tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49577878176146919222024-03-07T21:23:42.662-08:00KEEPING IT REALFAHIM KNIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00567827759311275290noreply@blogger.comBlogger227125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4957787817614691922.post-84987003521655746282018-08-15T10:36:00.000-07:002018-08-15T10:36:13.869-07:00INSPIRATION FROM THE HOLY QUR'AN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In the name of Allah, the beneficent, the merciful.<br />
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"O Allah! I seek refuge from anxiety and grief and I seek Thy refuge from lack of strength and laziness and I seek Thy refuge from cowardice and niggardliness and I seek Thy refuge from being over powered by debt and the oppression of men. O Allah! Suffice Thou me with what is lawful, to keep me away from what is prohibited and with Thy grace make me free of want of what is beside Thee.*</div>
FAHIM KNIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00567827759311275290noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4957787817614691922.post-59559287335140772962018-07-12T16:11:00.001-07:002018-07-23T03:58:26.151-07:00SPIRITUALITY IS THE ONLY THING THAT CAN SAVE HUMANITY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";">SPIRITUALITY IS THE ONLY THING
THAT CAN SAVE HUMANITY<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";">The paradigm shift has been ongoing the level of human
consciousness has been somewhat stifled by those who seek to control the thinking of humanity and the resources of the planet. This shift is being guided by those
who are masters at social engineering via media, entertainment, religious and
political schools of thought, toxic relationships, the acquisition of materialism, pop culture, 'new ageism', sport and play, etc., (under the guise of propaganda and disinformation,). The duping allows them to shift human psychology right
beneath our own eyes and we do not have a clue of why we act and behave the way
that we do. The natural internal positive energy of the human being is being
systematically siphoned and they have created massive dummying down ploys and
distractions and deceptions to shift the universal/human energy with the intent of trying to
get in front of the real paradigm shift with the objective of redirecting future human thought and evolution.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";">The universe is actually dictating new spiritual and a new social
phenomenon and those who are attempting to pursue true enlightenment will be at an advantage to understanding and embracing the positive outcomes of this paradigm shift. There
are two forces at work here--positive and negative, which is pulling at the Universe
and pulling at humanity. Man has created such an imbalance on the planet in which ecological and climactic forces will continue to unleash energy that will
impact human existence on the planet for thousands of years to come (i.e. hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, mudslides, cyclones, typhoons, floods, wild fires, snow and ice storms, etc , only serve as evidence of man being on a collision course with a power force that he cannot win--the Universal Order that governs all energy has no equal)..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Global warming isn't coincidental and the unpredictable weather
patterns are not coincidental or accidental either, but are an indication of
humanity’s failure to live in harmony with the Universe (President Donald J.Trump and the United States Government withdrawal from the Paris Summit was proof positive that he has placed greed and predatory capitalism over working to save and preserve the planet). The Universe will
continue to speak and will see and experience things like we have never
experienced before. It will be our awakening to spirituality that will allow us
to decipher and visualize what will be before us, as well as be able to analyze these global events from a
spiritual level, which will further allow us to understand these phenomenon’s from
a much deeper level; than those who will be blinded by the deceivers, because
they have chosen to wander in darkness. And will be constant victims of those
who are steadily working on keeping the masses asleep and under their dictates
and control. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";">We are experiencing a social, political and economic paradigm
shift in real time and most of this can only be interpreted on the spiritual
level. Every where the evil forces have gone on the planet, it has led to
mayhem and disruption of human civilizations. This could be seen in how
they destroyed and decimated the Aborigines of Australia (these were jet black
people and perhaps the first people on earth), the Native Americans who crossed
the Bering Strait (Asia) over 16, 000 years ago into North America, also became victims of his
injustice, i.e., mass murder and genocide: this injustice led to the Native
Americans being almost completely wiped out and those that survived were placed
on U.S. Government Reservations. </span><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";"><span id="yiv6344507678yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1520289938975_6906"><span id="yiv6344507678yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1520289938975_6911"></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";">The original people of
New Zealand and Papua Papua New Guinea were also unjustly murdered and
decimated; Africans over 100 million were forcibly kidnapped and
brought against their will to the Americas to be made slaves and the burden
bearers of a system that was built on ruthless white supremacy and racism. This was the
greatest crime ever committed against the humanity. They robbed us of our
God, land, names, culture, rites, sacraments, etc., and turned us into
so-called American Negroes (essentially they stole our humanity'). I must tell the whole truth and we should not allow
fear to stand in our way or denial when it comes to evaluating and assessing
the naked truth. They were given 6,000 years to rule and their time has come to
an end and are we prepared to take our rightful places?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";">The Bible taught us to forgive them God they know not what they do
and we allowed injustice to take place and approximately 163 years later we
have put up little resistance to his world order and domination. Let me
also say this there is no mystery God and there is no spook God, God is real he
lives in us, you and me. He created himself from an atom of light over76 trillion
years ago. He placed the moon in its orbit 66 trillion years ago; he instituted
the powerful Universal principles that governs our solar system. The first law
of the universe is motion our planet is in constant motion and we as human
beings are in motion (stagnation renders death) and our DNA make up is
genetically coded to compliment the macrocosm Universe. The second law of the
Universe is order. </span><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";">We should have life and life more abundantly. The Hidden Hand and
the Invisible Rulers have created a universal imbalance on the planet, because
of greed and a desire to horde the world's wealth and resources. This thought
and behavior is diametrically opposed to the Divine Laws of the universe.
Moreover, it is this conduct that has placed them on a collision course with another
powerful unseen entity and force that occasionally manifest itself in the form
of calamities in order to just remind the global deceivers that it doesn't
matter how many carnal weapons of war that they have obtained because in the
grand scheme of things when matched up with the real power they have minuscule
power to determine humanity’s ultimate destiny. </span><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";">The universe is armed with something much more powerful than what
we have acquired as human beings relative to the power associated with the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> sovereign
state. The Kosmic Forces have been here since the dawn of time and when the planet was created and there are spiritual heightened people on earth who possess the
power to invoke the Kosmic energy and can alter personal and global dynamics by
having the ability of saying be and it is (this is the God within). Yet,
we all have the ability to enter this spiritual space that was once reserved
for Sages, Gurus and Master Teachers; this allows us un-precedent spiritual
powers to walk in our six senses and once we master the science of the Chakras
this will move us further into mastering self and it teaches us of how to give
birth to a god. </span><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";">Ultimately, we are not at war with flesh and blood, but we are at
war with principalities in High Places. When you seek to be spiritually free it
is an act of declaration of war, because the enemies can no longer manipulate
you for their benefits. This spiritual path frees you and it allows you Divine
intuition to see things before they happen and tap into people's
energy. These are ancient practices that the Twa people and the Dogon
people of <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place> had practiced and had
mastered these spiritual principles thousands of years ago. The African slaves
who were captured from Sierra Leone, West Africa and brought to the slave
ports of Charleston, South Carolina and Beaufort, South Carolina. They practice
the Gullah tradition (and extension of the Yoruba tradition) and still are in
touch with our ancient ancestor’s spirits in 2018, they never relinquished
their connections to the ancient spirit world. </span><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";">Now, moving right along, the Kosmic Universe is rooted in
energy—the stars, solar, human behavior, animal life and all species are tied
to this Intelligent Design, which dictates the very essence of bio-physics and
what our interrelated position is going to be on the planet. Our Path (or
the spiritual forces of the universe) is calling us and no one can answer this calling
but ourselves neither of us at this point will be able to run and hide from
this preordained reality, your divine purpose will find you sooner or later. </span><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";">The injustices of wealth disparities that have induced poverty and
want, medical disparity, and mass incarceration and the police state
initiatives, unfair wages, induced famines and global poverty has caused a
Kosmic roaring that cannot be heard or even seen by the unenlightened, they
really don't have clue, but these things will factor into the dispersing and
dispensing of global justice. </span><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";">For example, “The Book of Secrets” was a compilation of spiritual
teachers and teachings that tapped deeper into Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucius,
Zoroaster, Islam and Occult Christianity. It was not labeled by religious
identification as such, but the teachings in the 'Secret' assured us that there
was something else in the realm of enlightenment, and spirituality awaiting the
human being which was a pathway into becoming awakened (spiritual consciousness
is what they have obtained). These are not steps that will be
transformative overnight or just in one reading or two readings of the
'Secret'. These assembled Master Teachers were teachings the most important
lessons, which was submission and surrendering our will to do the will of the
Higher and Divine Forces that control the Universal Order of things. How
willing are we to make these sacrifices to achieve spiritual freedom? </span><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";">This will be a continuum process that surely will have twist and
turns and bumps in the road. The journey requires one step at a time and it will
require study and research to learn the ancient principles of MAAT and how to
apply them to acquire good homes, money and friendship in all walks of life. </span><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";">Thus, the Kosmic energy and the Universal Forces are lined up
against present day man, because of planetary and human corruption. The planet
was giving to us based on the scales of balance and justice. Greed created the
symptoms of man's inhumanity to man and this will lead to our demise. There
is a negative energy over <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>
and the globe and it's affecting human relations and is driving us in our poor
decision making processes. Some of these things are now out of control, because
the universe has spoken. The Donald Trump political phenomenon is a part of
this equation and his representation is the embodiment of the ‘axis evil’. </span><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";">The planet energy has been shifted and those who keep the people
and the masses duped by feeding them propaganda and disinformation is the
biggest part of the problem confronting the globe and the direction of the human course. Our churches and mosques are
failing us, and our preachers, Rabbis and Imams don't have the knowledge nor the solutions to
bring us to a true spiritual center (what they teach is failing humanity). We have to change our thinking on a
personal level and realign ourselves with the good in the universe in order to
impact and alter the negative energy that is guiding humanity towards the wrong direction (the spiritual solution is beyond their training and capabilities to create new minds and alter present human behavior). </span><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";">It is only a spiritual solution that will challenge and defeat the
purveyors of evil, I didn't bring any of you to this space, but if you have been led to this space it was probably not coincidental that we have met in this
space and at this particular time in your and my journey, but I have a duty and responsibility to guide those who
are seeking enlightenment along this journey less traveled. We have to remain open to truth
and knowledge, I am just a vessel and I humble myself to the forces of good in
the universe. There are 66 books in the Bible and the most often mentioned word
in the New Testament is Love. Now, remember this we have to love humanity more
than they love themselves.</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";"></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";">Moving right along the above mentioned artificial economic, political and social
collapse have allowed them to diminish the original legal intent of the United
States Constitution and turn it into a worthless piece of paper and siphoned
the legality of our jurisprudence system. Thus, 43 days after the 9-11 hoax
President George W. Bush and the United States Congress passed the U.S. Patriot
Act, which ushered in Homeland Security. This act was put in place by the
Cabal, which duped us into believing that Osama Bin-Laden, so-called militant
and radical Islam and Al-Qaeda posed an eminent danger to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> national
security. These ploys and deceptions have led us to the doorsteps of rendering
the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
citizens powerless by covertly eradicating our civil liberties in the name of
fighting terror and terrorism (we bought into this propaganda and
disinformation). </span><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";">Our brother President Barack Obama had a mission of continuing the
Bush Doctrine and carrying out the Elitist agenda thus his eight year tenure in the Oval
office only assured us that he was a loyal agent and a control pawn working in
the interest of the Hidden Hand, in particular when he passed the reactionary
National Defense Authorization Act in 2011. This reactionary legislation covertly further stripped the
United States citizens of basic legal rights that used to be guaranteed and protected by
14th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution. Our due process and equal protection
under the law in reality don't exist anymore since the advent of 9-11 (they
have set the stage for a complete police state that will be enforced under
martial law rule). </span><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";">The 9-11 hoax was designed to slowly transition <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> and the
Global society into a New World Order and One World Government. The economic
depression and collapse in 2008 also allowed them to shift the money game by
blaming the economic collapse on the masses of the people relative to
irresponsible debt and consumerism (as though we peons factored into the above
mentioned economic collapse). </span><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";">Yet, the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds were hiding and lurking
behind the Federal Reserve System and the Bank of England; thus, manipulating
world currency, devaluing global money and infused in the United States Fiat
money (our money has no real value it is a worthless Federal Reserve Note). And
these same entities were behind the Afghanistan War (2001) and the Iraq War (2003).</span><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";">So in 1913 a silent coup took place on Jekyll Island off the coast of Georgia whereas
international bankers took control over our monetary system, which amounted to
private Dynastic families monopolizing our money and presently their
ancestral linage is still leading the monetary game of the paradigm
shift. In 1933, our government moved our currency off the Gold Standard.
So our money is no longer backed by gold and silver—it became a Federal
Reserve Note and agreed instrument of monetary exchange that is being utilized
as real money but it has no value; this mean someone possess the power and
authority to call the debt-in, because they have the entitlement to our
so-called currency. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";">Our leaders are low-level operatives, they are front men and women
for the Hidden Hand. The wealth holders are not satisfied with hoarding 95% of
the wealth, but they want to control all the wealth on the planet. We got
caught up emotionally in backing one of their agents President Barack Obama,
but his job was to continue where George W. Bush left off and that is exactly
what he did. </span><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";">The entire system of democracy is an illusion our vote in the
grand scheme of things count for nothing. The <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> president is not elected but
he is selected by the likes of the Rockefellers and powerful Elitist families.
But they must keep us believing that we live under a participatory democracy
this is what keeps us pacified and dim our will to revolt. We have become
good Sheeple and pawns unknowing to the masses this is what humanity has been
reduced to. The forces of evil will not prevail, but through psywars, the money
changers and the political deceptions have led them to be diametrically opposed
to all the good in the universe and they see themselves as being omnipotent and
sovereign gods over humanity and the planet. </span><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";">We have to align ourselves with positive spiritual forces and tap
into the Universal Forces of good in which to shift the paradigm and redirect
the energy in the Universe. We all have to do this on a personal level. There
is a book written by John Coleman titled, "The Committee of 300” this will
give you some inkling to how diabolic these people are in their lust for power.</span><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";">Freemasonry is the key to the world power, but one must have an
understanding about the power apparatus by understanding those who control the
world and operate out of various secret societies. There are layers of
Freemasonry and often the visible outward layer that you see in your city and
my city possess limited power, but there are a powerful group of Freemasons who
have membership in various higher upward echelon Orders and these powerful
individuals are the ones who dominate the political, economic and social
systems of the world. </span><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";"><span id="yiv6344507678yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1520289938975_7125"><span id="yiv6344507678yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1520289938975_7130">They are shielded by the
low-level Freemasonic Orders that we have come to know as the public face of
Masonry. For example, the African American Freemasonry Order of Prince Hall
founded in 1784 or the Ancient Free and Accept Masonry. Our Orders in the grand
scheme of things do not factor into the real shakers and movers. Even
after we have obtained the honorary and terminal degree of the Scottish Rite
33rd degree or the Royal Arch degrees; these are Front organizations. True
knowledge is 360 degree and a complete circle. </span><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">White Freemasons unlike African
American Masons are structured on powerful systems of networking and is
undergirded by high finance. They create generational wealth by initiating
their off springs into powerful Greek college societies like the Skull and
Bones at Yale and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Harvard</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>. These
powerful white men guide and prepare their off springs to be in a position to
rule the world through organizations such as the Bilderberg, Trilateral
Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations. Close to 25 <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region></st1:place> Presidents have been
members of Freemasonry that tells you something about interconnectedness
between Masonry and the Power Brokers. </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">It is Freemasonry that is guiding
our democracy. Now, African American Masons those who are high degree Masons in
Prince Hall often have dual membership in a more powerful group called the
Black Boule (also known as Sigma Pi Phi) the most powerful Black Fraternity in
the world founded in 1904. It predated the so-called Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity
the first black Greek fraternity founded in 1906. The Boule encompass some of the most influential black men and black women in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>. But
there is a lot more to this. </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">My mission is to inform all people
of goodwill, of the pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolism
and reinterpreted the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible
forces, but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlightened
world will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be
willing participants for the slaughter. My motto is speaking truth to power.</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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FAHIM KNIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00567827759311275290noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4957787817614691922.post-38100831926827790492018-07-11T23:13:00.000-07:002018-07-12T08:39:29.349-07:00WHO ARE WE? DISENTANGLING THE TRICKS AND LIES<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><strong>WHO ARE WE? DISENTANGLING THE
TRICKS AND LIES<o:p></o:p></strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><strong>By Fahim A. Knight-El<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">We have to move beyond accepting
the Matrix (and decide, if we are serious about forging change; the question
becomes, which pill are we going to take either the red pill or the blue pill).
We cannot vacillate between a dying corrupt system and simultaneously think
there are some possible good associated with this system (either we want
complete sovereignty and independence—freedom, justice and equality, or we want
reform, which is geared towards superficial changes, but not altering the
system from its foundation. The facts of history is clear, when the Europeans
arrived to the North America continent in 1607 as the first white settlers,
they were the dregs, criminals and the vagabonds of Great Britain and Europe
(many of them were exiled and were considered the worst-of-the worst)(Reference: Michael F. Robinson; "The Lost White Tribe: Explores, Scientist, and the Theory that Changed a Continent").<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Their concept of a new
nation did not include the Native Americans, so-called black people or
white women, the nation was established by white aristocratic men for the eventual interest
of white plantation owners with the objective of expanding the colonial
expeditions of the Royal Family of England, which was an extension of
imperialism and white world domination (translated in the modern context white
supremacy). These new settlers were also being used by the British to expand trade
markets and create new capitalist ventures (their motives were rooted in
exploitive capitalism and seeking to find gold and silver in the so-called
"New World" to increase British foreign worth). The British Empire
was very expansive and historians maintained that the sun never set on the <st1:place w:st="on">British Empire</st1:place> (Reference: John Henrik Clarke; 'Christopher Columbus</span><span class="a-size-large"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"> and the Afrikan
Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism”)</span></span><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">We cannot find ourselves making subtle
political concessions when it comes to the European behavior nor can we
overlook the overt crimes of raping and robbing indigenous people's territories
and lands (committing murder and genocide) almost totally emasculating the 17
million Native Americans and enslaving over 50 million Africans in the name of
greed and white world domination. The white man has a history written in blood
and wherever he has gone on the planet, he has decimated the original people
for the past 6,000 years and this much is undeniable (Reference: Michael Bradley;
“</span><span class="a-size-extra-large"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Iceman
Inheritance : Prehistoric Sources of Western Man's Racism, Sexism and
Aggression”).</span></span><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">This history and behavior cannot
be reconciled by us seeking to overlook and justifying these human transgressions
by conveniently placating these crimes against humanity by being in
historical denial; their behavior and wrongdoing stand to be condemned by all
righteous civilized people of the earth. The <st1:country-region w:st="on">United
States of America</st1:country-region> is an outlaw nation and Republic, if it
were not for the Native Americans who taught the first European settlers
survival skills relative to agriculture and how to grow and plant food in the
so-called <st1:place w:st="on">New World</st1:place> they would have been
doomed from the very start. Sir Walter Raleigh and other European settlers
would not have survived from the beginning, if were not for the humanity
demonstrated by the indigenous people. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">This nation in 1776 fought the
American Revolution War to declare itself free from the yoke of British rule and
although, one of the first to lose his life in the American Revolution was a
black man named Crispus Attucks on March 5, 1770. Thus, 114 years later they
wrote African Americans into the United States Constitution as subhuman 3/5th
of a human being. Blacks fought in the American Revolution on both the
colonists side and on the British side and after the white 13 Colonies gained
their freedom and independence from the Crown they continued to enslave blacks
as chattel. They used Christian missionaries to rob the minds of the slave by
imposing a slave making theology, which made the slave docile, obedient and
subservient (the Willie Lynch Syndrome) (Reference: Bruce Bridges; “Recapturing
the African Mind). </span><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">The first President of the
United States of America George Washington was a Freemason. He was made a Mason
in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Fredericksburg</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Virginia</st1:state></st1:place> on November 4, 1752. And many of
the so-called Founding Fathers were initiated Freemasons. So the United
States Constitution within itself was a document inspired by an august body of Freemasons;
the Constitution Convention was held in the city of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Philadelphia</st1:place></st1:city> where this pristine document was
ratified in 1787. Thus, Philadelphia was secondly named as the city of
Brotherly Love in which Freemasonry rest on three basic principles Morality,
Friendship and Brotherly Love, so this is not coincidental and there is huge
amounts of Masonic history and symbolism in Philadelphia. Even Prince Hall
Masons under Prince Hall had organizational and religious ties to Richard Allen
and Absolom Jones of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Philadelphia</st1:place></st1:city>. The <st1:placename w:st="on">A.M.E</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Church</st1:placetype> in Prince Hall early organizational
development assisted him in establishing the first black Masonic Lodge African
Lodge number 459, which was founded in 1784 and transitioned into African Grand
Lodge number 1 but it flourished in <st1:city w:st="on">Philadelphia</st1:city>
due to the assistance of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">A.M.E</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Church (Reference: Roundtree and Bessel; "Out of the Shadows: The Emergence of Prince Hall Freemasons in America').</st1:placetype></st1:place> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">I think we need to be clear the
white Founding Fathers of America were very astute Statesmen because they had
become exposed to the Ancient Kemetic knowledge that originated amongst the
Nubian people. Some of them were exposed to the philosophical theories of the
Rosecrucians traditions of Mental Alchemy. The city of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Washington</st1:place></st1:city> DC was built on philosophical and
architecture or mathematical scales of Freemasonry; for a long time many
Caucasian scholars would not publicly admit the tremendous influence that
Freemasonry has played in the establishment of American Democracy. The
buildings and the geographical physical layout of the United States Capitol is
definitely correlated to ancient Kemetic (Egyptian) symbolic codes and
architecture. The U.S. Capitol sits off the <st1:place w:st="on">Potomac River</st1:place>—this
is symbolic and representative of the Blue and White Nile River of Egypt. And
the majesty and the spiritual significance this waterway had on ancient Kemetic
societies (on the 28 Dynastic Periods) and how it flows upward from South to
North. Moreover, even to this very day the people of Egypt and Sudan and down
the river streaming to East Africa relish the Blue and White Nile River
(Reference: Anthony Browder</span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">;
“Egypt on the Potomac: A Guide to Decoding Egyptian Architecture and Symbolism
in Washington”).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">One of the most important cities
also sits right across from Washington D. C. and that is the city of <st1:city w:st="on">Alexandria</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Virginia</st1:place></st1:state>
in which there is a Masonic museum and library that house Masonic
artifacts. Perhaps one of greatest intellectual cities in Kemet was <st1:city w:st="on">Alexandria</st1:city> which was an intellectual center that was known
for its extensive libraries that was destroyed by the Greeks in 332 B.C. so <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Alexandria</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Virginia</st1:state></st1:place>
it to is not coincidental. Also the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Washington</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Monument</st1:placetype></st1:place> is a replica of
the many Obelisk that was worshipped and admonished in Kemet. The symbol
was best known to be associated with Asur (Osiris) Aset (Isis) and Heru
(Horus), the symbol was equalvent to the life source associated with the
Kemetic Ank, which rest the myths or mythology of world Saviors being born of
virgin births, death, resurrection and ascension (Reference: Anthony Browder;</span><em><span style="color: #545454; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><strong> </strong></span></em><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">“Nile
Valley Contributions To Civilization”)</span><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">The ancient symbol was a Phallic
symbol and the white man in Europe and the United States secretly adopted many
Kemetic teachings and symbols in which they have used our knowledge to confound
the blind, deaf, and dumb, which constitutes control over the masses. The Washington
Mall and its physical layout is Masonic (rooted in the symbolic layout of the
Square and Compass), as well as the Lincoln Memorial is all structured on
Masonic numerology and symbolic codes down to the dimensions. I can
remember President Barack Obama inauguration in 2008 and many so-called African
Americans had traveled from near and afar to assemble on the Capitol grounds to
be of witness of this historical and memorial occasion in the history of black
America, in particular and America in general; but besides the emotionalism
they didn't have a clue that they were standing on sacred Masonic grounds and
it was not coincidental that Obama the 44 president (there is a lot science in
the double fours perhaps at another time I will delve into breaking down what
those numbers really mean). Benjamin Banneker the</span><em><span style="color: #545454; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><strong> </strong></span></em><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">astronomist</span><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">, architect, mathematician and pure scientist is attributed to
laying out the specs and blueprints of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Washington</st1:city>
<st1:state w:st="on">DC</st1:state></st1:place> and as historians we know that
the Capitol grounds are definitely scaled on Masonic code. Now, from this
we can assume that Banneker had to have some Freemasonic knowledge and
training. Yet, there is no verifiable proof that he was a Prince Hall Mason,
but we do claim that he was a Mason and in my research and heart I believe he
was a Mason (Reference: David Ovason; "The Secret Architecture of Our Nation's Capital; the Masons and the Builders of Washington, D.C.")..<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">George Washington and the
Founding Fathers set-up a power structure based on Masonic principles, which
has globally dominated this world's order as we know it. They (the so-called
American Negro) still don't have a clue that the power of the world is staged
in <st1:city w:st="on">Washington</st1:city> <st1:state w:st="on">D.C.</st1:state>
and the majority of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United
States</st1:place></st1:country-region> presidents have been Freemasons and
this is where the world's oppression begin and end. On that inauguration
day the invisible signs and symbols were visible and all around those that had
assembled for this momentous occasion, but they could not discern them. So they
didn't know that Obama had taken a higher oath and was not based on any
alliance to African Americans or Caucasian Americans—we foolishly got caught up
in the moment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">The Eurocentric scientist and
social scientist are still trying to figure out and determine</span><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">how these "Negroes"
built such magnificent spiritual edifices and temples known as the pyramids
that sit in the center of the earth. The architecture structures defy the laws
of physics and still some 20,000 years later scientists are still
baffled. White Egyptologist and anthropologist have no answers in 2018;
scholars have written dissertations and authored scholarly books and done
empirical research, but they are often left with more questions than answers,
when it comes to their attempt to assess and evaluate the history and culture
of Kemet. I personally found the answers when I begin to study the works
of John Henrik Clarke, Cheikh Anta Diop, Yosef Ben Jochannan, Molefi Kete
Asante, Ivan Van Sertima, John G. Jackson, Chancellor Williams, Drusilla Dunje
Houston, etc., their knowledge enlightened me to the knowledge of self and
brought me out of darkness and ignorance. I quickly learned that western civilization
was a historical hoax and a sham designed to deceive the original man and the
indigenous people of the earth of their greatness and the contributions they
made to human civilization (Reference: Cheikh Anta Diop; "Civilization or Barbarism"). <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">I think it was
"Newsweek" about 25 years ago did a very extensive and detail
investigative research article on the origin of woman/man, I believe it was
titled, “Out of Africa, A Missing Link” and the article traced the origin of
human civilization to Kush or <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ethiopia</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
This is where they found the origin of woman/man and the first Homo Sapiens
(and she was black/African and of Negroid origin—they named her ‘Lucy’) it was
on the African continent. These mulatto imposters are occupying indigenous
people's land that does not belong to them. All the Biblical Prophets were people
of color according to works of Reverend Ishakamusa Barashango who authored a
book titled, "God the Bible and the Black man’s Destiny" and he
traces the lineages of the prophets, lands, languages, and religious customs
back to one source, which was <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">The Pope and the Roman Catholic
Church lied when they established the Nicean Creed in 325 A.D. at the Council
of Nicea, it was at this Papal Council where they decided to manipulate
religious doctrine to enslave the darker people of the planet by distorting and
creating a Eurocentric version of the teachings of Yeshusa Ben Yosef (Jesus,
the son of Joseph). The scholar Reza Aslan who authored the book titled,
"Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth" makes a distinction
between the prophetic Jesus and the historical Jesus (they are two different
individuals). Reverend Albert Cleage in his books "The Black Messiah"
and "Black Christian Nationalism" helped me to understand why it was
important to redefine the ethnicity, nationality and teachings of the man known
as Christ. It was equally important to me to debunk the lies and half-truths
given to us by an arch-deceiver. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">The documentary, "Hidden
Colors" by Tariq Nasheed I think part 4 deals with the control strategy and tactics of the
Europeans using the missionaries, merchants and military as a team of
destruction against humanity. They systematically used white supremacy
theological teachings as one of the methods to create and insure white world
domination by depicting African people as being the cursed sons and daughters
of Ham. This allowed them to impose a social dynamic of inferiority on the
African world, which has haunted the African world over the last 4,000 years (Reference: Sylvester Johnson; "The Myth of Ham in Nineteenth Century American Christianity: Race, Heathens and the People of God").<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Moving right along, Chattel
Slavery was cruel, inhumane and dehumanizing system of control and for 310
years there was no mercy shown towards the black man and black woman of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>. How
can we expect to be so-called Americans and patriotic (we never received our 40
acres and a mule). The Transatlantic Slave Trade ended in 1807, but the buying and
selling of African people continued long after this legislation was enacted.
Slavery was a declaration of war against the African world according to Dr.
John Henrik Clarke and we cannot soften this tragedy nor attempt to downplay
the white supremacists motive. You will never find Jews downplaying the
Holocaust and not pointing out the wrongs of Germany and Adolf Hitler—this was
part of their people's historical legacy and to question or disagree with their
perspective you would be immediately condemned and labeled anti-Semitic (Reference:
John Henrik Clarke;</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #21282d; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> “Africans at
the Crossroads: Notes for an African World Revolution”)</span><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Yet, no other people on the
planet has suffered and experienced what the so-called American Negro has
experienced. He lost his land, God, names, language and culture and by the way
we act we lost our minds. President Abraham Lincoln passed the Emancipation
Proclamation in 1863, but it was the 13th Amendment to the United States
Constitution that so-called freed the African slaves. However, the southern
slavery dilemma, which led to the American Civil War 1861-1865, it must be
noted that the South had succeeded from the Union and in reality Lincoln
had no political jurisdiction over the south during this point in American
history (Reference: J.A. Rogers; </span><em><span style="color: #545454; font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span lang="EN">“</span></strong></span></em><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Africa's
Gift to America: The Afro-American in the Making and Saving of the United
States ”).</span><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">The southern white aristocratic
plantation owners viewed slavery as an economic revenue system in which
they were not willing to relinquish, because it was the backbone of the
southern economy. Let’s be clear <st1:city w:st="on">Lincoln</st1:city> also
stated that if could maintain the <st1:place w:st="on">Union</st1:place> and
keep slavery intact that was what he would have done. The Reconstruction
period was from 1865-1877; it was a twelve years period where blacks in
the south gained political power. For example, P.B.S. Pinchback became
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana and for 45 days served as governor of the
state of <st1:state w:st="on">Louisiana</st1:state> and you had Hiram
Revels and Blanche K. Bruce served in state government in <st1:state w:st="on">Mississippi</st1:state> and you had Robert Smalls in <st1:state w:st="on">South Carolina</st1:state> served in the legislative branch of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">South Carolina</st1:state></st1:place>
state government. W.E.B. Dubois in his book titled, "Black
Reconstruction" and in Lerome Bennett book titled, "Before the
Mayflower" wrote about how the U.S. Government betrayed the black
political and economic progress during Reconstruction by removing the
troops from the South and this ushered in a vicious racist system of Jim Crow
and turned a positive page in American history back to the norms of overt
racism, discrimination and oppression aimed at African American people
(Reference: Russell L. Adams; Great Negroes Past and Present”). <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">There is nothing legal which
showforth any proof where displaced Africans (Chattel Slaves) decided upon or
were giving a choice to determine if they wanted to be an American. No, I and
we are not Americans, I am one of 40-50 million victims of Americanism and I
stand in honor of 100 million Africans who were kidnapped from their native
lands and I am connected to the spirits and souls of my ancestors who were
thrown overboard in the <st1:place w:st="on">Atlantic Ocean</st1:place>. Black
Law Dictionary defines what constitute being an American and also get a copy of
the book titled "Slavery in the Courtroom" and also get a copy of a
book titled, "The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government
Segregated America" by </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Richard
Rothstein</span><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">. I am also guilty of using the term/color “black”
the use of the term “black” to identify us as indigenous or original people of
the Earth which serve as an impediment to our true nationality; this imposed
racial classification continue to serve as a barrier and hindrance to our
legal, sovereign and lawful rights to assets (monetary and real property)
seized and held in Federal Reserve Banks (but the majority of the original
American land deeds have been secretly moved and held in vaults within the Bank
of England in London and overseen by the insurer Lords of London) which
constitute</span><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">treaties
that were falsely executed with the tribal indigenous Native Americans and
original Blackmoors, because of these deceptive trade practices and the legal
standards of the international courts and legal mandates of the United
Nations—the Blackmoors would have legal and lawful rights as a respondent, but
we do not have an agreed nationality to petition the Human Right Commission to
attest and retain stolen wealth and treasures swindled and illegally
confiscated by an outlaw people from 15<sup>th</sup> century to 19<sup>th</sup>
century. Prophet Noble Drew Ali and the Moorish Science Temple of America had
it right in many ways. The above knowledge is more valuable than anything that
I have written; our collective suffering and lack of political, economic, and
social progress is rooted in our quest to remain calling ourselves “black” in
which this will keep us being modern slaves. You are the original Asiatics of
the earth but American jurisprudence system will continue to deny you what is
owed to you unless we wake up and claim our rightful nationality (Reference:</span><em><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"><strong> </strong></span></em><span class="a-size-smalla-color-secondary"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Elihu
N. Pleasant-Bey;</span></span><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"> “</span><span class="a-size-large"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Noble Drew Ali:
The Exhuming of a Nation”)</span></span><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;">.
<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">I write and teach not so much as a political
exercise, but I use this knowledge to put people of African descendant and
indigenous people back in their proper historical and culture spaces with an
objective of leading them to reclaim a lost identity; moreover, of who they
were prior to the mass destruction white supremacy has on the planet. We
were made into a denationalized people and, how can we ever go forward
politically, economically and socially with not knowing who we truly are. We
still walk in the slave master's names and in 2018, we are still naming our
children slave names (modern slaves who have been conditioned to be a good
Negro). <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">We relish in the European culture and continue
to willingly embrace Western Civilization and Eurocentric values as the
standards and models of human excellence. For example, the so-called American
Negroes would prefer to take a vacation trip to Paris, Berlin, London, Rome,
Athens, London, Barcelona or Madrid, Basil, Switzerland or West
Germany--his/her mis-education forces them to negate and overlook taken a trip
to his own continent where human civilization began in Africa. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">You can almost walk from <st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region> right in North Africa into the African
Nation of Morocco across the Rock of Gibraltar and the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Gibraltar</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Strait</st1:placetype></st1:place>.
It was these enlightened Africans known as the Moors (Muurs) in 711 A.D. In the
8th Century under Tarik Ibn Zaid that brought the Europeans out of the Dark
Ages into cultural enlightenment, it would not have been a period in European
history known as the Renaissance period with Michael Angelo and Leonardo
Divinci, if it were not for the knowledge of the Nubian Moors (Reference:</span><em><span style="color: #545454; font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><strong> </strong></span></em><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Ivan Van Sertima;</span><em><span style="color: #545454; font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><strong> <span lang="EN">“</span></strong></span></em><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Golden Age of the Moor”). <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Black Muslims fly across the continent of
Africa to make a Holy Pilgrimage to <st1:city w:st="on">Mecca</st1:city> and <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Medina</st1:place></st1:city> in observance of
fulfilling the Fifth Pillar of Islam in order to pray with white Arabs. Black
Christians fly to <st1:city w:st="on">Jerusalem</st1:city> to <st1:placetype w:st="on">Mount</st1:placetype> <st1:placename w:st="on">Moriah</st1:placename>
and experience the Ark of Covenant and trace the history of Yeshusa Ben Yosef
(Jesus the Son of Joseph) to <st1:city w:st="on">Bethlehem</st1:city> and <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Nazareth</st1:place></st1:city> and allow white
imposter clergy who are under the influence of the Pope and the Roman Catholic
Church to feed us their 'tricknology'. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">We do not know that Christianity had its
origin on the African continent in Kush (<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ethiopia</st1:place></st1:country-region>) where the Coptic
Christians and the royal priesthood and some of the oldest Christian edifices
still exist to this very day. I believe it was Queen Sheba of Ethiopia (Kush)
who had a relationship with King Solomon and they had son named Menelik the
First (this is part of the root of Freemasonry and Freemasonry as a school of
thought and ideology could not exist without legacy and building of King
Solomon's Temple) (Reference: Sterling Means; “Ethiopia: The Missing Link”). <o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">So how could the European Jews known as the Kazars
and Ashkenazi Jews who are of Eastern European descendants deny African Fulasha
Jews or Beta-Israel Jews the right to migrate to the <st1:place w:st="on">Holy
Land</st1:place>. This land belongs to the indigenous original people of the
earth (Reference: Yosef Ben Jochannan;</span><em><strong> “</strong></em><span class="sims-lpo-header-title"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">We,
the Black Jews: Witness to the 'White Jewish Race' Myth”)</span></span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">The money game is
an illusion, the United States currency has no real value, United States
monetary system got stuck up due to a silent coup d'état in 1913 on a small
island off the coast of Georgia called Jekyll Island where a group
of private international bankers took control over the United States money
system in which 12 Central Banks that make up the Federal Reserve System and
operate as a private institution outside of the United States Government
owns our money and distributes the debt in which the
U.S. president nor does congress possess oversight power or authority
over the Federal Reserve reference the "Secrets of the Federal
Reserve" by Eustace Mullins. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">The Federal Reserve possess
the power to value and devalue money and what we have is Fiat
money that has no real value; in 1933 the United States moved its currency
off the gold standard in which our money used to be backed by gold
and silver, and each dollar could be redeemed with
the equivalent of gold and silver, but your present day money is a
just a federal reserve note and there is nothing backing the money that you
call currency other than the United States rhetoric; the U.S. dollar is
a worthless piece of paper and money is being printed out of thin air (Reference:</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">
William Greider;</span><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"> “The Secrets of the Temple”). <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">The Federal Reserve
chairman has more power than the president, he/she determines the interest
rates and just keep dumping worthless paper into the economy creating a debt
based economy in which they systematically tie us to like modern day
slaves to a mortgage, automobile loan, college loans, etc they further tie us
to various aspects of consumer debt--we become conditioned to believe and think
that my life must be tied to debt and paying bills. The white man has
manipulated us under his system of Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) and
he has traded us since our birth as stocks and bonds using our birth
certificates and social security numbers commodity assets; right now as I
write you sister this notation (there is much more to this concept to be
learned). There is a concept called the Strawman, it would be worth your while
to educate yourself on how to reclaim your sovereignty and established your
legal identity and impose a cease and desist order from the government using
your identity to rake in millions (Reference: Asaru Alim Nu Tu’ pak
El-Bey; “The First World Order; the Global Paths of the Ancient Ones”). <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">If we were indeed Americans the
United States Congress would not have to vote every 15-20 years on our
so-called citizenship, perhaps in the near future they might decide to vote to
nullify our so-called citizenship and revoke our 14th Amendment Right to the
United States Constitution. We are one vote constantly from being considered an
alien refugee in the land and so-called home of our birth. How can the
Europeans who stole this country and land from the indigenous Native</span><br />
<span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">HiAmericans/Blackmoors make you and I an American; thus legally only the
indigenous people possess that legal authority to do so. Here is a criminal and thief that illegally enslaved ‘Africans’ as human cargo for 310 years and
we accept him and his jurisprudence system as a moral compass (I don't think
so). We should not fit our mouths to see ourselves as Americans (ex-slaves
aren't Americans). So-called black men are killed by racist white police
officers do you remember Treyvone Martin, Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Michael
Brown, Freddie Gray, Tamir Rice, Philando Castile, Walter Scott, Alton
Sterling, Eric Harris, Laquan McDonald, etc (I do and I will never forget
theses injustices). Were they "Americans"?<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">How does being American
reconcile with white supremacy, racism, discrimination, unfair sentencing,
prison industrial complex, white privilege, disparity in the wealth equation,
health disparities, education disparities? We cannot allow ourselves to
buying into the propaganda that so-called African American people are failing
because we are not working hard enough; thus our collective history dictates
that the American dream has been more like an American nightmare when comes to
the so-called African American being presented with a fair and equal playing
field (this is the basis of Donald Trump's incoherent ideology "Let's make
America Great Again and "Let's take back America)</span><span style="color: #26282a; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"> we have be careful that</span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">
we to are not subtly embracing some of this reactionary foolishness. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<br />
<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Fahim A. Knight-El Chief
Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Durham</st1:city></st1:place>,
<st1:state w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">NC</st1:state></st1:state></st1:city></st1:place>;
our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the
pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolism and
reinterpreted the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces,
but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlightened world
will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing
participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A.
Knight-El can be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com</span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN;">. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
FAHIM KNIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00567827759311275290noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4957787817614691922.post-2772251148404038542018-07-10T13:36:00.000-07:002018-07-12T15:04:53.677-07:00The Black Panther Party: Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale; Lessons in Social Activism<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";">The Black Panther Party: Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale; Lessons in Social Activism</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";"><strong>B<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";">y Fahim A. Knight-El</span></strong></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";"></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was founded in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Oakland</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state></st1:place>. One must understand that Newton and Seale was influenced by the fiery Black Nationalist spokesman Minister Malcolm X of the Nation of Islam who after his defection from the Black Muslim movement his ideological and philosophical views shifted more toward self-defense by any means necessary (Reference: Bobby Seale; Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton). </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";">There were mass protest and demonstrations taking place throughout <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> and simultaneously the civil rights movement was in full swing in the 1960s—boycotts, picket lines, sit-ins and the fight for full public accommodation was being led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ,who headed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). But it would be four students in 1960 from North Carolina Agriculture and <st1:placename w:st="on">Technical</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">State</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Greensboro</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">North Carolina</st1:state></st1:place> that integrated Woolworths Department store (who demonstrated civil disobedience).<span id="yiv8632384447yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493959885114_2178"> H. Rap Brown (Jamil Al-Amin) in his book titled, <u id="yiv8632384447yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493959885114_2181">Die Nigger Die</u> and Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) in his book titled, <u id="yiv8632384447yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493959885114_2184">Black Power</u> both former chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and honorary Black Panther Party members who explored the radical side of the civil rights movement in their approach to social justice. Carmichael often stated ‘ready for the revolution’ and H. Rap Brown coined the phrase ‘burn baby burn,’ which was the anthem for the rebellions that took place in the late 1960s almost in every major city across <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>.</span><span style="color: black;"><span id="yiv8632384447yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493959885114_2189"> </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">It would be racist police unlawful conduct and police brutality that led the Black Panther Party on the west coast coming into existence. Huey P. Newton felt that black people had the right to protect and defend themselves in their community against racist police attacks. The Black Panther Party under the leadership of Seale and Newton taught the Party members and the black community the importance of knowing their legal rights, in particular the Miranda Rights and the Second Amendment Right to the United States Constitution (the right to arm themselves) (Reference: Hugh Pearson; "The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America"). <o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">The Black Panther Party started free breakfast programs, free health clinics and free education and schooling programs throughout the black community—they were extremely proactive in every phase of the political, economic and social struggles in <st1:city w:st="on">Los Angeles</st1:city>, and <st1:city w:st="on">Oakland</st1:city> which led to the establishment of Black Panther Party chapters throughout black <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Yet, their Black Power and paramilitary position of arm struggle drew the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Director J. Edgar Hoover and the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U. S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> counterintelligence program known as Cointelpro. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /><st1:city w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Hoover</span></st1:city><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"> based on a disinformation and propaganda campaign characterized the Black Panther Party as a threat to the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region></st1:place> national security interest and they would suffer the long arm of U.S. Government dirty tricks and scrutiny. I do not think their</span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"> arm resistance movement was rooted in treason or sedition nor were their political objectives geared towards overthrowing the United States Government as <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Hoover</st1:place></st1:city> maintained. It was more about educating blacks of their constitutional rights as private citizens and knowing the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution as it related to due process and equal protection under the law. They were truly black patriots who understood the Bill of Rights and stood behind the Second Amendment the right to bear arms (white militia groups have always had the same rights since the inception of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> as a democracy and Republic). But to understand the difference one must read Robert Williams the former NAACP president of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Monroe</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">North Carolina</st1:state></st1:place> who authored a book titled, <u>Negroes with Guns</u>.</span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> <br /><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">J. Edgar Hoover worked to systematically dismantle the Panther Party under the FBI counterintelligence program known as Cointelpro. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Hoover</st1:place></st1:city> stated he feared any black leader who could unify and electrify the black masses (and what he feared most was the rise of a black Messiah)—he initially thought that it was Elijah Muhammad, Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokley Carmichael, H. Rap Brown, etc.). This led to him infiltrating the Black Panther Party and other progressive black organizations by sending agent provocateurs and government snitches to cause internal conflict.</span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> The<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">U.S. judicial system unjustly prosecuted the Black Panther Party leadership and members in which some of them are still in prison some 40-50 years later as I write this article, defamed and character assassinated, others were assassinated and murdered by the government and some went underground in order to protect their lives and shield their identity. <st1:city w:st="on">Hoover</st1:city> and the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> government went on a vicious campaign to destroy the Black Panther Party by killing off its leadership and most of all destroying the image of black people having the right to defend themselves<span style="color: blue;">. </span></span><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Hoover</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"> and the United States Government worked to neutralized and destabilized the organization and its leadership. Many of Black Panther leadership as I stated above were killed in arm confrontations with the police. For example, two popular Black Panther Party leaders of the <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chicago</st1:place></st1:city> chapter in 1969 Fred Hampton and Mark Clark was gunned down and murdered as they slept in their home. Other Black Panther members were falsely accused and were sentenced to long-term prison sentences such as the Panther 21 in which many of them have been in prison for over 40 years wrongfully convicted on trump up charges.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "bookman old style";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Geronimo Ji-Jaga Pratt</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"> who after serving over 25 years was pardon and exonerated for crimes he did not commit. Also, George Jackson and the Soledad Brothers were victims of government complicity he was murdered by San Quentin prison guards on August 21, 1971 (Reference: "Blood in My Eye"). Perhaps one of the most well known Black Panther was Mutlia Shakur who still remains in prison since the 1970s and Mumia Abu Jamal, a member of the Philadelphia chapter of Black Panther Party for Self-Defense who has been on death row since the early 1980s (Reference: Mumia Abu Jamal; "Live From Death Row"). Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown) was a recent victim of the United States Government continued objectives from the 1960s to punish our black freedom fighters and black revolutionaries—the government pursuant to the new rules of law under the initiatives of Homeland Security, anti-terrorism laws and the U.S. Patriot Act in which President Donald J. Trump’s domestic and foreign policy personifies extreme reactionary fascism in which the United States has moved toward since his election to office in 2016. Let me briefly mention Assata Shukur who was not an official member of the Black Panther Party, but a member of the Black Liberation Army and the Panthers shared political views. Shakur was falsely accused of killing a New Jersey State Trooper in 1976 on the New Jersey Turnpike and was convicted of murder. She was sentenced to life in federal prison in Alderson, West Virginia where she escaped and sought political asylum in Cuba under Fidel Castro (Reference: Assata Shukur; "Assata").<o:p></o:p></span> <br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"></span><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Thus, conducting this research, I was taking back by Eldridge Cleaver's (minister of information) critical analysis of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> jurisprudence system, in particular his open letter to then Governor Ronald Reagan in his book titled, “Soul on Ice” and his opposition to the police state. Cleaver's letter is equalvent to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from the Birmingham Jail" relative to the question of moral and ethical principles. The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense started as a Black Nationalist organization but from an ideological perspective the Panther vacillated between Black Nationalism and Scientific Socialism (Communism)--they later would embrace the philosophy of Mao Se Tung (the Red Book) and Karl Marx (Das Capitol) in which they believed that the black struggle had to be fought from both a class and race analysis.<o:p></o:p></span> <br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">The Black Panther Party main objectives were laid out and disseminated in the their "Ten Point Plan" <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">1). We want full employment for our people.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">2). We want an end to the robbery by the white men of our Black Community. (later changed to "we want an end to the robbery by the capitalists of our black and oppressed communities.")<o:p></o:p></span></span> <span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">3). We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">4). We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">5). We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present day society.<o:p></o:p></span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">8). We want freedom for all Black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">9). We want all Black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their Black Communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></span> <br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">1). We believe that Black People will not be free until we are able to determine our own destiny.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">2). We believe that the federal government is responsible and obligated to give every man employment or a guaranteed income. We believe that if the White American business men will not give full employment, the means of production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the community so that the people of the community can organize and employ all of its people and give a high standard of living.<o:p></o:p></span> <br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">3). We believe that this racist government has robbed us and now we are demanding the overdue debt of forty acres and two mules. Forty acres and two mules was promised 100 years ago as redistribution for slave labor and mass murder of Black people. We will accept the payment in currency which will be distributed to our many communities: the Germans are now aiding the Jews in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region> for genocide of the Jewish people. The Germans murdered 6,000,000 Jews. The American racist has taken part in the slaughter of over 50,000,000 Black people; therefore, we feel that this is a modest demand that we make.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">4). We believe that if the White landlords will not give decent housing to our Black community, then the housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that our community, with government aid, can build and make a decent housing for its people.<o:p></o:p></span> <br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">5). We believe in an educational system that will give our people a knowledge of self. If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position in society and the world, then he has little chance to relate to anything else.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">6). We believe that Black people should not be forced to fight in the military service to defend a racist government that does not protect us. We will not fight and kill other people of color in the world who, like Black people, are being victimized by the White racist government of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>. We will protect ourselves from the force and violence of the racist police and the racist military, by whatever means necessary.<o:p></o:p></span> <br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">7). We believe we can end police brutality in our Black community by organizing Black self-defense groups that are dedicated to defending our Black community from racist police oppression and brutality. The second Amendment of the Constitution of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> gives us the right to bear arms. We therefore believe that all Black people should arm themselves for self-defense.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">8). We believe that all Black people should be released from the many jails and prisons because they have not received a fair and impartial trial.<o:p></o:p></span> <br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">9). We believe that the courts should follow the United States Constitution so that Black people will receive fair trials. The 14th Amendment of the U.S Constitution gives a man a right to be tried by his peers. A peer is a persons from a similar economic, social, religious, geographical, environmental, historical, and racial background. To do this the court will be forced to select a jury from the Black community from which the Black defendant came. We have been, and are being tried by all-white-juries that have no understanding of “the average reasoning man” of the Black community.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">10). When in the course of human events, it become necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature’s god entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, and that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its power in such a form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accused. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, and their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards of their future security.<o:p></o:p></span> <br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Some have accused the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense as being sexist and misogynist and male dominated organization, but I think women had always played a prominent role within the Black Panther Party Movement from doing vital behind the scene work relative to community organizing and being support staff for the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>organization on various levels. When Huey P. Newton went to prison, the Central Committee elected Elaine Brown as chairman of the Party and it was under her work an leadership that the Free Huey campaign and movement gain a broad range of support across <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> and throughout the world. Also, the likes of Angela Davis who was out front and was challenging the white status quo by organizing college students and leading mass political rallies and demonstrations against police brutality and what she deemed as the police state. Eldridge Cleaver's wife Kathleen Cleaver was also highly visible as one of leading female voices in Black Panther Party movement. Yet, this analysis is in no way meant to suggest or imply that there wasn't continue internally struggles between the role women would play in this male dominated Black Power organization. Women for the most part held traditional roles as educators for children, nurses assistants, food preparers for the free breakfast program, etc. (Reference: Elaine Brown; "A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story"). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">I think the Black Power movement gave rise in the 1960s and 1970s the need of black studies programs on mainly predominantly white universities and college campus in which students could acquire majors and minor degrees. African Americans were seeking to rediscover the history and culture of African people in which intellectual interest in black history and the African experience begin to expand. The quest for self-determination created new academic and educational challenges to a system that was structured and built on Eurocentric and white supremacy ideology. But <st1:city w:st="on">Berkeley</st1:city> and the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">California</st1:placename></st1:place> system, in particular begin to create black Studies programs and hired black professors, moreover, this practice spread throughout academia (and in 2018 black studies programs are under assault). It was political agitation in 1960s that brought the necessity of Black Studies programs and it begin gaining philosophical credibility and legitimacy amongst scholars and intellectuals outside of the African-American race (Reference: Mualana Karenga; "Introduction to Black Studies").<o:p></o:p></span> <br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Lastly, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in the 1960s and 1970s was actually confronting some of the same political, economic and social issues, we are presently confronting in 2018. For example, the issue of police brutality and the murder of innocent black men by white racist law enforcement and often these killings are deemed justifiable homicides. The judicial system and the criminal justice system still allow sentencing disparities and black men are discriminated in the legal courts of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States of America</st1:place></st1:country-region>. The lack of financial capital and resources in the so-called black community creates poverty and disillusionment due to wealth disparities (the economic and social impetus that foster the working poor), which gives way to the prison industrial complex and mass incarceration. The Black Panther Party sought to address these issues on a community level by taking ownership of the black community. The government deemed them a threat to the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> internal national security because they dared to exercise their Second Amendment Right to the United States Constitution. The fight for social justice has been a continued fight for African Americans since the first slave ship arrived to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> in 1555. </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">The Panthers represented the epitome of black-manhood and black-womanhood.<span style="color: blue;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;">Fahim A. Knight-El Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Durham</st1:city></st1:place>, <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">NC</st1:state></st1:state></st1:city></st1:place>; our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolism and reinterpreted the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlightened world will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight-El can be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com</span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">. </span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style";"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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This Blog came about after having a conversation with my wife
about the so-called public conflict between the Secretary of State Rex
Tillerson and President Donald Trump. Tillerson accused the president of being
a so-called 'moron'. I had to explain to my wife lets move beyond the reality
television drama and the made for public distractions that the media continues
to feed the masses. Trump stated he would measure his I.Q. up against Secretary
of State Rex Tillerson, and in his opinion no doubt he would win. Perhaps Trump
doesn't understand that he and Tillerson both were selected as low level
servants and operatives, because of their loyalty to push forward the hidden
agenda in which I.Q. wasn't necessarily a top perquisite for the assignment
(loyalty was the X factor in the chosen equation). </div>
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Some have tried to characterize Trump's overall disposition
as the alpha male syndrome, but this was clearly another indication of his
inflated false super ego running out of control. However, those of us who
understand the mindset of a man like Tillerson relative to the time in which we
live would know that he was not created in a vacuum; he was handpicked by the
same powers and forces who for centuries have determined world affairs and shaped
human history. Tillerson public confirmation by the U.S. Congress was only a
matter of going through the motions, in reality it meant nothing, because he had
already been confirmed by the committee of 300. Many who are viewing these
national and global chessboard strategies and tactics from an awakened and
enlightened mind are very clear about what is taking place. It is an added
value if one has the ability to siphon through and decode the massive
propaganda and chicanery being systematically dispersed by talking heads on
CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, BBC and the print mediums (Trump is right about
'Fake News'). </div>
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Let me let you into a little secret, not to many of Trump's
Cabinet Members in the United States Government or even other high level civil
servants are more qualified, smarter and deceptive than Rex Tillerson,
moreover, the testimony of this fact, is him being afforded a seat at the
Roundtable (this also includes those that sit in the situation room are mere
decoys and insignificant players on the world stage). An Operative on the level
of Tillerson did not rise to become one of the top executives of arguably the
most powerful oil monopoly or conglomerate in the world such as ExxonMobil
because he was a nice guy—he is ruthless and dangerous in which he and Vladimir
Putin, the President of Russia are cut from the same cloth (diplomacy is a
matter of power and force). </div>
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Tillerson understands the rules established by the Invisible
Rulers and have sworn his allegiance, and for this, he will be rewarded
handsomely for his obedience. His selection by the Hidden Hand is evidence of a man who has the ability to execute their playbook in order to accomplish
the agenda. Tillerson’s intellectual and business skills are more valuable than
the military expertise of Navy Seals or any other decorated military personnel
of the U.S. Arm Forces and are highly sought after by those who control
the planet and its resources. ExxonMobil functions as a sovereign entity no
different than a sovereign government (they are above all laws and rules). Let
me translate this for my reading audience; Tillerson being the former CEO of
ExxonMobil was liken to him being the president of an independent nation (these
Elitist oil moguls and tycoons answer to no one be it congress or some
parliament).</div>
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They have so much power, resources and influence they use
their wealth to sway and control lobbying on Capitol Hill by covertly
financing congresspersons and senators to create bills and legislation that
allows big corporations to steal and go unchecked and unregulated. We think we
live within a participatory government and governed by a Democracy, but the people’s interest becomes
secondary to the Elitist capitalist interest—most of our politicians are bought
and paid for. There hasn't been a global significant social phenomenon that hasn't
been orchestrated by them. The 9/11 hoax, the collapse of the global economy in
2008, Trump being appointed the 45<sup>TH</sup> United States President, the
rise of white nationalism and the open assault on the poor and ‘have nots’,
opiate epidemic being carried out by huge pharmaceutical companies, which makes
street level crack, cocaine, heroin, marijuana, methamphetamine, etc., distribution
looks like child’s play. But these companies are so powerful that no pharmaceutical
executive will be indicted or convicted under RICO statues of operating drug
cartels and criminal enterprise (these are your true drug King Pens). </div>
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For example, unknowing to the global community, they
even finance reactionary groups such as ISIS, this is not to say that there aren't
rogue cells who is acting independent in challenging Western imperialism and
operate outside the control of the CIA and Hidden Hand agreement that these entities have with some of these
reactionary Islamic dissenters. But let me make my readers aware, they have
picked a fight with Muslims and Islam in which they cannot win—they are at war
with an idea (how do you control the utterance of Allah-U-Akbar, which
translates God is the Greatest and this becomes the impetus and motivation of
what drives individuals toward Jihad?). </div>
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President Donald Trumps travel ban imposed on <st1:country-region w:st="on">Yemen</st1:country-region>, <st1:city w:st="on">Somali</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Iran</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Libya</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Syria</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Sudan</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Chad</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">North Korea</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Venezuela</st1:place></st1:country-region> will
only acerbate and infuriate the tension between the west and the east. The
United States Government has declared war on Islam.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They even propped up Bashar Assad of Syria (he
was their man in the Middle East until he started to get<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #545454; font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><u> </u></span></span>too big for his britches) and the CIA were deeply in bed
with Saddam Hussein these puppets sold their people out for money in order to
live lavish life styles. The Saud family dynasty and the corrupt Wahabbi
Muslims who controls Mecca and Medina are the epitome of agent provactuers. I will never make Hajj with these sacrilegious
hypocrites, I would rather go to Jerusalem or go to Senegal under the Sufi<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span>Tijaniyya to
observe the fifth pillar of Islam. The Arabs of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><st1:city w:st="on">Mecca</st1:city> and <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Medina</st1:place></st1:city> have dishonored
the teachings of Prophet Muhammad Ibn Abdullah and the Qur’an and they are also
deeply in bed with the invisible rulers, the CIA and have betrayed Islam in the
name of greed and a love for the western life style. </div>
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These damnable hypocrites in particular, the ruling class
Sheiks love western prostitutes, alcohol, cocaine and heroin, etc., and
dubiously impose the Sharia for those who so-called violate Islamic law. The
Western governments and the Europeans are often behind what is deemed radical
Islamic terrorism in which to create the social, political and economic global
outcomes in order to further their agenda around the world (they systematically
induce fear and panic). The global political, economic and social paradigm
shift that caused 9/11 will continue to lead us down some dark paths, it has
led us into an era of a new normal whereas the United States Constitution and
its jurisprudence has become irrelevant and left the American people
vulnerable because of the erosion of civil liberties (these are dangerous times
in which we live). </div>
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The Afghanistan War 2001 and the Iraq War 2003, these
conflicts were instigated and caused by them, to essentially and strategically
set themselves in a place to steal more oil from <st1:country-region w:st="on">Kuwait</st1:country-region>
and <st1:country-region w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region> (the Sabah family
dynasty of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Kuwait</st1:place></st1:country-region>
is corrupt to its core). They also set up military bases and installations to
become the watch dogs over the Middle East and the <st1:place w:st="on">Persian
Gulf</st1:place> regions. Although, it has been proven that these conflicts
were instigated by George W. Bush based on fabrications and lies; he was never
charged with war crimes against humanity. Our brother, Colin Powell went before the United
Nations and vehemently accused <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>
of possessing weapons of mass destruction. But look at the human suffering and
human carnage, as well as, the collateral damage these False Flags have caused
the innocent people of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region></st1:place>
and the American people who have lost sons and daughters defending American Fascism
and imperialism around the world. There was no end game to these wars other
than stealing oil and the overall missions lacked a true political or military
objective for that region of the world; so sixteen years later U.S. troops are
still militarily engaged in both nations (when will the American people say a
enough is a enough and demand more responsive foreign policy initiatives from
the government?). However, it was President George H.W Bush who got the ball
rolling with Desert Storm (1990) and Desert Shield (1991). These wars have cost
the American taxpayers billions of dollars and continue to have a running tab
even in 2017. </div>
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These warmongers and their reactionary foreign policy led to
the assassination of our brother Muammar Qadaffi of the Nation of Libya, but it
would be up to us to write the historical narrative relative to what he meant
to African and African American revolutionaries. I will always look upon him
and the Arab Jamahiriya favorably, because he used his wealth to support the
Lost-Found Nation of Islam in the West and our leader the Most Honorable Elijah
Muhammad in the 1970s by giving him financial aid to refurbish Muhammad
Mosque number 2 in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chicago</st1:place></st1:city>,
which once was a Greek Orthodox Church. He also would later give Minister Louis
Farrakhan in the early 1980s a five million dollar interest free loan (this
served as seed money to construct the Salaam Restaurant on Westside of Chicago);
he was a friend of black and brown people and supported liberation struggles
around the world. I can recall the Saudis financing Imam Warith Deen Mohammed
(the biological son of Elijah Muhammad and his American Muslim Mission and led
him toward apolitical Sunni Islam, which rendered him insignificant in the
world of American style black politics). </div>
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It was President Barack Obama and Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton (contrary to the Fake news propaganda, she was deeply involved
in the <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Benghazi</st1:place></st1:city> hit
and the assassination of CIA frontman Chris Stevens) she also paved the way, which led to the assassination of Colonel Qadaffi. How can black people
continue to hold this Negro Barack Obama in high esteem he showed us what type of
Negro he was when he crossed the black liberation preacher and theologian Dr.
