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This sort of reminds be of the "Bridging the Cultural Gap" series that the church tried to put on with the Korean Association. The black churches were all for it. The Korean Association rounded up all the powerful black ministers and sent them on an all expense paid trip to Korea. Sell the black community down the drain for a few pieces of gold. Sort of lik what happened to Jesus.
Paul
Favorite Talk Show Host: C. Miles
Show Topic: Why do black churches sell out?
Paul, were you been man? I am so sick and tried hearing about Matthew & John, said this and said that and all the rest of that crap. Paul, it was good to hear from you. Your words are gospel.
They don't want to quote me either..., James
Why do most black churches sell out? Case in point, the MLK celebration at the black church in PG county. Why did these black's give GB a standing ovation as he walked in? Another example is the Metropolitan Boys and Girls Club. This is an important organization in the DC area. I have done volunteer work for them. They are suffering financially. They have approached a lot of rich and powerful black churches. Why do they refuse to help out? I guess it is the lexus payment. At any rate, I guess I will be home again this sunday.
Paul
Favorite Talk Show Host: C. Miles
Show Topic: Why do Black Churches sell out?
January 24, 2003:The old message board vs the new board. Well, I really am lost for words. I asked The Radio Diary posters back during the summer how they felt about creating a new message board and a chat room. Well, I received E-mails asking me to GET RID OF THE OLD MESSAGE BOARD AND CREATE A NEW BOARD. That is exactly what I did. Now, I am being pulled in another directon. So, what I am going to do is this...LEAVE BOTH BOARDS UP. If you like to post on the old board..fine. If you like to post on the new board..that's fine too. As for the chat room I have started a new marketing campaign in DC/MD/VA. The next time you're watching the cable channel look for The Radio Diary ad...RADIODAIRY@AOL.COM
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Show Topic: The Old VS The New...Message Board.
Washington, DC,
RadioDiary: I know change is the Mother of invention or sum um like dat, but sometimes change can be regressive instead of progressive. Now I know I am just one voice here, but it might be worth doing a survey and ask which is preferred, the old or the new. I find the new board to be slower to read because I have to check each posting seperately. What I found to be unique about the RadioDiary of the past, was the scroll board that you could read each posting in sequential order. Also, I went to the Chat board. It to me over 5 minutes to get in only to find nobody there. What say ye, why don't you take a poll, and if the new board aint cuttin it, admit it and quit it. Then lets move into the future by going back to the past. Jai mean, I'm just sayin.
Historically Speaking
Mr X.RAY VISION
RIGHT ON POINT.>>>>>Billy Ray
billy ray edwards <bredwards@hotmail.com>
Show Topic: Point well made
Rockville, md,
Isn’t it interesting that the United States of America, known worldwide to be a racist country and yet we can never find anybody that is racist. We thought we found one when we uncovered the background of Trent Lott and Strom Thurman. But we were wrong. Why? Because they both said, they were not racist. So we look further and into the history of someone like Jesse Helms. Is he racist. NOPE. Why? Because he will surely tell your Black @ss that you are a damn liar. He would probably respond by saying something like, “name one thing he has done that is racist”. So why can we never find a racist here in the most racist county in the world. They must all be invisible or something, because we know they exist, we just can’t ever spot one. Even the famous detective Sherlock Holmes would find it next to impossible to find or identify a racist. You simply can’t find one and if you do, you will never get one to admit it. Maybe we could use the old fashion way to identify them. If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck and looks like a duck, it must be a duck. What kind of a duck? A Racist Duck.. We should just either forget about trying to point out the Racist persons or maybe we should just call them all Racist …until they can prove differently. If they don’t want to own up to being overtly racist then surly they are passively racist, because they do nothing to end the racism that exist. They just stand by and deny. >>>>>We need to give further scrutiny to this “Double Standard System” that is so pervasive here in America. Can any sane person deny that this country has a double standard? Most recently, George Bush announced his opposition to Affirmative Action, yet in the next breath he wants every living one of your black sister and brothers to go fight a war “on an equal bases.” The double standard system is so universal in this country that they expect the rest of us to just accept it like it is a natural thing. Now how sick is that? They expect you not to complain, but want you to act like you like it, too. Like in the past they convinced themselves that the Slave was happy with his situation. Talk about being sick, it almost borders on madness. On the other hand only the most neurotic Americans would deny that there is a double standard. So if we start dismantling the double standards that exist in the country, maybe racism will eventually disappear. And lets stop playing this game using their terms and definitions. Like Affirmative Action. Call it what it is, “a double standard” which is the offspring and child of racism.
Mr. X. Ray Vision
Show Topic: Where have all the Racist gone?
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Show Topic: You Need To Reset Your Browser
Washington, DC,
(1/18/03)Just as Xmas comes earlier and earlier every year, so does the big screw we get during election season appear to start earlier and earlier. Now Lieberman has officially declared his candiacy for the Presidential elections. First of all he talks like he is always on the stool trying to pass a hard one. This guy is a classic example of contradictions. Not long ago, he was criticizing Al Gore about all the reasons why they lost the election. Like we all have forgotten how the election was out right stolen and certified by the Supreme Court. Now that Al Gore is not going to run, Lieberman has turn all his previous complaints into what he now calls outstanding accomplishments. This man was a sell out, a Judas on the democratic ticket from the very beginning. First of all, I believe the DNC has been co-opted by the Republican Party. Just like the KGB & CIA had their planted operatives within each others agency, I think that is what has happened to the Democratic National Committee NC. The DNC has been infiltrated and taken over by the republican party. All of the current Democrats are to close to the Bush Administration. Now we have more democratic people than any other time in history claiming they are going to run for the Presidency. How many times have we seen this scenario perpetrated in the Black Community. A bunch of people run for the same office each spreading the Black vote so thin that it is totally ineffective and the opposing candidate wins without a serious challenge. This is what is being put in place for the next presidential election. So many candidates from the Democrat side that Bush walks back in without any effort. We even have Al Sharpton who does not have a snowballs chance in a hot oven. He didn’t even come close to winning the New York City Mayoral position, nor the governor-ship or senatorial offices he has tried for, and now we are suppose to believe he can seriously have a chance to be President of the United States. Give me a break. He and others like Alan Keyes who is the same kind of decoy on the republican side come out of the woodwork like roaches each election to delude the Black vote and then after they get their pay check, they are never heard from again until the next elections. How many time are we going to fall this con game? These opportunist merely create confusion in the Black Community for the naïve Blacks among us who believe every bit of crap they heard on the TV News. These sellouts are put before the Black Community so that our vote is totally ineffective. Joe (Lie-berman) says he will be unlike any other previous Democrat we have know in the past. What he really means is he will be the first real Republican, masked as a Democrat. This guy is one of Ariel Sharon’s mouthpieces in the US Senate. It appears now that both the Republican Party & DNC are one in the same. I was totally against the Green Party in the previous election, but now it looks more and more like our only other choice. But I will wait to see if they put forth a serious effort or I may just sit this one out like more and more Americans and not vote at all, something I never thought I would ever consider before. There is a major protest against the war this weekend. I will be there, will you? IMPEACH needs to be our next hue and cry, with a vengeance. And if we don’t stop these Mad Men now, we will have President Jeb Bush next. You heard it here first on the RadioDiary. By the way, where the hell is everybody?
Time to Impeach
Show Topic: TIME has come today
****YEP****The mic is still on (LOL)..goto the new message board and chat room. You will find all of your old friends there.radiodairy@aol.com
Your Personal Radio Diary <radiodiary@aol.com>
Show Topic: The Mic Is Still On
Washington, DC,
Aah humm, aah,HELLO! ….. is this mike on? Let me begin by saying PEACE & LOVE, and a special Prayer with Peace & Love, to the High Sheriff who was a dawn upon the horizons of B-mo, and DC in his day. I truly hope he is recovering and doing well. PBUH and Thanks to whomever, that he is still on This Side, with us. Having said that, let me also say that many of you do not know me and hopefully it will remain that way when I am through here. Those of you who are not comfortable with that and want my name, perhaps I can come up with something by the time I am finish. >>>>>SO WHATS SUP, DC & The Big B? What can I talk about here because it seems kind of slow here lately. Much Love and Respect to the WebMaster for keeping this joint going. And we should do as he asked us to tell everyone we know about this Website, and then we should get busy writing some of our best stuff, so that others will feel welcome to come back and say something themselves. I remember when we use to have some heavy battles up in here and you couldn’t wait to tune back in to see what who had to say. Man, was we kicking it all the way live. There use to be some serious arguments with wit, humor and insight. If anybody would like to start something, I’ll be glad to go a few rounds with you. But if you come, you gotta come hard because I aint taking no prisoners, and it wont be nuttin but some fun anyway. >>>So is everybody ready for the war? I say that just like yall was sayin a couple of weeks ago, is everbody ready for Xmas. I saw everybody in the stores just buying stuff like nobodys business, and carrying on like everyday is going to be like yesterday. I guess yall don’t realize we are here at Ground Zero and like Richard Pryor said: “if any sh-t go down, he wasn’t going to be the first one. Many of you just carrying on like nuffin is different, and if nobody mess wit me, aint gon be no sh-t. Well, buddy you getting ready to get your @ss handed to you in a basket, if you keep schucking and jivin and pertendin it don’t mean nothing to you. Have any of you given any thought to what if you had to get out of Dodge real quick or if you just had to run a few blocks to save yourself. Many of you won’t make it. I bet some of you can’t even run to the next bus stop, let alone a mile or two. Well, I hope I won’t need to but, I’m trying to get my self in shape. Any of yall remember the folks trying to out run that dust when the World Trade Center went down? (may the victims rest in peace and their family’s be making the best of it, sincerely) I bet you think that if you can just make it to the Metro and then to your car and the beltway, then you will have it made in the shade. Well, if you can’t run at least a few blocks in the right direction then I got news for you.
Reminds me of a joke I always got a good laugh from. Want to hear it? Goes sum um like dis.>>>> I will keep this a clean as possible, in fact the only dirt will be your own dirty minds interpretation. This is a man’s joke, so all you ladies who may be reading, skip this part. >>>>>(There were these sperm lounging around where all sperm live and reside. Most of them were lazy laying around from hour to hour of their life times and just doing nothing. Well there was this one sperm that was always up doing exercise, jumping jacks, push up, and sprints. Finally, this one new young sperm asked the older sperm why was he always jumping up and about while everyone else just laid around and did nothing. The older sperm said, “you see that light and alarm up over that tunnel?” Well, my Farther, told me (may he rest in peace) that one day that light will come on and the alarm will ring and when it does, all of us will instinctively haul @ass down that tunnel and the first one down will live a long life. So he continued to exercise. Soon after, one day that light suddenly came on and the alarm started to ring like crazy and all the sperm jumped up and started hauling @ss down the tunnel. But most of them didn’t have a chance against the old sperm who had been keeping in shape. He took off and soon was gone out of sight leaving the rest behind. Well after a while, the others saw a small speck getting larger and larger as they continued down the tunnel. As the speck got bigger they could see it was the older sperm that left them behind going down the tunnel. As the sperm got closer they could see him frantically shouting and waving his arms. Then they finally could make out what he was saying. He was trying to run back up the tunnel and he was shouting “Go back, Go back…it’s a blow job.>>>>Well folks, I don’t think this is going to be just another pasting event that the rest of us will sit around and talk about and watch on TV. From what we hear them folks across the way is fed up with some of our leaderships mess and they aint plannin on continuing to put up with it like the way we do, election after election with the same old mess. Like a song I once heard back in the day by the WATTS POETs, referring to the riots, “Dem Niggas ain’t playin”, and then a voice whispered “throw another log upon the fire”. Before I go, let me ask: how many of you are ready for the draft? And get this, they going to be taking the women folks too. Not just your Sons but your Daughters too. And many of you just keep listening to the same ole music, AS THE BAND PLAYS ON. Thank You Webmaster for providing me this opportunity to express myself and I hope you will let me come back again. Well, yall, I got to go now. I gotta go and do some situps and jumpjacks.
Still.....
Show Topic: I hope nobody was offended.
Get this everybody. I am listening to these air-headed num-skulls on Fox News Channel. Yea, you know the ones that lock step repeat everything this Regime tells them to say word for word. They try to tell you how everybody is supporting this dude in the White house. By the way, do they still call you as President when you pull off a Coup de tat. Well the rest of you may be afraid to talk about it, but I aint. First of all let me be the first to say, you are not going to have an attack on Saddam. Not any time soon. Yep, you heard me right and if you did your home work and stopped believing every thing you hear on TV, you would be able to think thru this thing also. The administration is not going to attack Iraq until after the next election, because unlike you have been led to believe, most of the country is dead set against a war, and many of us are not afraid to let our feelings known. But back to my point, about the air heads I mentioned above. I heard them say the Premier of Korea is trying to start the Third World War. HELLO….Now run and tell that.
War..What is it good For. (Making Money)
****NO IT WILL NOT BE REPLACED*** you have the option to use either one. The new board will allow someone to respond to your questions. So, you will still be able to post on the old message board. Check out the chat room and see how you like it.(LOL)good luck and welcome back..radiodiary@aol.com
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Show Topic: ***THE OLD MESSAGE BOARD WILL NOT BE REPLACED
Washington, DC,
Please tell me that you are kidding. I went to this New Message Board and clicked on a title or subject to read. And I wait. And I wait. And I wait. Then poof, I am right back where I started. So I try again. And Poof right back again. So I try another title. Click. And I wait. And I wait. By now you get my point, because I am still waiting. Now poof, I am right back where I started. Let me tell you what I did. I saw this posting “I found C. Miles”. Being interested in hearing about the Sheriff, I click. And I…naw I aint even going to repeat it again., because by now you should know what I am going to say. But for the slow-witted, “I clicked, and I waited, and I waited, and …Look WebMaster, maybe it is just me, and before I complain, tell me what I did wrong. Off the top, I don’t think I will like this new message board because it is too slow and never responds to my request. What I always liked about the original Diary Board was that it was unique with the scrolling down process. Webmaster, tell me it aint so. Tell me you aint gonna replace this new board and remove the old. And what about the “I found C. Miles”. I hope he is well, and living large as he is destined.
O.P.P. (Original Posse' Person)
***THERE IS A NEW POSTING BOARD****click on new and it will take you there.RADIODIARY@AOL.COM
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Washington, DC,
Joe is a legend in his own mind. We all continue to listen because we want to say we heard it when he lost it.....and he will!!
Say wha???
1/7/03))) God save us all. From this fool on Wol. I am talking about the morning show host and his Bitchy ways. (Bitch by the way is a Female dog and other than that it is not a derogatory word) Joe “The Madd-Son” is totally off his rocker. Someone called in today to comment that he was from New York City and he never heard of the Schommburg Center. Joe cut him off before he could make his point and say why he never heard of the place. We will never know what point the man had to make, whether it was off the clock like some many of the people who take the time to call the show or if he had some interesting point to make. But Joe “The Bitch” and I mean the term in the sense that he has no or very few masculine qualities. Those of you (and I hope there are none here at the Diary) that call his show to make a point are total fools, just as I am a fool to continue to listen to this Crappy Gutter of a show. And now apparently someone has gotten on his @ss about his behavior because he is now trying to explain and justify his actions. Somebody please tell me of some other shows I can listen to early in the morning and save me from this disgustingly bad habit that I have a hard time breaking. That is to stop listening to this crappy Joe “The Madd-son show”. PLEASE HELP ME >>>> (He must have been sexually abused as a child)>>>PS: Now this MANIAC is having the audacity to talk about other talk shows having a double standard when it comes to people calling in. If you are a idiot (like me-maybe I shouldn’t be so hard on myself) and presently listening you are hearing him brag how he does not screen his calls to determine who you are before he (lets you come close to getting on the air, because you in fact will never make it). The MaDD-boy/man has personified this double standard in terms of regular callers and other name recognition personalities who he gives all the time they need to masturbate at the mouth. Alas, let me begin right now and stop giving him anymore of my time.
Wol Junkie (in denial)
Show Topic: How do I break old habits?
Bob, I thought that you and others might enjoy this as a friend sent it to me just before Christmas. It's hilarious! I hope that no one is offended. HAPPY NEW YEAR from me and Big Daddy Steve...wg
http://www.toonedin.com/movies/WhiteTrashXmas.html
WARGODDESS
No body knows who G-d is nobody can even fathom G-ds existence so we humaize this higher being as much as possible. By doing this we marginalize a high power, by giving less credit. Many People are very self righteous. while they pray to Jesus, jah, Alah or whatever you want to call the most high, they turn around and beat, rape, and neglect their children. For some people who have been downpressed they blame others for why they and their children are living in such poor conditions, and often loose sense of personal responibilty. Expecting their adverseries to pull them out of a mess that they were thrown into. Damning the opressors to hell and away from G-d. Well if G-d is everything the White caucaision is G-d just like the black man black woman yellow man and woman as well as brown man and woman are G-d. We all are a part of an entire infinite eqaution, that is if G-d is everything. Since we cannot define who or what G-d really is, becasue a defintion of a high power cannot escape our grasps of conceptual schemes...we therefore cannot make justifed judgements about others going away from G-d. Is G-D good? well if G-d is everything then it must be both good and bad, and everything in between and beyond. The concepts of good and evil are just concepts of a human condition that we have created here on earth once we removed ourselves from the state of nature...Once we separated ourselves from the other animals on earth. Once we remove ourselves from the state of nature we put walls around, it is from of slavery. No longer can we ride freely on our insticts, but we must also communicate within reason in order to understand each other. Mere words are examples of our limitations. We were all at one point kings and at one point servants, and once our physical bodies perish our essence shows that these places we are thrown into in society whether king or slave means little. And to those who live to remember the dead in order to feel better or to find reason, more concepts about G-d are thrown.
Now if you aren't confused, then you are probably crazy. I cannot fully explain it, but judments and blanket assesments can be very destructive not only to other but your self. Not all caucasions are evil, not all black people are good. Neither staemtns can be credited as absolute truths We are all responsible for our actions, especially here and now. Where before our ignorance may have led to others to take advantage, once freed from chains, the healing can only begin with each other. Expecting G-d to punish those who have done bad is not for us to decide. We are responible for ourselves as human beings. We were given the free will and we can will ourselves to be free...No man is free if another is in chains. When we judge our adversires to a point that we belivee that we are supreme, we create even more adversires, not only amongst those who have kept us down, but those amongst us as well. When we spend all our time looking around at those who do wrong and dont look at ourselves to do right how can we rise? And to do all this in the name of G-d is underestimating and marinalizing the most high. If it is kept to oneself then that is for the individual to choose, anything beyond that would be the dictionary defintion of blashphemy...
Foolish prophet
Thursday, December 19th, 2002: Cool! I will be checkin in! I like how it looks so far RadioD.! Congrads on the good work! More forums for more topics, etc. This is gonna be fun! Hehehehe! Peace!
The Two
***DECEMBER 16,2002: The Radio Diary has added a new chat room and message board. The old message board will not be taken down. The new message board will allow you to begin your own subjects for discussion. The chat room for now will follow the programming of the on air local talk radio and hip hop, gospel stations in DC/MD/VA.(i.e., 96.3 WHUR, MAJIC 102.3. WOL 1450, 89.3 WPFW, Heaven 1580). If you listen to any of these stations logon to the chat room for some lively talk. For now I will not require a "password". ..ENJOY IT..RADIODIARY@AOL.COM.
