1619
1619
Junious Ricardo
Stanton
“About the last of August came in a Dutch man of warre the
sold us twenty Negars” John Rolfe Jamestown Colony 1619
This year
marks the four hundred anniversary of kidnapped Africans being brought to the
shores of North America’s British Jamestown
colony in 1619 by Europeans. Africans had been to this hemisphere as explorers
from African and Asian Kingdoms (read They
Came Before Columbus by Ivan Van Sertima and When The World Was Black parts one and two by Supreme Understanding). Africans were also with the early
European soldiers of fortune when they came to this hemisphere in search of
riches and bounty.
In his book Before The Mayflower Lerone Bennett Jr. the late great editor,
writer and historian makes it clear Africans not only had great civilizations
in ancient times but also had flourishing
advanced kingdoms and cultures that were contemporary to Europe when the European
nation states and trading companies embarked on their ventures of repine and
plunder around the world.
Bennett’s book on the history of
Africans in America points out
that the “twenty and odd Negars” the Dutch pirates exchanged for food with the Jamestown colonists had
been stolen by the Dutch pirates from a Spanish slaving ship. So the start of
our sojourn in the North American British colonies was fraught with criminality
and collusion between Europeans.
The Jamestown
colony was established in 1607 by the Virginia Company that sent three ships:
The Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery carrying 105 males to
the “New World” to establish a productive
colony. The location selected to settle
was chosen because it was deep enough to drop anchor, it was strategic for “defense”
and it was not populated by indigenous people.
The Jamestown colony had a complicated history
from its beginning. The men who arrived were not skilled farmers and knew nothing
about the topography, climate or the environment they would encounter. The
whites met the indigenous inhabitants and their relations with them soured almost
immediately. Relations would have ended in disaster if it were not for the
marital alliance that was forged when John Rolfe married Pocahontas the kidnapped
daughter of Powhatan the tribal federation chief. The original colonists did not fare well. Many
died of starvation and even decided to abandon the colony. It would have died completely
if new arrivals with food and supplies had not come to their aid.
In August of 1619 the colonists
exchanged food for twenty kidnapped Africans who had been stolen from Africa by
the Spanish who then set sail for the Caribbean but who were interdicted and stolen
again by Dutch pirates. The Africans were stolen from what is now called Angola in Central Africa.
The Africans were kidnapped but they were not slaves in Jamestown! Their status was just like that of
the European indentured servants, at that time there was no racial caste or
stigma. Their sole purpose was as laborers working to make the chartered Virginia
Company and after that company collapsed in 1624, its successor, profitable.
The arrangement with indentured servants meant that after a set period of
working for the Virginia Company they were “free” to pursue on their own
endeavors.
The fact of the matter is
indentured servants European and African were treated horribly and their living
conditions were extremely harsh. White indentured servants in the Caribbean rarely survived their term of indenture. Most whites
never gained self sufficiency or freedom. The Jamestown colony in the beginning was no
better.
The trading company needed laborers
to make a profit especially once tobacco proved to be a lucrative “money crop”.
Tobacco was labor intensive, it needed a lot of acreage, so the trading company
imported more whites (poor English, Irish and others) and kidnapped Africans (who
were brought here for their skills and knowledge). By the 1650’s the colonial
administrators began to make distinctions based on ethnicity and class, English
being the preferred class. .(Read In The
Matter of Color Race and The American Legal Process The Colonial Period by
A. Leon Higginbotham Jr.) This arrangement worked until the white and Black
indentured servants banded together against the colonial administrators who had
ignored their grievances and complaints.
In 1676 Black and white indentured
servants banded together in armed rebellion led by landowner Nathaniel Bacon who was the Governor's cousin by marriage.
One of
their grievances was the Governor was too lenient and protective of the natives
refusing to allow the colonists to expand and openly steal their lands. The coalition
fought and waged war against the Governor and the indigenous inhabitants.
Once Bacon’s insurrection ended
(partially due to his death from fever and body lice) the colonial
administrators moved to prevent any such coalition from ever happening again. The
colonial planter elites began to fashion laws to distinguish white and Black
status and eventually changed all Black indentured servants and bondsmen into
permanent hereditary slaves consigned into a color caste system.
https://www.facinghistory.org/holocaust-and-human-behavior/chapter-2/inventing-black-and-white
This legacy of economic
exploitation, racial subjugation and oppression was codified in the newly
created United States
following independence from colonial status. Vestiges of this deeply rooted color
caste and class system haunt us to this day.
