"The Pro-Israel Lobby wants War and More War

"The Pro-Israel Lobby wants war and more war: After Syria, they want Iran--only, they want US troops to kill for them and US taxpayers to fund it..."

Dear friends, 

 Cynthia McKinney is speaking The Truth, when she says:The Pro-Israel Lobby wants war and more war: After Syria, they want Iran--only, they want US troops to kill for them and US taxpayers to fund it! 

 Liberation! 

 G. Djata Bumpus < http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/03/aipac-in-full-court-press-on-syria.print.html Read full post

Humiliating the Panthers

Dear friends,

I was quite incensed both yesterday and today as some clown, on Facebook, masquerading as an African American, posted a picture from 1970 where some Philly Panthers stripped for authorities after a raid that was led by super-scumbag Frank Rizzo, the top cop back then who later became mayor.

Nevertheless, it's a hugely false abstraction to compare the a displaying of the Emmett Till horror, as well as lowlife Frank Rizzo's stripping Panthers in 1970, within the context of exposing it to people of today, just as it is with the murder of Dr. King, without revealing the relationships between all of those occurrences and their connection with the continuation of both local and federal government actions to demean and humiliate, especially African American people.

Moreover, as someone who had to walk around in the daytime with a pistol on my waist, and sleep at night with a shotgun beside my bed and the pistol under my pillow, while police cars surrounded our offices, and occasionally helicopters hovered above as they routinely performed “combat exercises”, it angers me that that photograph is not accompanied by the question "why did those Panthers undress?". After all, we were always ready to fight!...Consequently, I always saw it as an inside job.

That is, I always thought to myself that the Philadelphia Police Department had infiltrated a local Panther branch  (since there were about seven of them all over Philly)...worse yet, since there were females there too, I can't imagine an African American woman stripping naked in public, as some of them did...therefore, whoever pulled his or her clothes off first was the police informant\collaborator who got the others to join in.

Finally, jealous of the Panthers, many self-hating black journalists and college professors have brought that incident up as an excuse to snicker at the Panthers, when in fact their cowardly selves, including my old friend Cornell West, were too scared to stand up to our oppressors.

Liberation!

G. Djata Bumpus

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On Forgiveness

“…for African Americans and other oppressed people, especially Christian ministers/missionaries have, for many years, conveniently, urged us to embrace this notion of "forgiveness"…”

Dear friends,

On Facebook and other forums, I continuously hear about the notion of “forgiveness”. I strongly denounce the notion that one person should "forgive" another person for an insult committed against one's self!. That is, if someone hurts you, then s/he must first forgive himself or herself and redeem himself or herself by righting the wrong. Otherwise, that person hasn't grown, by you forgiving them when they've done nothing to make up for the unsolicited and unwanted insult that was thrust upon you.

Consequently, to me, it is a shallow expression of moral superiority, if not a mockery of it, to allow a person to remain in a bed of deceit and wrongdoing, instead of, at most, waiting to give that person a chance to redeem himself or herself. Besides, if you forgive the insulter, and that person hasn't attempted to redeem himself or herself, then you will suffer mentally and emotionally, inasmuch as that will clearly affect your self-esteem. This happens to victims of sexual abuse every second of every day, particularly females, since females are sexually assaulted, often by a relative or family "friend", literally, every second of every day, somewhere in the world!!! It's bad!!!

So, for example, if I borrow $100 from you and don't pay it back, then why should you forgive me? However, if I forgive myself, and come up to you with the $100 at a much later time and ask for your forgiveness for not paying on time, that's a whole different story. Then you can show real moral superiority, by letting that person pay you back. Otherwise, you are drugging yourself into thinking that you have done something good, when you have not even shown the courage to reject another person's insult directed towards you, by him or her asking for forgiveness without redeeming himself or herself first. Again, it affects your self-esteem.

Finally, the person who is not remorseful about having hurt you won't care either, so you've done nothing to help either of you...You just allowed a criminal to get away with a crime, so to speak. There's nothing good about that! Moreover, for African Americans and other oppressed people, especially Christian ministers/missionaries have, for many years, conveniently, urged us to embrace this notion of "forgiveness", as if the social/citizen insults have ceased to occur.

Peace & Love,
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Are they Civil Rights or Human Rights?

Dear friends,

The ever-reactionary US government has, conveniently, diminished all movements, along with their activists, that oppose the actions of the aforementioned government to being in the same league as the sterile movement of the Sixties that died with Martin Luther King. For example, today, ridiculous media and other endorsed spokespeople, call the great revolutionary and Black Nationalist Malcolm X, a “civil tights” leader. Huh? To be sure, about that, Malcolm is rolling around in his grave.

But this diminishing the significance of our human rights just mentioned above can be seen in the inability of African Americans to drink from certain water fountains down South as being called a “civil right”. Being seated fairly on a bus may be a civil right. After all, at least you can get on the bus – or walk. However,  when, in fact, all humans must consume water/fluids in periodic intervals or they will succumb, it is a violation of one’s rights as a human being to not be able to drink from any particular public fountain. . This also applies to public toilets.

Liberation!

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Dr. Martin Luther King's manifesto - Letter from a Birmingham Jail

"Perhaps I have once again been too optimistic. Is organized religion too inextricably bound to the status quo to save our nation and the world? Perhaps I must turn my faith to the inner spiritual church, the church within the church, as the true ekklesia and the hope of the world."

Dear friends,

While there have been many Black leaders, both male and female, who are deserving of a memorial statue, at least, one of those many is now finally being recognized. Moreover, while Dr. King's real views have been trivialized by a government- and corporate-controlled mainstream media and other North American cultural institutions as "A dream", the real work that was done by centuries of activism - and still goes on - has brought African Americans and many others to this point, and is captured in a letter that is, to me, Martin Luther King's manifesto. It appears on the link below. Cheers!

