Monday, June 22, 2009
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"Oh Shit! ... GMO Food Sterilizes People ... And It's Really A Form of Population Control?"
"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."
Alexander King, Bertrand Schneider - founder Club of Rome - The First Global Revolution, pp.104-105
"In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill ... All these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy, then, is humanity itself."
GET A CHICK...
Were We All Kunta Kinte? Or Are We Also Mansa Musa?
Barry Goldwater 1909-1998
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. "
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad
"It Is Easier To Change A Man's Religion Than It Is To Change His Diet"
Private Prison Industry
2,000,000 human beings in American prisons and counting
IS THIS LITTLE GUY A PERSON?
The founders of the American state understood that the proper functioning of a democracy required an educated electorate. It is this understanding that justifies a system of public education and that led slaveholders to resist the spread of literacy among their chattels. But the meaning of "educated" has changed beyond recognition in two hundred years. Reading, writing, and arithmetic are no longer sufficient to decide on public policy. Now we need quantum mechanics and molecular biology. The knowledge required for political rationality, once available to the masses, is now in the possession of a specially educated elite, a situation that creates a series of tensions and contradictions in the operation of representative democracy.
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
Margaret Sanger. Woman, Morality, and Birth Control. New York: New York Publishing Company, 1922. P
"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population. and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."
Louis Pasteur
"The Microbe is nothing. The terrain is everything."
Beverly Johnson. Beverly Hills. 1978
"Bra! Tell Me About It!"
"Most of the trouble I have had in advancing the cause of the race has come from Negroes."
Ted Turner - CNN founder and UN supporter - quoted in the The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor, June '
"A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal."
Lord Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science On Society (Routledge Press: New York, 1951).
"At present the population of the world is increasing at about 58,000 per diem. War, so far, has had no very great effect on this increase, which continued throughout each of the world wars.. War has hitherto been disappointing in this respect, but perhaps bacteriological war may prove effective. If a Black Death could spread throughout the world once in every generation, survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full. The state of affairs might be unpleasant, but what of it?"
Denmark Vesey For President 08
1. Troops Out Of Iraq Immediately. Like By Monday. 2. Money Owed To Haliburton and War Contractors Be Given Directly To The Iraqi People 3. Complete Electoral Reform 4. No Corporate Conglomerate Will Be Allowed To Control More Than 5% Of News Market 5. Federal Reserve Abolished 6. For-Profit Prison Industry Abolished
*George Orwell (1903-1950) English novelist, critic
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness... If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear... The great enemy of clear language is insincerity... The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it... To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle... For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.
“The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society will be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values.” – Zbigniew Brzezinski
God Don't Make No Mistakes
Gordon Parks 1912-2006
"I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand."
Great Grandmother Harris
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Somebody comes from good stock....
Arctic Fox pelt in that era?????
I see you DV...
KP
some good high yella-bone stock there mmmhmm!
some good high yella-bone stock there mmmhmm!
Yep, da sista's had to send pictures to places like Spelman, Fisk and Howard prior to admission.
Too much melanin and a sista might have been denied admission. Ya needed to show those blue veins to be in the Blue Blood Society.
Talkin about the impact of the GSWS. There's no better example than some HBCU admission standards in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, and even into the 1950s.
This was a shameful period of Black History.
I'm guessing this is a picture from a HBCU football game during that timeframe.
Are we related or something? They look very much like women from my paternal AND maternal lines;) Very Beautiful. Back then you had to DRESS to go out. Although I am non conformist with dress, I have to admit they inspire me to look good!
Seems like all some negros see is skin color. Light skin. Dark skin. Who cares? Photographs of HBCU students in the 20's, 30's, 40's and 50's show just as many brown people as light people. Some people just like saying these things.
Byrd,
I am an American
All my guitchie aunts married dark brothas.
The men who could "pass" mostly married darker women.
And that photo is intereting in it's form of rebellion (dressing well because many Blacks weren't expected to.)
Seems like all some negros see is skin color. Light skin. Dark skin. Who cares? Photographs of HBCU students in the 20's, 30's, 40's and 50's show just as many brown people as light people. Some people just like saying these things. Anon 2
And some people don’t know history. White Supremacy inspired Colorism is a well documented and very unfortunate aspect of Black American life. The so-called blue vein/brown bag test of prospective college students at places like Howard and Spelman is a fact of history. By no means did anyone say that all of the students at such schools were de-melaninized.
“It is no secret that organizations were created in order to supplement and provident a safe haven for the wealth of the light-skinned mulattos. In Larry Koger’s essay, “The Denmark Vesey Conspiracy” he highlights one such organization, the Brown Fellowship, whose primary focus was to assimilate into white culture, while benefiting from the ownership of slaves. They used their money to further distinguish themselves from dark-skinned blacks, even those who had equal wealth status. By using their former masters as mentors, they were successful at capturing the essence of the upper crust by emulating white culture.
Deirdre Mullane writes of another organization, “The Blue Vein Society,” in her book “Crossing the Danger Water: Three Hundred Years of African-American Writing.” The Blue Vein Society thrived on this type of behavior, “The original Blue Veins were a little society of colored persons organized in Nashville, Tn shortly after the war. Its purpose was to establish and maintain correct social standards among a people whose social condition presented almost unlimited room for improvement. By accident, combined perhaps with some natural affinity, the society consisted of individuals who were, generally speaking, more white than black.
Some envious outsider made the suggestions that no one was eligible for member who was not white enough to show blue veins. The suggestion was readily adopted by those who were not of the favored few…..The Blue Veins did not allow that any such requirement existed for admission to their circle, but on the contrary, declared that character and culture were the only things considered; and that if most of their members were light-colored, it was because such persons, as a rule, had better opportunities to quality themselves for membership,” (Mullane, pg. 12).
Another catalyst in which light-skinned blacks furthered distinguish themselves from their darker peers was “brown bag parties,” which were very fashionable in the 1960s and early 1970s. In Henry Louis Gates Jr’s books, “The Future of Race,” he describes this ordeal as, “Not long after I arrived at Yale, some of the brothers who came from private schools in New Orleans held a ‘bag party.’ As a classmate explained it to me, a bag party was a New Orleans custom when a brown paper bag was stuck on the door and anyone darker than it was denied entrance,” (Gates, pg. 18). Even before then, in the 1920s, “color-tax” parties were another means for alienating blacks. At these parties, men would have to pay a tax on the scale of how dark their dates were, the darker the date, the higher the tax.
With sororities and fraternities becoming the prime outlet for college and social life, these organizations were no stranger to such antics. One such organization, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., was at one time, notorious for implementing such tests as the ruler test (hair had to be as straight as a ruler) and the brown bag test. It seems that the more elite the fraternity or the sorority, the lighter the members were. After analyzing the previous data, you start asking yourself, is this behavior learned, or regrettably inherited from the previous generation? (The Face of Colorism)
"And some people don’t know history. White Supremacy inspired Colorism is a well documented and very unfortunate aspect of Black American life." Anonymous (Pick a name or number so we can tell the difference)
Nobody "knows" history.
We all interpret history.
The "Skin Color Was Everything" interpretation of the black cultural experience is one of perhaps hundreds of valid interpretations.
I believe ultimately people believe what they want to believe. They believe that which makes them comfortable.
Apparently you are comfortable with that particular Dark-Skin = Victim self-perpetuating paradox.
Where as me ... on the other hand.
I consider myself a beneficiary of the Global System of Black Supremacy.
(If you aint hip. Peep the archives. I put that baby to rest last year.)
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