendly and peaceable again
8. Perfect union with God

Atone Brothers and Sisters and let’s move forward and help our people.

RESPECT TO MY ANCESTORS AND FAMILY AND TO MY FIRST BORN EMPRESS!

I would like to pay respect to may family and our Journey A to MMM journey. A to MMM refers to my families journey from Africa to Mississippi, Michigan and now Minnesota (whats up with them M states?).

My parents were born in Mississippi but migrated up North to Michigan in the 50’s for a better a life. I was born in Michigan in the late 60’s one of 4 siblings. I migrated to Minnesota, for pretty much the same reasons that my parents left Mississippi, which was for better opportunity and too escape more overt forms of racism (Michigan is very segregated and racist). I moved to Minnesota and met my Empress and we produced a beautiful young empress of some 20 months old.

My parents were share croppers in the Mississippi Delta. My folks use to tell me stories about how poor they were. They said for Christmas, they would simply get an apple and an orange.. They used to decorate their home (more like a shanty) exterior with newspaper doing Christmas. They said that everyone did it and that they all would marvel at the beauty of it.

My father said that the land owner would never pay them enough money to break out of their debts. There existance is what was know as peonage. This peonage and Jim Crow Laws is justifcation enough for reparations ad there are millions of living victims from it...my folks being among them. But I guess our nation will wait till they die off before they recognize the injustice...but then say its too late to do anything because all the victims are now dead....so to bad. Anyway, my Dad said that sometimes the land owner or other whites would come and try to take some of the food that my folks were allowed grow for their sustenance. But my grand daddy didn’t take not slit. He would chase them off with his shot gun, but that only made things worse in the long run. Everyone worked out in the field too. From the youngest to the eldest. One day the land owner came buy and asked my grand daddy why his wife was not out in the field working. My grand daddy told him that he did not see his wife out there working…so why did he expect to see his. Of course…massa didn’t like that and try to punish the family by paying them even less for the work.

My grand daddy used to sell coal on the side that they would make from burning wood. He would travel through the Mississippi Delta country side on the weekends selling coal. He even had a rap to his game. He would yell out “ Charcoaaaaaaaalllllllll Mannnnn…..travelin thru da land….I’m black….charcoal black…sell my charcoal two bit’s a sack! “ I am extremly proud of the perserverance of my folks to get through what they endured.

My folks never got much education…because they needed to be out in the field to help the family survive. When my grand folks died. My Daddy moved up North and Married my mother, who was from his home county back in Mississippi. That is how I got here. We lived in Detroit and Grand Rapids Michigan, originally my folks settled in Detroit then Grand Rapids. It always seemed like we lived in tough neighborhoods. There were two people murder right in front of our home on different occasions. Other times I would see robbing, stabbings, shooting periodically. Street fighting was a weekly norm among youth and even some grown folks over the year and Police shoot outs once penetrated our home. It did not seem that bad growing up though it was kind of exciting when your young and feel invincible. The innocent rarely got victimized...not like it is today. That was just slit that happened and you just figured everyone dealt with it.

I was the youngest and had a tough older brother who sold drugs. He had a brand new ride in the 8th grade. Not too many cats messed with me because of my brother. He used to tell me about shoot outs that he was in and tell me about some cats he was with getting their heads blown clean off in robberies because they would not give up the goods. If you looked at him though…you could never tell the life he lived. He was really lucky. Never did any major time or suffered any life threatening wounds. Every time my mom heard the sirens…she would freak out because he was never home. He would be gone on two and three weeks stretches at the age of 15. He come back home and he done been in Chicago our down South somewhere hustling.

My other brother was a pure athlete. He was only about 5’10’’ but could dunk a ball 360 without taking any steps. He had a lot of talent, but his knees and Asthma really slowed his future. Plus, he faked an address and went to this suburban school and the racist coach would not play him like he deserved. When he got to college, his college coach called the school and told the coach that he did my brother an injustice because he could not understand why he did not get more playing time with his talent.

Me, I was considered the smart one. I was not really smart. I just went to class and did the work. That alone would get you labeled smart where I am from. That and talking with proper English. Cats thought you was a genius just for putting together a properly formed sentence. However, I cut that out quick as I started to get older. I did not want to draw attention to myself by standing out as someone who was into the books. That did not help your street rep none what so ever.

I played sports too...football and track and field. I was really skinny to the point that my football equipment look like it swollowed me...but I loved football and thought I would become a professional. NOT!

I actually flunked the 11th grade. I actually had no vision of a practical future other than working in some factory. My pops was a janitor and my mom working in a factory and everyone in my community who worked were doing factory work. Those with the Auto manufacturing jobs were considered the rich and elite....and those jobs did pay very well.

I remember my uncles telling me all that I needed to do to get ahead in life. I had a hard time reconciling their knowlege with their status in life. If what they were saying was true...then why did they not do it...I thought. I remeber my first year in college thinking that an Engineer major trained people to conduct trains. I could not figure out what a person needed to go to college for to conduct a train. I had NO CLUE in regards to any profession other than factory work....and the only thing I knew about that was that you come home dirty and tired.

I finished my matriculation from Wayne State University in Detroit in 1993. For a couple of years I felt it was a wasted time in my life because I was still working in factories and not getting any opportunitied in line with my education. Thats when I moved to Minnesota and found it to be the most hospitable place that I had ever been.

When I got my first real IT job....I could not believe the salary they were paying me. I was really intimidated and thought that they would be making me work like a dog for that money(in retrospect...I learned my starting salary was peanuts in the industry). After about a year on the job, I learned that the people who really worked hard were the people without college degrees...like my folks and me before I landed that job. I was sent to training all over the country. I went to California about 4 times, Florida, Colorodo, Chicago and Atlanta. I stayed in expensive hotels, had large expense budget for food.

Originally, since we were responsible for making our own travel arrangments and accomidations, I would pick the cheapest places to stay and would eat at Mcdonalds and stuff....until I saw were the white guys were staying at and that they were expensing 50$ mills (one mean mind you). I did not go as far as them, because I know a brother cannot due what white folks do. As soon as I would have done it....I am sure that the whole thing would have come under review and scrutiny.

One of the biggest things that shaped my commitment to the struggle of black people was the striking differneces between were blacks and whites lived while I was growing up and the constant arrest and detainments I had by white police and security guards for things that I never did. When I worked in resteraunts around white people, they would also acuse me of always stealing their tips. The whites that I were around were extemly ignorant and racist...not all of them. But the majority...because they lived in isolation from black people and everthing they believed was based upon stereotypes. I developed a complex so severe that when ever I was around whites and something came up missing...I felt compelled to go out of my way to prove it was not me. I can see very easily how so many black people were locked up for stuff they did not do...I actually thought that would be my fate one day too

WHEN INTEGRATION BECOMES COUNTER PRODUCTIVE TO PRESERVATION.

There was a time long ago when California was the land of wide open spaces and scenic beauty. Thus, humans decided to integrate into these pristine settings in order to enjoy and be a part of the beauty. However, the more humans integrated into this environment, the more it ceased to be what it was and the less attractive it has become. What happened in essence is that humans were not able to reproduce or preserve that which it tried to enjoy and be a part of. This is an example of the old adage that one cannot HAVE your cake and EAT it too.

