OVERCOME AND BEAT RACISM

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How can black people (in america and beyond) overcome racism / discrimination?

What are some solutions that black people can implement to beat racism / discrimination?


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  • Re: OVERCOME AND BEAT RACISM

    Sun, December 17, 2006 - 4:00 PM
    Hey ... maybe you haven't heard but there is a Reptilian agenda to enslave the whole HUman Race!!!

    Start your research here and then check out what they've done to your food supply to make you so cognitively inept that you don't even have enough common sense to analyze what is really going on!!!


    THE MICROCHIP AGENDA ..... THE PENNY DROPS AT LAST?
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    Hello all ...

    We reached a significant milestone this week with a near-official acknowledgement that we are heading for mass human microchipping within a decade as we 'sleep walk' into the 'Surveillance Society'.

    This suggested timescale is highly optimistic because unless we awaken from the trance very soon we are talking far less than ten years, but, most importantly, the prospect of the bar-coded human is being discussed in the mainstream.

    It is a long way from the days a decade and more ago when my very suggestion that we were heading for microchipped people was guaranteed to trigger guffaws and belly laughs. But no more.
    This week, Britain's Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, responded to a report into the use of surveillance technology that warns that people may be forced to be microchipped 'like pet dogs' to track their movements and store personal information which, of course, would no longer be personal to anyone with a chip reader. The chips could be used not only by the government, says the report, but also by companies to keep tabs on employees. We would, as I have been warning for so long, be like monkeys in an electronic cage, rats in an electronic maze.

    The report was edited by Dr David Murakami-Wood, managing editor of the journal Surveillance and Society and Dr Kirstie Ball, an Open University lecturer in Organisation Studies, and was produced by a group of academics called the Surveillance Studies Network. They say that by 2016 almost every movement, purchase and communication could be monitored by a complex network of interlinking surveillance technologies -unless we turn back from the brink pretty damn quick. 'The call for everyone to be implanted is now being seriously debated', the authors warn. Dr David Murakami-Wood said:

    'We really do have a society which is premised both on state secrecy and the state not giving up its supposed right to keep information under control while, at the same time, wanting to know as much as it can about us.'

    The report points out that Britain, which claims to spread 'freedom and democracy', is the planetary leader in surveillance technology and the British are the most spied-upon nation in what is so ironically called the 'free world'. And what is happening in Britain is planned, indeed is being introduced, in the rest of Europe, North America and elsewhere.

    There are four million closed circuit television cameras in the UK for a population of just 60 million. The UK Home Office spent an astonishing 78 per cent of its crime prevention budget in the 1990s on installing the cameras. On average you are caught on camera in Britain 300 times a day -every 4.8 minutes -but in the cities it is even more extreme. The latest development, straight from the pages of Orwell's 1984, are cameras with speakers that allow operators to issue orders to people they are spying on.


    There are 6,000 speed cameras in the UK, 8,000 number plate recognition devices with technology on the way to photograph anyone using their mobile phone at the wheel or not wearing a seat belt. Last March the London Metropolitan Police took possession of 'eye in the sky' cameras that can read number plates from helicopters thousands of feet above the ground, and remotely-controlled 'drone' aircraft are to be used in Scotland to spy on the people. This very week members of Parliament called for even more speed cameras when even a government report found that 85% of road accidents are not connected to drivers breaking the speed limit.

    We have technology to identify faces in crowds and 'suspicious behaviour patterns' with 'lie detectors' being planned for airports. The so-called Oyster card used on the London underground requires people to register their personal details so that their every journey can be logged down to the minute. There are plans to expand this around the country. As a result of Blair's Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill, passed in 2000, internet providers have to record our surfing activity and provide this information to MI5. Phone calls, emails and faxes are being monitored by the Echelon spy network that searches for key words and voice recognition patterns.

    All this detailed information is kept on a giant data base that connects all other data bases and allows a stream of 'public bodies' to access everything about you and your life. Even not registering your name and address on the electoral roll will be subject to a fine of 2,500 pounds.

