I'm embarrassed to send long posts, but it's only conversation. Read it if you want to wear your eyeballs out.
These aren't conclusions reached alone by my own experiences but cats been in it longer, including the Denmark/Cnu convo.
People investing in the vote are not encouraged by the federal government. If Prop 19 had passed, Attorney General Holder would not have recognized the majority vote to legalize marijuana. Those in power have a conditional love or recognition for “majority rules.”
Defining the “black community” in terms of being self-sustaining, having inexhaustible loyalty, dedication and support as well as accessibility to local common people, I believe is best exemplified by the institution of the church.
I DON’T believe they have any direction or substantial solutions for the preservation of the “black community” and it’s generations. They are fickle when it comes to generational challenges. Crumbling under the pressure of media, concerned about popularity poles with the very groups that weren’t interested in their wellbeing to begin with. Whenever the media launched a belligerent campaign against the black youth they seem to join the lynch mob. Sort of like a parent taking the side of school administration against their own child. It’s no wonder the following generations search for a “younger version” of Christianity or abandoned the religion all together.
The Nation has sustained the tradition of loyal supporters. Naturally since their members share the same indigenous histories. However I think their creed makes it difficult for most black folk to assimilate into. That was over looked at a time because you could see them as the “black church” but only with a voice that charges black self-esteem while providing the concept of building an institution taking full responsibility for their own cosmologies and definitions of how to reassess the world.
The change of atmosphere I believe has made a lot of the doctrine the Nation offer to appear outdated or unsubstantial. Because not only because of race but the challenges of western science. Today’s generation won’t be taken back by a War of the Worlds broadcast in the same manner the original broadcast had received.
Sunni Islam has centuries of successful civilization that is even responsible for an existing western civilization. The Nation revived those concepts amongst black people. A concept that had become viral throughout the so-called African continent because it gain a reputation for standing on the side of the oppressed, establishing justice and an unflinching check of abusive rulers. That was the platform of the Nation extending into the movements of Warith Deen and black sunni Americans all owing their origins to the African Muslim slaves but the latter two owing their beginnings to the Nation.
Warith Deen’s community didn’t have as much as a cultural impact within the neighborhoods as the Nation and the black sunnis such as the Dar-Salaam Movement. They created a comfortable atmosphere for immigrants to bring their traditional clothing out of the storage trunks. However having ties with both the Nation and Sunni groups, Warith Deen seemed to function as a liaison between the two. Unlike the Nation and the black church the sunni groups dealt with a lot of identity issues. Going through a period of abandoning their indigenous heritage for immigrant influences. This created a devastating impact on their relations with the black communities throughout the late 70’s and early 80’s.
They spent so much time trying to prove their differences between true Islam and the Nation, concerns for the rehabilitation of a spiritual and moral code became secondary. A self-sustaining movement was still in effected but devoured itself by approaching solutions of the landscape through the eyes of immigrant Arabs and Southeast Asians. That had devastating impact on their success. Now there is a confederacy taking place between the Nation and Sunnis. Not in belief but as a need for the two to combine efforts that was initially obstructed by the hard core stance in creeds and Malcolm’s death.
If the black church can stick to a theology and confederate with indigenous American Muslims for an understanding of the preservation of a unique cultural identity, then they will move away from the ineffectiveness of the popular system of existence.
People think of their existence being contingent on western classification of modern advancement. How can voting for better resources for schools beat out black people building less churches and facilities for home schools. If they will do that but still poison them with the same concepts public school provide then what’s the purpose. They look for the “black face in the right place.”
In terms of ethics the black Muslim communities are becoming the larger segment of black people pulling their children out of public education in attempts of damage control with the minds and spirits of their youth. However because of the many outside influences and interpretations obscuring cohesive communities on the scale of the black church they become lone crusaders without institutional support.
So the potential and alternatives for being a self-powered peoples is obtainable. The real CoIntelPro is in ourselves.
Even if one doesn’t believe in God still the initiative has to be there first. Voting is not an attempt to fix a situation YOURSELF. It is asking for someone to do it for you. And if they don’t do it for you, you sit and wait to vote for another to do it.
