Friday, September 17, 2010

PROPAGANDA, DISINFORMATION AND GLOBALIZATION AGENDA

Propaganda, Disinformation and Globalization Agenda

By Fahim A. Knight-El

These are very serious times in which we are living and the masses of humanity have no idea of the pending danger that lie ahead because of the systematic dumbing down of America. Perhaps there hasn't been a more affective tool used on humanity than the science of disinformation and the type of subtle and covert control this strategy has had on the thinking of humanity (perhaps no different than how the Communist propaganda of old operated); in particular in how people were expected to process information and most all how that information would be used to support the interest of the status quo in general. The United States has had a dubious and contentious relationship relative to the quest for racial justice and fairness (and social, political and economic parity). But disinformation has been an equal opportunity conveyer (it does not discriminate or make any distinctions based on class, race, skin color, national origin, language, religion, gender, country and any other variables that you can think of. It is an equal opportunity deceiver and manipulator of all people in which eight-five percent of the planet are victims. (Reference: Psywar: YouTube Clip; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xd2oCGKD7M&feature=related).

Disinformation is defined as being: "Deliberately misleading information announced publicly or leaked by a government or especially by an intelligence agency in order to influence public opinion or the government in another nation". However, there is a discernible difference between disinformation and misinformation. Misinformation is false or inaccurate information that is spread unintentionally. It is distinguished from disinformation by motive in that misinformation is simply erroneous, while disinformation, in contrast, is intended to mislead.

People living in the United States have been lied to so convincingly and thoroughly that they will defend their slave status with their last dying breathe, as well as shield and protect the lie as if it was the unadulterated truth. They do not believe that their destiny is in the hands of a few and their present predicament is not coincidental and that someone is controlling every meaningful facets of our lives. (Reference: Psywar; YouTube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7A2hVDdB10&feature=related).

Yet, at the same time by them being so thoroughly convinced that history is made accidental; it is difficult for them to accept alternative viewpoints other than what the status quo feeds them in the mass mediums—both electronic and print. They have been taught to view alternative information as unproven conspiracy theories worthy to be discredited without an objective investigation and the sad thing about this type of thinking, is that they do not realize that they have been part of a grand world conspiracy orchestrated by the likes of the Rothschilds and Rockefellers, which to keep them under control as ignorant pawns.

Just look at the so-called economic meltdown in 2008, which made the American people more destitute and poor and at the same time further enriched the international bankers at the expense of the American taxpayers. They are not willing to look deeper at the real causes and affects of their condition of oppression, which would draw them to the conclusion that America's economic decline was neither coincidental or accidental (it has been well planned out by the wickedly wise and it was induced).

But little do most people know, that there are Invisible entities which possess the power to induce the rise and fall of global economic markets—they even determine the value of international currency—its strengths and weakness. Wall Street collapsed because the Rothschilds sort to establish a new economic paradigm and had intentionally stretched the world's debt to the limit (it had nothing to do with out of control consumer debt, although this variable factored in, but the markets collapsed because of financial greed at the highest level). The printing of worthless currency (U.S. dollars) was the number one factor that led to the compromise of the global financial markets and downward spiral of the free enterprise system. The Federal Reserve had deliberately inundated the global market with so much valueless money, which over flooded the world’s capacity to tie productivity as an equitable correlation to the amount worthless currency being dumped in which credit was not an option (the allusion of a safety net was gone). It naturally short circuited the global monetary leverage and nearly caused not a recession, but an economic depression; while the Chinese Renminbi and the Euro were gaining economic momentum, the U.S. dollars was continually to decline. This infringement simultaneously devalued goods and services globally (it was the chain reaction affect), which heighten inflation in the United States. (Reference: Ron Paul; YouTube clip:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsFqeJe8dsw&feature=channel

The fall of America was inevitable and would have made the Great Depression of 1929 look like child's play. President Bush, President Obama and the United States Congress did not resolve the long standing systemic problems of the declining U.S. dollar. The U.S. taxpayers bailout of BIG Finance was only liken to putting a band-aid on cancer (we did not cure the problem, it was not even a temporary fix). The root causes of what led to the global economic meltdown in 2008 has not changed and therefore, our future economic forecast is futile and will continue to be disheartened until the Federal Reserve, Central Banks and Dynastic Families take the noose from around the necks of humanity (it is their decision of how money will flow and it has nothing to do with congressional enactments).

I am sorry to tell you that President Barack Obama can not solve our economic matters nor can the Tea Party candidates because they do not control the purse strings; thus only the purse string pullers can restore honor and dignity back to the American people.

The money changers prosper by creating misery (the collapsing of the housing market and financial markets were designed to benefit the Invisible Rulers to the detriment of the poor who will never be introduced as the ‘Pawns in the Game’). President Barack Obama doesn't have the solutions to the economic stagnation of a society that has lost its place as the leader in the global free enterprise market where for over a hundred-fifty years they ruled and dominated as the capitalist power to be reckoned with (America is now weak and is steadily losing its influence throughout the world). No, other nation had embraced and internalized the concepts of capitalism pursuant to Adam Smith's treatise as described in his monumental work titled, "An Inquiry into the Wealth of Nations" with the type of zeal and fortitude as the United States (but capitalism reached its peak fifty years ago and it no longer can expand and produce as it once had). (Reference: Psywar; YouTube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xd2oCGKD7M&feature=related).

Minister Ray Muhammad (who received his X in Baltimore and former Nation of Islam minister and laborer of Minister Farrakhan) shared with me some very interesting and eye awakened statistics, which sums up our predicament: 83 percent of all U.S. stocks are in the hands of 1 percent of the people.

• 61 percent of Americans "always or usually" live paycheck to paycheck, which was up from 49 percent in 2008 and 43 percent in 2007.

• 66 percent of the income growth between 2001 and 2007 went to the top 1% of all Americans.

• 36 percent of Americans say that they don't contribute anything to retirement savings.

• A staggering 43 percent of Americans have less than $10,000 saved up for retirement.

• 24 percent of American workers say that they have postponed their planned retirement age in the past year.

• Over 1.4 million Americans filed for personal bankruptcy in 2009, which represented a 32 percent increase over 2008.

• Only the top 5 percent of U.S. households have earned enough additional income to match the rise in housing costs since 1975.

• For the first time in U.S. history, banks own a greater share of residential housing net worth in the United States than all individual Americans put together.

• In 1950, the ratio of the average executive's paycheck to the average worker's paycheck was about 30 to 1. Since the year 2000, that ratio has exploded to between 300 to 500 to one.

• As of 2007, the bottom 80 percent of American households held about 7% of the liquid financial assets.

• The bottom 50 percent of income earners in the United States now collectively own less than 1 percent of the nation’s wealth.

• Average Wall Street bonuses for 2009 were up 17 percent when compared with 2008.

• In the United States, the average federal worker now earns 60% MORE than the average worker in the private sector.

• The top 1 percent of U.S. households own nearly twice as much of America's corporate wealth as they did just 15 years ago.
• In America today, the average time needed to find a job has risen to a record 35.2 weeks.

• More than 40 percent of Americans who actually are employed are now working in service jobs, which are often very low paying.

• or the first time in U.S. history, more than 40 million Americans are on food stamps, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture projects that number will go up to 43 million Americans in 2011.

• This is what American workers now must compete against: in China a garment worker makes approximately 86 cents an hour and in Cambodia a garment worker makes approximately 22 cents an hour.

• Approximately 21 percent of all children in the United States are living below the poverty line in 2010 - the highest rate in 20 years.

• Despite the financial crisis, the number of millionaires in the United States rose a whopping 16 percent to 7.8 million in 2009.

• The top 10 percent of Americans now earn around 50 percent of our national income.

What kind of shit was this that the poor and 'have nots' were called to bailout the Dynastic Families (the wealthiest one percent in the world). Who in the hell induced this crisis (if you do not know that the so-called global economic meltdown was carried out systematically between Harry Paulson (the former Goldman Sachs executive), the former United States Treasury Secretary and Ben Bernanke Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve (lets not be mistaken they did not give the order to dismantle the global economic system--they were only assigned roles to play and nothing else). (Reference Rod Parsley: YouTube clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS2ZiDjZsF0&feature=player_embedded#).

They literally stole the world's reserve and the little accumulative wealth that American people had amassed. But I am going to allow you into a little secret, Bush did not steal an election in 2000, the Bilderberg, Council on Foreign Relations and Trilateral commission appointed him over Al Gore (they have appointed all world leaders and in reality there is no such thing as democracy—one man, one vote). Although based on the electoral process Gore had won the 2000 presidential election, It did not matter in the grand scheme of things. But in reality both of these low level operatives would have served the Invisible Rulers interest well and with top priority.

George W. Bush appointment as president was actually a favor given on behalf of his father, George Herbert Walker Bush for his fifty years of loyalty or more to the Bilderberg and Council on Foreign Relations and no doubt the senior Bush had earned his allegiance and paid his dues to his powerful masters. He served as an ex-CIA director and former president of the United States and was a long standing member of the Skull and Bones (the organizational progeny of the Knights Templar). President George W. Bush's presidency was merely a political favor to his father and nothing else. But he would also prove to be a valuable asset to the New World Order and the One World Government Globalization agenda and schemes.

No other president had achieved as much as Bush did to further the globalization concept and transitioned the entire globe into a new era (globalization) where the exploitation of labor and wealth (natural resources and human resources) took on an entirely different meaning—labor would be outsourced to developing nations (the new slave did not have to be uprooted, the product would be transferred to where ever he/she was on the four corners of the globe), along with corporate downsizing and the American middle class dissipated as the access to credit dried up and the outstanding national debt left Americans upside down, while the same banks and mortgage holders foreclosed (stole the people’s dreams) on the American housing market. It was these same vipers who after selling us elastic currency and outlandish interest rates became the beneficiaries of the American people’s misery. Woe to the hypercritics.

