Saturday, Oct. 11th
ANTI WAR RALLY!
Trinity College
300 Summit St.
Hartford, CT
Mather Quad
11:00am - 1:00pm
Sponsored by Trinity College Anti-War Coalition, La Voz Latina, Men of Color Alliance, Stop The Raids and Arab American Student Association
Speakers include:
Andrew Schneider, Director of the CT Chapter of American Civil Liberties Union
Jack Chatfield, Trinity College Associate Professor of History
Mike Alewitz, Muralist and Vietnam Anti-War Activist
Student speakers from Trinity College Anti-War Coalition, Arab American Student Association, Stop the Raids, La Voz Latina and MOCA

Live Performances by politcal spoken word artist Sagacity and hip hop artist Zee!

In a letter to Minister Stockwell Day, Vancouver-based women’s rights organizations including Women Against Violence Against Women, Philippine Women Centre of BC, Grassroots Women, Friends of Women in the Middle East - BC Chapter, Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women - Canada, and Vancouver Status of Women have written “We are specifically requesting that you suspend the removal order against the family until a decision on both their Humanitarian application and a decision on the Judicial Review of their Pre Removal Risk Assessment is made. We also ask you to look favourably upon their Humanitarian application and grant them permanent residency.”

These Vancouver-based groups join a growing campaign in Toronto in support of the Garcias including the YWCA of Canada, Amnesty International, National Association of Women and the Law, Elementary Teacher’s Federation of Ontario, Ontario Association of Interval and Transition Houses, Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres, Toronto City Women’s Alliance, Woman Abuse Council of Toronto, and others.

Ms. Garcia came to Canada with her children three years ago seeking protection from her violent ex-husband in Mexico. Despite finding that Ms. Rivas was indeed a survivor of violent abuse, the Immigration and Refugee board determined that she should receive adequate state protection in Mexico. However, the Federal Court of Canada has recently tossed aside at least six Immigration and Refugee Board decisions that found that Mexican women escaping domestic violence had adequate state protection in Mexico.

Ms. Garcia has now made the difficult decision to go into hiding rather than appear for her deportation and face further violence in Mexico. Her status as an undocumented woman has made her life even harder - constantly living under the fear of law enforcement and unable to access women’s centres and the victim services support and counselling she needs because Immigration Enforcement has recently been targeting these spaces in Toronto.

In their letter, the organizations have further stated “We further demand immediate implementation of a policy prohibiting immigration enforcement from entering into and/or executing deportation orders in women’s centres, sexual assault centers, shelters, and transition homes in order to ensure that women fleeing violence are able to access these critical services without fear of deportation.”

Full letter included below:

October 2, 2008

Stockwell Day
Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6
Phone: 613.995.1702, Fax: 613.995.1154

RE: Ms Isabel Garcia Rivas (Client ID No. 5584 3851)

Our organizations are writing you out of grave concern regarding the case of Ms. Isabel Garcia Rivas and her children. We have been informed by the group No One Is Illegal that Isabel Garcia is a single mother currently residing in Toronto who is fleeing domestic violence from her ex-husband in Mexico and is now under a deportation order from Canada.

Isabel came to Canada with her children 3 years ago seeking protection from her violent ex-husband in Mexico. Despite finding that Ms. Rivas was indeed a survivor of violent abuse, the Immigration and Refugee board determined that she should receive adequate state protection in Mexico and heartlessly denied Ms. Rivas’ claim for asylum

By issuing an abrupt and last minute deportation notice, Immigration Enforcement ensured that Isabel and her lawyer did not have time for a fair review at the Federal Court for a stay on her removal. This Federal Court judicial review would have been critical in her case in light of the fact that the Federal Court has recently tossed aside at least six Immigration and Refugee Board decisions that found that Mexican women escaping domestic violence had adequate state protection in Mexico.

According to a Toronto Star article entitled Reprieve For Abused Mexican Women, “The Federal Court berated the board for its blinkered insensitivity. ‘Mexican authorities do not adequately protect women against violence and abuse,’ the court said.”
(www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/448804)

“Unbearably high levels of violence against women continue to exist in Mexico,” a UN report quoted by the court said. “Police corruption continues to be a major problem and many police officers are involved in kidnapping and extortion.”

