There is the fight for a higher
minimum wage in America. The majority of Americans want to see an increase of
the minimum wage. We will see if the Democrats or President Barack Obama will
be successful in having an increase of the minimum wage. The executive order
sent to some federal contractors deals with $10.10 an hour. It is limited.
There has been talk about a jobs bill and universal pre-K. Many Republicans
don't want an increase of the minimum wage. President Barack Obama years ago
campaigned on a promise to put legislation through Congress to raise the
minimum wage. He also wanted workers to experience easier methods to organize
unions and to fight for their rights on the job. 2016 is an important year.
Some folks could repeal the executive order if a certain person is President.
Even $10.10 is not enough to lift people out of poverty. Some want training as
a means for human beings to have higher paying jobs. Yet, we see Starbucks and
other places filled with workers having M.A. degrees. Most college teachers are
now "adjuncts." That means that their advanced degrees enable them to
work for poverty wages and few or no benefits.
PhD incomes have fallen off a cliff the last ten years as colleges and
universities re-organize themselves more to resemble the corporations who rule
our society. Many Democrats take up the cause of the minimum wage when the
Republicans are in office as a means to reinforce their brand. We know that the
White House proposed recalculating Social Security benefits to lower them. Late
last years, he signed off on the reduction of unemployment benefits. Many
workers want to have a 15 dollars an hour minimum wage. In the 1980's, before
neo-liberalism and Reaganomics took off, the average CEO salary was 25 times to
40 times that of the average worker. Now, the average CEO salary is 250 times
to 300 times that of the average worker. We know that both parties have been
corporate funded, even the Democratic Party. The origin of the Democratic Party
was never progressive. It was created in about 1828. Andrew Jackson was an
infamous slave owning, Native American oppressor. He was one stand bearer of
the Democratic Party. They were influenced by the Southern Dixiecrats. They had
more power than the progressive in that party back then. That is why most black
people voted for the GOP from 1868 until the FDR New Deal era in ca. 1932. The
Democrats have a mixture of centrist leaders with liberal tendencies like FDR,
JFK, and Carter. Gore and Carter came from Georgia and Tennessee. Bill Canton was
a DLC centrist and he came from Arkansas. Bill Canton and President Barack
Obama talk about feeling folks' pain, but they act more centrist when dealing
with the agendas of black African Americans, Hispanics, labor, etc. New York
City elected the Democrat Bill DeBlasio. He calls himself a progressive, but he
picks Bill Bratton (one architect of the modern stop and frisk policy that grew
under Rudy Giuliani) as the NYPD chief. Bill DeBlasio did so over 2 qualified
Black and Hispanic candidates to boot. He picked an ex-Goldman and Sachs person
as one of his deputy mayors. We are still up against oppression in the world.
If Dr. King was alive today, he would be opposed to the intense class warfare
practiced against the people by the 1 percent. Reaganomics allowed the
corporate hegemony and the deregulation of even their most sordid greed. We
need revolutionary action as a means to address these problems. The oppression
of black people and all people is built in the social order. That is why when
we have to address tax rates on the rich, income inequality, and union
membership as a means to see a better world. The best economic time for the
States was for 1948 to 1978. After 1979, we witness that growth of income
inequality in a higher level. So, we want a higher minimum wage, affordable education,
fair tax rates for the rich, an end to the War on Drugs, and the end of the
prison industrial complex especially for the poor. We are in a class struggle
and we must oppose white supremacy fully.
We have to respect and know about
our Afro-Brazilian Brothers and Sisters. They are great people. They are still
fighting against the system of oppression. There are millions of them in Brazil
alone. There are more Afro-Brazilians now than there are African Americans.
