Oil War - Nigeria
June 2005
Nigeria's lucrative oil reserves may have enriched its politicians but they've brought little but misery to ordinary people. Now, a rebel group is fighting for a share of the profits. "I need help. I need help," begs a woman, clutching her young children in despair. Her home has just been demolished to create luxury housing for foreign oil workers. "The oil boom has turned into the oil doom!" laments Pastor Lekia. Across the Niger Delta, there's growing resentment at the oil industry. "Corruption pervades the whole place, starting with the way contracts are awarded," complains lawyer Ledum Mittee. "There seems to be some sort of collusion between the oil companies and those in power." But militia leader Asari Dokubo has vowed to sever that link. He's fighting to seize control of the oil and give it back to the people. "We own the oil!" he proclaims. "The thieves are the people in Abuja." And across Nigeria, young men are flocking to his call. Last September, he spooked the international markets and forced the price of oil to $50 a barrel by threatening to attack foreign oil companies. The government was forced to agree a truce but he's threatened to rearm unless oil companies leave. Nigerians no longer expect help from their own government. It's militia leaders like Asari who are winning their trust.
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Riots and Religion - Nigeria
November 2002
Life in Nigeria is harder now than it was four decades ago and the government is so impotent that people are calling for outright partition.
Sharia Law - Nigeria
28 November 2000
Newly released after 15 years of military dictatorship, both Christians and Muslims in Nigeria are embracing their separate faiths with a renewed vigour. But amidst the prayers for paradise, violence has erupted twice this year, leaving more than a thousand people dead.
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Rastafari Rising: Dr. Llaila Africa part 1.
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Dr. Llaila Afika has authored several books including African Holistic Health, Nutricide, and the Gullah People Blessed by God
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Michael Jackson was a supernatural being of this planet because he most definitely was not of this world.
The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams Part 1
THE LAND OF THE BLACKS WAS A CAST LAND, A BIG WORLD unto itself covering 12,000,000 square miles. From its northernmost point in what is now Tunisia to Cape Aqulhas is approximately 5,000 miles, and in its widest extent from east to west it is 4,600 miles. The whole of this second largest continent was once Bilad as Sudan. "The Land of the Blacks," and not just the southern region to which they had been steadily pushed from the north. After Asian, Greek and Roman occupation, the term "Sudan" came to indicate the areas not yet taken from the Blacks and was co-exstensive with the Ethiopian empire.
For the Ethiopian empire once extended from the Mediterranean north and southward to the source of the Nile in the country (Abyssinia) which recently reverted to the ancient name of the Ethiopian empire of which in earlier times it formed its southeastern provinces. Even as late as the times of Menes., 3,100 B.C. Ethiopia still included three-fourths of Egypt, or up to twenty-nine degrees North parallel. The Asians held the Delta region hence "The Two Lands" - well-known to all historians but never fully explained. (to explain the "The Two Lands," of course, would blast the myth about the builders of Egyptian Civilization."
It was pointed out that the study of the Blacks must begin in Egypt because most of their indestructible monuments are there: and, further, because many of the artifacts archaeologists have been uncovering during the past seventy-five years as "Egyptian" are in fact "African." Yet the very "Heartland of the Race" and the cradle of civilization were actually further south below the First Cataract, centered around the capital cities of Napata and Meroe. From there black civilization spread north, reaching in most spectacular achievements in what became known as "Egyptian Civilization."
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For the Ethiopian empire once extended from the Mediterranean north and southward to the source of the Nile in the country (Abyssinia) which recently reverted to the ancient name of the Ethiopian empire of which in earlier times it formed its southeastern provinces. Even as late as the times of Menes., 3,100 B.C. Ethiopia still included three-fourths of Egypt, or up to twenty-nine degrees North parallel. The Asians held the Delta region hence "The Two Lands" - well-known to all historians but never fully explained. (to explain the "The Two Lands," of course, would blast the myth about the builders of Egyptian Civilization."
It was pointed out that the study of the Blacks must begin in Egypt because most of their indestructible monuments are there: and, further, because many of the artifacts archaeologists have been uncovering during the past seventy-five years as "Egyptian" are in fact "African." Yet the very "Heartland of the Race" and the cradle of civilization were actually further south below the First Cataract, centered around the capital cities of Napata and Meroe. From there black civilization spread north, reaching in most spectacular achievements in what became known as "Egyptian Civilization."
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Lesson # 6
"She belongs to you. That means that everything in her life becomes your business. You have an obligation to care. You can try and be clumsy with your trust and believe that the other girls will be as delicate with your emotions as she, but you're sadly mistaken. That's naivety on your part. She loves you, she trusts you, she honors you, she cherishes you, she cares about you... love her in return. That's all she asks."
Black Population
According to the US Census Bureau. in 2007 there were 40.7 million Blacks in America of the total population of 301.6 million. The black population exceeded 500,000 in 20 states. Blacks were the largest minority group in 24 states, compared with 20 states in which Hispanics were the largest minority group.
It is estimated that of the 11-12 million Africans brought to the new world as slaves, approximately 500,000-700,000 of them came to the United States. This was only about 4.4%-5.4% of all who were shipped to the Americas. The majority, about 35% were sent to Brazil. The largest ports of entry for American slaves were Baltimore, Savannah, Charleston and New Orleans.
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It is estimated that of the 11-12 million Africans brought to the new world as slaves, approximately 500,000-700,000 of them came to the United States. This was only about 4.4%-5.4% of all who were shipped to the Americas. The majority, about 35% were sent to Brazil. The largest ports of entry for American slaves were Baltimore, Savannah, Charleston and New Orleans.
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For full reports go here
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Marriage is...
"Marriage is love, commitment, compromise, and trust. You need all four of them together to have harmony, have balance. When any one is lacking, the scale tips over on either side and balanced is lost. Like a common dish requiring certain ingredients for it to be complete. A bedroom needs a bed, that bed needs sheets and those sheets need covers to be presentable. Without the bed, there is just a room. So without love or commitment or compromise or trust, then there cannot be any marriage. If it can't be trusted to not insult, compromise wants or needs, commit to or love each other, it's a fragment. A mrrig, a bunch of indiscernible jumbled up words that has no base, no vowels to identify or differentiate"
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Women's Health Distortion
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Woman's health is surrounded by many Caucasian scientific opinions, myths and distortions. These distortions have an impact upon the dis-ease and destroys the health of women (Every Woman's Book by P. Airola).
The standards of health for a woman's body is based upon scientific myths and opinions. For example, science assumes that the moon influences menstruation. Actually, the moon is used to correlate menstruation (hemorrhaging/bleeding). The moon does not induce or cause menstruation. Caucasian science's cannot explain why women miss their menstruation cycle. A missed period indicates that the body has powers within itself to regulate itself and does not depend on the moon. Ironically, the moon is composed of various types of minerals (dirt) and this dirt is many miles away. If one wants to believe that the dirt called the moon has a stronger influence upon their bodies than the earth (dirt) under the feet, then they are using a scientific myth, not factual science.
The African Art and Science of anatomy and physiology reveals many facts and many distortions in Caucasian science. Caucasian science assumes that the planets (dirt), floating thousands of miles away have a stronger influence than the earth (dirt) under their feet. Caucasian science has knowledge about the rotation, orbits, vortices, galaxies and constellations and little knowledge of the rotation of the dirt (Minerals such as: calcium, magnesium, potassium, copper, zinc, lead, silver, etc.) under their feet. African art and science of chemistry place dirt (minerals) in a special category called the Mineral Kingdom.
The woman's menstruation cycle does not have a defined beginning or end (other than menopause). The cycle of ovulation is controlled by hormones and menstruation is not part of the ovulation cycle. The hormonal cycle ends when the woman's body has no hormones --- this would mean death.
Menstruation, ovulation and the hormone cycle have a wholistic meaning. Contemporary menstruation occurs when the uterus is deteriorating and hemorrhaging (loosing fresh blood). Menstruation is a period when the spirit and the nutrients from the cellular deterioration of the egg recycles in the body, while conception is when a spirit (a child) enters through the woman.
The hormonal cycle (period) occurs when thought cycles complete themselves and the thoughts spiral to upper levels of mental growth. In ancient African culture, menstruation (the loss of a few drops of blood from the decayed egg, not hemorrhaging of uterus), was viewed as a spiritually uplifting holistic occurrence. The male hormones react and respond to the female hormone cycle, menstruation and menopause. Caucasians view the fetus' movement in the womb as accidental movements. The fetus was created by God's laws and moves according to laws. The laws of conception (marriage of sperm and egg) produce a child. A fetus is a product of laws. The fetus' movements press the acupuncture meridians of the placenta and uterus. The unborn child's kicks stimulate the organ related sections of the placenta and uterus. The abdomen and uterus are divided into a circular section composed of the upper region: heart, small intestines; lower region: kidney, bladder; right region: lungs, large intestines; left region: liver, gall bladder and the center region is the stomach and spleen. The child, stimulates these regions and influences these regions and influences the nutrients that the mother's blood feeds the placenta. This determines the nutritional menu of the unborn child.
It is generally noticed that during pregnancy women appear more physically healthy. The pregnant woman is cleansing her body in order to produce good quality nourishment for the fetus. The baby's cells and body are basically pure. The mother's cells become pure in order to maintain the health of the unborn child. This prevents her body from rejecting the child.
Postnatal Depression may occur as well as the newborn baby's rejection of the breast milk. Both activities are related to the placenta. The newborn baby and placenta are one. The placenta helps to convert the nutrients and oxygen of the mother to the baby's biochemistry. The placenta belongs to and is attached to the baby. The baby communicates biochemically and electromagnetically with the placenta. After birth, the placenta supplies the baby with oxygen, nutrients and the hormone it uses to trigger breathing. The placenta stores the oxygen the baby needs to make the transition from breathing through the mother to breathing on its own. When the umbilical cord is cut before it stops pulsating (supplying oxygen and nutrients)it cannot receive messages (biochemical and electromagnetic) from the baby to eject itself. The cutting of the pulsating cord causes blood and nutrients for the baby to stay in the placenta and become toxic. The mother's hormones trigger the destruction of the toxic placenta instead of her hormones triggering the ejection of the placenta out the uterus. Rejection of the placenta hormonally gets confused with rejection of the baby and this causes Postnatal Depression.
The mother's colostrums milk with vital enzymes, nutrients and bacteria flora are needed for the baby's stomach to have the ability to digest the breast milk that follows colostrums. However, the mother's rejection (Postnatal Depression) of the baby as well as the baby's rejection of the mother causes problems. The baby finds the mother's milk difficult to digest and rejects the milk. The baby subconsciously confuses breast rejection with mother rejection. Pregnant mothers that are given antibiotics and drugs that destroy the bacteria flora needed for the baby to digest the milk. The baby rejects breast milk it cannot digest. In this situation, rub vegetarian bifidus acidophilus on the breast's nipple so the baby can get the bacteria flora needed to digest breast milk. Vaccinations, medical drugs and synthetic chemicals given to the mother and/or baby can cause the rejection of breast mil and hormonal changes cause Postpartum Depression. Cutting the umbilical cord before is stops pulsating causes the loss of oxygen to the baby's brain and lungs. This can result in the baby not breathing properly at birth (absence of deep breaths). Slapping the baby on the buttocks in order to force it to deeply breathe is a criminal offense that amounts to an assault and battery. It causes a permanent emotional scar. The abrupt cutting of the umbilical cord causes the baby to have a decrease in the emotional and mental ability to bond to the mother, bond to the culture and bond to itself. The mother and child, in some way become subliminally and/or subconsciously dysfunctional --- either spiritually, emotionally and/or mentally.
Lactation (milk) production is generally distorted. Sexual intercourse and work (job) should be abstained from during lactation. These activities interfere with the quality of milk because they alter the nutritional quality of cells in the mother's body and in the case of sexual activity, alter the hormone level. Incidentally, the lumps (bumps and clogged areas on the breast) correspond to the acupuncture organ regions. The breast gets bumps, lumps and clogs due to a weakness or overexertion of the internal organs.
The mammae (women's breasts) are not seen as food vehicles (milk) and their purpose is distorted. Breasts are viewed as sex objects and looked up in breast nozzles, harnesses and straitjackets to make them appear sexy. These brassiered breasts harness and weaken the pectoral muscles and cut off circulation. They stop the breast skin from breathing. Nylon and/or synthetic panties stop the proper air and ventilation of the vagina. This results in vaginitis, yeast infection, and other types of diseases.
Caucasian facial features and limp hair is the standard of beauty for Black women. Beauty for Black females is based upon spirituality and Maat behavior. Today, women's beauty is based upon muscular development, breast size, the curvature of the hips, Caucasoid facial features, painting colors on the lips and face and the mutilation of flesh (earrings, nose rings, vaginal lip rings). Caucasians use makeup to add color to their pale pink skin. Black women's skin has color. In African culture, makeup has spiritual and cultural meanings. It was not used to make colored women colored.
Another type of distortion is the wearing of high heels. High heels and pointed toes on the shoes of Caucasians was created as symbols of the penis. Ancient Greek homosexual men used them for masturbation. Wearing high heels cause the spinal column to become misaligned, forces the body weight upon the uterus, shifts weight to the toes, tilts the body against gravity and is dis-ease inducing. Misalignment can result in back pain, decrease the circulation to the uterus, cause pelvic tilt, poor posture, and nervous system disorders. High heels increase the height of the female by sacrificing the anatomical balance of the body. This off-balance and poor posture is misinterpreted as beauty.
The iron deficiency anemia of female blood content is another distortion. This junk food research conclusion was based upon an iron deficiency found in less than 30% of those women used in the survey. The deficiency can indicate that the kidneys are weakened and unable to recycle and concentrate minerals. This anemia justifies the prescribing of high heels of synthetic toxic iron to women. This distortion has caused women to have biochemical imbalances.
The woman's orgasm has been vastly distorted. Proper sexual stimulation of the clitoris can be achieved by adequate pelvic-to-pelvic pressure exertion, which can result in the woman having an arousal climax. The pressure has to be applied with a pelvic-to-pelvic, up-and-down sliding motion in order to have an orgasm. Women and men have to be conscious of God's presence during sex, know their spirituality and understand how sex serves Maat. Otherwise, sex is reduced to a sensual erotic activity and/or a breeding activity of Caucasian socially engineered slaves.
The standards of health for a woman's body is based upon scientific myths and opinions. For example, science assumes that the moon influences menstruation. Actually, the moon is used to correlate menstruation (hemorrhaging/bleeding). The moon does not induce or cause menstruation. Caucasian science's cannot explain why women miss their menstruation cycle. A missed period indicates that the body has powers within itself to regulate itself and does not depend on the moon. Ironically, the moon is composed of various types of minerals (dirt) and this dirt is many miles away. If one wants to believe that the dirt called the moon has a stronger influence upon their bodies than the earth (dirt) under the feet, then they are using a scientific myth, not factual science.
The African Art and Science of anatomy and physiology reveals many facts and many distortions in Caucasian science. Caucasian science assumes that the planets (dirt), floating thousands of miles away have a stronger influence than the earth (dirt) under their feet. Caucasian science has knowledge about the rotation, orbits, vortices, galaxies and constellations and little knowledge of the rotation of the dirt (Minerals such as: calcium, magnesium, potassium, copper, zinc, lead, silver, etc.) under their feet. African art and science of chemistry place dirt (minerals) in a special category called the Mineral Kingdom.
The woman's menstruation cycle does not have a defined beginning or end (other than menopause). The cycle of ovulation is controlled by hormones and menstruation is not part of the ovulation cycle. The hormonal cycle ends when the woman's body has no hormones --- this would mean death.
Menstruation, ovulation and the hormone cycle have a wholistic meaning. Contemporary menstruation occurs when the uterus is deteriorating and hemorrhaging (loosing fresh blood). Menstruation is a period when the spirit and the nutrients from the cellular deterioration of the egg recycles in the body, while conception is when a spirit (a child) enters through the woman.
The hormonal cycle (period) occurs when thought cycles complete themselves and the thoughts spiral to upper levels of mental growth. In ancient African culture, menstruation (the loss of a few drops of blood from the decayed egg, not hemorrhaging of uterus), was viewed as a spiritually uplifting holistic occurrence. The male hormones react and respond to the female hormone cycle, menstruation and menopause. Caucasians view the fetus' movement in the womb as accidental movements. The fetus was created by God's laws and moves according to laws. The laws of conception (marriage of sperm and egg) produce a child. A fetus is a product of laws. The fetus' movements press the acupuncture meridians of the placenta and uterus. The unborn child's kicks stimulate the organ related sections of the placenta and uterus. The abdomen and uterus are divided into a circular section composed of the upper region: heart, small intestines; lower region: kidney, bladder; right region: lungs, large intestines; left region: liver, gall bladder and the center region is the stomach and spleen. The child, stimulates these regions and influences these regions and influences the nutrients that the mother's blood feeds the placenta. This determines the nutritional menu of the unborn child.
It is generally noticed that during pregnancy women appear more physically healthy. The pregnant woman is cleansing her body in order to produce good quality nourishment for the fetus. The baby's cells and body are basically pure. The mother's cells become pure in order to maintain the health of the unborn child. This prevents her body from rejecting the child.
Postnatal Depression may occur as well as the newborn baby's rejection of the breast milk. Both activities are related to the placenta. The newborn baby and placenta are one. The placenta helps to convert the nutrients and oxygen of the mother to the baby's biochemistry. The placenta belongs to and is attached to the baby. The baby communicates biochemically and electromagnetically with the placenta. After birth, the placenta supplies the baby with oxygen, nutrients and the hormone it uses to trigger breathing. The placenta stores the oxygen the baby needs to make the transition from breathing through the mother to breathing on its own. When the umbilical cord is cut before it stops pulsating (supplying oxygen and nutrients)it cannot receive messages (biochemical and electromagnetic) from the baby to eject itself. The cutting of the pulsating cord causes blood and nutrients for the baby to stay in the placenta and become toxic. The mother's hormones trigger the destruction of the toxic placenta instead of her hormones triggering the ejection of the placenta out the uterus. Rejection of the placenta hormonally gets confused with rejection of the baby and this causes Postnatal Depression.
