Don't Drink The Kool Aid
From The Ramparts
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Don't Believe The Hype, Don't Drink The
Kool-Aid
"It may be that during your
lifetime you will not be formally judged as to your culpability or lack of
culpability for the acts of your leaders. But in relation to Natural law, you
will be guilty or not depending on what you do. If you refuse to inform
yourself as to what your leaders are doing, if you unthinkingly accept the
propaganda and lies of the capitalist cabal, then you will be guilty of the
crimes of your rulers. You cannot legitimately excuse yourself with
catch-phrases such as: 'My country right or wrong, I'm only following orders, I
don't make the laws, I merely carry them out, I'm only agreeing with the ideas
of our leaders, If I'm critical of my country's leaders, I'm a traitor.'"
America's
Suicidal Ignorance http://www.hermes-press.com/insane_masses.htm
As the
campaign rhetoric ratchets and the political circus grinds on, my advice to you
is don't fall for the okey-doke, don't believe the hype and don't drink the
Kool Aid! The campaign circus is a distraction to deceive you into believing
the United States
is a real democracy, that you have agency in the political process, that your
vote counts. If you listen to what Bernie Sanders is saying he is telling the
truth. The system is rigged against ordinary people, the system has been
totally corrupted by big money. He is correct a "political
revolution" is needed to turn things around. The problem is he is asking young people to
believe in a corrupt system; the very same system that is stealing votes from
Bernie Sanders as he speaks via so called "Super Delegates".
The system
is rigged in favor of the insiders. The Super Delegates are not bound by the
results of the caucuses or primary elections where the voters cast their votes
for the candidate of their choice. Many of these Super Delegates are already beholden
to Hillary Clinton who is probably more corrupt than all of the men running in
both parties put together. So in this regard, Sanders is being disingenuous. He
is setting the young people up for major disappointment just like Barack Obama
set folks up for disappointment during his first campaign. (I know defenders of
Obama will say the Republicans have obstructed him and tried to sabotage
everything he's done. But they are either a-historical or they forgot during the
first two years of his presidency, the Democrats controlled both the House and
Senate, and all he did during that time was bail out Wall Street!) The system
is rigged!
Both Trump
and Sanders are outsiders and this is why they are so wildly popular to their
core demographics young people for Sanders and disaffected, frustrated and
anxious white males (mostly) for Trump. Both of them say things the
"establishment candidates" dare not say. Essentially they talk about
class warfare, how ordinary folks are being jerked around by the establishment
already in power. Former US
Senator John Edwards was run out of the 2008 presidential race for saying the
same things that upset the powers that be. But conditions are worse now and much
more obvious. Income inequality is at an all time high wealth the gap is wider
than ever before. The talking TV heads openly admit the ruling class is
apoplectic about Trump and Sander's success and on air they hypothesize how the
establishment can take back both parties. They do so because they work for the
establishment corporate media that makes millions in ad revenue and consultant
fees every national election cycle.
Now due to
the success and popularity of Sander's message Hillary Clinton the consummate
Washington insider is forced to call herself a "progressive" and
speak in populous jargon when everyone knows she is a bought and paid for shill
of Wall Street, Big Pharma, the insurance companies, the Military Industrial
Complex, the Bio-Tech industry, private prisons and big money. As Bill's wife
she has always served as his campaign surrogate, spokesperson and shill.
Hillary was the rah rah girl for his racist welfare "reform"
legislation, his anti-crime bills that saw a disproportionate rise in
incarceration rates for black and brown folks for the same crimes committed by
white folks who didn't go to prison! Sure he later apologized when he was
called out for it; but what did he or Senator Hillary Hillary do to reverse
that legislation and those policies? Nothing!
While Bill
Clinton did appoint a record number of African Americans to cabinet and
subcabinet level positions, people forget that when the Republicans went after
Lani Guinier, Clinton
left her hangin'. Same thing with Mike Espy and the Tyson Foods Scandal. The Clintons threw Espy under the proverbial bus because there
were prior shady connections to them and allegations about Hillary's hanky-panky
with Tyson Foods going back to 1978-79 when she and Bill were in Arkansas. The last thing
the Clintons
wanted was the press to dredge up that scandal in 1997. So they sacrificed the
Brother. Espy should have known better than to take the bribes in the first
place, but the game is rigged and bribery is how the game is rigged!
Let's not
forget Bill Clinton and Al Gore turned the Democratic Party to the right,
courted and wooed Wall Street and Corporate America while selling the party base:
organized labor, blue collar workers, African-Americans, women and other
splinter groups down the river. They adopted a version of Ronald Reagan's
"Southern strategy" because they were both from the South and they
courted white Southerners back to the Democratic Party.
Under Bill
Clinton the depression era Glass-Steagall Act, which established a fire wall of
separation and safety among investment banks, commercial banks and insurance
companies, was repealed. This set the stage for the Wall Street shenanigans
that imploded the global financial system in 2007-08 that we are still feeling
the consequences of. By the way Blacks and Latinos suffered a greater wealth
loss during the 2007-08 economic implosion, home foreclosures, lost wealth and
asset devaluation that will never be recouped, than anyone else. Now Hillary
expects her House Negroes to ignorantly and dutifully endorse her, stump for
her and vote for her. Don't drink the Kool Aid!
