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Cress Welsing: The Definition of Racism White Supremacy

Dr. Blynd: The Definition of Racism

Anon: What is Racism/White Supremacy?

Dr. Bobby Wright: The Psychopathic Racial Personality

The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism (White Supremacy)

What is the First Step in Counter Racism?

Genocide: a system of white survival

The Creation of the Negro

The Mysteries of Melanin

'Racism is a behavioral system for survival'

Fear of annihilation drives white racism

Dr. Blynd: The Definition of Caucasian

Where are all the Black Jurors? 

The War Against Black Males: Black on Black Violence Caused by White Supremacy/Racism

Brazen Police Officers and the Forfeiture of Freedom

White Domination, Black Criminality

Fear of a Colored Planet Fuels Racism: Global White Population Shrinking, Less than 10%

Race is Not Real but Racism is

The True Size of Africa

What is a Nigger? 

MLK and Imaginary Freedom: Chains, Plantations, Segregation, No Longer Necessary ['Our Condition is Getting Worse']

Chomsky on "Reserving the Right to Bomb Niggers." 

A Goal of the Media is to Make White Dominance and Control Over Everything Seem Natural

"TV is reversing the evolution of the human brain." Propaganda: How You Are Being Mind Controlled And Don't Know It.

Spike Lee's Mike Tyson and Don King

"Zapsters" - Keeping what real? "Non-white People are Actors. The Most Unrealistic People on the Planet"

Black Power in a White Supremacy System

Neely Fuller Jr.: "If you don't understand racism/white supremacy, everything else that you think you understand will only confuse you"

The Image and the Christian Concept of God as a White Man

'In order for this system to work, We have to feel most free and independent when we are most enslaved, in fact we have to take our enslavement as the ultimate sign of freedom'

Why do White Americans need to criminalize significant segments of the African American population?

Who Told You that you were Black or Latino or Hispanic or Asian? White People Did

Malcolm X: "We Have a Common Enemy"

Links

Deeper than Atlantis
Sunday
Dec082013

'Rank Hypocrisy': WTO Deal Bows to Wealth, Squashes the [non-white] Poor

BlackListedNews

Food sovereignty campaigners protest against the WTO in Bali, Indonesia this week. (Twitpic / @JHilary)In announcing a final agreement in Bali, Indonesia on Saturday morning, head of the World Trade Organization Roberto Azevedo, said: "For the first time in our history, the WTO has truly delivered."

"There is a rank hypocrisy at the heart of the WTO that cannot be glossed over. The USA and EU continue to channel billions in subsidies to their richest farmers, yet seek to destroy other countries’ right to protect their poorest citizens from starvation. The WTO is an institution that has lost any claim to legitimacy. No amount of spin from Bali can disguise that fact." –John Hilary, War on Want

Unfortunately, say critics, what the deal is certain to "deliver" is more pain and suffering for the world's poorest people and farmers at the expense of the world's largest and most powerful nations and corporations.

Anti-poverty groups and food sovereignty advocates across the world were pushing off pronouncements like Azevedo's, saying that the agreement is a failure when it comes to fairness, poverty reduction, environmental protections, and the alleviation of hunger across the globe.

Sunday
Dec082013

Federal Prison Population Grows 27 Percent in 10 Years

Sunday
Dec082013

NYPD Orders Precincts to Deny Journalists Access to Crime Reports

BlackListedNews

The NYPD has ordered the city's 77 police precincts to stop giving out any information to the media about crimes taking place in their neighborhoods, cutting off a long-standing source of information for New Yorkers.

Sunday
Dec082013

NYPD’s New Commissioner: Combine Unconstitutional Searches With Good PR

BlackListedNews

If Bill Bratton’s record in Los Angeles is any guide, New York will see little dramatic reduction in the police tactic of stop-and-frisk but improved targeting and community relations will soothe resentment.

New York’s newly named police commissioner presided over a surge of stop-and-frisk while running the LA police department but softened the political impact by reaching out to black and Latino community leaders.

Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio, who was elected on a promise of curbing the controversial tactic, appears to be calculating his appointee will finesse but not end it. Critics say the policy in its current form unfairly targets young minority men, an accusation which dogged the outgoing mayor, Michael Bloomberg.

Sunday
Dec082013

Sandy Hook 911 Call Recordings Raise Even More Questions About Official Story Of Alleged Mass Shooting

BlackListedNews

If you carefully listen to all of the 911 call recordings it becomes obvious why the corporate media is either selectively playing the clips or not playing them at all.  The evidence provided to date proves that the official Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting narrative is a total fabrication.

