Justice for Detroit continues. We know that Detroit has a new mayor. The reactionaries are attacking the poor and the working class. Folks want great jobs and justice plain and simple. Wall Street elites want to privatize the city. They even want to displace its mostly black citizens into the harm of their human rights. Pensions in Detroit are threatened. The current state appointed Emergency Financial Manger is named Kevyn Orr. Even though the Michigan state constitution makes pensions immune from slashing, some want to do it. We see intra capitalist conflicts in our history. Also, we witness the total hegemony of Wall Street and other political interest having heavy influence in the three branches of government (including both major political parties). Finance capital now uses power to violate the dignity and the rights of the people. They manipulate money and create the 1.2 quadrillion derivatives situation, which dwarf the real economy. The bankrupting of Detroit was done by the elite as a means for privatization and a select few to own most of the public resources in Detroit. Detroit is suffering by deindustrialization, the free trade agreement of NAFTA, and other reasons. There is an attack on the Detroit Institute of Arts. Tuition for schools has increased. While wars are being financed all over the place, we have pensions being in risk of being radically cut in Detroit. The Republican Governor Rick Snyder is in league with this agenda. In the late 1970's, the American corporate financial elite to falling to falling profit rates in basic industry and the increasing global integration of production. This reality made it easier for companies to shift production to low wage regions. We know that in the 1980's, there was an attack on social programs, tax cuts for the rich and corporations, union busting, etc. Now, we see the additional threats to our human civil liberties. Also, I agree with religious freedom. I disagree with imperialism. I believe in human liberties, I believe in economic justice. I reject the agendas of Wall Street and the Federal Reserve. I believe in the expression of ideological diverse views and I disagree with the agenda of neoliberalism. I do not agree with a one world government at all ruled by the 1 percent. I reject the agenda of the new world order 100 percent. I also follow wisdom, Black Unity, Black Love, and Black Power 100 percent.
President John F. Kennedy had an interesting history and life. His Presidency is filled with triumphs or victories, defeats, and controversies. It is fair to say that the late John F. Kennedy was not a reactionary, but he was not an extreme progressive either. He was a regular man whose appeal appealed to folks from across the political spectrum. He created the Peace Corps in 1961 as a means to allow Americans to assist those in nations from across the world (especially in the Third World). Strategically, they were instituted as a means to combat influence of the Communists in the world. He wanted to handle the issue of gender inequality and equal pay with the creation of the Commission on the Status of Women back in 1961. The Freedom Riders came about in May of 1961. JFK was in error to have a moderate stance of the Freedom Riders. The Freedom Riders were a collaboration of youth and other activists that want to defeat Jim Crow segregation. They were assaulted by violent racists. The U.S. government did not strong enough to protect them. We are still fighting the same fight for racial justice as the Freedom Riders were fighting for back in the day. The 1961 meeting between President John F. Kennedy and Khrushchev in Vienna was an important point in history. Each man had distrust over each other at first. They viewed each other as potentially trying to extend militarism and overt hostility in the world from Berlin to Vietnam. By 1963, JFK was different and he wanted collaboration with the Soviets as a means to go into the Moon. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was important. JFK allowed wise judgment to prevail by allowing making a deal with the Soviets secretly as a means to end the blockade of Cuba. JFK went against the wishes of reactionary war generals who wanted an immediate U.S. military strike against Cuba (which will cause a Soviet Union retaliation and possible nuclear war). Khrushchev and Kennedy, at the last second, through their—through Dobrynin and his brother Robert, said no, basically, to their hardliners. And it cost both men dearly. The generals were furious with Kennedy. LeMay was raging at the meeting that was described by McNamara and others. They thought—LeMay said, "We lost. We lost. This was our moment." And Khrushchev was criticized by his own people, but the Soviets were inferior in strength. JFK was wise. In 1963, JFK passed tax cuts and later he wanted to have his expenditure spending program by 1964. On February of 1963, he sent the Medicare bill to Congress. JFK gave his historic Civil Rights speech on June 1963 where he called for the end of racial discrimination in American society. In August of 1963, he signed the progressive Nuclear Test Ban treaty. He saw the March on Washington in August of 1963 where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his historic I Have a Dream Speech. Four little girls were killed later in a Birmingham church. James Meredith came into the University of Miss back in September 1962. He signed the Equal Pay Act in June of 1963. So, the legacy of President John F. Kennedy is important to know. He was not perfect, but his foreign policy was much more progressive than other Presidents. He wanted to oversee the CIA. He wanted a withdrawal of troops of Vietnam. JFK never wanted an escalation of the war in Vietnam. He rejected a war with the Soviets and he wanted universal health care for the elderly in the United States. He refused to go militarily into Laos. John F. Kennedy was careful and subtle in his thinking process, which was his gift (since careful intellectual deduction is better than rash decision making). President Kennedy was fighting the reactionaries in the military all of the time. The assassination of John F. Kennedy was a tragedy.
