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  • REBEL MUSIC FOR HOBAMA...

     

     

    “Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul.”                                                                                            --Anonymous

     

    “Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”                                                                                --Confucius


    I love rebel radio programs. Since my tweens, I have spent most of my life producing and hosting rebel radio shows as a legendary radio personality in Illinois, Georgia, and California... I will always idolize kindred rebel radio idols and revolutionary inspirations like Bob Law, Mike Malloy, Alex Jones, Jeff Rense, George Noory and many more.

    I take great pride in being a stellar musicologist. I have loved my FM shows most. My favorite creation, “Les Chanteuses Africaines” has often been imitated but never duplicated. Imitation is the greatest form of flattery. And, music is my most powerful inspiration and most potent opiate.

    As a fiery and passionate Leo, music calms me, heals me, and keeps me sane in an increasingly brutal and insane world. It helps me nurse the purring kitten inside my roaring lioness. At 47, I have never smoked a cigarette, ingested any narcotic drug, or consumed alcohol regularly. Music is all I will ever need to escape from any stress in my corners of the world. That is what drives me to be a superb disc jockey. Without music, I would become an equally stellar sniper of demons and fools.

    Music helps me cope with Hobama’s (“President” Barack Obama’s) brutal New World Order. Music energizes me as I remain vigilantly and warily focused upon Hobama’s new blackish mask of American imperialism. Music soothes the pain of his ruthless elitism; rabid raging racism; legions of “post-racial” lies; DNA arrests; endless funding of global prison and military industrial complexes; horrid legendary robbing and starving of poor people who suicidally adore him; bleeding foreclosures; wild banksters; femicidal abortion laws looming; dying wages; epidemic homelessness; slandered and libeled patriots; intensified spying; nonexistent affordable housing; permanent joblessness; eternal wars for oil and opium; global martial law; reaping dead animal rains; UFO lies; the racist genocide of AFRICOM; blind, foolish, and suicidal Hobama Nazis; pervasive global serfdomthe revisionist revamping of Hobama’s hero, crack dealer Ronny Raygun; apartheid internet; intense pervasive media censorship; the death of true journalism; merged corporate owned propagandist media…

    There is a method to the political madness. Music is medicine for the pained masses. I thank God daily for my diverse careers. But, I also miss my medicinal radio shows so much that it hurts… I would elatedly crucify Hobama/GWB 2.0 on the air each day, just as I did his kinder, gentler, less flagrantly racist, rabidly elitist, and warmongering cousin King Shrub/GWB 1.0!!!

    This playlist is penned as a virtual radio show for Hobama and those kindred spirits who truly see him with their third eyes. It is dedicated to all of my fellow musicologists and eternal  rebel music fans at WUHSWBML, WGCI, WVON, WRFG, WIGO, WGST, WPGU, KFCF, KPFA, KPFB, KBLX, KKSF

    I welcome your own favorite rebel songs to add to this playlist. Please post them as comments herein or email them to me now:    ambwww@yahoo.com

    Enjoy!

     

    CAN YOU HEAR ME – MIKE & THE MECHANICS

     

    POWER TO THE PEOPLE – CHI-LITES

     

    IDENTIFY YOURSELF – O’JAYS

     

    AXIOMS OF CREAMY SPIES – DIGGABLE PLANETS

     

    SHARK ATTACK – WAILING SOULS

     

    CELL THERAPY – GOODIE MOB

     

    NO MORE TROUBLE – BOB MARLEY/ERYKAH BADU

     

    REBEL MUSIC – BOB MARLRY/KRAYZIE BONE

     

    WAR – BOB MARLEY

     

    BLACK COP – KRS ONE

     

    DEVILS IN A BLUE DRESS – WILL VILLAINOVA

     

    BIKO – SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK

     

    COLOURS - SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK

     

    STRANGER BLUES - SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK

     

    NO IMAGES - SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK

     

    WHITE MAN’S GOT A GOD COMPLEX – THE LAST POETS

     

    ARE MY HANDS CLEAN? - SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK

     

    WOULD YOU HARBOR ME - SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK

     

    BLUES FOR HUEY – HUGH MASAKELA

     

    REVOLUTION – NINA SIMONE

     

    BORN TO FIGHT – TRACY CHAPMAN

     

    MOUNTAINS OF THINGS – TRACY CHAPMAN

     

    TALKIN’ BOUT A REVOLUTION - TRACY CHAPMAN

     

    YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK – NINA SIMONE

     

    FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH – BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD

     

    BRING THE BOYS HOME – FREDA PAYNE

     

    STOP THE WAR NOW – EDWIN STARR

     

    A DIRTY COP NAMED HARRY – HARD KNOCKS

     

    HANDS OF A STRANGER – HARD KNOCKS

     

    ONE TIN SOLDIER – COVEN

     

    BILLY DON’T BE A HERO – PAPER LACE

     

    NIGGERS ARE SCARED OF REVOLUTION – THE LAST POETS

     

    GASH MAN – LAST POETS

     

    THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED – GIL SCOTT-HERON

     

    KING ALFRED PLAN - GIL SCOTT-HERON

     

    B RATED MOVIE - GIL SCOTT-HERON

     

    WINTER IN AMERICA - GIL SCOTT-HERON

     

    WHITEY’S ON THE MOON - GIL SCOTT-HERON

     

    STAND -  SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE

     

    EXPRESS YOURSELF - S.O.U.L.

     

    THE WORLD IS A GHETTO  - WAR

     

    REDEMEPTION SONG – BOB MARLEY

     

    GET UP STAND UP – BOB MARLEY

     

    THEM BELLY FULL (BUT WE HUNGRY) – BOB MARLEY

     

    BITCHES 2 – ICE T

     

    SMALL AXE - BOB MARLEY

     

    CRAZY MAZE  - DES’REE

     

    YOU GOTTA BE - DES’REE

     

    SEAL - CRAZY

     

    EQUAL RIGHTS – PETER TOSH

     

    COLUMBUS – CALYPSO ROSE

     

    GET IT STRAIGHT AFRICANS – SISTER CAROL

     

    WHAT’S GOING ON – MARVIN GAYE

     

    BULLET PROOF  - RAHEEM DEVAUGHN

     

    MERCY MERCY ME – MARVIN GAYE/MILIRA

     

    WHAT’S HAPPENING BROTHER – MARVIN GAYE

     

    SOWETO BLUES – MIRIAM MAKEBA

     

    SEIZE THE TIME – ELAINE BROWNE

     

    THEY SCHOOLS - DEAD PREZ

     

    FIRE AND EARTH - X-CLAN

     

    FREE MUMIA - KRS ONE

     

    WE NEED A REVOLUTION - DEAD PREZ


     


    Music Heals

  • ON RACIST BILLBOARDS, BLACK BRAINWASHING & WHITE WOMBS

    Beware of options and issues that only benefit your oppressors. Think quickly: Who benefits if more white babies are born to poor young whites? Who loses if more black babies are born to poor young blacks and Latinos? It is not rocket science. It is just rabid racism taken to new cosmic levels in advertising!