Jeremiah Wright, his pastor for nineteen years? I totally agreed with the content
of Dr. Wright's speech titled, 'Goddamn America' which got him in trouble with
white folk. They are masters of using propaganda and disinformation to shape
and mold public opinion.<br />
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Moving right along, we must understand that Tillerson did not
take this job/assignment of being the Secretary of State because he had an
interest in being a good American Patriot defending and protecting the U.S.
Constitution against all foreign and domestic enemies. His oath to office had
nothing to do with patriotism nor was it rooted in making the world more safer
for Democracy. Tillerson's civil servant pay grade is far below his valued expertise
and intellectual skill set. He chose to serve at the pleasure of the
commander-in-chief strictly out of long term self-interest. But his orders
comes directly from the Hidden Hand. Trump on one level want to abort globalism
and move the United States back in a political era revolving around 19<sup>th</sup>
and 20<sup>th</sup> century style nationalism, but he is only doing this to
appease Steve Bannon (Trumps flamethrower) who has a brilliant political
strategy of controlling the Republican Party by making GOP senators and
congressperson believe that he has the influence to determine their political
future. He threatened them with declaring war on them if they did not line up
behind President Donald Trump's agenda—the problem is Trump went into office
with no real political agenda for the nation and this has caused him to waver
and vacillate, which has created a dysfunctional administration. </div>
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The Talking Heads kept assuring us that Trump was going to
pivot and become more presidential—he initially surrounded himself with
billionaires, but someone must have advised him that it would be smart to also
surround himself with military generals because power is only secure when it
can be defended. He immediately abandoned his campaign criticism of generals.
Yet, he doesn't have a clue or understanding of the global and geopolitical
alignments that Tillerson has relative to knowing and understanding how the
world function. Tillerson was cutting deals as the head of ExxonMobil with
North Korea Kim Jong-Un and Vladimir Putin, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region>, and is
very familiar with the international political landscape—Trump doesn’t know
geography, lack understanding of world cultures, religions and is a novice when
it comes to international politics and diplomacy. </div>
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This diplomacy that Tillerson is trying to broker around
world in these hot spots is about money and future resource agreements.
Tillerson sees markets in Southeast Asia and these war of words between Kim Jong-Un
and Donald Trump continues to muddy the water, and do not allow for him to
create a pathway into working toward establishing private and government future
arm deals and potential defense contracts with North Korea by being allowed to tap into
that money that Russia and China is making. He also sees lucrative contracts of
supply and demand for ExxonMobil in potentially getting a huge piece of the oil demand that <st1:country-region w:st="on">North Korea</st1:country-region> calls for and whether or not <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">North Korea</st1:country-region></st1:place>
obtains their nuclear intercontinental missile program, it is just a matter of
time—they will have far reaching nuclear capabilities in less than five years.
The ‘rocket man’ insults will have no bearing on the technological advancements
of a nation who is determined to balance the power in that region of the world
and in reality there is nothing the United States can do about it. I do not
think <st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region> will sit idly by
and allow a war to take place in its backyard and/or an attack by the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> against
one of its closest allies. Some have argued that this can become a powder keg
and international impetus for World War III. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Thus, plain and clear, you can drop Tillerson off anywhere on
the planet from Siberia to the frigid <st1:place w:st="on">Antarctica</st1:place>
with no maps just camping gear and he would survive. Tillerson took the job to
make untold wealth on the backend, he is a Metal Man (not even Mark Rich lines
up in comparison), I told a group of students that he was from a different
species and breed (Trump is no match for this tycoon mindset). I also said you
can also drop off Jarrett Kushtner any place on the planet as well. The
Seven Oil Sisters sent him on this mission to scout out and secure the next
exploitative frontier. Tillerson as stated above has had long standing
relations with the former <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">USSR</st1:country-region></st1:place>
during the Cold War. </div>
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ExxonMobil and the Rockefellers put huge amounts of
financial and military aid in backing the Russians in the nine year war they
fought against the Mujahedeen in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:place></st1:country-region> in which they the
Russians lost (1979-1989). The Rockefellers had a twofold interest of helping <st1:country-region w:st="on">Russia</st1:country-region> clear the way of an uninterrupted oil
pipeline going through <st1:place w:st="on">Central Asia</st1:place> and
simultaneously claiming more economic stake in the poppy seed and heroin
distribution (Dope, Inc). The Russian Elitist and certain segments of Taliban
and the Islamic sects of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:place></st1:country-region>
have always been in bed with each other. </div>
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Tillerson job is to re-establish the oil alignments from
Africa, Persian Gulf in particular Iran because other than the black market distribution
Iran's oil since 1979 has been imposed with embargoes and sanctions by the United
States State Department; Tillerson liked the Iran Nuclear Deal entered into by
the Democratic President Barack Obama—for him lets move away from the divisive
political rhetoric that is hindering his ties to the World Bank and the
International Monetary Fund and the financial kickback he anticipate he would receive
from the Central Banks in this grand scheme of the oil business—for Tillerson this
is strictly about money). Tillerson understand that the Iran Nuclear deal would
open up a new oil supply and markets for ExxonMobil with a nation in which was
once classified under the Bush Doctrine as a "rogue nation". But
lets be clear the antagonistic and volatile relationship between <st1:country-region w:st="on">Iran</st1:country-region> and the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United
States</st1:country-region> for over thirty-five years did not impede the flow
of oil to the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place>
markets and allied nation markets. </div>
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Most of Western European nations and those aligned with the
European Union had for decades ignored the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> and United Nations embargoes
and were buying Iranian crude in violation of international law. The <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> was also buying and selling to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region> in spite
of the sanctions. How do you think the Iranian Revolution has sustained itself
since Imam Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew Shah<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #545454; font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><u> </u></span></span>Mohammad
Reza Pahlavi in 1979? These contracts were sanctioned by the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the United States Justice Department turned a
blind eye. Tillerson just don't want to be looking over his shoulder just in
case, if some ambitious U S. Attorney decided to use the long extent of the U S.
law to prosecute private citizens or corporations who violate the embargoes.
Tillerson is not there just to serve as the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> chief diplomat or foreign policy
negotiator looking to broker deals for the White House. He sees no conflict of interest
of assuring that ExxonMobil will continue to serve as one of the oil masters of
the world.</div>
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Fahim A. Knight-El Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK
located in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Durham</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">NC</st1:state></st1:place>; our mission is to inform African
Americans and all people of goodwill, of the pending dangers that lie ahead; as
well as decode the symbolism and reinterpreted the hidden meanings behind those
who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We are of the
belief that an enlightened world will be better prepared to throw off the
shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the slaughter. Our
MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight-El can be reached at
fahimknight@yahoo.com<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">. </span></div>
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FAHIM KNIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00567827759311275290noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4957787817614691922.post-41317159542263783212017-09-10T15:08:00.001-07:002017-09-10T15:15:12.760-07:00The African Influence on Western Architecture<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">The African Influence
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">African Design
Principles</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><strong>By Brother Yohance Bediako</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Brother Yohance have been working in the field of
Architecture for 20 years and have developed over the years a diverse back
ground and set of skills. He completed his education in architecture at
Tuskegee University. Brother Yohance has studied many books written about
African culture and traveled to many countries in Africa looking at and
studying indigenous architecture. Brother Yohance has had the opportunity at a
very young age to have relationships with some of the most dynamic African
scholars in the country . Scholars such as Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan, Dr. John H
Clarke, Dr. Jacob Carruthers, Dr. George Simmons, these are just a few of the
scholars that brother Yohance was exposed to and had a relationship with at a
very young age. It is from his relationship with these scholars that brother
Yohance submersed himself into the studying of African architecture and African
culture. Over the years brother Yohance has worked on a variety of projects
that range from single family homes, institutional buildings to commercial
buildings. But one of brother Yohance's biggest accomplishment is his
Non-profit organization, Imhotep Architectural Youth Society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Imhotep Architectural Youth Society is an organization
that provides guidance and advice to African American youth about life
decisions and also train them in the field of architecture. Brother Yohance
also has an article about African cultures contribution to western architecture
that has been published in The SAGE Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage
in North America. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><strong>Note: </strong>Brother Yohance is a guest scholar writer and researcher on our Keeping It Real Blog. This posting is an abbreviated version of Brother Yohance research in which his original submission included graphs and photographic documentation that brings his work to greater LIGHT. Brother Yohance is also a Prince Hall Mason and he has a lot to offer our Craft. I hope to one day soon may be present this same article as PDF to include the pictorial exhibits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">If w</span>e look at the Architect
throughout history we will see that the Architect holds a very unique position
in the society. The Architect is responsible for translating the values, ideas
and culture of a society into physical reality through its special forms. This
means that the Architect must have an understanding about every aspect of the
society. The Architect cannot design a Temple or a Shrine for a deity unless
He/She has an understanding about the spiritual and cosmological relationship
of the society. The Architect cannot design a home unless He/She has an
understanding of the day to day lives of the people in the society. The Architect
cannot understand how to plan the arrangements and layout of the village unless
He/She has a deep understanding of the cultural ways of the people </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">themselves. So the Architect must have His/Her finger on the
very pulse of the society. The Architect must continue to develop and grow with
the knowledge of the society, as the society evolves so should the
Architect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The field of Architecture is one
of the major areas of research for archeologist when studying ancient
civilizations. It is through the Architecture of the ancient civilization that
the archeologist comes to understand the life style of the ancient societies.
Therefore Architecture intrinsically embodies the culture of the people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Culture</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Culture is the product of the collective history of a people
that is being constantly informed by forces of the seen and unseen; the
collective personality of a people, including their unique cosmology, language,
institutions, creative expressions, etc. It is the totality of values, beliefs,
and actions that characterize a people. Culture consists of the behavioral
patterns, symbols, institutions, and values of a society, and is unique to that
society. It is the spiritual, ideational, and material composite that
distinguishes one society from another. It shapes and is, in turn, shaped by
events in the realm of the spiritual, ideational and the material. All inquiry
and solution, truth and beauty, tradition and purity, meaning and reality are
culturally relative. There are no culture-free or values-free human endeavors.
Culture is not a static phenomenon. It continually evolves as a society evolves
and develops. It is that composite of socially and historically determined behaviors
that nourishes and thereby defines the intellectual and spiritual parameters
within which the human individual develops and exists. As people evolve
throughout history, they invariably organize their experiences and their
reflections and elaborations on their experiences into various domains of
knowledge. Those domains are necessarily linked to the historical nucleus of
the culture, and are a consequence of that historical dynamic. Those domains
include philosophy, morality, spirituality, ethics, politics, ideology,
aesthetics, science, law and others. The several domains and the particular
disciplines of knowledge serve as the fixed institutional foundations of the
nation. It this case, the domain is architecture.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Cosmology</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Cosmology is a system of thought arising out of a people’s
history and culture that addresses issues of reality and creation, truth and
value, meaning, process, and that people’s place within creation. It is the
component of worldview that refers to the structure of reality from a
particular racial-cultural perspective and/or experience. Also, it is the study
of the origins and structure of the universe. Every culture has their own
cosmology that relates to their understanding and explanation of how the
universe works and interacts. As we shall address later, cosmology is embedded
in architecture traditional African architecture.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Context</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Context is the visual relationship to the surrounding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spatial context can be any of the following:
1) the a specific building seen in the context of other buildings; 2) a
specific building seen in the context of the surrounding landscape; 3) a
specific element of the building seen in the context of all the other elements
of the building; 4) the relationship between a building’s exterior and interior.
Contextualism is the “fitting-in” of a building with surrounding buildings so
that it is in harmony with them, especially in terms of scale, form, mass, and
color. Contextual elements are history, local site, cultural past, continuity,
material, culture, climate, environment, size, appearance, location and form,
topography, society's ideas, its form of economic and social organization, its
distribution of resources, authorities and beliefs, values. In the case of
traditional African architecture, context relates to the physical environment,
the available materials used for construction, amongst other criterion.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Architecture</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Architecture is the art and science of design and building
structures. It is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction
of physical structures. Architectural tradition is a set of architectural
practices inherited from one generation and passed down to another. These
practices may include methods of construction, patterns of architectural
design, using particular building materials for certain cultural or religious
purposes, amongst other possibilities. Adapting innovative methods of
architecture are incorporated within the development of the architectural
tradition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The Western world has always been influenced by African
culture. One of the major African cultures that influenced the Western world is
ancient Egypt(Kemet) Nile valley high culture. The major domain of African
culture that influenced Western culture is architecture. One of the most
influential and enlightening concepts of African architecture that Western
society learned from their first ancient educational experience in the African
Nile Valley is that of Sacred Geometry and the natural ratio that appears in
the growth patterns of nature. The Western society calls this number the Golden
Ratio or the Golden Section and is represented with the Greek letter Phi. The
Golden Ratio was used in ancient Greece and Rome. The knowledge of the Golden
Ratio traveled from ancient Greece and Rome to other parts of Europe and
throughout time to this very day. The Africans of the Nile valley used this
special proportion in developing many of the sciences that were taught in the
Nile valley. One of those sciences is Geometry. The African Nile Valley High
culture was not only the first civilization to discover the Sacred Geometry and
this universal ratio but, to them these concepts had spiritual power and
significance. The ratio was not just a number but a symbol of the creative
function, the reproductive power of the male, the fire of life.1(Secrets of The
Great Pyramid, Peter Tompkins)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the
ancient African Nile valley culture Sacred Geometry and the Golden Ratio was
incorporated and hidden in their iconography and architecture. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">What is the Golden Ratio?
The golden ratio is obtained when anything is divided in the following example;
let’s take a line that is divided into two parts A and B in such a way that
part A(The larger part) divided by part B(The smaller part) is equal to parts
A+B divided by A. When this is done the ratio of the parts equals 1.618 which
is the universal building block of the cosmos. (See figure 1)This ill rational
number can continue on to infinity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Because of its regenerative character the Golden Ratio mainly, but not
only, has a spiral appearance, this spiral is found in all parts of the natural
world, such as the spiral of a snails shell, the spiral of the horns of a ram,
the spiral of a tornado, the spiral of the pedals of a pinecone and the spiral
of the galaxy itself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">In the ancient Nile valley the Golden Ratio was expressed in
many deferent geometric shapes, like squares, circles, triangles and
rectangles. The Golden Ratio and sacred Geometry would be hidden into their
iconography. One of the images in the African Nile valley culture is the
Neter(Divine Spirit) Min, which is represented as a mummy with an erect
phallus, but his phallus is located in the position of his navel. The location
of Min’s phallus divides his body into the Golden Ratio.2 (The Temple In Man,
R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz) This is also true about the human body, that the
navel is the point which divides the human body into the Golden Ratio
proportion.(Figure 3a) This knowledge was well known by the Africans of the
Nile valley and it was expressed in the Neter(Divine Spirit) Min. In the temple
of Ramses IV is the same image of the Neter(Divine Spirit) Min with his whole
body leaning at a 3 4 5 right triangle and incorporating the same Golden Ratio
proportions.3 (The Egyptian Miracle, R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz, figure 3b) The
ancient Africans of the Nile valley had a very deep understanding of this Ratio
and it’s significance in nature and with the human body. In addition, in the
building of the temples and the pyramids and Tekenu(Obelisk) of the African
Nile Valley culture was the incorporation of the value of the Golden Ratio and
the number Pi. The entrance to the temple of Auset(Isis)(Figure 4a), according
to Schwaller de Lubicz, the Africans of the Nile valley constructed the
entrance to the temple by using the Golden Ratio and Pi. In the construction of
the entrances the architects started with a 1 to 2 proportion. In figure 4b de
Lubicz shows how the different part of the entrance proportionately incorporates
the Golden Ratio and Pi. </span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Great Pyramid of the African Nile valley(Figure 5a), which is the most
recognized and impressive structure in history, also has the Golden Ratio and
sacred geometry hidden in its construction. The ancient Africans of the Nile
valley believed in the sacred balance of proportion and harmony. The first
aspect of sacred geometry that the ancient African architects hid in the Great
Pyramid was the Golden Ratio or<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Phi. The
Great Pyramid was constructed in such a way that if you divide the base of the
Great Pyramid in half, than take that half and divide it by the length of the
face of the Great Pyramid you would get 1.618 the Golden Ratio and that
relationship would automatically make the height of the Pyramid equal to the
square root of the length of the face of the Great Pyramid.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Great Pyramid also solves one of the most ancient sacred geometry issues and
that is the squaring of the circle. The Great Pyramid base is a square whose
perimeter is equal to the circumference of a circle whose radius is the height
of the Great Pyramid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So through science
of sacred geometry the ancient Africans of the Nile valley was able to tie
together three geometric shapes that work together in harmony, a triangle, a
square and a circle, it squares the circle (Figure 6a). The Greeks would much
later after the Africans of the Nile valley had already solved the issue,
represent this geometric harmony by placing an image of a man inside a square
and a circle.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The Greek civilization also used the Golden Ratio in the
building of their temples as shown here in the Parthenon see figure 7.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">There
are many buildings in Washington DC that use this same proportions and ratio.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">One
of the popular twentieth century architects Le Corbusier, explicitly used the
Golden ratio in a modulor scaling system for architecture proportions. Le
Corbusier based this system on the human measurements. He then incorporated
these proportions in his architecture.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ancient Kemet’s
Influence on Greek Architecture</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Ancient Kemet’s architecture that remains today is
breathtaking, monumental in scale and recognizable. It had a particular
character that permeated the physical appearance. Distinguishing features
marked each design which subscribed to the Kemetic architectural tradition. It
also had a noticeable influence on many aspects of Western architecture. It
heavily influenced Greek architecture in a multitude of ways. Columns; the
colonnade; stylobates; trabeation; post [column] and lintel [beam]
construction; the entablature with an architrave frieze and cornice; arches;
and the use of stone as a building material are all aspects of construction
that are renown throughout architectural history that were first used as<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>methods of construction along the Nile Valley
in Ancient Kemet. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Western culture’s classic civilizations are Ancient Greece
and Rome. They are the foundation of Western culture. Their influence on all
aspects of Western civilization, including architecture, is abundant. Greek
architecture has a definitive architectural vocabulary that continues to have a
profound effect on present day Western architecture. Ancient Kemet was the
origin of many architectural methods of construction and aesthetics that are
commonly overlooked today.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></div>
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A column is a relatively long,
slender vertical structural member. Throughout history, columns have been
integral in the construction process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
Ancient Kemet, columns served as structural and aesthetic 1elements. There are
over 30 types of Kemetic column forms that all vary in appearance, size and
style. In most cases, the columns had a base, shaft and capital (the top most
structural member of the column). Stylobates (a raised platforms supporting a
colonnade) were used to reinforce the foundation of columns. Their influence on
the Greek Orders is visibly apparent in several of the types. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b>
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or Fluted Column Influence on the Greek Doric Order</b></div>
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The Step Pyramid complex of Third Dynasty Pharaoh Djoser
(ca. 2667 to 2648 BC) has the Proto-Doric or Fluted Column type with abacus
(the uppermost member of the capital of a column), convex shaft and base. [see
figures 11,12] It predates the Greek Doric Order. [see figures 13,14] Each type
has fluted shafts. Although the Proto-Doric column sits on a base, the typical
Greek Doric Order does not.
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</span></span>The Step Pyramid complex (ca. 2667 to 2648 BC) with abacus,
fluted shaft and base.<br />
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Influence on the Greek Ionic Order </b></div>
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The Greek Ionic Order derives from Kemetic lotus flower used
throughout Ancient Kemetic architecture. The volute (a spiral scroll) style
developed through the cultural transmission between Kemet and the Ionian people
of Greece. Ancient Kemet developed strong precedent for artistic influence and
a historical and cultural context ideal for the transmission of artistic and
architectural notions. As Ionians began to colonize portions of the Delta
region of Anicent Kemet, significant innovations in Ionian temple architecture
of this period began to greatly resemble long established and commonly
implemented elements of the Kemetic architectural tradition. [See figures
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Karnak Temple Complex at Karnak, Egypt (3200 BC)
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Composite Column Influence on the Greek Corithian Order </span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The Greek Corinthian Order resembles the Palmiform and
Composite capitals of Ancient Kemet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
ornamentation depicted in the capitals of both derived from nature. Mostly
notably, inspiration was drawn from the lotus and papyrus of the Nile Valley
and acanthus leaves of Ancient Greece. The idea of using the locale vegetation
as a decrative column ornimentation was taught to the Greeks by the African
architects of the Nile valley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[See
Figures 21,22,23,24]</span>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Temple of Auset, Philae, Egypt (380–362 BC)</span></div>
</span>The three orders of Ancient Greece columns (Doric, Ionic and
Corinthian) were concepts based upon balance and proportion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And as stated previously were concepts
inspired by what the Greeks learned in the Nile valley. These architectural
conventions influenced subsequent civilizations such as ancient Rome and
Renaissance architecture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are
archetypes of Western architectural beauty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ancient structures like the Parthenon [see figure 25] have influenced
countless buildings within the Western hemisphere - specifically civic
buildings. The White House (Ionic columns) [see figure 26], the US Supreme
Court (Ionic columns) [see figure 27], the Lincoln Monument (Doric columns)
[see figure28] and the US Capitol Building (Ionic columns) [see figure 29] are
all in Washington, D.C.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each edifice was
inspired by the ancient Greeks who were inspired by the ancient Nile valley
African people.<br />
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A colonnade is a number of columns arranged in order, in
intervals called intercolumniation, supporting an entablature and, usually, one
side of a roof. In Ancient Kemet, the colonnade accompanied post and beam
construction. [See figures 30,31,32] They were constructed throughout the
dynastic era. </div>
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construction was practiced by the Greeks and is still used throughout the world
today. But It was first achieved in monumental fashion throughout the Nile
Valley. In the figures shown, post [column] and beam [entablature]
construction, and the abacus that sits on top of the capital are demonstrated.
[See figures 33,34] The lotus or papyrus capital columns carry the weight of
the architrave above. This is the precedence of the Ancient Greek post [column]
and beam [entablature] method of construction where the column carries the
weight of the beam [entablature] which, in turn, transfers the weight of roof
above. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The Ancient Greek
entablature was an elaborate horizontal band and molding supported by columns.
It was horizontally divided into three basic elements: architrave (the lowest
member), frieze (the middle member), and cornice (the uppermost member). During
the dynastic period of Ancient Kemet, the architrave was decorated with mdw ntr
[hieroglyphs]. Its use predates that of the Greeks. A curved cornice often
rested above the architrave as a decorative feature.<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Clerestory</b></span></div>
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zone of a wall pierced with windows that emit light to the center of a room.
They were first used in Ancient Kemet. Specifically, at the Temple of Amon at
Karnak, clerestories permit light inside the Hypostyle Hall. It was later used
as a design feature during the later period of Ancient Greece and in some Roman
basilicas of justice. Its use is well known in Romanesque and Gothic cathedral
architecture. Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France is an example of the use of
clerestories in Gothic period architecture. They are flanked by flying
buttresses (a specific form of buttressing in which an architectural structure
is built against or is projecting from a wall which serves to support or
reinforce the wall) at the exterior of the building. Clerestories are still
regularly used in Western architecture in different design capacities and
applications. The term now refers to any row of windows above eye level that
allow light to penetrate a space. <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mount Rushmore and
the Lincoln Memorial</b></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The rock cut Temple of Ramses
II was carved into the side of a mountain from massive blocks of sandstone up
thirty tons each. This was a literal display of using the site context as the
material for the construction of the temple. The faces of Presidents George
Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt carved
into Mount Rushmore near Keystone, South Dakota is an example of the Temple of
Ramses II’s influence on Western architecture. Additionally, the statue of
Abraham Lincoln sitting at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC is a direct
parallel to that of the massive replicas of Ramses II sitting at the entrance
of the Temple of Ramses II at Abu Simbel. These type of African influances on
western society are very seldom talked about. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The next group of
African people that was a very strong influence on Western society was the
Moors of North Africa. The Moors entered Europe in the early 700s AD by way of
the invasion and Domination of Spain and some parts of Italy, France and
southern Europe. The Moors became an extremely influential force and occupied
southern Europe for over 700 years. The Moors reestablished the intellectual
development and new construction methods in the early European societies, which
sparked the renaissance movement of the medieval period. The Moors built the
first stone masonry structures and became one of the main master craftsmen in
the construction of European castles and cathedrals. The first universities and
educational institutions of western society was established by the Moors. One
of those early castles built by the Moors was Castillo DeAmenar in Spain.
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the influence of Africa in many buildings and places in the United States and
around the world. The Buildings and places very from national monuments to
institutional buildings to private and commercial structures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The African influences in these structures
are very clear as can be seen in the following images.
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Readings </span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Armstrong, W., Chipiez
(translator), C. Perrot, G. (1883). <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">An
ancient history of art in ancient Egypt 2 Volumes</i>. New York: A.C. Armstrong
and Son.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Badawy, A. (1965). <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancient Egyptian architectural design: A
study of harmonic system</i>. Berkley, CA: University of California Press.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; tab-stops: 75.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Badawy, A. (1966). <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Architecture in ancient Egypt and the Near
East</i>. Cambridge, MA: The M.I.T. Press.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Basire, J. (1789). <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The rudiments of ancient architecture, in
two parts, vol. 1 of 2</i>. London: I. And J. Taylor's Architectural Library.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Browder, A. T. (1992). <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nile Valley contributions to civilization:
Exploding the myths (Vol. 1)</i>. Washington, DC: The Institute of Karmic
Guidance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Clarke, S., & Englebach, R.
(1990). <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancient Egyptian construction and
architecture</i>. New York: Dover Publications.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Edwards, A. (1891). Egypt the
Birthplace of Greek Decorative Art. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pharoahs
fellahs and explorers </i>(<span style="background: white; color: black;">pp.
158-192)</span>. New York: Harper & Brothers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Goodyear, W.H. (1887). The
Egyptian Origin of the Ionic Capital and of the Anthemion</span><strong><span style="font-family: "calibri";">. </span></strong><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><strong><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">The American Journal of
Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts, 3</span></i></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">, 271-302.</span></strong><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Gwilt, J. (1982). <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The encyclopedia of architecture</i>. New
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Harris, C. (Ed.) (2000). <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dictionary of architecture & construction</i>.
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R. (1974). <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancient architecture:
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miracle</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rochester, VT: Inner
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<strong>FAHIM KNIGHT BLOG SHOULD AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY BE A REQUIRED
SUBJECT IN <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
PUBLIC SCHOOLS</strong><br />
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Black history for me as many of my reading audience, perhaps already know,
is a very passionate subject in which I take very serious. Some years ago, my
three sons were in the public school system as students. My middle son ran into
some obstacles about his love for black history (I taught all of my children
to love their blackness and to embrace their culture and heritage) and on this
one occasion a mis-educated and hankerchef head Negro teacher was attempting to
deter him from writing a paper on a non-traditional African American leader.
The teacher had a shallow perspective on African American history and our
contribution to civilization. <br />
<br />
This school district constituted Negro teachers and white teachers (both of
them shared the same mindset) I took on these Uncle Tom Negro teachers and
educators. I wrote a book titled, <u>A Children Manual in African American
History</u>, in defense of my son and in defense of every black child in that
school district. I wanted to let them know that there were many more historical
African American leaders other than George Washington Carver, Dr. Marin Luther
King, Jr. and Rosa Parks. I highlighted twenty so-called African American personalities
in that book such as: David Walker, Harriet Tubman, Phillis Wheatley, Marian
Anderson, Yahweh Ben Yahweh, Marcus Garvey, Booker T. Washington, Sojourner
Truth, Kwame Ture, Oba Adefumi, Louis Farrakhan, Carter G. Woodson, Noble Drew
Ali, Mary Church Terrell, Elijah Muhammad, W.E.B Dubois, etc. <br />
<br />
I explained to my son during this process that if we do not like what Negro
and white educators are writing and presenting then it is our responsibility
and obligation to write and record our own history (this became one of those
true teachable moments). But if you dare take this type of non-compromising
position, you must be willing to often pay a huge personal price, because there
are consequences that comes along when you dare to speak truth to power, I paid
and my children paid a heavy price for standing up and challenging white
supremacy and their Negro overseers. If had to do it all over again I would do
it the exact same way.<br />
<br />
The teaching of Black History in the public schools should be considered an
academic mandate to be taught as part of the overall curriculum and
incorporated as an extension of American History (required beyond just being a
student elective) that should serve as a prerequisite for all U.S. public
school students. Moreover, which will create culture diversity in learning and
foster better understanding about the social, political and economic plight of
African American people and their descendents, and the contribution they made
in American history and on the stage of world civilization.<br />
<br />
Also Black History could be used in the classroom to build positive
self-esteem and self-awareness amongst African American students and improve
academic achievement. This writer finds this research important because my late
grandparents and my Elders informed me that during the Jim Crow (Plessy v.
Ferguson 1896) and segregation era in America, in particular in the old south
black history was taught in the segregated black school districts and
classrooms as a required mandate, it instilled racial pride and connected
blacks to the social progress they made prior to slavery, during slavery and up
until civil rights movement of the 1950s (Brown v. Board of Education 1954) and
1964 Civil Rights Act were only social progression steps of attempting to
legally remedy the political, economic and social challenges that were
confronting black people in the 1950s and 1960s (but if we as so-called African
Americans were honest with ourselves, it is enough clear evidence that has
been rendered over the last sixty years to prove that integration has failed us
as a people).<br />
<br />
This writer will use various scholars, historians and social scientist
(mainly secondary sources) to build a scholarly case of why it is important to
include the teaching of Black History in the public school classrooms by
analyzing and assessing the historiography in which to allow the evidence to
substantiate the necessity of Black History being inclusive as part of the
pedagogy of the American public educational process.<br />
<br />
This research also will briefly look at the systemic effects of Chattel
Slavery, Jim Crow and the positive and negative impact segregation had on the
educational development of class curriculum (fostering educational disparities)
and the roll black history need to continue to play. I would argue that the
teaching of Black History could benefit all races, colors and nationalities
when it comes to creating a learning environment that promotes educational
diversity and an inclusionary teaching dynamic that could increase tolerance
amongst students and people who may come from different socio-economic
backgrounds and culture experiences. Yet, this writer, will address the critics
and opponents of black history who do not view the teaching of black history in
the classroom as needing to be mandatory within the American educational
curriculum. This writer must be forthcoming and admit that based on the
research length this thesis will have limitations in scholarly scope, but
nevertheless, will attempt to expand the conversation and discussion relative
to the value and importance of having black history being taught in the public
systems school classrooms. <br />
<br />
Dr. James Standifer in the 1987 edition of "Journal of Negro
Education" argues the importance of educational diversity and inclusion.
Standifer argued that the present day teachers with out doubt have been better
trained in the application of teaching methodology, which is a step in the
right direction. But argued that there should be more training and attention
around creating healthier learning environments that stems from working to
better understand cultural diversity. And strengthen human relations by
synthesizing and infusing into the educational curriculum an appreciation for
the culture of ethno-marginalized people such as Asian-American, African
American, Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, etc. Standifer argued the above
mentioned multicultural approach of ethnic inclusion was more valuable to a
society that is in a social, political and economic transition and the
curriculum should dictate this by moving away from any previous or present
educational models or curriculums that negated multicultural diversity <br />
<br />
Standifer places tremendous value and focus on creating a curriculum that
gives way to infusing learning more into a melting pot in which culture was
seen as a vehicle to expand student’s worldview and enhance learning, as
opposed to allowing culture to serve as a stagnate and divisive antagonistic
contradiction. I think that Standifer was a visionary who understood thirty
years ago that culture bias, stereotypes, racism, etc., could be eradicated by
providing unlimited culture exposure to students; the ultimate goal was
building tolerance on the academic level. Standifer argued four major goals and
objectives of supporting educational inclusion. 1). To help students develop
positive and realistic self-concepts regardless of race, sex, or culture
background; (2) to help students understand that both sexes and diverse
racial/cultural groups have valuable contributions to the heritage of the
United States of America and that this rich diversity enriches and strengthen our
country; (3) to help students understand that all persons are members of the
human race and have common needs, feelings, and problems, while stimulating
their appreciation for the uniques of each individual and culture group; and
(4) to help students develop positive interpersonal and intergroup
communication techniques as well as motivation to play an active role in the
solution of societal conflicts." (James A. Standifer. “The Multicultural,
Nonsexist Principle: We Can't Afford to Ignore It”; The Journal of Negro
Education: A Howard University Quarterly Review Issues Incidents to the
Education of Black People volume 56 (1987): 471-474 print).<br />
<br />
After the 2008 presidential election of <st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region>'s
first so-called black President Barack Obama there was talk that the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region> as a nation had transitioned into
a post-racial era, which early on some believed that the social and the racial
dynamics inside the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United
States</st1:place></st1:country-region> had forever changed with his election
of Obama as U.S commander-in-chief. But there were some public intellectuals
who were skeptical of this notion such as Dr. Eric Michael Dyson, Dr. Boyce
Watkins, Dr. Cornel West, Tavis Smiley and black nationalist leader Minister
Louis Farrakhan who attempted to caution us about the so-called post racial era
being ushered in with President Barack Obama becoming the first African
American president (they argued that according to the NAACP and the U.S.
Justice Department the racial divide was acerbated after 2008).<br />
<br />
Dr. Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950) known as the Father of Black History
understood that the so-called American Negro had a long and worthy history that
had been systematically covered up and distorted. It would be the work of
Woodson in a formal way in 1926 establishing Black History Week and early on in
1916 founding the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History that
brought attention to the need of treating black history as being totally
inclusive of United States history and creating a broader level of academic
respectability for it as a discipline in and outside the classroom.<br />
<br />
Yet, his contemporary Dr. W.E.B. Dubois (1868-1963) who was the first
African American in 1895 to receive a Ph.D in history from Harvard University
and would play a major intellectual role in writing scholarly defenses and
re-counting ancient and modern African civilizations that predated American
slavery. Dubois and Woodson produced bodies of historiography, which
meticulously redefined the historical meaning of black history and how it would
be viewed for decades to come, in particular in the world of academia. Dubois
and Woodson were professional historians whose scholarship stood as empirical models
and served as an indication that blacks played a major role on the stage of
human civilization. Dr. Carter G. Woodson first published the <u>Mis-Education
of the Negro</u> in 1933, and was the second African American to receive a Ph.D
in history from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Harvard</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place> in 1912 behind
W.E. B. Dubois who was awarded a Ph.D from Harvard in 1895 (and wrote the
dissertation titled, Suppression of the African Slave Trade). <br />
<br />
He explored and critiqued the historical effect American education has had
on the so-called American Negro. Woodson maintained that American education was
rooted in a Eurocentric and European historical paradigm where European history
was viewed as superior to other people's cultures and having falsely thought of
themselves as being the citadel of civilization. Thus, African Americans were
taught that they were inferior and were urged to admire European historical
accomplishments over the contributions that African people had made on the
stage of human civilization. The text books were written to reflect the social,
political and economic views of the dominant white culture. It was perhaps this
negation that has historically fostered the need for African Americans to
establish and develop schools and academies that gave recognition to their contributions
to world civilizations and American history other than their contributions as
slaves. Thus, due to very little official records were being recorded and kept
on the African slaves, most of the early history of the black experience had to
be pieced milled together from U.S. Census reports and most it was not
recorded—it was a crime against humanity because so-called African-Americans
have a difficult time trying to retrace our history back to our native home and
land of Africa, which often ends in a dead end (oftentimes when we attempt to
reconstruct our genealogy roots or family tree, it only allows us to trace our
history back to the American slave plantations). Woodson argued that educated
blacks have received a mis-education and it has had a negative impact on their
worldview and failure to become economically, politically and socially
sovereign and autonomous as a free people. He further argued that American
blacks will not come to a true historical realization until they know and
embrace their own history and culture prior to Chattel slavery and come to know
the great African civilizations of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Egypt</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Mali</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Ghana</st1:country-region> and <st1:place w:st="on">Songhai</st1:place>
(Carter G. Woodson. <u>Mis-Education of the Negro</u>. <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:state>: Tribeca Books, 2013).<br />
<br />
However, we should never overlook early black nationalist race leaders such
as Paul Cuffee, Martin Delaney, Henry Highland Garnet, Bishop Henry McNeil
Turner, Noble Drew Ali, Elijah Muhammad and perhaps the greatest of them of all
was Marcus Mosiah Garvey who popularized the Back to Africa Movement and
founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (U.N I.A.) it would be
Garvey' s teaching of black nationalism and Pan-Africanism that redefined what
it meant to be black and African—he pointed us to Africa by redefining African
history, the symbolism, imagery, and created a sense of black racial pride that
has been unmatched in American in history. Garvey also published a magazine
called the "Negro World" which published rare black history and
accomplishments made by Africans in the Diaspora and on the African continent.
Edward Wilmont Blyden in his writings also made a tremendous contribution to
exposing the world to the extensiveness of African contributions to world
civilization. This writer cited the above scholars and activist as an attempt to
argue against the white supremacy agenda who has always attempted to negate the
historical contributions of black people, perhaps this racist phenomenon has
been detrimental to the collective social progress of the people of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
This writer sees the potential benefits of implementing African American
history as a subject matter to be taught in the public schools as being a first
step and positive redress to rewriting the narrative. This type of critical
thinking and analyzing possess the potential of producing positive effects by
imploring a curriculum and subject to further create cultural sensitivity and
diversity in schools amongst all students. My research assessment will also
argue that the educational classroom could be used to alter damaging and
negative societal and educational stereotypes such as racism, discrimination,
and demeaning images.<br />
<br />
This writer find it necessary even in 2017 to reflect back on the historical
effect that Chattel Slavery (1555-1865) created and produced, it was perhaps
one of the greatest crimes ever committed against humanity. Blacks were
kidnapped and snatched from their native lands and countries, denied the right
to speak their native Bantu languages, stripped of their names, culture,
religion, mores, folkways, etc., during the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the
Middle Passage. Moreover, sold into Chattel Slavery in which on the plantation,
it caused for families to be divided and sold from plantation to plantation. <br />
<br />
The former <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Yale</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place> professor Dr.
John Blassingame in his seminal work titled, The Slave Community, analyzed the
effect that Chattel Slavery had on black slave families and the shaping of the
slave personality. Black slaves were prohibited from being allowed to read and
write, in which learning was illegal and against the rules and laws of the
institution of slavery. <br />
<br />
African Slaves could be flogged and whip or even killed, if caught with a
book. Kenneth Stampp in his work titled, <u>Peculiar Institution</u>, he
surveyed almost every facet of American slave plantation life and he too argued
that it was an inhumane and denigrating system (both economically and racially
inspired and maintained). The black slaves were eventually allowed to be
preached to and taught a Biblical Christian education and initially this was
the only allowable formal education approved for the slave. This quasi
educational process was initially conducted by the white slave master and later
a trained black overseer. The Christian education was steeped in white
supremacy ideological theories where blacks were taught that they were the
descendants of the Biblical Ham and was a cursed people and they were taught to
obey their masters, this social engineering process created a social and
psychological models of white superiority and black inferiority (this was the
devastation of the white Christian missionaries had on teaching us a slave
doctrine in which Tariq Nasheed in his documentary titled, Hidden Colors 4
explores the intent and effect of white Christianity teachings of indoctrination.<br />
<br />
Dr. Naim Akbar was a former professor of psychology at <st1:placename w:st="on">Florida</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">State</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>
in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Tallahassee</st1:city> <st1:state w:st="on">Florida</st1:state></st1:place>. A former columnist for the
"Muhammad Speaks" newspaper under the Honorable Elijah Muhammad
known back then as Brother Luther X. Weems (published a powerful little book
titled, <u>The Community of Self</u>) and host of other books: <u>Know thyself</u>,
<u>Visions for Black men</u>, <u>Akbar's Papers in African Psychology</u>, <u>Light
from Ancient Africa,</u> <u>Chains and Images of Psychological Slavery</u>,
etc. He became the National Representative of Imam Warith Deen Mohammed and the
American Muslim Mission in the late 1970s and because of his political, and
cultural views on black nationalism he had a very short tenure with this
apolitical Islamic organization. He also was the former president of the
Association of Black Psychologist and member of the Association for the Study
of Classical African Civilizations. and became one of the premier scholars of
the African-centered movement. Akbar as I stated above had written numerous
books relating to the black experience. Akbar argued as a social scientist and
as an Afrocentric mental health expert that the 300 years dehumanization
process imposed on African Americans by Chattel Slavery left a people
psychologically and historically scarred. Akbar continues to argue that the
images (created lasting false complexities of superiority among white Americans
and inferiority complexities among black Americans or ex-slaves). Dr. Joy
DeGruy in her book titled, <u>Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome</u>, she substantiated
Akbar' s contentions relative to the collective damage that slavery had on
past, present and on the possible future psyche of those descendants who share
the African DNA (DeGruy argues that the black slaves were never allowed to
heal). Akbar stated that this phenomenon was more devastating than the physical
bondage imposed on blacks under Chattel Slavery in which white supremacy
schools of thought created racial and culture disparities. It led to unlevel
learning fields that supported educational discrimination, stereotypes and
attributed to racism being taught in public and private schools. He pointed out
that even the image of the Divine (God and Jesus) was represented and portrayed
as being white skinned Caucasian (and European). <br />
<br />
The American educational system was built on a curriculum of lacking
inclusion (Western Civilization in some instances outright lied and distorted
history to the detriment of indigenous people) in which they taught that all
the major contributions made in world civilization were made by Europeans and
lacked respect and appreciation for indigenous people's culture and heritage
(this led to white supremacy, genocide, land thievery, exploitation of natural
resources and raping and robbing throughout the planet). This in my opinion
justifies the need to teach black history in the public school system in order
to right the wrong. Akbar states that white supremacy images, symbols,
folkways, rites, sacraments, rituals, etc., taught to African Americans during
slavery have created a mental bondage in which caused invisible chains that
even in 2017 in some instances it has hindered social progress and has proven
to be more devastating than the actual physical chains imposed by Chattel
Slavery. Akbar also argued that African Americans have to free their minds from
Eurocentric culture and ideals. He counters with a solution with putting forth
African centered education that promotes positive self-images and working from
a psychological perspective to teach black people the knowledge of self. His
perspectives were in ideological line with Marcus Garvey and Elijah Muhammad
views on education (Naim Akbar. <u>Breaking the Chains and Images of
Psychological Slavery</u>. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Tallahassee</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">Florida</st1:state></st1:place>: Mind Productions and
Associates, Inc. 1996). <br />
<br />
The author Curtis Alexander hails in his book title, Elijah Muhammad on
African American Education: A Guide for. African American and Black Studies
Program , that Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam had it right, in
particular building and establishing their own parochial schools (Muhammad
University of Islam), which gave them the latitude to devise a black
nationalist centered curriculum. The teaching of black history was essential to
the Black Muslims pedagogy and was the center of their ideological educational
framework (although this was taking place within a private educational setting,
nevertheless, I equally believe that this impacted the course of public
education as well). Alexander, although, was not a member of the Nation of
Islam, he seemed to be moved by Muhammad's do-for-self, and black independence
philosophy, which allowed this group to build self-regulating institutions and
controlled the curriculum. This gave the Black Muslims an autonym to control
the educational destiny of their schools and children. I think Alexander's
research allows us a glimpse into the role black nationalism and religious
nationalism has played in shaping and defining the importance of black history
relative to American education in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>. The author further defines
the ideological foundation of the Black Muslim program in which they were
ostracized, ridiculed and condemned for implementing and teachings the
importance of black history in a society that had historically created a white
supremacy educational worldview (Curtis E. Alexander. <u>Elijah Muhammad on
African American Education: A Guide for. African American and Black Studies
Program</u>. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Chesapeake</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Virginia</st1:state></st1:place>, 1989).<br />
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Dr. Earl Thorpe was a former professor of history at North Carolina Central
University in Durham, North Carolina who also taught at Harvard University
alongside authoring <u>Black Historians: A Critique</u> he published nine books
and over twenty-five scholarly articles (another one of his acclaim books was
titled, The Central Theme of Black History).Thorpe's thesis was an evaluation
and historical assessment of various timesframes of black historians and/or
professional African American historians who wrote scholarly writings and
taught black history and history in general, mainly on the college and university
level (all of the black historians reviewed by Thorpe had a scholarly passion
towards teaching and promoting black history as a curriculum). Thorpe was an
advocate of black scholars having the responsibility of creating a scholarly
environment that was rooted in empirical objectivity and as a discipline black
history would have met the rigorousness of scholarly scrutiny to justify its
importance and value to the overall field of American history. Moreover, Thorpe
surveyed the historical time frames: 1800-1896, 1896-1939, and 1930-1960.
Thorpe cited various scholars and their works to the field and study of black
history in which gives the readers an understanding of the intellectualism
behind the historiography that helped shape and mold black history. There is no
doubt we are standing on the foundation of black scholars such as W.E.B Dubois
and Carter G. Woodson and contribution they made to the study of black history
(Earl E. Thorpe. <u>Black Historians: A Critique</u>. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">New York</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state></st1:place>:
William and Morrow and Company, 1958.<br />
<br />
Dr. John Hope Franklin retired as a professor Emeritus of history at <st1:placename w:st="on">Duke</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>
in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Durham</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">North Carolina</st1:state></st1:place>. Perhaps one of the most well
respected historians of the 20th century. His book <u>From Slavery to Freedom</u>
is the most widely read and used black history text books in the world in which
many editions have been published in various languages. Dr. Franklin wrote as a
professional historian who seemed more concerned with presenting information
that met the academic standards of being scientific and presenting black
history as a scholarly discourse. Some might argue that his approach to
analyzing black history was more of being in line with bourgeoisie values and
with a non-threaten approach to appease the white world of academia. Yet, in
the beginning of the book Dr. Franklin surveyed the powerful and great African
kingdoms and gives the readers a glimpse into African civilizations prior to
European colonialism and imperialism. He argues that black history was
essentially American history and should be treated beyond just being an
insignificant footnote or an afterthought in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> history. Dr Franklin
meticulous surveyed and documented over 250 years of black history from when
the first slave ships docked in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Jamestown</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">Virginia</st1:state></st1:place> in 1619 to the
Emancipation Proclamation (1862) and the enactment of the 13th Amendment to the
United States Constitution that so-called freed the slaves (1865). No one
scholar makes a better argument of the importance of recording and teachings
black history than Dr. John Hope Franklin (John Hope Franklin. <u>From Slavery
to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans</u>. New.York, : Alfred A. Knopf,
1980). <br />
<br />
Willis G.Huggins and John G. Jackson published this book <u>A Guide to
Studies in African History</u> in 1934, in which Huggins was an Assistant
Teacher of Social Studies at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Bushwick
High School</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state></st1:place>.
Dr. John G. Jackson was known for his most popular work titled, Introduction to
African Civilization. This small book standout because Huggins was a social
studies teacher in the public school. These two scholars perhaps like Joel
Augusta Rogers researched and found African presence and contributions in the
so-called '<st1:place w:st="on">New World</st1:place>' before the arrival of
Europeans. For example, in Latin America, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Santa Domingo,
etc., blacks were there even before the Columbus expeditions in 1492, and prior
to other European conquistadors venturing into the Americas, but for black
students what one perhaps will find astonishing about this work was the
historical impact the Nubian Moors in the 8th Century under Tarik Ibn Zaid had
on southern Europe, in particular on the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and
Portugal). The Moors in 711 AD had conquered Spain and introduced pave streets,
public and private bathing facilities, lit streets, etc., in Cordova, Seville,
and Barcelona some of the Moorish architecture history is well preserved. It
was these black Nubian Moors that after the Dark Ages brought civilization
throughout European society. Jackson and Huggins desired to prove that black
people had a worthy history that was worth mentioning and give it the scholarly
recognition it deserved. This research was taking place during the period of
Jim Crow and the Harlem Renaissance; and like Dubois, Woodson, Hansberry,
Franklin, etc; they all wrote with a passion to uncover facts about the
so-called American Negro and yet to equally prove to their white historian
counterparts that they possessed the ability to be empirical and objective as
black social scientist (Jackson, John G. Jackson and Willis N. Huggins, . <u>A
Guide to Studies in African History</u>. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">New
York</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state></st1:place>: The
Federation of History Club, 1934).<br />
<br />
Dr. Molefi Asante was a professor at <st1:placetype w:st="on">Temple</st1:placetype>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Philadelphia</st1:place></st1:city> in history and black studies.
Perhaps in the late 1980s and 1990s a group of black intellectuals surveyed
academia and determined that African (black people) were not receiving the
scholarly attention for their contributions to civilization. The Afrocentric
movement created a new level of excitement in African history, traditions,
cultures, etc., it was a semi-intellectual explosion, moreover, this movement
was being led by the likes of Dr. Leonard Jeffries, IvanVan Sertima, Asa
Hilliard, Mualana Karenga, John Henrik Clarke, Amos Wilson, Khallid Abdul
Muhammad, Marimbe Ani, Cheikh Anta Diop, etc. This movement as stated above
created a reinvigoration for the need to bring black history back into the
schools, because Eurocentric scholars had omitted pertinent factual historical
information about African and black people in world history and had
systematically disseminated lies, distortions and half-truths about African
people's contributions to human civilization. Asante did not offer anything new
because prior to Afrocentric thoughts and theories Pan-Africanist and Black Nationalist
leaders have argued for over a century the need to redefine the history of
African people to reflect a historical narrative beyond Chattel Slavery and
beyond the Europeans interpretations. Yet, the difference was Afrocentric
thought had moved into the world of academia and for the first time on a large
scale, it was forcing a different type of debate amongst the scholarly
community relative to inclusion (Molefi Kete Asante. <u>Afrocentricity</u>. <st1:city w:st="on">New York</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state>: <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place> World Press, 1988). <br />
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Dr. Mary Lefkowitz in her book titled, <u>Not Out of Africa: How
Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History</u> wrote the
anti-thesis as a historical critique to Afrocentricity, which Dr. George G.M.
James, Cheikh Anta Diop, Dr. Molefi Asante, John Henrik Clarke, Yosef A. A. Ben
Jochannan, etc., argued that western theoreticians had always viewed Africa as
an object rather than a subject and saw Africa as the Dark Continent who made
no contribution to world civilization. Dr. Lefkowitz was a Humanities professor
at <st1:placename w:st="on">Wellesley</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">College</st1:placetype>
in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Massachusetts</st1:place></st1:state>.
(she led some of the scholarly attacks against Dr. Tony Martin who authored the
book titled, The Jewish OnSlaught: Dispatches From Wellesley Battlefront). She
argued against Egypt (Kemet) being black and Nubian and attributed Egypt
(Kemet) greatness to having historical relations with Greek society where by
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, etc., have received the credit as being great
enlightened master teachers, but George G.M. James in his book titled, Stolen
Legacy argued that Greek Mythology was essentially Egyptian Philosophy and they
stole their knowledge from the Nubian blacks of Kemet. This writer viewed
Lefkowitz contentions as being a scholarly insult because it quasi sought to
denigrate the intellectualism of black people as being incapable of introducing
world civilization to Europeans and others around the world. The building and
construction of the pyramids has mystified Europeans for centuries in which Dr.
Cheikh Anta Diop posed the question in the title of his book African Origin of
Civilization: Myth or Reality and unlike Lefkowitz, he made the case that
Africa from North Africa down to South Africa was black. Although, Diop
understood that due to outside invasions from the Persians, Turks, Arabs,
Semites, Greeks, Romans, Assyrians, etc., which led to the miscegenation
in Kemet. However, there was little doubt that the original people that
occupied <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Egypt</st1:place></st1:country-region>
were black skinned Nubians. This alone beckons the need for black history to be
taught in the public schools system.(Lefkowitz, Mary. <u>Not Out of <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth
as History</u>. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">New York</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state></st1:place>: Basic Books, 1997). <br />
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Lastly, this writer thinks it would be a positive step in the right
direction to mandate and include black history as part of the curriculum in
United States publc schools with the educational objective of contributing to
enhancing racial diversity and helping tear down artificial barriers such as
cultural biases, racism, stereotypes and all forms of discrimination in the
public school system and outside. Moreover, the teaching of black history has
the potential of creating a level of tolerance and sensitivity amongst all
people who may differ in national origin, ethnic and racial, religious and/or
culturally. Finally this writer believes that it could also be used to inspire
African American students to be more motivated to achieve academically.<br />
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Fahim A. Knight-El Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located
in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Durham</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">NC</st1:state></st1:place>; our mission is to inform African
Americans and all people of goodwill, of the pending dangers that lie ahead; as
well as decode the symbolism and reinterpreted the hidden meanings behind those
who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We are of the
belief that an enlightened world will be better prepared to throw off the
shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the slaughter. Our
MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight-El can be reached at
fahimknight@yahoo.com<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">. </span><br />
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FAHIM KNIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00567827759311275290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4957787817614691922.post-53539907229003754622017-05-01T07:36:00.000-07:002017-10-11T04:31:25.018-07:00COLIN KAEPERNICK AND AMERICAN PATRIOTISM: CIVICS 101<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Thesis Statement:</b>
Colin Kaepernick's protest, dissention and refusal to stand for the playing of
the United States National Anthem must be viewed outside of the superficial
question of patriotism and understood as an act of free speech, which was
protected under the United States Constitution.<br />
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This research will attempt to frame a current event issue of
social justice involving Colin Kaepernick an African American professional
football player, in particular by assessing and evaluating in a limited way
race, police brutality, patriotism and social justice within a non quantitative
scope. This writer must admit from the outcome that this will not be an
exhaustive research, it will have some scholarly and journalistic limitations
and shortcomings, but this writer will make every attempt to remain objective
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Kaepernick's political position created a sizable amount of
controversy during the 2016-2017 NFL football season, because he stood in
solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement by refusing to stand during the
playing of the national anthem in protest of the killings of unarmed black men
by white law enforcement officers. This writer will seek to distinguish patriotism,
Americanism and what is deemed subversive action and place Kaepernick social
protest beyond the question of an act of sedition and treason.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/FAHIM%20KNIGHT%20COLIN%20KAEPERNICK%20AND%20AMERICAN%20PATRIOTISM.doc#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">11</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Kaepernick: Right to Dissent </b></div>
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Kaepernick protest action whether or not we viewed his
behavior as being distasteful and/or un-American or viewed him as a hero and/or
a true American patriot. It really did not matter because this writer after
assessing and analyzing the data has come to the conclusion that Kaepernick
social protest on the football field must be protected as free speech and under
his First Amendment Right to dissent.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/FAHIM%20KNIGHT%20COLIN%20KAEPERNICK%20AND%20AMERICAN%20PATRIOTISM.doc#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">[2]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> </div>
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His political stance gained national attraction in which
other NFL players, college athletes and even high school athletes joined on to
Kaepernick stance to expand the conversation about race, police brutality and
justice. My research will only serve as a microcosm to a much larger and
extensive problem in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">United
States</st1:country-region></st1:place>, which is the unresolved question of
race and racism.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/FAHIM%20KNIGHT%20COLIN%20KAEPERNICK%20AND%20AMERICAN%20PATRIOTISM.doc#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">[3]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a></div>
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Colin Kaepernick as stated above is a National Football
League (NFL) professional athlete and quarterback of the San Francisco Forty
Niners. Let me try to historically and presently make an attempt to
contextualize my argument by briefly bringing an understanding of the social,
political and economic landscape of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States of America</st1:place></st1:country-region> from 2012
thru 2016. Moreover, by given brief attention into recent political events,
which have impacted African Americans relative to addressing the issues of
police brutality and the judicial system. The scholar Michelle Alexander in her
book titled, <u>The New Jim Crow</u>, explores the systemic outcomes of a
judicial and criminal justice apparatus that have been race based and has led
to mass incarceration and the prison industrial complex. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">III</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Treyvone Martin Speaking From the Grave </b></div>
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was perhaps the Treyvone Martin's case in Florida that involved a young black
teenager who was walking from the store and entered into his father's
neighborhood where he was deemed suspicious based on racist biased stereotypes
and possibly from those stereotypes, it was determined that Martin had criminal
intent on his mind in which this led to Martin being followed, accosted and was
eventually murdered by George Zimmerman (a white security guard).<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/FAHIM%20KNIGHT%20COLIN%20KAEPERNICK%20AND%20AMERICAN%20PATRIOTISM.doc#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">[4]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> </div>
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Florida judicial system found Zimmerman not guilty of murder and acquitted him
based on citizens living in Sanford, Florida having the right to defend ones self
under a law called stand your ground law. The legal exoneration of Zimmerman
created emotions on both sides (was it a racist murder or self-defense
justifiable homicide).<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/FAHIM%20KNIGHT%20COLIN%20KAEPERNICK%20AND%20AMERICAN%20PATRIOTISM.doc#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">[5]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Thus, once again for some this incident was a microcosm into <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place>’s racial history, which led
to the argument of the impact of race, justice and fairness within the judicial
system relative to people of color.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/FAHIM%20KNIGHT%20COLIN%20KAEPERNICK%20AND%20AMERICAN%20PATRIOTISM.doc#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">[6]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in the African American community felt that Martin was unjustly murdered and
this was historically consistent with black men being killed by white police
officers and law enforcement agents throughout American History. It would be
this judicial case that became the impetus for the establishment of the Black
Lives Matter movement in which this grassroots protest organization brought
national attention to police brutality and the high incidents of unarmed
African American men being killed by white law enforcement officers across <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>. <span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The Black Lives Matter movement begin spearheading large
mass protest demonstrations throughout <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> via marches, boycotts and
in some cases outright confrontations with law enforcement ensued. This was
typified in <st1:city w:st="on">Ferguson</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Missouri</st1:state>
when Michael Brown was gunned down by a white police officer and in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Baltimore</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Maryland</st1:state></st1:place>
where Freddie Gray was killed while in police custody.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/FAHIM%20KNIGHT%20COLIN%20KAEPERNICK%20AND%20AMERICAN%20PATRIOTISM.doc#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">[7]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The political momentum extended to the
colleges and universities campuses where students joined on to the efforts of
the Black Lives Matter movement demanding responsible policing and holding law
enforcement officers accountable when they break the law. This type of
mobilization was best highlighted by students at the <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>
of <st1:placename w:st="on">California</st1:placename> at Berkeley, a white
prestigious university who stood in defiance and in rebellion and the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Missouri</st1:placename></st1:place> football team who also stood in
solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and agenda. <u><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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We do not live in a vacuum (nor a bubble) and this writer
thinks that Colin Kaepernick, although, he is wealthy and privileged as a
professional athlete begin seeing the world outside of the bubble, and sought
to engage himself within a social issue that had extended far beyond the
comfort of his personal wealth status, which he himself being a black man in
America could easily identify. Perhaps being exposed to the mass medium reports,
both electronic and print about the high profile killings of unarmed African
American men resonated with Kaepernick. It possibly led him to question the
social internal contradictions and was the premises of these law enforcement
murders more rooted in the unresolved question of race and racism in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place>. <u><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></u><br />
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This writer maintains that these incidents sensitized
Kaepernick to the agony, pain and suffering of black mothers and fathers having
to bury their sons and daughters prematurely (it sprung him into becoming
proactive). Race as an antagonistic contradiction in American history has been
in existence since the inception of this nation's early development; this was
best analyzed by professor Derrick Bell in his book titled, <u>Faces at the
Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism</u> <a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/FAHIM%20KNIGHT%20COLIN%20KAEPERNICK%20AND%20AMERICAN%20PATRIOTISM.doc#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">[8]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> and
Cornel West in his book titled, <u>Race Matters</u> also deals with how intertwined
race has been as a social phenomenon, throughout American history impacting
every facet of our social, political, and economic fiber since our sojourn in
America beginning with Chattel Slavery (1619-1865); this social dilemma
continues to have lasting effects on race relations in the United States even
as I write this essay. <span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Also, Andrew Hacker in his book titled, <u>Two Nations:
Black and White Separate, Hostile, Unequal</u>, In this thesis he examines the
racist and white supremacy mindset that evolved along side the first white
settlers who arrived in the so-called 'New World' during the early 1600s
(colonial America) and encountered the Native Americans (race therefore after
would become a problem).<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/FAHIM%20KNIGHT%20COLIN%20KAEPERNICK%20AND%20AMERICAN%20PATRIOTISM.doc#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">[9]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> </div>
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Kaepernick was not considered a Black Nationalist or an
activist, but he felt obligated as a black American to address the killings of
unarmed black men by white law enforcement officers by using his high profile
position and status as a professional athlete to condemn, rebuke and stood with
those who were deemed victims of an unjust system. But beneath Kaepernick's
tactic and strategy of not to stand and salute the American flag and the
national anthem, was him having the fundamental and Constitutional right to
exercise lawful dissension.</div>
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Some viewed his kneeling protest as an act of sedition and
treason. Kaepernick critics were equating patriotism with a false flag waving
mindset and failed to understand that the U.S. Founding Fathers in the language
of the Preamble to the constitution for saw and imposed language that would
lead us more toward a perfect democracy. </div>
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Yet, he was not the first high profile African American
athlete to take up the cause of social justice, perhaps one of the most well
known black athletes to do so was former 1960 U. S. Olympic gold medalist<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/FAHIM%20KNIGHT%20COLIN%20KAEPERNICK%20AND%20AMERICAN%20PATRIOTISM.doc#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">[10]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> and
heavy weight boxing champion of the world Muhammad Ali who had joined the
Nation of Islam and had become a Muslim under Elijah Muhammad who in the 1960s
refused to be inducted into the United States arm forces citing himself as a
religious conscience objector.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/FAHIM%20KNIGHT%20COLIN%20KAEPERNICK%20AND%20AMERICAN%20PATRIOTISM.doc#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn11;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">[11]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> </div>
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Ali condemned the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United
States</st1:country-region> military industrial complex and openly refused to
fight in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Vietnam</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
His stance brought international attention to the political validity (relative
to imperialism and aggression) of the United States being militarily involved
in Southeast Asia and using black men as political tools and as cannon fodder
in achieving American reactionary foreign policy objectives.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/FAHIM%20KNIGHT%20COLIN%20KAEPERNICK%20AND%20AMERICAN%20PATRIOTISM.doc#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn12;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">[12]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <u><o:p></o:p></u></div>
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Also, at the 1968, Mexico City Olympic Games in which John
Carlos and Tommy Smith, two American track and field athletes who received the
silver and bronze medals respectively, but at the medal ceremony, they both
raised their black gloved fists in solidarity with the Black Power movement of
the 1960s that was being led by the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/FAHIM%20KNIGHT%20COLIN%20KAEPERNICK%20AND%20AMERICAN%20PATRIOTISM.doc#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn13;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">[13]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
There was a revolutionary mood in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place> in the 1960s with black
nationalists personalities such as Malcolm X, Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale,
Stokley Carmichael, H.Rap Brown, Angela Davis, Elaine Brown, George Jackson and
the Soledad Brothers, etc. </div>
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I do not think we could equate Kaepernick's protest
intentions and motives of possessing and having the political implications of
the above mentioned Black Power advocates, but yet they shared a similar
political thread, which was addressing injustice and police brutality in the
black community. The Black Panther Party in their "Ten Point Plan" (‘What
the Panthers Want, What We Believe’) was critical of police brutality and
believed the people had a right to defend themselves by any means necessary
against such brutality.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/FAHIM%20KNIGHT%20COLIN%20KAEPERNICK%20AND%20AMERICAN%20PATRIOTISM.doc#_ftn14" name="_ftnref14" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn14;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">[14]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <u><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">VIII</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Patriotism,
Americanism and Citizenship: What does this Mean?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Kaepernick was not advocating arm resistance or any form of
violence against the United States Government; he like many in the African
American community sought to dramatize police brutality by creating a larger
conversation about race and policing, as well as drawing attention to
injustice. His refusal to stand when U.S. National Anthem was being sung went
much deeper into the social and political complexities of Americanism and how
has this been applied to a marginalized people who have been referred to as
hyphenated Americans (African-Americans). </div>
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Dr. W.E.B. Dubois in 1903, confronted this social dilemma in
his monumental book titled, <u>The Souls of Black Folk</u>, what he referred to
as "twoness" the duplicity and ambivalence of being a the so-called
American Negro and torn between being American and African in the United
States.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/FAHIM%20KNIGHT%20COLIN%20KAEPERNICK%20AND%20AMERICAN%20PATRIOTISM.doc#_ftn15" name="_ftnref15" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn15;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">[15]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> This
in my opinion was the social dichotomy which rested the foundation of
Kaepernick's civil disobedience and refusal to acknowledge the American flag
and national anthem; his kneeling served more as a denunciation and exposing
the perceived hypocrisy of what they stated it meant to be an American citizen
as conveyed in the 1776 Declaration of Independence; “We hold these truths to
be self-evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain in unalienable rights among these are<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Life,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness”.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/FAHIM%20KNIGHT%20COLIN%20KAEPERNICK%20AND%20AMERICAN%20PATRIOTISM.doc#_ftn16" name="_ftnref16" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn16;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">[16]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <span style="color: blue;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Yet, African Americans being unjustly gunned downed and
murdered by white law enforcement officers left a lot to be desired relative to
the question of patriotism and Americanism from Kaepernick's vanish point.
