Dear friends,
I wonder what that fake scholar Michael Eric Dyson thinks about this? After all, Dyson says that he wants to bring back the word "Nigger", as if African Americans founded the word, because he finds it to be an endearing term.
So did the members of the Ku Klux Klan and other lowlife coward scumbags who lynched the battered corpses of men who were already dead while fighting their way to a tree.
To be sure, those great American heroes (the aforementioned Ku Klux Klan and others) were all screaming "Nigger!" And felt endearment. Dyson even had the audacity and complete lack of class to scream "Motherfucka Nigga! into the microphone at the end of his trivial speech at Imamu Amiri Baraka' s memorial service.
The term "Nigger"was invented by racist enslavers in order to make our ancestors feel inhuman, terrorized, humiliated, and demeaned. We ourselves began to use it against each other. And many of the top box office hip-hop folks use the word in a deferring context to draw racist European American fans/consumers. Imagine that! As one of my boxers put it a few months back, that so-called N-word is used like a gun/weapon against us. He added that when Africa American hip-hop performers use it, it is like taking a gun and waving it around the room. By the way, have you ever heard Gay-Z or any of the rest of those other Uncle Tom fairies in hip-hop use the word "crackers"? We all must stop using that term!
G. Djata Bumpus
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/Newspaper_under_fire_for_calling_President_Obama_N-Word_in_headline.html
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Showing posts with label "Race" issues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label "Race" issues. Show all posts
Sunday, July 6, 2014
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Asian Businesswoman Confronts Black Consumer
Dear friends,
I just saw a video on Facebook that showed an African American man/consumer arguing with an Asian woman who was managing a restaurant where apparently he and a number of other folks had purchased some food. When he asked her for some water, an argument ensued, regarding him having paid for food or something. When he accused her of being racist towards him, she rejected that claiming that she too is a "minority".
Actually, her argument is cowardly and racist. She used the same argument that many exploitative Jews have used against Black consumers for decades. In fact, many Asians and Latinos identify themselves as "white".
But there's something else that is very sad here. That being: language is thought. Have you ever said to yourself, "I can't think of a word for it.".
Calling yourself a "minority" is a vicious term that our racist government began using in the late 60s in order to trivialize the value of our presence in this country. Uncle Tom and Aunt Thomasina Negroes from groups like the NAACP and the Urban League started using the term "minority" and popularizing it among us, in deference to our aforementioned racist government.
Additionally, it was important to our enemies that we used such a demeaning term for self-definition, because of the burgeoning Black Consciousness Movement that had replaced the accommodating Civil Rights Movement that died with Martin King. Who wants to be a "minority"? And who is the "majority"? After all, the very basis of White Supremacy lies in the fact that a woman or man can come from Europe yesterday, claim herself or himself as "white" and automatically become part of an artificial "majority" group, regardless of her or his true historical and cultural past.
Please remember,s/he isn't "white" in her or his real homeland, only economic factors distinguish her or him from her or his fellow citizens. We are NOT a minority! Rather, African peoples by ourselves are 40 million strong in this country We can build our own communities that are based upon love and prosperity. We just need to learn to operate within the context of "we" and stop hating each other/ourselves.
One Love!
G. Djata Bumpus
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I just saw a video on Facebook that showed an African American man/consumer arguing with an Asian woman who was managing a restaurant where apparently he and a number of other folks had purchased some food. When he asked her for some water, an argument ensued, regarding him having paid for food or something. When he accused her of being racist towards him, she rejected that claiming that she too is a "minority".
Actually, her argument is cowardly and racist. She used the same argument that many exploitative Jews have used against Black consumers for decades. In fact, many Asians and Latinos identify themselves as "white".
But there's something else that is very sad here. That being: language is thought. Have you ever said to yourself, "I can't think of a word for it.".
Calling yourself a "minority" is a vicious term that our racist government began using in the late 60s in order to trivialize the value of our presence in this country. Uncle Tom and Aunt Thomasina Negroes from groups like the NAACP and the Urban League started using the term "minority" and popularizing it among us, in deference to our aforementioned racist government.
Additionally, it was important to our enemies that we used such a demeaning term for self-definition, because of the burgeoning Black Consciousness Movement that had replaced the accommodating Civil Rights Movement that died with Martin King. Who wants to be a "minority"? And who is the "majority"? After all, the very basis of White Supremacy lies in the fact that a woman or man can come from Europe yesterday, claim herself or himself as "white" and automatically become part of an artificial "majority" group, regardless of her or his true historical and cultural past.
Please remember,s/he isn't "white" in her or his real homeland, only economic factors distinguish her or him from her or his fellow citizens. We are NOT a minority! Rather, African peoples by ourselves are 40 million strong in this country We can build our own communities that are based upon love and prosperity. We just need to learn to operate within the context of "we" and stop hating each other/ourselves.
One Love!
G. Djata Bumpus
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Thursday, May 22, 2014
Ronald Reagan's administration conveniently re-wrote the definition of Racism
"If racism is only a xenophobia, then why was it so important for Reagan and his bosses to end any hopes for maintaining peace around the world, by forcing the UN to dissolve?"
Dear friends,
Until the Eighties, the word racism was used almost exclusively by Black intellectual and social activists. The more moderate members of society, including most African Americans, still used the term "racial prejudice".
In fact, the term racism was offensive to the overwhelming majority of European Americans, as it was synonymous with White Supremacy. Now, along with groups like the accommodating NAACP, the government- and corporate-controlled mainstream media have re-defined it as a xenophobia or disease of some sort, making it very convenient to have fingers pointed at Us - African Americans, the historic victims of racism. Neat trick. Eh?
Finally, I mentioned the Eighties, because that period coincides with super-racist Ronald Reagan coming into office. This is the same Ronald Reagan who held back US dues owed to the United Nations, almost crippling that body, until they withdrew the proclamation that "Zionism is Racism". Once again, as is the case with Iran, the murderous Israeli government and its American sponsors prevailed. If racism is only a xenophobia, then why was it so important for Reagan and his bosses to end any hopes for maintaining peace around the world, by forcing the UN to dissolve? In any case, after the UN retracted its position about Zionism, the US government and its sponsor corporations then re-defined racism..WE must not let our enemies define our conditions. If we do, then we'll never free ourselves from the endless oppression.
"Dare to struggle - Dare to win" - Frederick Douglass
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Dear friends,
Until the Eighties, the word racism was used almost exclusively by Black intellectual and social activists. The more moderate members of society, including most African Americans, still used the term "racial prejudice".
