We know what we must do. We have to gather as much accurate information on the conditions in our community (both the good and the bad) and we should create revolutionary solutions. Many in this generation have talked about cooperatives. I do believe that cooperatives (or economic independent systems used to benefit the common people) are one solution out of many to address such things. We should form more community based solutions dealing with education, health, etc. We should attack poverty. If we don’t attack and try to end poverty, then we will not see true liberation. The reason is that many Brothers and Sisters now still suffer in poverty and even homelessness. There should not only be an increase in the minimum wage, but we should break up the big central banks causing much of the recession in the first place (with its evil QE and pro-bailout policies). Corporate international banks have to be prosecuted too. Evil Wall Street bankers should be tried and go into jail after they have been proven to conduct criminal actions. In its replacement, state and localized banks can assist the common people more. Ending the war on terror and taxing the super-rich fairly (including ending the Bush tax cuts for the top 2 percent) can get resources necessary to fund our infrastructure. There should be an ECONOMIC BILL OF RIGHTS (that will address the need for economic justice as the late Dr. King advocated), end unfair corporate tax loopholes, even place a special fee on Wall Street corporations, end tax breaks & subsidies for big oil, gas, including oil companies, end wasteful spending from the military industrial complex, end imperialism, and even institute an annual guaranteed income to assist the poor. We have to address the environment, health, our family issues, and massive economic inequality as a means to improve the black community. Not to mention that we need more self-determination. The black nationalists are right that we should pool our resources as black people to fund our own black institutions (like using our pooled resources to fund our businesses, our stores, our schools, and the rest of our infrastructure. This has been advocated by Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, and Dr. Claud Anderson. They are correct. We need GROUP ECONOMICS). Independent black organizations helping the community for real ought to receive support by us. Many black kids are scapegoated for the social ills of Western society. The vast majority of black youth are strong, they are fighting for what is right, and they desire to just live their lives in a productive fashion. It is our responsibility to nurture the youth, so when they became adults, they are imparted with wisdom, strength, and the commonsense to live out their lives maturely. The kids today do need discipline, but also compassion. They need to be told that they should never dream small. They need to be continually told that they are somebody with great dignity plus worth. They ought to dream big and thrive for excellence in their conduct and their overall being.
LBJ and Nixon were in
error about the Vietnam War. Nixon's treason never justifies LBJ's Vietnam
mistakes. It just places the truth into context. The Vietnam War has ended the
Lyndon Johnson reelection chances. He made many domestic successes and foreign
policy mistakes and miscalculations. If LBJ's Vietnam peace talks succeeded, we
might live in a totally different world. Luci Baines Johnson is Lyndon
Johnson's daughter. She made complaints about the views on LBJ's
administration. She wanted folks to understand his landmark advocacy and
passage of social legislation like civil rights, medical care for the elderly
and environmental protections. LBJ tried to end the Vietnam War in 1968. That
effort was sabotaged by the Nixon Presidential campaign operatives. This has
been proven by documents and tape recordings declassified by the National
Archives. Many mainstream journalists and some conventional historians don't
know about this information. Establishment historians like even Doris Kearns
Goodwin refuse to acknowledge the new material. Many documents contained in a
file that LBJ's national security adviser Walt Rostow labeled “The ‘X’
Envelope” and those archivists at the library privately call their “X-File.”
LBJ tried to end the war before he left office. Yet, he should be blamed for
the decisions to send a half million U.S. combat troops to Vietnam and his
other aggressive, militarist policies worldwide from Latin America to
otherwise. More than 30,000 American soldiers and possibly a million Vietnamese
died during LBJ's Presidency. He ordered bombing campaigns. By 1968, Lyndon
Johnson wanted to end the war as shown from the documents from Rostow's
"The X Envelope." Johnson learned of Nixon's sabotage of the Paris
peace talks by Nixon agents getting South Vietnamese President Nguyen van
Thieu to boycott them in exchange for promises of a better deal under a Nixon
administration. LBJ called this maneuver treason, which it was. He told this to
his confidantes including Republican Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen. And
among the White House inner circle, Johnson seemed the most inclined to go
public with the evidence before the 1968 election, but he was dissuaded by
several top aides, including Defense Secretary Clark Clifford who told Johnson,
“Some elements of the story are so shocking in their nature that I’m wondering
whether it would be good for the country to disclose the story and then
possibly have a certain individual [Nixon] elected.” Nixon was involved in
Watergate 3 years later. The fact that Johnson in January 1969 secretly
ordered Rostow to take with him the file on Nixon’s peace-talk sabotage – what
Rostow then labeled “The ‘X’ Envelope” – clarifies the longstanding mystery of
why Nixon launched his “Plumbers” operation in June 1971, thus setting in motion
what would become the Watergate scandal. Nixon wanted a file about him
found. Nixon was desperate to cover up – might finally drive a stake
through the heart of the Watergate-era trope endlessly recited by the
mainstream U.S. news media that “the cover-up is always worse than the
crime!” That silliness might not survive recognition that the “crime” that
Nixon was ultimately covering up was his treachery that blocked peace talks
which might have saved the lives of more than 20,000 U.S. soldiers and maybe a
million more Vietnamese. LBJ first found out about Nixon’s plan to “block” the
peace talks from the private discussions of a Wall Street banker in Nixon’s
camp who was placing bets on stocks and bonds based on his inside knowledge
that Nixon was making sure Johnson’s peace talks failed. Johnson then confirmed
the conspiracy through NSA and FBI wiretaps. Richard Nixon did not start the
Vietnam War, but he prolonged the war. Richard Nixon used the Southern strategy
as a means to exploit and profit from white resentment against the civil rights
movement of the 1960's in order for him to get elected. He betrayed many
Republicans who ended slavery and supported fair treatment for black human
beings. Richard Nixon carried out the illegal, secret bombing of Cambodia.
