Honestly, black people have the right to
believe in political independence. I don’t have respect for the leadership of
the GOP or the Tea Party at all. They tolerate bigotry & extremism from
Rush Limbaugh, Savage, Ann Coulter Bill O’Reilly, and others (who advance the
agenda of white supremacy). I abhor that agenda 100 percent. With that being said,
we have to be real with our economic situation. The privatized Federal Reserve
(who blatantly manipulate interest rates) and central banks globally have
harmed the infrastructure of nations, deregulated massively national resources,
influenced wars, increased unemployment, and grew economic inequality. We know
that the QE benefit Wall Street not Main Street heavily at all. The IMF's and
the World Bank's massive privatization and neo-liberal policies have disrupted
economic progress as well. History shows that. Anyone that refuses to expose
the corruption found in Wall Street and refuse to expose corporate corruption
is missing the point. So, we should end the system of central, privatized
banks, and focus more on public banking including decentralized banks
(including independent, cooperative banks as advocated by Ellen Brown, Stephen
Zarlenga, Dennis Kucinich, and others). True currency ought to be based on
sound money (like debt free money) not debt filled money. Both parties for a
long time have advocated bailouts for the big banks, QE, imperialism, unfair
trade policies, NSA spying, imperialism including war mongering, etc. That is a
fact. So, we need to work in independent organizations that are actively
creating solutions in our community. We have the right to protest (and to
vote), but protesting is not enough. We have to mentor, work in community based
programs, support those who are actively fighting discrimination, support those
who are creating grassroots solutions, and advocate economic justice. We need
more than economic justice (a higher minimum wage that most Americans support,
an ending of unfair tax breaks for the super wealthy, and even a guaranteed
annual income are items that I have no issue with). We need social justice too.
Racism and discrimination should be opposed with all of our strength not just
economic corruption. We are fighting a racial and class struggle for human
justice at the end of the day. That means that we have to advocate legitimate
regulations against pollution (since lax regulations contributed to the BP
disaster and the disaster in West Virginia recently), we have to return our
civil liberties that have been stripped from us, we have to advocate workers’
rights, and we should advocate voting rights.
I agree with you 100 percent. The
current President has been heavily insulted in a vicious way. The Belgium
newspaper tried to save face. Their perverted depiction of the President and
his beautiful wife is disgraceful, evil, childish, and immature. Europe is not
some progressive paradise as some have depicted it as well. There is still a
strong neo-Nazi racist movement in Europe. Leopold II of Belgium during the
19th century was involved in the deaths of millions of black people in the
Congo. So, Belgium has a history of being involved in the atrocities of
European imperialism. The newspaper's explanation over its evil action is
blatantly a desperate attempt to try to maintain their abhorrent reputation.
The satirist trying to justify his action is a true shame. I am not surprised
by this since racism and vicious caricatures of black people are global
phenomenons. We have to confront these things since nothing changes unless we
fight for solutions and confront evil. We have to confront evil in order for
good to prosper in the world. I am in solidarity with Brothers and Sisters in
Belgium (and others globally). Donald Rumsfeld is who he is. He is a hypocrite.
He complains about foreign policy today, but he was involved in the foreign
policy disaster of the Iraq War. His role in the Iraq War caused tons of Iraqis
and Americans (including others to die) based on faulty intelligence,
deception, and other forms of lies. War crimes, destruction of infrastructure,
depleted uranium, and torture have festered as a product of the Iraq War.
Rumsfeld was an ally of Nixon and other reactionaries, so we know where he
stands. He stands for corporate interests. He stands for a retrograde foreign
policy that adheres to imperialism not rational thinking. He shook hands with
Saddam Hussein back in 1983 too. Neo-conservative policies have only
exacerbated issues in the Middle East. He is an unrepentant war criminal. His
ape remarks signify how some try to dehumanize the President by saying that an
ape can do better than him. That is an insult to the President’s intelligence
and his humanity. So, Rumsfeld’s remarks reflect his immaturity and his
ignorance. These white reactionaries make no bones about how they feel about us
as black people. Therefore, I have no respect for Donald Rumsfeld or his
neo-conservative agenda at all. I remember doing research about Belgium and the
Rwanda massacres. The Organization of African Unity (OAU) issued a report that
had talked about this issue too. That is a great point. Prof Michel Chossudovsky has great research about how America and
France are related to the geopolitics of these massacres. Major General Kagame,
who led the RPF insurrection, was supported by the US and Britain. Glen Ford
and other experts have documented the West's role in their lax responses to the
Rwanda massacre too.