In fact, the term racism was offensive to the overwhelming majority of European Americans, as it was synonymous with White Supremacy. Now, along with groups like the accommodating NAACP, the government- and corporate-controlled mainstream media have re-defined it as a xenophobia or disease of some sort, making it very convenient to have fingers pointed at Us - African Americans, the historic victims of racism. Neat trick. Eh?
Finally, I mentioned the Eighties, because that period coincides with super-racist Ronald Reagan coming into office. This is the same Ronald Reagan who held back US dues owed to the United Nations, almost crippling that body, until they withdrew the proclamation that "Zionism is Racism". Once again, as is the case with Iran, the murderous Israeli government and its American sponsors prevailed. If racism is only a xenophobia, then why was it so important for Reagan and his bosses to end any hopes for maintaining peace around the world, by forcing the UN to dissolve? In any case, after the UN retracted its position about Zionism, the US government and its sponsor corporations then re-defined racism..WE must not let our enemies define our conditions. If we do, then we'll never free ourselves from the endless oppression.
"Dare to struggle - Dare to win" - Frederick Douglass
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Monday, April 28, 2014
"...this is a White Supremacist nation! So what's really the beef?"
Dear Friends,
At least to me, it is interesting that so much attention is being paid to a nasty, old, demented man, as opposed to the real issue here of a young woman, as every other young woman in this society starting at The very early age of being a toddler, finds her self-worth in receiving approval from others, especially boys as well as men of any age.
To be sure, Ellen DeGeneres and other wealthy older women, under the guise of being "lesbian", are certainly just as culpable as Sterling and his ilk.
Besides, why are African Americans so upset about words from a flighty-minded elderly man, but afraid to denounce the fact that so many scores of millions of European Americans mean-spiritedly pit themselves against millions of their fellow citizens, by making the phony claim of being "White" thus forming an artificial "majority" group, while calling the latter just mentioned "minorities"?
I mean, that's why this is a White Supremacist nation! So what's really the beef? It's just the usual drivel from the useless to us, but useful to the rulers, mainstream government- and corporate-controlled media.
Liberation!
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Thursday, April 24, 2014
Talk about School Segregation is a Red Herring
Dear friends,
While integration is important, at least to me, the enrichment of life in the community is of far more significance… Consequently, there is a tendency in African American communities, and a well-deserved hostility and resentment towards centuries of White Supremacy, to prepare our youth for adulthood on our own, as opposed to relying upon those who really have no vested interest in the progress of our communities other than being a place where they can make some money… Unfortunately, the argument about a system of apartheid here is a red herring… This is essentially true, because almost none of the people who are working within the charter school system, much less the traditional school system, have a clue or even desire to have one in a way that will make African American people work towards developing communities where neighbors relate to each other in a manner that make the youth also feel the same sentiment towards those who have yet to even come… But European American communities have exactly the same problem, as quite as it's kept.
G. Djata Bumpus
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/4/23/resegregation_of_american_students_new_report Read full post
While integration is important, at least to me, the enrichment of life in the community is of far more significance… Consequently, there is a tendency in African American communities, and a well-deserved hostility and resentment towards centuries of White Supremacy, to prepare our youth for adulthood on our own, as opposed to relying upon those who really have no vested interest in the progress of our communities other than being a place where they can make some money… Unfortunately, the argument about a system of apartheid here is a red herring… This is essentially true, because almost none of the people who are working within the charter school system, much less the traditional school system, have a clue or even desire to have one in a way that will make African American people work towards developing communities where neighbors relate to each other in a manner that make the youth also feel the same sentiment towards those who have yet to even come… But European American communities have exactly the same problem, as quite as it's kept.
G. Djata Bumpus
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/4/23/resegregation_of_american_students_new_report Read full post
Monday, April 21, 2014
Black Wall Street Massacre
Dear friends,
This 10 minutes long video is a remarkable display of what Rap and Hip-hop could have/should have become. That is, instead of becoming art as a liberating force, they became nothing more than narcissistic buffoon minstrelsy!
Liberation!
G. Djata Bumpus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wOu7H3ohvs
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This 10 minutes long video is a remarkable display of what Rap and Hip-hop could have/should have become. That is, instead of becoming art as a liberating force, they became nothing more than narcissistic buffoon minstrelsy!
Liberation!
G. Djata Bumpus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wOu7H3ohvs
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Thursday, February 27, 2014
Nigger or N -- word?
Dear friends,
The video on the link below is just racist propaganda. The Uncle Tom, scumbag hip-hop folks, in order to sell records to racist "white" kids have popularized it due to their lack of social conscience and their own self-hatred. If what the video is saying is true, that the word has evolved to something innocuous, then why not just say "nigger" and stop the "n-word" nonsense?
Moreover, I'd like to see sweetie pies like Jay Z and Kanye start popularizing the word "cracker". Did someone say "White Supremacy"?. Meanwhile, fake scholars like Michael Eric Dyson claim that the word nigger is endearing to those in hip-hop and young folks who use it....I ask his phony punk butt, "Wasn't it endearing to cowardly racist mobs as they lynched unconscious Black men or the corpses of same?".
Liberation!
G. Djata Bumpus
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The video on the link below is just racist propaganda. The Uncle Tom, scumbag hip-hop folks, in order to sell records to racist "white" kids have popularized it due to their lack of social conscience and their own self-hatred. If what the video is saying is true, that the word has evolved to something innocuous, then why not just say "nigger" and stop the "n-word" nonsense?
Moreover, I'd like to see sweetie pies like Jay Z and Kanye start popularizing the word "cracker". Did someone say "White Supremacy"?. Meanwhile, fake scholars like Michael Eric Dyson claim that the word nigger is endearing to those in hip-hop and young folks who use it....I ask his phony punk butt, "Wasn't it endearing to cowardly racist mobs as they lynched unconscious Black men or the corpses of same?".
Liberation!
G. Djata Bumpus
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Is Miley Cyrus Racist?
Dear friends,
All of this brouhaha about Miley Cyrus is directly tied to the continued use and embrace of the moniker "white". That term only perpetuates racism. After all, many Latinos and Asians call themselves "white". The term white is nothing more than a mean-spirited claim that people make in order to be pot of an artificial "majority" group.
In fact, right here in America, before Adolf Hitler's sick fantasy about an Aryan race, Irish, Polish, Italians, and Jews were not even considered white. Still, the George Zimmerman privilege that people enjoy by calling themselves white is evident by the fact that those who call themselves white feel disempowered not to do so.. Again, they are just being mean-spirited!
Moreover, one of the major problems is: in a socially-stratified society such as ours, one can be a member of an oppressor group and an oppressed one simultaneously - the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill debacle proved that point quite adequately. Therefore, females who call themselves white, as well as homosexuals who do that, often blur the distinctions between those who are oppressed and those who oppress.