Isabel has made the difficult decision to go into hiding rather than appear for her deportation and face further violence in Mexico. This is not her fault, rather it is the fault of the failing Immigration and Refugee system that is allowing huge numbers of women fleeing violence to be further victimized.

Her status as an undocumented woman has made her life even harder - constantly living under the fear of law enforcement and unable to access women centres and the victim services support and counselling she needs because Immigration Enforcement has recently been targeting these spaces in Toronto.

In light of the above, we are specifically requesting that you use your Ministerial discretion under section 25 (1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and suspend the removal order against the family, until a decision on both their Humanitarian application and a decision on the Judicial Review of their Pre Removal Risk Assessment is made. We also ask you to look favourably upon their Humanitarian application and grant them permanent residency.

We further demand immediate implementation of a policy prohibiting immigration enforcement from entering into and/or executing deportation orders in women’s centres, sexual assault centers, shelters, and transition homes in order to ensure that women fleeing violence are able to access these critical services without fear of deportation.

Sincerely, Women Against Violence Against Women, Philippine Women Centre of BC, Grassroots Women, Friends of Women in the Middle East - BC Chapter, Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women - Canada, Vancouver Status of Women

Sponsored by Left Turn Magazine, ColorLines Magazine, Bitch Magazine, Spread Magazine, Free Speech Radio News, Make/Shift, and other radical and independent media projects from around the US, the Grassroots Media Justice Tour is an exciting movement-building opportunity. Beginning in Fall of 2008, the tour will bring performances, workshops, and inspiration to towns and cities in the South.

The tour seeks to communicate about current struggles for justice and liberation, from criminal justice organizing in Jena to sex worker activism, from resistance to imperialism in Iraq and Latin America to resistance to school privatization, from immigration rights movements to post-Katrina organizing in public housing. The tour also seeks to connect communities of resistance, and to build relationships between grassroots activists and independent media.

Tour Schedule:

October 12 – Gainesville, FL
Civic Media Center, 1021 W. University Ave
For more info: samantha@civicmediacenter.org
Workshops at 3 and 5, Presentation at 7 p.m.

October 13 – Pensacola FL
More info: Open Books
3 p.m. “Pressed for Knowledge” Workshop: University of West Florida, Room 191 in Building 36, the Communication Arts building, 11000 University Pkwy, Pensacola, FL 32514, Sponsored by The Voyager
7 p.m. Evening event, Center for Social Justice, 1603 N. Davis Hwy., Pensacola, sponsored by Movement for Change

October 14 – New Orleans, LA
Seventh Ward Neighborhood Center, 1943 Pauger St (at Urquhart), New Orleans, LA, 7pm
Co-Sponsored by New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival and Mondo Bizarro
More info: emily@nolahumarights.org

October 17 - San Antonio, TX
Workshop and Evening event Sponsored by the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center - Esperanza Peace & Justice Center - Home

October 18 – Houston, TX
Rice Cinema on the Rice University Campus, entrance #8, University and Stockton Drive
Workshops: 2 p.m., Presentation: 7:30 p.m.
Sponsors: Houston Media and Sedition Books
More info: Tish.stringer@gmail.com

October 19-20 – Austin, TX
Sponsored by Skillshare Austin
Oct 19: Workshops, details TBA, Rhizome Collective
Oct 20: 7 p.m. Monkeywrench Books, 110 E. North Loop, Austin, Texas 78751

October 21 - San Antonio, TX
Workshop Sponsored by the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center - Esperanza Peace & Justice Center - Home

October 22 – Denton, TX
8 to 10 p.m., J&J’s Pizza, 118 West Oak Street, on the square
Web Presence workshop, 2-3:30 pm, Texas Woman’s University library
More info: Ellsquid@gmail.com

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a queer black trouble-maker from Durham, North Carolina. She is the founder of BrokenBeautiful Press, a free and freedom producing publishing portal. Alexis writes for a number of national magazines including Left Turn, Make/Shift and Curve. She is on the editorial committee of SisterPages, the national publication of Sisters of Color Ending Sexual Assault and is a founding member of UBUNTU a women of color/survivor led coalition committed to ending sexual violence and practicing sustainable transformative love. Alexis also works with Southerners on New Ground, SpiritHouse and Critical Resistance. On the tour, Alexis will lead workshops in which participants create collective Zines in 1 or 2 hours and will also present new poetic work.