On the
Republican side don't go for the okey-doke about "Conservative
values". None of those clowns are conservatives. The last real
Conservative to run for president was Barry Goldwater who was so out of touch
he lost in a humongous landslide to LBJ in 1964. Under Ronald Reagan the man
the media the mind control apparatus touts as a "Conservative hero",
he violated all the tenants of conservatism: the federal government grew and
expanded, Reagan even added a whole new department to the federal bureaucracy,
the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Due to his
bogus trickle down economic theory Reagan was forced to raise taxes seven out
of eight years he was in the White House and under him the federal deficit
ballooned three times what it was before he entered office. In fact when George
H.W. Bu$h succeeded Reagan he too was forced to raise taxes which did him in
when he ran for re-election against Bill Clinton.
Don't
believe the hype! Conservative is just a word they use to try to trick you. Just
like Hilary now calls herself a "progressive". When we look around we
see the government in total paralysis and gridlock except for the military
industrial complex and deep security police state, which are booming. All the
candidates want to spend even more on "national security" at the
expense of Main Street,
education, the physical infrastructure and social programs. They want to spend more on war, arm, train
and fund more Saudi Arabian Wahhabi fanatics at a time when the US is
broke! The federal deficit is over 5 trillion dollars and climbing http://www.usdebtclock.org.
The number changes every second, as do the figures for Social Security,
Medicare and other unfunded liabilities.
As of this writing this means tax payers are on the hook for $840,360
per tax payer. (Keep in mind by the time you read this the number will be
higher!) The numbers are staggering and mind boggling for the total national
debt. Go to http://www.usdebtclock.org to see a real time up to the minute
stats on the debt.
This is
insane and totally unsustainable; which is why I urge you not to fall for the
flim flam of the election cycle. The best way to change things is to take to
the streets with massive strikes, shut downs, civil disobedience and boycotts.
Make the 1% pay attention and act in our interests for a change. Ask yourself
is any candidate talking about real peace, shutting down the war economy and
converting to a peace time economy? Is any candidate talking about closing the US foreign
bases and bringing the troops home? Is any candidate talking about channeling
the money we spend for war and the CIA's immoral covert operations into the
infrastructure, health care, education or economic development? What are they saying about protecting
citizens rights? Nothing! Even the outsiders Trump and Sanders aren't saying
anything like this.
Please
don't allow the politicians to make fools and suckers out of you! Don't believe
the hype, don't drink the Kool Aid and don't go for the okey-doke.
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Deep African Thought
From The Ramparts
Junious Ricardo Stanton
African
Deep Thought
"The word 'Ubuntu' comes from one of
the Bantu dialects of Africa. It is a
traditional African philosophy that gives an understanding of us as human
beings in relation with the rest of the world. According to Ubuntu, there
exists a common link between us all and it is through this tie, through our
interaction with our fellow human beings, that we discover our own human
qualities. The Zulus would say, "Umuntu Ngumuntu Ngabantu", which
means that a person is a person through other persons. We affirm our humanity
when we acknowledge that of others." Ubuntu philosophy as an African
philosophy for peace http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=20359
Last week
we discussed the need to rethink Africa and
our relationship to the continent and our ancient forbearers. We desperately need
to do this because we have been indoctrinated and programmed to see Africa as backward, uncivilized, bereft of culture other
than drumming and dancing and as offering nothing noteworthy to humanity. Last
week I suggested these notions propagated by our Arab and European enemies were/are
designed to assuage any guilt they felt about their invasions, rape, theft,
capture, kidnapping and colonization of African people and as a way to justify
their pillage, plunder and rapine of Africa. I say any guilt because they have never
repented of their sins of imperialism and plunder over the years. They've only
shifted their modus operandi to accommodate and use their advanced material
weaponry and psychological warfare so their oppression is less obvious because
it is so thorough and all pervasive.
We need to
realize most of what these foreigners, invaders and aliens said/say about Africa is not true. During their invasions they
discovered countless ruins of great civilizations, clear cut evidence of
advanced cultures and vast treasures that they suppressed, stole, appropriated
to whites or extraterrestrials.
The ruling class who disseminate their "history",
archeology, anthropology and "education" are even at odds with first
hand eye witness accounts by Arabs and Europeans who chronicled the
magnificence of Africa and its people! Their
denial of history and African accomplishments speaks volumes about themselves
and their deep seated inadequacies. Western "education" reflects the
consciousness and values of the ruling class. In this case the megalomaniacal capitalists
who financed the industrial and technological "revolutions" that
needed brute labor and dim intellect to keep the machines humming, to develop
and maintain the wasteful, pollution causing factories, businesses and armies that
fueled the rise and expansion of the Western economy.
Schools and curricula were developed to forge
common identities for the emerging European nation states out of diverse ethnic,
tribal and racial groups and prepare them to plunder the world, to work in the
factories, mills, mines and large farms. The downside of this ongoing pattern is the
ecocide, total disrespect and desecration of nature the West demonstrates with
each passing minute, day, month, year.
