Was there “any way
to consider the old slaves,” the authors
of the appeal asked the President, some way of “giving us
pensions in payment for our long days of servitude?”
The answer, as on previous occasions, was no, but the timing
is noteworthy. One year later, Roosevelt signed legislation
creating the Social Security system – a system from which
agricultural and domestic workers, the two largest black employment categories, were excluded.
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"Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom.": Oswald ." Mercy Otis Warren 1728-1814, poet, historian, patriot, and advocate of the Bill of Rights
1976 - Songs In the Key of Life government is instituted for the protection, safety, and happiness of the people, and not for profit, honour, or private interest of any man, family, or class of men. . .the origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation, vested with certain powers to guard the life, liberty and property of the community.
The truth buried between Christianity, Judaism and Islam John records Jesus describing the Devil as “the prince of this world” (12:31, 14:30). Jesus said, “You are the children of your father, the Devil, and you want to follow your father’s desires. From the very beginning he was a murderer and has never been on the side of truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he is only doing what is natural to him, because he is a liar and the father of all lies.” (John 8: 44) |
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No Pensions for Ex-Slaves
How Federal Agencies Suppressed Movement To Aid Freedpeople
By Miranda Booker Perry
United Nations, New York, 18 February, 2011 - With 80 per cent of the world's people lacking adequate social protection and global inequalities growing, top United Nations officials are calling for a new era of social justice that offers basic services, decently paid jobs, and safeguards for the poor, vulnerable and marginalized.
" Social justice is more than an ethical imperative; it is a foundation for national stability and global prosperity," Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a message ahead of the World Day of Social Justice, observed on 20 February. " Equal opportunity, solidarity and respect for human rights, these are essential to unlocking the full productive potential of nations and peoples." Full story: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=37566&Cr=social+protection&Cr1 =
U.S. courts and legislatures have become the premier venues for reparations claims of various sorts, and many American political leaders have been outspoken in demanding that leaders of other nations (particularly the current government of Japan)acknowledge and make amends for the misdeeds of their predecessors.
Tens of thousands of people — including members of CREDO Action — have been out in the streets and in the Rotunda in Madison, Wisconsin. Students and citizens are protesting in solidarity with nurses, teachers and workers.But what about The lasting affects of Hate against African Americans ? Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.
Anne Wilson Schaef
This 30-minute television special gives you an inside look into three California state prisons, including the California Medical Facility. CMF houses the oldest and sickest inmates in the state. http://www.kpbs.org/prisons
But historically who is helping to right African American`s Wrong ? As long as every Democratic state senator refuses to go to the capitol, a vote cannot be held. After documentation of ,that clearly states (No Interest in righting a perpetual wrong ) why in the )!*#*%&%$$*&@!#$(L) would I care about anything connected other than Generation Y not being Misled on who I am, and what Me and Mine have contributed to this nation ...(which is yet being fought over ?) Who now playing the wicked Game of Hate ?
There are (9) major areas of people activities; Economics,Education,Entertainment,Labor,Law,Politics,Religon,Sex and War,White Supremacy breeds opposition to White Supremacy,Non-Justice breeds opposition to Non-Justice,Incorrectness breeds opposition to Incorectness,This Is The Law of Compensation. Hence This Letter.There are (2) basic problems among the people of the known universe(a) lack of knowledge & understanding of the reason for existence an/or nonexistence(b) Racism(Whitesupremacy) There are (3) basic types of people in the known universe ,white people,non-white people,and White Supremacist.There are (3) basic Goals sought by most peoples of the known universe(a) to survive by any means neccessary(b) to dominate others through deciet and or violence,including the threat of violence,and (c) to establish peace. There are (2) basic re-actions to White Supremacy(a) cooperation with white supremacyor(b) resistance to white supremacy,There are(4) basic stages of White supremacy(a) establishment of white supremacy,(b) maintenance of white supremacy,(c) expansion of white supremacy,and (d) refinement of white supremacy.Racism has done more to promote non-justice than any other sociomaterial system known to have been produced by the peoples of this known universe,(including alcohol an or illicit drugs,White supremacist./racist know this.The fear ,frustration,malice,and confusion that is caused by racist /white supremacist retards an or prevents constructive activity between the peoples of this known universe,The only form of functional racism that exist among the people of this known universe is White Supremacy.
