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Kwame Ture and Dr. King were allies and friends. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. always respected Kwame Ture as a young Brother. They expressed disagreements, but these disagreements were in the realm of spirited debate excluding personal tensions. It is like I may have some a disagreement with my blood Brother in real life, but that is still my Brother and I respect my Brother. That analogy holds true among Brothers Kwame Ture and Dr. King. Both men agreed to oppose the Vietnam War on moral, legal, and philosophical grounds. Both said that the Vietnam War was an expression of imperialism by Western forces and it was an affront to the anti-colonial, revolutionary movements of the world. Now, even after 1969, Kwame Ture still was involved in revolutionary politics. He spoke heavily in the States in the 1980's and in the 1990's as a means to inspire black youth to continue in the struggle for human liberation and the liberation of Africa (or our ancestral homeland). Kwame Ture worked in political organizations heavily. Dr. Martin Luther King believed in black self-determination and the building of black institutions as outlined in his 1968 MOUNTAINTOP SPEECH. Dr. King never embraced race-neutral ideologies. He understood that black people accepting BLACKNESS was a key psychological method in counteracting white supremacy. Dr. King just rejected an extreme form of separatism (that some who loved Black Power adhered to). Dr. King never rejected all aspects of Black Power. He just wanted black people to use power in a way that did not rely on slogans. Kwame Ture was a heroic black man. Now, Kwame Ture believed in independence not Jim Crow segregation or token integration. Kwame True was a dedicated anti-capitalist and a person who wanted black people to lead their own movement for liberation. Numerous human beings are right that we have to develop programs of social uplift to help African Americans living in America. We must continue to fight economic injustice, racial oppression, environmental harm, and our liberties being violated by corporate interests. Also, we have to understand our role in the global, international picture too. In other words, we are not just human beings living in America. We are Africans too. We are not free totally unless all of Africa is free. The 1966 Black Panthers gathered much of their ideals from Dr. King, Malcolm X, the Deacons of Defense, and Kwame Ture. Kwame Ture supported the Lowndes Party in MS that used the Panther as the logo before the BPP came about in Oakland. I respect how the righteous members of the BPP advocated anti-imperialism, community development, and anti-capitalism. I will give credit when credit is due. Yet, in life, one lesson is morality. When a human being is moral, he or she can have full strength to battle oppression. So, we have to be moral if we want to witness the victory.

The study shows the truth in an amazing fashion. The study (from Dr. Jeffrey Berger and Dr. Carlos Alviar) is comprehensive, detailed, and blatantly transparent. Marriage is a very important part of human existence. Strong marriages can lift up human beings, strengthen children, and grow the power of communities worldwide. We should promote strong, loving marriages in our society. Human beings who are compatible with each other have every right to be married, to have children, to actively fight for building up the black community. This struggle for liberation is also about fighting economic inequality. It is about caring for the poor. It is about advancing the human dignity of our people and to oppose imperialism too. These actions further grow authentic social change. Advancing stronger marriages legitimately has nothing to do with being an extremist or advancing an authoritarian theocracy (which I oppose forthrightly. Human beings have the right to be single if a person desires to be in a free society). It is about encouraging more love among our people. It is about sufficiently seeing that our families are valuable and our families matter in the world. The hatred and demented actions of white racists against the inhabitants of the world is unparalleled in human history. No human should participate in bigotry (anyone who is involved in racism is wrong), but as a black man, I HAVE EVERY GOD GIVEN RIGHT TO CONFRONT WHITE SUPREMACY AND TO ADVOCATE JUSTICE FOR MY PEOPLE. Six million human beings signing up for the ACA is an interesting development. One thing is true. We can't go back to the status quo (or health care being solely some for profit system, which is an abomination). The status quo caused massive fraud, waste, and abuse throughout our health care system. The Affordable Care Act was a reaction to the problems of the status quo. It has strengths and weaknesses. Many compromises are in it. I believe that ACA is a step, but it is not the final goal. We should continue to advocate health care for humanity and do it in the correct way at the same time. It is their (or the racists') insane jealousy of us that makes them irrational as you have mentioned here. Our great melanin (which is documented to protect the human eye from free radicals, protect the skin, etc.), our resilient spirit, and our strong legacy will remain. They or white racists are doubled minded since they deny any racism among some in their people, but they want to issue negative stereotypes collectively against all BLACK PEOPLE. So, they are angry that KARMA is showing up and the world is witnessing their abhorrent agenda. Black liberation is neither racist nor evil at all. It is the righteous goal of any real black human being. Like the Black Panthers of old, we have to continue to endorse community based programs as means to progressively improve the conditions of our situation. 