You can’t convince people that their situation will change with a vote. They feel good when they are there amongst other people in high spirits but when it fails they are still eating 40 cent noodles and looking for a job. The majority of people have to see something immediate. Cats on the corner patrolling to deter crime, neighborhood food programs, employing youth for neighborhood activities.
Don’t tell them they own their neighborhood, give them employment before they are even old enough to work that is directly involves them in rehabilitating their neighborhood. So the adults do the community service for free and the youth are paid for it. These are very human actions that begin to create investments for a supported youth while you work to change your conditions. You have to feed people. That is the quickest way to the hearts. In feeding them hold workshops on proper eating habits. Preparation of food. The right foods. At least they can begin to associate the liquor stores and fast food spots with their own destruction.
That is what all these Negroes that come together to make their institutions rich every Sunday. If anybody should be voted out of office it’s the Negro in the pulpit that is a broken record player every Sunday. Pressure him not the politician. The politician got his pressures from the cotton or logger industry giving kick backs to insure marijuana remains illegal. But that pastor is right there in knuckle reach.
Col. Prouty said, “Nothing just happens, everything is planned.” Voting is contingent on that your representatives aren’t going to take a payoff, that the majority of people aren’t influenced by a media monster scaring you into supporting war over your neighbor. We look at youth with their pants sagging while annually dressing children to look like zombies and Harry Potter. But that doesn’t have to be us. We can create group fasts. Group turn the tv off for a week. Comes off extreme for humans riding the media trolley to King Friday’s castle every day.
CNu said...
Most all of what you said is truth GCV, particularly wrt negroes in the pulpit.
I have only two concerns to note to your attention;
1. The quality of exposition you shared down here in the bowels of larouche noir is sadly and utterly wasted. You know jiggaboo jones and chickenhead crew can't hold up their end of this calibre of discourse.
2. The elite establishment has its crosshairs firmly trained on al-islam, for reasons rooted in its measured potential coherence, and, because of the unfortunate location of irreplaceable natural material resources under muslim occupied soil.
American Black folk need to figure out and construct an independent 3rd way free of negroes in the pulpit and desert semites in the crosshairs whose culture has been targeted for global destruction.
Oh, and that 3rd way needs to be an evolutionary leap beyond the early 19th century hokum of the NOI, the Moorish Science temple, or the many and sundry kneegrow greek letter organizations, all of which have shown themselves essentially useless as the basis for proper organization and implementation of a plan for generalized uplift.
Denmark Vesey said...
1. Ever notice it's always some fat, flat footed, pork eating jealous nerd ... who couldn't pull a woman with a tow-truck ... calling sisters "chicken heads"? Mad because women generally have shown little interest in his misanthropic Sci-Fi dooms day fantasies & wannabe Hypertiger scenarios, he sits around crafting odd little conspiracy theories about the brothers they do feel. 2. The "elite establishment" wages war on Islam because Islam is one of the last bastions of genuine God worship. The "elite establishment" is the Scientific Dictatorship that wants us to worship man, not God. The "elite establishment" maintains power by operating a monopoly on the knowable. This 'knowledge cartel' has conditioned little country peasant nobodies like CNu, who scored well enough on an "aptitude" test or two during his day, to conflate its dogma, memes and rituals with "science" itself.
3. The Nation. The Moors. Garvey. The "50 page book" brothers were smart enough and courageous enough to escape the mind control of the elite establishment. Look at how carefully they approached diet even 50 years ago. Which is why, for the most part, these black men don't have man-boobs today.
Which is more than many of these brothers who are supposed to be so smart can say.
34 comments:
"Voting is not an attempt to fix a situation YOURSELF. It is asking for someone to do it for you. And if they don’t do it for you, you sit and wait to vote for another to do it." GC
Gee Chee!!
Good stuff man.
You've hit the nail on its proverbial cabasa.
Always a sucker for getting back more than they give ... the "Vote" has evolved into a metaphor among black folks for "The Promised Land".
You know ... "Deep in my heart ... I do believe ... we shall overcome ... yada yada".