Hadassah Hill is a Brooklyn-based queer femme writer, creative, and activist who performs under the name Axon D’Luxe. She has worked in independent print, web, theater and audio media production for 10 years, and is currently the Art Director of the award-winning $pread Magazine and is producing her second album and a graphic novel. She is committed to empowering individuals to speak for themselves using new technologies, and to creating representations of the diverse communities she embodies using self-taught multimedia techniques. She uses her experience learning technologies to promote and create her own projects to fund her expertise, and teaches a two-hour D.I.Y. New Media workshop on audio and web production and internet promotion.

Her workshops teach individuals and activist collectives how to use freeware and shareware technologies [ie, no-cost software] to:
1) record and edit audio for online distribution
2) name, create [yup, how-to code!], and publicize a web page
3) utilize technologies and networking to promote their projects.
She provides learners with a handout and a webpage full of links and tutorials, as well as inspiration and skills!

Jordan Flaherty is a writer and community organizer based in New Orleans. He was the first journalist with a national audience to write about the Jena Six case, and played an important role in bringing the story to national attention. His post-Katrina writing in ColorLines Magazine shared a journalism award from New America Media for best Katrina-related coverage in the Ethnic press. Jordan is an editor of Left Turn Magazine and has written for a range of publications, from the Village Voice to Clarin in Argentina and Germany’s Die Zeit. He has been published in several anthologies, including the South End Press books Live From Palestine and What Lies Beneath: Race, Katrina and the State of the Nation, and the upcoming AK Press book Red State Rebels. He has appeared as a guest on a wide range of television and radio shows, including CNN Morning, Anderson Cooper 360, CNN Headline News, Democracy Now, Radio Nation on Air America, News and Notes on NPR, and many other outlets. He has also produced news segments for Al Jazeera and TeleSur.

Puck Lo is a radio producer, reporter and writer who works for National Radio Project’s weekly radio show, “Making Contact,” and the world’s only worker-run, international daily newscast- Free Speech Radio News. She’ll be going to Japan this summer to report on the G8 Summit in Hokkaido, and to build links between Asian-American and North American anti-authoritarian people of color, and East Asian activists. In 2005, she covered the World Trade Organization protests in Hong Kong, and reported for Indymedia during the Republican National Convention protests in New York City in 2004. Her political work includes organizing against state violence and dismantling the prison-industrial-complex. She works with Critical Resistance- Oakland, and INCITE! Bay Area, as well as other radical queers and communities of color for self-determination to end all forms of oppression.
On the tour she’ll be training people on how to produce short radio features and headlines for Free Speech Radio News, and longer documentary pieces for “Making Contact.”

Jesse Muhammad: Energetic, inspiring and effective are just some of the words audiences have used to describe the writings and messages delivered by writer, news reporter, artist, publicist and photojournalist Jesse Muhammad. Brother Jesse, a native of Houston, Texas, started contributing to the Final Call Newspaper in 2004 and was appointed as its Southwest Regional Correspondent. In 2005, after receiving rave reviews for his reporting on stories that mainstream media tends to over look, he was appointed as an official Staff Writer for the FCN, which is the only national Black-owned newspaper. Since that time, he has gained worldwide recognition for his consistent coverage of Hurricane Katrina and the continuing struggle of its survivors. In 2007, he was credited with bringing national and international attention to the case of the “Jena Six”, and helped to mobilize the 50,000 plus attendees to the historic “Jena Six” rally in September of that year. He has been a featured commentator on various television and radio shows in Houston, New York, Chicago, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Louisiana, and as far as Ghana. His writings are now read in many print and online newspapers and magazines throughout the world. In 2007, he became the co-founder and editor of For Youth Teens and Young Adults (FYTYA.com), which is a Houston based newspaper that highlights the accomplishments of high school and college students. As a member of the Nation of Islam, he has served in the youth and information departments. He is also the representative of the Ministry of Information for the Houston Millions More Movement Local Organizing Committee.

Jen Angel has been a writer and media activist for over 15 years. Jen’s publishing history includes Clamor, publishing the Zine Yearbook, and editing MaximumRockNRoll. Since leaving Clamor, she has worked as a producer for KPFA Radio, and a publicist and tour manager through the cooperative booking agency, Aid & Abet.