Yet, to me, all of the complaining about Miley Cyrus has little merit, since Tyler Perry movies and television productions, along with fake scholars like Michael Eric Dyson, and "jiggerboo" Jay-Z, because of the consistency of their attacks against African-American people, are far more harmful in terms of both verbal and audio images for all youth, especially those of African descent.
G. Djata Bumpus
http://groupthink.jezebel.com/solidarity-is-for-miley-cyrus-1203666732 Read full post
Saturday, August 24, 2013
Can Jesse Jackson Rehabilitte Paula Deen - and himself?
Dear friends,
Aren't there ministers where Paula Deen ;lives? Why did she choose Jesse Jackson as a "spiritual adviser"? Look at his former charges like slimy Bill Clinton, the groupie who had his child, and his own son!
Sound fishy?
G. Djata Bumpus
http://politix.topix.com/news/6754-jesse-jackson-agrees-to-help-deen-reclaim-herself Read full post
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Is a "Race War" in sight,, in North America?
"...all North Americans need to build genuine communities of love and prosperity - not just African Americans."
Dear friends,
Due to the current tensions being created by the mainstream government- and corporate-controlled media, the idea that there will be more so-called "Race wars" is a false abstraction, because there have never been any here, per se. For example, back in 1921, there was a criminal assault - not a war, by the Tulsa police and many renegade "whites" against African Americans (most of them unarmed). The despicable criminals even found support from the US military. However, that was an assault that African Americans there withstood, ultimately.
Today, things are quite different, because, thanks to the Black Panther Party especially with our fight for "community control of police", there are now many Black cops in this country. Moreover, history is a constantly progressing phenomenon. In fact, it is happening as we engage in dialogue right here. Therefore, history is always evolving. Sometimes similar mistakes are seemingly made. However, we cannot resolve the past, because we cannot duplicate it.
The issue then becomes: Will the fact that there is far more interaction between European Americans and African Americans than even, say, 30 years ago direct us to inform our actions accordingly? I can only imagine that that will be the case.
Finally, all North Americans need to build genuine communities of love and prosperity - not just African Americans. After all, both the lie and mass illusion of being "white" is betrayed every time a European American loses his or her job, or house to foreclosure, or any number of other injustices. The mass illusion of Whiteness just mentioned will be shattered, when folks decide to be honest with themselves and rejoin humanity, as opposed to continuing to estrange themselves from the rest of us due to their bigger guns, so that we can all move against the "organized minority" that rules us all. Cheers!
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Dear friends,
Due to the current tensions being created by the mainstream government- and corporate-controlled media, the idea that there will be more so-called "Race wars" is a false abstraction, because there have never been any here, per se. For example, back in 1921, there was a criminal assault - not a war, by the Tulsa police and many renegade "whites" against African Americans (most of them unarmed). The despicable criminals even found support from the US military. However, that was an assault that African Americans there withstood, ultimately.
Today, things are quite different, because, thanks to the Black Panther Party especially with our fight for "community control of police", there are now many Black cops in this country. Moreover, history is a constantly progressing phenomenon. In fact, it is happening as we engage in dialogue right here. Therefore, history is always evolving. Sometimes similar mistakes are seemingly made. However, we cannot resolve the past, because we cannot duplicate it.
The issue then becomes: Will the fact that there is far more interaction between European Americans and African Americans than even, say, 30 years ago direct us to inform our actions accordingly? I can only imagine that that will be the case.
Finally, all North Americans need to build genuine communities of love and prosperity - not just African Americans. After all, both the lie and mass illusion of being "white" is betrayed every time a European American loses his or her job, or house to foreclosure, or any number of other injustices. The mass illusion of Whiteness just mentioned will be shattered, when folks decide to be honest with themselves and rejoin humanity, as opposed to continuing to estrange themselves from the rest of us due to their bigger guns, so that we can all move against the "organized minority" that rules us all. Cheers!
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Saturday, June 22, 2013
Paula Deen - the prom queen of White Supremacy
Dear friends,
The recent mainstream media coverage of Paula Deen's use of the so-called N-word is a red herring Only a year ago (2012), in a taped interview, she spoke regretfully about how the Civil War ruined the lives of so many who lost their "workers" as a result of the Union's victory ending chattel slavery. Huh? Please check out the very short video o the link below.
Liberation!
G. Djata Bumpus
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/21/paula-deen-racism_n_3480720.html Read full post
Sunday, March 25, 2012
In light of Trayvon Martin's murder, the white" press continues to re-define racism
"Moreover, as long as the people who started using racism against us are able to define it, then they can, very conveniently, sweep their atrocities against us under the rug. Plain and Simple."
Dear friends,
I was watching Meet the Press this morning, about Trayvon's murder. As usual, the man that was supposed to be the "Black" voice, Ben Jealous of the NAACP, made no comment about White Supremacy. Moreover, as long as the people who the racist rulers put in front of cameras (Al Sharpton and his ilk) are too cowardly to state that this is a White Supremacist nation, then our enemies will get to define what racism is (a disease and other such nonsense). Hence, our violators are able to keep their culpability to a minimum.
Yet, the reality is: "white" is a phony, mean-spirited claim that people make in order to pit themselves against us, and form an artificial "majority" group. Worse yet, a woman can come from Norway yesterday (and I've seen it right on Facebook), call herself "white" (which won't mean anything in Norway), and inherit a history that is not hers, as well as privilege over me and those who look like me - along with the common racist arrogance that allows European Americans to murder us without concern for justice being brought against them. That's why the U.S. is a white Supremacist nation.
Moreover, as long as the people who started using racism against us are also able to define it, then they can, very conveniently, sweep their atrocities against us under the rug. Plain and Simple.
Please remember, it was not until the mid-Seventies that the term racism gained any real use in this society, even among Blacks. That is, back in the mid-Sixties and after, and it was only so-called Black militants like myself and some of my elders who used the term. Before that, even Dr. King and others used the term "racial prejudice" - NOT "racism"..and King and those other cats deliberately stayed away from using that word (racism), as not to "offend" European Americans or so-called "whites"...In fact, it was only during the Reagan era of the 80s that Uncle Toms started to cozy up to his administration, and the mainstream media started to use it as well, did it even get used (the term racism).
and then, again, racism, conveniently, became this nonsense about being a xenophobia and disease. and if my timetable of the evolution of that term being used in society isn't a fact about the use of the word racism, then one must ask, "Why did King and others shy away from using that term as early as brothers (and sisters) like Malcolm, and others did?", therefore, rejecting its original definition and use. Let's not get it twisted up in here.