Voting is a "privilege".
People who value it, don't value it as a potent political tool.
They value its symbolic power in their endless struggle with the Plantation .
They don't realize they empower the Plantation by participating in the illusion that this "vote" has any material impact over their lives.
The Plantation allows them to vote for Democratic Overseers or Republican Overseers.
Plantation Negros think they are getting one over on the Plantation by electing what they feel is the "nicer" of the two overseers.
Nationhood is the ultimate politically empowering tool.
The Nation of Islam. The Moors. Garvey.
These cats chose the correct road decades ago.
They are still right today.
It's fashionable among Pork Eaters to speak of these brothers with disdain.
Crackas did a good job turning Jigaboo Negros against the only brothers who really mattered.
Questions for DV and GC. Did you guys vote for Barack Obama? If so why?
The imagery from the Million Man March is interesting, particularly when one considers the fact that:
[The planners and organizers of the March indicated that one of the community development features of the March would be its registration of March participants to vote. And in order to achieve this goal, the organizers enlisted the help of the National Coalition on Black voter Participation organization. In their own words, it is an organization “... dedicated to increasing black voter registration and turnout and to eradicating barriers to full political participation for African Americans.”]
It is also a fact that Minister Farrakhan took credit for the 1.7 million Black males who registered to vote in 1996 after the MMM.
Those facts contradict the thrust of GC’s epistle and DV’s propaganda regarding the NOI.
I don't understand the hate here, I agree with both Gee Chee and CNu, I think one is arguing at an ideological level and the other is asking for practical organisation. Not sure why Denmark has to get so defensive, I guess no one is allowed to talk bad about Farrakhan, The Moors and Marcus Garvey.
makheru bradley said...
"Questions for DV and GC. Did you guys vote for Barack Obama? If so why?"
Did I?
Yes.
Why?
1) He's God's son. 2) Obviously a brother. 3) Couldn't imagine listening to or looking at Hillary Clinton for 4 years. 4) Bullshitted myself that he might ... might ... might actually take a stand against the NWO, stop the war, stop the genetic engineering of our food supply, and use the bully pulpit to lead this nation towards good and away from evil.
hey ...
win some you lose some.
As far as the Nation registering black men to vote ...
so?
Incidental.
After-thought.
Farrakhan and the Nation have no real investment or hope or expectations in a broken compromised and corrupt electoral process.
Like parents who take their children to Macy's to see Santa Clause ... Encouraging Negros to vote is nothing more than a pacifier.
An excuse to do something else.
Makheru ... Did you vote for Barack Obama?
Why?
Would you vote for him in 2012?
Why?
Question.
IF EVERY ELIGIBLE BLACK PERSON IN AMERICA WERE TO VOTE ... WOULD THEY WIELD AS MUCH POWER AS AIPAC?
Anonymous said...
I don't understand the hate here,
Yeah. Yeah.
I hear you "Anonymous".
Do you think the "Vote" is of any practical political value at all?
Or do you agree that the vote is merely a psychological pacifier designed to dull political aspirations and distract attention away from those who leverage more political power than their numbers deserve?
Gov. Ventura calls them ReBLOODicans and DemoCRIPS only they are cut from the same cloth. He argues you are only offered Coke and Pepsi, no Sprite, no water, no raw juice, just Coke and Pepsi. You get one choice more than communist Russia. You’re not voting for a person you’re voting for the party. He claims being fiscally conservative while socially liberal leaves you without a representative.
What’s interesting is that it appears socially we’re becoming a Democratic culture. Stroked by Democrat memes. Bull Connor don’t Dougie on an iPhone so young Republicans feel like unpopular archaic squares. They circle their wagons and claim to be the last bastion of independence and Democrats reciprocate. Neither one seeing the ultimate objective is to just believe in one. People will follow the CGI politics so long as it can be abbreviated on Twitter.
Did you guys vote for Barack Obama? If so why?-MB
I didn’t vote during Barack Obama’s run. When he gave that speech defending Rev. Wright I was temped, no lie. However after promising to leave Iraq only to invade Afghanistan wrecked it. Even Bush gave up the Bin Laden ruse the last two years of his performance. Couldn’t do kill’n humanity. Everybody on this earth today has a lineage extending to the beginning of human existence.