    I have evaded this issue and ignored countless emails bashing me for that evasion. I admit my bias as I fully disclose herein. I am a beloved veteran educator who resigned from my teaching post in 2008 because I despise toxic young parents of all races and classes. The children they neglect and doom became too depressing as I endured the sheer hell of being an educator within the frays of the academic genocide of No Child Left Behind.

    Fleeing elementary school teaching,  just before Hobama and his charter school CEO cronies targeted all public education for destruction, has been a timely salvation. I remain dejected by all of the ills I have lamented ever since. My ongoing emotional healing will be eternal… At 47, I pray for teachers unable to escape the sheer madness that public schools have become.

    I am blessed with uniquely diverse skills. Legions of guardian angels blessed the timing of my return to a blessed administrative post in information systems. I thank God daily for the unique opportunity to teach children and adults. I teach diverse communication classes to adults. And, I am also uniquely blessed with the luxury of privately tutoring students of parents I choose. Still, teaching brilliant poor black babies with intelligent responsible parents is the greatest thrill in my life. I returned to corporate America with a fractured heart and a wounded soul...

    I admit my biased rage. It is tragic that an entire generation of inhumane male and female turbo breeders, none of whom should ever even be allowed to own puppies, has spawned heathen seeds who have no desire to behave or learn. They will doom us all by association and proximity.

    I confess my biased anger as I live in Arkansas and Illinois. Both states are brimming with poverty that is fashioned by droves of babies giving birth to serial babies. Foster care agencies are overflowing and overwhelmed. Child mentoring programs are grossly short staffed and sabotaged by endless waiting lists of lonely neglected children. Young, doomed, uneducated, unskilled, unmarried, unprepared, pregnant girls and amoral, absent, arrogantly apathetic boys abound, perpetually everywhere I roam in both states. I see them and their pregnant bellies/other young babies in tow inside every school and store I enter. Thus, abortion is just not an issue for me.

    When I examine the worlds I live within, more babies born to more babies are the very last thing on my mind! For the record, I agree that abortion is murder. It should never be used as belated birth control. If men could become pregnant, abortions would be a sport and as easily acquired as fast food. Safe abortion clinics would be attached to every strip club and gym, funded by special insurers, sanctioned by employers who granted special medical days off. Thus, men who have no wombs should never police women who do! Abortions are personal decisions that rest only within karma between mothers and God.

    I have never been pregnant and I never will be. I used birth control diligently for months as a virgin. But, accidents, rapes, incest, and medical emergencies are real. And when they happen, safe abortions should and must remain safe as legal options open to all.

    Having fully disclosed all, I now freely proclaim: DO NOT BELIEVE THE RACIST BILLBOARDS THAT CLAIM MOST BLACK CHILDREN ARE UNWANTED AND UNLOVED IN THE WOMB!!!!!!!

    These racist lies are being plastered all over America because racists fear a rapidly encroaching black and brown planet. These deceitful tricksters cannot be openly racist and post photos of white babies on similar billboards with messages that read: “PLEASE MAKE MORE WHITE BABIES ASAP!!! & PLEASE STOP MAKING INTERRACIAL BABIES!!!”. So, they are clandestinely duping dumb misogynist hypochristian voters by wooing them all into making certain that white babies can never be legally aborted. They are brainwashing black and brown voters into outlawing abortions so that more white babies will whitewash America ASAP.

    When abortion is outlawed, even more young blacks will still be breeding themselves into perpetual poverty. And, more white babies will be born by legal force. These are the ONLY actual aims of this racist lying ad campaign…SHAME!!!!!!!

     

     

    Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political SeductionMedical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

  • WATCH "REBEL VIDEOS" ONLINE WHILE YOU CAN!!! - HOBAMA WILL SHUT DOWN YOUTUBE & THE INTERNET ASAP!!!

     

     

    Love is blind. And, blind love is fatal. Hobama and his Nazis prove both facts each day.

     

    We all just witnessed Egyptian politicos shut down the Internet during the recent revolution of the abused and impoverished Egyptian people.

     

    When will Americans stop suicidally adoring Hobama and become jobless, homeless, hungry, unchanged, and hopeless enough to walk like Egyptians????

     

    Hobama and his regime are rapidly shutting down the Internet in advance of our shamefully belated American revolution. Youtube is suddenly flooded by weird new "technical" glitches. Hobama's telecommunications CEO puppet masters have already created an apartheid Internet that will soon outrpice and silence poor people nationwide.

     

    See much more on how Hobama is shutting down the Internet as you read this:

    http://aliciabanks.xanga.com/737785087/the-audacity-of-censorship----hobamas-internet-apartheid/

     

    So, enjoy the Internet while you can. Enjoy ELOQUENT FURY and my Youtube channel REBEL VIDEOS before they disappear ASAP:

     

    REBEL VIDEOS:

     

    http://www.youtube.com/user/aliciabanks?feature=mhee#g/f


    Happy Sunday,

    AB

    Bill to Give Obama (and Future Presidents) Right to Shut Down Internet is Back in Congress

  • “FOR COLORED GIRLS” – WHO WILL NEVER CONSIDER CENSORSHIP WHEN THE TRUTH IS ENOUGH

     

    "The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them."

                                                                -- Maya Angelou

     

     

    I finally saw this film today. I am a neat freak, a loner, and a recluse. That means that the average filthy public theatre, filled with loud, rude, and germy fools is truly hellish for me. So, I see most films very belatedly in the comfort of my own living room… “For Colored Girls” was worth the wait!

    Truth telling is always discomforting. The truth usually hurts. Envy is stronger than pain. Tyler Perry is hated because he is gifted and rich. He is despised because he is a brave and honest feminist. He is loathed because he is man enough to bring truths about black female pain to screens.

    I adore Tyler because he loves black women. His movies feature strong black women in every hue and class. They are the women who created me. They are the women who nurtured me. They are the women I know. They are the women I love.

    People of all races and genders who can handle cold hard truths love this film as I do. Millions of black women endure deep pain and abuse each day. They will never pretend that black men do not cause the majority of that pain. And, they never should. Wounds heal best in open air. African Kings tend and heal our open wounds, while court jesters simply demand that we hide all wounds within closed suicidal whispers.

    There is not a single lie in Ntozake Shange’s classic choreopoem “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow is Enuf”. Likewise, there is not a single lie in Tyler’s screen adaptation. Tyler superbly channeled authentic pain onto screens. He told hard truths as excellently as always.

    This film is a classic black look at universally hard truths. It is painfully true that date rape is real. It is true that adulterous husbands typically cheat with infectious diseased women/men. It is also true that millions of gays are living legally married deceitful heterosexual lies. It is true that many holy hypocrites use mindless religions to wield mental and emotional torture. It is true that many colorist blacks engage white supremacy via interracial designer breeding.  It is true that millions of weak codependent women suicidally adore fatally abusive men, to the detriment of their helpless and hopeless children.