These racially motivated incidents of killing unarmed black men left the
impression that blacks were not being treated with justice and therefore, the
flag and American patriotism were being defined differently by Kaepernick
because of these injustices. </div>
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This much this writer applauded Kaepernick's social justice
stance and for using his large public stage to expose and draw attention to the
systemic practices of racism and police brutality in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Kaepernick pundits and
critics did not understand and was intentionally overlooking that Kaepernick
protest was protected under the First Amendment Right to the United States
Constitution, which guarantees and protects every American to having the right
of freedom of speech and freedom of expression. </div>
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His failing to stand during the playing of the national
anthem did not violate <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
law, it has to be received as protected free speech. We have to understand that
the real litmus test to free speech, is how do we receive speech that we
disagree on and do we allow it to co-exist along side speech that we find
agreeable. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">IX<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Final Thoughts on Race, Racism,
Policing and Free Speech<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Lastly, Kaepernick is the epitome of what it means to be a
patriot, in which the Founding Fathers created and established a democracy that
would be rooted in a check and balance governmental system. They allowed for
dissention to be an alternative to tyranny, oppression and injustice and the
legality of such would be protected under the United States Constitution.
Kaepernick refusal to stand at the raising of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> flag and singing of
the national anthem was definitely an act of dissent, but it wasn't necessarily
un-American and should have never been viewed as a question of patriotism or
treason. Some of us in the Kaepernick argument failed in the fundamental
understanding of what Constitutional intent was conveying pursuant to what is
referred to as protected free speech in which Kaepernick was exercising. </div>
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There was no doubt Kaepernick's involvement as a high
profile celebrity in the above mentioned social justice cause has drawn
attention to the question of race, racism and police brutality aimed at black
men in which in my opinion his involvement expanded the conversation. However,
he did lose some credibility when he revealed that he did not vote in the last
presidential election and his critics viewed this overt political neglected as
the highest level of hypocrisy because part of change can be determined at the
ballot box. Yet, this did not sway me away from seeing the larger picture of
Kaepernick's social activism and the importance of his involvement. </div>
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Yet, this writer thinks and understands by this being a
contemporary issue, it is entirely too early for social scientist and
historians to assess and evaluate relative to making a scientific judgment on
the long term benefits and shortcomings of Kaepernick activism. The historiography
is still developing and will perhaps be many years before we could make a true
scholarly assessment of the personalities and events surrounding Kaepernick and
Black Lives Matter movement and the impact they had on reshaping the
conversation relating to race and policing in present and future <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>. </div>
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This writer is also fully aware that Kaepernick's daring to
engage in such controversial social justice issue could have a negative adverse
consequence on his career as an athlete. He essentially was challenging the
status quo in which the National Football League is a powerful and influential
corporation whereas it generates huge amounts of profits and revenue. They have
the power to 'black ball' Kaepernick as away of serving notice on other black
athletes who would dare to engage in controversial social justice issues.
Athletes are viewed as gladiators who are paid handsomely to entertain and to
always think inside the box<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/FAHIM%20KNIGHT%20COLIN%20KAEPERNICK%20AND%20AMERICAN%20PATRIOTISM.doc#_ftn17" name="_ftnref17" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn17;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">[17]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>.<span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/FAHIM%20KNIGHT%20COLIN%20KAEPERNICK%20AND%20AMERICAN%20PATRIOTISM.doc#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: blue;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> John McWorter.</span><span style="color: #0a0a0a; font-family: "helvetica";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> “</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Colin Kaepernick Had No Choice but to Kneel”; Internet article Time.com </span><a href="http://time.com/4504014/colin-kaepernick-kneel/"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://time.com/4504014/colin-kaepernick-kneel/</span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> September 22, 2016.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Nancy Armour. </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">“</span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">How national anthem protests bring out the worst in people”; Internet article <span class="asset-metabar-authorasset-metabar-item">USA TODAY Sports </span></span></span><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/nancy-armour/2016/09/25/colin-kaepernick-anthem-protests-backlash-social-media-emails/91076216/" title="http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/nancy-armour/2016/09/25/colin-kaepernick-anthem-protests-backlash-social-media-emails/91076216/
CTRL + Click to follow link"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/nancy-armour/2016/09/25/colin-kaepernick-anthem-protests-backlash-social-media-emails/91076216/</span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="asset-metabar-authorasset-metabar-item"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">September 25, 2016.</span></span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></div>
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<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ibid, Armour.</span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/FAHIM%20KNIGHT%20COLIN%20KAEPERNICK%20AND%20AMERICAN%20PATRIOTISM.doc#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: blue;">[4]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/author/ta-nehisi-coates/" title="Ta-Nehisi Coates"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Ta-Nehisi Coates</span></a>. “Trayvon Martin and the Irony of American Justice”; Internet article the</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">Atlantic.com <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/07/trayvon-martin-and-the-irony-of-american-justice/277782/" title="https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/07/trayvon-martin-and-the-irony-of-american-justice/277782/
CTRL + Click to follow link"><span style="color: windowtext;">https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/07/trayvon-martin-and-the-irony-of-american-justice/277782/</span></a> July 15, 2013</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 200%;">.</span> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/FAHIM%20KNIGHT%20COLIN%20KAEPERNICK%20AND%20AMERICAN%20PATRIOTISM.doc#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: blue;">[5]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">Author William P. Benjamin, </span><u><span style="font-size: x-small;">African Americans in the Criminal Justice</span></u><span style="font-size: x-small;">. (New York: Vantage Press, 1996) vii- vii.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ibid,</span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Benjamin. </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Marc Lamont Hill</span><u><span style="font-size: x-small;">, Nobody: Casualties of <st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">’s War on the Vulnerable, From </span><st1:city w:st="on"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ferguson</span></st1:city><span style="font-size: x-small;"> to </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Flint</span></st1:city></st1:place><span style="font-size: x-small;"> and Beyond. </span></u><span style="font-size: x-small;">(</span><st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="font-size: x-small;">New York</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-size: x-small;">: Atria Books, 2016). </span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/FAHIM%20KNIGHT%20COLIN%20KAEPERNICK%20AND%20AMERICAN%20PATRIOTISM.doc#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: blue;">[8]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Derrick Bell, </span><u><span style="font-size: x-small;">Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism</span></u><span style="font-size: x-small;">. (New York: Basic Books, 1992) xiv-xv.</span></div>
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<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;">[10]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Karl Evanzz, </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><u>The Messenger: The Rise and Fall of Elijah Muhammad</u></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">. (New York: Random House, 1999) 330-331.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;">[13]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Edna and Art Rust. Jr.,</span><u><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Art Rust’s Illustrated History of the Black Athlete</span></u><span style="font-size: x-small;">. (New York: Doubleday and Company, 1985) 358-559.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;">[14]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Hugh Pearson, </span><u><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Shadow of the Panther: Huey P. Newton and the Price of Black Power in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place></span></u><span style="font-size: x-small;">. (New York:</span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1994)</span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">109-110.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;">[15]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> W.E.B Dubois, </span><u><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Souls of Black Folk</span></u><span style="font-size: x-small;">. (New York: Signet Classic, 1903) 45.</span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/FAHIM%20KNIGHT%20COLIN%20KAEPERNICK%20AND%20AMERICAN%20PATRIOTISM.doc#_ftnref16" name="_ftn16" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn16;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: blue;">[16]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ibid, McWorter.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #0a0a0a; font-family: "helvetica";"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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We are presently living in the age of information and the
digital age where media is constantly shaping and molding public opinion.
Information is being acquired in real time. Yet, advertisers have always chimed
into methods and ways to influence consumers in what products/brands they
should purchase and the corporate media has always played a huge part in market
and consumer influence. Marketing firms now have highly trained psychologist and
social scientists experts (masters of social engineering) on staff who have
studied human behavior and human impulses working along side advertisers (this
is not coincidental). For example, they strategically use colors, enticing
displays, music, mind catching props and stocking schemes to appeal to the
human brain and to trigger certain emotions in the consumer, which causes us to
often purchase consumer products that we do not need. These techniques are
rooted in the persuasive power of subliminal seduction and the consumer often
do not know why they are attached to a product or service and/or what led them
to spend their money.<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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I am a proponent of healthy eating, wellness, organic
agriculture and sustainable living. This writer, thinks that all food grown
(imported and/or exported) in the United States of America should be mandated
by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) to be grown as agriculture products free of pesticides,
free of being genetically modified, free of chemicals and dangerous toxic
substances that will alter or impact the natural process of our food chain and
agribusiness—that has the potential to negatively impact our long term and
short term health prognosis (grown with the highest quality and prepared with
the utmost health and safety standards in mind, that is safe for human
consumption and to insure good societal health). Moreover, in the last fifteen
to twenty years scientists have entered into a very dangerous paradigm relative
to creating what I deem as 'Frankstein' foods better known as Genetic Modified
Organism (GMO). We do not know enough about the long term and short term health
affects that GMO foods could possibly have on human beings and how it will
impact future society (is this a health risk that we are willing to take?). The
pharmaceutical companies, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), United States
Department of Agriculture (USDA), Center for Disease Control (CDC), etc; are
working in cahoots with high level U.S. governmental politicians and with
private business conglomerates that are more powerful than governments to move
us more toward a GMO and synthetic drug society (they have induced these market
trends based on profit motives).<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I think to allow powerful corporate conglomerates such as
Monsanto, DuPont, Bayer, etc., to monopolize the agricultural food seeds (in direct
violation of U.S. anti-trust laws) and use their wealth and influence to alter
our food processes in the name of profit incentive in my opinion is a crime
against humanity. We as a society might look back on when GMO was allowed to
enter our food markets and perhaps in the not so distance future will come to see
linkages to higher incidents of all forms of cancer, Diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer<span style="color: #484848; font-family: "open sans"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">,</span>
autism, down syndrome, child and adult obesity, mental health diseases,
hypertension, etc., will the GMO food paradigm potentially increase early
mortality rate in the U.S.?<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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There are just too many health unknowns about the GMO science
because it is relatively new and still evolving in which to adequately assess
and evaluate the health and nutritional risk will ultimately take decades of
scientific testing (yet that should not curtail our speculations and inquiry to
proceed with caution when it comes to assessing any process that alters our
food from its natural and original state, moreover should be enough to sound
the alarm in spite of the government signing off on bio-tech food as allegedly
being safe). Some European countries do not allow GMO foods to be imported or
grown in their countries (for example, GMO is banned in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region>, S<st1:country-region w:st="on">cotland</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Austria</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Greece</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Poland</st1:country-region>,
and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Belgium</st1:place></st1:country-region>).
The <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
should have followed the lead of other western and industrialized nations whom
many have shown reservations about Genetic Modified Organism and are fearful of
the possible health ramifications. Although, the World Health Organization
(WHO) has declared GMO to be safe for human consumption, it has many nations in
the world skeptical of this unproven contention.</div>
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I think all GMO foods and products grown, manufactured and
sold should have warning labels from the oversight regulatory agencies such as the Center
for Disease Control (CDC), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and United States
Department of Agriculture (USDA) that state on the labeling packages (GMO is
considered toxic, poison, hazardous, biohazard, etc.).<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1).GMO food products have been altered from its original
state and all the health science and evidence are not in and any human
consumption of this product could lead to long term and short term illnesses and
even death. Eat at your own risk.<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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2). GMO products could possibly put you at risk for cancer,
heart disease, obesity, Diabetes, etc., and/or other debilitating diseases,
which could lead to sickness and an even death. Eat at your own risk.<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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3). All GMO products could negatively affect your human
reproduction, infertility and could cause childbirth deformities and
sterilization. Eat at your own risk.<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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4). I advise all consumers who partake and consume GMO
products at your own risk, but we legally indemnify ourselves from any
potential lawsuits or litigation that might be directly or indirectly caused by
human consumption of any and all GMO products.<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I think we all in the United States of America and the
entire human family could benefit from good natural health practices and cures
presented by herbal doctors, homeopathic practitioners, organic nutritional
scientist, and natural healers who have been led to revisited the curing, healing
and treatment remedies of plant based medicines in order to create a more
natural path to wellness—these ancient sciences have been around since the dawn
of time. Health care should be a human entitlement and nationalized with no
free market incentives. The food and pharmaceutical racketeers do not desire
for us to know that natural herbal medicinal healing power was here and
practiced for generations amongst all indigenous people and cultures of the
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Indigenous people of mother earth understood the mind, body
and spirit and how these entities worked in direct correlations to the
spiritual laws of the universe and applied these sciences in unison to living
in harmony with God and all its creation. Social Darwinism and the survival of
the fittest was rooted in European ethos and at the formation of the United
States, it would be the impetus to the establishment of rugged capitalism and
what Adam Smith called in his book titled, <u>The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry
into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations</u> the inception of the
free enterprise system which has created global social and economic
disparities. Moreover, when indigenous people planted and farmed crops
they did so in respect of the universal principles that governs mother earth; the
Europeans worked and did just the opposite and this is what has created a
universal imbalance on the earth between God and man, this is the root of the
mindset that has led to the exploitation of human and natural resources that
have truly upset the physical and spiritual balance on the planet. </div>
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They as I have stated above, created such an imbalance in
nature that the bees are being destroyed and crops and plants are not being
adequately pollinated and this has led to bee farms and bees are now being
imported in which to pollinate farmer’s crops. The wealth disparity phenomenon
in America and throughout the globe is systematically being driven by greed
(there is enough resources on the earth to comfortably sustain every human
being on the planet) relative to having wholesome and healthy foods, which
should not be a barrier based on false economic and social standards of living
models that are rooted in greed and capitalism that benefits the few and
subjugate the masses. The Earth's energy has moved into a negative sphere
and it is destined to continue to turn against man until we learn how to once
again live in harmony and peace with this magnificent planet we call earth and
is considered our home. </div>
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My African ancestors (in particular my great, great, great grandparents who
arrived to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Georgia</st1:place></st1:country-region>
and were made slaves) did not have an almanac chart, which to advise them when
it would be in the best complimentary good of the universe to put seeds in the
ground. Many so-called African American farmers in the old South could not read
and write and by the white man’s standards they were considered illiterate; but
they were highly literate about God, the astrological powers and phenomenon in
observing and obeying the principles relative to the laws of cause and effect
and the powers that governs the laws of attraction. Indigenous people
understood the importance of living in the Kemetic spirit of Maat—harmony,
justice, balance, equilibrium, reciprocity, etc.<br />
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Many Africans who were forced into Chattel slavery had
direct blood lineages to the Dogons and were well versed in the meaning of the
constellations of the stars and studied the moon and communicated in a
spiritual way with the heavenly bodies, which instructed them on the highest
level of agriculture/horticulture science and they knew how to systematically
chart the sun, moon and stars (these black farmers knowledge were beyond some
of the astrological pseudo science associated with daily horoscope readings—their
charts were written deep into the subconscious of the human psyche) to ensure
the harvest outcome would be abundantly rewarding based on their projection of
the phases of the moon (they never planted out of season and everything we ate
was naturally grown and organic). They were in direct communication with a
higher spiritual force and they had respect for the land. </div>
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They did not rely on pharmaceutical drugs and synthetic
medicines as treatment alternatives, they went directly to Mother Earth for all
medicinal solutions. I preach to young African American sisters the importance
of having a willingness to learn about what it means to be the Goddesses
of the universe (our babies and what we put in them is sacred, it will
determine if we have a future as a people). There is no alternative to
breastfeeding (God does not make any mistake in his creation, mother's milk is
the life blood of our children's health for today and tomorrow) cow milk
and formulas are manufactured in the laboratories of the wickedly wise who
practice 'tricknology' and stand opposite of God and his will as the
Creator. The black woman has to be the scientist in the house by ensuring the
family is getting wholesome cooked food and prepared (eating live and non-GMO
foods and having a daily diet of organic foods). Yes, having a garden and practicing
sustainable planting and eating from the harvest, it is both physical and
spiritually rewarding. Our sisters in particular have to be the natural healers, doctors, nutritionist and homeopathic scientists. </div>
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I was going through my library looking for a certain book
and I pulled out a book that I have had for some years, it was not the book of
my intentions. Yet, I believe that I was led to this book and it was beyond
coincidental, which was authored by Kurt Mendelssohn titled, <u>The Riddle of
the Pyramids</u>, I started skimming through the pages of the book and just
started reading and more I read there was a section in the book dealing with
Imhotep whom the Greeks called Asklepios he was the father of medicine and the
Greeks stole their Hippocratic oath from the black Nubian scientist. Powerful
not so coincidental knowledge, Imhotep built the first step pyramid.
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Moving right along Dr. Sebi held a dual citizenship status of American and
Honduran, perhaps was one of the greatest and most profound natural Healers in
the late 20<sup>th</sup> and 21<sup>st</sup> century in which he was
assassinated in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Honduras</st1:place></st1:country-region>
this past August 2016 and as I write this article, we still do not know the
full circumstances surrounding our brother's death. Our Congressional Black Caucus
(CBC) members and Negro leader have been relatively silent on Dr. Sebi's death.
We should support Donald Trump’s agenda of deporting every illegal
Honduran alien in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United
States</st1:place></st1:country-region> until we get answers from the
Honduran Government about what happened to Dr. Sebi and the cause of him dying
in a filthy Honduran jail. We should force the CBC to initiate congressional
hearings into the death of Dr. Sebi and if they fail to comply to an open
investigation, our black lawmakers should lobby the full congress to impose
economic sanctions and embargoes against the nation of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Honduras</st1:country-region></st1:place>.</div>
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Dr. Sebi’s perspective on homeopathic treatments, organic
natural cures, and wellness put him on a collision course (he was perhaps the
only natural herbalist and healer who took on the United States Government
after being indicted for practicing medicine without a license and won his case
in the New York Supreme Court). Dr. Sebi had cured black people who had cancer,
diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease, hypertension, HIV, etc. I believe
the United States Government was complicit in the assassination. Dr. Sebi’s
natural approach to medicine and dispensing treatments solely from organic
plant based herbs and natural healing products were creating positive health
results, but in the end this did not matter in the grand scheme of things—all
though this might have appeared as unconventional medicine to some, but the American
Medical Association were fully aware of the health benefits of natural
homeopathic medicine; the pharmaceutical companies saw him as threat to their
profit and capitalist interest (our health is played as a commodity on the
stock exchange, it is about money). </div>
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They prefered creating prescription drug dependence and
causing addiction on prescription medications (giving rise to legal medicated
dope feigns) and feeding the long money chain associated with occidental
medicine and/or synthetic medicines as opposed to supporting natural herbal
based treatments (which is better and less expensive, as well as being a lot
less dangerous relative to the side effects). Dr. Sebi was deemed a threat
because he offered inexpensive organic wellness treatments to black people Dr.
Sebi was definitely assassinated, because his perspective on wellness was
transformative on the lives of us as Africans on the continent and us who
live in the Diaspora (Dr. Sebi became a threat to the powers
that-be). Organic food growing is essential to our personal and
collective sustainability (liberation means nothing, if we cannot feed
ourselves all revolutions are based on land). Our Elders and great grandparents
knew how to use the blessings and life offerings that came from Mother
Earth to cure and treat diseases, viruses, sicknesses and illnesses by
understanding the natural environment in which they lived (man and woman first
studied from the natural creation) and from there found every solution that
lends itself to the question of life sustainability. The ancient masters of the universe taught African people (and
this knowledge was passed down to them old black farmers in the south) they did not
rely on pharmaceutical drugs and synthetic medicines as treatment alternatives
(unnatural and chemical based remedies), they went directly to Mother Earth for
all medicinal solutions.<br />
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But it all starts from having the knowledge of self and
using our kitchen as our sacred sanctuaries to cook and prepare
wholesome foods that have life (yes digging a plot in our yard and
planting is an excellent first step and eating from our harvest is next to
heaven on earth). We must make our food our medicine and our medicine our
food. The health and wellness pieces that I have written are perhaps some
of the most vital pieces in our struggle for liberation and those writings outweigh
everything that I have written relative to philosophy and ideology. We have no
more time for saying I am not equipped or I am not prepared, if we are not
ready and prepared to move forward in 2017, our future off-springs will render
us a generation of cowards and beggars who did nothing, but worked in complicit
with the devil and his white supremacy agenda. I must always emphasize the
importance of studying liberating materials. Here are some titles on my reading
list and are in my library:<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "arial";"><u> </u></span></span><u>Alkaline Herbal Medicine: Reverse
Disease and Heal the Electric Body</u> by Aqiyl Aniys, <u>How To Eat To Live</u>,
by Elijah Muhammad, <u>African Holistic Health</u>, by<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Llaila Afrika: <u>Heal Thyself for Health and
Longevity</u> by Queen Mother Afua, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> <u>Vaccines
are Dangerous</u> by Curtis Cost, <u>Colin Health: The Key to a Vibrant
Life</u> by Norman W. Walker, <u>The Herb Book</u> by John Lust, <u>The
Master Cleanser with Special Needs and Problems</u> by Stanley Burroughs, <u>The Natural
Way</u> by Dr. Paul Goss, <u>More Ultimate Healing</u> by Bottom Line
Publication, <u>The Hog: Should it be Used for Food</u>, etc.</div>
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The huge food conglomerates who specializes in Genetic
Modified Organism (GMO) foods and products such as Monsanto, DuPont, Bayer
(biotech giants), etc; in which ties them directly to powerful international
trading companies like Archer, Daniel, Midland (ADM), Cargill, ConAgra, Tate
and Lyle, etc., this is a huge industry that has residual off spins to teaching
universities such as Harvard University, University of California--San
Francisco, Duke University, Columbia University, John Hopkins University, Stanford
University, Yale University, etc. Educational endowments are established
by billionaire Invisible Hand Elitist (research grants are allocated and
disbursed and fellowships are made available) and the pharmaceutical companies
use their lobbying influence on Capitol Hill and monetary influence, as well as
power to persuade these prestigious teaching universities to initiate and
fast-track in getting potential profitable medicines and treatment therapies
moving in the right direction pursuant to getting approved for clinical and
research trials, that are often endorsed in the interest of capitalist motives
and not necessarily in the best heath interest of the American people or the
international society at large (synthetic medicines are a trillion dollar
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The National Rifle Association (NRA), the weaponry and armament
lobby who solicited <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region>
government contracts to buy and sell weapons around the world, the Jewish Lobby
and the pharmaceutical lobby are some of the most powerful lobby groups on Capitol
Hill and in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Washington</st1:city> <st1:state w:st="on">DC</st1:state></st1:place>. Dr. Sebi and others who teaches natural
healing and homeopathic alternative treatments will never be well received—just
think over this as I have stated above Monsanto has a patent on the seeds
(monopoly on the food chain), which violates all the universal laws established
by God and go against the will of the Supreme Being—this also goes against the
United States jurisprudence systems relative to antitrust laws and laws that
governs corporate monopoly. Monsanto actually controls whether or not humanity
will continue to exist (and has patents on creating GMO 'Frankstein'
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Lastly, we should be on the street corners proselytizing—in
the churches, synagogues, mosques, etc., in the institutions of higher learning
and academics or wherever our people are teaching them and imparting the
knowledge and wisdom to awaken and enlightened them to the pending danger that
lie ahead. I am quite sure most of you who visited my Blog understand and have
already decoded Donald Trump's political agenda and have deciphered why he has
all these white ultra nationalist billionaires in his cabinet. However, Trump
coming to power and the present national and global predicament cannot be
assessed outside of the scheme of white supremacy. We all have a
personal responsibility to take it upon ourselves to make a bigger difference
in our personal lives and the community (we have no choice the handwriting is
on the wall). We can no longer shun our God giving responsibility, in
particular, if you know and understand who God and the devil is. We do not need
charismatic leaders to guide us anymore—you are the messenger (interpreted to
mean Abraham, Moses, Noah, Jesus and Muhammad are dead and will not be
returning to this earth, but you are here now). If you have been awakened to
some of this knowledge then you have a mandate from a Higher Source and a
responsibility to enlightened and stand on that which you know to be
the truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We all will forever be
students in our eternal quest to know and learn. Yet, our spiritual and
intellectual growth will always revolve around how discipline we are when it
comes to study and developing ourselves as human beings. We have to be willing
to do the research and internalize our history, traditions and culture before
European slavery, colonialism and imperialism. Truth frees our bodies and
minds only then will we put ourselves in the best position to alter change. All
knowledge is inspired and we take no credit for the universal wisdom, it
belongs and comes from God and we are only vessels and servants being used to
execute his will.</div>
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Fahim A. Knight-El Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL
THINK TANK located in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Durham</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">NC</st1:state></st1:place>; our mission is to inform
African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the pending dangers that lie
ahead; as well as decode the symbolism and reinterpreted the hidden meanings
behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We
are of the belief that an enlightened world will be better prepared to throw
off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the slaughter.
Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight-El can be reached at
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<strong>ELIJAH MUHAMMAD: JUST A REFLECTION</strong><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In 1996, I was contacted by a professor of history named Dr.
Claude Clegg from North Carolina Agriculture and Technology State University in
Greensboro, North Carolina (one of best Historical Black Colleges and
Universities in America); Clegg was writing a scholarly biography on the
Honorable Elijah Muhammad titled, <u>An Original Man: The Life and Times of
Elijah Muhammad, </u> which he contacted me and requested my assistance in
writing this book in which I agreed to assist my brother (lets be clear, I take
no credit or responsibility for Dr. Cleggs’ work). I had authored and published
a book in 1995 titled, <u>In Defense of the Defender: The Most Honorable Elijah
Muhammad</u> and Dr. Clegg whom I liked very much as a person had come across a
copy of my book and he thought that I had made some interesting points in my
research (and he wanted to further expand his research and as an academician they
have the responsibility to sort out an empirical investigative approach, that allows for the researcher to quantify the evidence and establish factual objective and credible scholarly outcomes). Although, Clegg acknowledged me on page xvi, but on pages of 348
and 349 my brother raked me over the coal; he accused me of being partial and
that I had demonstrated little to no objectivity in my research (twenty years
ago I must admit my big ego was inflated and his criticism of my work placed me
in an emotional space of not receiving constructive criticism, as well as I should
have, how dare this Negro disrespect me like that after I had giving him
unconditional help.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <br />
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Thus, I pulled out a copy of my publication after embarking
on this article and I also pulled out Dr. Clegg’s book as well, and twenty
years later, I had to admit to myself that Dr. Clegg was right. There was a lot
that I could have done better with structuring the work and I could have
learned a lot from Dr. Clegg. Yet, I do not claim to be an authority on Elijah
Muhammad nor the Nation of Islam (I intentionally wrote the thesis in the
spirit of truth and was not concern with impartiality).<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> I
wrote my book after Spike Lee did that botched up representation of the
Honorable Elijah Muhammad in the epic film, “Malcolm X”. I felt compelled to
defend the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s image and legacy (I think the Messenger’s
domestic life and the circumstances surrounding those events as shaped and
defined by Lee’s Malcolm X movie further drew a wedge in-between black people
and the perception of the Nation of Islam’s leader—in particular whether not
his domestic life rendered him a hypocrite, which the enemy has attempted to
use to discredit Muhammad’s historical legacy and image. Someone had to answer
Spike Lee’s allegations and mischaracterizations of our leader, teacher and
guide.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> </div>
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This article is not an exhaustive analysis of the Honorable
Elijah Muhammad’s life nor is it an attempt to serve as an official
biographical sketch of the last messenger of Allah; I have felt that may be I
had bit off to much to even attempt to writing on such complex Muslim leader in
this brief essay and in which the man, message and mission were misunderstood
and yet his influence still resonates amongst black people in America some
eighty-seven years later. This alone serves as proof positive of how rooted the
Nation of Islam was/is in the social, political, economic and the culture of
the 20<sup>th</sup> and 21<sup>st</sup> century of black <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s life,
as an organization and movement, it is here to stay. The evidence of its
longevity and influence is the testament of its presences seen in the existence
of approximately twenty (20) to twenty-five (25) Nation of Islam splinter
groups and sects who all claim to be representing Elijah Muhammad’s original
teachings (some have taking titles such as: the prophet like Moses, Mahdi, Imam, Sheikh,
the Son of Man, national representative, one even claim he is greater
than Master Fard Muhammad, and some have set up independent temples and are ministers
over these various Nation of Islam splinter groups). </div>
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I have had many of them make pitches at me and I have turned
all of them down. I do not need for them to tell or teach me about Elijah, I
have found him for myself and as a curator and historian, I have all of
Elijah’s books <u>Message to the Blackman in America</u>, <u>How to Eat to Live</u>:
Book # 1& #2, <u>The Fall of America</u>, <u>Our Savior Has Arrived</u>, <u>Flag
of Islam</u>, ‘Supreme Wisdom” lessons, copies of original “Muhammad Speaks”
new paper and many of his audio tapes, etc. I think the Nation of Islam
Historical Research Department would be in the best position to have written
the official biography on the Life and Times of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
Minister Abdul Akbar Muhammad, the international representative of the Nation
of Islam had promised over 30 years ago that he was going to write the official
history of the Nation of Islam and this has never occurred.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
However, there are now so many smart well trained intellectuals and scholars
who have acquired advance degrees in the social sciences who are now members of
our organization and are followers of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. This is not to
imply that Minister Jabril Muhammad who authored the book titled, <u>This is the
One: We Need Not Look for Another</u> and the late sister scholar Tynetta Muhammad,
perhaps forty years ago in collaboration could not have written the official biography on Elijah Muhammad.
Minister Silis Muhammad, the leader of the Lost-Found Nation of Islam in the West and
his staff had the resources to do so as well. There is another brother named Minister Nasir Makr Hakim who is a serious teacher, curator, historian, archivist, etc., who own and operates Messenger Elijah Muhammad Propagation Society; he has edited and gathered many of Messenger Elijah Muhammad's writings and has put them into book publication form. But if you want a good outline of how a scholar should write just get a copy of Hakim's book titled, <u>The True History of Master Fard Muhammad</u> and just start reading the 'Forward' and it will give you a clear indication of the intellectual seriousness of this man as Nation of Islam scholar or 'Black Muslim' scholar. He stands heads and shoulders above many of them whom claim to be scholars on the history of the Nation of Islam. I am a student of his writings and publications. </div>
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I think Dr. Wesley Muhammad author of the books <span class="a-size-large"><u>Black Arabia & The African Origin of Islam</u>, </span><u>The
Book of God: An Encyclopedia of Proof that the Black Man is God</u>, <span class="a-size-large"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "arial";">The </span></span><u>Religion
of the Black God: Indic Sacred Science & Islam</u>, <u>Understanding the
Assault on the Black Man, Black Manhood and Black Masculinity</u>, etc., is also
more than capable of taking on this assignment and I would be willing to assist
him and offer my historical expertise. Ashahed Muhammad who authored the book titled,<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "arial";"> </span><u>The Synagogue of Satan</u> has
the skills and capabilities. The Nation of Islam has allowed so many of the
Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s siblings and children to have died off (old followers
that could have offered firsthand accounts of their experiences—credible oral history
testimonies, which could have offered valuable primary source materials to
recreating the early history of Elijah Muhammad and the establishment of the
Nation of Islam (I do not know how many of Elijah Muhammad’s children by sister
Clara Muhammad are still alive; I do know Elijah Muhammad's youngest son Dr. Akbar Muhammad
just recently transitioned in 2016). We have allowed white scholars and
reactionary bourgeoisie Negro scholars to become the authorities on our leader,
teacher and guide. Dr. C. Eric Lincoln in 1961, wrote the first scholarly
dissertation on the Nation of Islam titled, <u>The Black Muslim in America</u>,
it was Dr. Lincoln’s sociological/historical work that brought the Nation of
Islam into the academic classroom (although Mike Wallace of CBS news produced
the negative documentary in 1959 titled, ‘The Hate that Hate Produced’.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> </div>
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However, most Nation of Islam believers and followers of the
Honorable Elijah Muhammad was very critical of the book, <u>The Black Muslim in
America</u> and depicted it as not being totally objective nor an accurate
assessment of the theology or the historical accounts of the movement relative
to those intricate persons, events, dates, etc., that helped shape and mold the
Nation of Islam into becoming one of the most powerful and influential
organizations in America. Elijah Muhammad gave Dr. Lincoln access to the <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Temple</st1:place></st1:city> meetings and
allowed him to interview himself and followers of Nation of Islam for the book.
But in 1965, Honorable Elijah Muhammad published the Nation of Islam
theological treatise titled, <u>Message to the Blackman in America</u>, this book
changed my life.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> We witnessed
the affect that the life giving teachings had on the likes of Malcolm X,
Muhammad Ali, Louis Farrakhan (National Representative of the Honorable Elijah
Muhammad), John Muhammad (the brother of Elijah Muhammad) and Minister<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hurlon Shah (Yahweh Ben Yahweh), Jeremiah
Shabazz (minister over Temple #12), James Shabazz (minister over Temple # 25
Newark, New Jersey), Dr. Khallid Abdul Muhammad (aka Malik Rashuddin—Harold
Moore Vann—former Supreme Captain and Minister of Temple # 27 Los Angles,
California), Silis Muhammad (founder of the Lost-Found Nation of Islam in the
West out of Atlanta, Georgia), Father Allah (Clarence 13 X Smith founder of the
Nation of Gods and Earths--the Five Percenters), Warithudeen Mohammed (founder of the Muslim
American Mission), Solomon Royall (founder of the United Nations of Islam),
Marvin Muhammad, (Leland, Mississippi—the son of man), (Eric Muhammad—minister
over Temple #15 Atlanta, Georgia).</div>
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad once
stated: "of all our studies, history is the most attractive and
best qualified to reward our research, as it develops the springs and motives
of human actions and displays the consequences of circumstances which operates
most powerfully on the destinies of human beings.”<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18pt;"> </span>Elijah Muhammad was born Elijah Poole on October 7,
1897, in Sandersville, Georgia; he was the seventh of thirteen children (eight
(8) boys and five (5) girls born to Willie, Sr. and Marie Poole.
The family was poor sharecroppers living in rural racist Georgia who
experienced on a daily basis the evil effects of Jim Crow, a period in <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> history where segregation was made legal
due to the1896 Supreme Court Decision of Plessy versus <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ferguson</st1:place></st1:city>—separate, but equal became
constitutional and the law of the land.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Elijah Poole (Elijah Muhammad) as stated above was ironically born in 1897 only
one year after the United States Supreme Court decision (Plessy
versus Ferguson 1896). Poole at a young age, witnessed one of his closest friends
being lynched and hung from a tree in Georgia and this left an indelible and haunting
impact on the mental psyche of the man who would later become the teacher of freedom,
Justice, and equality for the so-called American Negro (and would become the
last messenger of Allah) and would be giving the task to confront white
supremacy. When viewing the history of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, as much as,
it was important to view him within the collective historical black experience,
it was equally important to place him within the context of the religious-ethos
of black Islamic religious nationalism. Thus, the witnessing of the racist
lynching event would forever change Elijah Muhammad's life growing up as a
young boy in the deep south in which the incident would be perpetually etched
in his mind. Elijah Muhammad’s father was a Baptist minister who preached the
Gospel of Jesus Christ by instilling Christian principles and values into his
children and home. Elijah Muhammad also had a perceptive grandfather who
understood aspects of biblical history and theology and would often refer to
the young Elijah as the Biblical Prophet, Elijah, spoken of in the Book of
'Malachi'. It was reported that young Elijah Poole demonstrated leadership<br />
ability at a very young age; moreover, settling family disputes and possessing
wisdom<span style="font-size: 18pt;"> </span>far beyond his young age. Elijah
Poole (Elijah Muhammad) would witness the social contradictions existing in <st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region>, the so-called home of the free with
their empty chants of democracy when it came to the plight of Black people in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
as far as racism and social injustice—this would later become his motivation to
becoming a race leader.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> </div>
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In<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>doing my
historical background reading and my preliminary assessment; it quickly
reminded me that a crime against humanity had taken place under Chattel Slavery
(1555-1865) in which no other people on the planet had experienced what the
so-called American Negro had experience in their over 450 years sojourn in the
United States of America (which is equalvent to a war crime). We lost our land, God, names, culture, folkways and lost our memory of who we were as the original people of civilization (no other people experienced that type of dehumanization being totally stripped of their humanity). America was/is a hostile
society towards Africans and indigenous people (this includes the so-called
Native Americans) what<span style="font-size: 18pt;"> </span>Andrew Hacker
describes in his monumental book titled, <u>Two Nations: Black and White
Separate, Hostile, Unequal</u> stated, “race has been an American obsession
since the first Europeans sighted "savages" on these shores. In time,
those original inhabitants would be subdued or slaughtered, and finally
sequestered out of view. But race in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> took on a deeper and more
disturbing meaning with the importation of Africans as slaves. Bondage would
later be condemned as an awful injustice and the nation's shame, even as we
have come to acknowledge the stamina and skill it took to survive in a system
where humans could be bought and sold and punished like animals. Nor are these
antecedents buried away in the past. That Americans of African origin once wore
the chains of chattels remains alive in the memory of both races and continues
to separate them”.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">[9]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> </span><br />
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In approximately 1919, at age twenty-two (22) Muhammad
migrated to <st1:city w:st="on">Macon</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Georgia</st1:country-region>,
seeking employment and a few years later in 1923, he migrated north to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Detroit</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Michigan</st1:state></st1:place>
where he married Clara Evans. Muhammad reportedly worked in the automobile
industry in which some Nation of Islam historians maintained that Muhammad was
laid off from work and things got so bad that he started consuming alcohol and
even joined the welfare lines<span style="font-size: 18pt;">. </span>In 1931,
someone invited Elijah Muhammad to hear this strange man preaching a strange
doctrine in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Detroit</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Michigan</st1:state></st1:place>. Elijah Muhammad was reported to
have said that he recognized right away that the man doing the teaching was God
himself. After one of W.F. Muhammad speeches, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad
whispered to W.F. Muhammad, <span style="font-family: "arial";">"I </span><i>know
who you are, you are God Himself." </i>W.F. Muhammad whispered back to
Elijah and said: <i>"that's right, but is not time for my identity to be
revealed."<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">[10]</span></b></span></span></span></a></i><i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></i>Having recognized who he was, W.F.
Muhammad drew the Honorable Elijah Muhammad closer to him for three and
one-half years; Master Fard Muhammad personally taught him how to affectively
use the Bible and Qur’an and gave him the “Supreme Wisdom Lessons” in which he
was instructed to commit them to memory. He was giving an examination on the
lessons by Master Fard Muhammad and in a question and answer catechism format
the answers had to be answered in return 100% correctly (according to the
Department of Supreme Wisdom and the Rules of Islam). Early on in the Nation of
Islam these lessons were only to be giving to authorized and registered Nation
of Islam members (the local Temple/mosque ministers, captains and secretary
played an official role in a believer becoming a registered Muslim. Registered
Muslims were Muslims who had written a Savior's letter, which was approved by the
Honorable Elijah Muhammad and this qualified them to receiving an X or holy
name (the giving of the X stood in mathematical language as the unknown; slavery stripped us of our original tribal surnames in which Muhammad gave us the X) after going through the student enrollment process and reciting the
lessons one hundred percent correctly in order to officially join the temple (mosque).</div>
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Many southern blacks migrated from the south (there were a
number of great migration movement periods in the history of
African-Americans) to northern metropolis in the early 1900s in which blacks
were seeking economic and social reprieve and upward mobility—blacks in droves
migrated from North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama,
Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, etc., and went west and north to Washington
DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, New Jersey, New York, Boston, Chicago,
Cary, East Saint Louis, Detroit, St. Louis, Los Angles, etc. However, many
blacks did not know, that the so-called northern “promise lands” had similar racial
politics disguised as being different, but were more covert in its racist
practices (the north was equally discriminatory, segregated and racial
injustices towards blacks were no different than what they had experienced in
the old south). The affects of racism and white supremacy were systemic and
there were no escaping these social contradiction and institutionalized
practices even in the north, which were no different than the racist southern
life they had left behind, as I have stated above—northern racism no doubt was
meant to be more passive and subtly covert.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it
had the same strategy and tactic (segregation and a social stratum built on the
same racial politics model of the old south); Historian C. Van Woodard
maintained in his book titled, <u>The Strange Career of Jim Crow</u> that Jim Crow
was more of a northern institutional phenomenon in which made its way south and
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In 1929, during President Herbert Hoover's tenure the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
went into an economic depression, which destabilized the economic and social
fiber of the American society. Historians referred to it as the Great
Depression. The <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region>
financial markets were made to collapse, which devastated the social, political,
economic structures of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">United
States</st1:country-region></st1:place> (poverty was far reaching during this
period in American history, which led to a restructuring of public policy and
created agencies that are still in existence today). The international bankers and
the central banking cartel called-in the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United
States</st1:country-region> debt in which the Depression of 1929 was induced
and created economic instability that sent the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region></st1:place> into the abysmal and
led to the election of the democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the
1932 New Deal Movement.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn12;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">[12]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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But in <st1:placename w:st="on">Paradise</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Valley</st1:placetype>, a black ghetto section of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Detroit</st1:place></st1:city>, a voice of change appeared on the
scene, preaching from the Bible and the Holy Qur’an. He called himself W.F.
Muhammad (he looked Caucasian in appearance and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad
taught that he came looking like the enemy and appearing as a thief in the
night).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> B</span>ut prior to his departure he
gave us his true name of W.F. Muhammad: he was known by W.D. Fard, Professor
Fard, Mr. Ford, Wali Fard, Wallace Fard Muhammad and various other names.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn13;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">[13]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
He stated that he come to North America by himself, seeking his long lost
Uncle— the so-called American 'Negro' who was brought to the shores of <st1:place w:st="on">North America</st1:place> as slaves 379 years ago. W.F. Muhammad was
born on February 26, 1877, in the Holy City of Mecca, Saudi Arabia from the
Quarysh bloodline of Prophet Muhammad Ibn Abdullah (570 AD-632 A D.).<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftn14" name="_ftnref14" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn14;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">[14]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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This is what W.F. Muhammad taught Elijah Muhammad about his
origin and family lineage: “Alphonoso Muhammad was supposed come to the shores
of <st1:place w:st="on">North America</st1:place> with his life giving
teachings, bound to the lost and found. In 1870 Alphonoso Muhammad told his
Asiatic brothers, the I-men {Imam} that he himself could not carry out such a
mission in the western hemisphere because of the fact that he was a cold black
seed and white America did not allow a black man to come freely to its shores
without official business with its government. So the I-men {Imam} told him how
to produce a child who would be original in capacity of the brain, but show off
a complexion that would make appear, to the naked eye, as white; but to the
lost and found, as high yellow person, in order that he may get through the
lines and reach the lost tribe. Alphonoso knew what he must do! He took a white
woman for a wife, by the name Mimmie, who’s family was Muslim, also they
attended school together outside of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Mecca</st1:city></st1:place>
. She born unto Alphonoso two children, the first one, a female named Saleema,
the second a male…our prophet Wallace Fard Muhammad”.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftn15" name="_ftnref15" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn15;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">[15]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> </div>
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W.F. Muhammad declared that he had one mission, and that was
to find one from amongst the so-called American Negro that slept—Elijah
Muhammad and raise him up as a Messenger unto himself. The Holy Qur'an in
Chapter 2, refers to Allah (God) sending a Warner to a people to whom no Warner
had ever come before. The <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt;">A</span>rabs
nor any people of the so-called Middle Eastern region can claim this prophecy,
because prior to Muhammad Ibn Abdullah Messengership 1,400 years ago, Allah
(God) sent Abraham and Ishmael as Warners to the Arabs and all the prophets of
old toiled in that geographical region of the world Tigris Euphrates region,
Mesopotamia, Egypt, Israel, Abyssinia, etc.,--Abraham, Moses, Noah, Lut, David,
Solomon, Jesus, Muhammad, etc., according to the three major faith traditions
of Judaism, Christianity and Islam all of God’s prophets appeared in that
region of the world. But the Holy Qur'an speaks of a Warner coming to a virgin
people that have never had a prophet or messenger sent to them and the Muslims of the Nation
of Islam believed this was none other than the Black man and woman of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>. This
is well documented in Minister Nasir Makr Hakim (Editor) of the
Autobiographical Authoritative vol. titled: <u>The True Mission of Elijah
Muhammad: Messenger of Allah</u>; cited on pp. 206-207. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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There has been a long standing debate between the Moors and
the black Muslims on whether or not the Nation of Islam founders had any
connections to Prophet Noble Drew Ali and the Moorish Science Temple of
America (MSTA). This writer, believes that it was definitely possible that Master Fard
Muhammad could have been part of the Moorish Science Temple of America. But
here is my contention; we are going to take both men at their word. Master Fard
Muhammad said according to the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad that
he was born in Mecca, Saudi Arabia in 1877, and he proclaimed that he was a
direct descendent of Prophet Muhammad Ibn Abdullah who lived over 1,400 years
ago and the Quraish Tribe. <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This ethnic ancestral bloodline would serve as a genealogical testimony, which tied Master Fard Muhammad
(the Mahdi) directly to the most prominent figure in the religion of Islam;
this declaration would give him present and future credibility as a legitimate
Muslim leader (the Honorable Elijah Muhammad who taught that this man was God
in person upset the orthodox Muslim world). Master Fard Muhammad and Elijah Muhammad in theory understood the theological necessity of
interweaving and rooting the Nation of Islam’s history and theological
philosophy into so-called ‘legitimate’ Islamic history (this was not coincidental it was
strategic and tactical).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although, the Nation of
Islam’s theology would be tempered with an unorthodox mixture of Islamic
allegory and religious mysticism uniquely orchestrated for an organization with
an objective and motive of presenting a doctrine that would be able touch and
reach black people based on their historical experiences under Chattel Slavery
and the affect the 310 year dehumanization process had on them as a subjugated
people would need a special type of teachings.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftn16" name="_ftnref16" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn16;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">[16]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Now,
according to 'mainstream Islam' all the above would be perceived as the teachings
of heretics (and un-Islamic) of course I would disagree with that assessment.
This defines the religious and theological dynamics of the mindset of how
Nation of Islam evolved as an Islamic group and organization, certain aspects
of the Nation of Islam’s sociological structure as it pertains to
organizational inner workings must never be viewed outside of the collective
context of the black historical experience in which both Master Fard Muhammad
and Elijah Muhammad understood.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftn17" name="_ftnref17" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn17;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">[17]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
But historically the organization’s cohesive thread has been charismatic and
authoritarian leadership personalities such as W.D. Fard Muhammad, Abdul
Muhammad (an early rivalry to Elijah Muhammad), Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X,
Wallace Deen Muhammad, Clarence 13 X, Louis Farrakhan, Khallid Abdul Muhammad,
etc.<span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span></div>
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Prophet Noble Drew Ali said, he was born on January 8, 1886,
I believe in a little Indian town known as Cherokee, <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">North Carolina</st1:place></st1:state> (some believed that he had
Native American indigenous blood flowing through his veins and his oriental mystical teachings of a Moorish doctrine he learned from studying from the Islamic scholars in Egypt). Master Fard
Muhammad according to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was in and out of
America for some 20 years prior to make his self known to the so-called Lost-Found
American Negro on July 4, 1930; so doing the math Master Fard Muhammad was in
America in approximately 1910 and according historians, Prophet Noble Drew Ali set-up
his first Moorish Science Temple (the first Temple was named Canaanite Temple)
in Newark, New Jersey in 1913, but eventually making his mark in Chicago.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftn18" name="_ftnref18" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn18;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">[18]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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If we accept that Master Fard Muhammad was born in
Mecca (the citadel of the Islamic religion); he probably had already come in
contact with some aspects of Islam, perhaps long before he would have met
Prophet Noble Ali; if they ever met at all. So, then would you agree that Master
Fard Muhammad was a Muslim and follower of Islam before he would have met
Prophet Ali and perhaps did not become a Muslim nor accepted Islam under the
Prophet Noble Drew Ali’s leadership as some overzealous Moors have maintained. Some
black nationalist writers and scholars argue that both men, W.F. Muhammad
and Elijah Muhammad were heavily influenced by Gullam Ahmed and the
Ahmadiyya movement (this contention might have merit and validity based on
Master Fard Muhammad introducing the Nation of Islam to the Pakistani
version of the Holy Qur’an as translated by Mualana Muhammad Ali). Gullam Ahmed
and Ahmadiyya were one of the first immigrant Muslim sects that made a formalized attempt
to introduce the religion of Islam to African Americans in the early 1900s and many became Ahmadiyya Muslims.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftn19" name="_ftnref19" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn19;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">[19]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> I
also believe that Prophet Noble Drew Ali at some point was involved in Freemasonry
and accepted part of the Masonic worldview; there was a lot of historical and
organizational evidence that validates this very point, but none of it had been
fully historically substantiated. <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad arrived in Detroit,<span style="font-size: 18pt;"> </span>Michigan in approximately 1923 and there is a
highly likely-hood that he may have come in contact with the teachings of
Prophet Noble Drew Ali (Abdul Sharrieff Ali) more so than Master Fard Muhammad.
There is no doubt that you can see the infusion and the interdependency of the two
Islamic schools of religious thought and the similarities are strikingly between the two
organizations Moorish Science Temple and the Nation of Islam (Moors would argue
that Elijah Muhammad was known in the Moorish Science movement as Elijah
Muhammad-Bey and was once a Moor).<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftn20" name="_ftnref20" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn20;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">[20]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Perhaps W.F. Muhammad understood that Noble Drew Ali being a native born
African in America had a better understanding of the social, political,
economic and spiritual plight of the Black man and woman of America and his
brand of Islam was more attractive to the African American—the blind, deaf
and dumb at that time in our historical development (incidental or coincidental the MSTA without sounding contradictory was the organizational forerunner to the Nation of Islam and I think that the Garvey Movement, Moorish Science Temple of America and the Nation of Islam share similar threads in organizational symbolism and black nationalism ideology). I do not think this confession or admittance take away from these groups identities of authenticity.<span style="font-size: 18pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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I think Master Fard Muhammad was perhaps taught under the
theological system of Sunni Islam (it was evident that he had knowledge of
eastern-based Islam based on the Islamic religious lexicon that he used), but quickly learnt that this approach would be
ineffective based on our condition as a people. Muhammad may have even borrowed
some of the teachings from the Moorish Science Temple of America and the
Prophet Drew Ali and perhaps some of this introduction to the teachings of the
Moors were shared with him from the mouth of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, who
I believe possible had more than just a casual contact with Prophet Drew Ali,
but not necessarily as a member (I think it is more to this story but both
groups refuse to allow objective and non-bias research to determine the
truthful outcome). Moreover, after reviewing and studying the Moors religious
theoretical doctrine (I think Elijah Muhammad), he had come to the conclusion
and understanding that in order to bring the teaching of Islam to the African
American or ex-slaves, it had to be tactfully and strategically done in which the template was already established by the Prophet). Prophet
Drew Ali raised one of the most essential questions relative to the so-called
American Negro and that was the question of nationality (which still remains
unresolved in 2017, because this declaration of sovereignty is tied to land
rights and reparation and must be revisited as Moorish indigenous people of
Canaanites and Moabite descendents). Ali declared African Americans nationality
to be Moorish American (this proclamation and declaration alone will always
allow me to give Prophet Noble Drew Ali tremendous respect).<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftn21" name="_ftnref21" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn21;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">[21]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> </div>
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We have to move beyond these type arguments and become
proactive in moving us towards claiming our rightful nationality (beyond the
rhetoric) Prophet Noble Drew Ali laid the roadmap. So how do you all suggest in a legal and practical way that we create a
collective national sovereignty? Thus, are we prepared to petition the United
Nations (which will entail charging the United States Government and other
European powers with war crimes against humanity) and wage the legal defense
from the jurisprudence side and work to acquire the monetary resources to wage this
monumental legal battle. This will entail a defense that will tear at the very
core and root of the United States Constitution and cause for having some of
the best legal minds to frame this argument, which will involve reinterpreting
the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment (this will lead to relinquishing the
'American' nationality and debunking the citizenship classification status) and
overturning the Dred Scott decision.</div>
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Prophet Noble Drew Ali and Messenger Elijah
Muhammad were Freemasons (this is strictly my opinion as far as the Prophet,
but Elijah Muhammad admitted that he was a Mason) and we still do not know
fully the role that the Masonic worldview played in the organizational development
of both organizations. Many of my Moorish Science Temple brothers would dispute
this contention that I am making about Prophet Noble Drew Ali being a Freemason,
but the symbolism, the Islamic lexicon and some of the teachings in the Holy
Koran Circle 7 resemble and mirror the degree teachings that relates to the
working tools taught in Blue Lodge Masonry. I definitely see the philosophical
links to the Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine (better
known as the black Shriners).<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftn22" name="_ftnref22" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn22;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">[22]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> I
admit this overview of Moorish Science Temple and the Prophet Drew Ali is
insufficient and does not begin to tell the story of the first black Islamic
organization in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place>.<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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W.F. Muhammad posed as a silk salesman from the East who
went door-to-door throughout Detroit’s Black ghetto (a black section of Detroit
known as the bottom) as I have stated previously, selling black people royal
silk from the Holy Land of Mecca. Upon gaining entrance into a person's home,
W.F. Muhammad would begin teaching them the knowledge of self instructing them
on the principles of the Muslim diet in accordance what is written in the
Qur'an and Bible. He would also give them history lessons about their divine
heritage and royal culture. We are taught that W.F. Muhammad was in and out of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> for
about twenty years prior to revealing his identity. He made his presence known
publicly on July 4, 1930, and declared himself the Mahdi of the Muslim World and
the Christ of the Christian world.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftn23" name="_ftnref23" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn23;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">[23]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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W.F. Muhammad gave the Honorable Elijah Muhammad the name
Elijah Karriem, the attribute Karriem, was one of the ninety-nine names of
Allah, which translate to mean the 'generous one'. Prior to W.F. Muhammad's
departure, he told the Believers his true name was Wali Fard Muhammad.
He also, renamed Elijah Karriem to Elijah Muhammad. The attribute Muhammad
interpreted to mean worthy of praise<i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></i>and
is also the name of God. By 1934, he told the Lost-Found Nation of Islam in
the West that they did not need him any longer, because they had Karriem. Some
historical records reported that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad escorted Master
Fard Muhammad to a <st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city> airport where he
boarded an airplane bound for <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Mecca</st1:city></st1:place>
(one thing for sure since 1934 W.F. Muhammad disappeared never to be seen
again).<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftn24" name="_ftnref24" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn24;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">[24]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> The
Honorable Elijah slowly begin revealing Master Fard Muhammad's true identity as
Allah, who came in the person, to the lost found Nation of Islam, and that he
was his appointed Messenger.<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18pt;"> </span>Some
of the early members of the Nation of Islam accepted his divine claim, but
others such as Abdul<span style="font-size: 18pt;"> </span>Muhammad and the
Elijah Muhammad brother Kalot refused to accept the Messenger's claim. Thus, a
counter-sect rose under Abdul Muhammad's leadership and eventually the
Messenger had to leave <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Detroit</st1:place></st1:city>
for fear of his life; The Honorable Elijah Muhammad had to travel using aliases
to conceal his identity for safety reasons. He would travel to <st1:city w:st="on">Philadelphia</st1:city>,
<st1:city w:st="on">Baltimore</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Washington</st1:state>
, DC , <st1:city w:st="on">Richmond</st1:city> , <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Pittsburgh</st1:city></st1:place>, etc., teaching Islam and in 1935
he established Temple No. 2. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city></st1:place>.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftn25" name="_ftnref25" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn25;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">[25]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In 1942, the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested the Honorable
Elijah Muhammad and charged and convicted him of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> military draft evasion,
although, the Messenger was 45 years old. The draft mandated according to the
Selected Service ordered men between the ages of 18-44 to voluntarily sign up
for World War II. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad was a conscientious objector
because of his Islamic religious affiliation and his age placed him outside of
the age requirement. However, he was still prosecuted unjustly within United
States Federal Courts. Muhammad and was sentenced to almost five years in Federal
Prison in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Milan</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Michigan</st1:state></st1:place>.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftn26" name="_ftnref26" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn26;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">[26]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
The United States Government pursuant to disinformation and propaganda called
him a Japanese sympathizer and went as far as calling him a Japanese spy (they
were attempting to charge him with sedition and treason). All of these charges
were mere false and trumped up designed to justify unjust <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region> government actions and to
assassinate the Honorable Elijah Muhammad's public character and attempt to
ruin his credibility amongst black people in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place>. The United States
Government did not desire for any opposition voices who opposed their imperialist
attacks against the innocent Japanese people in which later they would charge
black leaders such as Paul Robenson and W.E.B. Dubois with un-American
activity, they both declared themselves to being affiliated with communism and
the communist party. They deemed the Honorable Elijah Muhammad a threat to the
United States Government national security just as Minister Louis Farrakhan is
viewed today an a threat to the United States national security interest; this
is not because he has issued any threats nor is an Enemy Combatant or an
militant radical Islamic sympathizer. But they fear that their messages have
power to give life to people and possibly move 40-50 million so-called American
Negroes forward economically, politically and socially. <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Clara Muhammad, wife of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, led and
oversaw the Nation of Islam in the absence of Mr. Muhammad. In 1946, the
Honorable Elijah Muhammad was released from prison and immediately started
working to rebuild the Nation of Islam.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftn27" name="_ftnref27" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn27;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">[27]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
In approximately 1947, Malcolm Little who was incarcerated where he became introduced
to the Nation of Islam's “Life Giving Teachings” through his brother Reginald X
Little. In 1952, Malcolm X was released from prison and eventually became a
devout student and follower of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad in the city of <st1:city w:st="on">Detroit as a member of</st1:city> <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Temple</st1:place></st1:city>
#1. Malcolm X's conversion, hardwork and charisma attracted many young
intellectuals because of his ability to articulate the Life Giving Teachings
and convey Elijah Muhammad’s message unlike any other minister prior to 1960.