G. Djata Bumpus
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Dear friends,
I was watching Meet the Press this morning, about Trayvon's murder. As usual, the man that was supposed to be the "Black" voice, Ben Jealous of the NAACP, made no comment about White Supremacy. Moreover, as long as the people who the racist rulers put in front of cameras (Al Sharpton and his ilk) are too cowardly to state that this is a White Supremacist nation, then our enemies will get to define what racism is (a disease and other such nonsense). Hence, our violators are able to keep their culpability to a minimum.
Yet, the reality is: "white" is a phony, mean-spirited claim that people make in order to pit themselves against us, and form an artificial "majority" group. Worse yet, a woman can come from Norway yesterday (and I've seen it right on Facebook), call herself "white" (which won't mean anything in Norway), and inherit a history that is not hers, as well as privilege over me and those who look like me - along with the common racist arrogance that allows European Americans to murder us without concern for justice being brought against them. That's why the U.S. is a white Supremacist nation.
Moreover, as long as the people who started using racism against us are also able to define it, then they can, very conveniently, sweep their atrocities against us under the rug. Plain and Simple.
Please remember, it was not until the mid-Seventies that the term racism gained any real use in this society, even among Blacks. That is, back in the mid-Sixties and after, and it was only so-called Black militants like myself and some of my elders who used the term. Before that, even Dr. King and others used the term "racial prejudice" - NOT "racism"..and King and those other cats deliberately stayed away from using that word (racism), as not to "offend" European Americans or so-called "whites"...In fact, it was only during the Reagan era of the 80s that Uncle Toms started to cozy up to his administration, and the mainstream media started to use it as well, did it even get used (the term racism).
and then, again, racism, conveniently, became this nonsense about being a xenophobia and disease. and if my timetable of the evolution of that term being used in society isn't a fact about the use of the word racism, then one must ask, "Why did King and others shy away from using that term as early as brothers (and sisters) like Malcolm, and others did?", therefore, rejecting its original definition and use. Let's not get it twisted up in here.
G. Djata Bumpus
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Monday, August 1, 2011
Why did the Obama administration boycott the Durban Review Conference on Racism? (originally posted 5/15/09)
“As we feared the Administration’s decision to boycott the Durban Review has sent shock waves around the globe,” said Nicole Lee, Executive Director of TransAfrica Forum. “To date eight countries have announced they are pulling out of the Durban process, many based on the US decision.”
Dear friends,
"Shocking!!!" is an understatement! President Obama's administration chose to boycott the Durban Review of the World Conference on Racism. If you recall, less than two weeks after the United States and Israel pulled out of the aforementioned conference in 2001, a series of airplane attacks occurred - now known as 9/11.
While these attacks may have happened anyway, it seems, at least to me, that the catalyst was the abandonment of the World Conference on Racism about which I have just spoken. Will the latest move bring another attack? Who knows? One thing is for sure: The direction that the current administration is taking betrays all of the campaign rhetoric that caused so many people to support Barack Obama. What will happen next? On the link below, perhaps, we can now understand why Dr. King insisted "Why We Can't Wait".
Cheers!
G. Djata Bumpus
http://transafricaforum.org/media-center/news-releases/taf-disappointed-obama-admin-failure-attend-durban-review
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Dear friends,
"Shocking!!!" is an understatement! President Obama's administration chose to boycott the Durban Review of the World Conference on Racism. If you recall, less than two weeks after the United States and Israel pulled out of the aforementioned conference in 2001, a series of airplane attacks occurred - now known as 9/11.
While these attacks may have happened anyway, it seems, at least to me, that the catalyst was the abandonment of the World Conference on Racism about which I have just spoken. Will the latest move bring another attack? Who knows? One thing is for sure: The direction that the current administration is taking betrays all of the campaign rhetoric that caused so many people to support Barack Obama. What will happen next? On the link below, perhaps, we can now understand why Dr. King insisted "Why We Can't Wait".
Cheers!
G. Djata Bumpus
http://transafricaforum.org/media-center/news-releases/taf-disappointed-obama-admin-failure-attend-durban-review
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Re- visiting Dr. Deepak Chopra on Sarah Palin (originally posted 9/14/08)
"Dr. Chopra is making an attempt to help us understand the issue of Sarah Palin's candidacy outside of the blather that is currently being bandied about by most mainstream media journalists and other such so-called pundits."
Dear friends,
I like some things that Deepak Chopra has to say. However, whereas he is a deep thinker, I can never say enough, "People are not talking insects.". Therefore, they cannot be analyzed within the context of either/or.
Nonetheless, at least, Dr. Chopra is making an attempt to help us understand the issue of Sarah Palin's candidacy outside of the blather that is currently being bandied about by most mainstream media journalists and other such so-called pundits. Yet, taking it outside of the context of racism - not "race" - ignores the reality that that system of oppression and exploitation plays in helping people delude themselves into thinking that their "whiteness" is an asset, when, in reality, it only counts when it comes to those folks' relationships with African Americans and others.
This is a racist culture in which we live. Racism is not either some kind of xenophobia, or a "disease" . Rather, it is a deliberate system of oppression and exploitation that is supported by the same cultural institutions (e.g., schools, churches, courts, legislative bodies, and so forth) that help make the society reproduce itself as a specific population group for generations.
In any case, culture is a word that is often used to refer to the higher achievements of a particular group - like painting and music. However, it (culture) involves everything that we do. Therefore, it even has a physiological significance. This is easily identifiable by recognizing the actual mental and motor reflexes that are initiated when a European American (so-called white person) who is sitting in a car pushes down the lock button as an African American approaches the vicinity of his or her vehicle, whether the former is parked in a lot or near a sidewalk - or stopped at a traffic light.
This notion of the initiating of both mental and motor reflexes also explains the cultural differences in the way that people draw, dance, sing, and so forth. In fact, even our five "senses" are culturally-defined. That is, our perceptions, regarding what we feel, taste, hear, smell, and see, are determined by our cultural experiences.
Additionally, our culture determines the manner in which we transmit and share both behavior and ideas to present and future generations. However, the first thing that we must understand about culture is that it is largely tied to a people's resources. That is, social status and income as well as materials to produce what people need or desire for survival determine how, why and through what medium folks can express themselves as a distinct group.
My point here is: John McCain learned from Hillary Clinton that appealing to the racist sentiments, particularly, of uneducated, lower-middle class elderly, along with middle-aged European Americans, garners votes. No need to involve esoteric "psychological terms", or play intellectual acrobatics there. McCain's logic will get some votes. However, those people do not outnumber African Americans, other non-European Americans, and educated European Americans. Therefore, ultimately NcCain's plagiarism by Clinton will fail.
Besides, just as there were no "racial" distinctions that helped their ancestors in Ireland, Poland, and Italy, for example, there are no such differences when the aforementioned descendants are placed with others who count as "white" in this society. Only economic factors distinguish them from each other. So the "voting power" of "poor" whites is a mass illusion.