President George W. Bush most outstanding contribution was his role in the 9/11 hoax in which he should have won an academy award and no other president had ever played such a pivotal role in rearranging the world (the world changed in many ways after 9/11). Bush was giving the ultimate task of dismantling an old system; his first meaningful assignment was to be invited in (standard operational procedure) as a figurehead in destroying the World Trade Center, the financial capitol of world. The New York branch of the Federal Reserve after 9/11 took possession of the real money—gold and silver (all of this was prearranged). Bush and his handlers also stole trillions on top of trillions of dollars of the world’s currency (gold and silver) that were housed in underground vaults beneath the World Trade Center (the robbery actually took place before the bombs were detonated). This was enough tangible currency that could have allowed for us to go back to the Gold Standard monetary system (currency being backed by precious metals—gold and silver). But not many of our elected officials possess the courage to challenge the unconstitutionality of the Federal Reserve Act and revamp our monetary policy (this is the type of patriotism that this writer supports). The United States monetary system since 1913 has been placed in the hands of private international bankers, which is a clear violation of our constitution. (Reference: United States Economy Collapsing; YouTube Clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txi8sXO16VU&feature=related).

Bush may be unpopular amongst the American people, but he will go down in history as one of the greatest presidents to ever take the seat in the Oval Office. Invisible Rulers have stated to Bush as it was written in the New Testament in the book of Matthew (Matthew 25:23): "Well done, you good and faithful servant!' said his master. "You have been faithful in managing small amounts, so I will put you in charge of large amounts. Come on in and share my happiness!'

They started putting the pieces in place under President Bill Clinton who started the globalization process with the initiatives of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and he was prepared in the mid 1990s to issue a new currency at the behest of the Dynastic Families. This was endorsed by his long time friend and Mexican agent President Vicente Fox, but the peso had little exchange value and they were not going to empower this poor developing nation with same equality along side Canada and the United States (they took the strategy back to the drawing board and is still working out the kinks—no doubt the Amero is going to happen and nations without borders is going to happen). The only reason Mexico was included in these plans because of oil resources, labor and the proximity of physical geography. (Reference: International Bankers to Dominate the World; YouTube Clip; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrL6IhVKQGw&feature=related).

The Power Elite use all forms of mass media and they determine for us how we will perceive persons, places and events and what is going to be our reaction to the decoys and manipulation schemes, which are always designed to further advance their control over humanity and to enhance their financial interest. (Reference: Eustace Mullins: "Who Owns the TV Networks"). This tactic and strategy have proven to be more affective than dropping bombs and war and the persuasiveness is much more far reaching because it represents the highest form of mind control (the real battle is won on the psychological war front). Those who possess the power and authority to control ideas and move humanity just like suckling babies in different directions (shaping and molding public opinion) are deceptive wizards.

It was disinformation that led the United States into Iraq in which the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had outright lied to the America people and claimed that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction; although the United Nations Weapons Inspectors did not substantiate or verify this alleged and false allegations.

President George W. Bush and General Colin Powell (two low level pawns) intentionally lied and misled the American people (propaganda at its best) and the world into believing that it was a war on terrorism and our assigned enemies were coming to get us. But no one informed the ignorant American masses that the Rockefellars and Rothschild instigated both wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and allowed the wars to move forward under the pretext that Osama Bin Laden and radical Islam blew up the World Trade Center on 9/11 (big lie theory). The dumbfound masses were gullible and manipulated into believing that they had a patriotic interest to defend "freedom" so-called against Muslim and Islamic aggression.

The Invisible Rulers are masters at playing on the emotions of the ignorant whereby they use our sons and daughters as tools and agents of United States foreign policy (they actually are agents of the Rothschilds). They become instruments of the economic, social and political interest of the various Dynastic Families. These Dynastic Families are ruthless and are hidden under layers of deceptions—function within a circle, within a circle and within circle. They possess multi-objectives and agendas, but none perhaps more sinister than their goal of controlling all the world's wealth and resources.

The two above mentioned wars were about the international bankers and Dynastic Families gaining complete control over currency extracted from two valuable and lucrative commodities which possess more value than gold, which was oil and poppy plant (heroin).

Adam Weishaupt in 1776, the patriarch of what has been deemed as the modern so-called secret society movement had its inception over 200 years ago. He was a Canon Law professor at Ingolstadt in Bavaria, Germany who created an organizational structure which laid the foundation for the New World Order and globalization theory to take root (they formalized the plan and agenda in 1967). These enlightened and illuminated men envisioned themselves as earthly "Gods" over humanity and they adopted ancient initiation rites and rituals which to preserve hidden power and control over the ignorant majority.

The Freemasons, Jesuits, Knights Templar, Knights of Malta, Rosicrucian, Egyptian Mystery system, etc., predated Adam Weishaupt concept of secret society. But the similarities have to be viewed from how the agendas were always correlated to high finance and power. This writer is of the opinion that Weishaupt and his later predecessors borrowed how members of the above groups valued their oath taking and protected their signs, passwords and tokens. No one penetrated the inner workings of these societies who hadn’t taking an oath and weren’t properly initiated.

These groups and societies would become perfect fronts for the Rothschilds, Warburgs, Morgans, Rockefellars, Mellons, etc., the operative word is "fronts". But this would only represent the visible layer and the real power brokers have always led the open society into believing that these symbolic benevolent and philanthropic societies were the actual movers and shakers of society while they conveniently hid behind the symbols and decoys and have gone undetected for centuries. Yet became wealthy and powerful creating banking houses throughout the world (House of Rothschild). Eustace Mullins committed his entire life studying and investigating the money trail and wrote a profound book titled, "Secrets of the Federal Reserve”. No one has exposed these sinister plots with more historical accuracy than Mullins. (Reference: Minister Louis Farrakhan: YouTube Clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOe-sRUnO7Y&feature=related).

But the least concern of the disinformationist is whether or not there exist evidence of truth (this is not a determining factor in rendering justice and taking a course of action that is rooted in ethics and righteousness) because since they control the media images and news; it is easy for them to make down appear up and up appear down (in their paradigm reality means absolutely nothing and perception means everything). Thus, very few people in world society possess the ability to unravel the tricks, lies and deceptions and make any sense out of what is taking place right beneath their own eyes.

The author and New World Order decoder William Cooper stated: "My research has shown, at this point, that the future laid out for us may be just about impossible to change. I do not agree with the means by which the powerful few have chosen for us to reach the end. I do not agree that the end is where we should end at all. But unless we can wake the people from their sleep, nothing short of civil war will stop the planned outcome. I based that statement not on defeatism but on the apathy of the majority of the American people. Twenty-five years ago I would have believed otherwise--but twenty-five years ago I was also sound asleep. We have been taught lies. Reality is not at all what we perceive it to be. We can not survive any longer by hanging onto the falsehoods of the past. Reality must be discerned at all costs if we are to be a part of the future. Truth must prevail in all instances, no matter who it hurts or helps, if we are to continue to live upon this earth. At this point, what we want may no longer matter. It is what we must do to ensure our survival that counts. The old way is in the certain process of destruction and a New World Order is beating down the door." (Reference: William Cooper; "Behold A Pale Horse; pp. 2-3).

This writer would like to be optimistic, but after reading Cooper's words and viewing present society in which the book was written over twenty years ago, it has created a sense of pessimism and a high degree of uncertainty for me. However, hasn't much changed relative to humanity having the ability to properly assess their lives and make meaningful changes since the publication of this monumental work. I think the conditioning process is so overwhelming that most people don't have the strength and courage to deprogram themselves and therefore, the indoctrination process is allowed to take further root, which will continue to influence one's worldview and it allows them to remain perpetual victims of propaganda.

We have learned very little from the recent deceptive ploys used in Afghanistan and Iraq (business as usual) because there is no resistance demanding that these wars are unjust and we can no longer defend a lie with U.S. tax dollars nor with the blood of our young U.S. soldiers. The propaganda machines are gearing us up for an attack on Iran and they have already convinced the ignorant that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is steadily acquiring nuclear technology and weapons and this alone is justification for American imperialism to invade another Muslim country. Who gives the United States supreme authority over who should or shouldn’t have nuclear weapons?

The media is always used to demonize leaders that don’t work in the interest of the United States. They will be lied upon and their political position will be misrepresented and distorted in order create doubt amongst his own people which to neutralize his effectiveness at home and abroad. The other covert political agenda of its intended victim is the U.S. citizens, which to create false patriotism amongst it citizens and get the robots prepared to fight and defend their master’s interest. The Rothschilds see war as being profitable and they desire to take more control over the Persian Gulf oil (its not about Iran acquiring Weapons of Mass Destruction—doesn’t this script sound very familiar) and like Iraq they will instigate internal conflicts in Iran amongst various tribes and Islamic factions. The Central Intelligence Agency has been masters of this for years. They will feed the American people a heavy dose of anti-Shia Islam and anti-Sharia rhetoric and once again we will send our young men and women over to Tehran to die on foreign battlefields. Moreover, in order that the Seven Oil Sisters and the Dynastic Families could wrap their tentacles around more of the world's resources. Their objective is always theft by deception and all of your high level politicians are bought and paid for and work in the interest of the Committee of 300 in which all foreign policy is in the interest of the international bankers.

Perhaps if you did not know that their allegiance is to money and finance they can give damn about nation’s sovereignty. The Rothschild's had a ruthless motto we care not who writes their laws (jurisprudence is secondary), but as long as we control the money system (nothing else mattered). Lastly, we must wake up from our slumber and take a moment just to look around us and decide from that moment do I continue to blindly follow what is being spoon fed to me or do I seek another direction. Moreover, that’s truly rooted in the principles of liberty, freedom, justice and equality; the answer to these questions lies in one’s ability and willingness to fight which to remain free from the shackles of neo-slavery.

Fahim A. Knight-El Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in Durham, NC; 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.

Stay Awake Until We Meet Again,
Fahim A. Knight-El

Thursday, September 9, 2010

BURNING QUR'ANS IS AN UNHOLY ACT

Burning Qur’ans and the Desecration of Synagogues, Mosques, Churches, Temples and other Religious Shrines is an Unholy Act

By Fahim A. Knight-El

This writer would ask his readers to just reason with him for just a moment as he evaluate this present day culture of intolerance; thus, on September 11, 2001, the entire world was altered due to a United States Government induced catastrophe, which fostered one of the greatest appeals to the fears of America, in particular and the world in general, and exposed the psychological vulnerability of a spoiled and disengaged people. The United States Government led us down the road of National Security and used the media to paint the religion of Islam and Muslims as terrorist and the natural enemies of the West and was inherently evil (and we needed to be protected from radical Islam). This writer has written various topics dealing with Islam, terrorism, 9/11, and the value of tolerance, thus, I went back through those various articles that I had written within the last three years and assembled what I characterized as some of the best quotes that I have offered relative to addressing this recent media controversy centered around Reverend Terry Jones, a pastor in Gainesville, Florida and his intentions to burn Holy Qur’ans on 9/11. (Reference: Reverend Terry Jones; YouTube clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfPPtHtUfmQ).

