Russell Brand makes brilliant Manifesto

Dear friends,

I saw the 10 minutes-long video interview on the link below, on Facebook. It was posted by the great social activist Cynthia McKinney.  In any case, rarely do we see anyone from Hollywood involved in anything that is really relevant, at least to me. Yet, Russell Brand delivers a statement here that makes it apparent that there is reason to keep fighting against human exploitation and oppression. Liberation!

G. Djata Bumpus
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Equality of Intellugence - Intellectual Emancipation

"Everybody wants to know something."

Dear friends,

I believe that there is an Equality of Intelligence (Intellectual Emancipation) among all humans, as, first of all, everybody wants to know something. If that were not the case, then gossip newspapers and TV shows like the National Inquirer and Entertainment Tonight would have been out of business long ago. With that in mind, the issue of what one learns or the speed at which s/he consumes any particular amount of information is solely based upon that person's interests, in terms of what s/he wants to know.

That's another reason that I protest grading in education (e.g., A through F). Because it shows nothing about what someone actually knows or how competent s/he is, it merely makes the excuse for how people are sorted out and classified for later use by those who sponsor our government and its agents/politicians, all of whom are legitimized, not by the vote, but trough the threat capacity of both the police and military.

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"Conspiracy Theory" concept was originally started by Republicans and their ilk

"Yet, all conspiracies aren't even bad."

Dear friends,

In light of the recent revelation regarding Osama bin Laden's demise, even everyday African Americans are now using the term "conspiracy theorists" that was initially popularized by Republicans and their ilk, back in the Seventies, after the Watergate debacle. It was during that time that books began to surface about the atrocities by the C.I.A. and other governmental agencies, including how the Federal Reserve Banking system was formed. Additionally, classic books from the late-Fifties/early-Sixties like Cyrus Vance's Hidden Persuaders and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World Revisited, both excellent exposes on the advertising industry, were now conveniently lumped in with books by psychos who had found publishers who were willing to distribute drivel about space aliens living in cereal boxes and the like.

Still, what sane person is suggesting that bin Laden is alive?That's crazy! The only issue initially was whether or not he's been dead for a long time or not. As far as "conspiracy theorists" go, again, that term originated from Republicans and their ilk who tried to downplay everything from Watergate to WikiLeaks as some kind of silly theories about "conspiracy" Yet, all conspiracies aren't even bad. For example, if people "conspire" to throw a surprise birthday party, is that bad? If the Federal Reserve Bank seeks to manipulate the workings of the economy, is that not a conspiracy? How about Ken Lay and Enron? How about Bernie Madoff and the huge banks and brokerage firms that were involved in his massive Ponzi scheme? People conspire at work everyday, in all types of occupations. Some workers conspire with their bosses against their fellow employees, much less clients. Black people need be careful when using the language of those who have been our enemies.

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The Honoravle Elijah Muhammad

Dear friends,

The thoughtless, yet deceitful, practice by the government- and corporate-controlled media of calling any movement, no matter how progressive or slightly social, a “Civil Rights movement” totally ignores the centuries-long struggle of African American people that preceded the Montgomery Bus Boycott...in fact, our liberation movement continues to this very day, in spite of all of the obstacles that... are thrown at us like having a so-called black president...In any case, like Marcus Garvey and many Blacks before him (and still many today) - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad believed that the only way for African Americans to achieve true freedom was first for Us to "get some land" (possibly through reparations for Our enslavement.) 

Moreover, he taught that We needed to separate from the USA because the so-called "white" man was actually "The Devil." Additionally, Mr. Muhammad rejected Christianity, as evidenced in his archetypal work, The Fall Of America: “First, Christianity has failed you because it was the religion which first placed you in slavery. Secondly, Christianity has failed you because through its doctrine of turning the other cheek it has rendered you incapable of defending yourself in the hour of peril. Thirdly, Christianity has failed you because it has caused you to forsake the pursuit of an illusory and nonexistent justice beyond the grave.”

As for his deity, Allah, Mr. Muhammad, said, " His teachings bring Us into Reality, and not into some kind of spooky, or spirit, or ghost-like teaching. We could never ask a formless spirit ourselves. Man can only listen to man. Man cannot listen to other than man." Of course, unfortunately, the behavior of Muslims id the Middle East do nit reflect that assertion.

In spite of his shortcomings in terms of some of the solutions to his outlook, which - although meant to be considerate of African Americans - were somewhat Eurocentric, excluded some people, and capitalistic (exploitative) - he was truly a great man. The legacy of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad cannot be summed up better than my longtime mentor and friend Dr. Molefi Asante, a great scholar and educator, did in his own classic book, Afrocentricity - The Theory Of Social Change, “ No man was so quietly effective in organizing as Elijah Muhammad...In sum, Elijah gave us Malcolm, Muhammad Ali, and Louis Farrakhan. These messengers are creative, exceptional and powerful as symbols of a legacy the likes of which come rarely and never enough. Elijah Muhammad inspired a whole generation of scholarship, literature, art eloquence, and science; he was truly a son of our ancestors.” 

 Liberation! 

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