    It is also true that alcoholism and war traumas breed many monsters. It is equally true that some men are tender, unconditional, and ideal lovers and friends. It is true that illegal abortions are brutal and deadly. It is visibly true that Janet Jackson is suddenly bleaching her skin as Michael Jackson always did…All of these truths shine in Tyler’s deeply intimate and raw film.

    When I see any Tyler Perry film I know that I am not going to endure ghetto gun play and gangsta rap. I know I will see real homes and hear real music. I will see real honorable black parents and rainbow black people in all of their diverse splendor and humanity. I will see passion and imperfection. I will see feminists and sages. I will see heroes and cads. I will see demons and angels. I will see reality with its warriors and its warts. That is what I have come to expect from every Tyler film. To date, Tyler has never disappointed me.

    “For Colored Girls” features many hypnotic, unnerving, unforgettable, and magical moments. I have not seen a date rape that sickened me so since “Sugar Hill”. I have not watched a traumatized parent grieve as hauntingly since “The Women of Brewster Place”. I have not seen a black male lover so intimately perfect since “Set it Off”. Tyler has infused the sheer raw emotion of each of these classic films and made an even better one.

    I adored Tupac Shakur in all of his regal rage and flawed fierceness. In his classic song “Wonda Why They Call U Bitch”, he crucifies a hood rat. I love that song. Clones of the hood rat parents he described have destroyed children I have taught and struggled to save for decades. Many fertile bitches that hate and doom their own unwanted children have shattered my heart. As a lesbian, I have dated wicked bitches that have wounded my soul. As an African Queen, I knew that a King like Tupac loved his fellow regal women. I knew he was not talking to me or about me or the black women I adore and admire.

    Ever notice how whiny black men who lament realistic images of horrid black men are always mute about realistic images of horrid black women? Has any gangsta rapper ever been attacked by these black men like Alice Walker has been? Has any black male author ever been crucified like Michelle Wallace? Has any director of gangster cinema ever been libeled and slandered like Tyler Perry? Most people minor in the major and major in the minor. Cowards deny and distract. Revolutionaries deal with reality, no matter how painful and unflattering that reality may be.

    When weak black men whined about “The Color Purple”, they ignored droves of cursed realities for rural black females. It was that reality that compelled Tina Turner to refuse the role of Shug Avery, because the film was too excruciatingly real for the little country girl named Anna Mae Bullock, whom the icon Tina once was. My own mother has never watched the entire film because the realistic Celie reminds her of too many tortured girls she knew growing up in rural Arkansas.

    When those same black male court jesters whined about the film “Precious”, they brazenly ignored droves of early childhood educators like me, who see sexually abused children daily. Teachers have been clairvoyant about an inhumane generation of toxic young parents and horridly abused children. But, most persons never pondered dual incest until they viewed this film, or the rapes and murder of Shaniya Davis on the “Nancy Grace Show”. That same arrogant ignorance and amoral denial fueled all of the soulless whining about “For Colored Girls”.

    Do not believe the whiny hype of sexists who hate and envy Tyler Perry. “For Colored Girls” is a cinematic masterpiece. It is a piercing pained scream, a collective soul deep chant, and a blood curdling triumphant shout. It is a celebration of self love, survival, and sanity in a sexist and racist world that does all it can to destroy all that is black and female. See this real and classic film ASAP.

     

    For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf (Scribner Classics)

  • HOBAMA’S SOTAU 2011 SPEECH – STATE OF THE ALTERNATE UNIVERSE?!?

     

    "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

    When you are right, you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

    Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

    In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

                                                       - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

     

    "I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more, if only they knew they were slaves." 

                                                        - Harriet Tubman


    There is absolutely nothing more that Hobama/”President” Barack Obama can possibly do to prove that he is a rabid elitist. There is nothing else that politicos can do to expose the fact that America is ruled by one party with two names and one elitist agenda. There is nothing further that Hobama can do to flagrantly betray the black fans that still, somehow, shockingly and suicidally worship him. There is nothing more indefensible than Hobama’s collective elitist antics that poor, jobless, and homeless drones still amazingly dare to defend. Yet, Hobama is still being praised for expertly reading mere words to his masses of paupers. 

    Truth is far stranger and crueler than fiction. Truthfully, a blackish president has become the most racist and ruthless president in American history. His wars are bloodier and more endless than those of his cousin King Shrub/George W. Bush. His grift given to the corporatist rich has been more opulent and obscene than ever before. Hobama and his beloved and criminally coddled banksters have literally robbed and bankrupted America and its progeny for decades to come. Yet, his superior reading skills remain the singular focus of his bafflingly blinded global fan club. 

    The audacity of omission and lies trumps the audacity of hope. The audacity of deception and deceit trumps the audacity of change. Hobama’s vapid teleprompter show has become a heinous charade. The soul of our nation has been lost to a presidential reality show. The political rebels have been lobotomized and neutralized by Hobama’s scripted evasions and eloquent deceit. However, his expert speech reading will never soften his surgical destruction of poor people in America. 

    Hobama is poised to destroy poor people in America as never before. America is rapidly headed towards a new serfdom that will include literally no middle class. Joblessness and homelessness have already become normal for millions. Public schools have become relics. Yet, Hobama’s expertly mouthed words are designer opiates for the doomed and adoring masses. “Food insecurity” is the new hunger. “Hope and change” have become hopeless and unchanged. Without mercy or interruption, Hobama’s speech writers and teleprompters toil on. 

    What did Hobama say to you in his most recent opiate oratory? Did he say what would be done for poor children felled by the perpetual and fatal bullets of abject poverty? Did he say how more than 8 million jobs that have been permanently lost would ever truly be replaced? Did he speak with any iota of real empathy for anyone who is not a bankster or a corporate CEO? Did he mention freezing any funds for the rich that he has so generously drowned in trillions of dollars stolen from public coffers? As he praised ecological ideals, did he mention even one actual dead bird, fish, crab, cricket, or cow that has suddenly died in our increasingly toxic environment where varied carcasses fall like rain? 

    Hobama is a repulsively amoral hoax. All who see him with their third eye know this. All who hear what he is truly saying know this also. Hobama is the corporate owned puppet of the most corrupt political regime in America to date. It is amoral to speak of public education while saying nothing about the corporate scams of charter schools and the horrid revamping of the academic genocide of NCLB. They do not pretend to revere and recruit educators as they layoff millions of great teachers to slash salaries for novices who replace them. It is amoral to speak of taxpayers’ burdens while failing to mention their bilking by banksters, who fashioned their homeless and jobless miseries. It is amoral to praise China and make no mention of its slave labor. 