What more can be said about the Motherland of Africa. It is the home of our ancestors and the origin of Mitochondria DNA. Africa is the Mother of many peoples and tongues. Glory is related to the great Motherland of Africa. Inspiring history, long struggle, and huge victories are included in the entire African story. When I learn more about the excellent beauty of Africa, I can learn more about myself since I am a black African American. All those of black African descent are one irrespective of nationality. That means that whether we live in Houston or South Africa, we are one. We are black and we are beautiful. We continue to have faith and this faith can maintain a sense of dignity, strength, and Love. Chains cannot hold the truth neither cans vicious dogs. Therefore, we will overcome and we will achieve Black Liberation at the end of the day. There are numerous great news in the black community. Anala Beevers of New Orleans is a member of MENSA. MENSA is the international organization that is made up of super intelligent young human beings. She is 4 years old with an IQ of more than 145. That is amazing and she learned the whole alphabet at four months. She learned numbers in Spanish by the time that she was 18 months old. Most of MENSA’s members are in the top two percent; Anala is in the top one percent. “She keeps us on our toes,” says her father Landon, who said she needs her own reality TV show. When asked by a reporter if she’s smart, she nodded her head “yes.” When asked, “How smart are you?” she said, “Really smart.” This is great news and bless her heart. Anala Beevers is a gifted human being and she should be encouraged and strengthened in her God given abilities. Black intellectual strength is potent and it is indeed very common among our people spanning all eras of human history indeed. We know that the AIDS pandemic has declined in Africa. There is a new UNAIDS report that has shown the AIDS epidemic that has been halted and the world is beginning to reverse the spread of HIV. UNAIDS Executive Director, Michel Sidibe, loses no time in announcing the good news. "Today, we can say with confidence and conviction, that we have broken the trajectory of the AIDS pandemic," Sidibe said. "Less people are becoming infected. Less people are dying. New infections have fallen by nearly 20 percent in the last 10 years." We see that the African nation of Benin has made progress in reducing poverty. This has been mentioned by a statement from the Secretary General of the UN named Ban Ki-Moon. Benin has seen improving primary education, reduction in infant mortality, and increasing access to safe drinking water. We as of black African descent have a long way to go though. Our enemy is white supremacy. We have to continue to learn our culture, our history, and our roots. We should continue to learn about math, science, technology, and engineering as a means to not only develop our culture, but to grow our souls (and to be the best that we can be in the world). So, we have to unite as black Africans against a common enemy and a common oppressor as Malcolm X have said many decades ago. For Unity is one way for us as a people to strike back and to build up our own cultural base in the world. We are a black African people. I will always love Africa with all of my heart. As a Diasporan African, I will continue to love Africa. I will respect my ancestors and the Creator of the whole Universe as well.