Minister Malcolm X was a fierce debater and spellbinding orator, no one could
rationally defeat. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said he taught Minister
Malcolm X unlike he taught any other student minister. On March 8, 1964, after
Minister Malcolm X’s defection, Elijah Muhammad said he would never again train
another minister like he trained Minister Malcolm X.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftn28" name="_ftnref28" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn28;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">[28]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Messenger Muhammad knew that Nation of Islam would fall,
rise and never to fall again but he gave all us an eternal word of taking the
Nation of Islam into the hereafter. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said he fully
understood Minister Malcolm X was going to betray him even before his defection
took place. If one does not accept the Honorable Elijah Muhammad's divinity
then<u> </u>it is<u> </u>historically or theologically<u> </u>impossible to
understand the internal conflicts b<u>etw</u>een Minister Malcolm X and his
mentor the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftn29" name="_ftnref29" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn29;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">[29]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> </div>
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On February 21, 1965, Minister Malcolm X was assassinated by
Black Muslim agent provocateurs working for the United States Government (for
those who do not know the U.S. Government murdered Minister Malcolm X). Malcolm
X charged the Honorable Elijah Muhammad with committing adultery with a number
of his personal secretaries. These charges angered numerous members of the
Nation of Islam. They viewed it as mudslinging and slanderous. Thus, at the
internal instigation of the F.B.I and J. Edgar Hoover, the zealots rose from
within the ranks in which a conspiracy was hatched to assassinate Minister
Malcolm X. Many scholars and layperson due to the Freedom of Information Act
have acquired declassified documents, which proves and leaves little doubt that
Minister Malcolm X’s assassination was straight out of the playbook of the FBI
Cointelpro agenda.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftn30" name="_ftnref30" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn30;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">[30]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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However, some scholars and laypersons have tried to connect
Minister Louis Farrakhan to the Malcolm X conspiracy and ultimately being
complicit in the assassination of Minister Malcolm X. But in all reality at
that time in Minister Farrakhan’s organizational status relative to the pecking
order of power and decision-making, it would not have been his decision to make
of giving the order to assassinate Minister Malcolm X this was above his pay
grade: Elijah Muhammad, Jr., Supreme Captain Raymond Sharrief, Herbert
Muhammad, Elijah Muhammad, Jr. Abayass Rasoull, John Ali, etc. could have given
a sanction to an inside hit on Minister Malcolm X (but even this notion is mere
circumstantial evidence, but we do know this much Newark Temple #25 played a
major role in Malcolm X’s assassination). Minister Farrakhan did not have that
unilateral authority or support from the Nation of Islam's Fruit of Islam (FOI)
or the organizational hierarchy at that time to render such decisive decision.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftn31" name="_ftnref31" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn31;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">[31]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span>The Nation of Islam soared
after Minister Malcolm X's death. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad was billed in
1966 as the "most powerful Black man in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place> ." The New York Times
Magazine wrote the following about Elijah Muhammad: "Alone of all Negro
leaders Elijah Muhammad has a vivid awareness of the vital need of a new birth
in any drastic human transformation, and he alone mastered the technique of
staging a new identity .. .It is worth remembering that what Elijah Muhammad is
doing to the Negro is in a sense, what <st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region>
has done to the immigrant from <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>." <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In 1959, Elijah Muhammad visited Mecca as a guest of the
Sunni Saudi Arabian government where he performed the Hajj ritual (he made
minor Hajj Umrah along with his two sons Herbert and Wallace Muhammad); the
Messenger stated: we "You and I may go to Howard, we 'may go to York
of England, or go to Al-Ahzar in Cairo and get degrees from all of these great
seats of learning ... On visiting with a couple of my sons in what they called
the Near East, in 1959, I began in Turkey. We traveled from <st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region> down to Africa Ethiopia and the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Sudan</st1:country-region></st1:place>
. We visited Arabia (<st1:city w:st="on">Mecca</st1:city> and Medinah), and we
visited <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:country-region></st1:place>
. We returned home from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Lahore</st1:city>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:country-region></st1:place> , on
about the 6th of January, 1960." The Honorable Elijah Muhammad interpreted
the Hajj ritual as follows: "1 visited <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Mecca</st1:place></st1:city> in 1959. The whole city was all a sign
of being my people here in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
The veil of the Kaaba means that we were veiled from the truth of Allah (God).
My mentally dead people will be the rulers."<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftn32" name="_ftnref32" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn32;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">[32]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Muhammad labored for forty-four years seeking to elevate the
blind, deaf, and dumb so-called American Negro and teach him the knowledge of
self. The corporate control media along with his Uncle Tom ‘Negroes’ now seek
to write Elijah Muhammad out of history because of his uncompromising political
positions. They systematically propped up Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, two
students of Elijah Muhammad, but will not mention their teacher. Malcolm X and
Muhammad Ali eventually compromised with the enemy, but Elijah Muhammad refused
to give in. I became so disgusted with how the media was portraying the
Honorable Elijah Muhammad that I wrote a book in 1995 titled, <u>In Defense of
the Defender: The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad</u>.<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftn33" name="_ftnref33" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn33;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">[33]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This writer cited this history to silence the Orthodox Sunni
Muslims, who claim that the Nation of Islam is some clandestine Quasi-Islamic
organization with no recognition from <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Mecca</st1:place></st1:city>
(not that the Nation of Islam historically has ever sought recognition from the
Arabs). No Orthodox Sunni Islamic leader within the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United
States</st1:country-region> commanded the type of respect that Elijah Muhammad
received from the imposter Arab rulers of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Mecca</st1:city></st1:place>
and from Muslim leadership around the world. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad
paved the way for all Nation of Islam members to go to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Mecca</st1:place></st1:city> and make Hajj. But the challenge
confronting the Nation of Islam is today; is remaining sovereign of Arab
theological dictates. <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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By 1974, the Nation of Islam was a 70 million dollar empire
with the “<i>Muhammad Speaks” </i>newspaper being the most widely circulated
journal in black <st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region> .The
Messenger purchased thousands of acres of farm land in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Georgia</st1:country-region>, <st1:state w:st="on">Alabama</st1:state>,
and <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Michigan</st1:place></st1:state>
to grow, can, and deliver Nation of Islam’s food products throughout Black
America. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad established a bank to have access to
carrying out international trade; in particular, to transfer letters of credit
relative to his fish and seafood deals with the government of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Peru</st1:country-region> and other trade deals in the <st1:place w:st="on">Far East</st1:place>. Elijah Muhammad only had a fourth grade
education but received 360 degrees of knowledge from Allah, who came in the
person of Master Fard Muhammad.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Fahim A. Knight-El Chief Researcher for KEEPING
IT REAL THINK TANK located in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Durham</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">NC</st1:state></st1:place>; our mission is to inform
African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the pending dangers that lie
ahead; as well as decode the symbolism and reinterpreted the hidden meanings
behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We
are of the belief that an enlightened world will be better prepared to throw
off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the slaughter.
Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight-El can be reached at
fahimknight@yahoo.com</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">Claude
Andrew Clegg lll, </span><u><span style="font-size: x-small;">An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad</span></u><span style="font-size: x-small;">.
(</span><st1:state w:st="on"><span style="font-size: x-small;">New York</span></st1:state><span style="font-size: x-small;">: </span><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="font-size: x-small;">St.</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Martin’s Press, 1997) 349. </span></div>
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<div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ibid.
348. </span></div>
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<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Fahim
A. Knight-El,</span><u><span style="font-size: x-small;"> In Defense of the Defender: The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad</span></u><span style="font-size: x-small;">.
(Durham: Fahim and Associates, 1994) 282-291.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">Abdul
Akbar Muhammad, “A Concise History of the Nation of Islam’, a taped audio
lecture series conducted by Minister Akbar Muhammad in which some of the
lectures were recorded from Muhammad’s Mosque 7 Harlem, New York, 1980s. </span></div>
</div>
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</div>
<div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">Alex
Haley, </span><u><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Autobiography of Malcolm X</span></u><span style="font-size: x-small;">. (New York: Ballentine Books, 1964)
238. </span></div>
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<div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Elijah
Muhammad, </span><u><span style="font-size: x-small;">Message to the Black man in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region></span></u><span style="font-size: x-small;">. (Chicago: Muhammad’s
Temple #2, 1965). </span></div>
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<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Jesus
Muhammad-Ali </span><u><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Evolution of the Nation of Islam the Story of the Honorable
Elijah Muhammad</span></u><span style="font-size: x-small;">. </span><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Chicago</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: x-small;">:
JMA Publishing, 2002) 24-31.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ibid, Akbar
Muhammad. </span></div>
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<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;">[9]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Andrew
Hacker,</span><u><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Two Nations: Black and White Separate, Hostile, Unequal</span></u><span style="font-size: x-small;">. (</span><st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="font-size: x-small;">New York</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-size: x-small;">: Scribner
Publishing, 2003) 2-3. </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;">[10]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">Mattias
Gardell, </span><u><span style="font-size: x-small;">In the Name of Elijah Muhammad: Elijah Muhammad: Louis Farrakhan
and the Nation of Islam</span></u><span style="font-size: x-small;">. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1996) 50.</span><u><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;">[11]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">C. Van
Woodard, </span><u><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Strange Career of Jim Crow</span></u><span style="font-size: x-small;">. (New York: Oxford University
Press, 1966) 17-19.</span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftnref12" name="_ftn12" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn12;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;">[12]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">William
Greider, </span><u><span style="font-size: x-small;">Secrets of the <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Temple</st1:place></st1:city></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">:
How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country</span></u><span style="font-size: x-small;">. (New York: Simon and Schuster,
1987) 89.</span></div>
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<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;">[13]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Elijah
Muhammad: </span><u><span style="font-size: x-small;">Message to the Blackman in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region></span></u><span style="font-size: x-small;">. (Chicago: Muhammad’s
Temple # 2, 1965). 16 </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;">[14]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ibid.
Muhammad, 16. </span></div>
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<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;">[15]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Elijah
Muhammad, carbon copy of Muslin Lessons; not clear if these lessons were part of
the “Student Enrollment” lessons that were giving and authorized by Master Fard
Muhammad between 1931-1934). </span></div>
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Elijah Muhammad, 294. </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Owner/Documents/ELIJAH%20MUHAMMAD%20AND%20LOUIS%20FARRKHAN%20#2.doc#_ftnref18" name="_ftn18" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn18;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;">[18]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">Arthur
H. Fauset, </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><u><span style="font-size: x-small;">Moorish <st1:placename w:st="on">Science</st1:placename></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><st1:placetype w:st="on"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Temple</span></st1:placetype><span style="font-size: x-small;">
of </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="font-size: x-small;">America</span></st1:place></st1:country-region></u><span style="font-size: x-small;">.
(New Jersey: Universal Research Associates,</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">1944) 1-2. </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;">[19]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Karl
Evanzz, </span><u><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Messenger: The Rise and Fall of Elijah Muhammad</span></u><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></div>
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<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;">[20]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Yvonne
Yazbeck and Jane Idleman Smith, </span><u><span style="font-size: x-small;">Mission to <st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">:
Five Islamic Sectarian Communities in </span><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="font-size: x-small;">North America</span></st1:place></u><span style="font-size: x-small;">.
(Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1993), 92. </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div>
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Walker, </span><u><span style="font-size: x-small;">Islam and the Search for African-American Nationhood; Elijah
Muhammad, Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam</span></u><span style="font-size: x-small;">.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">(</span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Atlanta</span></st1:city></st1:place><span style="font-size: x-small;">:
Clarity Press, Inc., 2005) 215-224. </span></div>
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Knight-El, </span><u><span style="font-size: x-small;">Freemasonry (Moslem Sons) and Islam: What Do They Share?</span></u><span style="font-size: x-small;"> (</span><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Durham</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: x-small;">: Fahim and
Associates, 2005) 24-28. </span></div>
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Muhammad, </span><u><span style="font-size: x-small;">The True <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Mission</st1:city></st1:place></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
of Elijah Muhammad: Messenger of Allah</span></u><span style="font-size: x-small;">. (Atlanta: MEMPS Publication, 1997)
36-41. </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div>
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39. </span></div>
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<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;">[25]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ibid, Gardell.
58. </span></div>
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H. Banks, </span><u><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Black Muslim</span></u><span style="font-size: x-small;">. (New York: Chelsea House, 1997) 45-47. </span></div>
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56-59.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 10pt;">[29]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ibid,.
Alex Haley, 295. </span></div>
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Kondo, </span><u><span style="font-size: x-small;">Conspiracies: Unravelling the Assassination of Malcolm X</span></u><span style="font-size: x-small;">. (Washington,
DC, Nubia Press, 1993) 1999.</span></div>
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Clegg, 136-145</span></div>
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The Masonic universal lessons, if properly mastered by the
black Masonic Craft, it will create a new level of energy inside the lodge that
will truly cause the sun that rises in the East (symbolic of the Worshipful Master) and crosses the prime meridian
moving from East to West and setting in preparation for a new day to create new
Masonic life. The Senior Warden in the West and Junior Warden in the South
should reflect the light coming from the Worshipful Master stationed in the
East and in the physical world, the earth is always in rotation (orbit) and in motion
(causing the regeneration of planetary life). All of these designated lodge
stations are not just arranged in a coincidental format or as some meaningless
floor plan. The lodge layout including its furnishing from the alter (emanating
from the sacred text to the working tools) are meant to be symbolic, emblematic
and allegorical given to us in Speculative Masonic lessons. Best described in
the spiritual sciences of the columns of Boaz and Jachin in which the mystical
and metaphysical lessons of correlating the terrain and celestial universal
bodies that are rooted in the philosophical lessons interpreted and defined in the First
and Second Degree work explained in <u>Morals and Dogmas</u> by Albert Pike.</div>
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The Worshipful Master is symbolic and emblematic of the sun just
as the physical sun rises in the East (the lodge opens up from the East), which
the physical sun sits 93 million miles away from the earth and is responsible
for energizing the earth with a radiant light (creating motion and life), which
gives and sustains all life on earth. Thus, as the earth rotates on its axis
around the sun (which takes a complete revolution of 365 days to complete the
journey) and tilts on its axis allowing for us in the Western Hemisphere to
experience four seasons (summer, winter, spring and fall). </div>
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The Worshipful Master is the leader of the Blue lodge and
has the responsibility of creating the spirit of Brotherly Love and harmony
within the lodge. A morally good Worshipful Master who is well learned and well
studied his wisdom will radiate throughout the lodge (shining upon seeds that
are expected to germinate in due intellectual and spiritual season). He has the
awesome responsibility of nurturing and feeding the Craft by conveying
Speculative Masonic knowledge and staying aligned with the twenty-five landmarks
of Masonry; performing sound ritual work and creating meaningful community
relationships and inspiring the brotherhood to be good stewards of morality,
friendship and brotherly love. I know that it is a lot of work and responsibility
serving in leadership as the Worshipful Master, but if all of us do our little
part it makes the work less heavy and less burdensome. We often asked the
question, which is greater, sun light or moon light? Both of them possess a
universal purpose of light equity in our solar system (neither is greater). But
each is dependent upon the other to create sustainable life on Earth (that equates to a physical balance). That is
how we as brothers should operate by having a willingness and spirit of
assisting for the benefit of the whole. I do think it starts from good
leadership at the top by having the ability and inspiration to regenerating a new levels of interest based on study
(this is the only true path and solution, which will sustain long term interest
and support the future foundation of Masonry).</div>
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It is the sun's energy that balances day and night—our total
existence is dependent upon the sun rising and replenishing our food sources
and allowing human biology to continue to evolve (the sun represents life and
death to all life forms on earth). This universal principle of cause and affect
has been in existence for over five billion years or at least, as old as the earth
itself. Many ancient cultures and people have always revered the sun and often
was Deified throughout world civilizations, because of its power, majesty and
mystery (when I was a young primary and secondary student, they taught us that
only nine planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus,
Neptune and Pluto) existed in our solar system; they now have an inclination to
believe that there are possibly six more unknown planets and many more
undiscovered planets (reference: Robert Hewitt Brown; <u>Stellar Theology and Mansonic Astronomy)</u>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Now, astrophysics have expanded this original hypothesis
relative to many more planetary possibilities (science is never stagnate); the
space travel, exploration and science will continue to reveal just how much we
do not know nor understand about the complexities and comprehensive factors and
variables that makes up and governs the universe. Some have tried to explain
the macrocosm and microcosm universe via Tarot cards and by way of the twelve
Zodiac signs as being related to air, water, earth and fire as representations
of the lower scales of human personality and the high scales of our personal
spiritual centeredness that evolved and revolved around our spiritual DNA,
which had metaphysical implications based on the astrological arrangements of
the stars when our Earth day was preordained and our return as solar beings
(some of this must be understood within the Kemetic principles of MAAT). Every
real student of Masonry must be a student of numerology and esoteric science;
philosophical Masonry was built and structured on ancient numerical codes of the
building of King Solomon’s <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Temple</st1:city></st1:place>
that was being led by Grand Master Hiram Abiff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The temple was being constructed and built from the template of Imhotep
who built the first step pyramid in Kemet and was perhaps the first world known
mathematician (yes, he lived before Pythagoras).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Also, Freemasonry borrowed the astrological lessons of the
sun and built allegorical philosophical schools of thought (better known as
Speculative Masonry) that was incorporated in the various aspects and forms of the Freemasonic ritual, which brought into existence the symbolic legend of Grand
Master Hiram Abiff, the Master Builder in which the biblical Hiram from the
land of Tyree has no resemblance to the Masonic allegory of the greatest
grandmaster recorded in the Freemasonic legend (he like Jesus was slain and
resurrected). The sun every year dies in the winter (winter solstice) and is
reborn or resurrected during Easter (spring time nature comes back to life
during the summer solstice). Many of the ancient Kemetic folklores were also
rooted in the resurrection story of Ausr, Aset and Huru. Ausr was murdered by
his jealous brother Set who placed his body in a chess that was chained and
buried deep into the Nile river and when his sister<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></b>Nephthys found
and discovered her brother’s body, it was cutup into fourteen pieces and the
only part that was missing was his penis (this is best understood in the phallic
worship practices in Kemet). These Kemetic folklore teachings can be found in<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span>R.T.
Rundle Clark book titled, <span class="a-size-large"><u>Myth and Symbol in
Ancient Egypt</u>. </span>Man has had a long historical infatuation with sun
Gods and according to Manly P. Hall as a <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">phenomenon</span> was found in every culture and in his
exhaustive research titled, <u>The Secret Teaches of All Ages</u>, he traced
many so-called pagan origins and sun cults being historically practiced by people throughout the earth.
They culturally emulated the moving of the sun as the earth rotates on her axis
and in the western hemisphere (and constructed religious systems around this concept); we experience the winter and summer solstice
(the word 'sol' Latin word that translates to mean sun and 'stice' meaning to
stand still according Gerald Massey's book titled, <u>The Book of the Beginnings</u>.</div>
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Kersey Graves in the book titled, <u>The World’s Sixteen
Crucified Saviors</u>; he underscored at least 16 sun Gods and World Saviors who
were erected and shared similar pagan themes as Jesus Christ. For example, in
ancient Kemet (Egypt) the Sun's birth, death, resurrection and ascension were
charted and depicted long before the ancient Asiatic calendar known as the
lunar charting (the Muslim and Islamic world charts the moon and sun based on
the lunar calendar, which the western world has taking notice by observing the
Muslims during the holy month of Ramadan) and even long before the Greek and
Roman calendar known as the Gregorian calendar, the western charting of the
sun/moon and of time created the International Dateline established in
Greenwich, England. The Kemetic folklore of Ausar, Aset and Huru, which
was one of the original 'Christ' stories that predated the story of Yeshusa Ben
Yosef (Jesus, the son of Joseph) by many thousands of years according to John
G. Jackson's Book titled, <u>Christianity Before Christ</u> and J,S.M Ward's
book titled, <u>Who was Hiram Abiff?</u> Yeshusa Ben Yosef was not born on
December 25, but the pagan birth of the sun god was born in which Christianity
borrowed one of the natural creation stories and implied a theological
interpretation from much older secular pagan societies and reversed the Sun god with
Son of God Jesus (or Yeshusa) the human being became the center of this solar
concept (Christians in the United States worship on <strong>Sun-Day</strong>). Constantine at the Council of Nicea (Turkey) in 325 AD<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>established the Nicean Creed, which fostered
in a perverted and corrupt version of Christianity—this is what governs the
Roman Catholic church and papal religious system to this very day (reference:
Reza Aslan: <u>Zealots: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth</u>).</div>
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There were pyramidal numerical codes that were based in a
system of geometry and physics and there were principles being practiced by the
Nubian people that were unknown to the conventional western scientists and after
thirty-one (31) Dynastic periods recorded in ancient Egyptian history and thousands
of years of unearthing by archeologist and Egyptologist they are still at
square one. Kemet has only revealed more questions than answers, which have
baffled western scientists for centuries and continues to baffle them in 2017.
The Kemetic understanding of engineering and architecture have not been
duplicated nor decoded by some of the most brilliant Caucasian
scientists—although the Nubians left behind plenty of evidence, that has
determined them to have been the most advanced civilizations ever record in the
annals of time and human history. They left behind artifacts and archeological
ruins that do not fully begin to tell the story of what the scribes had written
in the Ancient Coffin Text.</div>
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The Greeks: Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Plato, Socrates,
Aristotle, etc., stole much of ancient Kemetic knowledge and called it Greek
Mythology. Dr. George G.M. James in 1954, authored the book titled, <u>Stolen
Legacy</u>, which he dismantled and deconstructed the notion that Greek
Mythology was a superior culture to Kemet (Egypt) and historically proposed
that the Greeks stole (Kemetic Philosophy) their knowledge came from ancient Kemet
(Egypt)—these set of truths, also challenged the premise of schools of thought
that were germane to Eurocentric Freemasonry having its origin in Greece and
Roman and later in England (one of the greatest lies ever told).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let's not make any mistake most of these
lessons of authorship by the Greeks were plagiarized from more ancient
teachings and texts discovered and taught by African people of Kemet and <st1:place w:st="on">Kush</st1:place>. Many of these European mystics stole and borrowed
this knowledge from black people and based on white supremacy has refused to
acknowledge their black mothers and fathers. <br />
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If anyone has ever read my body of work, it would be clear
where I stand politically, economically, socially and culturally; I am
unapologetic about being a Black Nationalist and Pan-Africanist in which my
Masonic views have always been Afrocentric and my historical evidence have
always led to me Africa (not Jerusalem, Mecca, London, Rome, Scotland, etc.)
but I am not oblivious to these nations ties to the development of Freemasonry
and its origins in Europe. Freemasonry began with black people, those Africans
who had relationships with Amen-Ra and Ptahhotep in ancient Kemet in which Dr.
Ashra Kwesi makes this point in his archeological and historical findings and
testimonies of the Kemetic origins of Freemasonry. Their history was older than the sun, moon and stars and studied
within the Egyptian Mystery Schools where mystical lessons were given in all the
esoteric, Occult and Gnostic schools of thought—Masonic scholars such as Albert
Mackey, Robert MaCoy, Manly P. Hall, etc. They really did not have the spirit or
the knowledge to accurately decipher and interpreted the Kemetic lessons taught in the
'Coffin Text' and many of the ancient Kemetic lessons became corrupted by the
Greeks and Romans. Speculative Masonry becomes a beautifully put together
puzzle when you look deeper into the esoteric, Gnostic and occult teachings and
schools of thought. It will carry us into both the secular and sacredness of
Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It will lead us even further into the ancient
Kemetic Schools of thought, but the Square and Compass should also serve as a
moral guide. I know that African people had this knowledge long before
1711 or 1717 these dates are important to Caucasian Masonry. I have challenged them
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Thus, one of the most important lessons in
our development along the way relative to our personal Masonic
journey was the requirement and personal belief in Deity this was the utmost
condition and perquisite in which our Masonic foundation would rest upon.
Let me explain this in this way; Deity represents mere perfection and is not
subject to human error or imperfection. This most important requisite was
given to us as a reminder to always keep it out front, because man is
surely destined to fail us, but it we have strong convictions in
Deity in spite of what name we chose to call him by, it is him
alone that stand and functions independent of our human imperfections and
fragility—the guiding light, the Source of it All. The belief in Deity has the power to change our
reality; we can trust and seek refuge in him, as well as find comfort in something greater
than ourselves. When you entered into the lodge, it was a process of rituals
that were designed to bring the poor blind candidate from darkness into
light and you were brought in without the benefit of material substances; just
like an infant who enters this world naked and bare and dependent upon its
mother for life substances and the mother will be there to meet the needs of
this new life—providing it with the physical material it needs to develop and
progress (how long will we extend our personal cabletow to reach a distressed
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Nevertheless, every brother came to Freemasonry of his own
freewill and accord and after the Deacons and Wardens escorted and took us on a
symbolic journey (circumambulation) to be examined and reexamined by the Senior
Warden (West) and the Worshipful Master (East). It was to bring the new
candidate to the understanding that you had to approach the celestial lodge in
proper ancient and due form (someone initially held our hands and guided us in
this manner). Thus, after being brought from darkness to light and being
physically released from the physical restraints (It was symbolic to let us
know that we are free to explore and are not bound by any restraints). The
Worshipful Master admonished the ritual by telling the candidate(s) that what
was enacted was mere allegory and simultaneously reminded the candidate that now
there would be something more greater and meaningful which shall hold the newly
made brothers together in an everlasting bond of brotherhood and friendship,
which was ritualized and pledged in ones potential commitment to Morality,
Friendship and Brotherly Love. The instructional part for the Masons was that
you did not come to the lodge because of the Worshipful Master, Senior
Warden or the Junior Warden; you came because God led you
to the lodge and gave you the intestinal fortitude to complete the
journey (essentially you came of your own freewill and accord). </div>
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All of us as human beings are flawed souls, but we
cannot fall victim to other people's character flaws unless we lose sight of
why we joined Masonry, our coming wasn't about anyone else but ourselves.
Remember there is no power greater than the Grand Architect of
the Universe. Also it was at that point, that your own eyes were giving
back to you and you now had the unrestricted vision to see and understand what
was taking place with you and around you. The guides (Junior Steward and Senior
Steward) relinquished their duty of being your help-meet of moving you as a
poor-blind candidate. This was to further teach you that guidance and Masonic
understanding would be your responsibility to further your travels from this
day forward (the quest to obtain knowledge and wisdom becomes an eternal
journey). The Worshipful Master (who sits in the East) instructs the
candidate that as a human being he would have to depend on someone, somewhere
in life no different that him depending on someone who guided him through the
ritual of the lodge as a poor blind candidate. At some point in the ceremony
the Master of the lodge would state I am ordering the Chaplin to pray for you
all as candidates and yet he quickly said, but one day you are going to
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During your third degree raising the Worshipful Master said
as I instructed you on the First Degree work about the benefit of prayer, it
would be a time for you to pray for yourself and he stated now is the
time to pray. So all of these instructional rituals have deep meanings other
than the Speculative Masonic intent, but it was telling and teaching
us that we have a moral and ethical responsibility as
enlightened men to move and create positive energy and standards that would
truly make the good man better—this was explained best on the Bible (based on
the obligations you swore to uphold) in which the square and compass served as
your guide and tool (this was to remind us that life will be full of
directions and spiritual guidance). This will lead us to the principles
and path of following in our conduct, which should be rooted in being
<st1:place w:st="on">Plum</st1:place>, Level and Square. The working tools have
a duality in meaning and intent, they could appear to the mundane as perhaps the
mere workmen's tools of an Operative Masonic craftsman, but in Masonry you are
taught to view and accept the working tools in a more noble and glorious purpose beyond
the physical intent and purpose offered under Operative Masonry (reference:
Allen Roberts, <u>The Craft and its Symbols)</u>. We should always transition
our thoughts to the spiritual realm and learn to use the working tools to find
the God within.</div>
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Knowledge (let me clarify right knowledge) is powerful and a
persuasive tool, in particular when, we understand that the entire world is
indebted to the contributions African civilizations have made to humanity. The
Blue Lodge, Consistory, Shrine Temple and all our Masonic Houses should be
classrooms where the knowledge of self is taught; European Freemasonry is a
system based on robbery and is shrouded in lies and deceptions—the origin of
mystical enlightenment was well developed before they exited the hills and
cave-sides of Europe 6,000 years ago and before they were created on the island
of Patmos. I am going to let you into a little secret; white Freemasons are
Moslem Sons and all the Shrine rituals are an enactment of his history after
exiting the hillside and cave-sides of <st1:place w:st="on">Europe (we ran him 2,200 miles across the hot Arabian Desert)</st1:place>.
Prophet Musa or Moses was an half original man who was sent to civilize him in
which this allowed and required him to study for 35-50 years before he could
come amongst us and do trade, etc., this civilization study process made him
into a Muslim by faith and a righteous believer in Islam (Moslem Son and
Freemasonry would be the vehicle for him to practice Islam in secrecy) but he
is not our brother by nature. </div>
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This is best understood in the teachings of the Mystic
Shrine—we taught him about Allah, taught him how to pray and prostrate, gave him the Qur’an and taught him about the
importance of the ritual of circumambulation of the Kaaba, which was built by
Abraham and his son Ishmael in the Holy City of Mecca (we gave him the true meaning of the black stone). We also led him to Prophet
Muhammad Ibn Abdullah of 1,400 years ago<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(but initially we only allowed him to obtain 32 degrees of knowledge
this kept him at a frozen state as stated above, it did not make him our
brother by nature). Those Caucasian Moslem Sons who remained diligent in their
submission and surrendering to Allah, we conferred one more degree of knowledge
by giving him 33 1/3 degree but we made him a true Sovereign Grand Inspector General (taught him that the black man was God and he had an obligation to bow down). Some we invited
into the mystic teachings of Sufism and this knowledge was so deep in esoteric
religiosity and spiritualism (shrouded in symbolism) in which some Sunni and
Shia Muslims consider the teachings and practices of Sufism as heretic and
anti-Islam.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has always stood outside
of traditional Islam (Sunni and Shia), because of the spiritual and heighten
internal spiritual awareness of linking God directly to a higher elevation of
mind, body and spirit (far beyond the traditional teachings of Islam rooted in
the spiritual complexities of the cosmos and universe and all that it
encompasses is embodied in the mystic teachings of Sufism). </div>
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No, Sufi Sheik out of Mecca, Turkey, Iran or Senegal stands as the
experts in all of Sufism interpretations; moreover, I have learned that this
mystic path led me to the conclusion that the more I studied; I am still an
ill-equipped student of this knowledge—I am a blind neophyte and I am not to arrogant
to let you all know this. I am absolute no authority on this<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>mystic and spiritual tradition, thus as great
as the Sufi scholar Idris Shah was in his explanations and commentaries on
Sufism, he was no authority—Sufism is beyond systematic Islamic theology; it is
the only true and authentic form of Islam. Sister Tynetta Muhammad of the
Nation of Islam in her teachings and body of work understood this better than
most of the Nation of Islam ministers in which she made attempts to infuse the
Nation of Islam’s theology in direct correlation to the philosophical mystical
teachings of Sufism. It is not coincidental that the Seventh letter of the
alphabet, which is the letter G. (I believe that Master Fard Muhammad and the
Honorable Elijah Muhammad were fully aware of these linkages) to truly
understand Allah and all his attributes (I am not talking about that mystery
God that does not exist), you must understand the higher codes of numerology
and the constellations of the stars and the mathematical and spiritual equations
that are presented in the universal order and schemes. There was a lot to the 24
Wise Scientist and how history renews itself every 25,000 years in advance and
then we live it, but this is truly another subject for another time. I take no
credit for none of this, but the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was a master teacher
and I am just one of his students. </div>
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We have allowed the Caucasian /Arab/Semites of Iran, Yemen,
Albania, Turkey, Greece,<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> Macedonia, Bosnia
and Herzegovina, Bulgaria</span>, etc., to convert to Islam and Moslem Sons
(high degree masons) and we allowed them to experience our mystic way of life
through Sufi Orders such as: <span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Alians,
Bektashi Order, Mevlevi Order, Ba 'Alawiyya, Chishti Order, Jerrahi, Naqshbandi,
Mujaddidi, Ni'matullāhī, Qadiriyya, Qalandariyya, Sarwari Qadiriyya, Shadhiliyya,
Suhrawardiyya, Ashrafi Family, Saifiah (Naqshbandiah), and Uwaisi. </span>Freemasonry
nor his conversion to Islam will ever make him our brother (this was the
mistake that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad's son Imam Warith Deen Mohammed made
in 1975). </div>
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Turkey was under the Islamic flag, the sun, moon and star
and before the Caucasian was allowed to be received as a Moslem Son (Shriner)
he had to voluntarily take a secret Shahada (confession of faith—“<span class="unicode"><i><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">lā ʾilāha
ʾillā-llāh, muḥammadur-rasūlu-llāh”</span></i></span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span>it translate to mean:<i><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">“</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">There
is no god but God. Muhammad is the messenger of God</i>”. The Arabs and the
Semite Muslims are closely akin to the Caucasian man. We initially used the
Muslims of Turkey (Turkey is the only nation that sits on two continents Asia
and Europe, they served as gatekeepers—at the Caucasus Mountain between the
Black Sea and the Caspian Sea and before he exited with this knowledge we
mandated that he put the sword above the sun, moon and star (so he could always
visualize and stand perpendicular on the square of freedom, justice and
equality) and to also remind him of his obligation to being a righteous Moslem
Son (Shriner).<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lastly, Jesus (Isa Bin Yusuf) the Christ, was teaching
the Hebrew Israelites or so-called Jewish Rabbis and Jewish high
priest at age twelve and most Biblical theologians and religious scholars
view Jesus (Isa Bin Yusuf) life as a mystery during this time span, but
at approximately 30 years of age Jesus (I am writing quickly to keep up with my thoughts and at a later date I will do the numerology associated with the Christ), the son of of Joseph
returned on the scene and his ministry lasted for about three years
and in this short time Jesus changed and reformed humanity with his
teachings of a social Gospel; thus, two thousand (2,000) years later, we are still
talking about that man known as Jesus (Isa Bin Yusuf) (he taught that the
temple of God is within). He said greater things we shall do. We have to
challenge our own fears, discipline ourselves and make
self-sacrifices; and seek knowledge and wisdom from the
cradle to the grave; the first paradigm shift has to take place
within (how transparent are we with ourselves?). I read a book called the "Art of War" by Sun Tzu; I have read this book about seven
times; it created a driven purpose in my life (it is not a book that you
read but a book that you should study). Our ultimate mission should be working towards being the best
human being that we can be and use our talents, intellect, treasures and will
power to make a difference; I chose to write and enlightened people
to the truth and hopefully after I have transitioned from this earth
someone will be able to say brother Fahim A. Knight-El made a small
difference in the world. </div>
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Prophet Muhammad Ibn Abdullah of 1,400 ago in just twenty
three years also reformed humanity and there are now over two billion
Muslims who surrender their will to do the will of Allah (God) (Muhammad
taught that three generations after me, they will be no longer be of me).
Yet, all these spiritual and religious paths had their inceptions in
ancient Kemet (Egypt) where the Nubian people had developed a complex
religio-social systems that were rooted in the ancient practices that predated the 6,000 year customs, rites,
sacraments and rituals that have been imposed on humanity by the Europeans.</div>
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Fahim A. Knight-El Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL
THINK TANK located in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place u1:st="on"><st1:city u1:st="on">Durham</st1:city></st1:place>,
<st1:state w:st="on"><st1:state u1:st="on">NC</st1:state></st1:state></st1:city></st1:place>;
our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the
pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolism and
reinterpreted the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces,
but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlightened world
will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be
willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power.
Fahim A. Knight-El can be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">. </span></div>
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FAHIM KNIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00567827759311275290noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4957787817614691922.post-3979897431721788442017-03-02T12:17:00.000-08:002017-03-04T04:42:49.045-08:00THE BLACK MAN’S HISTORICAL LEGAL ARGUMENT<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="thread-subject"><strong>THE
BLACK MAN’S HISTORICAL LEGAL ARGUMENT</strong></span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span class="thread-subject"><strong>By Fahim A. Knight-El</strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I have at
times been engaged in debates with Eurocentric white supremacist mindsets and
reactionary Negro mindsets about racism, reparations, slavery, freedom and our
quest for social justice. Many of them make every attempt to dismiss the
so-called African American historical suffering and injustices under white
America (tentacles of white supremacy) as something of the past and we should
just forget about this tragedy and allow us as a nation to move forward towards
racial harmony and national healing (I often refer them to Dr. Joy DeGury's
book titled, <u>Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome)</u> in which she maintained that
so-called African Americans were never permitted to heal and we are presently
living our lives as victims in trauma some 400 years later. My mind leads me to
think about the profound book authored by Randal Robinson titled, <u>The Debt:
What America Owes to Blacks</u>, which gives us a picture of how this
country was built by African slaves, our intellect, resilience and unrewarded labor that constituted our
blood, sweat and tears which laid the foundation of the United States—this debt has never even been acknowledged or repaid. It
is coded in my blood and my DNA to remember the African/black Holocaust and the
dehumanization affect Chattel slavery has had on the collective consciousness
of my people of African descent (this criminal event made us a dispossessed and
marginalized people, although, we are over 160 years removed from the actual
experience). This is why I have always applauded our social-psychologists such
as Amos Wilson who authored the book titled<u>, A Blueprint for Black Power a
Moral, Political and Economic Imparative for the Twenty-First Century</u> and
Dr. Naim Akbar, <u>Chains and Images of Psychological Slavery</u>.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I have
also always applauded the historical liberation work of Martin Delaney, Henry
Highland Garnet, Paul Cuffee, Marcus Garvey, Bishop McNeal Turner, Drew Ali,
etc.—they had it right. The only solution to ever ending this racial social
disharmony and divisiveness inside America is the eradication of white denial
and a dispersing of justice for the so-called American Negro (reparations must
be apart of this discussion without this there cannot be any atonement or
reconciliation)—no civil rights legislation and not even an elected body of fifty plus Negroes in the U.S. Congress (Congressional Black Caucus) they don't
possess the ability or political wither-all to resolving our historical and
present dilemma (they think with a slave mentality). Thus, they have no real
political lobbying influence and power to put forth the black agenda and are to
fearful of truly lobbying on behalf of so-called Africans in America and throughout
the disapora (these Negroes only lobby for the crumbs that falls from the rich
man Lazarus' table). They do not have the power of the pharmaceutical
industries lobby, National Rifle Association lobby, Military Manufacturers and
the military industry lobby nor the Jewish Lobby, which to mold and shape
public policy in the interest of black people. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">White
America is quick to make the assessment that if you are dissatisfied with <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>, why
don't you leave? We did not asked to come here my ancestors were brought to
these shores against their will (America is our exiled home). I do not mind leaving <st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region>, but I often have to remind them
that they are not in a moral or legal position to evict me and us off
the indigenous people's lands—the Native Americans are our brothers and
sisters, and are the only true landlords over the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Americas</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<span id="yiv0794257458yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488325802169_3535"> </span>But before
I/we leave there are some poignant conditions and unfinished business, which
must start with calculating 310 years of owed reparations that must
be attached to our human suffering, and while you at it calculate the past owed
interest on the slave debt (@ 25% on the dollar). Then multiply this owed gross
amount in the area of pain and suffering (what happened to the black man and black woman cannot have a monetize value, the damage is beyond dollars and cents). Also, have the Bank of England and
the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank to wire transfer my/our owed monetary debt in
Yuan Renminbi currency (Chinese dollars) and deposited it in a Swiss bank (Basil
or Geneva) account. And while they are at it petition the United Nations and
World Court and turn yourself into the</span><b id="yiv0794257458yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488325802169_3538"><span id="yiv0794257458yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488325802169_3539"><span id="yiv0794257458yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488325802169_3540"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span></span></b><span style="color: black;"></span><span id="yiv0794257458yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488325802169_3541"></span>Hague Tribunal
(Hague, Netherlands) in order to be charged with war crimes against
humanity; do not forget to travel the slave routes of the Transatlantic Slave
Trade and Middle Passage and bring as much sage that you can transport and be
prepared to burn sage over the Atlantic ocean for next 100 years and give my
people the proper burial (what is happening to you all is their souls and
spirits are haunting you politically, economically and socially; this was the
beginning of our trail of tears—Marcus Garvey said look for me in the world
wind). Lets not stop there by first turning yourselves into the custody of U.S.
Federal courts and eventually from there may be will transport you to an
Islamic country where Sharia is the law. These are my conditions for leaving. <span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Just as
Minister Malcolm X stated in 1960s they are good at making the victims the
criminals, and the criminals the victims. The Europeans have decimated the
entire African continent (and the globe) based on imperialism and colonialism.
They have destroyed Africa's political, social and economic structures and
disrupted its cultural continuity as a people (the <st1:state w:st="on">Berlin</st1:state>
Conference in 1884-1885 led to the partitioning of <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>,
which divided the continent into little nation-states in order to serve the
exploitive interest of the European powers--King Leopold ll opened the conference up in the name of God ). They are still there on the
continent of Africa under the auspices of the World Bank and the International
Monetary Fund (IMF) (two of the global rogue International banks) exploiting
the natural resources and propping up corrupt dictatorships who work and serve
in the interest of Western Europe (neo-colonialism)—I trust President Robert
Mugabe of Zimbabwe over the negative propaganda being reported against him by
western media (he rightfully redressed African people's land and territory that
were stolen by European settlers under Ian Douglas Smith and prior white colonial
masters). I cannot forget the inhuman slaughtering of Africans in the diamond
mines carried out by Cecil Rhodes in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Zimbabwe</st1:place></st1:country-region> in the name of capitalism. </span><st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place> and Europeans as I have stated above owes Africans
on the continent and throughout the Diaspora a great debt<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style";">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span id="yiv0794257458yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488325802169_3566">When the Europeans
settlers (the dregs of Europe) in the 1600s arrived to the Eastern Seaboard to
what they called the ‘New World’ Christopher Columbus in 1492, was actually
lost when he landed on the Caribbean Island of Hispaniola in which the Native
Americans (Carib and the Arwak) were there sixteen thousand years before
Columbus arrival and what eventually would be called the United States of
America—there were two million Native Americans so-called ‘Indians’ (indigenous
original people) who were also victims of his practices of white supremacy and
global genocide of the darker people of the earth. The Aboriginal people of <st1:country-region w:st="on">New Zealand</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Papua
New Guinea</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region>
were also victims of systemic practices of racism; the people of <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region> and <st1:place w:st="on">Asia</st1:place>
were victims of his practice of global genocide. <br id="yiv0794257458yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488325802169_3576" />
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But many who advocate that we are now living in a post-racial era (they were
using the 2008 election of President Barack Obama, the first so-called black president
as the measuring stick to positively quantify America's present day race
relations). And desired to conveniently overlook these racist motivated
historical crimes. </span></span><span style="color: black;">Perhaps
the election of Donald J. Trump to the office of President, and him tapping
into the real racial sentiments of <st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region>
and appointing all of them ultra white nationalist to his cabinet, which may
have shook us back to reality—<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>
is a racist nation to its core. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488483024607_1968"><span style="color: black;">This is
why I have always kept black social issues in the forefront of my discussions
and conversations; thus, my focus will always be on exposing and bringing
greater awareness to the plight of so-called African people and to expose what
took place with the original people because of the level of oppression and
tyranny they have experienced; which as I stated above, it is often
intentionally overlooked by Eurocentric thinkers and intellectuals. However,
for me this isn't about race as much as it is about European and American
imperialism—injustice that is what I am exposing (It just happened to be that
the people who committed these above mentioned crimes and atrocities were
Europeans).</span> <span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
</span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488483024607_1968"><span style="color: black;">I first
met Dr. Michael Eric Dyson at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
in North Carolina in which he was upsetting white folk based on his so-called
controversial scholarship (writing and speaking truth to power); Dr. Dyson has
published a new book titled, <u id="yiv0794257458yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488325802169_3587">Tears We Cannot Stop: A
Sermon to White <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place>.</u>
I have not read the book, but I recently saw Dyson talking about the book on
CNN and as a public intellectual who often gives sound views on race issues and
I am quite sure his recent analysis on race, class, white supremacy, Donald
Trump, and on the present and future forecast will be timely.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488483024607_1968">
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</span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488483024607_1968"><span style="color: black;">No. I am
not an American citizen, I am one of the 100 million victims of Americanism, my
ancestors did not arrive to <st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region>
on the Nina, Pinta nor the <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Santa Maria</st1:place></st1:city>
nor did we receive an immigration passport/visa or a green card. But we arrived
in the hulls of slave ships (who were stolen from the Hinterlands and placed in slave dungeons at
Elmina Castle off the coast of Ghana and Goree Island off the coast of Senegal)
and did not receive an official welcoming from the Immigration Naturalization
Services (INS). We did not get the opportunity to declare American citizenship
like other so-called immigrant people who arrived at Ellis Island (off the
Hudson River of New York and <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New
Jersey</st1:place></st1:state>) my ancestors arrived in chains as political
prisoners. Where is the political asylum for the 400 year suffering and
persecution of the ex-slaves, victims of the worst crime ever committed against
humanity?</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488483024607_1968">
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</span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488483024607_1968"><span style="color: black;">Andrew
Hacker in his monumental book titled, <u id="yiv0794257458yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488325802169_3604">Two Nations: Black and
White Separate, Hostile, Unequa</u>l stated, “RACE HAS BEEN an <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>
obsession since the first Europeans sighted "savages" on these
shores. In time, those original inhabitants would be subdued or slaughtered,
and finally sequestered out of view. But race in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> took on a deeper and more
disturbing meaning with the importation of Africans as slaves. Bondage would
later be condemned as an awful injustice and the nation's shame, even as we
have come to acknowledge the stamina and skill it took to survive in a system
where humans could be bought and sold and punished like animals. Nor are these
antecedents buried away in the past. That Americans of African origin once wore
the chains of chattels remains alive in the memory of both races and continues
to separate them”.<br id="yiv0794257458yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488325802169_3609" />
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Hacker continues, “Black Americans are Americans, yet they still subsist as
aliens in the only land they know. Other groups may remain outside the
mainstream-some religious sects, for example-but they do so voluntarily. In
contrast, blacks must endure a segregation that is far from freely chosen. So <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> may be
seen as two separate nations. Of course, there are places where the races
mingle. Yet in most significant respects, the separation is pervasive and
penetrating. As a social and human division, it surpasses all others-even
gender-in intensity and subordination.” (Reference: Andrew Hacker; “Two
Nations: Black and White Separate, Hostile, Unequal” pg. 3). </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488483024607_1968">
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</span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488483024607_1968"><span style="color: black;">The
so-called African Americans must be properly educated about their history and
the political and economic issues surrounding our sojourn and define for them
who they were before the advent of slavery and the white man. Chattel
Slavery systematically made us blind, deaf and dumb to the knowledge of self. I
am with my Moorish family quest and claim for a recognized nationality; however
it must be based on us first knowing that our legacy and heritage (land rights)
go much further back than the Europeans labeling us as Americans, black,
Ethiopians, Negroes, Colored, African, African American, etc. I have an entire
collection of various editions of Black’s Law Dictionaries in my library (we
have to know and understand the legal definitions of 'black' and 'American' as
defined by Black's Law Dictionary). </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488483024607_1968">
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</span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488483024607_1968"><span style="color: black;">These
false racial/ethnic labels allows for them to manipulate our sovereignty and
nationality these so-called generic racial labels will continue to nullify our
legal grievances to claiming our nationality, which compromises our lawful
recognition as Moors (Muurs) a sovereign, independent and indigenous nation who
were here before Atlantis disappeared and was geologically repositioned. We are
the direct descendants of the ancient Moors (Muurs) and aborigines. This is
perhaps the world's best kept secret that is now coming to light; Prophet Noble
Drew Ali raised this point in early 1900s in which he tied our descent linage
to the ancient biblical Canaanites and Moabites (the original Hebrews and
Israelites were black). </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488483024607_1968">
<br />
</span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488483024607_1968"><span style="color: black;">The
United Nations in my opinion, is a very important piece in our overall fight
for recognition (which the theoretical foundation of our fight will always be
rooted in our quest for freedom, justice and equality). The United States and
the other European nations must be charged with violating the human rights of
so-called African Americans who were the victims of 310 years of unjust
brutality and our case one day by the grace of God will be heard in the U.N.
Chambers of the Human Rights Commission in which Chattel slavery represented a
war crime and crimes against humanity. Minister Malcolm X in 1965, was
assassinated not by members of the Nation of Islam; the CIA and the FBI cannot escape culpability in brother
Malcolm’s murder, because of his political intentions of taking our
international grievances to the United Nations in order to charge the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
of being in violation of African Americans human rights (surely Minister Malcolm X had made a political transition and had moved beyond civil rights). Minister Malcolm X
founded the Organization of Afro American Unity (UNIA), which to
internationally advocate on behalf of the so-called African American, in particular after his
suspension and departure from the Nation of Islam (this plank made Minister
Malcolm X a dangerous man and set him on a collision course with the
powers-that-be). </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488483024607_1968">
<br />
</span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488483024607_1968"><span style="color: black;">The enemy
has always sent stool pigeons and agent provocateurs to derail the political,
economic and social progress of progressive black movements and organizations.
J. Edgar Hoover from the 1950s up until the 1970s utilized the F.B.I.
counterintelligence program better known as Cointelpro where the United States
Government systematically infiltrated black organizations and spied on its leadership
such as: Paul Robeson, Kwame Ture, Jamil Al-Amin, Robert Williams, W.E.B.
Dubois, Fannie Lou Hamer, Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X
and the OAAU, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale and the Black Panther Party, Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., and SCLC, A. Phillip Randolph and the labor movements,
Imari Abubakari Obadele and Chokwe Lumumba of the Republic of New Afrika,
etc. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488483024607_1968">
</span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488483024607_1968"><span style="color: black;">We know
that with the office of Homeland Security and the U.S. Patriot Act the internal
surveillance relative to spying and intelligence gathering without legal
warrants have been acerbated since 9/11, which allows government intervention
(in violation of civil liberties) in the affairs of not just militant and
radical groups and individuals but are even spying on ordinary citizens. They
justify this in the name of national security interest and by labeling us Enemy
Combatants. Edward Snowden should be hailed as an American hero but when
the governments use propaganda and disinformation they keep the masses confused
and mentally discombobulated. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488483024607_1968">
<br />
</span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488483024607_1968"><span style="color: black;">The above
perspective layout an overview of the sinister and diabolical capitalist
interest of how slavery and our forced captivity eventually turned us in to a
commodity (agreed European property). Now, what our nation (Moorish
nation, the so-called American Negro) is missing, was that our slavery status
moved us towards a perpetual transition in 1913, with the establishment of two
entities that would have the continued responsibility of serving and
sanctioning our historical and illegal kidnapping: the Federal Reserve Act, and
the Internal Revenue Service (keeps us in this legal bondage). These two
entities assured that Unified Commercial Code (UCC) would forever define and
link us to a present and historical status as being Chattel and/or property of
the white man's <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region>
corporation. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488483024607_1968">
<br />
<span style="color: black;">This will
also allow the Dred Scott Decision (1857) and Missouri Compromise (1820) to
forever on one hand mandate us as illegal aliens and yet dupe us into believing
that the U.S. Constitution was ratified and that would later add the 13th, 14th
and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution, which so-called made us
United States citizens and Americans (I do not think so).</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488483024607_1968"><span style="color: black;">They
defined maritime law or International waters as having its own sovereignty and
jurisprudence differs from Continental <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> territories (these rules of
law are uniquely different). So our legal signed agreement with the U.S.
Corporation is our collective acceptance to continue to be defined by the above
constitutional amendments and agreeing to participate in the affairs of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
corporation. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488483024607_1968">
<br />
<span style="color: black;">But also
as Moors (Muurs), we cannot have it both ways. If we understand the legality
question of nationality and sovereignty (better than most so-called American
Negroes), it places us in a very unique position. We cannot continue to
raise the most prolific and divisive symbol of our oppression, which is the
American flag that stood for slavery, death and Christianity to the so-called
American Negro. The American flag has no place in our religious and
philosophical framework and ideology. If we are serious about creating a
different set of freedom language lexicon and as we explore the legal
definitions by using the science of etymology and epistemology to breakdown
these non-binding and false racial identities applied to the so-called American
Negro (we have to also challenge ourselves and our institutions).
Moreover, we can no longer raise the American and the United States flag in our
Moorish Science Temples and meetings (as one of visible symbols and we cannot
declare recognition of this republic or give credence to their nationhood by
signing on to this). </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="color: black;">I think
in the early 1900s the Prophet Noble Drew Ali was concerned about using the
best of intelligence by protecting the Moorish Science Temple from being
attacked by the powerful United States Government and didn't want to subject
his followers to being charged with sedition and treason and un-American
activity. I think we have the responsibility of respecting the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
sovereignty, but not showing any patriotic allegiance to their flag or national
anthem or any of their patriotic symbols <span id="yiv0794257458yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488325802169_3662"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I am
baffled that in 2017, the Moorish Science Temples of America simultaneously
claim sovereign independency as Moorish Americans and to justify this
contradictory and reactionary symbol known as the American flag by having it
present in our places of worship; this is a sign of paying homage to our slave
master's legacy—meaning his flag and his sovereignty, which in my opinion
is illegal and unlawful. This symbol (in 1776 declared the United States by way
of the Declaration of Independence a sovereign nation from British rule) was
raised by the Europeans or the white man to justify his war crimes against us
as Moors and under this flag he committed murder, genocide, land thievery, and
led to the discretion of sacred edifices and holy lands in North America and
South America. Much of it was legally belonging to indigenous Moors (in fact
all of it). </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black;">If we
refer to ourselves as "Moorish American" this represent a legal
oxymoron and it compromises and deflates our overall legal position within the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> courts and
the International courts. We should never allow ourselves to be referred and
defined as hyphenated "Americans". No, I am not "Moorish
American" and we should burn that damn American flag in our temples and
throw it out and raise the sovereign flag of Allah, the Moorish God. I believe
in complete sovereignty and I understand my nationality will not include any
legal linkages to the term <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>
or American. So that is the challenge that is confronting us as Moors (Muurs),
if we are serious about changing the nationality paradigm and breaking the
legal cycles of Chattel Slavery and declaring ourselves a free people. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="color: black;">Some of
the American history that I have researched stated that only the six or seven
original European settlers who settled as the Thirteen Original Colonies and
those who stole the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Americas</st1:place></st1:country-region>
would be classified as Americans and no indigenous people could ever be legally
classified as "Americans". So once again we as Moors (Muurs) have to
totally discard the American flag and trust in Allah, and move the Prophet
Noble Drew Ali's principles and teachings to the next ether. The Prophet Noble
Drew Ali was clear about his political, theological and philosophical
directions in his treatise the Holy Koran Circle Seven, so I am challenging the
Muurs to up their demands and quest, as well as affirmation towards the legal
mandates to permanently and legally declare the so-called American Negro a
recognized nationality within the United Nations in order to have a place
amongst the body of other sovereign nations.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span id="yiv0794257458yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488325802169_3681">We
have to move beyond all these theoretical arguments into establishing a
political international law plan of action and become proactive in
transitioning us towards claiming our rightful nationality and sovereignty
(beyond the rhetoric). Thus, are we prepared to petition the United Nations
(which will entail charging the United States Government and other European
powers with war crimes against humanity) and wage the legal defense from the international
jurisprudence side and work to acquire the monetary resources to wage this
monumental legal battle in order to make us legally whole again. This will
entail a defense that will tear at the very core and root of the United States
Constitution and cause for having some of the best legal minds to frame and
defend this argument, which will involve reinterpreting the 13th, 14th, and
15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. This will lead to relinquishing our
'American' nationality and debunking our so-called ‘American citizenship’
classification status and overturning the Dred Scott Decision and truly
declaring ourselves in name and principle free from the bondages of white supremacy.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span>
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African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the pending dangers that lie
ahead; as well as decode the symbolism and reinterpreted the hidden meanings
behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We
are of the belief that an enlightened world will be better prepared to throw
off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the
slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight-El can be
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I am constantly asked by those who visited my Blog about my
abbreviated online Bio, which indicates that I am a Free Thinker, and many have
doubled down to asked, what does that actually mean? Webster online dictionary
defines Free Thinking: "as a philosophical viewpoint which holds that
position regarding truth should be formed on the basis of logic, reason, and
empiricism, rather than authority, tradition, revelation, or other dogma."
Now, Free Thinking for me was a spiritual calling (or transformation and
transition) that can only be obtained by the journey of life, it involved
something much deeper than our natural human instincts and intellectual inclinations
to achieve and disperse knowledge and challenge ideals. Although, this will
forever be a part of the process and to the outside world will perhaps stand as
the judgmental variable and parameters of determining whether or not you will be received
as a true Free Thinker; this will also be your own proof positive litmus test
and will serve as your own personal tangible barometer (not that you
should need such verification or affirmation to validate this
determination). </div>
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The measuring stick will, however, always be rooted in your
courage and willingness to weigh all evidence (which will be presented in
literary or verbal forms and/or presented in the theoretical and ideological
frameworks of organizations and movements) that is presented and not be shy to
render a critique and analysis in order to prove that the presented argument
was flawed and lacked evidentiary proof or it had met the standards of truth
based on the rigorousness of an impartial investigation. I was led to an academic
book authored by Mary E. McGann titled, <u>Critical Thinking and Writing in the
Disciplines</u> this book became good training ground for me in becoming a critical
thinker and what that entailed. </div>
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I grew up between the <st1:placename w:st="on">Pentecostal</st1:placename>
<st1:placename w:st="on">Holy</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Church</st1:placetype>
and the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Baptist</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Church</st1:placetype></st1:place> faith traditions. The Pentecostal
experience was always full of spiritual energy, there were shouting, speaking in tongues, singing,
crying, dancing, plenty of testimonies, out loud scripture readings—it was an
environment of spiritual electricity (they would congregate what appeared to be
seven days a week and the ministers wore the titles of prophets and apostles
and each service was like a high powered revival (I am speaking now directly to
black folk this was our collective experience)—I would covertly be playing
behind my mother's back with my brothers and sisters and with other devious
children in the church (you were not allowed to eat candy, talk and definitely
not play). These were some long sessions and as a child you tried to make the
best of all this preaching; I knew from time-to-time I had to yell out with
other members 'thank you Jesus', I would then be safe from momma's wrath (it
seemed like she had eyes in the back of her head). </div>
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My mother and other Elders would enter a realm of spirit
referred to as the Holy Ghost or become touched by the holy spirit and it was
liken to an outer-body experience, which is unexplainable outside of the black
Christian holiness experiences and traditions. I know white folk think they
understand this, but they do not; this spiritual energy goes back to our
ancient African ancestors and was the embodiment of invoking traditional
African religious-ethos that made its way through the horrific and horrid
voyage known as the Transatlantic Slave Trade, a crime against humanity (they
could not kill our spirit) and it survived in our DNA and made its way across
the Atlantic Ocean. The Black Christian Pentecostal is a living testimony of
our continued connectedness to our African heritage even to this very day the
drums, tambourines, the organ and piano and at times the beauty of the black
human acapela voices was music to the ears (the human voice by far is the
greatest instrument ever created).</div>
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I did not arrive at this stage, because, it was something
that I initially sought, but I do believe that I was predestined to be one of
those free spirited souls that could not be confined by the gravitational pull
of proselytizing indoctrination of intended doctrines; of course even this
would prove to be to shallow to bind me to accept one single thought as my life
path. I met this Zen Master in my life’s journey and he told me that nothing
in life was coincidental or accidental (or occurred by happenstance) and
wherever, we are in space and time, that is where we are supposed to be and he
looked at me and said the universe arranges these things even before our
allowed physical carination, and given permission to exist on this plane (in
this sphere). </div>
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I looked at him as though, he had lost his mind; he must
have detected my lack of comprehension and my inability to process these
thoughts at that time. He only said that one day, I would understand that All
real lessons have a duality in meaning and interpretation, but must first be
understood from the spiritual realm (this was a metaphysical discourse). I was
offered a small book titled, <u>Tao The Ching</u> by Lao Tzu, this book of
ancient Chinese wisdom and philosophy freed my mind of the western dialectic
worldview into accepting the eastern ancient Sages and Gurus wisdom and
spiritual principles as having a much deeper meaning and the wisdom therein
just felt that it was God talking directly to you.</div>
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In 2006, Rhonda Byrne
published a book titled, <u>The Secret</u>, she pulled together twenty-four
highly touted spiritualist who shared various intellectual and spiritual
experiences and involvement in the esoteric, occult and Gnostic schools of
thoughts in order to make an attempt to package ancient wisdom that had shaped
humanity’s spiritual existences based on the universal principles of good that
had touched all cultures, races, nationalities and this knowledge had altered
humanity’s orientation to life down through the ages of time—these various
spiritual intellectuals shared mystical, mythical, healing, and indigenous
knowledge that was rooted in the folklore of ancient civilizations and the
benefits of the observance of metaphysical outcomes. Some of them spoke outside
of the concepts of organized religion. It was a clear indication that western
man had failed and his failure has led to an earthly and human imbalance; it
has placed him on a collision course with the universal powers. </div>
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I think European New Age thinkers such as Eckhart Tolle who
authored the book titled, <u>The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment</u>
and <span class="a-size-large"><u>A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose</u></span>
and even Reverend Rick Warren who authored the book titled, <u>The Purpose Driven
Life</u>; these Caucasians have come deeply in contact with our indigenous knowledge
and are articulating it on a broader scale, but they must not forget that they have
borrowed this wisdom from the fathers and mothers of civilization.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was given this little pocket sizes book titled,
<u>As Man Thinketh</u> by James Allen that I still carry every place I go, it is
full of powerful wisdom and jewels and with little doubt Allen had drank from the
fountain of the ancient masters and had adopted their universal principles. </div>
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This wisdom affected me differently than the wisdom of <u>Qur'an</u>
and the <u>Bible</u> yet, I totally understood that all of this had an
interconnectedness with the original divine source although, this wisdom
contained in the <u>Tao The Ching</u> left know doubt that it had been passed
down my many ancient generations and it even predated the <u>Bhagavad Gita</u> ,it
sent me on a spiritual journey, it also predated the 'Pslams of David' and from
those pages, I was a changed human being—I truly tapped into my Pineal gland.