G. Djata Bumpus
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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
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Presidential Conventions of 2012 and Religion

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." - Karl Marx
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Dear friends,

It's interesting that ALL of the speakers at both of the political conventions 2012 ended their addresses with religious salutes. And so, while such gestures may bring warm feelings, temporarily, to many, at what point will humankind take responsibility for realizing our true essence and seeking to relate to each other and what we do, in a way that will bring genuine peace and happiness, without us havin

to engage in the drama of politics? 

In his often, deliberately, misquoted work called, A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right - Introduction, the great Karl Marx offers, "Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo."

Finally, we cannot appreciate our true essence as a species, much less ever find real peace and happiness, as long as we obscure its existence through religious claims that do not reflect our behavior as species beings. Cheers!

G. Djata Bumpus

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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

Bradley is a Wpman and Obama is a Man?

Dear friends,

 Bradley Manning a seriously, mentally ill person. Moreover, his objectifying women is incredibly sexist!...why do so many women who consider themselves "progressive" justify such behavior?

After all, since when does being a woman defined as having long hair and wearing makeup?. He needs help - not confinement. The Obama administration, I am told, has charged more people with espionage than all other past presidents combined. Yet, African American people still foolishly support him!. It's a damn shame!

G. Djata Bumpus
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57599677/bradley-manning-i-want-to-live-as-a-woman-named-chelsea/ Read full post

3 Black male youth murder Aussie visitor

Dear friends,

As I've been saying, for years, all of the attention given to mentoring black male youth means nothing, if you aren't giving the same attention to our female youth (who are the ones who will have the black male youth), as well as creating genuine communities where there will be plenty of grown men available to offer wisdom and experience to all of our youth... 

Otherwise, if we keep placing so much emphasis on young Black males only, we will simply be promoting Male Supremacy which is the basis for all human oppression and exploitation. So nothing will change!. Moreover, one of these low-life teenagers lived with his father. We can not be angry with George Zimmerman, and not be equally angry with these three fools! Peace. G. Djata Bumpus

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57599336-504083/christopher-lane-australian-baseball-player-killed-by-bored-okla-teens-police-say/

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Russell Simmons attacks Harriet Tubman/Black people

"Once again, under the guise of being “comics”, some pathetic African Americans are mistaking self-deprecation for-self-degradation."



Dear friends,

I was channel surfing late Saturday night (8/17/13), when I stopped at a program called Comedy TV or something.

A young black male comic named Billy Dee Washington had just come on. At first, he actually sounded funny mimicking someone who told him that when they go to a comedy show they don’t want to think; rather, they just want a laugh. That was, apparently, supposed to be some type of prelude for what was coming. I should mention here that his audience was all European American.

At any rate, the aforementioned comic went on to say “I just found out that my great-grandfather was a runaway slave...he ran away because my great-grandmother was a bitch.”...The European-American audience halfheartedly laughed. In other words, even some of them found it offensive.

When I was talking with one of my daughters ,yesterday, she mentioned that Russell Simmons had come out with a tape call the Harriet Tubman sex tapes, and that Spike Lee and others were incensed..

Once again, under the guise of being “comics”, some pathetic African Americans are mistaking self-deprecation for-self-degradation. In this short interview below Russell Simmons tries to explain away his self-hatred and disgraceful lack of consideration for African American people, although he likes to collect our dollars.

Additionally , stirring people up by using controversy , for the sake of it , is a very negative , poisonous approach to creating union between people .

One Love!

G. Djata Bumpus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnwDKcpc1RE
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Who really benefits from Stop and Frisk policies?

"if in fact the issue is safety, then how does violating both the human and civil rights of especially African American and Latino men and boys make the aforementioned males safer? I mean, are they deserving of such social comfort from the abuse of police/other citizens?"

Dear friends,

One of the biggest problems in the structure of any society lies with the fact that: in order to operate in a cohesive manner the various cultural institutions such as the government and its instruments of threat capacity through the courts, police, and military, along with slightly less coercive institutions like schools, churches, media, and many others, seem to necessarily embrace a “collective conscience”.

Yet, what room does that leave for each of the individual members of any particular society to really think as a person who has a “sense of self”? That is, although we are social beings, each of us, even babies, exists as an individual. Likewise, police officers are each responsible for maintaining his or her own well-being.

Moreover, with both state authorization and a pistol, unfortunately, it is not difficult for one of these folks to take improper stock of himself or herself. In a society that is based upon White Supremacy (i.e., “white” rules); this leaves tens of millions of people who are not considered “white” to being possibly victimized, at any time, by state sanction. Did someone say Trayvon Martin?

Hence, the ongoing controversy regarding the Stop-and-Frisk policies of urban police departments in the United States is not about public safety. Rather, those humiliating measures are about control. After all, if in fact the issue is safety, then how does violating both the human and civil rights of especially African American and Latino men and boys make the aforementioned males safer? I mean, are they deserving of such social comfort from the abuse of police/other citizens? And why should such a large body of citizens have a vested interest in the proliferation of our society, when their dignity is violated solely for the purpose of affording the opportunity to certain police officers to inflate their shallow egos?

Finally, if a collective conscience is deliberately directed towards benefiting only specific groups here, then why all of the pretense of “freedom and democracy”? I mean, for the big corporations that control our society, how important is it to them to have police and military forces make sure that any collective conscience is profitable to the former, with no one stepping out of line.

Liberation!

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Drones, Wars, and Money

"I guess having a personal God allows people to disregard their personal Good."