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Show Topic: ****NEW RADIO DIARY CHAT ROOM AND MESSAGE BOARD****
Washington, DC,
"Bush's Blacks: Race Traitors?" - Part II Part two of a Two-Part Series By Manning Marable TBWT Contributor Article Dated 12/15/2002 A minority tendency of the black middle class has defected to the Republican Far Right, for purposes of career advancement and economic gain. These "race traitors" have become active opponents of the black community's interests. In the field of education, the leading race traitor is Bush's Secretary of Education Roderick Raynor Paige. Born in 1933 in Monticello, Mississippi, Paige received his B.A. degree from the historically black Jackson State University, and subsequently his doctorate in physical education at Indiana University. Spending part of his professional life as a football coach and college athletic director, Paige served as dean of Texas Southern University's School of Education from 1984 to 1990. Elected to Houston's school board in 1989, Paige was named superintendent in 1994, the same year George W. Bush won the election as Texas governor. Paige's record as Houston's superintendent emphasized classroom teachers being forced to "teach to the test," reinforcing memorization and rote learning rather than actual comprehension. Paige was also responsible, according to education scholar Linda McNeil of Rice University, of a "systematic effort to drive out students who appeared unable to make the grade." As Houston's school superintendent, Paige also initiated a limited voucher program, using state education funds to permit children from the city's lowest performing schools to attend private but nonsectarian schools. Over the past two decades, much of Paige's career advancement was owed directly to the Bush family. In early 1980, Paige volunteered to support the senior Bush's effort to win the Republican Party's presidential nomination. When Reagan won the nomination and asked Bush to join his ticket, Paige ended up as a delegate to the 1980 Republican National Convention. Paige's closest associates suggest that his decision to join the Republican Party was "opportunist" - and Paige doesn't disagree. "I wouldn't discount that," Paige stated to the Washington Post. "In fact, some of my friends, we've discussed it and said this: 'The lines are shorter.'" In the field of foreign affairs, the leading race traitor, hands down, is Condoleeza Rice, Bush's National Security Adviser. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1954, Rice grew up under Jim Crow segregation. She earned her B.A. degree at the University of Denver in 1974, followed quickly by her M.A. from Notre Dame in 1975 and her doctorate at Denver in 1981. Rice was hired as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stanford University also in 1981, and she left the Democratic Party to become a Republican the next year. Rice's partisan political conversion during the Reagan-Bush years accelerated her career advancement. Rice served on the National Security Council, and returned to Stanford when in 1993 she became the first woman and first African American to become the university's provost. It didn't take long before the offers poured in. Rice was briefly touted as a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in California. She became a board member of the Chevron Corporation, where she so impressed and charmed her fellow board members that they actually named an oil supertanker after her - "the Condoleeza." At Stanford, she earned a reputation for cutting personnel and reducing university services with minimal faculty input. When challenged on her failure to promote diversity in university hiring, Rice publicly repudiated her previous support for affirmative action when she had been a member of the faculty. "I'm the chief academic officer now," Rice asserted to the press. "I say in principle that I don't believe in and in fact will not apply affirmative action (in university appointments)." Rice's emergence as a major black figure in the Republican Party occurred at the 2000 National Convention. In her convention address, she justified her membership in the party because "the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register" her father, but "the Republicans did. I want you to know," Rice declared to the cheering predominantly white audience, "that my father has never forgotten that day, and neither have I." The fact that the majority of these white racist Democrats two decades later comprised the South's Republican Party was conveniently ignored. Rice continued: "I joined the party for different reasons. I found a party that sees me as an individual, not as part of a group. I found a party that puts family first. I found a party that has love of liberty at its core. And I found a party that believes that peace begins with strength." For good measure, Rice also opposes all gun control laws, describing herself as "a Second Amendment absolutist." The Bush administration's most prominent African American, Secretary of State Colin Powell, falls far short of the race traitor category, because he's too principled. The son of Jamaican immigrants, Powell attended a working class school, the City University of New York, and joined the army as a second lieutenant in 1958. After a thirty-plus year career in the military, Powell served as the commander of the Army's Fifth Corps in Western Europe, national security adviser under Reagan, and subsequently George Bush's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the youngest ever. It's true that Powell earned millions from his speeches, at $75,000 per appearance, and received a $6 million advance for his 1995 autobiography. But it also is true that Powell's America's Promise: The Alliance for Youth started in 1998, raised $300 million for youth community-based programs. Powell had the integrity to speak before the Republican National Convention in defense of affirmative action: "Some of our party miss no opportunity to roundly and loudly condemn affirmative action that helped a few thousand kids get an education, but you hardly hear a whimper when it's affirmative action for lobbyists who load our federal tax code with preferences for special interests." Powell serves a president who joined the Texas Air National Guard to avoid serving in Vietnam, a president who advances a domestic policy agenda that in many respects he privately opposes. Powell is the last of a long line of African-American liberal Republicans, from the historical tradition of Frederick Douglass, through William T. Coleman, Secretary of Transportation in the Ford administration, and baseball star Jackie Robinson. The great dilemma for Powell and the few remnants of the black managerial and professional elite is that the core of their party implacably opposes blacks' interests. Even conservative black commentator Armstrong Williams admitted in late 2000: "white people don't choose their political affiliation based on affirmative action; countless black people do. . . . the only thing that the Republicans accomplish by digging their heels in opposition to the affirmative action issue, is the widespread alienation of black voters." White supremacy is a central component of the core ideology of modern Republicanism, and one thousand Colin Powells would not change that reality. At the end of the day, the conservative race traitors have nothing to offer the African-American community but symbols of personal upward mobility without the substance of collective empowerment and group development. There is no longer a sense of allegiance or obligation that links these public figures to black civil society. In his 1972 study Black Politics: A Theoretical and Structural Analysis, Hanes Walton, Jr., observed: "Though the appointment of blacks to high level federal positions does not improve the economic, educational, or political condition of the black masses, they are nevertheless impressive to black people. Such appointments revitalize the American dream and reawaken the black community to the possibility that with significant individual achievement, the 'American dream' is still workable. These positions, however, are usually more symbolic, honorific, and promotional than substantial and meaningful." Dr. Manning Marable is Professor of History and Political Science, and the Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York. "Along the Color Line" is distributed free of charge to over 350 publications throughout the U.S. and internationally. Dr. Marable's column is also available on the Internet at www.manningmarable.net
NM
I caught Old Smokin'Joe on CSPAN Radio Friday 13th. That man do love to hear hisself talk! He is an interesting mix of false bravado, hot air, and inanity. Like most ignoramuses..he hasn't a clue to his insignificance. All this hoopla about Trent Lott. Be careful..when you deny another freedom of speech, you deny yourself. I, for one, relish the freedom of publicly embracing the ineptitude of Crackers! What about those other Ki Kluxers who don't speak their mind. and harbor their thoughts?
Radio Afficianado!
Thursday, December 12th, 2002: I took KYS outta my box weeks ago so I wouldn't have even known this unless somebody talked about it at work. Olivia Fox is no longer on The Russ Parr Morning Show?
The Two
FYI: The WFPW (89.3 fm) LAB will meet next Wed, Dec. 18. at 7pm at the station. Sorry for "over posting." best, Sam Husseini WPFW LAB Chair
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Ole Joe is on the rag again. So you listeners foolish enough to try and call in to make a statement should be careful. He apparently has not taken his medication today, and is babbling out of his head claiming he knows more about being Black than other Black people. One of you ladies should call into his assistant and tell him what is good for PMS. Either that or take him out back and give him twenty lashes. That will teach him about getting uppity with his listening audience. Old Master done gave him too much freedom and he done forgot his place. He has gotten an old case of M.W.M (megalomaniac with a Microphone).
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Malcolm X Grassroots Movement View on Reparations Reparations to the Black Nation is not just another case of "handouts" from the government. We must remember our origins in this country; WAR was declared on us, and in the course of this war we were kidnapped by whites with the direct knowledge and involvement of the United States government. The United States Constitution clearly states in Article One, Section Nine, that the warfare know as the slave trade in Black flesh could be carried on in every state of the union that wanted to for twenty years. So-called Affirmative Action programs, supposedly designed for our people to right past wrongs are constantly coming under attack by white males in the courts, and the white males usually win. Therefore, the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement understands that Reparations are owed to our Nation from the United States of America. We are entitled to Reparations due to the loss of over 100 million Afrikans during the slave trade; we are entitled to Reparations due to the countless lynchings, Klan and police murders, National Guard, FBI and CIA murders of our people, and we are entitled to Reparations due to the fact that we built this country, laboring without one cent in wages for over 250 years, and as compensation for the land that was taken from us wrongfully.
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HUTCHINSON: Predatory Lending Mocks American Dream By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet December 6, 2002 For nearly a year, a stealthy war has raged across the nation between housing activists and lenders over the issue of predatory lending. This is the ugly practice in which a handful of greedy and unscrupulous lenders shamelessly scam mostly the elderly, poor, and minority homeowners or prospective homebuyers. The lenders promise them quick cash, easy payments, and minimal paperwork to refinance or get a new home loan. In many cases the ink on the borrower's contract is barely dry when they discover that the lender has dumped hidden fees, an escalating interest rate, and an unyielding repayment schedule on them. When unsuspecting homeowners miss a payment or two, the lender slaps a foreclosure notice on them. If, or more likely when, they don't pay they are rudely booted from homes in which they have lived for years. The lender quickly puts the house up for auction or direct sale on and makes a killing. The drive to nail predatory lenders gained steam in October when Household International agreed to pay nearly $500 million to low income homeowners in 19 states and Washington D.C. to settle charges that it engaged in illicit lending and foreclosure practices. Housing activists won more victories when the Los Angeles City Council recently passed a tough ordinance that gives home buyers greater protection from lending home foreclosures by rip-off lenders. New York City, Oakland, and Philadelphia have also passed similar laws. Though the Philadelphia ordinance was overturned by the state legislature, a handful of other states are currently considering tough laws against predatory lending. The Federal Reserve last year tightened disclosure rules on home loan costs and fees, but housing activists want Congress to pass legislation totally outlawing predatory lending. While tough state and city laws send a strong signal that home lending discrimination won't be tolerated, they won't put these scam artists totally out of business. Lenders will still have the legal right to make loans to whomever they want and on whatever terms they pretty much want. They will continue to get away with the scam because many big banks still drag their feet in making more loans available to inner city residents who want to buy or refinance their homes. In annual reports on mortgage lending discrimination, Greenlining, a San Francisco based public advocacy group, has blasted California's big banks for making an abysmally small number of conventional home loans to blacks and Latinos in Los Angeles. When the bankers are confronted with the paltry figures on inner city lending, they react with a mix of puzzlement, surprise, and knee-jerk outrage. They claim that the figures on lending discrimination are grossly misleading in that they ignore the number of government guaranteed loans and loans from non-profit lenders that minority home applicants receive. The bankers vehemently swear that they don't racially discriminate in making loans in minority communities. While there is no evidence of deliberate racial bias by bankers in making loans, the Greenlining annual surveys make it clear that lenders can and must radically increase the amount of lending in inner city neighborhoods, actively work with housing activists and community groups to devise programs to help more black and Latino homebuyers purchase homes. Those banks that refuse to make loans in inner city neighborhoods or only make a token number of well-publicized loans to keep government regulators off their backs give the rip-off lenders the gaping opening they need to do their dirty work. This virtually guarantees that many inner city neighborhoods remain filled with underserved renters stuck with badly lagging neighborhood services, inferior schools, a paucity of health services, and spiraling rates of crime and drug use. The housing shortfall also stunts business and commercial development in the area. Many retailers, supermarkets, and banks reflexively peg their decision to locate stores and branch offices in stable, middle-class residential areas. The housing gap especially between blacks and whites is a long-standing national problem that has gotten worse. Far fewer blacks than whites are homeowners. But even this grossly understates the magnitude of the problem. According to a study by Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies, minority home owners pay far more of their income for affordable housing, and are far less able to find it than whites. In well-timed speeches and appearances, President Bush earlier this year pledged to black church and community groups that he would fight to end lending discrimination and to free up more funds for home loans to minorities. Cynics dismiss this a campaign ploy to bag more black voters, but the fact that Bush made lending and affordable housing an issue tells much about the magnitude of the housing crisis. Politicians fondly boast that homeownership is the key to making the American dream a reality. Predatory lending makes a mockery of that dream. Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and columnist. Visit his news and opinion website: www.thehutchinsonreport.com He is the author of The Crisis in Black and Black (Middle Passage Press).
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"Bush's Blacks: Race Traitors?" Part One of a Two-Part Series By Manning Marable TBWT Contributor Article Dated 12/9/2002 For over one hundred years, the African-American middle class has largely supported what I call "liberal integrationism," the organized attempt to assimilate into the U.S. mainstream to achieve a "color blind" society. Through groups such as the NAACP, liberal integrationists have allied themselves usually with the Democratic Party, and have pursued reform strategies such as affirmative action and minority economic set-asides, that promoted capital formation and the long-term expansion of the middle class within the black community. This liberal approach to racial policy, however, has never been universally accepted within the black bourgeoisie as a class. A minority segment of the black bourgeoisie, especially those elements most extremely hostile to black nationalism, have argued that pluralist-style, interest-group politics have not and do not advance blacks' interests as individuals. The ultimate goal of "integration" should be, ideally, the complete elimination of separate black and white institutions, and the end of race-based criteria for directing public policy. This wing of the black bourgeoisie has relied more heavily on white corporate and philanthropic support to advance its goals, and since the 1970s has developed a strategic dependency on Republican administrations in the White House and the Republican-controlled Congress to advance their careers. They shift back and forth between government positions within conservative administrations, then back to private sector managerial and executive positions for personal wealth accumulation. They usually argue against "racial quotas," and believe that private enterprise and the free market, if left alone without excessive governmental regulations, would ultimately solve the country's race problem. During the long nightmare of Jim Crow segregation, it was difficult for any sane Negro to advocate such an individualistic conservative integrationist philosophy. The comprehensive nature of Jim Crow as a social system based on white supremacy, made absolutely necessary for blacks to build race-conscious organizations to defeat it. It was only after the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act which outlawed legal segregation-but significantly, did not destroy racial restrictions in private clubs and institutions-that this conservative element of the black bourgeoisie found its true voice. In electoral politics, black Republican Edward Brooke emerged after winning the election as Massachusetts Attorney General in 1962, and four years later, becoming U.S. Senator. Brooke rarely, during his twelve-year career in the Senate, identified himself as a "black politician." After his 1966 election, he hired only two blacks out of a nineteen-member staff. He supported affirmative action, but took economic and social policy positions to the right of many mainstream white Democrats. Brooke had no problem campaigning twice for the election of Richard M. Nixon. Political scientist Chuck Stone once described Brooke as "Mr. Non-Negro Politics," and "the answer to the white man's prayers." Brooke's success in the Republican Party created a model to which others within the most conservative wing of the black bourgeoisie would aspire. Floyd McKissick, the former head of the Congress of Racial Equality, endorsed Nixon's re-election in 1972 in return for federal support for "Soul City," a planned community located in North Carolina. With Reagan's election to the presidency in 1980, a new generation of black conservatives found their way into power: Melvin Bradley, minority business development and black colleges adviser to Reagan; Thaddeus Garret, domestic policy adviser to Vice President George Bush; Thelma Duggin, who was involved in the GOP's national black voter program in 1980, and subsequently a deputy to Reagan, cabinet member Elizabeth Dole; Clarence Thomas who in 1981 was appointed the Education Department's Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights; and Clarence Pendleton, former head of the San Diego branch of the Urban League who was selected as chairman of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. This group of opportunists was provided ideological cover by a group of conservative intellectuals, prominently including economists Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Glenn Loury, and later in the 1980s, with the emergence of author Shelby Steele. This conservative wing of the black middle class during the 1980s and 1990s, in effect, committed "racial suicide," in the sense that it disavowed any sense of obligation, or "linked fates," with what happens to the masses of disadvantaged African Americans. There is no sense of personal responsibility or accountability to a political project that is race-based. They wish to be judged as "individuals," not as part of the larger "black community." They explicitly reject any notions of the concept that their career advancement was largely a product of a mass, democratic movement to challenge structural racism. So in this limited sense, the reactionary wing of the black political elite has stopped being "black" in terms of its historical function as an oppositional group against racism. They are essentially "race traitors": dedicated to the destruction of all racial categories, or even for some the collection of data indicating racial discrimination; critical of the liberal integrationist establishment; and enthusiastic boosters of capitalism as we know it. The first Bush administration's most prominent "race traitor" a decade ago was unquestionably Clarence Thomas. Since his 1991 appointment as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court, Thomas has consistently voted against affirmative action, civil rights, and social policies designed to advance the interests of the truly disadvantaged. Some of Thomas's closest personal friends are Attorney General John Ashcroft and Solicitor General Theodore Olson in the Bush administration-in fact, Thomas even officiated at Olson's wedding. In a confused and angry tirade delivered at the conservative American Enterprise Institute's Francis Boyer Award dinner in Washington, D.C., on February 13, 2001, Thomas defended his dissenting opinion which argued that the beating of a handcuffed prisoner was not tantamount to "cruel and unusual punishment" as defined by the Eighth Amendment. He praised as his "friend and mentor" Jay Parker, formerly a registered agent for the white minority apartheid regime in South Africa. He then cited the work of conservative historian Gertrude Himmelfarb to attack the ideal of maintaining "civility" as "the governing principle of citizenship or leadership." For Thomas, conservatives have a moral obligation to vigorously oppose liberal politics. "The war in which we are engaged is cultural, not civil," Thomas declared, which "tests whether this 'nation conceived in liberty ... can long endure.'" The spirit of political intolerance, the refusal to compromise or to reach halfway toward a political opponent, was for Thomas essential for the defense of a free society. "An overemphasis on civility," Thomas warned, "allows our critics to intimidate us. As I have said, active citizens are often subjected to truly vile attacks; they are branded as mean-spirited, racist, Uncle Tom, homophobic, sexist, etc." The challenge to conservatives was not to "be tolerant and nonjudgmental," but to fight back hard. Compromise, Thomas warned, "is cowardice, or well-intentioned self-deception." Thomas's ideological commitment to evangelical, free market racial assimilationism knows no boundaries. Even as reported in USA Today, Thomas once declared, "If I type one work in my word processor" in favor of affirmative action, "I break God's law." One might condemn Clarence Thomas as an "Uncle Tom," but that would be an insult to "Uncle Toms." Thomas, the "race traitor," unfortunately represents a growing list of conservative blacks who actively oppose the black community's interests. Dr. Manning Marable is Professor of History and Political Science, and the Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York. "Along the Color Line" is distributed free of charge to over 350 publications throughout the U.S. and internationally. Dr. Marable's column is also available on the Internet at www.manningmarable.net
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DECEMBER 9, 2003: Happy Holidays and Holydays to the Radio Diary family. Well, this has been a long year. The Radio Diary website is still alive and “kicking” . I have been busy making some changes which will include the following. Sometime this week I am going to bring back the 24 hour chat room along with a new message board. The chat room will be available to you as a “dialogue tool”. I will post a schedule for any guest that will appear. Also, if you have issues that you would like to discuss in the chat forum email me and I will post the notice. The new message board will include a new format. The new format will include columns to list the author, topic, date, time, of the person posting and will allow for individuals to respond directly to your specific topic. The way the current message board is set up topics and responses are all over the place. I’m really excited about the new additions and I hope you all embrace it. IT’S COSTING ME MONEY. The chat room is a perfect forum for “Billy Ray” to discuss the inner workings of 89.3 WPFW. That story has yet to be told and needs to be told by “Billy Ray”. Another new addition to the Radio Diary website will be a polling tool. Finally, the new chat room and message will come with a password protected option. I am undecided if I will exercise the option to require “password access”. If I do require a password it is solely to maintain order and none thing more. So, tell your friends about the Radio Diary website and let’s move forward into 2003 together. Peace and Hair Grease (brother bey’s saying) ..RADIODIARY@AOL.COM