Demand Freedom for Our Political Prisoners and POWs!

Friday, October 10, 2008 @ 12 Noon

Moving Agitational Picket
1st Ave. from 42nd to 47th Sts.
(meet at Dag Hammarskjold: 47th St. & 1st Ave. at noon)

Bring your banners, signs, noisemakers, drums, whistles, etc.

Simultaneous delegation to United Nations for meeting inside UN

Evening Concert to Benefit the Prisoners @ the Knitting Factory @ 74 Leonard St., NYC
8 p.m. until . . .

Saturday, October 11, 2008 @ 12 Noon
Rally at the Harlem State Office Building (Corner of 126th St. & A.C. Powell Blvd.)
March through Harlem @ 1 p.m.

Closing Rally in Morningside Park @ 3 p.m.
Between 112th & 114th near Morningside Ave. entrances

For more information: nycjericho@gmail.com • 718-853-0893 • 206-888-4001

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by the United States of America, New York University’s Institute of African American Affairs and Africana Studies Program is hosting an international symposium entitled Slave Routes: Resistance, Abolition and Creative Progress. This symposium, supported by UNESCO’s Slave Routes Project, will be co-sponsored by NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge, the Organization of Women Writers of Africa, Inc. and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, with additional support provided by the African Diaspora Slave Routes Organizing Committee and the Department of African American Studies at Syracuse University. The symposium will be held at New York University and other sites in the New York metropolitan area October 9 - 11, 2008.

Distinguished scholars, writers, musicians, visual artists, and organizers from the international community will convene at NYU to discuss slavery, the slave trade and its consequences, in plenary, panels, conversations, performances and film/video screenings including:

Opening Plenary on Thursday, October 9th with Maya Angelou, Rex Nettleford, Amiri Baraka, Mary Frances Berry, Ali Mazrui and others

Aime Cesaire Tribute on Friday, October 10th with Maryse Conde, Keith David, Clayton Eshleman and others

Drums, Horns, Strings Benefit Concert on Saturday, October 11th with Randy Weston, Fred Ho,

Muhal Richard Abrams, Aniyikaye (Yoruba drum & voice ensemble), Bill Cole Ensemble,

Jayne Cortez and the Firespitter Band, Nat Dove and others

CONTACT: The Institute of African American Affairs 212 998-IAAA (4222)
41 East 11th Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10003

Free & Open to the Public, except for the concert

A month after Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin trashed community organizers as a way to attack Barack Obama, activists and individuals around the country have responded by raising more than $7,500 for the “Community Organizers Fight Back Fund.” The Chicago-based Midwest Academy is managing the fund and will use the money to train future organizers.

During her acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention Sept. 3, Palin remarked that being the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, was “sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.” Former New York Governor George Pataki chimed in as well, saying, “What in God’s name is a community organizer? I don’t even know if that’s a job.”

As one prominent Republican after another mocked Obama’s three years of working with low-income residents on the South Side of Chicago in the 1980s, irate community organizers rapidly mobilized.

“These were pretty personal attacks. That’s the work I do every day,” recalls John Raskin, a 27-year-old community organizer with Housing Conservation Coordinators, a group that works for affordable housing on the West Side of Manhattan. Community organizers work together with individuals and families to take local collective action and win improvements on issues facing their neighborhoods.

Raskin immediately contacted other organizers and formed the Community Organizers of America (COA). A website was quickly put up, organizersfightback.wordpress.com, and hundreds of comments poured in expressing solidarity with community organizers of all stripes.

Five days after COA was formed, a call for donations to the ironically named “Sarah Palin Action Fund for Organizer Training” was made. COA’s efforts raised $2,600, which has been donated to the Midwest Academy’s general fund to train community organizers.

The Midwest Academy bills itself as a “national training institute committed to advancing the struggle for social, economic and racial justice.”

Jackie Kendall, the executive director of the academy, says that the money will most likely be used for a combination of subsidizing people going to its training programs and providing some of the stipend money for up to 40 participants in summer internship programs.

Activists attending the training will learn about a variety of organizing skills from working with coalitions to successful recruiting tactics to strategies to hold elected officials accountable.