Moreover, while there is one person-one vote in the US, please remember that citizens in Saddam's Iraq had that same right. Therefore, the issue of the essence of democracy as being non-violent conflict resolution, as opposed to the propaganda that defines it as having the "right to vote" is what is really of moment, especially since, as was just mentioned in the case of Saddam Hussein, a tyranny can allow the one-person-one vote right too.
At any rate, on the link below my name, I am glad that one of our acclaimed intellectuals has spoken. Now, people may be interested in thinking about all of this "Palin" hype more realistically. Dr. Chopra's brief essay which was forwarded to me via e-mail, a few days ago, appears below.
One Love,
G. Djata Bumpus
http://www.chopra.com/node/1064
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Dear friends,
I like some things that Deepak Chopra has to say. However, whereas he is a deep thinker, I can never say enough, "People are not talking insects.". Therefore, they cannot be analyzed within the context of either/or.
Nonetheless, at least, Dr. Chopra is making an attempt to help us understand the issue of Sarah Palin's candidacy outside of the blather that is currently being bandied about by most mainstream media journalists and other such so-called pundits. Yet, taking it outside of the context of racism - not "race" - ignores the reality that that system of oppression and exploitation plays in helping people delude themselves into thinking that their "whiteness" is an asset, when, in reality, it only counts when it comes to those folks' relationships with African Americans and others.
This is a racist culture in which we live. Racism is not either some kind of xenophobia, or a "disease" . Rather, it is a deliberate system of oppression and exploitation that is supported by the same cultural institutions (e.g., schools, churches, courts, legislative bodies, and so forth) that help make the society reproduce itself as a specific population group for generations.
In any case, culture is a word that is often used to refer to the higher achievements of a particular group - like painting and music. However, it (culture) involves everything that we do. Therefore, it even has a physiological significance. This is easily identifiable by recognizing the actual mental and motor reflexes that are initiated when a European American (so-called white person) who is sitting in a car pushes down the lock button as an African American approaches the vicinity of his or her vehicle, whether the former is parked in a lot or near a sidewalk - or stopped at a traffic light.
This notion of the initiating of both mental and motor reflexes also explains the cultural differences in the way that people draw, dance, sing, and so forth. In fact, even our five "senses" are culturally-defined. That is, our perceptions, regarding what we feel, taste, hear, smell, and see, are determined by our cultural experiences.
Additionally, our culture determines the manner in which we transmit and share both behavior and ideas to present and future generations. However, the first thing that we must understand about culture is that it is largely tied to a people's resources. That is, social status and income as well as materials to produce what people need or desire for survival determine how, why and through what medium folks can express themselves as a distinct group.
My point here is: John McCain learned from Hillary Clinton that appealing to the racist sentiments, particularly, of uneducated, lower-middle class elderly, along with middle-aged European Americans, garners votes. No need to involve esoteric "psychological terms", or play intellectual acrobatics there. McCain's logic will get some votes. However, those people do not outnumber African Americans, other non-European Americans, and educated European Americans. Therefore, ultimately NcCain's plagiarism by Clinton will fail.
Besides, just as there were no "racial" distinctions that helped their ancestors in Ireland, Poland, and Italy, for example, there are no such differences when the aforementioned descendants are placed with others who count as "white" in this society. Only economic factors distinguish them from each other. So the "voting power" of "poor" whites is a mass illusion.
Moreover, while there is one person-one vote in the US, please remember that citizens in Saddam's Iraq had that same right. Therefore, the issue of the essence of democracy as being non-violent conflict resolution, as opposed to the propaganda that defines it as having the "right to vote" is what is really of moment, especially since, as was just mentioned in the case of Saddam Hussein, a tyranny can allow the one-person-one vote right too.
At any rate, on the link below my name, I am glad that one of our acclaimed intellectuals has spoken. Now, people may be interested in thinking about all of this "Palin" hype more realistically. Dr. Chopra's brief essay which was forwarded to me via e-mail, a few days ago, appears below.
One Love,
G. Djata Bumpus
http://www.chopra.com/node/1064
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Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Re-visiting Harry Reid's Remark about the "Negro dialect" (originally posted 1/13/10)
"Think about it. Have you ever listened to an ordinary European American person do a voice impression of an African American? No matter what the voice of the latter actually sounds like, the European American just mentioned ALWAYS imitates the 'Southern twang'."
Dear friends,
Imagine. This whole media frenzy is all about Harry Reid using the term “Negro dialect”. What is the Negro dialect? For example, the so-called Southern dialect or twang, as it were, is simply the evolution of the vocal expression of West African captives as they tried to communicate with Europeans. (see Melville Herskovits’ New World Negro)
Think about it. Have you ever listened to an ordinary European American person do a voice impression of an African American? No matter what the voice of the latter actually sounds like, the European American just mentioned ALWAYS imitates the “Southern twang”.
Therefore, considering the above, many European Americans, especially Southerners, speak the “Negro dialect” - each moment of their lives.
So why all of the ruckus over a typical, stupid, inept Washington pol’s faux pas? Does the issue of “race” still fire people up - especially those who embrace the moniker “white”? In fact, who are “white” people? After all, not only people of European descent, but many Asians as well as many Latinos call themselves “white” too. Why is that? What does being “white” do for a person?
Well, by calling yourself “white”, you become part of an artificial “majority” group that mean-spiritedly pits itself against a body of then smaller groups who are labeled “minorities”. Moreover. the artificial group mentioned above automatically inherits privilege over the so-called “minority” groups.
But what if the “whites” started calling themselves Irish American, or Polish American, or Italian American instead? Except for the Irish Americans who, by the way, have only been considered “whites” for a few generations, Polish Americans and Italian Americans each, by themselves, would become a “minority”, at least compared to the African American population. Consequently, they would lose privilege. That also means that calling one’s self “white” is in and of itself discriminatory, because it deprives African Americans the same privileges, particularly, equally so in many areas of our lives. If that is not true, then why do people who call themselves “white” feel that they are being disempowered if they stop identifying themselves that way?
Considering all of this here-to-mentioned, it’s fairly easy to understand why the great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. insisted: Discrimination is a hell-hound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
Have you seen a McDonald’s commercial lately?
G. Djata Bumpus
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Dear friends,
Imagine. This whole media frenzy is all about Harry Reid using the term “Negro dialect”. What is the Negro dialect? For example, the so-called Southern dialect or twang, as it were, is simply the evolution of the vocal expression of West African captives as they tried to communicate with Europeans. (see Melville Herskovits’ New World Negro)
Think about it. Have you ever listened to an ordinary European American person do a voice impression of an African American? No matter what the voice of the latter actually sounds like, the European American just mentioned ALWAYS imitates the “Southern twang”.