Energy and power source that has baffled Europeans for over 6,000, but
indigenous and original people of the earth within their spiritual customs,
rites, sacraments, practices and rituals knew how to alter energy polarities
and shift energy sources to transcend into Astro-beings this was the highest
form of enlightenment. I balanced this off by being exposed to Ra Un Nefer Amen
books titled, <span class="a-size-large"><u>Metu Neter, Vol. 1: The Great
Oracle of Tehuti and the Egyptian System of Spiritual Cultivation</u> and</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><u><span style="color: blue;"> </span></u></span><span class="a-size-extra-large"><u>Metu Neter Vol. 2:
Anuk Ausar, The Kamitic Initiation System</u></span><span class="a-size-large">. </span></div>
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Erich Von Daniken in his book titled, <u>The Chariots of the
Gods</u>, it would be his white Eurocentric intellectualism that put him in
denial of the great Pyramids of Kemet (Egypt) were constructed by the indigenous
Nubians who had occupied Kemet for over 20,000 years before European
intervention, they were the original Egyptians. These recent wars in Libya,
Egypt, Iraq, Syria, etc., have led to the theft, looting and discretion of
ancient artifacts of antiquity (these assaults were carried out systematically)
but let me be clear these artifacts did not belong to the Semitic Arab
imposters nor the Europeans and was not part of the Islamic dynasties. </div>
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Black people had established civilizations centuries prior
to their arrival on the African continent. Many of these ancient cities like <st1:city w:st="on">Tripoli</st1:city>, <st1:city w:st="on">Cairo</st1:city> and <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Baghdad</st1:place></st1:city> housed valuable
treasures. The Europeans have stolen indigenous peoples cultural artifacts and
our linkages with time is in white museums in Paris, London, Berlin, Moscow,
Rome, Cyprus, Lisbon, Toronto, etc.. I know the great black archivist and
curator Arthur Alfonso Schomburg probably is turning over in his grave at how
we have allowed these cultural bandits to steal and house our history and
tradition in defiled white institutions. </div>
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My next awakened, there was Nation of Islam minister in
Durham, North Carolina named Minister Ray Muhammad (Minister Muhammad and I
became good friends) he would teach quite often about the importance of
submission and surrendering your will to do the will of God; he had a free
willing spirit and was a graduate of a HBCU Texas Southern University in
Houston, out of the South Western Athletic Conference (SWAC) of course I have a
common bond with all HBCU graduates and my feelings were no different towards
Minister Muhammad. Minister Ray Muhammad would often state where you are right
now is where you are supposed to be and no one arrives at these spaces and
times of their own volition or by osmosis God brought you there (this was
leading me towards my evolution into Free Thinking). He gave me a better
understanding of Master Fard Muhammad and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad's teachings.</div>
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The biggest leap into becoming a Free Thinker, is to allow
yourself to move beyond the confinement of dogmas, philosophy, theologies,
political bias, etc., which taught me not to permit nor allow exclusivity in
one school of thought to captivate my ideological imagination because this will
erect and create artificial barriers, which could disallow the appreciating of the
diversity and the expansiveness of knowledge and truth. Thus, you will also
learn through practical experience and through life trials and error the value
and ultimate value of principles that are better understood and received by
others as positive examples when observed and lived and reflected as
transparent ethics for everyone to see our lives as an open book (we should
live our lives as living examples of universal good). </div>
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Free Thinkers are only loyal to their quest to discover the
truth regardless of how painful the findings maybe, it is this clarion call
that allows us to escape our natural attachment to familiar shared ideologies.
But will always demonstrate the ability, as well as determination and
willingness to look beyond those safe and comfort zones, which to objectively
weigh all knowledge and thought on the larger scale of determining proof. With
the Free Thinker’s mindset there are no safety nets that will stand in their
way to determining the truth at all cost. Free Thinkers are ordinarily met with
skepticism and suspiciousness because, we have been taught from early on to
unquestionably accept doctrines and a worldviews that validates and support the
status quo.</div>
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Yet, the Free Thinkers possess the courage to engage and
upstage contrary perspectives to the popular version of the truth (you will pay
a heavy personal cost, if you ever choose to become a Free Thinker) will cause
them to be ridiculed, isolated, it could even cause more sinister acts. Once
the Free Thinker has arrived at this lofty position, it will often lead them to
revisited previous held beliefs and debunk them for more sound information and
by this stage in their development, they would have learned to put all emotions
to the a side—this makes the dismantling and reconstruction process much
easier. </div>
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Moreover, admittedly most human beings who are learned and
unlearned will never become a Free Thinker, because this is truly a journey
less traveled and human beings find it easy to think inside the box, it makes
associations more accommodating and it suffices the normalization of this world’s
order in spite of injustice, corruption, inequalities, etc., Free Thinkers are
revolutionary in their thought patterns—Buddha, Confucius, Zoroaster, Gandhi,
Jesus, Mohammed, Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Jr., and
Muhammad Ali. They had transcended (or was born) earthly expectations and had
moved deep into the spiritual realm, a place that we all should look to obtain
and arrive it is the only true gate to freedom. </div>
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This spiritual plateau opens you up to be used by the universal
forces of good—honesty, self-denial, forgiveness and leads to the greatest
expression of love, which is unconditional love. Free Think is teaching me to
understand what love truly means on a much higher level and to forgive is the
greatest act of human freedom, to relinquish and free others from our
perceptions (in particular those whom we believed have transgressed against us)
exonerate them that you might release yourself from an unjust self-affliction
of imprisonment and bondage that continues to create cycles of pain and
suffering in our conscience and sub-conscience minds. This quest often will immediately
become conflictive with a world that was built on deception and
"ism". </div>
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We must seek to look outside of this world that was
constructed on disinformation and propaganda and have the uncanny ability to
reconstruct a worldview that challenges the popular version of the truth in
order to create a new societal and personal paradigm. The true Free Thinker innately
either already has these skills of possessing the ability to reason and analyze
and/or on the journey they are acquired and developed by way of the experience
of various Paths in which the Creator or Supreme Being or whatever Higher expression
that is the source of your spiritual inclinations and guide that factor into
our lives. Let me not sound contradictory; spirituality is beyond the concepts
of Supreme Beings or religious concepts and often functions as an independent
variable outside of organized religious terminology and phraseology. </div>
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The inclination (of surrendering yourself) to walk your life
in a Free Thinker’s space will be a deep evolutionary process for the human
being (and was the biggest step that I ever made in my life), it will be more
impactful than even the DNA that we inherited from our mothers and fathers
(although this plays a factor into our development). However, this goes beyond
the meeting of sperm and ova of human biological science. Truly a magnificent
God/human and miraculous phenomenon that from an egg coming together with male
sperm during conception (new life is formulated) that allows us to extend past
our biological substances that was transferred in chromosomes and our nucleus
and atomic make up produced an independent human being referred to as our
offspring who has a mind and thoughts of their own. </div>
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Yes, their parents shared DNA will always be a part of their
human essences. Let me stop here; I was a poor student in science, although I
started out as a biology major in college. My Science major peers were serious
and disciplined students and I wasn’t at that time in my life. So forgive me
for recklessly trying to use a scientific analogy to paint a picture in my
life. I was learning about concepts of microbiology and organic chemistry and
physics. I woke up during that semester and said what the hell am I doing here
and I immediately consulted by academic advisor and changed my major. I often
wonder where my life would have been, if I had become a scientist or medical
doctor; I know that in life nothing was coincidental and as quickly as that
thought entered my brain, my Free Thinking immediately absolved those thoughts.
I am doing exactly what I am supposed to be doing; anything else does not exist
in my time and space.<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <span lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Fahim A.
Knight-El Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in <st1:place u1:st="on"><st1:city u1:st="on"><st1:place u2:st="on"><st1:city u2:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Durham</st1:city></st1:place></st1:city>, <st1:state u1:st="on"><st1:state u2:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">NC</st1:state></st1:state></st1:state></st1:place></st1:city></st1:place>;
our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the
pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolism and
reinterpreted the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces,
but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlightened world
will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be
willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power.
Fahim A. Knight-El can be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com. </span></div>
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FAHIM KNIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00567827759311275290noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4957787817614691922.post-31572969990742507502017-02-07T12:51:00.000-08:002017-03-28T17:07:56.362-07:00THE UNITED STATES, RUSSIA, CHINA AND NORTH KOREA<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">THE UNITED <st1:city w:st="on">STATES</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">RUSSIA</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">CHINA</st1:country-region> AND <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">NORTH KOREA</st1:place></st1:country-region>;
THE COMPREHENSIVE GLOBAL CHALLENGES TO WHITE NATIONALISM<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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President Donald Trump has put himself up against history in
which he wants to approach the world from a new geopolitical mindset and
desires to attempt to alter and change the international and global rules
in which some of his global agenda is not well thought out, but he has patriots in his administration and in place to fill in the gaps for him. Some may view my thoughts on Donald Trump
and his New World Order agenda and One World Government agenda as being mere
idealistic and lack true pragmatism and I totally understand their
unwillingness to consider an alternative perspective, but their apprehension
will not prohibited the inevitable of what is going to take place in the world under Donald Trump. Perhaps Trump has not taking into account and doesn't realize that
the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region> is a
declining world power and is steadily being replaced by <st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region> who has made serious inroads into solidifying
its dominance in <st1:place w:st="on">Asia</st1:place> and the Asian Pacific
realm and has created a global economic prowess throughout the world. And
their present day influence is unmatched by western governments including the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States of America</st1:place></st1:country-region>
(this truly represent a new era politically in world history). When the United States
dollar forty years ago begin to lose its international economic credibility as
the world's reserve currency, it was a clear indication that America as a
nation was transitioning into a global downward spiral politically, economically
and socially and China based on default and presenting itself as a new world global authority had taking that
position and the United States is still in denial of this fact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> use to be the number one
creditor nation in the world now, it stands as one of the number one debtor
nations of the world. </div>
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They will get even weaker in next 10-20 years or less when
North Korea; Kim Yong-Un is getting very close to acquiring intercontinental
ballistics missiles capabilities and Iran is working undercover to acquire full nuclear capability
in the very near future; this will bring a new international military paradigm
and will dictate a neo-geopolitical relationship with South Korea in which
North Korea will attempt to redraw the sovereign boarder lines and force a one
united Korea (even if this means going to war) in which China will be an external
instigator who will be backing North Korea in this unification of the two
Koreas. The protectorate status that United States has historically offered
South Korea would have to be reevaluated in lieu of North Korea acquiring the intercontinental
ballistics missiles in which they could strike the United States from Asia,
because of this potential predicted new political and military arrangement (or
acquired military technology on North Korea part) it could prove be explosive,
which could be the impetus for World War III. </div>
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<st1:country-region w:st="on">North Korea</st1:country-region>
has been really aggressive in their launching missile testing program and has
been in defiance of international law and because of its relationship with <st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region>; this relationship has allowed them to be
able to circumvent the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United
States</st1:place></st1:country-region> embargoes and sanctions. They are in
bed with one of the most powerful trade partners in the world, which is <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region> and they
don't feel the economic affect when it comes to goods and services being
disrupted. The United States Government has systematically duped
the American people and the entire globe in general, about the
effectiveness of sanctions and embargoes. Some political critics who have
alternative media sources are warning us of the global geopolitical
implications and predictions that have been put on the chessboard, which is nothing
short of alarming; but we have been so dummied down by the Talking Heads and
social media and by their disinformation propaganda and we do not have a clue of the
pending danger that lie ahead that faces all of humanity. Now, in the grand scheme of things in
which, I will cover in the Blog’s content below, it isn't
totally about the narrow scope of black and white in these globalization
schemes, it is more about the evolvement of political unilateral thinking, that
is more rooted in world domination; this is how the neo-alliances are being structured and
orchestrated, which involves totally attempting to control the world's
resources and impacting the thinking of humanity.</div>
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It is to early to make a definitive determination of what the
United States international and foreign policy future will be, however, this
much, we do know President Donald Trump lack of international diplomatic and
foreign policy experience is going prove to be a liability in his decision
making ability to steer the United States on a course that would be less
antagonistic. He is confronted with how to contain Asian nationalism with <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>
dominating influence in the Pacific realm this world power isn't going anywhere
and will continue to expand its influence politically, economically and
socially beyond its boarders. <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>
knows that they possess no equals in their dominance over the global economic
markets, which continues to allow them to transition into being the defacto
world leader in obtaining raw materials from around the world, which no nation
can compete economically with them in the modern context of turning those raw
materials into manufactured tradable commodities and expanding markets. Although,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region> had entered into a
high-tech production and manufacturing economy, which on the surface, it
appears to be a page out of when the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> led the world during
the industrial revolution. Where factories and raw materials were the economic
model and we witnessed products being made inside the <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region> and when the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> economy was booming. But Alvin
and Heidi Tofflers explain this best in their book titled, <u>Creating A New Civilization: The Politics of the Third Wave</u>.
Trump is systematically lying to the American people about where the world is right now and denying the economic trends and stages
that led to the dismantling of American industrialism and contributed to the fall of America. Trump want the American
people to believe that manufacturing is coming back to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> let me
be the bearer of bad news, it is not going to happen. Trump in his deception
and rhetoric is attempting to lead the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> down a dark international
path. <br />
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Trump and the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region>
have covertly declared war against <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>, the first step was him
pulling out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) international economic trade
agreements. The <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region>
is forcing these new world and global alliance, in which <st1:country-region w:st="on">Russia</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region>
and the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States are</st1:place></st1:country-region> all rushing to set the template for the future outlook relative to
globalization. These nations will redraw the lines of international waters and
maritime jurisprudence this will automatically impact weaker and stronger
nation's sovereignty. How we understood the geopolitical interest of nations
yesterday will no longer be relevant in the new global arrangements. Some of
the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
international motivations will be rooted in their concept of attempting to extend
and expanded white nationalism. Donald Trump and Secretary of State Rex
Tillerson refused to politically distance themselves from Russian President
Vladimir Putin, it is because they have a master plan of unifying the world of
Eurasia and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>;
those former ethnic nations that declared their sovereignty after the Cold War
will be once again come under the threat of Russian military aggression and dictates. </div>
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Trump has a fixation on destroying Islam not just militant
radical Islam, but all Islam (a war he cannot win). He is strategically seeking
to wipe Islam off the world’s map. No Islamic nation will be deemed safe from
this type of mindset and tyranny; today it is Iran, Yemen, Syria, Sudan,
Somalia, Libya and Iraq on the so-called Homeland Security terrorist list (the
Center for Strategic Studies) and the Talking Heads and the political scientist,
they are not going to convey the true agenda to the American people that these
new alignments are rooted in the principles of global white nationalism. Putin
of Russia has the Islamic problem in <st1:place w:st="on">Central Asia</st1:place>
and the former Russian protectorates in which President Richard Nixon warned
the European world that Islam would pose the greatest threat to their world
domination as they moved into the 21st Century. </div>
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Trump found a white allay in Putin who shares his political
sentiments about extinguishing the potential rise of Islam and its continued
spread in Europe and <st1:place w:st="on">Asia</st1:place>. This alignment is
valuable to Trump's globalization, One World Government and New World Order
agenda in which the implications could be another war, if radical militant Islam
is not halted. They will strategically pick <st1:country-region w:st="on">Iran</st1:country-region>
as a pasty, the war of words between the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United
States</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on">Iran</st1:country-region>
has been warming up even before Trump became <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> commander-in-chief. Trump said
he has served notice on <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Iran</st1:country-region> response to the threat
was that they were a sovereign nation and did not need the permission from the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> to make
political, economic and social decisions. Trump condemned the covert Iran deal
that was initiated by the Obama administration as being a 'bad deal' in which
Iran so-called agreed to cut back on its nuclear weapons program aspirations;
many believed that this agreement in particular was also tied to monetary
ransom money of 400 million dollars paid to Iran as good faith money to get
American hostages released. Yet the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> had frozen and seized
Iranian money and assets since 1979, when Imam Ayatollah Khomeini initiated the
Iranian Revolution. This money has been frozen for over thirty-seven years.</div>
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I think Trump is going to rescind part of this <st1:country-region w:st="on">Iran</st1:country-region> deal in order to provoke <st1:country-region w:st="on">Iran</st1:country-region>, but this is going to get interesting because <st1:country-region w:st="on">Iran</st1:country-region> has purchased weapons from <st1:country-region w:st="on">Russia</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">North
Korea</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
Trump will find out that being the leader of the so-called free world and
running the world is not reality television or his Apprentice show, it is a lot
more comprehensive and complex, but the decisions he makes will globally impact
the United States present and future course, I truly do not think he
understands the magnitude and power he possesses that will impact the entire
world. This is not a game. Now, North <st1:country-region w:st="on">Korea</st1:country-region>
under the Supreme Ruler Kim Jong-Un will continue to flex his will and military
might in defiance of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United
States</st1:place></st1:country-region> and international law, by continuing
to test his missiles program. China will keep this loose cannon in their back pocket,
because his 20th century Communist style ruler-ship and dictatorship serves in
the long term interest of China who is clandestinely fueling Kim Jong-Un in his
rhetoric by taking a quasi laissez-faire approach and simultaneously putting
billions of Chinese dollars behind North Korea, thus, making a joke out of
United States sanctions and embargoes and trust me China is not concerned about
North Korea's human rights record. </div>
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This invisible phenomenon (consisting of <st1:country-region w:st="on">North Korea</st1:country-region>) creates an international balance of
power without <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>
themselves appearing as an international bully. The <st1:country-region w:st="on">United
States</st1:country-region> has become overly consumed with the so-called
potential threat of Kim Jong-Un and it is this that is partially driving the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region> in what appears to be an
unorthodox relationship and partnership between <st1:country-region w:st="on">Russia</st1:country-region>
and the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
Trump understands that in the new strategic international interest he is going
to need <st1:country-region w:st="on">Russia</st1:country-region> to halt <st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region>'s aspirations towards expansion in the <st1:placename w:st="on">China</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">South</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Sea</st1:placetype> and beyond, in particular the <st1:country-region w:st="on">Philippines</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:country-region>
and other territories in the <st1:place w:st="on">South China Sea</st1:place>.
Theses disputes have been ongoing and will only become acerbated with these new
international alignments that will potentially have to be executed with a weaker
United Nations and rules of international law will be less binding. This has
the potential to create an international powder keg for the west and the east. </div>
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It is not by coincidence that Trump has appointed and
nominated all these ultra white nationalist mindsets to his administration.
This is a new frontier in the recent modern international context, but taking
right out of the playbook of the old white nationalism decree to once again
impose race dominance into the international political equation (yesterday it
was the Aryan race, the Anglo-Saxon race and today it's a hybrid etho-racial
breaded in the United States that are seeking world racial supremacy). They
seek to have no opposition to their and Trump’s agenda and these ultra white
nationalist and white supremacy, they are not motivated by what is politically correct.
Trump has multiply agendas, he unlike most white world leaders he see the
handwriting on the wall and he is getting in front of the trouble waters and sees
Russia as its great partner. </div>
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But Trump is no match for the likes of Vladmir Putin;
Putin’s corruption is gangster style he has no loyally to anyone and will cross
you in a heart beat; unknowing to Trump, Putin and the Russian government has
been selling weapons and military technology to North Korea for decades and
even under Kim Yong-Un, he is one of their number one international armament
customers. These political dynamics are a triangle of deceptions between China,
North Korea and Russia, which North Korea is being deemed America’s so-called
number one enemy, but America’s new ally Russia is still supplying all types of
military support to North Korea as I write this article in which China also is
fully aware of this. What is the common denominator?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are old communist ideological alliances
that still possess international value when it is necessary and politically expedient. Putin and <st1:country-region w:st="on">Russia</st1:country-region> is also selling <st1:country-region w:st="on">Iran</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on">North
Korea</st1:country-region> weapons and military technology before the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region> imposed sanctions and embargoes, and
after <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
impose sanctions. </div>
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He will use the skillset of Rex Tillerson as a Seven Oil Sisters operative
and agent (Tillerson is on multi payrolls: Russian, the CIA, Israeli lobby and
AIPAC and the Rockefellers) and his ultimate agenda will be to instigate more
conflicts in the Persian Gulf by using the CIA playbook to infuse propaganda and
disinformation against Iran and sell this bullshit to the American people that
Iran poses a national security threat, because they continue to desire to
become a nuclear powered nation. If they could take back India and Pakistan
nuclear capability they would because they believe people of color are
irresponsible and to put nuclear weapons in the hands of a so-called radical
and militant Islamic government like Iran will be troublesome to the western
world, they see it as a threat to the white world and if Iran acquires nuclear
weapons this will upset the white world domination and upstage the balance of
power in the Middle East. <br />
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Russia has always played by its own international rules and
they will not block Tillerson and Trump’s plans (they all are on the same team)
to attack and invade Iran because there is oil on the table for Lukoil <span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">and Rosneft
Russian state oil company and untold personal wealth for Trump, Putin, Tillerson and
Exxonmobile in which the international alliances means nothing in lieu of the
expansion of global white nationalism. Trump’s concept of patriotism is not
tied to the United States sovereignty and him and Putin have declared
allegiances to breakdown these artificial barriers, sovereignty and boarders
will take on an entire new definition relative to international jurisprudence
and they are military prepared to squash any national and international
rebellions. Russian troops have been deeply rooted in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:country-region u1:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:country-region>’s
secret security forces (some of them former KGB agents) and was brought to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region u1:st="on"><st1:place u1:st="on">United
States</st1:place></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:country-region> by
the ex-CIA director and President George H.W. Bush and the program was
continued under Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have been secretly part of the United States
Central Command and will replace the National Guards and FEMA when domestic
disturbance arises inside the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:country-region u1:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:country-region>
in particular when martial law is declared, it will be contained by Russian
forces operating covertly in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:country-region u1:st="on"><st1:place u1:st="on">America (they were systematically chosen because of their ruthlessness and their non-allegiance to Americans citizenry</st1:place></st1:country-region></st1:country-region></st1:place></span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "roboto"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">.</span><o:p></o:p><br />
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No, entity will be allowed to impede their quest for the total completion of the One World Government agenda and the accumulation of wealth, these new global geopolitical strategies will make <st1:country-region u1:st="on"><st1:place u1:st="on"><st1:country-region u2:st="on"><st1:place u2:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:country-region></st1:place></st1:country-region> expendable in the opening out of the United States-Eurasia expansionism and power dynamics. In this new power paradigm schemes, it is about moving the entire world into a new direction; thus, the prior NATO alliances in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:place u3:st="on"><st1:place u1:st="on">Western Europe</st1:place></st1:place></st1:place> will be forced to surrender some aspects of their previous concepts of what sovereignty meant to their so-called democracies. Trump and his administration do not desire to continue the type of international diplomacy that was still linked to an era in American history known as the Cold War. This time has passed and the international political arrangements have become obsolete and have outlived its purpose and usefulness in Trump’s worldview.
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They will invoke fear into the psyche of the American people
and potentially line the United States up again for another war just like in
Afghanistan in 2001 and in Iraq in 2003, and we know that these were induced
wars, which was rooted in international grand theft of Afghanistan poppy plant
(or Heroin distribution in which the USSR fought a nine year war against the
Mujahedeen over the Central Asian heroin trade and the Russians lost a bitter
war) and taking over the second largest oil reserves in the world. George W.
Bush and the Bush crime family, they wanted a part of this lucrative heroin
trade and with the permission of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Russia</st1:country-region>
they agreed that the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region>
would use its military to fight in the rugged mountainous Afghan terrain to
acquire a monopoly over the heroin dope trade coming out of <st1:place w:st="on">Central
Asia</st1:place>. <br />
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</span><st1:country-region u1:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Russia</st1:country-region>
after a nine year war didn't want anymore part of going back to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
They also wanted more control over the Central Asia oil pipeline that involved
running oil from the Black and <st1:placename w:st="on">Caspian</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Seas</st1:placetype> to <st1:place w:st="on">Siberia</st1:place>.
Now, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is a crook exemplar he will use his
official capacity to start wars and simultaneously will be running so much
international dope and oil from the around the world and funnel it to
Exxonmobile and which to involve in the global theft of natural resources in
Africa. They have all the puppet African leaders in their hip-pockets in which
our continent will become once again a prime target to be further raped and
exploited under this new international direction being put forth by Trump. <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>'s colonial masters will come back to this wealthy
continent with a vengeance. Tillerson is ruthlessness he didn't become an oil
tycoon of ExxonMobil because of business niceties; he understands that business
is a declaration of war.<br />
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Fahim A. Knight-El Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in <st1:place u1:st="on"><st1:city u1:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Durham</st1:city></st1:place>, <st1:state u1:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">NC</st1:state></st1:state></st1:city></st1:place>; our mission is
to inform African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the pending dangers
that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolism and reinterpreted the hidden
meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world.
We are of the belief that an enlightened world will be better prepared to throw
off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the
slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight-El can be
reached at fahimknight@yahoo.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">com. </span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></st1:country-region></div>
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America has become increasingly a nation of black and brown
people in which demographers are predicting that in the next twenty-five years
the United States will no longer be a majority white skinned nation and this
notion is fearful to many in white America and Europeans around the globe. The
sexuality of white women and their attraction to the black man have
always created all types of social problems in a white supremacy
society. The historian J.A. Rogers (1880-1966) has found that these interracial
relationships run deep into the historical and modern civilizations
anthropological dynamics, the DNA strained of African blood has touched the
entire planet. No, other so-called African American historian had gone to these
great lengths to document just how far reaching the Negroid linage and
human sexuality have played in the history of European,
Asians, and in the Americas and their ethnic and racial kinship to the
Blackmoors who have racially impacted every nation's culture and history;
in which Rogers tediously and meticulous go through ancestral records
and historical genealogy by delving into human phenotypes to arrived at
proven how wide spread and extensive were the African descendants. His
voluminous books titled, <u>Sex and Race</u> that exposes some of
racial kinship that has been systematically covered up and the
history will literally shock you—I called his research as being the
impetus of unlocking unknown global sexuality of black history
historical facts, but this is a subject for another time. <br />
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I will intentionally digress a bit, but hopefully you all as
my readers will eventually see the interconnectedness of my thought patterns;
this article main theme was constructed to be a brief overview of some of our
black historians whom I deemed important and those who made tremendous
contributions to our struggle and I found none more deserving to be mentioned
than Joel Augusta Rogers. This nation, the land (and all the U.S.
territories) and the resources will always rightfully belong to the original
Native Americans and their descendants along with our Moorish ancestors
and those Africans who came to America before Columbus according to Dr.
John Henrik Clarke (1915-1998) in his book titled, <u>Christopher Columbus and The African Holocaust</u>. </div>
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<st1:placename w:st="on">Manhattan</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Island</st1:placetype> in <st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state>
and the entire <st1:place w:st="on">Hudson River</st1:place> geographical region was
once sacred Native American lands and were part of sacred burial grounds for
African Americans and Native Americans. There exist indigenous ancestral
spirits rooted in the Gods of vengeance hanging of over <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:state>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rhode Island was the greatest slave port in
the Western Hemisphere; perhaps like many of you, I once believed that
Charleston , South Carolina and Jamestown, Virginia were the two infamous slave
capitols of the United States; I was wrong because my research took me to Rhode
Island in which more African slaves were imported into this North East slave
port) that generational curses have been invoked on New York because
of the unjust and unresolved crime; this curse has ‘Karmacilly’ been
transferred to the present occupiers who left a trail of blood that sunk into
the soil and waterways 500-600 years ago and many of those bodies never
received a proper traditional custom burial—it produced traveling spirits. They
defiled this territory be erecting the secular structures of the neo Babel Towers
called the twin towers or the World Trade Center that sat in spiritual
contradiction and outside the spirits geopolitical and the sacred
geometry that was defined by the stars and the Gods of the
indigenous people decided that they no longer would occupy that
space. I am willing to bet you that 9/11 Commission Report did not consider the
spiritual causes of what occurred on September 11, 2001. </div>
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They blamed Muslims and radical extremist Islamic
terrorist for this devastation, but unless you understood indigenous rites
and folklore (even what I am saying and writing now still might be over some
people’s heads) this type of phenomenon is not coincidental and is only
part of the negative global energy that constantly insures universal balance
but those in power have created an universal imbalance; they begin to invoke
this energy over 6,000 years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The indigenous people blood is still
warmly flowing as invisible energy and is being kept alive by unknown
universal forces and was activated when the two tallest buildings in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:state> came
tumbling down. The Native Americans created an energy invoked by the
ancient Gods of fire, but beneath the twin towers on that day, it was an
earthquake (that was activated below the earth and where those buildings
set, the impact was prescribed to be no further than that indigenous crime
scene) that was controlled by spiritual forces above and beneath, the
world's capitol of Global monetary deceit. The World Trade Center and 9/11 was
not really a terrorist attack; there was an energy that was released through
human form in which the universe ordered the deadly destruction of 9/11; the
invisible immortal beings their souls are constantly being disturbed and their
spirits have never been put to rest and what you witnessed was the embodied
spirit of Ancient indigenous Native Americans revisiting with deadly force.</div>
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The so-called Arabs who have in modern racial indexing are
classified as Semitic people, but the original Arabs from Oman and Yemen were
of Negroid lineages in which sixteen of the so-called would be 9/11 attackers
were from Saudi Arabia—these Negroid Astatics are the distant DNA ancestral of
the same people who crossed the Bering Strait over 16,000 years ago. They have
no relationship with the Indo-Europeans whom arrived much later, these people even predated
the Grimaldi man in Europe and Asia (west Asia); Runoko Rashidi (a
student of Ivan Van Sertima, the author of <u>They Came Before Columbus</u>),
in his works <u>African Presence in Early Asia</u>, bears witness to this
history. </div>
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The Natives who migrated to the North American continent
were direct descendants of the people who presently occupy the land classified
as Mongolia (the original Mongols and Ancient Black China: The Mongols, Zhou,
Ainu, Jomon, and Huns were a people that had varied skin colors and hues that
ranged from red like pigmentation to dark black skin with thick lips and broad
noses with kinky hair; but a large majority of the ancient Mongolians had skin
colors that were jet black or blue-black (white social scientists have
attempted to classify the human race into three categories Negroid, Mongoloid,
and Caucasoid these human genetic classifications are artificial and serve to
disconnect the original man from his anthropological and archeological ancestry. If you desire
further genetic and anthropology evidence, I refer you to visited the people in
South Africa called the Khosian people who have an Asian look and you will
immediately see our biological kinship with our distance Mongolian and Asian
ancestral lineages. These systems of genetic human sociological groupings are
meant and designed to fragment black indigenous people who once occupied the entire
planet. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad asked the question, 'who is the original man?' His answer: "The Astatic black man, the maker, the owner, cream of the planet earth, father of civilization, God of the Universe".</div>
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Some of the Mongolians who lived in the upper most region of
the rugged mountains had yellowish like skin (who resembled the modern Chinese
and Japanese) more akin to Genghis Khan and would have looked more like
the modern Asians, in particular the Chinese—these people were direct linkages
to the Eskimos or the Alaskan Inupiat people who are the direct descendants of
the Native Americans who populated North and South America. Joel Augusta Rogers
who authored a number of books that traces the African genetic and biological
presences on all the continents from Europe to Asia and down to the indigenous
people of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Americas</st1:place></st1:country-region>;
(Roger's scholarship by far makes the case that the original man was the black
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For example, their pseudo-racial indexing of Black Africans
from <st1:city w:st="on">Somali</st1:city>, Eritre, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Ethiopia, Zanzibar </st1:country-region>and <st1:country-region w:st="on">Egypt</st1:country-region> and most of North
Africa and the so-called <st1:place w:st="on">Middle East</st1:place> nations
are considered white and Caucasoid and certain Semitic Africans would be
classified as white as well; so when they find it intellectually convenient,
they turn black skinned Africans in Caucasians, which to justify racist
inspired anthropology. This is what Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop was challenging in
many of his works in dismantling anthropological racism in his books: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><u>Nations nègres et culture: De l'antiquité
nègre égyptienne aux problèmes culturels</u>,<u> Civilization or Barbarism</u>
and <u>African Origin of Civilization Myth or Reality</u> our scholars have
always been in a battle against intellectual white supremacy models , </div>
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Minister Malcolm X (1925-1965) while minister and National Spokesman of
the Honorable Elijah Muhammad (1897-1975) and Temple number 7 in Harlem, New York on 116th
Street and Lennox Avenue; I was told that a lot of the black nationalists
scholars and activist would gather at Lewis Michaux (1895-1976) African
National Memorial Black Liberation Book Store where lively debates that
involved the redefining of African History, which included discussions ranging
from black Islam advocated by the black Muslims to black nationalism and Pan
Africanism, as well as discussions on the applicability and culture relevance
of Marxists socialist theories in the 1960s black liberation struggle. But
books and information were important to all of those who had embraced the
movement. These young black revolutionaries were studying CLR James book
titled, <u>The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo
Revolution</u> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and Frantz Fanon book titled,
<u>The Wretched of the Earth</u>, others had ventured into trying to understand
Marx's book titled, <u>Das Kapital</u> and the necessity of putting forth class based analysis
in which they viewed was more of an antagonistic contradiction than race.
Malcolm X had tremendous respect for Roger's commitment to uncovering unknown
facts about the Negro and as minister, he would often be heard quoting from the
works of J.A. Rogers. I remember being given a copy of his small, but most powerful
book titled, <u>100 Amazing Facts About the Negro</u>; this little book
inspired me in desiring to wanting to know more about African Civilizations. I
immediately came to understand how Chattel Slavery had such a devastating
affect on destroying our connection to our history, culture and heritage. It
has left us as a handicapped people because, it systematically robbed us of our
land, names, God, religion, which made us blind, deaf and dumb to the knowledge
of self—this was one of the greatest crimes ever committed against humanity and
400 years later we are still suffering from this crime.</div>
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J.A. Roger explored
human genetics, anthropology, archeology, ancient architecture, sociology and
located African DNA scattered and dispersed throughout world civilizations and
Africans had made immense contributions throughout human history, but do to
white supremacy, our contributions have been either deleted or minimized by the
intellectual racism of western society. Rogers’ and his work does not get the
credit for his contributions in documenting African contribution to world
civilizations; the white controlled world of academia played up the black
bourgeoisie historians such as the late Dr. John Hope Franklin (1915-2009) who authored one
of the most widely read black history text books ever written on African American
history titled, <u>From Slavery to Freedom</u>, the status quo deemed his
research as being safe and they name buildings after these type Negro
academicians; Duke University is one of the most prestigious white universities
in the United States of America and they have named a building on campus
dedicated to their professor emeritus Dr. Franklin called the John Franklin
Center for International and Interdisciplinary Study. But laymen historians
such as J.A. Rogers will never get a building named after him, they have chosen
to write this black scholar out of history, because his scholarship was to
controversial and provocative and he was before his time. </div>
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<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Rogers</st1:place></st1:city>’work and research predated the Black Power movement and the Afrocentric
movement (his work gave inspiration to many young militants and black radicals
during the 1960s and 1970s). Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Chancellor Williams, John
G. Jackson, Yosef A.A. Jochannan, William Leo Hansberry etc., all of them
owe a debt of scholarly gratitude to J.A. Rogers. He authored a number of books
in which my favorite was a three volume set titled, <u>Sex and Race,</u> <u>World's Great Men of Color</u> and <u>Nature
Knows No Color Line</u>. He was a contemporary of the great Historian W.E.B
Dubois who was the first African American to earn a doctorate degree in history
from Harvard University in 1895 in which he was a highly trained
social-historian who authored a number of books such as <u>The World and Africa</u>
, <u>The Souls of Black Folk</u>, <u>The Suppression of the African Slave
Trade</u>, and <u>The Philadelphia Negro</u>, etc., and in 1900 called the
first Pan-African National Conference meeting, but Dubois had a contentious
relationship with the Pan-Africanist and Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey (1887-1945). </div>
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Garvey who was a Jamaican born immigrant from Saint Ann's Bey
that was inspired by Booker T. Washington’s (1856-1915) life struggle to attain parity for
blacks in the south and north in which he illustrated his life in his
autobiography titled, <u>Up From Slavery</u>, Washington’s beliefs in technical
and vocational training and the building of Tuskegee Institute was so inspiring
to Garvey that he came to America to meet Washington, but upon his arrival
Washington had died in 1915, a year before his arrival. I do not think Garvey
shared in Washington’s conservative and non-confrontational political views on
race and on accommodation and integration (Garvey was clear about race, he said
race first), but Washington’s economic bootstrap teachings resonated with
Garvey’s vision of economic self-sufficiency for Africans living in America and
around the world—Garvey’s Black Star Line enterprises (which included the
purchasing of ships in order to enter into international trade with Africa and
the entire black world) were rooted deep in Booker T. Washington’s views on
‘casting your buckets down where you are’ staying connected to land and
farming—providing your own economy and Washington did not allow his worldview
to be dominated by racial and civil rights politics and of course he caught a
lot of negative criticism from black people and black leaders of his day. </div>
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<st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Washington</st1:place></st1:state>
delivered one of his most controversial speeches in 1895 called the<strong><i><span style="color: #545454; font-family: "arial";"> </span></i></strong><strong><i><span lang="EN" style="color: #545454; font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“</span></i></strong>The
Atlanta Exposition” speech in which Dubois called the “Atlanta Compromise”.
Dubois felt this speech became the epitome of <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Washington</st1:place></st1:state>’s apologist and apolitical
accommodation views for slavery and black oppression that had been committed
historically against black people. <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Washington</st1:place></st1:state>
was Dubois nemesis and perhaps he disliked Garvey (not only because of his brand
of Pan Africanism and his African physical features). But because of his liken
for the so-called ‘Uncle Tom’ Booker T. Washington; let me be clear to my
readers, it took me years to reevaluate Washington and I have come to accept
that he was right about a lot of things and now I see more credibility in his
political and economic strategies. Both Garvey and Washington shared the value
of vocational training and Garvey like <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Washington</st1:place></st1:state>
thought this would be the best path to gaining blacks political, economic and
social justice (ownership and doing-something for-ourselves). </div>
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I think Dubois criticisms of Garvey was reactionary and he
never attempted to work with Garvey—they both believed in Pan Africanism, but I
think where they differed was that Garvey’s Pan-Africanism was undergirded with
strict black nationalism principles and tentacles; in particular black land
ownership and physically linking up with African nations such as Liberia and
creating a transmigration movement back to Africa. Although, Dubois vacillated
between various forms of communist theories and integrationist theories, but he
was committed to Pan Africanism (but from an integrationist perspective and Garvey view of Pan Africanism was rooted in black nationalism separation) and yet Dubois believed in the importance of the
unification of African people who were scattered throughout the Diaspora and he
recognized the importance of all African people uniting politically,
economically and socially. Marcus Garvey stated ‘Africa for the Africans at
home and abroad’; Amy Jacques Garvey book on Garvey titled, <u>Philosophy and
Opinions of Marcus Garvey</u> and the Universal Negro Improvement
Association (founded in 1916) were totally committed to a form of black
nationalism, which was steeped in African culture and reclaiming a lost
history; Garvey looked around and noticed that every other people had a nation
and he asked the question, where is the black man’s land and nation? He said he
did not see one so he would build one. </div>
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Woodson and Dubois had acquired an Ivy
league university education and training at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Harvard</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>
and Woodson had evolved into social-history and is famously recognize for being
the founder of the research organization named the Association for the Study of
Negro Life and History, Founder of Black History week in 1926 and authored his
most famous book titled<u>, The Mis-education of the Negro</u> first published
in 1933. Woodson also use to write as a contributor to Marcus Garvey's magazine
titled, the "Negro World". All of these great men were contemporaries
Rogers, Woodson, Dubois, Garvey, Hansberry, etc. </div>
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J.A. Roger's published a small powerful book titled, <u>100
Amazing Facts About the Negro</u> ,but Roger's works for many year were
dismissed by mainstream black and white scholars as pseudo scholarship, because
he was not a so-called trained historian of not having a university education.
Yet, all his works in my opinion were well cited and he gave primary and
secondary sources and had a sense of rigorous evidentiary documentation, but
most academically trained historians are trained to cite extensive footnotes
and endnotes and a bibliography this writing formality somehow lends
credibility and acceptability from peer reviews in which this make them into
being good scholars. I do not think so. So J.A. Rogers and his research never
received the wide acceptability that it deserved because he didn't have a
Ph.D, it wasn't until after his death in 1966, that a new generation of scholars
started in the 1980s begin to renew interest in Roger's work. This led to
Afrocentric writers and scholars such as Dr. Leonard Jefferies, Dr. Tony
Martin, Dr. James Smalls, Amos Wilson, Dr. Molefi Asante, Asa
Hillard, Mualana Karenga, Frances Cress Welsing, Dr. Naim Akbar, Cheikh
Anta Diop, Ivan Van Sertima, etc., these black scholars were standing squarely
on the should of J.A. Rogers.</div>
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They like <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Rogers</st1:place></st1:city>
forced white academia to reconsider African civilization in the discussion of a
people's contribution to humanity. Caucasian scholars like Martin Bernal who authored
the book <u>Black Athena</u>, many African centered scholars condemned
Bernal for not going further enough in his thesis relative to the Egyptian or
Kemetic influence on Ancient Greece civilizations, but I appreciated this white
scholars having the audacity to somewhat depart from the Eurocentric
worldview and offered a new insight into verifying what the Afrocentric
scholars had researched and put forth the argument that ancient Egypt
was Nubian and they had a huge influence on Greek civilization; no
one exposed this better than George G.M. James in monumental work first
published in 1954 titled, <u>Stolen Legacy</u>. I was almost kicked out
of my major because I challenged the professors about my right to cite <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Rogers</st1:city></st1:place>’ work as legitimate
history and I was ridiculed by them and one professor flunked me for
refusing to stop quoting and citing J.A. Rogers’ works. </div>
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They tried to demote his work to sensationalized journalism,
but none of them had a written a body of work comparable to his scholarship.
Rogers research led to finding African blood in every civilization, we were
their as part of a pure African and/or as mixed mulatto and miscegenated
bloodline in France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Russian,
India, and the far east, etc., who were part of the ancestral lines of European
royal families and some of this African blood according to Rogers in the
world of intellectual white supremacy these African ethnic lines were often
documented as white.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Rogers’
research uncovered that African blood ran deep in Europe even before Hannibal
crossed the Alps and before the Moors arrived 711 A.D. (I am not referring to no Arabs and
Berbers these are a Johnny-come-late people), I am referring to jet black Nubian Africans—just look at the Iberian
Peninsula of Spain and Portugal, you still can see the African bloodline
presences in the dark skinned and kinky hair of the Portuguese and the
Spaniards. The African blood also runs deep on the <st1:placetype w:st="on">island</st1:placetype>
of <st1:placename w:st="on">Sicily</st1:placename> and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Malta</st1:place></st1:country-region>, the
kinky haired and dark skinned Greeks and Italians are all evidence of
miscegenation of African blood. These findings by <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Rogers</st1:place></st1:city> upset and upstaged how intellectual
white supremacy was structured because many of the scientific, military,
Catholic popes, European emperors, inventers, statesmen, etc., had Negroid blood
flowing throw their veins. Black people, we all owe this scholar a debt of
gratitude. I challenge you all during this month of Black History to go back
and purchase and read one of the greatest black scholars of all time J.A.
Rogers. </div>
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FAHIM KNIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00567827759311275290noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4957787817614691922.post-21390182556986446082017-01-31T16:33:00.000-08:002017-01-31T20:58:34.880-08:00DONALD TRUMP: RACE AND POWER, A DANGEROUS COMBINATION<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">DONALD TRUMP: RACE
AND POWER, A DANGEROUS COMBINATION<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">By Fahim A. Knight-El<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Donald Trump has moved further right than any past
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
president that we have had in the last 50 years. Trump built a political
base that was structured differently than traditional
republican conservatives and established platforms that transitioned into a
movement. He openly invoked race, cited religious intolerance and
bigotry, spewed misogynist discrimination and openly ran on a law and order
platform; he even sold white Americans on the idea in 2017, that he
was going to build a wall around the Mexican and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> boarders and that the
Mexican Government would pay for it. Think over this, a developing nation with
untold poverty and one of the lowest standards of living in the western hemisphere
and a country ridding by international debt; to attempt to impose this massive
debt on the Mexican people was ludicrous and politically irrational and the
Mexican President<span class="st1"><span style="color: #545454; font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span></span>Enrique Peña Nieto made it clear to Trump
that Mexico was a sovereign nation and they did not take orders from Trump and
the U.S. government. Trump’s overall theme of taking back <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>
rhetoric (coded in white supremacy language) political sentiments was
covertly shared by many white Americans who helped to put him into office.
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Some of these same white Christians
who toted the bible in one hand and dressed up in hoods and burned crosses in
the name of Jesus and the white Knights casted ballots for Trump; the Neo-Nazi
and white supremacy groups after his victory were applauding and cheering for
their man. But his Jewish son-in-law Jared Kushner should have stood with the
people and condemned these hat groups who have a long history of anti-Semitism
and anti-Black violence and have a history of committing acts of terrorism
against African American people and innocent Jews. Why hasn’t the
Anti-Defamation League (ADL) come front and center to condemn Donald Trump for
indirect linkages and association with white hate groups? But his message
resonated with large segments of the white American population
who had become disillusioned and dissatisfied with the political mood over
America under President Barack Obama, an African American president; who had
been ridiculed by a rising climate of racism and hate for his entire eight
years as commander-in-chief. They initially thought his election had brought us
to a post-racial era and an end to American racism, however, we would quickly found
out that this was the furthest thing from the truth, because institutionalized
racism was entrenched in the very fiber of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America's</st1:place></st1:country-region> socio-political traditions
and systems and it wasn’t going anywhere no time soon<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I truly do not think that Trump understood the level of
dissatisfaction that existed inside <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> amongst white people and
his overwhelmingly presidential win even caught him off guard and shocked
him that people would cast ballots for a political novice who had no previous
political experience, but he won the Electoral College votes by a landslide. His victory over Hillary Clinton has possibly led to the redrawing of the electoral map relative to what use to be traditional blue states and red states were rearranged by Trump this phenomena was unlike anything, we have seen in recent American political history.
Trump went into the heart of the lion's den and challenged Senator
Ted Cruz who like former Governor Mike Huckabee openly taunted Christian
values as so-called conservative Christian politicians. This stance almost always guaranteed receiving the political support of evangelical
white Christians, which in past elections were always courted by republican
candidates, in particular in the southern Bible belt States. Their power to
influence presidential elections was evident up until the 2016 presidential
election. But many thought that Cruz (Senator from Texas) was preaching
and singing the evangelical language; and oddly enough Trump could not even
quote a biblical scripture and did not appear that he had any real church or
religious ties that was meaningful (in prior presidential campaigns this would
have mattered, but in 2016 just white skin and racial slogans of duplicity
outweighed past historical alliances). </div>
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Former President Ronald Reagan and George H.W.
Bush as vice president used evangelical right-wingers to justify
reactionary U.S. foreign policy and military aggression in the name of God. Back
then Pat Robinson, Jerry Falwell, Billy Graham, etc., were the go to clergy
voices that would set the religious ideological tone by politically justifying <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region> aggression and imperialism across
the globe by openly invoking the name of God into <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> foreign policy matters. For
example, the decade of the 1980s signaled a new political era for
America, in particular and the world in general, with the 1980 election of
Ronald Wilson Reagan propagandized a false sense of
evangelical emotionalism and ushered in a political-religious patriotism that incited Americans
towards taking a proactive position in world domination. Reagan would continue to
strategically galvanized his rightwing propaganda tools, the conservative
Christian right, along with their "morally correct" clergy, and they
went on a "moral manifest destiny" crusade in order to so-called
create a world more safer for democracy and missionaries (they only made the
world more safer for the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and
international banks to steal by wrapping their tentacles around the entire globe).
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If the truth be told the evangelicals probably did not like Donald
Trump's promiscuity and his overall moral ineptitude (this was the making of
strange bedfellows), but silently they shared in his racial politics of issuing
in a white manifest destiny. Reagan was a master manipulator of the media, both
electronic and print. He molded and shaped public opinion and thought in
whatever direction he desired (Trump has been equally affective in manipulating
propaganda and disseminating disinformation) his top level spokesperson
Kellyann Conway calls it presenting alternative facts. </div>
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Reagan got into these minor Cold War military skirmishes in 1983, he attacked the small Caribbean <st1:placetype w:st="on">island</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Grenada</st1:placename>,
but only as a demonstration of military flexing, the world knew this tiny
Caribbean communist inspired nation was no match for the powerful <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> military
and government. The Bible toting "morally correct" evangelical
preachers (Pat Robertson, Billy Graham, and Jerry Falwell) came to the defense
of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
aggression, because Prime Minister Maurice Bishop was depicted as a bad communist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And all parties understood the 1823 Monroe
Doctrine and the implications of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Cuba</st1:country-region>
and the <st1:country-region w:st="on">USSR</st1:country-region> imposing
influence in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place>’s
backyard would not be tolerated. </div>
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The conservative Christians (they viewed communism as a atheistic system that threatened global Christian values) along with the U.S. government
moved towards ending the Cold War by using East Berlin and West Berlin as the
visible symbol of bringing closure to a divisive era in world history, which
had old international alignments that went back to World War II rooted in the
former USSR and NATO ideologies. The U.S. created an illusion in the political
minds of the West and idea that the world could never make the necessary global
paradigm transition properly unless communism and its Eastern bloc influence
had to be eliminated and in the name of "Jesus" and in the interest of capitalism
expansion (this new alignment exposed Russia as an antagonist
reactionary capitalist nation who had hid for decades under Marxism-Leninism inspired
communism). </div>
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Under the Reagan/Bush administration, the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
foreign policy agenda became synonymous with the aspirations of God, whatever his
aspirations meant to them. In April of 1986, the country of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Libya</st1:country-region> was bombed, because they refused to submit
to the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region>
dictates; the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region>
created a heavy naval military presence in the Mediterranean Sea posting the
Sixth Fleet in striking distance from <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Tripoli</st1:place></st1:city>.
Once again, the Falwells, Robertsons, and Grahams defended the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
aggression in the name of God. Trump is imposing executive orders banning Muslim immigration and entry into the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United
States</st1:country-region> from countries such as:<span style="font-family: "hco gotham ssm"; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><st1:country-region w:st="on">Iran</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Libya</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Somalia</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Sudan</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Syria</st1:country-region>
and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Yemen (trust me the Christian evangelical right such as Reverend John Hagee of Cornerstone Church as in the past is applauding Trump's immigration banned against the so-called 'infidel' Muslims)</st1:place></st1:country-region><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "hco gotham ssm"; font-size: 11.5pt;">. But did y</span>ou noticed Saudi Arabia was not on that terrorist nation
list, because he is <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>member of the Elitist
House of Saud, although, sixteen of the so-called terrorist who attacked the
World Trade Center on 9/11 were Saudi nationals and sworn members of Al-Qaeda
and Osama Bin-Laden network. Trump is duping the American people into believing
that he is being proactive in banning Muslims from entering our country in the
name of controlling potential terrorist from enter and this so-called serves his long term
national security interest aimed at combating terrorism. <br />
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Trump is systematically inducing fear in <st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region>
and throughout the world while he continues to sign reactionary executive
orders to further moved the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United
States</st1:place></st1:country-region> towards a police state and into a one world government; the white
voters who put him into office do not understand that they too will
be victims of martial law (the sheeple will volunteer themselves for the slaughter, but I and others are the good shepards, but the sheep is not listening to us--Elijah Muhammad, Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, Louis Farrakhan, Kwame Ture, Queen Mother Moore, etc., have issued warnings to the sheep who continue to desiring to be led in the wrong direction by the slave master's children . Moreover, according to Dr. Ravi Batra, in
his book, <u>The Great Depression of 1990</u>, the intellectual is endowed with
foresight and keenness of mind. In general an intellectual is cautious and
pragmatic, he or she relishes comfort but not at cost of physical labor.
Consequently, the intellectual attains power only by defeating the warrior in a
battle of wits. Intellectuals rule indirectly—through their control over the
warrior ruler, who alone can summon the might to keep order in society.
Whenever and wherever the intellectuals perceived that their time had come,
they devised new dogmas rationalizing their hold over the people. After
outwitting the warrior, the intellectuals then set out to inject baseless fears
and prejudices in other classes as well. Once the rule was over, it was just a
matter of time before the rest of society yielded to their self-serving
doctrines<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Trumps policies will be devastating to the middle class and
poor whites, but as I have stated in previous Blogs, it is the white supremacy
mentality (which has become an incurable disease) in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>
that would cause them to vote against their own political, economic and social
interest (their white privilege is not on the same level of Trump's white privilege). The poor
whites who many of them live way below the poverty line—unemployed, poorly
educated, do not have adequate health care, and have shorter life
expectations and their overall quality of life is one of disillusionment and
because of entrenched racist values, they could not see beyond Donald Trump’s many
games of political deception.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
covertly rallied them around race by playing the blame game and they do not
understand that this white billionaire's allegiance is only to other
billionaires and the poor whites in this nation share nothing with Donald
Trump other than white skin. </div>
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White folk just were glad to hear a white politician echo the
emotional sentiments of 'lets make America great again' and they got caught up in
the mix, because Trump convinced them that the Latinos were their problems
and the cause for them losing jobs and it was Muslim-Americans whom
he subtlety tied to Islamic radical extremism that were threatening the safety
of American white citizens. Trump indeed gave them something to believe in and
rally around, which was the artificial value in their white skin in which they
falsely believed that they shared this divine manifest destiny with their
new white shinning Knight named Donald J. Trump. </div>
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They still cannot see a direct correlation between a
government that's under Trump's administration that is going to
further enrich the Elitist class and implement domestic policy that's going to
expand the hunger lines across <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> and poverty will be
taking to an entirely new level. Life (black or white) and humanity do not
matter in his worldview; I detest poverty, because I believe, there are
enough resources to ensure the basics of food, clothing and shelter could be
adequately met to satisfy the needs of humanity. There are enough resources on
the planet to adequately meet the needs of the entire globe. The root of
poverty is greed this creates a varied of reactionary symptoms and is the root
of human suffering where 95% of the world’s wealth is controlled by 1% of
the population.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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This Elitist segment sees the planet as belonging to them,
it’s this disparity that causes national and global hunger in particular
amongst Emerging and Developing Nation (use to be referred to as ‘Third
World Nations’).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This systematic induced
disparity causes people to have to live in substandard conditions because their
economies have been systematically depressed and often their currency has been
devalued by Western Governments who are members of the G-8 and G-20
Nations. John Knowles, the President of the Rockefeller Foundation,
in its annual report for 1975: "I am sure of only one thing—more is not
necessarily better. The web of interdependence is tightening. We are one world
and there will be one future—for better or for worse—for us all. Central to a
new ethic of making less more is controlled economic growth which conserves
scarce resources provides more equitable distribution of income and wealth ... ‘<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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There must be a redistribution of the world’s wealth with
the world’s people; this is the only solution to ending national and global
poverty. This phenomenon creates a vicious cycle of human social, political and
economic disruption (which translates into unspeakable oppression which creates
systemic outcomes) on poor people in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Central and <st1:place w:st="on">South America</st1:place> by determining other nations Gross National
Products (GNP). Even in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United
States</st1:place></st1:country-region> one of the most industrialized
nations in the world, poverty and hunger still remains an issue—there has been
in recent years and increase in people being forced to live in homeless
shelters and eat their meals at soup kitchens. </div>
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Yet, our U.S. Government, in particular our congress has
become more conservative and anti poor—social programs are being cut and the
poor are being politically scapegoat for causing the political, economic and
social issues plaguing the United States. It was Hurricane Katrina in 2005,
that exposed that there were two Americas—poor and black; the media gave the
public a firsthand look at how poor people in New Orleans lived in conditions
equalvent to “Third World Nations” the scene was shocking to most Americans
because they did not know and could not believe that level of poverty existing
inside the United States of America (President George W. Bush even called the black people of New Orleans refugees as though they were 'third world' people). The Katrina crisis and scene was despicable and was
a clear indication that <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>
had failed its people. The poor even after President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s
war on poverty American and the Great Society—some forty-Five years later a
great deal of the American people still lived in substandard conditions. </div>
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Many worked minimum wages jobs, (classified by sociologist as
the working poor), lacked education, lived in public housing or were part of
some housing arrangement where the government subsides the rent, and many have
minor aged children where there are no fathers in the homes; and mothers are forced to raise
their children in single parent homes (this further complicates dysfunctional
family structures and continues the cycle of poverty and disillusionment). The
once blue collar and non-skilled jobs are readily fading out and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> businesses
and corporations have abandoned the American people by outsourcing and
downsizing their corporate interest by finding cheaper labor and product (raw materials)
markets across seas. This social phenomenon in my opinion has given rise to the
Prison Industrial Complex (which has led to mass incarceration) where cities and towns across <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> have
become the homes of privatizes corporate prisons. The <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
has over seven (7) million people incarcerated, perhaps more than any other
industrial nation in the world. Trump’s public policies will further acerbate the
problems already confronting the poor and top of list who will eventually become dismayed
will be poor white people after they wake up and come to recognize that they had
been hoodwinked by a sophisticated conman. </div>
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The corporate outsourcing of part of the <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> economy to Asia, Central and South America
have allowed capitalist to exploit overseas markets, which negatively impacts
the job market and the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
economy. The earth is 196, 940,000 square miles and 57, 255, 000 square miles
of land. The poor white citizens along with most Americans who do not have the ability to predict
and see the backlashes will eventually be led to a painful reality unless we are willing to deal with poverty, it’s superficial to
talk about national security or building a wall around the United States or
signing insignificant executive orders. I am a pessimist in which I am
not optimistic about the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region>
national or global course as we move forward in the next four to
eight years, because I see a vicious assault on the poor and have 'nots' and these type reactionary policies are going to create un-precedent protest and rebellions in the
streets of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
We are treading on some dangerous waters relative to the <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> previous commitment to at least giving
the appearance of respecting the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> democracy, but Trump
is bent on totally obliterating the United States Constitution and
compromising of the American jurisprudence rules of law. All I can tell
you is to get ready and be prepared for new and dangerous chapter to be written
in American history.</div>
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Fahim A. Knight-El Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL
THINK TANK located in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place u1:st="on"><st1:city u1:st="on"><st1:place u2:st="on"><st1:city u2:st="on"><st1:place u3:st="on"><st1:city u3:st="on"><st1:place u4:st="on"><st1:city u4:st="on"><st1:place u5:st="on"><st1:city u5:st="on"><st1:place u5:st="on"><st1:city u5:st="on">Durham</st1:city></st1:place></st1:city></st1:place></st1:city></st1:place></st1:city>,
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our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the
pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolism and
reinterpreted the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces,
but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlightened world
will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be
willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power.
