After reading “Dreams From My Father,” by now-President Barack Obama, I may have found the answer to the question: “How can the Black man compete equitably against the White man?”
President Obama’s father and grandfather in Kenya were very sharp individuals and could have excelled more than they did. However, they were up against a foe that would either change the economic game plan, the economic game rules, or make up a new economic game and make sure that the opponent never got a hold of the game plan or the game rules!
This book needs to be read by every Black man, especially by every Black man in America who is an African American and who may carry negative psychological negative baggage from being a descendant of Black slaves in America. In fact, this book should be required reading for every Black child in America as it may save them from doing a lot of useless mental calisthenics when it comes to dealing with White America.
President Obama’s grandfather watched his son, Dr. Barack Obama, father to our President Obama, struggle so hard to get ahead and stay ahead financially and socially after he had earned degrees from the University of Hawaii and from Harvard University. Dr. Barack senior had such high hopes; such great dreams. He felt he was equal to the White man and should be respected for all of his learning. Unfortunately, he spoke out with his feelings when he felt some wrong had been administered to him, his Kenyan people, or to others. He never understood something that his father understood and could be explained so simplistically.
The elder Obama, Onyango Obama, also had great dreams like his son, but he learned that in order for him to survive and not live in frustration, he would have to live without having the opportunities to do all that he wanted to do. He watched his son prosper, speak out and lose his position, lose the economic foothold he had on the mountainside of economic success, and fall all the way to the bottom without any safety net. He watched his son struggle with the ill-treatment from the White man, and suffer mistreatment even by his own people.
It took wise observations and listening by President Obama’s step-grandmother to explain to our Barack Obama lessons the grandfather tried to teach his son, the father of our President Obama.
Called Granny by President Obama and others, this very wise woman shared a conversation overheard by her when President Obama’s grandfather, Onyango Obama, was trying to share his observation about the White man with Dr. Barack Obama, father of our President.
Grandfather Obama said that Africans could never defeat the White man because the Black man only wanted to work with his own family or group, while the White man worked with other White men working together to solidify their power. Grandfather Obama went on to say that “The White man alone is like an ant. He can be easily crushed. But like an ant, the White man works together. His nation, his business --- these things are more important to him than himself. He will follow his leaders and not question orders. Black men are not like this. Even the most foolish Black man thinks he knows better than the wise man. That is why the Black man will always lose.”
I found the words of grandfather Obama was right on! Over the years, I have watched Black men tear down the reputation and/or work of another Black man. I have found Black men arguing with each other over the smallest infraction, instead of looking at the big picture. But, I have seen those same Black men smiling and shuffling their feet when a White man was present and giving them orders, or telling their version of how a job needed to be done. After receiving orders from a White man, I have seen these same Black men lower their eyes and reluctantly do whatever the White man said needed to be done, or not question the version of a story that a White man would give.
So, unless the Black man in America learns how to listen more than he talks, and how to use his mind over his emotions, he will never be able to really compete against the White man and win long-term. When he tried to make the White man give him work at a fair price and be more hospitable concerning his living conditions, the White man just brought in more immigrants, legal and illegal, and just keeps on making money. The unemployment of Black men in America will continue to rise while the unemployment of immigrants will always remain low or non-existent.
The future of the average Black man in America is very bleak. Thanks to their inability to control their emotions, they continue to kill each other, and continue to have women have their babies which they will not help raise in a positive environment. Then, their children will continue to be weaker mentally, have more health issues, and will probably die at an increasingly alarming rate. Frustrated men having sex with unfulfilled women will continue to bring forth undisciplined children usually. There will always be that 30 – 40% of Black children that will rise up and not become a negative statistic. However, those numbers will decrease as more angry and frustrated Black men continue to have sex with more angry and unfulfilled Black women, soon creating a permanent underclass that will not be able to compete even in future sports events.
So, what’s the answer? Well, we could castrate all economically, unproductive angry Black men that have no positive goals and continue to be a drain on their community. Or, we could continue to build more prisons and seek longer prison terms that would keep more Black men in prison longer and away from society, hoping they get killed by a drive-by shooting, or die from ill-health or AIDS/HIV. Or, we could train them for war and allow them to die an honorable death on the battlefield. Or, we could make the investment of time and money and other resources to equip them to fill a niche in the larger society.
One thing is certain: the economic loss and frustration in the Black communities will continue to have a negative impact on the society of America as a whole. Drive-bys and drugs and AIDS won’t kill all of the millions of angry, frustrated, and unfulfilled Black men in America. Some of them will infiltrate the larger society and make their lives a living hell with unplanned pregnancies, additional numbers of poor people needing services that taxpayers will have to cover, and showing the world that America still hasn’t taken the time or energy to solve problems created by earlier generations.
The one ray of hope (other than a spiritual intervention) could come from wise White people (men and women) who see that developing allies inside the country is more cost-effective than continuing to try to develop allies outside the country. When America has formidable enemies inside its borders, as well as outside its borders, wise people in America will see value in developing home-grown talent to help fight the enemies inside America, as well as help fight enemies outside America.
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010
PLANNING PAST THE 2010 ELECTION
This election was very interesting. I had hoped that name-calling and other low-down thinking would not be so prevalent. I wonder if the name-calling would have been the same if there was an Anglo American person serving as President!
However, when one compares the election of President F. D. Roosevelt over outgoing President Herbert Hoover. Like President Obama and the Democratic Party, President Hoover and the Republican Party was blamed for America's economic crises. Thankfully, President Roosevelt was able to bring Congress together and get both sides of the aisle to agree to some compromises in order to get the country up and running again. Perhaps President Obama will get support from forward-thinking Republicans and Democrats to be able to forge a coalition to help all Americans during our current economic crises.