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DECEMBER 9, 2003: Happy Holidays and Holydays to the Radio Diary family. Well, this has been a long year. The Radio Diary website is still alive and “kicking” . I have been busy making some changes which will include the following. Sometime this week I am going to bring back the 24 hour chat room along with a new message board. The chat room will be available to you as a “dialogue tool”. I will post a schedule for any guest that will appear. Also, if you have issues that you would like to discuss in the chat forum email me and I will post the notice. The new message board will include a new format. The new format will include columns to list the author, topic, date, time, of the person posting and will allow for individuals to respond directly to your specific topic. The way the current message board is set up topics and responses are all over the place. I’m really excited about the new additions and I hope you all embrace it. IT’S COSTING ME MONEY. The chat room is a perfect forum for “Billy Ray” to discuss the inner workings of 89.3 WPFW. That story has yet to be told and needs to be told by “Billy Ray”. Another new addition to the Radio Diary website will be a polling tool. Finally, the new chat room and message will come with a password protected option. I am undecided if I will exercise the option to require “password access”. If I do require a password it is solely to maintain order and none thing more. So, tell your friends about the Radio Diary website and let’s move forward into 2003 together. Peace and Hair Grease (brother bey’s saying) ..RADIODIARY@AOL.COM
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The Price of Apartheid In Human Terms, South Africa's Repressive System Cost Dearly. Some Victims Want U.S. Corporations to Pay. Dumisa Ntsebeza, meeting here with Columbia University students, dismisses those who "are asking for amnesia instead of investigation" of apartheid's ills. (Helayne Seidman For The Washington Post) From 95 of the world's top photojournalists, A Day in the Life of Africa. By Lynne Duke Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, December 3, 2002; Page C01 NEW YORK Only someone who's been there can joke about solitary confinement. Dumisa Buhle Ntsebeza, a South African human rights lawyer, is one such expert. He knows what it's like. He knows how it feels. Addressing a small gathering of poli-sci grad students at Columbia University earlier this fall, Ntsebeza offered wryly that you can go a little nuts, sitting in a cell alone. Back in South Africa in the 1970s, during a five-year stretch of political imprisonment, Ntsebeza spent 137 days in solitary. Along with his younger brother, Lungisile, he'd been convicted for being an activist against the racist system of white minority rule known as apartheid. He survived his confinement without going insane. A particular trick of the trade got him through. So if anyone should ever hear him talking to himself, he says to the rapt students, they mustn't be too alarmed. "Those of us who have been in solitary confinement know about talking to one's self to maintain sanity," he says glibly. It is gallows humor, survivor's humor, honed by the lashes of time and hardship in the old South African anti-apartheid struggle. And in many ways, that struggle isn't over. He sounds both sage and bitter as he speaks of his country's "unfinished business." South Africa's historic transition to democracy eight years ago left a lot of loose ends. When he isn't in the classroom up at the University of Connecticut in Storrs teaching law or political science as a visiting professor, Ntsebeza, 53, is likely on the phone with fellow lawyers or in court. A luta continua, the old revolutionary slogan goes, and Ntsebeza's struggle goes on, even while he's here in the United States in a cushy position with his family. He is trying, still, to right the wrongs of apartheid, taking a novel approach that already has opened anew the Pandora's box of apartheid-era secrets. Despite his government's opposition, Ntsebeza has joined with the army of lawyers who won damages against Swiss and German companies for World War II-era injustices. Now, in two major lawsuits, they are after "apartheid reparations" from the multinational companies -- such as IBM, General Motors, Citigroup and ExxonMobil -- that did business with the apartheid state and thus allegedly facilitated the kind of repressive policies and actions that were a hallmark of the old South Africa. It's not the outcome one would have expected of Ntsebeza five years ago in South Africa, when he worked with Desmond Tutu, the former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town. When Tutu chaired South Africa's post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), Ntsebeza sat by his side in public hearing after public hearing as the nation spilled out its untold stories of torture, imprisonment, murder, rape, mayhem. Back then, Ntsebeza's mission was about healing. As chief of investigations for the groundbreaking project, he supervised the ferreting out of the hidden truths of apartheid. Created by an act of parliament as a hallmark of Nelson Mandela's presidency, the commission investigated human rights abuses, granted amnesty to torturers and killers, recommended reparations for their victims, and wrote a five-volume history of South Africa's apartheid era based on many of the investigations that Ntsebeza led. But what the truth commission could not do was mete out justice. That was not its mandate when Mandela signed the panel into law in 1995. There could be no retribution for apartheid, Mandela's new black government knew, because apartheid's foot soldiers, generals and civilian leaders remained potent military and economic forces. So no one has been punished for apartheid, a system that lasted from 1948 until 1994. Apartheid's political leaders and henchmen have walked free, by and large, while many of the system's victims remain unrepaired, emotionally and materially. And reconciliation, that shining but distant goal, remains out of reach for many. "There's a hollowness that is now being seen by the victims in their own concept of reconciliation," Ntsebeza says in an interview, as he explains why he has signed on as legal counsel for the reparations claims. At first blush, this litigiousness seems a contradiction. But Ntsebeza has a habit of going against the grain. Growing up under apartheid, especially in South Africa's Transkei region, agitation became a way of life. Known for its repression, that mountainous Indian Ocean district produced the likes of Mandela, Stephen Biko, the Black Consciousness Movement leader murdered by police in 1977, and the country's current president, Thabo Mbeki. Ntsebeza became a schoolteacher, though his bouts of political imprisonment ultimately led him to the law. He completed his legal studies through a distance-learning program for prisoners and entered the legal profession upon his release in the 1980s as a human rights lawyer for apartheid victims. He has remained, however, a fiercely independent figure. Unlike many other prominent South Africans of today, he is not a member of the African National Congress, the liberation movement turned ruling party. While many others from the left-leaning liberation days now call themselves democrats, he still calls himself a socialist. And unlike those who would jump at such prestige, Ntsebeza has declined several nominations to sit on the High Court of South Africa, a mid-level judicial post. It would be too confining, says the stout, jovial man who speaks with the musical accent and deeply rolled R's of his homeland. "I always wanted to be a freethinker," he says. "There are those of us in society who should remain freethinkers." So, no, he says, there is nothing odd about seeking reconciliation on the one hand and accountability on the other. The two, he says, are complementary. "I don't consider that there is anything mutually exclusive between what the TRC sought to do and what this claim seeks to do," he says. "The TRC failed as an institution to find the evidence that would show that the role of business was such that they were complicit in South African apartheid," he says. That failure was due to lack of time, lack of resources and lack of full cooperation from big business, he says. "Even if they were not directly involved in the perpetration of the violence, they created an environment in which these human rights abuses took place." Those Left Behind Between them, the apartheid reparations cases include some iconic families from the liberation struggle. Dorothy Molefi, for instance, is the mother of Hector Peterson. At age 13, he was the first black student shot by police at the start of the Soweto uprising of 1976 that spread across South Africa and left a thousand more black youths dead. Hector's photograph was one of the most searing images of the anti-apartheid struggle: With his sister screaming beside him, his lifeless body dangles in the arms of a crying friend running for help. Another plaintiff is Nyameka Goniwe. She is the widow of Matthew Goniwe, a schoolteacher, principal and anti-apartheid activist from the town of Cradock who disappeared in 1985 along with three other men. Their burned and mutilated bodies were discovered several days later. After the transition to democracy, six apartheid-era security police officers confessed to the truth commission that they murdered the men, known in death as the Cradock Four. (The officers were denied amnesty, which does not necessarily mean they will be prosecuted, for no one who has been denied amnesty has been charged.) Dennis Brutus, the renowned poet and apartheid opponent, also is a plaintiff. Starting in the early 1960s, he was banned from teaching, publishing or attending public meetings. He was arrested and jailed, then shot while attempting to escape, and sentenced to hard labor and a brief stint at the infamous prison on Robben Island. Last but not least is Lungisile Ntsebeza. Along with his brother, he too was detained as an anti-apartheid activist in the 1970s, in the old apartheid-created black "homeland" of the Transkei. The Ntsebeza family was prominent for its activism and thus targeted by police. The two brothers ran secret resistance group meetings, were convicted of furthering the aims of communism, jailed and tortured, then banished to remote areas upon their release. The brothers were arrested again in 1985, but not charged, for protesting the police murder of their cousin, Bathandwa Ndondo, another activist. Today Lungisile is senior researcher for land and agrarian studies at the University of the Western Cape. It looks a little odd that one brother is the lawyer while the other is the plaintiff, which raises the question of motives and payoffs and what the parties stand to gain. Ntsebeza the lawyer hears the question forming before it even comes out. "Am I in it for the money?" he asks matter-of-factly. "I mean, I work for money. So if there are financial rewards, I'm going to be quite happy to be part of it. But that's not the primary motivation. "I am in this thing because I am a lawyer who's been involved all my life with human rights issues. This is an area of international human rights law which is very imprecise, in which the law is developmental. And if it is possible, I would like a legal precedent to be created. . . . I would like to see the American courts making a decision on these issues. The time has come." Staking Claims Ntsebeza has taken some lumps from the legal community here and from part of the apartheid reparations movement back in South Africa for hitching himself to Ed Fagan, the most vocal, mediagenic and controversial of the Holocaust lawyers. Fagan's tactics, including aggressively prodding defendants to settle, raise eyebrows. "There's no question that I go about these cases in a very aggressive and very zealous manner," says Fagan, who believes his well-known media bluster gets results. Fagan also is the lead lawyer in a U.S. slavery reparations case. Filed in federal court as a class action earlier this year, it seeks damages from corporations that benefited from slave labor. Jubilee South Africa, the campaign to convince global creditors to forgive the debt of developing nations, is backing a different apartheid reparation lawsuit by a different group of lawyers. But because Fagan was first out of the gate and Ntsebeza was eager to be involved, he signed on with the controversial lawyer. Ntsebeza says the two groups want the same thing. But clearly they don't agree on how to get it. The Ntsebeza-Fagan claim, which awaits a judge's approval to become a class-action suit, was filed in June in federal court in Manhattan, on behalf of five South African plaintiffs. Fagan filed similar suits in six other states as well, based on the locations of the defendant companies. A much larger suit, backed by Jubilee and seeking individual damages, was filed last month in federal court in Brooklyn, on behalf of the Khulumani group of apartheid-era victims, which includes more than 30,000 South Africans. The suits are filed under the Alien Claims Tort Act, which allows foreign nationals to sue in U.S. courts for human rights abuses committed abroad. Collectively, the actions seek damages from more than 30 American, European and Asian companies that did business with the apartheid government. The cases claim that the companies bear some responsibility for the human rights abuses committed under apartheid because their businesses in some cases directly facilitated security measures or at least helped keep the South African government going. The Ntsebeza-Fagan suit also cites employment discrimination as grounds for action, based on the well-known race differentials in pay and benefits in the apartheid workplace. (A system that the United Nations dubbed a "crime against humanity," apartheid literally means "apartness" in the Afrikaans language.) The lawsuits target computer manufacturers, including IBM, for selling to South Africa the systems used to create the dreaded "pass books" that were a central tool of racial classification and control under apartheid. The suits target car manufacturers, including General Motors, for selling to South Africa the vehicles and other equipment used to repress dissent and black activism. They target oil companies, including ExxonMobil, whose sales to South Africa allegedly violated international embargoes, as well as banks, such as Citigroup, whose credit allowed South Africa to expand its repressive security system. All the companies deny that they had any complicity in apartheid. "We believe the suit is without merit," says Christina Pretto, a Citigroup spokesperson. "We believe that this lawsuit does not help the South African people or the economic development of the country," says Sandra C. Duhe of ExxonMobil. Jay Cooney, GM's director of legal communications: "We were on the right side. We adamantly opposed apartheid." Privately, though, the companies are somewhat rattled, says a source familiar with the lawsuits. The last thing they want is for the cases to reach the discovery process, when they'd have to open their books, account for their behavior in apartheid South Africa and risk an adverse impact on their commercial dealings today. Looking for Support Not even the South African government is happy about these lawsuits, which appear to cast the Mbeki administration in a negative light. By law, reparations for apartheid are supposed to be the government's responsibility. In 1998, the truth commission certified 22,000 people as victims of gross violations of human rights during apartheid and recommended they be paid reparations. They were widows left with children and no income. Maimed torture victims who no longer could work. Orphans. But so far, payments have been made only in a few dire cases. Victims' groups have taken their government to court in South Africa to gain access to reparations records. Khulumani, South Africa's main victims' group, simply got tired of waiting and filed its suit. The official line from the government is that the apartheid lawsuits will harm South Africa economically. The South Africa newspaper Business Day quoted Justice Minister Penuel Maduna as saying last week that the government did not support the lawsuits because officials are "talking to those very same companies named in the lawsuits about investing in post-apartheid South Africa." Even the last white president, Frederik W. de Klerk, has piped up in this debate, throwing his support behind the multinationals being sued. The lawsuits, de Klerk says in a statement on his foundation's Web site, would make multinationals "even more reluctant to do business with African countries" and "raise unrealistic expectations among thousands of black South Africans." Of such criticism Ntsebeza says: "Well, I'm not worried about that, because it's something I've come to expect from certain communities. Those are communities that are asking for amnesia instead of investigation." Ntsebeza does not plan to let the world forget what happened during apartheid. He's consulted with his old boss, Archbishop Tutu, and received his support. Tutu's truth commission pleaded in vain for big business, domestic and foreign, to come forward and discuss its dealings with apartheid. Today, Tutu is quoted routinely in support of the reparations lawsuits. Moving Forward The field of law that Ntsebeza now is practicing is relatively new, and alien tort claims are often derided as meritless legal stretches. Still, such claims are increasingly being filed by victims of human rights abuses in countries where U.S. companies are doing, or have done, business with repressive regimes. Lawsuits have come from Indonesia, Colombia, Nigeria, Ecuador and Papua New Guinea, mostly targeting oil and mining companies. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently granted legitimacy to the theory of the alien tort when it reinstated a case thrown out by a lower court and ruled that peasants from Burma did indeed have standing to sue. In that case against the oil giant Unocal, the Burmese villagers claim they were used as forced labor, even shot, by Burmese troops providing security to a Unocal pipeline project. The case also was filed in state court, where a judge ruled the human rights claim was indeed actionable. If it goes to trial, it would be the first such case to do so. Earlier this year, the State Department intervened in at least one of the alien tort claims. It told a U.S. District Court that a lawsuit filed against ExxonMobil by Indonesian villagers could harm the war on terrorism. But Michael Hausfield, counsel in the Khulumani case, says that in fact these kinds of claims support the war on terror. If a body of law develops to sanction companies that do business with repressive and brutal regimes, then terrorism could be diminished, he says. "Rogue governments like apartheid South Africa are no different from rogue terrorists. They need to be financed, they need to be supplied, they need to be administered to." Despite the critics who claim these kinds of lawsuits are an abuse of tort laws, Ntsebeza has been watching the Unocal case cling to life and has concluded jovially, "You never know until the courts have decided. "Until there is a pronouncement by the court, each theory that each lawyer puts forward is a very good case," he says with a chuckle. Serious now, he adds: "I do not know if we have a winning formula. I do not know. But I know one thing: We have got an arguable case."
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Thursday, December 5th, 2002: The Radio Topic of the morning? You know it. The Whitney Interview on ABC with Diane Sawyer. Opinions across the dial seemed to be a resounding thumbs down. On The Tom Joyner Show, the Editor of 'Sister to Sister' Magazine, tells us that former R&B/Pop singer Pebbles is now a "Prophet" and is Whitney's spritual guide? J. Anthony Brown hit it on the head when he said, "Prophet Pebbles"?! "Prophet Pebbles"? I agree something about that dont sound right. Isn't this the same Pebbles featured on VH1's 'Behind The Music' that took TLC for all the money they had and gave them bad contracts to top it off? If that's true, it sounds like Whitney's spiritual help aint gonna be no help at all. Huggy Lowdown on WPGC didn't even want to touch the Whitney and Bobby interview,(you know it gotta be bad if Huggy dont wanna go there!) but stated he has two contendors for Friday's 'Bama of The Week.' The third will be the folks who said DC Public Schools will be opening on time this morning in the midst of all the snow and then right before school started said they would be closed. All those degrees on the DC School Board and no dang common sense! They been doin it that way for over 40 years, and PG, Montgomery County and Va are on cruise control for the snow school closings. Makes me wanna hollah! Peace!
The Two
Did you all know that the concept and idea of "reparations" is that IT is what the defeated Nation pays to the Nation which conquered it in a war. It is the equivalent of the "booty" of war. It is not a payment FROM the conquering nation to a nation conquered; it is the exact opposite. So those people who are going around advocating "reparations" are -- at best -- ill-informed and working some kinda of scheme on the Blackman here in America.
Minister of Offense and Defense
Reparations And The African Centered Curriculum Movement ContinueBy Conrad W. Worrill TBWT Contributor Article Dated 12/2/2002. Part of our repair as an African people is the continued struggle to organize to challenge the teaching of African and Africans in America history in the public schools of America. This should be high on the agenda of the Reparations Movement. Throughout the development of education in the western world, the idea of transmitting knowledge has been done through what is called a curriculum. It is through this curriculum that people are taught the values, concepts, principles, and theories that undergird the basic philosophy of any agreed upon knowledge. This agreed upon knowledge is called a discipline. In the late 1960s, the Black Liberation Movement charged American educational institutions as being racist and whit supremacist. One of the movements that developed as a result of these charges was the call for a more accurate and thorough recognition of the contributions of Africans in America and African people worldwide to be included in the curriculums of elementary, secondary, and higher education. This movement became known as the Black Studies Movement. Throughout America, particularly on college campuses and high schools, battles unfolded for the revision of curriculums that were racist in their interpretations of history and its impact on African people. The demands of the Black Liberation Movement were so forceful (in some instances buildings were seized by students demanding Black Studies be taught at their schools) that many universities began to develop Black Studies programs. On the secondary and elementary level in many school districts throughout the United States task forces were developed to study, evaluate, and recommend changes in public school curriculums regarding the contributions and history of African people in the world. It has been over thirty years since the call was made for Black Studies and since the first Black Studies program was established at San Francisco State University, after months of intense battle by African in America students with university officials. During this current climate of so-called educational reform, very little discussion has taken place regarding the continued racism and white supremacy of American public school curriculums. The great movement of the 1960s and 70s put the issue of Black Studies on the American agenda, but like many issues of the 1960s, they have either fallen by the wayside or have been put on the backburner. The concern has shifted from what is being taught to African in America children to the problems with skill development in reading and math. There must be a balance in our concerns for what is taught and skill development. To have African in America children skilled and proficient at reading and math, but having no idea of who they are or where they came from will repeat the historical errors of education that Carter G. Woodson so insightfully discusses in his 1933 publication of the Miseducation of the Negro. We must not abandon the struggle to demand that the public school curriculums in America be changed to reflect an accurate interpretation of the history, culture, and contributions of African people in math, science, language arts, art, and social studies. At the Ninth National Convention of the National Black United Front (NBUF), in 1988, in Kansas City, Missouri, the decision was made to place education as a major priority in our National Plan of Action in the work of NBUF carries our in all of its chapters. NBUF drew on the success of the Portland Chapter members of NBUF who were able to organize the African in America community in Portland to demand significant changes be made in what is called the baseline areas of the curriculum as it relates to African people. Some of the best African minds in the world, such as our distinguished ancestor Dr. John Henrik Clarke, and Dr. Asa G. Hilliard were brought in as consultants to help rewrite the curriculum of the Portland Public Schools. This document has become known as the Portland Model and has been implemented selectively in other school districts around the country, particularly in cities where there are NBUF Chapters. However, we are still at the embryonic stages of its implementation. NBUF maintains that, “The issue of education when properly approached is a mass issue that when won will have a mass impact on the minds of millions of Black youth and thousands of Black youth locally. Portland NBUF has demonstrated that a well organized Black community behind a core of dedicated NBUF members can force local school boards to adopt an African Centered Program of curriculum change along with other changes that will be called for in each locality.” For the sake of our children, we must take on this challenge as we continue to build the Reparations Movement. (Dr. Conrad Worrill is the National Chairman of the National Black United Front (NBUF) located at 12817 South Ashland Avenue, Fl. 1, Calumet Park, Illinois, 60827, 708-389-9929, Fax# 708-389-9819, E-mail: nbufchi@allways.net, Web site: nbufront.org)
NM
Wednesday, December 4th, 2002: Is it just me, or are more and more female news anchors on TV and Cable News Stations and Shows dressing like it's Friday and they're on their way to the clubs? I've seen more tight,black leather sports blazers and fly haircuts on these ladies delivering the news in the last month than at the clubs themselves! I guess it's called "fashionable news" now? They look like they're about to go out on a hot date after they finish their newscast! Lol. And it's not even Tuesday! In Radio News, I heard WPFW's own Katia Stitt is back in the house at 89.3, Katia I give mucho props to for spinnning everyone from Pharoah Sanders, to Coltrane, to Yusef Lateef, to The African Heritage Ensemble, to Don Cherry, to Lester Bowie, to Sun Ra and more in the early 90's on PFW. Those shows she hosted were smooth as silk, mellow, conscious, informative, educational and all that. Her relaxing, sweet, voice was the icing on the cake. Also heard Hodari Ali co/hosting with Askia Muhammad this week in the mornings on PFW playin the Jazz and spreadin' the peaceful message of Islam, and sharing definitions of Ramadan and other good vibrations timely for this Holiday Season that reminds us it's not all about the Ho' Ho' Ho', mall sales and Rudolph! WPFW this past week is sounding like the old days: timely news esp. for the black community, Jazz, droppin science all in between the grooves, and more Jazz, and that ain't bad at all. More and more comercial FM'ers are slowly but surely mixing in the Christmas Hits. In the next few weeks, it will be all we hear across the dial. "So it has begun...." Peace!