So far, Russia has not invaded all
of Ukraine at all. Crimea has asserted its moral right of self-determination.
Putin is not perfect, but he is not Hitler either. Many fascists and neo-Nazis
have power in the new puppet Kiev regime. It is a shame that Western power want
to recognize the fascist led putsch regime in Kiev. Also, folks should research
petrodollars, gas, and oil and how it relates to this crisis. It has a very
great deal to do with this crisis also (Russia and China are in unison
involving the Ukraine issue. If both nations unite to harm the petrodollar in
response to the Western sanctions, then that will cause massive problems globally).
I found that 25 percent of the natural gas that Europe uses comes from Russia.
Ukraine has only 4 months of natural gas supplies stockpiled. So, we have to
realize the interdependence of these events. I believe that the President
should go for massive negotiations and more threats against Russia will not
solve this problem totally at all. I condemn fascism too since these fascists
are harming the democratic rights of the Ukrainian people. At the end of the
day, we want an independent Ukraine and an independent Crimea (without
imperialist interests). The President still condemned the March 16 referendum
that caused Crimea to effectively seceded Ukraine. The West wants Moscow to
accept the Western backed fascist coup in the Ukraine. The Russian Foreign Minister
Sergei Lavrov agreed to meet with the foreign minister of the Kiev regime. “We
set forth our vision to establish good national dialogue taking into account
all residents of Ukraine,” Lavrov told a press conference after meeting with
Deshchytsia. In reality, we should never give a veneer of democratic
credibility to an illegitimate, fascistic regime in Kiev. There is a debate on
whether Kiev will conduct the elections in an orderly fashion. The fascistic
and anti-Russian character of the forces on which the Kiev regime rests
precludes any meaningful democratic process or any lasting agreement with
Moscow. Shortly after Lavrov’s talks with Deshchytsia ended, Ukrainian police
operatives shot and killed a key leader of the fascist Right Sector militia, Oleksandr
Muzychko. This led to threats from the Right Sector, which played a key role in
last month’s putsch that it would retaliate. President Barack Obama will meet
to NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Pope, and Italy’s new
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, and Saudi Arabia (to meet with King Abdullah). The
West wants use capitalist techniques as a means to pressure Moscow to give in
to their demands on Ukraine. The U.S. even threatens to pressure Russia’s oil
and natural gas industry that supplies a third of Europe’s demand and is
central to the Russian economy. So, the Western Empire (with its now G7
meetings and its NATO encircling Russia) has been exploitative, evil, and
wicked. The Empire is in decline and we have the right to advocate true democratic
freedoms not imperialism.
Frank Aconoma admitted that he wants white supremacy. He wanting white supremacy is by definition racism. As
black people, we want to abolish and end the system of white supremacy (which
is a system that brutalized nations, harmed human rights, and caused
discrimination), so a system of justice can be instituted. These people are
extremists. That wicked organization or the Klan have been directly involved (in all
levels) in depriving black people of human rights, in destroying religious
buildings, doing rapes, and committing murder. Just because someone is not
lynching a person or killing someone, doesn't mean that person is disqualified
from being a racist. So, Frank Ancoma is wrong. That is why black people should
reject the reactionary aims of that group and advocate true liberation for all
black people globally. Malcolm X back in February 4, 1965 in Selma, Alabama (to
SNCC youth) gave a great description of that nefarious white supremacy group.
Here are his following words: "...I hope I haven’t put anybody on the
spot. I’m not intending to try and stir you up and make you do something that
you wouldn’t have done anyway. I pray that God will bless you in everything
that you do. I pray that you will grow intellectually, so that you can
understand the problems of the world and where you fit into, in that world
picture. And I pray that all the fear that has ever been in your heart will be
taken out, and when you look at that man, if you know he’s nothing but a
coward, you won’t fear him. If he wasn’t a coward, he wouldn’t gang up on you.