To remain silent in this charade renders us all as being complicit, it doesn’t matter whether or not you agree with Islam or disagree with Islam (it doesn’t matter what your faith tradition may be) because tomorrow it could be someone burning Torahs and the Gospel (new testament) as well as desecrating synagogues, churches, holy shrines and temples. We must let Reverend Jones and the world know that it’s wrong and is unacceptable behavior in a civilized society to burn other faiths religious texts. Many interfaith groups consisting of various denominations, clergy and religions have come together to make unified statements condemning this proposed act of burning Qur’ans as being immoral (not illegal) and to do this as a way of commemorating the ninth anniversary of 9/11 tragedy is totally insane. Everyone with a voice should speak out against this type of criminal activity.

This writer was glad to see President Barack Obama and United States Attorney General Eric Holder, as well as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other top level White House cabinet members have condemn Reverend Jones proposed burning of Qur’ans. Reverend Jones ignorance is steeped in the government's version of what took place on September 11, 2001 and he actually believes Muslims were responsible for the 9/11 hoax and it is this duping and deception that have led him to adopt such an outlandish measure of protest. This writer has therefore, pulled excerpts from previous articles that I have written and meshed them together within this article as a response to all this intolerable hatred aimed at Islam and Muslims that have been taking place since the proposed construction of the one hundred million dollar mosque near ground zero.

Why would a Christian preacher seek to burn the holiest book belonging to Islam (one of the three Abrahamic faiths) in which I am of the opinion that the desecration of any religious holy book or edifice should be considered a hate crime and punished under United States federal laws. However, this writer would agree that Reverend Jones has the First Amendment Right on his side (protection under freedom of speech and expression), but where is his ethical and moral compass relative to being tolerant of other religious faiths that might differ from his own and most of all being a Christian Minister of the Gospel; how does this factor into his worldview? Jones is appealing to what appears to be an undercurrent and sentiment that are rooted in a false sense of patriotism and is being highly irresponsible in inciting the good ole boys to commit this type of act, which will be viewed as offensive to over two billion Muslims throughout the world and will reverberate negatively even throughout the non-Muslim world. Reverend Jones has not taking into account the backlash this will have on diplomatic and international relations with Muslims throughout the world and their perception of the United States of America. (Reference: Rabbi Saperstein; YouTube clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTTfB-1UHrY).

He has every right to openly disagree with Islam and I will defend his right as a dissenter to condemn and oppose Islam, but to desecrate the Muslim Holy book will create possibly many consequences and perhaps compromise United States national security abroad and domestically. This is wrong and we all have an obligation to condemn and repudiate this type of action and behavior as being sinister and un-American. Some time these type megalomaniacs are looking to create publicity stunts in order to draw attention to themselves and create a media frenzy which to build their personal statue amongst the dissatisfied group or organization that they are attempting to engage.

This writer took upon himself last Friday to visited the local Muslim Masjid named Jamat Ibad Ar-Rahman in Durham, North Carolina and I kind of went incognito in which not to draw attention to myself, I put on a Muslim fez in order that I might look like a Muslim in appearance; thus, this was during Juumah Service (Friday Prayer) and after making congregation Salat (prayer) the Imam spoke spiritual words of comfort. I did not hear some radical and/or militant version of Islam being spewed, but heard a message of tolerance being spoken from the Qur’an and sayings being quoted from the Hadiths (sayings of the prophet) and I must say I left satisfied that these were God fearing people who believed in their religion and were willing to live in peace and harmony with other non-Muslim communities. However, this is not to suggest nor imply that there aren't vestiges of Islam and Muslims who hate America and all that it stands for, and Jihad (holy war) is their ultimate motivation and agenda (no doubt militant radical Islam is a reality). The Muslims are celebrating the Holy Month of Ramadan during this month, a time to reflect on Prophet Muhammad Ibn Abdullah (Peace and Blessings of Allah be Upon Him) receiving the Qur’an as a revelation being revealed by Allah (God) via the Angel Jabril (Gabriel) which took twenty-three and one half years to complete. Moreover, the burning of Qur’ans during the holy Month of Ramadan (or any time else) will only stir up a hornets nests because it will be viewed as the ultimate disrespect against Islam.(Reference: Imam Warith Mohammed; YouTube clip; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlkZTljNYgo).

Some have come against the Muslims and their having the right to build a Mosque and cultural center a few blocks away from ground zero and have exemplified intolerance toward the project and have argue that the Muslim Americans are not entitled to being protected under the First Amendment Right of the United States Constitution. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf (the Imam and principal leader over the Mosque project) spoke on CNN last night with Soledad O’Brien (very unqualified to interview a mindset like Imam Rauf) and I think he articulated his vision and addressed the controversy surrounding the project to build the Mosque near Ground Zero. The Imam has done goodwill ambassador work in the Middle East and the Islamic world on behalf of the United States State Department (might even be a covert CIA Agent). (Reference: Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf; YouTube clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd_TuTLu_Hw).

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, perhaps is an agent provocateur for the U.S. Government and probably is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and Bilderberger, which means his objective isn’t really about any loyalty to Islam and Muslims, it is more about furthering the New World Order Agenda and globalization agenda; in particular if he is stomping for the State Department. The government views Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf as an asset and will use him and his Mosque to serve their interest, that is the part that most pundits are missing.

The United States Government and the American media after the 9/11 crisis brought the religion of Islam front and center and subsequent to this incident, Islam as a religion would never be the same again. Islam prior to 9/11 had almost lingered in obscurity, in particular in the United States of America. Although, the religion of Islam claims about two billion adherents and is perhaps the fastest growing religion in the world, it’s projected in the very near future to surpassed Christianity as the number one faith tradition in the world.

Thus, as stated above Islam, Arabs and Muslims appeared front and center, as the number one topic of discussion within a nation that had become so ethnocentric and so culturally arrogant—no one outside of our sovereign boarders mattered. 9/11 created a hostile, insensitive and intolerable environment mainly aimed at Arabs, in particular but all Muslims in general, they were being viewed with suspicion and Muslim discrimination was going unabated. The American people perhaps already had some preconceived prejudices against foreign Muslims. Perhaps for no other reason than they were not Christians and some had followed the lopsided reporting of the Middle East conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians—and had accepted the propaganda that the Arab Muslims were bad people because they practiced a “strange” culture and prayed to a God other than Jesus Christ. (Reference: Interfaith Group and their response to burning Qur'ans; YouTube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqke2ZieWkA&feature=related).

Perhaps there is something innately in us that drives the human psyche to view anything different as being not equally worthy for consideration and more prone to be ridiculed and subjugated by the dominant culture. For example, directly after September 11, 2001 hoax and bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City and it was declared by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the U.S. Department of Defense that Osama bin Laden and his Jihadist inspired movement of Al-Qaeda committed one of worst military tragedies and allege criminal acts on the shores of the continental United States—he was considered to be Muslim and Arab; it did not help that the Bush administration had espoused propaganda, which they intentionally induced and created a climate of fear within the United States that reverberated around the world.

The United States media depicted Arab Muslims as having a political and religious philosophy bent on destroying the West and had declared America their number one enemy. The Powers-that-be understood that in order to maximize their manipulation and deceitful ploys; they first had to create a culture of fear by blaming 9/11 on Arabs and Muslims in their scheme this was a perfect diversionary tactic—they picked a people who were different from the American dominant cultural and with a minority representation inside the country and was essentially powerless. The American people pre-9/11 knew very little about the religion of Al-Islam and the diversity of these ancient people, the religious politics, the various Islamic cultures, the various Islamic sects and schisms, etc.

Although, Muslims from West Africa had arrived to the Americas as captives and hostages of the Transatlantic Slave Trade as early as the 1500s and some historians maintained that the Moors during the 8th Century had voyages to the Americas long before Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, Ponce De Leon, Vaso Da Gama, Hernando de Soto, Ferdinand Magellan, etc., and had established diplomatic treaties with the Native Americans in the Western Hemisphere before the coming of the European explorers. But in the late 1800s Muslims and early 1900s Islam formalized it-self and took root as a sub-culture and counter culture in the United States; with the exception of the Nation of Islam as religious movement, Islam up until September 11, 2001 had remained in obscurity, but 9/11 for better or worst changed that dynamic.

These prejudices after 9/11 led to Muslim Masjids and Mosques being attacked and desecrated because there were so many cultural misunderstandings that existed between Muslim societies in East and Christian societies in the West; these misconceptions were shrouded in ignorance and fear based, which was enough ammunition to incite the uninformed and dominant culture zealots who were motivated by racial and religious hatred to inflict vigilante style justice on Muslims and made unfair generalizations against all Arabs and Muslims. Thus, blaming an entire Muslim religious world community for committing a crime that killed over 3,000 Americans—constituting a loss of human life and property.

These vigilante groups immediately began to show their ignorance by attacking and even killing Sikhs and Hindus in the United States ignorantly assuming because these people had brown skin, dressed Eastern in attire appearance, spoke with an accent and wore turbans they had to be Middle Eastern Arab Muslims and better yet terrorist. So Sikhs and Hindus were mistakenly being classified as Muslims and after 9/11 became targets of religious and racial discrimination that were being fueled by the dominant culture. Many of the attackers were not even aware of the historical and religious antagonism that existed between the Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus, but their racism and cultural ignorance led to indiscriminate acts of violence against innocent people who became the victims of bigotry and culture insensitivity.

The dominant culture was fully aware that cultural ignorance would incite and infuriate a segment of our society that would be willing and capable of inflicting violence and creating social discord against a people that looked different and worshipped dissimilar. Many of these people already had negative convictions of Islam and Muslims, but perhaps had never personally met a Muslim, which to make an intelligent and rational decision about their religious culture, race and ethnicity that may have assisted them in debunking generalizations and unfair stereotypes that were being spewed by politically inspired entities. Many Americans had formulated their negative opinions of Muslims from Western media sources and made the ignorant assumption that all Muslims were “terrorist” and had a political vendetta against the West.(Reference: Interfaith group denouncing buring of the Holy Qur'an; Youtube Clip; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ep_ymqu2KU&feature=related

Our lack of spiritual development toward accepting and embracing the whole of humanity in all of its cultures expressions; renders us inheritably flawed in the spirit of human compassion and tolerance for all. The failure and unwillingness to make an attempt to comprehend and appreciate the beauty and the differences in people's—language, race, religious belief, nationality, etc., have placed humanity on a reckless, as well as dangerous social path.