Sunday
Dec082013

Central Park Five Settlement is Still in Limbo

ColorLines

For the Central Park Five--Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise--the election of New York mayor Bill de Blasio could be a blessing. In 1989, when they were teenagers, the five black and Latino men were falsely accused of and convicted of the brutal beating and rape of Tricia Meili, a 28-year-old white jogger in Central Park. In the sensational, racially charged case, they were coerced into confessions by police and prosecutor Elizabeth Lederer. The five, who were tried as adults and convicted of the crime despite their inconsistent testimony and a lack of their DNA on the victim, had their convictions vacated in 2002 after serial rapist Matias Reyes admitted that he'd committed the rape. That same year the five filed a $250 million civil suit against the city of New York and the officers and prosecutor involved in their case. McCray, Richardson, Salaam, Santana and Wise have waited for a settlement ever since. 

In mid-November filmmaker Ken Burns, who directed the documentary "The Central Park Five," renewed media interest in the settlement when he told HuffPost Live that the mayor-elect, had "agreed to settle this case."

Further reporting by Colorlines showed that "agreement," however, had come in the shape of an old campaign promise: "It's long past time to heal these wounds," DeBlasio said in a January 2013 statement. "... As a city, we have a moral obligation to right this injustice. It is in our collective interest--the wrongly accused, their families and the taxpayer--to settle this case and not let another year slip by without action."

At present, says de Blasio spokesman Wiley Norvell, there is no timeline for the settlement.. Colorlines talked to Yusef Salaam, one of the five, about the long wait for closure, holding the mayor-elect accountable for his campaign promise, and what he'd say if he had a sit-down with de Blasio.  

Sunday
Dec082013

Reagan Vetoed the Anti-Apartheid Act

ColorLines

As Vijay Prashad points out, many of the world’s leaders that are apparently mourning the death of Nelson Mandela were the “same people opposed [to] freedom in South Africa to the very end.” 

Although Ronald Reagan has passed away himself, one can imagine he might salute Mandela today. But as president, Reagan worked against Mandela, so much so that he vetoed the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act in 1986. Believing that he knew what was best for black people living under apartheid in South Africa, Reagan opposed sanctions and wanted to maintain friendly relations with the white supremacist government.

South Africa’s Desmond Tutu disagreed. Watch this 1986 news report about Tutu’s visit to the White House, in which Tutu explains the way that Reagan failed black South Africans. 

Sunday
Dec082013

Obama war chiefs widen drone kill box

CitizensforLegitGov

The Pentagon has loosened its guidelines on avoiding civilian casualties during drone strikes, modifying instructions from requiring military personnel to "ensure" civilians are not targeted to encouraging service members to "avoid targeting" civilians. In addition, instructions now tell commanders that collateral damage "must not be excessive" in relation to mission goals, according to Public Intelligence, a nonprofit research group that analyzed the military's directives on drone strikes. Because drone strikes are classified operations, the U.S. typically does not acknowledge when they occur, or reveal how many combatants and civilians are killed or injured.

Sunday
Dec082013

Ex-official: CIA Helped Jail Mandela 

CitizensForLegitGov

For nearly 28 years the U.S. government has harbored an increasingly embarrassing secret: A CIA tip to South African intelligence agents led to the arrest that put black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela in prison for most of his adult life. But now, with Mandela en route to the U.S. to a hero's welcome, a former U.S. official has revealed that he has known of the CIA role since Mandela was seized by agents of the South African police special branch on Aug. 5, 1962. The former official, now retired, said that within hours after Mandela's arrest Paul Eckel, then a senior CIA operative, walked into his office and said approximately these words: "We have turned Mandela over to the South African security branch. We gave them every detail, what he would be wearing, the time of day, just where he would be. They have picked him up. It is one of our greatest coups." 

Sunday
Dec082013

6 in Mexico may have radiation exposure

CitizensforLegitGov

Federal police blocked access Friday to a central Mexico hospital where six people were reported to have been admitted with radiation exposure. An official familiar with the case confirmed Mexican media reports that the six have been admitted to the general hospital in the city of Pachuca and may have been exposed to a stolen source of highly radioactive cobalt-60. The official said only one person so far was dizzy and vomiting, symptoms of severe radiation poisoning.

Sunday
Dec082013

UK troopers to face 11 more 'trials' over Iraq [genocide] deaths

Citizens for LegitGov

The UK High Court has ruled that 11 separate probes should be held into British troops' conduct in Iraq, media reports say. The Ministry of Defense (MoD) ordered the inquest-style hearings into the deaths of 11 Iraqi civilians during the British presence in Iraq after the March 2003 US-led invasion of the country, the Daily Telegraph disclosed. The scale of investigation into UK troops' atrocities in Iraq is disclosed a day after another trooper was jailed for a minimum of 10 years for indiscriminate killing of an injured Afghan.