The mother's colostrums milk with vital enzymes, nutrients and bacteria flora are needed for the baby's stomach to have the ability to digest the breast milk that follows colostrums. However, the mother's rejection (Postnatal Depression) of the baby as well as the baby's rejection of the mother causes problems. The baby finds the mother's milk difficult to digest and rejects the milk. The baby subconsciously confuses breast rejection with mother rejection. Pregnant mothers that are given antibiotics and drugs that destroy the bacteria flora needed for the baby to digest the milk. The baby rejects breast milk it cannot digest. In this situation, rub vegetarian bifidus acidophilus on the breast's nipple so the baby can get the bacteria flora needed to digest breast milk. Vaccinations, medical drugs and synthetic chemicals given to the mother and/or baby can cause the rejection of breast mil and hormonal changes cause Postpartum Depression. Cutting the umbilical cord before is stops pulsating causes the loss of oxygen to the baby's brain and lungs. This can result in the baby not breathing properly at birth (absence of deep breaths). Slapping the baby on the buttocks in order to force it to deeply breathe is a criminal offense that amounts to an assault and battery. It causes a permanent emotional scar. The abrupt cutting of the umbilical cord causes the baby to have a decrease in the emotional and mental ability to bond to the mother, bond to the culture and bond to itself. The mother and child, in some way become subliminally and/or subconsciously dysfunctional --- either spiritually, emotionally and/or mentally.
Lactation (milk) production is generally distorted. Sexual intercourse and work (job) should be abstained from during lactation. These activities interfere with the quality of milk because they alter the nutritional quality of cells in the mother's body and in the case of sexual activity, alter the hormone level. Incidentally, the lumps (bumps and clogged areas on the breast) correspond to the acupuncture organ regions. The breast gets bumps, lumps and clogs due to a weakness or overexertion of the internal organs.
The mammae (women's breasts) are not seen as food vehicles (milk) and their purpose is distorted. Breasts are viewed as sex objects and looked up in breast nozzles, harnesses and straitjackets to make them appear sexy. These brassiered breasts harness and weaken the pectoral muscles and cut off circulation. They stop the breast skin from breathing. Nylon and/or synthetic panties stop the proper air and ventilation of the vagina. This results in vaginitis, yeast infection, and other types of diseases.
Caucasian facial features and limp hair is the standard of beauty for Black women. Beauty for Black females is based upon spirituality and Maat behavior. Today, women's beauty is based upon muscular development, breast size, the curvature of the hips, Caucasoid facial features, painting colors on the lips and face and the mutilation of flesh (earrings, nose rings, vaginal lip rings). Caucasians use makeup to add color to their pale pink skin. Black women's skin has color. In African culture, makeup has spiritual and cultural meanings. It was not used to make colored women colored.
Another type of distortion is the wearing of high heels. High heels and pointed toes on the shoes of Caucasians was created as symbols of the penis. Ancient Greek homosexual men used them for masturbation. Wearing high heels cause the spinal column to become misaligned, forces the body weight upon the uterus, shifts weight to the toes, tilts the body against gravity and is dis-ease inducing. Misalignment can result in back pain, decrease the circulation to the uterus, cause pelvic tilt, poor posture, and nervous system disorders. High heels increase the height of the female by sacrificing the anatomical balance of the body. This off-balance and poor posture is misinterpreted as beauty.
The iron deficiency anemia of female blood content is another distortion. This junk food research conclusion was based upon an iron deficiency found in less than 30% of those women used in the survey. The deficiency can indicate that the kidneys are weakened and unable to recycle and concentrate minerals. This anemia justifies the prescribing of high heels of synthetic toxic iron to women. This distortion has caused women to have biochemical imbalances.
The woman's orgasm has been vastly distorted. Proper sexual stimulation of the clitoris can be achieved by adequate pelvic-to-pelvic pressure exertion, which can result in the woman having an arousal climax. The pressure has to be applied with a pelvic-to-pelvic, up-and-down sliding motion in order to have an orgasm. Women and men have to be conscious of God's presence during sex, know their spirituality and understand how sex serves Maat. Otherwise, sex is reduced to a sensual erotic activity and/or a breeding activity of Caucasian socially engineered slaves.
Lesson #5
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"Til death do us part? Or til disagreement do us part? Marriage is too ambiguous Needs more androgyny, like the Ankh You can always add yet never take away be careful how much seasonin' (emotions) you put into your food (relationship) because if you put too much then the food becomes too spicy, too sweet, or too bitter. If you don't put enough, then it isn't spicy enough, sweet enough, or bitter enough. It has to be just right. But what's the recipe?"
Lesson #4
"Arguing should be the last resort. If it does come to that, then try to be as mean and as hurtful as you possibly can. This is what arguing is all about, trying to see who can burn who the best. If you are the man and you win, which is rare, then you have done your sex a good service, however if you are a woman and you lose, then you are a disgrace."
A Culture of Insanity!
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great essay by a friend of mines
a culture of insanity!
by Khalif Williams
“The most significant damage done to the African was the colonization of his mind.” – Dr John Henrik Clarke on ABC’s Like It Is with Gil Noble. This statement made by the late great Dr Clarke expresses the root core of the dilemma of people of African descent. The only way to reclaim the aspects of our humanity stolen, trampled upon and utterly stripped from us by our oppressors we must understand the mind and psychology of those who do the oppressing. It is in this understanding that we can truly uncover not only what was has happened to our people, but it can also create an atmosphere of diagnosis and healing. From our healing and the restructuring of our paradigm a process of liberation can begin that cannot be thwarted by the machinations and manipulations of those who control our day to day existence. We can take an inventory of our successes and the mistakes we have made over the last 500 years of our interaction with our oppressors and our struggles for freedom in our respective places of residence both continental and in the Diaspora.
Europeans and Arabs as well have effectively commandeered the minds and psyches of their African subjects from the very beginning of their conquests and conquering of lands that didn’t belong to them. This colonization has created generations of fractured families, psychological conditions like Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, deadly skin bleaching epidemics, children made to feel so inferior that the only way of life they see in their future is one where they are striving to transform themselves physically into their enemies by surgery or other “beauty” alterations. Another expression of this mental illness is a concerted effort to exclusively date outside of their race to genetically alter the features and bleach the skin tone of their offspring to match more closely those they desire to be like, Europeans. They try to attain a beauty standard they will never reach but this beauty standard is the yardstick used by people all over the world simply because Europeans have colonized most of the known world and domesticated them to a Europeanized vision and version of reality.
Colonization has also created racist, cold blooded hateful human beings unable to see the humanity inherent in other people because they are blinded by the inflated ego of an altered history. They are tainted by the disease of hate and moral ambiguity in reference to the treatment of those they have been taught by clergy, teachers, political leaders, entertainers, scientists, employers, law enforcement, the media, and their parents and etc are subhuman. This culture of insanity hurts the oppressor no less acutely than the oppressed, but by virtue of their dominant position in society and racisms gangrenous effects they are unable to see it.
Europeans through their total control of education and their false retelling of history have created a race based history altered to make them look like the torch bearers of civilization and religious consciousness while effectively destroying and subverting the history, culture and religions of the indigenous people and people of color they have dominated for generations. Some of the different forms of mental illness created by this dilemma has been outlined by doctors like, Dr Francis Cress Welsing, Dr Joy De Gruy, Dr Marimba Ani, Dr Richard King, Dr Yosef Ben Jochannan and many more. The most acute way this illness rears its head is in the intra-racial expression of violence and rogue criminal terrorism displayed by one member of the oppressed group towards another. Dr de Gruy has discussed the phenomena of oppressed people who tend to adopt a most violent posture towards their own people overwhelmingly more than they do the people that are the cause of their suffering. Some oppressed people tend to readily degrade themselves and their
people as backwards while striving to emulate every behavioral attribute including the disdain for their own people expressed by their enemies. A good example of this was the Sean Bell shooting where the majority of those killer cops were people of color. I have personally experienced harsher treatment by black police officers compared to their white counterparts. It isn’t all pervasive but it happens. If one can be trained to totally forget and forsake everything they are in order to “make it” in the world they live in then they have truly become one with a culture of insanity.
If European culture is insanity then at the fundamental level that humans define and perceive reality we, as Afrikans and people of color have a serious problem. If a cultural minority becomes the power majority and, this minority, through military, media, and religious might force the majority cultures to adopt it’s culture as their own, then insanity becomes the norm and is redefined as sanity. Accepting another’s reality as your reality makes their reality yours. If the global majority, are right then Europeans are wrong, how dare they stand in judgment?
Unfortunately as is the case with European cultural imperialism, if the insane can convince the sane that insanity is sanity, then the sane majority, become insane and insanity becomes universal and comes to be seen as sanity. Those individuals or groups that hold onto their original sanity become universally depicted as the truly insane (backward), and those who are carriers of the original insanity become universally depicted as the truly sane (modern). Indeed, Europeans are a minority. They currently represent less than ten percent of the world’s population and their numbers are steadily shrinking to an estimated 3% by 2073 – “The Cultural Continuum” Negroes and Other Essays by Mwalimu Baruti pg 39
The above quote discusses the process of mental colonization and how cancerous its spread can be. The quote also outlines the far reaching implications of this mental illness. Keeping in line with our theme of education or edited dictation from Journey 7 of Brothers Perspective the two main ways this culture of insanity was developed and then utilized on the unsuspecting citizenry was through religion and education and as we will see below politics.
Legislation is a piece of paper it takes more than paper to change the minds and paradigm of a nation. This is why the apartheid of Jim Crow was instated after Africans were so called freed by President Lincoln. The theory of race and the dynamics set forth in the legal and religious sanctioned terrorism and murder of blacks could not be abated simply by Lincoln “setting us free”. In order for there not to be a revolt by those white Americans who thought it their religious and civic duty to lynch blacks Jim Crow became the new law and order. To create a false atmosphere of seeming political change while embracing an ideology of continued psychological comfort of the vast racist populace of the United States so they could still hold on to and openly express their racist, violent beliefs. While blacks would still effectively have to “stay in their place” Jim Crow was the next logical step to avoid racial anarchy. Despite this truth we were and still are taught to see our kidnappers and former slave masters as our beneficent civilizers, spiritual saviors.
Though our traditional African societies were older and far more advanced than anything an ancient or pre-colonial European could have conceived of whether that was pre-colonial Africa or ancient Africa. In truth African Americans and whites in all honesty should have diametrically opposed views of the founding fathers because of the roles they played in the lives of the different groups that inhabit the country of the America. Does that diminish our allegiance to the country in which we live? No, simply because our survival is intrinsically tied to the survival of America. It diminishes our allegiance to psychologically crippling untruths that dominate the culture and wider educational system of the United States. It also diminishes our allegiance to the aspects of American life that adversely affect us as a race and keep us perpetually subjugated.
The reason our survival is tied to the survival of America is because we have not made the necessary connections, and in roads economically and politically with our African brethren in other parts of the world to create an economic, political and cultural situation of mutual benefit for Africans and African Americans and African Caribbeans independent of the European and European American machine. That was one of the most important lessons of Garvey’s UNIA platform through his Black Star Line and other programs this is what he tried to attain, a Pan African network of cross cultural, political, economic and trade exchange that would exclusively benefit people of African descent and give us freedom from the yolk of our oppressors. Malcolm X eventually came to the same understanding before he was assassinated. What we needed was a Black Wall street model applied on a global scale. Something other ethnic and racial groups have done from time immemorial.
Honesty can foster unity where lies foster pain, anger and dissention. Unity is not the intent of American society because to foster unity the system as it presently exists cannot exist. We would have to quite literally destroy it and rebuild it from the ground up because the foundations were built on glass. In other words American culture is a culture of insanity because it was founded on murder, genocide, forced kidnapping, enslavement, and the illegal appropriation of land that was never theirs. Yet none of us are to ever speak or acknowledge this history otherwise we are considered un-American. This false sense of amnesia in regards to how America came to be is one of a few things at the foundation of the issue. That is exactly what they did with the Bible Africans were NEVER to question that God put Europeans on Earth to dominate all other indigenous peoples all over the world. The first thing Europeans and Arabs did upon their arrival and conquest of indigenous people is to usurp their concept of the creator as we will see later in this essay.
For Native Americans the founding fathers are genocidal maniacal thieves and pillagers, For Africans they are kidnapping, mass murderous, genocidal slave drivers and thieves and for Europeans they are the frontiersmen and explorers, the genesis of a new way of life for those of their people under tyranny of British hegemony. The founding fathers are the ones who gave them a new land to exploit and colonize for their own benefit, political sovereignty and global expansion. This is why whites are able to selectively forget their atrocities and celebrate their colonization of this land as a form of patriotism. These differences in perspective from an accurate rendering of history are what a curriculum of inclusion would show for all to understand. But we are all trained by “formal instruction and supervised practice” to see these men through the same lying rose colored lenses. It is this lack of truth that makes race the pink elephant it is in our culture. Everyone acts like it is not there but its’ effects are felt and perpetuated ad infinitum though the clandestine institutionalized forms in which racism rears it’s ugly head because racism is not only about race it is more about acquisition of power.
As the two illustrious ancestors Malcolm X and his good friend the late great Dr John Henrik Clark said “Only the slave can truly set themselves free.” Dr Clarke said it even better in his book: Notes for an African Revolution: Africans at the Crossroads and I quote: “Powerful people never educate the victims of their powering how to take their
power away from them….the ideology of our former slave masters cannot save us. We will not truly be liberated until we are the instruments of our own liberation.”
A slave master doesn’t have the capacity to free the slave because the slave master can only see freedom from the perspective of the dominant group. A former slave must define freedom for him or herself and take that freedom or have control over the process like the Maroons of Jamaica for example otherwise they are NOT truly free. The dominant group’s freedom will always be a place above his former subjects. That is why there is the visceral opposition to reparations for African Americans to make even a 500 year head start white Americans have had in the game of life in America. Yet the Jewish community, Japanese Americans placed in concentration camps in America, and even Native Americans have all received some form of reparations for their own respective holocausts. When asked statistically most white Americans feel African Americans do not deserve reparations though they have the longest running most oppressed history of any of the other citizens of this country sans the Native Americans. That is the psychological conditioning of oppression from the oppressor’s perspective. Thus the form of freedom he gives to his former property will always be to his benefit, which is the case for African Americans.
Racism was and remains Europe’s most valuable export in terms of their ability to take and control the majority of the world’s resources. Even the victims of it are tainted by its cancerous plague like spread. Its’ maintenance is essential for their privilege and wealth to be maintained in the places they ruled in person or now rule as a long distance puppet masters. In order to truly understand the minds and the behavior of the oppressed one must study the oppressor. Once one understands their (the oppressors) psyche and the motivating factors of their treatment of others, then the victim can analyze what is wrong with his own mind and exorcise the sinister domestication of his mind. Without their own understanding of their own circumstances and how they got there, this ignorance can propel them towards participating in activities that are not in their own best interest.
Racism [is] discrimination by a group against another for the purposes of subjugation or maintaining subjugation. In other words one cannot be racist without the power to subjugate.
Racism is a European manufacture. They planted it and cultivated it everywhere they went. It is a tool of white supremacy that elevates Europeans and creates oppression and antagonistic infighting among the remaining disempowered population. They are global trespassers; it has become a universal phenomenon. They were its’ sole and remain its’ primary carriers. Racism continues to be replicated wherever they “discover” new untamed frontiers and “uncivilized” peoples. It remains where they have physically departed but have remained absentee resources controllers. – Racism, Colorism, and Power by Mwalimu Baruti
Police are needed to police foundationally corrupt communities in foundationally corrupt countries. The interdependence of the world and all that takes place in it tells us that if something is wrong with the head (government) then something will be wrong with the body (the states, towns, cities, families and individuals). One can tell the civility of a group by their lifestyle and, culture and even vocabulary. The extensive and all pervasive humane and genuinely spiritual people Africans were, is expressed in the ancient and pre-colonial records from Strabo to Count Volney, Diodorus Sicilus to Homer:
Traditionally African society was so remarkably nonviolent and crime-free that there was not even a West African word for “jail”. Indeed, this peace and general harmony of African societies amazed and awed early European and Arab travelers to the Sahara.
Africans built a number of civilizations lasting over 100 years without a network of jails and without a word in their vocabulary that meant “jail”. – (excerpt from Mwalimu Baruti’s essay The Cultural Continuum
The above is saying that historically in West Africa there were no such things as prisons because the society was inherently morally conscious and harmonious and universally so. The phenomena the prison industrial complex and even the word for jail came with Europeans and Arab invaders and conquerors. Their plans are apparent in their actions. As the prison, historical and educational records show. They (Europeans) originally made education illegal and punishable by death in order to keep Africans docile and subservient. Nat Turner was one perfect example of many of what an ability to read would do to the mind of Africans wanting freedom from slavery and terrorism. Christianity was not a religion of cheek turning non violent people. He used it’s tenets a revolutionary force that drove him to strive for change. I believe Christianity was a tool, the instrument of his awakening. For Nat Turner I think freedom was his true religion.
Thinking that one’s former slave master will truly give them the education they need is like letting a fox guard a hen house. Sadly too many people of African descent choose to play a secondary role if any role at all in their child’s education and as a result they lose their children to death or the system long before they even know something is wrong. Those of us African Americans that are suffering the worst, tend to take the least interest in using education to their benefit or at least supporting the education of their children. Or if they do have a vested interest they don’t have adequate time because of financial issues to be there for their children. Charlie Reese again sums it up best in regards to the connections between education and economic independence. It is exactly what is happening today.
“Just as a truly educated person is difficult to control, so too is an economically independent person. Therefore, you want to create conditions that will produce people who work for wages, since wage earners have little control over their economic destiny. You’ll also want to control the monetary, credit, and banking systems. This will allow you to inflate the currency and make it next to impossible for wage earners to accumulate capital. You can also cause periodic deflation to collapse the family businesses, family farms, and entrepreneurs, including independent community banks.
To keep trade unions under control, you just promote a scheme that allows you to shift production jobs out of the country and bring back the products as imports (it is called free trade). This way you will end up with no unions or docile unions.
Another technique is to buy both political parties so that after a while people will feel that no matter whether they vote for Candidate A or Candidate B, they will get the same policies. This will create great apathy and a belief that the political process is useless for effecting real change” – Charlie Reese
BROTHERS PERSPECTIVE
All the things outlined above directly affect the poverty stricken people of America, especially poor African Americans. We are demoralized and lack motivation to seek change because of our own unacknowledged experience in this country and our complacency towards and fear of a mental revolution.
Non Domesticated Thinkers:
“Those individuals or groups that hold onto their original sanity become universally depicted as the truly insane (backward), and those who are carriers of the original insanity become universally depicted as the truly sane (modern).” – Mwalimu Baruti
During the enslavement of Africans the slave master would make an example of the strongest and most rebellious slave in order to keep the masses of slaves docile by fear. In other words “If you act up and fight for your human rights you’ll be lynched like him.” That was the purpose of public lynching and castration and other forms of domestic terrorism performed on African Americans. If we can’t domesticate or educate you to be what we want you to be then you are worth nothing to us and are therefore expendable.