The majority of Americans had formulated a negative perception of Islam based on sensationalizing of Salman Rushdie 1988 book titled, “Satanic Verses” in which the majority of the Islamic world viewed this book as heresy and blasphemous of Islam, Muslims and Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Ayatollah Rullah Khomeini, the former president and religious leader of Iran declared Rushdie’s book “Satanic Verses” and Rushdie as enemies of Islam in which he placed a one million dollar bounty on the head of Rushdie, which sent Rushdie in permanent exile until the death of Imam Khomeini. Imam Khomeini also called America the “Great Satan” and it was these antagonistic media stratagem that America came to identify with Islam.

If culture is based on learned behavior then American propaganda machines had become the biggest influence and the determining factor on how people around the world, as well as those domestically are being perceived; in particular those deemed as America’s enemies and are their difference being exploited to accomplish a political end. These tactics were implemented to foster distrust and suspicion and to simultaneously falsely create a need and urgency for American patriotism and nationalism based on these perceived prejudices that were concocted within the culture of fear. The ultimate political objective was the old divide and conquer scheme—the wickedly wise could always play on the sensitive charged emotions that go along with culture ignorance and manipulate these misunderstandings to their advantages. This was the case in America with the Muslim community right after 9/11. These types of political fallacies have an even far more ranging implications—these cultural bias eventually would help shape America’s foreign and public policy.

Fahim A. Knight-El Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in Durham, NC; 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.

Stay Awake Until We Meet Again,
Fahim A. Knight-El

Saturday, September 4, 2010

GLENN BECK: THE WHITE KNIGHT WHO RODE INTO WASHINGTON DC ON AN ASS

Glenn Beck: The White Knight Who Rode into Washington DC on an Ass

By Fahim A. Knight-El

The social commentator Glenn Beck stepped outside of his familiar role as a television social critic and radio commentator and jumped onto the big stage calling a march on Washington. This writer initially wasn't going to waste his time analyzing and assessing Beck’s event, but it appears the corporate media is continually trying to give him and his event credibility. (Reference: Glenn Beck YouTube Clip Lincoln Memorial Speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47V-dpiLM78).

This writer started officially blogging December 2007 and this article will represent my one hundredth (100) article and I had something a little different in mind which to commemorate this small feat. But as a writer who enjoys exercising critical thinking, I found it difficult to pass on giving my two cents commentary on the Glenn Beck fiasco. There are a lot more pressing issues of importance in America, which are impacting the political, economic and social landscape of a sin sick nation than me scrutinizing Beck. However, this writer was somewhat initially intrigued by the messenger Glenn Beck and his message because often the true climate and sentiments of the dominant society are to be found in the rhetoric and message of these fringe movements and organizations. (Reference: YouTube Clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtH7vH4yRcY).

Beck's stage persona at the Lincoln Memorial was a bit toned down from his usual rightwing and outlandish bully pulpit facade of spewing hate and divisive politics (Beck on this day appeared more diplomatic and conciliatory). He on this occasion cloth himself in a messianic garment—evoking God, religion, Bible, etc. This appeared to be a strange tactic and strategy by Beck; may be it was the Tea Party's way of reaching out to the religious right and using this forum as a measure of political consensus building, in particular as they look down the road to the presidential elections of 2012.

Beck's new spiritual evangelical decoy lacked conviction and passion. If you are going to profess religion and appear as a televangelist, he should have taken some lessons from Reverend Joel Osteen and/or Reverend T.D. Jakes on how to convey the principles of religious hustle (religious hustle is old and reliable trade, it has made many of the clergy rich and wealthy) and be effective doing so. Also if this is going to be Beck's new public approach he needed to at least take some theology and divinity courses in which to learn how to better package religious con. There are some effective ministers who could teach him all the tricks of the trade.

But Beck did say that he was short of money as his rally neared and with emotions he said he put it in the Lord's hands and like a good hustler from the pulpit he informed his congregation (I meant Tea Party constituents) that the Lord sent him a five to six million dollars blessing (he did not reveal who the donor was).

Beck understands that white America is dissatisfied and he has tapped into their dissatisfaction (only one hundred percent dissatisfaction can bring out about one hundred percent change) and they are ready to listen to anyone whom they believe can offer a solution to America's problems. Beck and the conservative gang desire for us to believe that America's problems started with the election of America's first black president and is requiring us to overlook the eight dismal years of President George W. Bush reign.

This writer is neither a democrat nor republican, I have no respect for the American electoral process, it has always been a sham and it allows the ignorant masses to believe and think that they are part of a participatory democratic process (American electoral process is controlled by the Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and Bilderberger group). This statement qualifies my position and it allows my readers to be assured that I have no political bias or party affiliations. I have come to know and understand that the ballot and vote even in a so-called Democratic society is predetermined by the Invisible Rulers).

This writer, in his writings have been very critical of President Obama's administration and does not get a pass from me just because his skin is black and is hailed as the first African American president. But conservatives have this selective amnesia when it comes to exercising short term memory, in particular when it requires them to recall and take ownership of all the political, economic and social mess and wayward direction that President George W. Bush left our nation at the end of his presidential term.

The national deficit doubled under Bush from five trillion dollars to over twelve trillion, deregulated the govern rules for Wall Street (this contributed to the collapsing of America and world's economic markets) and Bush led us into two wars with the Islamic world—Iraq and Afghanistan (both were orchestrated to further enrich the Bush and Cheney clans with oil and dope money). Thus, many have just come to the realization that Bush left the American people with one of the worst economies in almost 80 years, which was not seen since the Great Depression of 1929. Glenn Beck up until this past Saturday wanted the American people to believe that President Obama was responsible for America's economic woes.

Also I was a bit confused about Beck's theme "Restoring Honor" I guess the premise of the theme was given to be rooted in the "pristine" values (exemplified in liberty and freedom) espoused by the patriotic principles of our nation's founding fathers. There is a deep seated nostalgic belief held amongst some Americans that the best ideological prototype of patriotism was imbued in those Americans who fought and died as patriots in the American Revolutionary War of 1776 and gallantly declared our Declaration of Independence from Great Britain, which led to America's sovereignty. The establishment of the U.S. Constitution in 1787 embodies what American freedom means to the heart and soul of the compatriot and it is these historical events which many flag-wavers draw their inspiration.

But I as a so-called African American know that many of the Founding Fathers of the United States were slaveholders and this, in my opinion, is inconsistent with their historical and modern moral interpretations of valuing freedom and independence above all else. Yet at the same time these great patriotic American Statesmen did not value freedom for the millions of Africans (black folk) who were deemed Chattel Slaves (drawers of water and hewers of wood); this included our nations first president George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. (Reference: Glenn Beck on Dr. Martin Luther King and the Founding Fathers: (Reference: YouTube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm3vS5YxGws&feature=related).

Beck galvanized the white disenchanted and I think that even he was surprised that over one hundred thousand or more white citizens (as the cameras scanned his massive crowd, I did not see much racial diversity present) heard his clarion call and traveled from various parts of the country to this venue in Washington DC. Beck had teased them on FOX Television and on his syndicated radio broadcast by inciting them and appealing to their raw emotions that something was un-American about the political direction our nation was headed; thus, characterizing our commander-in-chief as being a racist and socialist. He fed his constituency enough venom to create a cesspool of political poison to inject every white American with lethal dosages of high potent manipulation and deception (interpreted to mean just blame blacks and Latinos for all the problems plaguing America). (Reference: Tim Wise YouTube Clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UJlNRODZHA).

Beck stated that when he picked the date of August 28 to hold his rally he did not realize that it was the date and place that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. perhaps delivered his most defining "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial. At least that is what Beck wanted us to believe and it was difficult for me to accept Beck's word that it was an innocent mistake based on his volatile, contentious and antagonistic history toward people of color; I did not find his explanation believable. Beck who is a professed Mormon (raised as a Roman Catholic left his upbringing religious denomination in 1999), a religious cult, (yet he has the audacity to question whether or not President Obama is a Muslim or Christian).

Beck did try to reckon with his perception of Obama’s theological worldview by prefacing it as being a theology of liberation. Jesus Christ taught a liberation theology—he condemned the oppressor Pontius Pilate and the Roman Government and his message was designed to liberate those who were oppressed. Beck doesn’t understand that whenever there is an oppressor and oppressed, it creates an antagonistic contradiction which has always justified the necessity for a liberation theology.

Perhaps Beck wasn't required to study African American history because the Mormon's Patriarch and founder Joseph Smith taught from the Bible that blacks were inferior and up until the 1970s (this type theology perhaps appealed to Beck’s conservatism) it was taught by the Mormons that black skin was cursed and inheritably evil. Dr. Daniel Poling, religious editor of the National Educational Association stated: "The essential Mormon interpretation of the Old Testament asserts that the African race descended from Cain. For his crime against his brother, Abel, a 'mark' was put upon Cain. Mormon theology teaches the idea that the 'mark' was a black skin. Thus, the skin color of blacks through all history is enough to condemn them on sight."

"Mormon doctrine lists another strike against the black community. According to their belief, the spiritual ancestors of black people failed to perform properly in their pre-existent state. In what Mormons call the 'War of Heavens' (in which Lucifer and about one-third of the hosts of heaven were cast down) some groups took a neutral position during this celestial conflict. Mormons are taught that these despised neutrals are the spirits that have inherited black people now living on earth." (Reference: C. Eric Lincoln; “Race, Religion, and the Continuing American Dilemma”; p. 149).

They were not permitted to hold priesthood positions in the church of Latter-Day Saints. Doesn't this theology sound similar to the teachings of the Knights of Ku Klux Klan? Perhaps Beck, the ex-substance abuser and drug addict was so delusionary in his civic and social studies classes that he missed that part of American history (the Civil Rights movement and the fight for desegregation). If so then his political ignorance and negligence are excusable relative to him usurping the date of one of America's great icons.