Today, Afro-Brazilians are still fighting for liberation. The Sister Benedita
da Silva is one of the greatest Afro-Brazilians in our modern age. She fought against
discrimination and oppression. She is a
hero and believed in egalitarianism. According to da Silva, "Racial
democracy only exists in school books and official speeches; the elite in
Brazil have promoted the myth of racial harmony to make people accept certain
forms of discrimination and to deny the need for affirmative action." She
has fought to black people to have full citizenship rights in Latin America and
South America. One of the late Afro-Brazilian heroes was Abdias do Nascimento.
He lived from March 14, 1915 to May 23, 2011. He was a scholar, artist, and politician.
He was born in Franca, Sao Paulo state. He attended the public school system as
children. By 1938, he received a B.A. in Economics from the Federal University
of Rio de Janeiro. He received graduate degrees from the Higer Institute of
Brazilian Studies from 1957 and in the Oceanography Institute from 1961. He
worked in the dramatic arts. Also, he founded the Black Experimental Theater in
1944. He performed in Orfeu da Conceição, a play by Vinicius de Moraes that was
later adapted into the motion picture Black Orpheus. He became a leader in
Brazil's black movement, and was forced into exile by the military regime in
1968. From 1968 to 1981 Nascimento was very active in the international
Pan-African Movement and was elected Vice-President and Coordinator of the
Third Congress of Black Culture in the Americas. For the next decade Nascimento
was a visiting universities in the United States (at places like the Yale
School of Drama from 1969 to 1971. He was in the University of Buffalo, the
State University of New York). IN the University at Buffalo, the State
University of New York he founded the chair in African Cultures in the New
World, Puerto Rican Studies Program in 1971. He held the position of Professor
Emeritus at SUNY-Buffalo. He came back into Brazil in 1983. He worked on
supporting legislation to address racial programs. In 1994 he was elected to
the Senate and served until 1999. In 2004 he was nominated for the Nobel Prize
for Peace. He was in favor of pan-Africanism like a warrior and he fought for
the dignity of black Brazilian human beings. Even the University quota system
in Brazil has worked wonders in Brazil. There has been a growth of the quality
of education and a lowering of the dropout rate. Ícaro Luís Vidal dos Santos is
one person who was involved in the program as a means to fulfill his education
and career aspirations. Renata da Rosa Santos, 29, and other human beings tell
stories about how they benefit from the affirmative action program in Brazil as
well. There is still massive work to be done though to address economic and
racial discrimination in Brazil as well.
Eugenics is a derivative of the
mentality of white supremacy. It is a totally evil agenda. This agenda has been
around for thousands of years. We all know that it is immoral to use coercive
sterilization against any human being at any circumstance. It is obvious that
BLACK PEOPLE are inferior to no other people groups in the world. Black people
are dynamic, intelligent, and must fight oppression in order for us to be truly
FREE. Also, we see that the global population growth has declined as a
percentage per decade since 1960. The UN and other experts believe that the
total global population will decline in the future decades. Eugenics has been
used for genocidal purposes since eugenics is linked to the murder of humanity,
especially HUMANS OF COLOR. The Third Reich used eugenics on our people and
others (and they have gathered their research from American and British
eugenics as well as a means to conduct their perverse activities). In fact,
Hitler was aided by the Western big banks that allowed him to gain power.
Regardless of our feelings on abortion, we have to be 100 percent opposed to
eugenics, forced sterilization, and forced population control. As for the
environment, we have to care for the environment. Caring for NATURE is part of
our black African culture and it is a great part of true SPIRITUALITY. We
should endorse clean air, clean water, and clean trees. We should all be wise
when caring for children, but caring for children (and being wise in how to
care for children) is never an excuse to advance some EUGENICS agenda (as you
have eloquently stated). The antidote to EUGENICS is LOVE FOR BLACK PEOPLE, the
appreciation of our great BLACKNESS, and doing constructive work to improve the
conditions in our community (we should know about organic foods, GMOs, and
other likeminded issues). Independent efforts to help our community and our
people can counteract the acts of eugenics. Margaret Sanger’s words were
disgraceful and Planned Parenthood has never explicitly mentioned an apology
for their ties to the eugenics movement at all. It is obvious that our
oppressor is not interesting in our LIBERATION, but in the exploitation and
DOMINATION of black people. Just like the Democrats and the Republicans seek
our submission not LIBERATION. We have the right to respect our dignity and our
reproductive abilities. Also, we should understand our heroes too. Dr. Martin
Luther King lived a courageous life. We ought to use his memory to advocate the
legitimate goals of his life. He was right to oppose discrimination and racism.