Therefore, considering the above, many European Americans, especially Southerners, speak the “Negro dialect” - each moment of their lives.
So why all of the ruckus over a typical, stupid, inept Washington pol’s faux pas? Does the issue of “race” still fire people up - especially those who embrace the moniker “white”? In fact, who are “white” people? After all, not only people of European descent, but many Asians as well as many Latinos call themselves “white” too. Why is that? What does being “white” do for a person?
Well, by calling yourself “white”, you become part of an artificial “majority” group that mean-spiritedly pits itself against a body of then smaller groups who are labeled “minorities”. Moreover. the artificial group mentioned above automatically inherits privilege over the so-called “minority” groups.
But what if the “whites” started calling themselves Irish American, or Polish American, or Italian American instead? Except for the Irish Americans who, by the way, have only been considered “whites” for a few generations, Polish Americans and Italian Americans each, by themselves, would become a “minority”, at least compared to the African American population. Consequently, they would lose privilege. That also means that calling one’s self “white” is in and of itself discriminatory, because it deprives African Americans the same privileges, particularly, equally so in many areas of our lives. If that is not true, then why do people who call themselves “white” feel that they are being disempowered if they stop identifying themselves that way?
Considering all of this here-to-mentioned, it’s fairly easy to understand why the great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. insisted: Discrimination is a hell-hound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
Have you seen a McDonald’s commercial lately?
G. Djata Bumpus
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Monday, March 21, 2011
60 Minutes television program likes Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn, and the "N-word"
"Why have we never seen a book that uses the term 'cracker' (or even heard it used) anywhere in broad circulation in this country?..."
Dear friends,
Last night (Sunday, March 20, 2011), I saw a piece on 60 Minutes about Mark Twain and his use of the word nigger in the novel entitled The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The station used a young, I presume, African American male as the interviewer and a Black college professor from Oregon who, get this, claimed that he was proud of both being and being called a nigger (but couldn’t even pronounce the pejorative term comfortably), as the expert being interviewed. Wow!
Anyway, this professor reminded me of Clarence Thomas and other such noted Black intellectuals who the television stations always seem to locate. They must have a list. After all, why didn’t they call someone like my longtime friend and colleague Cornel West who would have made a better account of himself and our people? Worse yet, this Oregon guy even seemed, like Thomas, to have a wife who is a member of the Tea Party. You know the type. Still, at least to me, the real question is: Why have we never seen a book that uses the term cracker (or even heard it used), anywhere in broad circulation in this country? Duh?
Moreover, if racism is defined as simply some type of xenophobia, as opposed to its original meaning which is White Supremacy, then those who practice racism can claim the same moral status as the victims of it. Neat trick. Eh? Of course, the term racism was made popular by African and African American scholars/activists, from Kwame Nkrumah and Franz Fanon to Malcolm x and Huey P. Newton.
Therefore, the idea that Mark Twain is pointing out the inhumanity of slavery is contradicted by his insistence upon the use of the word white. For example, for almost the past three generations, the overwhelming majority of the people who call themselves white, in this country, are those of Irish descent. Yet, the Irish are only of recent whiteness.
For example, in the Boltwood Collection of Jones Library in Amherst, Massachusetts, local genealogist and historian James A. Smith makes an interesting point in his work titled Black People in Early Amherst, in relationship to the designation of "whiteness" in the historical town. You see, less than 100 years or four generations ago, Smith writes: The town vital records show an undeveloped and random method of describing racial identities...clerks sometimes listed the person as being Irish in the section used to list race other than white.
Lo and behold! Irish people, surely the single largest group of European Americans in this country, are only of recent "whiteness" - according to their own "race".
Published in nearby Greenfield, almost 200 years or eight generations ago, Howe's Almanac, the only periodical distributed in the area at the time, featured a regular "humor" section in the back of each issue. The following two passages give further evidence to the way that the ruling class' media in this country have consistently been used as instruments for shaping public opinion (in favor of ruling class ideas, of course), as opposed to being the organs of objective journalism that they profess to be.
"An Irishman looking around the horizon, observed with a grave countenance, 'It looks fair for foul weather.'
And
"An Irishman on being asked whether his Sister, (who had gotten to bed) had a son or a daughter; - Answered, 'I cannot tell yet, whether I am an Uncle or Aunt.'"
This is all very confusing, isn't it? Actually, none of the aforementioned passages should be a surprise. Historically, British rulers practiced this sort of "racism" against the Irish, long before English pirates like John Hawkins and Sir Francis Drake even thought of the Americas. In an essay called "Slavery, Race, and Ideology in the U.S.A.", Barbara Jeanne Fields indicates: "...the rationale that the English developed for suppressing the 'barbarous' Irish later served nearly word for word as a rationale for suppressing Africans and indigenous American Indians."
But why isn’t any of the aforementioned material about the Irish taught in either public or private schools in North America? Why isn’t it taught that slavery was a class institution, not a race one, and that there were thousands of Black slave masters, especially, in the antebellum South whose descendants today are called Hip=hop moguls, along with the makers/actors of obnoxious Black plays and films – like those produced by Tyler Perry.
Finally, what did Twain’s contemporaries like Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tibman think of Mark Twain’s work? To be sure, that would be a better starting point than having some idiot "professor" from Oregon calling himself the unthinkable.
"Dare to struggle – dare to win", Frederick Douglass
G. Djata Bumpus
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Dear friends,
Last night (Sunday, March 20, 2011), I saw a piece on 60 Minutes about Mark Twain and his use of the word nigger in the novel entitled The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The station used a young, I presume, African American male as the interviewer and a Black college professor from Oregon who, get this, claimed that he was proud of both being and being called a nigger (but couldn’t even pronounce the pejorative term comfortably), as the expert being interviewed. Wow!
Anyway, this professor reminded me of Clarence Thomas and other such noted Black intellectuals who the television stations always seem to locate. They must have a list. After all, why didn’t they call someone like my longtime friend and colleague Cornel West who would have made a better account of himself and our people? Worse yet, this Oregon guy even seemed, like Thomas, to have a wife who is a member of the Tea Party. You know the type. Still, at least to me, the real question is: Why have we never seen a book that uses the term cracker (or even heard it used), anywhere in broad circulation in this country? Duh?
Moreover, if racism is defined as simply some type of xenophobia, as opposed to its original meaning which is White Supremacy, then those who practice racism can claim the same moral status as the victims of it. Neat trick. Eh? Of course, the term racism was made popular by African and African American scholars/activists, from Kwame Nkrumah and Franz Fanon to Malcolm x and Huey P. Newton.