Their
fantasies about Europe being the epicenter of all human progress gives whites a
false sense of superiority and non-Europeans suffering under their imperialistic
hegemony suffer from a debilitating sense of inferiority, emptiness, defeat and
purposelessness. Part of their brainwashing technique is to always show us as
defeated, subjugated and happily acquiescing to their domination.
But we are
not defeated, we've only been brainwashed to think we are. We can use Black
History Month to jump start and reenergize ourselves to begin a three hundred
sixty five day search for our true selves, our rich history, heritage and innate
potential. We can use Black History
Month to decolonize our minds, to deprogram ourselves and erase the lies and
distortions we have been feed and forced to internalize about Africa,
Africans and ourselves. We can use Black History Month to discover how our
ancestors fought back and defeated their enemies.
As I said
last week we are a deep and creative people. The depths of our creativity are
not just in the monuments our ancestors left but in the values and
consciousness that created and produced them. At the root of those accomplishments
was a cosmology, a philosophy and value system which is antithetical to that of
the Europeans, what we have been brainwashed and conditioned to internalize.
African technology, architecture, building, science and social organization
were all based upon deep metaphysical and humanitarian values. These values are
found throughout the continent in every indigenous traditional culture and
group.
At the core
of these values was/is the notion we are a spiritual people linked and
connected to a vast spiritual universe most of which is undetectable to the
five senses. All Africans believe in an invisible universal energy/intelligence
or force that permeates all creation. Europeans called this idea pan-theism god in everything. Europeans
don't believe or comprehend this because they are essentially materialists,
they only accept what they can experience via the senses; although their
astrophysicists and physicists now say the universe is composed of pure energy
that vibrates a differing frequencies from the undetectable ultra-ethereal to
the densest levels we call physical matter.
Our
ancestors articulated this thousands of years ago. Read George G.M. James great
work Stolen Legacy to get a glimpse of how a handful of Greek
"philosophers" plagiarized African cosmology and philosophy. James
points out that to the rank and file Greeks these plagiarized African ideas
were totally foreign and incomprehensible.
The metaphysical ideas of Kemet are thousands
of years old and were probably originated by Africans who originated outside
the Nile Valley
deep in the interior of Africa. We are
discovering more about the values that produced the societies in South Africa
and we should explore and learn more
about them. Discerning and understanding these values and the consciousness of
the people gives us deeper insight into their culture their social organization
and how they interacted with each other, others and their immediate and distant
environments.
In
South Africa
there is an ancient word
Ubuntu that to me is the essence of
African, holism, deep thought and philosophy. "The word ‘
Ubuntu‘
originates from one of the
Bantu
dialects of Africa, and is
pronounced as
uu-Boon-too. It is a traditional African
philosophy that offers us an understanding of ourselves in relation with the
world. According to Ubuntu,
there
exists a common bond between us all and it is through this bond, through our
interaction with our fellow human beings, that we discover our own human
qualities. Or as the Zulus would say,
'Umuntu Ngumuntu Ngabantu', which means that a person is a person
through other persons. We affirm our humanity when we acknowledge that of
others. The South African Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu describes
Ubuntu as:
'It is the essence of being human. It speaks of the fact
that my humanity is caught up and is inextricably bound up in yours. I am human
because I belong. It speaks about wholeness, it speaks about compassion. A person with Ubuntu is welcoming, hospitable, warm and generous,
willing to share. Such people are open and available to others, willing to be
vulnerable, affirming of others, do not feel threatened that others are able
and good, for they have a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that
they belong in a greater whole. They
know that they are diminished when others are humiliated, diminished when others
are oppressed, diminished when others are treated as if they were less than who
they are. The quality of Ubuntu gives people resilience, enabling them to
survive and emerge still human despite all efforts to dehumanize them.'" https://motivationinspirationandlife.wordpress.com/2012/06/02/ubuntu-i-am-what-i-am-because-of-who-we-all-are/
Ubuntu is
an ancient African concept as is Ma'at (Divine Order, Truth, Balance, Harmony,
Justice, Righteousness and Reciprocity). Both were the root and underpinning of
African culture, social, ethical and relational values. Both were the
philosophical mortar that held the societies together, that allowed them to define
themselves within a communal framework and live in a collective, harmonious
manner. This philosophy laid the foundation of a genuine attempt to live
together in harmony and peace.
Were the
societies perfect? Of course not. They were the first to do it so they learned
by trial error, intuition and experience. Our African ancestors put into place
family, peer and age social controls to reinforce values of Ubuntu and Ma'at.
For thousands of years we worked to live together in harmony because our values
were collective and humane not exploitative and rapacious.
What if we rediscovered,
relearned and revitalized Ubuntu and Ma'at then adapted them to modern living
as a way of transcending this hostile environment? What if we looked for an
alternative to the crass materialism, decadence and emptiness of the West and
embraced our own African values and philosophies? How would the quality of our lives be
different if we based our thinking, emotions, actions and relationships on
Ubuntu and Ma'at? This is not as far fetched as you might think. We do have
agency in this, we can choose the values we live by.
The Western way is unsustainable, it is built
on selfishness, greed, theft, war, exploitation and wanton violence. That model
cannot last forever, its inhumane values are destroying the planet as we speak!