Sunday
Dec082013

Limbaugh Whitewashes his Past Attacks On Mandela To Claim He's Conservative

MediaMatters

After the death of former South African President Nelson Mandela, Rush Limbaugh co-opted Mandela's legacy as more in line with American conservatism than liberalism. But Limbaugh's praise for Mandela stands in stark contrast to his repeated attacks on him in the past, even characterizing his world view as racial.

On the December 6 edition of his radio show, host Limbaugh argued that Mandela "had more in common with Clarence Thomas than he does with Barack Obama," claiming that he was more like American conservatives because he "insisted on compliance with his country's constitution," whereas liberals, Limbaugh asserted, only care about "skin color and oppression" and view the U.S. constitution as an obstacle:

But Limbaugh's praise of Mandela ignores his past attacks against the South African leader. In 2007 Limbaugh criticized the U.S. foreign policy objectives of Democrats working on Sudan divestment policy, claiming they only wanted to get rid of the "white government" in countries such as South Africa and Sudan and "stand behind Nelson Mandela, who was bankrolled by communists," in a ploy to win the votes of African Americans. 

In 2002 Rush Limbaugh compared Mandela to terrorists claiming:

When Nelson Mandela or one of these terrorists sees America, they ask, "How did they do this in less than 230 years? We've been around here for centuries, and we still can barely muster working toilets." It is this that the terrorists see, folks ? and it makes them envious. 

In that same year, Limbaugh turned to race baiting, accusing Mandela of harboring a "black and white" world view and saying that he viewed Americans as "a bunch of white racists who hate people of color":

He went on to say that when UN Secretary-Generals were "white" (and gave the example of Egyptian Boutros Boutros-Gali), we never had the question of any country ignoring the United Nations, but now that we have the black Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, "certain countries that believe in white supremacy are ignoring the United Nations." I wonder what country he could be thinking about?

To Mandela, Arabs are people of color ? except, apparently, for Boutros. The Israelis, who are Semitic peoples, are white, but the portion of the Muslim population that is also Semitic, are black. But Americans are all evil, white supremacist Caucasians. We're ethnically cleansing the Middle East. 

That's what Mandela said, without even having the guts to name the country he's talking about. This is another thing he has in common with liberal Democrats here, who don't have the courage to take a position on where they stand on the war. Again, I love the old Mandela. I loved it when he came here in his own version of the Pope Mobile.
NM drove around the outfield wall at Yankee Stadium on the watch of Mayor for Life, General Dinkins. He loved us then when we were ending apartheid and lavishing cash on him, but now we are a bunch of white racists who hate people of color. Of course, if we left the people of Iraq under the command of a brutal dictator, it would be because we didn't care how much non-white people suffered. We can't win, Nelson!

Limbaugh, who has a history of attacking civil rights leaders, earlier in his show used Mandela's death to lecture American civil rights leaders on their conduct.  

Sunday
Dec082013

Super Patriotic White South Carolina Sheriff Refuses to lower flag for Nelson Mandela

TheGrio

Pickens County, South Carolina sheriff Rick Clark took to social media Friday to declare that he would defy President Obama’s orders to lower U.S. flags to half staff until sunset Monday in honor of Nelson Mandela.

The South African anti-apartheid leader died Thursday at the age of 95.

Clark posted to his Facebook page:

I usually don’t post political items, but today is different. I received this notification today, ‘As a mark of respect for the memory of Nelson Mandela, the President orders that the flag of the United States be flown at half-staff effective immediately until sunset, December 9, 2013,’” Clark wrote. “Nelson Mandela did great things for his country and was a brave man but he was not an AMERICAN!!! The flag should be lowered at our Embassy in S. Africa, but not here.”

Clark said the flags at the Sheriff’s Office were at half staff Friday to mourn a deceased deputy. Clark said the flag would remain at half mast Saturday to mark Pearl Harbor Day. After that, he said, he “ordered that the flag here at my office back up [sic].

The S.C. sheriff eventually deleted the original post and replaced it with one saying:

Well the news/Facebook cycle has run its course. Time to move onto the next subject because I have work to do for my community and need to devote my time elsewhere. Thank you for your support and comments. I urge you to read about President Mandela over the next few days of mourning and be inspired for public service for your community and the nation as he was. It Pearl Harbor Day and thank a veteran today if you can [sic].

“The flag at half-staff is for Americans’ ultimate sacrifice for our country,” Clark told the Greenville News. “We should never stray away from that.”

Clark said he is a fan of Mandela and his accomplishments, but that the honor should be “reserved for Americans.”

Sunday
Dec082013

The South African Constitution begins with the first passage: “We, the people of South Africa, Recognise the injustices of our past.”

