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  • MOVE & WACO: PUBLIC EXECUTIONS

    1999

     

    As the Waco incident re-enters headline news, I am appalled by the blindly patriotic denials that many flag waving Americans dare to still boldly embrace. Like MOVE,  the Waco torching was a public execution. Like Ramona Africa, I hope the Branch Davidians litigate relentlessly, until they win their righteous legal suits against the FBI.

    This incident is a profound example of the fact that oppression is contagion. None of us are free until all of us are free. Those fascists who murder black persons because of their skin and dreadlocks, will also murder white persons because of their religion and personal property. Those who come for us today, will return for you tomorrow.

    In 1985, Philadelphia police bombed the home of dreadlocked revolutionary rebels known as MOVE. That attack led to the state sanctioned torching of 61 homes and left 250 people homeless. 11 African people were murdered, including 5 children. In 1996, warrior Ramona Africa, the only adult survivor of this public execution, won $500,000 for pain and suffering. The family of MOVE founder John Africa, who was murdered in the execution, won $1,000,000. Other plaintiffs won smaller tokens.

    Yet, this legal victory was never motivated by cash. As Ramona stated after the verdict was announced, “Money don’t have nothing to do with this! This is about taking a stand for all people so that their government knows that the people ain’t gonna have them bombing people and burning people alive!”

    If what Ramona stated had been regarded as truth in 1985, perhaps Waco may not have happened in 1993. In some small way, that second execution may have played an accidental role in the legacy of MOVE. Now, millions of Americans are beginning to finally understand the fascist evil of martial law and how it threatens all of our lives across all boundaries of race and class.

    Rabid racism was the reason for the terrorist attack upon MOVE and droves of their neighbors. The city of Philadelphia harassed MOVE members heinously. These ongoing abuses went on far longer than the siege at WACO. MOVE members were beaten, incarcerated, murdered, tortured, and harassed by Philadelphia police at two residences since 1974.

    Even today, 14 years, and counting, after the public executions, 8 of 9 innocent MOVE members remain in prison; even after the legal victory has established that they were framed for the murder of a police officer, killed in the fray of friendly fire during the ambush and torching of their rebel peers. Merle Africa died while she was caged. Janine Africa, Janet Africa, Debbie Africa, Delbert Africa, Mike Africa, Edward Africa, Phil Africa, and Chuck Africa remain innocent as they are still being held captive inside the belly of the beast of the state of Philadelphia!

    Rabid racism is also glaringly evident in the fact that trigger happy agents of martial law shot to kill and fire bombed MOVE members in mere minutes! On May 13, 1985, within 30 minutes after policemen arrived on the scene, MOVE members were torched . Federal killers waited several days before they filled the WACO compound with gas and then blasted bullets into flames.

    State sanctioned murder is still murder. Gang banger drive-by massacres are still  ambushes, even when the gangs are the ATF or the FBI. Freedom is a constant struggle. Power corrupts constantly. The Branch Davidians should have been free to collect guns and to practice their own religion. The FBI murdered these peaceful persons on their own private property. For that execution, the FBI should pay millions.

    FREE THE MOVE 8 NOW!!!!

     

    POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!

     

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    “MOVE” - A DOCUMENTARY BY COHORT MEDIA

     

    {This is dedicated to The MOVE 9: Janine Phillips Africa, Merle Austin Africa, Debbie Sims Africa, Janet Holloway Africa, Charles Sims Africa, Edward Goodman Africa, William Phillips Africa, Delbert Orr Africa, and Michael Davis Africa....ON THE MOVE!!!...} 
     

     

    “AS LONG AS WE ARE ALIVE, WE WILL NEVER ABANDON OUR INNOCENT BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN JAIL. AND, THEY KNOW WE WILL NEVER ABANDON THEM. AND, THIS CITY WILL ALWAYS HAVE A PROBLEM UNTIL EVERY LAST ONE OF OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IS HOME...” 
                                         -MOVE

     

    “MOVE WORKS TO STOP INDUSTRY FROM POISONING THE AIR, THE 
    WATER, THE SOIL, AND PUT AN END TO THE ENSLAVEMENT OF LIFE -
     
    PEOPLE, ANIMALS, ANY FORM OF LIFE. THE PURPOSE OF JOHN
     
    AFRICA’S REVOLUTION IS TO SHOW PEOPLE HOW CORRUPT, ROTTEN,
     
    CRIMINALLY ENSLAVING THIS SYSTEM IS, SHOW PEOPLE, THROUGH
     
    JOHN AFRICA’S TEACHING, THE TRUTH, THAT THIS SYSTEM
     
    IS THE CAUSE OF ALL THEIR PROBLEMS (ALCOHOLISM, DRUG
     
    ADDICTION, UNEMPLOYMENT, WIFE ABUSE, CHILD PORNOGRAPHY,
     
    EVERY PROBLEM IN THE WORLD). AND, TO SET THE EXAMPLE OF
     
    REVOLUTION FOR PEOPLE TO FOLLOW WHEN THEY REALIZE HOW
     
    THEY’VE BEEN OPPRESSED, REPRESSED, DUPED, TRICKED BY THIS
     
    SYSTEM, THIS GOVERNMENT AND SEE THE NEED TO RID THEMSELVES
     
    OF THIS CANCEROUS SYSTEM AS MOVE DOES.”
      

                                          -MOVE

     

     

    The public execution of the Branch Davidians at Waco Texas was not the first such 
    government led slaughter. Similar state sanctioned torture and murder of MOVE 
    members in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania began in 1974. This harassment and abuse 
    culminated on May 13, 1985, in the bombing and torching of 60 homes. This police 
    attack at 6221 Osage Avenue, in the Cobbs Creek section of West Philadelphia, 
    made the Waco fires pale by comparison.

    An entire neighborhood was hatefully transformed into ashes by rabidly racist 
    police officers in the “City of Brotherly Love”Cohort Media directors Benjamin 
    Garry and Ryan McKenna have created a superb documentary that now fully 
    captures this shockingly violent and fascist moment in American history. You must 
    see this film!

    This documentary is a superb analysis of an event that is omitted from far too many 
    textbooks and databases. This film traces the history of MOVE and its legacy as the 
    city of Philadelphia declared war upon its organization and its home. The clever 
    combination of still photos and live footage graphically reveal the past, present, and 
    future of MOVE’s rebellion. We view and experience the shock and rage of every 
    tale shared by a host of MOVE members and journalists. We re-live the execution 
    of infant Life Africa, whose tiny skull was crushed on March 28, 1976, when a police 
    officer suddenly stomped and beat his mother, Janine Africa, as she cradled Life in 
    her arms.

    Just as in Waco, police officers executed many children and infants. They also 
    brutally murdered, beat, stomped, and shot male and female MOVE members, in 
    broad daylight. Many members were shot in their backs. Legendary journalist 
    Mumia Abu Jamal was a staunch defender of MOVE. He exposed the brutal 
    atrocities inflicted by Philadelphia’s sadistic police force as they harassed MOVE 
    members for years. Mumia’s framing, for the murder of a young cop who was 
    planning to expose his corrupt peers, was fueled by Mumia’s loyalty to MOVE’s 
    dreadlocked rebel warriors.

    In this superb film, many of the still photos appear as actual rolls of camera film. This brilliant artistic touch deepens the visual imagery of these literal portraits of a bloody and racist 
    history. A history that has been sinisterly revised and arrogantly omitted, until now.

    This film details the poison of revisionist history as it definitively records the truth 
    of each legendary and shocking incident between MOVE and the police. It proves 
    what really happened when one group was callously marked for death and an entire 
    neighborhood was cavalierly deemed a collective casualty of war. This film 
    documents what has been hidden from public history.

    In this film, we witness the inability of oppressors to ever stop a revolution. MOVE 
    members are still political prisoners and global rebel heroes. They will never be 
    defeated because they will never give up their rebel missions.

    This film takes us deep into the red hot soul of MOVE’s organization as it 
    simultaneously reveals the ice cold hearts of Philadelphia’s city officials. 
    Corruption, oppression, and hatred cross all boundaries of race and class. Power 
    corrupts absolutely. Absolute power breeds hatred. Wilson Goode was the black 
    mayor of Philadelphia when officers bombed MOVE.

    Had MOVE’s warriors been less Afrikan or less nappy, perhaps a neighborhood 
    mediation office may have intervened. That may have resolved all municipal and 
    residential conflicts. Instead, the city of Philadelphia dropped a bomb and torched 
    60 homes. None of the black residents were ever fully compensated for their 
    financial losses. Many of them owned their homes. This film examines their 
    eradication.

    This film clearly exposes the fact that Philadelphia’s police officers never attempted 
    any mediation. They came to the scene of this execution openly armed for war. In 
    addition to the bomb they dropped, officers came armed with 1000 rounds of 
    ammunition, M-60 machine guns, M-16 sniper rifles, and silencers. Silent guns do 
    not fire warnings. They only shoot to kill.

    The 60 row houses torched reached temperatures of 2000 degrees. Officers shot at 
    every MOVE member who dared to flee the burning house. During this melee, cops 
    shot a fellow officer. Then, they brazenly framed 9 MOVE members for that 
    murder. 8 members of The MOVE 9 are still incarcerated for the death of a police 
    officer felled by a single bullet. 9 MOVE members were jailed for one bullet from 
    one gun that shot “friendly fire”. This could only happen in the American “just-us” 
    system! Tragically, Merle Africa died in prison. 8 members of MOVE are still 
    incarcerated political prisoners!!!

    Even if one MOVE member had shot a police officer, why were 9 members 
    sentenced to 100 years each??? A dear Rastafarian friend of mine always laments 
    about “politricks in a wicked shitsym...”. This film proves that wicked politics led 
    to the systematic harassment, torture, beatings, murder, bombing, and framing of 
    MOVE members.

    In a just legal system, 9 people would never be prosecuted for a crime that no single 
    one of them has been proven to have committed!!! No just trial can ever be 
    conducted when no single piece of evidence is submitted!!! There is no justice in 
    Amerikkka’s elitist and racist “just-us” system. And, where there is no justice, there will never  be  any peace.

    The very same lying brutal cops who slaughtered and framed MOVE members, and 
    framed and caged Mumia Abu Jamal, destroyed evidence vital to the cases of the 
    MOVE 9. Crooked cops even blatantly destroyed the crime scene and  boldly 
    leveled the MOVE home they torched, even before defense attorneys could gather 
    any shred of evidence.

    This film exposes the contagion of oppression. It is a wake up call to those who 
    believe in the fantasy of selective oppression. Like those neighbors who thought the 
    police would burn only one home or abuse only nappy headed residents when they 
    arrived at the home of MOVE members. Like those who foolishly believe that a 
    selected president like George W. Bush/King Shrub can contain the terror that he 
    has brazenly unleashed upon international oil owners, poor persons, and 
    homosexuals globally...

