Fw: Re: Four seats......Humm ?

http://about.me/mikekib1/bio Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. --- On Fri, 2/25/11, Sen. Dick Durbin <info@dscc.org> wrote: From: Sen. Dick Durbin <info@dscc.org> Subject: Four seats To: justcoolinout@yahoo.com Date: Friday, February 25, 2011, 7:16 AM   Dear Lorenzo, As Assistant Majority Leader, it’s my job to make sure Senate Democrats have the votes to stop extremist legislation. Things are about to get really busy around here.   CONCLUSION : I Am A Decendant Of Us Slavery System An Want my Sovereign Status Litigation is a viable tool for obtaining reparations for African descendants if the legal claim is clearly identified and various procedural hurdles can be successfully mounted. & ;nbs p; ; Three proceduralhurdls that must be addressed at the initial stages of litigation— standing, statute of limitations and sovereign immunity—can be met using the experiences of African descendants. Honoring the experiences and voices of those who seek reparations is imperative if the ultimate remedy is to heal the wounds of centuries of disdainful, brutal and inhumane treatment that the international community acknowledges as a Crime Against Humanity. Cornelious duckworth (1847 - 2003)Last week, House Republicans voted to defund health reform, eliminate money for reproductive care, slash nutrition for poor women and children and gut resources that keep our air and water clean. This is not cutting fat. These are bones – programs that keep our middle class standing. Congressional Briefing to Address Justice and Stability in the Congo and Great Lakes Region of Africa The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNOHCHR) released the official "Report of the Mapping Exercise" in October 2010. The report documents "the most serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law committed within the territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between March 1993 and June 2003". Over 200 Congolese organizations have appealed to the international community to support and address the report. OL On 24 July 1990, the National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus of the United States designated November ‘Black Catholic History Month.’ Thank you to Craig Manson of the GeneaBlogie blog for iThe African descent community is damaged by slavery and colonialism, by ignorance and white supremacy. We too are damaged in those very same ways as a Nican Tlaca people. There is no need for African descent people to steal from us our pride so that they can lay claim to our pride and our lands, but that is what the racist Afrocentrics are doing when they promote the ignorant, unscientific, fabricated and delusional Olmec African origins of our people and our civilizations. Olmec Civilization is the very heart of who we are as a people and as a civilization. We will not allow white supremacists, Afrocentric racists, or anyone to debase, distort, or to steal from us our heritage. This defense of our people is in response to the racist attacks on our heritage during the Olmec exhibit and lectures at LACMA November 5th and 6th of 2010. More to the point: Afrocentric racists, thinking that they are superior to us, are forcing a discussion on our rights to our heritage by claiming our Olmec civilization as an African civilization. This is like the white supremacist discussion on our rights to our lands, to our continent, based on the fraudulent Kennewick Man that has been documented to have no basis of European origins. These two racist concepts, fabricated from wishful thinking, are pretty much like the ignorant “debate” on whether evolution is real, or the debate which is the purely racist notion that questions whether all of the races of humanity are equal in intelligence. Ignorant, racist, or stupid ideas like these that question proven facts are usually promoted by people who have not studied the subject and who INSIST on NOT letting facts, truth, logic, or evidence stop them from presenting their “opinions” against evolution or the equality of intelligence in the human race. The evidence is all in on evolution and on the equality of intelligence in human beings, and on the issue of our Olmec civilization having its origins here and not coming from Africa. You would think that would be the end of that. But again, facts, science, evidence, logic, and common sense don’t stop the “Olmecs were African” promoters, not anymore than the “no evolution” and “whites are superior” people. The problem has to do with the constant publishing of “They Came Before Columbus”, a book that has been debunked, like the “Mayans were people from outer space” nonsense that Von Daniken promoted in “Chariots of the Gods” in the 60’s and 70’s. And then there was further attacks on our people’s intelligence with “Aztecs were from Atlantis”, The Ten Tribes of Israel founded all the civilizations of “the Indians” (referring to us, they still haven’t figured out that Columbus never reached India). People still insist on calling us Indians. They will NOT let facts get in the way with what they have been told in the schools of white supremacy. Indians are the people of India. Another face of the many debasings of our heritage is the Carlos Castañeda books which were all proven a fraud. It was in Time Magazine, newspapers around the world. Castañeda made a public