Maybe I should run for President! I have enough experience as a working American who understands economic cycles, the impact of wars on one’s economy, the need for immigration reform, the importance of education, the rationale of capital punishment and smaller prison budgets, encouraging “Buy American First!”, and doing all those things to help the country that a radical, moderate, progressive conservative should do in these challenging times. Unfortunately, I would not run as a Republican or as a Democrat and would not have the millions behind me needed to brainwash people to vote for me---the lesser of the other evil people!
Maybe it’s time for a dictatorship to take over America. Most Americans know what needs to be done to have lower taxes, less government intrusion, higher wages for the masses of working people, accountability in education and government, to keep more jobs inside the country than going outside the country, the consequences of having cheap labor from the millions of illegal and some legal immigrants, uncovering the ungodly profits made by the quiet stockholders and the shrewd corporate executives, and the hundreds of other little pieces of the puzzle that needs to be put together in order to have a smooth-running economic vessel, trudging along in troubled fiscal waters. At least a dictator with a strong military group could just make things happen, and run ship-shod over civil rights, personal property rights, equal rights, the Bill of Rights, and all the other “rights” people want.
However, after the red AND blue “true” Americans rise up and overthrew the dictator and have taken back power from the military machinery, some human will still have to be willing to stick out their neck. This person would have to be willing to work with political parties that would care more about pleasing special interest groups that raised the money to make it possible for the person to even sit in the special chair and be called “President” or some other executive name. This person would have to be willing to have their personal and business life held up to the inquiring minds who would want to know the details of the scratches on their leader’s armour. This person would have to be willing to work long hours for the little pay received for the harm done to their bodies. They would also have to stand quietly by while their opponents with small brains and simple intellect throw missles of hatred toward members of their family, as well as throw mud on any project the person would put forward to help the masses of the American public.
It’s really easy to fix the problems we face in America. We could begin by merging smaller cities and towns, thus eliminating the need for so many overlapping positions that require more tax money. We could cut Congress by at least ½, as well as cut every office supported by tax dollars by 70%, choosing to use more technology without feelings, than using so many people with selfish feelings.
To help America, we could insist that everyone take better care of their own health and economic well-being without the aid of government programs. Those who are unable to do so would be helped, but only after agreeing to serve their communities and their government by doing those chores normally done by a public servant. Everyone would be charged a fee for health care, based on the color of their card, without regard to the color of their skin, or their limited resources. The rich, and those with resources, including good jobs with good pay and good benefits, would be charged on a sliding-fee scale, based on how far they went in school, and on how wise they were in choosing a way to take/make money, or in choosing an occupation that paid very well and/or had great medical benefits.
To further help America, we could charge all countries a fee for helping them win their freedom/democracy. They would pay by giving America their resources, and/or by becoming a puppet of American democracy (since we would know what is best for them). All wars would be on a “cash-basis” only. Before we would enter a war, or a “peace-keeping” mission, we would figure out the cost to win and thus charge our allies accordingly. If they could not pay, America would not enter the war or mission, realizing that this country might be taken over by an enemy of America and turn that country with hatred for America and all Americans.
To stem the tide of “sleeper spies,” terrorism, and drugs coming into America, we could move the United Nations building to Sweden or some other “neutral” country. We would then eliminate “diplomatic immunity” and check everyone coming to our shores, both friend and enemy. We would also put a team to watch all “outsiders,” making sure no drugs or anything that could hurt America is being brought in. To insure a “drug-free” country, we would develop a private military group to destroy all production and personnel associated with illegal drugs in all countries, including ours, as well as keep track of those associated with “legal” drugs. Those drug users who refuse to go into rehabilitation and stay clean would be sent to the moon or some other safe place, away from all of the “healthy” citizens in America. They would be given tools for food production, housing, and would be offered training so they could develop their own rules for living.
All those refusing to at least complete community college or trade school would be trained to become the new, military “fighting machine,” and sent abroad to “keep the peace” for all of America’s interest, as well as the interest of America’s allies. To ensure compliance to do what is right, and to ensure there is no rebellion, each of these individuals would undertake a brain lobotomy to ensure their loyalty to their training against all enemies and protection of all Americans.
Eventually, all budgets to aid the poor, the sick, and the unemployed would be eliminated, saving the American taxpayers billions. These groups would become the responsibility of their families, faith-based groups, and communities. In return, these groups would do mental, physical, or other work for their communities to ensure local budgets had funds to help their every need. No death-row inmate would have to stay on death-row any longer than one year, eliminating the harsh and unjust treatment they now receive for having to have life sentences. Their organs could be processed to aid those they have hurt, as well as aid others who are living productive lives who could profit from their organs. Plus, the victims and the families of victims would not have to suffer for years, waiting for justice to help balance the scales. Those waiting for sentencing, those in jails, and those in prisons would be required to work 10 hours a day, six days a week. They would be fed a minimal, but nutritious, diet. They would also be trained to be useful while they wait for execution, or when they were released. In time, this process would balance the budget as well as help our schools. The billions saved from this process would be shifted to our education system where all citizens were being trained to become productive and prosperous, with little need for health care or government programs.
Yeah, I just might run for President if I cannot become the wonderful, loving dictator that America needs to solve all of its problems!
However, when one compares the election of President F. D. Roosevelt over outgoing President Herbert Hoover. Like President Obama and the Democratic Party, President Hoover and the Republican Party was blamed for America's economic crises. Thankfully, President Roosevelt was able to bring Congress together and get both sides of the aisle to agree to some compromises in order to get the country up and running again. Perhaps President Obama will get support from forward-thinking Republicans and Democrats to be able to forge a coalition to help all Americans during our current economic crises.
Maybe I should run for President! I have enough experience as a working American who understands economic cycles, the impact of wars on one’s economy, the need for immigration reform, the importance of education, the rationale of capital punishment and smaller prison budgets, encouraging “Buy American First!”, and doing all those things to help the country that a radical, moderate, progressive conservative should do in these challenging times. Unfortunately, I would not run as a Republican or as a Democrat and would not have the millions behind me needed to brainwash people to vote for me---the lesser of the other evil people!