We see the concomitant moral rot and devastation all around us now. Things are
not getting better. We have to search for and find an alternative to European
madness and psychopathy.
Social reform
only goes so far in a morally depraved culture like this. We need a total
transformation, a turnaround in values and I am suggesting we look to our African
ancestral roots for the solutions to these issues. Ubuntu is such a solution. Africans are a deep and creative people. As Desmond Tutu said, "The quality of
Ubuntu gives people resilience, enabling them to survive and emerge still human
despite all efforts to dehumanize them."
We need to
seriously rethink Africa, embrace our powerful
legacy of deep thought, humane values, live and restructure our relationships
in accordance to those values. Failure to do so will result in sure spiritual,
psychological and physical death.
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Rethinking Africa and Black History
From The Ramparts
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Rethinking Africa
and Black History
"The role racism played and continues
to play in shaping world history is a tragedy which negatively influences all
people. There are those who are correct in their belief that the race issue is irrelevant
and is an impediment to human development. In reality there is only one race,
"the human race" which has been proven to have originated in Africa. Yet, for years scientists have ignored and even
fabricated data to sow that humanity
developed in Europe or Asia rather than acknowledge Africa is the site where
the greatest evidence of early human development is to be found." Anthony T.
Browder, Exploding The Myths Vol. 1 Nile Valley Contributions To Civilization
page 14.
Michael
Coard my friend and co-activist in our struggle to save Cheyney University
recently wrote a column in the Philadelphia Tribune suggesting we should
abolish Black History Month. I suspect he used the word abolish for shock value to get folks' attention so they'd read the
column. His insightful column shared the role Carter G. Woodson played in the
origin of Negro History Week which later evolved to Black History Month. He
mentioned the organization Carter G Woodson founded, the Association for the Study of African
American Life and History. and its mission to promote the study
and appreciation of African and African American history and culture.
Brother Coard is of the opinion, as am
I, that Black History/African History should be expanded and incorporated into
every aspect and facet of US
pedagogy. I have had discussions with him on this topic and he and I both agree
African History is the longest record of human progress and accomplishment and
is indeed world history despite the fact much of this history is unknown,
suppressed or ignored..
Africans
were the first to walk upright, the first people to cogitate about the meaning
and purpose of existence, create and use tools, invent musical instruments,
weapons, created metallurgy, develop water way navigation, boats and seafaring.
Ancient Africans invented art, science, engineering, healing modalities, philosophy,
spiritual awareness, mathematics, writing and formal education. On the social
level, Africans invented rituals and ceremonies such as marriage, defined families,
created rites of passage, governance and government.
Unfortunately
most of us are not aware of these accomplishments or believe what I'm saying
because Europeans, the Johnnie come lately to the human stage, control the
historiography and narrative about human progress. To add insult to injury they
have disingenuously and arrogantly placed themselves at the epicenter of all human progress. Even the few whites who
attempt to tell the truth about Africa; people
like Basil Davidson, Robert Bauval, Johan Heine and others, are ignored or
marginalized. When people of African
heritage attempt to set the record straight, right the wrongs and counter the
lies of Eurocentric historiography they are denounced, vilified and attacked.
We are in a war for truth and the very soul of Africa.
As African
people we must be vigilant and implacable in our quest for the truth and remain
steadfast in our mission to set the record straight. New information is coming
out all the time about the vast civilizations that developed and flourished on
the continent of Africa. We can no longer
depend upon Europeans for our history or the truth about humanity. We must realize
European leaders have deep psychological insecurities and inadequacies that
prompt them to distort and depict history in such a way as to put their
forbearers who in terms of global chronology and physical existence were not significant
factors on this planet until a mere few thousand years ago as the ultimate in
human genius. European elites have created a compensatory narrative of history
to be a balm for their inadequacies, inferiority complexes and to justify their
abhorrent behavior.
Africa is a huge landmass, it is the second largest
continent on the planet. Africa is not a
country. Europe is not a continent contrary to
what white folks want us to believe and what we were taught in school! All of the area of Europe and North and South America could fit
inside of Africa! We have to begin to see Africa in that light, its bigness and vastness as the
birthplace of humanity and human genius.
New discoveries are happening all the time
about the brilliance of African people. As great as the Nile Valley
Civilizations were, new information is being uncovered that indicates there
were advanced civilizations throughout Africa
that advanced culture.
In their
book Black Genesis The Pre Historic
Origins and Ancient Egypt Robert Bauval and Thomas Brophy two white men
state that the artifacts, megaliths and structures at the site called Nabta Playa were in fact created by
Black Africans who built those structures to track the stars and for use as
ritualistic and ceremonial sites. These Africans were in contact with other
communities including the Nile Valley, Nubia (Sudan)
and the Mediterranean. They have concluded
Nabta Playa were megaliths built and designed by ancient residents to align
with the heavens specifically the star Sirius and the three stars of Orion's
belt.
Changes in
the earth's climate and topography impacted the area and the expanding
desertification of the Sahara covered the lush
river beds that had existed there thousands of years ago which played a major
role in the life of Nabta Playa.