Therefore, the idea that Mark Twain is pointing out the inhumanity of slavery is contradicted by his insistence upon the use of the word white. For example, for almost the past three generations, the overwhelming majority of the people who call themselves white, in this country, are those of Irish descent. Yet, the Irish are only of recent whiteness.
For example, in the Boltwood Collection of Jones Library in Amherst, Massachusetts, local genealogist and historian James A. Smith makes an interesting point in his work titled Black People in Early Amherst, in relationship to the designation of "whiteness" in the historical town. You see, less than 100 years or four generations ago, Smith writes: The town vital records show an undeveloped and random method of describing racial identities...clerks sometimes listed the person as being Irish in the section used to list race other than white.
Lo and behold! Irish people, surely the single largest group of European Americans in this country, are only of recent "whiteness" - according to their own "race".
Published in nearby Greenfield, almost 200 years or eight generations ago, Howe's Almanac, the only periodical distributed in the area at the time, featured a regular "humor" section in the back of each issue. The following two passages give further evidence to the way that the ruling class' media in this country have consistently been used as instruments for shaping public opinion (in favor of ruling class ideas, of course), as opposed to being the organs of objective journalism that they profess to be.
"An Irishman looking around the horizon, observed with a grave countenance, 'It looks fair for foul weather.'
And
"An Irishman on being asked whether his Sister, (who had gotten to bed) had a son or a daughter; - Answered, 'I cannot tell yet, whether I am an Uncle or Aunt.'"
This is all very confusing, isn't it? Actually, none of the aforementioned passages should be a surprise. Historically, British rulers practiced this sort of "racism" against the Irish, long before English pirates like John Hawkins and Sir Francis Drake even thought of the Americas. In an essay called "Slavery, Race, and Ideology in the U.S.A.", Barbara Jeanne Fields indicates: "...the rationale that the English developed for suppressing the 'barbarous' Irish later served nearly word for word as a rationale for suppressing Africans and indigenous American Indians."
But why isn’t any of the aforementioned material about the Irish taught in either public or private schools in North America? Why isn’t it taught that slavery was a class institution, not a race one, and that there were thousands of Black slave masters, especially, in the antebellum South whose descendants today are called Hip=hop moguls, along with the makers/actors of obnoxious Black plays and films – like those produced by Tyler Perry.
Finally, what did Twain’s contemporaries like Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tibman think of Mark Twain’s work? To be sure, that would be a better starting point than having some idiot "professor" from Oregon calling himself the unthinkable.
"Dare to struggle – dare to win", Frederick Douglass
G. Djata Bumpus
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Was Dr. Laura right about her use of the N-word? (originally posted 8/27/10)
“A handful of black activists have waged war against the N-word. Their target is those rappers and writers that have turned the N-word into a lucrative growth industry.” – Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Dear friends,
Almost 40 years ago, back in the early Seventies, a brilliant, albeit small, book was published called The Myth of Black Capitalism. Its author was a man named Earl Ofari. Only a few years later, I started seeing the same writer’s name more and more, although he had added the surname “Hutchinson” to his earlier pen name (which may have already been his surname anyway).
Nevertheless, he is nationally syndicated. Yet, I have had issues with his analyses, at times, over the years, because he seems to relate to ideas that are largely based upon disciplines like sociology and psychology that, at least to me, are two of many genres that analyze both the conditions and behaviors of people as if we are talking insects. Still, Brother Earl has been and always is on the right side of African American liberation. Moreover, Hutchinson’s piece on the link below, about the recent Dr. Laura Schlessinger debacle, in her use of the “N-word”, as it were, is right on point.
Also, while the article is fairly comprehensive, unfortunately, Hutchinson never brings up “Black self-hatred”, the other half of racism – the euphemism for White Supremacy.
To be sure, the self-hatred just mentioned is the sentiment that is both self-imposed and replenished in us through, for example, Black television, movie, and theatre productions that invite us to come laugh at ourselves, over experiences that involve everything from barber shops, to boat cruises, to weddings, to hitting the lottery. This self-hatred, of course, legitimizes the systematic exploitation and oppression that is inflicted upon us by White Supremacy.
Consequently, our self-hatred is the main culprit that keeps African Americans using the word “nigger” as some type of affectionate term, since far too many of us continue to use it amongst ourselves.
Additionally, the N-word has now, mostly due to the buffoon minstrelsy that is known as hip-hop, become part of American vernacular, as it is also a term used by, especially, young people of many other cultural groups, particularly, those of European American (so-called “white”) Latino, and Asian descent. Still, please check out this very thoughtful piece.
Cheers!
G. Djata Bumpus
http://www.baystatebanner.com/Opinion58-2010-08-26
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Dear friends,
Almost 40 years ago, back in the early Seventies, a brilliant, albeit small, book was published called The Myth of Black Capitalism. Its author was a man named Earl Ofari. Only a few years later, I started seeing the same writer’s name more and more, although he had added the surname “Hutchinson” to his earlier pen name (which may have already been his surname anyway).
Nevertheless, he is nationally syndicated. Yet, I have had issues with his analyses, at times, over the years, because he seems to relate to ideas that are largely based upon disciplines like sociology and psychology that, at least to me, are two of many genres that analyze both the conditions and behaviors of people as if we are talking insects. Still, Brother Earl has been and always is on the right side of African American liberation. Moreover, Hutchinson’s piece on the link below, about the recent Dr. Laura Schlessinger debacle, in her use of the “N-word”, as it were, is right on point.
Also, while the article is fairly comprehensive, unfortunately, Hutchinson never brings up “Black self-hatred”, the other half of racism – the euphemism for White Supremacy.
To be sure, the self-hatred just mentioned is the sentiment that is both self-imposed and replenished in us through, for example, Black television, movie, and theatre productions that invite us to come laugh at ourselves, over experiences that involve everything from barber shops, to boat cruises, to weddings, to hitting the lottery. This self-hatred, of course, legitimizes the systematic exploitation and oppression that is inflicted upon us by White Supremacy.
Consequently, our self-hatred is the main culprit that keeps African Americans using the word “nigger” as some type of affectionate term, since far too many of us continue to use it amongst ourselves.
Additionally, the N-word has now, mostly due to the buffoon minstrelsy that is known as hip-hop, become part of American vernacular, as it is also a term used by, especially, young people of many other cultural groups, particularly, those of European American (so-called “white”) Latino, and Asian descent. Still, please check out this very thoughtful piece.
Cheers!
G. Djata Bumpus
http://www.baystatebanner.com/Opinion58-2010-08-26
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Sunday, March 20, 2011
New domain name extension is .org - it is NO LONGER .com (originally posted July 2010)
"The domain name of the Website remains Djatajabs. It's just called .org at the end, instead of .com though. Additionally, all of the previously-published posts are still here and in place."