Maybe it’s time for a dictatorship to take over America. Most Americans know what needs to be done to have lower taxes, less government intrusion, higher wages for the masses of working people, accountability in education and government, to keep more jobs inside the country than going outside the country, the consequences of having cheap labor from the millions of illegal and some legal immigrants, uncovering the ungodly profits made by the quiet stockholders and the shrewd corporate executives, and the hundreds of other little pieces of the puzzle that needs to be put together in order to have a smooth-running economic vessel, trudging along in troubled fiscal waters. At least a dictator with a strong military group could just make things happen, and run ship-shod over civil rights, personal property rights, equal rights, the Bill of Rights, and all the other “rights” people want.
However, after the red AND blue “true” Americans rise up and overthrew the dictator and have taken back power from the military machinery, some human will still have to be willing to stick out their neck. This person would have to be willing to work with political parties that would care more about pleasing special interest groups that raised the money to make it possible for the person to even sit in the special chair and be called “President” or some other executive name. This person would have to be willing to have their personal and business life held up to the inquiring minds who would want to know the details of the scratches on their leader’s armour. This person would have to be willing to work long hours for the little pay received for the harm done to their bodies. They would also have to stand quietly by while their opponents with small brains and simple intellect throw missles of hatred toward members of their family, as well as throw mud on any project the person would put forward to help the masses of the American public.
It’s really easy to fix the problems we face in America. We could begin by merging smaller cities and towns, thus eliminating the need for so many overlapping positions that require more tax money. We could cut Congress by at least ½, as well as cut every office supported by tax dollars by 70%, choosing to use more technology without feelings, than using so many people with selfish feelings.
To help America, we could insist that everyone take better care of their own health and economic well-being without the aid of government programs. Those who are unable to do so would be helped, but only after agreeing to serve their communities and their government by doing those chores normally done by a public servant. Everyone would be charged a fee for health care, based on the color of their card, without regard to the color of their skin, or their limited resources. The rich, and those with resources, including good jobs with good pay and good benefits, would be charged on a sliding-fee scale, based on how far they went in school, and on how wise they were in choosing a way to take/make money, or in choosing an occupation that paid very well and/or had great medical benefits.
To further help America, we could charge all countries a fee for helping them win their freedom/democracy. They would pay by giving America their resources, and/or by becoming a puppet of American democracy (since we would know what is best for them). All wars would be on a “cash-basis” only. Before we would enter a war, or a “peace-keeping” mission, we would figure out the cost to win and thus charge our allies accordingly. If they could not pay, America would not enter the war or mission, realizing that this country might be taken over by an enemy of America and turn that country with hatred for America and all Americans.
To stem the tide of “sleeper spies,” terrorism, and drugs coming into America, we could move the United Nations building to Sweden or some other “neutral” country. We would then eliminate “diplomatic immunity” and check everyone coming to our shores, both friend and enemy. We would also put a team to watch all “outsiders,” making sure no drugs or anything that could hurt America is being brought in. To insure a “drug-free” country, we would develop a private military group to destroy all production and personnel associated with illegal drugs in all countries, including ours, as well as keep track of those associated with “legal” drugs. Those drug users who refuse to go into rehabilitation and stay clean would be sent to the moon or some other safe place, away from all of the “healthy” citizens in America. They would be given tools for food production, housing, and would be offered training so they could develop their own rules for living.
All those refusing to at least complete community college or trade school would be trained to become the new, military “fighting machine,” and sent abroad to “keep the peace” for all of America’s interest, as well as the interest of America’s allies. To ensure compliance to do what is right, and to ensure there is no rebellion, each of these individuals would undertake a brain lobotomy to ensure their loyalty to their training against all enemies and protection of all Americans.
Eventually, all budgets to aid the poor, the sick, and the unemployed would be eliminated, saving the American taxpayers billions. These groups would become the responsibility of their families, faith-based groups, and communities. In return, these groups would do mental, physical, or other work for their communities to ensure local budgets had funds to help their every need. No death-row inmate would have to stay on death-row any longer than one year, eliminating the harsh and unjust treatment they now receive for having to have life sentences. Their organs could be processed to aid those they have hurt, as well as aid others who are living productive lives who could profit from their organs. Plus, the victims and the families of victims would not have to suffer for years, waiting for justice to help balance the scales. Those waiting for sentencing, those in jails, and those in prisons would be required to work 10 hours a day, six days a week. They would be fed a minimal, but nutritious, diet. They would also be trained to be useful while they wait for execution, or when they were released. In time, this process would balance the budget as well as help our schools. The billions saved from this process would be shifted to our education system where all citizens were being trained to become productive and prosperous, with little need for health care or government programs.
Yeah, I just might run for President if I cannot become the wonderful, loving dictator that America needs to solve all of its problems!
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Community Learning Laboratory Enrichment Program Needed
There is a serious need to set up a network of interested individuals from rural and suburban America to help their neighbors in inner city/urban America without regard to labels, such as Democrat, Republican, Conservative, or Liberal. These neighbors are often deficient in getting information and resources to help them acquire skills leading to self-sufficiency. They don’t care about the labels of those who can help; they just want the help!
The history of the development of this program:
Most African ex-slaves who developed into African Americans were conditioned to depend upon Anglo Americans for their very existence. When they wanted better for themselves and their children, they were often denied opportunities and resources. This condition has been inherited by later generations who continue to trail immigrants (legal and illegal) who often wonder why today’s African Americans cannot improve their economic conditions, but often depend on others for their basic survival.
To appease the African Americans’ desire for better, those with resources conditioned those African Americans to look for better after death, or in the “sweet bye and bye.”