Fahim A. Knight-El can be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com. </div>
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FAHIM KNIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00567827759311275290noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4957787817614691922.post-57635519140365902122017-01-27T20:07:00.000-08:002017-11-04T17:43:39.619-07:00ESOTERIC, OCCULT, GNOSTIC AND THE BLACK ISLAMIC SCIENCE CONNECTION<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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What I have learned and discovered
of my many years of research, is that ALL of the ancient wisdom was connected
and this interconnectedness extended to almost every culture on the earth. Manly
P. Hall in his book titled, <u>The Secret Teachings of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All Ages,</u><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>and the works of Aleister Crowley, these esoteric and occultist had
tapped into a body of spiritual and esoteric science that had been around since
the dawn of time and since the origin of man; the ancient Kemites of ancient Egypt
(who gave the world the first true resurrection story in Asar, Aset, and Heru),
the Celtic Druids (on the British Isles and in Europe) and the ancient people
of Persia and who relished in the ancient practices of Mithra and Adonis and in
which the mystic Sufism teaching took some of it roots and the people of Suma (Chihuahua,
Mexico) all understood a spiritual energy sources that still have western
scientist and philosophers baffled. They (western man) have attempted to dismiss
this knowledge as being non-basis paranormal and conspiracy theories—these
negative characterizations serve as mere cover ups and deception ploys to disguise
and deny these hidden truths and sacred bodies of spiritual knowledge from
humanity ever being allowed to be awaken from their slumber. </div>
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Furthermore, these labels are
applied to create doubt, suspicion, and it allows them to lead humanity in
dismissing the possibilities of learning and coming into a deeper recognition
of the spirit realm. There are many white social science theorist such as
Graham Hancock (who totally understands the value of the esoteric, occult and
Gnostic perspective to human evolution), a British counter-culture intellectual
that works on the fringe of traditional interdisciplinary schools of thought
ranging from archeology, anthropology, human genetics, philosophy, history, pure science,
ancient architecture, human sociology, earth beings and outer-space beings
connections, etc. I joined the Graham Hancock Internet forum may be nine years
ago and I have always been impressed by his willingness to step outside of
mainstream academia and explore the vast universe of ideals. I am a staunch
black nationalist and Pan-Africanist, but, what would I have in common with a
white British intellectual? Very simple truth and moral insight, is not shaped
by nationality, race nor skin color—enlightenment is a spiritual space that is
only encompassed by those that are worthy to journey the road and path less
traveled. </div>
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Hancock has authored a number of alternative
knowledge books that even my Blog audience would find them to be enlighten (I
will not insult this scholars body of work by referring to it as new age
information, I will call it global human enlightened knowledge, when you have
been touched by the Gods in spirit then labels only cheapens the universal
space of where you have arrived) books such as:<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span><u>Magicians of the Gods: The
Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilisation,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization, The
Message of the Sphinx: A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind,</u><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><u>The Mars Mystery.</u> <span class="a-size-extra-large"><u>Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization</u></span>
, <span class="a-size-extra-large"><u>The Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the
Lost Ark of the Covenant</u></span> that challenges traditional science. We,
humanity have arrived at a very dangerous space in time, which has placed us
all under the diabolic power and spirit of western man; this is a counter-aura
to the positive energy of good that encompasses the universe, it is has created
a human imbalance on earth and has placed humanity on a collision course with
the universe. If you do not know by now, I am here to tell you and inform you,
that the stars in their present numerological order have aligned to bring
nothing but future destruction to the western world in particular and the evil
practitioners across the globe in general. </div>
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I have five sacred holy texts that I
read and meditate and make prayer and supplication every day before I begin my
day: The <u>Original African Heritage Bible</u>, <u>Holy Qur’an</u> translated
by Muhammad Ali, the Holy Vedas, the <u>Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic
Philosophy of Ancient Egypt</u> <u>and Greece</u> and the Prophet by Khalil
Gabran, these are my daily routines of spiritual sources in which I read these
spiritual texts while softly playing the musical messengers John Coltrane and
Miles Davis and this helps me channel and re-channel my energy source to a
heightened level of spiritual connection with the universal order and the
spiritual powers beyond this world’s order. I chose to leave organized religion
a long time ago, because my spirit would no longer allow faith traditions and
beliefs systems to subjugate and confine me to a religious box; religion was
too shallow for me; I knew that in 325.A.D. at the Council of Nicea,
Constantine and his bishops had fabricated lies and literally rearranged the
bible and teachings of Jesus and it was this type of theological deception that
I could never whole heartily follow; Islam became corrupted to it core by white
skinned Wahabbi Arabs and Prophet Muhammad said to them three generation after
me you all will no longer be of me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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But I have always found some spiritual comforts in the
theology of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad (there is a powerful lecture series
that he did over many years titled, “The Theology of Time,’ I hold those
lessons dear to my heart (so I only follow the divine teachings of Moses, Jesus
and Muhammad and not those offered by Rabbis, Preachers or Imams). So over the
years, I became a traditionalist spiritualist, one who dared to venture outside
the religious structures of the African American traditions in order to truly
find that inner and external divine essences or being (I found that God was
within). I sought of got on my path and journey when I was in college between
finding something to eat and studying, I use to wash my clothes off campus in
the laundry mat in the black community (those who are guessing, yes I am the
product of a HBCU education) and on the free news rack I just randomly picked
up a little magazine titled, “The Plain Truth” authored by a white Christian
theologian named Dr. Herbert W. Armstrong who presented an alternative
Christian type worldview relative to interpreting past historical events and
analyzing current events (he was the founder of the<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span>Worldwide Church of God). But
Dr. Armstrong religious views were a lot different than what I was accustomed
to reading in traditional black Christian literature. He seemed to have been a
student of epistemology and etymology and had a deep grasp of religious symbolism
and accurately applied the scripture to interpreting and defining international
and national events. I started to look forward to going to the laundry mat and
reading Dr. Herbert Armstrong’s “Plain Truth” publications. These readings led
me to delving into deeper searching for more ancient knowledge and spiritual
teachings. He authored books such as: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><u>The
Incredible Human Potential</u>, <u>Mystery of the Ages</u>, <u>Human Nature:
Did God Create It?</u>, <u>The Seven Laws of Success</u>, etc.<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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We all have a duty and responsibility to work to change the
present energy of the universe, because the universe is steadily and rapidly
turning on man. This has always been my African spiritual indigenous ancestors
constantly speaking to me and showing me the path to universal peace and
finding a true connection with all the indigenous people’s spirits of the
universe —.Aborigines, these dark skinned blond and kinky haired people found
in Australia who existed long before Paleolithic and Neolithic periods in world
civilization. I was led to write this Blog by a Moorish Science Temple Brother
who sent me a link to watch of this Caucasian occultist named Peter Moon who
had seemed to have become enlightened in many esoteric and occult schools of
thought in which he was well published. I still have not completed viewing the
entire Youtube clip. But I told this Moorish brother that I just wanted to take
a moment and digest all the knowledge that he was dropping (well that moment
has now turned into me writing this said Blog titled, “Black Esoteric, Occult,
Gnostic,and Islamic Science”). The type of information that Peter Moon was
dispersing and teaching should have required all intelligent Moors of so-called
African descent to get to the root of this ancient and mystical wisdom that
Peter Moon was dropping and verify these truths for themselves. </div>
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I wrote and article, a few weeks ago titled, "Hidden
Indigenous Knowledge" and I were skimming the surface of some of the
things that Peter Moon was conveying. There is no doubt that some of his
philosophical theories were perhaps way above the heads of most of those who had assembled and had come out to hear him give that lecture, unless they were serious
students of esoteric, Occult and Gnostic wisdom and information, which would
have allow them to be able to make the broader connections in piecing and
linking this knowledge to its original Nubian sources. Now, I remember Dr.
Malachi Z. York-El (leader of Black<span style="color: #545454; font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span>Nuwaubian Nation ) who had written
over 200 books and was delving into outer-body travel and inter-galaxy travel
and extraterrestrial beings and alien species, and hidden Unidentified Flying
Objects, as well as decoding the Mother plane and various unconventional
concepts that went against the grain of traditional science known as astro-physics. Some years ago I met one of the greatest esoteric entertainers in the world, his name was Sun-RA, I asked where was he from? and said he was not from this planet. Perhaps Sun-RA understood the spiritual lessons of all the great gurus and sages.
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">York-El</st1:city></st1:place> said, he
had proof that the United States Government had highly confidential and
classified information of outer-space beings, in which NASA, NSA, and the CIA
were all engaged in keeping this type information from the public. </div>
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The indigenous ancients had established many of these
principles that Moon was sharing, long before the Caucasian man 6,000 year
existence on the planet. The deeper spirituality of many of the principles and
spiritual concepts couldn't even be recorded. But they were experience through
spiritual energy sources, that were tied to the universe and were based on the
alignment of the stars and the motions of moon and sun. Maybe we should
revisited <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">York</st1:place></st1:city>'s
work, which outside of his following base was dismissed and not taking seriously
and was discredited by black and white theologians and social scientists. Many
in the black consciousness community also didn't take Dr. York serious, but it
always amazes me that we need white affirmation to give our ideals validity.
But many wise Caucasians, perhaps were paying close attention to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">York</st1:place></st1:city>'s concepts and Peter
Moon was saying some very similar things to Dr. York. Yet, there is no doubt
that Moon has a perspective, but what he will soon learn, if he doesn't already
know, that it has been global white supremacy, which is frustrating him in his
efforts of trying to link and connect this universal knowledge that the people
of Kemet, Australia, Upper Africa, the original and indigenous people of the
Americas had over 16,000 years ago. </div>
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They had the ability to tune into and connect with Astro-engery
that allowed them to exit their physical bodies and in a transcendental state
could travel outside of the earth's gravitational pull and leave this earthly
plain and had contact with Astro beings. The Mayas, Incas, and Aztecs attempted
to record these experiences on ancient cave rocks and inside the walls of the
South America and Central America pyramids; this indigenous and ancient
people’s knowledge went much further than quantum physics and went even further
than the sacred geometric spiritual mathematical schematic codes (these ancient
codes of indigenous Native Americans have gone un-deciphered for thousands of
years and the Caucasian scientist do not understand that the lost keys are only
in the minds of the original man; Minister Louis Farrakhan understood this and
definitely sister Tynetta Muhammad understood this riddled and divinely
phenomenon and the likes Dr. Phil Valentine and the Dr. Delbert Blair also had this
knowledge and understood its mystical and spiritual value). </div>
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Western science when it comes to trying to decipher and
understand the ancient indigenous knowledge and world, they have shown-forth
serious limitations. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad did tell us that there would
be some wise Moslem Sons (Caucasians) who would have been allowed to get a peep
into the mind of God, which is the black man's mind. I know white supremacy is
always cloaked behind the symbolism of theoretician's analysis (the Honorable
Elijah Muhammad raise the question can you trust the devil? Not now
day. There is a quest for power and the realignment will not include us, but it
will include us in the grand scheme of things. The white world in
Eastern Europe and other parts of the white world have to find a
way to short circuit and curtail genetic annihilation this is the
real motive that is driving these moves on the chessboard. Master
Fard Muhammad taught the black Muslims about his nature and he must once
again recapture and control all that territory expanded beyond his origin in
Caucasus Mountains between the Black and Caspian Sea and extend
the white world domination deep into <st1:place w:st="on">Asia</st1:place>
and across the planet.</div>
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I do think the likes of L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the <st1:placetype w:st="on">Church</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Scientology</st1:placename>
had tapped in some of the ancient mystical teachings of Kemet (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Egypt</st1:country-region></st1:place>)
and other ancient indigenous teachings that were rooted in the universal principles
found in the bosoms of all the previous world altering sacred spiritual knowledge.
But this type of powerful wisdom and principles can do two things; it could assist
you in your spiritual development and or it can corrupt you and destroy you from
within and from without. This is what happened to the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Church</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Scientology</st1:placename></st1:place>,
it lost its original energy source and it connections to the universal teachings
of good.</div>
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They like to denigrate our ancient Folklore and mythological
and mystical wisdom as being part of some ancient secret societies, thus,
anything they cannot quantify in the Eurocentric worldview, because the
knowledge and spiritual practices are above their heads they are quick to
define and classify what they do not understand as either pagan, cult based or
secret societies. I have not completed watching Moon's commentary, but my mind
was racing and these are just some of my preliminary thoughts. For example, he
was talking about virgin births and sacred mythological saviors, which if one
had studied deeper information there is a book written by Kersey Graves title, <u>The
World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors</u> that empirically track these Saviors who
all were born of virgin births, died and was resurrected. I think the Prophet
Noble Drew Ali whom I believe had Native American ancestry tied a lot of this
indigenous knowledge and infused it into the Moorish Science Doctrine and the
Moorish philosophical worldview. The Prophet understood the ancient Occidental
wisdom by have been initiated into the esoteric knowledge studied and learn in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Egypt</st1:place></st1:country-region>. We can
spend a life time just studying Noble Drew Ali's symbolism and never
exhaust the esoteric knowledge associated with how far he was ahead of the
Western world and the Islamic world. So I am not surprised that white
occultist, spiritualist, esoterist and wise white intellectual theoreticians
are now seeking to revisit the Prophets teachings some 90 years later.</div>
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The students of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad never cease to
amaze me with their ability to use that powerful third eye; the Honorable
Elijah Muhammad stated what I have given you, is just awake up message;
meaning that what Master Fard Muhammad taught him will be ever evolving
and there are many links which connects this wisdom; he even used the Bible that
he often would refer to as the 'poison book' as a tool to uplift
black people. Master Fard Muhammad who was in and out America some 20
years before he made his presence known and although his physical birth was
February 26, 1877, but proclaimed to have embodied all the wisdom and knowledge
of first God who willed himself out of total triple darkness 76 trillion years
ago. Now, one cannot separate the theology from being an article of faith and
it is this part of the Black Muslim teachings that has unjustly
brought the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad under criticism from the
Islamic world. </div>
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But this variable of faith in the teachings cannot and
must not be overlooked nor separated in understanding Mr. Muhammad
religious and theological intent aimed specifically for the black man and woman of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
I think that Imam Mohammed in his criticism at times against the Honorable
Elijah Muhammad was a bit disingenuous to say the least, because he
had first hand knowledge that his father totally understood Sunni Islam and
Malcolm X also understood this as well. Minister Malcolm X had flown to <st1:country-region w:st="on">Egypt</st1:country-region> and Jeddah in 1959, and Minister Malcolm X
served as the official emissary of the Nation of Islam in arranging the minor
Hajj of Umurah that Elijah Muhammad, and his two sons Jabir Muhammad and
Warith Mohammed both accompanied their father to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Mecca</st1:place></st1:city> and performed the minor hajj ritual.
Thus, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad was fully aware of the five pillars of Islam
and the Sunna.</div>
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Master Fard Muhammad instructed Elijah Muhammad to
only use the Muhammad Ali (an Islamic theological and jurisprudence
scholar from <st1:city w:st="on">Lahore</st1:city>, Pakistani) Qu'ranic
translation because the<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></b>Ahmadiyyas (founded by Mirza
Ghulam Ahmad) were the first Eastern based Muslims who sought to bring Islam to
so-called African Americans in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Detroit</st1:place></st1:city>
in the 1920s (a black ghetto referred to as the bottom). Thus, Master Fard
Muhammad, I believe, intentionally created the “Supreme Wisdom” lessons in a
mystic catechism questions and answers format—with the objective of delving
into mystic Sufism and Shia Islam, but remained true to the original theology,
but the 24 Wise Scientist, Mother plane, scientific numerology were rooted
deep in esoteric and occult practices of Islam that is mostly akin to Sufi
Islam. But he allowed Ministers like Bernard Cushmere (Jabril Muhammad) who
authored the book titled, <u>This is the One: We Need Not Look for Another</u>
perhaps written in 1968 and <u>Is It Possible that Honorable Elijah Muhammad
is Still Physically Alive?</u> and sister Tynetta Muhammad to push the envelope
relative to exploring mystical Islamic principles. <br />
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Master Fard Muhammad who often gave the Honorable Elijah
Muhammad assignments that had to be answered 100% correctly before he could
move on to said lesson #1. Honorable Elijah Muhammad teachings and methods of
researching were right and exact. The Lamb was definitely a master teacher. He
told us that Islam is mathematics and mathematics is Islam. So in this science,
he was given us the degree of quantification relative to how we should
approach the "Supreme Wisdom" and decipher the hidden jewels. But
he reminded us that God willed himself out of total triple darkness 76-78
trillion years ago. So if we start from that premise, there is nothing
impossible. But the answer has to be discovered and found in our mathematical
Islam. </div>
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Master Fard Muhammad probably would have asked those early
Muslims at <st1:city w:st="on">Temple</st1:city>#1 in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Detroit</st1:place></st1:city> who amongst you are prepared to
tackle this equation and be able to show and prove. He might have even
qualified it by saying THE BEST ANSWER will be rewarded with a trip to the holy
city of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Mecca</st1:place></st1:city>.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad paid and sent his youngest son Akbar Muhammad to <st1:placename w:st="on">Al-Azhar</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>
in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Egypt</st1:country-region> to study eastern
based Islam who later became an Islamic studies professor in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Binghamton</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">New
York</st1:state></st1:place>. Akbar Muhammad spoke fluent Arabic. So it is a
serious misnomer for Muslims in <st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region>
and outside of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place>
to believe that the Nation of Islam did not understand or practice true Islam.
Imam Mohammed did not introduce the Qur'an and the Hadiths to the Nation of
Islam, we already new of these sacred texts.</div>
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FAHIM KNIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00567827759311275290noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4957787817614691922.post-51130815493205267212017-01-26T11:42:00.003-08:002017-01-26T20:25:24.525-08:00INTERVIEW: A LOOK AT CIVIL RIGHTS THROUGH THE EYES OF TWO UNSUNG FAMILY HEROES OF MINE (Part I) <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong>INTERVIEW: A LOOK AT CIVIL RIGHTS THROUGH THE EYES OF TWO
UNSUNG FAMILY HEROES OF MINE (Part I)</strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<strong>By Fahim A. Knight-El</strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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I took the opportunity to interview my mother-in-law, my
wife's mother and I wish I could have conducted this interview with both of her
parents prior to my father-in-law transitioning in 2015; they had a serious
history in the civil rights movement in Durham, North Carolina and they would
share all these powerful stories with me about the role they played in fighting
for justice and equality in Durham and these personal stories would always
captivate me because they were stories of bravery, integrity, determination,
will power, etc. They had both become Elders and so often, we are allowing our
African-American family oral history to slip away and we are not taking the
time to converse, record and document our families history (and preserve this
valuable history); my in-laws were in their 70s and had made tremendous
sacrifices and stood on the front line of fire to achieve some of the goals
that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the civil rights movement were
aiming. They are two of my unsung heroes and my wife's father was like a father
to me and I know that I was liken to a son to him. He helped transition me into
manhood relative given me the tools to be a good husband and good father to my
children (he taught me the importance of standing up for what is right and
fight for what you believe in); he taught me patience and the value of kindness
and he taught me Islam and what the Muslim overall responsibility should be. My
mother-in-law and my father-in-law had been married for over 57 years and I had
never seen them have a real fight or argument. My mother-in-law was kind but
was a fighter for those things she held dear to her heart and she loved family.
So this interview is part one of their story told to me by mother-in-law. I
chose not to include their real names into this public blog because of security
and privacy concerns, I chose to shield their true identity in telling their
story and still share this story with my Blog audience as an authentic personal
historical account. I changed momma's name to Khalilah Abdur Shabazz and my
father-in-law will be referred be to as Baba Sharrieff Muhammad Shabazz. <span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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This essay will focus on the Civil Rights Movement in
Durham, North Carolina as a partial oral history told to me by my
mother-in-law, momma Khalilah Abdur Shabazz<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(born in the eary1940s)[1] as primary history and will use secondary
information provided by scholars, historians and intellectuals as supportive
evidence in order to provide an empirical and objective approach to this
discussion. This writer, will attempt to explore a small portion of the civil
rights movement in Durham between the years 1965-1968, as told to me by
mother-in-law momma Khalilah Abdur Shabazz from her personal insights and experiences, but it
will not be a comprehensive analysis that explores the entire civil rights
movement relative to the many personalities and events that helped shaped the
national political, economic and social debate during this turbulent time in
American history. [2]<o:p></o:p><br />
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In 1896, the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region>
Supreme Court passed the Plessy versus <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ferguson</st1:place></st1:city>
decision in which the high court ruled that ‘separate but equal’ was legal and
constitutional, which ushered in a time in American history known as Jim Crow.
Jim Crow laws led to African Americans being denied access to public
accommodations and established strict racial laws based on discrimination,
which led to segregation. Blacks could not enter certain business
establishments (and in many places in the south, they had signs that read
‘white and ‘colored’).[3] <o:p></o:p><br />
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These Jim Crow laws and policies created almost two distinct
societies inside the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">United
States of America</st1:country-region></st1:place>, what scholar Andrew
Hacker, describes in his book titled, <u>Two Nations: Black and White,
Separate, Hostile, Unequal,</u> “Black Americans are Americans, yet they still
subsist as aliens in the only land they know. Other groups may remain outside
the mainstream-some religious sects, for example-but they do so voluntarily.
In contrast, blacks must endure a segregation that is far from freely chosen.
So <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>
may be seen as two separate nations. Of course, there are places where the
races mingle. Yet in most significant respects, the separation is pervasive and
penetrating. As a social and human division, it surpasses all others-even
gender-in intensity and subordination.”[4] <o:p></o:p></div>
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Moreover, this was the social climate that my mother-in-law
and her family grew up in and there was no doubt that this social history had
helped to shape their worldview. This writer could hear the pain endured, as
well as, the determination and resolve they had in confronting these barriers
and overcoming them.[5]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Black protest
movements evolved out of the oppression, racism and overt inequalities that
took place during this 58 year period of Jim Crow and it was the Brown versus
Board of Education decision 1954 (Topeka, Kansas) in which the United States
Supreme Court overturned the Plessy versus Ferguson decision and declared
‘separate but equal’ as being unconstitutional.[6] The quest for freedom,
justice and equality took on many forms, which various black protest movements
arose during different time periods in America to challenge racist public
policy and injustices. For example, the political spectrum ranged from the
Marcus Garvey model (back to <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place> movement)
of black nationalism to the likes of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who advocated
integration and civil disobedience to alter social change.[7] <o:p></o:p><br />
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Yet, this writer, was aware of the historical role lynching
played and how and why the voices of Ida B. Wells-Barnett and W.E.B. Dubois
came about on the national stage in founding the Niagara Movement (1903) that
evolved into the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in
1909—committed to social justice for African American people.[8] <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Durham</b></st1:city></st1:place><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> and its Unique Black History and
Experience <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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In a book titled, <u>Black America Series: Durham’s Hayti</u>
stated, “<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Durham</st1:place></st1:city>,
like most Southern cities in the 1880s and 1900s, had rigidly segregated
communities. The majority of African-Americans resided in the southern and
southeastern sections known as Hayti, pronounced as ‘hay-tie’. In 1920, W.E.B.
Dubois, a prominent African American historian, referred to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Durham</st1:place></st1:city>, specifically the Hayti area, as the
‘Negro business mecca of the South’. He wrote, ‘There is in this small city a
group of five thousand or more colored people, whose social and economic
development is perhaps more striking than that of any similar group in the
nation.’ Booker T. Washington, the noted African American leader and educator
at Tuskegee Institute, agreed with Dubois that <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Durham</st1:place></st1:city> provided an opportunity for African
American to excel economically. But <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Washington</st1:place></st1:state>
also recognized the existence of friendly relations between African Americans
and whites. He stated, ‘Of all the Southern cities that I have visited I found
here the sanest attitude (among) white toward the blacks.’[9]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Momma Khalilah Abdur Shabazz migrated from Western, <st1:state w:st="on">North Carolina</st1:state> to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Durham</st1:place></st1:city>
with her mother and her two siblings when she was about twelve years old at
this time. She and was raised in Pearsontown (an area near North Carolina
Central University and Fayetteville Street) and where many of the black elite
lived (an adjacent neighborhood in and around NCCU and next to where the old
Hillside High School used be located on Concord Street and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lawson Street). These educated blacks fitted
into the social and economic class of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>what W.E.B. Dubois referred to as the talented tenth and what E.
Franklin Frazier called the ‘the black bourgeoisie’.[10] <o:p></o:p></div>
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<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Durham</st1:place></st1:city>
being a southern city was very segregated, as most of the south was during the
1950s and 1960s; thus, my momma Khalilah explained to me that <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Pettigrew Street</st1:address></st1:street>
(at the railroad tracks) separated the white community from the African American
community. She and my (father-in-law the Baba Sharrieff Muhammad
Shabazz-2015)[11] both attended segregated public schools and as much as she
admired the things Dubois and Washington stated about Durham—the Durham she
experienced had more of a sense of black classism in which prominent black
Durham leaders had cut behind door deals with the white establishment that
allowed the black elite class to create strong business opportunities and
banking ties, which led to the establishment of Mechanics and Farmers Bank and
North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company.[12]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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For example, prominent blacks and families such as John
Merrick, Dr. A.M. Moore, C.C Spaulding, W.J. Kennedy, Bert Collins, Asa T.
Spaulding, J.W. Goodloe, W.J. Kennedy, etc., ( momma Khalilah called these elitist
black Durham leaders and businessmen ‘spluking ducks’ it was slang term they
used to describe for high class light skinned ‘Negroes’ of the bourgeoisie
persuasion) and viewed them and their off springs as privileged Negroes, but I
got the picture that she perhaps saw their political approach as being reactionary.[13]
It was evident that in Durham my in-laws experience a wealth disparity and
race and privilege were dictating quality of life and economic mobility. My in-laws met a young civil rights worker named Howard Fuller (he was a
cross between Minister Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in ideology
and philosophical thought) he had come south to engage in the war on poverty in
the early 1960s, Fuller’s commitment to altering social change in Durham and
throughout North Carolina would shape my grandparent’s political
views.[14]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Howard Fuller: <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Durham</st1:place></st1:city>’s Civil Rights Icon Enters on the
Scene <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Devin Ferguson in his book titled<u>, Liberalism, Black
Power and the Making of American Politics 1965-1980</u> describes Howard Fuller
and his leadership in the <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Durham</st1:place></st1:city>
civil rights movement in this manner: “Since the mid-1960s Fuller had been
hailed by adversaries and acolytes alike as the state’s leading black activist.
The appellation was apparently well deserved. Amid physical threats to himself
and family. Fuller mobilized fair-housing rallies, protest marches, and
university demonstrations. More important, he had earned the confidence of
fellow activists and local residents. “I walked the streets of the most
dilapidated sections,’ one observer noted, ‘and talked with tired Negroes on
their front porches. Most all of them knew of OBT {Operation Breakthrough} and
the residents council and spoke well of them.’ The success of grassroots
organizing and black political power in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Durham</st1:place></st1:city>,
community and fieldworkers claimed, was largely attributable to one man, Howard
Fuller.”[15] <o:p></o:p></div>
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This writer had personally met Fuller on a number of times
at my in-laws' home and I knew that my father-in-law and my mother-in-law were
very fond of him,[16] but as I talked with my mother-in-law, I really did not
know much about him and his huge relationship with the Durham civil rights
movement. Moreover, doing this research and having these various conversations
with my mother-in-law this writer started to immediately develop a deeper sense
of appreciation for the role they played as grassroots activist and their personal
connection to one of the premier Durham civil rights leaders in the 1960s and
most all I came to appreciate their work and the personal sacrifices they made
to change a social and political system that was fundamentally flawed and
wrong.[17] <o:p></o:p></div>
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My mother-in-law said they would go out at night and she did
not know, if they would return home because of possibly being arrested or
killed (being deemed as black agitators) and I sought of got the feeling that
some of their tactics deviated from King’s non-violent confrontational
position, but she stated ‘those who tell don’t know and those that know don’t
tell’. She made it clear that whatever this writer wrote, she does not have to
read the final version, because she lived this history.[18] <o:p></o:p></div>
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But as much as she had high praises for Fuller and his work,
this is what Fuller had to say about my in-laws in his book: “On Sundays, I
occasionally spoke at local churches, where I met people like,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Khalilah Abdur Shabazz and Sharrieff Muhammad Shabazz a young married couple in their early twenties, who would
become two of the movement’s most dedicated and committed warriors. They were
among the few married people living in McDougald Terrace. They had heard that a
young black man from ‘up North’ had been traveling around town, telling black
folks that they did’nt have to accept how they’d been living. So, they came to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Mount</st1:placetype> <st1:placename w:st="on">Zion</st1:placename>
<st1:placename w:st="on">Baptist</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Church</st1:placetype></st1:place>
on <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Fayetteville Street</st1:address></st1:street>
one Sunday night to hear for themselves what I had to say. My message about the
need for poor people to come together and change things tapped into their own
simmering anger and frustration. Later on in life when I asked Sharrieff what
attracted him to the movement, he told me: ‘There were these fires burning
inside of us with the way we were treated. And you came along and started
blowing on those flames.’Khalilah and Sharrieff joined the movement and never
looked back. They were true salt–of-the-earth <st1:place w:st="on">North
Carolinians</st1:place>—welcoming, unpretentious, dedicated, and
determined.”[19]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">They Accepted the Challenge<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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My in-laws became active in the civil rights movement in
approximately 1965, participating in marches freedom rides, picketing,
boycotts, sit-ins, etc. they both had a love and a passion for social activism
and shared in some of Durham's most historical civil rights moments.[20] They
worked alongside Howard Fuller (my father-in-law.once said to me next to his
father, Fuller was, perhaps the second man that had the most impact on his
life); Fuller was a grassroots leader that led the civil rights struggle in
Durham with passion and commitment, he was one of the faces and voices in black
Durham who did not mind speaking truth to power; he was the Malcolm X of the
south and gave a lot Black folk backbone to stand up for equality and justice.
[21]<o:p></o:p></div>
<br />
There were also Ben Ruffin (North Carolina Central
University even named a building after Ruffin called Benjamin S. Ruffin
Residence Hall), Floyd McKissick, Sr., (Floyd McKissick, Jr., the son Floyd
McKissick, Sr. now sits in the NC State Legislature); McKissick, Sr was one of
the attorneys for Durham Civil Rights movement and also founder of black
incorporated township in Warrenton, North Carolina called Soul City, Howard
Clements, Ann Atwater, Pat Rogers, Ruby Gattis, John Edwards, Lonnie Wilson,
Joyce Thorpe-Nichols, and countless others that were involved in desegregating
Durham and forcing the local and State government to abide by the Civil Rights
Act (1964) and the Voting Rights Act (1965) relative to Black people. All of
the above activist worked with my in-laws as activist and community
organizers.[22]. <br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><st1:city w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Atwater</b></st1:city><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, A <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Durham</st1:city></st1:place>
Civil Rights Warrior Forgave Ku Klux Klan Adversary<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Ann Atwater one of the chief community organizers of
Operation Breakthrough who worked side-by-side with Momma Khalilah and
co-authored a book with a former head Ku Klux Klan member named C. P. Ellis
titled, <u>The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South</u>,
authored by Osha Gray Davidson. My mother-in-law said some of the former civil
rights workers were very critical of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Atwater</st1:place></st1:city>
sitting down some 40 years later and having dialogue and conversation with one
of their staunch adversaries and talking about forgiveness, atonement and
reconciliation. She had vivid memories of the hooded Ku Klux Klan marching down
<st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Main Street</st1:address></st1:street>
in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Durham</st1:place></st1:city>
holding up Confederate Flags and spewing vitriol hatred.[23] <o:p></o:p></div>
<br />
Amazon review of the book stated: “C. P. Ellis grew up in
the poor white section of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Durham</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">North Carolina</st1:state></st1:place>, and as a young
man joined the Ku Klux Klan. Ann Atwater, a single mother from the poor black
part of town, quit her job as a household domestic to join the civil rights
fight. During the 1960s, as the country struggled with the explosive issue of
race, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Atwater</st1:place></st1:city>
and Ellis met on opposite sides of the public school integration issue. Their
encounters were charged with hatred and suspicion. In an amazing set of
transformations, however, each of them came to see how the other had been
exploited by the South's rigid power structure, and they forged a friendship
that flourished against a backdrop of unrelenting bigotry. Rich with details
about the rhythms of daily life in the mid-twentieth-century South, <u>The Best
of Enemies</u> offers a vivid portrait of a relationship that defied all odds.
By placing this very personal story into broader context, Osha Gray Davidson
demonstrates that race is intimately tied to issues of class, and that
cooperation is possible--even in the most divisive situations--when people
begin to listen to one another.”[24]<o:p></o:p><br />
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Thus, for me reviewing some of this historiography this
writer has to take into consideration the historical time and approach my
assessment and analysis with a clear understanding of the context of the
historical timeframes and what the political, economic and social climate was
like that created the feelings my mother-in-law was still having relative to the
former Ku Klux Klan member C. P. Ellis[25] and although I am supposed to
approach my research with a level of objectivity, it was not difficult for me
to understand why momma Khalilah emotions' about Atwater having this humane
dialogue with the former Ku Klux Klan was still a little unsettling to my momma
Khalilah even in 2017 .[26] <o:p></o:p></div>
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Yet, simultaneously I could reckon with Atwater and Ellis
being forty years removed from that antagonistic history and perhaps Ellis had
come to the conclusion based on time and human development that this
conversation needed to take place in a broader context and allow the public to
look deeper into the conscious minds of how a racist ideology had shaped and
molded the course of history of two human beings, one white and one black (and in
the larger context their lives were a microcosm and typified the social and
political tension that existed in America during the 1960s and 1970s).[27] <o:p></o:p></div>
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Their discussions evolved out of socio-economic timeframes
in American history that was drastically different in the 1960s and I further
believe by 2007, it was enough time and space that had lapsed, which allowed
for some 40 years later for forgiveness and redemption to take place in spite
of the past historical divisiveness and racial tension that once separated
these two unsettling souls. I personally think people have the ability to
change and be reformed and although my momma Khalilah<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>would disagree the above mentioned book is a
testimony of the power of personal healing and redemptive love.[28]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Fuller in his book titled, <u>No Struggle, No Progress: A
Warrior’s Life From Black Power to Education Reform</u> stated, “That
understanding of the relationship between struggle and progress is what
propelled me down dark alleys and dirt roads in some of North Carolina’s
poorest communities in the 1960s, and pushed me into the bush, mountains, and
war-torn villages of Africa nearly a decade later.”[29] <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Unknown History: The Civil Rights Movement
Begin in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Durham</st1:city></st1:place><o:p></o:p></b></div>
<br />
It would be under Fuller’s leadership and tutelage that my
in-laws entered the Civil Rights Movement in 1965—they were concern with
housing, jobs and poverty in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Durham</st1:city></st1:place>
and somewhat like King, Fuller advocated civil disobedience[30]. Momma Khalilah
talked about how they use the strategies and tactics of boycotts, sit-ins,
picket lines, etc., to agitate the white power apparatus in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Durham</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">City</st1:placetype></st1:place>
with the objective of disrupting business. She even argues that the first
sit-in actually took place in Durham, North Carolina at Royal Ice Cream Parlor
(on Roxboro Road and Dowd Street) in 1957 and this event actually took place
three years prior to the Greensboro Four (North Carolina A&T State
University students) sit-ins at counter of Woolworth in February 1960, but the
Durham sit-in did not get the public and national notoriety as the Greensboro
incident.[31] <o:p></o:p><br />
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Momma<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Khalilah stated
that the white business leaders who were practicing segregation in Durham
became fearful of them, because the protests begin to affect their bottom
economic line and she recalled a few incidents where they shutdown city council
meetings, if their demands were not met. She said boycotts were a very
effective way of protesting and altering social change.[32] She stated on
August 28, 1963, she can remember almost like it was yesterday when Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. called for the March on <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Washington</st1:place></st1:state>
and almost two hundred thousand people converged on the capitol grounds that
rallied around jobs and justice. She said at the time, she had four small
children, but she supported the goals and objectives of the march.[33]<o:p></o:p></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Thorpe-Nichols: <st1:city w:st="on">Durham</st1:city> Public Housing Resident and the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> Supreme
Court<o:p></o:p></b><br />
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Momma Khalilah joined an anti-poverty organization called
Operation Breakthrough as a community organizer in early 1960s, which was
geared toward organizing poor people in public housing relative to
understanding their legal rights, and directing them toward services—they
became advocates for the disenfranchised poor in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Durham</st1:place></st1:city>. Momma Khalilah told me about Ms.
Joyce Thorpe-Nichols who lived right around the corner from my home and this
writer, actually met her before she died (Thorpe-Nichols also informed me that
she was the first black to have received a physician assistant degree from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Duke</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>).
Nichols in the early 1960s lived in McDougal housing projects and for whatever
reason was evicted by Durham Housing Authority without cause and Thorpe-Nichols
case made its way to the United States Supreme Court and she won.Momma Khalilah
further stated that Thorpe-Nichols became empowered by being involved in the
work of Operation Breakthrough.[34] <o:p></o:p></div>
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Momma Khalilah pulled from her archives and provided me with
an unpublished document titled, “The Evolution of Neighborhood Organizing
Around Housing Policies in Durham, 1965-1975” authored by a Duke University
researcher named Ellie Bullard of the history department, perhaps under the guidance
of Professor Robert Korstad. Bullard stated: “Thorpe received an eviction
notice. The reason for the eviction was not made clear to her, most likely
retribution for her involvement with the Breakthrough-organized neighborhood
council. Regardless, Thorpe refused to leave her home in McDougald Terrace,
even when <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Durham</st1:place></st1:city>
police officers came to the door . . . if you got an eviction, you had no
recourse. . .So I said, ‘I am not going anywhere.’ And I didn’t, Thorpe said.
With the help of Howard Fuller, Joan Alston, and civil rights lawyer Floyd
McKissick, Thorpe pressed against the Durham Housing Authority for failing to
give her a reason for eviction. In a case that would last until 1969, the
Supreme Court finally ruled “you can’t evict people out of public housing
without giving them a reason.’ ‘We are the reason for that, ‘said Howard Fuller
years later.’[35]</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Conclusion and Historiography
analysis and comments<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Lastly, this research project exposed me to the rich civil
rights history that existed in <st1:city w:st="on">Durham</st1:city> and the
roles that my in-laws played, in particular and the impact their activism
had in general, in the State of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">North
Carolina</st1:state></st1:place>. Thus, last year my father-in-law father
Baba Sharrieff Muhammad Shabazz<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(2015)
passed and as this writer was writing this narrative and formulating my
thoughts, I could not but think about the many stories and accounts he often
talked about relative to their involvement in desegregating Durham (he loved to
talk about their conviction to social justice).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Both of my in-laws took a lot of pride in working as
community grassroots workers and advocating for the ‘have nots’ and participating
in boycotts, sit-ins and walking picket lines to ensure that African Americans
would be treated as human beings and receive justice.[36] The 1960s was
tumultuous period in American history in which there were many issues pulling
in many political directions such as the Vietnam War, the 1963 assassination of
President John F. Kennedy, the 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr. which made America a social tender box. Moreover, cities like <st1:city w:st="on">Newark</st1:city>, Jersey, <st1:city w:st="on">Detroit</st1:city>,
and the Watts section of Los Angles were overtaking by riots and social
rebellion.[37] <st1:city w:st="on">Durham</st1:city> remained relatively
peaceful, but that is not to say that racial tension was not high in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Durham</st1:place></st1:city>. My mother-in-law
said former U.S. Senator Jesse Helms would come on the radio spewing hate and his
approach to public policy reflected a rightwing conservative viewpoint in which
many liberal blacks and whites took offense. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Momma Khalilah believed that Durham’s black bourgeoisie and
black elite had often cut behind the scene deals with the white establishment
and this allowed for them to prosper in business and assisted in their wealth
building.[38] Thus, Howard Fuller often worked with them, but he was deemed a
political outsider and a threat by prominent black leaders in Durham and their
relationship was more of a political convenience. Fuller’s activism inspired my
grandparents who got involved in Operation Breakthrough and this led to them
become community organizers.[39]<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the book titled, <u>Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil
Rights Years 1954-1965</u> , Civil Rights leader Julian Bond who wrote the
introduction to the book stated: “The civil rights movement began a long time
ago. As early as the seventeenth century, blacks and whites, slaves in Virginia
and Quakers in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Pennsylvania</st1:place></st1:state>,
protested the barbarity of slavery. Nat Turner, Sojourner Truth, Fredrick
Douglas, William Lloyd Garrison, John Brown, and Harriet Tubman are but a few
of those who led the resistance to slavery before the Civil War. After the
Civil War, another protracted battle began against slavery’s legacy—racism and
segregation. But for most Americans, the civil rights movement began on May 17,
1954, when the Supreme Court handed down the Brown v. Board of Education of
Topeka decision outlawing segregation in public schools.”[40]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
<br />
Bond’s commentary only serves as a reminder that the
continued response and opposition to injustice and inequality was not created
in a vacuum and Fuller and my grandparents’ struggles were inextricably tied to
this long legacy and history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p><br />
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Yet, Harold Cruse in his book titled, The Crisis of the
Negro Intellectual, that was published in 1967, this writer does not know, if
he is considered a sociologist or historian but unlike most traditional black
intellectuals, he seemed to be very open to objectively criticizing some of the
civil rights leadership models and personalities. He consistently cited that
many of civil rights organizations, in particular the radical left often
confused reform planks with revolutionary planks which left a lot to be desired
relative to their ideological methodology. Cruses stated,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The Question arises: “Why was it necessary
for all those idealistic and intrepid direct actionists to submit themselves to
such terrible physical and psychological battering in the South to establish a
few struggling groups for local reform in politics and economics, attempting in
vain to breach Jim Crow barriers, which are, in effect, ‘separate’ movements?
It was because these young radicals did not understand, at the outset, the
divergent natures of reforms and revolutionary movements for social change.
They confused the methods without understanding them, thus imputing
revolutionary interpretations to merely reformist methods. Hence, when
direct-action methods failed against hardening barriers, they had to fall back
on what few political and economic reforms gains they had won.”[41]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Now, as I review and assess the election of President Barack
Obama becoming the first African American president and briefly comparing and
contrasting two different historical time periods in American history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This writer in looking back to the 1960s from
my in-laws’ era they probably could not have imagine in their lifetime that
they would ever have witness a black man becoming president and serving as our
commander-in-chief, but in 2008 it happened. Momma Khalilah in their hearts
know that it was their work that laid the foundation and sacrifices of so many
civil rights workers and freedom fighters who died conducting voters
registrations drives in the deep south and eliminating barriers that did not
permit African Americans to participate in the electoral process. Momma
Khalilah worked to desegregated Durham and all across this nation bigotry,
racism and discrimination were being challenged in the 1960s under the banner
of civil rights.[42] This writer does not know, if Momma Khalilah would agree
that we now live in a post racial era since the 2008 election of President
Obama, but she will agree that life is different and blacks have made
tremendous progress and strides in all fields of endeavors since the civil
rights movement in the 1960s.[43]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Senator Obama’s candidacy for president in 2008 created
excitement and enthusiasm amongst African Americans, which was undeniable—most
whites could never understand this euphoria, because it was rooted in the
history and culture of an oppressed people who were disenfranchised, denied
civil rights, and human rights from 1555-1964 until the passing of the 1964
Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Acts. But before the passing of these
two pieces of monumental legislation, Jim Crow reigned high in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>. So
this writer must say that he can reckon with their enthusiasm and excitement,
for them it was a very passionate historical moment. For example, Momma
Khalilah is 75 years of age and as an elderly African American who experienced
the era of Jim Crow where race determined the political, economic and social
reality of African American people in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>, it wouldn’t be
difficult for one to share in her and their newfound optimism and her deep
seated suspicions.[44] <o:p></o:p></div>
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The Jim Crow culture and segregation was very painful for
blacks to endure—there were racial violence in the form of lynching and
outright racial motivated murders, separate but equal policies were the law of
the land—white only public accommodations was the norm, whites and blacks could
not share the same bathrooms and/or attend the same schools. Momma Khalilah as
she recalled this painful history became teary-eyed (these were tears of both
pain and joy) and viewed the possibility of Obama becoming the first black
president in the history of the United States as being monumental in her
psyche; this same view probably resonated with millions of others just like
her. The presidential election of Obama in 2008, made it all worth the hell
they caught fighting to achieve freedom, justice and equality for the African
American race in 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, etc.. And it was a sharp contrast and
departure from the social politics of the 1960s. Just remember we are only
50-60 years removed from one of the most antagonistic times in American history
relative to modern race relations.[45]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Fahim A. Knight-El Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL
THINK TANK located in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place u1:st="on"><st1:city u1:st="on"><st1:place u2:st="on"><st1:city u2:st="on"><st1:place u3:st="on"><st1:city u3:st="on"><st1:place u3:st="on"><st1:city u3:st="on">Durham</st1:city></st1:place></st1:city></st1:place></st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on"><st1:state u1:st="on"><st1:state u2:st="on"><st1:state u3:st="on"><st1:state u3:st="on">NC</st1:state></st1:state></st1:state></st1:state></st1:state></st1:place></st1:city></st1:place></st1:city></st1:place>;
our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the
pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolism and
reinterpreted the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces,
but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlightened world
will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be
willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power.
Fahim A. Knight-El can be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Notes<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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[1] Fahim Knight-El. Interview with Khalilah Abdur Shabazz .
May 10, 2016; <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Durham</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">North Carolina</st1:state></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p><br />
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[2]Ibid,2. <o:p></o:p><br />
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[3]Ibid, 3-4.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[4] Andrew Hacker, Two Nations: Black and White, Separate,
Hostile, Unequal. (New York: Scribner, 1995) 3. <o:p></o:p></div>
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[5] Ibid, Shabazz,5.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[6]Ibid, 2-3. <o:p></o:p></div>
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[7] William L. Van
Deburg. Modern Black Nationalism . (New York: New York University Press, 1997)
373-374.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[8]Ibid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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[9]Andre Vann & Beverly Washington Jones. Black American
Series: <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Durham</st1:place></st1:city>’s
Hayti. (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1999) 7.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[10]Ibid, Shabazz, 5.
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[11]Ibid, 2-3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[12] Ibid, 3-5.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[13]Ibid, 4-5. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[14] Ibid, 6-7.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[15]Devin Fergus.
Liberalism, Black Power, and the Making of American . (<st1:city w:st="on">Athens</st1:city>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Georgia</st1:country-region>: The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Georgia Press</st1:placename></st1:place>, 2009) 59.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[16] Ibid,
Shabazz,13., <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[17]Ibid, 12. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[18] Ibid,<o:p></o:p></div>
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[19]Howard Fuller. No
Struggle, No Progress: A Warrior’s Life from Black Power to Education Reform. (<st1:city w:st="on">Milwaukee</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Wisconsin</st1:state>: <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Marquette</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place> Press, 2014) 64.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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[20]Ibid, Shabazz, 7.
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[21]Ibid, 6.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[22]Ibid, Fuller,
62-79. <o:p></o:p></div>
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[23]Ibid, Shabazz,
8-9. <o:p></o:p></div>
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[24] Amazon..com
–Internet online book review. The Best of Enemies,<o:p></o:p></div>
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[25]Ibid, Shabazz,
8-9. <o:p></o:p></div>
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[26]Ibid, 9. <o:p></o:p></div>
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[27]Ibid, 8-9. <o:p></o:p></div>
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[28] Ibid, 8-9<o:p></o:p></div>
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[29] Ibid, Fuller,
11.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[30] Ibid, Shabazz,
6.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[31] Internet article (2009) titled, “Royal Ice Cream marker
unveiling brings history, recognition, closure to <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Roxboro St</st1:address></st1:street>”.
http://www.bullcityrising.com/2009/11/royal-ice-cream-marker-unveiling-brings-history-recognition-closure-to-roxboro-st.html.
<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>[32] Ibid, Shabazz,
11.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>[33]Ibid, Shabazz, 6.
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<o:p> </o:p>[34]Ibid, Fuller,
67-68. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>[35] Ellie Bullard. “The Evolution of Neighborhoods
Organizing Around Housing Policies in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Durham</st1:place></st1:city>,
1965-1975”.Uupublished Document; perhaps a Master of Arts Thesis; submitted to
Duke University Department of History under the guidance of Professor Robert
Korstad. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[36] Ibid, Shabazz,
10.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[37]Lerone Bennett.
Before the Mayflower; A History of Black <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>. (New York: Penguin Books,
1985) 423-432.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[38] Ibid, Shabazz,
3-4.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[39] Ibid, Shabazz,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>11.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[40] Juan Williams.
Eyes on the Prize: <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s
Civil Rights Years 1954-1965. ((<st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New
York</st1:place></st1:state>: Penguin Books, 1987) xi.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[41]Harold Cruse. The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual. (New
York: William Morrow & Company, 1967) 547.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></div>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[42] Ibid, Shabazz,
7. <o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[43] Ibid, Shabazz,
7.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[44] Ibid, Shabazz, 8
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<o:p> </o:p>[45] Ibid, Shabazz, 8
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FAHIM KNIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00567827759311275290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4957787817614691922.post-76456327919551479732017-01-25T22:02:00.000-08:002017-01-26T12:46:37.826-08:00FAKE NEWS, WHAT IS THE GLOBAL IMPLICATIONS AND WHAT IS THE PRICE?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">By Fahim A. Knight-El<o:p></o:p></b><br />
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I think the question of whether or not media is being
reported without bias and slant; it will be a difficult problem and task to
address and resolve in the grand scheme of things relative to media policing,
because of the human factor (sometimes shoddy stories can be very well
disguised). Moreover, we live in a highly technical digital age where
information is being disseminated in real time, which has transformed how media
use to be relayed twenty years ago and the digital age has revolutionized mass
medium markets, which has made them more competitive. The media outlets
both electronic and print now have to compete with the power and influences of
non-traditional media built around social media. So not only are there
competitive markets between traditional media outlets that are warring to
present breaking stories and capitalizing on national and global audiences
before anyone else, but social media is covertly driving mainstream media to
this end. This new phenomenon creates tremendous pressure on media journalist
to work expeditiously in order to get to the reporting finish line first
(shameless to say by hook or crook).<br />
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The media is big business and often reporting news has a
revenue and profit incentive attachment. I am of the opinion that the networks
themselves have lowered their journalistic standards and the empirical and
scientific approach to gathering information and packaging it for broad based
media consumption has lost some of its reporting credibility qualities.
Journalism use to be rooted in ethics, and the first thing that you are taught,
is to view reporting with objectivity and without partiality. Let the facts of
a story be the foremost determination of where a media story lead and the
journalist must be able to detach themselves from the story's outcome.</div>
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I don't know why President Donald Trump’s name continues to
come up with people that I am engaged in conversations and dialogue. Let me
state this, Trump in his own way exposed what many of us already knew, which
was how non-credible Western media had become. The United States President
lambasted U.S news outlets as reporting "fake news"; he was not going
to allow them to set the table for him relative to Russia and Valdmir Putin
(this cozy relationship with Russia and Putin will continue have many twist
and turns just keep your eyes on U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson) had
hacked into the Democratic and Republican voting machinery and computer
networking systems and was involved in a spying espionage operation against the
United States Government. President Barack Obama publically stated that the
U.S. intelligence experts had provided him with proof that Russia was engaged
in cyberspace terrorism and that this posed a threat to United States national
security interest (and he even briefed Trump on the matter and CIA provided Trump
with a so-called highly confidential and classified briefing information in which it
appears he did not buy into). Thus, part of the briefing alluded to the fact
that Puttin had even created an inside dossier on Trump who defended himself by
characterizing some of this confidential and classified briefing a mere ‘fake’
news and he forced CNN and other networks to admit that part of the story
against him was un-collaborated and they were so-called relying on some French
source who was a double agent. Trump accused and alleged that CIA director John
Brennan could have been behind this ‘fake’ news. </div>
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This practice of ‘fake’ news has been long standing and it
actually goes much further than the failure of the ground level reporters
negating or neglecting their responsibility as media to factually and
accurately report the news outside of slants and hidden agendas (the reporters
themselves are only pawns in the game). Perhaps the editorial boards and the
executive board decision makers are tied to a diabolical hidden cabal who are
covertly dictating how they desire to shape and mold public opinion. Trump is
so unpredictable that whatever comes to his mind he just says it. Yet, many of
us know Trump's allegations of "fake" news struck to the core of this
charade and manipulation and the play on how the American people and the globe
takes in information. And how ‘fake’ news impact our mindset and as well
as, our daily lives and the perceptions that are gathered about people (events
and occurrences) from around the world could be misleading—they lie and
fabricate information to sway and persuade the national public and the global
public to lead them into believing and thinking that they know and fully
understand the complexities of what is taking place in global society. </div>
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These are master capitalist media ploys of controlling human
social, political and economic behavior: they have a gamut of tools at their
disposal from print media, electronic media and even social media. They are
also masters of high technical subliminal seduction that is also being carried
out in the media as mind control and they systematically use the mass mediums
to formulate global agendas and make the public believe they are informed on the
issues. But unknowing to them they don't have a clue about what's truly taking
place on the national and/or on the global scene. They use media to create
toxic international political environments to sway public opinion in whatever
direction they choose. </div>
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I remember some years ago there was this fear that the
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and high level U.S. government national security
apparatuses were covertly and secretly engaged in placing microchips into new
born babies feet and many felt that this was being done by the government to be
able to monitor and control the future movement of people and even control the
minds of these recipients of this Langley, Virginia experiment. Now, this is not
above them or beneath them and even this experiment was never scratched from
the table. But they systematically use media to herding the Sheeple into various
directions for the benefit of this cabal. My father-in-law was an avid news
television viewer and reader of various news publications (in particular following current events), and he would often engage
me in conversations about events that were taking place around the world and he
truly believed that he had a perspective and was informed. I did not have the
heart to tell him what Donald Trump stated, which was, the majority of this
news that he was so adamant about defending, was nothing but manufactured 'fake
news' and the Talking Heads were only given a script to read. Nothing that we
read and/or see on CNN, Fox news, MSNBC, The Hill, BBC, CBS, NBC, Bloomberg Report, ABC, New
York Times, New York Post, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, Associated Press, United Press Associations, Yahoo news or other Internet generated news,
etc., none of it stand on the merit of truth, but most of it has been divested
of objectivity and grossly diluted to fit the interest of the manipulators.
There is a monopoly over the media ownership that has violated all the
anti-trust laws and rules in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
but they are so powerful and they answer to no one but themselves and 95% percent of the
global mediums outlets are controlled by this small powerful cabal. </div>
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They don't need huge military build ups anymore like what the
world witnessed during World War I (1914-1919) and World War II (1939-1945) in
order to move people in this manner which has become obsolete, but they can still dominate the world and not even
fire a shot (the force and might strategy has transitioned into a new movement of
getting the same results via lies and propaganda and by the use of ‘fake’ news). There is no
such thing in the United States as the "free press", this is an
illusion from yesterday that continues to be thrown out as the shining example of U.S. democracy (which is
given to show forth a distinction between so-called oppressive nations and so-called democratic nations) and our
people fail to understand that American democracy has been compromised on every
level and the United States Constitution no longer frames the basis of U.S.
jurisprudence relative to this nation's so-called past and present democratic
freedoms. The conveying of news by the mass mediums, which is rooted in
propaganda and disinformation have become the order of the day and is very
detached from the reality of truth—they hide real and truthful news worthy stories and accounts
in lieu of providing the masses with sensationalized and often irrelevant
subjective and biased sanitized reporting and the American people is given the
world through the disdained color lens of those who have hidden agendas. </div>
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For example, they are masters of using the 'Big Lie' theory techniques by tossing out undocumented lies that have no truth or credibility and lack
being substantiated, but each network begins to quote the lie, as if the lie was the
truth and has empirical value and has met some rigorously standards of
journalistic oversight and integrity that lay at the bases of the reporting and sadly to say the
lie will eventually be transformed into being the truth. There are really no
independent news sources anymore, this is only being offered in spirit and
intent as part of a quasi sophisticated duping in order to once again give the
people the impression that we live in a free press society as a western
developed and technical advanced nation. It is just to the contrary and the <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> media is ran and operated no different than
<st1:country-region w:st="on">North Korea</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Russia</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Cuba</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region>, etc.,
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Yet, if the truth be told as I have stated above Western media is controlled and
the dissemination of information is dispersed no different than countries that
are controlled by State media, both State controlled news and so-called free press
sources have one objective, which is to provide slanted political propaganda to support
the interest of the power structure (capitalist countries have been better at
this than communist influenced countries). The United States are quick to
condemn some countries on their human rights record and we live under one of
the most repressive regimes in the world disguised in the form of a democracy,
but is shielded and veiled behind white supremacy (there are two standards of
Justice in America one white and the other black). We have to ask ourselves,
how has this type of journalism affected recent world history relative to
causing and instigating wars and conflicts around the world? That has sent so many
to bleed and die on foreign battle fields—wars such as World War II, Korean
War, Vietnam War, Desert Storm, Desert Shield, Afghanistan War, Iraq War,
etc., and how many future conflicts that will be manipulated and instigated at
the behest of ‘fake’ news propaganda? </div>
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The disinformation techniques have been proven to be
affective, it allows for this small powerful cabal to play every piece on the
chessboard and it further allows them global control over humanity (this also
factors into their global wealth equation, they own 99% of the world's wealth). They outright lied about Saddam
Hussein having acquired Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and killed innocent Iraqi
citizens based on this lie (thousands of United States Service men lost their lives as
well, in essence for nothing other than in the name of propaganda and the waving of false
flags). The Bush administration during these so-called crisis used the media to
work the ignorant American people into a frenzy and they begin building popular
support for a war that was created on the premises of a lie. Who are the beneficiaries
of such deception? These 'fake’ news' agencies and their reporting are more
dangerous and manipulative than the former Kremlin and its so-called iron wall
reputation that existed during the Cold War era. Donald Trump was right and
exact by calling the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
media of manufacturing ‘fake’ news and it caught the media outlets totally off
guard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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They did not expect this kind of response coming from a <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
commander-in-chief. But let's not get it confused Trump himself and his brand
are also the beneficiary of media (Trump was made in the U.S.A by the media)
and for him to cry victim, is the epitome of deceit. The ‘fake’ news
allegations isn't anything new in relation to how America is structured and
many dissident voices have become victims of media lies, which has led to public
and private defamation—libel, slander and character assassination against
individuals and governments in which in the name of ‘fake’ news and propaganda
it has been strategically and tactically used to discredit oppositional voices
and movements. This is the most powerful tool that government has at their
disposal, the media work hand and hand with the government's agenda. Many times
before the government act they invite certain media outlets and personnel into
the Situation Room with the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They know that the media
role is of vital importance to molding and shaping of public opinion. The CIA,
FBI and NSA oftentimes intentionally leak certain so-called confidential and
classified information to the media in order to move a military, foreign policy
and/or a political agenda forward in the minds of the American people, in
particular and the international community in general. When you hear a
journalist or media Talking Head make the statement that I am working my
sources in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Washington</st1:place></st1:state>
normally they are CIA fronts who are communicating directly with the devil in the red
dress.</div>
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Here are some solutions just for discussion, but in the
grand scheme of media power this below conversation is frivolous because the
level of media ‘tricknology’ is beyond redemption, because there is a
conglomerate of wealth associated with issuing ‘fake’ news and controlling
humanity is of vital importance. So the problem is much bigger than the below
solutions. Media has become an absolute power in which absolute power,
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1). I think that universities and colleges that offers
academic training in mass media and journalism must create higher ethical
standards as part of the mass media and journalism curriculums. I would require
the infusion of more courses and discussions around journalistic integrity and
the importance of media ethics and the responsibility that journalists have to
the public and the media outlets whom they will be employed. I am of the
opinion that, perhaps on the university levels prior to journalism students
entering the workforce, it's imperative to seek to impact a new ethical
paradigm standard on their mindset with the goal of fostering a new culture.
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2). I think in the media boardrooms and editorial
boardrooms; there need to be more credible oversight being rendered and the
promoting of journalistic standards that insures the highest levels of ethical
reporting is being carried out on the ground level and top levels. No, story
that gives the appearance of being bias or slanted should be allowed to be
reported as news. Moreover, all news should be factual based and outside of the
journalist personal worldview and should never be rooted in sensationalism,
propaganda or disinformation. Now, this at times would require putting ethics
over profits in which this will further require the media boardroom executives
to make the tough decisions over projected monetary incentives.</div>
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3). I also think that the journalist themselves have to hold
themselves to higher ethical standards as professional media personnel relative
to reporting the facts and nothing else. And once a journalist violate or
breech the public trust by compromising the ethical standards of reporting,
they should be banned for life and never be given the opportunity to work again
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Fahim A. Knight-El Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL
THINK TANK located in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place u1:st="on"><st1:city u1:st="on"><st1:place u2:st="on"><st1:city u2:st="on"><st1:place u2:st="on"><st1:city u2:st="on">Durham</st1:city></st1:place></st1:city></st1:place>,
<st1:state w:st="on"><st1:state u1:st="on"><st1:state u2:st="on"><st1:state u2:st="on">NC</st1:state></st1:state></st1:state></st1:state></st1:city></st1:place></st1:city></st1:place>;
our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the
pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolism and reinterpreted
the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly
rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlightened world will be better
prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants
for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight-El can
be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com.</div>
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FAHIM KNIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00567827759311275290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4957787817614691922.post-63269430875059950632017-01-23T21:18:00.003-08:002017-01-24T08:28:45.487-08:00THE VALUE OF CULTURE: THE SPOKEN WORD, LISTEN IT IS CALLING US<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p>T</o:p></span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">his Blog is,
perhaps a little less intense than the last twelve Blogs that I have posted in
the last thirty-five days, but nevertheless, I wrote it as a reflection leading
up to my love for the works of the black poet Langston Hughes and as I surveyed
his poem titled, “</span>A Dream Deferred” published in 1951, it caused me to
reflect deeper on the meaning of culture and its expressions and the value it
plays in the social and political lives of a people. The present day black cultural artists have
a huge responsibility to construct art that will uplift our people’s
consciousness levels and even challenge pop culture by creating positive
musical lyrics and presenting positive images that speaks to the spirits of an oppressed people who have been
under the assault of white supremacy for over four-hundred fifty and years
(this contention and view has to be uncompromised and non-negotiable). So, I
couldn’t help, but to share my personal experience with brother Kwame Ture and what he
meant to me spiritually—that part of this Blog will be my customary approach of
given information that is decisive and will cause us to think outside of the box. I
can<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> recall as a primary and
secondary student, I have always been attracted to civics, social studies, language
arts and when I got to college, I became more attracted to courses in philosophy
and logic and subjects that fostered me to exercise critical thinking and
yet, simultaneously, I enjoyed analyzing and dissecting poetry and attempting to
get inside of the minds of the various poets and their work. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">I have always
been partial to works of black writers such as Nikki Giovanni, Sonya
Sanchez and Amiri Baraka (aka Leroy Jones out of Newark, New Jersey),</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span>Haki
R. Madhubuti<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <span lang="EN">(aka Don Lee) and
other militant and revolutionary writers who were impacted and affected by
the black liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s in which these black
writers created their artistic value as poets and writers around the themes
of Black Power and were also conscious about producing art in the form of
literature that would speak politically, economically and socially to the black
experience with the objective of transforming the minds of African American
people. Their works were imbedded in an ideology geared towards uplifting the
social consciousness level of black people; these artist and writers were
clear about their positions on white supremacy, European imperialism,
colonialism, racism, sexism and wealth disparity, etc., their ideals represented a
cultural revolution and many of them were transformed by the teachings of
Minister Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik Shabazz)—it was his fiery teachings and
critical analysis of the United States Government that inspired an entire generation of black activist and
young black intellectuals to challenge injustice. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">They saw
themselves not just as black intellectuals who desired to joining what E.
