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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"

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Friday
Nov282008

Rep Jefferson asks 4th Circuit to Drop Charges Against him

UPI Attorneys for U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., asked the full 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to consider dropping 14 of 16 criminal charges against him. The lawyers cited constitutional issues as they asked, in effect, that the entire court overrule a unanimous decision by its own three-judge panel, The New Orleans Times-Picayune said. That panel recently rejected the argument that a Virginia grand jury improperly indicted Jefferson on corruption charges because it heard certain testimony about his congressional duties.

Jefferson Trial Expected In First Half Of 2009
From the Frontrunner The Hill (11/25) reports LA2 Rep. William Jefferson's (D) corruption trial, "which was postponed last week beyond its original Dec. 2 start date, may not begin for months." The trial was originally scheduled for Dec. 2, "four days before Louisiana's Dec. 6 general election, in which Jefferson is seeking a 10th term against a crowded field of candidates," including Anh "Joseph" Cao (R), the Green Party's Malik Rahim, Libertarian Party candidate Gregory Kahn and Independent Jerry Jacobs. "The trial is now expected to begin at some point in the first half of 2009."

Jefferson Favored for Re-election Despite Indictment
It would be an understatement to say that controversy-plagued Louisiana Democratic Rep. William J. Jefferson is running for re-election this year under less than optimal circumstances. Yet it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a nearly prohibitive favorite to win his bid for a 10th House term in the weather-delayed Dec. 6 general election in the New Orleans-based 2nd Congressional District.

The 61-year-old Jefferson is awaiting trial on federal bribery and corruption charges. Even before his indictment in June 2007, the House Democratic leadership removed him from the prestigious Ways and Means Committee — prompted by the Justice Department investigation into his activities, which included a highly publicized allegation that Jefferson had foil-wrapped $90,000 in bribe money and stored it in a freezer.

The 16 counts on which Jefferson stands indicted include soliciting bribes, corruption, money laundering, obstruction of justice, wire fraud and racketeering. The case centers on an accusation that he sought and accepted bribes to be paid to a family member in return for his official assistance in promoting business deals in Africa. A status conference for his trial is scheduled for Dec. 16. [MORE]

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