    Moral men do not pretend that construction jobs for novices will resolve the permanent loss of millions of jobs, while thousands of veteran construction workers are laid off and unemployed. They do not praise the Internet as they brazenly engage electronic apartheid and elitist Internet restrictions nationwide. They know that computers require electricity and that electric bills require jobs, homes, and incomes. They know that fictional green jobs will do nothing to garner real green cash within immediate salaries. They know that college is impossible when tuitions are soaring, millions of unemployed college graduates are crippled by academic debts, and bailed out bankers refuse to grant college loans.  

    Moral men do not pretend that other countries have any monopoly on media censorship. They do not completely ignore the devastation of BP Oil’s toxic tragedy in the Gulf. They never accept campaign funds from amoral oil companies while pretending to sincerely bash the oil industry. Moral family members do not chose one segment of their kin to systematically starve. Moral family members do not slay kin who are fishermen, teachers, and farmers, as they exclusively save and embrace kin who are banksters and CEOs. 

    Moral men do not speak of innovation as they ignore innovative genocide. Moral men do not praise living soldiers as they ignore countless corpses, or droves of walking soldiers with dead spirits and broken souls. Moral men do not herald a fictional recovery as they ruthlessly ignore a very real depression for millions, who are swiftly becoming poorer each day. Moral men do not pretend that America is not racing towards a new serfdom for the masses, as they simultaneously rush to garner corporate tax breaks for billionaires. 

    Moral men do not wage wars as they accept peace prizes. They do not disgrace heroic men like Dr. Martin Luther King by becoming abusers of the progeny of poor blacks whom King was executed for assisting economically. Moral men do not praise dubious and nominal income tax breaks as millions have no incomes at all. They do not spin idle fantasies about struggling business owners as they ignore the salacious financial circus of coddled banksters. Moral men do not feign interests in campaign fund reform as they spend billions in donations for their own political campaigns. They do not praise dejected and weary gay soldiers, as they ignore nonexistent benefits for grieving and abused gay war widows, and utter absolutely nothing about the absence of combat for the children of rich warmongers. 

    Moral men do not speak of alleged terrorists in Afghanistan, as they ignore the fascists terrors waged for oil and opium inside Afghanistan. Moral men do not lie about the end of war in Iraq and then brazenly speak about how that war rages on. They do not pretend that waging immoral global wars can ever truly set any modicum of a moral example for any country or any people. Moral men do not brag about banning lobbyists and earmarks just before they break records for collecting and creating both. They do not lie about televised transparency, and then pretend it is synonymous with online propaganda. They do not dare attack a glut of government agencies as they bombard Americans with droves of government czars and federal spies. 

    Moral men do not harp upon level playing fields for corporate moguls who slay poor people in global killing fields. They do not praise trade with Korea as they trade senseless military genocide with Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran. They do not pretend that predator drones ever decrease random bloodshed and temper rabid hatreds. 

    Moral men never pretend that giving trillions to corrupt banksters will ever trickle down to the poor people they rob. They do not pretend that corporatist banksters and their usurious credit cards will ever truly benefit a sole poor credit cardholder. They do not pretend that predatory mortgages will ever make a poor person’s house a peaceful home rather than a perpetual sink hole. They do not pretend that Medicare and Medicaid will be inferior to or less costly than the mammoth chaos of Hobamacare, as they mark both programs for destruction by “deficit reduction”. 

    It is savagely inhumane to incessantly and suicidally play along with the fatal fantasy of Hobama. In reality, Hobama has been a socialist exclusively for the rich. He has never proven his eligibility as a natural born citizen. He has never addressed the missing years of his clandestine life or the sealed documents of his alleged academic records. He has only brutalized poor people. He has done nothing for the poor black “mongrels" who insanely adore him. And, Hobama will never do any better for poor people. 

    As always, the rebel warriors at The Black Agenda Report penned the most powerful and poetic analysis of Hobama’s surreal speech. Revolutionary hero and clairvoyant sage Glen Ford stated: 

    “What a strange and deeply sad relationship exists between many Black Americans and the brown-skinned corporate politician in the White House. After two years, there is no longer any expectation of reciprocity, only a muted hope and prayer that Obama would behave decently. 

    In announcing a five-year freeze on domestic spending, Obama enters a new phase of aggressive – rather than furtive – collaboration with the GOP. To ensure that catastrophe cannot be avoided for the tens of millions battered and set adrift by the two (lesser and greater) recessions of the 21st century, Obama will join with Republicans to prevent the domestic arms of government from coming to the people’s aid, by freezing finances. With whole communities in a state of economic dislocation, Obama burns the rescue boats and poisons the water, all the while promising that the necessary budgetary savings will not be achieved “on the backs of our most vulnerable citizens” – as if Wall Street’s bankers will shield the helpless with their well-bonused bodies.

    By bringing down the corporate tax rate – a substantive promise from Obama that only the wealthy can truly appreciate – additional profits will accrue to companies that have already hoarded over two trillion dollars, but who were doubtless awaiting Obama’s coded signal, “Sputnik,” before investing in productive, job-producing enterprises. These investments might also be delayed until Obama has, as promised on Tuesday night, reorganized the federal government to the Republicans’ satisfaction, and purged offensive regulations from the public sphere.

    Funny, how Obama seems so much more in his element in the wake of the November defeat than when Democrats controlled both Houses of Congress. Half of Obama’s Blue Dog friends have been replaced by Republicans, but the president seems even happier among the new guys, as if he’s finally within reach of the grand, “bi-partisan consensus” that is the ideal state of being in a post-everything America.“

    http://blackagendareport.com/?q=content/obamagop-consensus

     

    Columnist Robert Scheer, one of the uniquely authentic journalists at Truthdig, also expertly reviewed Hobama’s eloquently scripted hogwash: 

    “What is the state of the union? You certainly couldn’t tell from that platitudinous hogwash that the president dished out Tuesday evening. I had expected Barack Obama to be his eloquent self, appealing to our better nature, but instead he was mealy-mouthed in avoiding the tough choices that a leader should delineate in a time of trouble. He embraced clean air and a faster Internet while ignoring the depth of our economic pain and the Wall Street scoundrels who were responsible—understandably so, since they so prominently populate the highest reaches of his administration. He had the effrontery to condemn “a parade of lobbyists” for rigging government after he appointed the top Washington representative of JPMorgan Chase to be his new chief of staff.

    What nonsense to insist that low public school test scores hobbled our economy when it was the highest-achieving graduates of our elite colleges who designed and sold the financial gimmicks that created this crisis. Indeed, some of the folks who once designed the phony mathematical formulas underwriting subprime mortgage-based derivatives won Nobel prizes for their effort. A pioneer in the securitization of mortgage debt, as well as exporting jobs abroad, was one Jeffrey Immelt, the CEO of GE, whom Obama recently appointed to head his new job creation panel. 