Those who rejected the philosophy of waiting for better after death became bitter and rebellious and saw that the use of force had caused many Anglo Americans to have better. Thus, slave riots and work slow-downs became weapons for getting better for many African Americans.
Since the philosophy for better for African Americans was tied to serving God and obeying the dictates of Anglo Americans, rejection of God, Jesus and Heaven began to develop more and more for enlightened slaves, and continued even into the 20th century. Even in today’s work force, many African Americans, especially men, will only work as hard as they must to get a paycheck. Many used to work harder, but when they observed those African Americans ahead of them being passed over for promotions, they became discouraged, feeling that Anglo Americans would never change.
When laws were passed to assist African Americans get better education, better housing, and better jobs, there were Anglo Americans who used information to get around those laws and continue to stifle the economic opportunities for African Americans. When that no longer worked, many Anglo Americans encouraged immigrants to come to America by the millions. When these immigrants hit the shores of America, they were often met by relatives, friends, or sponsors who would help them get the information necessary for housing, employment, education, and health care. African Americans have watched this scenario played out for generations and have watched their employment numbers go down, while employment number for immigrants steadily increase. For the past 50 years, African Americans have noticed the increase of immigrants from Europe, while also noticing Anglo Americans reaching out to Asians, Hispanics, and even to a few Africans.
After visible slavery ended, economic and mental control slavery of African Americans continued. However, some good-hearted Anglo Americans believed they had an obligation to help former slaves and their descendants. Some helped African Americans return to Africa. However, many of the newly-transplanted African Americans were not “pure” Africans and had difficulty being accepted by “true” Africans. Other Anglo Americans helped, even giving their fortunes and often, their lives, to help African Americans succeed. These “enlightened” people shared resources and information that caused some African Americans to excel. However, the masses of African Americans were now conditioned to look to the government, supported by new laws, and the military, as their way for better. For the past several decades, many African American youth believe that only excelling in sports or entertainment will help them achieve their dreams. Of course, some African American youth, as well as some youth from other cultures, have settled for just taking what they wanted, including lives.
Since the champions for better for Africans Americans was often voiced by the Republicans Party before the Civil War, many African Americans joined forces with the Republican Party. Others joined because they just liked the planks of the platform of the Republican Party. Or, they had friendships within the Republican Party and those friendships went further than just signing up another African American to join.
Unfortunately, members of the Democratic Party, mostly in the South, threatened the Republican Party leadership after the Civil War with further economic and government stress if they didn’t pull the troops and forget about “Reconstruction”.
In order to get the help of the Democratic leadership to help rebuild the country after a costly Civil War, the Republican Party caved in to the demands of the Democratic Party concerning help they were giving African Americans. Such demands of the Democratic Party included allowing the white Democrats in the South to take back control of their political and economic fortunes. This resulted in depriving many African Americans of their gains through Reconstruction. In order to have more control over African Americans in the South, white Democrats threatened African Americans who had joined the Republican Party. In this void, southern Democrats forced many African Americans to join the Democratic Party---or suffer severe consequences.
When the Republican Party pulled the federal troops out of the South to avoid a political bottleneck and further economic woes of the country, African Americans were left at the mercy and control of Southern Democrats. During this time, around 1863-1877, murder and mayhem was heaped upon African Americans. This worked so well in taking power from African Americans, that such fear tactics have continued into the 21st century. Groups like the White Citizen’s Council and the Ku Klux Klan arose and frightened or murdered African American men, women, and children in order to almost totally control African Americans.
It has been estimated that African Americans lost over 9 million acres of their land to crooked laws and “drive-by lynching,” which increased the wealth of southern whites and others living beyond the southern borders. From about 1890 to the 1960s, over 6 million African Americans migrated north, often leaving their homes, farms, and businesses to Anglo American bullies who encouraged them to leave. Some of the descendants of these African Americans returned to the South during the years 1995 to the present, partially reversing their ancestor’s historic out-migration from the South. Many have returned to the South to reclaim their heritage and raise their children in a much freer atmosphere as evil subsided and good white people grew beyond their fears and hatred.
Many African Americans who moved north joined the Republican Party. However, since the Republican Party had abandoned their African Americas allies in the south, African Americans began converting to the Democratic Party by the millions when they were snubbed by white members of the Republican Party. However, many of the “black intellectuals” have remained within the Republican Party. As some African Americans became more savvy about political power, some Anglo Americans in the north and south helped southern African Americans in the Democratic Party to increase their share of the Democratic Party power.
To ensure long-term control of African Americans who were now becoming politically-savvy, Southern Democrats re-invented themselves as “The Party of the People,” or “The Working Man’s Party,” not formally connected with another party of the same name which was founded in 1829. Some within the Democratic Party became very wise and even used other slogans and other names to encourage more members of the working class to join the Democratic Party.
Since President Herbert Hoover, a Republican, got blamed for causing the stock market crash and the ensuing depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a Democrat, was celebrated, especially by African Americans. However, some Southern Democrats lost their love for President Roosevelt upon discovering he really cared about helping all Americans, including African Americans. It didn’t help his cause any when his wife, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, became friends with the African American educator, Mary McLeod Bethune!
Mrs. Roosevelt, a Democrat, even spoke out against racism against African Americans. She angered southern Democrats so much that the Ku Klux Klan put a bounty on her head for $25,000! Making matters ever worse, she invited the contralto Marian Anderson to perform at the White House in 1938. This African American would perform for the visit by the British royalty.
Further angering southern Democrats and other Anglo Americas, this First Lady had agreed to present the Spingarn Medal to Mrs. Anderson at the NAACP's annual convention. The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) refused to allow Marian Anderson to perform in Constitution Hall in the spring of 1939. This led to Mrs. Roosevelt resigning from the DAR and her writing and speaking about the incident made the front pages of more than four hundred newspapers. This led to Mrs. Anderson singing at the Lincoln Memorial for the site of the Easter concert. This event was covered live. This incident caused the First Lady to use her writing column as a platform, asking her readers why some cursed Hitler but suppressed Marian Anderson! Such feats tended to draw more African Americans into the Democratic Party.
