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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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Tuesday
Apr012008

King James on Trial -- Corruption Case of former Newark Mayor Underway

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AP The defense began its case Tuesday in the corruption trial of former Newark Mayor Sharpe James by calling a former city councilwoman who asserted that James never tried to influence her vote on redevelopment matters. From June 1999 until leaving his position as Mayor in July 2006, James simultaneously served as Mayor of Newark and New Jersey State Senator. He declined to run for re-election to the State Senate in 2007; his term as Senator expired in January 2008.

The witness, Gayle Chaneyfield-Jenkins, also testified that the council set a uniform price for city-owned land for redevelopers and that James was not involved in that process.

Her testimony is an attempt to undercut prosecution charges that James abused his office by steering nine city lots at discounted rates to co-defendant Tamika Riley.

Riley is a former boutique owner who prosecutors say bought the properties for $46,000 and quickly sold them for $665,000 without making required improvements.

Prosecutors say the 72-year-old James was having an affair with Riley, who is 39.

Their defense lawyers have maintained that Riley paid the standard rate for distressed properties.

On cross-examination, Chaneyfield-Jenkins said she was not aware that Riley did not rehabilitate the properties.

The federal jury also heard Tamika Riley's voice when a prosecutor played a tape of a council meeting in which Riley told members that she had developed 10 properties after overcoming obstacles as a black woman trying to get started in real estate.

"I just went forward and kept learning," Riley told the council, including Chaneyfield-Jenkins.

Chaneyfield-Jankins said she was not aware of a relationship between James and Riley.

The former councilwoman, who served for over 10 years before leaving in June 2006, said the council relied mostly on information from the city's housing officials when it approved the sale of Newark-owned property.

Prosecution witnesses have said James, mayor for 20 years until 2006, was directly involved in the process.

Testimony in the federal trial, which began March 3, could conclude this week.

James faces five charges, including fraud and conspiracy. Riley faces those charges and eight others, including tax evasion.

After this trial, James is to be tried on charges he used city-issued credit cards to pay for $58,000 worth of personal expenses while he was mayor, including trips with several women other than his wife to Martha's Vineyard, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Rio de Janeiro.

James, as leader of the state's largest city, is among dozens of New Jersey politicians snared by FBI investigations over the past several years. He is one of just a handful who haven't pleaded guilty.

In a light moment Tuesday, testimony by Chaneyfield-Jenkins was briefly halted when a cell phone rang. James, seated at the defense table, reached into a pocket to silence the machine.

"Tell him you're on trial," Chaneyfield-Jenkins said.

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