    We are living in times when suicidally blind patriotism is being touted as loyalty or 
    character. Every fool who believes that America  is a democracy must see this film. 
    It will burn their rose colored glasses into the same kind of ashes that police officers 
    left at MOVE’s home....

    Every seeker of truths must see this film. Only the truth will free our collective 
    minds and souls. See this film today!!! ON A MOVE!!!! 

     

    To contact the rebel directors at Cohort Media, email: 
    cohortmedia@yahoo.com

     

    Read these books for additional information on MOVE:

    Ona Move 
    by 
    Chuck Dees

    25 Years on The Move 
    c/o Post Office Box 19709 
    Philadelphia, PA 19143 

     

    Burning Down the House: Move and the Tragedy of Philadelphia

  • WOMEN IN CAGES - THE OTHER PRISONERS...

    {2010 - PIC = Prison Industrial Complex = Poor in Cages...Hobama is a rabid elitist who is rapidly funding the PIC. Simultaneously, Hobama is a legendary bankster making billions homeless, jobless, and hungry globally. Beware his fatally toxic and tragically timeless mix.. }
     
    1996

    The New World Order is in progress. There are more African people imprisoned in America than anywhere else, in the history of the world. Male prisoners garner the most media attention, rally the most supporters, and get the most visitors. But, there are thousands of women who are locked in the same cages and rotting inside the same belly of The Beast.

    Prisons have become America's new plantations. As downsizing and unemployment impoverish millions outside prison walls, prison labor is booming! Prisoners are producing furniture, electronics, and clothing.  They are also answering hotlines as customer service agents. Prisoners do free labor for major corporations like AT&T, TWA, Toys R Us, Eddie Bauer, Lockhart Technologies Inc., and many more. (For a glimpse of such American slave labor on film, see "The Spitfire Grill".)

    In a country where inmates are slaves, we Africans have proven our superior skills for over 300 years. As prisons house the new slaves, racist crack laws navigate the New Middle Passage. As always, female chattel suffer uniquely brutal abuses.

    African female slaves have always suffered doubly, for their race and gender. We were beaten and raped by the same white masters. As our own children were sold, we were forced to nurse the children of the sellers. Such gender specific abuses continue as female inmates are routinely raped by male prison guards.

    Never do we hear of female guards sexually assaulting male prisoners. Yet, female prisoners are raped by male guards daily. In fact, being a prison guard is an ideal job for any rapist. What could be more vulnerable than a woman in a cage to a man who holds the key? What could be better than earning a salary and benefits for your lechery?

    Medical care in most American prisons is so horrific that it undeniably constitutes torture. Women generally require more medical attention than men. Our organs are more complex and sensitive to stress. Yet, penal medical care is far worse or nonexistent for women than it is for men.

    The biological warfare of AIDS has intensified medical torture. Also, poverty and drug addictions are crimes. All combine to ensure a steady pool of miserable and meek prison laborers.

    As poverty by design increases, so does survival by defiance. Those who are starving will eat by any means necessary. Those who cannot work to buy, will scheme to steal. The welfare bill is fueling abject poverty at a frenzied pace.

    Stress-releasing casual sex is on the rise. Fatal sexually transmitted diseases escalate nationwide. The crime bill is selectively creating throngs of poor, black, and female felons. Female prison labor pools are overflowing.

    In the midst of all this misery, prison stock is booming for neocon investors. While racist politicians lie about genocidal cocaine laws and CIA drug dealers, the prison cages keep closing on our sisters. 

    The Beast has a belly full of "belly warmers"; a vulgar term coined by slave catchers to describe the African women they raped as cargo during chilly nights at sea. This term is hauntingly prophetic as the icy winds of the New World Order blow record numbers of sisters into the iron bellies of The Beast.

    EVERY ONE OF US CAN DO SOMETHING TO LESSEN THE MISERY OF THOSE WHO ARE IMPRISONED. Please find some time to do at least one of the following, as soon as you possibly can:

    Volunteer your services to any prison outreach organization. There are many of them. They all desperately need your help. Check your local directories. Or, call one of these in my area for a reference in your own area:

    • CALIFORNIA COALITION FOR WOMEN PRISONERS

    100 McAllister 
    San Francisco, CA 94102 
    415-255-7036 (extension 313) 
     

    • LEGAL SERVICES FOR WOMEN PRISONERS

    100 McAllister 
    San Francisco, CA 94102 
    415-255-7036 (extension 312) 

    • FRIENDS OUTSIDE-OAKLAND

    1212 Broadway # 830 
    Oakland, Caifornia 94612 
     

    • CHILDREN OF INCARCERATED PARENTS

    714 West California Blvd. 
    Pasadena, California  91105


    • FAMILIES WITH A FUTURE

    301 Henry St. 
    Berkeley, California  94709 
    510-527-9524 
     

    • HIV/AIDS IN PRISON PROJECT

    433 Jefferson St. 
    Oakland, California 94607 
     

    • EQUAL JUSTICE USA -WEST
    558 Capp St. 
    San Francisco, California  94110 
    Write a long letter, buy a card, clip an interesting newspaper article, print a magazine feature or web page and send it to a prisoner. They are not all psycho demons as films portray. 
    Prisoners are our extended family. They are everyday people who fell into the pathological pitfalls of poverty/crime. They deserve your empathy.

    Visit someone in prison. Sponsor a formal event inside a prison to educate or cheer those who are caged. Prisons are being designed to increase brutality daily. Soon, all visitors may be outlawed. So, visit now, while you still can.

    Send a gift to someone in prison. Send them a postal money order. Simple basic necessities and pleasures like toiletries and candy can be purchased in prison. Such simple and small items can make such huge differences in levels of isolation and depression.

    Urge your pastor to ask each member of your congregation to adopt a prisoner. Most churches are gaudy shrines/pseudo-christian club houses. Make your own church a superior exception to that rule. Every church is near a prison. Every prisoner is a sibling in the family of God.

    DEMAND AMNESTY FOR ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS!!! Geronimo Ji Jaga left HUNDREDS of  framed fellow warriors behind. HUNDREDS more are in exile like shero Assata Shakur. 

     

    The New World Order is in progress. Poverty is escalating by design. Martial law is intensifying by decree. When you are imprisoned, you will understand the horrors of incarceration, and empathize belatedly with the hell that so many of our sisters now endure... 

     

    Organize and protest our fascist and racist government's enforcement of COINTELPRO, which retroactively, covertly, and unapologetically continues to murder our revolutionary rebels!!!

     

  • MEMO TO ERIC HOLDER: FREE MUMIA NOW!!!!!!!

    {2010 - Hobama Inc. saved veteran serial pedophile rapist Roman Polanski. Will Hobama save framed Black Panther warrior, political prisoner, revolutionary author, and rebel hero Mumia???}

     

    2000

     

    ONLINE LYNCHING

     

    You MUST read the libelous lunacy of Debra Dickerson, as she simultaneously flaunts her arrogant ignorance about Mumia Abu-Jamal and his framing while legendarily licking the boots of neocons who seek to execute him. It is revolting, revisionist, rabid drivel. (See her libel posted below.)

    The year 2000 is upon us. Millennium madness is increasingly maniacal. Debra’s madness is malicious! I have never ever read such a venomous and personal attack against Mumia! Mumia is my hero. I don my dreadlocks as a proud tribute to him. So, Debra’s attack offends me deeply and personally. What follows is my personal counter-attack in reply...

    No one who has done any modicum of research on the facts of Mumia’s case can ever deny that he was framed! Mumia is Amerikkka’s most tragic political prisoner. And, he is its only political prisoner on death row.

    Mumia is a breathtakingly beautiful man, physically and spiritually. I am perpetually amazed by the beauty of his regal dreadlocks, the depth of the smooth tone of his chocolate skin, and the sparkle in the whites of his defiant eyes. He has been locked in a cage and malnourished for 18 years. Defiantly, his physical beauty and his spiritual power belie the conditions of his state-sanctioned tortures.

    It is impossible to imprison a cause. Though oppressors will never cease trying to do so. Thus, Mumia has continued to be an intellectual, political and racial inspiration to millions globally; all of whom are far more literate and conscious than Debra and her lost ilk.

    Mumia was a gifted writer at 15. It is then that he became a central media officer in the Black Panther Party (BPP).  He was a celebrated Minister of Information for the BPP. As a successful adult journalist, he was president of the National Association of Black Journalists. In Philadelphia, he became a renowned radio journalist and a vocal champion of MOVE. He was a fierce crusader against police brutality in Pennsylvania, where police are fiercely brutal.

    Mumia used his pen and his power in the media to expose the evils of police. His pen is the only REAL reason that he has been penned by fascists in Philly. And, Debra has used her pen to further their genocidal agenda.

    Like most neocons, Debra is boldly unconcerned with reality. House niggers never cared about the reality of life for field niggers. They lived only to slander those niggers caught out there in the field. They loved to stand on the backs of those “bad” niggers. “Good niggers” still stand taller that way...House niggers still rule in every arena. From cyber-rags to tell-lie-vision news, puppets like Debra do the bidding of racist puppeteers who strategically censor truths from billions daily.

    For those who are not content with their puppet masters like Debra, PLEASE STUDY THE FACTS OF MUMIA’S CASE. They are facts that Debra blatantly evades entirely. Mumia has never had a fair trial. That alone will free him.

    Rather than  examine those facts, Debra chants neocon mantras about “crime”, “violence”, “haircuts”, and “prison choirs”. All of which have absolutely nothing to do with the framing of a revolutionary rebel activist journalist named Mumia. What crime has Mumia ever committed? When was Mumia ever violent to anyone? What the hell does singing in a choir have to do with censorship or police brutality or penal torture? How will eurocentric hairstyles rectify the travesties of criminal injustices?

    Debra is a fool. A libelous, handkerchief-head, lying, lost fool. She sings to a white God. And, she thinks her perm will save her soul.

    Mumia and I know better. We know the evil that men (and the bimbos they employ) do. We know how many other BPP members were murdered/framed and incarcerated. We know the similar sagas of fellow rebels like Geronimo Ji-Jaga, Assata Shakur, Angela Davis, Fred Hampton, Huey Newton etc....And, we know the fatal price of  “free speech”.

    We need MANY others to know what we know. The truth about Hurricane Carter was made famous by a song composed by Bob Dylan. Now, Denzel Washington has taken his truth to millions via Hollywood. Who will stop rapping about gangstas and buttocks long enough to pen a song about Mumia Abu-Jamal? Will Hollywood ever tell us Mumia’s truths?