Dear friends, Just a few days ago, Pres. Obama ordered his umpteenth drone strike and murdered a bunch of people, many of them children, because the corporations who put him in office need to keep this country at constant war...even worse, many citizens - politicians and every day people alike, thinking of no one but themselves, go along with this carnage as long as they are able to keep their “jobs”. I guess having a personal God allows people to disregard their personal Good.

On the link below, is a 28 minutes long video about the history / evolution of the drone program.

G. Djata Bumpus
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Philadelphia School Lay-offs Uncalled For!

In the midst of thousands of school lay-offs, and now threats of schools in Philly not even opening in September, why won;'t the media conglomerate that owns the two major newspapers print this letter below?
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Dear Editor: 

 Regarding the article called, “More than 3,700 school employees are being laid off” by Martha Woodall, posted 6/8/13, I feel that these type of "fiscal" matters are the result of the manner in which educational institutions are not only structured in relation to the communities that they serve, but, also, the structure of the employment and how it is regulated, much less why, what for, and how the children learn. 

This is horrendous! 

 Why was the information in this article put out in such an abstract manner? I mean, one would think that the writer would talk about the entire budget of the city and where cuts are going. Apparently, something is happening to the economy of both the city and state, and is being reflected in the services to people. 

 I remember my now deceased, dear friend Michael Todd Pearlman, a computer science teacher at the Masterman School, fighting vigorously, throughout the Nineties, while, simultaneously, fighting against bone marrow cancer - and still teaching. As well, Mike was actively involved in the PFT, trying to get smaller class sizes, in the already over-crowded Philly schoolrooms, as part of the PFT’s main focus. Unfortunately, he passed in late-2001. 

Yet, had the class size move been successful, the notion of “attendance” stats being an excuse to close schools and lay-off workers would be a moot point. Moreover, to SRC, I must ask: Why are we even going on a year-to-year basis with the economics of schooling? Let’s face it. If the city's children are important to us, then why are they not enough of a priority that there is, at least, a 5- years plan in place, with money protected in a way that is commensurate with the importance of children and their education? 

I guess that this is part of the Some Children Left Behind Act. Eh?

 G. Djata Bumpus
http://articles.philly.com/2013-06-09/news/39836011_1_teacher-layoffs-city-schools-jerry-jordan Read full post

We Nust End Both Male Supremacy and White Supremacy!!!

 

 

Dear friends,

 The phenomenal Malcolm X once said “you don’t catch hell, because you are a Republican or Democrat...you don’t catch hell, because you’re a Baptist or Methodist...and you sure don’t catch no hell because you’re an American...because if you were an American, you wouldn’t catch no hell...you catch hell because you’re a black man… You catch hell, all of us catch hell for the same reason."

 The point that our beloved brother was making, and it still holds true, is: our oppression and exploitation is not inflicted upon us as individuals...rather, the injustices that are put upon us are done so as a group.

For our women, there is the double jeopardy of being both black and female...of course, in a socially-stratified society like ours, one can belong to an oppressor and an oppressed simultaneously...the Clarence Thomas\Anita Hill case proved that quite adequately.Likewise, European American women, while they are oppressed as females can be equally racist and harmful to all African Americans, as well. The same goes for European American (so-called “white”) people who make staunch claims of “sexual identity”, based upon something as precarious, if not frivolous, as the human sexual appetite.

 

 Therefore, to me, anyone who claims that s/he wants to get rid of human oppression and exploitation must necessarily insist that we rid ourselves of both Male Supremacy and White Supremacy...after all, long before Barack Obama there had already been scores of black presidents all over Africa and the Caribbean (and continue to be)...yet, that has not helped the plight of black women (or their children) in those places...if anything, it’s far worse than here.

 

Liberation!

 

G. Djata Bumpus

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Some Spoken Word upon which one can reflect - to CHANGE things

"...as Dr. Maulana Karenga pointed out well over 40 years ago, and I still agree with him, African American art, particularly, must be "functional". "


Dear friends,

I actually was turned on to this very short, but profoundly eloquent, video on the link below by a Facebook friend from Philly. The lyrics are far more informative and real than what passes itself off today as "hip-hop". As well, at least to me, unwittingly, this thoughtful piece provides ideas about solutions, as it represents genuine art. That is, it serves as a bridge between the listener/viewer and reality through the artist's work (although an artist can use imaginary/not real visualizations to make a point too).

Moreover, as Dr. Maulana Karenga wrote well over 40 years ago, and I still agree with him, African American art particularly, must be "functional". In other words, he pointed out that a picture of a bowl of fruit may have some aesthetic merit, yet it means nothing. Instead, what we consider expressing artistically, whether through song lyrics, poetic verse, or any other form of literally or visual art, should be both informative and inspiring - not just pretty.

Finally, inasmuch as it, to me, makes one truthfully reflect upon the conditions in which many of us find ourselves and, therefore, brings ideas about how we can improve the aforesaid circumstances, this video delivers. Enjoy!

G. Djata Bumpus
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Gil Scott Heron's version of Inner City Blues

Beats the heck out of Marvin's original hit.

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Langston Hughes on The Negro and The Racial Mountain

"Why is it that we have to portray positive images of ourselves? "

Dear friends,

From Black plays of today that ask either that we come laugh at ourselves or have "white" folks come and feel sorry for us, to hip-hop lyrics that use the word "nigger" so much that even the genre's European American listeners are now identifying with the pejorative term, the level of self-hatred among far too many African American people is, unfortunately, as strong as it was, if not stronger, than the days of Steppinfetchit. Proof? Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley and so many other "comics" who are paid handsomely for demeaning us.