    The Children Act of 2004 creates a database to record detailed information about our children right down to their eating habits and this can be accessed by police, doctors, social workers and teachers. In July 2006, three 12-year-olds in the English West Midlands had their DNA taken after being arrested by police for ... breaking branches while building a den. DNA is now taken as a matter of course when anyone is arrested and this is kept on file even if they are subsequently not charged or found to be innocent.
    The scale of what is happening is simply staggering.

    But the key to global control is microchipped people -that's what they want more than anything. Even now, you don't have to take those Underground Oyster cards out of your pocket because they are read automatically by radiowaves and it's the same with the new microchipped passports. It is only one step to embed this technology permanently under the skin. In December 2005, the Giove A satellite was sent into orbit as part of the Galileo European navigation system. This will allow 'Galileo chips' to be embedded in devices of every kind, but the real target is humanity.


    The United States appears to lead the world in the use of human microchips thanks to the vociferous work of a deeply sinister company that I identified in my books many years ago. This is the VeriChip Corporation and it is part of an operation called Applied Digital. These 'VeriChips' are being marketed as a way of keeping us safe or, as the company says on its website --'Safeguarding what's important to you'. In the interests of accuracy it should add: 'So long as freedom is not important to you'. The VeriChip Corporation is now aggressively marketing human microchips to hospitals (the 'VeriMed Physician Network'), for Alzheimer's patients, and as security devices. In 2006, two employees of a company in Ohio were chipped to access a secure area.


    The authors of this week's report say that 'the surveillance society has come about us without us realising'. But that depends on which way you have been looking all these years. I have been warning about this from the early 90s and so have many others and it has only 'crept up' on people because they haven't been paying attention. When you do, it's been obvious.

    Idiots like Professor Kevin Warwick of Britain's Reading University have been very public supporters of microchipping and it was he who suggested the microchipping of children after the murders of ten-year-old Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in 2002. Warwick was chipped himself amid great publicity so that he could interact with technology through a connection to his central nervous system. His website says:

    'Kevin Warwick has taken the first steps ... using himself as a guinea pig test-subject receiving, by surgical operation, technological implants connected to his central nervous system ...

    ... Overriding everything, at the expense of a normal life, is Kevin's all encompassing scientific quest and desire to be a Cyborg ... part human, part machine.'


    But Warwick's level of knowledge is not in the same universe as that available to the secret projects that are waiting to foist the real deal on humanity. This week's report on the gathering surveillance focussed on tracking people through microchipping and not on the other aspect of all this -controlling thoughts, emotions and thus behaviour. Thought patterns can be transmitted through the chips that the target takes to be their own and this can go as far as generating apparent 'voices in the head' and hallucinations. Forget fixing 'elections' through dodgy voting machines if we are stupid enough to succumb to the chip. There will be no need.

    As one article put it:

    'Every thought, reaction, hearing, and visual observation causes a certain neurological potential, spikes, and patterns in the brain and its electromagnetic fields, which can now be decoded into thoughts, pictures, and voices. Electromagnetic stimulation can therefore change a person's brainwaves and affect muscular activity, causing painful muscular cramps experienced as torture ...'

    ...The NSA's electronic surveillance system can simultaneously follow and handle millions of people. Each of us has a unique bioelectrical resonance frequency in the brain, just as we have unique fingerprints. With electromagnetic frequency (EMF) brain stimulation fully coded, pulsating electromagnetic signals can be sent to the brain causing the desired voice and visual effects to be experienced by the target. This is a form of electronic warfare. U.S. astronauts were implanted before they were sent into space so their thoughts could be followed and all their emotions could be registered 24 hours a day.'


    I was told all this in 1997 by a CIA scientist who was desperate to alert people to what was planned. The state-of-the-art chips today are far smaller than a human hair and carry fantastic potential for control. So while this week's public report is a very good contribution to warning people of their plight, it is still operating at a limited level of knowledge and understanding. Richard Thomas, the UK Information Commissioner, said:

    'We're waking up in a surveillance society and when you start to see how many apparently beneficial schemes are in place to monitor people's activities and movements that does raise concerns. There are risks the information is going to be mishandled'.