    Hurricane boxed with his fists. Mumia STILL boxes with his pen and voice. And, we revere him. Always.

    Debra slanders Mumia as she describes him as “scary”. Yet, she never validly explains the reason for her curious fear. What we fear always reveals more about us than the objects of that fear. Debra’s hatchet job is more violent than any act Mumia ever committed. I fear her rabid ignorance far more than she fears his hair. Debra’s slave mentality is what compels her to refer to Mumia by his slave name, to suggest that he cut his hair in adherence to slave fashion, and to sing the songs of a slave’s God.

    Mumia’s spirituality is evident in everything about him. He is superior in every way to the godless religions of fools like Debra. Faith without work is dead. No “prison choir” rehearsals would ever distract Mumia from his divine and revolutionary literary missions. Singing freedom songs has never freed a soul. God blesses those who fight! True warriors sing victory songs, after the battles are won.

    Mumia is a supreme warrior. His blessings flow globally. They are evident in the fact that he is still alive after 18 years of legal death threats. And, like Mumia, we are proud rebels who continue to demand that “MUMIA MUST NOT BE MURDERED BY PENNSYLVANIA!!!” And, we will NEVER cease this WAR for his survival.

    It is truly a pathetic and ugly country that cheers a eurocentric, murderous brute like O. J. Simpson while they ignore and betray a revolutionary that gave his very life for the people like Mumia!!! Football is still more popular than revolution. And, house niggers like Debra are still quarterbacking for the oppressors....


    For the truth about Mumia Abu-Jamal read:

    Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret War Against the Black Panther Party & the American Indian Movement 
    by Ward Churchill & James Vanderwall

    COINTELPRO: The FBI's Secret War on Political Freedom 
    by Nelson Blackstock

    COINTELPRO: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Domestic Dissent 
    by Ward Churchill

    To Die for the People 
    by Huey Newton

    A Taste of Power 
    by Elaine Brown

    Assata: An Autobiography 
    by Assata Shakur

    Angela Davis: An Autobiography 
    by Angela Y. Davis

    Power to the People 
    by James Haskins

    All Things Censored 
    by Mumia Abu-Jamal, Noelle Hanrahan, John Wideman, & Alice Walker

    Censored 2000: The News That Didn’t Make The News 
    by Peter Phillips, Mumia Abu-Jamal

    Race for Justice 
    by Leonard Weinglass

    In Defense of Mumia 
    by S. F. Anderson & Tony Medina

    Death Blossoms 
    by Mumia Abu-Jamal

    Live from Death Row 
    by Mumia-Abu Jamal

     

    1998

     

    GENERATIONAL GENOCIDE

    Mumia Abu Jamal is one of many political prisoners in  the U. S. However, due to years of exposing racist police brutality, as a journalist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he is the ONLY political prisoner on death row. Mumia has been convicted by a ruthlessly racist legal system, in a trial founded upon the false testimony of paid/ petrified police informants.

     Philadelphia is one of the most vicious police states in America. It is also one of the most rabidly racist cities in America. Philadelphia is the city where MOVE members and 60 other Black residents were bombed. MOVE’s revolutionary politics and radical lifestyles were deemed as ground for public execution. Philadelphia is also a city where a neocon mammy named Courtney Mann is the head nigger and honorary KKK bitch-in-blackface CEO of the NAAWP.

    Of all the uniquely repulsive horrors that define the state of Pennsylvania, there is yet another, newer racist tragedy. On February 18, 1998, Jamal Hart, the 26 year old son of Mumia, was sentenced to 15 years and 6 months, followed by 5 years parole, on a “gun possession” conviction. Police claim they found a gun after Jamal allegedly ran a stop sign. As always, it was his word against local agents of the New World Order. Thus, another warrior from another generation has perished under the power of police. Mumia has written:“[Jamal’s] transfer represents punishment before trial, as his bust itself is punishment for his efforts on behalf of his dad.”

    To this day, racists are doing all they can to torture, execute and deny Mumia his freedom. Various sources have recently reported that Mumia is embroiled in a hunger strike, in protest of the removal of ALL of his books and papers from his cell. Yet, even after 17 years in a cage, Mumia remains absolutely beautiful and strong, defiant and regal, determined and undaunted, dreadlocked and undefeated.

    Mumia was fearless as a very young boy. He remains so as a man. He will be so eternally. COINTELPRO captured his body. NOTHING will ever capture his spirit, bind his soul, or weaken his powerful legacy.

    For more info, read “Live from Death Row”  by Mumia Abu Jamal. Also read his second book entitled “Death Blossoms-Reflections From a Prisoner of Conscience”. The following quotes are taken from essays in “Death Blossoms”:

    From “Father Hunger”: “Here in this man-made hell, there are countless young men bubbling with bittter hatreds and roiling resentments against their absent fathers. Several have taken to the odd habit of calling me “Papa”, an endearment whose irony escapes them... 

    I resent being “Papa” to young men I didn’t know, while being denied-by decree of state banishment-the opportunity to be a father to the children of my own flesh and heart. My sons were babies when I was cast into this hell, and no number of letters, cards, or phone calls can ever heal the wounds that they and their sisters have suffered over the long, lonely years of separation... 

    They are me...I realize that I live amidst a generation of young men drunk not only with general loneliness, but with the particular, gnawing anguish of father-hunger...”  

    From “Interview with Mumia”: “I’m actually named after my first son. It means “father of Jamal” and my first son is named Jamal. 

    ...How did Americans (or people who call themselves Americans), how did they acquire political power here in this country, if not through a gun? How did they prevail over the forces of the Crown, of Britain, in the so-called Revolutionary War, if not through the power and force of arms? How did they prevail over the native peoples of this country in the so-called Indian Wars, if not through force of arms?...If Americans did not fight with all the tools at their command-including guns-against the British, we’d all be speaking with a British accent and saying “God Save the Queen”. 

    ...How many people can brag-and I use that term with a little humor-about having an FBI file from the time they were fourteen? I have. Phone calls, mail, the whole deal. I’ve been tracked by the FBI since I was a child. Dogged by them for my political beliefs, my political expressions, my political associations...They wrote letters to people in my name, signed them, sent them-these letters were complete lies. Because as a young man I spoke out as part of the Ministry of Information of the Black Panther Party. And, I spoke about black liberation... 

    As we speak, the state of California has announced a moratorium on all interviews with all prisoners throughout the penal system. There’s a reason for that. It’s to keep people in the dark...”

     

    Please pray for both of these kindred warriors, who share the same regal blood and revolutionary courage... 

     

    _____________________________________________________________________________________________________

    2003

     

    MOORE DISILLUSION:

    ON MICHAEL MOORE'S LIBEL  
    OF  MUMIA ABU JAMAL

     

    One simply never expects to experience some things...I never expect to hear the most popular rap music stars rap about anything relevant or intelligent. I never expect "brothers" like O. J. Simpson to ever stop enthusiastically breeding their African faces out of existence. I never expect any eurocentric African person to woo or marry anyone who looks like them. I never expect resisting racism to be easy for any of us as we live in this racist world. And, I never expected Michael Moore to reveal his own racism against revolutionary political prisoner of war Mumia Abu Jamal.

    What pains me most is that I regard both of these men as heroes. Michael Moore is a gifted rebel filmmaker and a superior researcher of neocon avarice and lies. He is renowned for telling truths about stupid white men that few men of any color dare to tell. In Amerikkka, we need many more white men to expose and validate similar truths.

    Mumia Abu Jamal was a child prodigy as a superb newspaper editor and media director for the Black Panther Party at age 15. Since that same tender age, Mumia has been a primary target of the FBI's genocidal COINTELPRO. Yet, Mumia is still a gifted journalist, columnist, legendary Philadelphia radio celebrity, expert exposer of police brutality, supporter and defender of MOVE, and a former president of the National Association of Black Journalists. Like most COINTELPRO targets (including Assata Shakur, Mututlu Shakur, Huey Newton, George Jackson, Geronimo Pratt, and many others), Mumia has been framed and caged for decades. Thus, I never expected to see Mumia libeled by Michael.

    In his new book "Dude, Where's My Country?", Michael penned the following:

    "Mumia [the campaigning Pennsylvania journalist who was sentenced for the shooting of a police officer and has been on death row since 1982] probably killed that guy. There, I said it. That does not mean he should be denied a fair trial or that he should be put to death. But because we don't want to see him or anyone executed, the efforts to defend him may have overlooked the fact that he did indeed kill that cop. This takes nothing away from the eloquence of his writings or commentary, or the important place he now holds on the international political stage. But, he probably did kill that guy."  

    Like all true intellectuals, I am an independent thinker. I have never agreed nor do I ever expect to agree with one hundred percent of everything anyone else thinks or says. I respect all intellectual opinions and our rights to differing ones. But, I insist that all opinions be based upon facts! Opinions that are formulated from facts are the only opinions that I will ever respect.

    No one with any modicum of intelligence who has even nominally researched Mumia's case could ever form the opinion that he is guilty!!! The facts of this case glaringly prove that Mumia is completely innocent of this murder. Mumia was sloppily framed for the murder of a young white male police officer. How can an intelligent and superior researcher like Michael be arrogantly ignorant of the following facts in Mumia's case???:

    1. The bullets in the officer's corpse did not match Mumia's gun taken from the murder scene. It was a gun Mumia carried only for security, as he moonlit as a taxi driver to supplement his media income.

    2. Numerous key witnesses have been confirmed as perjurers. Most of them are police officers.

    3. Major evidence has been mysteriously destroyed.

    4. Mumia has never received anything remotely resembling a fair trial.

    5. Another man has confessed to being the murderer as a hired contract killer for dirty police officers.

    Why has a revered author like Michael libeled Mumia? Why has a self-proclaimed liberal like Michael suddenly become a  megaphone for neocon racists who seek to murder Mumia? How many of Michael's fans will now betray Mumia as his legal lynching looms? Why has Michael so loudly joined the cheers of neocon bigots who seek the state sanctioned execution of Mumia? Why did Michael grossly exaggerate so many truths about Canadian culture in his otherwise typically excellent film "Bowling for Columbine"? How may Michael feel regarding his similarly blatant lies about Mumia? Does Michael know that he has now set his own hands for Mumia's blood?...These are all questions I never expected to be compelled to pose.

    My eternal hero Malcolm X spoke classic wisdom in one of his many eloquently radical and timeless speeches. (I am desperately hunting the actual quote! If you know this specific speech, please email me at: ambwww@yahoo.com) I paraphrase: 

    Every white person has a line that a black person cannot cross...You may never witness it...Some may eat from the same fork you share...Some may embrace you as you marry their sister or brother...But, if you spend enough time with that white person, you will certainly witness that line...That line will reveal their white supremacy and racism... 