Let me come out with both gun barrels drawn and point them not just at Beck, but at the so-called big three Civil Rights leaders and organizations—Al Sharpton (National Action Network), Benjamin Jealous (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People—NAACP), and Marc Morial (National Urban League). How in the hell did black Civil Rights leaders allow this self-proclaimed prophet, Glenn Beck to hijack the historical setting of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., March on Washington, which was held forty-seven years ago at the Lincoln Memorial? (Reference: Al Sharpton on YouTube Clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wyo1bGDruoI).

However, if nothing else this writer supported Glenn Beck and the Tea Party’s cavalry having the right to peacefully assemble any place they please because the First Amendment of the United States Constitution grants them that right as American citizens. Thus, that much of Beck's agenda I was in total agreement (and would have stood shoulder to shoulder with him clinching the U.S. Constitution); he had every legal right to assemble at the Lincoln Memorial, although in black America's minds this date and place (August 28 at Lincoln Memorial) have always been reserved for the King March on Washington celebration.

This writer does not claim to know much about the process of securing a permit which to lock an event in on the mall grounds, but I am quite sure the United States Park Service and the bureaucratic entities have stringent criteria and mandates for organizations looking to assemble on the grounds of the capitol. I do not think Dwight E. Pettiford is still the chief of the U.S. Park Service police, but he spent many years on Durham, North Carolina city police department and may be he could have given me some insight on the process.

Glenn Beck and his backers evidently pulled the permit before Al Sharpton and the black Civil Rights organizers in which to hold their "Restoring Honor" rally on August 28. This writer was looking for criticism from black pundits who should have lambasted Sharpton, Jealous and Morial for derelict in duty for not doing their organizational due diligence to insure that the commemoration of Dr. King's day relative to the March on Washington would be honored in the true spirit of the march (only the Lincoln Memorial could have sufficed the spirit of the original intent) because I do not know if you can separate the historical symbolism (the setting and plot) from the message and the big meeting that Dr. King, A. Phillip Randolph, Roy Wilkins and Bayard Rustin called into existence in 1963.

Many black critics jumped all over Beck for intentionally attempting to co-opt the spirit of the Civil Rights movement, but very few had the courage to criticize these so-called black leaders for allowing Beck to sneak underneath them and embarrassed them by beating them to the permit. No one took any blame—Sharpton, Jealous, Morial, etc., had pie all over their faces that this white boy was standing where they should have been; giving an incoherent and rambling speech about American values. Beck doesn’t realize that what the conservative acclaim as American values are more rooted in mysticism of Freemasonry than the notion of Christianity because most of the Founding Fathers were Masons who had transcended the Christian faith and understood that the Supreme Deity was seen more complete in the context of the principles associated with the Occult, Esoteric and Gnostics teachings.

But lets be clear, Beck may be have stolen a day and got away with—he will never measure up to the Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; King after that speech left a nation mesmerized and eventually forced a nation to come the grips with remedying some of the past injustices inflicted on African Americans by forcing congress to enacting two of the most important pieces of legislation in modern U.S. history, which was the passing of the 1964 Civil Rights Bill and 1965 Voting Rights Bill. Beck even went a step further he invited the slain civil rights leader’s niece, Alveda King as one of his speakers on the dais and what one must understand is that blood doesn’t necessarily validate whether or not family would embrace the struggle or betray struggle of a family member who was considered to be an iconic leader and figure in America history.

Beck was smart enough to hire some good black gospel and spiritual singers and must say the music was good, but it was overshadowed by what should have been taking place on that date, place and time and it left a sense of emptiness inside of me to see Beck standing there defining the American dream. Beck had a feel good session and nothing tangible evolved from the "Restoring Honor" rally; oh he did mention that this was a day to honor I guess falling American heroes who were part of special forces operations (I wonder how much of that six million dollars or more that Beck collected will he donate directly to military families).

I don’t know if the rally completely satisfied the red meat urge of Beck’s constituents and it appeared to have left the good ole boys not fully charged, after all many of them came to hear a fire and brimstone talk that would be full of racist antidotes and political cynicism.

Adam Serwer of the American Prospect is a guest blogger at the Plum Line Blog at www.washintonpost.com stated: "All of which invites the question of why liberals wrung their hands so publically over Beck's spectacle, as though this event might actually dwarf the 1963 March on Washington in terms of historical and political significance. At this point, it's obvious that Beck's stunts have a self-conscious hint of irony to them. His increasingly messianic self-conception and his outsize comparisons between himself and important American figures seem deliberately designed to make liberals issue angry public denunciations, which only increase his profile and solidify his stature in the conservative movement, where Pissing Off Liberals is actually more important than anything else. He's figured out how this hustle works. What I don't understand is why liberals keep indulging him with their outrage."

The 1963 march on Washington led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was for Jobs and Freedom and forty-seven years later we are still asking our former slave master's children for jobs and freedom in 2010. Some of us are still looking towards the federal government to save us and we think that we have a sense of entitlement. Sharpton and the Civil Rights marchers convened at the historical Paul Lawrence Dunbar High School in Washington, DC (the first black public high school in America) where syndicated talk show host Joe Madison served as the master of ceremony. I listened to a slew of preachers mount the rostrum and none of them offered any solutions to the 400 year old problem confronting America, which is the black dilemma. They were all reflecting on the "I have a Dream" speech and I was saying to my eleven year old daughter they needed to wake the hell up and move beyond what Dr. King said forty-seven years ago and demonstrate the ability to be proactive.

Dr. King grew in his analysis of the Vietnam War in 1967 and 1968 many of these Negroes who are professing King today rebuked him and condemned him for viewing the Civil Rights struggle as not just a national struggle, but an international struggle. Why haven't black leadership created jobs and industry for their own people and stop this begging the government for assistance and handouts?

Sharpton, Jealous, and Morial these Negroes live lavish petit-bourgeois life styles and it is insane to be pushing for a government sponsored jobs bill forty-seven years after King (what lessons have we learned since Dr. King’s assassination) and have failed to embrace the concept of doing for-self. The Civil Rights movement has to move beyond the symbolic image of Dr. King and the commemoration of great speeches in which year after year do nothing but continue to beg the United States Government for food, clothing and shelter.

Sharpton has positioned himself as the self-proclaimed leader of black America and yet he let Glenn Beck out maneuver him and really out maneuvered forty to sixty million African Americans and there he stood on August 28 at Lincoln Memorial delivering his “I have a scam” speech. Beck knew this was the date and place King gave his monumental speech, but this was a way of being disrespectful towards the history and culture of African American people. His ultimate objective was to create a frenzy and controversy amongst his Tea Party loyalist. Beck, Limbaugh and Hannity are really the new faces and voices of the conservative movement in America.

It is they who are molding and shaping the conservative political framework better than the National Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele. Let’s be for real there are very few Republican leaders that can galvanize close to one hundred thousand persons at a mass rally. Beck is not even considered to be a legitimate political voice and yet this television news host has demonstrated that he is a voice to be reckoned with in American politics. That doesn’t say much about the state of American politics or may be just to the contrary, it speaks volumes about who the real conservative players are.

Fahim A. Knight-El Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in Durham, NC; 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.

Stay Awake Until We Meet Again,
Fahim A. Knight-El

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED SINCE 9/11 AND WHO HAS THE LESSONS BENEFITTED?

WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED SINCE 9/11 AND WHO HAS THE LESSONS BENEFITTED?

By Fahim A. Knight-El

This writer was inspired to write this blog after hearing and reading about the controversy surrounding Arab Muslim Americans in New York who purchased real-estate property near Ground Zero and is desiring to build a one hundred million dollar mosque on the site. I guess, this is now, considered sacred territory or holy ground (and off limits to Muslims) and yet the best kept secret is that the blood of the 9/11 tragedy, which led to the loss of human life and destruction of personal property, is not on the hands of Muslims and Islam; the conspiracy lies at the doorstep of our own government—the perpetrators of this horrific criminal act resided in the White House and the U.S. Pentagon. Muslims were only made convenient pasties in this masterful act of deception, but the Invisible Rulers are the real culprits. (Reference: YouTube link: Reverend Jeremiah Wright http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix-AMYos0Js&feature=related

Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York supported the Muslims right to exercise freedom of religion. This right is protected under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution and to deny the Muslims the right to exercise this legal authority would set a regrettable legal precedent, which essentially would violate the U.S. Constitution (or what's left of it).

This writer has been reflecting back to September 11, 2001, which is better known as 9/11 and the many events that still surrounds this unresolved tragedy. I was at home that particular morning in my bedroom ironing and starching my white shirt preparing to go to work; it must have been around 8:45am in the morning. I believe it was on a Tuesday that the so-called terrorist planes attacked the World Trade Center (smoking mirrors), the capitol of the United States of America became the so-called target of what appeared to be an act of domestic terrorism. My oldest son had just flown in from Newark Airport to North Carolina the day before, and I felt somewhat relieved with what was going on in the North East that my son had arrived safely (9/11 Incident led to the suspension of air travel and most commercial flights were grounded right after the incident).

My wife and I were watching CNN and they showed what appeared to be a second plane crashing into the second twin tower building. There appeared to be an implosion (the collapsing of the towers on surface seemed inconsistent with two planes causing that much structural damage; this was my initial thought) and the world watched the symbolic financial capitol of world come crumbling down. There was mayhem and pandemonium—the United States was under attack and fear and anger gripped America (the propaganda machines immediately fed the people false decoys) Americans blood flowed in the streets of New York. Perhaps more so than needing answers some of these patriots wanted revenge and justice by any means necessary.

President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, as well as other high ranking cabinet members and governmental official gathered in Air Force One and were moved to a highly secret and confidential location in order to prohibit any disruption of government. This was a masterful hoax that cost over three thousand Americans their lives (they were only viewed as casualties of war) and without doubt they were deemed expendable.

Noam Chomsky in his book titled, "Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance" stated: "After eight years, more reactionary sectors of the Reagan-Bush 1 administrations regained political power in the contested 2000 election. They recognized that the 9/11 atrocities provided them with an opportunity to pursue long-standing goals with even greater intensity, closely following the script of their earlier tenure in office." (Reference: Noam Chomsky; "Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance" p. 109).

There was like a dark gloomy cloud shadowing over America and it gave the impression of vulnerability, it was designed to leave questions of whether or not the United States could adequately defend its homeland. This further led to United States Government towards compromising the freedoms granted in our Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution. The more rights our government took from its citizens after the 9/11 hoax, the more the dumbfound masses and ignorant applauded (they still do not understand what they were clapping for); however, with little understanding that we were the intended pawns all along (there was never a war on terrorism, it was a war aimed at the American people).