The Two
December 3, 2002:Tonight, Monday, there is a WPFW (89.3 fm) Local Advisory Board meeting dealing with the rewriting of Pacifica's bylaws. More information on several bylaws proposals is available at http://www.wbai.net The meeting is at 7 pm at the station, 2390 Champlain Street, NW. (The following LAB meeting will be on Wed, evening, Dec. 11.) Beginning Friday, there will be a meeting of the interim Pacifica National Board meeting at All Souls Church. For more information, including information on schedule (public comment is scheduled for Friday evening and Sunday morning) and making housing available, see: http://www.pacifica.org, http://www.pacifica.org/news/021206_iPNBmeeting.html It's a great opportunity to talk about what you would like to see Pacifica and WPFW doing. From Tuesday to Thursday, there will be conference on Pacifica, details follow. best, Sam Husseini PACIFICA NOW! Bringing together the power of the human spirit through the radio to inspire creative activism for healing and peace with justice Three Evening Programs All Souls Unitarian Church, 16th & Harvard Washington DC, NW Tues. Dec. 3rd: Spirituality, Vision & Mission Wed. Dec. 4th: Pathways and Obstacles Thur. Dec. 5th: Against the War at Home and Abroad Food Available 5:30 Program 6:00 Open Mic and Small Talk 9:00-'till?? Mixing Programmers, WPFW community, Movement organizers with Music, Analysis and Speak Outs! $5 Suggested Donation – No one turned away Pacifica Now! is a series of forums that encourage dialogue, power sharing and collaboration between stakeholders in the Pacifica community. Pacifica Now! is sponsoring community meetings in Washington DC, with the goal of bringing the many voices from WPFW Radio Station, its Local Advisory Board, and community together to share in a vision about what the station is and could be. We've agreed to sponsor three evening programs. Each will have space for community members to speak out and talk to one another. The meetings will occur at All Soul's Unitarian Church, 1600 Harvard St, Washington DC-NW. Program will began at 6:00. Doors will open at 5:30. 5$ donation at the door, no one turned away for lack of funds. Dec. 3rd: Mission and Vision What are the mission’s of WPFW and Pacifica? What is WPFW’s history? What unique perspective and power does WPFW offer the district and Pacifica? What roles will the LAB, station and network have in determining how the mission is interpreted? Toni Regusters, WPFW interim station manager*, Sam Husseini, WPFW LAB chair, Damu Smith, Co-founder of "Black Voices for Peace" and WPFW programmer of "Spirit in Action.", Rev. Grayland Hagler, Pastor at Plymouth Congregational Church and social justice activist. Dec. 4th: Pathways and Obstacles Pacifica is undergoing dramatic changes: new by-laws, listener-sponsored elections, new staff, and renewed movements for justice have opened new possibilities. However, lack of clear responsibility and coordination as well as lack of resources and external opposition could stifle progress. Music programming has been falsely pitted against public affairs. Racial polarization has confused matters. Dialogue and cooperation are essential to freeing all of our energy. Ron Pinchback, WPFW Program Director, Fahima Seck, LAB member and station programmer, James Early, Board chair of the Institute for Policy Studies, Art Seaman, **Don Foster is a media activist and organizer, formerly the public affairs director at KPFA, an independent producer in the Caribbean and was News and Public Affairs Director at WPFW from 1985-1990. ***Neil MacLean has facilitated Pacifica community meetings over the last four years with the support of the Unitarian Association.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Caucasian Whiteman agrees wholeheartedly that the poor "blind, deaf and dumb" Blackman is the source that fuels his nation and the force that is keeping his ailing economy on life-support, yet the Blackman is too dumb to realize the power that he has to bring an end to his present miserable condition. The Caucasian Whiteman further agrees that he will continue to take full advantage of the poor "blind, deaf and dumb" Blackman until he wakes up -- and if the Blackman does not wake up very soon the Caucasian Whiteman is in full agreement to make a perpetual slave of the poor "blind, deaf and dumb" Blackman or drive him into the bowels of the Earth -- while Allah brings His Own out of this condition with great substance. One indication of this sad affliction of the Blackman is how programmed he is. He, being head of the Black family, is primarily responsible for whatever condition his family is in. The Blackwoman, although she has been made to think that she has power, only the right to be a balance or sounding board for a wide-awake Blackman, and if the Blackman is right in what he seeks to do she will have no choice to do other than what he proves to her must be done. Even though the Blackman is currently a "dead-God", he is still God. Because the Blackman does not think properly he continues to give away his power and the Christmas Season is a prime example of the lost opportunity to demonstrate and benefit from our power. As an example, at this time of year merchants and retailers are trying to generate profits to balance out their year-end totals so they have wisely and shrewdly concocted the scheme of "holidays" which cause people, particularly the poor "blind, deaf and dumb" Blackman and his family to go out and purchase material things with money that they usually do not have to spare. If the Blackman had control of his family, he could instruct them to not engage in any of the consumer activity associated with this season, and not buy ANYTHING other than absolute necessities of life, thereby forcing the retailers to reduce their prices eventually to cost because of the lack of sales which the Blackman (through his woman, mostly) insist on participating in "for the sake of the children." (If you think this is debatable or even inaccurate, then just pay attention to how many Black people there are in the shopping malls or stores that you venture into for the next few weeks, and look at how much they are buying . . . also look at how many Black women there are caught up in the "Christmas Season".) Now, were the Blackman to effect the power of proper thought on this situation and not make anything than necessary purchases, after the New Year the retailers would be so desperate to sell their inflated inventory that the Blackman could -- if necessary -- purchase what he wanted then at deep discounts and satisfy his true needs in an intelligent way -- and also give the robber-baron retailers a swift kick in the butt at the same time. However, to do this it would require both discipline and selflessness -- two things that are sadly missing from the Blackman's family structure. Consequently, because of not submitting himself to live the Divine degree of life, he has chosen to allow the Caucasian Whiteman (mostly operating through the thorough indoctrination of his Black woman) to trick him into operating on the lowest aspect of life -- the material level, the trinkets, the bells, the "Nat King Cole songs in the department store" -- in which the Blackman has no real vested interest in because the Blackman produces very-little-to-nothing that he consumes. Everyone gets rich off of the Blackman's money but him. The Blackman does not think in terms of "since I eat bread, I should have my own bakery", or "since I use gasoline, I should have my own filling station", or "my own transportation system to transport me and my family where I choose to go", or "my own grocery stores to sell what I grow", or "my own school to educate and illuminate the minds of my own children". The Blackman has been reduced to a professional consumer, not even producing the toilet paper that he and his family wipe their behinds (hopefully) every day, or even the napkins that he, his wife and children wipe their greasy mouths after eating the fast food death that they would rather eat than real, healthy food. The Blackman wants to eat food every day -- sometimes two or three times a day -- yet he rarely thinks in terms of securing some land or associating himself with those who have secured land and a system of farming it in order to INSURE that he will be able to eat next year. He will often chose his woman on how much flesh is on, or how round her gluteous maximus or how round her breasts are, and not on how much character, intelligence, righteousness or industriousness a female has the potential for. The Blackman likes shiny, expensive automobiles with shiny big wheels, but does not think in terms of producing them, or of maintaining them, so he does not have a system that he owns to maintain and repair those shiny automobiles that he buys to impress others. Finance companies just love the Blackman. And he has the dubious distinction of being the head of the only Nation on earth that willingly would rather send his own children to his open enemy to educate them, rather than teaching them himself, or associating himself with those who have a system in place to educate Black children to be rulers instead of miseducating them so that they can be consumers "to get a good job" to make sure that they continue their "blindness, deafness and dumbness to the next generation. The Blackman likes to wear clothes that have comic book characters on them or the corporate logos of his slavemasters -- like a branded slave -- and proudly wears caricatures of himself on his back and in the windows of his shiny expensive automobiles, but he rarely-if-ever has the thought to associate himself with those who have the skills and the will and the system to produce clothing that will dignify him as being one worthy to decide what how he will present himself when he steps out-of-doors and faces the world. He would rather work overtime, or steal, or sell drugs, so that he will have enough money to make sure that he is thoroughly robbed whenever he goes to a merchant's enterprise, and so that the Caucasian will be sure to put a few Black models in his next advertisement to appease his "we-are-the-world Civil Rights addiction" for the Blackman to come in again and again and be thoroughly robbed again and again.... The Caucasian Whiteman loves the Blackman for his stupidity -- and Allah is going to cause the Blackman who continues in it to pay dearly for rejecting what must be done.
If I told you, you wouldn't believe me anyway
"N.M.", do you have anything to share other than death and begging? Try uplifting the people with some positive news sometime, instead of the results of death and the process of begging.
Minister of Offense and Defense
Emmett Till's Legacy: A Weighted Body Lifts A People By Frederick B. Hudson TBWT Guest Contributor Article Dated 12/2/2002 "I saw a hole-which I presumed was a bullet hole and I could look through that hole and see daylight in the other side and I wondered-"was it necessary to shoot him?" These words begin the courageous and horrific testimony of Mrs. Mamie Till Mosely, the mother of Emmett Till, as she describes the terrible mass of unrecognizable waterlogged, smashed flesh that she viewed in a coffin sent back from the Mississippi Delta in August 1955. The sheriff of Money, Mississippi had instructed the undertaker in her native Chicago not to open up the casket of what he said were her son's remains-but the mother felt she had to know what she was burying in a plot designated for her fourteen year old son. The grotesque sight of the body stirred Mrs. Mosely to show the entire world what southern racism has done to her son who had traveled to the small hamlet of Money, Mississippi only two weeks before to visit relatives. When Emmett whistled at a white woman storeowner after he purchased candy, the woman's husband and his brother-in-law took Emmett from his relatives' home in the dead of night, drove him away, beat him, gouged out an eye, shot him, tied a cotton gin fan around his neck, and threw him in the Tallahatchie, river. The resulting international outcry focused the world's attention upon the harsh realities of the subservience Jim Crow forced upon the Negroes of the South and gave the incipient civil rights movement one of its first martyrs in the form of a fun-loving Chicago teenager. Emmett Till's saga and subsequent impact upon history unfolds in understated majesty in The Murder of Emmett Till, produced and directed by this year's MacArthur "genius" award winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson. It will have its world premier on Thursday, December 12 in New York at the 10th Annual African Diaspora Film Festival in New York. It will be available for national viewing on Monday, January 20, 2003, at 9 p.m. on most Public Broadcasting System (PBS) stations. Nelson does a more than adequate job of setting the context for Till's murder by showing clips for a White Citizens Council film of the time which boasts of Mississippi commitment to segregation and abhorrence of "race mixing." The filmmaker next describes the flight to the North of many Southern Negroes before World War II-including Till's mother. When the teenaged Till was sent away for the summer, his mother told him: "If you have to get on your knees and bow when a white person goes past, do it willingly." But the adolescent Emmett felt the rush of his young manhood and showed his Mississippi friends a picture of a white girl from Chicago and bragged the girl was his girlfriend. On a dare Emmett went into a local candy store and whistled at the white woman whose husband owned the store, Carolyn Bryant. When the woman's husband, Roy, returned home after a long distance trucking job, he and his half-brother J.W. Milan resolved to teach the "uppity" Northern boy a lesson. When they came for the boy after midnight the older man who was Emmett’s guardian for the summer, Mose Wright, begged the white men to only whip him since he didn't know southern mores. The men told Wright that if he wanted to live another year he would cause no trouble. Emmett's bloated body was pulled from the river three days later. It was so distorted it could only be identified by a signet ring that was passed on to Emmett by his mother-the ring was the only identifying evidence the U.S. government sent his mother after Emmett's father was killed in World War II. When Mamie Till found out that her son was dead, and told her friends and relatives she said, "it seems like the whole house screamed, that's when I knew this was a load I was going to have to carry, that I wasn't going to get any help." But she did get help. Although in the seventy-five years prior to Till's death, more than five hundred black men had been lynched in Mississippi, Mrs. Till's location in the North made it easier to enlist help from the black press, notably the Chicago Defender. Jet magazine carried the story with a photo of the monster-like face of Till. Black preachers in their pulpits and on radio demanded justice. Congressman Charles Diggs of Michigan came to the trial in Sumner, Mississippi. The congressman was seated at a small bridge table far away from the judge's bench with Emmett's mother-this area was designated by the sheriff as "the n_ _ _ _ _ _s' table." The growing militancy of the black community had a predictable backlash. Almost all the white attorneys in the Delta joined the defense team of Roy Bryant and J.W. Milan who had been charged with the murder. Thousands of dollars were raised by the white community, which felt the siege of international media lights. Many citizens assigned blame for the whole ruckus on "them communists." Nevertheless a trial was held. Mose Wright stood up in the courtroom and identified J.W. Milan with broken English, "Thar he." Another black man in the Money community with similar courage, Willie Reed, spoke of seeing Bryant and Milan driving away with Till and hearing the sounds of a beating. Both of these witnesses left Mississippi after their testimony and never came back. The defendants were acquitted after the all white jury deliberated less than seventy-five minutes. Soon afterwards they sold their story to Look magazine and admitted killing him. Milan said that when the Till youth refused to beg for his life they knew he had to be killed. He told the Look writer: "What else could we do? He was hopeless." But in Till's hopeless obstinacy sprang the seeds of a new unity between Southern and Northern blacks. Medgar Evers, the Mississippi field secretary of the NAACP, worked with James Hicks, a reporter for the Amsterdam News to get Mose Wright safely out of Mississippi. Diggs took Willie Reed to safety. Black leaders called for a boycott of goods produced in Mississippi. In the words of poetess Sonia Sanchez, a people’s tongues became wrapped around truth and their feet became wrapped around freedom. Only a few months later Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus and a great and mighty walk began. The hole in Emmett Till's head let daylight in for a new day for justice. For information about the screening at the African Diaspora Film Festival point your web browser to www.NYADFF.org or call 212-864-1760. For information about the PBS showing please check your local listings or go to www.pbs.org/whatson/ NM
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Hi Monte. I am Patricia from Columbus. I spoke with you on the radio this past Saturday. I look forward to hearing from you, again! Patricia
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Monday, November 25th, 2002: It just hit me today that Christmas is exactly one month away. I think seeing that "25" on my daily flip calendar did it. How is C.Miles, two people mentioned. Good question. Others have asked that before in here. I wish I knew, as his name still comes up often in my passings with brothas in the barbershop, cabbies, on the street often, you name it. Alot of folks would love to know. If anyone knows how's he doin, please post it here first on the RadioDiary. We shouldn't lose another Radio Giant without people knowing what is up or at least how their doing. It's bad enough, radio is the type of biz where most folks don't get the chance to say goodbye on the air, because of the way the business operates. On another note, I just found out tonite, (this may be old news) WJFK 106.7 FM is simulcasting 'The David Letterman Show', nightly at 11:30pm. What will be next? 'The Tonite Show with Jay Leno' on one of the other Rock stations at 11:35pm? And if Arsenio ever comes back and gets that coveted 11:30p time-slot again, will Radio One pick him up on one of their stations too? That would be an interesting move for them indeed. In the old days, Radio Programs played on the radio. Then TV came along and the TV versions aired. Now here it is 2002, and you can buy a Walkman with a TV feature hardwired into it, so you can now here TV in your headsets as you walk/ride around. And with XM and Sirius you can hear even more stuff from the Satellite Dishes! Radio is truly becoming "Cable" for your ears. Peace!
The Two
I, too, would appreciate an update on C. Miles' situation, if possible. That brother shone so bright he burned himself out! I just hope that he is at peace.....
The Three
Someone asked the question three times below...What is the health status of C. Miles? Inquiring and CONCERNED minds want to know... I spoke to Brother AKH...his ex-chauffer... Inquiring minds want to KNOW!! Please inform...
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Friday, November 22nd 2002: Christmas Music on The Radio already? 'Soft Rock' 97.1 WASH FM started playing Christmas Music 24-7, the day after Thanksgiving, several years ago and it seems due to its popularity, it's now a Washington area tradition. Listeners like and love it for many heartfelt reasons, including getting into The Holiday Spirit and nostalgia. The malls, stores and advertising clients love it cuz it puts people in the mood to S-H-O-P!$! (In Chris Tucker voice, "And you know this! Maaaaaan!") This year WASH FM started even earlier by beginning the tunes a week early! ~ TODAY! My system is not ready to handle this. Call me ole' school, but it has to be at least Thanksgiving Day or the day after, for it to register that Christmas is coming to me, and to start hearing the Christmas tunes on the regular. But it looks like their here to stay until December 31st. I dig some of them WASH plays, and it really shows by listening, how many commercial artists over the years have recorded Christmas Tunes, but I really look forward to when 96.3 WHUR and MAJIC 102.3 FM start playing those Classic Soulful, R&B Christmas Tunes! The O'Jays, The Whispers, The Temps, Nat King Cole, Toni Braxton, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gay and more, Now We Talkin'! Go Deep Into That Music Catalog and surprise a brotha with something rare my Daddy or Grandaddy had in his Christmas Record Collection! Peace!
The Two
"Minister of Offense" that was pretty good if I say so myself.
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World - OneWorld.net Apartheid Victims Sue Global Corporations Wed Nov 13, 7:52 PM ET Add World - One World.net to My Yahoo! Alison Raphael,OneWorld U.S. A lawsuit filed Tuesday in the New York District Court demands reparations from 20 banks and corporations that supplied critical support to the apartheid regime that ruled South Africa until 1994. • Africa Action • Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld, and Toll • OneWorld on South Africa • Jubilee Research The case--filed in the name of the Khulumani Support Group, engaged in counseling more than 32,000 South Africans hurt by apartheid--seeks compensatory and punitive damages from a host of multinational corporations. These include U.S. giants IBM, General Motors, Exxon Mobil, J.P Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Caltex Petroleum Corporation, Ford Motor Company, and the Fluor Corporation. All of these groups have been asked to provide generous compensation to help "heal the damage" caused by apartheid, according to the Apartheid Debt and Reparations Campaign, one of the groups behind the lawsuit. "The corporations aided and abetted a crime against humanity whose persistent social damage requires urgent repair," charged Jubilee South Africa, another supporter. The suit charges IBM and Fujitsu ICL with supplying technology for white South African authorities to create "passbooks" for the black population that were used to control their movement, employment, and residence. The amount of damages being sought was not specified in the court document, but the damage could be "in the billions," according to Jubilee South Africa spokesman Neville Gabriel. Contacted by phone Tuesday evening, an IBM spokeswoman said she had no details on the suit, but on the basis of news reports, IBM believed it "has no merit." According to media reports, other firms too are denying responsibility. The suit charges financial institutions like Citicorp with culpability for lending funds used to bolster police and armed forces under the racist regime. It claims that arms manufacturers and oil companies violated internationally agreed embargoes on sales to South Africa. The class-action suit filed by Washington-based firm, Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld and Toll, is based on the Alien Tort Claims Act, which grants U.S. courts jurisdiction over certain violations of international law, no matter where they occur. Lead counsel on the case, Michael D. Hausfeld, called South Africa's apartheid regime an "institutionalized system of racial disenfranchisement." He declared that the current suit "seeks a measure of justice from those entities which aided or abetted the commission of this atrocity." "Apartheid could not have been maintained in the same manner without the participation of the defendants," the law firm said Tuesday in a statement explaining the case. According to grisly accounts by plaintiffs and family members, extra-judicial killings, torture, and arbitrary detention--recognized as violations of international law--were regularly practiced by the apartheid regime between 1948 and 1993. Teenagers in the marketplace were reportedly shot by soldiers, parents cold-bloodedly murdered by the police in their homes, while suspected black members of the apartheid resistance were brutally tortured in prison. Apartheid ended in 1994 when former political prisoner, Nelson Mandela, was elected president. But, argues the Khulumani Support Group, the regime and its supporters have never been held accountable for their actions. NM
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Like I said before, you are way too emotional to be negotiating anything for anybody. It is probably your diet that produces that. You should check that. Your meaningless rhetoric means nothing to me; I have heard it all, and know the True and Living God. He doesn't go to the devil begging. He brings about things in a way that you perceive not, and by the time you figure it out, it's too late to do anything. That's how the Living God operates. But you think someone is going to throw some voodoo on this Caucasian and he is going to all of a sudden "atone" for his sins, you are more foolish than I started off thinking you are. Like I said, and one final time, when they start passing out the checks, you let me know. LOL! In the mean time, you'd better learn to DO something, instead of begging and supporting beggars.
Minister of Offense and Defense
Billy Ray, thank you very much. I respect your opinion. I TOLD minister of offense in an earlier post TO LEAVE US ALONE if he don’t want Reparations. However, it is something personal with him and it runs REAL deep. As you know, I was posting messages about reparations then he started attacking reparations. I want justice for our people AND he hope that AMERICA WILL ESCAPE PAYMENT FOREVER. I will move on, but I WILL CONTINUE TO POST REPARATIONS UPDATES. THANKS ONCE AGAIN. NM
NM
MINISTER OF OFFENSE, I told you in an earlier post that Allah (God) acts when he wants to act, not when a disbeliever like you, want him to act. Are you absolutely sure that Allah don't have the wherewithal to take what he demands? If Allah want to make AMERICA submit to his will there is nothing that they can do. GUESS WHAT? THERE IS NOTHING that any of his uncle toms and sympathizers can do either. Have you ever thought about that or have you taken leave of your senses? From your perspective you don't understand the power of Allah (God). Perhaps the statement below can help you. "Cecil Whaley of the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency said the Mossy Grove tornado left an area of about one and a half square miles "wiped out." He said there were reports that storm may have been an F-5, the most powerful on the Fujita scale of tornado intensity. Such storms occur in only about 1 percent of the 1,000 or so tornadoes, which strike every year in the United States and can, pack winds of from 261 to 318 miles per hour (420 to 500 kph) (Knoxville, Tennessee November 11, 2002) Is that power or what? Minister of offense, this is only one of Allah’s weapon. We will see who will be the winner in the end. When its time to act our God will act. Is that clear!!!! You got to be crazy to say that our God don't have any wherewithal. America is a super power but it cannot contend with that kind of power MAN. QUESTION: Why couldn't they stop that type of damage from happening? That mean they don’t have the wherewithal to stop it NOR DO YOU. Have the (military) ever stop tornadoes from causing damage? Our GOD HAS THE WHEREWITHAL, NOT AMERICA. IS THAT CLEAR? NM
NM
Both of you make good point's, so why not just move on before you sink into a further dis-agreement that leads no where but name calling and bad feelings,i respect both of you all's point's of view so why not move on in PEACE.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Billy Ray
billy ray edwards <bredwards@hotmail.com>
Show Topic: Give and take but move on
Rockville, md,
de·mand ( P ) Pronunciation Key (d-mnd) v. de·mand·ed, de·mand·ing, de·mands v. tr. To ask for urgently or peremptorily: demand an investigation into the murder; demanding that he leave immediately; demanded to speak to the manager. To claim as just or due: demand repayment of a loan. To ask to be informed of: I demand a reason for this interruption. To require as useful, just, proper, or necessary; call for: a gem that demands a fine setting. Law. To summon to court. To claim formally; lay legal claim to. . . . followed by BEG: v. intr. To solicit alms. To make a humble or urgent plea. . . . from your perspective, you are begging. In fact, a demand without the wherewithall to TAKE what you demand is nothing but a puff of smoke in the wind, which is what you are blowing. Next time, speak for yourself. You don't speak for everybody, anywhere (thank Allah!). What you gonna do, pull out your little pop guns? LOL! Like I said, "call me when they start issuing the checks."