    Michael has crossed that line with me. When disillusioned with someone who has betrayed them, elder African-American mothers express that one has "torn their drawers" with them. Michael no longer dons proverbial drawers. Neither briefs nor boxers...

    As each day passes, Mumia's enemies and their evil strange bedfellows are being fully exposed. Like the true and beautiful soldier that he has always been, Mumia battles on. Mumia is innocent and fully clothed in his layered and indelible revolutionary armor. This is far more than I can say for Michael...

     

    For more information on the framing and political imprisonment of Mumia Abu Jamal read:

    Race for Justice      by Leonard Weinglass

    The Case of Mumia Abu Jamal      by Amnesty International

    On a Move     by Terry Bisson

    In Defense of Mumia   S. Anderson

     

    Also, read Mumia's own eloquent books:

    Live from Death Row

    Death Blossoms

    All Things Censored

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    POSTSCRIPT: 

    7/14/06 Michael Moore has apologized for his slander:

    See:

    http://www.socialistaction.org/mumia.htm

     Live from Death RowDeath Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of ConscienceThe Classroom and the Cell: Conversations on Black Life in AmericaThe FBI War on Tupac Shakur and Black Leaders: U.S. Intelligence's Murderous Targeting of Tupac, MLK, Malcolm, Panthers, Hendrix, Marley, Rappers and Linked Ethnic LeftistsAll Things CensoredMumia: A Case for Reasonable DoubtMumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt?


     

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    Message from Mumia:  Close down Attica!  End Mass Incarceration!

  • TOM JOYNER - HOBAMA'S FAVORITE MASOCHISTIC MINSTREL

     
    CAN TOM JOYNER WAKE UP??? - TAVIS SMILEY NEVER LEFT US???

     

    America’s favorite radio minstrel, Tom Joyner, has disgraced himself once again by feigning concern for Tavis Smiley while brazenly urging that Tavis become a cloned Hobama Nazi. The only thing more repulsive than a man who has sold his soul is one who publicly harasses a superior man for refusing to do the same. Tom has become a legendarily loyal lap dog for a rabidly elitist blackish president who cruelly and increasingly shows no loyalty to blacks.

     

    Tom’s second shocking and shameless letter devoted to degrading Tavis is penned under the guise of a sad plea. It is honestly a suicidal parody. Like a jovial Judas, Tom has lethally surpassed his original dosages of poisonous ignorance and insincerity.

     

    Tom pretended to miss Tavis while simultaneously implying that Tavis should be permanently banished from black America unless he blindly worships Hobama. Hobama has rendered the bulk of black Americans jobless and homeless! Still, Tom actually stated that Tavis should never divorce himself from the masochistic and mindless addictions of droves of black Hobama Nazis. Clearly, Tom is arrogantly ignorant about how bloodletting always trumps blood ties!!!

     

    Would Tom ever dare to give similarly suicidal advice to droves of children who are doomed by families addicted to crack? Would he tell anyone to willingly become a crack addict because their kin love to smoke it? Would he tell children to join gangs because all of their siblings and cousins are loyal gangsters? Would he tell teenagers to aspire to be jailbirds like all of the other convicts in their families? Would he dare to tell black people to proudly remain illiterate because their family members are uneducated and share aversions to books? Would he tell anyone to become a pedophile or pimp because such epidemic sexual pathology is a family legacy? Would he tell any Catholic priest to begin molesting children because his clergy kin had a penchant for the same? Would he tell anyone to become an alcoholic because their family is filled with lushes? Would he tell a black student to refuse to attend Yale University because all of their family members graduated from HBCUs? Would he dare to tell a child battling obesity to continue to eat only fatty foods because his family loves to fry food daily? Would he tell all intelligent black men to discard their belts because their younger kin prefer to thuggishly sag?...

     

    Real families do not gleefully perish with toxic kin! Real families intervene to save addicted kin! Real families ban together to escape genocide, not to cheer it on! Real families protect kin. Real families do not coddle and host fan clubs for those who seek to murder kin! Real black families did not urge their kin to worship George W. Bush! Blacks like Tom are hateful hypocrites for pretending that Hobama is not a MORE brutal blackish clone of Bush!!! Black America is dying because most blacks love Hobama more than the truth about his deliberate role in their demise!!!

     

    Ever notice how Hobama Nazis solely harp on adoration and race, but never discuss Hobama’s horrid serial actions? Notice how they never discuss Hobama’s endless swindleus bounties to his rich banker pals, his remorseless nepotism with his criminal regime funded by Goldman Sachs? Notice how they completely ignore his Bilderberg and Illuminati peers?...

     

    Actions speak louder than words and races! To those who are wise, Hobama’s race is irrelevant. To those who are awake, his actions are indefensible.  To those who are warriors, any distance from his black Nazis is a divine gift!!!

     

    No one of any race who is not a banker should have any love for Hobama!!! He is bilking us all and destroying our country. Our government is more clandestine and transparent than ever. Our banks and corporations are richer, more powerful, and more corrupt than ever. Our president’s academic, medical, and birth records are more tightly sealed than ever. Our media are more brazenly biased and censored than ever. Our lives are more impoverished and stressful than ever. Our morale is lower than ever. Our futures are bleaker than ever. Our soldiers are more war weary and suicidal than ever. Yet, Tom boldly demands that Tavis pretend Hobama has not been a legendary destroyer in chief just because his deadbeat serial dad was an African. WHY?!?

     

    Tom dares to imply that Tavis has gone away from blacks. That is a blatant black racist lie! Tavis never left blacks who love PBS. Tavis never left black book lovers. Tavis never left sane black family members like Harry Belafonte, Dr.Cornel West, Professor Griff, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, Danny Glover, Aaron McGgruder, KRS-One, Marc Hall, Immortal Technique, and many other black soldiers and scholars. Tavis never left millions of blacks like me who refuse to judge Hobama exclusively by his yellow skin. I am proud to call Tavis my rebel warrior brother.

     

    Ignorant, cowardly, racist, politically suicidal black fools like Tom left Tavis because they hate to hear ANY truths about Hobama! Tavis was brave and clairvoyant as one of the first black warriors to tell rebel truths about Hobama. Many truths about Hobama have proven to be far worse than any Tavis ever predicted!

     

    Tavis was always slumming within the syndicated coon fest that is the TJMS.  IT IS NATION TIME!!! The court jesters at the TJMS are not our soldiers. And, Hobama is not out King!

     

    MEMO TO TAVIS: STAY GONE  from the masochistic black morons who rejected you…ETERNALLY!!!!!!!. Those black  drones are not in our tribe!!!!!!!! Lock the doomed door they closed with several shiny new deadbolt locks and let them perish as they wish!!!!!!

     

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    AN OPEN LETTER TO TOM JOYNER - A MASOCHISTIC MINSTREL


     

    “He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it…A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”

                                                                                ~Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

      

    Tom:

     

    I have never been as disgusted by any letter as I am by the one you have dared to publicly post to Tavis Smiley. I have never been a fan of your syndicated minstrel show. Each morning, I mourn the losses of droves of superior, entertaining, and political local black radio crews. You and your fellow colorist, eurocentric, gaybashing clowns have silenced them nationwide. I have always felt that the bravely intellectual and uniquely sane Tavis was slumming by adding a modicum of intelligence to your ignorant antics.

     

    I am thoroughly bored by the typical drivel that defines your radio shows daily: The incessantly disrespectful fawning over white females by J. Anthony Brown, the degrading charades of your fictional homosexual characters, the humorless "jokes" about the misery of laid off Telecom employees, the signifying about doomed black female soldiers' nappy hair, the cattiness of the vapid and rude Sybil…I always find superior fare to enjoy during my morning drive. Thus, I listened to the initial exchange between Tavis and Al Sharpton online.

     

    I loved the valid questions Tavis righteously posed. I loved the typically weak evasions spoken by Al. I immediately linked that show and praised Tavis for his ongoing clairvoyance and courage regarding President Obama at my own website “Eloquent Fury”.

     

    Tavis has never lied on Obama or Al! Your own letter undeniably proves that you and Al do proudly suffer from the very same fatal affliction that Nazis did, the absolute blind worship of a deeply flawed person. Your love for Obama has you and most of the entire hypnotized black race revering Obama like a god rather than a president.

     

    Obama is human. Obama is a dejecting disappointment as a fraudulent and failed politico. Obama has done absolutely nothing to earn one iota of the unconditional love that you dare to publicly condone and encourage. I am mortified that you have actually publicly instructed Tavis and others to worship Obama as blindly as you do!

     

    No person of any race should ever blindly worship anyone! To worship a rabidly elitist Manchurian candidate like Obama is both suicidal and masochist. I am one of millions of intelligent independent voters of all races who will not pretend that Obama is our messiah just because a minstrel tells us to do so. We choose to be led by wise men that are not politically suicidal. They are men like Tavis, Dr. Cornel West, Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Harry Belafonte

     

    These superior men with great political wisdom would never unconditionally “give the people what they want.” Apolitical celebrities do that for groupies. Drug dealers do that for crack addicts. Unlike you, Obama, and your fellow celebrities, real leaders always give the people only what they truly need!

     

    Black people do not need to worship Obama. Obama is a rabid elitist who has legendarily robbed the poor to finance rich racist white bankers. Obama’s health care mirage will include no public option to help any poor person who is uninsured. Obama is a warmonger who has betrayed them by funding their corpses rather than saving their jobs and homes. Obama is a man who even you initially lamented as he gutted HBCU funding. Then, Obama belatedly funded HBCUs, only after ensuring that most pre-collegiate schools would become so horrid, and most black parents so bankrupt, homeless, and jobless that actually benefitting from HBCU funds would become hopeless fantasies

     

    Obama pimped black voters, and then brazenly demanded that we never ask him to be black again. Like Tavis, our unconditionally accurate criticisms of Obama are not motivated by anything other than Obama’s ongoing political betrayal. Is your unconditional love for Obama driven by your personal interest in his belated financial bounties for your beloved HBCUs?

     

    Only the most rabid Obama Nazi fools would be silent about Obama’s utter destruction of our beloved country and our black lives simply because his deadbeat sperm donor was an African man. Obama’s elitist policies have wounded poor black Americans more deeply than ever before. All wounds heal best in open air. The white men who rule this country and puppet Obama heal their wounds in open air daily. Only whispering black men like you perpetually hide wounds that fester and never heal. That is why white men rule the world.

     

    Your letter has deeply offended and intensely wounded me. It has also offended and wounded droves of African-Americans across oceans of times who never loved overseers just because they were black. Obama is the overseer in chief of a new global plantation. I proudly stand exclusively with fellow slaves who understood that our friends and enemies should be judged solely by the color of their actions rather than the color of one parent.