He wouldn’t need to sneak around here. This is how they function. They function
in mobs-that’s a coward. They put on a sheet so you won’t know who they
are-that’s a coward. No! The time will come when that sheet will be tipped off.
If the federal government doesn’t take it off, we’ll take it off..."
Malcolm X was right in his words. Also, Malcolm X never became an
integrationist to the establishment after his trip to Mecca. What he did change
was his views on race, race relationships, and the possibility of an eventual
brotherhood. He changed some of his views and he became more progressive while
not changing his overall core convictions. After Mecca, he continued to travel
in Africa and held numerous discussions with many revolutionary Africans.
Malcolm X understood that racial oppression was not just about bigotry, but it
also involves economic, political, social, and cultural exploitation from the
oppressor. Malcolm X became an internationalist and he wanted to execute
actions as a means to internationalize the struggle. He accurately saw that
racism and capitalism are linked and that you can’t have capitalism without
racism (for capitalism in essence causes competition, divisions, and exploitation
leaving many human beings suffering). We need to formulate a politically
independent means to address the needs of our people and the rest of humanity.
We know that the modern capitalist system use brainwashing techniques and other
means to worship selfish individualism at the expense of the suffering
including the poor. We (as black people and freedom loving human beings in
general) are a majority while the capitalist elite is a minority. So, there is
nothing racist about an organization that is all black in it of itself. There
is something racist about institutions of oppression that seek to harm society
at large via discrimination and injustice. So, we need no token concessions. We
just want freedom. Society must be revolutionary changed to benefit the entire
human race.
This story is so touching. Misty
Copeland is certainly inspiring human beings all over the world. The gifts of
dance and ballet are blessings. When we help another human being in a decisive
way, then we are blessed too. That is what life is all about. It is about
learning our value and giving our time plus efforts as a means for us to assist
the human race. Her story represents how people can overcome challenges and be
strident in living their lives. I wish the best for Misty Copeland. There can
be no true black liberation without black women's empowerment. Black Women from
Ella Baker to Fannie Lou Hamer have made great contributions in the black
struggle. In fact, Malcolm X woke up a great deal even before his Hajj. Yet,
after his Hajj, he accelerated his understanding of the world in a
transformative way. The Sister Vicky Garvin coordinated much of Malcolm X's
travels into Africa. The Sister Selma Sparks was a leader in the OAAU's
newspaper called the Blacklash. She conducted interviews with Malcolm X and
Malcolm X allowed women to have a leadership role in the OAAU itself. Lynne
Shifflet was the office manager of the OAAU. Do I like Caribbean music? Yes, I
love Caribbean music. I have Caribbean blood in my mother's side of my family.
I like Billy Ocean's music, I respect Bob Marley's music, I heard of Peter
Tosh's talent before, and so many other talented human beings. Yes, Reggae and
African music are similar. Much of the music from the Caribbean have African,
European, and even some Indian influences. There is a strong Indian population
in Trinidad now. The drum sounds that are found in many Caribbean songs come
from Africa. Music from Haiti (with Voudou), the Dominican Republic (with
merengue), Trinidad (with its calypso sound, which is heavily found in Carnival
celebrations), etc. have roots from Africa. One Sister named Dandelion is
correct to know about the African links to reggae. Michael Vick not only paid
his debt to society. He has worked in pro-animal programs that deal with
rational treatment of animals. If a man expresses legitimate contrition over
his mistakes and does actions that prove that he truly has a change of heart,
then folks will have to move on. PETA is silly and ignorant to judge this man
harshly over events that he was made accountable for before. PETA has it
extremism too. Michael Vick should continue on what he is doing, ignore the
haters, and express the great talent that God has given him. It is ironic that
many refuse to forgive black people, but they want to forgive others who are
assaulters, murderers, and other criminals. Michael Vick is a very intelligent,
articulate black man. I have seen his interviews before. I wish the Brother the
best in his life.
By Timothy
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