Minister of Offense and Defense
NOV. 19, 2002. minister of offense, WHETHER I KNOW WHAT YOU KNOW IS INSIGNIFICANT TO ME. EVERYONE ON THIS MESSAGE BOARD KNOWS THAT YOU OPPOSE ALLAH’S (GOD’S) DIVINE PLAN. (REPARATIONS) THEY KNOW THAT. YOU HAVE TO BE BLIND, DEAF AND DUMB TO OPPOSE (ALLAH’S) GOD’S PLAN. I TOLD YOU IN AN EARLIER POST THAT ALLAH NEVER LOST A BATTLE OR FOUGHT TO A DRAW. YOU ARE STILL TRYING TO DEBATE WITH ME. GO ON ABOUT YOUR BUSINESS IF YOU DON'T WANT REPARATIONS THAT FIND WITH US. LEAVE US ALONE!!!WHEN DID GOD NOT PREVAIL OVER HIS ENEMY? AT LEAST I KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION. IT APPEARS THAT YOU DON’T KNOW IT OR WON’T ACCEPT IT. WHICH ONE IS IT? I SEE THAT YOU ARE STILL HARD HEADED, STIFFED NECKED, AND REBELLIOUS. WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO PICK UP A DICTIONARY AND LOOK UP THE WORDS: (BEGGING AND DEMANDING). THEY ARE TWO DIFFERENT AND DISTINCT WORDS WITH TWO DIFFERENT AND DISTINCT MEANINGS. I KNOW A 9- YEAR OLD CHILD THAT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THOSE TWO WORDS. WHY DON'T YOU? WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM? GO TO SPELL CHECK IN WORD PERFECT, IT WILL GIVE YOU THE MEANING. DON’T RESPOND TO MY MESSAGE UNTIL YOU KNOW THE MEANING BETWEEN BEGGING AND DEMANDING? YOU ARE RIGHT, GOD DON’T LIKE BEGGARS, GUESS WHAT? THAT’S WHY WE ARE DEMANDING REPARATIONS, NOT BEGGING. NM
NM
NOV. 19,2002. minister of offense, WHETHER I KNOW WHAT YOU KNOW IS INSIGNIFICANT TO ME. EVERYONE ON THIS MESSAGE BOARD KNOWS THAT YOU OPPOSE ALLAH’S (GOD’S) DIVINE PLAN. (REPARATIONS) THEY KNOW THAT. YOU HAVE TO BE BLIND, DEAF AND DUMB TO OPPOSE (ALLAH’S) GOD’S PLAN. I TOLD YOU IN AN EARLIER POST THAT ALLAH NEVER LOST A BATTLE OR FOUGHT TO A DRAW. YOU ARE STILL TRYING TO DEBATE WITH ME. GO ON ABOUT YOUR BUSINESS IF YOU DON'T WANT REPARATIONS THAT FIND WITH US. LEAVE US ALONE!!!WHEN DID GOD NOT PREVAIL OVER HIS ENEMY? AT LEAST I KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION. IT APPEARS THAT YOU DON’T KNOW IT OR WON’T ACCEPT IT. WHICH ONE IS IT? I SEE THAT YOU ARE STILL HARD HEADED, STIFFED NECKED, AND REBELLIOUS. WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO PICK UP A DICTIONARY AND LOOK UP THE WORDS: (BEGGING AND DEMANDING). THEY ARE TWO DIFFERENT AND DISTINCT WORDS WITH TWO DIFFERENT AND DISTINCT MEANINGS. I KNOW A 9- YEAR OLD CHILD THAT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THOSE TWO WORDS. WHY DON'T YOU? WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM? GO TO SPELL CHECK IN WORD PERFECT, IT WILL GIVE YOU THE MEANING. DON’T RESPOND TO MY MESSAGE UNTIL YOU KNOW THE MEANING BETWEEN BEGGING AND DEMANDING? YOU ARE RIGHT, GOD DON’T LIKE BEGGARS, GUESS WHAT? THAT’S WHY WE ARE DEMANDING REPARATIONS, NOT BEGGING. NM
NM
NOVEMBER 19, 2002. 9:30 a.m. -- "NM", you sound like one of Silis Muhammad's blind-deaf-dumb followers. You obviously do not know what I know or else you would not be wasting your childish rhetoric on me. You read the Bible and prophecy upside down just like all of the other negroes do. Spell it backwards/forwards, it doesn't matter ... begging is begging by the posture one takes while engaged in it. And GOD don't like no beggars. So, like I said, lemme know when they start passing out the reparations checks.
Minister of Offense and Defense
Tues.,Nov.19th, 2002: Poster, I hear you. I check in to listen to Larry Young sometimes when I can get 'em on my antenna in the mornings when Joe is draggin' or his 'short-wick-of-an-attitude' is acting up, or I hear him going "Give me a break!" over and over. The Coach and Larry actually will talk more than just sports on WOLB when a topic arises and the chemistry is a lil' different then it is when you hear The Coach and Ole' Maddie go at it. What gets me the most is how Madison will ball someone out with that negative energy and go on right to his next caller without so much as saying 'goodbye' or 'thanks for calling' and the new caller won't say nuttin about it and you all know we all just heard the previous exchange! People listening must think the callers actually dig his behavior! Dang! Someone needs to come out with a 'Black Eagle Comic Book' featuring Ole' Joe at the mic everyday blasting his callers! Dang! WOL - We Offer What? Love? If that's love, then I'll pass, especially from 6a to 10a! And everytime I hear that dag on screeching eagle sound effect I wanna turn the channel quickly! Blastin black folks left and right sounding like a damn fool! Then he's gonna play his eagle sound effect before the commercial break! LOL. What does that mean, he got the last word and he's right?! They might as well have no callers during that whole time frame! Just let him talk to himself and agree with himself for four hours! This guy is either nuts or in total love wit himself! 'The self-justified king wit no clothes!' Lol. On another subject, who has seen the new WHUR posters around town and on the Metros? Nice artwork. Do you think it ID's the station well or makes you wanna check out the morning show? I think one of HUR's most effective ad campaigns was their recent 'Luther Not Ludacris', 'Jill Scott Not J-Lo', etc. campaigns. That pretty much said it all, didn't it, as far as what HUR listeners are sick of and what folks much rather prefer? This is another month I'm about to take KYS, PGC outta my box again! Ten yrs from now Black folks are gonna look back at this time and say, "Black folks were naming themselves WHAT from 1993 to 2003?!?!? 'Dog?' 'Ludacris?' 'Murder Inc?' 'Keep It Gangsta?' 'My Neck My Back?' 'Lil Bow-Wow?' 'Lil Meow Meow?' 'Tweet?' 'Ruff-Ruff?' 'Lil' Stink-Stink?' 'Lil' Dumb-Dumb? 'P-Diddy?" Yes, Grandchildren, that's what black folks in the entertainment industry wanted to call themselves during them years, and that's how they communicated with one another too." Umph! Lawd help us all. peace!
The Two
Heard Larry Young in B More last week. He is actually more polished than Joe. Is "Joe" short for "Joke"?
Poster
NOVEMBER 13, 2002 minister of offense, are you happy that the Republican party won the election? Are you happy that they presently control the entire government? You are under the impression that since the Republicans have control of the government African-Americans will not receive reparations. (Justice!) You sound like a person that is spiritually blind to the knowledge of divine prophecy! You sound like a person that have taken leave of your senses. (Crazy!) YOU laugh and make mockery of those in the Reparations movement but you soon forget that Allah takes his own good time to bring about Justice. He moves and acts when he wants to act not when a DISBELIEVER LIKE YOU wants him to act. You fail to understand that “Reparations is a divine thing, it is a prophecy from God. If you were not so SPIRITUALLY BLIND, you could see the truth of what I AM SAYING. If you were not so SPRITIUALLY BLIND YOU would not have LAUGHED and made MOCKERY of your own people’s suffering. Nor would you have made MOCKERY of your own IGNORANCE. If our ancestors had started out on an equal playing field I could see your point. However, they did not. If they had started out on an equal playing field I do not believe African-Americans would be lagging so far behind (economically) white AMERICA. How can African-Americans ever catch up economically when white people in America started out 300 years (economically) ahead of them? If African-Americans followed your economic plan we probably would be in a WORSE condition. THEY MIGHT FIND THEMSELVES BACK ON THE PLANTATION PICKING COTTON AND YOU BEING HIRED AS THE OVERSEER. You should want the government to pay African-Americans FULL AND COMPLETE Reparations. But you don’t, why? Do you love white people more than you love JUSTICE? The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, “when ever a black man is converted to the white man’s way of THINKING, he is 7 TIMES WORSE than the white man.” (Devil) MINISTER OF OFFENSE, do you fit into that category? The records show that you oppose Allah’s (God’s) will. The records show that you don’t want African-Americans TO RECEIVE JUSTICE. (Reparations!) It has been concluded that you fit into the category with those who have been converted to the white man’s way of thinking. America thinks she WILL ESCAPE paying her debt but she will pay it. It was written. Is it possible that we know that which you know not? Didn’t you hear about the POWER of ALLAH (70 tornadoes) roaring through the South and through the Mid-west this past weekend? The Republicans control Congress but they don’t control the power in the heaven and earth. (Nature!) That’s why I am not worried at all. Our God has promised us VICTORY. Minister of offense I would not want to be in your SHOES even if they were trimmed in DIAMONDS AND GOLD. Remember that Allah will be the WINNER in the end and you will be the LOSER along with the UNJUST. By the way, are you and Clarence Thomas running buddies? Do you and him belong to the same Church or Country Club? WHY DO YOU TRY TO DEBATE WITH THAT WHICH YOU DON’T FULLY UNDERSTAND? IF YOU WANT TO PLAY GO TO DISNEY LAND OR GO HANGOUT with Clarence Thomas. NM
NM
Wednesday, November 13th, 2002: RadioDiary, very interesting words. I love coming here because it's a place where we can come and share, constructively criticize, discuss, question, comment, e-talk with each other, find out the latest haps and more in a quick glance, what was discussed across the radio dial and primarly on 1450WOL, 1010WOLB, 96.3WHUR, MAJIC102.3, WPFW89.3, WEAA88.9, or on some of the other Black morning shows nationally, etc. Thank you again for having the great idea to set this all up and make it possible for us as especially Black Radio Listeners, to go somewhere and share our opinions and feelings on the latest haps in Black Radio and even reminisce about Black Radio's History and Radio Veteran Jocks, which there is so much to learn from. You're right about "vibrant" and when there is "vibrancy" on the air, there is more "vibrancy" in the discussions on Radio in general. They go hand in hand. I heard Bernie say today that his own website should be up and running by the 1st part of the New Year (early January). Cool news. I look forward to that too! The convo Madison had with Walter Fauntleroy and the brothah that wrote the article in The Post on Saturday on revitalizing a strategic plan to organize and strengthen our voting power was very interesting and intriguing (like in '72). I hope to hear more on this, very soon. I heard today that XM Radio is now down to $129.00 and somebody else told me $99.00. They keep lowering that billy and The Two might have to just break on down and get one pretty soon! How is the programming holding up? Are they still sounding good and worth the price, etc.? On the flip side, I have noticed WOL has mentioned very little about some of the protests that have taken place outside XM's studios by Black groups that have said XM's Black Programming is not diverse enough in certain areas. Interesting. I wonder if Madison will address it at some point. Or has he already? I know he certainly plugs XM just about daily and very often, but I guess it would be bad business to mention the outside protests? XM should come out with some sort of official statement on what they're going to do about it and let it be read on WOL/The Power 1st. If they are looking for more subscribers and are serious about change, I think when their XM guy comes on Madison to give updates, he should address it too, to help clear up at least that they are gonna do about it, if they intend to at all. I think it's one thing to come on the air and say "Buy this, it's good!," and give reasons why, but it's another thing to come on and really talk about some good things XM is gonna do to improve their Black Programming, or at least that they hear the concerns of the protestors, outside etc. and will at least take them their issues into consideration. Would do you all think? Peace!
The Two
November 12, 2002: I like that word “Vibrant” to describe the Radio Diary website. So, let’s analyze what made the site “vibrant” and what has changed. Well, first of all let’s define what the word “vibrant means :Moving to and fro rapidly, characterized by perceptive vibration, pulsating with vigor and energy..stimulating”. I agree that the tone of posting has changed but the way I see it that’s a good thing. I remember when some of the Radio Diary posters would begin a posting and someone would start an argument and keep that argument going for two of three weeks or until I got tired and pulled the plug. I also remember when there was stimulating conversation on the talk radio airwaves that motivated people to post their concerns and opinions. I know for sure that a whole lot of people read the Radio Diary website daily because I check the server stats each month. The Radio Diary is a unique website because it’s designed for conversation centered around talk radio and urban radio. I must admit that I have sometimes looked the other way when posters engage in one on one on going battles. My logic is to let them fight it out and then move on. In most cases it works. In case you didn’t know it the Radio Diary website is as old if not older than the Tom Joyner website. In fact when I came up with the idea to create my website I sent a copy of my plans to the Tom Joyner staff. That was my first mistake because shortly after.. up popped the Tom Joyner website and I never heard from them again. Live and learn. I also remember when Radio One didn’t have a website. In fact their managers had barely heard of the INTERNET. Needless to say I would contact them weekly with all of my great ideas only to be told WER’RE not interested. In fact let me share this story with you. When our dear brother C. Miles was on the air at WOL 1450 and was the hottest talk show host in the country I would contact him daily. During that time C. Miles could tell his listeners that he was the second coming of Jesus Christ and his listeners would believe him. I found out early on that C. Miles could draw a crowd and many of his listeners very “vibrant” and out spoken. I tried, and tried, and tried to get C. Miles to join me in promoting the Radio Diary website. But he was a star (in his own mind) and as long as he had a MIC (that belonged to) Radio One he was king. So consequently he could not see the Radio Diary vision. By the time C. Miles understood what I was trying to do he had been fired and was doing a weekly one hour show with the Radio Diary over at Brother Beys’s place. So, since he was no longer on the air waves people didn’t know how to reach him or support him. He finally understood that he had no power because he didn’t own the WOL 1450 listeners or the MIC. I share this with you because C. Miles is still my friend. The bottom line the way I see it is this. You have to have something VIBRANNT happening in order to have something VIBRANT to write about. Now, what needs to happen is this. Everybody who comes to the Radio Diary website to call names of criticize should tell folks abut the website. I remember when the Radio Diary was one of the first black owned sites to have a “24 hour chat room”. Well, I think that I spoke to two or three folks in the chat room the whole time I was paying for it. I have come to the conclusion that black folk are not going to support you. A good example of this is the Radio Diary Business Mall. I created the business mall to provide an affordable location for anybody in who wanted exposure and to fray some of the cost of this website. Well, if you look at the Business Mall you can see what kind of support I’ve received. Plus we’re not talking about some outrageous white boy prices to advertise. I even went so far as to cut the price and black folk still won’t advertise with you. At first I thought I needed to conform and change the tone..IN OTHER WORDS ..don’t let people speak out and censor and zap everything they wrote. Well, I soon found out that didn’t matter either. black folk are the hardest people to please or sell to on the PLANET…unless you’re Korean or White. So, now that I’ve vented let me say this. My vision for the Radio Diary website is to one day have a central location for black talk radio and urban radio listeners to come to after they are tired of the Tom Joyner, Russ Parr, Donnie Simpson, messagae boards. But to do this requires money for advertising which the Radio Diary does not have. In fact I was listening to Tom Joyner the other day and he was advertising for BALCKWEB.COM. He said the name 5 or 6 times in a row. I thought to my self…(why couldn’t that be RADIODIARY.COM). So being vibrant requires money to advertise to attract vibrant people (don’t take this as an insult). But if you don’t tell folk about the website we all end up cussing and fighting some of the same folk over, and over, and over again. But in the words of brother C. Miles..let not your heart be troubled..the Radio Diary website is hear to stay and will one day be a name (Your Personal Radio Diary ©) recognized throughout the talk radio and music industry…RADIODIARY@@AOL.COM
Your Personal Radio Diary <radiodiary@aol.com>
Show Topic: Radiodiary.com....REMEMBER THAT NAME....
Washington, DC,
Tornadoes Kill 35 People Mon Nov 11, 3:29 PM ET By Michelle Gilbert KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - Tornadoes described by one witness as sounding like a thundering herd of buffalo struck the eastern United States on Sunday and early on Monday in storms that wiped out small towns, killed at least 35 and left dozens missing. Rescue workers tore into demolished homes and other structures looking for more victims. A fireman in Tennessee died during a rescue effort there. Tennessee appeared to be the hardest hit, with 17 confirmed deaths from storms including the rescue worker. Dozens were missing in the mountainous eastern part of the state near Knoxville, where much of the tiny mountain town of Mossy Grove was flattened. There were also 11 deaths in Alabama, five in Ohio, one in Mississippi and another in Pennsylvania where a man died in the collapse of a home near Pittsburgh during a storm that had not been confirmed as a tornado. In Mossy Grove survivors told of pulling mattresses off their beds, cowering under them as the storms swept in. "The whole sky was lit up," said Glenda Phillips, 29, a teacher's assistant who was visiting friends at their trailer home in Mossy Grove. "You could see down the road. You could see the twister, a big black funnel cloud," she said from a shelter at the Calvary Baptist church in Wartburg, Tenn., where she and others were taken. "It was terrifying but thanks to God's hand taking care of us it's going to be OK," she said, adding that the trailer escaped damage. DESTROYED HOMES Phillips' friend, Tiffany Richardson, 17, said: "I cried. I was so glad we made it through. The rain was so hard. The wind was awful. It was like it could carry you away." She adding that the tornado destroyed houses on her road, one completely flattened and another gone but for rubble. There were 11 deaths near Knoxville -- four in Cumberland County and seven in Morgan County, mostly in Mossy Grove, a town where residents said they had long thought nearby peaks would protect them from twisters. In Ohio, Chris Roberts, an announcer at WERT radio in the town of Van Wert, said his 16-year-old son Ryan saw a tornado there bearing down on him behind the glass doors of the local cinema. When it hit part of the hallway that he and some 60 other moviegoers were huddling in was ripped away, and he saw "cars flying through the air." "Ryan looked out the window when he heard what sounded like a herd of buffalo, saw the tornado, then was told to get away from the glass. As part of the end of the hallway came off, he saw some of the automobiles flying through the air." Roberts said the storm ripped apart three of five indoor theaters in the complex, turning one into what looked afterward like a drive-in movie with cars stacked atop each other and an upside-down van in what had been the front row. Cecil Whaley of the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency said the Mossy Grove tornado left an area of about one and a half square miles "wiped out." He said there were reports that storm may have been an F-5, the most powerful on the Fujita scale of tornado intensity. Such storms occur in only about 1 percent of the 1,000 or so tornadoes which strike every year in the United States and can pack winds of from 261 to 318 miles per hour (420 to 500 kph). Whaley said the damage in Tennessee was the most concentrated he'd seen in 20 years. Cold autumn air sweeping eastward in a clash with warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico ignited the string of tightly coiled storms along the leading edge of the front. At least 65 injuries were reported in Tennessee and another 50 in Alabama. Tornado damage was also in northwestern South Carolina, but there were no injuries. The tornadoes caused widespread power outages. The National Weather Service (news - web sites) Storm Prediction Center said it had reports of 45 tornadoes since early Sunday morning across a half dozen states. Not all of the reports were confirmed. Roger Edwards, a forecaster at the center, said massive tornadic outbreaks are not unusual in November. Generally speaking, though, the tornado season tends to be concentrated in the spring. In Alabama, at least 11 people were killed and 50 others injured by tornadoes in the northern part of the state on Sunday evening. Nine of the fatalities occurred in Walker County, which bore the brunt of the destruction in the state. Lee Helms, director of the Alabama Emergency Management Agency, said emergency personnel were working in several counties to clear downed trees and power lines from roads and help direct people to emergency shelters. "We're seeing pretty extensive structural damage and quite a tremendous amount of debris," said Helms, who added that an estimated 50,000 people had been left without power across Alabama. "We're working on ... clearing the roads to gain access to the most heavily damaged areas as well as housing storm victims in shelters in Walker County," Helms said. In Ohio, the storms took five lives mostly in the northwestern section of the state. The deadliest tornado in U.S. history struck on March 18, 1925, killing 695 people on a 219-mile track through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. An April 3 and 4 outbreak of tornadoes in 1974 killed 310 in the United States and eight in Canada. NM
NM
Looks like "NM" and his little band of beggars are going to have to get a job now for sure. No hand outs coming your way, "NM". Like I said, let me know when they start passing out the reparations checks. ... LOL!!
Minister of Offense and Defense
This site use to be soooo.... Vibrant !! What happened ? Now its just two rightouse Brothers debating over old 70's talk. Move forward Ya'll. BUT never forget the past !!
Good Girl
The Planet,
DID ANYONE LISTEN TO JOE MADISON SHOW THIS MORNING? I HEARD THAT HE INTERVIEWED CONGRESSMAN JOHN CONYERS. I WAS NOT LISTENING THIS MORNING BUT I HEARD THAT JOHN CONYERS WAS UPSET BECAUSE THE REPUBLICANS IS IN FULL CONTROL OF CONGRESS. I UNDERSTAND THAT HE WAS MAD BECAUSE HE COULDN'T GET HIS REPARATION BILL OUT OF COMMITTEE. WHAT DID HE SAY ABOUT HIS REPARATIONS BILL? DOES ANYONE KNOW?
HIGH POCKET
Dear Mr. Joyner. I can say that I have enjoyed your show for many years. This morning I was inspired to write because I was so angered by Mr. Travis Smiley statements about Al Gore. He could have said more conversations and participation from the Democratic party, that would have been acceptable. He didn't. He showed his mean spirit which comes through all the time. I dislike listening to him so mucch that I have to change stations when he's on. I was speaking to a co-worker and without stating my opinion, she said "oh, I can't listen when he comes on". I think he needs some therapy and anger management. He is so unacceptable. I am the most easy going and tolerant person you'd ever want to meet. He's like that everytime he comes on. You can't moderate his behavior, he's too wild. Please terminate your relationship with him. He is anything but objective.