The involvement of Mrs. Roosevelt and other dramatic developments, led many African Americans all over America to become members of the Democratic Party. Most now saw no future for political or economic gains in the Republican Party since no one from this group championed the causes that were dear to African Americans. Plus, the Democratic Party helped institute programs to help the poor during this time, including many African Americans. Such help caused masses of African Americans to depend upon the Democratic Party of the government for their upward economic mobility. Many African Americans joined the Democratic Party as it seemed this party was most interested in helping African Americans improve things for them and ensure a better future for their children.
As the Democratic Party swelled with the ranks of African Americans in their control, they offered their party as THE party for many struggling immigrants as well, including those from all over the world, but especially from Hispanic countries to gain cheap labor that would not complain and did not even want equality. Later, members of the Republican Party would get in trouble for making use of this new, cheap labor.
The Republican Party in the years of the 1950s to the present opened their eyes and arms to African Americans and other ethnic groups almost too late. However, they, and some moderate and conservative Democrats, saw how the liberal side of the Democratic Party was taking and abusing their political and economic gains by still controlling the African American vote, and limiting their number of delegates to local, state, and national Democratic Conventions.
Although some within the Republican Party have been able to seduce and/or educate African Americans and other ethnic groups about opportunities existing within the Republican Party and/or become more conservative in their thinking, the masses of African Americans, many Native Americans, and most Hispanic Americans are now firmly in the grasps of the liberal side of the Democratic Party. In fact, they are so entrenched within the Democratic Party’s liberal agenda, they have grown to hate Republicans and all they represent, including their values and religious beliefs.
After the riots of the 1960s and later, and the failed government helps programs, many African Americans no longer believe in the values, normally associated with conservative or Evangelical Christians. Many have joined other organizations and religions, seeking some solace for their souls.
Many African Americans have embraced the Muslim religion, as well as the religions and pseudo-religions that offer realistic opportunities for their sanity and for their economic opportunities. It has been estimated by some social scientists that by 2020 or 2030, thee will be more African Americans who are Muslim, than African Americans who are Christian.
While many Republicans and evangelical Christians and other conservatives have offered an olive leaf to African Americans, their offers have still been seen as too little, too late, even though offered with no strings attached. Further, as African Americans and some other ethnic people in America and abroad see the disrespect Republicans, conservatives, and Evangelical Christians show President Obama, the stronger their hatred grows toward such groups.
Many Republicans and conservatives have social, family, and economic ties with other African American, are often reluctant to voice their political views. Some are even silent in such issues as gay rights, gun control, immigrant reform, or capital punishment.
In order to balance the scale of justice with African Americans, conservatives and evangelical Christian must now honestly, and quietly, show concern for African American issues by beginning to listen to them. They must now muster all of their economic and political resources and develop realistic plans to help African Americans become economic independent, something the liberals in America have been slow to do. And, they must show respect to the multicultural person who now occupies the White House.
Most African Americans believe that the current economic woes of the country were deliberately planned to make President Obama look like a poor leader. This is especially so when some conservative news commentators or politicians refer to President Obama as “that little boy, er, little man in the White House.” Some have called President Obama “a lecturer behind a podium, rather than a leader for our country. Then, when some of these same people mention that voters must “take back our country,” it seems to refer they want to go back to where they controlled the economic fortunes. Or, as some African Americans have stated, they want to take the country back to where black and brown people had no power in American economics or politics.
The failing automakers, the failing banks, the enormous housing foreclosures, and the losses from Wall Street could have been avoided. Unfortunately, greed became the norm for their leadership. Stockholders, who profited from the greed of these economic leaders, either turned a deaf ear or closed their eyes and silently profited while the masses of Americans, including those black, red, brown, yellow, even white, suffered.
Many of those masses and some in the middle-class will never regain their economic losses in their lifetime. At the same time, those with economic power will gobble up homes, businesses, and stocks and profit, and will dare blame the light-skinned, ½ Kenyan and ½ Anglo American President and “his” party for any failures. However, those who know and study history and economic cycles know who are the real culprits of our failing economy.
A force that many political pontificators didn’t count on are the upcoming young and powerful who helped put President Obama in the White House. This group will soon inherit the largest transfer of economic wealth ever known in American history. They, and some older financial independent thinkers like T. Boone Pickens, Bill and Melinda Gates, Warren Buffet, and other like-minded wielders of wealth will help transform the thinking of young lions of American industries, wealth, and power.
Out of the ashes of failed government programs, greedy corporate and Wall Street leaders, and self-serving politicians and preachers will arise a new face in America. This face may be the independent thinking, astute voters weary of the “dirty diaper” thinking of entrenched, career politicians on both sides of the aisle.
The new face of American politics will be the open-mindedness of clear-headed individuals who may create a new political party made up of individuals more concerned about developed the full potential of all people on this island called America, an island surrounded by many foes.
Those foes care less about political party or which color controls economic powers. These foes merely want the downfall of America and the American Dream. Those foes have slipped a "Trojan Horse" into America, waiting for the chance to destroy all Americans, without regard to race, religion, color, gender, or political party. Those foes have placed “sleeper spies” throughout the American fabric of democracy. They hate this republic known as the United States of America. They just want to destroy all Americans, as well as the allies of America.
Will a common foe of Republicans and Democrats and those who love freedom allow an enemy to destroy America? Only time will tell, and time is running out for both Republicans AND Democrats to learn from this Community Learning Laboratory Enrichment Program which we call Earth!