    The point that is missed, however, is that it is already being purposely mishandled because what is happening is not the consequence of random technological development posing risks to freedom. It is being introduced for the very reasons of control. Thomas said that many of the surveillance schemes were 'public sector driven and the individual has no choice about whether they take part'. So the next obvious question, surely, is what is the force that dictates this surveillance policy through the public sector like the government and police and through 'private' business? This is the question that most people, including those involved in 'civil liberties', never seem to ask or grasp.



    Even now, with Orwell's world looking us in the eye, people who should know better still don't appear to see what we are facing here. The civil rights group, Liberty, is among them. A spokesman said this week, in response to the report, that they had nothing against these surveillance technologies in themselves, but the danger was that they would not be 'properly regulated' and people could find themselves living in 'a surveillance society'.

    'Find themselves'?? We're already there for goodness sake -helloooo, intelligent life calling Planet Earth. It is this state of denial that we need to overcome. With each new technological imposition I hear it said that we are 'heading towards a Big Brother state' when we are already in one. Maybe it's comforting to think that somehow we can still stop it happening if we keep projecting our thoughts into the 'future'. But we can't stop it because it is already here.

    What we can do is dismantle it and stop its further invasion, but this can only happen if we stop denying where we already are. It's like saying we will be struck by a tornado if we don't do something when we are already 50 feet off the ground spinning like a top.

    I see the same with so many in the anti-war groups who protest about the 'evil' of the American and British governments while denying that the same force will also control whoever replaces them. This was encapsulated this week by an interview I saw with Madonna on BBC Television.


    She was asked about her protests against Bush and the war in Iraq and she said that anyone who had children would be instinctively horrified by what was happening to Iraqi kids. Fair enough, but then she was asked who she would like to be the next US President and she replied ... Hillary Clinton. When it comes to the capacity for generating evil, Clinton is more than a match even for Boy Bush, but Madonna has bought the window dressing and the image-making that promotes the Republicans and the Democrats as different 'sides'.

    Only when we see the one force manipulating through all 'sides' and the same force orchestrating the Orwellian society through both the public and private sectors will the million dollars drop and not, as with this week's report, merely the penny.

    Most importantly, we need to understand the true nature of the surveillance conspiracy and the crucial part played by human microchipping. As that CIA scientist told me nearly ten years ago: 'Tell people that if they say “no” to just one thing, they should say “no” to the microchip.'
    Wise words from someone who has seen the game from the inside and we ignore them at the cost of our most basic freedoms.
    • Re: OVERCOME AND BEAT RACISM

      Mon, December 18, 2006 - 5:43 AM
      The problem I have with the reptilian theory is that if it is true, the odds seem so utterly insurmountable in overcoming such a highly advanced, powerful, malicious adversary, that we might as well just give up and call ourselves lunch.

      I know it's a cliche, but I really think you have to think globally and act locally. Just make sure that when you interact with other people, it's a positive experience for all involved. Try working with organizations in your local community to make an actual, real, physical positive change in the world. When someone displays their ignorance by exhibiting bigotry, try to look at it as an opportunity to teach them the error of their ways, or to prove them wrong.

      I know that all sounds pretty Polly Anna-ish, and I know I don't do that all the time myself, but when I think about it, I really think it's the best and only thing we can do.
      • Re: OVERCOME AND BEAT RACISM

        Mon, December 18, 2006 - 3:03 PM
        I agree with you Devastator. I don't think what you said is Polly Anna-ish. I think we just need to get to our young people earlier. Most of the adults don't want to hear anything you have to say about upgrading themselves or their race. It's each man for them self. Most of our young men end up in the streets because they have no one to properly teach them how to live everyday life. So they start gangs and make their own rules. This is were the importance of mentoring the young people around you comes in.
  • Re: OVERCOME AND BEAT RACISM

    Mon, December 18, 2006 - 1:03 PM
    >> Hey ... maybe you haven't heard but there is a Reptilian
    >> agenda to enslave the whole HUman Race!!!
    >
    Uh... I have a lot of trouble with this theory as well. One of my closest friends is a black woman, Dee, and I was shocked to find that there are places in this country even today where we can't even hold hands as we walk together without some people wanting to attack us. This is is just pure human ignorance and stupidity... Making excuses with stories about reptiles or other outside influences is absurd. The time has come to put the nonsense away and take responsibility for our actions and behaviors... to learn to live and let live...