One Love,
G. Djata Bumpus
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One Love,
G. Djata Bumpus
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Saturday, September 11, 2010
Mosque at Ground Zero "story" is simply more Mainstream Media pornography (originally posted August 18, 2010)
“As usual, just as their counterparts in the pornography industry always do when they create new fantasies for their patrons, the government- and corporate-controlled mainstream media have created another “news” story, along with its seemingly intended consternation, in the name of ‘giving the people what they want’, when, actually, they are simply ‘giving it to the people’. ”
Dear friends,
As usual, just as their counterparts in the pornography industry always do when they create new fantasies for their patrons, the government- and corporate-controlled mainstream media have created another “news” story, along with its seemingly intended consternation, in the name of “giving the people what they want”, when, actually, they are simply “giving it to the people”.
Hence, outside of the charlatans who are adding fuel to the fire and the morons who are feeding off of the story, the
nonsense that is currently being shoved down our throats and “pushing the buttons” of the racist artificial “majority”, over the notion that building a mosque near “Ground Zero” in Manhattan is somehow disrespectful to the victims of 9/11, if not sacrilegious, at least to me, begs for two questions. They are:
1) 19 Saudis flew into this country and killed thousands of people, while injuring – exponentially so - thousands more; yet, not one hair on the head of one Saudi has ever been touched in retribution, while thousands of American soldiers (as well as civilians) have died in Iraq and Afghanistan, countries who had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11, as far as we know. Meanwhile, North American multinational corporations have set up shop in those two countries just mentioned. Is that not disrespectful, if not sacrilegious, to all Americans, generally-speaking?
2) Less than a mile from the White House is decrepit housing, unfit for non-human animals, much less human ones; is that reality not disrespectful, if not sacrilegious to all Americans, since so many super-wealthy people, especially, from the aforementioned multinationals, whose gains are protected, if not enhanced, by their servants/co-conspirators in the supposedly taxpayer-sponsored White House, are doing their dirt aka business in the vicinity?
Finally, are Muslims considered “white”? Let’s face it: in Obama’s “post-racial” American society, can the artificial “majority” group that exists only by its phony claim of being “white”, while, simultaneously, disregarding its various cultural and social histories, emerge from the cocoon of White Supremacy (euphemistically called “racism”), and begin realizing that it is their sons and daughters too who are dying constantly and endlessly, here lately, in what has come to be known as the “war on terror”? Or, was the great Freud correct, when he insisted, long ago, that humans are “weak creatures with low intelligence”?
One Love,
G. Djata Bumpus
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Dear friends,
As usual, just as their counterparts in the pornography industry always do when they create new fantasies for their patrons, the government- and corporate-controlled mainstream media have created another “news” story, along with its seemingly intended consternation, in the name of “giving the people what they want”, when, actually, they are simply “giving it to the people”.
Hence, outside of the charlatans who are adding fuel to the fire and the morons who are feeding off of the story, the
nonsense that is currently being shoved down our throats and “pushing the buttons” of the racist artificial “majority”, over the notion that building a mosque near “Ground Zero” in Manhattan is somehow disrespectful to the victims of 9/11, if not sacrilegious, at least to me, begs for two questions. They are:
1) 19 Saudis flew into this country and killed thousands of people, while injuring – exponentially so - thousands more; yet, not one hair on the head of one Saudi has ever been touched in retribution, while thousands of American soldiers (as well as civilians) have died in Iraq and Afghanistan, countries who had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11, as far as we know. Meanwhile, North American multinational corporations have set up shop in those two countries just mentioned. Is that not disrespectful, if not sacrilegious, to all Americans, generally-speaking?
2) Less than a mile from the White House is decrepit housing, unfit for non-human animals, much less human ones; is that reality not disrespectful, if not sacrilegious to all Americans, since so many super-wealthy people, especially, from the aforementioned multinationals, whose gains are protected, if not enhanced, by their servants/co-conspirators in the supposedly taxpayer-sponsored White House, are doing their dirt aka business in the vicinity?
Finally, are Muslims considered “white”? Let’s face it: in Obama’s “post-racial” American society, can the artificial “majority” group that exists only by its phony claim of being “white”, while, simultaneously, disregarding its various cultural and social histories, emerge from the cocoon of White Supremacy (euphemistically called “racism”), and begin realizing that it is their sons and daughters too who are dying constantly and endlessly, here lately, in what has come to be known as the “war on terror”? Or, was the great Freud correct, when he insisted, long ago, that humans are “weak creatures with low intelligence”?
One Love,
G. Djata Bumpus
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Monday, August 23, 2010
Should All African Americans change our surnames to Obama?
"If all African Americans take the surname Obama, in this “post-racial” society…"
Dear friends,
If all African Americans take the surname Obama, in this “post-racial” society, a lot of the people who, mean-spiritedly, call themselves "white", in order to form an artificial “majority” group, won't have to be dumpin' on the president all of the time. Instead, they'll just take things out on African American passers-by, neighbors, co-workers, customers, employers, and so forth. That is, we'll be right there for them to vent.
Moreover, the aforementioned “whites” will have the freedom to express their true feelings, without having to use the excuse that they're simply attacking a politician with whom they're dis-satisfied. Dig?
Let's face it. Never before have we seen a president of the United States attacked so viciously, so continuously, and so openly at that. Why haven't we heard any mainstream media segments about that? Perhaps, the reason lies with the role of the aforementioned mainstream media to constantly, misinform and keep the population worked up, as the real rulers of our society (corporate leaders not their lackeys, i.e., politicians) commit every crime in the book with absolute impunity. Eh?
One Love,
G. Djata Bumpus
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Dear friends,
If all African Americans take the surname Obama, in this “post-racial” society, a lot of the people who, mean-spiritedly, call themselves "white", in order to form an artificial “majority” group, won't have to be dumpin' on the president all of the time. Instead, they'll just take things out on African American passers-by, neighbors, co-workers, customers, employers, and so forth. That is, we'll be right there for them to vent.
Moreover, the aforementioned “whites” will have the freedom to express their true feelings, without having to use the excuse that they're simply attacking a politician with whom they're dis-satisfied. Dig?
Let's face it. Never before have we seen a president of the United States attacked so viciously, so continuously, and so openly at that. Why haven't we heard any mainstream media segments about that? Perhaps, the reason lies with the role of the aforementioned mainstream media to constantly, misinform and keep the population worked up, as the real rulers of our society (corporate leaders not their lackeys, i.e., politicians) commit every crime in the book with absolute impunity. Eh?
One Love,
G. Djata Bumpus
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