As humans, if we are attracted to something, yet our immersion or usage of it erodes or dilutes it, our behavior patterns are hence destructive or out of balance with nature. There are many examples of life where something that attracts us is eroded or changed by our integration or actualizing into that what attracts us. Take for example music and the Blues or Jazz genre. What effect did white integration into these genres have upon those genres? These were distinctly black phenomenon in the beginning and many people of all races loved it. However, when white artist integrated into the genres, were they successful in reproducing what was or did they make it better or worse?

I was reading a debate between some white Rastafarians and black Rastafarians about the direction and meaning of the “Earth movement”. Rastafarians break down their overstanding in terms of their spiritual, cultural and Earthly movements. Their "Earth movement" is essentially the teachings of Marcus Garvey and is heavily Afro centric by its nature. The white Rasta’s wanted to challenge the terminology being used in the Earth movement because they seen it a racist and exclusionary (of them). I thought to myself why would these whites be attracted to a black phenomenon, then integrate into it and try to change it from the original purpose that attracted them in the first place? Blacks did not recruit them into the movement via missionary work.

I have also heard many statements from some black men praising white women, over black women. I will not get into the details or nonsense of the specifics of the praise, but suffice with saying that they ranked white women superior for their taste. However, as much as they worship and rank these white women, they cannot reproduce white women. Thus, if they have children, they can only produce the inferior mixed offspring who is considered black in most circles. Thus, by these black men own standards, his offspring is inferior, though maybe superior in his eyes to what he could have produced with a black woman. So will he rear his daughter in such a way that she sees herself as being inferior to pure white women...will he accept the chareterization of his daugther as inferior by other black men who rank white women superior. There actions are self defeating to their interest or icons.


What about our nation and its culture? Can this nation truly celebrate and integrate diversity of peoples and cultures into this nation without actually changing the dominant culture of the nation? One must manage their expectations upon integration. If there are the expectations that things can remain the same culturally, while integrating diversity, they are sadly mistaken. For integration with anything different always has the effect of altering what was.

The question that I have is this: Are certain phenomenon worth preserving as is? Can wisdom give us the discernment to know when to have the cake and when to eat it? It seems that a good litmus test would be to understand whether your actions preserves, erodes or augments the existence of a phenomenon. If it erodes or dilutes it and it has value, then in the long run the behavior is not good, but destructive.

And now.. A few wise words from Mugabe...

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"We are now being coerced to accept and believe that a new political-cum-religious doctrine has arisen, namely that There is but one politcal god, George W. Bush and Tony Blair is his prophet."

From a speeech at the UN on Sept 23, 2004

Why do so many of our black Queens lack Kings

Why do so many of our black Queens lack Kings? There is an epidemic of single black women that is threatening to the future of black people in this nation. What is it about the black women, the most beautiful of her gender, which has lead to so many of them being lonely and without a husband or mate?

Many women say that it is a supply problem. They say that there are simply not enough black males in the mating pool to choose from, due to incarceration, interracial dating and homosexual leanings. I certainly cannot argue against those points. However, there is a demand side problem as well. That problem is rooted in the black female often becoming educated and finding success in the corporate world at a rate disproportional to black men and thus filtering the pool.

These educated black women are still compelled by tradition to look for a superior provider in the black male. Their standards are thus set higher from the benchmark of what they can provide for themselves as a single woman off their own career and income. Thus, this eliminates many otherwise “good men” from the pool simply because of incomes or careers not superior or commiserate with these educated and successful black females. Hence, many black women are turning their back on "moraly good" black men in their attempts to chase the elite economic black males. This is because women are conditioned by society and tradition to “date up” and not “down”.

What is not often introduced in the discussion of why so many black women are single is the empirical truth that marriage has always been maintained by the glue of dependency in a Patriarchal social construct, as much as tradition. Women, in such a construct, were dependent upon the men because of the combination of power, protection and provisions. Thus, in order for women to be protected and to have provisions for survival, she needed to have a man during our social evolution. Over time, this evolved into gender roles or expectations, that women are no longer constrained by.

Today, due to the summation of our history under white supremacy in the West, black men have relatively little power, ability to protect or the ability to provide, to a degree greater than the black women can do. In other words, the black males have been emasculated by the system. As I noted earlier, women are socially conditioned to “select up” and not “select down”, which is a biological evolutionary predisposition. It is called “natural selection” in which the strong get favored in the mating selection choices and thus those traits are rewarded more and passed on thus making the descendants stronger. Hence, a black woman “dating down” goes against evolutionary biological programming…thus, many remain single waiting for the strong alpha male.

In any population group where the females have power equal or greater than the men, you will see a much higher prevalence of single women. Contrary to popular belief, dependencies and roles have kept marriage strong as much as tradition. However, dependencies often lead to abuses and men have often taken advantage of these dependencies. Women are less likely to put up with such abuses and transgression when they can provide for themselves.

For those looking for me to provide a solution that benefits all…I cannot. The nature of existence is that all actions have tradeoffs. I do not think that the black woman is willing to give up her ability to provide in order that they may be dependent upon black males and thus increase marriage rates. I also do not believe whites will voluntarily dismantle the system of white supremacy which would allow black males to reach their natural equilibrium and not have to live under a system the priveleges white males.

Our problems will not be solved as a people while living in the West.

The Media is Bias! A complaint a few decades late.

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The bias reporting of the news has always been a topic of discussion in the Black community. Black men and women have complained for decades about the bias in the media when it comes to reporting news about us. In this day, the media bias complaints are coming from a different group of people; White Conservatives and their Negro-Con cohorts are the number one complainers of a bias in the media. When we look at some of the reasons given by them as to why the media is bias, we see the same reasons articulated by Black men and women for decades but simply dismissed as us being paranoid or schizophrenic.

Conservatives number one way of proving that the media is bias is by proving that those reporting the news are Liberal. If he or she is a liberal surely he or she must report the news with a Liberal slant. This argument was dismissed when it was articulated by Black men and women. Our position was that the use of all white reporters in reporting news related to our community has an inherent bias in the reporting because of who the reporter is and who he or she work for. We were rebuked and were expected to believe a white person that has absolutely no contact with Black men and women and carry around all the ill informed preconceived notions about us can report the news about us accurately and without a bias.

Conservatives also complain about bias liberal teachers and professors in schools and universities. If conservatives looked at themselves, their life ambitions and the kind of jobs they take it will be easily understood why there is an over representation of Liberals in the media and in teaching positions. Conservatives are not concerned with making the human family better; Conservatives are driven by their capitalist ambitions thus those jobs that are liberal by nature will not draw very many conservatives. Conservative complaints about a bias liberal media and bias liberal teachers and professors are true to the extent that these professions are not jobs that appeal to capitalist conservative thus their opinion is under represented in these professions.