    My friend is different from me in many ways... she is a woman (I am a man), she is more intelligent than I am, she is more attractive than I am, her hair and eyes are a different color than mine... she does't like cheese burgers [ a fault I work hard to overlook... ;-p ] oh yeah... and her skin is darker than mine...

    Other than the cheese burger thing, I would not change anything about her... we have shared a lot of life together and I love her dearly.
    • Re: OVERCOME AND BEAT RACISM

      Tue, December 19, 2006 - 6:03 AM
      >>>This is were the importance of mentoring the young people around you comes in. >>>

      This is something I've been thinking about recently. I think I'd like to participate in some kind of mentoring program or something, but as a single adult male, I feel like people might think I was creepy or something spending a lot of time around young boys. It's funny, but I've actually thought that myself about others, particularly with all the dirty priest stuff going on in recent years, you sort of can't help it.

      Also, I'm not a rich guy or anything, so I wonder what kind of model for "success" I would be anyway.

      I just see a lot of kids on the train or whatever, they have a lot of energy and no direction or exposure to anything besides what's on BET, and I feel like they could benefit from induction into the ways of geekdom.

      My big dream would be to open a comic book store in Harlem, that would be fantastic.
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        Tue, December 19, 2006 - 11:42 AM
        Also, I'm not a rich guy or anything, so I wonder what kind of model for "success" I would be anyway.

        And therein lies the value of your contribution. One of the greatest issues confronting our youth is not the impressions of the "good life" that they receive from watching BET but the lack of values that presentation conveys. The rappers and moguls of the ghetto shown on these valueless programs almost never are shown giving anything back. And when they are shown giving anything to Black people it is in the form of trinkets; like tee shirts, sneakers, branded apparel and other marketing materials. You will allmost never see {insert name of most current rapper on top} giving books, food, housing assistance or any other materials of value, that don't promote their retail lines. You will never ever see them volunteering for things like Big Brothers or Big Sisters.

        A big part of this problem comes from the fact that they don't have the personal resources to share. Many of them have marginal educations, minimal life experiences, and no history of interaction with mentor or positive role models in their pasts. Such experiences are most likely conserved by those who have experienced them in their own lives. My own orientation toward being a teacher and mentor comes from my experience in my formative years; when my first grade teacher (in the segregated school system of 1950s Tennessee), who was a patron in my grandmother's beauty parlor, would take me and read the encyclopedia to me. The love of learning and the skills to learn have to be taught. Another of my donors was Mrs. Hildebrand, the Librarian of the Hadley Park Library in my home town; Nashville. She taught me the Dooey Decimal System and the joys of discovering the associative chains of materials in the library.

        A second and equally vital reason that someone like you D. should feel highly qualified to offer your service to our youth, is that we MUST establish that there is more than one road to self-actualization and fulfillment besides the acquisition of material goods. There is almost no spiritual life for many of our children. The few who do receive any injection of spirituality into their lives recieve almost exclusively a spirituality based upon attendence and conformity to a religious denomination, of one faith or another. It is sad to say that many of us are so vested in our dogma that we would rather see these children receive nothing, than to receive any spirituality that doesn't conform with our narrow views of "the right path".

        I have said before, and I will say again, racism is less our problem than is the residual impact of our own class segregation and narrow mindedness. If we reconstruct our lost institutions and build dynamic new ones, we need never fear any racist or racism as a doctrine.
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          Re: OVERCOME AND BEAT RACISM

          Tue, December 19, 2006 - 11:13 PM
          I think our main obstacle that we have to overcome is the psychological brainwashing since birth that we are somehow inherently inferior to whites and anybody else in this country.