Rae Wright, an organizer with Citizen Action Illinois, a public interest organization, attended Midwest Academy’s internship program in 2007. “It taught me not only how to be a stronger organizer, but to be a stronger peer and leader in the communities that I am invested in,” she says.

The next training session will be from Oct. 6 to 10 in Chicago, with costs per participant ranging from $775 to $1,050.

According to the academy, individuals on the email list of True Majority, a liberal organization founded by Ben Cohen of Ben and Jerry’s Homemade Ice Cream, contributed the most money for the fund after a plea for donations was announced to their listserv.

The McCain-Palin campaign has tried to downplay the mocking of community organizers, saying that they play an “important role.” Peter Feldman, a spokesman for the campaign, wrote in an email to The Indypendent Sept. 18: “Gov. Palin’s remark was in response to the Obama campaign’s belittling of her executive experience. There is certainly a place as demonstrated by Gov. Palin’s own record of civic involvement, but Barack Obama’s role as a community organizer pales in comparison to Gov. Palin’s demonstrated experience.”

Jackie del Valle, the lead housing organizer for New Settlement Apartments, a Bronx-based housing advocacy group, and a member of COA, says that “it was clear that [the Republicans] didn’t have an understanding at all of what community organizers were.”

Around 18,000 members of Facebook, the social networking website, have joined groups with names like “Community Organizers Against Sarah Palin” and “We Are All Community Organizers” speaking out against the GOP’s attacks on organizers.

“We have to hold the officials who use this sort of language accountable,” Raskin says. “[We need] to make sure that when you attack community organizers, you can’t get away with that.” COA plans on sending a “thank-you” letter to Palin after its $10,000 fundraising drive is over, commending her for “raising awareness of the vital role of community organizing.”

Via The Indypendent

As activists involved in organizing against the 2008 RNC and past conventions, we believe it is important to learn from our experiences in order to grow stronger, smarter and more effective as a movement. As part of this effort, we are issuing this call for submissions to an upcoming, book-length record of the 2008 RNC protests in St. Paul, Minnesota.

We are looking for diverse content, including but not limited to: group accounts and personal recollections of planning, action and police repression; constructive analyses of strategy and tactics; academic essays; legal discussions of arrests, repression and court cases; and photographs, artwork and video stills.

We want this record to be as comprehensive as possible, covering all stages of planning and execution, all sites of protest, all tactics and targets, all protest roles and radical movements. In order for this to be a true people’s history of the RNC, we are committed to including the accounts of women, LGBTQ folks and people of color.

Submissions/contributions are due by Tuesday, January 20, 2009. For more information, contact info@rncbook.org or visit www.rncbook.org.

This epistle is for all those who have been influenced by the current mainstream ideology that it is reprehensible or an act of individual imperfection or weakness to “blame the white man” for the problems facing Africa and Black America. I (and this is the first time I have used first person to write an article on Afromerica) am going to prove that when it is all over, said and done, and the secrets of life are revealed to men, that the act of the Mid-Atlantic slave trade, slavery and organized racial oppression in America, and the issues facing Africa and Black America to this day and every day after this, is the direct and indirect result of white domination and not of Black inadequacy or incompetence or of anything we have done or not done to and/or for ourselves.

Psychological slavery is the act of obscuring a person’s mind to the point that that person cannot think for themselves but are dependent on someone to tell them what and how to think, which in turn influences their actions toward self-oppression. In pre-Civil Rights era, many (and I mean many) of our parents and grandparents were unconsciously conditioned to believe they were mentally (as in intellectually inept) inferior and too characteristically flawed to associate and compete within the white society. And honestly, many of the older generation of so-called Black political leaders still ideological walk through life subconsciously acting from this mindset to the point they continue to demand equal treatment based on the concept of Blacks being incapable of competing in this society, or on the “playing field,” thus fulfilling the act of self-oppression.

Granted, there is a difference between individual competence and collective competence and this society was supposedly built on the individual bases when pertaining to accomplishment, however, when it becomes a collective matter, Blacks are partitioned collectively thus treated collectively, and this is how Black leaders lay the foundation for their battles, on a collective bases. Nevertheless, rarely are Blacks judged on individual ability except in small circles of society, such as a small business, entertainment, the classroom, or membership club. All other times Black people is simply Black people.