It was questions like this one, that led to the establishment of the office of Homeland Security and other government intrusive agencies, passing of executive orders and repressive legislation aimed at limiting personal freedoms of its citizens. We appeared to have learnt very little from the 9/11 incident, it definitely did not make us much smarter relative to our ability to assess and evaluate events and trends that were contradictory to the question of freedom—the majority of Americans still trust the U.S. Government and believe that the government serves their best interest. John Farmer, a Senior Counsel for the 9/11 Commission stated in his book titled: “The Ground Truth: The Story Behind America’s Defense on 9/11” stated: “At some level of the government, at some point in time. . . there was an agreement not to tell the truth about what happened.”

The 9/11 hoax was the official beginning of a new America and a new world. Alan Greenspan in his book titled, “The Age of Turbulence” stated: “After 9/11 I knew, if I needed further reinforcement, that we are living in a new world—the world of a global capitalist economy that is vastly more flexible, resilient, open, self-correcting, and fast-changing than it was even a quarter century earlier. It’s a world that presents us with enormous new possibilities but also enormous new challenges. ‘The Age of Turbulence’ is my attempt to understand the nature of this world: how we got here, what we’re living through, and what lies over the horizon, for good and for ill.” (Reference: Alan Greenspan; “The Age of Turbulence” p. 10).

It was the goal and objective of the 9/11 orchestrators to forever shift the political, economic and social paradigm the world over. However, what Alan Greenspan fail to tell us was that the new America would be a lot more repressive and intrusive—it would systematically strip the United States Constitution of its jurisprudence authority which to protect the American people; the abuse of authority—personal and state rights would be without any defense.

The statement "Big Brother is Watching You" it spoke volumes yesterday and it gave an indication that the government via surveillance was watching and monitoring activities of its ordinary citizens and groups that were deemed subversive. Thus, after 9/11 the United States transformed and transitioned into a total police state (covert Marshal law has been in existences since 9/11) liken to a giant octopus with massive tentacles that have wrapped itself around the entire globe and has imprisoned the American people on their own land. This was accomplished without opposition and in the name of combating "terrorism" and in the name of a national security agenda. The American people surrendered themselves without opposition and this default in the very near future will eventually continue to render us mere victims of our government’s tricks, lies and deceptions.

They use fear to herd the masses into any and every direction that they please and 9/11 was used to remind Americans how important it was to believe and trust the government—they will protect us against radical Islam (by providing us with color-coded threat levels); please!!!! I am more fearful of President Barack Obama and the United States Government than being attacked by some external enemy forces (their strategies and tactics have proven to be much more lethal than the perceived violence propagandized about the religion of Islam).

We are no safer to day than we were prior to 9/11, but with less civil liberties and with massive restrictions coded in the U.S. Patriot Act (the new constitution) established forty-three days after the 9/11 incident—the United States Congress passed this act at one of America’s most vulnerable times in the history of our nation.

The government and the international bankers (Rockefellers and Rothschilds) induced the September 11, 2001 tragedy both entities (bankers and high level politicians) had extensive political and monetary motives. The money changers would used the 9/11 ploy to call the world debt-in and further rearrange the semblance of wealth by blaming the American people of irresponsible spending and they never took blame for creating a credit based system that was rooted in the principles of exploitation and subliminal seduction, which appealed to the material appetite of the human psyche. The issue of wealth disparity is perhaps a little more systematically rooted in the equation relative to permanently creating just two classes of people—‘haves’ and ‘have nots’.

If we in the United States of America just took a moment to look around us and asked ourselves what has happened to the so-called middle class within last three years.
Their jobs have been shipped oversees (high unemployment and underemployed), their homes have been foreclosed on (income lost and so-called new gains was not equivalent to the prior standard of living), assets have diminished (in many case was liquidated to satisfy existing debt), over taxed (U.S. citizens left carrying a 15 trillion dollar deficit), limited investments and a way of life that has dissipated; there is limited disposable and discretionary income. Thus, have you asked yourself the question of what happened? We were duped into allowing the Government (taxpayers) money to bailout Wall Street and the International Bankers and yet we did nothing, but continue to fantasize what America use to be like (there was no revolt and very little protest).

Thus, by 2001, capitalism could no longer expand and produce at the same rate and terms, it did twenty-five years ago. It needed a new market, but found an old reliable one—war. Afghanistan and Iraq have proving to be profitable ventures, but they now have their sights on attacking Iran because this is the only method left to maintaining a sustainable economy based on where we are right now (war is highly profitable). The bombing of the World Trade Center represented a dismantling of an economic system that had exhausted its most exploitive options and had no other alternative but to turn on itself—the days of what appeared to be prosperity was long gone by 2001 and the value of American labor had depreciated and would ultimately be outsourced to India, China, Thailand, Mexico, Vietnam, etc. Corporate downsizing was systematically orchestrated by the Invisible Rulers to force the American people and the globe to a state of economic desperation, which those that were left with jobs would readily buy into the idea of doing more with less (volunteer slaves) while Dynastic Families squeezed the American people and globe for that accumulated 1% wealth that is held by the masses (the formula for all the political, economic and social problems the world over). They were not satisfied with stealing and owning 99% of the world's wealth; the 9/11 crisis and economic meltdown were designed to put all the world’s wealth and resources in their hands.

Ben Bernanke and his predecessor Alan Greenspan and Federal Reserve for seven years indiscriminately flooded the market with worthless currency and manipulating interest rates, which created inflation and this led to the 2008 so-called collapse of Wall Street and the global Markets. The Federal Reserve and the Central Banks actually had this as perhaps their major plank infused in the 9/11 debacle to create the worst economic catastrophe since the 1929 Great Depression and so-called rearrange our perception of money and debt and most of all drive humanity more closer to complete slavery. But the 2008 economic meltdown led to a cold blooded stickup of the American people—by the international bankers and with U.S. Government approval robbed the American taxpayers for over 1.5 trillion dollars (when the money changers finish doing their magic the figure might rise to estimate five trillion dollars) in bailout money. These corporate prima donna thieves—known as international bankers have burden at least three unborn generations or more and passed on to our grandchildren and great grandchildren an insurmountable outstanding debt, which even they can never repay.

England is the mother of the United States and Amschel Rothschild and the boys initially set-up international banking houses in five European countries. This was the formal beginning of the web in which Dynastic Families intermarried based on wealth and blood lineage with an objective to rule the world by controlling all the world's currency. They have always adopted the utmost secrecy and has often hid in orders such as the Jesuits, Illuminati, Freemasonry, etc., which only served as layers of protection, deception and distraction. Some believe that the Bank of England is the seat of world power and this is where the world of high finance starts and end. Some believe that the Royal Institute is more powerful and more controlling within this new global paradigm than the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

It appears scholars like David Icke author of the book "Biggest Secrets" and John Coleman author of "The Committee of 300" who seem to place the New World Order and the globalist agenda as being rooted in the United Kingdom. Their contentions might be valid and truthful, but to untangle the money web is a very complex assignment, but we are chipping away at it. I do think that the U.S. Federal Reserve and Bank of England in the UK are one in the same and to make any attempt to separate the two, is a tactical and strategic mistake of horrific proportions. For example, they are presently using the Euro against the U.S. dollar, but we seem to think that these markets strength and weakness is based on the viability of the economic trends. The U.S, Financers and London are playing a serious game of chess on humanity (95 % of us are ignorant to these forces)

We are about to embark on the ninth year anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy in which this writer have asked the question, what have we learned since 9/11? When I still hear people in 2010 blaming the Muslims for bombing the World Trade Center, which is literally absurd and continue to ignore the physical evidence and intelligence reports which suggest that this was an inside hit which possessed a little more sophistication than the capability of a Muslim terrorist cell. Yes, the 9/11 hoax had very little to do with so-called Muslim extremist or militant radical Islam, it had everything to do with one of the most sophisticated duping in the history of humanity. (Reference: YouTube Clip Michael Moore’s Documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOkPtlNgvvw).

The propaganda machines led the masses towards vehemently blaming Al-Qaeda and Osama Bin-Laden for the 9/11 hoax who were so-called violent Islamist Jihadist bent on destroying America and the western world (this type sensationalized reporting has captivated the American’s imagination and turned them into gullible pawns and blind fools). We became fixated on an idea and image that have blinded a large segment of people from ever being able to determining fact from fiction. President George W. Bush committed high treason and sedition, stole the American people’s dreams, hopes and aspirations and rode off into the sunset with billions of dollars and no criminal warrant will ever be issued for his arrest. The victims’ families of 9/11 should have sued George W. Bush and former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani for the deaths of 3,000 citizens, but these type criminals are able to hide behind sovereign immunity.

I would love to give every American a copy of the documentary "Loose Change" for starters. Perhaps if viewed objectively this will assist in overcoming some of the indoctrination that has been imposed on our mental paradigm and worldview. These were laser guided missiles that hit the World Trade Center. The events surrounding this tragedy were rooted in lies and deception. But nine years later with all the physical evidence and based on independent analysis and testing, it is clear that the 9/11 Commission report was only a governmental consensus towards supporting a cover up of the truth facts behind 9/11, which was a CIA fabrication to protect the guilty. (Reference: YouTube documentary “Loose Change” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E3oIbO0AWE).

The former one time Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura in his book titled, “American Conspiracies” stated: “I certainly never expected to think that elements of the Bush Administration were complicit with the enemy. Today, though, I am convinced that some people inside our government knew the attack was going to happen and allowed it to come to pass—because it furthered their political agenda. I do not necessarily believe that they orchestrated it themselves, although the door is definitely open to that. I say this after expending many hours researching things about the official story that don’t add up, and interviewing a number of witness with firsthand knowledge that contradicts what we were told. As a patriotic American, I say this with a heavy heart—and with an outrage that really knows no words. But it’s something we, as a nation, must come to terms with. Otherwise, it could happen again.” (Reference: Jesse Ventura; “American Conspiracies”; p. 143). And Reference YouTube clip promoting Jesse Ventura’s book ‘American Conspiracy’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPlXmCjhe_4

I received a profound email on July 26, 2010 from a gentleman named Mark Schaumann, I do not know, if these words were his original words (it does not matter because I took Schaumann to be insightful and intelligent), but nevertheless they were profound and fitting to quote as I write this segment of the article. Mark Schaumann stated: "all truths go through three stages, ridicule-that's silly, denial - that's NOT TRUE!!! And then acceptance - well I guess that's the way it is.
The third happens because it (the truth) is eventually revealed to be self evident. Still waiting for the herd to achieve the last one".