The history of the development of this program:
Most African ex-slaves who developed into African Americans were conditioned to depend upon Anglo Americans for their very existence. When they wanted better for themselves and their children, they were often denied opportunities and resources. This condition has been inherited by later generations who continue to trail immigrants (legal and illegal) who often wonder why today’s African Americans cannot improve their economic conditions, but often depend on others for their basic survival.
To appease the African Americans’ desire for better, those with resources conditioned those African Americans to look for better after death, or in the “sweet bye and bye.”
Those who rejected the philosophy of waiting for better after death became bitter and rebellious and saw that the use of force had caused many Anglo Americans to have better. Thus, slave riots and work slow-downs became weapons for getting better for many African Americans.
Since the philosophy for better for African Americans was tied to serving God and obeying the dictates of Anglo Americans, rejection of God, Jesus and Heaven began to develop more and more for enlightened slaves, and continued even into the 20th century. Even in today’s work force, many African Americans, especially men, will only work as hard as they must to get a paycheck. Many used to work harder, but when they observed those African Americans ahead of them being passed over for promotions, they became discouraged, feeling that Anglo Americans would never change.
When laws were passed to assist African Americans get better education, better housing, and better jobs, there were Anglo Americans who used information to get around those laws and continue to stifle the economic opportunities for African Americans. When that no longer worked, many Anglo Americans encouraged immigrants to come to America by the millions. When these immigrants hit the shores of America, they were often met by relatives, friends, or sponsors who would help them get the information necessary for housing, employment, education, and health care. African Americans have watched this scenario played out for generations and have watched their employment numbers go down, while employment number for immigrants steadily increase. For the past 50 years, African Americans have noticed the increase of immigrants from Europe, while also noticing Anglo Americans reaching out to Asians, Hispanics, and even to a few Africans.
After visible slavery ended, economic and mental control slavery of African Americans continued. However, some good-hearted Anglo Americans believed they had an obligation to help former slaves and their descendants. Some helped African Americans return to Africa. However, many of the newly-transplanted African Americans were not “pure” Africans and had difficulty being accepted by “true” Africans. Other Anglo Americans helped, even giving their fortunes and often, their lives, to help African Americans succeed. These “enlightened” people shared resources and information that caused some African Americans to excel. However, the masses of African Americans were now conditioned to look to the government, supported by new laws, and the military, as their way for better. For the past several decades, many African American youth believe that only excelling in sports or entertainment will help them achieve their dreams. Of course, some African American youth, as well as some youth from other cultures, have settled for just taking what they wanted, including lives.
Since the champions for better for Africans Americans was often voiced by the Republicans Party before the Civil War, many African Americans joined forces with the Republican Party. Others joined because they just liked the planks of the platform of the Republican Party. Or, they had friendships within the Republican Party and those friendships went further than just signing up another African American to join.
Unfortunately, members of the Democratic Party, mostly in the South, threatened the Republican Party leadership after the Civil War with further economic and government stress if they didn’t pull the troops and forget about “Reconstruction”.
In order to get the help of the Democratic leadership to help rebuild the country after a costly Civil War, the Republican Party caved in to the demands of the Democratic Party concerning help they were giving African Americans. Such demands of the Democratic Party included allowing the white Democrats in the South to take back control of their political and economic fortunes. This resulted in depriving many African Americans of their gains through Reconstruction. In order to have more control over African Americans in the South, white Democrats threatened African Americans who had joined the Republican Party. In this void, southern Democrats forced many African Americans to join the Democratic Party---or suffer severe consequences.
When the Republican Party pulled the federal troops out of the South to avoid a political bottleneck and further economic woes of the country, African Americans were left at the mercy and control of Southern Democrats. During this time, around 1863-1877, murder and mayhem was heaped upon African Americans. This worked so well in taking power from African Americans, that such fear tactics have continued into the 21st century. Groups like the White Citizen’s Council and the Ku Klux Klan arose and frightened or murdered African American men, women, and children in order to almost totally control African Americans.
It has been estimated that African Americans lost over 9 million acres of their land to crooked laws and “drive-by lynching,” which increased the wealth of southern whites and others living beyond the southern borders. From about 1890 to the 1960s, over 6 million African Americans migrated north, often leaving their homes, farms, and businesses to Anglo American bullies who encouraged them to leave. Some of the descendants of these African Americans returned to the South during the years 1995 to the present, partially reversing their ancestor’s historic out-migration from the South. Many have returned to the South to reclaim their heritage and raise their children in a much freer atmosphere as evil subsided and good white people grew beyond their fears and hatred.
Many African Americans who moved north joined the Republican Party. However, since the Republican Party had abandoned their African Americas allies in the south, African Americans began converting to the Democratic Party by the millions when they were snubbed by white members of the Republican Party. However, many of the “black intellectuals” have remained within the Republican Party. As some African Americans became more savvy about political power, some Anglo Americans in the north and south helped southern African Americans in the Democratic Party to increase their share of the Democratic Party power.
To ensure long-term control of African Americans who were now becoming politically-savvy, Southern Democrats re-invented themselves as “The Party of the People,” or “The Working Man’s Party,” not formally connected with another party of the same name which was founded in 1829. Some within the Democratic Party became very wise and even used other slogans and other names to encourage more members of the working class to join the Democratic Party.
Since President Herbert Hoover, a Republican, got blamed for causing the stock market crash and the ensuing depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a Democrat, was celebrated, especially by African Americans. However, some Southern Democrats lost their love for President Roosevelt upon discovering he really cared about helping all Americans, including African Americans. It didn’t help his cause any when his wife, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, became friends with the African American educator, Mary McLeod Bethune!
Mrs. Roosevelt, a Democrat, even spoke out against racism against African Americans. She angered southern Democrats so much that the Ku Klux Klan put a bounty on her head for $25,000! Making matters ever worse, she invited the contralto Marian Anderson to perform at the White House in 1938. This African American would perform for the visit by the British royalty.