     

    Obama is not your brother because you do not own a bank. Obama’s only true color is green. The amoral whitewashes of Obama’s corporate erasures of poor people of all colors will do nothing to blacken Obama in the historical pages of our ongoing African-American Holocaust.

     

    Healing and leadership will never become realities as long as blacks are blinded by race. Class is the new black. Obama is the new elitist blackish mask upon the face of the New World Order. Now is the time for poor Americans of all races to wake up and realize that the blackish Obama will never be the leader we need.

     

     

    Black Enough/White Enough: The Obama Dilemma (English and English Edition)Bought and Paid For: The Unholy Alliance Between Barack Obama and Wall Street

  • BLACK FARMERS & GULF FISHERMEN - HOBAMA'S NEXT PREY

    My most favorite quote by Maya Angelou is:

    “If someone shows you who they are, believe them.”

     

    Hobama has shown us precisely who he is in countless ways!!!

     

    Hobama is a ruthless rabid bankster like his entire selected cabinet. Hobama has bilked poor Americans to fatten the coffers of rich bankers. He is planning a second swindleus bilking ASAP. Hobama has escalated the very same wars that he hypocritically and unfairly crucified Hillary Clinton for supporting. Hobama has filled his cabinet with Wall Street crooks and elitist peers from the Trilateral Commission…

    Hobama’s mother, maternal grandparents, and stepfather are all bona fide CIA agents. Hobama’s own bona fide CIA history and Manchurian life have been documented and exposed. Hobama’s best pals are gaybashers like the homosexual homohater Donnie McClurkin and the "holy" hatemonger Rick Warren.

    Hobama’s shady political blood flows from the toxic slime of Chicago politics, where Hobama pimped his image cleansing affiliation with the superior and afrocentric Trinity United Church of Christ. Hobama’s best pal Valerie Jarett is a slumlord. Hobama bought his very own home in Chicago via the criminal deals and blood money of a slumlord/felon/inmate named Antoin Rezko.

    Hobama has blatantly disrespected and ignored black voters since he became president. He has robbed them to pay bankers. He has flaunted his lack of any interest in any black agenda. He has vacationed and dined on lobster in the elite enclave of Martha’s Vineyard while poor black fishermen who voted for him watched seafood drown in BP's spilled oil in the Gulf.

    Hobama continues to brazenly ignore qualified black female judges as he selects Supreme Court justices. Hobama has pimped millions of voters as only a true politico mack can do. And now, his favorite vote czar and revered Nazi minstrel Tom Joyner dares to help him pimp votes anew. It is a shocking and endless saga of dementia and selling out that is hopeless and unchanged.

    To date, Hobama has reserved his very best backhanded turbo bitch slaps for African-American farmers! Fishermen in the Gulf will be the next group of African-Americans to be brutally slapped by Hobama as he brazenly aligns himself with his rich corporate cronies inside BP.

    What more will Hobama have to show us before he awakens the Hobama Nazis?! When will they believe him? When will they stop hawking his global hoax on gaudy tees and trinkets? When will they stop tricking and being hoodwinked for hope?

     

     

    DEATH BY CORPORATE PIG FARMING?

     

    Scientists are suggesting that the swine flu is a byproduct of toxic pig farming.
    Just as Hobama has pounded final nails in the coffins of small black farmers, nature may be warning us all about the perils of abusive pig farming on huge corporate farms.

    Cannibalistic toxins in processed cow feed at corporate farms caused mad cow disease. Now, swine flu may also have human handler origins via similar corporate abuses. As always, we will suffer globally due to poisons that gestate locally.

    Animals should roam free-range. They should never be caged like dead sardines and processed liked aluminum cans of beans. Frankenfood combined with stressful warehousing may be the death of us all… This is a great time to become a vegetarian, despite some E. coli infested gardening.

     

    TOP 10 FORBIDDEN QUESTIONS FOR HOBAMA

     

    I recently chatted with some fellow Hobama Nazi hunters… We were lamenting the escalating fiascos that are President Barack Hobama’s teleprompter’s staged “press conferences”. Our chat inspired me to compose the following TOP 10 QUESTIONS I NEVER EXPECT ANYONE TO ASK HOBAMA ON TV:

    Are you a member of the Bilderbergs/CIA and did they select you to become president so that you would continue the bloody global agendas of George Bush with a kinder, gentler, cooler, blacker fascism?

     

    Do you feel it is fair to be called a great orator when you are incoherent without your teleprompter? Do you feel that "eloquent reader" would be a more accurate label for your specific oratorical skills?

     

    Have you forgiven Hillary Clinton for her approval of the same wars that you have now escalated? Does Hillary approve of the additional wars you will declare?

     

    Have you forgiven George W. Bush for his excessive spending now that your very own spending has eclipsed his?

     

    How will poor black home owners in high crime areas benefit from your stimulus package?

     

    How many homes have been saved from foreclosure as a direct result of your windfalls to wealthy bankers?

     

    What have you done or will you actually do to assist homosexuals in any particular way?

     

    Why did you so blatantly betray black farmers?

     

    How long will you refer to this grave economic depression as a mere “recession”?

    When will you be screening "THE HOBAMA DECEPTION" at the White House?...

     

    {PS: I have many more questions!...}

     

     

    Hobama has shown me precisely who he is and I believe him completely. He is a hoax who will not fool me twice!!! How about you?

     

     


  • HOMOSEXUALITY IN ANCIENT AFRICA

    1996

     

    "Stolen Women: Reclaiming Our Sexuality, Taking Back Our Lives" is an excellent book by Dr. Gail Elizabeth Wyatt. Read it today. It expertly examines Black female sexuality. It is afrocentric and candid. It is written so that it may be as valuable to a teenager as it is to the mother of a teenager. Every sister and every person who loves a sister should read this book.

    It is because I love this book so that I am so deeply wounded by the following ignorant quote taken from it: "[In Africa] There were sexual practices that were not  condoned, such as adultery, rape, incest or homosexual relationships." No true scholar would ever make any blanket statements about any cultural practices in Africa. Africa is a huge continent with hundreds of tribes. Each tribe has diverse traditions and practices.

    It is true that some African tribes do not condone homosexuality. It is equally true that some African tribes DO condone homosexuality. It is wrong and homophobically cruel to state otherwise, as Wyatt has done.

    I loathe this special pseudo-African brand of gaybashing. I was especially repulsed to find it tainting the pages of this excellent book.Sex is an expression of love. Homosexual love is just as natural and real as heterosexual love. No true scholar ever equates homosexuality with pathology. In fact, the overwhelming majority of rapists, pedophiles, and adulterers globally are heterosexual men.

    Homosexuality is ancient and universal. Africa is the First World. The first humans were African. Thus, clearly, the first homosexual humans were African also.

    I cannot express the excrutiating emotional pain of being denied my heritage and homeland because I am a lesbian. It is a brutal act of bigotry that stings my very soul. Gaybashers, like homosexuals, are everywhere. Yet, I have never heard a white gaybasher tell a white lesbian that she is not a true European because she is gay.

    Many lesbian women and girls will read "Stolen Women". The truth about homosexuality in Africa should not be stolen from them as they do so. They should not be omitted from the legacy of African sisterhood simply because they are homosexual.

    I refuse to ever allow any arrogantly ignorant black gaybasher to imply that Africa was ever a heterosexist utopia!!! No such world has ever existed. And, it never will. Homosexuals, like heterosexuals, are eternal.

     

    The following quotes are taken from scholars of African history:

    "Gays: Guardians of the Gates" by Malidoma Some M.E.N. Magazine
    1993 [http://www.afrinet/~hallh/afrotalk/afrojun95/0995.html] (Some is a Dagara tribesman of Burkina Faso; east of Nigeria and north ofGhana):

    "...But at least among the Dagara people, gender has very little to do with anatomy. It is purely energetic. The whole notion of gay does not exist in the indigenous world. That does not mean that there are not people who feel this way that certain people feel in this culture, that has led to them being referred to as gay...The gay person is looked at primarily as a gatekeeper...Any person who is at this link between this world and the other world experiences a state of vibrational consciousness which is far higher and far different from the one that a normal person would experience. This is what makes a gay person gay...You decide that you will be a gatekeeper before you are born. So when you arrive here, you begin to vibrate in a way that Elders can detect as meaning that you are connected with a gateway somewhere...

    Now, gay people have children, because they are normal people. So to then limit gay people to simple sexual orientation is really the worst harm that can be done to a person....I think this is again victimization by a Christian establishment that is looking at a gay person as a disempowered person, a person who has lost his job from birth onward, and now society just wants to fire him out of life. This is not justice...

    What keeps a village together is a handful of gays and lesbians, as they call them in the modern world. In my village, lesbians are called witches and gay men are known as gatekeepers. These are the only two secret societies. These are the only groups that will get together as a separate group and go out into the woods secretly to do whatever they do.

    They come from the Otherworld, and they keep the gates to the Otherworld. Because, if the gates are shut, this is when earth, Mother earth, will shake. Because it has no more reason to be alive. It will shake itself and we will be in deep trouble. Unless they go out on their yearly symposium, the village cannot be granted another year of life...This constantly reiterated discomfort and hatred for the gay person [in the modern world] is again another indication that every year we might as well be prepared for the apocalyptic moment when the stars start to fall to earth...

    The great astrologers of the Dogon are gay...Why is it that everywhere else in the world, gay people are a blessing and in the modern world they are a curse? It is self-evident. The modern world was built by Christianity. They have taken the gods out of the earth and sent them to heaven, wherever that is...."

     

    The Lesbian Spirit, Girlfriends Magazine, July 1994 [Re: The Dagar tribe of Burkina Faso, West Africa]:

    "Nothing is truly intimate outside of ritual, says Sobanfu Some...Sexuality, including woman-to-woman sexuality, is so integrated into the spiritual life of the Dagarat that her people have no word to specify lesbian or even sex....Like many other Africans, the women of Dagara do not sleep with their men. Women need to sleep together, to be together to empower each other...then if they meet with men, there is no imbalance.

    Tribal women not only sleep and live together, they join together for group rituals. We go to a cave or bush and do rituals to build male energy. We have a female father who gives us male energy. She looks like a male. Anything we feel or experience that we haven't dealt with is expressed. This women's group ritual balances their male/female energy. It is so we are not completely male or female.

    Dagarat women believe that once you've made love with your life partner in this circle, it is extremely dangerous for her to be intimate with another woman. If you break the circle, you bring in alien energy. Your partner will die. The diviner in our village comes in and says You murdered her...Sobanfu also says women must look at sex as a journey. You are traveling to a place not known by you or your partner. Only your ancestors know. When two people merge, your genealogy becomes a participant in what's going on."