Someone then asks: Why is it that we have to portray positive images of ourselves? On the link below, is an incredible essay that was written over three generations ago (1926) by the incomparable Langston Hughes. You should be able to answer the previous question on your own, after that.

One Love!

G. Djata Bumpus
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NABJ - fulfilling its Promise?

Dear friends,

I remember back in the early 80s, when I was the big man on campus at Temple, NABJ (National Association of Black Journalists) held a conference there.

It wasn’t a very big organization then and the agenda was fairly progressive. Unfortunately, times have changed and the group that exists today under that name is far removed from the activism of its predecessors.

Having been in the movement for all of my life, basically, since the early 60s, growing up in an activist family, I’ve either organized or rubbed elbows with many of the now renowned icons of the movement. The most significant lesson that I was taught and continue to advocate is: we must inform to inspire. NABJ must create a forum on the Internet where African American people will go to share dialogue - not the racist controlled media outlets like MS NBC and the Grio that offer analyses that are often laughable. Moreover, and it will become more apparent when Obama is no longer in office, NABJ can show leadership in the same context as the great Dr. DuBois did, when he started the Crisis magazine - which was quite revolutionary in the early 20th century.

Finally, African Americans in the spirit of our beloved brother Malcolm X and his mentor the Honorable Elijah Muhammad must: Do for self!. That is, we must leave Facebook and other forums in droves of millions and start our own Internet network that joins us with our people around the world.

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Michael Eric Dyson - the Happy Boot!

"Historically, African Americans didn't start using the word “Nigger” first. Rather, it was used by both slave captors and the racist, cowardly mob as they attacked 1 or 2 African-American individuals, as a "term of endearment" among themselves regarding us"



Dear friends,

it is a false abstraction for African American people to continue to defend the use of the word "Nigger" as one of endearment. For example, Michael Eric Dyson, from both a lack of time and experience in this movement other than being an endorsed spokesman for the rulers, continues to play intellectual acrobatics and misinform our youth. In fact, if the word is something of which to be proud, then why call it the N-word? Why not just say "Nigger"? I'll tell you why. Because "Nigger" is a vulgar expression!

Historically, African Americans didn't start using the word “Nigger” first. Rather, it was used by both slave captors and the racist, cowardly mob as they attacked 1 or 2 African-American individuals, as a "term of endearment" among themselves regarding us.. The internalization of our oppression like straightening our hair and dying our skin is directly related to our self-degradation, by finding humor in our own inadequacy of being designated as “inferior”. So Dyson and his ilk remain "happy boots".

Liberation!

G. Djata Bumpus

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Do Blacks Benefit the most from "Stand Your Ground" in Florida?

Dear friends,

For all of the talk about George Zimmerman, we need to dig ourselves!!!

On the link below, there's a different take on all of this.

One Love,
G. Djata Bumpus

http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/16/blacks-benefit-from-florida-stand-your-ground-law-at-disproportionate-rate/ Read full post

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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A Fighter's View of the Zimmerman-Martin Confrontation

"And what about the screening? You don’t need a voice expert or witnesses to figure out who was doing the screaming..."

Dear friends,

Nobody seems to want to mention it. However, many European Americans, so-called “white” people, take the acquittal of George Zimmerman as an “in your face” to African-Americans for the acquittal of O.J. Simpson in 1995.

Yet, Simpson did not admit to killing anyone. Therefore, there was actually a burden of proof on the prosecution. In the case of George Zimmerman, he admitted killing the youngster. That means that, unless it was accidental, the killer needed a convincing excuse for taking Trayvon Martin’s life.

Having been involved in hundreds of street fights, both as a young knucklehead and later as a legendary bouncer in Philadelphia’s old “red light” district at 13^th & Market streets in Center City, aside from my amateur and pro boxing careers, as well as teaching about 3, 000 individuals how to fight, for a living, for the past 25 years (and that doesn't include the troops in Iraq http://djatajabs.blogspot.com/2011/02/pioneer-valley-boxing-school-was-in.html), I know that there is no way that a grown man and a skinny teenage boy rumbled from a curb to a spot over 20 feet away in the grass without, at some point, the two of them standing on their feet.

Now, if in fact, the confrontation continued, then that means at some point George Zimmerman could have ended the altercation, by simply shooting a bullet into either the air or grass.

Moreover, considering the fact that Trayvon was initially considered a John Doe, then it makes no sense to me why, at least by the next morning, the police and the complex management didn’t go door to door, trying to identify the dead victim. If it had been a European-American would they have been so callous?

And why would George Zimmerman be so callous and uncaring about a complete stranger that he had just killed? After all, unless he is an experienced killer, it would seem, at least to me, that he would be frantic, knowing that almost never does an excuse like self-defense work. So who did he talk to immediately following the incident? To be sure, a frightened coward who needed to shoot a young boy had to talk to someone, even if he spoke to police right after the killing. Who is that person? Was it the neighbor who so seemingly Frank claimed that he recalled Trayvon being on top of Zimmerman? And since they traveled over 20 feet, at what point did he actually see them fighting?

And what about the screening? You don’t need a voice expert or witnesses to figure out who was doing the screaming. In other words, if in fact a man’s head is being banged against the sidewalk, he is not screaming. Additionally, the person doing the banging is in a vicious fight, as opposed to being an attacker. An attacker would have knocked Zimmerman down, then kicked or stomped head, not be down on the ground with him banging his head on the cement. None of the cops thought of that? Come on.

 As a lifelong fighter, I know that from experience. As I said earlier, I was a knucklehead when I was young. However, if a young man is on top of another person, and suddenly that person pulls a gun out, that guy on top is definitely going to start yelling/screaming. So Zimmerman can’t have it both ways. That is, if Trayvon was on top, then it was he who was screaming from a surprise that he knew was life-threatening - not Zimmerman. And the screaming stopped with the sound of the gunshot. Duh? That's MURDER not SELF_DEFENSE!!!