Further angering southern Democrats and other Anglo Americas, this First Lady had agreed to present the Spingarn Medal to Mrs. Anderson at the NAACP's annual convention. The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) refused to allow Marian Anderson to perform in Constitution Hall in the spring of 1939. This led to Mrs. Roosevelt resigning from the DAR and her writing and speaking about the incident made the front pages of more than four hundred newspapers. This led to Mrs. Anderson singing at the Lincoln Memorial for the site of the Easter concert. This event was covered live. This incident caused the First Lady to use her writing column as a platform, asking her readers why some cursed Hitler but suppressed Marian Anderson! Such feats tended to draw more African Americans into the Democratic Party.
The involvement of Mrs. Roosevelt and other dramatic developments, led many African Americans all over America to become members of the Democratic Party. Most now saw no future for political or economic gains in the Republican Party since no one from this group championed the causes that were dear to African Americans. Plus, the Democratic Party helped institute programs to help the poor during this time, including many African Americans. Such help caused masses of African Americans to depend upon the Democratic Party of the government for their upward economic mobility. Many African Americans joined the Democratic Party as it seemed this party was most interested in helping African Americans improve things for them and ensure a better future for their children.
As the Democratic Party swelled with the ranks of African Americans in their control, they offered their party as THE party for many struggling immigrants as well, including those from all over the world, but especially from Hispanic countries to gain cheap labor that would not complain and did not even want equality. Later, members of the Republican Party would get in trouble for making use of this new, cheap labor.
The Republican Party in the years of the 1950s to the present opened their eyes and arms to African Americans and other ethnic groups almost too late. However, they, and some moderate and conservative Democrats, saw how the liberal side of the Democratic Party was taking and abusing their political and economic gains by still controlling the African American vote, and limiting their number of delegates to local, state, and national Democratic Conventions.
Although some within the Republican Party have been able to seduce and/or educate African Americans and other ethnic groups about opportunities existing within the Republican Party and/or become more conservative in their thinking, the masses of African Americans, many Native Americans, and most Hispanic Americans are now firmly in the grasps of the liberal side of the Democratic Party. In fact, they are so entrenched within the Democratic Party’s liberal agenda, they have grown to hate Republicans and all they represent, including their values and religious beliefs.
After the riots of the 1960s and later, and the failed government helps programs, many African Americans no longer believe in the values, normally associated with conservative or Evangelical Christians. Many have joined other organizations and religions, seeking some solace for their souls.
Many African Americans have embraced the Muslim religion, as well as the religions and pseudo-religions that offer realistic opportunities for their sanity and for their economic opportunities. It has been estimated by some social scientists that by 2020 or 2030, thee will be more African Americans who are Muslim, than African Americans who are Christian.
While many Republicans and evangelical Christians and other conservatives have offered an olive leaf to African Americans, their offers have still been seen as too little, too late, even though offered with no strings attached. Further, as African Americans and some other ethnic people in America and abroad see the disrespect Republicans, conservatives, and Evangelical Christians show President Obama, the stronger their hatred grows toward such groups.
Many Republicans and conservatives have social, family, and economic ties with other African American, are often reluctant to voice their political views. Some are even silent in such issues as gay rights, gun control, immigrant reform, or capital punishment.
In order to balance the scale of justice with African Americans, conservatives and evangelical Christian must now honestly, and quietly, show concern for African American issues by beginning to listen to them. They must now muster all of their economic and political resources and develop realistic plans to help African Americans become economic independent, something the liberals in America have been slow to do. And, they must show respect to the multicultural person who now occupies the White House.
Most African Americans believe that the current economic woes of the country were deliberately planned to make President Obama look like a poor leader. This is especially so when some conservative news commentators or politicians refer to President Obama as “that little boy, er, little man in the White House.” Some have called President Obama “a lecturer behind a podium, rather than a leader for our country. Then, when some of these same people mention that voters must “take back our country,” it seems to refer they want to go back to where they controlled the economic fortunes. Or, as some African Americans have stated, they want to take the country back to where black and brown people had no power in American economics or politics.
The failing automakers, the failing banks, the enormous housing foreclosures, and the losses from Wall Street could have been avoided. Unfortunately, greed became the norm for their leadership. Stockholders, who profited from the greed of these economic leaders, either turned a deaf ear or closed their eyes and silently profited while the masses of Americans, including those black, red, brown, yellow, even white, suffered.
Many of those masses and some in the middle-class will never regain their economic losses in their lifetime. At the same time, those with economic power will gobble up homes, businesses, and stocks and profit, and will dare blame the light-skinned, ½ Kenyan and ½ Anglo American President and “his” party for any failures. However, those who know and study history and economic cycles know who are the real culprits of our failing economy.
A force that many political pontificators didn’t count on are the upcoming young and powerful who helped put President Obama in the White House. This group will soon inherit the largest transfer of economic wealth ever known in American history. They, and some older financial independent thinkers like T. Boone Pickens, Bill and Melinda Gates, Warren Buffet, and other like-minded wielders of wealth will help transform the thinking of young lions of American industries, wealth, and power.
Out of the ashes of failed government programs, greedy corporate and Wall Street leaders, and self-serving politicians and preachers will arise a new face in America. This face may be the independent thinking, astute voters weary of the “dirty diaper” thinking of entrenched, career politicians on both sides of the aisle.
The new face of American politics will be the open-mindedness of clear-headed individuals who may create a new political party made up of individuals more concerned about developed the full potential of all people on this island called America, an island surrounded by many foes.
Those foes care less about political party or which color controls economic powers. These foes merely want the downfall of America and the American Dream. Those foes have slipped a "Trojan Horse" into America, waiting for the chance to destroy all Americans, without regard to race, religion, color, gender, or political party. Those foes have placed “sleeper spies” throughout the American fabric of democracy. They hate this republic known as the United States of America. They just want to destroy all Americans, as well as the allies of America.