On tape, Kissinger tells Nixon in 1971 (during Bangladesh genocide): "No one likes the Indians." Forward to 4:25
Check this video out -- CAPE VERDE SLAVE TRADE AND THE LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL http://t.co/qH0LhIt via @youtube ,
Check this video out -- Farrakhan Explains The Story of Israel In Scripture (1 of 2) http://t.co/laJQetP via @youtube.The Igbo Jews are said to have migrated from Syrian, Portuguese and Libyan Israelites into West Africa. Historical records shows that this migration started around 740 C.E. [citation needed] According to UCLA trained amateur Jewish Historian and Rio Hondo Police Academy trained Forensic investigator Chinedu Nwabunwanne of Aguleri, who resides in Los Angeles and has researched this subject for more than 15 years at the UCLA libraries in Los Angeles, "the migration started when the forces of Caliph Mohammed -the last leader of the Umayyads- and his Qaysi-Arab supportes defeated the Yamani-Arab Umayyads of Syria in 744 C.E; sacked the Yamanis and their Jewish supporters from Syria. The Syrian-Jewish migrant tribes Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher resettled in Nigeria where they became known as Sambatyon Jews. [citation needed] In 1484 and 1667 Judeans and Zebulonians from Portugal and Libya respectively joined Sambatyon Jews of Nigeria. Thus, Nigerian Jews originated from the following six Israelite tribes: Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher and Zebulon. [citation needed] It is interesting to note that these six tribes are the same tribes Moses repeated their names twice when he blessed the Children Of Israel. These six tribes mentioned above are The House Of Judah and the children of Israel his companions (Ezekiel 37:16. Those remaining six tribes not mentioned above are The House Of Ephraim and the children of Israel his companion (Ezekiel 37:16)."
Cape Verde History. Check this video out -- Black Palestinian natives of the Holy land http://t.co/F8TdVBi via @youtube.Check this video out -- Black Natives in Canaan http://t.co/UJa2w56 via @youtube.Check this video out -- Afro Iranians & dark skinned Iranians (Bandaris) about the light-skinned... http://t.co/2GpJ3mo via @youtube.Check this video out -- Black Iraqis - Yep no Joke - Natives http://t.co/CzIaLst via @youtube.Check this video out -- Black Iraqis make Obama a model http://t.co/lVFQjcK via @youtube.Check this video out -- First Black Saudi Imam Claims His Appointment More Significant Than Obam... http://t.co/wL1eJqE via @youtube.Check this video out -- Igbo people, Culture and History http://t.co/3WoamsN via @youtube
Except for a few vague and questionable accounts of unknown Islands by passing Phoenician or Arab sailors, the Cape Verde Islands were as yet undiscovered and uninhabited when the Portuguese arrived in the 1460s. Prince Henry the Navigator's desire to explore the African Coast, coupled with innovations in sailing (the invention of the rig) provided the conditions for the discovery of the Islands by Portuguese-sponsored explorers. Exactly which Sea Captain first sighted the Islands is disputed due to inaccurate accounts from the time - many of which were not written until years after the voyages. It may have been the Venetian, Alvise Cadamosto, or the Genoese, António de Noli or Diogo Gomes (all of whom were in the service of the Portuguese). There is also some question over exactly when the Islands were discovered, however both Diogo Gomes and António de Noli are attributed with the discovery, with the official date being May 1st 1460. Diogo Afonso is credited with the discovery of Santo Antao, Sao Vicente and Sao Nicolau. ColonisationThe colonisation of the Islands began in 1462 on Santiago when Ribeira Grande (now Cidade Velha) was founded. To encourage settlement and investment, the colonists were given exclusive trading rights along the Portuguese-controlled West African coast and its rivers in 1466. The Colonists took slaves from the African Mainland to develop the land and by 1582 there were 13,700 slaves working the land on Santiago and Fogo. However, the Island's delicate environment proved too difficult for the establishment of prosperous agriculture (with the exception of cotton). The real value of the Islands proved to be in their strategic location as a supply station for South America-bound Sailing Vessels taking advantage of the Trade Winds. Christopher Columbus and Vasco da Gama both stopped in the Cape Verde Islands during their voyages. : Now the Robber Barons Replace the Welfare Queens (and Rightly So)
At its worst, America’s criminal justice system represents the place where racism, greed and corruption intersect. At its best, it is inherently flawed, unjust, and unreliable, and little better than its worst.
The engine that drives this injustice system is known as the prison industrial complex. It is the theater in which the nation’s foremost method of social control—and a failed method at that—plays itself out to the detriment of society. Recent events help to underscore just how bad things are:
- First, two Pennsylvania judges were recently convicted for receiving $2.6 million in cash to send 5,000 juveniles, many first-time offenders, to two private detention centers. One judge secured the contracts for the companies, while the other judge filled up the facilities with warm bodies.