This form of psychological warfare was perfected as far back as Roman times and earlier. Romans had ingenious ways of killing the undesirable especially in a public spectacle of fanfare. Things like Crucifixion, The Iron Bull, and other forms of grotesque killing was used to keep the Roman populace in line with their Kings political agendas without any public opinion to the contrary being voiced. This same sort of public mass murderous spectacle was the strongest technique used for the psychological domestication of black people. They continued to do it through out history by killing off or imprisoning our leaders. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King were two of the most celebrated of our more recently publicly murdered strong black leaders.
Those who are truly educated enough not to fall victim to traps set by our consumer culture, or at the least are not lulled into complacency by it or they defy their own continued exploitation by a system that uses institutionalized racism in a subversively and deceptively covert fashion they put one in their place using the police officer. Law enforcement plays the same role in urban communities that the overseer played on plantations. Their role was organized terrorism and psychological conditioning through fear of the unknown. Africans in America always sat wondering, what was the next heinous act that they would experience at the hands of those who were supposed to be ensuring law and order? The Police officer in my opinion is really a policy overseer: they see that policy as set by politicians and local government no matter how oppressive or progressive are adhered to by any means necessary including brute force. The police force is an urban militia, the first line of defense to enforce laws on society. If the law enforcement can’t do the job then they call in reinforcements like the C.I.A., F.B.I. the National Guard etc.
The police force was used in the 60’s to legally and forcefully keep blacks in their place because of their race. This is how a culture of insanity manifests itself. Use force to get converts and once everyone is psychologically trained by that brute force to follow your lead you no longer need to use force. This is identical to the Pavlov experiments where dogs were trained by Pavlov and other scientists. Every time they fed the dogs they rang a bell. This was done over an extended period of time. The training was so effective that every time a bell was rung in the dog’s presence they would automatically salivate expecting to be fed, even when there was no food present. This is what was done to Africans. They were so well trained to stay in their second class position in society by 500 years of physical and psychological conditioning that now they do so of their own volition. But, every so often when those in control believe we have forgotten our place the police kill a young black male or two to remind us.
This system of peaceful coercion sometimes called domestication or physical brutality sometimes called policing is all geared towards making one think and act the way the dominant group wants one to think or act. Even ones perception of morality is dictated by the dominant group in society. At one time in America to murder and terrorize people of color was normal and enforced by law and religious sanction for hundreds of years. Whites were educated to be the dominant group who had the ability to use all force necessary to enforce their dominance. Blacks on the other hand were educated to believe they were inferior, sub-humans saved by the conquest of and subdued by the superior being, the white man who was ordained by God to be our owners.
Religion was the first tool of domestication used by European powers in taking control of the minds, land and resources of people of color. This letter written by King Leopold II is what I believe to be the true documented Willie Lynch letter:
Letter from King Leopold II of Belgium to Colonial Missionaries, 1883
The letter which follows is Courtesy of Dr. Vera Nobles and Dr. Chiedozie Okoro.
“Reverends, Fathers and Dear Compatriots: The task that is given to fulfill is very delicate and requires much tact. You will go certainly to evangelize, but your evangelization must inspire above all Belgium interests. Your principal objective in our mission in the Congo is never to teach the niggers to know God, this they know already. They speak and submit to a Mungu, one Nzambi, one Nzakomba, and what else I don’t know. They know that to kill, to sleep with someone else’s wife, to lie and to insult is bad. Have courage to admit it; you are not going to teach them what they know already. Your essential role is to facilitate the task of administrators and industrials, which means you will go to interpret the gospel in the way it will be the best to protect your interests in that part of the world. For these things, you have to keep watch on disinteresting our savages from the richness that is plenty [in their underground. To avoid that, they get interested in it, and make you murderous] competition and dream one day to overthrow you.
Your knowledge of the gospel will allow you to find texts ordering, and encouraging your followers to love poverty, like “Happier are the poor because they will inherit the heaven” and, “It’s very difficult for the rich to enter the kingdom of God.” You have to detach from them and make them disrespect everything which gives courage to affront us. I make reference to their Mystic System and their war fetish-warfare protection-which they pretend not to want to abandon, and you must do everything in your power to make it disappear.
Your action will be directed essentially to the younger ones, for they won’t revolt when the recommendation of the priest is contradictory to their parent’s teachings. The children have to learn to obey what the missionary recommends, who is the father of their soul. You must singularly insist on their total submission and obedience, avoid developing the spirit in the schools, teach students to read and not to reason. There, dear patriots, are some of the principles that you must apply. You will find many other books, which will be given to you at the end of this conference. Evangelize the niggers so that they stay forever in submission to the white colonialists, so they never revolt against the restraints they are undergoing. Recite every day-“Happy are those who are weeping because the kingdom of God is for them.”
Convert always the blacks by using the whip. Keep their women in nine months of submission to work freely for us. Force them to pay you in sign of recognition-goats, chicken or eggs-every time you visit their villages. And make sure that niggers never become rich. Sing every day that it’s impossible for the rich to enter heaven. Make them pay tax each week at Sunday mass. Use the money supposed for the poor, to build flourishing business centres. Institute a confessional system, which allows you to be good detectives denouncing any black that has a different consciousness contrary to that of the decision-maker. Teach the niggers to forget their heroes and to adore only ours. Never present a chair to a black that comes to visit you. Don’t give him more than one cigarette. Never invite him for dinner even if he gives you a chicken every time you arrive at his house.
“The above speech which shows the real intention of the Christian missionary journey in Africa was exposed to the world by Mr. Moukouani Muikwani Bukoko, born in the Congo in 1915, and who in 1935 while working in the Congo, bought a second hand Bible from a Belgian priest who forgot the speech in the Bible. — Dr. Chiedozie Okoro
We should note:
1] that all missionaries carried out, and still carry out, that mandate. We are only lucky to have found King Leopold’s articulation of the aim of all Christian imperialist missionaries to Africa.
2] Even the African converts who today manage the older churches in Africa (the priests, bishops, Archbishops, Cardinals etc of the Roman and Protestant sects), and especially also those who evangelize Born-Again Christianity, still serve the same mandate. Which is why they demonize African gods and Anglicize African names, and drop the names of African deities which form part of African names; and still attack and demolish the African shrines that have managed to survive, e.g. Okija.
The second note above says that modern African clergy are now doing the job for the missionaries until this very day. It is unnerving to say the least how complete the conversion of some of our people has been. The sane have truly embraced insanity (modernity) to the detriment of their and their people’s future.
In studying the role entertainment can play in the colonization of the mind, we went from the Civil Rights Movement and Black Liberation Era of the 1960’s, almost immediately after their start the F.B.I., the C.I.A. and COINTELPRO successfully neutralized all concerted forms of organized struggle by blacks. This began the use of the medium of entertainment to usher in the Blaxploitation Era of the 1970’s. Super Fly, Black Ceasar, Hell Up In Harlem and other big budget films helped to shift the paradigm of African American thought from liberation to subjugation of their own communities through crime for financial success. To thoroughly crush any semblance of our ancestral memory of struggle the C.I.A in Los Angeles and the NYPD and other law enforcement branches across the country then infiltrated communities of color and urban communities with drugs via the Crack Era of the 1980’s and 1990’s. Movies like Scarface had an immense impact on the psyche of inner city youth especially impoverished African Americans. Documentaries like Scarface for Life and The Larry Davis Story by Troy Reed, Gangland on the History Channel and American Gangster on BET as well as Bastards of the Party by Cle “Bone” Sloan and Cocaine Cowboys documentary all speak of the impact of the organized effort made by different branches of law enforcement to bring drugs into inner city communities which served to psychologically anesthetize an already and damaged oppressed people and fragment their family structure with irreparable damage. The overwhelming role movies like Scarface had in changing the psychological landscape of African American thought from communal survival and upward mobility through education to a false sense of success through criminal activities glorified in cinema which took its cue from American History and current state of American Society at the time. The precedent for success set by these films and the societal landscape rife with corruption from federal government to local government and law enforcement created an atmosphere of embracing and mirroring the terrorism inflicted on us by our enemies under the auspices of trying to find a way out the hell of inner city life with self preservation being the primary focus of ones goals, rather than the preservation of the community. We went from a communal group consciousness to embracing the Europeanized solely individualized consciousness we still follow today. This is the same mentality that gives one the drive to sell drugs, and other detrimental practices and morally justify it in our minds. If that isn’t embracing a culture of insanity I don’t know what is.
In Conclusion
The fact that a prison term basically legally can make a slave out of you is as outlined in the 13th amendment this excerpt brings this truth home:
The United States Constitution Permits Prison Slavery and Involuntary Servitude
AMENDMENT XIII - SECTION 1.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Prison by definition as codified in the thirteenth amendment of the United States Constitution can hold people in slavery and involuntary servitude. Prison labor is slave labor at worst and coerced cooperation at best. It is a growing phenomenon in the prison industrial complex.
Angela Davis Professor at University of California sums it up like this:
As prisons take up more and more space on the social landscape, other government programs that have previously sought to respond to social needs -- such as Temporary Assistance to Needy Families -- are being squeezed out of existence. The deterioration of public education, including prioritizing discipline and security over learning in public schools located in poor communities, is directly related to the prison “solution.”
Like Dr John Henrik Clarke once said on Like It Is with Gil Noble “The educational system as it is today is geared towards educating people of African descent to accept their own re-enslavement.” The re-enslavement he was speaking of was the prison industrial complex. Our lack of control over not only the education we receive but the quality of that education is what sets African Americans up for failure. Besides this our lack of autonomy in our own communities does the same. Most African Americans do not own the businesses in their neighborhoods so they are subject to the whims of the racist white majority in terms of making a way in America. If we owned our own businesses in our own communities it would serve as a buffer to our children since they would be interviewing with and working for people who are successful and look like them as well as live along side them and understand their struggle. Instead we send them to be taught by our enemies, to be given an inferior education and prepare to have to doctor their identity or sacrifice their identity all together and lose their cultural perspective to fit in a white world that doesn’t want them to begin with unless it can exploit them.
This failure leaves these people few positive choices for their own survival thus leading them to the self destructive path. Once on the self destructive path it becomes a revolving door of incarceration for the now criminalized victim. These are the things we must grapple with if we are to truly liberate our children from the fetters of inferior self knowledge which has a direct correlation to the incarceration rate which is as we have seen is the new slavery. In a culture of insanity one who adheres to the system blindly will always fall victim to it.
Sources:
Education or Edited Dictation by Khalif Williams
How to Control People by Charlie Reese
Notes for an African Revolution by Dr John H. Clarke
Negroes and Other Essays by Mwalimu Baruti
The Destruction of Black Civilization by Dr Chancellor Williams
The Trouble with Africa’s Political Development by Chinweizu
Angela Davis excerpt borrowed from Third World Traveler.com (http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Prison_System/Masked_Racism_ADavis.html)
Section from US Constitution borrowed from: Borrowed from: http//www.engaged-zen.org/articles/Kobutsu-Investing_in_Slavery.html
An essay by Khalif Williams
a culture of insanity!
by Khalif Williams
“The most significant damage done to the African was the colonization of his mind.” – Dr John Henrik Clarke on ABC’s Like It Is with Gil Noble. This statement made by the late great Dr Clarke expresses the root core of the dilemma of people of African descent. The only way to reclaim the aspects of our humanity stolen, trampled upon and utterly stripped from us by our oppressors we must understand the mind and psychology of those who do the oppressing. It is in this understanding that we can truly uncover not only what was has happened to our people, but it can also create an atmosphere of diagnosis and healing. From our healing and the restructuring of our paradigm a process of liberation can begin that cannot be thwarted by the machinations and manipulations of those who control our day to day existence. We can take an inventory of our successes and the mistakes we have made over the last 500 years of our interaction with our oppressors and our struggles for freedom in our respective places of residence both continental and in the Diaspora.
Europeans and Arabs as well have effectively commandeered the minds and psyches of their African subjects from the very beginning of their conquests and conquering of lands that didn’t belong to them. This colonization has created generations of fractured families, psychological conditions like Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, deadly skin bleaching epidemics, children made to feel so inferior that the only way of life they see in their future is one where they are striving to transform themselves physically into their enemies by surgery or other “beauty” alterations. Another expression of this mental illness is a concerted effort to exclusively date outside of their race to genetically alter the features and bleach the skin tone of their offspring to match more closely those they desire to be like, Europeans. They try to attain a beauty standard they will never reach but this beauty standard is the yardstick used by people all over the world simply because Europeans have colonized most of the known world and domesticated them to a Europeanized vision and version of reality.
Colonization has also created racist, cold blooded hateful human beings unable to see the humanity inherent in other people because they are blinded by the inflated ego of an altered history. They are tainted by the disease of hate and moral ambiguity in reference to the treatment of those they have been taught by clergy, teachers, political leaders, entertainers, scientists, employers, law enforcement, the media, and their parents and etc are subhuman. This culture of insanity hurts the oppressor no less acutely than the oppressed, but by virtue of their dominant position in society and racisms gangrenous effects they are unable to see it.
Europeans through their total control of education and their false retelling of history have created a race based history altered to make them look like the torch bearers of civilization and religious consciousness while effectively destroying and subverting the history, culture and religions of the indigenous people and people of color they have dominated for generations. Some of the different forms of mental illness created by this dilemma has been outlined by doctors like, Dr Francis Cress Welsing, Dr Joy De Gruy, Dr Marimba Ani, Dr Richard King, Dr Yosef Ben Jochannan and many more. The most acute way this illness rears its head is in the intra-racial expression of violence and rogue criminal terrorism displayed by one member of the oppressed group towards another. Dr de Gruy has discussed the phenomena of oppressed people who tend to adopt a most violent posture towards their own people overwhelmingly more than they do the people that are the cause of their suffering. Some oppressed people tend to readily degrade themselves and their
people as backwards while striving to emulate every behavioral attribute including the disdain for their own people expressed by their enemies. A good example of this was the Sean Bell shooting where the majority of those killer cops were people of color. I have personally experienced harsher treatment by black police officers compared to their white counterparts. It isn’t all pervasive but it happens. If one can be trained to totally forget and forsake everything they are in order to “make it” in the world they live in then they have truly become one with a culture of insanity.
If European culture is insanity then at the fundamental level that humans define and perceive reality we, as Afrikans and people of color have a serious problem. If a cultural minority becomes the power majority and, this minority, through military, media, and religious might force the majority cultures to adopt it’s culture as their own, then insanity becomes the norm and is redefined as sanity. Accepting another’s reality as your reality makes their reality yours. If the global majority, are right then Europeans are wrong, how dare they stand in judgment?
Unfortunately as is the case with European cultural imperialism, if the insane can convince the sane that insanity is sanity, then the sane majority, become insane and insanity becomes universal and comes to be seen as sanity. Those individuals or groups that hold onto their original sanity become universally depicted as the truly insane (backward), and those who are carriers of the original insanity become universally depicted as the truly sane (modern). Indeed, Europeans are a minority. They currently represent less than ten percent of the world’s population and their numbers are steadily shrinking to an estimated 3% by 2073 – “The Cultural Continuum” Negroes and Other Essays by Mwalimu Baruti pg 39
The above quote discusses the process of mental colonization and how cancerous its spread can be. The quote also outlines the far reaching implications of this mental illness. Keeping in line with our theme of education or edited dictation from Journey 7 of Brothers Perspective the two main ways this culture of insanity was developed and then utilized on the unsuspecting citizenry was through religion and education and as we will see below politics.
Legislation is a piece of paper it takes more than paper to change the minds and paradigm of a nation. This is why the apartheid of Jim Crow was instated after Africans were so called freed by President Lincoln. The theory of race and the dynamics set forth in the legal and religious sanctioned terrorism and murder of blacks could not be abated simply by Lincoln “setting us free”. In order for there not to be a revolt by those white Americans who thought it their religious and civic duty to lynch blacks Jim Crow became the new law and order. To create a false atmosphere of seeming political change while embracing an ideology of continued psychological comfort of the vast racist populace of the United States so they could still hold on to and openly express their racist, violent beliefs. While blacks would still effectively have to “stay in their place” Jim Crow was the next logical step to avoid racial anarchy. Despite this truth we were and still are taught to see our kidnappers and former slave masters as our beneficent civilizers, spiritual saviors.
Though our traditional African societies were older and far more advanced than anything an ancient or pre-colonial European could have conceived of whether that was pre-colonial Africa or ancient Africa. In truth African Americans and whites in all honesty should have diametrically opposed views of the founding fathers because of the roles they played in the lives of the different groups that inhabit the country of the America. Does that diminish our allegiance to the country in which we live? No, simply because our survival is intrinsically tied to the survival of America. It diminishes our allegiance to psychologically crippling untruths that dominate the culture and wider educational system of the United States. It also diminishes our allegiance to the aspects of American life that adversely affect us as a race and keep us perpetually subjugated.
The reason our survival is tied to the survival of America is because we have not made the necessary connections, and in roads economically and politically with our African brethren in other parts of the world to create an economic, political and cultural situation of mutual benefit for Africans and African Americans and African Caribbeans independent of the European and European American machine. That was one of the most important lessons of Garvey’s UNIA platform through his Black Star Line and other programs this is what he tried to attain, a Pan African network of cross cultural, political, economic and trade exchange that would exclusively benefit people of African descent and give us freedom from the yolk of our oppressors. Malcolm X eventually came to the same understanding before he was assassinated. What we needed was a Black Wall street model applied on a global scale. Something other ethnic and racial groups have done from time immemorial.
Honesty can foster unity where lies foster pain, anger and dissention. Unity is not the intent of American society because to foster unity the system as it presently exists cannot exist. We would have to quite literally destroy it and rebuild it from the ground up because the foundations were built on glass. In other words American culture is a culture of insanity because it was founded on murder, genocide, forced kidnapping, enslavement, and the illegal appropriation of land that was never theirs. Yet none of us are to ever speak or acknowledge this history otherwise we are considered un-American. This false sense of amnesia in regards to how America came to be is one of a few things at the foundation of the issue. That is exactly what they did with the Bible Africans were NEVER to question that God put Europeans on Earth to dominate all other indigenous peoples all over the world. The first thing Europeans and Arabs did upon their arrival and conquest of indigenous people is to usurp their concept of the creator as we will see later in this essay.