Plus when he got into the pressuring of Cuba about their political prisoners and cats still in prison till this day for owning a Chairman Mao Red Book, a 35 and a bag of weed, the red ruby slippers heal-clicks came to a needle scratch’n-vinyl halt.
Those facts contradict the thrust of GC’s epistle and DV’s propaganda regarding the NOI.-MB
I know a community activist who has owned a non-profit organization over the past 30 years. He explained it was a pool of community organizers that organized the march throughout the country eventually inviting Farrakhan to come aboard. Supposedly the Nation ended up headlining. According to him it was something that took place organically because the NOI functioned as an organized body. It sort of over shadowed the involvement of the initial contributors. This didn’t disturb anyone. It was understood that you couldn’t invite Farrakhan and not expect that to happen. You also cannot leave out inviting Farrakhan during that time and expect something to happen. I can see that argument, especially after the Arsenio Hall Show/Farrakhan controversy plus his name repeated like an incantation in Hip-Hop music ie PE, Cube, 5%er groups etc. Every beef amongst rap artist then held Farrakhan as an intermediary.
One thing to understand about the NOI (sure you already know) is that NOBODY comes before W.D. Farrad, Elijah Mahamad, and Farrakhan. The Nation believes our people have been duped by the use of tricknology. They believe you have to reemploy tricknology to return black people to their rightful godly state (according to a Nation cat I use to kick it with in the 90’s). So you will hear NOI speakers pull from the Bible MORE SO than the Qur’an. They believe black people are so attached to the Bible so they speak to the Negro in Negro language. They meet the Negro on Negro terms. They understand some of their creeds are difficult for the Negro to swallow. That’s one of the reason’s they don’t teach Arabic or how to pray according to orthodox beliefs. They feel that’s too advanced. So when you see them speak against the Bible, yet use it, they aren’t being hypocrites. They are employing what they believe to be strategies in winning over the heart of the Negro.
That’s what part of Elijah’s silencing of Malcolm after he made a comment about JFK’s death. Elijah felt it was a blow to the Nation in the eyes of Negroes. Likewise when he told Malcolm to stay away from Cassius Clay out of concern that a then Clay was going to lose to Liston. That would have gone down as poor publicity for the NOI. Even though Malcolm still saw him in secret.
So the NOI supporting the vote is nothing more than them preaching from a book they disbelieve in. They continue to believe their leaders and the foundation laid down by Elijah is the word. Voting to them is a component in meeting the Negro on his terms. I think. Haven’t had any close associates in the Nation since the 90’s. In the end if I say something against Barrack amongst blacks, some folk may be with me, others won’t. But if I say something against Elijah amongst the Nation, some of my teeth may be with me, others won’t.
Didn't post, guess it was too large so I edited it.
Those facts contradict the thrust of GC’s epistle and DV’s propaganda regarding the NOI.-MB
I'm somewhat familiar with history of the organizing of the march. Apparently the Nation ended up headlining. Something that took place organically because the NOI functioned as a national organized body, over shadowing other contributors. This didn’t disturb anyone. It was understood that you couldn’t invite Farrakhan and not expect that to happen. You also cannot leave out inviting Farrakhan during that time and expect something to happen. I can see that argument, especially after the Arsenio Hall Show/Farrakhan controversy. Understand at this time Farrakhan's name was repeated like an incantation in Hip-Hop lyrics ie PE, Cube, 5%er groups etc. Every beef amongst rap artist then held Farrakhan as an intermediary.