     

    The Alyson Almanac Alyson Publications:

    "The Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten and his lover Smenkhkare were the first historically documented male couple in history. Their homosexuality does not seem to have bothered Akhenaten's contemporaries, but his challenge to the clergy brought his downfall. The priests joined forces with the army and assassinated Akhenaten and Smenkhkare, and Tutankhamen was made Pharaoh."

     

    Out in the World: Gay and Lesbian Life From Buenos Aires to Bangkok by Neil Miller:

    "Many stories credit Africa with producing the Amazons. Beginning in the 18th century and continuing throughout the 19th century, there was an all woman army maintained by the King of Dahomey (West Africa).

    There are at least 33 different cultures in Africa (From the Yoruba in Northern Nigeria and the Barenda of the Northern Transvaal, to the Kamba of East Africa) where marriages between women are recognized. Academics are quick to deny that lesbianism has any role in such arrangements despite considerable evidence to the contrary.

    One study on homosexuality in Africa indicates that of 78 cultures, with little contact with Western values, 49 approved of or at least tolerated homosexuality. This may indicate that homophobia (NOT homosexuality) is a Western colonial import."

     

    Brother to Brother, anthology edited by Marlon Riggs 
    "Some Thoughts on the Challenges Facing Black Gay Intellectuals" by Dr. Ron Simmons:

    "For a reference, Ben Jocannan cites E. Wallis Budges The Egyptian Book of the Dead. Budge however does not use the word sodomy. Three of the 42 Negative Confessions stated in the hieroglyphic text refer to sexual activity. Number 22: I have not polluted or defiled myself. Ben Jocannan misinterpreted that as forbidding homosexuality. A study of the hieroglyphic reveals that the Negative Confession of polluting and defiling oneself actually refers to masturbation or the irregular emission of semen, NOT sodomy. There is a hieroglyphic symbol that means sodomy and it is not used ANYWHERE in the Negative Confessions.

    Why should Africa's descendants base their lives and their future on the Koran or the Bible? The Koran is not an artifact of African culture. It is Arabian. And, the bible was given to us by white slavemasters. Europeans and Arabs enslaved Africans. So why should we be subservient to their books?"

     

    Lesbian Connection, May 1993:

    "A judge in the state of Swaziland (South Africa) has ruled that a marriage between two women is valid. According to Swazi tradition, two women can lawfully contract a marriage as long as the parents of both women consent, and the woman who pays the bride-price (lobola) can delegate a man to father children on her behalf. The judgment confirming the legality of this ancient practice was issued following a trial in which Thalita Mngomezulu accused a man of defrauding her of four cows. She gave evidence that the cattle had been given as lobola for the woman she wished to marry."

     

    Inside Gay Africa BlackOut Magazine, Fall 1986:

    "We can blame the white man for many things, but men have been doing this with each other for a long, long time... The Watusi still have a reputation for bisexuality in the cities of East Africa...Zande women risked execution by pleasuring each other, sometimes with phalluses fashioned from roots... In this part of Zaire, homosexuality had a mystical element to it... Bisexuality is also quite common among the Bajun tribes of east Africa."

     

    For more information on homosexuals in Africa read:

     

    Brother to Brother   an anthology edited by Essex Hemphill 

     

    Male Daughters and Female Husbands   Ifi Amadiume 

     

    The Alyson Almanac   Alyson Publications 
     

    Lesbian Lists   Dell Richards 
     

    Our Dead Behind Us   Audre Lorde 
     

    Out In The World: Gay and Lesbian Life From Buenos Aires to Bangkok   Neil Miller

     

     

    Also see two classic documentaries on homosexuality in Africa:

    DAKAN

    &

    WOUBI CHERI

    Homosexuals are everywhere. We always have been. We always will be. When African homosexuals were in the bowels of slave ships, they were locked in the same iron chains, not pink triangle bracelets. When African slaves were lynched, they wore the same rope nooses, not knotted rainbow flags. Black homohaters shame all of their African ancestors, het and gay, across oceans of time...

     

     

     

     

  • UNHOLY UGLINESS IN UGANDA - RACIST WHITE AMERICANS PIMP AFRICAN HOMOHATERS...SHAME!!!!!!!

    THERE ARE NO WORSE GAYBASHERS ANYWHERE THAN BLACK GAYBASHERS EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!

     

    The rabid hatred that most blacks harbor for homosexuals goes far deeper than the blackout of Prop 8 in California, or the collaborative theft of two elections by King Shrub/George W. Bush and the ignorant, hypochristian, black church pastors and sheeple that Bush pimped.

    The murderous, intense, brutal, and increasingly hot hatred that blacks unleash upon homosexuals infects every facet of black life globally; from America, to Jamaica, to South Africa, to Uganda... In Jamaica, the hatred of gays has dominated the dancehall music of Buju Banton and his peers, who energize marauding death mobs that hunt local gays and make tourism fatal.

    In South Africa, Eudy Simelane was brutally murdered by three human dogs in 2008. And, gaybashing thugs routinely rape lesbians as they sincerely believe that brutal gang rapes are a "cure"  for lesbianism. To make sure this "cure"  works intergenerationally, these same sadistic thugs also rape the female children of lesbians. These "corrective rapes"are tacitly legal and rampant!

    Ugandans may be the very worst homohaters as Ugandan leaders actually debate the legal murders of gays as a national policy. A Ugandan lesbian was recently beaten, raped, and tortured by gaybashing macho police officers. Feeling that those brutalities were inadequate to make this lesbian become heterosexual, her own blood relatives encouraged the police to murder her. Now, these bloody family values have nearly become Ugandan public law.

    White racist holy haters will continue to channel the retro Bush as they formally encourage the genocide of homosexuals in Uganda. Mindless black fools do evil as instructed by these white bigots in the name of a white God who hates all homosexuals. The holy sinners who seek to destroy homosexual life in America have officially expanded their sinful agendas.

    As racist fools brazenly claim that only black heterosexuals are lynched, a bloody rainbow of gay corpses is piling up all over the world. Countless other international incidents abound…Most often, the gaybashing lynchers share the black faces and skins of the gays they lynch.

    SHAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

     

    ______________________________________________________________________PROP

     

    PROP 8 WAS BLACKED OUT BY HATE!!! 

     

  • SAVAGE SANCTUARIES - "THEIR OWN RECEIVE THEM NOT"

    God is love. And, love is universal. I truly view the bible as a mere book that is wholly irrelevant to God. I view the human inventions of every religion and denomination as holy distractions from true spirituality. I find sexuality, race, gender, and class to be equally meaningless to the singular global spirit that all humans refer, with diverse monikers, as God.

    I study all religions as I do any other subject. Learning is an incessant passion of my life. I have read many religious tomes by biblical scholars. There is none better than “Their Own Receive Them Not: African American Lesbians & Gays in Black Churches” by stunningly handsome theological scholar, professor, and Episcopal priest Dr. Horace L. Griffin. 

    I adore Dave Chappelle’s political humor. One of my favorite Chappelle skits stars a blind black male who is unaware that he is black and is a zealous member of the Ku Klux Klan. He spews racist venom with a rabid intensity that belies his ebony skin and nappy hair…

    I recall this tragically comical fictional character every time I am forced to attend a black church (only on very rare occasions of funerals and holidays). The thought of this hateful fool haunts me as I suddenly witness the sobering real life atrocity of black gay masochists paying tithes and singing in choirs for gaybashing black preachers… 

    When my spirit is assaulted by such humorless antics, I heal by reading a definitively scholarly work on the shameless evil that black churches have practiced historically, and brazenly continue to encourage eternally. “Their Own Receive Them Not: African American Lesbians & Gays in Black Churches.” details exactly what it means to endure religious evil by being a black gay Christian in America.

    This brilliant book documents the ancient and ongoing existence of homosexuality in Africa. It illustrates the history and reverence of homosexuals in many African tribes. It dispels the racist myth that homosexuality is a European disease. In fact, it clearly proves that European homophobia infected Africa and African homosexuals. That rabidly virulent infection continues to plague Africans across in religious “sanctuaries” across the Diaspora.

    “Their Own Receive Them Not: African American Lesbians & Gays in Black Churches” is a stellar mix of theology and wisdom, religion and sanity, history and hope, unconditional love and uncompromising logic. This classic book simultaneously reads like an encyclopedia, a primer, and a righteous weapon of spiritual self defense. It is a triple threat for the trilogy of terror that black lesbians and gays endure in a world that hates blacks, women (including men who are regarded as womanly), and gays.

    In this impressive book, Dr. Griffin masterfully examines the lives and legends of many African-American icons. He details the clandestine homosexual lives of Dr. George Washington Carver, and James Cleveland. He celebrates the renowned openly gay lives of Bayard Rustin and James Baldwin. He reviews the curious and suspect denials regarding the sex lives of Max Robinson and Earvin “Magic” Johnson.

    Dr. Griffin heralds the inspirational biographies of many homosexual Christian warriors. They are lesbian and gay icons who defiantly serve true Christianity with divine and rebel missions, just as Jesus did. They include sheros like Dr. Barbara Jordan, Bishop Yvette Flunder, and Reverend Dr. Irene Monroe.

    “Their Own Receive Them Not: African American Lesbians & Gays in Black Churches” also wonderfully calls several ruthless and legendary black gaybashers to task, like the notoriously adulterous heterosexual whore Adam Clayton Powell, the poster boy of the Republikkkan neocon clergy T. D. Jakes, and the bastard baby making, wafflingly inclusive humanitarian Jesse Jackson Sr. It exposes the transgressions of droves of other sinful black pastors, like the opulent Fred Price,  the tragically twisted Donnie McClurkin, and many others. 

    Contrary to Republikkkan religious rhetoric, hatred and lies are not godly values. This book meticulously exposes the hypocrisy of such sinful homohatred. It exposes how gaybashers defy God’s commandment to love everyone, as they encourage others to love everyone except gays. They ban gay marriage as they ignore gay love. They use birth control religiously, as they falsely claim sex is exclusively for procreation. They demand that gays pretend to be reformed heterosexuals, as they condemn the “Down Low” homosexuals who destroy families and break heterosexual hearts daily.  They claim the doors of black churches are perpetually open to all entrants, even as they slander our names and slay our spirits upon entry. 

    I needed this book decades ago. I needed it as a secretly and suicidally depressed and closeted lesbian teenager. I needed it as I hid in a sexual closet until I was 21 years old. I knew I was a lesbian when I was six years old. I just had no words to express it. This book speaks volumes for all of God’s children who are gay. It heals the agony and dejection we all receive in the name of a blasphemed God.