For Native Americans the founding fathers are genocidal maniacal thieves and pillagers, For Africans they are kidnapping, mass murderous, genocidal slave drivers and thieves and for Europeans they are the frontiersmen and explorers, the genesis of a new way of life for those of their people under tyranny of British hegemony. The founding fathers are the ones who gave them a new land to exploit and colonize for their own benefit, political sovereignty and global expansion. This is why whites are able to selectively forget their atrocities and celebrate their colonization of this land as a form of patriotism. These differences in perspective from an accurate rendering of history are what a curriculum of inclusion would show for all to understand. But we are all trained by “formal instruction and supervised practice” to see these men through the same lying rose colored lenses. It is this lack of truth that makes race the pink elephant it is in our culture. Everyone acts like it is not there but its’ effects are felt and perpetuated ad infinitum though the clandestine institutionalized forms in which racism rears it’s ugly head because racism is not only about race it is more about acquisition of power.
As the two illustrious ancestors Malcolm X and his good friend the late great Dr John Henrik Clark said “Only the slave can truly set themselves free.” Dr Clarke said it even better in his book: Notes for an African Revolution: Africans at the Crossroads and I quote: “Powerful people never educate the victims of their powering how to take their
power away from them….the ideology of our former slave masters cannot save us. We will not truly be liberated until we are the instruments of our own liberation.”
A slave master doesn’t have the capacity to free the slave because the slave master can only see freedom from the perspective of the dominant group. A former slave must define freedom for him or herself and take that freedom or have control over the process like the Maroons of Jamaica for example otherwise they are NOT truly free. The dominant group’s freedom will always be a place above his former subjects. That is why there is the visceral opposition to reparations for African Americans to make even a 500 year head start white Americans have had in the game of life in America. Yet the Jewish community, Japanese Americans placed in concentration camps in America, and even Native Americans have all received some form of reparations for their own respective holocausts. When asked statistically most white Americans feel African Americans do not deserve reparations though they have the longest running most oppressed history of any of the other citizens of this country sans the Native Americans. That is the psychological conditioning of oppression from the oppressor’s perspective. Thus the form of freedom he gives to his former property will always be to his benefit, which is the case for African Americans.
Racism was and remains Europe’s most valuable export in terms of their ability to take and control the majority of the world’s resources. Even the victims of it are tainted by its cancerous plague like spread. Its’ maintenance is essential for their privilege and wealth to be maintained in the places they ruled in person or now rule as a long distance puppet masters. In order to truly understand the minds and the behavior of the oppressed one must study the oppressor. Once one understands their (the oppressors) psyche and the motivating factors of their treatment of others, then the victim can analyze what is wrong with his own mind and exorcise the sinister domestication of his mind. Without their own understanding of their own circumstances and how they got there, this ignorance can propel them towards participating in activities that are not in their own best interest.
Racism [is] discrimination by a group against another for the purposes of subjugation or maintaining subjugation. In other words one cannot be racist without the power to subjugate.
Racism is a European manufacture. They planted it and cultivated it everywhere they went. It is a tool of white supremacy that elevates Europeans and creates oppression and antagonistic infighting among the remaining disempowered population. They are global trespassers; it has become a universal phenomenon. They were its’ sole and remain its’ primary carriers. Racism continues to be replicated wherever they “discover” new untamed frontiers and “uncivilized” peoples. It remains where they have physically departed but have remained absentee resources controllers. – Racism, Colorism, and Power by Mwalimu Baruti
Police are needed to police foundationally corrupt communities in foundationally corrupt countries. The interdependence of the world and all that takes place in it tells us that if something is wrong with the head (government) then something will be wrong with the body (the states, towns, cities, families and individuals). One can tell the civility of a group by their lifestyle and, culture and even vocabulary. The extensive and all pervasive humane and genuinely spiritual people Africans were, is expressed in the ancient and pre-colonial records from Strabo to Count Volney, Diodorus Sicilus to Homer:
Traditionally African society was so remarkably nonviolent and crime-free that there was not even a West African word for “jail”. Indeed, this peace and general harmony of African societies amazed and awed early European and Arab travelers to the Sahara.
Africans built a number of civilizations lasting over 100 years without a network of jails and without a word in their vocabulary that meant “jail”. – (excerpt from Mwalimu Baruti’s essay The Cultural Continuum
The above is saying that historically in West Africa there were no such things as prisons because the society was inherently morally conscious and harmonious and universally so. The phenomena the prison industrial complex and even the word for jail came with Europeans and Arab invaders and conquerors. Their plans are apparent in their actions. As the prison, historical and educational records show. They (Europeans) originally made education illegal and punishable by death in order to keep Africans docile and subservient. Nat Turner was one perfect example of many of what an ability to read would do to the mind of Africans wanting freedom from slavery and terrorism. Christianity was not a religion of cheek turning non violent people. He used it’s tenets a revolutionary force that drove him to strive for change. I believe Christianity was a tool, the instrument of his awakening. For Nat Turner I think freedom was his true religion.
Thinking that one’s former slave master will truly give them the education they need is like letting a fox guard a hen house. Sadly too many people of African descent choose to play a secondary role if any role at all in their child’s education and as a result they lose their children to death or the system long before they even know something is wrong. Those of us African Americans that are suffering the worst, tend to take the least interest in using education to their benefit or at least supporting the education of their children. Or if they do have a vested interest they don’t have adequate time because of financial issues to be there for their children. Charlie Reese again sums it up best in regards to the connections between education and economic independence. It is exactly what is happening today.
“Just as a truly educated person is difficult to control, so too is an economically independent person. Therefore, you want to create conditions that will produce people who work for wages, since wage earners have little control over their economic destiny. You’ll also want to control the monetary, credit, and banking systems. This will allow you to inflate the currency and make it next to impossible for wage earners to accumulate capital. You can also cause periodic deflation to collapse the family businesses, family farms, and entrepreneurs, including independent community banks.
To keep trade unions under control, you just promote a scheme that allows you to shift production jobs out of the country and bring back the products as imports (it is called free trade). This way you will end up with no unions or docile unions.
Another technique is to buy both political parties so that after a while people will feel that no matter whether they vote for Candidate A or Candidate B, they will get the same policies. This will create great apathy and a belief that the political process is useless for effecting real change” – Charlie Reese
BROTHERS PERSPECTIVE
All the things outlined above directly affect the poverty stricken people of America, especially poor African Americans. We are demoralized and lack motivation to seek change because of our own unacknowledged experience in this country and our complacency towards and fear of a mental revolution.
Non Domesticated Thinkers:
“Those individuals or groups that hold onto their original sanity become universally depicted as the truly insane (backward), and those who are carriers of the original insanity become universally depicted as the truly sane (modern).” – Mwalimu Baruti
During the enslavement of Africans the slave master would make an example of the strongest and most rebellious slave in order to keep the masses of slaves docile by fear. In other words “If you act up and fight for your human rights you’ll be lynched like him.” That was the purpose of public lynching and castration and other forms of domestic terrorism performed on African Americans. If we can’t domesticate or educate you to be what we want you to be then you are worth nothing to us and are therefore expendable.
This form of psychological warfare was perfected as far back as Roman times and earlier. Romans had ingenious ways of killing the undesirable especially in a public spectacle of fanfare. Things like Crucifixion, The Iron Bull, and other forms of grotesque killing was used to keep the Roman populace in line with their Kings political agendas without any public opinion to the contrary being voiced. This same sort of public mass murderous spectacle was the strongest technique used for the psychological domestication of black people. They continued to do it through out history by killing off or imprisoning our leaders. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King were two of the most celebrated of our more recently publicly murdered strong black leaders.
Those who are truly educated enough not to fall victim to traps set by our consumer culture, or at the least are not lulled into complacency by it or they defy their own continued exploitation by a system that uses institutionalized racism in a subversively and deceptively covert fashion they put one in their place using the police officer. Law enforcement plays the same role in urban communities that the overseer played on plantations. Their role was organized terrorism and psychological conditioning through fear of the unknown. Africans in America always sat wondering, what was the next heinous act that they would experience at the hands of those who were supposed to be ensuring law and order? The Police officer in my opinion is really a policy overseer: they see that policy as set by politicians and local government no matter how oppressive or progressive are adhered to by any means necessary including brute force. The police force is an urban militia, the first line of defense to enforce laws on society. If the law enforcement can’t do the job then they call in reinforcements like the C.I.A., F.B.I. the National Guard etc.
The police force was used in the 60’s to legally and forcefully keep blacks in their place because of their race. This is how a culture of insanity manifests itself. Use force to get converts and once everyone is psychologically trained by that brute force to follow your lead you no longer need to use force. This is identical to the Pavlov experiments where dogs were trained by Pavlov and other scientists. Every time they fed the dogs they rang a bell. This was done over an extended period of time. The training was so effective that every time a bell was rung in the dog’s presence they would automatically salivate expecting to be fed, even when there was no food present. This is what was done to Africans. They were so well trained to stay in their second class position in society by 500 years of physical and psychological conditioning that now they do so of their own volition. But, every so often when those in control believe we have forgotten our place the police kill a young black male or two to remind us.
This system of peaceful coercion sometimes called domestication or physical brutality sometimes called policing is all geared towards making one think and act the way the dominant group wants one to think or act. Even ones perception of morality is dictated by the dominant group in society. At one time in America to murder and terrorize people of color was normal and enforced by law and religious sanction for hundreds of years. Whites were educated to be the dominant group who had the ability to use all force necessary to enforce their dominance. Blacks on the other hand were educated to believe they were inferior, sub-humans saved by the conquest of and subdued by the superior being, the white man who was ordained by God to be our owners.
Religion was the first tool of domestication used by European powers in taking control of the minds, land and resources of people of color. This letter written by King Leopold II is what I believe to be the true documented Willie Lynch letter:
Letter from King Leopold II of Belgium to Colonial Missionaries, 1883
The letter which follows is Courtesy of Dr. Vera Nobles and Dr. Chiedozie Okoro.
“Reverends, Fathers and Dear Compatriots: The task that is given to fulfill is very delicate and requires much tact. You will go certainly to evangelize, but your evangelization must inspire above all Belgium interests. Your principal objective in our mission in the Congo is never to teach the niggers to know God, this they know already. They speak and submit to a Mungu, one Nzambi, one Nzakomba, and what else I don’t know. They know that to kill, to sleep with someone else’s wife, to lie and to insult is bad. Have courage to admit it; you are not going to teach them what they know already. Your essential role is to facilitate the task of administrators and industrials, which means you will go to interpret the gospel in the way it will be the best to protect your interests in that part of the world. For these things, you have to keep watch on disinteresting our savages from the richness that is plenty [in their underground. To avoid that, they get interested in it, and make you murderous] competition and dream one day to overthrow you.
Your knowledge of the gospel will allow you to find texts ordering, and encouraging your followers to love poverty, like “Happier are the poor because they will inherit the heaven” and, “It’s very difficult for the rich to enter the kingdom of God.” You have to detach from them and make them disrespect everything which gives courage to affront us. I make reference to their Mystic System and their war fetish-warfare protection-which they pretend not to want to abandon, and you must do everything in your power to make it disappear.
Your action will be directed essentially to the younger ones, for they won’t revolt when the recommendation of the priest is contradictory to their parent’s teachings. The children have to learn to obey what the missionary recommends, who is the father of their soul. You must singularly insist on their total submission and obedience, avoid developing the spirit in the schools, teach students to read and not to reason. There, dear patriots, are some of the principles that you must apply. You will find many other books, which will be given to you at the end of this conference. Evangelize the niggers so that they stay forever in submission to the white colonialists, so they never revolt against the restraints they are undergoing. Recite every day-“Happy are those who are weeping because the kingdom of God is for them.”
Convert always the blacks by using the whip. Keep their women in nine months of submission to work freely for us. Force them to pay you in sign of recognition-goats, chicken or eggs-every time you visit their villages. And make sure that niggers never become rich. Sing every day that it’s impossible for the rich to enter heaven. Make them pay tax each week at Sunday mass. Use the money supposed for the poor, to build flourishing business centres. Institute a confessional system, which allows you to be good detectives denouncing any black that has a different consciousness contrary to that of the decision-maker. Teach the niggers to forget their heroes and to adore only ours. Never present a chair to a black that comes to visit you. Don’t give him more than one cigarette. Never invite him for dinner even if he gives you a chicken every time you arrive at his house.
“The above speech which shows the real intention of the Christian missionary journey in Africa was exposed to the world by Mr. Moukouani Muikwani Bukoko, born in the Congo in 1915, and who in 1935 while working in the Congo, bought a second hand Bible from a Belgian priest who forgot the speech in the Bible. — Dr. Chiedozie Okoro
We should note:
1] that all missionaries carried out, and still carry out, that mandate. We are only lucky to have found King Leopold’s articulation of the aim of all Christian imperialist missionaries to Africa.
2] Even the African converts who today manage the older churches in Africa (the priests, bishops, Archbishops, Cardinals etc of the Roman and Protestant sects), and especially also those who evangelize Born-Again Christianity, still serve the same mandate. Which is why they demonize African gods and Anglicize African names, and drop the names of African deities which form part of African names; and still attack and demolish the African shrines that have managed to survive, e.g. Okija.
The second note above says that modern African clergy are now doing the job for the missionaries until this very day. It is unnerving to say the least how complete the conversion of some of our people has been. The sane have truly embraced insanity (modernity) to the detriment of their and their people’s future.
In studying the role entertainment can play in the colonization of the mind, we went from the Civil Rights Movement and Black Liberation Era of the 1960’s, almost immediately after their start the F.B.I., the C.I.A. and COINTELPRO successfully neutralized all concerted forms of organized struggle by blacks. This began the use of the medium of entertainment to usher in the Blaxploitation Era of the 1970’s. Super Fly, Black Ceasar, Hell Up In Harlem and other big budget films helped to shift the paradigm of African American thought from liberation to subjugation of their own communities through crime for financial success. To thoroughly crush any semblance of our ancestral memory of struggle the C.I.A in Los Angeles and the NYPD and other law enforcement branches across the country then infiltrated communities of color and urban communities with drugs via the Crack Era of the 1980’s and 1990’s. Movies like Scarface had an immense impact on the psyche of inner city youth especially impoverished African Americans. Documentaries like Scarface for Life and The Larry Davis Story by Troy Reed, Gangland on the History Channel and American Gangster on BET as well as Bastards of the Party by Cle “Bone” Sloan and Cocaine Cowboys documentary all speak of the impact of the organized effort made by different branches of law enforcement to bring drugs into inner city communities which served to psychologically anesthetize an already and damaged oppressed people and fragment their family structure with irreparable damage. The overwhelming role movies like Scarface had in changing the psychological landscape of African American thought from communal survival and upward mobility through education to a false sense of success through criminal activities glorified in cinema which took its cue from American History and current state of American Society at the time. The precedent for success set by these films and the societal landscape rife with corruption from federal government to local government and law enforcement created an atmosphere of embracing and mirroring the terrorism inflicted on us by our enemies under the auspices of trying to find a way out the hell of inner city life with self preservation being the primary focus of ones goals, rather than the preservation of the community. We went from a communal group consciousness to embracing the Europeanized solely individualized consciousness we still follow today. This is the same mentality that gives one the drive to sell drugs, and other detrimental practices and morally justify it in our minds. If that isn’t embracing a culture of insanity I don’t know what is.
In Conclusion
The fact that a prison term basically legally can make a slave out of you is as outlined in the 13th amendment this excerpt brings this truth home:
The United States Constitution Permits Prison Slavery and Involuntary Servitude
AMENDMENT XIII - SECTION 1.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Prison by definition as codified in the thirteenth amendment of the United States Constitution can hold people in slavery and involuntary servitude. Prison labor is slave labor at worst and coerced cooperation at best. It is a growing phenomenon in the prison industrial complex.
Angela Davis Professor at University of California sums it up like this:
As prisons take up more and more space on the social landscape, other government programs that have previously sought to respond to social needs -- such as Temporary Assistance to Needy Families -- are being squeezed out of existence. The deterioration of public education, including prioritizing discipline and security over learning in public schools located in poor communities, is directly related to the prison “solution.”
Like Dr John Henrik Clarke once said on Like It Is with Gil Noble “The educational system as it is today is geared towards educating people of African descent to accept their own re-enslavement.” The re-enslavement he was speaking of was the prison industrial complex. Our lack of control over not only the education we receive but the quality of that education is what sets African Americans up for failure. Besides this our lack of autonomy in our own communities does the same. Most African Americans do not own the businesses in their neighborhoods so they are subject to the whims of the racist white majority in terms of making a way in America. If we owned our own businesses in our own communities it would serve as a buffer to our children since they would be interviewing with and working for people who are successful and look like them as well as live along side them and understand their struggle. Instead we send them to be taught by our enemies, to be given an inferior education and prepare to have to doctor their identity or sacrifice their identity all together and lose their cultural perspective to fit in a white world that doesn’t want them to begin with unless it can exploit them.
This failure leaves these people few positive choices for their own survival thus leading them to the self destructive path. Once on the self destructive path it becomes a revolving door of incarceration for the now criminalized victim. These are the things we must grapple with if we are to truly liberate our children from the fetters of inferior self knowledge which has a direct correlation to the incarceration rate which is as we have seen is the new slavery. In a culture of insanity one who adheres to the system blindly will always fall victim to it.
Sources:
Education or Edited Dictation by Khalif Williams
How to Control People by Charlie Reese
Notes for an African Revolution by Dr John H. Clarke
Negroes and Other Essays by Mwalimu Baruti
The Destruction of Black Civilization by Dr Chancellor Williams
The Trouble with Africa’s Political Development by Chinweizu
Angela Davis excerpt borrowed from Third World Traveler.com (http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Prison_System/Masked_Racism_ADavis.html)
Section from US Constitution borrowed from: Borrowed from: http//www.engaged-zen.org/articles/Kobutsu-Investing_in_Slavery.html
An essay by Khalif Williams
Senate Passes Apology For Slavery
This article is a month old but I came across it in my research.
Senate Passes Apology For Slavery And Segregation
By Associated Press June 18, 2009 3:02 pm
The Senate has unanimously passed a resolution apologizing for slavery and racial segregation and sent the measure to the House.
Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin first introduced the measure years ago but wanted it passed Thursday on the eve of Juneteenth - a day of celebration commemorating the end of the Civil War and the release of African Americans from slavery. He said the House is to take it up soon and that a formal celebration will be held next month in the Capitol Rotunda.
The Senate has passed such nonbinding but highly symbolic resolutions before, apologizing for such things as the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
The resolution passed Thursday includes a disclaimer saying that nothing in it supports or authorizes reparations by the United States.
SLAVERY IN THE WHITE HOUSE
Jamestown, 1619 The first slaves brought to Virginia
Senate Passes Apology For Slavery And Segregation
By Associated Press June 18, 2009 3:02 pm
The Senate has unanimously passed a resolution apologizing for slavery and racial segregation and sent the measure to the House.
Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin first introduced the measure years ago but wanted it passed Thursday on the eve of Juneteenth - a day of celebration commemorating the end of the Civil War and the release of African Americans from slavery. He said the House is to take it up soon and that a formal celebration will be held next month in the Capitol Rotunda.
The Senate has passed such nonbinding but highly symbolic resolutions before, apologizing for such things as the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
The resolution passed Thursday includes a disclaimer saying that nothing in it supports or authorizes reparations by the United States.
SLAVERY IN THE WHITE HOUSE
Jamestown, 1619 The first slaves brought to Virginia
Slave Revolt Affirmation
Africa people,
african american,
African consciousness,
african people,
black consciousness,
Black History,
black issues,
black people,
black unity,
dr llaila afrika,
the galla,
the gullah
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During slavery/colonialism, the Africans on the Continent and Diaspora (i.e., Gullah) would secretly meet in the bush or cabins to tell African folktales and/or perform Maatian (Theme of justice, harmony, reciprocity, etc.) rituals and ceremonies. They would organize military counterattacks (rebellions) against the European. Many chants of encouragement and positive affirmations were recited in order to keep the spirit of freedom, statesmanship, and military consciousness alive. The militant slave men, women, and children understood that without a military to protect them and attack their European (American Whites) as enemies, freedom cannot and will not exist.
The following are a few examples of affirmations.
Du Free-dum Freedom is ours
E knot de tongue I promise
Du Free-dum Freedom is ours
Fuhr ride de buckra frame To fight the Whites
Uh tek back de tief um And, take back all
they stole from us
Du Free-dum Freedom is ours
Ef e no do um Gawd tek e soul If I don't may I die =
God take my soul
Du Free-dum Freedom is ours
Fuhr tru It is true
Du Free-dum Freedom is ours
(Swahili)
Eh! Eh! Bomba! Heu! Heu! We swear to defeat
(destroy)
Canga, bafia te Canga, The Whites and all that
moune de le they possess
Conga, do ki la Let us die rather than
Congo, li Fail to keep this vow
The following are a few examples of affirmations.
Du Free-dum Freedom is ours
E knot de tongue I promise
Du Free-dum Freedom is ours
Fuhr ride de buckra frame To fight the Whites
Uh tek back de tief um And, take back all
they stole from us
Du Free-dum Freedom is ours
Ef e no do um Gawd tek e soul If I don't may I die =
God take my soul
Du Free-dum Freedom is ours
Fuhr tru It is true
Du Free-dum Freedom is ours
(Swahili)
Eh! Eh! Bomba! Heu! Heu! We swear to defeat
(destroy)
Canga, bafia te Canga, The Whites and all that
moune de le they possess
Conga, do ki la Let us die rather than
Congo, li Fail to keep this vow
Sexualization of the Black Woman
Perhaps she remembers
her great-great grandmother
who wanted to protest
but only rolled her eyes
and willed herself not to scream
when the white man
mounted her from behind.
-- Andrea Williams 1
The portrayal of Black women as lascivious by nature is an enduring stereotype. The descriptive words associated with this stereotype are singular in their focus: seductive, alluring, worldly, beguiling, tempting, and lewd. Historically, White women, as a category, were portrayed as models of self-respect, self-control, and modesty – even sexual purity, but Black women were often portrayed as innately promiscuous, even predatory. This depiction of Black women is signified by the name Jezebel. 2
K. Sue Jewell, a contemporary sociologist, conceptualized the Jezebel as a tragic mulatto – "thin lips, long straight hair, slender nose, thin figure and fair complexion." 3 This conceptualization is too narrow. It is true that the "tragic mulatto" and "Jezebel" share the reputation of being sexually seductive, and both are antithetical to the desexualized "Mammy" caricature; nevertheless, it is a mistake to assume that only, or even mainly, fair-complexioned Black women were sexually objectified by the larger American society. From the early 1630s to the present, Black American women of all shades have been portrayed as hypersexual "bad-black-girls." 4
Jewell's conceptualization is based on a kernel of historical truth. Many of the slavery-era Blacks sold into prostitution were mulattoes. Also, freeborn light-skinned Black women sometimes became the willing concubines of wealthy White southerners. This system, called placage, involved a formal arrangement for the White suitor/customer to financially support the Black woman and her children in exchange for her long-term sexual services. The White men often met the Black women at "Quadroon Balls," a genteel sex market.
The belief that Blacks are sexually lewd predates the institution of slavery in America. European travelers to Africa found scantily clad natives. This semi nudity was misinterpreted as lewdness. White Europeans, locked into the racial ethnocentrism of the 17th century, saw African polygamy and tribal dances as proof of the African's uncontrolled sexual lust. Europeans were fascinated by African sexuality. William Bosman described the Black women on the coast of Guinea as "fiery" and "warm" and "so much hotter than the men." 5 William Smith described African women as "hot constitution'd Ladies" who "are continually
contriving stratagems how to gain a lover." 6 The genesis of anti-Black sexual arch types emerged from the writings of these and other Europeans: the Black male as brute and potential rapist; the Black woman, as Jezebel whore.
The English colonists accepted the Elizabethan image of "the lusty Moor," and used this and similar stereotypes to justify enslaving Blacks. In part, this was accomplished by arguing that Blacks were subhumans: intellectually inferior, culturally stunted, morally underdeveloped, and animal-like sexually. Whites used racist and sexist ideologies to argue that they alone were civilized and rational, whereas Blacks, and other people of color, were barbaric and deserved to be subjugated. 7
The Jezebel stereotype was used during slavery as a rationalization for sexual relations between White men and Black women, especially sexual unions involving slavers and slaves. The Jezebel was depicted as a Black woman with an insatiable appetite for sex. She was not satisfied with Black men. The slavery-era Jezebel, it was claimed, desired sexual relations with White men; therefore, White men did not have to rape Black women. James Redpath, an abolitionist no less, wrote that slave women were "gratified by the criminal advances of Saxons." 8 This view is contradicted by Frederick Douglass, the abolitionist and former slave, who claimed that the "slave woman is at the mercy of the fathers, sons or brothers of her master." 9 Douglass's account is consistent with the accounts of other former slaves. Henry Bibb's master forced a young slave to be his son's concubine; later, Bibb and his wife were sold to a Kentucky trader who forced Bibb's wife into prostitution. 10
Slave women were property; therefore, legally they could not be raped. Often slavers would offer gifts or promises of reduced labor if the slave women would consent to sexual relations, and there were instances where the slaver and slave shared sexual attraction; however, "the rape of a female slave was probably the most common form of interracial sex." 11 A slave woman explained, "When he make me follow him into de bush, what use me to tell him no? He have strength to make me." 12 At the same time, Black men convicted of raping White women were usually castrated, hanged, or both. 13
People make decisions based on the options they have and the options that they perceive. The objective realities of slavery and the slaves' subjective interpretations of the institution both led female slaves to engage "voluntarily" in sexual unions with Whites, especially slavers, their sons, and their overseers. A slave who refused the sexual advances of her slaver risked being sold, beaten, raped, and having her "husband" or children sold. Many slave women conceded to sexual relations with Whites, thereby reinforcing the belief that Black women were lustful and available.
The idea that Black women were naturally and inevitably sexually promiscuous was reinforced by several features of the slavery institution. Slaves, whether on the auction block or offered privately for sale, were often stripped naked and physically examined. In theory, this was done to insure that they were healthy, able to reproduce, and, equally important, to look for whipping scars – the presence of which implied that the slave was rebellious. In practice, the stripping and touching of slaves had a sexually exploitative, 14 sometimes sadistic function. Nakedness, especially among women in the 18th and 19th centuries, implied lack of civility, morality, and sexual restraint even when the nakedness was forced. Slaves, of both sexes and all ages, often wore few clothes or clothes so ragged that their legs, thighs, and chests were exposed. Conversely, Whites, especially women, wore clothing over most of their bodies. The contrast between the clothing reinforced the beliefs that White women were civilized, modest, and sexually pure, whereas Black women were uncivilized, immodest, and sexually aberrant.
Black slave women were also frequently pregnant. The institution of slavery depended on Black women to supply future slaves. By every method imaginable, slave women were "encouraged" to reproduce. Some slavers, for example, offered a new pig for each child born to a slave family, a new dress to the slave woman for each surviving infant, or no work on Saturdays to Black women who produced six children. 15 Young Black girls were encouraged to have sex as "anticipatory socialization" for their later status as "breeders." When they did reproduce, their fecundity was seen, as proof of their insatiable sexual appetites. Deborah Gray White, a contemporary historian, wrote:
Major periodicals carried articles detailing optimal conditions under which bonded women were known to reproduce, and the merits of a particular "breeder" were often the topic of parlor or dinner table conversations. The fact that something so personal and private became a matter of public discussion prompted one ex-slave to declare that "women wasn't nothing but cattle." Once reproduction became a topic of public conversation, so did the slave woman's sexual activities. 16
The Jezebel stereotype is contradicted by several historical facts. Although Black women, especially those with brown or tan skin and "European features," were sometimes forced into prostitution for White men, "slaves had no prostitution and very little venereal disease within their communities." 17 Slaves rarely chose spouses from among their blood relatives. Slavers often encouraged, and sometimes mandated, sexual promiscuity among their slaves; nevertheless, most slaves sought long-term, monogamous relationships. Slaves "married" when allowed, and adultery was frowned upon in most Black "communities." During Reconstruction "slaves eagerly legitimated their unions, holding mass-marriage ceremonies and individual weddings." 18
Unfortunately for Black women, Emancipation and Reconstruction did not stop their sexual victimization. From the end of the Civil War to the mid-1960s, no Southern White male was convicted of raping or attempting to rape a Black woman; yet, the crime was common. 19 Black women, especially in the South or border states, had little legal recourse when raped by White men, and many Black women were reluctant to report their sexual victimization by Black men for fear that the Black men would be lynched. 20
Jezebel in the 20th Century
The portrayal of Black women as Jezebel whores began in slavery, extended through the Jim Crow period, and continues today. Although the Mammy caricature was the dominant popular cultural image of Black women from slavery to the 1950s, the depiction of Black women as Jezebels was common in American material culture. Everyday items – such as ashtrays, postcards, sheet music, fishing lures, drinking glasses, and so forth – depicted naked or scantily dressed Black women, lacking modesty and sexual restraint. For example, a metal nutcracker (circa 1930s) depicts a topless Black woman. The nut is placed under her skirt, in her crotch, and crushed. 21 Items like this one reflected and shaped White attitudes toward Black female sexuality. An analysis of the Jezebel images in the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia reveals several patterns.
Many of the Jezebel objects caricature and mock African women. For example, in the 1950s "ZULU LULU" was a popular set of swizzle sticks used for stirring drinks. There were several versions of this product but all show silhouettes of naked African women of various ages. One version read: "Nifty at 15, spiffy at 20, sizzling at 25, perky at 30, declining at 35, droopy at 40." There were versions that included depictions of African women at fifty and sixty years of age. ZULU LULU was billed as a party gag as illustrated by this advertisement on the product:
Don't pity Lulu – you're not getting younger yourself…laugh with your guests when they find these hilarious swizzle sticks in their drinks. ZULU-LULU will be the most popular girl at your party.
The Jezebel images which defame African women may be viewed in two broad categories: pathetic others and exotic others . Pathetic others include those depictions of African women as physically unattractive, unintelligent, and uncivilized. These images suggest that African women in particular and Black women in general possess aberrant physical, social, and cultural traits. The African woman's features are distorted – her lips are exaggerated, her breasts sag, she is often inebriated. The pathetic other, like the Mammy caricature before her, is drawn to refute the claim that White men find Black women sexually appealing. Yet, this depiction of the African woman has an obvious sexual component: she is often placed in a sexual setting, naked or near naked, inebriated or holding a drink, her eyes suggesting a sexual longing. She is a sexual being, but not one that White men would consider.
An example of the pathetic other is a banner (circa 1930s) showing a drunken African woman with the caption, "Martini Anyone?" 22 The message is clear: this pathetic other is too ugly, too stupid, and too different to elicit sexual attraction from reasonable men; instead, she is a source of pity, laughter, and derision.
The material objects which depict African and Black women as exotic others do not portray them as physically unattractive, although they are sometimes portrayed as being socially and culturally deficient. During the first half of the twentieth century images of topless or completely nude African women were often placed in magazines and on souvenir items, planters, drinking glasses, figurines, ashtrays, and novelty items.
It must be emphasized that the items that depict African and African American women as one-dimensional sexual beings are often everyday items – found in the homes, garages, automobiles, and offices of "mainstream" Americans. These items are functional – in addition to promoting anti-Black stereotypes, they also have practical utility. For example, a topless bust of a Black woman with a fishing hook attached functions as an object of racial stereotyping and as a fishing lure. One such object was the "Virgin Fishing Lucky Lure (circa 1950s)." It has become a highly sought after collectible nationwide.
An analysis of Jezebel images also reveals that Black female children are sexually objectified. Black girls, with the faces of pre-teenagers, are drawn with adult sized buttocks, which are exposed. They are naked, scantily clad, or hiding seductively behind towels, blankets, trees, or other objects. A 1949 postcard shows a naked Black girl hiding her genitals with a paper fan. Although she has the appearance of a small child she has noticeable breasts. The accompanying caption reads: "Honey, I'se Waitin' Fo' You Down South." 23 The sexual innuendo is obvious.
Another postcard (circa 1950s) shows a Black girl, approximately eight years old, standing in a watermelon patch. She has a protruding stomach. The caption reads: "Oh-I is Not!...It Must Be Sumthin' I Et!!" Her exposed right shoulder and the churlish grin suggest that the protruding stomach resulted from a sexual experience, not overeating. The portrayal of this prepubescent girl as pregnant suggests that Black females are sexually active and sexually irresponsible even as small children.
The belief that Black women are sexually promiscuous is propagated by innumerable images of pregnant Black women and Black women with large numbers of children. A 1947 greeting card depicting a Black Mammy bears the caption: "Ah keeps right on sendin' em!" Inside is a young Black woman with eight small children. The inside caption reads: "As long as you keeps on havin' em."
In the 1964 presidential election between Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater, Johnson used the political slogan, "All the way with LBJ." A mid-1960s license plate shows a caricatured Black woman, pregnant, with these words, "Ah went all de way wib LBJ." Johnson received overwhelming support from Black voters. The image on the license plate, which also appeared on posters and smaller prints, insults Blacks generally, Black Democrats, and Black women.
Black Jezebels in American Cinema
In the 1915 movie The Birth of a Nation , Lydia Brown is a mulatto character. She is the mistress of the White character Senator Stoneman. Lydia is savage, corrupt, and lascivious. She is portrayed as overtly sexual, and she uses her "feminine wiles" to deceive the formerly good White man. Lydia's characterization was rare in early American cinema. There was a splattering of Black "loose women" and "fallen women" on the big screen, but it would be another half century before the depiction of cinematic Black women as sexually promiscuous would become commonplace.
By the 1970s Black moviegoers had tired of cinematic portrayals of Blacks as Mammies, Toms, Tragic Mulattoes, and Picaninnies. In the 1970s Blacks willingly, though unwittingly, exchanged the old negative caricatures for new ones: Brutes, Bucks, and Jezebels. These new caricatures were popularized by the two hundred mostly B-grade films now labeled blaxploitation movies.
These movies supposedly depicted realistic Black experiences; however, many were produced and directed by Whites. Daniel J. Leab, the movie historian, noted, "Whites packaged, financed, and sold these films, and they received the bulk of the big money." 24 The world depicted in blaxploitation movies included corrupt police and politicians, pimps, drug dealers, violent criminals, prostitutes, and whores. In the main, these movies were low-budget, formulaic interpretations of Black life by White producers, directors, and distributors. Black actors and actresses, many unable to find work in mainstream movies, found work in blaxploitation movies. Black patrons supported these movies because they showed Blacks fighting the "White establishment," resisting police corruption, acting assertively, and having sex lives.
The film which ushered in the blaxploitation period was Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971), written, directed, produced, and starred in by Melvin Van Peebles. The story centers on Sweet, an amoral and hedonistic hustler and pimp, who kills two White cops who were attacking a young Black radical. He spends the rest of the movie on the lam, running from racist cops and to pimps, gangsters, bikers, and whores. Sweet's "revolutionary consciousness" is heightened because of his first hand experience with police corruption, and by the movie's end he has become a heroic, almost mythical, Black revolutionary. The film ended with the message: "A BAADASSSSS NIGGER IS COMING BACK TO COLLECT SOME DUES."
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song was originally rated X. After decades of asexual and desexualized Black Tom characters, Black audiences were ready for a sexually assertive Black male movie character. Sweet was reared in a brothel. In one flashback scene, a ten-year-old Sweet (played by Van Peeples' real life son, Mario) is graphically taught how to make love by an older prostitute. Sweetback is slang for "large penis" and "great lovemaking ability." Much of the movie centers on Sweet's lovemaking abilities, and this movie helped promote the "Black sex machine" characterization of Black men common in later movies. Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song also gave impetus to cinematic portrayals of Black women as Jezebel whores. According to Donald Bogle, a film historian:
With the glamorization of the ghetto, however, came also the elevation of the Pimp/outlaw/rebel as folk hero. Van Peeples played up this new sensibility, and his film was the first to glorify the pimp. It failed, however, to explain the social conditions that made the pimp such an important figure. At the same time, the movie debased the black woman, depicting her as little more than a whore. 25
The commercial success of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song inspired many imitators. A formula for these "Black action" movies emerged: a justifiably angry Black male seeks revenge on corrupt White police officers, politicians, or drug dealers. In the process of extracting revenge his political consciousness is raised and he has numerous sexual exploits. Although this formula was aided by Van Peeples, a Black man, it served as the template for the Whites who wrote, directed, and produced blaxploitation movies.
The movies that followed Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song increasingly limited Black actresses to Jezebel type roles. Lynn Hamilton, a Black actress, auditioned for the role of a "strong Angela Davis type." At the beginning of the audition she was asked if she would play nude scenes. She said of the role and character: "Here is this woman who holds all kinds of academic degrees and has a high position opening the door totally nude to admit her boyfriend, a policeman. The first thing he says is, 'Fix me some breakfast." 26 She fries bacon, grease splattering, while her boyfriend fondles her breasts and buttocks.