Besides, if it was self-defense, then thousands of, especially, men should be released from US prisons, since many of them are currently doing murder sentences after being involved in fistfights at house parties and bars, where they've pulled out a gun or knife or some other weapon and used it. That is exactly what George Zimmerman did. The police should have arrested him for murder immediately following the fight.
 

By the way, if the altercation lasted for 45 seconds, then it means that both parties were engaged in a fight. Consequently. if Zimmerman first engaged in a fist fight with Trayvon, then that means that in the middle of the fistfight he decided to change the rules. Hence, the gun and the screaming. At best, that’s manslaughter.
 

Finally, I cannot imagine that members of the Sanford Police Department did not collude with George Zimmerman in providing a false account of what occurred.

G. Djata Bumpus

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Pioneer Valley Boxing School was in Iraq/Kuwait war theatre with the Troops

LETTER OF SUPPORT AND TESTIMONIAL
19March04
In support of Coach Bumpus, for his support ofthe M.W.R. (Morale, Welfare, and Recreation)boxing program in Camp Udairi, Kuwait


To whom it may concern:

I began to review our (US Army) M.W.R. boxing program for the field of Kuwait and Iraq, hoping to make it better. I upgraded all the equipment, which enhanced the safety tremendously. I had a great system as far as the structure of the practices, but I needed more technical information, a book or a resource.

I came across a Web site that caught my eye. Yet, it was not the site itself that changed the program, rather, it was the person who responded to my e-mail. His name is Coach G. Djata Bumpus. I told him who I was and that I could use some more information on the practical approach of coaching.

Coach Bumpus sounded enthusiastic about doing whatever it took to support the troops. He started sending lesson plans and instructions of basic boxing fundamentals. I was really impressed by his interest and support of our program. As well, he approached me in a very professional manner, emphasizing the importance of providing good information for the troops.

What followed was some of the most comprehensive and easy to understand boxing lessons I have ever seen or heard of. It was amazing. I began implementing them the next day. Not only was it easy to read, but fun to teach. Coach Bumpus’ writing is both creative and articulate. Moreover, his lessons are phenomenal!

The men and women who participated in the program enjoyed and appreciated what I was doing, but it was the practical and relevant information that made the program so successful, regardless of the participants' boxing skill levels or knowledge of boxing itself.
I gladly endorse Coach Bumpus for supporting the boxing program of the U.S. and coalition forces in the theatre of both Kuwait and Iraq, and, I also support him, because he has a special talent for expressing and communicating how to teach boxing. As a coach myself, his contributions were/are immeasurable.

Finally, in addition to his in depth understanding of the game, he also inspired me personally. In fact, before most lessons, he would take a moment to reflect on how a specific lesson ties in with some part of our lives. Being able to connect sports with real life situations is special.

Thanks again Coach Bumpus.

Sincerely,
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Zimmerman case highlights Literacy & "Race"

Dear friends,

We need a national literacy campaign in this country. After all, good reading comprehension will allow the populace to engage in the sharing of ideas, while simultaneously deepening the mental stamina of our citizens.

People often think of stamina in terms of its physical sense - such as running the marathon. Yet, we can increase our thinking capacity, so that we are able to understand phenomena more deeply. Obviously, the poorly-educated jurors in many cases have very low levels of mental stamina. As a result, the decisions made by the aforementioned jurors have more to do with their personal insecurities and inadequacies about their inability to reason. Conjoined in a small herd or group, it is then easier for them to live with themselves.

Nevertheless, the prosecutors jurors and witnesses all lacked integrity, as well as intellectual capacity, in the George Zimmerman case. And this is the real dilemma.

The issue of “race” obscures the more relevant problem of the huge identity crisis in this country. I mean, living in a market economy that is based upon people using one another as a means to an end, as each member of society strives to be the best personality/latest model for consumption, for either whoever or whatever reason, makes the notion of “race”, as it were, simply another excuse for people to gain both self-worth and societal worth at the expense of their fellows.

Let’s face it. The kind of impropriety that the Martin family is facing happens all over the world, on all five of the peopled continents, ALL IF THE TIME!!!.

Finally, those who are the most culpable for human suffering today are ruling classes, in collusion with the governments that they sponsor- governments, by the way, that are themselves legitimized, not by the vote, but through the threat capacity of their police and military.

And so we must build genuine communities, as species beings, where we are able to embrace the humanity of which we are all capable.

G.  Djata Bumpus 

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10 Steps 4 Self-defense 4 Women

"1.) You are equal to all others! That, Male Supremacy, euphemistically called “sexism”, opposes."

Dear friends,

As I, along with a number of other men, have been making an extra effort to join all females in ending Male Supremacy (euphemistically called “sexism”), below, I have listed what I know to be the necessary character traits that all women must possess in order to combat the world’s number one problem – violence against women and girls.

In everyday social interactions, racism, the cute term for White Supremacy, is much bandied about; however, the government- and corporate-controlled media stay away from talking about Male Supremacy. Yet, the latter system of oppression exists in every country, city, town, and village. Racism does not! That means that whether you are in oil-rich Nigeria or our own nation, the USA, the oppression and exploitation of females remains our biggest social problem, not our economy or “global warming”, for that matter. As a result, women and girls are not safe in any particular situation. Moreover, what good is having a thriving economy, if females cannot feel safe to be alone?