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Don't Allow the 1% To Make Fools Of You
Don’t Allow The 1% to Make Fools of You
Junious Ricardo
Stanton
The only
way an extremely small percentage of the world’s population can rob, and hoard
most of the wealth and manipulate and control the masses to work against their
own best interests is to trick and dupe them into doing their bidding. The
ruling classes don’t respect us; they view us as submissive sheep to be sheered
and slaughtered at will. But they are not going to come out and say this in
public, so they use fancy and noble sounding words and phrases and coercion to
dupe and intimidate us into going along with their program and their okey-doke
but upon closer examination this is exactly what they are doing and have done
for thousands of years. Amos Wilson once said, “In sum, the ruling groups
cannot maintain their hegemony and sustain socioeconomic inequality which are
the foundations of their regency, without perverting the ostensible missions of
the society’s sociopolitical institutions and utilizing them as instruments of
oppression. In America
this perversion must take place while the ruling groups hide their oppressive
faces behind the seductive façade of democracy, liberty, equality, and
brotherhood.” Black On Black Violence The Psychodynamics of Black
Self-Annihilation In Service of White Domination page 46
Abraham Lincoln once said, “You can fool all
of the people some of the time, you can fool all the people some of the time
but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” George W. Bu$h a man no one ever accused of
being brilliant said, “You can fool some of the people all the time, and those
are the ones you want to concentrate on.” Our challenge as citizens of the
world is not to be the ones the ruling classes concentrate on to hoodwink and
bamboozle. But this is becoming more and more difficult every passing day due
to the nefarious plotting and planning the ruling classes and their minions
engage in for this very purpose.
Most of their cunning is done in
secret and they use misdirection and deceit to execute their agenda. Most
people in the US don’t know their ruling elites’ history of mind control,
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-we-know-about-cias-midcentury-mind-control-project-180962836/
, they know very little about eugenics and population control http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/unwanted-sterilization-and-eugenics-programs-in-the-united-states/,
social engineering,
https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2018/07/18/social_engineering_as_a_threat_to_societies_the_cambridge_analytica_case_113620.html
or their plans to reduce us to debt
peons and wage slaves.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/breaking-the-chains-of-debt-peonage/
The ruling classes have gotten us hooked and
addicted to their “social media” which is even more pervasive than television.
We are unaware that social media is the Trojan horse to access our minds. We
buy it and use it because it is popular, it gives us “status” and we are made
to think, by the PR and advertising companies owned or employed by the ruling
classes, we cannot live without it. We never stop to think or ask is this spying
on me, manipulating me or how this is affecting me.
The secret is, it is in a very
cunning manner. “Algorithms are invisible pieces of code that tell a computer
how to accomplish a specific task. Think of it as a recipe for a computer: An
algorithm tells the computer what to do in order to produce a certain outcome.
Every time you do a Google search or look at your Facebook feed or use GPS
navigation in your car, you’re interacting with an algorithm. A
new book by Hannah Fry,
a mathematician at University College London, argues that we shouldn’t think of
algorithms themselves as either good or bad, but that we
should be paying much more attention to
the people programming them. Algorithms are making hugely consequential
decisions in our society on everything from medicine to transportation to
welfare benefits to criminal justice and beyond. Yet the general public knows
almost nothing about them, and even less about the engineers and coders who are
creating them behind the scenes.”
https://www.vox.com/technology/2018/10/1/17882340/how-algorithms-control-your-life-hannah-fry
The goal of
the modern ruling class which includes corporate CEOs and both elected and
non-elected officials is to create a social environment that is predictable for
them because they control it. One of the ways they do this is to control what
we watch, listen to, think and believe. They are not doing this for our
benefit. Former CIA Director William Casey who served under Ronald Reagan said,
“We’ll Know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American
public believes is false.” This is an actual quote and it is symbolic of the
ruling class’ distain and intent for us. It is up to us not to allow them to
dumb us down. There is no real red pill for us to take to wake ourselves up. What
we have to do is to think for yourself, be skeptical, discerning and
discriminating with your media consumption.
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A Language and Culture of Violence
A Language and Culture of Violence
Junious Ricardo
Stanton
The United States of America
is the most violent nation on this planet, bar none. Every week thousands of US
citizens assault, beat, kill, verbally abuse and taunt their follow citizens,
we cheer for our sports teams to pound their opponents into the ground and we consume
countless hours playing violent video games, watching television, motion
pictures and literature saturated with bloodshed, sadistic language and
imagery.