He was right to disagree with imperialism and the Vietnam War. Dr. King was
correct to say that it is hypocritical for the government to spend more money
on military defense than on programs on social uplift (which is causing
spiritual death). He was never alone in his fight for human justice. He worked
with countless individuals (including numerous unsung heroes) as a means to
fight the powers that be. He reminds us that unjust laws should be opposed
directly and firmly. He reminds us that just because you follow nonviolence,
doesn't mean that you are a coward (regardless if you accept the tenet of
nonviolence or not) and that self-determination is glorious. Yes, there is
dignity in LABOR. We are fighting for the establishment of the BELOVED
COMMUNITY for our black people where we are truly FREE. He was correct to say that
Black is Beautiful and we should struggle together for our rightful place of
liberation for our people. WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO EXPERIENCE LIBERATION. We
should live our lives daily to understand the struggle of our people and to do
what is right for the betterment of all people. The inspiration, the strength,
and the massive resiliency of black people can never be stopped at all. We will
win.
We know that cultures all over
the world shared similar architectures and belief systems. We are all humans,
so we share a common heritage. There is the famous icon called
"REBIS." It has been mentioned by Renaissance occultists. They used
it in their manuscripts. REBIS is dealing with the right hand of the sun and
the left hand allied with the moon. Before, REBIS was ever written, the icon
was crafted by authentic operative Freemasons (who put it in their designs and
constructions). We see the similar religion icons found in ancient doorways in
Bolivia, Turkey, and Pompeii. To the ancients and the occultists now, the rebis
to them corresponds to the philosophy that humans are divine, we have a soul,
and we are gods. I am just keeping it real. It is true that we don't need
oppressive religious authorities to reach eternity. Yet, many religious places
have enriched the lives of humanity for thousands of years. The ancients showed
a lot of words on spirituality and philosophy. The Universal religion of
antiquity has been shared by ancient cultures all over the globe. That is why
the same parallel religious icon has been used by all of them. The image of
Rebis has been called by some as the Philosopher's Stone, the Gold of Alchemy,
the Pearl inside of the Oyster, etc. The Rebis is one of the secret teachings
of Secret societies and the lost sacred sciences. To followers of the Rebis, it
deals with the human true eternal Self. In occult tradition, Rebis was the
first human being as perfect and divine. Rebis is conscious of its own inner
divine nature. Rebis fell and became what humans are today. Gnostics (who are
one of the ideological forerunners of the Freemasons) believe that God created
the Rebis and became jealous when the Rebis was as powerful as him (knowing his
eternal godhood). So he divided the Rebis into two sexes, two independent
beings weaker than the original and imperfect. One sex became predominantly
male with emphasis on solar qualities like day, light, hot, fire, and dry. The
other sex became predominantly female with emphasis on lunar qualities like
night, dark, cold, water and wet. I don't agree with this mythology, but I just
want to show background information on the Rebis. In the occult tradition, primordial
human was neither masculine nor feminine. It was neutral before the sexes were
separated. The Rebis is the balance of the opposite forces of the Universe. All
opposites were united in the beginning according to occult tradition. Before
creation, there was perfection in the Universe. God is perfection and man is
the Creation of God. When humans know their destiny and their wisdom, man can
be spiritually stronger. We have to have unity with the truth in order for your
life to experience completion. Now, in the Middle Ages, operative Freemasons
used the Rebis iconography in their structures. Many of them were architects,
designers, and builders who are believed to have inherited esoteric wisdom from
Antiquity, which they encoded in their work―used the “god” Self icon throughout
their constructions. Many structures have a human holding two animals as found
in the Basilica of Sant Ambrogio in Milan and in other places in Europe. The
truth is that we should look external and internal for strength and guidance.