Franklin Frazier called the ‘Black Bourgeoisie’ class after graduating
from Howard University, Morehouse College, Spellman College, Tuskegee Institute, Shaw University, Hampton Institute,
Grambling State University, etc., they sought to work in the struggle in order
to foster social justice for African American people, it was writers like these
that helped to politicized me by challenging me to think outside the
box and inspired me into action. Some years ago I was having a sit down
with the late Kwame Ture (Stokley Carmichael) of the All African
People's Revolutionary Party; for the record one of my all time favorite
theoreticians and intellectual mentors; I will always consider myself as an
honorary member of the AAPRP. Ture was a graduate of Howard
University and received a B.S. degree in philosophy and he was very well read
on Marxist-Leninist theories (socialist and communist theory) and Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and was very critical of capitalism; on the
day he was teaching me, recommended that I get Franz Fanon’s books
titled, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><u>Wretched of the Earth </u><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and <u>Black Skin, White Mask</u> and
recommended that I get a book written by Chinweizu titled, <u>The West and the
Rest of Us: White Predators, Black Slavers and the African Elite</u> and also
recommended that I read Eric Williams book titled, <u>Capitalism and
Slavery;</u> admittedly I am messed up in the head at this point after conversing
with brother Kwame Ture, it became mind altering for me and everytime I would see him, thereafter he would always be dressed in traditional African garments--he lived and walked in African culture. He then recommended two more books to me authored by Kwame
Nkrumah titled<u>, Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for De-colonization</u>
and <u>Class Struggle in </u></span><u>Africa</u>. </div>
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I was on a tight budget, but one of the most premier
Pan-Africanist and Black Nationalist leaders (author of the book <u>Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America)</u> of the late 20th century was given
me these instructions relative to educating myself and preparing me in my
intellectual development—I could not let money stand in my way. I can recall
him standing up and yelling "Ready for the Revolution" and he
followed that statement with 'we must organize’ and he encouraged me to join a
black organization. Kwame Ture was well versed in all the great white
political and social theoreticians and their philosophical views. There was no
doubt that this man was learned and well studied and made it clear to me that he
practiced scientific socialism. At that time I had no clue or understanding of what scientific
socialism was, but I was in awe of this man's charisma and intelligence and was just
trying to take all of it in. I learned from Kwame Ture the importance of
debate (and this has always kept me intellectually engaged over the years)
about historical events and, although my approach to analyzing ideals are rooted
in me being a revisionist social
scientist and historian who has the fortunate opportunity to survey past existing
historiography and data with the expectation of rendering critical analyses in
evaluating past political, economic and social eras from the vanish point of
the early 21<sup>st</sup> century. This approach at times could be determined
to be unfair, however of the rendering of views on events from different eras
do not alleviate nor excuse you from being empirical and scientific in putting
forth supporting evidence to validate an argument or render them flawed and/or
to substantiate previous historical facts as being true. </div>
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The above mentioned books led me to reading Amilcar Cabral’s
book titled, <u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Resistance and
Decolonization (Reinventing Critical Theory)</span></u><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> and Walter Rodney’s book titled: <u>How Europe
Undeveloped Africa</u>. History was a subject that allowed me to exercise
critical thinking in viewing and surveying peoples, places, events and dates,
it has always fascinated me to wanting to know more about past civilizations
and cultures, in particular how they evolved and the contributions they made towards
the development of humanity. This further led me to appreciate archeology,
anthropology, paleontology, sociology, human genetics, ancient architecture,
Egyptology, etc. </span>Also, I have always been fascinated in learning about
great past ancient civilizations such as <st1:country-region w:st="on">Egypt</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Persia</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Greece</st1:country-region> and <st1:city w:st="on">Rome</st1:city>,
as well as learning and studying about great civilizations in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Americas</st1:place></st1:country-region> such
as the Mayas, Incas, Aztecs, etc. I believe that L.S.B. Leakey did some
monumental research in finding the origin of man, but I think, the more
scholars and social scientist dig and uncover the earth and oceans, thus, we
will continue to find historical evidence of past ancient civilizations that
have left ruins and artifacts that are still waiting to be dated (these studies
with all the expert knowledge available, it is constantly evolving).<span style="color: magenta;"> </span>I have been inspired by my historians such as
John Hope Franklin, Arthur M. Schlessinger, Jr., Darlene Clark Hine, Carter G.
Woodson, W.E.B. Dubois, Paula Giddings, Mary Frances Berry, Annette
Gordon-Reed, Aviva Chomsky, H.G. Wells, etc<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">.</span><span lang="EN" style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: magenta;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Many of our young
black artists and entertainers are contributing to some of the problems that exist
amongst young so-called Africans Americans because their musical lyrics are
void of messages that are rooted in the social and political traditions of
empowerment (we know that this is being doing systematically) in which some of
the pop culture has poise itself of being art forms that are reactionary and dangerous and
counter-productive to black progress and stands to be condemned. It often
contributes to dismantling positive images that reinforces African tradition
and culture and tends to glorify crime, violence, gangbanging and drugs—these
negative images affects the psychological behavior of our people in a negative
way. The enemies create this culture of destruction because it aids the
systemic outcomes of white supremacy and foster misery and disillusionment
throughout black <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">But in the
glorious 1960s and 1970s the musicians, artists, writers, poets, etc., used art
to assist in the liberation of our people. Imam Jamil Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown)
once told me that Curtis Mayfield carried the ball almost by himself.
I fell in love with the Last Poets and the inspirations of their
lyrics, they were 25 years ahead of Hip-Hop and Rap. I recently picked up a
book written by Marcus Barmam on Gil Scott Heron titled, <u>Gil Scott
Heron: Pieces of a Man</u>, another artistic giant who had the Blues/Jazz/Rap
aura to his musical repetoire and displayed musical talents as a poet wrapped into various
genres, but always un-girded by lyrical messages of social and political
consciousness. Gil Scott Heron was a messenger (just like Jesus and Muhammad of 1,400 years ago), dedicated to uplifting of African
people. He did not shy away from those issues that mattered to black people.
The above mentioned artist and political activist put me on a path and journey
in which Elijah Muhammad said out of all our studies history is best
qualified to reward our study and research. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">I owe my critical
thinking mindset to my master teachers, sages, gurus and enlighteners
from various schools of philosophical thought, that first presented me with
knowledge that revolved around teaching me the knowledge of self, but have always taught
me lessons from a diverse intellectual perspective by using innovative teaching
techniques and methodologies that allowed me as a neophyte to be more
engaged in my learning process (they were not ashamed about teaching me through
their life experiences). This type of teaching practices have always kept my
attention span—this is, perhaps an unscientific analysis, but I think there is
a direct correlation between the ability to demonstrate a suitable proficiency
to learning, which <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>must be rooted
in teaching methodologies that are relevant and practical in
which retention of information are interconnected to schematic learning. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Europeans learn
better from linear modules and Africans learn better from learning approaches
that are diverse in scope and less structured; my knowledge base consisted of </span>a
varied of schools of thought relative to the introduction of philosophy, history political theory, religion, ethics,
current events (other than the basic rudiment skills of reading, writing,
speaking, listening and viewing) and it was this interdisciplinary approach
that has always appealed to how I was wired relative to learning and receiving
information. This only enhanced my love for learning because I have never
allowed myself to be conformed and did not impose limitations upon my
thinking and the value of these principles only<em><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">
</span></em>enhanced my critical thinking skills. Moreover, the study of
literature, also allowed me to be creative and innovative whether or not
if I were assessing and evaluating someone else’s work and/or writing my
own work, it permitted me to examine timeframes of how a genera may have been
impacted by a political, economic and social environment. I have come to
understand that no work is created in a vacuum, but a gamut of social variables
comes into play, which dictates how themes and prose may be interpreted. </div>
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I was also inspired by the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain,
Edgar Allan Poe, Maya Angelou, Katherine Anne Porter, Robert Frost, Henry
Wadsworth Long fellow, Langston Hughes, Frances Mayers, Nikki Giovanni, Alice
Walker, James Weldon Johnson, etc. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The above literary scientist and their works
stimulated my artistic imagination, as well as intellectually motivated and
sparked my intuition to wanting to know more about their intellectual worldview. </div>
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Langston Hughes wrote the poem entitled, “Harlem (A Dream
Deferred)” in 1951 and perhaps Harlem during this time was being seen as a
prototype and a metaphor for black success and progress (New York, New York a
city so nice they had to name it twice), and in theory a booming cosmopolitan
hub unlike most American cities during the Jim Crow era, but in general, also
stood as a positive contradiction relative to the political, economic and
social conditions that were affecting African Americans politically,
economically, and socially across the United States during this time. Blacks to
a certain extent were allowed to shine in <st1:city w:st="on">Harlem</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state> unlike any other place in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place>
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The Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s was a cultural explosion
where Jazz, Blues, poetry, drama, song, dance, etc., were making its artistic
mark not only in the United States (perhaps one of the most creative time
periods in American history), but far beyond the borders of the United States.
Russian musicians such as Igor Stravinsky and Alban Berg who studied black Jazz
under the Harlem Renaissance musicians and tried to imitate the musical art in
which to introduce to <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>. Thus, and as
much as the world was embracing Louie Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Countee
Cullen, Claude McKay, Fats Waller, Jelly Roll Morton, Scott Joplin, Cab
Calloway, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, and there were even others such as Jean Toomer,
Jessie Fauset, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, Alain
Locke, Omar Al Amiri, and Eric D. Walrond, etc. </div>
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However, these black artists could not escape American style
racism and segregation at home, in which their humanity was forever being
judged because of their black skin.</div>
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The Harlem Renaissance sprung up just twenty-four years or
so, after perhaps one of the most infamous legal decision in American
history—the Plessy versus Ferguson Supreme Court decision 1896, in which this
United States Supreme Court declared separate but equal as being constitutional
and as a legal institution in the United States. This Supreme Court decision
ushered in the racist Jim Crow era (1896-1954) and reactionary racial laws.
Blacks could entertain whites in some of the biggest night clubs and venues in
Harlem and across <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
but oftentimes had to be served their food at the back door and could not lodge
in white owned hotels and was constantly discriminated because of their race.</div>
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They were victims of lynching, violence, race hating and
even Billie Holiday use to sing about strange fruit hanging from the tree (she
was singing about black men who were hung—lynched from trees all across the
south). Ida B. Wells-Barnett and others protested and drew attention to the
social and political contradictions of the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United
States</st1:country-region> relative to lynching, which led to some of the
bloodiest race riots in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United
States</st1:place></st1:country-region> called the Red Summer in 1919 and
these events polarized our nation. Also, in 1909 the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which evolved out of the Niagara
Movement was founded by Dr. W.E. B Dubois and others who took up the cause of
Civil Rights for African Americans. Dr. Dubois stated the problem of the 20th
Century would be the color line and history has proven that his analysis was
correct.</div>
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This writer believes Hughes wrote this poem out of
frustration, because of the reprehensible social politics of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
and the slow social progress it was making, as far as granting African
Americans justice and equality. But I also believe that this poem was atypical
of the psychology of many Blacks who found themselves in a conflict social
dichotomy.</div>
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Dubois in his book titled, <u>Souls of Black Folk</u>
written in 1903 perhaps analyze and assessed in my opinion what the “A Dream
Deferred” meant to blacks, he stated: “After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek
and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born
with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,--a world
which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself
through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this
double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the
eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in
amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his twoness,--an American, a Negro;
two souls, two thoughts, two un-reconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one
dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."
(Reference: W.E.B Dubois; "The Souls of Black Folk").</div>
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This type social contradiction, perhaps psychologically
hunted Hughes and the various plots in this short poem reflects many political
and psychological transitions that he perhaps was confronted with, in
particular and blacks in general, was confronted with since their sojourn in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>. The
dream for equality was present when the first slave ship docked in Jamestown,
Virginia in 1619, but became deferred and many blacks lost their lives making
every attempt to force America to realize that the American dream was bigger
enough for us all.</div>
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Hughes understood that the American socialization process
left many blacks bitter and the potential for a social and political backlash
was perhaps evident. He recognized that it was not healthy to go about life as
though the problem did not exist and by allowing it to lie dormant and going
unaddressed, it only would contributed to more social malcontent and this was
the problem that the United States was faced with in the early 1950s relative
to race relations.</div>
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A. Phillip Randolph who had founded the first black labor
Union in the 1920s called the Sleeping Car Porters; he also, became a well
respected and recognized leader in the AFL-CIO labor union. <st1:city w:st="on">Randolph</st1:city>
had actually called the first March on <st1:state w:st="on">Washington</st1:state>
in 1950s some ten years prior to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. March on <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Washington</st1:place></st1:state> in 1963 and
for some reason it never materialized. But Dr. King’s words also spoke to the
social, political, and economic conditions that was plaguing blacks in the
1960s and King’s words lends further credibility to the feelings, thoughts and
emotions of Hughes relative to the poem.</div>
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Dr. King stated: “But one hundred years later, we must face
the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the
life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and
the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a
lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.
One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of
American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come
here today to dramatize an appalling condition.” (Reference: Martin Luther
King; “I Have a Dream” Speech 1963).</div>
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Moreover, Hughes was fully aware that black protest movements
and leaders such as Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement
Association (UNIA) in the 1920s was fostered into existence, because of the
frustration blacks were experiencing from the status quo. Garvey’s back to <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place> movement spoke to that alienation and the
discontent blacks were up against and his movement tapped into black anger and
black rage and made an appeal to present the tents of Black Nationalism as a
viable solution to black disillusionment.<br />
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Langston Hughes understood that African Americans considered
themselves as Americans and desired to be just as patriotic as the next
American, but historically was always up against the hurdle of racism and
bigotry and this sadden his heart. He was an artist and artists ordinarily have
the ability to see things from the third eye perspective, in which race and
class are variables that could factor in, but art is universal in scope and
intent; it speaks to higher rhythm and vibration.</div>
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The Dream deferred eventually led to America exploding in
the 1960s (the Black Power Movement), which blacks further saw race as an
antagonistic contradiction and violently confronted this evil with rebellions
in Newark, Philadelphia, Watts, Detroit, Los Angles, Washington, D.C., Gary,
Chicago, Baltimore, etc., in order to confront injustice and social oppression;
may be we could view Hughes said poem as being prophetic because what he wrote
in 1951 played itself out with one of the most violent explosions in recent
American history.</div>
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But I also believe that Hughes was more of an optimist than
a pessimist and he perhaps knew and understood that dreams only die when people
lose hope and although the realization of the dream might not take place in our
lifetime and it might appear to have to become deferred by other past
generation. But it only lies dormant until the next generations of dreamers
arrive with the vision and foresight to take the dream to the next level. The
Bible says where there is no vision the people perish.</div>
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The dream deferred became a realization with President
Barack Obama becoming the first African American president of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
(in 2008 and 2012). I believe, it was dreamers and visionaries shoulders like
Langston Hughes that Obama stood upon in which his accomplishments was an
affirmation and declaration that their work and struggle was not in vain. Thus,
Hughes probably would say a dream deferred is better than no dream at all. Hughes
lived long enough to see <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>
pass the 1964 Civil Rights Bill and the 1965 Voting Rights Bill—ensuring African
Americans freedom, justice and equality. I say to all, dream on, dream on and
do not allow a dream deferred to stop you from the realizing your full
potential as human beings.</div>
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Fahim A. Knight-El Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL
THINK TANK located in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place u1:st="on"><st1:city u1:st="on"><st1:place u1:st="on"><st1:city u1:st="on">Durham</st1:city></st1:place></st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on"><st1:state u1:st="on"><st1:state u1:st="on">NC</st1:state></st1:state></st1:state></st1:place></st1:city></st1:place>;
our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the
pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolism and reinterpreted
the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly
rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlightened world will be better
prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants
for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight-El can
be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com.<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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FAHIM KNIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00567827759311275290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4957787817614691922.post-48046555573220482622017-01-22T15:54:00.002-08:002017-01-25T10:11:22.573-08:00WHAT'S NEXT IN THE TRANSFORMATION OF POWER: WAR OR PEACE?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="color: black;">WHAT'S
NEXT IN THE TRANSFORMATION OF POWER: WAR OR PEACE?</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">By Fahim A. Knight-El<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Former President
Richard Nixon, in his book titled, <u>Seize The Moment, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region></u></span><span style="font-size: small;"><u>'s
Challenge In a One-Superpower World</u>, stated "had we not</span></b><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></strong><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">intervened, an international outlaw would
today control more than fifty per cent of the world's oil. While the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region></span><span style="font-size: small;"> could survive, if necessary
without Persian Gulf oil, Western Europe and </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="font-size: small;">Japan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: small;"> could not. What happens to
the economics of the other industrial democracies directly affects the health
of our economy. We therefore, could not have afforded to allow </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="font-size: small;">Iraq</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size: small;"> to have
access to Gulf oil and blackmail the world through its choke hold on our oil
lifeline." (Nixon 1992</span></b><span style="font-size: small;">).</span><br />
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This writer thinks that it is sort-of-unfair when you are
asked to<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span>compare
and contrast wars from different eras and from different times in history
(because the political, economic and social dynamics are going to drastically
differ). This research brought me to an immediate and quick conclusion that as
I surveyed and read various recent histories and accounts of America's wars and
in particular involvement in the Middle East, it had become evident to me
that the United States as a nation had transitioned and moved from
Feudalism, to pre-industrialism, industrialism, and the information age, and
into the present global trajectory, and we are constantly in motion and
stagnation is not an option (no one understands this better than Donald
J. Trump). This transitional evolution has brought us at the dawn of a new
era and a New World Order and as the Cold War (Warsaw Pact Nations versus
NATO Nations) came to an abrupt end in 1989, which was symbolized by the
collapsing of the Berlin Wall, it also brought an end to what we have known as
conventional war strategy. It has been technology, that has been the ever
evolving X factor and dynamic in the development of high tech
weaponry and military technology, that with the passing of time, it has also
allowed us to surpass previous generations relative to war strategy and how
they fought wars in the early 19th and 20th century, which is now almost
obsolete and arcaded. The digital age of technology has given international
governments, the ability to make strategically and tactical deployments unlike
anytime in world history and how the United States Government defends
its national security interest will continue to change with the
evolvement of time.<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><br />
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This is truly the dawn of a new day and era in American history, as I have
stated above (the so-called peaceful transference of power and the
highlight of American Democracy was carried out just few days ago), which
has created the potential for a new insights and approaches into the present day global
political, economic and social paradigms that will continue to impact humanity, in particular some of these ideals will
be evolving along side and simultaneously with a new generation possessing
aspirations coming from a different spiritual and historical space than the previous
generations.They have not drawn from the divisive artificial barriers
that Communism and Western style democracy have imposed on humanity since 1917.
They are hoping for the opportunity to live in a peaceful and prosperous world—once again I
am not optimistic about this future outlook. The above
mentioned phenomenon represents the passing of two worlds, the old and the
new. The immediate future of the world and the United States of America
and its direction has now been placed in the hands of the 45th United States President
of America, Donald J. Trump (but let us not be fooled the Supreme Being has
factored into this equation) and for better or for worst, he will be
instrumental in shaping the national and international political
landscape for the next eight years. Yes although, I speaking into the future the Bilderberg, Trilateral Commission and the Council of Foreign Relations have already selected him as their servant for two terms and this should automatically convey to me and you that there is no such thing as democracy, it is all an illusion and our voted don't mean a damn thing. But Trump's biggest impact is predicted to be
on the global community and his quasi nationalistic views and maintaining
a global agenda (are destined to co-exist). <br />
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So my children who are growing up as part of the
global informational age and based on technology, have tremendous access to
information, the global superhighway or the infobahn in which the Internet has
altered the political, economic and social paradigm by changing the
geopolitical landscape of the globe and we now have the opportunity to access
information in real time. This age of technology has allowed us to compete on
levels that were unimaginable twenty-years ago and the benefits allows us to
enter and participate in a new age called the digital age; this is a very
exciting time to be on the planet and there is no turning back. The United
States Government and its giant military industrial complex are trying to
remain relevant and continue its military and economic dominance by constantly
looking to expand its influences over international markets by engaging in
global business opportunities that were partially created by the
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and of course North American Free
Trade Agreement (NAFTA). China is continually to emerge as perhaps as
the number one-world superpower in next ten years (they will stand alone in
this position) based on having the largest standing army in the world and
its dominance in the arena of technology (for decades now it has been a nuclear
power and because of this they were in 1971 invited to be one of the five permanent members on the United
Nations Security Council). America has no options or international
choices/alternatives when it comes to having relations with China; it still
remains a politically inspired Communist nation (in the scheme of big business
and global security interest these factors and variables do not
matter) they vacillate between neo-capitalism by engaging in the so-called
free market arena and have become equally or not more competitive than the United
States relative creating supply and demand economic dynamics
on a large global level. <span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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They have the spending power and valuable wealth
domination to have acquired a diversity of assets around the world
including in the United States of America; China serves as the biggest threat
to the United States global positioning—their people possesses a drive and
determination that undergirds their importance to sovereignty (this drive and
motivation is rooted in the communist ideology) in which they have
made huge investments in preparing their people in the fields of technology,
science, mathematics, aeronautics, etc., (this is done in the name of the
State and for the ultimate benefit of the people) and since World War II
have become one of the premier world leaders in expanding
its development and innovations in technology and science, which they have
become second to none (Japan may argue this assertion). China and the
Chinese have created sophisticated hacking programs and
have allowed them to circumvent United States National Security
apparatuses the National Security Agency, Pentagon, Central Intelligence
Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security, etc., and have
been stealing United States military and trade secrets for
decades, that is equalvent to an act of terrorism under the guise of
cyber-terrorism, which is an indication of how flawed the U.S. defense
is when it comes to protecting and detecting these international
cyber-security breeches, it has become a matter of U.S. national security. The
United States Government accused Edward Snowden with exposing (confidential and classified information) how the NSA was
illegally spying and eavesdropping on American citizens and was compiling
dossiers in which was a clear violation of private U.S. citizens
rights to privacy who were not deemed Enemy Combatants and hadn’t
violated any U.S. laws, but their constitutional rights and civil liberties were
being violated by an agency of the United States Government. Snowden was not
protected under the whistleblower laws and rules instead he was charged and
treated as a criminal. <st1:country-region w:st="on">Russia</st1:country-region>
was kind enough to grant this <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
patriot political asylum and now has lived in exiled for over three years. <span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Since President Obama went on a pardon spree, why didn't he
pardon Edward Snowden and present him with a presidential accommodation for
integrity by having the courage and willingness to protect and defend the U.S.
Constitution from foreign and domestic enemies? (there were criminals inside
the NSA violating the law and he dared to expose them—but none
of the NSA culprits were charged and convicted and went to prison).
President Barack Obama spoke about being concern about his legacy, let me
answer from my vanish point, it will be written in blood. He did
absolutely nothing for black people, but gave them feel good speeches (church
based sermons with high emotional charges and behind the scene he was reactionary
to the core) and imposed reactionary foreign policy throughout the world.
I as a so-called African American, have always looked beyond this patriot’s
skin color and it was easy to detect that he had the exact same agenda and
mindset as them white boys. He did not have the intestinal fortitude to
pardon our revolutionary sister Assata Shakur who has lived exiled in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cuba</st1:place></st1:country-region> for over
30 years and/or he could have pardoned Edward Snowden. He totally
understood that these pardons would have been risky pardons, because
of the high profile levels associated with these two cases and
he did not want to politically risk and create a potential future
liability for the next would be Democratic president. His failure to do this
was discouraging to me and will be a blemish and stain on his presidency;
he had the power and authority to right a wrong and he did nothing. Let met
jolt some of my reading audiences memory a little by going back 2001, the last day of
his presidency Bill Clinton pardon one of the most notorious
and publically unknown criminals in U.S. history at that time named
Marc Rich (wanted on the 10 most wanted list). Rich was a vicious white collar criminal who in 1980s were
involved with multi-level oil deals coming out of the Persian Gulf (also
was running an international dope ring linked to Daniel Ortega and Manuel
Noriega that included guns and weapons), which included Iran, he was
trading with Iran as a private U.S. citizen in which the United
States had imposed embargoes and economic sanctions and it was against U.S. law
for a United States citizens to have had any business dealings with the Iranian
Islamic Republic. <span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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However, Marc Rich was intentionally evading U S. law and
were trading and brokering Iranian oil deals throughout the world. He was
indicted for a host of conspiracy charges in violation of U.S. Federal laws
and after appearing in New York Federal Court and making bond; Rich absconded
by going to the neutral nation of Switzerland and was granted asylum and he
understood that Switzerland had no international legal mandate to extradite him
back into U. S. custody, he would live in exile for over 15 years in
Switzerland. But eventually claimed Jewish ethno-lineage and the Israeli
government granted him dual citizenship and he continued to travel around the
world on an Israeli passport. Obama did not have the courage to step outside of
the box and free two innocent <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
citizens and allow them to come back home to America. President Donald Trump has a
tremendous responsibility and weight on his shoulders and since George H.W. Bush (followed
by Clinton, George W. and Obama) the United States has continued to become and
isolated nation and it has lost that swag and that so-called moral world
leadership, it use to have around the world, because of their war on
militant and radical Islam—the imperialist acts of military aggression in the
Middle East and Central Asia, it has diminished their reputation.<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_9081">The United States Arm Forces use to have the largest budget
on Capitol Hill and by far defense spending was the government's number one
priority—perhaps by Trump appointing this team of retired generals to his
cabinet and having a Republican majority in Congress, it might be an indication
that United States Government will once again increase military spending. Trump
during the presidential campaign created a sizable amount of excitement about the
<st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> military and improving
on the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
defense—this message resonated with U.S. Veterans; he spoke their
language. His motivation for this was capsulated in the small vision of going
after and combating international militant and radical Islam that has been defined by ISIS (he thinks the main problem of the world is radical Islamic terrorism, he will soon find out it is a lot more to the world than so-called militant and radical Islam--there are major threats on five continents), but the complexities of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> defense and national security
strategy has to extend far beyond these limitations. Trump perceived Obama as
being weak and soft militarily during his eight year presidential tenure. I
think the American citizens have become a little war weary because after 9/11
the U.S. government has been on the offensive conducting Drone Warfare, serving
as instigators in the war in Syria, initiating the assassinations of Heads of
States, invaded Afghanistan, worked to destabilized governments in Northern Africa, involved in
antagonistic words with North Korea and its leader, invaded Iraq and Saddam
Hussein in which the CIA and former Secretary of State Colin
Powell in 2003, lied about Iraq having Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD); even after
the U.N. weapons inspectors could not substantiate those allegations; the U.S.
declared war any way. Trump is verbally advocating the need for a strong military and
it is just too early to determine the extent of this course and the type of
public policy and legislation that will be proposed and implemented during his presidential tenure.
Nevertheless, Trump who sounds like a warmonger and if I were a betting
man, I would put my money on President Trump encouraging and mandating that the
Defense Department and the U.S. Pentagon who have ordinarily taken top
priority in assuring that the <span id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_9088"> </span>U.S.
Congress (they are responsible for officially lobbying the congress)<span id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_9091"> </span>allocates
adequate amounts of taxpayers money to meeting the proposed military budget
expenditures in order to provide the military with all the necessary resources. These resources have always been needed to allow the United States militarily to act with preparedness
and readiness to internationally defend and secure the U.S. political, economic
and military interest around the world.<span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><span id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_9081">Donald Trump repeatedly stated throughout his inauguration
speech that it would be America first (his speech on the surface had a
nationalistic overtone) and although, as a globalist and a New
World Order proponent some of his foreign policy and national
policy positions as were stated in that speech, was contradictory at
best, in particular wavering a little on the United States prior
historical commitments relative to cooperating and exercising
the highest levels diplomacy with its European Allies, which has always
involved unilateral economic and military assistance to Western Europe that
included Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Greece and Spain this
cooperating and international governmental alliances has been in
existence since World War II and even further back to World War I, which later was structured under
NATO, which President Trump believes, it has out lived its time and
purpose. These sentiments and other have left a lot of western governments with
a sense of uneasiness and un-optimistic since he took office on January 20,
2017. Many around the world are unsure, how will Trump's so-called new
international direction impact and affect the western governments trade
and economic markets—as it pertains to the European Union
and European Common Market and will this type rhetoric create panic
and lead to given the international perception that Euro could be
headed towards experiencing long term economic
and financial weakness and/or collapse that will reflect on both domestic European
markets as well as international markets. Thus, by the United Kingdom and the
Bank of England relegating back to using the British pound and quasi abandoning
the EU was a clear indicator that Europe and the E.U. are in trouble
(which like all western currencies have been battling the Chinese
Yuan Renminbi and the powerful Central Bank of China, which is the
Central Bank of the People's Republic of China and the strength of it
currency) that could dismantle the E.U. and force these nations to
revert back to the concept of nation-states. I am somewhat optimistic that this
will not happen. <span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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The
United States has always had a shared interest in Europe, which has been mutual
since World War II that has led to the establishment of strategically
placed military bases and military installments throughout Europe, Asia,
Middle East, Africa, Far East, Central and South America and may be Donald
Trump does not fully understand the gravity and the complexities of the world
and/or may he does, and is looking to create a new type of conversation
that will be different than what it was under George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
I am quite sure his military cabinet will be educating and informing
him, of how the geopolitical necessities work in the grand scheme of
things. They will explain to him that if he is serious about defending U.S.
National Security interest, it will rest on being prepared for military
readiness and having the ability to respond quickly and decisively to
international turmoil and conflicts that might arise, which could affect or
impact the political, social and economic interest of the United States of
America around the world. A powerful navy will remain necessary to quickly shut
off international and/or domestic waterways during potential conflicts and
actual conflicts during troubling times, which might give the enemy a
military advantage and this is why nations like <st1:country-region w:st="on">Russia</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">North Korea</st1:country-region>, the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United
Kingdom</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region>,
and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Italy</st1:place></st1:country-region>
sees defending the waterways as being vitally important. Most developed and
technological advanced nations have always invested heavily into building a
strong naval force and the navy of itself has to have the military
capacity to fight and command the seas (and in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> the top brass admirals are
members of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff are fully aware of this necessity).
Also, the navy and it ships allows for the U.S. Marines, U.S. Army and U.S.
National Guard units (ground and infantry squads to be in place when it is
necessary to engaged the enemy in combat on the ground, air and water) the
ability to transport human resources and heavy military equipment to any hot
spot in the world, it is a demonstration of how important and valuable the
U.S. Navy military is to them towards maintaining
and assisting in so-called providing stability around the world. <span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span>
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In an Internet Blog titled,
“Overview: Desert Storm - The Role of the Navy’ After the world's fourth
largest army poured across the border into Kuwait on 2 August 1990, the United
States deployed a major joint force which served as the foundation for a powerful
33-nation military coalition to stem Iraq's brutal aggression. The United
States Navy provided the sea control and maritime superiority which paved the
way for the introduction of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
and allied air and ground forces, and offered strong leadership for the
multinational naval force. At the time of the invasion, the Navy was already on
station in the region. The ships of Joint Task Force Middle East, a legacy of
U.S. Navy presence in the <st1:place w:st="on">Arabian Gulf</st1:place> since
1949, were immediately placed on alert. Battle groups led by USS <i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485117048380_4321">Independence</i> (CV 62) and USS <i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485117048380_4324">Dwight D. Eisenhower</i> (CVN
69) sped from the Indian Ocean and Eastern Mediterranean to take up positions
in the Gulf of Oman and Red Sea, respectively--ready to commence sustained
combat operations on arrival.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485117048380_4327" name="_ftnref1"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485117048380_4328"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485117048380_4329"><span style="color: #0066cc; font-family: "verdana";"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485117048380_4330">[1]</span></span></span></span></a>
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For
example, the United States Government under President George H.W. Bush in 1991,
entered into the Gulf War, which was better known as Desert Shield and Desert
Storm in which thousands of U.S. Troops were mobilized to the region in
order to halt Saddam Hussein so-called ambitions of reuniting <st1:country-region w:st="on">Kuwait</st1:country-region> back to the nation of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq (and militarily punishing Kuwait for stealing oil from the border side of Iraq)</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485117048380_4037"> </span>Moreover, the United
States was very familiar with the middle eastern geographical territories and
landscape; Bush and the U.S. Congress approved of the United States Government
intervention and swiftly sent warships to the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Oman and
directly into the Persian Gulf controlling and influences these vital waterways
during Desert Shield and Desert Storm. The <st1:country-region w:st="on">United
States</st1:country-region> arm forces were sent to the Gulf Region due to the
aggression of Saddam Hussein who had invaded <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Kuwait</st1:place></st1:country-region>. The British and other
European powers helped the crooked Elitist monarch of Kuwait to succeed
from Iraq, they were essentially one people and Hussein understood this
geo-history, but there were too much oil money on the table and the Seven Oil
Sisters used Western European and the U.S. military to defend their
oil interest against Saddam Hussein; Iraq and Saddam Hussein was viewed as potentially
threatening the United States chief Middle Eastern Allie of Saudi Arabia (an
APEC nation and principle oil exporter to the United States) who has perhaps
the largest oil reserves in the world and the United States swiftly moved in
with a large naval presences in the Gulf in order to control and limited access
into the Gulf region. Thus, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> was not going to allow Saddam
Hussein to disrupt the international oil trade and affect other international
commodities that needed to be transported to markets from around the world. The
U.S. Naval forces were there to remind Hussein and his Elite Guards that the <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> still reined supreme over a '<st1:place w:st="on">Third World</st1:place>' arm force. “When President Bush ordered the
deployment of troops and equipment to defend Saudi Arabia, long-established
maritime superiority facilitated the largest, fastest strategic sealift in
history, with more than 240 ships carrying more than 18.3 billion pounds of
equipment and supplies to sustain the forces of DESERT SHIELD/STORM. Maritime
superiority also allowed allied naval forces to implement and sustain United
Nations trade sanctions against Iraq immediately after they were imposed
severing Saddam Hussein's economic lifeline”.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485117048380_4270" name="_ftnref2"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485117048380_4271"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485117048380_4272"><span style="color: #0066cc; font-family: "verdana";"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485117048380_4273">[2]</span></span></span></span></a>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485117048380_4234">These
young soldiers (many were African Americans and Latinos) are use as
extensions of U.S. Foreign policy commissioned to fight in order to make
the world more safer for the Rothschilds and the Seven Oil Sister to continue
steal and horde the world's wealth (this much will not change under Donald
Trump). Yet, they take an oath to defend and protect the United States
Constitution against all foreign and domestic enemies—they are not in the
decision making capacity, but when the U.S. arm forces are called upon to
deploy in the hot spots around the world, it is a question of duty and
uncompromising obligation at least in these young vulnerable soldiers minds (and
after serving some are allowed to become enlightened and wake up and after
learning the truth about the U.S. military goals and objectives of the
super-Elite they feel betrayed by their government). The naval forces
along with other military branches have always demonstrated a high level of
preparedness to deploy and equipped to defend the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> national interest
around the world. I am quite sure Desert Shield/Desert Storm brass such as Gen.
H. Norman Schwarzkopt, Lt. Gen. Calvin Waller, Maj. Gen. Robert B. Johnson, Lt.
General John J. Yeosock, Lt. Gen. Walter Boomer, Vice Adm. Stanley Arthur, Lt.
Gen. Charles Horner. etc., who led the various military companies, taught and
trained <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> soldiers
to take their military oath serious—valor and I am quite sure this is taught at
West Point and at the U.S. Naval Academy in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Annapolis</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Maryland</st1:state></st1:place>.
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<br />
William J. Bennett (who was the former Secretary of Education from 1985 to 1988
under President Ronald Reagan) and former Drug Czar who authored a book titled,<b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485117048380_4378"> </b><u id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485117048380_4379">Why we must Fight: Moral Clarity and
the War on Terrorism</u>, Bennett is a conservative and his analysis and
assessments reflect those who represent the Republican right, but I think, most
politicians and ordinary citizens will agree that America's national
security, is of vital importance (some may argue about how the military budget
is costing the taxpayers to much money and some have argued about downsizing
the U.S. standing army and merging military bases).
But other still expect the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> naval forces to command
the international waterways and continue to having a military presence around
world—to be well trained as U.S. Marines and as U.S. Army ground troops and
with a prepared air force to command the airways at a drop of a dime.<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485117048380_4381"> </span>Yet, it is
strategically impossible for the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> to attempt serve as
the international police of the world.<span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
President
Bill Clinton in his book titled, <u id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485117048380_4444">Between
Hope and History: Meeting America’s Challenges For the 21</u><u><sup id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485117048380_4446"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">st</span></sup>
Century</u>, he stated: “Today, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>
has the best-trained fighting force on Earth—and that, more than any other
single fact, is the key to our enduring security. We will prefer diplomacy to
force, but will always be ready to use military force when necessary to defend
our national interests. As we have throughout this century, we will lead with
the power of our example, but be prepared, to make an example of our power. . .
As a result, our military and intelligence forces are more mobile, agile,
precise, flexible, smart and ready than ever before. They are also more
coordinated and function more smoothly not only among themselves, but with
other allies as well. Today the mere threat of our force can deter would-be
aggressors, as we saw recently when we mobilized in the <st1:place w:st="on">Persian
Gulf</st1:place> to counter Saddam Hussein’s abortive attempt to mass forces
once again at the Kuwaiti border.” <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485117048380_4454" name="_ftnref3"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485117048380_4455"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485117048380_4456"><span style="color: #0066cc; font-family: "verdana";"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485117048380_4457">[</span></span></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485117048380_4460"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485117048380_4461"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485117048380_4462">3]</span></span></span></span></a> <span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><br />
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Lastly, this writer believes war at times is inevitable, but I equally
believe that we have a moral duty and responsibility to purse peace over war.
For, example, the invasion of Somali (1992-1994), Desert Storm/Desert Storm
(1990-1991) the Afghanistan War (2001-<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485117048380_4610"> </span>), the Iraq War
(2003-2011) and America’s ongoing war on terrorism, which has made the American
people war weary. The passing of the United States Patriot Act, the National
Defense Authorization Act, Military Commission Act, Anti- Terrorism Bill, Enemy
Combatant laws, etc., as well as ongoing disputes with Iran, Iraq, Syria, North
Korea, China, Russia, Yemen and other hot spots will eventually stretch the
U.S. military thin. I cited these recent wars and conflicts, as an
indication of how the pendulum may swing back and forth relative to the
question of patriotism and their are some who are willing to offer a
critical analysis or at least a balance analysis on where the U.S. stand in the
world as a global force (the 9/11 bombing of the World Trade Center entered us
into a new paradigm). The scholar Noam Chomsky in his book titled, <u id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485117048380_4613">Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest
for Global Dominance</u> in which Chomsky’s political analysis illustrates the
ambivalent and contradictory relationship that U.S. Government had with Saddam
Hussein and with other past and present less than credible leaders (he writes
with the passion of both a political scientist and historian).This writer
thinks that, perhaps Chomsky understands or may be he doesn’t, but as much as I
extol his research for being critically objective and he does a good job of
presenting the facts and is more than willing to present points that are
unbiased and honestly raises some tough questions relative to America’s quest
for global dominance.<span style="font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
Fahim A. Knight-El Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL
THINK TANK located in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Durham</st1:city></st1:place>,
<st1:state w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">NC</st1:state></st1:state></st1:city></st1:place>;
our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the
pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolism and
reinterpreted the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces,
but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlightened world
will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be
willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power.
Fahim A. Knight-El can be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com.<br />
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<span id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_6656" style="font-family: "times new roman";"> <strong>NOTES</strong><br />
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<span id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_9081"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_6663" name="_ftn1" rel="nofollow" title=""><span id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_6664"><span id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_6665" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_6666" style="color: #0066cc;">[1]</span></span></span></a><span id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_6667" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small;"> (Article published by Naval History and Heritage Command: title, “Desert Shield-Desert Storm. </span><a href="http://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/u/us-navy-in-desert-shield-desert-storm/desert-storm-overview-the-role-of-the-navy.html" id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_6668" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="http://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/u/us-navy-in-desert-shield-desert-storm/desert-storm-overview-the-role-of-the-navy.htmlCTRL + Click to follow link"><span id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_6669" style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;"><span id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_6670" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small;">http://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/u/us-navy-in-desert-shield-desert-storm/desert-storm-overview-the-role-of-the-navy.html</span></span></a><span id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_6671" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small;">)</span></span></div>
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<span id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_9081"><span id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_6678" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small;"></span> </span></div>
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<span id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_9081"><span id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_6681"><span id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_6682"><span id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_6683"><span id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_6684" style="font-size: 10pt;">[2]</span></span></span></span><span id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_6685" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small;"> Ibid., Naval History and Heritage Command.</span></span></div>
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<span id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_9081"><span id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_6695"><span id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_6696"><span id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_6697"><span id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_6698" style="font-size: 10pt;">[3]</span></span></span></span><span id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_6699" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small;"> Bill Clinton, Between Hope and History: Meeting America’s Challenges For the 21st Century. (Harrisonburg, Virginia: Tiimes Books, 1996) 148-149.</span></span></div>
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<span id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_9081"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_6705" name="_ftn4" rel="nofollow" title=""><span id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_6706"><span id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_6707" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_6708" style="color: #0066cc;">[4]</span></span></span></a><span id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_6709" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_6710" style="font-size: x-small;"> Samuel Eliot Morison, The </span><span id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_6711" style="font-size: x-small;">Oxford</span><span id="yiv5062091183yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485052997993_6712" style="font-size: x-small;"> History of the American People. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965) 802.</span></span></span></div>
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<strong><o:p> </o:p>By Fahim A. Knight-El</strong></div>
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Donald Trump’s election to the White House has created a
negative frenzy amongst black people and as well with some white people inside
of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>
(black people have really taken his election to the Oval office hard). Some
Blacks are losing their minds about having to live under a Trump led
presidency; many have taking to social media to lament their feelings and
frustrations and in most gossip circles from the barbershops to the black
churches, there is an overwhelmingly fear about Donald Trump, it has gotten to
the point that with some black people, you cannot even have a civil
conversation about Trump without it turning into an argument—they have no
objectivity when it comes to this man. Trump during the campaign made some
racist comments and blacks being a marginalized people who understands racism
and Jim Crow better than any other people in <st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region>
took offense and are sensitive about someone whose rhetoric reminds them of a
dark historical past in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I too share their collective concerns as a
so-called black American.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are angry
and feel alienated and do not know what their next future step should be as
so-called citizens of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United
States</st1:place></st1:country-region> as we move forward post Barack Obama.
I am one so-called American Negro who can care less about Donald Trump, because
I know his ancestors history and know his nature. Many top level black
politicians and entertainers have chosen to boycott his inauguration ceremony
and other blacks have been threatened to be blackballed, if they are caught being
Lazarus and eating the economic crumbs that falls from trump’s powerful
financial table (the rich man’s table). <br />
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Steve Harvey is one of these Negroes who thought that he was
above reproach and went to the Trump Tower as a clown and buffoning, grinning,
‘Samboing’ and publically embracing Trump and he has received what he called an
unexpected backlash from the black community. He did not realize the tension
and dissatisfaction and resentment blacks have towards trump. I personally
think Trump won the election fair and square because his campaign message
resonated with the white electorate and even white people could see through
lying Hillary and Trump was able to galvanize snuff dipping, tobacco chewing,
Confederates who lived in the North and the South to back him. He gave them a
vision “Lets Make America Great Again” and they bought into it and white men came
out the woodwork in record numbers (<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>
in 2017 is truly a divided nation). Black Americans had a GNP of 1.5. trillion
dollars last year in which, we have the wealth and expertise to turn our
economic, political, and social condition around overnight. We should say thank
you, Mr. Trump and thank you to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>—give
us our owed monetary reparations and five mineral rich States and let us go for
ourselves as a free and independent people. I have a lot of respect for the
Nation of Islam, their teachings and their program. I find myself engaged with
various sectors and splinter groups of the Nation of Islam. But I must admit, I
have always been intrigued by the knowledge of Minister Louis Farrakhan. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Minister Louis Farrakhan is intentionally walking a type
rope, because he has to explain away Donald Trump's ascension to power to his followers and not
appear to be to accommodating to the Trump message and aura. Farrakhan is a
well learned and wise man, but many in the ranking file of the Nation of Islam
have not caught up to Minister Farrakhan's broad based theological and political
views of the world, but there is little doubt in my mind that he knows how
the world functions (but he has to spoon feed his membership base). If we
believe that Allah came in the person of Master Fard Muhammad (this represents
an article of faith in the prescribed theology); the Messenger taught that the
white man's 6,000 year rule ended in 1914, in which his power has been on a
steadily decline (this was written about in Elijah Muhammad’s book titled, <u>The
Fall of America</u>), but he was extended a grace period. So Master Fard Muhammad
has allowed Trump to fulfill a divine purpose in 2017, because he taught that
only 100℅ dissatisfaction has the power to bring about 100℅ change (white
people inside the United States voted for Trump as their electoral candidate,
because they felt that he was the best candidate to move their white supremacy
agenda forward by breaking blacks dependency on the U.S. Government) he
represented the type of change that is important to their mindset (shrouded in
'let's make America Great Again 'was deeper message rooted in the code language of white supremacy). </div>
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Yet, the New World Order and the One World government
advocates saw him as being the prepared one to rearrange the global axis by
shifting the world towards abandoning nationalism for white world supremacy, which
would be rooted in neo-globalist ideology that will erase Pax-Americana and
destroy how the world was structured after World War II (his ultimate objective
is to extend Henry Kissinger's international ideals relative to how future global
wealth and power will be dispersed). Trump represent the spiritual wickedness in
high places and the principalities that he stand for are diametrically opposed
to Allah and he has the potential to lead the United States and the world into our
next deadly and bloodiest war, which would have ever taken place in the annals
of time—world War III. Minister Farrakhan understands Globalism and
Globalization, but as a spiritual man, it is his duty to invoke Master Fard
Muhammad into the divine scheme of things because we created the white man as a
scientific experiment, which was carried out by Yacub. Thus, he is actually a
made man and during the 600 year grafting process, his nature evolved as a
spirit that would be just the opposite of Allah and the original people. </div>
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Moreover, Minister Farrakhan sees him and his mission and
purpose no different than when Yacub was playing with two pieces of steel (magnets) and
immediately recognized that there was a scientific dictum that involved a
magnetic attraction—polarity (positive and negative); this displayed attraction
(is the religious symbolic equation of good and evil).We were taught the nature
of the Devil from his origin coming out of the hills and caves-side of the
Caucasus Mountains in Europe between the Black and Caspian Seas and his
relationship to the Island of Patmos; he was a created man from the weaker germ
and he was given a 6,000 year period to rule over the original man and the
planet and he would create havoc, mischief and destruction on the
earth. This evil disposition was genetically coded in his DNA,
so from a mere psychological and sociological standpoint his human behavior has
been anything but human. His mind from the size of his brain and coming from an
origin of cold and unforgiving climate are factors into the big head scientist
Yacub who created him and prescribed what his purpose would be. </div>
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Trump has mastered this scientific principle and knows his
purpose, and has been crafty enough to have transformed these powerful values
into a political thought, that has created a political movement amongst white
people (his other mission and goal is to attempt to continue to extend his
6,000 year rule). So I believe, Minister Farrakhan has the ability to look
deeper into the white man's nature because he is one of the few living Muslim
leaders and Black religious scientist amongst us who has mastered the "Supreme
Wisdom lessons"--this knowledge I am speaking of goes deeper than 120 degree lessons taught by the Nation of Gods and Earths, which allows him to decode, breakdown, interpreted and
give his followers a divine roadmap, which to follow and better understand Trump's
ascension to the office of being the most powerful world leader on the planet,
it is not coincidental. But not many of us have the strategic and tactical
ability and/or skills in chess to affectively play both sides of the chessboard.
Chess is a strategic war game (one of the most highest mental exercises
relative to strategy) and our black leaders don't have the vision to understand
and predict the next moves on the board (Trump is laughing at us black and
white people while he continues to run circles around us). Minister Farrakhan
knows that we are really at war, but if he truly laid out his understanding of
Donald Trump's divine and diabolic purposes, it would scare some of his
follower away and definitely scare lost-found blacks away. He has to think for
some of them and put things in terms that they could understand and receive.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad did say that there were some wise Moslem Sons who
were Caucasians in which this select group of white men whom are high degree
Masons and have climbed Jacobs latter beyond and outside of 33rd degree of
knowledge, they would be given certain privileges, which is associated with the
original man (the black God).</div>
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Dan Brown who authored the books titled, <u>Lost Symbol</u> and <u>Da
Vinci Code</u> he knows a lot more about these various hidden layers of secret
societies and this is why he protected himself by shrouding the in depth
secret prophetic, religious, royal blood, secret society, etc., research
in the form of a novel, which absolved him of the responsibility of
being held to higher academic standards that are ordinarily associated with
research being offered by those who have obtained a Doctorate of
Philosophy (Ph. D), which in turn would have required his research to have
huge amounts of citations and evidentiary proof and demonstrating the rigorousness and the empirical value; this scholarly negligence left
a lot to be desired relative to laying out what led him as a scholar or researcher to
have drawn such objective or subjective conclusion about such a
misunderstood and powerful topic relating to ancient secret societies and their body of wisdom. Thus, it becomes a literally travesty for him not
have provided scholarly documentation and real proof in a fictional literary body of work
that exposes centuries of old royal bloodline connections, which goes
further back than the Essenes (yet I do understand fictional work isn't subject to the same literary standards of a historian).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And how
wealthy Elitists created dynastic Royal Families that later on would be
extended even deeper to the Rothschilds and global international control of the
world's wealth, as I stated above who has been allowed to hide behind
Freemasonic societies such as the Scottish Rite and York Rite Masonic Orders. </div>
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Donald Trump like all prior and past commanders-in-chief
will have already been led around Banneker City taking first to the
Masonic House of Temple Shrine in D.C. (Scottish Rite of Masonry Supreme
Council 33 degree Southern Jurisdiction, USA) where he gets to see the entombed
bodies of Masonic leaders such as J. Edgar Hoover and Albert Pike and
other high level Masonic leaders and governmental figures where their bodies
lie in glass bullet proof cases and others are buried in the wall; Trump was <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>reintroduced to the meaning of the spread
wings of the Double headed Eagle ceremony and giving a sublime lecture and ceremony
on the true meaning of the Kemetic Benu Bird (known by the Greeks as the
Phoenix Bird who was destroyed and killed by fire but rose and was resurrected
from the ashes—great meaning and significance in Masonic eschatology). He took
an oath to be the latest white Elitist Knight and European defender of keeping in line
with the mission of the last leader of the Knights Templar Jacques de Molay
(and he was told what he needed to do to revenge the death of Hiram
Abiff) and he became oath bind to continue the legacy of defending the
Catholic Church and Jerusalem from these so-called Muslim and Islamic infidels
(Trump sees himself battling in the new age Crusade war against the Islamic
world, a war that the West cannot win). He has been invested with all the
secret Masonic tokens, passwords and signs and is obligated to hear and obey
the Grand Master and if he was not a Mason he was made one on sight (in this
respect he is second in charge). He has also been given the hidden symbolic
meaning of the architecture designs and layout of the Capitol grounds and the
celestial and numerological meaning meaning of the Lincoln Memorial and
the Washington Monument and how the U.S. Capitol, White House, the Mall,
etc., are designed on Masonic geometric scales based on Kemet (and how ancient
Egypt is laid out) from the Potomac River and the city of Alexandria, it
all has deep esoteric Masonic meaning. </div>
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Trump was shown the bible that the first United
States President George Washington took his Masonic oath, he first placed
his on the tool and guide as a Masonic brother and later as the president
of the United States of America (this country’s philosophical ideals from the
U.S. Constitution on down has been heavily influenced by Freemasonic thought).
Thus, unbeknown to the public some of the past <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region>
presidents and those international Masonic entities have all ready
been assembled by the United Grand Lodge of England who has visited
the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
to assist in the elevation of Trump into the great Occult, Esoteric and Gnostic
global mysteries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first lesson to him
will be to always appear Christian in public and a patriot, but he has been
invested with a universal knowledge that works both along side religion and
outside of religion—he will eventually get to see the well preserved tomb of
Yeshuaa Ben Yosef and learn the true racial reality that God is black. Thus,
once he secretly visited the Pope at the Vatican (where part of his ritual
and oath will be kissing the pope's ring as a Masonic symbol of
loyalty to the decrees and edits of the Roman Catholic Church, they
will reveal to him the hidden Masonic secrets of Yeshuaa Ben Yosef (Jesus the
son of Joseph) that Dan Brown wrote about and<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span>Pope Francis will send him to Jerusalem
to receive future instructions in the mysteries where he will be allowed to
pray at the great Mosque known as the House of Omar by kneeling East
toward Mecca and Medina paying homage to the Kaaba. </div>
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Elijah Muhammad taught that they (Moslem Sons) would be
allowed to come amongst us because they would have submitted to Allah and would
live a peaceful and righteous life outside of their nature. The Messenger also
taught, we should teach separation over prayer (powerful point). Minister Farrakhan
understands that Trump by the permission of Master Fard Muhammad is going to
bring about a separation. Minister Farrakhan knows this man's nature (Donald
Trump) as a divisive Patriot this will be the best chance the Nation of Islam
will ever have when it comes to negotiating the five States solution and other
sovereignty concessions. So he is playing both sides of the board to keep us
emotional so-called African Americans in his favor by not appearing to embrace
anything Trump is putting forward, but simultaneously keeping all potential
options on the table. He is the only black leader that stands as a match for
Trump because he was taught the knowledge of self and taught who God and the
devil were. Farrakhan has the wisdom, insight and the backing of Master Fard
Muhammad and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad to checkmate Trump who is part of
the wickedly wise.</div>
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Now, here is a small peep into Donald Trump's end game. Just
take notice of all the billionaires and multi-millionaires that he
has recommended and appointed to his cabinet and office, it is all by
design to hasten the moving of America and world towards a Have and
"Have nots" reality and widened the wealth disparity between the rich
and poor and create new parameters for the sheeple and their goal to implement
modern day slavery. His U.S. Treasury selection came out of the Goldman
Sachs financial culture in which they have their tentacles wrapped around the
entire globe and is involved in every market. They are the new financial
masters of exploitation. They dictate how the money game is played on Wall
Street and have unlimited access to the thinking and moves of the Federal
Reserve Bank and are allowed inside global financial information, which gives
them the latitudinal advantage in the international markets(this is equivalent
to putting the fox over the hen house)—this is criminal and scandalously and is
outside of the<em><span style="color: #545454; font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><strong> </strong></span></em><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">t</span>he U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) who has regulations and works in
collaboration with the laws put forth by the Federal Trade Commission. Their
regulations are a joke in which these Elitist are above <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> law and
they never go to jail for breaking and violating SEC regulations. </div>
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They operate as a financial global cartel that have unlimited
power the world over. They use Wall Street as a front to stage and/or upstage
the global markets by manufacturing economic disinformation and propaganda to
empower certain nation’s currency and weaken other nation’s monetary value—they
enrich themselves in downward and upward spirals of the Global economy. Goldman
Sachs is one of the most powerful international banks in the world. Henry
Paulson and Tim Geithner and Ben Bernanke and most of these money changers have
served in the interest of this international bank. Donald Trump as a <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:state> based
real-estate Mogul has brokered international real estate deals through Goldman
Sachs. Trump will continue to reward these financial Elitist while serving as
the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
commander-in-chief. The brokering of deals will be expanded on unprecedented
business levels for a private bank; Donald Trump does not see conflict of
interest, he only sees wealth building and the acquisition of money. Those who
voted him into office was blinded by the slogan "Lets Make America Great
Again" and for them they believed in white nationalism and their ignorance
have allowed them to ignore Trump's real loyalty which is to globalism and he
doesn't completely share the racial dynamics in the sense of the modern
definition of race, but make no mistake about it he is the beneficiary of race
(white skin has always served as privilege in the United States relative to
race relations) no one breaks this phenomenon down any better than the social
critic Tim Wise in his book titled, <u>White Like Me</u>. </div>
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Donald Trump has already betrayed their political and
economic interest by creating a money loyal administration whose religion is
greed and accumulating of wealth by any means necessary. Trump does not give a
damn about the white masses who are considered useless eaters. He used white supremacy
code language to coerce his voting electorate to vote against their own
interests (he was a master of subliminal seduction). Trump works for the Hidden
Hand and they had determined many years ago according to a Club of Rome report
that I read a few years ago, that there would be a transitioning into a New World
Order that was initiated in1968. So Trump knows there are no jobs in particular
in the manufacturing realm coming back to America, which like the other
Developed Nations, we have transitioned into a tech based economy in which many
of the white poor who supported and voted for Trump are under educated and will
not be included in this new workforce paradigm. This is the notion of the
power of American style racism. The question of race is unresolved in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> and
because of this it continues to allow political demagogues like Donald Trump to
manipulate race to move and invite white people into divisive spaces and the
wealthy are beneficiaries. Most of his voting constituents do not have the
intelligence to interpret and decipher the Global end game that Trump is aiming
towards. Race has truly blinded them.</div>
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Fahim A. Knight-El Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL
THINK TANK located in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Durham</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">NC</st1:state></st1:place>; our mission is to inform
African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the pending dangers that lie
ahead; as well as decode the symbolism and reinterpreted the hidden meanings
behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We
are of the belief that an enlightened world will be better prepared to throw
off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the
slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight-El can be
reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">. </span></div>
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FAHIM KNIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00567827759311275290noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4957787817614691922.post-40126908830132715322017-01-18T15:53:00.000-08:002017-02-20T08:50:14.415-08:00REPARATIONS REQUIRES KNOWING YOUR AFRICAN HISTORY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong>REPARATIONS REQUIRES KNOWING YOUR AFRICAN HISTORY</strong></div>
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We as Africans of the Diaspora and the descendants who survived the most brutal
acts of man's inhumanity-to- man, have been inspired by the spirits of our
ancestors to seek justice; moreover, our ancestors were kidnapped, raped,
robbed, murdered, etc., Chattel Slavery endured from 1555-1865, it was slave
labor that built the economic foundation of the United States of America and the
present day white Americans and their European brethren are the private and
corporate beneficiaries of the legacy of slavery. The reparations movement is not an
anti-America response, it is rooted in a collective movement for justice and a
recognition of our denied human rights as historical victims. Whenever so-called
African-Africans mention the word slavery, which was part of the ancestral
experience of our fore-parents from 1555-1865, it sends the majority of white
conservatives and white liberals in to a frenzy. They often hide their fore-parent's
guilt and their own guilt, with a deep sense of historical denial and in the
same breathe call for race reconciliation and a need for better race relations
(hypocritical language and sentiments), as though we should skip over and
dismiss 310 years of brutality, rape, robbery, murder, forced labor, kidnap,
etc., (and most of all slavery robbed us of our God, names, land, culture, folkways, mores and robbed us of our minds and five generations later we are still suffering from this crime against humanity) that were committed against an entire race of people, which now numbers
to be over 50 million black people in the United States and that is not
counting the millions of Africans living and scattered throughout the Diaspora
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana";">(</span>Reference:
Ida Hakim, Dorothy Blake Fardan, Jamil Hakeem and<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana";"> </span>Len Moritz; “Reparations: The Cure for <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s Race
Problem”).<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "bookman old style"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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President Bill Clinton in 1998, and the United States Congress
in 2009 issued the descendants of African slaves a so-called official apology
for slavery. We do not need just some weak half- hearted apology that was crafted by white legal minds to protect the long term economic interest of the descendants of the perpetrators. But our quest for justice
can only be entertained when the discussion of equitable retribution is unconditionally on the table, which has
to be tied to a proposal involving and beginning with the surrendering of five
southern states as part of the discussion—we must mandate some land that we can
call our own. The next demand would be to assess and calculate the modern
monetary value put on 300 years of unpaid human labor and the
interest/dividends which has led to white America becoming one of the most
wealthiest nations in human history—this allowed them to invest in markets that have further allowed rich
Elitist capitalist like the Morgans, Duponts, Vanderbilts, Stanfords, Warburgs, Mellons,
Dukes, etc., their monetary empires are a direct result of slavery in which
slavery allowed them and many other white aristocratic families to create generational wealth off
the backs of African people. I think Adam Smith (one of the fathers of modern
capitalist theory) authored a two volume book titled, <u>The Wealth of Nations,</u> but
Smith’s research in my opinion, was intentionally shoddy in overlooking the
enormous magnitude that Chattel Slavery played in springing the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
into a dominant historical and present world economic power. The Nation of
Islam’s Historical Research Department and Minister Louis Farrakhan published an
investigative type research in a second book titled, <u>The Secret Relationship
Between Blacks and Jews</u> volume ll; thus, daring to expose the various
entities that have served as the beneficiaries of their overwhelm involvement
in the African slave trade. The Nation of Islam’s Research Department’s
investigation uncovered that in places like Mississippi where cotton was the
king on many different levels (it was cotton that created untold wealth for white America at the expense of black slavery)—these past cotton trade entities transitioned
into modern international banking houses and respectable financial institutions, which has permitted them to continually
expanding their accumulation of global wealth even in 2017.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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It is America’s historical denial and overt refusal to openly admit and take
full responsibility that it was because of the practices of systematic racism
and white supremacy, which allowed for a class of whites to economically proposer to the
detriment of African people who were brought to the Americas as slaves, it is
this denial that keeps fueling the modern day "Civil War" in which the relationships
between black and white people will never truly change or get any better until
the grievances of the ex-slaves are properly addressed and taking into
account—the 300 years of dehumanization and the spirits of our ancestors will
forever haunt the white Americans ancestral descendants until justice is
rendered (this would be the first steps towards making us spiritually and
economically whole). How can we have better race relations if there are still
large sectors of white people that remain in historical denial? Professor
Kenneth Stamp referred to slavery as the <u>Peculiar Institution</u>, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Professor John W. Blassingame in his
monumental work referred to it as <u>The Slave Community</u> and W.E.B Dubois
in his scholarship referred to it as <u>The Suppression of the African Slave
Trade</u>.<br />
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The majority of American scholars agree that blacks in this country arrived as
slaves and the present generation of blacks are here based on that historical
tragedy. Yet, we are 150 years removed from slavery and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> is
still in historical denial. Former President Bill Clinton as stated above was prepared to issue
Africans in this country an official <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> governmental apology
for the wrongs of slavery, but it was later deemed politically expedient for the
president to remain quiet and give a diplomatic response relating to black slavery and not issue Africans a full and
meaningful official apology. I am assuming that his legal advisors and the
United States State Department advised him and the United States Congress not to
publically fully go down this road, because the admission of guilt, perhaps could
have been used legally against the government by Africans in their quest for
reparations by providing blacks with potential future lawful ammunition that
could have been used in the World Courts, United Nations and in U.S. Federal
Courts as testimonial evidences being given by a sitting commander-in-chief.