One thing to understand about the NOI (sure you already know) is that NOBODY comes before W.D. Farrad, Elijah Mahamad, and Farrakhan. The Nation believes our people have been duped by the use of tricknology. They believe you have to reemploy tricknology to return black people to their rightful godly state (according to a Nation cat I use to kick it with in the 90’s). So you will hear NOI speakers pull from the Bible MORE SO than the Qur’an. They believe the so-called Negro is so attached to the Bible so they speak to the Negro in Negro language. They meet the Negro on Negro terms. They understand some of their creeds are difficult for the Negro to swallow. That’s one of the reason’s they don’t teach Arabic or how to pray according to orthodox beliefs. They feel that’s too advanced. So when you see them speak against the Bible, yet use it, they are merely employing what they believe to be strategies in winning over the heart of the Negro. They are not interested in people being distracted by sideline disagreements. If the NOI is teaching Farrakhan is Jesus in the second coming, best believe they aren't believing some politician is the answer.
That’s part of why Elijah silenced Malcolm after the comment made about JFK’s death. Elijah didn't crumble to pressures of the government, he felt it was a blow to the Nation in the eyes of Negroes. That it disturbed their "PROPERganda" efforts. Likewise when he told Malcolm to stay away from Cassius Clay out of concern that a then Clay was going to lose to Liston. That would have gone down as poor publicity for the NOI. Even though Malcolm still saw him in secret.
So the NOI supporting the vote is nothing more than them employing their ideas of tricknology. Efforts to speak Negro to the Negro until he can understand black. They continue to believe their leaders and the foundation laid down by Elijah is the word. In the end if I say something against Barrack amongst blacks, some folk may be with me, others won’t. But if I say something against Elijah amongst the Nation, some of my teeth may be with me, others won’t.
That is an undying loyalty that makes the gesture of them saying "go vote" inconsequential to their ultimate purpose. During Barrack's run the Southwestern Region Minister of the NOI, Robert Muhammad said "go vote," BUT that Farrakhan under Elijah Mahamad is the answer. This is their belief. What do the majority of black folks rally under that is independent of the vote?
GCV - I can see all that properganda bidnis making sense to somebody who followed the NOI during the Farrakhan/Final Call era, but as one who had FOI from all across the country in his home from 1964-1975 to see my father (one of the few Black gun dealers in the U.S. at that time) - I was raised up on Muhammad Speaks and the teachings of the Nation direct from the horses mouth - so to speak.
There were NO properganda filters on the official printed organ of the NOI during that entire time - and between the incendiary columns and cartoons and the ecclexic mythology of the Nation, no effort whatsoever was made to water down any aspect of NOI doctrine so as to cater to the fragile sensibilities of the prospective negroe convert.
Bottomline, what you're saying is ahistorical, revisionist, and trivially disproven by a cursory walk through source materials which should still be readily available online.
The NOI has always been vastly more profit oriented than prophet oriented, and as people have come to understand the real scope and motivation behind this curious and overly romanticized little cult of personality - THAT's the reason their influence has declined to the enormous extent that it has.
ah yes...., just as I thought - easy to find the source materials online.
Oh yeah, and wasn't nobody try'na get skinny on no bean pie neither. If you've ever been to a genuine Shabazz bakery, you'd know the purpose of the establishment was to please the palate and turn a profit. The primary benefit of the bean pie among po Black folk back in the day was its low, low price and its exceptional protein content as a whole bean pie would contain a full day's calories as well as 1.5 times the RDA for protein.
For folks eating fatty, gelatinous parts of the swine with lots of salt and seasoning, instead of lean, choice cuts of the succulent porker, such an alternative, along with generously tartared or remouladed fried white fish sammiches - was a major step up in terms of not only nutrition, but plain and simple food quality and safety.
Lastly, it was a blow struck against ghetto grocers who tended to specialize in older, gamier discard meats aged and excessed off the market at white grocery stores and into the market at stores in the hood.
But then, you'd have to have experienced the facts of the matter first hand and know exactly whereof and whatof you speak. There were two Shabazz Bakery restaurants and one Shabazz market within walking distance of my boyhood home, as well as an NOI mosque - again within walking distance of my home.
I do understand a lot of revisions have taken place. I believe the way they explain (from a 5%er of Clarence 13X's camp) is that Elijah established 180 degrees of knowledge but left the other 180 to establish a complete cipher.