Many Black women in these blaxploitation movies functioned as "sexual fodder," legitimizing the street credentials of the Black male superhero. Even when Black women were the central characters of the movies, they were still portrayed as sexually aggressive, often deviants. Black actresses such as Pam Grier and Tamara Dobson built their acting careers starring in blaxploitation movies. Their characters resembled those of the male superheroes: they were physically attractive and aggressive rebels, willing and able to gain revenge against corrupt officials, drug dealers, and violent criminals. According to Donald Bogle:
Like the old-style mammies, they ran not simply a household but a universe unto itself. Often they were out to clean up the ghetto of drug pushers, protecting the black hearth and home from corrupt infiltrators. Dobson and Grier represented Woman as Protector, Nurturer, Communal Mother Surrogate. Yet, these women also had the look and manner of old-style mulattoes. They were often perceived as being exotic sex objects (Grier's raw sexuality was always exploited) – yet with a twist. Although men manhandle them, Grier and Dobson also took liberties with men, at times using them as playful, comic toys. 27
The portrayal of Black women as sexually lascivious became commonplace in American movies. Grier, for example, in Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974) goes undercover as a "whore" to get revenge on Whites who have victimized her loved ones. In The Big Bird Cage (1972), Carol Speed plays a spunky Black hooker inmate. The 1973 movie Black Hooker is a movie about a "White" boy whose mother is an uncaring Black whore. In the made-for-television movie, Dummy (1979), Irma Riley plays a Black prostitute. Lisa Bonet, one of the daughters on the Cosby show, plays a voodoo priestess in Angel Heart (1987). Her character, Epiphany Proudfoot, has a sexual episode with Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) that was so graphic that the movie almost received an X rating. In Harlem Nights (1989), Sunshine (played by Lela Rochon) is a prostitute so skilled that a White lover calls his wife on the telephone to tell her that he is never returning home.
The obligatory "Black whore" is added to urban-themed movies, apparently to give "real life" authenticity. In the classic movie Taxi Driver (1976), a Black hooker (Copper Cunningham) has sex with a White businessman in the backseat of the taxi driven by Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro). The sex act is offered as evidence of the moral decline and decadence of America. Bickle washes his taxi after the sex act. Hazelle Goodman plays Cookie, a hooker in Woody Allen's Deconstructing Harry (1997). When Cookie is asked if she knows what a black hole is, she replies, "what I make my living with." In the credits listed for In Dangerous Ground (1997), Temsie Times is listed as "Black Hooker." Cathy Tyson, the niece of actress Cicely Tyson, got her first major role as a sophisticated call girl in Mona Lisa (2001). The racial and sexual stereotypes depicted in these and similar movies find their fuller, clearer expression in low-budget pornographic movies.
The pornography industry remains a bastion of explicit anti-Black stereotyping – raw, obscene, and increasing mainstreamed. Many of the heterosexual themed movies in the American pornographic market have White actresses; however, there are hundreds of pornographic movies that also depict Black women as "sexual things" – and as "sexual animals." Internet "stores" sell videos with titles like Black Chicks in Heat, Black Bitches, Hoochie Mamas, Video Sto' Ho, Black and Nasty, South Central Hookers, and Git Yo' Ass On Da Bus! In the privacy of their homes or hotel rooms, Americans can watch Black actresses – Purple Passion, Jamaica, Toy, Chocolate Tye, Juicy, Jazz, Spontaneeus Xtasy, and others – "validate" the belief that Black women are whores. Most of the Black actresses in mainstream movies who play Jezebel roles – especially those with interracial sex scenes – are light skinned or brown skinned women; however, most of the Black women in pornographic movies are brown skinned and dark skinned women.
Halle Berry won an academy award for the role of Leticia Musgrove in Monster's Ball (2001), a complex and haunting drama. Leticia had a sexual relationship with Hank Grotowski (Billy Bob Thornton), a racist jailer who supervised the execution of her husband. The link between Leticia's Black husband's execution and her White lover was not revealed to her until the movie's end, by then she and Hank were bonded together – self-loathers, angry, defeated, drunk, grieving the loss of relatives, trying frantically to find redemption, and failing that, someone to share the emotional pain. Their initial sexual encounter followed a drunken lamentation of their failures as parents. She lost her husband, and then her son was killed. His son committed suicide, in his presence. Writhing in emotional pain, she begged, "Make me feel better." There followed one of the rawest, most intense sexual scenes in American cinematic history. Later, he gave her a truck. He named his new business venture, a service station, Leticia. He readied a room in his home, moved his racist father to a convalescent home, and after Leticia was evicted from her home he moved her into his house.
The relationship between Hank and Leticia was an updated version of the placage arrangements common in the 1800s. The first night after she moved into his home they lie in bed. He said, "I'm gonna take care of you." Leticia replied, "Good, 'cause I really need to be taken care of." In a tender moment, he went to a store to get ice cream. While he was gone she found evidence that he was involved in her husband's execution. She cried, wailed, gripped with gut-wrenching pain. He returned. She had a dazed look. He told her, "You look real pretty. Let's go out on the steps, if you want to." She followed him. Outside, she accepted a spoon, stared at his son's tombstone, and then accepted ice cream from his spoon. His last words were, "I think we gonna be alright." Angela Bassett, nominated for an academy award in 1993 (Tina Turner in What's Love Got To Do With It ), rejected the role of Leticia. In an interview with Newsweek , she said: "It's about character, darling. I wasn't going to be a prostitute on film. I couldn't do that because it's such a stereotype about black women and sexuality." 28 Bassett's assessment was harsh and probably overstated. Leticia was portrayed as a "loose woman:" drinking from a bottle, slouched, legs open, later initiating sex with a man she barely knew. She ended the movie as a "kept woman," not a prostitute – her status is a function of the harsh realities of being a poor, Black woman in a society that devalues the poor, the Black, and women. Bassett insisted that she was not criticizing Berry so much as she was criticizing the Hollywood system for continuing to typecast black women in demeaning roles. This was a reasonable criticism. Only a handful of Black actresses and actors have won academy awards, and most won because they brought depth and complexity to otherwise one-dimensional stereotypical roles: Hattie McDaniel played a Mammy in Gone With the Wind (1939); Sidney Poitier played a Tom, albeit a dignified one, in Lilies of the Field (1964), and Denzell Washington was a rogue cop, a variant of the Brute in Training Day (2000).
Conclusion
The Jezebel has replaced the Mammy as the dominant image of Black women in American popular culture. The Black woman as prostitute, for example, is a staple in mainstream movies, especially those with urban settings. The Black prostitute and the Black pimp supposedly give these movies cutting edge realism. Small budget pornographic movies reinforce vile sexual stereotypes of Black women. These women are willing, sometimes predatory, sexual deviants who will fulfill any and all sexual fantasies. Their sexual performances tap into centuries-old images of Black women as uninhibited whores. Televised music videos, especially those by gangsta rap performers, portray scantily clad, nubile Black women who thrust their hips to lyrics which often depict them as ‘hos, skeezers, and bitches. A half century after the American civil rights movement, it is increasingly easy to find Black women, especially young ones, depicted as Jezebels whose only value is as sexual commodities.
© Dr. David Pilgrim, Professor of Sociology, Ferris State University.
July, 2002
Gullah Terminology
African consciousness,
African Holistic Health,
african mind,
african people,
black mind,
black people,
dr llaila afrika,
the gullah
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Ham is a European Biblical word for Khem (Black), just as Nubia, Sudan, Moors, and Ethiopian are their words for Black Africans. The Khemetic Africans, dating back to 1.7 million BCE [Before Common Era]came from Southern Africa from an area commonly called Sudan. They traveled to Egypt (KMT) before 5,000 BCE A drought around the Sahara Desert area in 2,500 BCE caused some Africans to move to Europe, India, China, Japan, and the Middle East. Ancient Africans brought the concept of one God and knowledge (Karate, Acupuncture) and basically civilized the colored and whites races. Despite this, the Europeans (whites) remain a predatory race that prey upon other humans and natural resources. They taught Africa's greatest gift to the world, "Human Relationship." The East Khemetic languages are spoken by the ethnic groups of Somalia, Masai and Galla. The Galla (gullah) moved to Africa's west coast. Galla were free Africans put into slavery by Arabs and then Europeans. They were not allowed to speak or write in African languages, dress in African clothes, use African jewelery, artifacts, customs, cermonies, rituals or treat women divinely. They could not use African moral values or their Khemetic religion (called Pagan Religion by Euro-Christians, Euro-Moslems, Euro-Jews) or practice "Maat" (truth, righteousness, and justice). Galla (Gullah) people brought their knowledge of "Human Relationship" and technology to America.
Dating back to 10,000 BCE and pre-Egypt, the documented ancient African skills and knowledge brought to America and the European world were many. They included engineering, agriculture, irrigation, the invention of the wheel, the zodiac, the fire sticks (matches), the process of boiling water, astronomy, navigation, mills, cultivation, the theater, construction, wheel barrow, metal (tin) work, carpentry, philosophy, music, cereals, the sail ships, pulleys, massage, metric system, government, law, pants, medicine, physics, calculus, sewing, architecture, business, textile industry, bowling, tic-tac-toe, money, chemistry, herbology, plumbing, dance therapy, gymnastics, language pendulums, bureaucracy, kingmanship, chess, priesthood, religions, cosmetology, swings, toilet soap, fans, magnets, preservation of nature (ecology), fairy tales (rites of passage), writing, natural birth, pharmacology, farming tools, dentistry, ophthalmology, hot (green) house, steam bath, clock, civilization, etc.
Gullah people were given names based upon African ethnic groups that they came from, such as the Krio (called Creole) and the Kissi people (called Geechee).
Dating back to 10,000 BCE and pre-Egypt, the documented ancient African skills and knowledge brought to America and the European world were many. They included engineering, agriculture, irrigation, the invention of the wheel, the zodiac, the fire sticks (matches), the process of boiling water, astronomy, navigation, mills, cultivation, the theater, construction, wheel barrow, metal (tin) work, carpentry, philosophy, music, cereals, the sail ships, pulleys, massage, metric system, government, law, pants, medicine, physics, calculus, sewing, architecture, business, textile industry, bowling, tic-tac-toe, money, chemistry, herbology, plumbing, dance therapy, gymnastics, language pendulums, bureaucracy, kingmanship, chess, priesthood, religions, cosmetology, swings, toilet soap, fans, magnets, preservation of nature (ecology), fairy tales (rites of passage), writing, natural birth, pharmacology, farming tools, dentistry, ophthalmology, hot (green) house, steam bath, clock, civilization, etc.
Gullah people were given names based upon African ethnic groups that they came from, such as the Krio (called Creole) and the Kissi people (called Geechee).
How to Be A Meat Eater
Africa people,
african american,
African consciousness,
dr llaila afrika,
holistic health,
meat eater,
nutricide,
the gullah,
vegetarian
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Lesson #3
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"If she truly likes you, then she will show it. That is, if she's the type of woman to be obvious about it, but even if she isn't blatant, there will be subtle clues that you must be aware of that will let you know. If you have been being yourself then you can feel good. For she likes you for you and that's rare."
Spreading the word!
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Okay party people I now have a Twitter account. Yes yes I know, it's stupid and sucks to no end but I had to do it in order to set some things off in my life. I'll probably get into that later BUT I have posted a link to my new page that directs users to my blog! Clever yes?
So this is what you need to do:
1) If you don't have a twitter, GET ONE! (I only recommend it for bringing traffic to my blog, selfish yea I know lol).
Sign up here
2) Follow me once you get one.
3) Tell your friends, family, coworkers, etc. about my blog.
4) Spread the word! Post my url and get me some notoriety.
4) Follow me here on the blog.
5) Subscribe to my blog via email or feed or both lol.
This is my twatter, I mean twitter page
So basically my twitter is: http://twitter.com/rodmcgee
And since these blogs get imported to my I will provide the link to my blog <------ click that =)
If you do not have a facebook then I shall slap you!
Sign up here...smh
And for those of you who don't have a myspace sign up here
And that is all for now brothas and sistahs in the knowledge
Peace!
So this is what you need to do:
1) If you don't have a twitter, GET ONE! (I only recommend it for bringing traffic to my blog, selfish yea I know lol).
Sign up here
2) Follow me once you get one.
3) Tell your friends, family, coworkers, etc. about my blog.
4) Spread the word! Post my url and get me some notoriety.
4) Follow me here on the blog.
5) Subscribe to my blog via email or feed or both lol.
This is my twatter, I mean twitter page
So basically my twitter is: http://twitter.com/rodmcgee
And since these blogs get imported to my I will provide the link to my blog <------ click that =)
If you do not have a facebook then I shall slap you!
Sign up here...smh
And for those of you who don't have a myspace sign up here
And that is all for now brothas and sistahs in the knowledge
Peace!
The Un-Rest
I get a little tired sometimes you know?
Sometimes I just want to sit back and relax and stop caring so much about everyone else. I have spent so much time trying to enlighten others back and forth. Debate here, debate there, argument here, argument EVERYWHERE!
It is distressing. My contributions of intellectual fortitude seem to go unpunished.
"No good deed goes unpunished. No act of charity goes unresented. No good deed goes unpunished. That's my new creed!" - Elphaba (Wicked)
That's the way I feel right about now.
But as always, the fight ensues.
This is the Un-Rest
Sometimes I just want to sit back and relax and stop caring so much about everyone else. I have spent so much time trying to enlighten others back and forth. Debate here, debate there, argument here, argument EVERYWHERE!
It is distressing. My contributions of intellectual fortitude seem to go unpunished.
"No good deed goes unpunished. No act of charity goes unresented. No good deed goes unpunished. That's my new creed!" - Elphaba (Wicked)
That's the way I feel right about now.
But as always, the fight ensues.
This is the Un-Rest
Lesson #2
advice,
lesson,
love,
relationships
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"Don't be the burden that weighs her down. Simply give her space and be the man and not the child. Stop hanging from her arm asking her for attention every 10 seconds. If you call or text her too often then she will start to like you less and less. Instead stay away and give her the gift of missing you.If you display that you are the man and that you can be fine without her, then she will come to you, naturally.Prove me wrong. Be the man not the child."
The 7 Hour Debate
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Recently I had a debate with a random guy on facebook. There was a status message that one of my friends had started that talked about how glad he was to see more black women going natural.
The debate is LONG. And it segued from black women and their natural hair to a debate about African Holistic Medicine vs Western Medicine.
RaHeeil Neter Ma'at-Ra Loves that a lot of these women are going natural =)
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Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 2:19pm July 2
really? what made them change their mind?
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 2:47pm July 2
No thanks. I want the opportunity to genetically engineer some of these females. We need to identify the crazy gene and take it out.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 2:52pm July 2
haha, the crazy gene, it sure is chemical and has become genetic it seems, but it's something more psychological and socially engineered more than anything, if BLACK mothers taught their BLACK daughters how to properly take take care of their BLACK hair without using artificial means then we would see a generation of BLACK women with natural hair.
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 2:54pm July 2
I would engineer a white chick with black hair.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 2:57pm July 2
we would see a generation a RE-Generation of BLACK women who know themselves and are not ashamed of themselves. This psychosis is engineered by the tactics of White Supremacy in Western society
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 2:59pm July 2
you think that shit hasn't already been done? they have a chemical out there that they have engineered that will turn a white person black for a period of time. Their hair will kink up, and melanin will start developing... it's bizarre, they got game
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 3:11pm July 2
That's a pretty complicated procedure I seriously doubt anyone could pull off. As for changing the pigment of skin, hair, and eyes, that's been done for almost 100 years. No real shocker there.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 4:08pm July 2
of course it couldn't change the bone structure only integumentary features. And how do you think they got the genes to do such an operation?. They've been experimenting on Africans since colonial times.
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 4:47pm July 2
Dude, you're talking about topical skin treatments, not genetic engineering. I'm pretty sure Christopher Columbus wasn't a geneticist.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 4:48pm July 2
no im talking about an injection into the bloodstream that has an effect on the integumentary features (hair, skin, etc.)
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 4:55pm July 2
I'm pretty sure no one is supposed to inject anything into the bloodstream unless it's absolutely necessary. I am not aware of any skin treatment that requires an IV, but if you are, enlighten me.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 5:33pm July 2
oh yea i wasn't aware of it either. But they use the stem cells of Africans to regenerate tissue and took it to the extreme and are actually able to turn someone temporarily from white to black, like michael jackson went from black to white. it only lasts about 6 months or so. if you want an in depth look about experimentation on Africans then you should purchase a book called Medical Apartheid.
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 5:52pm July 2
Michael Jackson had Vitiligo, and I'm not sure what stem cells have to do with skin color. Changing skin color is just a byproduct of metabolism. I can turn blue if I hold my breathe. Gross anatomy calls for the inspection of skin color to help diagnose patients. I'm checking out the book right now.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 6:03pm July 2
Thing is that if any cell in the body is deprived of oxygen then there will be discoloration. Skin color is a byproduct of metabolism as well as nutrition. Vitiligo is caused because of liver and pancreas illness. And skin color is also determined based on the concentration of carbon in the melanocytes. you see Sudanese people and Somalians so dark... Read More that they give off a blue-ish hue, that's due to their nutrition of high cholorophyl which is found in plants. theese Western medical scientists have studied the African for centuries and were able to isolate the carbon (CHO) chemical and utilize it in a way that would turn white rats jet black when injected or a person with no skin pigment or kinky hair Black. You need to also listen to Dr. Jewel Pookrum, Dr Sebi and Dr Llaila O. Afrika
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 6:16pm July 2
If any cell in the body does not recieve oxygen, it dies. The reason you turn blue is because there is no oxygen bound to ferric hemoglobin in the red blood cells, so they fail to turn red because they are not oxidized. It really has nothing to do with individual cells.
Metabolism is an umbrella term that incorporates nutrition. The liver and pancreas are both active in the digestion of food (catabolism). Different disorders can result in different skin colors. They can also result in the discoloration of urine and fecal waste.
"-CHO" is a acyl functional group called an aldehyde. Acyl groups are some of the most important molecules in metabolism. A free-roaming oxygen species like you are suggesting is extremely dangerous and can cause damage to many cells. ... Read More
I'm not sure where you are going with the chlorophyl thing, but you should note that there is nothing unique about anything you mentioned. All humans share the vast majority of genetic information.
Sincere Allah
Sincere Allah at 6:31pm July 2
all i have 2 say is the story of Yacub is real!
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 6:34pm July 2
Metabolism (catabolism and anabolism) is what keeps us going, functioning. Like you say when a cell doesn't get oxygen it dies, true. My statement was that when a cell doesn't get ENOUGH oxygen it discolors, and hemoglobin, which makes blood blue, reacts to oxygen when it is outside the body and turns it red.
Western medical scientists have been ... Read Moreable to isolate Carbon in the CHO chain, and we all know that Carbon isn't found alone in nature and always found with Oxygen and Hydrogen and anything that is isolated and concentrated in the laboratory becomes by definition a drug, and utilize its electric properties and found out what made Black, Black.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 6:36pm July 2
You know that the bottom surface of space shuttles now use an all black covering? Why is that? Because they know the heat resistance that carbon has in conjuntion with melanin. So they used pure melanin (carbon) to coat the bottom of the shuttles.