Nixon supported reactionaries that overthrew Allende in September 11, 1973. So,
we see that great leaders have favored public action as a means to address the
nation's problems. When states are left to do what they want and when business
tycoons are left to do what they want to do, then suppression of human rights
always come about. When the national government provides for the general
welfare of society in a strong, progressive way, then humanity is
enriched.
Today, we see that Haiti
is oppressed by many Western forces from the U.S., Canada, and France. The West
is continuing to exploit cheap labor for Western industrial assembly lines.
There are even many Canadian mining companies in Haiti that are exploiting
Haiti's impoverished population. They exist in Africa and in Latin America too.
As black people and human beings in general, we have the responsibility to
advance an anti-imperialist agenda for Haiti. We are in solidarity with the
oppressed in the world. We all disagree with ending the cycle of Western
military interventions, coups, and the propping up of anti-democratic,
anti-people regimes. We reject the capitalist exploitation of the people in
Haiti. We do these actions in the memory of Toussaint. We are near the 10th
anniversary of the February 29, 2004 coup of Haiti. It was created by
imperialists against the laboring classes and the democratically elected
government of President jean-Bertrand Aristide. Even Canada's Jean Chretien's
Liberal government wanted to discuss Haiti's future without input from Haitian
officials. This meeting wanted Haiti's elected president to go. The meeting had
high level U.S., Canadian, and French officials there. President Aristide had
been kidnapped and exiled to Central African Republic. Many FL or Fanmi Lavalas
supported have been killed and harmed with the U.N.'s military intervention as
well. The FL government wanted investment in education, job creation,
healthcare, public services, and increasing the minimum wage. The FL has been
banned from serving an electoral instrument of the people. We have the Michel
Martelly regime in Haiti now. The UN should end its occupation of Haiti. The
Haitian Revolution was about African defeating Western imperialism. It was the
Haitian Revolution by way of its June 1801 Constitution that unambiguously
declared universal freedom from enslavement in Article 3, “There cannot exist
slaves on this territory, servitude is therein forever abolished. All men are born
free, live and die free and French.” The Haitian Revolution beyond the
hypocrisy of the French & American Revolutions, brought enslaved free from
bondage. Napoleon restored slavery by France in 1802 and that is why France was
again defeated by Haiti. France really abolished slavery in 1818. Haiti also
aided Bolivar, Francisco de Miranda and other revolutionaries too. Today, many
Haitians are in solidarity to fight for real education and workers' rights.
There are grassroots efforts that are fighting for truth and justice. There are
the human rights group called Défenseurs des opprimés (or Defenders of the
Oppressed), Tèt Kole Ti Peyizan Ayisyen (Small
Peasants Working Together) — Haiti’s largest organization of small farmers; Batay Ouvriye — one of the most prominent
labour organizations; Ayti Kale Je (Haiti Grassroots Watch) —
investigative reporting; SOPUDEP (Society of Providence United for
the Economic Development of Pétion-Ville) — education and community
development; and Bri Kouri Nouvèl Gaye (Noise
Travels, News Spreads) — investigative reporting. The imperialist
IMF was involved in the 2004 coup too. The United Nations should be held
accountable for its introduction of cholera in Haiti. The 2010 cholera outbreak
killed over 8,300 deaths and infected close to 650,000 Haitians. We have to
fight neoliberalism too. Haiti's rice industry has been harmed with heavily
subsidized agricultural products from abroad.
I am disappointed, but
why I am not surprised. The reality is that race is a critical part of the
judicial system from arrests, trials, and to verdicts. She is not alone. Many
black people refuse to ACCEPT THE TRUTH THAT THE EVIL OF WHITE SUPREMACY is still
pernicious and firm in the world today. Some black people want to minimize
white racism as a means to embrace some colorblind, fictional reality. The
reality is that a white man profiled black people and killed Jordan Davis for
just playing loud music, which is evil, demonic, and unjustified completely.