- Meanwhile, Judge Sharon Keller, presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, that state’s highest criminal court, is in a heap of trouble. The State Commission on Judicial Conduct initiated impeachment proceedings against Keller for incompetence, violating her duties as a judge and casting public discredit on the court. Now for a state such as Texas, whose justice system boasts an already pitifully low standard of integrity, with defense attorneys allowed to fall asleep during their client’s trial, this is no small potatoes. What did this self-described pro-prosecution judge do? Well, she refused to keep the court open after 5pm when she knew Michael Richard, a death row inmate, sought a last-minute appeal challenging the constitutionality of his punishment (lethal injection). The inmate was unable to file an appeal and was executed.
Also, Keller rejected a new trial for Roy Criner, a mentally retarded man convicted of rape and murder, even though DNA evidence showed that he did not rape the victim. “We can't give new trials to everyone who establishes, after conviction, that they might be innocent,” Judge Keller said. “We would have no finality in the criminal justice system, and finality is important. When witnesses testify, and when jurors return a verdict, they need to know that they can't come back later and change their minds.”
Finally, a three-judge federal panel recently ruled that California’s state prisons must reduce their inmate population by one-third, or about 57,000 prisoners. The judges found that the level of overcrowding in the state institutions deprives the inmates of adequate healthcare and is unconstitutional.
By itself, any one of these stories shocks the conscience. We would hope that these sordid tales are the exception to the rule. However, these cases reflect a dysfunctional system that is functioning as designed by a dysfunctional society. Allow me to demystify the prison industrial complex and identify the threads that connect the crooked judges in Pennsylvania and Texas, and overcrowded prisons in California.
It was no accident that the United States became the nation with the world’s largest prison population, with 2.3 million behind bars, and a total of 7.3 million in jail, prison, parole or probation, or 1 in every 31 adults. America, with 5 percent of the world’s population, incarcerates 25 percent of the world’s prisoners, and the majority of these are people of color. The most ruthless and repressive totalitarian dictatorship cannot claim such impressive statistics. Public policy, informed by a legacy of Jim Crow racism, the profit motive and obscene, misplaced priorities, explains it all.
Dear Friends,
We've made it official, I formally announced my candidacy to run for mayor of my hometown of South Bend.
Click here to watch the announcement. You can also read the text of my remarks at our website.
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We need your help to keep the momentum of our campaign going. Will you contribute, $25, $50 or $100 today? Together, we can bring a fresh start to South Bend.
Some have suggested that I should wait my turn, wait until I am old enough to become the choice of the establishment. But my experience and my conversations around the city have convinced me that waiting is not the right answer, for me or for our community.
That’s why the day of our announcement, I went out knocking on doors to listen directly to voters about the kind of future they want for South Bend.
What I’m hearing is that South Bend needs a fresh start. We need to attract and retain businesses that deliver good-paying jobs. We need a city that supports education with new kinds of partnership for local schools. We need a transparent city administration that delivers efficient customer service using advanced technology. And we need to forge new connections around the region and world so that South Bend is empowered, not victimized, by the global economy.
Spreading this message will take considerable financial resources. Your contribution of $25, $50 or $100 today will make it possible for me to share these priorities with as many voters as possible.
South Bend has all the building blocks we need for a more prosperous future. We have world-class universities, a unique location for logistics and transportation, a low cost of living, and a tradition of hard work. Most importantly, we have a culture of caring about each other and the community around us.
I am certain of our city's promise, and I look forward to leading South Bend’s comeback. Thank you for your support, friendship, and encouragement.
Sincerely,
Pete
The United States has decided to treat prisons as a growth industry. Prisons have become the new company town, in a nation where most of the factory jobs left long ago, casualties of globalization and the race to find the lowest worldwide labor costs. They are built in mostly rural White areas, and over the years these communities courted these prisons, whether state-operated or privatized, for the jobs they promised to bring to these depressed communities.
Every factory requires raw materials. The raw materials for the prison-as-factory are Blacks and Latinos, and poor Whites—uneducated, in many cases illiterate, and unskilled casualties of a system that has programmed their failure through a cradle-to-prison pipeline. The criminalization of youth of color, systemic poverty, failed public schools and the wholesale denial of opportunity is fundamental to this pipeline.