    “Their Own Receive Them Not: African American Lesbians & Gays in Black Churches” is the perfect holiday gift for every sane black person you know. Buy it for the lesbian and gay teenagers that you love, who are enduring more pain and confusion than you can ever imagine. This book encompasses all of the history and healing that any Black homosexual needs to survive.

    I am vehemently weary with the pseudochristian hypocrisies that this book so expertly nullifies. I am a passionate Leo. The lioness within me is often fatally impatient. At 44, as I become tamed by the grace of aging, I often resist bloodily tearing my gaybashing enemies to shreds. This book soothes my savage warrior soul. Dr. Griffin skillfully slays our shared enemies so much less bloodily than I…

    This book is noble and intellectual slaughter upon those who have poisoned the black church. It is penned with the precision of a surgeon. It shines with the passion of the sun. It sheds light upon the homohating cancer that erodes most Black churches today.

    Love is the ultimate godly value. This book is indeed a divine and superb work of idyllic and authentic Christian love for the masses. It inspires us to love our homosexual selves, just as the God who creates us in every living species does.


    Here are a few excerpts from “Their Own Receive Them Not: African American Lesbians & Gays in Black Churches”:


    “There is a striking irony that African American Christians are so uncritical of Paul’s writing about homosexual activity but have maintained a critical attitude or simple rejection of Paul’s instructions on slavery.


    African American Christians, like other Christians, ‘treat so literally the references to homosexual practice in the Bible, while at the same time they interpret biblical texts on almost every other topic with considerable flexibility and non-literalness.’


    …what is perceived as natural does indeed change over time


     ‘love the sinner, hate the sin’. Many find this perspective illogical. They argue if same-sex attraction or expression is what makes the person gay, then what is being loved? With sexuality being an inextricable part of one’s being, the popular saying has as much success in reality as loving brown-eyed people while hating brown eyes.


    I regard sin as those behaviors that violate, destroy, and abuse our fellow human beings and our relationships with them. In this respect, homosexuality does not belong in the category of sin any more than heterosexuality does.


    Much of black heterosexuals’ antihomosexual sentiment exists as a means of countering the perception of black sexuality being perverse…


    …we know that lesbians and gays can and do reflect the same Christian moral character found in heterosexuals.


    …most gay men and lesbians were not raped and are not rapists.


    No reputable scientific study concludes that homosexuality is a choice and can be overcome.


    …black Christians will recognize that the mire of homosexuality debates threaten our measure to be faithful Christians for the poor, the infirm, the imprisoned, and those suffering from violence.”

     

    Their Own Receive Them Not: African American Lesbians and Gays in Black ChurchesSweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South (Caravan Book)

  • BLACK HOMOHATRED KILLS!!! - A EULOGY FOR SAKIA GUNN

    2003

    (I dedicate this column to young homosexual warriors who are out and proud everywhere. You all are my greatest inspirations. I live for you...AB}


    It is an undeniable and historically proven fact that those who are oppressed often become the cruelest oppressors. The United States were founded by slave masters who wanted to be free from British rule, even as they simultaneously stole, enslaved, dehumanized, and forcibly ruled captive Africans for centuries. As fellow hostages on plantations, mulattos were often the most rabid overseers and treacherous house niggers, and often crueler than many white slave masters.

    In Nazi death camps, Jewish and Polish SS officers who passed as Germans were far more brutal than their actual German Nazi peers. During America’s genocide against Native Americans, Native American scouts and African-American Buffalo soldiers legendarily assisted white men as they robbed and slaughtered red, brown, and black people who looked like them. White gays are usually more blatantly racist than any of their racist heterosexual peers, especially those who control gay media. Closeted gays and gays who feign at being "healed heterosexuals" gaybash more rabidly than any homophobic or sexually bigoted heterosexual...

    Murderous gaybashers exist and are religiously sanctioned in every human race. Yet, I remain convinced that racism and sexism combine to create a uniquely hot hatred of homosexuals within most black gaybashers globally. I have penned many columns, hosted countless talk radio shows, and engaged in heated debates with diverse friends on the subject of black gaybashers for decades. I have elaborated ad infinitum about precisely how racism and sexism combine and degenerate too many black men who regard themselves exclusively as life support systems for penises, and too many black women who regard themselves exclusively as concubines/breeders for these aforementioned black macho men.

    This toxic combination of psychoses fashions turbo gaybashers in blackface, who passionately regard homosexuals as literal nullifiers of their very existences. Their twisted insecurities are expressed as fatal gaybashing/self-defense mechanisms in the paranoid and insane wars that their hatred fuels against sexual truths in general and homosexual persons in particular. Combine those toxins with the additional madness created by the oceans of blood awash upon the hands of droves of black pastors, who continue to preach lies about God and the bible to their mindless and robotic flocks. These evil and bigoted pseudo-christians truly regard gaybashing and murdering homosexuals as divine acts!!! 

    To this toxic mix, blend in the arrogant ignorance of uneducated masses that know and desire to know absolutely nothing about the universal scientific nature of homosexuality in literally every living species. All of these ancient ingredients mesh into a perfect and pervasive recipe for social poison that festers deep within the core of global black cultures and ferments into a potent emotional and psychic venom that the diaspora of African gaybashers spew like legions of deadly cobras.

    When these misogynist morons lash out, they often do so with deadly force. As more young black homosexuals refuse to live lies and dare to live honestly and openly within black communities, their death tolls are rising at the bloody hands of black gaybashers. Sakia Gunn is only their most recent casualty...

    Sakia was just 15 years old on May 13, 2003. She was stabbed to death in Newark, New Jersey because she dared to reject a lewd advance from a gaybasher with an erection and an attitude. Because she refused to respond to his flirtations while being brave enough to say she was gay, Sakia was slaughtered by a nocturnal predator while awaiting a late night city bus. Simply for daring to be herself and refusing to be silenced by bigotry and cowardice, a “brother” monster, who disgraces all real men, murdered Sakia. When denied a chance to ejaculate, he chose to exterminate...

    Sakia is my shero. I admire all of the young homosexual rebels everywhere who refuse to be silent about who they were born to be. They are braver than I was at their age. I lived a lie until I was 21 to avoid the hatred and danger that they courageously endure daily...

    In the press photos I have seen, Sakia appears to be butch. As a femme lesbian, I am often safer than my butch sisters. I can appear to be on a platonic date with a lover at will. I can casually return a harmless flirtation of a male waiter to secure a superior table in a favorite restaurant. I can sincerely appreciate a tactful man’s compliment on a cramped elevator by never complicating my human reaction with the acknowledgment of any details of my lesbian being.

    Perhaps, Sakia did not have the luxury of such safety inside her own space in this cold world. Because she appeared to be masculine, she probably evoked even more hatred in insecure “men” than I do. Such gaybashing excuses for real men fear butch lesbians who dare to embrace the masculinity that eludes their own fragile egos and weak sexual identities. They fear that butch lesbians may be better ideal men than they can ever be themselves. They fear that lesbians possess superior sexual skills with superior sexual tools that do not lie, cheat, infect, go limp, or fail to satisfy. 

    Weak cowardly males hate their own internal and latent homosexuality that butch lesbians may sexually awaken and arouse. They hate all lesbians who co-parent the children they abandon. They hate lesbians that may know more about sports and even play basketball better than they do. They hate lesbians who often cherish and adore the queens that they emotionally abuse by being whorish court jesters who hypocritically, and even comically, whine about being kings...

    Carmen McCrae sang “Only women bleed”...Nina Simone sang “I wish I knew how it would feel to be free”... Women are mortally wounded and hemorrhaging everywhere every day. We are endangered, disempowered, and slain by misogyny and all of its morbid and violent manifestations whether we are homosexual or heterosexual. Irrespective of whom we love, or how we live, women are not safe in this world. We are not safe in any city in any country. We are raped in our own homes by our own husbands. We feel unsafe in our own baths and showers. We are unable to even sleep soundly. We know that we can become prey for any evil bastard with a libido or a switchblade or both. We know that we trust men who may betray us at any deranged moment at the whim of any hostile erection...

    Living as a woman in a sexist world is to live in constant danger and fear via venomous words and vicious glances. Every woman knows this perpetual fear as deeply as she knows the taste of her own saliva. Men only taste this fear when they are imprisoned. Only then do they experience the curse of being sexual prey for 24 hours of every day. Only then do they know how every lewd glare can render them naked. Only then do they know the sexual harassment that women endure daily. The world is a prison for women. We are all sentenced to consecutive lives of misogyny without parole.

    This constant fear breeds rage. This rage is real whether we embrace, ignore, or defy it. This rage is never as hot as when a sister is slain by a sexist dog. We calm the fires of our rage with the water of our tears for Sakia. She is an eternal warrior whose spirit is now pardoned and released from this sexist prison yard that still traps us...May Sakia find peace in a superior place where honesty does not evoke murder and homosexuality does not evoke hatred...


    {Dear Sakia: Rest in peace baby sista. Your life is eternal. God Bless You Always...You are respected, revered, and remembered...We love and admire your indelible warrior spirit just as we love and admire your defiance... We promise you that your death is not in vain.}



    Postscript:


    2003


    Mourn Slain Black Lesbian Teenager

    By Leslie Feinberg

    On May 16 a crowd of some 2,500 people united with the family of Sakia Gunn at the funeral for the 15-year-old Black butch lesbian. She had been stabbed to death in Newark, N.J., five days earlier.

    The turnout was unprecedented: predominately Black, largely high school students, mostly lesbians.

    The day before, hundreds of youths had marched with Gunn's family to the steps of Newark's City Hall to express their anger at the killing. Throughout the week, hundreds of high school students and others turned out for vigils at community-built memorials outside Gunn's West Side High School and the site where she was killed.

    Sakia Gunn was killed at a Newark bus stop on May 11. She was on her way home from New York's Greenwich Village with four friends. According to the other women, two men got out of a car, made sexual advances and physically attacked the teenagers. The women fought back. Gunn was stabbed in the chest. She died a short time later at a local hospital.

    Richard McCullough turned himself in to the prosecutor's office five days later, after reports that the police considered him a suspect in the stabbing. He was arraigned May 16 in Superior Court on murder, weapons and bias charges. His lawyer entered a not-guilty plea.

    McCullough's mother expressed her deep condolences to Sakia Gunn's family. She argued, however, that she does not believe her son is anti-gay. She said his grandmother, who helped raise him, was a lesbian. (Newark Star-Ledger, May 17)

    A June 3 protest rally on the steps of Newark City Hall was set after members of the Newark Pride Alliance explained that they had been unable to secure a meeting with Mayor Sharpe James to deal with issues of community safety. They also reported official insensitivity in response to Gunn's murder.

    The Pride Alliance, formed after Gunn's death to support lesbian, gay, trans and bisexual youth, is putting forward five demands:

    --Grief counseling for Gunn's fellow West Side High School students.