    Why now? It is an absurd demarcation to freeze spending when so many remain unemployed just because corporate profits, and therefore stock market valuations, seem firm. Ours is a union divided between those who agree with Obama that “the worst of the recession is over” and the far larger number in deep pain that this president is bent on ignoring.”

    http://www.truthdig.com/report/print/hogwash_mr_president_20110126/

     

    Hobama’s government is worse than any government in our past. We all chose to play Hobama’s game. Yet, only he and his beloved peer elites have won. Hobama’s regime has robbed us of the American dream, just as it has designed our collective American nightmare. No mere speech will awaken us from our fatal slumber. 

    Hobama will never do better!!! His worst is yet to come as he serenely and icily watches his trickle down tragedies explode in every state!!!  And, we will all perish as we sleep, unless we finally wake up and save ourselves!!!

     

    May God bless us all… 

    schizophreniaobama

  • HONORING DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. INSIDE A LOST NATION WITH NO HEIR TO HIS THRONE…

     

    “I am convinced that it is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought in the history of the world. Our involvement in the war in Vietnam has torn up the Geneva Accord. It has strengthened the military industrial complex. It has strengthened the forces of reaction in our nation. It has put us against the self-determination of a vast majority of the Vietnamese people, and put us in the position of protecting a corrupt regime that is stacked against the poor…

     

    Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. .. 

     

    I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law…”

                                --Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

     

     

    Actions always speak louder than words. Hobama/President Barack Obama is a great speech reader. His scripted words are eloquent and completely unrelated to his increasingly evil actions. Hobama speaks about racial and political unity. Yet, his blatant evasion of rampant racism, combined with his brazen refusal to address any black agenda speak much louder.

    Hobama barely pretends to have empathy for poor people. Yet, his incessant and legendary theft of public funds, and his singular obsession with coddling banksters and corporate criminals scream volumes. Hobama poses as innately intelligent and gifted with his own command of language. Yet, he is incoherent, inarticulate, and, inept without his eloquent speech writers and ever-present teleprompters.

    Actions always speak volumes above mere words. As Hobama expertly reads mere words, the actions of righteously enraged Americans continue to desperately degrade. Hobama has begun to channel the racist, elitist, legendary crack dealer, and former peer president Ronald Reagan. That is befitting as Michelle Obama channels Nancy Reagan.

    While Reagan and his CIA drug runners permanently destroyed generations of African-American citizens with crack cocaine, Nancy simultaneously had the audacity to tell the children of crackheads to “Just Say No’. Likewise, as Michelle valiantly battles a fatal epidemic of childhood obesity, Hobama vigilantly ensures that millions of jobless and homeless parents will only be able to buy fatty salty Ramen Noodle fare at dollar stores for decades to come.

    Actions do indeed speak much louder than words. Today we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a truly eloquent man who spoke sincerely poetic and healing words from his truly angelic rebel heart. We honor a man who never used a teleprompter at any memorial service/pep rally. Dr. King was truly a gifted word singer who sung powerful and magical words that empower and renew us still.

    Dr. King always spoke with real emotion that never needed to be scripted. He lived with real passion that never had to be feigned for the poor black people he truly adored. He defied racism by embracing warriors of every race and class, who joined his battles as a a soldier for justice against all who were racist and elitist.

    Actions can render words meaningless and mute. Hobama poses as a Democrat. Yet, all of his political policies are more Republican than any of his peers. Hobama has proven that political labels are only distinctions without differences. Hobama’s regime has proven that we actually have only one elitist party that rules our world.

    Actions speak louder than racist and elitist words. President Abraham Lincoln never pimped and dismissed Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman as Hobama does all black politico peers and suicidally blind drone black fans. President John F. Kennedy never told Dr. King to sit down and shut up about any black agenda, as Hobama routinely instructs clairvoyant heroes Dr. Cornel West and Tavis Smiley to do. Even Hobama’s racist, elitist, and warmongering cousin King Shrub/President George W. Bush never called blacks “mongrels” on national prime time television as Hobama did!

    Dr. King was beloved as long as he fought for racial unity. The moment he began to fight for economic equality and the eradication of the Military Industrial Complex, that still impoverishes billions of poor people globally, Dr. King was swiftly and publicly executed. Dr. King was killed because he loved poor people the way Hobama loves his peer banksters and warmongers.

    Dr. King surrounded himself with a racial rainbow of persons from all walks of life. Neither Dr. King nor a single comrade would ever have condoned a single bloody betrayal by Hobama!!! Dr. King would never accept any of the serial wars that Hobama has escalated or plotted. Dr. King’s brave rejection of the endless costs and the amorality of the Vietnam War literally cost him his life. Hobama has only taken lives from soldiers who voted for him only because he promised to end the wars that he has now deliberately made endless.

    Hobama is a bloody disgrace to the legacy of Dr. King!!! Yet, Hobama has the audacity of arrogance that compels him to repeatedly and publicly disrespect Dr. King’s legacy. Initially, Hobama refused to attend a memorial event for Dr. King in 2008. Later, Hobama offended historians and civil rights activists when he blatantly lied about his mother and father being inspired to create a biracial baby by hearing King in Selma in 1965, as Hobama was allegedly born in 1961. Then, Hobama shockingly and painfully disrespected Dr. King by brazenly omitting King’s name from his scripted speech, as he officially accepted the Democratic nomination for president. Hobama and his global wars incessantly slander the memory of the peaceful and humane Dr. King.

    Actions do indeed speak louder than words. Hobama’s most offensive action against Dr. King, to date, came via his Defense Department’s General Counsel Jeh Johnson, who boldly dared to claim that Dr. King would cheer for Hobama and his endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hobama has done nothing that any true revolutionary like Dr. King would ever cheer!

    Dr. King was nothing like Hobama and he was politically keen enough to never be fooled by Hobama’s blackish mask! A tee shirt does not fashion a kindred spirit. Millions of blacks who adore Hobama are too ignorant and blinded by bromance to recognize that fact.

    Dr. King visited Chicago’s Cabrini Green tenements to protest the condition of squalid public housing projects, slumlords, and gangs. Hobama has financed bankster slumlords as they buy public housing and evict poor tenants all across America. Dr. King fought and died to integrate every enclave of American life. Hobama and his banksters have gentrified and whitened Harlem and countless cities all across America. Dr. King revered education and strove to improve the academic futures of poor black children. Hobama and his bankster posses profit from fortifying the academic genocide of “No Child Left Behind”, while bilking billions via charter schools, scapegoating and firing droves of superior veteran teachers, and deliberately destroying all public education. Dr. King prayed and toiled to inspire and save black gang members. Hobama has legendarily funded the Prison Industrial Complex, and heralded DNA collection during arrests by racist and murderous cops, as more gang members are in cages than ever before…

    Dr. King’s courageous, noble, and sincere actions will always speak louder than Hobama’s mere teleprompted words! Hobama's bloody history will prove that only King was an authentically black American man who moved beyond linguistic eloquence to eternal revolutionary action. Millions are eternally inspired by the historical heroism of Dr. King, even as we are also increasingly doomed by the horrid blackish betrayals of Hobama.