Recently
megaliths were discovered in South
Africa and named Adam's Calendar that
similarly align with Orion's stars and other heavenly objects. What were
originally thought by Europeans to be cattle pens for livestock are now surmised
to be remains of temples, sun and star calendars, remnants of dwellings and
other structures. Dating of the stones indicate the structures are over 75,000
old! "Adam’s Calendar is controversially suggested to be the oldest
man-made structure in the world. Sometimes referred to as 'African
Stonehenge', it predates both Stonehenge and
the Great Pyramid of Giza by tens of thousands of years. Located in Mpumalanga, South Africa it is a standing stone
circle about 30 meters in diameter and has been estimated by some accounts to
be more than 75,000 years old. Various astronomical alignments have been
identified at the site and it is possibly the only example of a completely
functional, mostly intact megalithic stone calendar in the world. Scattered
throughout the mountains of South
Africa are thousands of stone circle
ruins. The first estimates of the number of these ruins was made in 1891
by English explorer Theodore Bent. He estimated there were about 4,000 in
this area of the world. By 1974 the estimate had risen to 20,000.
Today, researcher and authority on the subject, Michael Tellinger, has
estimated the number of ancient stone ruins to be 100,000 or possibly much
higher. Some of these 'stone circles' have no doors or entrances while
most are connected by an expansive network of channels that are often
misinterpreted as 'roads' by some historians. This connected grid of
circular ruins are immersed in a seemingly never-ending expanse of ancient
agricultural terraces surrounding the structures. Adam’s Calendar is
considered to be the most famous among these ruins." http://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-africa/adam-s-calendar-oldest-megalithic-site-world-003160
Interestingly
when Europeans first discovered the stone structures of Great Zimbabwe in South
Africa they refused to believe Africans could create such magnificent living
arrangements so they attributed them to some unknown 'whites civilization'. When
Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt
in 1798 he was astonished at what he and
his army saw. He immediately experienced cognitive dissonance because in his
warped megalomania he could not believe indigenous Africans created such an
awesome civilization. Similarly there are whites who say the Adam's Calendar
megaliths in South Africa
are the work of extraterrestrial aliens, the Annunaki. According to the people
who hold this view, the gold mines in the area thousands of years ago were used
to mine gold and send it back to the Annunaki's native planet Nibiru.
I don't doubt
extra terrestrials are real or that intra-dimensional (differing frequencies of
energy/matter) pathways exist. Nor do I deny there are ways to alter human
consciousness to communicate with deceased ancestors and other intelligent
spiritual entities our Africans ancestors called Neters, Orisha, or Sunsum for
example. This has all been part of African social, cultural and spiritual
practices for hundreds of thousands of years. I'm just not into the Annunaki Nibiru
stuff.
Nevertheless,
we need to investigate and discover what made the heavens so fascinating to our
ancestors, what motivated them to build such huge megaliths and monuments of
stone exactly aligning them to the stars, how did they cart those stones some
weighing several tons apiece to the sites throughout Africa and how did they
develop the skills to carve and chisel the stone so magnificently? We have a
lot to learn about ourselves and our brilliance.
I'm sharing
this information about Adam's Calendar to let folks know how ancient and great
Africa and Africans are; to suggest we need to rethink and expand our
perspectives on Africa. The prehistoric megaliths
in South Africa (Adam's Calendar), Nabta Playa in Nubia, Tiya in Ethiopia, the
Bouar in Central Africa, the magnificence of the Nile Valley Civilizations and
the more recent megalith discoveries of Ikom in Nigeria demonstrate continent
wide genius. We are a deep and creative people.
The sad
reality is most of us are unaware of this genius. We know very little about the
ancient African heritage for several reasons but we can rectify this situation.
We are the ones who need to get busy, study, do research, support African
centered scholars and archeologists in their mission to counter and correct the
ignorance and deliberate defamation of Africa
and Africans. It is our responsibility to learn, teach and spread the knowledge
world wide about our greatness and accomplishments. It's time we rethink Africa and expand our connection to the motherland.
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Reclaiming Our African Mind
From The Ramparts
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Reclaiming
Our African Mind
"When we talk about the so-called
diagnosing of our people, it involves an analysis not only of the behavior of
our people, but of the behavior of the society as a whole; and we must
recognize this fact and face up to it as a people. Diagnosis then is not merely
procedural or neutral. As we have said, it is political to the core. It is a
political act. Through diagnosis, the ruling society applies its ideological
measures to the recalcitrant members of that society. It maintains through
diagnosis the status quo and most of all, through diagnosis, the society-where
that society is unjust- justifies its repressions. Thus then when an individual
is labeled in an unjust and unequal society, and is labeled by the very people
who maintain its injustice and inequality, then the very diagnosis process
itself, and the very labels attached to the victims of that society are the
very means by which repression is carried out in that system. Consequently,
those of us who are in the so called helping professions and in the business of
diagnosing other people's behavior, must recognize the degree to which we are a
part of the repressive mechanism of that system." Amos Wilson sThe
Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness Eurocentric History, Psychiatry and the
Politics of White Supremacy pages 87-88
When our
immediate ancestors were kidnapped, captured, dragged by Arabs and Europeans to
Arabia, Yemen,
Asia, the Caribbean, North, Central and South America they depopulated Africa by at least fifty million. The Arab slave trade
lasted over fourteen hundred years! The European Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
lasted over four centuries. During this time of deportation and depopulation,
Africans were subjected to unfathomable atrocities, horrors and desecration
(the process of teaching us to ignore and negate our divinity and sacredness).