This could have legally backfired against America from a legal standpoint
relative to America having to pay Africans living in America a 310 year old
debt (our Congressional Black members should have equally submitted a mandate
rejecting and refusing to accept some half-hearted watered-down apology). So we allowed them to enter this meaningless and non-legally binding mandate and/or resolution into the U.S. Congressional records and to accept this action has only set us back in our fight for reparation and justice. Blacks have to craft and write the legislation, the slave master's children will never willingly legislate our freedom. Show us the damn money.<br />
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Many of our critics and pundits that opposes blacks
receiving reparations are quick to attempt to argue against reparations by
stating that blacks who are the direct descendants of slavery ancestors by
hiding behind their ignorance and maintaining that the present day blacks did
not endure slavery and are not entitled to justice (Just as some of the present
day Jews did not suffer the Holocaust, but that has not precluded them from
being the beneficiaries of what their Jewish ancestors experienced under Adolph
Hitler). Blacks in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>
are genetically and spiritually connected to a common past, present and future
and this much is undeniable. Nevertheless, in 1995, the Southern Baptist, a
predominantly white Christian association had the humanity and the proper
spirit of God to admit the wrongdoings of the Christian church in slavery. They
did not go to the graveyard and issue this apology to the dead, which would
have been partially suffice, but the church issued the apology to the living
ancestors of those who lived and died under the evil institution of slavery. <br />
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Here are the solutions to this four century problem, to what sociologist Gunnar
Myrdal referred to as <u>An American Dilemma</u>. 1). The healing process
starts at admittance of the wrong doing and erasing historical denial. 2). Open
and honest communications amongst the races about slavery. 3). Reparations. 4). An international call for
atonement and reconciliation on behalf of all African people. 5). Pray to God
for healing and guidance. European Nations such as: <st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Portugal</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Belgium</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region>,
and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">England</st1:place></st1:country-region>
beginning in the mid 1400s explored and colonized the darker people of the
world. <st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on">Portugal</st1:country-region> in 1494 signed the Treaty of
Tordesillas laying out an imperialistic plan by which to divide and colonize the entire world between two
European nations (<st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Portugal</st1:place></st1:country-region>).<br />
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In 1517, Bishop Bartholomew de Las Casas and Pope Alexander VI working in the
name of the Catholic Church and in their official religious church capacities
actually divided the entire world between <st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region>
and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Portugal</st1:place></st1:country-region>
under the Papal Bull of Demarcation. These two said European nations drew an
imaginary line in the middle of the world, moreover, giving <st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region> the "permission" to conquer and
colonize all the lands in the so-called "New World" with the
exception to <st1:country-region w:st="on">Brazil</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on">Portugal</st1:country-region> would colonize all the lands in
"Old World" which included <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>. This
was an unlawful act that can be defined under United States Federal Statues as
a Conspiracy. In legal terms a Conspiracy is defined as an agreement by two or
more persons to commit an unlawful act: a combination for unlawful purpose. In
criminal law, conspiracy is a separate offense from the crime that is the
object of the conspiracy. Who amongst the ex-slaves and descendants of <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place> have the courage to charge all the said European Nations
in the <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">World Court</st1:address></st1:street>
and in a United Nations with historical crimes perpetrated against Black
humanity? The said crime is Chattel slavery and the political, economic, social,
etc., affect this evil institution had on one race of people (Africans), is the
single most important issue in the annals of human history and the greatest
crime ever committed against humanity.<br />
<br />
Where is Barack Obama, Michelle Alexander, Roland Martin, Van Jones, Bakari Sellers, Yahweh Ben Yahweh-Ben Yahweh, Jamaal Bryant, Boyce Watkins, Ta-Nehisi Coates', Tariq Nasheed, Marc Lamont Hill, Umar Johnson, Malik Zulu Shabazz, Corey
Booker, Donna Brazile, Ben Jealous, D.L. Hughley, Valerie Jarrett, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Martin Luther King,
III, John Lewis, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hugh Price, Vernon Jordan, Susan Rice, Tavis
Smiley, Steve Harvey, Jay-Z, Michael Jordan, Tom Joyner, Irvin Johnson, T.D. Jakes, Oprah Winfrey, Jesse
L. Jackson, AL Sharpton, Henry Louis Gates, Maxine Waters, Cornel West, Louis
Farrakhan, Julianne Malveaux, Michael Eric Dyson, Stanley Crouch, Charles
Ogletree, etc. our so-called Black leaders and Black intellectuals on this issue
of reparation, where do they stand? Many of them are very much familiar with
this fight, but very few of them have committed their organizations resources
and expertise in a pro bono manner to allow a legitimate legal defense
on-behalf of the sons and daughters of <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>.
Minister Silis Muhammad of the Lost Found Nation of Islam in the West (out of
Atlanta, Georgia) deserves a lot credit for his efforts and tried to make our
case in the U.N. by assigning us a nationality called Afrodescendants. Minister Silis Muhammad who has been at the forefront of the issue of
reparations for many years now and he estimated just to file the petition will cost over USD
$100,000 and estimated it will cost over USD $10,000, 000 in order to win the
reparations battle (these figures were given almost 20 years ago). Why don't
we put our resources behind Minister Silis Muhammad and why didn’t we listen to
the late Imari Obadele, the Chairman of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Republic</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">New Africa</st1:placename></st1:place>
who had been in the forefront of the reparations struggle and movement since
1968. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Randall Robison who authored the
scholarly book titled, <u>The Debt: What White America Owes Blacks</u>. However,
Robinson was very late coming to the reparations discussion, Robinson former
Chairman of TransAfrica has provided us with an intellectual discourse, which has
laid a theoretical framework for us to follow.<br />
<br />
<strong>Reverend Robert Schuller</strong>, a renowned white televangelist who had received an
invitation from the late Reverend Leon Sullivan to address the
African/African-American <st1:city w:st="on">Summit</st1:city> in <st1:city w:st="on">Libreville</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Gabon</st1:country-region>,
<st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place> in 1994. Reverend Schuller's
recognition and admittance that <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place> and Europeans by the enslavement of
Africans had committed an unpardonable crime and sin. Here is an excerpt from Schuller’s
book titled, <u>Prayer My Soul’s Adventure With God</u>, stated,<br />
<br />
" Leaders from the black African nations are here. Also Louis Farrakhan
and the widow of Malcolm X. All of them will speak. Just listen, and when
you're called to come up and talk, the lord will tell you what to say.' I
listened. Speaker after speaker spoke. Coretta Scott King spoke. Following her
was Andrew Young. And, yes, Louis Farrakhan too. I was struck by the mutual
respect shown even among those who shared different faiths and contradictory philosophies.
Where is the anger? I thought. I sensed none of it. Hour after hour I listened.
From my seat next a window, I had a view of the beach. The ocean was calm. Form
this very spot on the west coast of <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>,
cargo boats had been loaded with slaves to be hauled to market. During a period
of more than two hundred years,<br />
twenty million blacks had been brought from the interior in chains to be sold
to the white men who landed their boats on this beach. The entrapped humans had
been hauled from this, the eastern boarder of the Atlantic, to where waves
finally stopped on the eastern shores of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>. I was an American
citizen because my ancestors had chosen, freely, to immigrate to the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
But the black Americans in the room were not citizens of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
by virtue of the free choice of their ancestors. This beautiful, kind, intelligent
Americans were the living ancestors of slaves once dragged in chains in aboard
the ships right here! I could see it happening in my mind's eye. Who were those
white traders? Were they Dutchmen? Some of them were, yes. I was of Dutch
descent. Could one of my ancestors have been in slave trading? “</div>
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<strong>Reverend Robert Schuller continues</strong>: “I had inherited money from
my mother, whose father---had been so he claimed---a baron in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Netherlands</st1:place></st1:country-region>. My
maternal great grandfather, Gerrit Van Amerongen, had sold all his property in
Holland and come to America with his fortune to buy a vast spread in Galveston,
Texas, and established' His empire. A horrendous hurricane later wiped him out,
leaving him with only a small portion of his imported wealth. But from where
had my grandfather acquired his wealth? From his father? Could it be that his
family from <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Holland</st1:place></st1:city>
was involved, directly or indirectly, in the slave trade? These musings
released disturbing ideas into my mind as I sat there--- a white man from America
listening to black speakers, most of them, if not all, descendants of slaves.
For the first time in my life, on the issue of race, I felt the sting of guilt.
In my childhood, high school, college, in seminary days, I never felt superior
to other races because I was white. I honestly looked on all colors as equals.<br />
<br />
<strong>Reverend Robert Schuller continues</strong>: “Being better or worst
was a matter of character, not color. But suddenly, here now I was drawn back
into history when blacks were not equal to whites. They were better! Blacks morally
better than whites? Yes! We whites bought and sold their bodies; they didn't
buy or sell us. Blacks better patriots than whites? Whites love <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>, of
course! We or ours chose to come to this great country. But blacks love this
country with the equal passion! How proud they are to be Americans. But neither
they nor their ancestors wanted to come here. They were not immigrants--they
were imports. They came asproducts--not people. Abruptly my thoughts were
interrupted as I heard my name call. Loudly! <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Leon</st1:place></st1:country-region> was introducing me as the next
speaker. "Let's welcome Dr. Schuller! " Applause broke out. I found myself
almost stumbling through the large crowd. On stage I stepped into <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Leon</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s open
arms. He beamed, smiled, laughed with pleasure, hugged me, and stepped back
gesturing me to the podium. I paused. I prayed. I looked into his eyes of the
famous black leaders, including Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King, Jr's
widow. What did I think I had to say to them? My prepared speech now seemed absolutely
inappropriate. Suddenly my lips trembled. My face twitched in emotional
distress. My heart reached out to these people who loved me. Their grace,
affection, and respect reach out to me. I didn't feel that I deserved this. Through
my family history I might have been a part of the horrible history of slavery.
I was speechless. Tears rolled down my cheeks. I prayed silently, "God, let
the right words come out". </div>
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<strong>Reverend Robert Schuller continues </strong>“The crowd grew silent, for they could see and sense something
strange occurring in the white haired, white skinned television preacher they had
lovingly invited into their inner circle. Finally, a few words came.
"Thank you for your welcome. I'm so honored to be invited here. But as the
only white preacher here, I suddenly, strangely sense for the first time in my life
a stab of shame and guilt for what we whites did to blacks." I couldn't go
on. Tears rolled down my face as I heard only a few more words tumble from my
trembling lips. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I can not talk I'm so sorry".
Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a tall black man standing on stage only
a few feet from me. He had come up uninvited. For a brief second our eyes
connected I recognized him as a clergyman of another faith. His eyes sent a message
to this speechless preacher: We don't let someone stand on stage and cry alone.
I could not deliver a speech after only a few moments on stage I turned to
leave. The audience rose, applauded, and cried. We were one in heart! How
strongly my soul, through prayer, had asked for and received forgiveness here
in <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>." <br />
<br />
I cited this quote of
Reverend Robert Schuller because if all white people had this type of humanity
then the question of reparation would be answered and solved today.</div>
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Africa was thriving politically, spiritually, educationally, culturally,
socially, etc., before European intervention on the continent, Africans 12th through 16th century there were Ghana, Mali, and
Songhai empires in which Timbuktu University (possessing brilliant minds such as Ahmed Baba) was attracting students from
around the world and Mansu Musa and Sonni Ali was equal to any head of state in Europe. They chose Africa because
the continent up until 1442 was almost totally unengaged by Europeans; even though the
Moors had wrote historical treatises and spoke of tales of great wealth, in particular after Mansa
Musa 1324 made his Hajj trip to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Mecca</st1:place></st1:city>
where he showered the Arab Elite and Islamic Emirs and Imams with thousands of
tons of African gold. The Europeans arrived to the west coast of <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place> with the intent to engage the Africans in trade,
and commerce and would eventually exploit this mass continent for its riches and
raw materials. Also the Christian Missionaries were perhaps the most devastating
to <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>, they robbed the people of their
minds.<br />
<br />
Now, on the other hand I believe, the European explorers were fully aware of the wealth that Africa possessed due to
their contact with Muslim Moors who had ventured in to Africa in 711A.D. under
Tarik Ibn Zaid who had conquered all of North Africa and the majority of
Western Europe, all the way up to the southern boarders of France, which became
under the influence of Moorish rule. Islamic Missionaries also robbed African
people of their indigenous culture and belief system—the Muslims during the<em><span style="color: #545454; font-family: "arial"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><strong> </strong></span></em><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">T</span>rans-sharian Slave Trade were just
as ruthless and vicious as the white European Christian missionaries. Yet, many
Africans had converted to Islam and the Qur’an forbids the captor to mistreat
their captives and mercy was often displayed more so from the Muslim
missionaries than the Christian missionaries. Slaves could unconditionally
purchase their freedom and marry into the Muslim tribal families. At the ending of the Crusades Wars and by 1492, Europeans had re-conquered Western
Europe, as well as confiscating maps that were drawn by brilliant Moorish Nubian
cartographers depicting lands of "Negro" people to the south who had
established mutual trade relationships and routes with the Islamic Arabs. John G. Jackson and Willis N. Huggins in their monumental book
titled, <u>A Guide to Studies in African History</u>, stated "Let us now
turn to <st1:place w:st="on">Western Europe</st1:place>, and consider the brilliance
of Moorish Spain. The Moors, natives of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Morocco</st1:country-region>,
in <st1:place w:st="on">North Africa</st1:place>, were converted to Islam
during the Mohammedan [Islamic] Conquest in the 7th century. In the year 711
C.E. under the leadership of the Emir Musa and the Negro, Tarik-bin-Zaid, veteran
Arab generals, and the Moors swarmed across the <st1:placetype w:st="on">Strait</st1:placetype>
of <st1:placename w:st="on">Gibraltar</st1:placename>"<br />
<br />
It has been recorded that in 1440s, a group of Portuguese maritime sailors
actually captured ten (10) Africans off the West Coast of Africa and took them
back to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Lisbon</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Portugal</st1:country-region></st1:place>. Thus, this incident so-called
initiated the African slave trade. Many Africans were actually sold into
slavery by warring ethnic African groups, who traded slaves for guns, spices
and alcohol with the Europeans. The Europeans built slave dungeons such as Goree
Island off the coast of Senegal and Elmina Castle (known as the gate of no
return) off the coast of Ghana, because diseases would not allow them to enter
into the hinterlands (interior) of Africa and Africans captured slaves and
brought them to the coast for sell and trade. The Europeans realized that based
on diseases and in the interior bush country could not be penetrate by them, they
needed Africans assistance to carryout their slavery goals and objectives. They
also, realized how trusting and unassuming the Africans were about them as
strangers who had a hidden agenda to commit mass murder, rape, assault, kidnap,
etc. The warring African factions had no idea of the type of slavery they were
selling their kinfolk into. They realized that <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>
had a unique social and political structure; thus, African society was complex
and was setup based on tribal protocol. <br />
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Chattel slavery
represented a criminal conspiracy and although U.S. Representative John
Conyers, a Democrat of Michigan, perhaps close to 30 years ago introduced into
Congress a reparations bill titled H.R. 40, which in essence was nothing but a
fact finding committee offered to study the possibility of reparations. Chattel
Slavery still remains the greatest crime that was ever committed against humanity.
In reality, we do not need a fact finding committee, here we are the sons and
daughters of Africa who have been robbed of the knowledge of self, stolen from our
native lands, made inferior, unjustly persecuted, destroyed our family bonds,
etc., in the name of greed and capitalism. It was black slave labor that
brought untold wealth to Phillip Morris Brothers Tobacco, J.R. Reynolds Tobacco,
Ligget and Myers Tobacco, American Tobacco, which allowed the Dukes to
accumulate, as well as other private and corporate entities untold financial
wealth.<br />
<br />
Sir John Hawkins (piloted the slave ship Jesus of Lubeck), the English Slave Trader in 1555, was sailing for <st1:country-region w:st="on">Great Britain</st1:country-region> and actually had engaged <st1:country-region w:st="on">England</st1:country-region> into the buying and selling of black
human cargo, but <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">England</st1:place></st1:country-region>
did not reap the total benefits of slavery until March 26, 1713 at the signing
of the Asiento. This was a contract between <st1:country-region w:st="on">Great
Britain</st1:country-region> and the Catholic King of <st1:city w:st="on">Madrid</st1:city>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region> giving the British the
so-called "legal right" to import Africans into the "New
World" commonly known as <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Spanish</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Territory</st1:placetype></st1:place>. The most
popular and accepted date for advent of slavery by most historians is 1619, when the Dutch imported twenty
(20) Africans to Jamestown, Virginia but were originally classified as indentured
servants. These individuals had the right to work their way to freedom and
after fulfilling their indentured servant contract many white masters honored
the contract and freed them. The city of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jamestown</st1:place></st1:city>
gets its name from Sir King James, a pedophile social deviant who authorized
and commenced forty-four (44) scholars to carryout the transliteration of the
Holy Bible in 1611 A.D. He also had all forty-four (44) scholars killed upon their
completing this task. These scholars had firsthand information of what King
James ordered to be left out of the Holy Bible. Yes King James altered the
Bible in order to secure control and domination over the thinking of humanity.<br />
<br />
The Thirteen (13) Original Colonies were new and the quest for nationhood was
in its infancy stage as it relates to early <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> around 1607. The world was
witnessing feudalism come to an end, which gave rise to pre-industrialism;
moreover, there was a need for the colonist in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> to expand their major means
of production and distribution (fur and gold trade). The so-called Native
Americans were the original slaves and indentured servants; however, they had a
keen knowledge of the terrain and could escape easily and go into hiding and
never be found by their white masters. Also the hot southern temperatures and
the work were killing the Native Americans. The Europeans eventually made an
economic business decision by deciding on enslaving and transporting Africans into the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Americas</st1:place></st1:country-region> from
"Negro lands" who were known to be tough, hard workers and they could
easily be identified by their black skin color. The British started importing
black slaves to colonial <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>
in order to clear off the land and work as agriculture workers on cotton and
tobacco plantations serving as free labor (the white planter’s class saw
slavery as an economic opportunity to enrich themselves within the southern
economy).<br />
<br />
Many slaves who were imported into European countries such as <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Great Britain</st1:place></st1:country-region>
between 1440 and 1772 actually worked as indentured servants; moreover, and in some
cases were not relegated to a lifetime status of being a slave. Slaves in <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place> oftentimes upon being freed served in European
militaries, became citizens and were even permitted to marry white women. Many
worked for the royal wealthy aristocratic families and for the nobility class as maids, butlers,
servants, etc., the cruelty associated with Chattel Slavery in the <st1:country-region w:st="on">Americas</st1:country-region> was not to be found on a large scale in
<st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>. Perhaps because <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>
was just entering out of the Dark Ages and experienced the Renaissance an age of cultural rebirth and a
period of enlightenment. In addition, Europe did not have the same economic and
political challenges facing it, as the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Americas</st1:place></st1:country-region> did. The Black Moors had
also influenced race relations in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Portugal</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region>, and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">France</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<br />
<br />
Most historians would agree that the institution of slavery in <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place> was a lot more humane, which was socially and
culturally different. The warring factions of different ethnic groups captured
other African slaves in ethnic battles and conflicts with all intent of selling
them or making them slaves, but the concept of chattel, conditioning, and
brutalization were not common practices in <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>.
<st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place> is a very diverse continent and there were
acts of aggression by Africans who had encroached on other ethnic groups land.
The captured slaves still were giving basic rights as a human being. The captured
African often worked to assist the tribal family in their work as a communal
unit. Africans and Europeans did not have the same views of slavery. Thus, Europeans
viewed Africans as inferior and were a people who had been cursed by God and
justified their racist behavior, as well as inhumane treatment of Africans as
an act of Manifest Destiny (the epitome of white supremacy). They viewed
Africans as subhuman and as a people who had no human or God given rights.
Africans viewed slavery as a necessary act in order to curtail encroachment and
to secure its people from tribal danger. <br />
<br />
The European nations in 1490s with the advent of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Portugal</st1:country-region>,
the Catholic Church and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Spain</st1:place></st1:country-region>
which was headed by Isabella and Ferdinand desired to expand their so-called
royal empires through trade, explorations and missionaries. Slavery became a
convenient method in order to achieve these imperialistic objectives. The
European quickly saw the need for using Africans as a free tool for labor in Europe
and the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Americas</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
In 1442 when the Portuguese landed off the coast of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Guinea</st1:country-region>,
it was generally believed by historians that their initial intentions were to
establish trade relations with African people and many of the Europeans during
these early expeditions were actually using maps and materials confiscated from
the Moors upon the Europeans recapturing <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>
in 1492.<br />
<br />
The Europeans brought weapons, gun powder, alcohol, spices, working tools,
etc., to the African continent, exposing Africans to goods that were not
indigenous to African society. The Europeans eventually were actually offered
African slaves as a form of payment and a trade arrangement was established
with certain powerful tribal chieftains who sold captured African slaves to Europeans
for trinkets.<br />
<br />
The Africans were forced to produce cotton, rice, tobacco, sugarcane
(throughout the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Americas</st1:place></st1:country-region>),
etc. These were considered the basic cash crops on the slave plantation. So
many early European writers had depicted the African continent as the
"dark continent" where "savages" and
"uncivilized" people lived. Therefore, these so-called "African
heathens" need to be saved by these white Europeans and Christianized by
missionaries who were commissioned by God to bring salvation to a so-called
backwards society. The Europeans believed in a white manifest destiny and that they had a
superior right to enslave and colonize African people and darker people of the
planet. The Europeans believed that they were ordained by God and justified their
conduct by using the bible in order to sanction slavery. They viewed blacks as
subhuman and blacks had no rights in which the European was bound to respect.
Many Europeans actually held this racist view and believed that kidnapping
black people from <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place> and placing them into
slavery was a blessing for the Africans; however, they never asked the African
how they felt about being enslaved.<br />
<br />
Yes. The Europeans thought that they were superior based on a false sense of
white supremacy and based on military might. Africans have always been a
determined people that had a different political, religious, social, economic and,
culture value system, etc., than their white captives, but did not view their way of
living as being inferior to whites. Europeans would find out that the buying
and selling of Africans was extremely profitable and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
served as an economic system of exploitation that provided a labor force for plantation
owners throughout the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Americas</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
Slavery was simply a racist and capitalistic venture orchestrated by the
Europeans. The slave trade robbed Africa of its greatest resource, which was
its human resource and according to some historians over 50 to 100 million
Africans were stolen from off the continent and transported across the <st1:place w:st="on">Atlantic Ocean</st1:place>. <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>
has never recuperated from such a devastating blow. Europeans also raped <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>'s natural resources and economically the continent
is still suffering presently from these past historical relationships. The
Europeans actually captured highly intelligent Africans who were well learned
in the sciences, arts, and business oriented people who had the physical and
technical ability to build their society. </div>
<br />
The Europeans stole diamonds, gold, silver, ivory, timber and other raw
materials and created existing markets and are still exploiting African
resources some five centuries later and continue to economically empowers
themselves from the wealth of Africa. The Europeans simultaneously disrupted
the institution of family by unmercifully separating mothers from their children,
husbands from their wives, brothers from their sisters, etc. This social
phenomenon affected the entire African family for generations to come. The
present day Africans and most of the continent are living in poverty, because
of the onslaught of European aggression that has stripped Africa of its natural
resources, divided the people and has tied <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>'s wealth and
natural resources to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. I have
stated above that Portugal in 1442, became, the first European nation to engage
itself into the African slave trade, it was short lived, but they brokered
deals with the Dutch West India Company and with the British Royal African
Company. The Portuguese in the 1440s captured some Africans and took them back
to <st1:city w:st="on">Lisbon</st1:city>; however, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Portugal</st1:place></st1:country-region> did not have the economic
or the political might to really capitalize off the slave trade. The Portuguese
played a minimum role in the slave trade because they were not well financed
and did not have the resources to capitalize on such profitable venture. <br />
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They perhaps got the ball rolling for other European nations
who were better financed and better suited in maritime science. <st1:country-region w:st="on">Portugal</st1:country-region> got involved in the African slave trade
in 1440 when Prince Henry the Navigator sent his lieutenant, Antam Gonsalves,
to the coast of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Guinea</st1:place></st1:country-region>
for a cargo skins and oil. The nation of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Portugal</st1:place></st1:country-region> ended its involvement in
the slave trade in the year of 1773. However, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Portugal</st1:country-region>
like all other European nations was looking to expand its economic trade
boarders beyond the confines of <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>.
Capitalism inspired <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Portugal</st1:place></st1:country-region>
to venture into un-chartered waters in 1440 because of the profitable
possibilities the slave trade could bring to the Portuguese. <st1:country-region w:st="on">Portugal</st1:country-region> involvement Africa during the 1440s
was very significant because they paved the way and opened the door for other
powerful European nations such as <st1:country-region w:st="on">Britain</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Belgium</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Germany</st1:place></st1:country-region>, etc., as</div>
well as, for private slave traders to venture into Africa to
steal human cargo and raped <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place> of its
natural resources.<br />
<br />
J.A. Rogers maintained that <st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region>
was actually in West Africa in 1435, which was five (5) years prior to the
coming of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Portugal</st1:country-region>; however their
early involvement in <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place> was insignificant.
In 1493 with the signing of the Papal Bull of Demarcation between <st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on">Portugal</st1:country-region>,
the agreement precluded <st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region>
from being involved in <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>. <st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region> directly played a minimum role in the
import of slaves due the treaties and contracts it held with <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Portugal</st1:place></st1:country-region>. <st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region> had its sights on the so-called "<st1:place w:st="on">New World</st1:place>" which included expansion and colonialism.
Although Christopher Columbus in 1492 was trying to find <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region>, he eventually uncovered Hispaniola (<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Haiti</st1:place></st1:country-region> which was
already inhabited by the Arawak and Carib Indians).<br />
<br />
In 1518, the king of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region>
had granted a trader the right to ship four thousand African slaves to the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Spanish</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Island</st1:placetype></st1:place>. Thus, this was about two hundred
years before 1713 with the signing of the Asiento in which the Spanish gave
Great British the so-called legal right to import slaves out of <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place> into the Spanish
Americas. <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Spain's</st1:place></st1:country-region>
role directly and indirectly in the slave trade in the seventeenth century
began to decline. <st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region> got
involved in the slave trade because it had acquired lands throughout the <st1:placename w:st="on">Caribbean</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Islands</st1:placetype>,
Central America, and <st1:place w:st="on">South America</st1:place>. Thus, the
Spanish needed a labor force to work the huge sugar plantations in order to
make them profitable. Africans were used as the supply and fulfilled the sugar
plantation labor demands. <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Spain</st1:place></st1:country-region>
was no different from other European nations who engaged themselves in the
African slave trade. The Catholic Church had sanctioned slavery as being a moral
act on behalf of the Europeans and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Spain</st1:place></st1:country-region> had a duty to
"civilize" the African "heathens" in the name of God and
Christ. The Spanish in history has been a little in genuine on history by putting forth a
deception ploy of stating they never directly got involved in the
slave trade, because of Papal Bull of Demarcation that had signed with <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Portugal</st1:place></st1:country-region> and its
legal ramifications prohibited them. They circumvented these treaties and were heavily involved
in the African slave trade. <st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain's</st1:country-region>
presence in Africa led them to colonize Spanish Sahara and the <st1:placename w:st="on">Cape Verde</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Islands</st1:placetype>;
however, their presences also helped to rape <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>
of its human resource and its natural resources.<br />
<br />
The British perhaps were the most powerful slave traders in the world, they
were well financed and possessed the maritime ability to engage <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place> in this crime against humanity known as the
African slave trade. Some have associated Sir John Hawkins with piloting the first
British Slave ship. They shipped millions of Africans from the African
continent to <st1:state w:st="on">Virginia</st1:state>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Georgia</st1:country-region>, <st1:state w:st="on">South Carolina</st1:state>,
<st1:state w:st="on">North Carolina</st1:state>, <st1:state w:st="on">Florida</st1:state>,
<st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Maryland</st1:place></st1:state>,
etc, in order to work on American plantations. <st1:country-region w:st="on">Great
Britain</st1:country-region> in 1713 had entered into a legal agreement with <st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region> under the Asiento and had agreed to import
African slaves into the Spanish America, but at the same time they were
supplying slaves to colonial <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>
in order to be used as labor to work the agriculture plantations and clear the
land.<br />
<br />
The British Royal African Company desired to expand British trade relations
throughout the world. There was an old saying that stated that, "the sun
never sets on the British Empire" this was because the <st1:place w:st="on">British
Empire</st1:place> was so vast. The British got involved in the African slave trade because of economic capitalist expansion and to rape <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place> of its valuable human and raw material resources
for the benefit of British Royal families. The British also viewed Africa as a
savage continent who had no history and that they were doing Africa a favor by
capturing slaves and bringing them to the <st1:place w:st="on">New World</st1:place>
to serve as slaves. The British military, her merchants and missionaries served
as a team of destruction against African humanity. The British left their
influence on <st1:country-region w:st="on">Liberia</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Ivory Coast</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Nigeria</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Ghana</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sierra Leone</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
etc.<br />
<br />
Spain, Portugal, France, Great Britain, Germany, Belgium,
etc., all benefited from the African slave trade and have contributed to the division
of African people, as well as the raping and robbing Africa of its human and
natural resources. The above European nations got involved in the African slave
trade due to the potential of exploitation and capitalist interest, which makes
all them economically liable for the exploitive crime they committed against blacks,
which has transition in to untold wealth that had financially un-girded the Bank of England
and the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank. They created a supply and demand concept and
at the center of it all was the African continent (blacks were considered and
treated as a commodity). The Europeans saw exploitable routes to wealth and
unconditional labor at the expense of African people. The Europeans then and
now still view <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place> and the African
continent as savages and subhuman. <br />
<br />
The African slave trade left <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place> weaker
economically and politically, it also created tribal tension, division and
displaced over 100 million of its citizen throughout the Diaspora. The slave trade
opened Africa up for future exploitation and has been a factor in the destabilization of the African continent and most of all it has affected
past, present and possible future economic, political and social development
on the African continent. I think that the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and the
Middle Passage should be declared as acts of war crimes, which were committed
against the entire continent of Africa by the nations of Europe and the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
Moreover, the United Nations should force all European nations who participated
in the slave trade to pay <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place> and all of
its descendants reparations for this crime. I am not optimistic that this will
ever happen. Reparations are about justice for the black man and black woman of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>. What do you think?<br />
<br />
Fahim A. Knight-El Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Durham</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">NC</st1:state></st1:place>;
our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the
pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolism and
reinterpreted the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces,
but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlightened world
will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be
willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power.
Fahim A. Knight-El can be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com.<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms";"> </span></div>
FAHIM KNIGHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00567827759311275290noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4957787817614691922.post-9591334659070389612017-01-17T00:09:00.000-08:002017-02-19T20:53:17.043-08:00BLACK LEADERSHIP: DR. UMAR JOHNSON AND SARA SUTEN SETI<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong>BLACK LEADERSHIP: DR. UMAR JOHNSON AND SARA SUTEN SETI</strong></div>
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<strong>By Fahim A. Knight-El</strong></div>
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One of my Student's from New Orleans came to my home in
order to visited me and to inform me about a young black activist named Brother
Dr. Umar Johnson out of Philadelphia in which at that time I had no idea that there
were some controversy centered around a war of words between Sara Suten Seti
out of Detroit and Dr. Umar Johnson, but from what he was sharing with me, he vehemently stated
it was something that I needed see and hear for myself. I knew of Sara Suten
Seti and Dr. Umar Johnson from the intellectual research that I do with my
Keeping it Real Think Tank and black people from time-to-time have often asked
me what I thought of them both as our new young premier scholars and work that
they were doing to raise the level of consciousness amongst black people and it
appears a sizable amount of black people and black activist that I have spoken
with have found them both to be credible, but for entirely different reasons,
in particular their styles of leadership in my opinion, are like day and night. For example, Sara
Suten Seti comes across as street savvy, militant and radical with a
‘hood’ flavor and Umar Johnson comes across as a professional trained
clinician/academic and the intellectual type—steeped in the school of thought
of deductive reasoning. But I must admit, I am not an authority on either one
of these brothers and their philosophies. Yet, I do know a little about
leadership; leadership is an awesome responsibility, which requires one to love
black people more and better than they love themselves. Leadership requires the
highest levels of discipline and commitment and often it has to be rooted in
self-denial. There has to be a commitment that is principle based
having morality and ethics as a foundation and having a greater discipline
not to compromise lines of trust with yourself and the people, that you are
attempting to lead, it must also be rooted in sacrifice and service and
not allow egos to consume us and always have tolerance and compassion and
commitment to stand on truth and present ourselves as good examples to our
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Our leaders must take the responsibility to be role models
to our children and we will always hold you to a much higher standard and
look for you to be good private and public examples. People are prone to follow
what they see and we cannot allow our emotions to sway us towards negative
energy (it will only serve as a contradiction to us obtaining our goals and
objectives). If you are going to be a black leader, you are automatically
going to have a target on you back and people are going take shots at you—some
are going to falsely accuse you and say all manner of things about you,
others are going to attempt to character assassinate you by
continually making false allegations and other will become outright envy and
jealous of your success, and there are going to be some who are your closes comrades
and they will betray you, and others will come your way
as opportunist with intentions of using you to promote
themselves and will use opportunities to link up with you for all the
wrong reasons; the U.S. Government will send male and female agent
provocateurs to penetrate your inner circle and infiltrate your
movement or organization. But as a leader your credibility has to be rooted in
your work on behalf of the people whom you serve. If your motivation is
about personal gain and is just about money even it will expose itself and
the downfall of most leaders are money, sex and lies.<br />
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This leads me to the purpose and intent of why I wrote this
article that somewhat pertains to Dr. Umar Johnson and Sara Suten Seti, my
above analysis it is meant specifically for Johnson and Seti, in
particular and black leadership in general. Moreover, our conduct and behavior are
very important and in every movement and organization there have always been
fights, strategy and tactic arguments, which has led to splits and splinter
groups and in some cases it has led to violence where people have been killed.
Perhaps some of you have seen the disputes that were posted on Youtube between General Sara
Suten Seti and Dr. Umar Johnson; thus, I am not going to go down the road to
attempt to analyze or decipher these hate-filled and mean-spirited arguments
that were made public, but I will say this, that the public implication has
negatively affected both of these brother's reputations and although I still
believe both of them are entitled to their opinions about each other, but
we have always watched how division and attacks and counterattacks have played
out in the liberation struggle of the black community (just read the dossiers
compiled by Cointelpro—U.S. Government counter-intelligence plan aimed at black
leadership during the 1960s and 1970s). Their demeanors and words were the
poorest representation of two young and upcoming intellectuals and activist. </div>
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I must admit, I was a little more disappointed in Dr. Umar
Johnson’s conduct, because he claims to be a black expert on black child's
psychology in which his professional work ties him to
impacting children's lives and has the responsibility of creating
mental health safe heavens as a clinician. But he had a serious meltdown and his conduct did not
reflect someone that I would want counseling my child or children (he even
brought up the dark skinned and light skinned phenomena in which my first
thought went to some of the distasteful things that the light
skinned mulatto W.E.B Dubois stated about the dark skinned, kinky
haired, broad nosed, and thick lips of Marcus Mosiah Garvey). This conflict
that has become public and everyone one has been talking about it because it has lost all respectable
boundaries. I do not know much about General Sara Suten Seti, but I heard him
make claim of being a student and follower of the late Dr. Minister Khallid
Abdul Muhammad (the real Black General), the former National
Spokesman and Supreme Captain of the Nation of Islam under
Minister Louis Farrakhan and later would become one of the premier voices
of the New Black Panther Party with Malik Zulu Shabazz and Hashim Nzinga. Some
members in Nation of Islam departed the NOI along with Dr. Khallid when
Minister Farrakhan suspended Dr. Minister Khallid Abdul Muhammad for allegedly
making anti-Semitic statements at a speech he delivered at <st1:placename w:st="on">Kean</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">College</st1:placetype>
in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Union</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">New Jersey</st1:state></st1:place> in 1993. Dr. Khallid Muhammad's
departure angered many inside the Nation of Islam and outside the Nation of
Islam and Sara Suten Seti appears to be one of those brothers who loved
Dr. Muhammad and each chance he gets he reminds the public about his
personal grievances relative to Dr. Minister Khallid Abdul Muhammad and
the perceived treatment he received from the Nation of Islam and Minister Farrakhan. </div>
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Many of my Pan-Africanist and Black Nationalist comrades
have tremendous respect for Dr. Johnson and I have over the years vibe off
both of their energy. I had read some news about Dr. Umar Johnson over the
Internet, and the work that he had been doing in the area of black child psychology, in
particular around challenging white Eurocentric models and clinical approaches
relative to how they have historically diagnosis mental health involving
African American children and he let it be known that they had failed
to properly treat the causes in which their approaches to resolving
Attention Deficit Disorder, Down Syndrome, Autism, etc., are flawed and the
high incidents of these diseases are not coincidental and how they
disproportionally affects African American children in 2017—their explanations
did not meet Dr. Umar Johnson's satisfaction. Black children in recent
studies have been diagnosis of higher incidents of bipolar and
Schizophrenic disorders than they had twenty years ago and if these mental
health illness are allowed to go untreated, the ramifications of such
neglect would eventually negatively play itself out in our families and the
community. We must be willing to create talking points in the black community
relative to the issues of mental health diseases, because it is hidden and
covered under layers of fear and shame and this alone disallows us from having open, honest,
non-egotistical, etc., conversations about devising mental health strategies
and create a level of comfort that we could have these conversations in the
black community. </div>
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Now, lets be honest with each other, we all have members of
our families that suffers from mental health disease and I do believe that I am
preaching to the choir, perhaps someone in the choir are listening. I am ready
and prepared to talk about this issue, how about you? Let the church say Amen.
Dr. Umar Johnson appears to be very good at speaking and diagnosing all the
psycho-educational theories; his university training did not lock him into
assessing and evaluating black children’s minds based on the
exclusive theoretical models of European social scientist in which is
required as you matriculate up to obtaining the terminal degree of a Ph.
D in which the curriculum is imbedded with these European educational
philosophers such as: Sigmund Fraud, Abraham Maslow, Lev Vgotsky,, Johann
Friedrich Herbert, Friedrich Frobel, Maria Montessori, Jean Piaget,
John Jacque Jacques Rousseau, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzai, etc., but
by Dr. Johnson himself being deeply rooted in knowing and understanding
the African American experiences by living and existing in a white
supremacy society, he has this uncanny ability as a black mental
health expert to connect with black children and families unlike European social-psychologist.
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I believe, he fully understands the pervasiveness
of mental health and mental health disease and/or problems that are
affecting the so-called African American community, thus, this has always been
a difficult subject and issue to talk about for the most part in the black
community, it has been taboo and has created an immeasurable amount of denial.
Although, blacks suffer disproportionally from various aspects of mental health
diseases/illnesses, which have contributed to high incidents of Post Traumatic Stress
Disorders (PSTD), suicide, domestic violence, longer untreated bouts of depression,
sexual abuse, feelings of alienation,
delusionary reality syndrome, Attention Deficit Disorder, etc., these are some
of the symptoms of mental illnesses that go undiagnosed and are in many cases
untreated and often go unspoken about in the black community, because of the
social stigma. So we, as a community have historically neglected talking about
mental health illnesses and the dilemma has only contributed towards
reinforcing the stigma, which has caused us to often fail to attain a proper
psychological assessment of our mental health. </div>
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Yet, as a social-psychologist Dr. Umar Johnson is standing
on the previous work and historical foundation of black social scientists who
have historically challenged white intellectuals such as: Dr. Alvin
Poussaint, Dr. Kenneth Clark, Dr. Nathan and Dr. Julia Hare, Dr. Frantz Fanon,
Dr. Bobby Wright and just in recent years Dr. Naim Akbar and Dr. Kobi Kambon,
Dr. Kwebena Faheem Ashani, Dr. Tom Burrell, Dr. Kamou Kambon, etc., these
African American social-psychologist have always worked towards creating
relevant social and psychological theories that were applicable to African
people. So Dr. Umar Johnson is deeply in debt to a prior class of black
academics and intellectual activist who have always viewed the approach of
black psychology and white psychology as being different in practice and
theory and the relations these schools of thought have had in addressing black
mental health is without a doubt very different. I have never studied Sigmund
Freud, Carl Yung or B.F. Skinner’s models in relations to human behavior, but
perhaps like Dr. Umar Johnson, I have studied Dr. Frances Cress Welsing,
Dr. Naim Akbar, Bobby Wright, Kobi Kambon, Dr. Faheem Ashanti, Dr. Mawiyah and
Dr. Kamau Kambon, Dr. Nathan and Julia Hare, Asa Hilliard, Dr. Amos Wilson,
etc.</div>
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I am thoroughly convinced that throughout black America and
in our personal families there have been afflictions of serious bouts of
mental health illnesses/diseases problem, which is only a microcosm of a
larger problem in the broader community and yet as much as I accept this dilemma that we still
have some serious unfinished work to do in the areas of mental health and this why we
cannot afford to have these counterproductive and senseless arguments going on between General Sara
Suten Seti and Dr. Umar Johnson (to have our leaders to publically display
dysfunctional behavior creates a dichotomy in the minds of the
people) our people are suffering from various aspects of mental
health disease/illness; I am also of the belief and opinion, that this
breakdown in communication between General Sara Suten Seti and Dr. Umar
Johnson were in the making for many years and it finally
culminated (I have to characterize what I heard as typical black
reactionary conduct) to those in our community, I am offering an apology
because our people deserve much better. </div>
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We are suffering from mental health diseases at epidemic
proportions in which we are in dire need of unity and it is incumbent
upon all us to find ways to devise solutions to resolving our
pressing social, political, and economic problems—name calling, insults
and ego tripping will only continue to set us back, but this type poor examples of
leadership only denotes immaturity, it alerts the world that we are not ready
to be a nation of people, that are prepared for collective sovereignty and
self rulership. I am quite sure that as the black scholars that I have cited
above Dr. Umar Johnson knows their work and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>understands that many white social scientist such as Arthur Jensen and
William Shockley determined that blacks relative to intellect (or I.Q.)
which according to them could be influenced and determined by race and
ethnicity and these racist pseudo scientist had been working historically and presesntly to determine that
blacks in mental capacity were inferior to whites and this is why it is so
important to have Africancentered social scientist such as Dr. Umar
Johnson. </div>
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I am not a mental health expert, I possess no formal
training in identifying, treating, counseling and/or recognizing the
appropriate steps and treatment plans when it comes to solving mental health
issues in the black community. I am writing this article merely as a keen
observant and layperson of having relations with my personal family and the
African American community those are my credentials and this alone qualifies me
as a mental health expert equal to some of those who have written empirical
dissertations and who have gone to medical schools and become a psychiatrist or
clinical psychologist. Dr. Johnson’s approach attempts to correlate mental
health and educational achievements and academic gaps confronting black
children as being rooted in the systemic practices of white supremacy. I think as
a black mental health professional, he has garnished a lot of respectability
and credibility amongst African centered activist and proponents. This
credibility seems to evolve around his past organizational ties to the
Universal Negro Improvement Association (U.N.I.A), affectionately known as the
Marcus Garvey Movement in which appears to be the basis of his theoretical and
philosophical views. So as a former Garveyite, I have respect for Dr. Umar
Johnson because Garvey is one of my heroes, he attempted to create a worldview
that was rooted in African values, African symbolism, and Garvey pointed us to
Africa in which the back to Africa Movement was implemented to redefine the
historical disconnect that Chattel Slavery had created for people of African
descent. </div>
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Dr. Umar Johnson being a student of Garvey that alone has a
huge measure of credibility that lie in his corner, if with nobody else it resonates with me
and at the same time, I am not condoning nor signing off on his recent conduct.
But some in our African centered community have mistakenly elevated Dr. Johnson to the heir apparent status of the African
centered thought and the Pan Africanism movement leader in the last five years (and I think may be in his own
mind he somewhat believe that he is; ego can lead us to start drinking our own
cool aid) because of what appears to be a nationalistic leadership void in the cultural
community due to many of the revolutionary Elders scholars having transitioned
and have become ancestors such as Dr. Yosef A.,A. Jochanan, Dr. Henrik Clarke,
Asa Hilliard, Del Jones, Steve Cokley, Amos Wilson, Cheikh Anta
Diop, Ivan VanSertima Khallid Abdul Muhammad, Frances Cress Welsing,
Tony Martin, Kwame Ture etc., both Sara Suten Seti and Dr. Umar Johnson hails the above
said leaders and view them as their master teachers and find their philosophical
tenets as being credible and good for black people and I am quite
sure our intellectual warriors are rolling over in their graves at
such display of madness in their names and legacies; what they both have done
is inexcusable and does not reflect good quality leadership. </div>
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Yes, there should be a Tribunal called consisting of an assembled of
elders who should be allowed to intervene in this dispute between Dr. Umar Johnson
and Sara Suten Seti before the real enemy sneaks in and exacerbate the
situation and causes more problems. The above intellectual warriors were
for the most part from the movements of the 1960s and 1970s in which
many of these activist transitioned into academia as professors, lectures
and researchers and their legacies have become a body of intellectual works as
it pertained to writing and publishing intellectual
and scholarly treatises that have rescued African history from the
realm of white supremacy who saw it as being obscured by presenting Africa as a
subject rather than an object. They all have done yeoman's work to redefine
African history and civilization by rescuing it from the myth of <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place> being the 'dark continent' and so-called made no
contributions to human civilization. </div>
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This African renaissance movement had it official inception
in the late 1980s and 1990s and built academic credibility by infusing past
African history and lost African traditional culture into a synthesis of ideals,
which formulated into a philosophical and ideological school of thought
that became known as Afrocentricity. Africancentered theories that presented
itself as the intellectual antitheses to Eurocentrism and academic white
supremacy, which was part of pedagogy of western world's concepts of dominating
the arena of ideals. Dr. Leonard Jefferies and Dr. Molefi Kete Asante, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Temple</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>
professor and later Dr. Tony Martin would take the brunt of the scholarly
criticism for daring to redefine how African history should be taught in
primary, secondary and on the college level. <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Asante</st1:place></st1:country-region> theories were well put
together in his book titled, <u>Afrocentricty</u>. This created a level of excitement
amongst African American and simultaneously sparked controversy amongst some white
academic scholars such as Dr. Mary Lefkowitz who authored the book titled, <u>Not
out of Africa Afrocentrism" Became An Excuse To Teach Myth As History</u>. </div>
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ahead; as well as decode the symbolism and reinterpreted the hidden meanings
behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We
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<o:p> </o:p><strong>By Fahim A. Knight-El</strong></div>
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Donald Trump is deeply in bed with Russian Mobsters (he has
had relations with New York Russian mob crime families for many years and the
cozy relationship with Putin should not be surprising). Donald Trump and
Vladimir Putin (this not the making of some strange bedfellows, but the same type
coin with two heads); the powerful U.S. based Russian immigrants have ensured Moscow
that Trump is a player and his only loyalty is to wealth building and nothing
else. George W. Bush was given the assignment to assist in rearrange the world
and had laid the foundation after the 9/11 hoax to even eradicate the very
foundation of U.S. sovereignty, which use to be rooted in the U.S.
Constitution, but these legal and jurisprudence standards of domestic rules of
law couldn't serve in the interest of a New World Order agenda, which has led
to it being gutted and reduced to a worthless piece of paper. Trump and Putin
are shrewd business men who just happened to be globalists and international
politicians. Both of them have global aspirations in desiring to positioning
themselves to serve as the new world dictators over the G-20 and G-8 nations in
reality, these loosely alignments of nations is only a passing resembles of how
nations use to be formulated prior to the Cold War, but in today's
international era which is rooted in a New World Order and One World Government dynamics these alignments
are more symbolic than possessing strategic and tactical international uniformity.
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But this is not to say that they represent a voidances of
political, economic and social corporation relative to carrying out
collaborative efforts, if necessary to achieve an international or Global
goal—yet in the scheme of the old power paradigms, they have been rendered weak
and less influential and are only standing on past reputations as shrinking
world leaders and powers, their collective world power begin to fade after 1989
with the fall of Soviet Union style Communism, the Iron Curtain had created
military domination over Eastern Bloc nations and the United States had created
similar influence over NATO nations. Nevertheless, Trump and Putin have much
deeper understandings that the world has changed and they both possess adaptive
mentalities to get way in front of the continued world transitions. They no
longer find it necessary of taking on the huge burdens of providing robust
military, economic and political resources to prior allies like they had
historically and previously done before the Berlin Wall came tumbling down. </div>
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This is not to say, that their global military interest have
waned just to the contrary, it has subtly intensified beginning with the
so-called war on terrorism. Unknowing to many that live in today's world, it is
a lot more dangerous and the people are a lot more vulnerable in which because
of these low intensity wars so-called aimed at combating terrorism that have
dupe us and lured us to sleep and has not made the world more safer (modern
Western imperialism is quietly united the Islamic world). They declared war on
Islam an enemy they cannot defeat, because their motives aren’t necessarily
being inspired by some single charismatic Imam or Mullah giving them secret
orders to fight and oppose the West and oftentimes aren't receiving
instructions from some central Islamic voice (yet western propaganda and
disinformation campaigns desire to make the world believe that these
motivations behind terrorism are ISIS inspired—some of terrorist incidents were
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Their motivations are more rooted in an ideology of
Pan-Islam; so, how can you defend yourself against and idea and this is the
problem that Western Governments are having in their efforts to defend against
so-called terrorist attacks? What they call Islamic extremism and/or radical
militant Islam, the idea of itself is outside of the broad influence of <st1:place w:st="on">ISIS</st1:place> in which their response to perceived western
government injustice is motivated by an idea. So the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United
States</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">United Kingdom</st1:country-region>,
France Italy, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Netherlands</st1:country-region>,
<st1:city w:st="on">Brussels</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Spain</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Greece</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
etc., find it shocking that in recent years their nations and people have come
under attacks by so-called acts of radical and militant Islamic terrorism. Noam
Chomsky, one of the most honest white intellectual that I have read in recent
times, he has attempted in his scholarly writings to warm America and the west by
trying to give America and the world a working perspective since 9/11 relative
to the true causes and affects of global terrorism. </div>
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Trump will lead international measures to move the world
towards the ultimate objective of a one world government in which he, Russia
and China totally understands that the world has become more internationally
complex, thus, both Trump and Putin shares objectives of neutralizing the
influence of these powerful nations by moving towards eradicating the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the United Nations. Trump will play a
major role in restructuring the entire world, he is setting the stage and is
actually playing games with the American people. Trump is focused on the global
agenda and really do not care how he is being perceived in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> by the
people or his constituents in government. Many have reduced him down to a white
supremacy racist in which he is, but Trump has bigger fish to catch and fry
than debating race relations in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
The predominately white American electorates who voted and put him in office do
not understand that Trump will create the biggest wealth disparities in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
history and will negatively impact white Americans and black Americans. Trump
really at this point is not focused on the question of race that is truly and
old paradigm, his main focus is global positioning and creating the next
business frontier for himself and the Trump brand. He really do not give a damn
about Russia allegedly hacking the Democratic and Republican computer
networking systems during the presidential elections and campaign and
committing cyberterrorism (of course he will be forced during his
administration to deal with cyberterrorism coming from North Korea, China,
Russia, Israel, etc., and he is smart enough to know this). It is foolish to
keep asking Donald Trump to take some responsibility for these national
security compromises and breaches, but I viewed it as a failure on the CIA,
FBI, NSA and Homeland Security part for not having implemented a better
national security cyberspace plan and defense against national or international
hackers. </div>
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Trump has loaded his cabinet with ultra conservative patriots,
just look at how many <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
Generals that will serve in his cabinet (he also understands the importance of having competent
people in place to make the tough decisions, because you cannot accumulate
wealth without being able to defend it). Trump also understands that he is going
foster hostile international business (global based corporate monopolies)
takeovers of the oil trade domination and this is why he chose ExxonMobil oil
tycoon Rex Tillerson as his Secretary of State, this patriot is tough as they
come and rest to sure he is a true diplomat and knows how to get things done
internationally through hook or crook. He is a rugged capitalist and Trump will
use him both in a governmental official capacity and in a private capacity
while serving as the Secretary of State in order to cut high volume future business
deals for the Trump brand—you see Trump is already looking down the road and
really do not have time for government bureaucracy and political gridlock. And
while commander-in-chief, he will use the White House and the Oval office only
to amass huge amounts of business opportunities for himself that will
transition into unspeakable wealth when his two terms as <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
president is up and over. His children have been entrusted over his many
conglomerate business enterprises and Trump will be using them as fronts also
to cut deals while Tillerson is dinning with trade ambassadors and Heads of
State, he will be setting the business table for the Trump corporation. Thus,
can anyone else see this trickery and deception? </div>
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Now, African Americans have focused their attention on
Senator Jeff Sessions congressional confirmation hearings to head the
United States Justice Department because of his past racist and white supremacy
views, but I find Tillerson a lot more dangerous and disturbing than Senator
Sessions at least with Sessions you kinda know what you are getting. But to
turn over the U.S. Treasury and the U.S. military forces over to Trump, the
U.S. Generals, his children and Tillerson this is a very dangerous time in
American history, because they all are motivated by greed and nothing else
matters other than money and wealth accumulation Trump has never been
interested in serving as America's forty fifth president, a position that only
pays 400,000 dollars annually (surely money cannot be his motivation because
this is chump change to a billionaire like Trump, so common sense would say to
us he must have other ulterior motives)—President Obama was not in the same
class as Bush, Clinton nor Trump and he saw the Oval office as a salaried job
and was entice to know that he would be getting a lifetime pension (as a
Federal employee), lifetime health care insurance, and around the clock secret
service protection after he leaves the Oval office for the rest of his life and
to him this represented a good benefit package (this is the negative drawback
for an African American, U.S. president that did not come from generational
wealth). </div>
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Obama will draw decent money after office by giving speeches
and raking in huge honorariums and will make a few millions upon writing his
memoirs and by consulting international bankers on Wall Street. The white boys
came into office as multi-millionaires and after serving as <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
president expanded their net worth exponentially. They had built alliances with
the Rockefellers and with the likes of Henry Kissinger and untold wealth were
made available at their disposal. Donald Trump truly understands the game and knows
how it is played and even as a billionaire he will reap huge financial
dividends from every corner of the earth. His interest in serving as
commander-in-chief is to sit in the most powerful seat in the world and utilize
this as a potential advantage to dictate his own economic interest without
impediment. No other job or corporate decision maker wields this type of power.
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Trump was chosen over Hillary Clinton because he was the
perfect fit based on his ambitions and ruthlessness to further carry out the
New World Order agenda in which the international bankers and the Bilderberg,
Council on Foreign Relations and Trilateral Commission and the various Hidden
Hands entities; systematically appointed him. This was not to suggest that
Hillary Clinton would not have been a good Hidden Hand candidate, because she and
Bill Clinton both were very loyal servants. They allowed Bill Clinton to use
his Global Initiative Foundation to created tremendous economic and financial
opportunities for the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and some
of these deals were cut by Hillary Clinton when she served as U.S. Secretary of
the State (the Clintons as a team have made large sums of money in which most of
Bill’s transactions were diverted to Swiss bank accounts). But they chose to go
a different direction by appointing Donald Trump as their man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But let's not get it twisted in one sense Trump
has no real autonym and he will be carrying out their Global agenda, which is
pushing the Hidden Hand mandates towards world domination by continuing to
expand their wealth and natural resources interest in which undoubtedly Trump
shares. </div>
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The European dynastic royal families and the international
bankers have become disturbed that China has a monopoly over the gold and has
taking huge amounts of this precious metal off the market; most of the gold
currency after 9/11 was removed out of the Chinese Central Banking system and
was taking to ancient hidden vaults outside of Beijing and only the Elitist
Chinese Royal families have knowledge and access to this unaccountable wealth.
They will use Trump's business skills to negotiate and attempt to convince China
by promising them unlimited access to oil as collateral and offering them an
expansive interest in Dope, Inc., these offers will be made available to entice
the Chinese to relinquish some of that gold (China does not have any interest in
U.S. dollars and leveraging this weak currency in the global market because it
has very little value) . These will be secret proposals and agreements made by
ExxonMobil executive and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson who has oil interest
around the world from the Persian Gulf to Central Asia, Argentina, Canada,
Mexico and Africa—China will be able to have a bigger seat in the oil and drug
trade markets in order to fuel it's massive human population, industrial
complex along with its military complex. This will enhance their future international
security interest. </div>
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Therefore, expanding the Trump dynasty and empire, he is
actually trying to bring us up to a learning curve, which is, there will be no
such thing under the New World Order rules that governs conflict of interest
and nepotism—this is why Trump recently said he could serve as <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> president
and run his company simultaneously. Trump and Putin as I have stated above, are<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>restructuring the Global landscape and
repositioning the geopolitical structures to exclusively benefit their
interest, but these moves would allow them to be able to impact weaker nations
international sovereignty and not having to deal with international law
pursuant to international rules established in the U.N. Charter or any other
international overseer. This objective is was clearly right out of the New
World Order playbook in which globalism will create no need for an
international police force apparatus; because one of the objectives is to
alleviate borders and erode the concept of international sovereignty. For
example, the concept of international waters rules and geographical parameters
would become obsolete and will hold no jurisdictional credence and intervention
will be viewed in the same manner and no rule or international Agency of
enforcement would be applicable and this would allow the powerful nations do as
they please without the threat of outside intervention (surely dangerous
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The World Order will be about passive domination, which
Russia still having territorial expansionism on their minds and annexing weaker
boarder nations will continue to be on their long and short range agenda and
this last incident in 2014 involving the invasion of Ukraine was a perfect
example of such aspirations, they were in clear violation of international law
by invading it's neighbor and wasn't concerned about the United States power
and interests or the U.N. Security Council. <st1:country-region w:st="on">Russia</st1:country-region>
viewed President Barack Obama as weak and they were going to continue to test
the waters by invasions like <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ukraine</st1:place></st1:country-region>
and they equally understood that the international consequences would be
minimum at best. <st1:country-region w:st="on">Russia</st1:country-region>
wouldn't be deterred by the potential of <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region>
sanctions and embargoes because <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>
had lost respect as a world superpower amongst the nations of the earth. The
international bankers had deprecated <st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region>'s
economic influence and power, thus other nations no longer feared the
international consequences of not siding with the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> </div>
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Lastly, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Russia</st1:place></st1:country-region>
also understood the post variables and international ramifications of the
Berlin Wall collapsing in 1989 of ending the Cold War, and the 9/11 crisis these two incidents have
led us into a new era in which militant and radical Islam and its relationship
to terrorism has become the order of today. Thus, these phenomena created an
urgency coming from the west to act and react with responses that prior to 9/11
would perhaps have meant diplomatic intervention as opposed to declarations of
war. The <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
under President George W. Bush implemented foreign policy that fostered
militarism over diplomatic peaceful resolutions (he was atypical warmonger).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The U.S. Government and its foreign policy
incited the Taliban of Afghanistan and Al-Qaeda of the Middle East who had
created Islamic loyalty amongst Arabs, Pakistanis, Africans and Eastern Bloc
Muslims and Muslims almost on every continent who had dismissed ethnic and
nationality as barriers and deterrents and begin to rally and unite around the
common enemies of Islam, which was the United States and its Western Allies. </div>
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They were fueled by western military aggression first in 1990
Desert Shield and 1991 Desert Storm and, although, both conflicts along
with Saddam Hussein versus the Kuwait Monarch in which all parties were corrupt
to the core and were being propped up by U.S. oil interest and petroleum
companies such as British Petroleum out of the United Kingdom and ExxonMobil
were behind the United States and it's coalition nations who lined up to
so-called halt and combat the military aggression of Iraq and Saddam Hussein
and deter their invasion of Kuwait—this eventually led to the big U.S/Iraq war in
2003. It would be these two incidents that begin to change how International
law would forever be altered, but in reality they attempted to established this
as an international precedent in 1993 in Mogadishu, Somalia, they were using
these low intensity military invasions tactics and strategies to combat radical
Islamic cells and even imploring highly trained U.S. Rangers and U.S. Navy Seals
and it was failure. General Mohammed Adid along with the rugged <st1:country-region w:st="on">Somalia</st1:country-region> terrain proved to be more challenging for
the <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> and this tiny
Muslim nation of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Somalia</st1:place></st1:country-region>
had scored a huge moral defeat known around the world as Black Hawk down. The Somalians
were actually high-jacking shipping vessels who had containers, which was
transporting and smuggling contraband oil from <st1:country-region w:st="on">Iran</st1:country-region>,
dope poppy plants and pure heroin in which the Clinton and Bush cartels were
moving huge amounts of dope from South East Asia across the <st1:place w:st="on">Indian
Ocean</st1:place> route. Donald Trump will only take up where George Herbert Walker
Bush, the former CIA director and U.S. president, William Jefferson Clinton, George
W. Bush and last but not least Barack Hussein Obama all left off and continue the
plight of stealing wealth and creating massive propaganda and disinformation ploys
which to hide behind. </div>
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Fahim A. Knight-El Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL
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our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the
pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolism and
reinterpreted the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces,
but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlightened world
will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be
willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power.
Fahim A. Knight-El can be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com.<u2:p></u2:p> <o:p></o:p></div>
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