Finally, I ask any of the readers of this blog, regardless of your gender, to direct all females who you know to read the info below. The main point being made here is: It does not matter what fighting techniques that one knows, if she has not developed her inner powers so that she can both make and keep a promise to herself to not allow herself to be assaulted in any way; otherwise, she will not use the aforementioned techniques.

One Love,
G. Djata Bumpus
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10 Steps 4 Self-defense 4 Women
by G. Djata Bumpus

1.) You are equal to all others! That, Male Supremacy, euphemistically, called “sexism”, opposes.

2.) No one has a right to put his or her hands on you, unless you want that person to. Period! (battered wife)

3.) There are no tough guys out here. Perps are punks. (Tough looks mean nothing)

4.) You have nothing to prove to anyone, so don’t get into squabbles with people where you’re exchanging threats with each other.

5.) Whether you hit back or not, your opponent will attack you. Screaming “Get off of me” will get you nowhere.

6.) In a fight, you are confronting your own insecurities, not those of your opponent(s).

7.) You must have a “sense of self”. That means that you know what it’s like to be alone and accomplish goals on your own. In other words, if you only know how to get what you want with another person, you will not know what it’s like to go through life’s changes by yourself. So you really won’t know yourself. Furthermore, without knowing yourself, you won’t know how you’ll respond in any particular situation to whatever problem or circumstance that arises.

Please remember that any response messes the perp up, since he only wants you to “freeze” from not knowing what to do; that will allow him to walk you right through the victimization process. As well, that also means that you will not know what it’s like to keep a promise, not even to yourself. Therefore, you will not know what it is like to be able to depend on yourself to resist an attacker, much less being able to help those who need your protection like your growing children.

Additionally, you won’t truly appreciate other people, because you won’t really know what they went through just trying to survive in life by themselves. Besides, regarding having a “sense of self”, it allows one to possess the personal and divine power called “courage”. And, as the great Maya Angelou insists, “Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”

8.) When you know how to fight, you know when to fight. Therefore, you will use tactics ranging from non-violent to extremely violent, according to the situation. For example, if someone is robbing you at gunpoint, let him or her have the money. You are not less for that. S/he is. On the other hand, you must not allow anyone to either rape you or make you go somewhere with them (usually to a place where they can kill you without being noticed). You have a great chance of surviving a gun assault (85%) and you will feel good about yourself, knowing that no one can take your soul.

9.) Always remember, you have both a duty and a responsibility to yourself and all of those who you love and who love you to maintain your well-being and existence.

10.) There are people who claim to be pacifists. However, those people are dishonest and cowardly (lacking courage). After all, people may very well claim to be civilized and obey the first of the Ten Commandments; yet, that’s obviously a lie, whether speaking of an individual or a government. Both the past and present behavior of humans reveals that simple truism. Therefore, if the so-called pacifists lived in a place where they could not depend upon either the violence or the threat of it by the police or military, they would be corpses – not pacifists.

Moreover, if someone was bringing murder or its equivalent (that is, rape) to one of your loved ones, while you stood there with a gun, and they refused your command to stop, would you shoot that person? No one’s a pacifist. That’s a lie! And I certainly don’t mean to sound like Senator Wilson of South Carolina. You must maintain! Ultimately, you may decide to run away from your attacker; however, you won’t even do that without a “sense of self”, as mentioned earlier, and the divine inner power called “courage” that you will discover within yourself as a result of having that “sense of self”. Instead, you’ll just cower and/or beg as you are being victimized. Don’t be a victim! Read full post

Hollyweird's Zoe Saldana does Nina Simone in blackface

But here's the real Nina!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqzfqb2FxSQ

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People make the "Economy"

Dear friends,

To hear it from large corporations, "pundits" of all stripes, and the mass communications media, the "Economy", as it were, is some kind of force or other phenomenon that drops out of the sky...

That notion makes everyday people, who are the only ones who really do work, think that we are all helpless, unless "Fate", some kind of divine intervention of "market forces", or even a set of prayers to win favor from the aforementioned "Economy" will make it (said Economy) return to us strong and generous.

Does that sound like a fairy tale? Well, it is not. Rather, this is the type of nonsense that those who are directing the wealth that ordinary people create continue to perpetuate through our schools, media, ad other cultural/social institutions. Represented by the earlier mentioned pundits and others (all of whom may, very well, just not know any better), many, if not most, people are constantly left in a state of anxiety about our futures.

People make economies, not vice versa. However, those in power are unwilling to lessen their current earnings by sharing with anyone, especially those who exist outside of their group. That means that, through clever schemes made by the government officials that they (big businesses) install, everyday citizens are expected to sacrifice for the common good (which is that which serves the interests of large corporations and the privileged few who own them - that is, those who have "Entitlement").

If people began to work together and begin to establish businesses like worker's cooperatives, for example, then issues like unemployment would be taken in a completely different context. I have a dear friend who is an automobile mechanic. He and a handful of other such automotive engineers own a shop that thrives quite well. Moreover, they share in both the work, the profits, as well as the losses. If this type of activity became more common, we would see all kinds of small businesses open up where people in the community could shun the larger companies and restrict much of their earnings to supporting institutions in their own communities.

To be sure, we would then see other institutions (for example, supermarkets, and banks) take new forms within communities, including local governments. Moreover, the necessary respect and trust that would develop inside of any community that chose such a direction would increase the standard of living of that body of people, as well. Imagine how it would affect schools, local health centers and hospitals, the relationships with police, firefighters, EMTs, librarians, and others who help provide the high standard of living that results from community sharing. Yet, if we, as individuals, simply copy the greed that is exercised by the ruling class and seek only that which is beneficial to ourselves, then the current circumstances will merely be passed on to our descendants.

Let us consider the great Tip O'neil's assertion that he canonized shortly before his passing. It goes: All politics is local. Cheers!