Thinkprogress

In 2012, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made the impolitic suggestion that “I would not look to the U.S. Constitution, if I were drafting a Constitution in the year 2012,” instead pointing foreign constitution drafters to the constitution the late South African leader Nelson Mandela signed in 1996. Her statement received the predictable response from many conservative voices. One publication called for her to resign.

The truth, however, is that the United States could learn a great deal from South Africa’s constitution. As Ginsburg noted, that constitution was drafted much more recently than America’s 226 year-old founding text. Accordingly, its drafters benefited from more than two centuries of human experience that our founding fathers did not have. Ginsburg in no way impugned the genius of George Washington, James Madison or Alexander Hamilton when she suggested that these men could not possibility have known the things that we know today — and that nations drafting new constitutions should benefit from the full range of human experience.

The South African Constitution begins with an absolutely breathtaking first passage: “We, the people of South Africa, Recognise the injustices of our past.” This is not just a document drafted by men dissatisfied by their lack of representation in a distant central government. Rather, this the constitution of a nation that is profoundly aware of how governments can go wrong — and why the inherent human rights of every individual must be honored to ward off atrocity.

No doubt for this reason, the South African Constitution is structured very differently from our own. Our own founders believed that the best way to protect liberty is to structure government in a way that hinders attacks on individual freedom. “In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men,” James Madison famously wrote, “you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.” To accomplish this goal, “[a]mbition must be made to counteract ambition.” Senators must be played against representatives and justices against presidents — all to ensure that no one body acquires the power it would need to effect tyranny.

For this reason, our Constitution begins by laying out the structure of government. Article I is Congress, Article II the executive branch, Article III the judiciary. The concept of explicitly protected individual rights was largely an afterthought. The Bill of Rights was not ratified until a few years after the Constitution went into effect, and it was originally understood only to place limits on the federal government — not the states.

The South African Constitution, by contrast, devotes 32 different articles to individual rights before it even mentions the structure of government. While America’s founders were primarily worried about how lawmakers would be selected and what powers they would and would not have, South Africa’s Constitution begins with a statement of human rights. It’s drafters wanted first and foremost to ensure that nothing like apartheid would ever exist again.

One obvious difference between South Africa’s constitution and ours is the sheer breadth of the rights protected by their national charter. Familiar rights such as the rights to equality, faith, free speech and privacy against unreasonable searches and seizures are all protected by the South African Constitution, but so is a right to “fair labour practices,” to “form and join a trade union,” to “an environment that is not harmful to . . . health or well-being,” and to “sufficient food and water.” As a reminder than many South Africans endured a kind of dehumanization that few Americans could even comprehend, their Constitution also protects rights such as the right “to a name and a nationality from birth” and to “not to be used directly in armed conflict” while still a child.

Wednesday
Dec042013

Most (white) American Families Make $60,000 Or Less A Year

ThinkProgress

More than half of American families make $60,000 a year or less, according to a report from The Hamilton Project.

The report breaks it down even further, noting that 40 percent of families earn $40,000 or less a year and a remarkable 15 percent earn somewhere between $1 and $20,000 a year. On the other hand, very few earn above $100,000. “For working-age families with children, earning over $100,000 is the exception, not the rule,” it notes. Less than 3 percent earn more than $260,000.

The report also notes that nearly half of today’s families live at 250 percent of the federal poverty line ($58,208 for a two-parent family with two kids), and it calls those who live between that threshold and the poverty line itself the “struggling lower-middle class” given that “any unanticipated downturns in income could push them into poverty.” It finds that these struggling families are equally headed by single parents and married parents alike and that about half of the parents have attended some college.

About a third of these families have to rely on public programs to get by, including 21 percent who rely on food stamps, or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. A quarter of the children in these struggling families face food insecurity, compared to just 15 percent of those who live above 250 percent of the poverty line.

The report’s findings that many families who aren’t technically below the poverty line struggle to get by isn’t surprising. Making $60,000 a year won’t bring a family economic security, according the Basic Economy Security Tables Index developed by WOW and Washington University. Their calculations find that a two-income, two-child family needs nearly $72,000 a year to feel economically secure without even taking into account such things as saving for college or buying a home.

The concentration of American families at the bottom of the income scale, where they struggle to get by, highlights growing income inequality and stagnating wages over recent decades. Over the last three years, the wealthiest saw incomes grow by 5 percent, but everyone else’s actually dropped. More workers find themselves scraping by as low-wage jobs replace middle class work in the recovery period. And those wages haven’t grown even as workers produce more, as the bottom 60 percent of earners have experienced a “lost decade” of wage growth where it either fell or stayed flat. At the same time, the wealthiest 10 percent of Americans are taking home a record share of income. [MORE]