    Hobama is a toxic perpetrator to the throne of Dr. King. Hobama is literally destroying black America as no president before him. Hobama had the audacity of sacrilege to place a bust of Dr. King in his Oval Office, so that King could symbolically witness his sins of sabotage against black and poor Americans. That bust should shed tears and explode any day!

    In 2011, Dr. King would be marching against Hobama with the poor people whom Hobama slays, just as Dr. King marched with poor Memphis city workers to his own public execution in 1968. Dr. King died knowing that poor men fought bogus wars perpetually waged by brutal rich men seeking bloody profits. When we learn that same rebel lesson someday, we will all become as regal and revolutionary as Dr. King…

     

    Dear Dr. Martin Luther King: Happy Earth Day! We miss your regal rebel revolutionary love. We adore and revere you always. We know that you live forever in our hearts, minds, spirits, and souls...It is still nation time, and Hobama is not and will never be our King!

     

     

     

     

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  • HOBAMA'S 2010 STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS = SAME LIES, DIFFERENT YEAR!

    {2011- Hobama will soon deliver his 2011 State of the Union address. Will he address new/old lies?...}

     


    1/2010

    POLITICAL PABLUM, PAVLOVIAN PRAISES & PERPETUAL PATRONIZING PROMISES!!! 

     

    “Pablum”:  trite, naive, or simplistic ideas or writings; intellectual pap.


    “Pavlov”:   Russian physiologist who is best known for discovering the conditioned response. He won a 1904 Nobel Prize for research on the nature of digestion.


    “Patronizing”:  to behave in an offensively condescending manner toward.                                                                                      

                                             - Random House Dictionary, 2010

     

     

     

    I wanted Hobama/GWB 2.0 to discuss three primary issues in his "State of the Union" address:


    1. His grossly failed stimulus checks to amoral bankers.

    2. The escalating mortal wounds of bleeding jobs and homes.

    3. His absolute serial betrayals of poor citizens.


    I am repulsed that Hobama addressed none of these issues. I am infuriated that he completely omitted each of these issues from his speech; including the complete omission of any reference to his legendary lost power in Massachusetts, the horrid escalation of abuses at Guantanamo, and the pending civilian trials of alleged terrorists in New York City.

    Amazingly, despite Hobama’s vague and rambling 70 minute teleprompter session, he was actually applauded 86 times! That is more than one applause every 60 seconds. Why? Like Pavlov’s drooling lab dogs, the conditioned, incessant, and illogical clapping preceded reflexive gastric reactions in all who watched this speech with their third eye and listened to the underwhelming rhetoric that has become the signature feature of Hobama’s vapid public relations events.

    As always, Hobama’s speech was more style than substance, more slogans than solutions, more candidate than leader. Hobama reviewed several vague stories, curiously absent of specific names and references that could be researched. Why are the texts loaded into his teleprompter always devoid of any details? What was the boy’s name who allegedly sent Obama his allowance for donations to Haiti? What state does he live in? What are the names of the companies that have hired employees due to stimulus funds?... 

    Hobama mentioned that Michelle was embarrassed by standing ovations. When will Hobama be similarly embarrassed by his own standing elitist obfuscations? Hobama claimed he hated giving billions to bankers. He claimed we hated it too. He is wrong. We hate that those bankers still have no loans, jobs, or refinanced homes to show us after those billions have been spent.

    Like Hobama’s swindleus package, oratorical poetry will do absolutely nothing to stimulate our horrid economy. We need jobs and checks that are as tangible and immediate as those he gave to bankers. Unemployed people do not significantly benefit from tax breaks. But, tax relief  for employers will save and create jobs. I am certain that most people would rather pay income taxes than collect unemployment checks.

    Hobama had the audacity to condescendingly suggest that we be patient as “budgets take a year”. We are well aware that his annual budget to date has exclusively fattened the coffers of ruthless and huge bankers. Hobama’s novel idea that we now pay an additional 50 billion to smaller bankers is moronic madness! He does not need to coddle smaller clones of bankers. We need some equivalent coddling of small business owners who manage smaller groups of employees.

    Hobama’s empty suit is now rivaled only by his emptier speeches. His eloquent emptiness only begs more endless questions. Here are just a few:

     

    How do lofty, long range economic dreams solve immediate nightmarish financial crises for poor people?

     

    How long will it take for green jobs to become realities? What do the jobless do to garner green money in the interim?

     

    How many unemployed Americans can truly and swiftly become construction workers? Why are construction workers being laid off too?

     

    How do children whose parents are unemployed and homeless take advantage of shiny new educational incentives?

     

    How did gutting 85 million dollars from Historically Black Colleges and Universities help anyone obtain an education?

     

    How will blatantly ignoring the elitist genocide of  “No Child Left Behind” and private school vouchers help improve public education?

     

    How can Hobama prove that he created two million jobs? What companies in what states hired two million people? Does either questionable “fact” even matter if seven million people have been unemployed?

     

    Does Hobama know that over 85,000 people were unemployed in December? Has he read recent headlines about the thousands who have been laid off from Home Depot, Verizon, Sam’s Clubs, Target, and Lockheed Martin? Does he need to start reading some superior magazines?

     

    Will Hobama's future fantasy "jobs bill" actually create jobs or actually help employers create jobs? Will this bill thaw frozen funds?

     

    How will a federal spending freeze help that nonexistent fantasy Hobama surreally referred to as a "jobs bill'?

     

    When will we finally see less of the earmarks, meetings, secrecy, and clandestine politics that Hobama dares to claim he has already eradicated?

     

    When will gays be given more than lip service about the looming end of the legalized hatred and abuses of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” ? Is it not equally hateful to restrict equality to being official corpses, while denying gays the right to officially become spouses? How will gay soldiers, dead or alive, share their military benefits with their spouses?

     

    Is it fair or honest to scold the horrid decision of the Supreme Court simply because they legalized the same corporate ownership of politicos that Hobama and his beloved bankers clandestinely share?

     

    How long will Hobama be allowed to blame King Shrub/GWB for ALL that Hobama has grossly worsened and legendarily escalated on his very own presidential watch?

     

    How will harping on the debts of Bush make Hobama’s much greater debts look smaller?

     

    Can simply moving soldiers from Iraq to Afghanistan and Iran ever really constitute the cessation of war? Will perpetually playing musical chairs with global wars/corpses belatedly earn Hobama that undeserved Nobel Peace prize?

     

    Hobama's inner circle and staff have been visibly filled with lobbyists for years! Why does Hobama keep feigning an aversion to lobbyists?

    What use will Hobama's beloved high speed trains be to those too slowed by abject poverty to become passengers???

     

     
    Why did Hobama cancel all of his heralded C-SPAN coverage?

     

    Why is writing checks for rich bankers the only thing that Hobama can do swiftly?


