"what sympathy are the Occupy Wall Street folks going to get, if they start taking over buildings in order to provide shelter and work for themselves?"
Dear friends,
Recently, I questioned the effectiveness of the Occupy Wall Street Movement, in bringing change to our country.
Ultimately, in order for a group to sustain themselves, they have to acquire a means to produce their material means of survival. In other words, there's more to building community than people getting together and being nice to each other. Moreover, many of these people are basically destitute. Consequently, alien marauders can then move in and take advantage. That's what happened to African Americans after we fought with guns and freed ourselves during the North American Civil War or what's been called the First War of Black Liberation. (see Lloyd Hogan's Principles of Black Political Economy)
Instead of using such great energy to protest (and freeload), folks should combine to, for example, take over abandoned factory buildings (structures like that are abundant in this country), and organize both housing and business facilities. There are many carpenters, plumbers, and electricians who would surely help them. There may even be some artisans and others among them.
Please remember that the people themselves are the economy. That is, human beings both make and consume the products of their combined labor. It (the aforesaid economy) is not some mystical, anthropomorphic phenomenon that grows and recesses. That's a silly idea that is the kind of blather constantly spouted by North American so-called journalists and equally unprincipled college professors who defer any notion of integrity in their work, in order to keep their jobs.
So here another point is raised. That is, the type of "jobs", as it were, at which North Americans are most often employed, just as they are for the so-called journalists and professors just mentioned, are merely exercises in human acquiescence to superior authority. Worse yet, in order to endure the charade, folks alienate, not only themselves from their work, but themselves from themselves and their fellow workers. Ouch!
Additionally, it is here where the escape from all of the misery mentioned above, that is, drugs, sex, religion, you name it, take firm hold. People need to forget about themselves and life in general. This running from one's self is also essential, because being human is a very lonesome experience. After all, one can sleep beside another person for any number of years. Still, you are both lonely. After all, no one can eat for you or go to the bathroom for you. Of course, this escapism is very convenient and profitable for those who control the market that results from the products and services the aforementioned workers produce.
Hence, finding union with others is a way to alleviate some of the pain of lonesomeness. However, one has to be careful of the religious marauders. They prey on such folks. And so, the Occupy Wall Street Movement provides some positive union, but how long will it last, unless those folks establish plans for long term survival that doesn't require begging? And in an environment where poor people, like Tea Partyers, complain about the government wanting to tax the rich more, while, simultaneously, we see the US government, with its "Black" president, raiding Africa and the Middle East, claiming to be "liberators", what sympathy are the Occupy Wall Street folks going to get, if they start taking over buildings in order to provide shelter and work for themselves? That's what's been happening everywhere else. Will our government "help" Americans. as they did for the Egyptians and Libyans?
"Dare to struggle - dare to win" - Fredrick Douglass
G. Djata Bumpus
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
Is Quaddafy's Stand against White Supremacy and political Zionism his biggest offense? (originally posted 3/29/11)
“…should we not wonder who really wins with Quaddafy’s ouster?”
Dear friends,
While the African Holocaust, which is worldwide in its nature and scope, has been going on ever since Columbus’ first infamous voyage across the Ocean Sea, the cry for a United States of Africa is more necessary than ever.
Originally having been introduced by the great Marcus Garvey, then Drs. Kwame Nkrumah and W.E.B. DuBois, along with others, some 50-plus years ago, a concept that Quaddafy tried to re-introduce with the African Union two years ago (2009), Pan Africanism and its insistence upon a United States of Africa is the only valid philosophy for African peoples around the world.
After all, whether in New York City or Lagos, Nigeria, we will not be respected as a people until Africa is finally respected again, as it once was. Period! Moreover, now with so many African Americans drugging themselves with this “black president” nonsense, those who deny us our humanity everyday are wreaking havoc on the great continent.
Nevertheless, on the link below is an article by one Robert Downie, obviously, a C.I.A. – supported opinion maker, who tells of some of the generosity that Quaddafy has shown towards his African neighbors. The “analysis”, at least to me, leaves far too many questions. Therefore, it is extremely censored.
Still, in a time when the cowardly Obama snivels up to every right wing and political Zionist exploiter around, AFRICOM (the United States expansionist program that currently has the US military all over Africa), should we not wonder who really wins with Quaddafy’s ouster? After all, why does the US support Israel, a murderous enemy of humankind, as both of the aforementioned countries colluded with the former regime of apartheid South Africa, (now a neo-colony of European rulers and their offshoots in the Americas) with financial and technical resources?
G. Djata Bumpus
http://csis.org/blog/qaddafis-tangled-legacy-africa
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Dear friends,
While the African Holocaust, which is worldwide in its nature and scope, has been going on ever since Columbus’ first infamous voyage across the Ocean Sea, the cry for a United States of Africa is more necessary than ever.