However, this is not the case with Black men and women. While we vote with the democrats and hold many conservative values, the bias reporting of the news concerning our community is carried out by both liberal and conservative whites and now a group of Negro-Cons have jumped on the bandwagon putting up a site called “Black media watch” where they will critique the Black media liberal bias. What kind of foolishness are these Negroes into. The Black media tells you out front that it is bias by virtue of it being “the black media”. Critiquing the Black media is a waste of time and trying to prove that there is a liberal bias or a bias leaning towards the voting habits of black men and women is an exercise in futility. It is tantamount to critiquing Black introspection to see if we mostly speak to the issues that affect Black men and women.

It is foolish and a belief that has no basis in reality to believe that the personal biases and affinities of men and women reporting the news will not spill over into their reporting of the news and this is why I believe the complaints from White Conservatives and their Negro-Con cohorts only prove what Black men and women have known for decades; there is a bias in the media and that bias has been a disservice to the Black community for decades.

Why Do Black people need Leaders.

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This is the question asked mostly out of ignorance or by those whites who wish to assert that Black folk needing leaders makes us inferior. When we look at all those who are called or referred to as Black leaders the one thing all of them have in common is they all fight for and speak to the interest of Black men and women in America. However, when the question is asked why “Black people need leaders” this question is suggesting something totally different. The questioner is suggesting that Black people are mindless, non-thinking individuals who allow a select group of men and women to think for us, never, considering that these individuals are one of us and is actually in tune for the most part with what we have to say thus they articulate it to those who need to hear it.

Depending on the objective of those calling into question the leadership abilities of Black men and women that speak to our interest, will determine the people they use as proof that there is no Black leadership and or that Black people are following people that do not speak to our interest as the questioner would or can.

Those that ask “why do Black people need leaders” will never ask; why does the U.S. need a President, Why do cities need mayors, or why do states need Governors. The answer to these questions is simple, these men and women are needed to represent the interest of those whom they govern, and here lies the problem. State interest, city interest and country interest while affecting us are not particularly our interest. History has proven this. In fact some issues that may be of importance to the majority population in any particular city or state may actually work against the interest of Black men and women. The degree to which our interests are similar, part of, or equal to city, state and country interest is based on the degree to which they benefit us or harm us.

Black people need leaders’ i.e. people that speak to our interest for the same reason cities needs mayors, states need Governors and this country need a President. Any criticism of Black leadership from those outside our community is laughable when we consider their leadership in Washington D.C. is all whores to special interest and they all have their price. The disgust expressed by the white media towards Jessie Jackson shaking down companies should be dismissed as racist and arrogance when compared with the absence of disgust expressed towards Congress men and women, being whores to special interest and their lobby. Next time you are asked or hear someone asking “Why do Black people need leaders” You tell them, we need leaders because the leaders of this city, state, and country do not speak to our interest and in many instances are diametrically opposed to our interest.

WHY BLACKS ARE FAILING UNDER WESTERN CIVILIZATION AND CULTURE

The genocide of indeginous black culture

There is much talk and debate that juxtaposes the performance of blacks with other racial, immigrant or ethnic groups and even with blacks of different nationalities, here in America. The goal seems to be the pointing out of performance discrepancies and to place and or discredit causes of these discrepancies. However, when all is said and done, all arguments funnel into the two major schools of cause, which are the internal school of cause and the external school of cause. In other words, is black lagging performance the product of "blackness" and endemeic traits and proclivities that lead to inferior performance or is the lag the resultant reactions to external events imposed upon blacks?

I consider myself to be a student of the external school of thought. In my observations and research I have concluded that the primary factor that leads to success or failure in the Western political economic construct is “culture”. What is culture? There is likely numerous working definition of culture, but my working definition of culture is that it is a societal blue print or template of expectations concerning, behavior, attitudes, values, norms, religion, language and so forth, as well as history. Hence, it is this template that when followed leads to certain end resultants by population groupings in a given environment.

The people in the global West (USA, Europe, Canada and others) that do the best are the ones who have the greatest connections to their indigenous culture. For black people, that means Africa. For Asians people, that means Asia, for white people that mean Europe. Out of those mentioned, the people with the least amount of link to their indigenous culture are black people. Not surprisingly, black people have the poorest social and economic performance. Now some will surely argue that this could simply be coincidence and not correlation and that there is no way to prove this. However, not being able to prove something does not means it’s not true. ( See esaay, Jamaicans fighting for reparations for example).

Not only has Black Americans been disconnected forcefully and purposely from their indigenous culture and history, the base of their culture (Africa) has also eroded by the spread of European cultural superiority during the years of slavery and colonization. When one look at Asia and Asians, there culture is much stronger and much more intact than Africa’s. One barometer of the degree of Europeanization is the prevalence of Christianity. Where Christianity has taken hold the most, the erosion of traditional culture and normative behaviors follow suit. Also, when the official language becomes that of Europeans, then that is yet another indicator of cultural genocide from European imperialism. Most black African nations have English as their official language and Christianity as the most widely practiced religion.

In the process of becoming culturally Europeanized, the expectation and conditioning of black inferiority manifested as the consequence of Eurocentric white superiority propaganda. The fact that most black people still pray and worship to a white Jesus is more profound than people know. It epitomizes the general effect of black people living under white indigenous culture. The vast majority of heroes and historical people of note and praise are white. The language that you speak is white. The people who have the real power are white. Thus, subliminally, whites do begin to look God like and superior in juxtaposition with blackness, darkness and evil…the connotation of blackness. People ignore the most insidious and subtle effect of slavery, colonization and European acculturation, which is the psychological.

Black culture today is illegitimate. It is the offspring of the white cultures rape of black people. Black culture today is simply an emulation of or a reaction to white culture in the West. Let us not forget that the purpose of blacks to whites was to use us as the beast of burden to help elevate whites and their civilization. That is the reason that we are here in the West, even if that original purpose has waned, it was successful in its objective. In order to do that, they needed to strip of all things African, which they made out to be inferior and savage. Today, many blacks wrestel with what it means to be black. This uncertainty or erroneous assumption of the meaning thus leads to destructive behavior.

Culture is like the root of a plant. Without long and healthy roots, one cannot have as healthy plants as those whose roots are long, deep and strong. Thus, the cure for what plagues black people is that we must start working on our roots and culture. All the effort we place on treating the plants and leaves will be all for naught until we address the problem with our roots. We need to reconnect ourselves to our indigenous roots. We need to realize that most of the problems of the black community today, in regards to behavior, is in direct conflict with traditional African culture. We are not practicing black culture in America. We are simply reacting to and emulation of white culture.

AIDS CREATED TO KILL BLACKS: Says recent Noble Prize winner

"Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys (since) time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that," Wangari Maathai told a news conference a day after winning the prize.

"Us black people are dying more than any other people in this planet."

"It's true there are some people who create agents to wipe out other people. If there were no such people, we could have not have invaded Iraq.

"We know that the developed nations are using biological warfare, leaving guns to the primitive people," the Standard quoted Ms Maathai as telling a public workshop in the central Kenyan town of Nyeri on August 30."

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Does this Noble Prize winner, highly educated, highly achieved, against tremendous odds….suffer from the dreaded “Victim” syndrome that plagues so many lazy, scapegoating, uneducated, non achieving blacks in America? Should she be spending her time focusing on what black internal genetic inferiorities and stop blaming white folks for Aids?