. <cscott@dcgov>
Tuesday, November 5th, 2002 Election Day: Great article, NM. That pretty much says it all, doesn't it? In Black Radio News, President Clinton called into Joe Madison on WOL/The Power,(was Ole' Joe trying to act cool or what? Lol. I think I heard his eagle feathers ruffle real quick in contained excitement and surprise. Lol.) 92.3 FM's The Big Phat Morning Show, 93.9 KYS FM's The Russ Parr Morning Show, MAJIC 102.3's Tom Joyner Morning Show and 96.3 WHUR's Morning Adult Mix Show to name a few, getting out the word to vote to the African-American Communities and Audiences. The thing I paid attention to most was how all the radio hosts handled getting what seemed to be an 'impromptu' notice from the President's peeps, that he would be calling in a matter of moments and how they carried each of their quick interviews with him. You could even hear his Forward Press/PR Person before each interview started over the air asking, "92Q? Marc Clarke and Marva? Are you there?" Five minutes later on KYS~"KYS FM? Russ and Olivia Fox? Is this you?" Then he would pass the phone to the former Prez. 2 to 3 minutes segments alloted to each show. Hit it and quit it. Interesting stuff. Clinton was heard on some stations, even doing some live on-air drops and promos on the air per- request by some hosts, which they replayed thru-out the day in between their songs and mixes. "President Clinton, could you drop a quick personal message to the 92Q listeners?" CLinton: "This is President Clinton, urging you all to get out today and vote." Marc Clarke: President Clinton, could you say the 92Q audience?" Clinton: This is President Clinton, on 92Q urging all listeners to get out and vote today. Do it!" Take two was the keeper. Live radio and surprises guests equals spontaneity and tests the communication skills and "how quick on their feet" a Radio Host and DJ can be. Keeps 'em sharp no matter the age. Bernie is a master at this too! Watch him work! Peace!
TheTwo
The Prosecution Of John Muhammad: Directed At A Person Or “A Nation”? By Anthony Asadullah Samad TBWT Contributor Article Dated 11/4/2002 Rarely (if ever) are crimes against society framed in the context of the actions representing a single individual being “representative” of a group of people, or even a nation of people. There are good and bad people of all walks of life. And as sorted as these “sniper killings” have become, it’s tough to rationalize its origins. Are they personal? Are they the outgrowth of some delayed military reaction (to biological chemicals, as some in print have asserted), or are they symptoms of some social, or even religious orientations as some in the “talk circus” media are trying to assert. The prosecution of alleged D.C. area sniper, John Muhammad, has grown into something larger than the prosecution of a single individual. For years, the government and the conservative right have been looking for something to try to pin on the Nation of Islam. The wild assertions that the violent actions of Muhammad are a reaction associated with “that radical sect of ‘Black Muslims,’ the Nation of Islam” shows the detrimental behavior some in the media can have. It also shows how some are all too willing to fall in the trap of racial and religious typecasting that endangers everyone associated with its characteristics. Are the United States and the conservative right trying to prosecute an individual or a nation? It’s bad enough it had to be “one of us,” as one columnist has stated. Black folk are stigmatized enough with violence, crime and emotional unpredictability without having “mass murder” or “snipings” attached to the stigma. However, you have prosecutors and commentators trying to “frame Muhammad” and “frame the Nation” at the same time. “Guilt by association,” it’s called. America knows that black people do not have a history of mass killing. Individual killing—black on black killing, yeah, you can hang that on some of us. But we don’t do mass murder. And all of America knows that the Nation of Islam, as a religious group does not do killing of any kind, nor do they even preach violence of any kind. They are only taught to defend themselves and their Mosques to the death. Short of attack on them, “the Nation” or its members hardly fit the profile in this case. The fact that it is a suspended member is no more easy on them then it would be on any other law abiding people. Even though all of the pre-arrest diagnosis profiled a “white male loner,” now suddenly “fringe groups like the Nation of Islam” are a threat to the American public. Since when? And since when did the actions of one person represent the actions of the whole. If this is now the standard, then lawbreaking of one group represent the totality. Does one molesting Catholic priest represent all Priests? Did the actions of the Oklahoma Bomber, Timothy McVeigh, who represented himself as a Christian, represent all Christians? This helps you see how outlandish this reach is. Still some want to perpetuate it knowing it's doing nothing more than creating societal bias, even hatred, for a group of believers who had nothing to do with the sniper shootings. At some point in time, there is going to have to be a conversation about the applicability of social and legal standards in America. There’s one standard for Americans; there’s another standard for “near” Americans (those whom America sees as no threat to the race caste superiority in play) and there’s the standard for the “Anti-Americans,” those who America wants to frame as outside the social and religious belief system and who pose a threat to “American values” and American twisted form of social order. It's instances such as these that offer opportunity for the ideologues to make their case. People step outside of the law for their own reasons. “If” John Muhammad is, in fact, guilty of committing such a heinous crime as the taking of innocent life, all laws of God and true religious believe are against him, including the Nation of Islam. Nobody is trying to protect the guilty. But one thing we all know, including the Nation of Islam - that America is not beyond framing the innocent to make a case against a group of people. That’s what J. Edgar Hoover’s COINTEL-program was designed to do — break-up civil rights and other protest groups and as history tells us, we know that to be a fact. Nobody is looking for a conspiracy in this case, but if there is one here, the government knows it before anybody else. Just don’t try to extend your conspiracy to that of a group who has done nothing but cleaned up the downtrodden in America and offered spiritual belief (and some relief) to the faithless. This is about the trial of one man (and one boy), not the trial of “a Nation.” If any nation is on trial, it is America — who are constantly seeking to attack Muslim groups, abroad and now, at home. One thing America will have to admit in the prosecution of John Muhammad; the Nation of Islam did not teach Muhammad how to kill unrighteously. The United States military did. If any nation is to go on trial for that, it would not be the Nation of Islam, it would be the United States of America. I bet then it would be about the trial of one man. Let’s leave it that way. NM
NM
Monday, November 4th, 2002: "Get Out and Vote!" was the theme on Black Radio on Monday. NM, thanks for The Reparations Bill updates. You are right. Being adamant and persistent will keep this issue in the minds of people until victory is won. Monday morning radio listening in DC was interesting. First I hear on Madison's "Who Am I?" segment on WOL, that a black man, Robert T. Sampson from Jackson, MS, was the man who invented the cellular phone back in 1971. As Johnny Carson used to say, "I did not know that. Ed, did you know that?" He taught me something new when he said that. Madison said he didn't know that, himself, until he just read it today. The winner who guessed it told Madison, he first heard about it when Eric St. James was on the air. Now dig that! Umph! I'm glad the winner gave props!. The Tom Joyner Morning Show on MAJIC 102.3 broadcast live from The Apollo in Harlem for NAACP's 'Get Out The Vote Drive' and simulcasted it with NPR's 'The Tavis Smiley Show' heard locally on Morgan University's WEAA 88.9FM. Good programming move for double the audience. 96.3 WHUR's 'Adult Mix Morning Show' is broadcasting live from South Africa all week and 'Marc Clarke and The Big Phat Morning Show' from 92Q in B-More, is broadcasting live from Cancun all week. Should be a interesting week for scanning the dial. I gotta give the Words of the Day to Chuck D. from the Hip Hop Summit in Newark on Sunday who expressed some of his feelings on the record business and the recent death of Jam Master Jay. Something I think we've all noticed slowly but surely over the last ten years. Chuck D. said, "I think the industry has allowed a criminal element and criminal attitude into the business." Tru Dat to the power of 10! at the same time we gotta be careful as watchers of all this, because the media wants to link everything together whether it's the truth or not. On a Rock tip, I gotta give props to 'The Arrow' 94.7 FM for playing some great Rock Songs in the last two weeks that have made The Two lock em in stereo boombox, and DC101 for continuing to play more Jimi Hendrix than anybody. ~It sounds better when you turn it up loud!~ Peace!
The Two
Organizing Beyond The Millions For Reparations Mass Rally By Conrad W. Worrill TBWT Contributor Article Dated 11/3/2002 The momentum gained from the successful Millions For Reparations Mass Rally, held on August 17, 2002 in Washington, D. C. must be continued in our day-to-day grassroots organizing work. It is the responsibility of the more than 50, 00 people who attended the rally from 66 cities and 38 states across the country to keep the spirit of the Reparations Movement alive no matter what issues are propelled in the mainstream media. This responsibility must also be assumed by the thousands of African people in America who viewed the rally on C-Span and those unable to attend, but had reparations events in their cities in support of the Millions For Reparations Mass Rally. We must not let the media put us to sleep with the issues they bombard us with. We must intensify our organizing for our just demands for reparations. In the December 12th Movement Reparations Document distributed at the rally, a profound point was made: “Today’s Rally occurs within the historical context of 400 years of struggling for justice and genuine freedom for our people. The legacy of the freedom fighters and organizations that fought and continue to fight this good fight have collectively contributed to our clarity on the line of march, the necessary tactics, and understanding of on who does this battle depend?” Further, this December 12th Movement Document exclaimed, “Therefore it is with clarity that we must return to the scene of the crime. Yes, because we are perfectly clear it was/is a crime, and the 2001 U N World Conference Against Racism, in Durban, South Africa, removed any doubt of the type and magnitude of the crime it was/is, by its declaration that the Tran Atlantic Slave Trade Was A Crime Against Humanity. And as such, crimes against humanity have no statutes of limitation. The crimes committed against our people have no parallel in the annals of human history. They have no historical precedent.” At the recent NBUF Central Committee Meeting held in Kansas City, Missouri on October 11th and 12th, we decided to move forward, over the coming months, with two specific organizing strategies to help fuel the momentum gained by the Millions For Reparations Mass Rally. Strategy I: The Houston Chapter of NBUF provided us with an idea that NBUF will begin implementing in all our chapters across the country. This idea will become known as the Elected Official Reparations Survey Scorecard. We have devised a letter that will be sent to elected officials throughout America. This letter states the following: “As you may be aware, there is a national debate taking place over the issue of reparations for the horrific crime against humanity, the enslavement of African people and its vestiges. We are conducting a survey to determine exactly where governmental representatives stand. Please complete: Questions: 1. Do you support Congressman John Conyers H. R. 40 Bill, which proposes that a commission be formed to study the impact of the enslavement of African people and its vestiges, which would explore various remedies? Yes ___ No ___ 2. If this commission concluded that reparations were appropriate in some form-compensation, land, educational opportunities, etc., would you support the commission’s recommendation? Yes ___ No ___ A non-response by Wednesday, January 15, 2003, the anniversary of the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., will be taken as a NO!” The result of this NBUF Elected Official Reparations Survey Scorecard will be published and made available to the community so that we can be clear on where elected officials stand on the question of reparations for African people in America. Strategy II: NBUF will launch Phase IV of the NBUF Petition/Declaration Campaign. This petition campaign is a continuation of the NBUF Genocide Campaign of 1996-97, where we were successful in gathering 157,000 signatures from African people in America who agreed that the United States Government committed acts of genocide against us. We traveled to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland in May of 1997 and officially filed our genocide petitions. The acts of genocide by United States Government continue, which has spurned NBUF’s continuation of this campaign. It is clear to NBUF that “Our continued Genocide – Demands Reparations.” It continues to be obvious to NBUF that the scheme revealed by Gay Webb in his controversial newspapers series, in the San Jose Mercy Newspaper, in August of 1996 is still at the heart of the Prison Industrial Complex epidemic in America. Webb revealed in his articles, “Dark Alliance” that this was a scheme involving an agency of the United States Government, which targeted people of African descent for the distribution and sell of a deadly drug, crack cocaine— a scheme that has far reaching, cataclysmic impact on the African Community across the country as witnessed by the recent report “Cellblocks or Classrooms? The Funding of Higher Education and Corrections and Its Impact on African American Men.” The Justice Police Institute, a Washington based public interest group conducted the report. The report cited that the “get tough on crime measures— including mandatory sentences, the prison population has exploded, quadrupling from 500,000 in 1980 to 2 million in 2002.” “The African American community has borne the brunt of our expanding correctional policies,” the report recalls. When more than a million new prisoners were added between 1985 and 1997,” the report notes, “70 percent of prison growth came from the addition of new African American and Latino prisoners.” It should be clear that this trend is tied to the genocidal crack cocaine phenomenon in America. The NBUF Genocide/Reparations Petition, will, once again, be submitted to the United Nations in September 2003, in conjunction with the United Nations Reparations March. Let’s keep the spirit of the Millions For Reparations Mass Rally alive! BLACK POWER! Dr. Worrill is the National Chairman of the National Black United Front / NBUF located at 12817 S. Ashland Ave., Fl. 1, Calumet Park, IL, 60827, 708-389-9929, Fax 708-389-9819, E-Mail: nbufchi@allways.net, Web site: nbufront.org) For more discussion on this article and to see what others have to say click on the link below to go to discussion forums. Commentary Forum Send your comments and suggestions about this article to: editors@tbwt.net NM
NM
WOW, Mr. Tin Man, you don’t be taking no prisoners do you? I hope you did not include my comments about the elections as being dumb also. I just want to interrupt for just a moment before that other guy comes back at you, to say about the coming up elections. PEOPLE do not be fooled into believing that this is a close election. It will only be close if you stay at home and not go and vote. We the so-called Minorities will control the out come just as we always have in the past. Don’t be fooled by the News Media that this is a close race. When they admit it is close, you know they are worried and in trouble. If it was really close, they would be saying they have it by a landslide. No people we have them up against the wall. We will get our candidates in elected by a large landslide if you are not fooled into staying home and not coming out to vote. They stole the last one, and will try to do it again, if you sit back. How many of you have stopped to think how our world has been dumped on its head since the 2000 Elections. Well you haven’t seen nothing yet, if we don’t stop this attack upon us. Well, that’s all I wanted to say, now back to your previously broadcasted feuds.
RAP
Well, well, well, what have we got here. What manner of mortal mindless moron dares to challenge and call me out like that, because I have offended his juvenile attempts to try and write something of interest or substance. Yes you, who is afraid to write his usual posting name. Can you be so shallow as to think it is difficult to know your other identity. (I HAVE THE HOOK UP ) Don’t be offended because I told you some of the crap you and some others have been writing about here is mindless bullsh-t. Do some reading of something more challenging than comic books and the foolish nonsense you hear on radio & television then bring to this table. Bring something of substance that is worth discussion or intellectual review. >>>> First of all, let me say HELLO, and take a moment to introduce myself. I go way back to the days of when this webpage had some heavy hitters with something of importance to say. I occasionally review this webpage to see what is being said, and to se if there is any real intelligent dialog taking place. Unfortunately, lately there has been little or none. Why because you want to keep talking about your history in rad-di-O. Occasionally I have witnessed you in some of your rare lapses from senility when you do say something of merit. Unfortunately, those moments are rare. Now before you attempt to take on someone like me, first go back to school, beginning with Kindergarten, then perhaps in a few years you may learn something (although I doubt it) that may be a challenge for me to address. Meanwhile, I along with the other readers here wish to thank you for giving us a dictionary definition of what “Tin” is. I suspect in you haste to respond to my previous posting you forgot to look up the correct spelling of “Wizard” and were you stuttering (I never knew a person could stutter while writing) when you wrote the word “for for get” or were you just nervous? Never-the-less, thanks for that very brief interpretation or whatever you called that garble telling us about the Wizard of Oz. That’s with a “z” and not a double “d”. Maybe next time you can tell us of your experiences with Alice in Wonderland. As I am sure you have visited there also and have something of unimportance, with us to share on that subject. I will not close by telling you in the words of the Mighty Sheriff of the Underground Posse’ to “get gone”, because it is indeed my sincere hope that you come back again with some juvenile attempt to insult me. So that I can really chew you up and spit you out. Yours truly, The Tin Man. That’s Mr. Tin Man to you.
I don't need a brain for this chump.
The WIZZARD OF ODD!!. In that story there was the Lion, the Straw Man, Dorothy, and her dog TOTO. Oh, and let's not for for get the TIN MAN. (Tin>>A malleable, silvery metallic element used to coat other metals to prevent corrosion..reminds you of SH*t....Enough said. Get gone.
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Show Topic: The Wizzard of ODD and the TEN MAN
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Someone please tell me, does anybody here have a brain. Some of the stuff yall talk about is flatline. Even I don't need one to write about something here.
Tin Man
Saturday, November 2nd, 2002: Is it just me, or does it seem like all these "other" shootings that have happened in DC/MD and VA since the "snipers" have been caught, have gotten everything reported but the same damn question they asked about the sniper killings? "Is the bullet the same or not?" Is anyone doing any work to find out if any of these bullets are coming out the same gun? Glock? 9MM? Street Sweeper? Tech 9? Rifle? Someone that works for the police dept. please come on here and let us know, do police do a match of every bullets that is emptied into someone's body or fired, to see if it is related to some other shooting?! And by the way, who saw Chief Moose on the news? (In old grandpa voice sitting on a porch sipping some lemonade in the shade)"He gotta white wife." The Two was in the barbershop when this came on and every brother in the shop said, "Nooooooooo! Whaaaaaat? Get outta here!" We thought he was being interviewed by two white female anchors. Turned the volume up and found out the deal. The conversation that started from that point on was too long to list here. But everyone agreed, the man did such a good job, and handled himself so good, it don't even matter, not like it woulda mattered before. Would it? Lol. Before I left a old man said, "He must be from Oregon or Washington, alot of the black men out there get white wives too!" Lol. The timing of it was too real cuz I had been thinking two weeks before the ordeal ended, how is his wife and family handling all this? I just knew he had a sharp sistah wife! I know the sisters in the beauty shop are talking bout this in the Saturday hair doo shops today ya'll! umph! peace!
The Two
Saturday, November 2nd, 2002: RadioD! What's been up man? Mzt, how you been too? RadioD., you hit it. A whole lot's been going on in and around this city lately. You got me crackin up and agreeing with you at the same time over here reading your post. Daylight's Savings! Back to Regular Time! Cuz "guess who" said so?! Lol. I will never forget the time C. Miles talked about this too and also why the year has to change in the middle of the winter?! Lol. The Jam Master Jay news was sad news indeed. Another tragedy that didn't have to happen. I hope and pray that the truth comes out on that too. KYS, PGC and 92Q in Baltimore were doing some Run DMC Turntable Tributes yesterday that were off the hook. It was another reminder of how good Hip Hop and Rap music was, not so long ago, "Before the dark times, before the Empire". But, after The Tributes, it was back to the thug/bling-bling/baby-mama-drama-ghetto-junk they play 24-7. I wish they would just stop playing that type of stuff all together-it's dead music to me that has no life other than the sampled phat beats. It's time is over. What has it been now almost ten years of it now! Jeeesh! And even some of those beats are weak. The woman who got killed in B-More was another tragedy. Whole family and house got firebombed just cuz she decided to take a stand against the neighborhood drug dealers. Same stuff that's taking place in DC and other cities. The positive people that are left are just moving out and saying, forget it. We done fought the good fight and this is what we get? It's a tough battle to hang in there, no doubt. But more power to everyone who has hung in there this long. The NY Tribute to JMJ is next Tuesday the 5th. Radio reports on KYS, PGC and 92Q will be interestiing on Wednesday. No More Violence. Peace.
The Two
Yep it do look like toothpaste head is going to be mayor of DC again. And speaking about elections, the chads are back according to the news reports. I believe we are going to something next that will pale to the last elections. I recently read a report that Eliza Cummings a Maryland politician is promoting the idea to bombbard the Afro-American community with more media coverage of their candidates and to start calling you personally on the telephone about the election. Talk about losing my vote, just try and call me while I’m at home chillin and having my evening meal. You want to see blacklash? I think I will take the previous posters advise, and try something new and vote for a loser. What have I got to loose.
Lassie <b_mo-me@aol.com>
Heyyy Everybody!!!! Bigolekoolaidsmileonmahface how in da HECK have ya'll been? Whewwwwww I tell you DC and Maryland is definitely making a notorious name for itself. I have a confession to make**** clearing mah throat****** I haven't been online in a GOOD little while partly cause I find it to be very boring lately, and also I have grown sorta kinna weary of the events of this past year. BUT I am online and YES I do have a new email address so ya'll be shoo to + it 2 yo emailing thangie ( if you want to email me dat iz ) OK that is mah confession.. and I also want to say that I am SHOCKED the sniper is a black man lawwwwwwwwwwwwwd fanning mah head what N da wurl iz dis heah wurl cumming 2.... BUT I am so thankful that all of you who I have cum oops I mean come to know and love heah on dis diary is SAFE!!! thank U Jezussssssssssssss!!!! have anybody seen malemann? is you do can U tell him mah NEW email address and tell him I said to send me sum mail?? ThankYa!!! ... Heyyy BOB how are U?? I see the post is still everpresent and things are moving right along.. ***slapping you on da shoulder I knuw dat I could count on U to stay focused and N place.. Oh and shoot I know a HellofA printer BUT he is heah in Michigan and he cheap too!!! Oh well I am learning this new TCP stuff I got this DSL stuff man this stuff is hard shoot I jes figured out how to check email.. oh well give me a few weeks I will have this stuff down to a science.. Heyyy again everybody, and iz U C malemann please tell him fa me ::::I'm keepN a lite shining N da window jes N case he decide to cum home:::: oops I mean ova
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***Friday November 1, 2002 :*****What’s Going On! Yep, it’s time in fact it’s way past time for my editorial on WHAT’S GOING ON!. Is it me or have black folk lost their damn minds? Today I pick up a copy of the Washington Post and I read where one of the original brothers ..and let me repeat..real ORIGINAL RAPP GROUPS was K-I-L-L-E-D. RUN DMC..Now, he was not killed on the street..he was killed at work in his recording STUDIO. What ever happened to making music and getting the message from the music? I know that I am “old school” but I just don’t get it when being a musician becomes a DANGERIOUS OCCUPATION. AS MARVIN GAYE WOULD SAY.. WHAT’S GOING ON. Well, the DC/MD/VA/sniper was captured..thank GOD. I started calling him MR. SNIPER when he reached 911 ( nine dead and eleven shot). The next day he killed somebody else. What the hell is going on? One thing I can say about the sniper (like him or not) CRIME WENT DOWN IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD….because even the neighborhood THUGS were afraid of MR SNIPER. So, what else is going on? Well, there is an election coming up November 5 and it looks like “Pee Wee” will become Mayor of Washington, DC again over Council Woman Carol Swartz. So, what else is going on? Well, the clocks were set back 1:00 hour last weekend. I have yet to figure out how white folk can control time. Will somebody explain that to me. For example: I went to sleep on Saturday night but when I woke up Sunday morning....TIME HAD GONE BACK ONE HOUR..BECAUSE WHITE FOLK SAID IT DID. DAMMN THAT’S POWER. So, what else is going on? Well, the weather is changing so that means the MOTOR CYCLE SPEED BIKERS ARE PUTTING THEIR BIKES UP FOR THE WINTER…thank GOD. So, what else is going on? Well, I heard that 96.3 WHUR promotions director Zeke Zanders had a triple bi- pass heart sugery (keep him in your prayers). What else is going on? Well, I went back to court this week for an increase in my child support payment. I guess I won’t be trading my LEXUS IN THIS YEAR..OH, WELL.RADIODIARY@AOL.COM
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Washington, DC,
Why didn't the date post? >> OCT 30th, 2002 << I put it at the begining, then when I didn't see it I did it again at the end. Whats up with that?