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Can capitalism survive the current world economic crisis?

"...under the current capitalist model, the performance of big companies, from time-to-time meet a dead end, because, at some point, the continuous seeking of profit in and of itself, with no concern for how the success of the business relates to progress of people in communities - aside from the latter’s consumption - and how people live, will, invariably, lead to the dilemma where the “market” must necessarily reach a 'saturation point',.."

Dear friends,

The big banks decided back in the late 19th Century to allow businesses to depend on them for capital (called finance capital), rather than the latter getting their own capital (called industrial capital) by earning it. Actually, only the largest companiies of certain industries were given the privilege of getting finnce capital. It was a neat trick, because it meant that no one smaller could compete with them, since they (big companies) did not have to worry about waiting for revenues to keep daily operations, buying new equipment, setting up subsidiaries, or providing paychecks for their workers. As a result, monopolies were formed that made sure that there was no "free market".

Yet, under the current capitalist model, the performance of the big companies, from time-to-time meet a dead end, because, at some point, the continuous seeking of profit in and of itself, with no concern for how the success of the business relates to progress of people in communities - aside from the latter’s consumption - and how people live, will, invariably, lead to the dilemma where the “market” must necessarily reach a “saturation point”, as it were, where there are either less or no customers (i.e., consumers), since there will come a time when people will not buy, if for no other reason than the fact that everyone has all of that particular items that they want. Hence, the constant wars in which, especially, the US, Britain, France, and Germany engage, so that they can establish new markets (i.e., new consumers).

In other words, you cannot have an infinite growth of the market, because there are only so many consumers who will want a product. Then what do you do? People who are really thinking about the future of humankind have to change the values of society, so that the market reflects those values, instead of vice versa (which is where the US ad other big capitalist nations now stand). But that means giving up either power or wealth to maintain legitimacy. To be sure, the Bush family and others shun that idea.

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Dr. Barbara Love on Frederick Douglass' famous July 4th speech, 1852

"Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) was the best known and most influential African American leader of the 1800s..."
(originally posted July 4th, 2008)


Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) was the best known and most influential African American leader of the 1800s. He was born a slave in Maryland but managed to escape to the North in 1838. He traveled to Massachusetts and settled in New Bedford, working as a laborer to support himself. In 1841, he attended a convention of the Massachusetts Antislavery Society and quickly came to the attention of its members, eventually becoming a leading figure in the New England antislavery movement...

In 1845, Douglass published his autobiography, "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: an American Slave." With the revelation that he was an escaped slave, Douglass became fearful of possible re-enslavement and fled to Great Britain and stayed there for two years, giving lectures in support of the antislavery movement in America. With the assistance of English Quakers, Douglass raised enough money to buy his own his freedom and in 1847 he returned to America as a free man.

He settled in Rochester, New York, where he published The North Star, an abolitionist newspaper. He directed the local underground railroad which smuggled escaped slaves into Canada and also worked to end racial segregation in Rochester's public schools.

In 1852, the leading citizens of Rochester asked Douglass to give a speech as part of their Fourth of July celebrations. Douglass accepted their invitation.

In his speech, however, Douglass delivered a scathing attack on the hypocrisy of a nation celebrating freedom and independence with speeches, parades and platitudes, while, within its borders, nearly four million humans were being kept as slaves.

Liberation,
Dr. Barbara J. Love

Social Justice Education (now retired)
SOE, UMASS, Amherst
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Fellow citizens, pardon me, and allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here today? What have I or those I represent to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? And am I, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess the benefits, and express devout gratitude for the blessings resulting from your independence to us?

Would to God, both for your sakes and ours, that an affirmative answer could be truthfully returned to these questions. Then would my task be light, and my burden easy and delightful. For who is there so cold that a nation's sympathy could not warm him? Who so obdurate and dead to the claims of gratitude, that would not thankfully acknowledge such priceless benefits? Who so stolid and selfish that would not give his voice to swell the hallelujahs of a nation's jubilee, when the chains of servitude had been torn from his limbs? I am not that man. In a case like that, the dumb might eloquently speak, and the "lame man leap as an hart."

But such is not the state of the case. I say it with a sad sense of disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you this day rejoice are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence bequeathed by your fathers is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak today? If so, there is a parallel to your conduct. And let me warn you, that it is dangerous to copy the example of a nation (Babylon) whose crimes, towering up to heaven, were thrown down by the breath of the Almighty, burying that nation in irrecoverable ruin.

Fellow citizens, above your national, tumultuous joy, I hear the mournful wail of millions, whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are today rendered more intolerable by the jubilant shouts that reach them. If I do forget, if I do not remember those bleeding children of sorrow this day, "may my right hand forget her cunning, and may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth!"

To forget them, to pass lightly over their wrongs and to chime in with the popular theme would be treason most scandalous and shocking, and would make me a reproach before God and the world.

My subject, then, fellow citizens, is "American Slavery." I shall see this day and its popular characteristics from the slave's point of view. Standing here, identified with the American bondman, making his wrongs mine, I do not hesitate to declare, with all my soul, that the character and conduct of this nation never looked blacker to me than on this Fourth of July.

Whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. Standing with God and the crushed and bleeding slave on this occasion, I will, in the name of humanity, which is outraged, in the name of liberty, which is fettered, in the name of the Constitution and the Bible, which are disregarded and trampled upon, dare to call in question and to denounce, with all the emphasis I can command, everything that serves to perpetuate slavery -- the great sin and shame of America! "I will not equivocate - I will not excuse." I will use the severest language I can command, and yet not one word shall escape me that any man, whose judgment is not blinded by prejudice, or who is not at heart a slave-holder, shall not confess to be right and just.