In order to ensure a steady stream of Black, Brown and poor White bodies, these raw materials, into the factory, you must maintain the right policies. So, in the Jim Crow segregated South, the powers that be decided to keep Blacks in their place and eviscerate their political power, to maintain a system of slavery after slavery had been supposedly abolished. Through the Black Codes, the Southern establishment criminalized certain behaviors that were associated with the Black community. Certain offenses such as “mischief,” “insulting gestures” “cruel treatment to animals,” and the “vending of spiritous or intoxicating liquors” applied only to African Americans. In addition, it was illegal for Blacks to cohabit with Whites (which carried a life sentence) or keep firearms. Kangaroo courts were utilized to fill the prisons with Black men, who were farmed out for their labor and summarily, forever, denied the right to vote.
Nowadays, a high-tech Jim Crow has met the information age. In recent decades, the war on drugs has resulted in draconian sentencing, particularly for crack cocaine (a drug associated with poor drug users of color) vs. powdered cocaine. Politicians climb the career ladder through their tough on crime stance, exploiting White fears of Black criminality. Police conduct raids and sweeps in Black and Brown poor communities, rather than the suburbs and posh corporate suites, to find illegal drug activity. Communities of color are punished in the process. Black and Latino men (and increasingly women) are shipped upstate to far-flung prisons in White communities. Their families can visit them only through great personal and financial hardship. In a new twist on the infamous Three-Fifths Compromise (which counted slaves as three-fifths of a person for the benefit of the Southern states in terms of Congressional apportionment and the distribution of taxes), these prisoners are counted as residents of these rural for census and tax purposes. Yet, they are unable to vote, and in many cases unable to vote after they complete their sentence (about 5.3 million people cannot vote because they have felony convictions, including 13% of all Black men). Meanwhile, the mostly urban communities that raised them are depleted of resources— human, political and economic.
And the lynching of Black men was made cleaner, legitimate and more “respectable” by bringing it into the justice system in the form of state-sponsored executions. Executions, like Texas backwater lynchings, are arbitrary, barbaric and race-based. The defendant typically is a man of color, the underlying crime involves a White victim (80% of the time, according to the Death Penalty Information Center), and the chief prosecutor is White (98% of the time). Like the lynch mob, the administrators of the death penalty system ultimately care little about guilt or innocence. Someone’s got to pay, and anyone will do. When soon-to-be former Judge Keller expressed her sentiments that we can’t give every innocent person a new trial, she was getting at the heart of a criminal justice system that cares everything about finality and little about true justice. And so, new raw materials are constantly required to satisfy the hunger of the prison machine.
Those who are interested in the expansion of the prison boom, including the corrections officers’ union in California, private prison firms, and others, lobby state legislatures for longer, harsher sentences to keep more people behind bars for longer periods of time. As a result, ruinous policies based on catchy slogans, including three strikes laws, have prevailed. And as the prison population has burgeoned in the process, so too have the state budget allocations for prison spending. A society should be judged for its misplaced priorities when it spends more on incarcerating people than on educating them. But this is where criminal justice policy clashes with economic reality. At a time when states are going bankrupt—unable to pay their state employees, unable to pay tax refunds, or unable to collect the trash—ineffective profligate prison spending is breaking the banks of state governments. And despite the promises of a retributive and punitive legal regime, the war on drugs has been an abysmal failure. Draconian sentencing destroys communities and does not fight crime. America’s attitude towards drugs and drug policy, not to mention a steady supply of guns from the U.S., is wreaking havoc on cartel-ridden Mexico. And as the Obama administration has signaled that the federal government is moving away from the decriminalization of marijuana, California is now considering legalizing marijuana and taxing it to bring in billions of dollars in annual revenue.
One thing is for sure: the current path is bankrupting the United States, both in a moral and economic sense. The prison building madness has run its course, and it is time for it to stop. In a nation that has tried to make a buck from just about everything, including human bondage and the misery of others, America must stop feeding the prison monster
Thank the Wisconsin 14 — the Democratic state senators who have fled Wisconsin to block Gov. I will not thank them today ...I will thank those who see my point an show action is the magic word , and talking loud and saying nuthin is nuthin new ! especially to african American`s
60 Million Persons in the US Negatively Affected By Someone Else's Pathology | | .
This week during our coaching training, an astute student asked 'How many people does pathology negatively affect?' We did a little math....There are 304 million persons in the U.S. 1 in 25 people will have the disorders associated with 'no conscience' which include anti-social personality disorder, sociopath, and psychopath. 304 million divided by 25 is 12.16 million have no conscience. Each anti social/psychopath will have approximately 5 partners who will be exposed to their pathology = 60.8 million people!