More commentary later.

Jamaicans fighting for Reparations. Update from the World Conference Against Racism

PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) - A Jamaican lawyer who lost a slavery reparations lawsuit against Britain's Queen Elizabeth II said Monday he would take the case to the United States.

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"We lost the case against the Queen and her descendants because the court ruled that we could not prove we are related," Lorne said. "But the evidence from this conference would help."

Miguel Lorne lost a case in 2002 in Jamaica's High Court because he couldn't prove that the island's blacks were direct descendants of enslaved Africans.

This is totally an absurd argument....that there is no proof that black Jamaicans are the descendants of slaves...how the hell did they get their from Africa? This is the total disrespect of black people and our history. As they say....it is not what you KNOW...its what you can PROVE.

Dr. Claude Anderson defends his Africa Town proposal

Here are some quotes from a Detroit Free Press interview.

"It's not being divisive; it's me telling you what you already got," Anderson said.

He said his stance on immigration is about competition in a society where immigrants are surpassing blacks.

For example, he said because of bilingual education, school districts spend more to educate immigrant children than they do to educate black children.

He said immigrants have displaced blacks from affirmative action programs, which were originally meant to correct injustices against blacks by the federal government. As a result, he said, the concept of affirmative action has been polluted.

"Black folk do not benefit from it," he said. "Immigration has had a negative impact on black folks and nobody wants to address it."

See the complete story in the DETROIT FREE PRESS. However, take a close note of the Freudian Slip by the Free Press reporter who stated that slavery ended 240 years ago...and not over 140 years ago. White folks are always trying to make slavery seem like something that happened 1000 years ago...to make any claims by descendants seem all the more absurd.

When "Truth" becomes divisive and promotes animosity it is not the messenger or the people being wronged in the truth that is at fault. Rather, it is all those who become upset and angry. Black people should not be intimidated away from truth.

WESTERN LAWS WERE CREATED BY AND TO PRESERVE WHITE SUPREMACY

The primary defense that the West uses to protect itself from responsibility and litigation, in regards to their role in the enslavement of humans, is there laws. Queen Elizabeth stated:

although the slave trade was barbaric and uncivilized, it was not considered a crime against humanity at the time the United Kingdom government condoned it.

Thus, she is ignoring moral law and cause and effect and simply focusing on what was “legal”. THat was here response in 2003 to a request from Rastafarian elders in JA to repatriate the descendants of slaves and to seek reparations from the British. She went on to say:

It is a fundamental principle of international law that events have to be judged against the law as it stood at the time when they occurred. We regret and condemn the inequities of the slave trade, but these shameful activities belong to the past. Governments today cannot accept responsibility for what happened over 150 years ago.

When people act unrighteous against the dictates of laws, they can be held accountable. However, who holds people accountable when they use laws to protect their unrighteous acts? A society governed by laws has no mechanism to hold accountable those who use laws to be unrighteous. Black people have no redress under the system of white superiority, which used and uses its law and legality to create a system of white supremacy.

It has become obvious that white supremacy is the product of and maintained by laws which are created by and for white interest in the West. Certainly black people did not have a say in in the formation of white supremacy laws. Today, whites want to make it illegal to erode the effects of white supremacy, by challenging the legality of actions and programs designed to help blacks up. Again, this is whites using laws, created by whites, to preserve white supremacy of privilege and conditions…blacks have no chance under such a construct.

The challenge or obstacle for black people is how do we fight white supremacy in the courts, when the laws and courts are designed to preserve white supremacy? That is the proverbial fox guarding the hen house. The system and courts of laws are how whites established their wealth and supremacy. The system of courts and laws today are designed to preserve white supremacy.

The only way for blacks to get justice is if we play counter to their rules. We will once again have to FIGHT the system. We will have to take measures such as refusing to pay income taxes…but only if and when we get massive support from other black people…because they cannot arrest and prosecute some 25 million working African Americans who refuse to pay taxes. Once again we will have to become confrontational as we did in the 60’s.

The Dynamic Duo of Bush and Blair showing hyper interest in Africa's Problems

Tony Blair, Britain’s Prime Minister, has made a pledge to put Africa and its problems at the forefront of G8 nations concerns, at their next gathering. President George W Bush, of the United States, has recently also given much rhetoric on Africa and the need to help the continent. My question is why all the sudden talk of benevolence about problems and conditions that have existed centuries there, in no small part, the negative by product of Western imperialism?

The first thing that the Africans should remain cognizant of is that the West does not act unless it’s in their self interest. This is not benevolence and altruism that is motivating this attention. Rather, it is the fear of terrorism and failed states in Africa being the next big incubator and recruiting grounds for terrorism. Most certainly the Africans as much, if not more, reasons to hate the West than does any group on this planet. Certainly there is no other peoples disenfranchised to the degree of the African and recorded history has many fingers pointed at the West for contributing greatly to this situation.

Back in the days of the Pharaohs, some pharaohs were cognizant of the danger posed by the male offspring and descendants of the oppressed and victimized. Thus, they undertook campaigns of killing male born, lest they rise up in numbers and seek to do unto the rulers what the rulers had done unto their peoples. Every action produces reactions and sometimes the reaction does not have the opportunity to manifest for generations or more. The reaction to what the West has done to African/Black peoples, for the last 400 years has yet to be reconciled against the West. The West is still enjoying the benefits, without having to be burned with the full cost of their actions.

The biggest allies of the present white man is the past white man; for the past white man has created many assets from the exploitation of non white peoples, that has accrued and passed down to current white nations and peoples. The biggest enemy of the white man, however, is also that same past white man, who past their burdens, liabilities, reactions and ill will towards them as to the future generations of whites. The problem is that they want the assets from the past, but are unwilling to reconcile the liabilities from that past. They are now going about the world trying to destroy or placate their perceived enemies, when the real enemy is themselves in that the enemy is simply the creation of the reactions, from white historical actions.

Is appealing to the Black cosumer devisive?

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Is appealing to the Black consumer divisive?

This question arises from an article I read linked from Black Electorate. Kevin Starke a Black man (pictured to your left) that owns a Barber Shop was informed by one of his customers that he had no idea that Kevin’s Barber Shop was Black owned. Upon hearing this Kevin asked himself, “What should I do”? In order to change this Kevin came up with a great idea, he took the traditional American Eurocentric Barbers Pole that is “red, white and blue” and made one that was “red, black and green”. Kevin’s solution was so effective in drawing in Black customers that he was able to “expand his Barber Shop to a larger, seven chair location”.

I am not the least bit surprised that the “Red Black and Green” barbers’ pole drew so much attention and helped increase the number of people patronizing his business. Nor am I surprised by the reaction of other Black barbers who are scared that trying to appeal directly to Black men and women is some how divisive. A Barber by the name of Lionel Johnson a Black man said that he does not think that using the “Red, Black and Green” pole is a great idea because “You’re sort of singling folks out” he went on to say because of where they are “you’ve got to cater to Black and white”, which means he believe the “Red Black and Green” barbers pole does not appeal to white folk and is divisive.