    Why freeze any funds only AFTER exclusively funding rich bankers and wars?...

     

     

    The best part of Hobama’s address was the emotional redress given by Republican Bob McDonnell, Governor of Virginia. It was succinct and specific. McDonnell reminded Hobama that we need urgent fixes for jobs and tax breaks for employers. He proved to all viewers that sanity and solutions are bipartisan possibilities indeed.


  • UFO = UNEXPLAINED FREAKISH OCCURRENCES - IN ARKANSAS, LOUSIANA, KENTUCKY, JAPAN, CHINA…

     

     

    “The Lord says: Your sister Sodom’s sins were pride and laziness and too much food. While the poor and needy suffered outside her door, she insolently worshipped many idols as I watched. Therefore, I crushed her.” 

                   -- Ezekiel 17:48-50 - The King James Bible

     

    “It is time for the truth to be brought out... Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But, through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense... I urge immediate Congressional action to reduce the dangers from secrecy about unidentified flying objects.”

           -- Former CIA Director Vice Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter -

              Signed statement to Congress - August 22, 1960

     

      

    Truth is far stranger than fiction. Extraterrestrial life is ancient, factual, and superbly documented. Most people are arrogantly ignorant about ufology. We earthlings are not alone in this universe and we never have been.

    The ancient African Dogon tribe of Mali has always known more about the cosmos than any NASA official. Their ancient tribal art includes astrologically accurate depictions of planets that NASA has just begun to discover. The Dogon people also share a unique DNA unlike any other humans on Earth.

    The African Egyptians and the African Olmecs built pyramids that no architect can replicate, with stones that no machine can lift or move to date. Monuments on the surface of the planet Mars include African faces and aerial runways. Ancient mysteries abound as undeniable and conclusive evidence of extraterrestrial life, including alien skeletons, amazing electrical devices, stone computers and batteries, and aerial art/symbols that cover the Earth from Tibet to India to Egypt …

    The King James bible is filled with numerous blatant references to alien life including the fiery celestial destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Despite sexual myths and lies, those two biblical cities were destroyed due to being amoral and evil empires akin to the USA. The biblical story of “Ezekiel’s Wheel” is a graphic account of a UFO abduction. The original Hebrew text of the biblical book of Genesis refers to one God of the worlds, plural.

    President John F. Kennedy was publicly executed for daring to defy the banksters who rule Hobama (“President” Barack Obama). The CIA conspired with Kennedy’s enemies inside the Mafia to murder him. Kennedy’s varied haters included many who feared that he would release volumes of top secret government information regarding extraterrestrial life to the American public.

    Director Steven Spielberg was inspired to create the classic film “E.T.” after studying the actual alien pilots who crashed at Roswell Air Force Base, New Mexico in 1947. One alien survivor was dubbed “EBE, an acronym for “Extraterrestrial Biological Entity”. The wreckage from the alien aircraft included an animated mystery metal adorned with African hieroglyphics.

    There are elder adults living today who were young children in 1947. They are still traumatized by the fear they witnessed within their military fathers, who were forcibly silenced by base officials that swiftly and brazenly lied about the Roswell incident. No lies told in 1947 or 2010 live forever.

    Renowned ironclad cases of UFO abductions abound. They include the fascinatingly authentic cases of Travis WaltonLinda Cortile, and Betty and Barney Hill. Countless similar modern day abductions have been documented for decades.

    Attentive scholars and sages have noted that international UFO sightings are rapidly increasing. Such frenetic extraterrestrial activity is routine during threats of nuclear war. Hobama and his escalating feuds with Pakistan, Korea, Iraq, and Iran have legendarily intensified nuclear conflicts. The rapid encroachment of World War III may be why UFOs have recently appeared in China and New York and Arkansas …

    On New Year’s Eve 2010, in Beebe, Arkansas, over 5000 dead blackbirds and starlings suddenly fell from the sky! Their cadavers have no burns! But, they do all have fatal external blunt force trauma, internal bleeding, and crushed breast plates!!! Their dead bodies span over a mile! Their deaths were synchronized with the sudden deaths of over 100,000 drum fish that span 20 miles!

    Channeling 1947, local Arkansan officials initially fabricated stupid stories about nonexistent lightning and invisible fireworks displays. To date, the moronic official explanation for the deaths of the birds is that they all instantly smashed against “one home or tree”. What???!!!

    Does anyone truly believe that, as birds always dodge homes and trees effortlessly? How tall and wide would said home or tree have to be to kill 5000 birds? How do thousands of dead birds fly one mile after death? Where is this huge magical/damaged home or tree?...A similarly laughable and glaring lie in lieu of a truthful explanation of the 100,000 dead drum fish is still pending. Now dead birds are dropping from the sky in other states and countries...Stay tuned.

    Ufologists always have superior explanations for such phenomena. Scholars believe that the dead birds in Arkansas crashed into a massive UFO. Then, the alien aircraft defensively flashed the birds and the fish in the river beneath them, simultaneously.

    Conspiracy scholars blame these bird and fish deaths upon clandestine military biological warfare experiments. Those aware of the legacies of Agent Orange, LSD, and Chemtrails may prefer this explanation to any UFO. However, chemicals do not form huge hard walls in the sky. Yet, similarly sudden deaths in other states and countries add credence to such rebel claims. Revolutionary films like “The Crazies" and “The Mist" make this theory even more petrifying.

     

    You decide which scenario is most probable. 

    RSVP: ambwww@yahoo.com

     

    PS - Memo to George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic: There is indeed a Mothership Connection!!!… “Flashlight” is for real in AR!!! 

     

     

    Drum fish: Some 100,000 of the species were found lining the banks of the Arkansas RiverHundreds of dead starlings, red-winged blackbirds and brown-headed cowbirds lie along the side of La. 1 near New Roads. The birds were found dead and dying Monday along a half-mile stretch of the road.V Alien Agenda: Investigating the Extraterrestrial Presence Among Us

  • HAPPY 2011?

     

     

    May God Bless us all in 2011!!!

     

    The banksters and the elitists run the world as never before. Much more global misery looms.

     

    Survival tips for 2011:

     

    Move all of your money to local credit unions.

     

    Spend and stash CASH!

     

    Abandon politicos as they have abandoned you.

     

    Be your own savior in your own family and community.

     

    Engage in electronic rehabilitation for the open and affordable/free Internet you once knew... ASAP.

     

    Detox from prescription drugs that will soon skyrocket in price.

     

    Study and practice holistic and herbal medicine ASAP.

     

    Become more frugal ASAP.

     

    Garden.

     

    Barter.

     

    Prepare for eternal global wars.

     

    Waste no more seconds on blind, mindless, and sleeping Hobama Nazis. They are forever lost.

     

    Each rebel must teach one who is awake to survive…

     

     

    Happy New Year?...

     

    Peace!