Also not every person has the same genetic background accessible. The Aboriginese are the only race of people who have their entire genetic blueprints accessible and the African has the greatest genetic potential.
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 6:52pm July 2
Carbon is never found isolated in nature because of it's valence electrons. This is the same for every other element on the periodic table. The aldehyde group you are talking about is a naturally occurring in many forms, including molecules with nitrogen and even metals. "Carbon" is not a drug, and it does not make anything turn black.
Hemoglobin makes blood red, which is why arteries carrying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the body are red, and veins carrying deoxygenated blood from the body back to the lungs are blue.
Melanin is not "carbon." Melanin is not used to coat the hull of the space shuttle. All humans share the same genetic blueprint with minor variations in several genes. The difference is negligible. ... Read More
I feel bad cramming Ra's comment boxes up, but, hey, it happens. Sorry Ra.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 7:00pm July 2
Okay you know your shit my man but you are very mistaken about Carbon and Melanin.
Prove that Carbon and Melanin do not work in conjunction to make Black Blak. The high concentration of Carbon is what makes Africans so dark, we know that because geographically where they live they have to be dark and realize that the Sun plays a vital role.
They do use melanin, pure melanin, which is black, because melanin has a great heat capcity up to 1500 degrees I believe.... Read More
It seems that the Western Medical Science has confused you and your indoctrination of their science has you believing half truths and lies. Though you are correct about the arteries and veins, but when blood hits the surface and reacts with oxygen it turns red.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 7:02pm July 2
We know globin is a pigment. Bilirubin is a pigment that makes feces brown, so on and so forth. You are right on some things but I've that all before I've taken courses in biology and Anatomy and Physiology. So I know some shit too lol
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 7:07pm July 2
You know the saying that we are Carbon-based beings, well that's only half true. Not true, Whites are "Carbon-based" and Africans are Carbon beings. They are Carbon copies, not like the orginal.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 7:15pm July 2
Oh and about the point that Carbon isn't found in nature due to its valene elctrons, that was insightful but not important, see I was making the point that since NO element can be found sigularly in nature and is always with other elements that when we think we are taking Vitamin C, we are just taking Ascorbic Acid. Vitamin C is found with other ... Read MoreVitamins in nature. So these scientists isolate these elements and concentrate them, which is a drug by definition. This supported my claim about Carbon being used sigularly to create jet black rats or make an all black bottom surface for space shuttles.
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 7:22pm July 2
Your blood makes contact with oxygen through gas exchange in the lungs. It's called breathing. You inhale oxygen, you exhale carbon-dioxide. I'm not sure what else needs to be said.
Bilirubin is old, degraded hemoglobin. Muscle tissue uses myoglobin, which is why we call it "red meat."
The way a molecule bends light is what we perceive as "color." Not to mention, nothing black is black, since any object that reflects black light is not black. ... Read More
"Melanin" is a general term given to a family of chemicals that are used by animals, plants, and microorganisms as a pigment. The brown-black melanin you are talking about contains a carboxylic acid (COOH), not an aldehyde (CHO). This type of melanin can bend light in certain ways depending on how long of a chain it forms (which depends on genes and sun exposure). There are many different types of melanin that can create different colors.
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 7:43pm July 2
A drug, by definition, has nothing to do with concentration, or any other type of equilibrial result of it's derivation (and this includes where, as in a lab or in your large intestine). This does not support your claim that melanin is painted onto the space shuttle, and even if your definition is correct, I don't know how it would support that claim. I find it kind of alarming that someone would believe something like that in 2009.
Here is a picture of a carbon atom:
http://blogontheuniverse.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/carbon_atom.gif
... Read More
Here is a picture of several melanins, drawn out in their chemical structures:
http://www.physics.uq.edu.au/cmp/Images/melanin_monomers.gif
A vitamin is not an element. I don't see the point in the last comment.
I'm not sure you know the fundamental concepts behind some of the topics you are bringing up, let alone describe what is and what is not a carbon based being.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 7:53pm July 2
Okay no need to be condescending. I overstand that when the gas exchange takes place then blood come into contact with oxygen. What I am speaking of is when blood comes into contact with oxygen unnaturally I.e. a cut, or open wound. We all know blood isn't purely "blood" its parts water and parts plasma, and even plasma is comprised of particles and other chemicals.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 7:55pm July 2
Black is the embodiment of every color on the electromagnetic spectrum. The black that I was speaking of, PURE BLACK, no brown, is CHO, the COOH is a deriviation of the CHO molecule chain. Melanin is a general term used to describe a family of chemicals that animals, plants and huemans use to synthesize their energy from the Sun. Just like chorophyll which is a form of melanin or "plant melanin" is what plants use to get their energy from the Sun.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 7:56pm July 2
I know this and overstand this. The point I am making, ONCE AGAIN, is that Carbon is found in coal, pure oil, and the like. Of course you know this already, but this is the point, African people's melanin, or Carbon, is what they use, what they need to stay protected from the sun. Not all races of people can utilize Carbon in the way the African ... Read Morecan. Why is that? Because their melanin, or COOH, and the other molecular chains isn't suited to handle it. You already explained this partially so you know this I'm sure. If white light comes into contact with black light, then the white light is lost.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 7:57pm July 2
The Black light, or dark matter, is the first light and our eyes have been adapted to see only certain colors on the EMS, and hear certain wavelengths of sound. See melanin, using the general term, is in found in the ears of the African, the walls and mucosa layers of the vagina, the pineal (which carries a depth far beyond normal comprehension) in... Read More their internal organs, eyes, so on and so forth, it is because of that, as you have stated earlier, that they are able to receive emissions of light on the spectrum that other races cannot, hear wavelengths of sound that other races cannot, and are more receptive to music therapy where certain notes create vibrations that a particular organ or organs identify and vibrate with in order to heal. African Holistic Sciences is older and precedes Western medicine and they stole it and molded it with their superstitions and beliefs to make it suit them, just like they did with African spirituality, but that's another topic entirely.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 8:10pm July 2
See we cannot argue these because you are on the mundane and I am on the metaphysical. Though you have good points and even pictures *clasp* it still falls short of actually disproving my claims. I know a Vitamin is not an element I never said it was, I was giving an example. A drug by definition IS the isolation and concentration of a particular ... Read Moreelement. This may not fit your connotative definition but if you know anything about lab work then you should know that. Marijuana was hybridized and chemically re-engineered with the THC molecule chain which makes it so addictive, the chemicals in melanin bond to it, being that it is a free radical, and is harder to break. Covalent bond come to mind? All you are really doing is supporting lies and half truths, the draw a picture and tell us this is what H2O looks like and we believe it.
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 8:34pm July 2
Carbon is also found in diamonds and milk. A diamond is actually just crystallized carbon. I don't see your point.
Humans do not derive any energy through melanin. If anything, melanin in the skin prevents the energy transfer of sunlight to the body by sheltering vitamin D precursors from UV ray exposure.
Plants get energy through photosynthesis, first starting with chlorophyl, you are right. I'm not sure why you choose to call it melanin, though. There is no physiological similarity to name two different proteins the same.... Read More
If I wanted to be condescending, I would have responded to your comment about being lied to by western medicine and the classes you took.
I was just responding with basic concepts of general sciences. These concepts are derived from observation, applied to the scientific method, reinforced by experimental data, and subjected to criticism. I do not believe you can say the same for the major points in your argument.
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 8:38pm July 2
"Race" is a social construct and an abstract figment of the human mind. The term has no meaning in any biological sense because it is not found in nature.
"The black that I was speaking of, PURE BLACK, no brown, is CHO, the COOH is a deriviation of the CHO molecule chain."
That's backwards. For a polymer to be made, the COOH must be reduced to a CHO group. I am not sure if you understand what you are talking about.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 8:47pm July 2
Actually the condescension came when you made the point about breathing.
And huemans, man of color, do derive their energy from the sun. That same lie about melanin preventing energy transfer of light is the same thing my AnP 2 prof told me and she could not prove that African's having high pigmentation or high Caron concentration allowed for ... Read Morethat energy to be synthesized in their skin. I also recommended that she go out in the sun with me to see who got sun burned first, she was white, and refused and laughed it off. She has been a prof in her field of Biology and Chemistry for well over 30 + years and couldn't give me an answer, but you sit here and defend it, even when the perpetrators try to cover up and defend their bed of lies. Africans have an abundance of vitamin D. And true Diamonds have carbon as well, I never said they did not, thing is most things on this planet have carbon. And look at this, where did the diamond come from? Hmm? You think diamonds just come about in the
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 8:50pm July 2
state that you see them in? what is the precursor of a diamond? right, black coal. Now going back to the point about humans not deriving any energy from the sun, well man of color, does, but it isn't his PRIMARY means of energy regeneration. Black skin, even dark brown and the shades, hold in light longer than the lighter variations. This is true, right? Right. That's why a jet black African can go without sunlight exposure and still have an abundance of vitamin d store within his/her body.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 8:55pm July 2
Western science is nothing but generalization. If there was no generalization there would be no science. They still don't have a cure for the so called Flu. No cure for Diabetes, no cure for Cancer, no cure for Aids, no cure for Sickle Cell Anemia, and the list goes on. So you are going to sit there and defend it when the medicine of the African, ... Read Morewhom I share a bloodline with and enzymes to digest the food they eat in my stomach, has the cure for every dis-ease known to man? African Holistic medicine has cured the so called Flu, Diabetes, AIDS (which is nothing but a GENERALIZATION and COMBINATION of other dis-eases erroneously blamed on a virus and labeled AIDS), Cancer and so on and so forth. Oh yes, it has been done. But no, the Western Science has it that there are no cures, only treatments and why is that? Because the pharmaceutical companies want money. How profitable is it to just give someone the cure when you can have them keep coming back for more and more putting more money
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 9:02pm July 2
your pocket with each prescription? Hmm, VERY. The high metal content in the pills is what's keeping us sick even when we think we are well. Western Medicine dismisses the fact that it is nutrition that keeps us alive and NOT medicine. It is what we put into our bodies that determines our well being, but since black people do not know this they ... Read Morerely upon the Western Medical system to save them from themselves, not realizing that we have a system that our ancestors created to keep us well. We eat everyone else's food but our own. We don't even know what the hell we're supposed to be eating, but junk. Soul food clogging the arteries and killing us, giving us hypertension, diabetes mellitus, heart attacks and the like. People rely too heavily on the convenience of medicine and always need a quick fix. African Holistic Medicine is OUR medicine and OUR heritage and we need to EMBRACE it and stop being so ignore-ant and discover who we are
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 9:03pm July 2
"Western science is nothing but generalization. If there was no generalization there would be no science. They still don't have a cure for the so called Flu. No cure for Diabetes, no cure for Cancer, no cure for Aids, no cure for Sickle Cell Anemia, and the list goes on. So you are going to sit there and defend it when the medicine of the African, ... Read Morewhom I share a bloodline "
who doesn't have a bloodline that extends back into Africa?
there are over 200 viruses associated with the flu. And the flu mutates every year, which is why we have new vaccines.
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 9:04pm July 2
"Now going back to the point about humans not deriving any energy from the sun, well man of color, does, but it isn't his PRIMARY means of energy regeneration. "
please describe the chemical pathway that derives energy from the sun.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 9:04pm July 2
i mean directly to them, every other race is so far removed that they would not reap the benefits as potently as me or anyone closely related.
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 9:06pm July 2
explain the genetic mechanisms that would prevent one human from not reaping the benefits that you do?
by benefit, I assume you mean getting energy from the sun, which I have already asked you to explain.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 9:07pm July 2
Excuse me? The chemical pathway?
White light is absorbed into black skin. I do not follow
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 9:11pm July 2
Skin does not absorb light, which is the whole reason why melanin is there.
Continue.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 9:16pm July 2
This is my explanation.
As I have stated, which you chose not to acknowledge, people of other races, which technically there are only 4, do not reap the benefits (by benefits i mean energy) from the sun as EFFICIENTLY as me or people who more closely SHARE the bloodline with the African. Europeans are far removed by about 10,000 years and African ... Read MoreAmericans are by about 400 years, so by me saying this, that when the mutation occurred where the African who migrated to Europe became white, he genetically, because of the climate in Europe, became accustomed to his surroundings and the foods of his environment. The European experienced the Ice Age and lived on an "Ice Age" diet where everything needed to be cold in order to be eaten.
And for me to give you a genetic mechanism is exactly what people of the Western thought pattern want, actual proof that they can comprehend, since you don't understand it, it's false.
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 9:19pm July 2
I acknowledged your statement, I simply asked for an explanation.
How can you judge what I am able or unable to comprehend if you have not given an explanation? Articulating the details behind your argument should not be that difficult.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 9:20pm July 2
Okay i guess you haven't been paying attention this whole time, I have been saying that because of melanin and the high concentration presence of Carbon, the process of synthesis occurs differently in the African than it would the European.
It is the reason why someone with the complexion of Olajuwon could stay in the sun longer than Larry Byrd... Read More.
If there was melanin and Carbon present in a higher concentration, do you not think that Byrd could stand the sun just as long as Olajuwon who is as Black as they come?
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 9:21pm July 2
"Okay i guess you haven't been paying attention this whole time, I have been saying that because of melanin and the high concentration presence of Carbon, the process of synthesis occurs differently in the African than it would the European. "
Explain.
I understand the science behind a sunburn, but not this statement.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 9:28pm July 2
there you go again taking apart my argument instead of looking at the whole.
Alright.
The sun hits the skin, and the melanocytes are rapidly trying to compensate for the lack of UV protection by attempting to make more pigment to protect the skin, so what happens as a result? A sunburn.... Read More
As for someone with darker skin. The high concentration of Carbon allows them to be walking SPF 50's which protects from any sun damage. The African cannot sunburn, because they are constantly in the sun, their skin needs to be as dark as it is on a majority. Their particular type of melanin allows for them to sustain the excessive heat and retain the energy that sun, the white light, shines onto their Black skin.
Like I have also state, white light is absorbed into black skin.
White light is reflected, or not entirely absorbed into white skin, or the lighter complexioned skin, because of that lack of high Carbon concentration.
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 9:31pm July 2
You make several claims in every statement, you should be prepared to defend all of them, no matter where they are within the statement.
Your still not explaining anything. You're telling me about a sunburn. I have been asking you to explain the carbon part. What is it that the carbon is doing?
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 9:39pm July 2
Oh okay.
The Carbon is producing electricity in the body. It is absorbing the energy from the sun. Earlier we were discussing melanin. Well the pigment is the Carbon concentration. The melanocytes is what is producing the Carbon in the bodies of Africans.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 9:46pm July 2
Melanin is not a mineral. It is a word used to describe a certain biological function. It is not the melanin that makes us Black, most think that the sun activates neurons in melanin and it is what makes us Black, this is not so. If you biochemically took apart the body of the African which would be classified as Bio-Chemistry. Melanin has no place... Read More. It cannot be found. Carbon determines the quality of life in all substances. If there is no Carbon, there is no life. Western medicine speaks of protein. What is protein? 1 of the 19 amino acids, the building blocks of life. I know for a fact that this is not a true statement because if protein was the building block of life, then what happened to the gorilla?
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 9:51pm July 2
Hey I'm off to go get drunk, and I wouldn't mind finishing this conversation, but I'd rather punch myself in the nuts.
Do you honestly believe what you just said?
"Melanin is not a mineral. It is a word used to describe a certain biological function. It is not the melanin that makes us Black, most think that the sun activates neurons in melanin ... Read Moreand it is what makes us Black, this is not so. If you biochemically took apart the body of the African which would be classified as Bio-Chemistry. Melanin has no place. It cannot be found. Carbon determines the quality of life in all substances. If there is no Carbon, there is no life. Western medicine speaks of protein. What is protein? 1 of the 19 amino acids, the building blocks of life. I know for a fact that this is not a true statement because if protein was the building block of life, then what happened to the gorilla?"
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 9:52pm July 2
That lived 180 years without eating anything that's contained protein? Unless you're going to say that the plants contained protein too. And Western science is always saying a bunch of things and we have no laboratories (Black people) to investigate those things. Then we have to swallow it hook line and sinker.
The debate is LONG. And it segued from black women and their natural hair to a debate about African Holistic Medicine vs Western Medicine.
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Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 2:19pm July 2
really? what made them change their mind?
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 2:47pm July 2
No thanks. I want the opportunity to genetically engineer some of these females. We need to identify the crazy gene and take it out.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 2:52pm July 2
haha, the crazy gene, it sure is chemical and has become genetic it seems, but it's something more psychological and socially engineered more than anything, if BLACK mothers taught their BLACK daughters how to properly take take care of their BLACK hair without using artificial means then we would see a generation of BLACK women with natural hair.
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 2:54pm July 2
I would engineer a white chick with black hair.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 2:57pm July 2
we would see a generation a RE-Generation of BLACK women who know themselves and are not ashamed of themselves. This psychosis is engineered by the tactics of White Supremacy in Western society
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 2:59pm July 2
you think that shit hasn't already been done? they have a chemical out there that they have engineered that will turn a white person black for a period of time. Their hair will kink up, and melanin will start developing... it's bizarre, they got game
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 3:11pm July 2
That's a pretty complicated procedure I seriously doubt anyone could pull off. As for changing the pigment of skin, hair, and eyes, that's been done for almost 100 years. No real shocker there.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 4:08pm July 2
of course it couldn't change the bone structure only integumentary features. And how do you think they got the genes to do such an operation?. They've been experimenting on Africans since colonial times.
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 4:47pm July 2
Dude, you're talking about topical skin treatments, not genetic engineering. I'm pretty sure Christopher Columbus wasn't a geneticist.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 4:48pm July 2
no im talking about an injection into the bloodstream that has an effect on the integumentary features (hair, skin, etc.)
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 4:55pm July 2
I'm pretty sure no one is supposed to inject anything into the bloodstream unless it's absolutely necessary. I am not aware of any skin treatment that requires an IV, but if you are, enlighten me.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 5:33pm July 2
oh yea i wasn't aware of it either. But they use the stem cells of Africans to regenerate tissue and took it to the extreme and are actually able to turn someone temporarily from white to black, like michael jackson went from black to white. it only lasts about 6 months or so. if you want an in depth look about experimentation on Africans then you should purchase a book called Medical Apartheid.