    --Support for gay and straight alliance high school clubs to educate parents, school administrators and other students about the LGTB community.

    --Development of and support for a Newark LGTB community center--a safe space to get together.

    --Posting of at least two police officers on round-the-clock patrol on the Penn Station-Broad Street Corridor where Gunn was killed.

    --That city legislators take responsibility to improve the quality of life for their LGTB constituency "that they have neglected and ignored for so long."

    --That the school board be held responsible for the lack of compassion and concern exhibited by the principal of West Side High School, and allow for an independent investigation into allegations made by the students.

    West Side students report that the principal made anti-lesbian statements about Sakia Gunn after her death, according to Laquetta C. Nelson, founder of the New Jersey Stonewall Democrats.

    Courage and pride

    On the afternoon before Gunn's funeral, several hundred people--mostly teenaged Black lesbians and gays--marched from the site where she was killed to City Hall. Police lined the street.

    Toni Gunn, Sakia's mother, told the crowd, "My daughter did not die in vain. She will be remembered."

    Sakia Gunn's uncle, Anthony Hall, led the chant, "No justice, no peace." Protesters also sang "We Shall Overcome"--the anthem of the African American civil rights struggle waged in the United States long before many of the young demonstrators were born.

    The outpouring of Black youths flooded the streets and parking lot around Perry's Funeral Home on May 16. Many wore t-shirts emblazoned with Gunn's photo or rainbows--symbol of the modern LGTB freedom movement.

    A number of the teenagers outside the funeral home were from West Side High, waiting to say goodbye to the friend they knew as "T," who aspired to be a Women's National Basketball Association player and an architect.

    Many in the crowd spoke proudly of the way Gunn lived her life--and affirmed their own pride as well.

    Inside, Sakia Gunn lay dressed in a white sweat suit. A rainbow symbol--the assertion of her sexuality and of LGTB pride--lay just above her head.

    Her parents, LaTona Gunn and Gerald Gadson, sat together among what was described as literally hundreds of relatives.

    Her mother said of the sheer numbers who came in solidarity, "All this love, that's what's keeping me strong. I love my daughter so much. I'm so proud of her."

    Gadson said he was also emotionally moved by the support for his daughter, with whom he was reunited last year.

    Sakia Gunn's grandmother, Selma Gunn, is in cardiac intensive care. She suffered a heart attack after hearing the news of the stabbing. She said of the lesbian granddaughter she raised: "I knew about her and I accepted her. I loved her. And she loved me."

    City officials, including the mayor, were reportedly caught off guard by the response. "They weren't prepared for how many people showed up," observed Gary Paul Wright, director of Newark's African American Office of Gay Concerns. "It wasn't until gay activists cornered the mayor as he went into the funeral that he realized the depth of feeling the murder had caused."

    The mayor did not attend the May 15 vigil on the steps of City Hall. And his office had made plans for only several hundred mourners the next day. But as the crowd of thousands marched from the funeral parlor to nearby Essex County College, the mayor joined in.


    Reprinted from the June 12, issue of Workers World newspaper (Copyright Workers World Service: Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this document, but changing it is not allowed. For more information contact Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011; via email: ww@wwpublish.com. 



  • CONCENTRATING ON CONCENTRATION CAMPS - REX 84A

    1994

    Webster’s New World Dictionary defines “concentration camp” as “a prison camp for political dissidents, members of minority ethnic groups, etc...” This definition is grossly limited. Most persons think of "concentration camps" exclusively as places where Haitians, Jews, or Asians were detained.  America's ghettos, reservations, prisons, and corporations are all variations of common concentration camps.

    The U. S. military is filled with soldiers who have no desire to detain civilians or kill selectively as Uncle Sam's hypocrisy and xenophobia dictate. They are incapable of being patriots for a racist, elitist, and sexist country. They enlisted strictly for financial reasons.

    America is a place where most persons can find secure employment only behind prison bars or military base gates. Welfare is being eradicated, while "workfare" is prison labor for  those whose only crime is poverty. Workfare increases misery for some and decreases salaries for everyone.

    Concentration camps are forced dwellings. Ghettos are places where most African-Americans are forced to dwell. Due to redlining by most banks, urban renewal is impossible. Bank loans are restricted to white yuppies, reserved exclusively for regentrification, never rejuvenation. It is especially revealing that most whites have no interest in urban dwellings, unless it entails the relocation and robbery of all who are poor and Black.

    Concentration camps are places where hopes are murdered. Most persons are forced to live and work where we do by financial circumstances, not choice. It is a very rare blessing to actually enjoy your occupation. It is even more rare to be completely satisfied with your home. Most persons sell their souls for any adequate salary. Most of us live in fear of downsizing and homelessness. Most persons sacrifice their dignity and conscience daily to ignorant bosses, capitalist greed, or academic deceptions. Most of  us dream of houses we can never buy full of items we can never afford. Some of us dream of any shelter, and any job, anywhere...

    Concentration camps are places where starvation is a weapon used to distract and control. When quality grocery stores refuse to service entire cities and race to the suburbs, black urbanites are left behind to pay higher prices at inferior markets or starve. The welfare bill has renewed food rationing and increased hunger. Food has been used as a weapon of war internationally for decades; i.e. Viet Nam, Ethiopia, Korea, Rwanda, etc...That war is now being fought domestically against the poor via congress.

    Concentration camps are places where people are held captive. Detainees may be restricted by fences, access to transportation, or incomes. An empty wallet is as strong as an iron gate to someone who has no fare. For those who are blessed with fares, limited public services and racist routing fashion restricted areas. The information superhighway is closed to 98% of the population who cannot afford to pay the toll, as they have no cash for computers and Internet services.

    Concentration camps are waiting rooms for the walking dead. Neocons have taken genocide to new levels. Death rows now officially include "skid rows" nationwide. Is the future of a poor child in a country where private prisons are a boom industry and scholarships are non-existent REALLY any less bleak than a homeless man in a city where the shelters are closed and sleeping in public is a crime? Both the child and the man are doomed by a country where evil is bred by hatred, and its collective soul is increasingly damned by the inhumanity of rich bigots.

    Concentration camps must be escaped! BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!!! By rebellion, by music, by love, by meditation, by dreams, by determination, etc.... Escape requires imagination, passion, and honesty. Those who are in denial are willing captives. They will never be free. The revolution is in progress. Some of us will not and should not be saved.

    One of the best books ever written on the martial law and police states of the New World Order is "Behold A Pale Horse" by ex-CIA agent Milton William Cooper. I quote:

    "When the outside world was told of the Holocaust occurring in Hitler's Europe, it was not believed at first. 

    To remain apathetic is assured enslavement. To learn the truth and act upon it is the only means of survival at this moment. Politicians hold many quasi-military jobs, the lowest being the police, which are soldiers... 

    The entire operation was rehearsed by the government and military in 1984 under the code name of REX-84A and it went off without a hitch. You better wake up and you better do it now! 

    Nixon's order [Executive Order 11490], which is the one in effect today, allows the government, in the for of FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency] to suspend the Constitution for literally any reason they decide to call a national emergency. 

    Executive Order 11000 provides for mobilization of all civilians into work brigades under the Government supervision. 

    Executive Order 11004 provides for the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities and designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations. 

    Public Law 100-690, which was introduced to the 10th Congress as H. R. 5210...is the most serious attack upon the freedom guaranteed the citizens of the Republic of the United States of America in our Constitution since the formation of the Federal Reserve and the IRS.

    The act mandates that military installations are to be used as mental treatment centers or prison camps with work programs. (Sections 7302 and 2081/561)

    The act states that prison industries may borrow and invest funds (Section 7093). Prison industries may diversify their products and produce products on an economic basis (Section 7096). To provide a labor pool Soviet union style it authorizes a study of the feasibility of requiring prisoners to pay their costs for food, housing and shelter at paid employment before, during or after imprisonment (section 7301) Prisons going into business to produce products on an economic basis can only serve to destroy the last remnants of small business.

    L.E.A.F. (Law Enforcement Assistance Force) is a specially trained and outfitted Military Police Unit, whose members will serve as shock troops in the states' war against political protesters and demonstrators.

    (9-19-90) Summoning visions of a modern-day devil's island, Congress is considering a plan to imprison drug-law offenders on "isolated and shark-surrounded islands" in the Pacific Ocean...Supporters of the plan say it would help ease prison overcrowding, and as a bonus, help reduce the defense budget by using inmate labor for maintenance work on remote U.S. military outposts...Under the plan U.S. outposts on the World War II battlegrounds of Midway and Wake Island, tiny coral atolls, would be converted into penal colonies for Americans who are convicted of drug-related felonies...The proposal is tucked away in an obscure section of the $283 billion defense authorization bill that is being debated by the House of Representatives.

    The media -radio, TV, newspapers, and computer networks- will be nationalized and seized.

    Most of us are completely ignorant as to even the most basic functions of our government. We have truly become a nation of sheep- and sheep are always eventually led to slaughter.

    The New Word Order will be a totalitarian socialist system of economic control.

    (5-19-90) The Marin Humane Society has been implanting every dog and cat adopted from the shelter with an Infopet microchip ID...The microchip - about the size of an uncooked grain of rice, is encased in a biomedical grade glass. The chip is imprinted with a ten-digit alpha-numeric code and is implanted by simple injection between the animal's shoulder blades.

    (8-1-89) Other sources say tiny transmitters can be injected painlessly from a tiny gun into humans, without them even knowing it, through a nationwide vaccination program. All the government would have to do is make up something like the swine flu for vaccine...Imagine if they said there was a vaccine for AIDS. People would rush in droves to get shots. It would only be a matter of time before everyone is implanted with a microchip, a slave to the government."

     

    The following quotes are taken from Black Helicopters Over America: Strikeforce for the New World Order by Jim Keith:

    “The secret government plan dubbed Operation Rex 84 came into being at the confidential orders of President Ronald Reagan, and authorized the setting up of at least 23 huge American concentration camps (or “emergency detention centers”) ...During the summer of 1993, residents of Midtown Atlanta, Georgia were shocked in the early hours of the morning as three military helicopters came churning through their high-rise condo canyons....Special Operations Command units conduct urban-training exercises abut four times a year...During the latter half of 1994 alone, hundreds of reports from all over the land of these ominous black craft have been circulating..."  

     

    Concentration camps are always eventually destroyed, in one of two ways: By revolt or by rescue. Rescue requires the empathy of a specific group outside the camp. Virtually all those who would dare to save us are also captives. Revolt requires the collective explosion of those held captive. All we need is to harness that anger and unleash it effectively. Rescue is unlikely. Revolt is inevitable. See you outside the gates...AB