          We need to fight the power structure, stop them from consistently telling us and everyone else this bullshit, and cease trying to convince the white general masses not to be racist. They are victims of the brainwashing just like we are.

          Alot of white members from the general masses do slow us down with their antics, and they need to be dealt with too. But they are merely aggravators of the real bigger problem.

          The reason we have got the fight the white establishment in addition to helping ourselves is because their brainwashing is working better and faster on us than we are rehabilitating ourselves. Hence the race between flashy rapper/everyday black role model to influence our kids.


          • Re: OVERCOME AND BEAT RACISM

            Wed, December 20, 2006 - 7:51 AM
            That's all very well and good Janalyn, but can you recommend some practical steps to fighting the predominant power structure and overcoming institutional brainwashing, especially in light of an all pervasive mass-media?
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              Re: OVERCOME AND BEAT RACISM

              Wed, December 20, 2006 - 9:34 AM
              Devastator,
              I did pose the question, looking for answers??

              We have to stop participating in the mass media. We have to boycott the media. Every single black entertainer to some degree has cooned - they rationalized the coonery to make a living. And we are the ones that take the psychological hit each and every time. Halle Berry rationalized her irresponsible and way too "masculine" behavior in Monster's Ball, for example.

              We have to finds ways to reward our entertainers BETTER than the entertainment industry does. Because lambasting them is not working, and has not worked for 100 years. - i.e. Paul Mooney's show on bet "25 most embarrasing events in black entertainment" when he called Halle Berry out for "cooning".

              We do this to try to "clean" our image up... white folks actually let us get on tv and bitch to diffuse anger and frustration. And then they hire another black coon tomorrow.

              This vicious cycle is not going to stop unless we stop participating.
              • Re: OVERCOME AND BEAT RACISM

                Wed, December 20, 2006 - 10:19 AM
                The worst is Damon Wayons, that guy hasn't been funny since Bush I.

                Well, and of course, Lil' John, Lil' Wayne, anybod with "Lil'" or "Young" in front of their name needs to go!
                • Re: OVERCOME AND BEAT RACISM

                  Wed, December 20, 2006 - 10:21 AM
                  Oddly enough though, I didn't mind Ol' Dirty Bastards brand of coonery, in fact, for some reason I kind of seeit as some inspired mad genius type stuff. There was a combination of utter depravity and heart-breaking vulnerability in his schtick, it was very honest. Most Wu-Tang is like that, Wu-Tang Forever!
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                Re: OVERCOME AND BEAT RACISM

                Wed, December 20, 2006 - 10:44 AM
                If you listen and watch VERY closely to the dialogue and the non-verbal communication (exaggerated bodily movements and facial expressions, hand gestures) of blacks on television shows (especially black tv shows- upn), commercials, and in movies with black people, the dialogue between blacks is often extremely fractious, non sequitur, and negative. We rarely draw conclusions, or make definitive statements. We are always asking the questions in the group.

                The next time you watch black people on tv interact with whites, tally up how many questions the black person asks, versus the number of definitive, authorative statements the black person makes.

                The bodily movements also suggest inferiority, particularly with respect to whites, and sometimes other races. For instance the black person's head is slightly tilted down and the shoulders slumped many times. The bodily movements are often exaggerated, "step n fetch it- style", still to this day.

                When you look at an ad photograph or billboard, the black person is always being touched by someone else - either the other person's hand is on them or their arm is around the black person. These postures suggest domination over the black person.

                In real life, white folks LOVE to touch on black people too... A white guy just touched me in the ice cream shop yesterday and (another one last week)... and I touched him back, my usual response to someone (usually a white male, I know or a complete stranger) trying to intimidate me. He was surprised as usual. That one cracks me up, really....

                Also, put the television on mute for at least one black tv show episode, and you will see consistent frowning from blacks - The "My wife and kids" show is a good example. Every member of the family consistently frowns during the entire show. These facial expressions communicate negative dispositions, and signifies despair. These affects run through our communities, but these affects are also reinforced through the media.