    New World Order and the Police StateGangster Government: Barack Obama and the New Washington Thugocracy

  • RAW WISDOM AND RED HOT RAGE: DR. NANDI S. CROSBY’S “IF MY SOUL BE LOST"...

     

    2007


    "If heaven had a height, you would be that tall 
    Ghetto to coffee shop, through you I see that all…

    Granted we known each other for some time 
    It don’t take a whole day to recognize sunshine…

    There are times… when you’ll need someone. 
    I will be by your side. 
    There is a light, that shines, 
    Special for you, and me…"

    “The Light” by Common

     

     

     

    Common sang that classic song above to a sista who was his lover. I dedicate it to a sista I love platonically. It was platonic love at first sight…

    I met Dr. Nandi S. Crosby long ago in Atlanta, Georgia. At that time, she was a superior graduate student and a fan of my radio shows. She was penning a superb thesis on Black feminism and interviewed me as an afrocentric lesbian feminist. I was sincerely honored to be her interviewee.

    Immediately, I sensed her internal and external beauty. She was mature and confident far beyond her chronological years. I felt her fire. I instantly felt connected to her spiritually and intellectually. She instantly felt like a deeply familiar soul that I had known intimately across oceans of time…

    Nandi and I have so very much in common. We are both afrocentric intellectuals. We were both born on August 10th. We are both city girls...

    When we met, we both were discreetly enduring painful loves with insecure and emotionally abusive women who did not deserve us. We both have survived very well. We both have grown long Afrikan locks. We both have become educators.

    When I met Nandi she was a lesbian whom I idolized. She penned angry poems that touched me in places that needed to be validated and soothed. I actually used to tell her that she was too hard on some brothers that were incarcerated. But, she has evolved into a space where she is even kinder and gentler to men than I am. She is now bisexual. And, I am still in awe of her life journey.

    You must read her fascinating autobiography entitled “If My Soul Be Lost: A Self Portrait”. I have always been proud to know Nandi. This book made me even prouder. I have never read a biography that is as uncensored and raw as this one. Nandi lays her soul bare in its pages.

    Without secrecy or reticence, Nandi details being battered by her father, unceremoniously losing her virginity, being raped, enduring the necessity and the guilt of abortion, her brief stint as a sex worker, and the humiliation of being dumped and dogged by men she adores. Her story is one of rage and reason, hurt and honesty, sorrow and sacrifice.

    As Nandi tells her life story, she also interjects critical reflection on feminism, gender roles, and carnal relationships. She exposes her life while she explains life lessons that apply to us all. She balances these reflections expertly and seamlessly.

    Nandi’s complex relationship with her drug addicted mother is written with passion and clarity. Like a classic Billie Holiday song, Nandi uses her pen to turn pain into poetry. Like bell hooks, she makes plain the fallacies of feminism even as she remains a fierce feminist. She loves black men defiantly and conditionally. She is brutally honest about their flaws and passionate about their perfections.

    Nandi is aging like fine wine. Today, she is more gorgeous and gifted than ever. She is honing her many talents admirably. I am proud of her successful academic life. And, I pray that we both perfect our personal lives by finding our soul mates someday soon.

    In “If My Soul Be Lost: A Self Portrait”, Nandi moves from the hood, to corrections officer in the pen, to elite campus star, to beloved professor on the faculty. Yet, she never loses her sister wisdom nor her righteous anger. She is living proof that anger embraced can be channeled into positive fire. She is still angry and still excelling each day.

    I actually fear people who are not angry. This evil world is racist, sexist, elitist, and homo-hating. There is far too much to be angry about. Unless one is deluded, dead, or insane, anger is inevitable. We prove our humanity, courage, and integrity by productively dealing with our anger. We prove only blindness and cowardice by evading anger. And, as Audre Lorde said best, “Our silence will never protect us.”

    I read voraciously. A well written autobiography is a special treat. “If My Soul Be Lost: A Self Portrait” is decadently delicious. It is a smorgasbord of raw emotions, vivid incidents, and profound vision. Nandi has a special literary gift for succinctly analyzing and describing complex issues. Her life is fascinating. That fascination combined with her courageous writing is a truly hypnotic mix. I will cherish my autographed copy of this classic forever.

    Nandi and I have kept in touch over the years. I am still her fan as she has become a superstar poet, renowned professor, and now celebrated author. “If My Soul Be Lost: A Self Portrait” let me know that Nandi is infinitely braver and immensely more special than I could ever have imagined. Our lives are more different than I ever dreamed. Her light is brighter than I ever knew.

    Nandi and I are both still searching for lovers who can deal with the whole lionesses that we are. We are both angry, driven, and challenging to love. We are also sensuous and loving kittens. We seek someone who can cuddle us without crushing us. We are seeking lovers who are secure enough to let us shine. Those who do not try to kill our lights will bask forever in the glory of our uniquely bright sunrays…

    You must read “If My Soul Be Lost: A Self Portrait”. It is a swift and perfect journey inside the heart and soul of collective Black female angst, passion, and pain. It is a balm for all Black girls who are angrily longing to be healed, understood, and loved.


    (To My Dear Sistah Fire Nandi: Congrats!!! Thank you for the gift that is this book! You have regally roared herein. I am so very proud to be your fellow lioness. You will always be a Queen in our pride…Much Love Always …AB}


     

     


    Excerpts from “If My Soul Be Lost: A Self Portrait”:


    "It’s my story and that of millions of pissed off sistas like me. Rage starts somewhere.

    I can write an entire book about anger. If I could get away with it, I’d call it “Leave Me the *uck Alone!”…

    Some of the most demure, kind, Black women are bundles of anger. Many of us are articulate, educated, middle-class, and feminine. But we’re also ready to fight for the right to be dignified and free.

    We show up strong and ready to swing because many of us have found power in anger since we were girls, and we learn this is the only way.

    I wonder how many of us stumble into the [feminist] movement angry and seeking relief, rather than the more privileged who find it in a university course or lesson from mom. And when I consider how few clues feminism gave me for surviving as a middle-class, bisexual, never married, pissed off, PH.D. poet, I feel sharp pangs in my nose like those caused by the white ammonia I swear by.

    If the aim is to find a White woman because she is passive, then what does that say about Black masculinity, Black men’s sexuality, and the expectations they hold for community building?

    I urge that this is a struggle for most sistas who resist going deep into the cells of our own bodies, because lurking there are painful reminders of what we lack: demureness, innocence, and white skin. Black women, especially those of us from the ghetto, learn to survive, but never how to shift from survival mode to wholeness.

    I was being condemned because I had never exhibited a version of softness my all white staff had learned to expect from women.

    I have it going on. Yet, many brothas find my success intimidating…

    As an African–centered woman, I sometimes think it is my duty to love brothas in spite of themselves, the *hit they do to destroy our communities, and what intuition tells me.

     

    I still believe in brothas, but I struggle daily with how to care for and support them, without losing myself in the process."