(This does not include the children negatively affected and since psychopaths are hypersexual they tend to have lots of children so we could certainly tack on about half that number for children based on 2.5 children per psychopath. And sadly, this does not include all the other forms of pathology related to Cluster B personality disorders that also negatively impact others such as Narcissistic Personality Disorder or Borderline Personality Disorder. Current stats say that narcissism affects approximately 1% of the population and BPD at 2%. However, 60% of people who have 1 personality disorder have more than one personality disorder so it's likely that NPDs also have BPD or some ASPD and ASPDs have NPD and so on. So those numbers represent an overlap. (This is starting to challenge my math skills here...) But if we begin even with just the statistics on 1 in 25 have no conscience and multiply that out to figure out how many wounded people are out there---it's a huge issue. )
The Institute's friend, Howard, who was trained in psychiatry, said "I consider this to be the country's number one public health issue." And with good reason---60 million people negatively impacted by someone else's extreme pathology. There is the emotional impact--the aftermath symptoms that leave 50% of the people with PTSD. That's about equal with the % of war vets who come home with PTSD from Iraq and other wars.
This emotional aftermath (with or without PTSD) causes treatable mental health symptoms like cognitive dissonance, intrusive thoughts, sleep disruptions, increase use of alcohol, concentration problems, flashbacks, and paranoia.
The emotional aftermath affects the work environment causing almost 50% of the persons negatively affected to have to cut back from full time to part time, be demoted taking lesser money, or go on short term disability for aftermath symptoms causing MILLIONS of dollars in lost wages. Doctors move to 'impaired practitioner status, attorneys step down to paralegals, social workers because mental health techs instead, others default to paid time off, using their vacation time, or go on disability and begin using state services such as food stamps and subsidized housing.
The aftermath also affects children who are then put into counseling, needs school-based services because of acting-out and behavioral problems, are distracted, suffer with declining grades, some will go on to have their own genetic transmission of their parent's personality disorder and others will be pseudo-affected---acting like the pathological but without the transmission but still requiring a lot of therapy to overcome their patterns. This doesn't include the abject neglect that kids go through when being 'watched' by the pathological--often malnourished, not on a schedule, not put to bed on time, exposed to high risk behavior (porn, drugs, lots of sexual partners, violence, other criminal types) and the child has a lot to over come. Since many of the personality disorders are parasitic by nature, they are also dead beats by nature not paying child support (even if they can afford to) causing another lag on the government services while children need Medicaid and other benefits.
Many of the personality disordered types are also affected in moral reasoning and the levels of responsibility they take for their behavior. This includes not paying off debt which becomes written off as bankruptcies or the other partner assumes the debt placing them in financial chaos for 10 years or more while they dig out and live below their normal standard of living. Millions of dollars every year are written off and absorbed by financial institutions and credit card companies because of pathologicals causing an even bigger financial drain on our over-taxed economic system. These types also feel 'entitled' to have all the things they want so are likely to have bought luxury toys they can't afford--more than 1 house, huge houses, expensive cars, vacations, boats, etc. and walk away from the financial responsibility.
It is estimated that over 60% of pathologicals have addictions including drugs, alcohol, gambling, and porn--all causing millions of dollars in not only money spent on that, but money then not spent on their children, alimony, and their bills ending them up in mostly state-funded rehab programs causing yet another lag on the system.
Pathologicals are also highly litigious and don't follow court orders resulting in years spent in frivolous court activity putting a lag on the court systems either by using up court time, not following court order resulting in more court appearances, and using state appointment court resources, clogging up the court system. It also causes the partner high amounts of legal bills in fighting narcissistic-based law suits to simply spout their opinion in court or to exert power over the partner.
A moderate percent of pathologicals will be criminal using court resources, state appointment legal services, jail, prison, probation and parole services.
(Are you furious yet?)
This cluster of pathologicals with impaired moral reasoning, high impulsivity and hyper sexuality are those most likely to practice high risk sexual behaviors and thus have resulting STDs that they willingly share with others causing public health concerns.
This high impulsivity and low responsibility results in DUIs, speeding tickets, and jacked up insurance rates.
When we wonder if pathology and the lack of a national public awareness campaign is 'really' an issue we should consider that 'AT LEAST' 60 million people are being affected by someone else's pathology ---and pathology is increasing as more women have children with them and as more children are being raised by them, thus influenced by them.
If we have some lingering benefactors out there that would like to help a national campaign in this country, we'd love to hear from you,I am Only one,.....................................
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"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons". - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881), Russian novelist |
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