Even Nancy Grace admitted that if a black man killed a white teen for playing
loud music, there would be no extensive trial (that black man would easily be
convicted of 1st degree murder). This is Nancy Grace. Racism against black
people is very strong in the culture. Racism is not just about overtly
disrespectful words. It is about institutions that discriminate, harm, and deny
basic human rights to black people. The verdict never convicted Michael Dunn of
murder and she said that the verdict was about justice, but justice was not
completely served in this situation. Michael Dunn talked about "thug"
music. Many racists use the word thug for you know what. We should not place
Creshuna Miles as a scapegoat here. We have every right to disagree with her
interpretation, but we have to keep our eyes on the prize. The reality is that
Michael Dunn not the Sister Creshuna committed murder against Jordan Davis.
Michael Dunn profiled black youth and is known for his racist letters. So, we
should be careful here not to place undue blame on this Sister while peacefully
disagreeing with some of her words here. Many of the young of our people can't
be naive. Obviously, the parents of Jordan Davis have shown commonsense, strength,
class, and real discernment in their lives. The family of Jordan Davis is
blatantly correct to strongly disagree with the juror. The case blatantly
relates to race. Folks can open their eyes and see that Michael Dunn is a white
murderer who killed an unarmed black male. Justice was not was shown in that
trial. Hold up, I had to research the following point again. She or the juror
called Michael Dunn a "good guy." She is more naive than I once
anticipated. Michael Dunn is nowhere near a good guy. He is a cold blooded
murderer who prejudged black people unfairly. He is a notorious racist that
shed innocent blood, because of his irrational ideologies. How can folks talk
about justice and the law when the judicial system is filled with unjust,
racist laws? The War on Drugs has blatantly unjust policies as exposed by human
beings from across the political spectrum. So, we have some work to do in
educating our people about the viciousness of mainstream society. We have to
educate the black youth that naiveté is not the answer and our blackness should
be cherished. We should never tolerate post racial propaganda, but strong
discernment in fighting for real justice. As black people, we are going to
continue to fight.
We are in a continual
fight for our dignity. Many black actors and black actresses had to suffer a
lot of indignities, stereotypes, and other obstacles during their lifetimes.
When you research many famous actors and actresses, you begin to realize the
strong, stirring sacrifices that they have made like Paul Robeson, Dorothy
Dandridge, Angela Bassett, and Denzel Washington. It is the mainstream industry
(not just many actors or actresses) that perpetuate international stereotypes
about black people in the most offensive terms possible. Also, the mainstream
media use exploitation of our BLACK IMAGE, use capitalist exploitation of
labor, etc. If we want change, then we have to stop degrading each other from
private places to the movie screen. We have to love each other and endorse
BLACK UNITY PLUS BLACK LOVE. The leaders of our people made the right point in
that we have to have the KNOWLEDGE OF SELF as means to build in our community.
We have to know ourselves in order to free ourselves from oppression. Now, we
can't view the Oscar in godlike terms since tons of independent black movies
have excellent messages, great storylines, dedicated talent, etc. but they
haven't won an Oscar because of obvious reasons. It is true that the Oscar has
been portrayed by some as the only measuring stick of acting talent at the
highest level. That is not true since we have the right to utilize our own
measuring stick to praise those of excellent talent (n the black community) via
our award shows too. We should be more focused on praising real work in the
acting field, strive to form independent black owned production companies, and
to make our people psychologically more in love with BLACKNESS (and to further
appreciate REAL BLACK TALENT). It is a long process, but we have to start. It
is as simple as that. Also, we should be careful never to embrace the nefarious
goal of "black capitalism." Nixon's FBI mounted a repressive campaign
against black revolutionaries and Innis soon supported Republicans. That system
only creates a black elite class at the expense of the black poor in the world.
When Black Power was turned into black capitalism (or using mainly electoral
campaign or just embracing the free enterprise system can win social and
political power within the 2 party system), we only see more black oppression
of the workers and the rest of humanity. Black capitalism was used to quell the
rebellions of the 1960's and it was used to prevent real revolution in the
world. We have to critique and criticize capitalism (because token middle class
interests is not the vanguard of revolution) if we want to be free. We should
address unemployment, low wage jobs, and racist discrimination. We have to use
our power to oppose the racist system (for the roots of our oppression are
found in the system not in black people at all). We should reject token reforms
within the limits of capitalism. The agenda of the establishment is about
racism, joblessness, and austerity. So, we should have mass action to struggle
and fight being passive toward evil. We have to address the social conditions
of the world caused by the ruling class elite and no scapegoat poor people for
our oppression at all.
By Timothy
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