Delivering the Word
DELIVER THIS WORD>OUR PRESENT POLITICAL LEADERS arrogantly think they have those jobs for the rest of their lives. They think because they are the incumbents in office that they have it made in the shade for life. “And they will try and they will lie” to keep their elected positions until they can move up and replace the next person. All during this time, they do nothing for us. They claim they want us to come out to vote, but they really hope a large number do not come out and vote. They only want those people their polls show will be voting for them and them alone. People like their campaign workers, their personal friends and their immediate families. Any other unexpected votes will upset the cart. WITNESS THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION of 2000. When the leadership saw this mass number of unexpected voters coming out, you saw how they handled it. Even the losing party didn’t really complain. They accepted their lost, that time, rather than face in the future this unexpected force they can not control. They can never control the unexpected voting masses. But they can’t keep letting what happen in 2000 continue to happen or people will stop voting. Also they want us to believe that if the opposing party’s candidate gets into office, we will suffer because of it. In reality they are the only ones who will suffer because they will lose their jobs to the opposing party. And we the everyday citizen never gain anything no matter who is in office, not unless you are a personal friend, family member or campaign worker who gets a job out of the deal. They like to talk about taxes, abortion, crime, war against drugs, health plans, social security or retirement and hope one of these subjects will hit your hot button. WHEN HAVE ANY OF THEM OFFERED YOU OR YOUR KIDS A CAREER JOB OR BETTER LIFESTYLE? Well, here is what I am suggesting we do this time. GO OUT AND VOTE. Get all your friends and every one you know to go out and vote. Only this time, Vote for the “No-Name” candidate. The person most NOT likely to win. If we do this effectively enough, the results may not put these people out of office right away, but it will give them a wake up call. When they see some little unknown person get far more votes than anyone ever expected this will definitely get their attention. We may not get these dead-beats out of office this time around, but it will be a wake up call letting them know that if they don’t get busy responding to our needs, they may not survive the next time around. It does not matter if you vote for the same unknown person that someone else votes for. What does matter is the little known nobody candidate will be just as surprised as the incumbent will be. You can bet the no-name person will want to listen to you so he can do better the next time. And the incumbent will listen to you too, because he knows he may be replaced the next time. The incumbent will realize his days are numbered if he or she does not listen to the people who can take them out of office. “ VOTE FOR THE UNKNOWN” because if you continue voting the old fashion way, you know what to expect>>>>> “NOTHING”. Lets give these arrogant politicians a wake up call and vote for the least likely person you know in every category. If there is someone you feel very strongly about, then vote for that person. But for the rest of them, that includes your state representatives, your congressman, the local judges, and everybody else. . . VOTE FOR THEIR NO-NAME OPPONENT of the same party. If we vote these clowns out of office often enough, who knows what may happen next? Maybe, just maybe “YOU” or your kids might be the next Congressperson before your lifetime is up. But if you keep doing what you have in the past, these same politicians may in the future be riding around in golf carts like Jesse Helms, and good ole boy Storm Thurman, who doesn’t know where he is half of the time. “I’m serious”. Lastly, don’t let them have you believe the primary vote is not an important vote. The primary elections in many ways are the most important elections of all because you have a whole list of people within one party from which to choose. While, in the major election, you only have “this one” or “that one” of either party from which to pick. That is the game they want you to play. Lets upset their apple cart and do the unexpected. If you don’t agree with everything said here, change some of my words, add your own, then past along this message, this new concept by word of mouth and by Email to everyone you can think of. Lets remove these do nothing politicians. Throw the Bums Out. If not this year, it will happen sooner than they expect or want it to. In closing allow me to use the words of Bartles & James: “THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT”.> >>>>>>>>>>>>
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DELIVER THIS WORD>OUR PRESENT POLITICAL LEADERS arrogantly think they have those jobs for the rest of their lives. They think because they are the incumbents in office that they have it made in the shade for life. “And they will try and they will lie” to keep their elected positions until they can move up and replace the next person. All during this time, they do nothing for us. They claim they want us to come out to vote, but they really hope a large number do not come out and vote. They only want those people their polls show will be voting for them and them alone. People like their campaign workers, their personal friends and their immediate families. Any other unexpected votes will upset the cart. WITNESS THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION of 2000. When the leadership saw this mass number of unexpected voters coming out, you saw how they handled it. Even the losing party didn’t really complain. They accepted their lost, that time, rather than face in the future this unexpected force they can not control. They can never control the unexpected voting masses. But they can’t keep letting what happen in 2000 continue to happen or people will stop voting. Also they want us to believe that if the opposing party’s candidate gets into office, we will suffer because of it. In reality they are the only ones who will suffer because they will lose their jobs to the opposing party. And we the everyday citizen never gain anything no matter who is in office, not unless you are a personal friend, family member or campaign worker who gets a job out of the deal. They like to talk about taxes, abortion, crime, war against drugs, health plans, social security or retirement and hope one of these subjects will hit your hot button. WHEN HAVE ANY OF THEM OFFERED YOU OR YOUR KIDS A CAREER JOB OR BETTER LIFESTYLE? Well, here is what I am suggesting we do this time. GO OUT AND VOTE. Get all your friends and every one you know to go out and vote. Only this time, Vote for the “No-Name” candidate. The person most NOT likely to win. If we do this effectively enough, the results may not put these people out of office right away, but it will give them a wake up call. When they see some little unknown person get far more votes than anyone ever expected this will definitely get their attention. We may not get these dead-beats out of office this time around, but it will be a wake up call letting them know that if they don’t get busy responding to our needs, they may not survive the next time around. It does not matter if you vote for the same unknown person that someone else votes for. What does matter is the little known nobody candidate will be just as surprised as the incumbent will be. You can bet the no-name person will want to listen to you so he can do better the next time. And the incumbent will listen to you too, because he knows he may be replaced the next time. The incumbent will realize his days are numbered if he or she does not listen to the people who can take them out of office. “ VOTE FOR THE UNKNOWN” because if you continue voting the old fashion way, you know what to expect>>>>> “NOTHING”. Lets give these arrogant politicians a wake up call and vote for the least likely person you know in every category. If there is someone you feel very strongly about, then vote for that person. But for the rest of them, that includes your state representatives, your congressman, the local judges, and everybody else. . . VOTE FOR THEIR NO-NAME OPPONENT of the same party. If we vote these clowns out of office often enough, who knows what may happen next? Maybe, just maybe “YOU” or your kids might be the next Congressperson before your lifetime is up. But if you keep doing what you have in the past, these same politicians may in the future be riding around in golf carts like Jesse Helms, and good ole boy Storm Thurman, who doesn’t know where he is half of the time. “I’m serious”. Lastly, don’t let them have you believe the primary vote is not an important vote. The primary elections in many ways are the most important elections of all because you have a whole list of people within one party from which to choose. While, in the major election, you only have “this one” or “that one” of either party from which to pick. That is the game they want you to play. Lets upset their apple cart and do the unexpected. If you don’t agree with everything said here, change some of my words, add your own, then past along this message, this new concept by word of mouth and by Email to everyone you can think of. Lets remove these do nothing politicians. Throw the Bums Out. If not this year, it will happen sooner than they expect or want it to. In closing allow me to use the words of Bartles & James: “THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT”. >>>>>>>>>>>>
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Thursday, October 31st, 2002: Madison is a trip! He will be so blatantly rude to the WOL listeners and then go on right to the next call, and nobody even says anything about it! They just say what they gotta say like they didn't hear it! Lol. I guess folks feel like it wont do no good to call him on his behavior but, Good Lawd! How much can a listener take? He is always saying to gather your children around the radio to hear The Power, but I wouldn't want any kids to hear how rude he as an adult he treats other adults on public airwaves! His exchanges with callers at times sounds so disrespectful to them, it's hard to hang in there and listen to the rest of the show no matter what guests or topics he has coming up, etc. I've gotta say his way of communicating with the WOL Listeners is an example of bad manners, at the least. At times it's worst than bad. I'm listening to him thinking to myself, he always asks, "Can you hear yourself?" whenever callers say something he doesn't agree with. I think he needs to ask that to himself. Madison, do you hear YOURSELF talking to the callers the way you do? It's sickening. No one should get away with being that rude to anyone who explains themselves in a way that is different than his or disagrees with him like that on the daily. I guess he wants everyone to agree with him period. That would make for one boring show. I gotta continue to give props for Bernie for at least showing general respect to his audience. He has his moments too, but its never on the level of Joe Madison's ways. Makes me wanna hollah. But then again this is the same dude to help get rid of all the WOL Talkshow hosts we knew and loved right before he arrived as program director right? So what can be said? I guess if it was up to Ole Joe we should hear him on The Power 24-7! He somes off more and more of being a complainer and a whiner these days more then anything else. It's disturbing. Especially first thing in the morning when you're trying to start your day in a positive way, his behavior sends out bad vibes right over the air, all in the name of I guess him feeling self-righteous or "my way or no way". I guess that's why the board engineers will do alot of "technical slip-ups" over the air while he's talking. A way of getting back at him? Who knows? As Denzel said in that submarine movie, "God help us all." Umph! Peace!
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Black Muslim Reflects On Sniper Suspect By David Muhammad Pacific News Service Article Dated 10/29/2002 Editor's Note: As pundits speculate on sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad's motives and his past membership with the Nation of Islam, a Black man who joined the Nation a decade ago reflects on rage, empowerment and media double standards. PNS contributor David Muhammad (dmuhammad@hotmail.com), a member of the Nation of Islam, recently won the Next Generation Leadership Award from the Rockefeller Foundation for his work with youth. As I sat in Chicago last weekend listening to Minister Louis Farrakhan announce that John Allen Muhammad was formerly a member of the Nation of Islam, I remembered when I had joined the Nation, nearly 10 years ago. Prior to joining the Nation I was a young, angry Black man. I had grown up on the hard streets of Oakland, Calif., in foster care, in and out of juvenile hall. One day, I took a Black studies class in high school and learned about leaders like Malcolm X. I learned about the atrocities inflicted on my people and the deplorable condition many still live in. Now, along with my anger there was growing self-pride and a thirst for more knowledge. This new consciousness helped me change my life. I went from nearly dropping out of school to heading to Howard University. My first published article was titled, "How Black Studies Can Change a Young Man's Life." But I was still angry. The violent thoughts that had fed my juvenile delinquency had transformed into thoughts of revenge for the condition of Black America. Then I found the Nation of Islam. Here, my anger was channeled. Contrary to some popular misconceptions about the Nation, I was taught not to hate white people, but to use that energy to develop myself and help my people. When I learned that Blacks are just 13 percent of the country but nearly 60 percent of America's inmate, when I learned that Blacks account for 54 percent of all new cases of AIDS in the United States, when I learned that one-third of Black people live in poverty, receive substandard education, health care, and other public services -- it made me angry. But I learned to channel that rage to work on the problem rather than take my anger out on whites. I was taught never to be the aggressor in word or deed. I was taught that Islam was the religion of peace. I was taught not to carry as much as a penknife. No weapons are accepted in the Nation. As Minister Farrakhan said in his press conference, "We don't rely on weapons to protect us, we rely on our faith in Allah." When I read about Muhammad's affiliation with the Nation of Islam, it seems that some commentators are looking for a motive for his alleged rampage. Articles mention his affiliation, but frequently omit that he severed his ties with the Nation in 1999. In fact, the Nation was looking for him then, due to his domestic dispute with his then-wife, who is still a very active member of the Nation in Washington, D.C. The sniper's motives were obviously not about race. Five of his victims were people of color, including four Blacks. One of those victims was Ken Bridges, a community leader and very close friend to the Nation of Islam. Another victim was a 13-year-old Black boy. The sniper was clearly not looking to becoming a folk hero in the ghetto. To me, the most important factor in the sniper suspect's background is his military service, his war experience and his impoverishment as a veteran. How many soldiers return from military service just to continue their violence at home? Where is the intense study of the many servicemen who come home and kill their wives, or the recent shootings by a Gulf War veteran in Arizona? These men are trained to kill, then return home without adequate psychological treatment. They often leave the military and are left with little job opportunities. This may be the true source of the sniper's rage. But still, so-called experts on talk shows reflexively look toward Muhammad's religion to see if they can find clues to his alleged crimes. I hear people ask if the rhetoric of the Nation provokes violence. I did not see people turning automatically to scrutinize Christianity when Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was arrested. The vast majority of America's prison inmates are Christians. But it's a given that the killing of innocent people is against the teachings of Christianity. If John Allen Muhammad is indeed the sniper, then as Minister Farrakhan said in his recent press conference, his acts are as far away from Islam and the teachings of the Nation as Pluto is from the sun. (c)Copyright PNS For more discussion on this article and to see what others have to say click on the link below to go to discussion forums. Commentary Forum Send your comments and suggestions about this article to: editors@tbwt.net.....NM
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"In Defense Of Black Reparations" Part Two of a Two-Part Series By Manning Marable TBWT Contributor Article Dated 10/29/2002 In recent months, momentum for black reparations has continued to build. In June 2002, members of the New York City Council held hearings to discuss whether a public commission should be established to examine the question of reparations. A coalition of largely black nationalist groups sponsored a "Millions for Reparations" at Washington's National Mall on August 17, which despite a disappointing turnout, still attracted national media coverage. At the demonstration, Congressman John Conyers criticized members of Congress for their failure to endorse reparations. Minister Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, linked the reparations cause to the empowerment of young African Americans, declaring that our children "deserve a better future." When black conservatives like Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, and John McWhorter came out to attack reparations, it was no surprise. But in recent weeks, other prominent African Americans embracing liberal and even progressive views also expressed a variety of reservations about the black reparations demand. Writing in the urban issues magazine City Limits, educator Hakim Hasan warned that reparations represented a significant "danger, namely that black Americans, flush with compensation-we won!-would likewise avoid any sustained, collective introspection." Hasan grimly predicted that "if Martin Luther King's image can sell telephones ... then a Macy's Reparations Day sale, is not farfetched." Progressive historian Robin D.G. Kelley raised similar reservations. "The focus on slavery alone," Kelley observed, "misses the whole point about how racism worked through the 20th century to now to enrich whites at the expense of people of color." Kelley worried that "some massive payment without the elimination of racism will be used to shut all black people up...." Wade Henderson, the executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, expressed support for the general concept of black compensation for enslavement and racial oppression, but opposed "making payments to individuals." Henderson believed that any kind of financial reparations "has to go to some publicly chartered institution that is set up to eradicate the two most persistent problems black folks face: education and economic development." USA Today columnist DeWayne Wickham was even more critical, declaring that the reparations movement "is in many ways a head without a body." He noted that three of the most prominent spokespersons for "the reparations cause"-Johnnie Cochrane, Randall Robinson, and Charles Ogletree-did not speak at the Washington, D.C. demonstration. Wickham claimed that reparations advocates had refused to address the "Achilles' heel" of the movement of "how the payout should be paid.... Instead of working to bridge this troubling gap of opinions, too many advocates of reparations continue to dance around it." Wickham warned that "their soft shoe on the payout question widens the divide over what should be done." The criticisms of Wickham, Henderson, Kelley, and others have to be taken seriously and convincingly addressed. First, and perhaps foremost, is the fact that white racism is structural in character, and is largely grounded in institutional processes rather than by individuals' behavior. Racial prejudice is reproduced by America's basic institutions-economic, educational, social, and political-of our society. The racial myths of white history are used to rationalize, explain away, and justify white supremacy and black inequality. What reparations does is to force whites to acknowledge the brutal reality of our common history, something white society generally has refused to do. It provides a historically-grounded explanation for the continuing burden of racial oppression: the unequal distribution of economic resources, land, and access to opportunities for social development, which was sanctioned by the federal government. Consequently it is that same government that bears the responsibility of compensating those citizens and their descendants to whom constitutional rights were denied. Affirmative action was essentially "paycheck equality," in the words of political scientist Ronald Walters; it created millions of job opportunities, bud did relatively little to transfer wealth from one racial group to another. One-third of all African-American households today has a negative net wealth. The average black household's wealth is less than 15 percent of the typical white household's. Most of our people are trapped in an almost bottomless economic pit from which there will be no escape-unless we change our political demands and strategy from liberal integrationism to a restructuring of economic resources, and the elimination of structural deficits that separate blacks and whites into unequal racial universes. "Reparations" transforms the dynamics of the national racial discourse, moving from "handouts" to "paybacks." It parallels a global movement by people of African descent and other Third World people to renegotiate debt and to demand compensation for slavery, colonialism, and apartheid. Wickham's argument that reparations advocates must articulate with one voice how and when the compensation should be paid is a seductive trap. Every social protest movement throughout history that has endeavored to achieve a broad strategic goal generates many different tactics and organizations to achieve it. It is only through the political struggle to win reparations-in the courtroom, in the media, at the grassroots level-will the specific reforms and measures for implementation take shape. "Economic reparations" could take a variety of forms, any of which could be practically implemented. I favor the establishment of a reparations social fund that would channel federal, state, and/or corporate funds for investment in nonprofit, community-based organizations, economic empowerment zones in areas with high rates of unemployment, and grants or interest-free loans for blacks to purchase homes or to start businesses in economically depressed neighborhoods. However, there are other approaches to the reconstruction of black economic opportunity. Sociologist Dalton Conley has suggested the processing of "individual checks via the tax system, like a refundable slavery tax credit." Major corporations and banks that were "unjustly enriched" by either slave labor or by Jim Crow-era discriminatory policies against African Americans could set aside a portion of future profits in a trust fund to financially compensate their victims and their descendants. Universities whose endowments were based on the slave trade or on slave labor and/or companies that were unjustly enriched by racial segregation laws could create scholarship funds to give greater access to African-American students. It would be dangerous and foolish for the proponents of reparations to quarrel among themselves over the best approach for implementation at this time. Over a generation ago, there were numerous divisions within the Civil Rights Movement, separating leaders and rival organizations. They all agreed on the general goal, the abolition of legal racial segregation, but espoused very different ways and tactics to get there. The same model should be applied to reparations. Any effort to impose rigid ideological or organizational conformity on this diverse and growing popular movement will only serve to disrupt and destroy it. As I have written previously, the greatest challenge in the national debate over African-American reparations is in convincing black people, not whites, that we can actually win. The greatest struggle of the oppressed is always against their own weaknesses, doubts, and fears. The reparations demand is most liberating because it has the potential for transforming how black people see themselves, and our own history. Dr. Manning Marable is Professor of History, Political Science, and Public Affairs, and the Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York. "Along the Color Line" is distributed free of charge to over 350 publications throughout the U.S. and internationally. Dr. Marable's column is also available on the Internet at www.manningmarable.net For more discussion on this article and to see what others have to say click on the link below to go to discussion forums. Commentary Forum Send your comments and suggestions about this article to: editors@tbwt.net......NM
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When you say black talk radio,you will find the old master of talk radio and tv, name at the top of the list as the first to do it at it's best in Washington DC,Petey Green, who call me every sunday for years while i was on the air with advice on how to do what ever i was doing better.I know in his time he was a very unique person that had a very strong impact on the African American Community that live's on to this day in a lot of black folks who knew Petey Green. There are lot's of Petey Green story's as a DC HACKER i have heard some hart felt one's from folk's who gotten in my cab.>>>>>>>[THE WAY WE WERE] Billy Ray