But I fancy I hear some of my audience say it is just in this circumstance that you and your brother Abolitionists fail to make a favorable impression on the public mind. Would you argue more and denounce less, would you persuade more and rebuke less, your cause would be much more likely to succeed. But, I submit, where all is plain there is nothing to be argued. What point in the anti-slavery creed would you have me argue? On what branch of the subject do the people of this country need light? Must I undertake to prove that the slave is a man? That point is conceded already. Nobody doubts it. The slave-holders themselves acknowledge it in the enactment of laws for their government. They acknowledge it when they punish disobedience on the part of the slave. There are seventy-two crimes in the State of Virginia, which, if committed by a black man (no matter how ignorant he be), subject him to the punishment of death; while only two of these same crimes will subject a white man to like punishment.

What is this but the acknowledgment that the slave is a moral, intellectual, and responsible being? The manhood of the slave is conceded. It is admitted in the fact that Southern statute books are covered with enactments, forbidding, under severe fines and penalties, the teaching of the slave to read and write. When you can point to any such laws in reference to the beasts of the field, then I may consent to argue the manhood of the slave. When the dogs in your streets, when the fowls of the air, when the cattle on your hills, when the fish of the sea, and the reptiles that crawl, shall be unable to distinguish the slave from a brute, then I will argue with you that the slave is a man!

For the present it is enough to affirm the equal manhood of the Negro race. Is it not astonishing that, while we are plowing, planting, and reaping, using all kinds of mechanical tools, erecting houses, constructing bridges, building ships, working in metals of brass, iron, copper, silver, and gold; that while we are reading, writing, and ciphering, acting as clerks, merchants, and secretaries, having among us lawyers, doctors, ministers, poets, authors, editors, orators, and teachers; that we are engaged in all the enterprises common to other men -- digging gold in California, capturing the whale in the Pacific, feeding sheep and cattle on the hillside, living, moving, acting, thinking, planning, living in families as husbands, wives, and children, and above all, confessing and worshipping the Christian God, and looking hopefully for life and immortality beyond the grave -- we are called upon to prove that we are men?

Would you have me argue that man is entitled to liberty? That he is the rightful owner of his own body? You have already declared it. Must I argue the wrongfulness of slavery? Is that a question for republicans? Is it to be settled by the rules of logic and argumentation, as a matter beset with great difficulty, involving a doubtful application of the principle of justice, hard to understand? How should I look today in the presence of Americans, dividing and subdividing a discourse, to show that men have a natural right to freedom, speaking of it relatively and positively, negatively and affirmatively? To do so would be to make myself ridiculous, and to offer an insult to your understanding. There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.

What! Am I to argue that it is wrong to make men brutes, to rob them of their liberty, to work them without wages, to keep them ignorant of their relations to their fellow men, to beat them with sticks, to flay their flesh with the lash, to load their limbs with irons, to hunt them with dogs, to sell them at auction, to sunder their families, to knock out their teeth, to burn their flesh, to starve them into obedience and submission to their masters? Must I argue that a system thus marked with blood and stained with pollution is wrong? No - I will not. I have better employment for my time and strength than such arguments would imply.

What, then, remains to be argued? Is it that slavery is not divine; that God did not establish it; that our doctors of divinity are mistaken? There is blasphemy in the thought. That which is inhuman cannot be divine. Who can reason on such a proposition? They that can, may - I cannot. The time for such argument is past.

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. Oh! had I the ability, and could I reach the nation's ear, I would today pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be denounced.

What to the American slave is your Fourth of July? I answer, a day that reveals to him more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mock; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy - a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation of the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour.

Go search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the Old World, travel through South America, search out every abuse and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.

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Gay Marriage is a Human Right!

"...no one but the parties involved know  what happens, in private, sexually – if anything at all, unless s/he is a witness. Therefore, it is no one’s business what two consenting adults do, regardless of gender, as it pertains to their sexual behavior, much less the type of erotic relationship in which they choose to commit themselves, married or otherwise."

Dear friends,

The right to marry someone is a human right NOT a civil one. This is where much of the confusion starts with the issue of “gay” marriage.

The ever-reactionary US government has, conveniently, diminished all movements, along with their activists, that oppose the actions of the aforementioned government to being in the same league as the sterile movement of the Sixties that died with Martin Luther King. For example, today, ridiculous media and other endorsed spokespeople, call the great revolutionary and Black Nationalist Malcolm X, a “civil tights” leader. Huh? To be sure, about that, Malcolm is rolling around in his grave.

But this lessening of human rights just mentioned above can be seen in the ability of African Americans to rink from certain water fountains down South as being called a “civil right”. Being seated fairly on a bus may be a civil right. After all, at least you can get on the bus – or walk. However,  when, in fact, all humans must consume water/fluids in periodic intervals or they will succumb, it is a violation of one’s rights as a human being to not be able to drink from any particular public fountain. . This also applies to public toilets. 

In any case, and unfortunately, the original Gay Liberation Movement that started in the late-Sixties, due to the market, not “sexual”, orientation of so many American citizens has deteriorated into the so-called Gay “Rights” Movement, as folks constantly practice being the most saleable personalities,.

Moreover, aside from the fact that, to me, it is absurd for anyone to make a staunch claim of “sexual identity”, based upon something as precarious, if not frivolous, as the human sexual appetite, no one but the parties involved know  what happens, in private, sexually – if anything at all, unless s/he is a witness. Therefore, it is no one’s business what two consenting adults do, regardless of gender, as it pertains to their sexual behavior, much less the type of erotic relationship in which they choose to commit themselves, married or otherwise.

One Love!

G. Djata Bumpus

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