But if we took the United States Government version that these planes were hijacked by nineteen Arab Muslim terrorist in which fifteen were Saudi Arabian nationals. Saudi Arabia is one of America's staunch allies in the Middle East and yet it was told to the American people that Saudi nationals spearhead this attack. But wouldn't you consider that to be strange because the House of Saud is only an extension of the House of Rothschild. The so-called fundamentalist Wahhabi Muslims take their lead from the United States Government (they are merely puppets and CIA agent provocateurs). The reactionary Saudi Royal Family members are constants at the White House. Perhaps the oil arrangement caused the U.S. Government to overlook the so-called Saudis involvement in the 9/11 tragedy and cover up (Perhaps on the other hand Saudi Arabia was one of the co-conspirators).

Thus, moving the duping further along the Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Justice Department, State Department, New York Police Department, etc., gets an A-plus for the roles they played in this deception. Either we will wake the hell up from our slumber or just continued to be led to the slaughter as innocent sheep. I would like to consider myself as an optimist and who would like to believe that humanity will eventually wake up and overcome this gigantic hurdle, which amounts to ignorance. They are allowed to rule because they have humanity steeped in ignorance. Thus, many of us have been so well convinced that they will defend their ignorance with their last dying breath. When I used to play basketball, we used to say that if basketball player lacked the skills and athletic ability to make a difference on the floor. We would say to our teammates "you do not have to check him because he was self-checked" (interpret to mean do not waste your time with that player he will not perform to a level that will hurt you and his lack of skills actually helped us).

The Elitist view humanity as being self-checked–they provide us with jobs, education, homes, a little money, etc., and this allows them to exercise a high level of control relative to how we think and the course of actions we take or don’t take. We still enjoy a level of comfort, although we are in a depression and in comparison to some other nations on the earth or at least we perceive our status as being secure and comfort. The will to resist has been dimmed because our lives are correlated to DEBT (slavery) and this alone has rendered us self-checked. The Invisible Rulers do not have to defend themselves; guess what we do it for them.

Lastly, I leave you with more words from Governor Jesse Ventura’s book “American Conspiracies” stated: “Do you ever think that maybe our country needs a Truth Commission, to understand the crimes that were committed ‘in our name’ over these recent decades? My hope is that some of you will stand with me in calling for accountability. The only way we can truly move forward is to come to grips with a recent past that’s brought us to the brink of losing it all. Maybe we ought to put ourselves in the position of the little Vietnamese farmer who did nothing but raise his rice".

"They handed him an AK-47 and in came the powerful United States, and we dropped more armaments on Vietnam that we did in World War II. We threw everything we had at this little rice farmer—we couldn’t beat him, could we? When push came to shove, he outlasted us. Why? Because he had the resolve for freedom. That Vietnamese farmer wanted self-govern, not be part of colonialism. Maybe we, in the United States, should start viewing our government as colonialist. Now the rest of us, in our own country, are becoming the colony. And somehow, some way, we’ve got to reclaim our nation.” (Reference: Jesse Ventura; “American Conspiracies” p. 203).

Fahim A. Knight-El Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in Durham, NC; 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.

Stay Awake Until We Meet Again,
Fahim A. Knight-El

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

LEBRON JAMES: A FREE AGENT SLAVE WHO BUCKED ON HIS MASTER

Lebron James: A Free Agent Slave Who Bucked on His Master

By Fahim A. Knight-El

When a person thinks of slavery, they often do not equate or classify multimillionaires as slaves because we have fallaciously equated money with being the highest extension of freedom and don’t realize that wealth is not a variable that is independent of itself and it is a dependent variable upon those who possess the power to give value to monetary instruments. They dispense wealth with a chain and ball called debt and in a credit based system it was designed to have masters and slaves. It’s not just black athletes that are slaves, but all of humanity are slaves, the sad phenomenal is that this reality is unbeknown to the masses. Money and wealth are only an allusion—it all leads to modern servitude and lavish plantations such as the National Basketball Association. (Reference: Claud Anderson; “Black Labor, White Wealth : The Search for Power and Economic Justice” ).(Reference: Jim Brown YouTube clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_9O6fOqIys&feature=related).

Wikipedia defines slavery as being: “A system in which people are the property of others. Slaves can be held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase or birth, and deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to demand wages”. This is the old definition and perception of how most people would view and define slavery and it is from this definition that one could not phantom highly paid black athletes being called slaves by this writer. But fail to acknowledge, that which I have written above is not built on some unintelligible premises. Nevertheless and even if one thought so, it would only cause one to miss the very intricacies of the relationship in which the slave and master paradigm are built upon. (Reference: Claud Anderson; “PowerNomics : The National Plan to Empower Black America). (Reference: Youtube clip: The Ink Spot; Forty Million Dollars Slaves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3DBd92NpOY

The sports writer William C. Rhoden in his provocative book titled, “Forty Million Dollars Slaves: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of the Black Athlete” explores this paradoxical notion in the historical and modern context.

Someone has the power and influence to tie your gifts, ability and talents to a monetary instrument of exchange and as long as you fulfilled the terms of agreement and generate money for the corporate owners and stockholders, you would be deemed a positive asset (this sounds like slavery to me). Athletes are considered commodities, which is no different than the system of Chattel slavery—slaves were considered commodities. Wikipedia defined commodity: “were things of value, of uniform quality, that were produced in large quantities by many different producers; the items from each different producer were considered equivalent. On a commodity exchange, it is the underlying standard stated in the contract that defines the commodity, not any quality inherent in a specific producer's product”. (Reference: Wikipedia on line reference resource)

The black athlete is one of the most sort after commodities in the world of sports, in particular basketball. LeBron James ordeal recently stirred a lot of emotions and controversy. James was a high school sensation out of Akron, Ohio that was drafted directly out of high school by the Cleveland Cavaliers—seven years ago in 2003. Some of his pundits felt that this free agent athlete should have demonstrated more loyalty to the Cavaliers’ owner (Master Dan Gilbert) and Cleveland Cavaliers organization after all they gave him his first opportunity to showcase his basketball talents on a world stage. However, there were others on the opposite end of the spectrum who felt that LeBron James had honored his contractual agreement and owed nothing to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Thus, he was free to exercise all of his playing options—the young man in just seven years had become a corporate enterprise—worthy of attention from Madison Avenue.

National Basketball Association Commissioner David Stern declared him an ambassador of the game and where ever he went his presences sold out most of the NBA arenas which he had visited over his seven year career in Cleveland (creating enormous amounts of wealth for the league—he has become an iconic figure). His image was good for marketing and it was good for Cleveland’s bottom line. James probably has generated over a billion dollars in revenue for the Cleveland Cavaliers' organization and the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, perhaps used his massive marketing image to attract business to this old blue collar town. We probably can not attach a definitive figure to the residual revenue that was generated by LeBron James on the entire economy of Cleveland. However, no slave is supposed to be able to exercise the authority relative to determining who his next master is going to be and what plantation he desires to work on, perhaps in their minds James should not have had the lawful right to make a league altering decision like this one. Yes, the NBA is a glorified plantation and although the players are making millions of dollars and live what is considered privileged life styles, but they are still considered wage earners and employees. (Reference: Jim Brown: YouTube Clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDnZ9Jaid0w&feature=related

Most black athletes have never been taught the knowledge of self and do not know
how important it is to do for-self. For example, owning their selves as corporate enterprises and entities; moreover everyone else capitalizes off their fame and wealth other than the African American community. They are often overtaken by the “bling-bling” and trinkets (fools gold)—automobiles, jewelry, clothes, etc., with little understanding of investment debt and often swayed by the temptations of consumer debt, which becomes their pursuits, although, there is no chain and ball around their hands and feet, the chains are around their minds and this is the worst form of slavery—psychological slavery. The owners and agents continues to live high quality life styles long after their clients (slaves) retire. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad once stated that there were three things that the white man did not teach us—the science of business, science of mating and the science of warfare. (Reference: Minister Louis Farrakhan: Youtube clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhibl0OMC7I)

Black America had a Gross National Product (GNP) of over 900 Billion dollars last year, which would make us as having the twelfth largest economy in the world, if we were considered a sovereign people. But sense we have not been taught the science of business, it has relegated us to a history of being consumers and non-producers. The black dollar don’t even circulate around the black economy one time before it leaves out. Thus, 94% of the black dollar is spent outside of our community and only a measly 6 % percent remains at our disposal. So in one instance, it becomes unfair to hold the black athlete and entertainer to a higher standard and not critique so-called black leadership and our business leaders for our dismal economic predicament (none of us should escape blame).

William C. Rhoden in his monumental book titled, “Forty Million Dollars Slaves: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of the Black Athlete” stated: “The challenge of the first part of the twenty-first century is how to convert all of our accumulated wealth and presences into power. In the twenty-first century, ‘winning’ for African Americans in the field of sport and play, from athletes and agents to journalist and executives, means extending the reach of power beyond the courts, fields, and diamonds. Winning means ownership: owning teams, owning networks, owning the means of communication, and owning our collective image. The challenge for African American athletes in the twenty-first century, with unprecedented resources at their disposal, is building on the foundation, expanding, and—most difficult of all—working as a team to create a new promise land.” (Reference: William C. Rhoden; “Forty Million Dollars Slaves: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of the Black Athlete”; p. 267).

Perhaps the black athletes only sees other races and nationality servicing our communities; the Koreans, Chinese, Arabs, Jews, Latinos, etc., and they take this as the norm and go out and hire Jewish agents as their representatives while the black professionals suffer. This writer has recently read stories about black athletes who have gone broke financially such as Scotty Pippen (Michael Jordan’s sidekick earned an estimated 120 million dollar), Antwan Walker (earned an estimated 110 million dollars), Kenny Anderson (earned an estimated 60 million dollars,) Ray Williams (earned an estimated 2 million dollars), Isaiah JR Rider, Derrick Coleman (earned an estimated 87 million dollars), Latrell Sprewell (earned an estimated 50 million dollars), etc., all of the above have filed bankruptcy due to poor financial management. (Reference: Steven Silbiger; “The Jewish Phenomenon: Seven Keys to the Enduring Wealth of a People”).