1995 supposedly was prophesied to bring a major change. I believe the end of the devils rule. When 95 hit, it was interpreted that the time was delayed so long as the black man remained ignorant. Another is that Elijah prophesied Malcolm's betrayal. I suppose this was disclosed only to other top ranking ministers. What comes out of Malcolm's camp is that cats were suggesting to Elijah for a while that Malcolm wanted to take over the NOI in efforts to corrupt the relationship.
I did know a cat (RIP) that was with the first generation. He did not follow Farrakhan. I can't remember what his issues were. I think he believed Elijah had died whereas Farrakhan taught he was alive on the mothership.
That said, I understand where it appears to be contradictions with text is explained as the applying the 180 degrees to fully interpret the text.
One cat I know who studied in Sudan kept a Final Call from Farrakhan's visit there. The back did not mention anything about Elijah being a messenger or WD Farrad being God that sent him. It only mentioned God and his messenger.
But even Malcolm explained Elijah's multiple wives coming from his own investigative study of Biblical text as oppose from Elijah's teachings.
Where I meant to take it was that Elijah didn't want Malcolm to work close to the political frame work of the Civil Rights leaders. I think it's Malcolm's willingness to work with Negroes outside the NOI is what influenced them in the future to work with other organizations. Yes, the NOI provided the infrastructure, but you can't take claim for innovative spirits.
Malcolm's contribution must remain unwritten or it challenges assertions of Malcolm's being a prophesied Judas that "Elijah made from nothing."
^So today we see them being more tolerant in working with others contrary to their original stance taken and explained as the evolving message of Elijah interpreted through the reining minister.
eating post again
Let us all pray that whatever gibberish you attempted to cut and paste here will only continue to get eaten....,
Couldn't you just mess up a useless thread full of chickenheads and jiggaboo jones developmentally arrested gassing instead?
Did you guys vote for Barack Obama? If so why?--MB Did I? Yes.—DV
Abject hypocrisy as expected. All of this railing against voting, and you voted for Obama.
[They don't realize they empower the Plantation by participating in the illusion that this "vote" has any material impact over their lives.They value its symbolic power in their endless struggle with the Plantation.
They don't realize they empower the Plantation by participating in the illusion that this "vote" has any material impact over their lives.]—DV
Hypocrite! Never in the course of American politics was there ever a vote more “illusion and symbolic” than a vote for Barack Obama. DV himself empowered the plantation, and expected it to result in some kind of material impact—“stop the war… stop genetic engineering…”
“win some you lose some.” –DV Meaning you believed that “winning” was possible, yet you criticize “plantation negroes” for believing the same thing.
His Majesty, Dr. Bacon-Bey is the Grand Caliph of Hypocrisy!
Makheru ... Did you vote for Barack Obama? Would you vote for him in 2012?—DV. NO! NO! I saw Obama as a “change you can believe in” fraud from jumpstreet.
American politics is the science of deception.
I know a community activist… He explained it was a pool of community organizers that organized the march throughout the country eventually inviting Farrakhan to come aboard.—GC
Your community activist is full of revisionist bovine excrement. He has the history totally backwards. It was the CO’s who came on board and tried to push the MMM from atonement revivalism towards actual programs which would deal with the real life crisis African Americans face. Ultimately Farrakhan had no idea what to do with one million Black men, so he drifted back into what he does best—preaching with no connection to direct action.
Elijah felt it was a blow to the Nation in the eyes of Negroes. Likewise when he told Malcolm to stay away from Cassius Clay out of concern that a then Clay was going to lose to Liston. That would have gone down as poor publicity for the NOI. Even though Malcolm still saw him in secret. – GC
Wow, do you sit around and dream this stuff up? Nothing could be farther from the truth. Why would a man who had been preaching for thirty years that the wrath of God would come down on the white devil, silence his leading disciple for saying exactly that?
It is true that THEM despised boxing and he had no confidence that Ali could defeat Liston. Malcolm on the other hand was absolutely certain that Ali would win, and his confidence, though publically silenced, reverberated throughout the rank and file NOI members. THEM couldn’t even control his demand for “public distance.”