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 5:52pm July 2
Michael Jackson had Vitiligo, and I'm not sure what stem cells have to do with skin color. Changing skin color is just a byproduct of metabolism. I can turn blue if I hold my breathe. Gross anatomy calls for the inspection of skin color to help diagnose patients. I'm checking out the book right now.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 6:03pm July 2
Thing is that if any cell in the body is deprived of oxygen then there will be discoloration. Skin color is a byproduct of metabolism as well as nutrition. Vitiligo is caused because of liver and pancreas illness. And skin color is also determined based on the concentration of carbon in the melanocytes. you see Sudanese people and Somalians so dark... Read More that they give off a blue-ish hue, that's due to their nutrition of high cholorophyl which is found in plants. theese Western medical scientists have studied the African for centuries and were able to isolate the carbon (CHO) chemical and utilize it in a way that would turn white rats jet black when injected or a person with no skin pigment or kinky hair Black. You need to also listen to Dr. Jewel Pookrum, Dr Sebi and Dr Llaila O. Afrika
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 6:16pm July 2
If any cell in the body does not recieve oxygen, it dies. The reason you turn blue is because there is no oxygen bound to ferric hemoglobin in the red blood cells, so they fail to turn red because they are not oxidized. It really has nothing to do with individual cells.
Metabolism is an umbrella term that incorporates nutrition. The liver and pancreas are both active in the digestion of food (catabolism). Different disorders can result in different skin colors. They can also result in the discoloration of urine and fecal waste.
"-CHO" is a acyl functional group called an aldehyde. Acyl groups are some of the most important molecules in metabolism. A free-roaming oxygen species like you are suggesting is extremely dangerous and can cause damage to many cells. ... Read More
I'm not sure where you are going with the chlorophyl thing, but you should note that there is nothing unique about anything you mentioned. All humans share the vast majority of genetic information.
Sincere Allah
Sincere Allah at 6:31pm July 2
all i have 2 say is the story of Yacub is real!
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 6:34pm July 2
Metabolism (catabolism and anabolism) is what keeps us going, functioning. Like you say when a cell doesn't get oxygen it dies, true. My statement was that when a cell doesn't get ENOUGH oxygen it discolors, and hemoglobin, which makes blood blue, reacts to oxygen when it is outside the body and turns it red.
Western medical scientists have been ... Read Moreable to isolate Carbon in the CHO chain, and we all know that Carbon isn't found alone in nature and always found with Oxygen and Hydrogen and anything that is isolated and concentrated in the laboratory becomes by definition a drug, and utilize its electric properties and found out what made Black, Black.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 6:36pm July 2
You know that the bottom surface of space shuttles now use an all black covering? Why is that? Because they know the heat resistance that carbon has in conjuntion with melanin. So they used pure melanin (carbon) to coat the bottom of the shuttles.
Also not every person has the same genetic background accessible. The Aboriginese are the only race of people who have their entire genetic blueprints accessible and the African has the greatest genetic potential.
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 6:52pm July 2
Carbon is never found isolated in nature because of it's valence electrons. This is the same for every other element on the periodic table. The aldehyde group you are talking about is a naturally occurring in many forms, including molecules with nitrogen and even metals. "Carbon" is not a drug, and it does not make anything turn black.
Hemoglobin makes blood red, which is why arteries carrying oxygenated blood from the lungs to the body are red, and veins carrying deoxygenated blood from the body back to the lungs are blue.
Melanin is not "carbon." Melanin is not used to coat the hull of the space shuttle. All humans share the same genetic blueprint with minor variations in several genes. The difference is negligible. ... Read More
I feel bad cramming Ra's comment boxes up, but, hey, it happens. Sorry Ra.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 7:00pm July 2
Okay you know your shit my man but you are very mistaken about Carbon and Melanin.
Prove that Carbon and Melanin do not work in conjunction to make Black Blak. The high concentration of Carbon is what makes Africans so dark, we know that because geographically where they live they have to be dark and realize that the Sun plays a vital role.
They do use melanin, pure melanin, which is black, because melanin has a great heat capcity up to 1500 degrees I believe.... Read More
It seems that the Western Medical Science has confused you and your indoctrination of their science has you believing half truths and lies. Though you are correct about the arteries and veins, but when blood hits the surface and reacts with oxygen it turns red.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 7:02pm July 2
We know globin is a pigment. Bilirubin is a pigment that makes feces brown, so on and so forth. You are right on some things but I've that all before I've taken courses in biology and Anatomy and Physiology. So I know some shit too lol
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 7:07pm July 2
You know the saying that we are Carbon-based beings, well that's only half true. Not true, Whites are "Carbon-based" and Africans are Carbon beings. They are Carbon copies, not like the orginal.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 7:15pm July 2
Oh and about the point that Carbon isn't found in nature due to its valene elctrons, that was insightful but not important, see I was making the point that since NO element can be found sigularly in nature and is always with other elements that when we think we are taking Vitamin C, we are just taking Ascorbic Acid. Vitamin C is found with other ... Read MoreVitamins in nature. So these scientists isolate these elements and concentrate them, which is a drug by definition. This supported my claim about Carbon being used sigularly to create jet black rats or make an all black bottom surface for space shuttles.
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 7:22pm July 2
Your blood makes contact with oxygen through gas exchange in the lungs. It's called breathing. You inhale oxygen, you exhale carbon-dioxide. I'm not sure what else needs to be said.
Bilirubin is old, degraded hemoglobin. Muscle tissue uses myoglobin, which is why we call it "red meat."
The way a molecule bends light is what we perceive as "color." Not to mention, nothing black is black, since any object that reflects black light is not black. ... Read More
"Melanin" is a general term given to a family of chemicals that are used by animals, plants, and microorganisms as a pigment. The brown-black melanin you are talking about contains a carboxylic acid (COOH), not an aldehyde (CHO). This type of melanin can bend light in certain ways depending on how long of a chain it forms (which depends on genes and sun exposure). There are many different types of melanin that can create different colors.
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 7:43pm July 2
A drug, by definition, has nothing to do with concentration, or any other type of equilibrial result of it's derivation (and this includes where, as in a lab or in your large intestine). This does not support your claim that melanin is painted onto the space shuttle, and even if your definition is correct, I don't know how it would support that claim. I find it kind of alarming that someone would believe something like that in 2009.
Here is a picture of a carbon atom:
http://blogontheuniverse.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/carbon_atom.gif
... Read More
Here is a picture of several melanins, drawn out in their chemical structures:
http://www.physics.uq.edu.au/cmp/Images/melanin_monomers.gif
A vitamin is not an element. I don't see the point in the last comment.
I'm not sure you know the fundamental concepts behind some of the topics you are bringing up, let alone describe what is and what is not a carbon based being.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 7:53pm July 2
Okay no need to be condescending. I overstand that when the gas exchange takes place then blood come into contact with oxygen. What I am speaking of is when blood comes into contact with oxygen unnaturally I.e. a cut, or open wound. We all know blood isn't purely "blood" its parts water and parts plasma, and even plasma is comprised of particles and other chemicals.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 7:55pm July 2
Black is the embodiment of every color on the electromagnetic spectrum. The black that I was speaking of, PURE BLACK, no brown, is CHO, the COOH is a deriviation of the CHO molecule chain. Melanin is a general term used to describe a family of chemicals that animals, plants and huemans use to synthesize their energy from the Sun. Just like chorophyll which is a form of melanin or "plant melanin" is what plants use to get their energy from the Sun.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 7:56pm July 2
I know this and overstand this. The point I am making, ONCE AGAIN, is that Carbon is found in coal, pure oil, and the like. Of course you know this already, but this is the point, African people's melanin, or Carbon, is what they use, what they need to stay protected from the sun. Not all races of people can utilize Carbon in the way the African ... Read Morecan. Why is that? Because their melanin, or COOH, and the other molecular chains isn't suited to handle it. You already explained this partially so you know this I'm sure. If white light comes into contact with black light, then the white light is lost.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 7:57pm July 2
The Black light, or dark matter, is the first light and our eyes have been adapted to see only certain colors on the EMS, and hear certain wavelengths of sound. See melanin, using the general term, is in found in the ears of the African, the walls and mucosa layers of the vagina, the pineal (which carries a depth far beyond normal comprehension) in... Read More their internal organs, eyes, so on and so forth, it is because of that, as you have stated earlier, that they are able to receive emissions of light on the spectrum that other races cannot, hear wavelengths of sound that other races cannot, and are more receptive to music therapy where certain notes create vibrations that a particular organ or organs identify and vibrate with in order to heal. African Holistic Sciences is older and precedes Western medicine and they stole it and molded it with their superstitions and beliefs to make it suit them, just like they did with African spirituality, but that's another topic entirely.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 8:10pm July 2
See we cannot argue these because you are on the mundane and I am on the metaphysical. Though you have good points and even pictures *clasp* it still falls short of actually disproving my claims. I know a Vitamin is not an element I never said it was, I was giving an example. A drug by definition IS the isolation and concentration of a particular ... Read Moreelement. This may not fit your connotative definition but if you know anything about lab work then you should know that. Marijuana was hybridized and chemically re-engineered with the THC molecule chain which makes it so addictive, the chemicals in melanin bond to it, being that it is a free radical, and is harder to break. Covalent bond come to mind? All you are really doing is supporting lies and half truths, the draw a picture and tell us this is what H2O looks like and we believe it.
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 8:34pm July 2
Carbon is also found in diamonds and milk. A diamond is actually just crystallized carbon. I don't see your point.
Humans do not derive any energy through melanin. If anything, melanin in the skin prevents the energy transfer of sunlight to the body by sheltering vitamin D precursors from UV ray exposure.
Plants get energy through photosynthesis, first starting with chlorophyl, you are right. I'm not sure why you choose to call it melanin, though. There is no physiological similarity to name two different proteins the same.... Read More
If I wanted to be condescending, I would have responded to your comment about being lied to by western medicine and the classes you took.
I was just responding with basic concepts of general sciences. These concepts are derived from observation, applied to the scientific method, reinforced by experimental data, and subjected to criticism. I do not believe you can say the same for the major points in your argument.
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 8:38pm July 2
"Race" is a social construct and an abstract figment of the human mind. The term has no meaning in any biological sense because it is not found in nature.
"The black that I was speaking of, PURE BLACK, no brown, is CHO, the COOH is a deriviation of the CHO molecule chain."
That's backwards. For a polymer to be made, the COOH must be reduced to a CHO group. I am not sure if you understand what you are talking about.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 8:47pm July 2
Actually the condescension came when you made the point about breathing.
And huemans, man of color, do derive their energy from the sun. That same lie about melanin preventing energy transfer of light is the same thing my AnP 2 prof told me and she could not prove that African's having high pigmentation or high Caron concentration allowed for ... Read Morethat energy to be synthesized in their skin. I also recommended that she go out in the sun with me to see who got sun burned first, she was white, and refused and laughed it off. She has been a prof in her field of Biology and Chemistry for well over 30 + years and couldn't give me an answer, but you sit here and defend it, even when the perpetrators try to cover up and defend their bed of lies. Africans have an abundance of vitamin D. And true Diamonds have carbon as well, I never said they did not, thing is most things on this planet have carbon. And look at this, where did the diamond come from? Hmm? You think diamonds just come about in the
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 8:50pm July 2
state that you see them in? what is the precursor of a diamond? right, black coal. Now going back to the point about humans not deriving any energy from the sun, well man of color, does, but it isn't his PRIMARY means of energy regeneration. Black skin, even dark brown and the shades, hold in light longer than the lighter variations. This is true, right? Right. That's why a jet black African can go without sunlight exposure and still have an abundance of vitamin d store within his/her body.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 8:55pm July 2
Western science is nothing but generalization. If there was no generalization there would be no science. They still don't have a cure for the so called Flu. No cure for Diabetes, no cure for Cancer, no cure for Aids, no cure for Sickle Cell Anemia, and the list goes on. So you are going to sit there and defend it when the medicine of the African, ... Read Morewhom I share a bloodline with and enzymes to digest the food they eat in my stomach, has the cure for every dis-ease known to man? African Holistic medicine has cured the so called Flu, Diabetes, AIDS (which is nothing but a GENERALIZATION and COMBINATION of other dis-eases erroneously blamed on a virus and labeled AIDS), Cancer and so on and so forth. Oh yes, it has been done. But no, the Western Science has it that there are no cures, only treatments and why is that? Because the pharmaceutical companies want money. How profitable is it to just give someone the cure when you can have them keep coming back for more and more putting more money
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 9:02pm July 2
your pocket with each prescription? Hmm, VERY. The high metal content in the pills is what's keeping us sick even when we think we are well. Western Medicine dismisses the fact that it is nutrition that keeps us alive and NOT medicine. It is what we put into our bodies that determines our well being, but since black people do not know this they ... Read Morerely upon the Western Medical system to save them from themselves, not realizing that we have a system that our ancestors created to keep us well. We eat everyone else's food but our own. We don't even know what the hell we're supposed to be eating, but junk. Soul food clogging the arteries and killing us, giving us hypertension, diabetes mellitus, heart attacks and the like. People rely too heavily on the convenience of medicine and always need a quick fix. African Holistic Medicine is OUR medicine and OUR heritage and we need to EMBRACE it and stop being so ignore-ant and discover who we are
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 9:03pm July 2
"Western science is nothing but generalization. If there was no generalization there would be no science. They still don't have a cure for the so called Flu. No cure for Diabetes, no cure for Cancer, no cure for Aids, no cure for Sickle Cell Anemia, and the list goes on. So you are going to sit there and defend it when the medicine of the African, ... Read Morewhom I share a bloodline "
who doesn't have a bloodline that extends back into Africa?
there are over 200 viruses associated with the flu. And the flu mutates every year, which is why we have new vaccines.
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 9:04pm July 2
"Now going back to the point about humans not deriving any energy from the sun, well man of color, does, but it isn't his PRIMARY means of energy regeneration. "
please describe the chemical pathway that derives energy from the sun.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 9:04pm July 2
i mean directly to them, every other race is so far removed that they would not reap the benefits as potently as me or anyone closely related.
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 9:06pm July 2
explain the genetic mechanisms that would prevent one human from not reaping the benefits that you do?
by benefit, I assume you mean getting energy from the sun, which I have already asked you to explain.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 9:07pm July 2
Excuse me? The chemical pathway?
White light is absorbed into black skin. I do not follow
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 9:11pm July 2
Skin does not absorb light, which is the whole reason why melanin is there.
Continue.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 9:16pm July 2
This is my explanation.
As I have stated, which you chose not to acknowledge, people of other races, which technically there are only 4, do not reap the benefits (by benefits i mean energy) from the sun as EFFICIENTLY as me or people who more closely SHARE the bloodline with the African. Europeans are far removed by about 10,000 years and African ... Read MoreAmericans are by about 400 years, so by me saying this, that when the mutation occurred where the African who migrated to Europe became white, he genetically, because of the climate in Europe, became accustomed to his surroundings and the foods of his environment. The European experienced the Ice Age and lived on an "Ice Age" diet where everything needed to be cold in order to be eaten.
And for me to give you a genetic mechanism is exactly what people of the Western thought pattern want, actual proof that they can comprehend, since you don't understand it, it's false.
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 9:19pm July 2
I acknowledged your statement, I simply asked for an explanation.
How can you judge what I am able or unable to comprehend if you have not given an explanation? Articulating the details behind your argument should not be that difficult.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 9:20pm July 2
Okay i guess you haven't been paying attention this whole time, I have been saying that because of melanin and the high concentration presence of Carbon, the process of synthesis occurs differently in the African than it would the European.
It is the reason why someone with the complexion of Olajuwon could stay in the sun longer than Larry Byrd... Read More.
If there was melanin and Carbon present in a higher concentration, do you not think that Byrd could stand the sun just as long as Olajuwon who is as Black as they come?
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 9:21pm July 2
"Okay i guess you haven't been paying attention this whole time, I have been saying that because of melanin and the high concentration presence of Carbon, the process of synthesis occurs differently in the African than it would the European. "
Explain.
I understand the science behind a sunburn, but not this statement.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 9:28pm July 2
there you go again taking apart my argument instead of looking at the whole.
Alright.
The sun hits the skin, and the melanocytes are rapidly trying to compensate for the lack of UV protection by attempting to make more pigment to protect the skin, so what happens as a result? A sunburn.... Read More
As for someone with darker skin. The high concentration of Carbon allows them to be walking SPF 50's which protects from any sun damage. The African cannot sunburn, because they are constantly in the sun, their skin needs to be as dark as it is on a majority. Their particular type of melanin allows for them to sustain the excessive heat and retain the energy that sun, the white light, shines onto their Black skin.
Like I have also state, white light is absorbed into black skin.
White light is reflected, or not entirely absorbed into white skin, or the lighter complexioned skin, because of that lack of high Carbon concentration.
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 9:31pm July 2
You make several claims in every statement, you should be prepared to defend all of them, no matter where they are within the statement.
Your still not explaining anything. You're telling me about a sunburn. I have been asking you to explain the carbon part. What is it that the carbon is doing?
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 9:39pm July 2
Oh okay.
The Carbon is producing electricity in the body. It is absorbing the energy from the sun. Earlier we were discussing melanin. Well the pigment is the Carbon concentration. The melanocytes is what is producing the Carbon in the bodies of Africans.
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 9:46pm July 2
Melanin is not a mineral. It is a word used to describe a certain biological function. It is not the melanin that makes us Black, most think that the sun activates neurons in melanin and it is what makes us Black, this is not so. If you biochemically took apart the body of the African which would be classified as Bio-Chemistry. Melanin has no place... Read More. It cannot be found. Carbon determines the quality of life in all substances. If there is no Carbon, there is no life. Western medicine speaks of protein. What is protein? 1 of the 19 amino acids, the building blocks of life. I know for a fact that this is not a true statement because if protein was the building block of life, then what happened to the gorilla?
Eddie Bastidas
Eddie Bastidas at 9:51pm July 2
Hey I'm off to go get drunk, and I wouldn't mind finishing this conversation, but I'd rather punch myself in the nuts.
Do you honestly believe what you just said?
"Melanin is not a mineral. It is a word used to describe a certain biological function. It is not the melanin that makes us Black, most think that the sun activates neurons in melanin ... Read Moreand it is what makes us Black, this is not so. If you biochemically took apart the body of the African which would be classified as Bio-Chemistry. Melanin has no place. It cannot be found. Carbon determines the quality of life in all substances. If there is no Carbon, there is no life. Western medicine speaks of protein. What is protein? 1 of the 19 amino acids, the building blocks of life. I know for a fact that this is not a true statement because if protein was the building block of life, then what happened to the gorilla?"
Rodgerick McGee
Rodgerick McGee at 9:52pm July 2
That lived 180 years without eating anything that's contained protein? Unless you're going to say that the plants contained protein too. And Western science is always saying a bunch of things and we have no laboratories (Black people) to investigate those things. Then we have to swallow it hook line and sinker.
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