When we examine what he is saying we see the same old scared to death Negro ignorance being manifested. How did appealing to Black men and women become divisive? If using the “Red Black and Green” barbers’ pole is divisive would not the use of the “red, white and blue” be as equally divisive”. This brother has ignored the truth that is in his face, the “Red, Black and Green” pole increased Brother Kevin’s business so much that he had to get a bigger shop. This is one of the things we (Black folk) need to be mindful of; some of our people have come to believe Eurocentric symbols are universally appealing and Afri-Centric symbols are divisive! The increased traffic into Brother Kevin’s Barber Shop after putting the pole outside his store means that Black folk were look for a place that they could identify with and when he put that pole out there, that was a sign to Black folk that said, “what you been looking for is right here.” Now Black men that had been driving across town to get a hair cut realized there is a Black Barber shop right under there nose.

Afri-Centric symbols are not divisive; these symbols represent us and we should not be afraid of how white folk will perceive them; however we should take note of their reaction to our symbols. The brother that thinks our colors (red black and green) on a barbers pole does not cater to white folk, should ask himself why he thinks the traditional American Eurocentric red, white and blue barbers pole cater to us and is more universally appealing than the “Red Black and Green” barbers pole.

NOT SEEING THE FOREST DUE TO THE TREES

Not seeing the forest due to the trees is one of the most profound and true analogies of life. What it essentially says is that our perspective of the whole is blocked by the reality that immediate surrounds us. Just because a patch of forest, that may be our environment, is green, does not therefore mean that the forest as a whole is not baran losing foliage. The forest may be receding, succumbing to the expansion of the desert, while the forest inhabitants and dependants are oblivious to this fact.

When we look at race relations and attitudes today, most white people cannot see the forest due to the trees. The reason being is that some blacks have managed to integrate and find tolerance, if not acceptance, into the world and lives of white people. Thus, these relations become trees that have the focus of many whites and block them from seeing the totality or “big picture” of the racial forest. Hence, they assume to be true for the whole what is true of the piece of environment that they exist in. Few individual lives and experiences can be viewed as a microcosm of the whole. Consequently, white’s view of reality (the big) picture, is often distorted from obstruction.

The same is true for black people. Contrary to what many whites think, Pan African or Militant blacks such as me are well aware that there is, and always has been, good white folks. In fact, the vast majority of black folks know that there are good white people in this world. Many of us have the pleasure of interacting with them and some even have intimate relations with them. However, does our experience with good white folk make us assume a less defensive position? Do we now believe that white racism is no longer a legitimate obstacle to our status and success, because we cannot see the forest of white behavior and attitudes because of the good whites in front of us?....most certainly this happens.

There are many white people, like one of our welcome commenters, who is more concerned about saving the reputation of the white race from the stigma of being racist, than they are about helping blacks offset and rise from the curse of white racism. They come across with personal stories about their black friends and how they treat all people as simply people because they do not see color. The effect of such rhetoric, whether by intent or coincidence, is that they come across “white people” as apposed to a “white person”. In other words, they come across as a tree representative or a microcosm of the forest of whiteness. Thus, they use their personal experience to in an attempt to invalidate the claim or theory that blacks are still held down by contemporary white racism, which is illogical because one cannot contradict the whole by what maybe true of a part.

Black and white relations are helped and hurt often by personal interracial relationships. I think we obviously know how it helps, but few take the time to realize that such relations can often distort or obstruct a truth of the whole that is not true of a part in on lives. Furthermore, once the race get together, they rarely talk freely about race out of fear of offending or alienating their friends or relations of another race. Thus, you never really get strait talk about race, in interracial groupings and conversations where people know each other.

I am not suggesting that we throw the baby out with the bath water by ceasing inter racial relationships and friendships, as some most absurdly would have suggested that I am alluding to. I am just trying to have an honest analysis of the reactions to certain actions, from a human nature perspective.

I believe that whites need to spend more time working on self introspection and changing the mindset of white folks, rather than on changing the perception of blacks concerning whites. Good white folks can do far more good performing missionary work with bad white folks, than by coming amongst black people to show us that all whites are not racist. It is like the white missionaries to go to Africa to help out the poor people, while teaching them Christianity and the blue print of righteous living, in their opinion. However, far more could be gained if these missionaries could convince their governments to not only cancel these nations debt burdens with there host nations, but repair the damage done to them from years of their demand for slave, colonization and cold war policies.

If there are any people who truly are afflicted with not seeing the forest due to the trees, it is the Africans. When you see Africans starving or in need of Aid, you generally only see white faces there to help. However, this works to blind the Africans to the fact that it was the European who demanded slaves, who colonized their nations, who created the borders and boundaries that cause so much infighting, and who propped up and supported dictators during the cold war, all of which sum up to be a major contributor of the continents current problems. Yet, most see white people as saviors…due to the Aid workers and missionaries.

Group Thinking.....

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One thing I always say, regardless of how evil and wicked Caucasian people have been to Black people in America and in the Diaspora; you must hand it to them for their relentless assault and attack on any form of unity by black folk to combat white supremacy. In the same way they came up with the word nigger that has lasted for decades, they continue to introduce ways of thinking and phrases that Black folk use to either belittle or attack one another. Some of these phrases are; “The Race Card”, “The Victim Attitude”, “Reverse Racism” and the one discussed in this piece “Group thinking”

Group thinking is a phrase used to define a group of people who all think alike as if it is a bad thing. Those of us who think Black people should be using our positions in government and as celebrities to put forth issues that matter to black folk are accused of espousing Group thought. Interesting enough those of us who get accused of this are normally Nationalist (Pro Black). Group thinking kills the idea of “individualism.” Individualism is the thinking that “I got mine” and I did it all on my own, I did not benefit from anything or anyone.

Why must Black people think as a group? And do white folk think as a group? These are good honest question and I think it is about time it got addressed.

Black people have and continue to subscribe to “group thinking” in large numbers because that which caused much of our ills was sponsored by “group thinking.” White people for centuries thought the same and acted the same concerning us. A drunken dirty homeless Whiteman felt in his heart he was better than an educated wealthy Black man because of thoughts held by his group. Group thinking made laws that caused harm to Black people legal. Group thinking is what makes it hard for us to get home loans. Group thinking is what cause police to brutalize Black men and women.

Group thinking is what gives power to any thoughts or ideas coming from the group. It is common for anyone opposing the idea or thinking of a group to search for one in that group who disagree with the group and put them out front to combat their group i.e.. Armstrong Williams, Walter Williams and the various other Negro Cons. Caucasian people understand what Black unity means to their way of living and their form of government. In order to combat group thinking they promote individualism, and some Black folk accept this way of thinking not realizing that individualism as practiced and preached by white folk is actually group thinking presented as individualism. Let me qualify this statement.

Anytime there are a great number of people who think the same way concerning social issues, political issues, and international issues we can say they are practicing “group thinking”. If you are a conservative you practice “group thinking,” if you are a liberal you practice “group thinking.” The only time “group thinking” becomes something to scorn and mock is when the group doing the thinking is Black folk who want the thinking to benefit Black folk. So you have Negro-Cons like the ones mentioned above and other Negro-Cons all over the internet Blogging about group thinking and accusing others of “group thinking” as if it is a bad thing, when in fact they too practice group thinking, they just don’t think like Black folk as a group think.