                And we wonder why non-blacks frown at us when just saying hi or meeting us for the first time - they see us frowning all of the time, and don't even realize it!!

                Different camera angles make the black person look smaller compared to the white person. Black people are always shown in front of a black or dark tinted backdrop, when the non-blacks in the same commercial or pamphlet/placard have lighter or white backdrops behind them. This signals doom and gloom for the black person, and cheery uplift/neutrality for the non-black person.

                This fractious, weak dialogue and negative non-verbal communication is psychologically damaging to our children. Black children pick up on this inferiority, and black/white racial hierarchy as early as 3 and 4 years old.


                When I was in the first grade - I never forgot this - our 1st - 3rd grade classes ate lunch in the cafeteria, and everyday when the black assistant principal walked into the cafeteria the children kept talking. But when the white principal walked in, the room instantly became silent, each and every time. We were all 5-8 years old, and supervised by black matrons during that time.

                My school was majority black. We did not interact with white folks on a daily basis. Hell we didn't even understand our world at that age. But we did understand that you respected and feared whites because they were better than you.

                We learned this message through the media channels (cartoons, commercials, tv shows, etc.)... WAY before any physical interaction between white folks. This is some powerful psychological conditioning, and is used against us to gain the edge over us.


                Anyway, these are all ways in which black entertainers coon, and the messages sent are psychologically debilitating. This brainwashing continues as we grow into adults. It never stops!! Which is why so many black adults have inferiority complexes in america.

                White folks are still winning over us with mass communication.

                Until we understand that we have to fight the media, and tear down the negative messages that they religiously tell us and others about ourselves on a MASSIVE scale, then we are not going to be able to work FAST enough to convince and influence OUR children and future generations that they are not inferior to anyone.
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                  Re: OVERCOME AND BEAT RACISM

                  Wed, December 20, 2006 - 10:49 AM
                  If enough of us are trained to never take a stance on an issue, or to feel uncomfortable making decisions (particularly when dealing with non-blacks) - then we are much easier to deal with when we are adults. We will be reluctant, or even frightened to improve our communities for ourselves and our children. We will hate each other because we subconciously hate ourselves for being inherently "incompetent", as we have been taught since birth.
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                    Re: OVERCOME AND BEAT RACISM

                    Wed, December 20, 2006 - 10:59 AM
                    Furthermore, we become comfortable complaining all of the time, and not doing enough to make positive changes to control of our destiny - WITH NO WHITE PERSON IN SIGHT. That is how it has been cleverly set up.

                    Since the civil rights movement they have implemented more sophisticated, stealthily ways to get us to continue to police ourselves, since they cannot stand post with the whip and watch us 24/7. And because the legal barriers to education and higher quality of life have been eradicated by us.

                    We are continuously being psychologically conditioned for failure, and to mistrust ourselves and each other using these brainwashing tactics. - So we will not even want or attempt to pursue/compete for good educations, high paying and gratifying careers which would help to propel our people forward. - When the opportunities are now available, staring us right in the face and are up for grabs.

                    The messages are repeatedly burned into our subconcious minds, without us even recognizing or knowing it, with the help and faces of people who look like us - So our minds will be messed up.

                    This is the key to all of this oppression.
                    • Re: OVERCOME AND BEAT RACISM

                      Wed, December 20, 2006 - 3:44 PM
                      Unfortunately the solution is not attractive nor is it "Politically Correct". It revolves around the statement that Malcolm X made to the white co-ed, on his way to address a mixed race audience at Columbia University.

                      The co-ed said, "Mr. X. I have read your book and want to help your struggle. What can a good white person, a non-racist person do to help?"

                      Malcolm replied, "Nothing."

                      Now don't get me wrong. I was born in segregated America. I was part of that generation of "firsts". I was among the first Blacks in my High School. I was the first Black elected Student Council President. I have been the first Black hired by so many companies and organizations that I have lost count. I was indoctrinated to be an "Ambassador" for my race. I still have as many friend who are White as Black. And I mean real friends who come to my home and I go to theirs. Their children come to me when they have problems and are afraid to speak to their parents. I have been best man at weddings and have given eulogies at their parents funerals.