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October 29, 2002 A small measure of justice Arnold Beichman Political Books THE VICTIM'S FORTUNE: INSIDE THE EPIC BATTLE OVER THE DEBTS OF THE HOLOCAUST John Authers and Richard Wolffe HarperCollins $29.95, 458 pages It is told in the first book of Kings, that when Naboth refused to give up his vineyard to King Ahab, the termagant Jezebel in revenge ordered Naboth stoned to death. As Ahab marches off to take possession of the vineyard, the prophet Elijah appears before Ahab and asks: "Hast thou killed and also taken possession?" That was Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's answer on Jan. 7, 1952, to Menachem Begin, a future prime minister, to an unanswerable question: How could reparations and restitution provide even a small measure of justice for the Holocaust? Wasn't it, Begin asked, blood money that was being returned, a mercenary transaction? But there was another question: Would justice be served if the secretive Swiss banks kept the money for themselves in what they called "dormant accounts," money that had been deposited for safety's sake by German and East European Jews before and after 1933, the year of the Nazis' taking power? There were at least 6,000 such accounts. Would justice be served if the Assicurazioni Generali failed to pay the victim's surviving family because its members couldn't provide the Italian insurance company with a death certificate? "The Victim's Fortune," a weighty piece of research and reporting, is not just a story about the Holocaust. It is the spellbinding account a half-century later of Jewish leaders, lawyers, judges, businessmen, government officials, and, above all, the victim-survivors who were searching for justice in the form of some kind of payback from those banking and financial institutions that had profited from the Holocaust. It is the story of the German corporations that had benefited from the forced labor of Russian, Polish, Baltic and other peoples swept up by the German armies as they advanced across the continent. John Authers and Richard Wolffe, journalists at the Financial Times, examined not only thousands of documents but also interviewed some 160 individuals. The results — extensively footnoted, including web sites — make the kind of history in which fact is carefully separated from opinion and opinion documented by the authors. The man the authors call the mastermind behind the compensation campaign is Israel Singer, 53, an orthodox Brooklyn rabbi in 1995 when the campaign started. He worked with Edgar Bronfman Sr., the billionaire president of the World Jewish Congress; Stuart Eizenstat, Undersecretary of State; Hillary Clinton, Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, Abraham Foxman, Anti-Defamation League director, a critic of Mr. Singer's campaign and Lawrence Eagleburger, former Secretary of State. Included also is the now-forgotten Christoph Meili, the night watchman at Union Bank of Switzerland, who found ledgers of bank deposits entered before and during the crucial war years in the bank's shredding room waiting to be destroyed. The book's starting point is 1995, when Mr. Singer and Mr. Bronfman met with the Swiss Bankers Association and demanded an audit of dormant accounts and rightful payment to the survivors. A year later, highly successful class action lawyers and personal injury attorneys initiated court proceedings against banks and insurance companies located in Switzerland, Austria, Italy, France and the United States. In 1997, Mr. Eizenstat, no doubt with then-President Clinton's support, issued a report that accuses the Swiss National Bank of knowingly receiving gold looted from Holocaust victims and laundering money for the Nazis. In October 1997, the then-New York City Comptroller Alan Hevesi, who lost many of his ancestors in Hungary, threatened economic sanctions against the Swiss banks. The chronology goes on and on. The Swiss announced a final "offer" of $600 million, which under Mr. Hevesi's threat of sanctions was doubled to $1.25 billion. Austria, France and Germany settled. Finally, on June 19, 2001, a handful of elderly victims received payment of $5,000 for their time in the Nazi labor camps. But the story does not end there. The successful campaign for the victimized European Jews, say the authors, has cleared the way for other campaigns for historical justice. The California law, allowing slave laborers to sue Germany, gave rise to lawsuits from people forced to work for the Japanese in World War II. Victims of the Armenian genocide in 1915 have won a settlement from the New York Life Insurance Co. And in the wings is the emerging battle over compensation for black Americans for slavery and segregation. Wait and see. Arnold Beichman, a Hoover Institution research fellow, is a columnist for The Washington Times. NM
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Nation Of Islam Leader Addresses Media On D.C. Sniper Case By Press Release FinalCall.com Article Dated 10/28/2002 CHICAGO -- The accused deadly D.C. - area sniper has had no link with the Nation of Islam for over three years and anyone guilty of such murder violates Islamic teachings, said the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. "Nowhere in the teachings of Islam, nowhere in the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, would we countenance any man taking the lives of innocent human beings," Min. Farrakhan told reporters and community activists during an Oct. 26 news conference at Mosque Maryam here. "I and we grieve for the senseless loss of life. I and we grieve with all the families that lost loved ones for we were touched in grief as well. But we also grieve for John Allen Williams’, also known as John Muhammad's, first wife and his son and his second wife and their three children, who will have to grow up in an environment and live with whatever comes from the trial of these two persons. If they are found guilty, that will affect every member of his family. "Members of his family said, 'This is not the John that I knew.' And this is not the John that we knew. What happened to him, what caused this remains at present to me and to us a mystery. It's something that must be probed and it must be found. What turns a person into a cold killer of innocent people?" he asked. One of the victims, Ken Bridges, was a Black empowerment activist and longtime friend and associate of Min. Farrakhan. "It grieved us much to hear that his life was lost as a result of the sniper," he said. Maryland officials Oct. 25 charged Mr. Williams, 41, and teen John Lee Malvo with six counts of first-degree murder in the shootings. A third man, reportedly co-owner of a blue Chevrolet Caprice the pair was caught in, was arrested as a material witness Oct. 26. The accused sniper was in bad standing with the Nation over a child custody dispute with his second wife, who attends a D.C.-area mosque, Min. Farrakhan said. He had not been heard from since 1999, the Minister said. If guilty as charged, the man will not be considered a member of the Nation, he said. "We would all ask that any who is guilty of such be punished to the fullest extent of the law," Min. Farrakhan added. Under the Nation's teachings, members are not allowed to possess any weapon, Min. Farrakhan explained. "It is horrific for us to learn that someone who once was a part of our ranks may be involved in something as horrific as this. But, I respectfully say, to the members of the media and the American people, Timothy McVeigh confessed that he was a Christian, but nobody blames the church for his misconduct," he observed. Mr. McVeigh was found guilty of the April 1995 Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing. Likewise, the pastors of those imprisoned are not linked to their crimes, but there is a bias that allows for Islam to be wrongly attached to crimes, he said. Muslims already suffer from a stigma and pain of Sept. 11 that have been associated with Islam, and now these horrendous acts, he said. Those who share the name Muhammad face an additional stigma now, Min. Farrakhan said. Mr. Williams first attended a study group in northern California and later a small study group in Seattle, said Min. Farrakhan, adding that Mr. Williams may have attended the peaceful Million Man March, but had no role as personal security for him. Every Black man at the 1995 march was entrusted with keeping the peace, Min Farrakhan said. In 1996, at the annual Saviours' Day convention, all of the believers present were given the right to wear the name Muhammad, as a sign of religious ties to Nation of Islam patriarch Elijah Muhammad, the Minister said. The name Muhammad means, “one worthy of praise, and one praised much,” he said. Those who took the name had to pledge to act in a manner that would bring honor, praise and credit to that name, he said. The accused sniper's wife at the time was at the convention. He later legally changed his name to Muhammad in the courts, the Minister said. NM
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Monday,October 28th,2002: How was the weekend for everybody? Do we all feel a little bit safer or what? Has our collective guard dropped down a level or two? For me, it's back down to the same dag on level I've learned I gotta keep it when I travel in certain areas of cities or suburbs. Always carefully! (That official 'Careful Tip Sheet' they came out with, I think most of us that grew up in the inner city starting learning in Elementary School, Junior High, High School and continuing right on up to adulthood just to stay safe in tha hood! Pop! Pop! "Duck! Dodge! Run!" Dang! A shame but true, and we ain't never had no state-issued clinical therapist or psych. doc ask us, "How is your emotional and mental health doing during this crises?" And the press, media or police sure nuff , never dropped by to ask that either. They just said "drug related" and went on to their next thing. We just had to deal with it. My prayers continue to go out to all those families and friends of the families affected by this recent madness.) Heard Madison this morning on WOL, giving much props and kudos to Chief Charles Moose for his stellar professionalism both in front of, and behind the cameras and scenes, working this extraordinary case. Madison also raised the point that at this time, instead of so much media focus on how bad a black man's actions like John Muhammad were, why can't the media now focus in on, or at least show equal balance to, how good a good man's actions like Moose were and are. Saw on the tube someone out there in cyberspace, has even set up a Chief Moose Fan Site. The Final Call broadcast on Morgan's WEAA 88.9 FM Sunday night, aired Minister Farrakhan's Press Conference in its entirety held on Saturday, in response to the press/media's questions of John Muhammad. Madison read some of the transcripts this morning too. On a musical note, I gotta give it up to MAJIC 102.3, 'The Best Variety of Hits and Oldies,' for keepin the Soul Music alive and DC101.1 FM for playing more Jimmy Hendrix than any other DC station I hear. Both sounding good. Good job also to 89.3 FM WPFW and CSPAN 90.1 FM for covering the Peace Rally on Saturday. Peace.
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OCTOBER 28, 2002, 9:28:00 -- To: AHA Minister of Offense and I are one and the same. There was no attempt to deceive; I merely switched gears based on the way the discussion was proceeding. I notice how easily and predictable both you and your cohort are. People who are so gullible and emotional should not be negotiating anything for anybody, because real negotiators would take full advantage of your incapacity. My immediate concern is how you both seem to seek to legitimize begging, or to redefine what begging is. When you go to another man to ask him to do for you what you are CAPABLE of doing for yourself, you are a beggar, and -- in the eyesight of God -- unworthy of His Blessing. You should think about that, and seek a way that you can begin building something that proves your willingness to qualify for the promise from God, rather than begging the devil to do something that is against his very nature to do -- which is give you justice.
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OCTOBER 28, 2002, 9:22 A.M. -- you are funny. You charge me with defending the Whiteman, then you turn around and ask me about my "accreditations" from the Whiteman's theological cemetaries (seminaries). Have your emotions taken over so much that now you are reduced to childish name-calling? You have no pearls to cast, you greatly over-estimate yourself. You are a beggar, plain and simple, and you are ignorant of (among other things) the Workings of Allah (God), else you wouldn't be chasing after the devil asking him to "do right". That is not his nature, or didn't you realize that there is a difference between Allah and Satan, God and the devil? Now, I am almost a bit embarrassed to have engaged you even up to this point, because you are clearly incapable of defending your own position, much less the capability of understanding my position. Like I said earlier, when they start passing out the checks, let me know. P.S. Don't let them trick you by giving you a bill and just CALLING it a check. ((laughter))
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October 28, 2002 Minister of common sense, if you can recall, I told you in a earlier post that I would not throw pearl under the feet of (swine) one that disbelieves in the Reparations movement? Did you forget? Why do you keep on insisting that I do? I also told you that Allah MANIFEST things in his own good time, not when MINISTER OF COMMON SENSE want him too. If you are a minister, you should know that. Who and what God commissioned you? By the way, did you graduate from a Theological Seminary established by the (devil) white man? What is the name of the seminary? Who was your Professor? When did you graduate if you graduated? I am almost certain that your Professor or Teacher would be embarrassed to find out that (you) his student did not know that Allah (God) is the BEST of planners and he MANIFEST things in his own good time. Do you have a degree in Theology? How in the HELL did you put instructions in the book when you don’t know that Allah is the BEST of planners? Why should we listen to you, when you don’t know that Allah MANIFEST his power in his own good time? I need to stop communicating with you because you are infected with the BIG I SYNDROME. NM
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*** TO: MINISTER OF COMMON SENSE/NONSENSE; ---What plan do you have for the people, since you seem to have the answers? ---Where in either the Bible or Holy Qur'an are you described or either identified? ---If you are not interested in Reparations, pursue your own agenda and be at peace with yourself, instead of being a high (hypo) critic. Sadly, there are people who will follow you (see the "Jim Jones" fiasco-Jonestown, Africa, circa 1979)just list your contact information and what flavor of 'kool-aid' you're serving. YOU ARE NOT WORTHY TO DISCUSS REPARATIONS WITH. (You seem just like this other fool, Minister of Offense) AHA...busted again!!!
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OCTOBER 27, 2002, 4:59 p.m. -- You are a sad case. You said you are demanding reparations. I asked you much earlier what you were going to use to leverage your demand? When you make a demand, you had better have a tool or authority to demand (i.e., MAKE IT HAPPEN) that is so overwhelming against the one who the demand is being made against that they cannot resist. I asked you that question, because I know that you have no such leverage, and hoped that you would realize it. You do not demand something by begging for it simultaneously. If you have the power to demand something, you make it happen RIGHT AWAY, not years and years down the road. All of the talk about Bible and Qur'an do not alter common sense (of which I am a Minister) one bit. I (the Blackman) wrote BOTH Bible and Qur'an, so they can only bear witness to what I as a Blackman do. You, on the other hand, do not understand that at all so you look at the books for instruction -- well, listen up, I put the instruction IN the books. Now, if you cannot think even well enough to figure that out, how in the HELL can you "demand" the ruler of this world to give you something that you have no power to enforce?
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Minister of common sense, I have already addressed the issue about begging for reparations. I told you in a previous post that we are not begging for reparations. We have placed a demand FOR REPARATIONS. Why do you continue to repeat the same statement over again? I will ask you again, do you know the difference between begging FOR REPARATIONS and demanding it? I know a 9 year-old girl that know the difference between begging for reparations and demanding it. It seems that you are having a very hard time making a distinction between the two words. If you don’t know the meaning look the words up in the dictionary so you can get a better understanding. minister of common sense, did Moses beg Pharaoh to “let his people” go, or did he demand that Pharaoh “let them go? If you recall, Pharaoh suffered a painful chastisement because he refused to let them go. Was Moses making a demand or was he begging Pharoah? What caused you to think that we are begging for reparations? Moses’ God was not weak nor is our God. If you recall, Pharaoh was very powerful but Moses’ God drowned him. Does that sound like a God that is weak? What Bible or Holy Quran are you reading from? Ask your Preacher was Moses’ God weak. Ask any Muslim Imam was Moses’ God weak. Ask any Jewish Rabbi was Moses’ God weak, or ask any Christian scholar was Moses’ God weak. If they are truthful, they will tell you that Moses’ God was strong and powerful. They will tell you that Moses’ God over powered Pharaoh, his magicians, and his army. They were all defeated and so are you. If you tell a Christian Bible student that Moses’ God was weak and that he was beggar, he will probably look at you like you are not well read or either you are HIGH ON CRACK. Which one is it? You are right, African-Americans need to do something for them selves. However, that does not NEGATE the FACT that the government owes us reparations. Any wide-awake BLACK MAN would know that REPARATIONS IS A DIVINE THING. Since you don’t know that reparation is a divine thing, it has been concluded that you are not awake, you are spiritually ASLEEP when it comes to the reparations issue. NM
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OCTOBER 26, 2002, 11:50 a.m. Your response was so predictable. As soon as someone outthinks you, then they must be an agent? I've made no mockery, I have stated actual facts. When a man goes to another man to ask him to do for him what he could do for himself he is nothing more than a beggar. You are the one who is mocking God by viewing Him as so weak that you need to make your appeals to the Caucasian to free you, instead of doing what men do and invoke God to assist them in freeing THEMSELVES, and then be about doing it. All you can do is offer insults, which shows that your mind is undeveloped and unable to contend with even a Caucasian, must less a wide-awake Blackman. So, like I said, when they pass out the checks, let me know. I'll probably need some kindling for my fireplace by then anyway.
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oCTOBER 26, 2002 minister of common sense, why do you laugh and make mockery of your own ignorance? Are you trying to divide the black community on the reparation issue? Are you an agent? Whether you are an agent or not, it is obvious that you are suffering from the lingering effects of plantation slavery. The American government is capable of defending itself. It doesn’t need you OR THOSE THAT THINK LIKE YOU to fight their battle, unless you are an agent working for the government. Karl Evans the author of the “Rise and Fall of Elijah Muhammad oppose reparations. The William brothers (Armstrong Williams, Juan Williams, and Walter Williams) oppose reparations. Yet, they have not provided an economic plan to get black people out of the conditions they are in. minister of common sense, if you had taken the time to read each aspect of the reparation issue, and not get caught up in your own self glory, you may have learned as we did, that reparations is not only about a pay check. I gave you the AFRE web site address: (www. afre ngo.org) but you chose to make mockery. Should we continue to refer to you as minister of common sense or minister of unintelligent? The people that I know can read and comprehend, it seem that you can’t or won’t. The people that I know work hard everyday. They are not sitting around waiting on a pay-check. Minister of unintelligent, guess what? Everyone on this board know that you just received a REALITY CHECK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NM
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In Defense Of Harry Belafonte By Ron Daniels TBWT Contributor Article Dated 10/24/2002 A storm of controversy was ignited recently when Harry Belafonte made some stinging criticisms of President Bush, Attorney General John Ashcroft and Secretary of State Colin Powell on a broad range of subjects related to the “war against terrorism” and Bush’s plan to attack Iraq. During an interview on station KFMB in San Diego, Belafonte suggested that the assault of civil liberties being orchestrated by Ashcroft, under the guise of fighting the war on terrorism, is a throw back to the McCarthy era when “families were destroyed, and neighbors spied on neighbors.” He also derided the Bush Administration for walking out on the World Conference Against Racism, which was held in Durban, South Africa last year. Belafonte’s most biting criticism, however, was reserved for Colin Powell, the first African American ever to be appointed Secretary of State. Using Malcolm’s famous analysis of the attitudes of the “house Negro” and “field Negro” as a frame of reference, Belafonte observed that during slavery “you got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master.” Turning his attention specifically to the Secretary of State, he declared, “Colin Powell’s committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture.” The reaction, particularly among conservatives was instant and rabid. Belafone was attacked as unpatriotic, and leading conservative spokespersons demanded that he apologize to Powell. Pressure was also directed at the organization Africare, which is slated to honor Harry Belafonte at its annual dinner this year for his work as a human rights advocate and humanitarian. Yielding to the clamor from conservatives, Senator Majority Leader Tom Daschle and Minority Leader Trent Lott, who were scheduled to attend the dinner, promptly announced that they had changed their minds. For days conservative talk show hosts on radio and television had a field day denouncing Harry Belafonte and uplifting Colin Powell as a “great American.” My first observation about the controversy is to have us remember who Harry Belafonte is and what he has done over a lifetime of service for Africans in America and oppressed humanity. Harry Belafonte has always been righteously “of the race and for the race.” As a world renowned artist and entertainer, he has consciously stood in the tradition of Paul Robeson in using his celebrity status as a lever to advance the cause of social, economic and racial justice in this country and around the world. He has been in the “field” mobilizing and organizing for civil rights, human rights, freedom and equality against the forces in the “big house” that have most often gained their power and privilege from the exploitation of the masses. As a “conscious” and “committed” artist, Belafonte has used his time, talent and resources to advance the struggle for human liberation. No doubt he could have been more prominent and certainly could have gained greater fame and fortune if he had entered the “house” and quietly done the bidding of the “master.” But, in the finest tradition of Africans in America, Belafonte has chosen to stay in the “field” with his “mind stayed on freedom.” Harry Belafonte has done us a great service by reminding us that the Black Freedom Struggle in this country was not about producing individuals who would be overcome by historical amnesia as it relates to the nature of our struggle or individuals who would wittingly or unwittingly betray the mission, message and meaning of our movement. The goal of the “movement” was never to collaborate with the plantation master or to become plantation masters. The mission of our movement, as sons and daughters of enslaved Africans, has always been to rid ourselves and the world of plantation masters and plantationism as a philosophy and way of life. The vision of a just, humane tomorrow, and relentless resistance to the “princes and principalities” that foster exploitation and oppression has been the driving force of our movement. Brother Belafonte’s poignant commentary may well serve as an antidote to the spread of black conservatism in our community as symbolized by the three C’s, Clarence, Condoleezza and Colin (this phrase was coined by veteran social and political activist Damu Smith). Though his scathing criticism was directed at Colin, it could just as well have applied to Clarence and Condoleezza. All three are tenuously residing in or in proximity to the “big house,” doing the master’s bidding to the detriment of masses of Black people and the oppressed. The key to their residence in the “house” is to dutifully legitimize policies and practices, which are intended to promote the interests of the powerful and privileged over those of the dispossessed. The three C’s, however, are simply the most prominent representatives of a whole breed of Black conservatives and opportunists who are being groomed by “master” as part of a strategy to confuse, disorient, divide and exploit Black people in the interest of preserving the plantation. In that vein, Harry Belafonte’s criticisms of Colin Powell were not personal, but political. They are a reminder and warning that if we as Black people lose our sense of who we are and the nature of our heroic struggle, we may betray that struggle and end up serving the very forces that have historically oppressed us. NM
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OCTOBER 25, 2002 -- 10:50 a.m. You have no plan other than begging. That is what Silis Muhammad is doing, and that is what you are following, a beggar. You make Allah sound so weak, as if He does not Have the Power to fulfill his own will without incorporating the American or European Whiteman in his dealings! Good luck, because that is what you are depending on. Let me know when they start passing out the checks. {{laughing}}
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October 25, 2002 Minister of common sense, you are absolutely right. God doesn’t keep secrets. However he does reveals them to whom he pleases. Do you think he would reveal his secrets to those that oppose his (divine) plan? You think Black people should follow your plan. Guest what? We reject your plan. We are going to follow God’s plan, not yours. Regardless to what you say, Reparation’s is in God’s plan for African-Americans. When African-Americans receives Reparations, what will you and all the unintelligent people that think like you do? God’s desire is ensure that African-Americans receive full and complete reparations. NM
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In my opinion, WOL should have promoted the reparations rally months in advance. That was poor planning on the program director's part. Why didn't they play excerpts from Malcolm speeches to help promote the rally? I heard Dr. King excerpts but not Malcolm's. The promo's that they did use at the last minute was luke warm. Why wait to the last minute to promote a rally of such importance? Did WOL wait to the last minute to promote the STONE SOUL PICNIC? Is it true that 50,000 people showed up last year at the picnic? Where were they Aug. 17th? Can some one tell me where were black people August 17th? I don't want to read abo
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