[Malcolm X, too, was in Miami, as Cassius Clay's personal guest. He was staying across the bay, at the Hampton House Motel, in a black section of town. Malcolm had arrived with his wife and three little girls over a month earlier for a brief family vacation (the first one they had ever had, Malcolm wrote in his autobiography), a gift from the challenger. Clay had then broken training and flown back to New York with Malcolm for a Muslim rally, where, speaking for the silenced minister (Malcolm was still under the interdiction imposed by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad in the wake of his remarks about President Kennedy's assassination), Clay told "cheering Muslim members," the Amsterdam News reported, "that ‘Every time I go to a Muslim meeting I get inspired,' [then] predicted to the audience that he would win the fight because ‘I'm training on lamb chops and that big ugly bear [Liston] is training on pork chops,' in reference to the fact that Muslims don't eat pork." "Cassius Clay Almost Says He's a Muslim," was the disapproving headline in the News, a story that was picked up in newspapers all across the country and brought ticket sales to a grinding halt. The promoter threatened to cancel the fight unless Clay agreed to eliminate any further public reference to Islam or visible contact with his mentor, and Malcolm did not return to Miami until February 23, two days before the fight.]
Ali’s response was: "My religion's more important to me than the fight." However, Malcolm seeing the big picture stepped back to save the fight, more so than to appease the skittish tendencies of THEM. Malcolm returned to Miami and occupied ringside seat number seven at the fight. So much for the big secret.
FYI
http://concreteloop.com/2010/02/black-history-month-throwback-photos-malcolm-x-muhammad-ali
MB, don't understand where you just took Malcolm, Ali and Elijah. Plain as day you quoted me, but then just went on to refute, I don't know what.
Why would Elijah silence Malcolm for saying, "The chickens came home to roost" regarding JFK?
Don't get it. What part is furthest from the truth. The event taking place or my sentence structure?
I get it on the history of the march. You did question however the NOI's support of the vote and how those facts contradict my personal examination of the NOI concept of institution building vs the vote.
Don't get it. What part is furthest from the truth. The event taking place or my sentence structure? -- GC
This part: "That’s what part of Elijah’s silencing of Malcolm after he made a comment about JFK’s death. Elijah felt it was a blow to the Nation in the eyes of Negroes."
THEM felt no such thing. That's why I responded: "Why would a man who had been preaching for thirty years that the wrath of God would come down on the white devil, silence his leading disciple for saying exactly that?"
Indeed it was the harshness of his prophetic language which attracted so many of the urban dispossessed and so many HBCU students to Malcolm, from which the NOI benefited.
We are left to conclude that either THEM was afraid of how the white devil might respond to Malcolm's statement (THEM was scheduled to deliver that speech, but he canceled and sent Malcolm in his place) or he and the government agents inside the NOI (John Ali, etc.), along with the ministers who were jealous of Malcolm saw the statement which was wholly consistent with NOI theology, as an opportunity to remove Malcolm.
Did you notice in quoting me I said, "...PART of Elijah's silencing of Malcolm after he made the comment." "PART" Other reasons aside, this is the event that took place regardless of the backstage drama.
You think the NOI is going to say they had jealous ministers or the "messenger" was jealous or they had agents that caused the riff?
What you're saying is available in any Malcolm interview covering that incident. You are going into particulars that were mentioned in the convo with CNu.
GCV,
When jiggaboo jones the congo dandy takes a position, it can almost a priori be regarded as either specious or ridiculous on the face of it.
Not only will the shit be wrong, it'll be pernicious, self-serving, wrong and misleading all at the same time.
However, when an otherwise sensible cat such as yourself constructs an elaborate and highly imaginative filigree supportive of Dr. Bacon-Bey's absurdities, that's when they become truly dangerous and confusing to folk who simply don't know any better, and lack either the initiative or the means to correctly inform themselves.
Bottomline, the Hon. Bro. Min Farrakhan is a riveting and highly successful speechifier, nowhere near as great as Malcolm X who spit fiery, direct, and irrefutable truth absent.any.mystigoguery.whatsoever - and frankly - nowhere near as great as the late. Bro.Min.Khalid Muhammad for whom I believe VASTLY greater credit is due for the resurgence of the NOI during the late 80's and 90's that Farrakhan co-opted for himself.