God wants us to understand the external world and to realize that we have great
internal value. Once, we know that, we can be better and live a more spiritually
enriched life. For God existing is concerned with external and internal
realities. Now, I do not believe that humans are God or can be God. God is God
Humans are humans. Man can never be God at all.
We should be accurate as possible
in our presentation. We should try our best to not to be wrong. We have to be
upright and courageous in describing our interests and fighting for true
revolutionary solutions in the world. We should reject bigotry and forever
realize the intrinsic value of all of humanity. For when we ennoble or exalt
truth, then we are blessed with enriched wisdom. We can learn from the Tea
Party about what not to do or not to accept ideologically. We should research
information in dealing with a wide spectrum of cogent, relevant subject
matters. We can disagree with others peacefully and allow intellectual freedom,
but we should stand steadfast to hold onto legitimate precepts (of respecting
workers, of harboring respect for the poor, of rejecting the evils of the
prison industrial complex, of loving human rights, and of appreciating our
legacy of believing in the power of community). These strong, paramount
precepts can move our souls to achieve fruitful, social justice. We should seek
accountability among any elected representative and strongly allow our voices
to be heard. Our inherit legacy and our cultural background never accept
passivity towards evil, but an unconquerable spirit of heroic strength and
legitimate activism. Justice is the inherit goal of our legitimate endeavor. We
should reject the notion that we must excommunicate human compassion from our
minds. We must think in a revolutionary fashion and steer the youth in a
greatly mature fashion. We should be compassionate toward our people and the
poor including the rest of humanity (for we believe in preserving our integrity
and seeking proactive solutions in the Earth). We should never be afraid or
ashamed to overtly promote our interests as black people (from standing up for
health care solutions to improving our educational services). It is just for us
to advocate the love of civil liberties, the love of Nature, the fight against
poverty (as a means to institute economic justice), the abhorrence of
imperialism, and the acceptance of self-determination among black humanity. We
all know how the system works. Regardless if someone checks their race or not,
if someone doesn't want to hire you, they can reject you. The bigger point is
to use efforts to improve our conditions. There should be a focus on not only
education and a moral code in our lives. We have use efforts to fight
discrimination and to make sure that qualified black people have the fair
opportunities to receive a higher education or a career in their lives. We
should enact every effort to inspire the youth to do the best that they can do
and to stand up courageously against evil in the world. We should fight poverty
and ally with real programs that can fight economic injustice (so, the poor and
others can have economic growth and true prosperity). When we stand up against
evil, change will come. INDIVIDUAL SUCCESS AMONG some BLACKS DOESN'T EQUATE
LIBERATION. ONLY COLLECTIVE PROSPERITY AND COLLECTIVE JUSTICE EXISTING AMONG
ALL BLACK PEOPLE WILL EQUAL TRUE BLACK LIBERATION. There is great value in the
INDIVIDUAL and great value in the COLLECTIVE. It is obvious that the War on
Drugs has failed. Legalizing marijuana is such a common goal among many. If we
just do that (without other revolutionary actions), then nothing gets solved,
because we have to deal with systematic problems relating to the prison
industrial complex, various laws, various institutions, and other things that
contributes to broken lives and harm done to communities nationwide. If
corporations exploit marijuana legalization for their own profit (or for
economic exploitative purposes without benefiting the masses of the people),
then we have issues here. I think we should end the War on Drugs completely,
focus on treatment, focus on ending unjust laws, and find ways to use marijuana
in constructive means from research to medical purposes. No one should be in
jail for a long period of time for nonviolent drug possession at all.
By Timothy
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