apology and confessed his frauds. He confessed after a book was printed showing in detail the fraud of all of the Castañeda books. You would think that that would be the end of that. The problems is that the book proving Castañeda a fraud is out of print, but the Castañeda books are still selling in the millions with people believing every lie to be the truth. New Age desecrations of our theology and culture have been the result of Castañeda’s fraud. He is now dead, but his lies live on as “New Age” because people are ignorant of the fraud he perpetrated. With Ivan Van Sertima’s book “They Came Before Columbus” we have a similar problem. This “debate” as it is being called, has an endless list of nonsensical and pseudoscience lies and frauds behind it. But let’s just cut to the chase without taking on the lies one by one. Let’s just use logic. If West Africans were so great to have taught us civilization, where in west or central or south Africa did they do such great things as our civilizations in B.C. times? There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in B.C. times of any civilization in those areas. For us on our continent we had Supe/Caral (3500 B.C.), Olmec (2300-1800 B.C. beginnings), Zapotec (600 B.C.), Maya (600 B.C.), Teotihuacan (100 B.C). There is ZERO evidence of anything even remotely resembling our civilizations in Africa in B.C times, there were NO CIVILIZATIONS in west-central-south Africa in B.C times. So let’s move on to the Egyptians, who Afroncentrics claim as part of their heritage. If Egyptians did come to civilize us (for which there is zero proof) why didn’t they think West Africans were intelligent enough to bestow their Egyptian influence there in B.C. times on that part of Africa? Why would they come all the way to us when they had all these other people much closer to them? Was there nothing to interest them in the much closer West Africa, South Africa, or Central Africa? But they came all the way to us, to share with us, knowing that we were intelligent enough to start civilizations, with the startup kits they gave us (they must have brought us corn, calendar systems, writing, mathematics, concept zero, theology, and other things that didn’t exist anywhere in Africa, but they brought it to us anyway, somehow, but didn’t share it even with fellow Egyptians or with the rest of Africa). Must be true that Egyptians didn’t think much of the intelligence of West-Central-South Africans, since not one civilization before B.C. came out of West, Central, or South Africa, and nothing related to Egyptians, not in B.C. times. This is where the ancestors of the people who are trying to steal our Olmec Heritage came from. You can not give what you do not have! Too bad they can’t point to ANYTHING B.C. in their ancestor’s lands, that’s why they are trying to steal our lands, our heritage, our pride, our humanity, with their Van Sertima trash. They want our civilization as their claim to some civilization in B.C. times. They want to claim our land, just like the white supremacists want to claim our lands with the proven fake of Kennewick man. You can look at Moche paintings and assume people from outer space came, by the strange figures on the vases. You can look at Nasca earth drawings in the desert and also assume outer space because you can only see those images from the sky. The following is a list of racist thinking “theories” that REFUSES to give our people credit for having created our civilizations out of our own genius. This is a list of the attacks on our intelligence, saying that we were too stupid to invent our own civilizations and to achieve what we achieved: Atlantis theory, that we are refugees from the continent of Atlantis; UFO’s theory, that people from outer space started our civilizations; Kennewick Man, that white people were here first and that this is white people’s land; Phoenicians theory; Lost Tribes of Israel theory; Book of Mormon where white people came here first; and that the Chinese were also here; and of course that the Africans brought their great civilizations to us. All of the Chicano studies professors present at this lecture refused to  Human Rights Watch executive director, Kenneth Roth says: "If followed by strong regional and international action, this report could make a major contribution to ending the impunity that lies behind the cycle of atrocities in the Great Lakes region of Africa." Philip J. Crowley, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Public Affairs said: "The United States is firmly committed to helping the DRC and other nations in the region take positive steps to end the corrosive cycle of violence and impunity." The United States has a key role to play in making sure that justice is delivered to the people of Central Africa. US tax dollars fund US allies, Rwanda and Uganda who are deeply implicated in mass atrocities, crimes against humanity, war crimes and possibly genocide in the Congo. The American taxpayers should be assured that their tax dollars are not supporting mass atrocities in Africa and perpetuating a war, which has killed an estimated 6 million people, making it the deadliest conflict since World War II. The Congressional briefing can serve as a first step in delivering justice to the people in the heart of Africa. Who: African Great Lakes Advocacy Coalition (Africa Faith and Justice