There is a statistic which states that over 60% of athletes are broke after five years of retirement. Remember the old axiom that a fool and his money shall soon part. Many of these black athletes had all white financial advisors and put more trust in their ex-slave master’s children more so than using their wealth and resources to build and uplift the black community. This is inexcusable and creates continued cycles of poverty in black community. Many of them fail to understand the importance of beginning the idea of generational wealth building and passing wealth along as opposed to every generation starting with nothing but debt and misery.

Perhaps this is entirely too much to lay at the doorstep of a 25 year old athlete like LeBron James or any other young black millionaire athlete—to carry the burden of the race and yet I found compelled to place some of this burden squarely on their shoulders because they are by products of the black experience vis-a-vie the greatness and all that is good and the frailties and degradation, which encompasses the black experience. This is who we are and our new found wealth should not separate what is culturally intrinsic and inherently the black experience. Reverend Jeremiah Wright did a lecture in the early 1990s titled, “We Need Each Other” what a profound statement.

This is what Dan Gilbert majority owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers stated about LeBron James departure: “You simply don't deserve this kind of cowardly betrayal. You have given so much and deserve so much more. In the meantime, I want to make one statement to you tonight: ‘I personally guarantee that the Cleveland Cavaliers will win an NBA Championship before the self-titled former 'king' wins one." You can take it to the bank.”

“If you thought we were motivated before tonight to bring the hardware to Cleveland, I can tell you that this shameful display of selfishness and betrayal by one of our very own has shifted our ‘motivation’ to previously unknown and previously never experienced levels.”

“Some people think they should go to heaven but NOT have to die to get there.
Sorry, but that's simply not how it works. This shocking act of disloyalty from our homegrown "chosen one" sends the exact opposite lesson of what we would want our children to learn. And "who" we would want them to grow up to become.”

“But the good news is that this heartless and callous action can only serve as the antidote to the so-called "curse" on Cleveland, Ohio. The self-declared former "King" will be taking the "curse" with him down south. And until he does "right" by Cleveland and Ohio, James (and the town where he plays) will unfortunately own this dreaded spell and bad karma.”

Dan Gilbert could make these outrageous statements because as great as an athlete that LeBron James is, he was paid for his physicality and raw athletic skills and talents to run and jump, but not to make intelligent business decisions and definitely was not paid to think. Gilbert diatribe was only a reminder that indeed it was a master to slave relationship and his statements were designed to support and reinforce the integrity of the NBA slave plantation as an institution. The NBA owners epitomize white privilege and class—he was a voice of Elitism and prestige, how dare one of my slaves desire to leave this good master’s plantation? Gilbert perhaps is saying that he took this young poor inner city black kid named LeBron James who possessed superior athletics skills on the basketball court, made him a first round and number one NBA pick and signed him to a multimillion dollar contract as an eighteen year old boy. Also, this opened up avenues for endorsements and other business opportunities for James. Yes it is a typical from rags to riches story and this is not to say that LeBron James had nothing to be grateful for—he should thank God every day for blessing him with tremendous athletic ability and talent. Well! Dan Gilbert for providing him with the plantation to entertain master. (Reference: YouTube clip; Reverend Jesse Jackson critique remarks made by Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert on Lebron James: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG7dS-zsPLw)

Many of the African American athletes do not understand that they are a lucrative product and their labor is being exploited by external forces; thus, with out this talented black labor pool (power that slaves are never taught how to exercise) there would not be a National Basketball Association. The league is no better than the product it’s able to put on the floor, as well as putting hot butts in arena seats, which is the ultimate objective (a sophisticated supply and demand system).

David Shields in his book titled, “Black Planet: Facing Race During An NBA Season” stated, “What John Edgar Wideman calls ‘our country’s love/hate affair with the black body’ can be seen nowhere more clearly than in the National Basketball Association, which is a photo negative of American race relations: strong young black men have some power, much of the money, and all of the fun. The NBA is a place where, without ever acknowledging it—and because it’s never acknowledged, it’s that much more potent and telling—white fans and black players enact and quietly explode virtually every racial tension in the culture at large. Race, the league’s taboo topic, is the league’s true subject.” (Reference: David Shields; “Black Planet: Facing Race During An NBA Season”; author’s note).

This is what makes them 21st Century slaves because they are comfortable with being the end product—the team owners, executives, agents, lawyers, etc., often do not look like them, but these individuals are the ultimate beneficiary of our gifts and talents. LeBron James' decision was not anything revolutionary as far as breaking the modern day master-slave relationship that exist in professional sports—he just jumped plantations and did nothing to alter the existing paradigm. It is this power dynamic that has rendered extraordinaire wealth to them and crumbs to those who are deemed just a product and commodity.

Charles Barkley and Michael Wilbon teamed up to author a book titled, “Who’s Afraid of a Large Black Man” in which the book represents commentary from various famous personalities; here is what Reverend Jesse Jackson stated about Michael Jordan: “Even Michael Jordan found that out the hard way. He was reminded that if the rules weren’t public he didn’t have the same chance as when they were, when he was playing the game. The criteria weren’t clear for Michael when it came to Abe Pollin deciding who would run his basketball franchise, now was it? He fires him, and when Michael says, ‘I’d like to know why,’ Pollin says, ‘I don’t owe you nothing.’ That’s cold, man. Do you know how cold that was? I mean, this is Michael. He has to be thinking, ‘You owe me nothing? I gave you two years and filled every seat in your building, filled every stadium where your team played for you. I did two years virtually for free.’ Doesn’t get much colder than that. Michael entertained. He made a franchise. But he got run out of there. So the struggle’s not over. . .“Free?

Jackson continues: “We’ve gone from picking cotton balls to picking footballs, basketballs and baseballs. There was nothing really wrong with picking cotton balls, except that we could not grow a textile industry. And there’s nothing wrong with picking footballs, basketballs. And baseballs except that we don’t share in the running of the multibillion dollar industry that is sports, whether it’s ownership or televising the games or working as the athletic director or running the arena or examining the players. Everything beyond the field or the court is an issue, usually a race issue.” (Reference: Charles Barkley and Michael Wilbon; “Who’s Afraid of a Large Black Man”; pp.178-179.).

Yes, Kobe Bryant, Dwayne Wade, LeBron James, etc., make millions of dollars, but it does not rank in comparison to how much money the owners make. They are just high paid slaves who are merely walking billboards for the various corporate interest that continues to exploit their images, names and aura and magnetism as the drawing card for corporate advertisement—athletes in this day and time endorses all manner of products and it has proven to profitable. But they still lack power to leverage their influence beyond these arrangements and therefore their success has to be viewed as token success and will have little impact on altering the collective reality for themselves, their race and the communities from whence they have come.

The plantation represents a symbolic metaphor that is more steeped in a way of thinking that has been shielded and supported by an institution, which has been driven and shaped by race. LeBron James must be applauded for exercising intellect within a capitalist system; meaning capitalism is based on “free enterprise” and he felt that he could profit more by exercising his option and taking his basketball talents and marketing image to South Beach (Miami Heat). This was not disloyalty, the NBA is a business above all else and decisions are made based on interest. What’s fueling this debate is three black top rated NBA “Ballers” decided this action outside of the ear shot’s of master and determined that they would render their services to the same NBA franchise (plantation). But lets be real the true brain thrust behind this savvy move was Pat Riley. How dare these Negroes (Dwayne Wade, Chris Bosh and LeBron James) conspired in joining forces and demonstrating “Black” unity? Slaves during Chattel slavery (1555-1865) were beating and killed for being indifferent to the master’s wishes.

LeBron James did nothing that was outside of the rules other than becoming an indentured servant on another white owner’s plantation. The anger at LeBron James is misguided and I think many of us would have done the same thing, but the hypocrisy is being disguised in disloyalty, he fulfilled his contractual terms with the organization and decided to take his show to another market (no pun intended)—but it is kind of ironic that we are using the same language and vocabulary that defined terms during Chattel Slavery—“Free” agent, market, trading, buying and selling, commodities, product, work, “slave contracts”, money, etc., perhaps by now you get the picture. This tells us, that as much as things have changed, they still remain the same.

Tiger Woods before his adulteress behavior and his sexual innuendos was considered to be a billion dollar athlete. His perception of a squeaky clean life style and image attracted corporate endorsements unlike any other athlete in the annals of time (black or white). But he to was only a billion dollar slave and had no power over the pro golf industry—Woods was only a commodity and product who had no control over his own economic destiny (sometime just take a look around the black athlete—take notice of the vultures around them).

Most of the black professional athletes are comfortable with receiving a pay check—billionaires pay millionaires and trillionaires pay billionaires. Moreover, to challenge this relationship and arrangement have always been outside of the black athlete mental scope and is not likely to take place any time soon because of the lack of a social conscious and unwillingness to sacrifice the crumbs that falls from the rich man’s table.

Lastly, let me say a little bit about Bob Johnson, the former BET mogul who became the first African American majority owner of an NBA franchise, the Charlotte Bobcats. Some could argue that Johnson’s acquisition of the Bobcats at 300 million price tag dollars was groundbreaking for blacks looking to break the NBA glass ceiling and becoming owners over professional sports franchises. This writer applauded Johnson’s fete and accomplishments, but Johnson has very little interest in race and nationality issues. Johnson is a staunch venture capitalist and all that he has ever seen was green. He has always been a business man first and you can not be angry at him for focusing on the bottom line, but yet we can not ignore the fact that he was the recipient of hard fought civil rights battles, which allowed for African Americans to amass that type of wealth and be in position to sit down with the good ole boys and purchase an NBA franchise. Thus as becoming the head master in charge in 2002, he became the first black owner of an NBA franchise, but this hasn’t translated into the power dynamic and pendulum shifting for blacks seeking to own professional sports franchises. (Reference: Roland Martin TV 101 YouTube clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIxLrYN0HSQ).

He also allowed for NBA great Michael Jordan a “House Negro” to acquire the Bobcats franchise and may be in the grand scheme of things blacks may view this move as being something positive (I don’t). This is still a white Elitist and privileged club and only the slaves can equalize the playing field by garnishing their labor and leveraging the best bargaining tool to demand equal access to the various stratagems of wealth. May be we need an all out slave revolt.

Fahim A. Knight-El Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in Durham, NC; 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.

Stay Awake Until We Meet Again,
Fahim A. Knight-El