Friday, February 21, 2014

Bumpus Lab has Important Find








Dear friends,

 A Black History Month tidbit, the Bumpus lab of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine recently published a paper that is causing a lot of excitement in the world of science. In fact, Hopkins asked my oldest daughter/middle child Dr. Namandje Bumpus to make this 30 seconds-long video for YouTube, as part of an interview that sh did about this exciting find.

G. Djata Bumpus
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20140217/Valproic-acid-metabolism-and-obesity-an-interview-with-Dr-Namandje-Bumpus-Johns-Hopkins-Medicine.aspx
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Thursday, February 20, 2014

Erich Fopmm on Alienation, Human Rights, Idolatry, and Identity

UTTER BRILLIANCE!!!

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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

The latest claim that is en vogue: Being "Gay"

Dear friends,

On the en vogue claim of being "gay": It's interesting that with such a lack of people being able to relate to each other (especially by skin color and sex/gender, much less employer/employee), in this market- driven country of ours, the "market" currently thrives upon its insatiable greed, since the 80s, with the latest commodities: gay night clubs, gay magazines, gay marriage, gay this, gay that.

So many people find their purpose by informing their identity through an impulse/the human sexual appetite, as opposed to informing identity through their connection to familial generations/humanity.

What a meaningful way to look at life. What is the future for America?

G. Djata Bumpus
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Black History Month and "White" history

Dear friends,

Of what else does Black History Month remind us? The most current method used for translating the history of African American people is to portray "white" history in black-face. That is, "white" history is based upon deceitful scholarship which calls upon everyday people to identify with an organized "minority" (i.e., European rulers and other celebrities), as opposed to the "majority" (that is, ordinary Non-European and European) folks, who, historically, have been born into circumstances where little opportunity has existed for them to become a part of the here-to-mentioned ruling classes.

Specifically, acting as sycophants for their rulers (in order to eat), North American educators and media people have concocted a "white" past that somehow connects all European Americans, as well as non-European Americans, with pharaohs and queens of the Nile Valley, then the rulers of Greece and Rome, and later, by an even greater miraculously twisted logic, link the aforesaid European Americans and non-European Americans (almost all of whom are preponderantly of non-English heritage) to the Kings and Queens of England, before bringing these aforementioned ordinary folks to their ultimate and "natural" emotional and spiritual union with North American businessmen and bourgeois politicians.

G. Djata Bumpus
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Why African Americans need to wake up and Denounce Capitalism!




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Monday, February 17, 2014

Re-visiting Al Sharpton - a longtime enemy of Black people! (originally posted 5/18/11)




"How did the FBI turn Sharpton into their bitch?...Bryant Gumbel aired on his HBO Real Sports show an FBI videotape of Sharpton discussing laundering money from a South American drug dealer - a former Colombo family captain. Sharpton was going to arrange a meeting with (Don) King and the coke peddler to set up the deal. But the “South American” was an FBI agent, Franzese had already been turned by the feds into an informant — and Sharpton fell right into their trap. Sharpton became a sting artist for the feds when he was himself stung. After the tape aired, Sharpton announced he was going to sue HBO for a billion bucks. Nothing has been heard of the lawsuit since then."


Dear friends,

I am incensed that my longtime dear friend and colleague Dr. Cornel West was rudely interrupted by FBI/drug dealer informant Al Sharpton on a recent television program, during a discussion about the priorities of Barack Obama. As a result, while I have waited a long time to do this, I am presenting, on the link below, the reason that I feel so little for Sharpton as a human being. Moreover, it's truly tragic how African American people, after having so many great leaders in our past, are unable to see this weasel for who he really is. Wake up! Please?

G. Djata Bumpus


http://www.webstonne.com/DIreland.html
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Sunday, February 16, 2014

Photos of my 60th Birthday Celebration - January 26, 2014



Okey's and Sheri's kids Chibu (left) and Chidibe (right), along with their sister Chiamaka (below, not there because she had just gone back to college - UConn at Storrs) have had many fight lessons from me, ever since they were much younger..
Dear Friends,

Finally, after exactly 3 weeks, I've received some photos of my 60th birthday dinner to share...I was invited by my longtime friend and brother Okey Ndibe and his family to their home in the pleasant community of West Hartford Connecticut to celebrate my birthday weekend. It ended up being the best birthday celebration that I've yet to have. That’s quite an accomplishment in and of itself, because my 50th birthday weekend was one of such hedonism and debauchery that it would have made the great Hugh Hefner blush 

Nevertheless, on the right - above, I’m blowing out the candles on my ice cream cake. Notice that they show “40”. That was the warm surprise that the Ndibe family had for me, since I told them earlier that day I’d called my Mom, telling her that I had long been aware of the fact that she and the hospital had inflated my age by 20 years and I was now going to tell the whole world the truth. She cracked up, of course.

At the very top, is a photo of all of the wonderful people who joined me for my birthday celebration dinner, which included one of my favorite meals, Egusi soup with goat meat. On the far end of the left side of the table is Jerry Butler, a brilliant painter and art professor, his daughter Vanessa Butler, an actress and college instructor, her boyfriend Andrew Schaff, a nursing student, Sheri Ndibe, a longtime art professor and Okey’s wife. On the far end of the right side of the table sitting next to me is Dr. Evelyn Newman Phillips (anthropology), a fairly recent emigre from Kenya - Dr. Wangari Gichiru (education), and Dr. Okey Ndibe (literature). We didn't just eat delicious food and drink wine, we had several hours of sizzling intellectual discourse.


G. Djata Bumpus
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