                      But God Bless them and all other whites of good character and intent, they are not the solution nor do they have a role in it. We have to solve this problem for ourselves. I resent Bill Cosby, not for his recent comments (which are mostly true), but for being like most of our Exemplars and Role Models; more talk and little action. It is easy to criticize but damn difficult to due something about it. I try to walk the talk. Every chance I get to mentor or offer guidance to our youth I take it. I call our children and young adults on their behavior in public. I interact with any and all students and young scholars I encounter. I attempt to raise the consciousness of all my friends and colleagues. But it isn't enough. These actions and more must become the "lingua franca" of our discourse and the paradigm of our social intercourse.

                      I think that now, today, the eve of 2007 we must establish an economic and social brain trust that is well known and recognized by all of us. Further we must establish a leadership training organization. And lastly we must create and swear alliegance to each other and our group destiny; above self and even above anything else under God. I am ready to do so. I invite you to commit to this as well.
                      • Re: OVERCOME AND BEAT RACISM

                        Sun, December 31, 2006 - 1:25 PM
                        I'm wit Al ... kinda sorta ... at least the last part.

                        ENOUGH with the doom and gloom!
                        ENOUGH with the "problems!"

                        It's waaay late for SOLUTIONS!!

                        If you think for ONE second that we're going to "change" any white person's mind or their behavior ... and after all this time ... all that marching and praying and begging and buring, and lynching, and politics, and "Group Processes" and Town Hall Meetings ... and if ALL THAT SHIT hasn't worked in over 400 years ... 400 years ...

                        and you still waiting and expecting ...

                        Well, sorry to say it ... then somebody is a damn fool and it ain't da white man.

                        I'm 53 years old.
                        It's time to change directions.
                        It's on us.

                        We are the only ones who can "save" us. There are PLENTY of models. Just look at every immigrant GROUP who has arrived on these shores, pooled their money, land they bought and the love for each other. Hell, you don't have to go that far ... look at whites ... they don't all LoVe each other ... but THEY AGREE TO COOPERATE with each other no matter what. And that's the pure and simple key to the golden locker.

                        Yes we need 100 year plans for our families and our people.
                        Yes, we need think tanks.
                        Yes, we need to STOP attacking one another ...
                        Yes, we need to re-evaluate our values and observe that "Blink, Bllink" ain't African nor is it historically African American ... it's the brain washing Corporate American has given young black America.

                        Instead of wanting "Respect" ... lets get us some of that cheap land in the Midwest and South and build some "Intentional Communities" ... pool our support ... create non-profits that reach professional sport stars and entertainers and get them to donate even a small portion of all that huge wealth that their with money managers are siphoning off to white charites and causes.

                        What SOLUTIONS? Check out my blogs and discussion groups at:

                        Black Solutions.com
                        www.blacksolutions.blogspot.com

                        Black Farms blog
                        www.blackfarms.wordpress.com

                        Black Farms Yahoo Group
                        finance.groups.yahoo.com/group...farms/

                        PS: It ain't even about "racism" ... it's about economics. In Economics 101, we were told long time ago, in America, in order to have a top, you have to have a bottom. Guess who they have slated for this "Permanent Underclass" and "Permanent Criminal Class" and "Permanent Mental Retarded Work Class" (yeah!) that they're talking about. Read their Science Fiction ... and see where they're going.

                        1. Turn off the television. (It's brainwashing pure and simple ... even Will Smith's new movie on the wonders of capitolism.)

                        2. Read my blogs and join mine and other's discussion groups.

                        3. Create some rooms for healing our relations, rasing our children in different ways (ENOUGH with all that beatings! We still trying to raise 18th century kids for the 21st Century ... and we're still rehearshing the trauma of slavery doing it.)
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                          Re: OVERCOME AND BEAT RACISM

                          Thu, January 11, 2007 - 9:39 AM
                          Very good ideas. I agree with you.

                          I am looking for ways to overcome this mess in new more effective ways that work for our time.

                          Thanks

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