Network, Friends of the Congo, Foreign Policy in Focus, African Great Lakes Action Network, Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation, Foundation for Freedom and Democracy in Rwanda, Congo Global Action Coalition, International Humanitarian Law Institute of St. Paul, Mobilization for Peace and Justice in Congo) What: Briefing on the UN Mapping Exercise Report and its Implications for US Policy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Region Speakers: Brian Endless, Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation Bahati Jacques, Africa Faith and Justice Network Nita Evele, Congo Global Action Coalition Nii Akuetteh, Africa Policy Analyst Emira Woods, Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute of Policy Studies When: 2 - 4 P.M. Wednesday, March 2, 2011 Where: Room 2226 Rayburn House Office Building 45 Independence Ave SW Washington, DC 20515 RSVP: events@friendsofthecongo.org or 202-584-6512 For more information, please visit www.friendsofthecongo.org or www.afjn.org Please encourage your Congressional representatives and their staff to attend. Click here to find your representative's contact.   Thanks to our Senate majority, we can stop their radical agenda. But with 23 seats up in 2012, compared with 10 for Republicans, we have a fight ahead. A net loss of four seats, and we lose our firewall.   Midnight Monday marks a crucial FEC deadline: All eyes will be on the DSCC’s fundraising numbers. $50,000 will help show that we can defend our Democratic firewall. Your donation now reflects our biggest strength – more than 90 percent of the DSCC’s donations come from grassroots supporters. During the Qajar dynasty, many wealthy households imported Black African women and children as slaves to perform domestic work. This slave labor was drawn exclusively from the Zanj, who were Negroid Bantu-speaking peoples that lived along the coast of East Africa in an area roughly comprising modern-day Tanzania, Mozambique and Malawi.[3][4] However, Mohammad Shah Qajar, under British pressure, issued a firman suppressing the slave trade in 1848.[5] History, "Europeans are the illegals---since 1492!" Most Black Iraqis are descended from sailors and slaves who were brought from present-day Sudan and Ethiopia and elsewhere in East Africa. Zanzibar, an island of the coast of Tanzania gave the name Zanj to the descendants of these slaves. Slave trade begun by early Arab traders began in 9th century and lasted over millennium. Most of these slaves were imported to work in large dates and sugarcane plantations.[1]  Click here to give $5 or more to the DSCC. The DSCC must raise $50,000 by midnight Monday to help recruit strong candidates, build winning campaigns and defend the Senate’s Democratic firewall. Every dollar you give will help fight GOP extremism! To protest their treatment, Zanj slaves from Basra staged a successful revolt against Baghdad the Muslim capital for 15 years. During this period they created a city called Moktara. In 883, the Army from Baghdad was able to put the revolt down. But as a consequence locals did not engage in large scale plantation type slavery after that. But slavery lasted up until the 19th century.[1] There were reports of dark skinned slaves in Iraq in 2008.[3]Unlike in the Americas of the 19th century, slaves in the Middle East were allowed to own land, and their children were generally not born into slavery. Also conversion to Islam precluded further servitude and gave freedom. Skin color played a distinctive role even amongst slaves. Many activists amongst Black Iraqis complain that they are unable to find opportunities to improve their social condition. However, the same complaint is often also made by Iraqis of Arab Semitic descent as well.[1][2] Most Black Iraqis still are able to maintain rituals related to healing that are of African origin. The languages used in these rituals are Swahili and Arabic. Instruments such as Drums and tambourines are used in these ceremonies. In a song called Dawa Dawa, the words are a mix of Arabic and Swahili. The song, which is about curing people, is used in the shtanga ceremony, for physical health. Another ceremony called nouba, takes its name from Nubian region in the Sudan. There are also unique ceremonies to remember the dead and for occasions such as weddings   Republicans won the House by promising to focus like lasers on creating jobs. They have yet to put forward any job-creation plans – or explain how taking away health care, attacking women’s rights and targeting middle class families achieve this goal.   As long as we have our Senate firewall, Democrats can stop their radical legislation. But the GOP and its special interest friends are already on the attack. After the Citizens United decision, corporations are free to spend whatever they like in support of their preferred candidates. And attacks on working men and women by Republican governors weaken the Democratic base.  Wisconsin is only the most recent example.   That makes what you do this minute all the more important. 90 percent of the DSCC’s donations come from grassroots donors who give $200 or less. Every dollar you give helps strengthen Democrats – and fight Republican extremists. Please act now to protect our Senate firewall.   Click here to give $5 or more to the DSCC. 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