I am saying this so that those of us who work hard for our people and use all our resources to benefit our people don’t get discombobulated by those who accuse us of “group thinking.” When some Negro accuses you of “group thinking” you should let him or her know, they too are guilty of “group thinking,” Unfortunately the group they think like is not one that wishes to see Black folks rise in America.

Attempting to understand blind Patriotism

When civilians or soldiers lament that they would be proud to fight and even die for their country, what does that really mean? I saw some American soldiers who were amputees from the Iraq war last night on PBS. Most said that they had no regrets about losing a limb, vision, cognitive abilities or various other traumatic life altering wounds from the war. When they stated such, all at once I admired them, felt sorry for them and felt that I was missing out on what America has given them that makes them risk their lives and limbs for the nation…without question.

I have no such patriotism. My patriotism is highly qualified and reconciled with righteousness. If you ask most people what their hierarchy of allegiance is they will say God, Family, Country. I would have to say that would by mine as well; except that I would put my people before my country. Thus, before I would be willing to risk life and limb for country, the reason would have to reconcile with the highest order of righteousness. I would think that anyone who places God first, and means it, would have to thus qualify their patriotism as well, but many do not.

The reason that many Americans do not qualify their patriotism, while putting country behind God and family is that many people erroneously equate the action of America with Gods will. Many, if not most, people see the wealth and richness of America to be the blessing of God. God Blessed America, so they think. Thus, if what this nation enjoys in wealth is the resultant of Gods blessing, then one would subliminally conclude that those less fortunate have less of Gods blessing or is cursed. Personally, I do not feel that God plays favorites with his children, until judgment allows them to enter or exit heaven after death. While in the living, Americas wealth and richness has, I believe, nothing to do with Gods blessing and our actions as a nation therefore not implicitly representing Gods will.

In light of this, I cannot simply give my life or limbs when a president and congress calls me to do so. I would do so if the cause passed my own litmus test of right and wrong. A patriot can easily be confused with a fool, if they are willing to accept what the government tells them without question. We all know that politicians lie and the government has clandestine operations and plenty of secrets both of which are kept from the public. One of the consequences that counter the benefits of keeping secrets is that it erodes trust. I know that our leaders know that they cannot rally public support for wars, in a democracy, unless you play to peoples emotions of fear. We need to get them before they get us, mindset. That may be the pretext, because American would not accept going to war over oil or other resources, if you told them that flat out.

I think that many Americans, especially white Americans, do not want to know the truth. The reason being is that ignorance of the truth can serve as justification for benefiting from unrighteous behavior by our nation. If you know that what our government does on occasions is wrong, causes deaths and exploitation, then you are complicit in it if you are backing the government’s actions. Thus, for those people who say they put God first, they want to remain ignorant so that they can continue to enjoy the benefits of America’s actions without having to be confronted with the guilt of unrighteousness and “blood wealth”. This is why so many Americans get highly upset when you bring up or accuse the government of engaging in terrorism via the CIA or this nation’s history of doing to others what it now condemns others for doing, but has not reconciled the debts from when it did such things.

I guess I wish that I lived in a nation whose history was such that it would command my blind trust and faith. In such a nation, I would not have to second guess that when the nation called me to give my life and limbs…that righteousness was on my side. In a way, I am jealous because if a person is not willing to do for something (nation)...living is not as good.

MORE STATISTICS: METROPOLITAN JOB GAINS & LOSSES

Among the 274 metropolitan areas for which August 2004 nonfarm payroll data were available, 192 posted over-the-year increases in employment, 78 recorded decreases, and 4 had no change. The largest over-the-year employ-ment increases were posted in Washington, D.C.-Md.-Va.-W.Va. (+70,400), New York, N.Y. (+49,300), Phoenix-Mesa, Ariz. (+40,200), Las Vegas, Nev.-Ariz.
(+38,900), and St. Louis, Mo.-Ill. (+33,800). The largest over-the-year per-centage increases in employment occurred in Sheboygan, Wis. (+5.9 percent), Dover, Del. (+5.5 percent), Laredo, Texas (+4.9 percent), Las Vegas, Nev.- Ariz. (+4.7 percent), and Fort Myers-Cape Coral, Fla. (+4.2 percent).

The largest over-the-year employment declines were reported in Detroit, Mich. (-30,200), San Jose, Calif. (-10,700), Hartford, Conn. (-8,500), Lansing-East Lansing, Mich. (-8,400), and Saginaw-Bay City-Midland, Mich. (-8,300). The largest over-the-year percentage decreases in employment were reported in Saginaw-Bay City-Midland, Mich. (-4.8 percent), Steubenville-Weirton, Ohio-W.Va. (-4.4 percent), Houma, La. (-3.8 percent), Lansing-East
Lansing, Mich. (-3.6 percent), and Enid, Okla. (-3.5 percent).

Over the year, nonfarm employment increased in 32 of the 39 metropolitan areas with annual average employment levels above 750,000 in 2003. The largest over-the-year percentage increases in employment in these metropolitan areas occurred in Las Vegas, Nev.-Ariz. (+4.7 percent), St. Louis, Mo.-Ill. (+2.6 percent), Phoenix-Mesa, Ariz., and Washington, D.C.-Md.-Va.-W.Va.
(+2.5 percent each), Orlando, Fla. (+2.4 percent), and Riverside-San Bernardino, Calif. (+2.2 percent). Among the 39 large areas, Detroit, Mich., had the largest over-the-year percentage decline in employment (-1.5 percent), followed by San Jose, Calif. (-1.3 percent), Indianapolis, Ind. (-0.8 percent), and Boston, Mass.-N.H. (-0.4 percent).


Employment growth was most widespread in education and health services, with 212 of 274 metropolitan areas experiencing over-the-year employment gains in this industry sector. Employment gains also were prevalent in leisure and hospitality and in professional and business services, with gains occurring in 175 and 172 metropolitan areas, respectively. Manufacturing remained the weakest industry, with 154 metropolitan areas posting employment losses over the year.

Source: BLS

I-Save RX

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The downfall of Capitalism and the robbery of the men and women in America is being manifested in more ways than we know. However, one of the many ways the robbery of the men and women in America living under an oppressive capitalist system is being thwarted, is by several states like Illinois and Wisconsin allowing its citizens to get prescription drugs from outside the U.S.

The state of Illinois has put up a website for its citizens called “I-Save RX”; the state of Wisconsin has joined Illinois in it's venture to help it's citizens acquire prescription drugs at a cheaper price from abroad. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been spreading lies and half truths about prescription drugs from abroad, stating that they may not be safe or that they can not guarantee the safety of prescription drugs from abroad. However, there is no news of people dropping dead in Canada, Ireland or the UK from prescription drug poisoning. Therefore we can conclude that prescription drugs from abroad are as safe as prescription drugs here in the U.S. and to further that argument the drugs in the U.S. are made by the same companies that the drugs abroad are made by. The problem lies with the U.S. whorish congress that continues to sell the interest of the men and women that put them in office down the river for a few thousand if not a few million dollars.