Beatings, rape, mutilation, castration, branding, starvation were just some of
the physical atrocities our ancestors suffered at the hands of Arabs and
Europeans. Many did not survive the
ordeals of the kidnapping and transportation process. But just as debilitating
and damaging were the psychological abuses we suffered and still suffer to this
day perpetrated by our Arab and European enemies.
Our
tormentors denigrated us and disparaged our beautiful dark skin while raping
and brutalizing our women and children, they terrorized our people to instill
fear in us to make us submit to their depravity and bestiality. Our people who
survived lives' were ruined by the unceasing abuse, negative programming and
endless trauma. In the minds of demented Europeans any African who resisted or
tried to run away was considered "crazy", the whites said there was
something wrong with us ofr wanting to be free!
During
slavery in the US Samuel A Cartwright (1793- 1863) a physician wrote a book
entitled Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race. Cartwright actually invented
a "disease" he called Drapetomania
that he said applied to Blacks who ran away or resisted the whites'
attempts to impose a sub-human status on us. While Cartwright found sympathy
and support from Southern planters and the defenders of slavery he was derided
by some for his quackery.
This type
of pseudoscience still exits and is used to defame, denigrate and dehumanize
African people every chance they get! Europeans and Arabs denigrated us to
justify their lust, savagery and rapine. When we resisted and we always did,
this made them angry and they had to create a reason to justify their
xenophobia, to rationalize their depravity, violence, brutality and their
inhumane treatment of "the other". So just as Samuel Cartwright
invented Drapetomania to describe Africans who ran away from their white
"owners", modern science and psychiatry come up with conditions and
diseases to describe our maladaptive responses or outright resistance to
European domination and hegemony.
In the Arab
and European warped mind, African people are seen alternatively as beasts of burden,
exotic, hip or crazy criminals. But they
also use their pseudoscience to justify their eugenics, sterilization and genocidal
programs. We must realize this is their
perception, their bogus pseudoscience and it's their problem not ours!
One of the
most damaging and traumatic experiences in our sojourn amongst these brutes is
we never knew how they were going to act, what trifling incident would set them
off so we were always leery, anxious and unsure around them, even to this day. White
folks prefer us to be "non-threatening", meaning our presence around
them doesn't conjure up their deep seated fears and anxiety because they think
we will get back at them for all the evil they perpetuate on non-whites around
the world. They are also afraid we will see through their compensatory facade
of superiority and arrogance and discern they are really insecure and
frightened of just about everything. (This is why it is so easy for the ruling
elites to scare them about "terrorism" and crime etc.)
A few weeks ago I wrote about epigenetic
inheritance. I mentioned the idea that experiences, emotions and vivid trauma
can be passed down from generation to generation outside the DNA is not a new
concept, that our African ancestors recognized this eons ago. I suggested you
read Dr. Kimbwandende Kia Bunseki Fu-Kau's books on traditional African
Cosmology and Self- Healing to get an glimpse of the deep insight Africans had
into the life process, healing and wellbeing.
Dr. Fu-Kiau called the process of transmitting energy, skills, talents
and health from generation to generation the genetic rope.
Epigenetic
inheritance or the genetic rope can bring discord, disease and ill health into
subsequent generations. In his book Self-Healing Power and Therapy, Old Teachings
from Africa Dr Fu-Kiau points out the importance of a community
sanctioned marriage partnership, where every effort is made to ensure the
couple comes from good parentage, one of high morals and ethics, good health
and the whole community blesses the union. He also states the importance of a serene,
calm and healthy environment during the prenatal period. "A well
constituted seed from a strong healthy and beautiful tree will germinate with
energy. It will grow strong, healthy and become productive. Human beings are
seeds too. We are mu me'nga (biogenetically) the seeded fruits of our parents,
and great-great-great grandparents. This is what the Kongo call N'singa
dikanda, "the biogenetic rope of the community of the dead" with whom
we are related by blood." Self-healing Power and Therapy Old Teachings
From Africa page 27
Living in a
Western socio-economic-political system while offering material creature
comforts, at the same time is stultifying, it is discordant, it throws us off
of our natural rhythms and like vampires drains us of our energy. The more we
attempt to be like Europeans the farther we get from our African moorings, our
natural selves and our indigenous cultural frequencies.
This
process is literally making us ill and killing us. We are becoming more
materialistic, more prone to disease, our social networks are becoming superficial,
they do not provide the psychological and emotional support and nurturing we
need to live full and healthy lives. As a consequence we are exhibiting and
experiencing more maladaptive symptoms, more dis-ease, more illness, increasing
social dysfunction and alienation.
The key to
reversing the negative epigenetic inheritance is to do what our African
ancestors called Sankofa, which
literally means "go back and fetch it". Go back and learn from the
past to build on the future. Going back to fetch, internalize and live African
values is the key to our transformation and redemption. However, I must warn
you it means rejecting much of what the West holds near and dear such as:
selfishness, greed, individualism, materialism, the exploitative dog eat dog
social relationships, everything we see on the so called "reality
shows" and in their "entertainment industry".