With that said, when people are either blatantly (as in open racism such as Jim Crow) or by implication (as in negative media images, stereotypes, institutional studies and research data) continuously told indirectly that there is a flaw in their character or way of life, that people will subconsciously absorb this view of themselves and begin to accept it as true, thus inadvertently act the part and expect nothing more than that view or stereotype. For example, if I wanted my wife to hate a particular person, all I have to do is prove to her that that person is worthy of hating.

Now, in this scenario, I am the instigator, I am the agitator, and likewise there are two kinds of Black people in this country, those who are hated and those who are influenced to hate them. Those who are influenced to hate other Blacks are those likened to the scenario of my wife, in whom I have convinced to hate someone I hate and who she does not know and obviously have not the mind of her own to discern whether or not she should be hating them. This is the problem with Blacks who believe that we should not blame the white man but disregard the current remnants of history and blame ourselves. Under the implementation of psychological slavery, they have been encouraged by the white man to hate or be ashamed of other Blacks and their behavior and to criticize them instead.

Not only are Blacks hated and criticized by other Blacks, but whites hate them also, and that much more. The Blacks who have fallen to this state of mental perdition have not the ability to see that it is not us that have the problem, but their hatred and disdain for us as a direct and/or indirect result of the malicious instigations of the white man.

Now, the white man is not one white man per se, but a collaboration of many who operate a system designed by him and for him to get the best of what is available, i.e. politics. Not to say that other peoples of the country do not have access to these resources and lifestyles, but the system is designed to serve him first and all others afterward. And this system has been this way for as long as this country has been and long as he has been in control.

Where the Black man comes into play is that, we have access to these resources and the same opportunities are available to us as they are to him, however, through a per-ordained system of survival of the fittest, these resources come as a given to a select hand-picked majority of white America. Oh sure, we can become doctors and lawyers and astronauts and scientist, but not without racial confrontation down the road and yet, more deliberately, it is expected of whites for whites to accomplish these things than it is for Blacks to.

And when we do accomplish these things, we are not called on as experts in these fields as are whites; instead, we become an example to all other Blacks, which fulfills the lie of equal opportunity; a credit to our race excuse to undermine the behaviors of all other (majority) Blacks. Truth is, whites are not yet ready to embraced Blacks as the innovative beings enough to trust their lives, futures, money and economic ventures to a Black mind. And the few who do make sure there is a white mind behind every Black one. In other words, a white person will go to a white doctor before a Black doctor, a white person will choose a white lawyer before a Black one, and a white person will invest in a white business before a Black business. This is reality, thus, it is the white man who continues to hold the reigns of equality in American society and has nothing to do with how well we do anything.

As long as he holds those reigns, it will be he who calls the shots and who makes the decisions, therefore leaving Blacks all that is second hand, afterward, and used. It is this reality that lays the relevance of actual equality on his shoulders: from who succeeds to who does not succeed. With this in mind, one can safely conclude that it is because of his design that things are the way they are in society, and that means all society, white society, minority society, and the issues facing Black society.

I can, and will forever, know that whatsoever things happen in my life, whether good or bad, are a direct result of the society in which I live and is done for the purpose of me surviving in my society, because no man can exist outside of his own society independently. For all that is within him permeates from without and if a man lives unaffected by his society, it still does not make him absolutely free. Even separate societies within the main society are considered by the main society as one in and of itself, such as Indian reservations and Amish compounds.

Now if my mental strength and individual accomplishments rest on and is judged by whether or not I believe the white man and his system has some control of my and every other Blacks faces’ path, then by experience alone I can confidently point to the white man and his system because I know this to be true, in fact, every step I take is to either avoid becoming like him or to fight off and resist his negations of me, my woman and my child, yet I do not allow this fight to alter my perception of anyone other than him in a negative light. He or I do not determine the outcome of my efforts, but my efforts are determined by its accomplishment and usefulness in society, whether it makes a difference for the good or the worst. Man cannot hinder truth or that which is destine, he can only hinder that which he can control. And as long as he can control what people think and how they think it, he can alter their beliefs, behavior, future and eventually their path.