The price difference on some of the drugs, especially those that are used in high numbers in the U.S. is a condemnation of the Congress and all those that have sold the interest of the men and women in the U.S. out. It is mind boggling to me that the medical insurance companies are not spearheading the move to get prescription drugs from other nations at a cheaper price. The blood suckers at the various medical insurance companies are quick to deny payment for services needed by the men and women that pay for their insurance and they are quick to say they will only pay for generic drugs but they are mysteriously quiet on the issue of getting cheap prescription drugs from abroad.

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This issue is one personal with me; my son and my mother have asthma, my mom uses the Advair Diskus inhaler; the price of a 3 month supply of 250mg, 60 dose diskus is $453.60 in the U.S. Using the I-Save RX website I can get the Advair Diskus 3 month supply for $249.90 and that includes shipping. Heart Burn is a big problem in the U.S., there are thousands of people taking Nexium AKA "the purple pill” for their heartburn, A 3 month supply of Nexium in the U.S. cost $373.80, however through “I-Save RX” a 3 month supply of Nexium can be purchased for $197.90, a 45% savings.

The problem with the over pricing of prescription drugs is yet another example of the oppressive nature of capitalism and a government run amuck by whoring itself out to special interest and putting the interest of the men and women that elect officials to represent them to the side.

World Conference Against Racism..

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Unbeknownst to most folk in America because of the lack of media coverage, the World Conference against Racism has convened in Suriname, South America. Many things are on the agenda at this year’s conference from the HIV\AIDS problem plaguing African nations to seeking reparation for the genocidal behavior of European, Arabs and Jews through out the world on African people. One of the controversial decisions by the Conference from the last time they convened is also being used again at this year’s conference and that is non-Blacks are not allowed to participate in the meetings on issues like slavery. I completely agree with this decision by the conference in excluding those who perpetrated these acts from discussing strategy for seeking redress for these acts. Allowing non-Blacks to participate would be tantamount to a General inviting the enemy to attend intelligence meetings in an ongoing war.

The constitution being proposed by the conference is drawing fire from outsiders and scared to death Negro men and women from various Black nations.

“Under the current wording, the document says Africans and their descendants have suffered at least “2,000 years of terrorism and white and Arab criminal supremacy,” calling the last 500 years the worst because of “imperialism, genocide, colonialism, neocolonialism, apartheid, slavery and racism.”

This is the unadulterated truth and I have no idea why a Black person would object to such language being used. Some are saying this language is divisive, I agree! the truth is very divisive, it separate the liars from those telling the truth and the truth is painful and I would hope that the Conference does not acquiesce or capitulate to the whims of these weak men and women who are scared that their standing with Western Powers may be hurt by ratifying a Constitution that speaks truth to power and indicts the European, Arab and Jew for their atrocities committed against African People.

The preamble of this constitution also makes reference to “the various holocausts experienced by African people as perpetuated by Europeans, Arabs, Christians and Jews.” I have no Idea why Muslims were left out, but I guess the Muslims atrocities on African people are being covered under Arabs being mentioned based on all Muslims atrocities on African people being committed by Arabs.

Also there are discussions about France repaying the 90 million in gold Francs it received from Haiti. This money went to “the former owners of sugar plantations developed with slave labour."

“Accounting for inflation, ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide had demanded US$21.68 billion, saying that was equivalent to the gold francs”

However, and this is important, the current interim puppet prime Minster in Haiti, has said the demand has no legal grounds. There should be no doubt in or mind why the western world wanted Aristide out of power. The conference ends this Wednesday.

The coming economic Depression...are you prepared? Certainly can't blame this on Black leadership! Maybe its time to start looking at white leaders.

The “Boom” of the “Baby Boomers” was prophetic in that it forecast the sound of the economy crashing from that generation’s retirement and the irresponsible behavior of political leaders who only focus on the short term. However, in a representative democracy such as ours, it is really the fault of the people who are obsessed with maximizing the present and a desire not to pay taxes. I have stated all along that we are living in borrowed time due to our nation’s economy being structurally weak. I can bet that they (the government) will try to postpone the calamity by raising the retirement age to 70. They can only hope to reach a point of equalibrium by raising the age of retirement high enough so that more people die before they can recieve what they paid into it, relative to the working population. One bright spot, if any, is that the retirements will create many job openings as the jobs the baby boomers retire from need to be replaced, in most cases.

It is not simply Social Security that casts an ominous shadow over our future. Competition from China, India, Asia and the competition in the currency market from the Eurodollar, plus a never ending war on terror, will radically change our economic prospects. The only question is whether the decline will be gradual or abrupt…but it is sure to manifest. The present is the creation of the past and the future is hence the creation of the present. Consequently, this is unavoidable, barring a major restructuring of the world in regards to the growing power of China and who directly controls the oil reserves. Maybe that is why we are in Iraq, not because of Saddam…but to help protect our economic future by controlling Iraqis oil reserves.

....The worst-case scenario is a sudden crisis — perhaps a major terrorist attack or a shutoff of oil from the Middle East — that triggers a loss of confidence by investors in the U.S. economy. Foreign investors refuse to lend more money to the government to finance its deficits; drastic tax increases and benefit cuts occur suddenly; the dollar's value plummets, which raises the cost of imported goods; and a severe recession or depression results from falling incomes.

A softer landing: The USA acts swiftly and becomes more like Europe. Taxes are higher, retirement benefits are less generous but widely distributed; health care costs are controlled; and the economy is sound but less productive.

Big payments on the debt start coming due in 2008, when the first of 78 million baby boomers — the generation born from 1946 to 1964 — qualify at age 62 for early retirement benefits from Social Security. The costs start mushrooming in 2011, when the first boomers turn 65 and qualify for taxpayer-funded Medicare.

Early warning signs
But Americans needn't wait until 2008 or 2011 to see firsthand the escalating costs of these benefit programs. Medicare last month announced the largest premium increase in the program's 39-year history. In 2004 alone, federal spending on Medicare and Social Security will increase $45 billion, to $789 billion. That one-year increase is more than the $28 billion budget of the Department of Homeland Security.
Many economists say a failure to confront the nation's debt promptly will only delay the inevitable.

"The baby boomers and the Greatest Generation are delivering an economic disaster to their children," says Laurence Kotlikoff, a Boston University economist and co-author of The Coming Generational Storm, a book about the national debt. "We should be ashamed of ourselves."

USA TODAY used official government numbers to compute what the burden means to the average American household. To pay the obligations of federal, state and local government:

• All federal taxes would have to double immediately and permanently. A household earning $100,000 a year would see its federal taxes double from an average of about $20,000 to $40,000 a year. All state taxes would have to increase 20% immediately and permanently.

• Or, benefits for Social Security, Medicare and government pensions would have to be slashed in half immediately and permanently. Social Security checks would be cut from an average of $1,500 per month for couples to $750. Military pensions would drop from an average of $1,782 per month to $891. Medicare spending would fall from $7,500 to $3,750 annually per senior. The Medicare prescription-drug benefit enacted last year would be canceled.