Part of our
transformation is regaining a respect and love for nature, a healthy awe of the
natural space all around us. We have to begin to really appreciate true spirituality,
the unseen energies, freqeuncies and forces around us and know that we are all
linked to and created by ONE SOURCE. We have to relearn how to hear the song of
the universe and resonate to the earth's natural rhythm, learn what it means to
live in harmony with oneself, others and nature.
We have
been trained and brainwashed to believe progress is the ideal goal that the
natural order is antiquated and needs to be replaced. Wake up, the West's
desire to usurp, pervert and supplant nature will be the death of us! Remember
what happened to Frankenstein!
Our only
salvation is to reclaim our African mind, to reconnect with nature and get in
touch with the animating life force within each of us and all creation. Our
adversaries may call us crazy or invent some new word to define our
non-conformity and reawakening, so what? We will be doing what is best for us,
we will be saving ourselves and the planet.
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Genocide in Flint Michigan
From The Ramparts
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Flint Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
"LANSING
In January of 2015, when state officials were telling worried Flint residents their water was safe to drink, they also
were arranging for coolers of purified water in Flint's
State Office
Building so employees wouldn't have to
drink from the taps, according to state government e-mails released Thursday by
the liberal group Progress Michigan.
A Jan. 7, 2015, notice from the state Department of Technology, Management and
Budget, which oversees state office buildings, references a notice about a
violation of drinking water standards that had recently been sent out by the
City of Flint.
'While the City of
Flint states that corrective actions are not necessary, DTMB is in the process
of providing a water cooler on each occupied floor, positioned near the water
fountain, so you can choose which water to drink,' said the notice." Detroit Free Press http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/flint-water-crisis/2016/01/28/amid-denials-state-workers-flint-got-clean-water/79470650/
People are
talking about the situation in Flint
Michigan where the city's dangerously
tainted water supply was known for months by state officials and just like with the foreknowledge of the September 11,
2001 "attacks", the government whose responsibility it is to protect
its citizens did nothing. As the worsening crisis burst onto the national news
cycle it has been discovered that the state of Michigan
knew of the dangerous consequences of using Flint River
water for many months. As reported in the Detroit Free Press newspaper,
elevated lead in the blood of Flint children was
known for months after the city began using water from the Flint River, "The
July data review by the department came amid a growing outcry among Flint residents and local
officials about the condition and safety of the city's water. The
data showed a spike in the levels of lead in Flint
children's blood in July, August and September 2014 — only a few months
after the city had switched its water supply from the city of Detroit's
system to Flint River water. Email exchanges
within the department showed efforts to broaden the data review, to see if the
conclusions would change. They didn't. 'Even compared to the previous three
years, the portion of first-time EBLL (elevated blood-lead levels) is highest
during summer 2014,' health department officials stated in a July 28 memo for
Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon" State's Top Doctor Admits Missed Opportunity
For Earlier Flint Response- Keith Matheny Detroit Free Press http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/flint-water-crisis/2016/01/23/health-department-flint-water-lead/79174598/
So there
you have it, Michigan officials not only knew about the dangerous health
situation in the city of Flint, the state actually sent bottled water into
Flint to the state office buildings while they did absolutely nothing for the
residents of the city! Now that the crisis has gained international attention Michigan officials including the governor are scrambling
to cover their behinds and deflect culpability for their crass malfeasance,
insensitivity and racism (Flint
Michigan is about sixty percent
African-American).
Fortunately
there was a conscientious physician who saw the elevated levels of blood in the
school children and sounded the alarm. " It was the work of one Flint
pediatrician, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, who saw alarming increases in the
incidences of children with elevated blood-lead levels at her Hurley Medical
Center that ultimately led the state health department's team of
epidemiologists — a group Wells called among 'the most advanced
epidemiology bureaus, in terms of PhD status' — to what was really
happening in Flint. Hanna-Attisha held a news conference in Flint on Sept. 25 to
announce her findings. A total of 1,746 test results from Flint
children seen at Hurley were compared against 1,640 results from elsewhere
in Genesee County. The number of Flint children with
elevated blood-lead levels — 5 micrograms per deciliter or more
— jumped from 2.1% in the 20 months prior to Sept. 15, 2013, to 4% between
Jan. 1 and Sept. 15 of 2015. In certain ZIP codes, the change was even more
troubling — jumping from 2.5% of the children tested to 6.3%." ibid
According
to the Detroit Free Press newspaper, the Michigan Department of Health and
Human Services responded with an E-mail the day after Dr. Hanna-Attisha's press
conference which was also sent to Michigan Governor Rick Synder claiming their
methodology differed from Dr. Hanna-Attisha's saying the state had studied five
consecutive years throughout all of Flint not just one hospital and their
results were different.
But when
the state reviewed Dr. Hanna-Attisha's research and methodology and replicated
it; they came to the same conclusions she did. Not only did Dr Hanna-Attisha
warn the state about dangerous water quality in Flint,
Michigan State Representative Sheldon Neely whose
district covers Flint also alerted the state,
including Governor Rick Snyder, of the danger of water pollution in the Flint infrastructure shortly after Flint
went off the Detroit water system and switched
to the Flint River. Neely's letter was dated
January 29 2015 but Michigan
officials did nothing.