Will a common foe of Republicans and Democrats and those who love freedom allow an enemy to destroy America? Only time will tell, and time is running out for both Republicans AND Democrats to learn from this Community Learning Laboratory Enrichment Program which we call Earth!
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Leave Your Legacy...Inform The World!
Hello!
Well, I am back from a holiday in England. It was a great 30 days spent mostly with my daughter and her family. I have written a travelogue; you can get a copy (about 10 pages with photos) by writing me at: edudell@sbcglobal.net. If you only want to have installments sent to you daily until you have the last installment, tell me in your e-mail.
January is a great month for you to be thinking about how you can impact African American History Month. The Buffalo Soldiers National Museum is partnering with The Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC, and the U.S. Department of Reclamations to present "The Forgotten Faces of Ft. Craig" during February.
Ms. Amanda Danning, forensic sculptor, will use the precisely engineered cast produced by University of Houston Professor, Dr. Ali Kamrani to perform a live, progressive reconstruction of the face of U.S. Army Pvt. Thomas Smith, a Buffalo Soldier. Pvt. Smith was identified by coparing the details of his remains with the military enlistment records from the 1800s in New Mexico. This event will trace the story of grave robbers, forensic science, and that of the Buffalo Soldiers at Ft. Craig, New Mexico. This month-long activity will take place at 4816 Main Street (near Rosedale, next to the Museum of Contemporary Crafts). General single day admission is only $15 for each 1 1/4 hour session. If you wish to be involved for each session, contact me for that information. For further information and/or to become an underwriting sponsor, contact me by calling the museum at 713-942-8920. If I am out, ask for the museum founder, Captain Paul Matthews.
You can also leave your own legacy in stone by contributing to the "Soldiers Plaza," a memorial park to be built on the grounds of the historic Houston Light Guard Armory. The armory will also become the new national headquarters for the museum. The project is seeking sponsors who will have their name, the name of a veteran in their family, or to honor another person with a brick or a granite paver. You can contribute $10,000 or $1,000 or $500 or $100. For further information, contact me or Captain Matthews.
If you want to share in the honoring of "Women in the Military" museum gala, contact me for a ticket (or for group tickets) before all seats are taken. The event takes place February 26th at 6:30 p.m. at J.W. Marriott, 5150 Westheimer Road in Houston. Ticket donations are $65 each. You can also become a table sponsor for $650, a general event sponsor for $1,000 or $5,000. There are also event sponsorships available for $10,000 or $25,000 or $50,000. Contact me and I will give you more information.
For those of you who would like to really leave your name in history, you can underwrite a portion of the preservation and renovations of the historic armory. You can underwrite the costs for a room, an exhibit, the main exhibit hall, an office, the library, or any of the other 32 spaces. Your name, or the name of your company, club, church, etc., will be boldly listed above the entrance to the space. Contact me and I will send you a "Preservation Sponsorship" packet.
To find out more about the work we are doing with the museum, visit us online at:
www.buffalosoldiermuseum.com.
Well, I am back from a holiday in England. It was a great 30 days spent mostly with my daughter and her family. I have written a travelogue; you can get a copy (about 10 pages with photos) by writing me at: edudell@sbcglobal.net. If you only want to have installments sent to you daily until you have the last installment, tell me in your e-mail.
January is a great month for you to be thinking about how you can impact African American History Month. The Buffalo Soldiers National Museum is partnering with The Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC, and the U.S. Department of Reclamations to present "The Forgotten Faces of Ft. Craig" during February.
Ms. Amanda Danning, forensic sculptor, will use the precisely engineered cast produced by University of Houston Professor, Dr. Ali Kamrani to perform a live, progressive reconstruction of the face of U.S. Army Pvt. Thomas Smith, a Buffalo Soldier. Pvt. Smith was identified by coparing the details of his remains with the military enlistment records from the 1800s in New Mexico. This event will trace the story of grave robbers, forensic science, and that of the Buffalo Soldiers at Ft. Craig, New Mexico. This month-long activity will take place at 4816 Main Street (near Rosedale, next to the Museum of Contemporary Crafts). General single day admission is only $15 for each 1 1/4 hour session. If you wish to be involved for each session, contact me for that information. For further information and/or to become an underwriting sponsor, contact me by calling the museum at 713-942-8920. If I am out, ask for the museum founder, Captain Paul Matthews.
You can also leave your own legacy in stone by contributing to the "Soldiers Plaza," a memorial park to be built on the grounds of the historic Houston Light Guard Armory. The armory will also become the new national headquarters for the museum. The project is seeking sponsors who will have their name, the name of a veteran in their family, or to honor another person with a brick or a granite paver. You can contribute $10,000 or $1,000 or $500 or $100. For further information, contact me or Captain Matthews.
If you want to share in the honoring of "Women in the Military" museum gala, contact me for a ticket (or for group tickets) before all seats are taken. The event takes place February 26th at 6:30 p.m. at J.W. Marriott, 5150 Westheimer Road in Houston. Ticket donations are $65 each. You can also become a table sponsor for $650, a general event sponsor for $1,000 or $5,000. There are also event sponsorships available for $10,000 or $25,000 or $50,000. Contact me and I will give you more information.
For those of you who would like to really leave your name in history, you can underwrite a portion of the preservation and renovations of the historic armory. You can underwrite the costs for a room, an exhibit, the main exhibit hall, an office, the library, or any of the other 32 spaces. Your name, or the name of your company, club, church, etc., will be boldly listed above the entrance to the space. Contact me and I will send you a "Preservation Sponsorship" packet.
To find out more about the work we are doing with the museum, visit us online at:
www.buffalosoldiermuseum.com.
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