•Or, a combination of tax hikes and benefit cuts — such as a 50% increase in taxes and a 25% reduction in benefits — would avoid the extremes but still require painful changes that are outside the scope of today's political debate. Savings also could come in the form of price controls on prescription drugs, raising retirement ages and limiting benefits to the affluent......

See full article in USA TODAY Online

The top 5 reasons why Blacks Become Conservatives.

Why do some black folk consider themselves to be republicans/conservatives. Below, I list the most common reasons why I believe blacks Label themselves as such. Not necessarily in the order of most or least prominent and certainly not limited to these reasons either.

1. Ideology. Some black people actually believe that a conservative approach is the best way to solve black problems. Usually, such a person has seen the conservatives platform or blue print as having been applied true to their lives or others they know. The flaw with this is that it assumes what was true for them or the people they knew is thus true of everyone else. It assumes that one approach will work for all, which is rarely true in regards to social issues.

2. Status. Some black people label themselves as conservative because they associate it with being the ideology of the upwardly mobile. They believe that they will be seen in a different light or find more promotion in the business world if they are seen as followers of the conservative platform. After all, it is well know that the republican party is considered the party of the rich and those in the business class. Thus, blacks who have aspirations in those areas are compelled to find rationalizations to become conservative, even if they were reared liberal or benefited from liberal programs.

3. Being Different. Some people strategy from bringing attention to themselves is to be different from the rest of the crowd. Therefore, it stands to reason that some blacks like to simply be different from the masses of other black people. It is a sure way to be able to stand out or to be taken note of to be the only guy with a white tux, when everyone else is wearing black tuxes.

4. Resentment of black leadership. Some black folk become conservatives simply because they are not happy with the black leadership. There are people who do not like leaders like Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton and thus become so obsessed with this that they join the conservative movement to fight against their interest. They generally do like the platform of these black leaders and their inability to change it from the inside out compels them to try to change it from the outside in, via the republican party.


5. Political strategy. Some blacks feel that Democrats take the black vote for granted. Thus, they believe that by becoming republicans, black interest with have more leverage in the political process. This motive totally makes no sense to me. How do the politicians differentiate why blacks voted for republican? How do they separate the protest vote against the ideology vote? If more blacks start voting republican then the Democratic party will likely feel that their platform needs to move more to the right, thus, working to take away political backing for black interest represented by a more liberal democratic party.


I believe that the political construct of parties and platforms are extremely inefficient in solving black problems. The primary reason being is that whites essential get to decide what our problems really are and what solution to implement, in regards to whether it will be a liberal or conservative approach. However, whites do not see our problems and solutions in the same way that we do. Moreover, white racism and the belief in white supremacy has a profound effect on policies enacted by white America through their political party construct.

Secondarily, and maybe more importantly in that it address the inherent failures of the system for everyone, is that political solutions produce a cookie cutter approach to solving. I see the conservative vs. liberal argument as being akin to an “Audio” vs. “Visual” teaching/learning methodology. If one comes out and says they are an “Audio” and support the audios platform, such a policy or program would benefit those who learn best via audio, while stagnating or hurting those who learn best visually. The reverse would be true as well.

The truth is that until we deal with creating policies that creates the ability to address the specific needs of each entity, we will never be promoting the full potential of society. The political construct just does not allow for such. What such a construct would require is much more money to create the oversight and flexibility to be built into the system to enact programs on the micro level. This meets most resistance with the republicans who think there is too much monies being spent on government expenditures already. Certainly such a flexible based approach would be more expensive than a cookie cutter approach, with little oversight and flexibility. Such would require increased funding and hence taxes, unless funding for Military or other expensive outlay is reduced.

Ensuring the rise of the black Entrepreneur Class

The "Infant Industry" argument in favor of subsidizing black business districts

In defense of the “Africa Town” proposal, by the Detroit city council, I would like call as my witness the argument of Infant Industry. In trade between nations, developed countries with mature industries have a comparative advantage in producing certain goods and services, over developing nations who are just embarking upon the industry…infants to the industry, if you will. Thus, such a nation is often allowed to place trade tariffs and restrictions on imports from developed nations with comparative advantage, so that the infant industry can grow, be profitable and eventually competitive with mature industries. In fact, when Great Britain was the leader of the world, by virtue of being the creator of the industrial revolution, the USA used this argument to protect its industries from British imports, which had the comparative advantage during those times.

Thus, in essence, you have one human entity rationalizing discrimination via protectionism, against another human entity, for the goal of promoting economic and business success of the former. If those entities happen to be races or nations, the principle is the same and the precedent has been set.

In light of this, I believe that the black communities, manifesting in this case as the city of Detroit, should have the right to employ the infant industry argument to circumvent laws against discrimination by race. Discrimination to promote racial equality is not moraly equivalent to discrimination to promote racial superiority. The black Business community is a developing community in its infancy, relative to what manifest among other races in this nation. Most other races have a strong history of entrepreneurship, capital flows and patronage, relative to the black community. Moreover, many come from nations or homelands where the entrepreneur spirit was allowed to flourish, given that they were not oppressed by a larger majority who conditioned them to simply be workers and consumers, as is the case here in America.

Since black people are in our infancy as producers, we should be allowed exceptions and protections to build up our business community in the same way that the USA created protections to build up its industries. Having a designated zone “African Town”, designated for black business and subsidized by the local government is in essence no different from what developing nations and industries have done to become competitive. It should not be a permanent subsidy or protection, but rather a dynamic tool that will allow black producers or businesses to reach equilibrium and success relative with other ethnic or racial groups. Upon the time, the exemption and restrictions could then be dropped and all business would be allowed to compete head to head without favoritism.

If the USA did this to become competitive in the world against Britain and France, why cannot black people do this so that we can become competitive business owners within the United States?

Style versus Substance..

Just a quick note on the Presidential debate that took place tonight in Florida: Immediately after the debate was over I started flipping through the channels to see what the non-bias media commentators had to say. I witness one of the strangest things that may have gone unnoticed by many. After watching the debate on MSNBC, I turned to Faux News to hear the conservative spin doctors do their thing, and one of the first things said was Kerry definitely won on style but Bush won on substance. I then turned to PBS and heard one of the commentators say the same thing; I turned back to MSNBC and to my surprise one of the commentators said the Kerry won on style and Bush won on substance talking point. At this point I am saying to myself what are the chances of these various commentators on different networks coming to the same conclusion verbatim? The chances of that are as slim as another Blogger writing what I am writing word for word. I was not completely convinced that this was a preplanned talking points until I was watching Dick Morris on Faux news; he was being interviewed from London where he was promoting the Conservative movie answer to Michael Moore Fahrenheit 9/11, called Farenhype 9/11. As Dick Morris was talking out of his mouth comes the Republican talking point Kerry won on style but Bush won on substance, I said damn, what are the chances of Dick Morris watching the debate from London concluded and articulating the same thing as commentators in Florida, New York and Washington? It is clear this was a preconceived response in the event Bush lost the debate, which he did. So as you read the various articles today watch out for the Republican talking point about style versus substance.