In his
letters, Neely who is African-American asked the state for help. He asked for
debt forgiveness so Flint
could improve their antiquated water system's infrastructure. But at that time
the issue was merely the dark color and foul smell of the tap water, toxicity
was not then a concern. Neely also wrote to the Michigan State Attorney General
asking for an investigation. The Attorney General responded to Neely's letter
but no investigation was initiated.
Does anyone
believe that if Flint Michigan was an affluent white community
this would have happened or been allowed to fester for so long without any
substantive action? Does anyone believe Governor Rick Snyder will be indicted
or held accountable for this mess? I certainly don't. In America the super rich and certain
politicians seem above the law; they can commit crimes of omission, crimes of
commission and crimes against humanity and nothing happens to them.
To add
insult to injury the residents of
Flint
are not able to sue the government to recover the money they have to put out to
remedy the problem caused by the city. "As has been widely reported,
6.4 percent of
Flint's nearly 8,500 kids are now testing for
dangerously high lead levels in their blood stream — up from 3.6 percent before
the city switched them from
Detroit water to
toxic
Flint River water. Many of these
children have developed rashes and brittle bones and face the prospect of
permanent brain damage, diminished IQ, and behavioral difficulties. But kids
are not the only ones hurt. Around 85 people have been diagnosed with
Legionnaire's
disease — a particularly horrible form of pneumonia — compared
to around six to 13 in a normal year. Ten of them have already died. Even if
Obama expands free Medicaid for all
Flint
children, the rest of the medical bills — deductibles and co-pays — for
middle-income
Flint
families will be substantial. Nor is that their only financial exposure. The
lead poisoning occurred because
Flint
failed to treat water with phosphorous, something that corroded the coating
inside city pipes and home plumbing, allowing lead to leach in. Though
switching back to treated water has diminished the lead content for now, the
danger of lead poisoning will always remain unless all the piping is refitted.
But replacing city pipes will cost up to $1.5 billion. This would be difficult
for even a financially healthy city, let alone one that can't even pay its
existing bills and has unfunded pension liabilities of $1.1 billion."
Flint Water Victims Can't Sue the Government, That's The Other Crime- Shikha
Dalmia The Week http://theweek.com/articles/601521/flint-water-victims-cant-sue-government-thats-another-crime
The real
travesty is that the residents of
Flint
cannot sue their city to recover their losses or remediate the problems! "What's
more, each homeowner will face at least $4,000 to install a new water heater,
plumbing system, and a new service line connection, as The Washington
Post
points out. And
then of course there is the hit to
Flint's
already declining property values as the city further cements its reputation as
an irremediable basket case... The main reason that they don't have a prayer of
collecting much more is something called the doctrine of sovereign immunity.
Under this doctrine, citizens are barred from suing their government for
screw-ups that it has caused in the course of discharging a core function
unless the government itself consents. Some very narrow exceptions exist but it
is very difficult to make them stick. Some activist lawyers in
Michigan have come up
with a creative constitutional argument to try and surmount the sovereign
immunity hurdle. They have filed a class action lawsuit on the grounds that the
government failed to provide
Flint
residents with equal protection under the 14th Amendment. But this rationale is
a stretch that many plaintiffs' lawyers are having trouble buying." ibid
Very few
are mentioning race and class in this crisis.
Flint is a former industrial city that has
fallen on hard times due to deindustrialization and the shipping of auto jobs
overseas. Forty-two percent of
Flint
residents live below the poverty line and the city is fifty-seven percent
Black. The fact most
Flint
residents are African-American and are either working class or poor are factors
in this situation. This makes matters worse because they lack the economic and
political clout to galvanize enough support to get the government to act on their
behalf. "For decades, the
residents of
Flint
have borne a disproportionate environmental burden, so much so that they have
brought administrative complaints alleging
that the amount of pollution residents faced violated their civil rights. The
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), like every federal agency, must abide by
Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and ensure recipients of federal aid
do not
discriminate on the basis of race, color or national
origin. Title VI violations can occur if state environmental agencies, for
example, permit hazardous and/or polluting industries disproportionately in
communities of color. If a community feels Title VI has been violated, they can
file an administrative complaint with the EPA's Office of Civil Rights.
Flint has a long history
of advocates fighting against environmental racism. In 1997, the Michigan
Department of Environmental Quality
granted an air permit to
the Select Steel "mini-mill" to operate in
Flint, even though the mill would send up to
100 tons of lead and other hazardous pollutants into the city's air every year.
Residents were already dealing with pollution from the nearby Genesee Power
Station when the Select Steel permit was granted. Advocates in
Flint had
filed
administrative complaints with the EPA for
Title VI violations against the Genesee Power Station in 1994. The EPA never
responded and the power station started operating in 1995." Flint Water
Crisis Is A Classic Case of Environmental Racism by J. Mijin Cha http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/energy-environment/266850-flint-water-crisis-is-classic-case-of-environmental
Because of these facts I believe Flint has been the victim
of genocide and a crime against humanity.
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