One of the biggest evils found in popular culture is its advancement of the wicked, nefarious American Empire. We know that the entertainment industry and mainstream popular culture is dominated by elite corporate interests. The 1 percent heavily works in contrast to the interests of the rest of humanity. We know that we should be careful on how humanity is portrayed. Then and now, black human beings and others have been degraded, stereotyped, and lied about by the pop culture including the entertainment industry. We know that the Hollywood and TV industry is filled with the lies of white supremacy. White Supremacy with its capitalist power structure influences that system. Also, many blacks are in that industry and are used as scapegoats for the overall evil system of the white supremacy power structure. Now, we know that Kanye West is wrong to glamorize a Confederate flag on his jacket. The Confederate flag is the symbol of our enemy. The Confederacy was a scourge in the world. Jefferson Davis, Albert Pike, and other Confederates were wrong in their cause. It or that flag was used as a means to harm, abuse, and kill innocent black men, black women, and black children. It is inappropriate in my eyes. I can't co-sign that jacket at all. I can never use the flag of my enemy on my body at all. We know that popular culture has been exploited by the ruling elite as a means to advance not only American capitalism and empire (it is to ferment the agenda of white supremacy. That is why we must show Black power and Black Unity in the world). The agenda of the elite is neoliberalism and other evils. Even the show SCANDAL like many shows debase Black Love and glamorize the lying stereotype of an adulterous woman who uses sex as a means to gain political power (and influence over the Presidency). It is as worship of corruption, Empire, and whiteness (since the white male President is viewed as flawed but sympathetic). The reality is that the black male and the black female should speak the truth for real and validate and affirm each other without white validation (from white people). The show was based on Judy Smith. She handles crisis management situations in real life. She had a key role in getting Clarence Thomas confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court despite Anita Hill’s charges of sexual harassment. She also helped clean things up for the Republicans during the Iran Contra Scandal. As recently as May of this year, the real life character behind “SCANDAL” represented Paula Deen, the White TV Cooking Show maven who outraged Black America for allegedly admitting she fantasized about “owning slaves." You could not make this stuff up. So, numerous human beings are color are used in the midst of controversies as a means to be placed as scapegoats for the overall crimes of white supremacy. Now, we realize that Black Women are Queens and heroes. Black Women should be treated with dignity and respect. It is just that some of our people have made errors among both genders. The song New Slaves talks about the rise of mass incarceration and private prisons. The situation is that the agenda of the Western Empire deals with finance capital hoarding of wealth, neoliberalism, austerity, mass incarceration, the growth of the surveillance state via the NSA, Homeland Security, etc. There is the privatization of prisons, schools, and government services. Now that agenda is not just agreed to by Republicans. Some mainstream Democrats love that agenda as well. Shows that love imperialists and the oppressors or videos that degrade black men or black women are not things that we should co-sign at all. We have to be real and reject saying the N word, the B word, the H word, etc. We are strong human beings. We are not those words at all. So, folks like Kanye West and Kerry Washington are our Brothers and our Sisters. They should not be degraded at all. They are the victims of oppression. They are not the originators of our oppression neither should they be scapegoated for the evils found in Hollywood or in popular culture at all. We have to look in our own mirror and improve our lives also (not just expose the system of white supremacy and the evil 1 percent in charge of the system). We should show compassion and empathy with each other as black males and black females. Also, when you have Sinead O'Connor telling Miley Cyrus that she is sending the wrong message about true femininity, then you know that we have a problem in the world. There is nothing wrong with love, but we can never exploit love as a means to advance the sexual exploitation of males or females. O'Connor is right that the music industry in its leadership want money and could care less about the dignity of the human beings in it. The reality is that males and females should be treated as equals, inspired to express their full potentials, and not give a single care about the haters nor the enemies of humanity. In the final analysis, all human beings need love, attention, dignity, justice, and respect. So, there is nothing wrong with Black Love at all. Also, we should respect black females too. We are in this situation together. Males and females are equally important in the eyes of the Creator and the more some folks realize it, the better we can get the work of justice and equality completed in the world.
By Timothy
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