The Republican extremists are hypocrites. You have displayed irrefutable facts that the racist trolls and white racists in this site can never ever refute. The racist Southern Strategy overtly was used as a means for Republicans to appeal to white racist sensibilities and scapegoat the poor and black people for the criminals acts done the ruling class. Even Republican strategist Lee Atwater, back in 1981, admitted that the Southern Strategy was bigoted from the very beginning in its composition. Before he died, he issued an apology for what he has done. The GOP has never condemned in strong fashion the evil comments made by Limbaugh, Nugent, Coulter, O'Reilly, Beck, Hannity, and the rest of those reactionary extremists. It is ironic that the core of the GOP's support is found in places where there is a high level of government services sent to citizens. Also, they say nothing on government funded bailouts and the government using taxpayer dollars to fund the military as well. The Democrats are not perfect either, but the vicious rhetoric from many of inside of the GOP is unparalleled. At the end of the day, we want health care, jobs, a stronger environment, the protection of our civil liberties, our voting rights preserved, equality, justice, and the liberation for all black people worldwide (for Black is Beautiful). I agree with those who say that we as black people are tired of the "get over it" rhetoric from some. They are 100 percent correct on that point. I find it funny that reactionaries want people to get over it, but many reactionaries will never get over the fact that black people have the right to disagree with Republican extremism. Also, Black people have every right to embrace INDEPENDENT THINKING. THE INDEPENDENCE OF THINKING AND THE INDEPENDENCE OF ACTION ARE KEY PARTS OF THE BLACK LIBERATION STRUGGLE POINT BLANK PERIOD. The Maafa was much worse than indentured servitude. Many indentured servants were freed and given much more legal freedoms than oppressed black slaves in Africa, the Americas, and worldwide. The Maafa was a brutal crime, which is worse what than the Irish, the Germans, and the Russians have suffered. Today, some of these same white ethnic groups in America benefit from the system more so than Black Americans. What these white ethnic groups suffered can’t be justified. Not to mention that serfdom is far less brutal than overt chattel slavery. Slavery was not abolished in some countries until the late 19th century or in the 20th century like Saudi Arabia (it banned it recently by 1962). There is still slavery in the world today harming different backgrounds including black people. Not to mention that the brutal lynchings, rapes, theft across continents, stereotypes, lying propaganda, discrimination, etc. of black people worldwide far exceed the suffering of the Germans, Russians, Scots, and Irish. BLACK PEOPLE HAVE BEEN HATED ON AND STEREOTYPED MORE SO THAN ANY PEOPLE IN HUMAN HISTORY. Therefore, black people have suffered as a product of racial hatred and class oppression. Many white ethnic groups still view themselves as superior to black people. Even today, anti-black racists groups are common in Europe. They brutalize black people right now in Russia, France, Italy, and all over Europe.

They or reactionaries lecture on socialism and welfare, but some of them refuse to discuss about socialism for the super-rich that has existed via tax breaks, oil allowances, bailouts, etc. (which some of them enthusiastically support). The New Deal is a perfect example of their hypocrisy. The New Deal involved a massive government giveaway to mostly white Americans. Black people in many cases were prevented, via discrimination, to receive the massive benefits from the New Deal. Before the New Deal, it was the government that gave immigrants and white citizens benefited from the Homestead Act (which used government money for farming, college, and other things). Now, they want to talk about condemning any public program. Black people have worked hard in this nation. Our ancestors were paid nothing in this country as slaves. Today, we are still fighting oppression and injustice. Exposing the ruling class for its hypocrisy and abominations is just plain commonsense. Any oppressed people have every right to demand justice and recompense. I fully comprehend the arguments against universal health care. One major misconception about universal health care is that it will only exist in this top down government totally run, mandatory system. That is not true. There are universal health care systems that allow flexibility in its composition. Every industrialized nation has universal health care except America. Many of those nations have better health indicators than America. If it can work there, it can work here. Also, cutting costs, and making health care more efficient can be part of an universal health care solution as well. In America, there are tons of stories of human beings dying by failing to pay health bills, dying because of expensive surgeries, and dying because of expensive health care services in general. One such story about the evil found in the status quo involved the Brother of Veronica De La Cruz. Her brother in America could not afford health care costs and he died, because of a corrupt health care system (before ACA came into existence). I make no justifications for the ACA’s errors at all. What I do mention is that a single payer system is superior to the ACA. There is nothing immoral of preventing discrimination based on preexisting conditions. There is nothing immoral about talking about health care in moral terms. This is a moral issue. Canada is an interesting nation (Canadians should improve its imperfections in their health care services, but that does not mean that any form of universal health care is immoral though. Dr. John P. Geyman, Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine at the University of Washington have debunked many misconceptions about universal health care), and other nations have great successes with UHC.

Barbarism, police state terror, and the denial of basic democratic rights are all descriptions of crooked members of the NYPD. The same ones lecturing our people on law and order readily are silent on the disorder and lawlessness of evil police officers. Quinshon Shingles was heroic to stand up against folks who wanted to use the badge as a means to humiliate people. Framing black people is a historical fact and the capitalist prison industrial complex is filled with many innocent members of the human race. The settlement given to Shingles is positive news. Yet, we have so much more to go in fighting for inherit inborn liberation. Grieco being investigated for various abuses and crimes represents KARMA in more ways than one. So, the overarching theme is that police brutality should be continually opposed forever. I share the same frustration that you have. These racists and reactionaries are despicable. They hate us when we intellectually refute their inaccurate arguments. These racists are evil. They disrespect Trayvon and his family, so I have no respect for any racist at all. Their evil is truly demonic and they exploit tragedies as a means to diminish the value of black life. They hate black life and they make all sorts of excuses to justify any extrajudicial death of black people. So, we are in solidarity with our Brothers and our Sisters here. So, real human beings should keep on doing what they are doing. Humanity is Strong and I am not worried at all. My parents experienced the evils found in the Jim Crow South too and they told me and my relatives’ stories about that obscene time period. The parents and grandparents suffered Jim Crow oppression. The Klan was involved in that oppression and the Klan is a terrorist group. That is why the Deacons of Defense (who were Brothers who owned weapons in a group as a means to stand up against injustice) used self-defense against the Klan as a means for the Deacons of Defense to protect civil rights activists all over the South. Even Malcolm X before he died, called for self-defense units to go into the South to counteract the vicious crimes committed against black people by white racists. So, we are right to struggle for justice. 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 has 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. Sisters like Dandelion are correct to describe the similarities between reggae and African music indeed. 

 By Timothy