Originally having been introduced by the great Marcus Garvey, then Drs. Kwame Nkrumah and W.E.B. DuBois, along with others, some 50-plus years ago, a concept that Quaddafy tried to re-introduce with the African Union two years ago (2009), Pan Africanism and its insistence upon a United States of Africa is the only valid philosophy for African peoples around the world.
After all, whether in New York City or Lagos, Nigeria, we will not be respected as a people until Africa is finally respected again, as it once was. Period! Moreover, now with so many African Americans drugging themselves with this “black president” nonsense, those who deny us our humanity everyday are wreaking havoc on the great continent.
Nevertheless, on the link below is an article by one Robert Downie, obviously, a C.I.A. – supported opinion maker, who tells of some of the generosity that Quaddafy has shown towards his African neighbors. The “analysis”, at least to me, leaves far too many questions. Therefore, it is extremely censored.
Still, in a time when the cowardly Obama snivels up to every right wing and political Zionist exploiter around, AFRICOM (the United States expansionist program that currently has the US military all over Africa), should we not wonder who really wins with Quaddafy’s ouster? After all, why does the US support Israel, a murderous enemy of humankind, as both of the aforementioned countries colluded with the former regime of apartheid South Africa, (now a neo-colony of European rulers and their offshoots in the Americas) with financial and technical resources?
G. Djata Bumpus
http://csis.org/blog/qaddafis-tangled-legacy-africa
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Why is Obama maintaining AFRICOM - and the war against Libya? (originally posted 8/3/11)
“He has an African name and purports to be African American. In other words, with such a ‘head of state’, I knew that that would be a strong basis for US multinational business to be able to open up markets in Africa.”
Dear friends,
Ever since he first started running for the presidential office, I have insisted that the only reason that Barack Obama was a good choice for the racist rulers of this country is: He has an African name and purports to be African American. In other words, with such a "head of state", I knew that that would be a strong basis for US multinational businesses to be able to open up markets in Africa.
After all, the days of European colonial rule are not that far in the past. Therefore, while China has opened up solid business relationships with a number of African countries, one can only imagine that some of the offshoots of the aforementioned European colonists, i.e., European American businesspeople, would find it difficult to meet welcoming arms there. I wonder why?
At any rate, after first using the flimsy excuse of fighting a “war on terror”, in early 2007, the person who was the president at the time, George W. Bush, instituted The United States Africa Command (USAFRICOM or AFRICOM).
However, Africans were not so lovey-dovey with the idea of having such a strong US military presence there. So, the headquarters of AFRICOM ended up being placed just outside of Stuttgart, Germany.
Nevertheless, AFRICOM has been involved in activities that make it apparent there is an ulterior motive for having military bases set up all over Africa’s 54 countries – oil.
Now, while some Black folks are concerned about the term “tar baby” being used in the same sentence as a reference to Barack Obama’s actions, at least to me, a much more important question is: Why is President Obama maintaining AFRICOM?
Additionally, why are Black journalists from around the country, who are meeting in Philadelphia beginning this week, wondering why, as a body, they are becoming more and more inconsequential, when African American people are not even informed about, for example, the actions of this president and inspired to demand meaningful representation from him?
Please check out the info on the link below. Cheers!
G. Djata Bumpus
http://peoplesworld.org/africom-and-the-libya-war/
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Dear friends,
Ever since he first started running for the presidential office, I have insisted that the only reason that Barack Obama was a good choice for the racist rulers of this country is: He has an African name and purports to be African American. In other words, with such a "head of state", I knew that that would be a strong basis for US multinational businesses to be able to open up markets in Africa.
After all, the days of European colonial rule are not that far in the past. Therefore, while China has opened up solid business relationships with a number of African countries, one can only imagine that some of the offshoots of the aforementioned European colonists, i.e., European American businesspeople, would find it difficult to meet welcoming arms there. I wonder why?
At any rate, after first using the flimsy excuse of fighting a “war on terror”, in early 2007, the person who was the president at the time, George W. Bush, instituted The United States Africa Command (USAFRICOM or AFRICOM).
However, Africans were not so lovey-dovey with the idea of having such a strong US military presence there. So, the headquarters of AFRICOM ended up being placed just outside of Stuttgart, Germany.
Nevertheless, AFRICOM has been involved in activities that make it apparent there is an ulterior motive for having military bases set up all over Africa’s 54 countries – oil.
Now, while some Black folks are concerned about the term “tar baby” being used in the same sentence as a reference to Barack Obama’s actions, at least to me, a much more important question is: Why is President Obama maintaining AFRICOM?
Additionally, why are Black journalists from around the country, who are meeting in Philadelphia beginning this week, wondering why, as a body, they are becoming more and more inconsequential, when African American people are not even informed about, for example, the actions of this president and inspired to demand meaningful representation from him?
Please check out the info on the link below. Cheers!
G. Djata Bumpus
http://peoplesworld.org/africom-and-the-libya-war/
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