Farrakhan has steadily lined his pockets, failed to establish an effective chain of succession, failed to bring the NOI's various and sundry business activities into the 21st century, (still pretty much a late 1970's print shop and nowhere near as diverse and powerful as it was during the era of Muhammad Speaks greatness) and cut deals with the Plantation which allow him to persist in popping a little noise - while not ever substantively and institutionally pushing up on the status quo ante.
When Farrakhan dies, what little is left of the NOI will clearly go into the grave with him. Sad, but that's the state of hustle-hard pimpnology and the 3rd world cult of personality that Bacon-Bey nearly exclusively glorifies and extols here at congo dandy house...,
Brother Gee Chee,
Those that can do ... those that can't grow man-boobs and hate on cats who can.
The relative merit of The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and The Nation of Islam is not a matter determined by the surly, gratuitously polysyllabic and disappointingly uncreative meanderings of an insecure and possibly mentally ill Professional Hater wrestling with a profound sense of inadequacy.
Because a couple of NOI drove down from Chicago to cop few Saturday Night Specials from his pops back in the 1970's, the Sci-Fi Nerd feels compelled and qualified to render verdict on the net value on something that is much greater than him.
Name an organization of Black people more effective than The Nation of Islam
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Name a Black leader more credible than The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan?
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It's always some fat funky jealous self-hating Malthusian Wannabe attempting to compromise and reduce a cat like Farrakhan while simultaneously extolling the virtues of a cracka Abortionist like Warren Hern.
http://denmarkvesey.blogspot.com/2009/08/late-term-abortionist-man-is-malignant.html
Followers of Minister Farrakhan and The Nation of Islam have far fewer incidence of diabetes, cancer, drug addiction, AIDS, divorce, alcoholism and abortions than average Plantation Negros.
What's more valuable than that?
Everything else is talk.
Name an organization of Black people more effective than The Nation of Islam
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World Wide Technology jiggaboo.
Name a Black leader more credible than The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan?
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David L. Steward congo dandy.
but then, if your monkey ass knew anything worth knowing, this would have been completely obvious n'est ce pas?
Followers of Minister Farrakhan and The Nation of Islam have far fewer incidence of diabetes, cancer, drug addiction, AIDS, divorce, alcoholism and abortions than average Plantation Negros.
What's more valuable than that?
The critical and state of the art global technology infrastructure supply chain and implementation services knowhow that Dave Steward constructed and operates with total control and the utmost organizational efficiency making him easily the wealthiest and most powerful Black man in America, along with a great many other Black folk whom he has enriched and brought up along the way.
Everything else is talk.
don't leave out the feminized posing in which you specialize; The glorious handsome young men of the NOI pulled it off.
{SMH} you and Bishop Eddie Long be gargling out the same bottle of Listerine..,
"The critical and state of the art global technology infrastructure supply chain and" ....
and you fat unhealthy nerds still got Man-Boobs.
Still facing a Tsunami of diabetes and cancer.
Still living on diets of gene altering garbage you smother in fat, sodium and ground black pepper.
Supposed to be so smart.
Sci-Negros parrot their Massa's Technocratic fantasies of "world management" via technology and system processes.
Childish mechanics yearning to play God.
The Nation of Islam saved millions of black people from eating pork.
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All the "Systems" integration in the world cannot compare to that singular achievement.
lol,
whatever you say pokechop..,
p.s., my homies in KCK took me to get some serious homestyle for lunch on thursday, had some tacos pastor, lingua (tongue), cabeza - shit was mos def, corn tortillas, big bowel of cilantro, pico de gallo, limes, and whole nine. washed it down with some cold fresh horchata - shit was schaweet!!!
"p.s., my homies in KCK took me to get some serious homestyle for lunch on thursday, had some tacos pastor, lingua (tongue), cabeza"
lol ... of course they did.
What else a bunch of bamas going to do?
"shit was mos def, corn tortillas, big bowel of cilantro,"
lol.
"shit" ... "big bowel"
lol ...
Freudian apropos.
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