When people (Black people) cannot comprehensibly realize that they are psychologically being used as experiments and impediments against the succession of their collective people, then they can never believe or know by their own ability, but by the ability extended to them (as in physical rights) by their scientific oppressors. In the scenario of my wife and the person I hate, if I use verifiable data, statistics, video surveillance and every other day make mention of and magnify to her the failures, weaknesses and flaws of that person, I know that eventually she will have a negative view of that person because I understand that she is not using her mind freely but is rather allowing me to use it for her to fulfill my own self-inconsistencies.

If it is a case of the inadequacies and short-comings of Blacks, or even their refusal to participate in the dismal system designed by the white man, (which is a more accurate reason for any Black lag), the problems of Black America, and Africa, are not ones brought about entirely or even absolutely by their own selves. This is ridiculous to believe. Individually, people make mistakes and stupid decisions and their lives are effected by the repercussions, but when an entire subculture of people are defined as being flawed by a society of people who have proven to be oppressive, dominating and liars, many red flags should rise about the authenticity of this claim. However, anyone under the influence of a mind control apparatus are convinced to dismiss what is true and rather except a more modern-day fabrication of reality and assume personal responsibility for the issues Black America and Africa continue to face.

It seems that when whites and other mainstream progressives use the argument that no whites today owned slaves and no Blacks today have ever been slaves so there is no legitimate reason for reparations or to dwell on the issues of slavery, it is not because they have an undefeatable argument that cannot be challenged with basic logic that the issue of reparations is not a major issue in Congress, no, or that slavery is irrelevant to today’s society. The reason reparations is not a major issue in Congress and is not and never will be taken seriously, is because first, whites hold a hatred for Blacks that will never allow them to concede or admit that the atrocities of slavery then and the after effects of it now is a direct result of the state of Black America today, which would lead to just reparations, and second, this would mean they have to own up to the fact that their revered founding fathers were pathological by nature, which would testify to their own pathological state today by their reverence of them.

Point in case, if my grandfather were a rapist and a child abuser and regardless of his actions I regarded him as this great man, that would give reason for anyone to question my moral character. So should I identify with this man or be ashamed of him? Regardless, he was my grandfather and that is the truth no matter how I coat it to someone else. Second, the reason slavery has been wished away, the effects diminished, and considered taboo by mainstream society is because they want to distance themselves from those particular actions of their forefathers yet claim the glory of their good deeds.

If they can hold high the good deeds of their forefathers, they make themselves look good and acceptable as a people, but if they dwell on the horrid details of slavery and the mind-sets of their forefathers, and psychologically make a connection to their behavior today, this would bring into question their sanity, as it would mine about my grandfather’s behavior. So they distance themselves from slavery and turn away from the after effects of it and condemn or debase anyone who brings it to the forefront.

When they can convince the very people effected by slavery that there were no after effects and everything negative that faces Black America today is the result of our own short-comings, low intellectual abilities, and incompetence, then they have won half the battle because they know that as long as some Blacks are asleep and go along with this claim so long as it makes them acceptable into the social status of white society, then if they give these believers position in society to berate the rest of Black America, eventually the remnants and evils of slavery will be forgotten and they and their conscience can rest easy. But this is far from reality.

What white America did to the Africans in Africa during the centuries of the Mid Atlantic slave trade; what they did to break the Africans once they got them here; what they did to the slaves in the centuries following and what they did 50 years ago to the mentally defeated previous generation, and what they are doing now to the current Black generation, will go down in history forever and is written in the book of the most High God as a testimony against them come the Day of Judgment, The same God they proclaim and have preached to Africans and the world. The same God they claim have set them free and given them the natural right to live and breath and the same God they use to sware before when they sit of the seats of justice judging the issues we face today.

I know that all men are created equal and that what one does during his life will reveal itself at life’s end. I also know that there is nothing that cannot be overcome in this world even if set before me intentionally. That is not the issue nor should it be for anyone. If I have done everything right to the best of my knowledge and still see injustice done to people like me, why should I blame them or myself? Opportunity comes, life has its hurdles and people are either made or broken by the things that try them as people. The problem is living in the after effects of a society built on slavery and realistically understanding that the advancements of Africa and Black America are not wholly based on what we do collectively or individually because our ability to succeed are pure and given by nature, the advancements of Africa and Black America depends on how we defeat the one and only enemy we’ve ever had, the white man. So yes, I proudly blame the white man because I know it is not I with the problem.