The US is a gun culture; firearms are
easily available, they are viewed as a civil and personal right and are held
sacrosanct by the vast majority of Americans. They rationalize this by saying
they are sportsmen, claiming they use their guns are for hunting and for
protection. Who goes hunting with a large clip assault weapon? How is that sportsmanship? Then when a Columbine
Colorado, a Charleston South
Carolina, an El Paso Texas and a Dayton
Ohio occur we ask, how can this
be, why is this happening?
The answer
and reason are, America
was birthed in violence. Almost immediately after Europeans made contact with
the indigenous inhabitants of this hemisphere hostilities initiated almost
always by the whites broke out and rapidly devolved into a deliberate and
wholesale campaign of subjugation and genocide that continues to this very day.
No matter which nationality whether French, Dutch, Spanish or English, the
Europeans engaged in open violence towards the native population. They said
this was their right, part of their “covenant with God” to capture these lands
for their kings, Popes, the trading companies; this is a telling indictment
against Western culture. The carnage and imperialism continues but today
conquest is not for “God”, it is to spread democracy, capitalism, national
security and secure “markets”.
We pretend
violence is not deeply ingrained in this culture, we are total in denial that
it is part of a collective ethos which is systematically and institutionally promoted
and reinforced, because to admit this means, we have to discard the false
narrative we’ve constructed about ourselves as the “good guys” the exceptional
and indispensable nation.
When we are
honest, we are forced to admit this is a violent, war loving nation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgAVpPNusTs
Our very language exposes this truth; stop and think about all the sayings and
phrases we use every single day in so many situations, at work, about sports,
dealing with others or just describing what we do that promote violence. To
bring this point home here are just a few of them: when push comes to shove,
tear it up, rip off, stabbed me in the back, go f___ yourself, bloodbath, Hulk
out, battle royale , Chris Brown you, more bang for your buck, fighting words, he or she broke my heart,
punch in the gut, shooting holes in an argument, hit the jackpot, hit the road,
pound it out, kick the sh___ out of someone, get away with murder, going in
with guns blazing, knocked up, shoot yourself in the foot, going ballistic, canned,
sudden death, thrash, whip, roll with the punches, weaponized, throw someone
under the bus, he or she bombed, stomp it out, snuffed out, take no prisoners,
get in someone’s face or space, crush, beat down, fight for, battle , kick ass,
slap you into next week, slap yo’ momma, take our best shot, shoot for the
moon, war on drugs, war on crime, slain in the spirit, conquer your fears, killing
me softly, you’re killing me, so and so blew up, Bogart, bum rush, brow-beat
etc. I could go on but you get my drift.
Violence in
America
is personal and collective. African-Americans have been the victims of both
overt and covert violence ever since we were forced here. In fact this summer (2019)
marks a hundred years since the infamous “Red Summer” when whites went berserk
and initiated wholesale violence and terrorism against Blacks not only in the
South but in cities all across the county. Red Summer was a deliberate campaign
to terrorize and intimidate Blacks to keep us “in our place” following WWI, the
war the warmongers and propagandists said was fought to: make the world safe
for democracy because it was the war to end all wars!
When you study American history you
discover up until the 1960’s the phrase “race riot” meant mobs of white folks collectively
unleashing unrestrained violence on Black people. Tulsa Oklahoma
in 1921 is but one example. We have lived with this psychopathy for four
hundred years in this country.
Internally our community is also plagued with externally
induced but self-inflicted violence be it verbal, psychological and/or
physical. This internal violence is the result of the massively racist
anti-African programming we have been subjected to and internalized to the
point we detest ourselves and those who look like us. This self hatred and self
negation makes it easy for so many of our people to engage in maladaptive
behaviors such as selling lethal drugs to children, becoming addicted to drugs
and alcohol, knowingly allowing ourselves to be used to desecrate, degrade and
defile our people in our music and visual images in an attempt to gain fame and
fortune in what the late psychologist Dr Amos N. Wilson called “service to
white supremacy”.
We know the
problem, what’s the solution? Its simple, love; love is the answer. Love
yourself and love others in the same manner and degree you love yourself. This
is the first step in solving the violence problem. Thousands of years ago the
Buddha said, “In this world hatred ceases not with hatred, but only by love,
this is the eternal rule.” This saying has been repeated by many Avatars,
mystics, poets and philosophers. It is a
universal truth. The esoteric core of most organized religions contains this
message, but the ruling elites suppress it because our anger, hatred, division and
self-negation allow them to manipulate us so they remain in power.
As Marvin
Gaye wrote and sang in his song Wholly Holy “We can rock the world’s foundation
everybody, together, and wholly holy we’ll holler love, love, love across the
nation, wholly holy together and holy we proclaim love our salvation.” Love is
the answer, we can do this.
